Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 24 - Montresor
Montresor. — Mon Trésor was the heraldic motto of the old French family of Le Tresor. The name of Guillaume Le Tresor, Vicomte de Conde-sur-Moyreaux, occurs as early as i486, and it is said that Ciprien Le Tresor, Vicomte de Carentan, who flourished in 1547, was his son. From him a Huguenot refugee in England in 1685 claimed descent, namely, Jaques Le Tresor, who died in 1691. He was the father of Jaques Gabriel, who obtained distinction in our army as Major James Montresor; he was born at Caen in 1667, and therefore was a refugee along with his father. At his death he was Lieutenant-Governor of Fortwilliam, and a Major in the 2ist or Royal North British Fusiliers. The place of his death was Edinburgh, and the date 22nd January 1724, his age being fifty-six. He was buried in the Canongate Churchyard in the ground belonging to an octogenarian lady, the proprietrix of Giblistoun. He had married on 5th February 1699-1700, Nanon de Hauteville, daughter of a military refugee from Normandy, a colonel in the English army; she died as his widow in 1738, and was buried at Paddington. Major Montresor had acquired the estate of Thurland Hall, Nottingham, in which he was succeeded by his son, James Gabriel, born 19th November 1702, who seems to have served in the army, because he was married at Gibraltar on 11th June 1735, and his eldest son, John, was born there on 6th April 1736. John was his Majesty’s Chief Engineer of America; the second son, James, was a Lieutenant, R.N., lost in the Aurora frigate; the third son, Henry Amand, was in the army, and died in 1773, aged twenty-seven, of wounds received at the siege of Trichinopoly; the fourth son was Major John Fleming Montresor, Governor of Port-Royal, Jamaica; the fifth son was Major Robert Montresor of the 100th Regiment of Foot.
John Montresor, noted above, married, on 1st March 1764, Frances, only child of Thomas Tucker, of Bermuda. He had three military sons, namely, General Sir Henry Tucker, Montresor, K.C.B., G.C.H., Colonel of the 11th Foot, born 18th April 1767, died 10th March 1837; Lieut.-Colonel John Montresor, born at New York, 11th November 1768, died at Penang in 1805; General Sir Thomas Gage Montresor, K.C.H., Colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, born at New York, 4th March 1774, died at Dover, 26th April 1853; he had served in Flanders, Egypt, and India, was Major-General in 1813, and General in 1841. The family seems to be numerously represented both by descendants of Sir Henry and by those of his brother, the younger general, whose eldest surviving son is Admiral Frederick Byng Montresor.