Claude Fonnereau

Claude Fonnereau (1677, La Rochelle – 5 April 1740, Hoddesdon) was a French Huguenot refugee who settled in England and became a prominent merchant.[1][2] He was the founding father of the Fonnereau family in England.

In 1735 he purchased Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich, Suffolk, from Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford.[3]

Family life

Claude was the son of Zacharie Fonnereau and Marguerite Chataigner.[1] He married Elizabeth Bureau, also a Huguenot, the daughter of Anne Bureau, and had several children:[1][4]

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References

  1. Agnew, David Carnegie (1886). Protestant exiles from France, chiefly in the reign of Louis XIV; or, The Huguenot refugees and their descendants in Great Britain and Ireland. Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears.
  2. Namier, L.B. (October 1927). "Brice Fisher, M. P.: A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Merchant and His Connexions". The English Historical Review. 42 (168): 514–532. doi:10.1093/ehr/XLII.CLXVIII.514. JSTOR 552412.
  3. https://www.ipswich.gov.uk/content/history-mansion
  4. Lart, Charles Edmund (1967). Huguenot Pedigrees. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN 978-0-8063-0207-2. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  5. "Benezet family papers 1729-1839". quod.lib.umich.edu. University of Michigan. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  6. Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Fonnereau
  7. "Champion de Crespigny family". www.southlondonguide.co.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2019.


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