From "Jane Hammond" <trident@btconnect.com> I am interested in finding out more about the family of the Baron de Brueys de Fontcouverte. His daughter the Demoiselle Anne was born in the Diocese of Usez. married a Huguenot pastor, François Guillaume Durand (1649-1733). They appear to have. lived at Genellac for two or three years (presumably with his wife Anne) until persecution compelled him to flee France, probably in 1685, leaving behind his son François who was taken away by the Jesuits at the age of four and educated at their college in Montpellier. It is believed that his mother Anne was immured in a convent and died there. They are my forebears. Admiral de Brueys commanded the French side at the Battle of the Nile and continued giving orders even after both legs were shot away under him. Presumably he was a descendant of the same family as the Baron. In case this is of interest, François GuillaumeDurand was a chaplain in the service of William III in March 1690. As your article states (December 2005), the king was raising armies abroad to enable him to carry on his fight against the ex-King James II in Ireland. Durand succeeded in Canton Vaux in raising the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Regiment of Baltasar. The Geneva clergy, however, decided that combining the duties of captain and minister were incompatible, so he resigned his captaincy but remained chaplain of the Regiment in February 1691. He served with the English army in Savoy under the Duke of Schomberg, afterwards going to Milan and Bruges, where he was in May 1698. He journeyed to Holland and became Minister of the Walloon Church in Nijmeguen in September 1701, dying there on 27 May 1733 at 84. Taken from pedigree in the possession of my cousin, Nicholas Drake of Guernsey, whose grandmother Maude Durand was sister to my grandmother Helen Durand. Jane Brown