Happy to oblige, Andrea. Herewith de la FORCE quotes that I sent off-list, plus another snippet from the same book on fiche. Did my best copying the Latin bit. Hope it is of help to other listers interested in the name. Lesley Jones ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The book on fiche: “Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XlV. or The Huguenot Refugees and their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland” by The Rev. David C. A. Agnew. Printed in London by Reeves and Turner, in Edinburgh by William Paterson, 1874. Page 188: The Caumont and Layard Group of Families The Ducs Caumont de la Force were descended from Francois de Caumont, Seigneur de Castlenauth, who was killed in the St. Bartholomew Massacre. His son was the first duke, and the family was true to the Protestantism until the persecution of 1685, when the fourth duke apostatized. The only refugee at the Revocation period was his wife, the Duchesse de la Force, nee Susanne Beringhen, the mother of the fifth and sixth dukes. She died in London in 1731. Notes The Beringhen family were warmly admired for their constancy under persecution. The father (who was an Elder of Charenton), the mother, sons, married daughters, and daughters marriageable, all were severely tried. Members of the La Force family had settled in England at earlier dates. In Chelsea (“Faulkner’s Chelsea” Vol. 1, page 210), there is the following epitaph in Latin:- D. O. M. S. Elizabethae equitas Theodori de Mayerne Baronis Albonae filiae Marchionis de Cugnac patre Henrico de Caumont, Marchionis de Castel Nauth et avo Jacobo Nomper de Caumont, Duce de la Force (primo Franciae Marescalo, rigiorum exertuum longum imperatore fortissimo fortunaissimo invictissimo), nati, Uxori dulcissimae lectissimae charissmae XVI post nuptias mense acerbo ereptae fato. Conjux in amoris inconcussi et irruptae fidel monumentum moerens possuit. Obit X Julii MDCLIII in pago Chelsey juxta Londinum. Vixit annos XX, menses VI, dies III Page 111: Concerned with Theodore Turquette de Mayerne, son of Louis de Mayerne, Baron d’Aubon, a French author who with his wife fled from Paris to Geneva, narrowly escaping the St Bartholomew Massacre. Theodore took a degree of Doctor of Physic at Montpellier, and rose to be a Councillor of Physic to the King of France. He came to England and was incorporated as MD of Oxford, 8 April 1606. He was chief physician to King James and afterwards to Charles 1st. He was sent on a diplomatic mission to France in 1618, but ordered to leave by the French government. On 14 July 1624, he was knighted. Sir Theodore was an author on medical subjects and worshipped in the Presbyterian Church of Kensington. His mother lived in England and was buried in the chancel of St Martin’s in the Fields, where also five of his children were buried, and he himself buried 30 March 1655. He was twice married, and his second wife, Isabella, survived as his widow. Two daughters were married to cadets of the ducal house of Caumont de la Force. Elizabeth, Marquise de Cugnac, died in her father’s lifetime. Adrienne, Baroness D’Aubon, became wife of her sister’s husband’s brother, Armand de Caumont, Marquis de Mompouillan. The marriage proclamation is dated 10 January 1656/7 (register of St Paul’s, Covent Garden), but the marriage, as registered at Chelsea, “bears the singularly remote date of 21 July 1659”.

Lesley Jones wrote on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:58 PM | Happy to oblige, Andrea. Herewith de la FORCE quotes that I sent off-list, plus | another snippet from the same book on fiche. Did my best copying the Latin bit. | Hope it is of help to other listers interested in the name. | | Lesley Jones | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- | The book on fiche: | "Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XlV. or The Huguenot | Refugees and their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland" by The Rev. David | C. A. Agnew. Printed in London by Reeves and Turner, in Edinburgh by William | Paterson, 1874. | | Page 188: The Caumont and Layard Group of Families | | The Ducs Caumont de la Force were descended from Francois de Caumont, Seigneur | de Castlenauth, who was killed in the St. Bartholomew Massacre. His son was the | first duke, and the family was true to the Protestantism until the persecution | of 1685, when the fourth duke apostatized. The only refugee at the Revocation | period was his wife, the Duchesse de la Force, nee Susanne Beringhen, the mother | of the fifth and sixth dukes. She died in London in 1731. | | Notes | The Beringhen family were warmly admired for their constancy under persecution. | The father (who was an Elder of Charenton), the mother, sons, married daughters, | and daughters marriageable, all were severely tried. Members of the La Force | family had settled in England at earlier dates. In Chelsea ("Faulkner's Chelsea" | Vol. 1, page 210), there is the following epitaph in Latin:- snip You quote from the book by David Agnew. Which volume is it as I have volumes 1 & 2 and it does not appear to be in either of them. There must therefore be further volumes. By a strange coincidence I have today received, on my return from holiday, the "Cahier du Centre de Genealogie Protestante No 71" issued by the SHPF and contained within is an article "Les huguenots de Sunbury d'apres les sources francaises" by Jean-Luc Tulot. This contains a long write up on several families living in this French Colony. One of those is the BERINGHAM family, La duchesse de la Force. This family is well documented over three A4 pages of print. Many other names and families are described in this publication and if of interest I will seek the authors permission, I am already in correspondence with him, to list all the names on this list and copy the relevant sections to those that find a name of interest listed. I shall also need permission from the SHPF so it could take some time. This part of what is now Surrey, but was Middlesex, is also the subject of an article in the Huguenot Proceedings and a publication issued by the Local History Society. The later has also been translated into French but I am attempting to obtain the original document. This list many names, some in addition to the above publication and there are nearly two pages on La duchesse de Caumont La Force. Again I will check if this can be distributed. The reason for my interest is in the families GIBERNE and LERPINIERE and both of these were connected with Sunbury. The strange thing is that many years ago our family used to live at Sunbury and attended the same church as the Huguenot families and we had a daughter baptised there. At the time we were totally ignorant as to the family connection. Roy Day.