David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Sir James Dombrain, Knight, was a son of the second marriage; he was baptized at St. Mildred’s, 5th January 1794. He entered the Royal Navy, and rose to the rank of Commander. In 1817 he became Deputy Comptroller-General of the Coastguard of the United Kingdom. On 19th December of this year he married Mary, daughter and heiress of Robert Furly, of St. Alphage, Canterbury, by Jane Seguin, his wife. In 18 19 he was promoted to the rank of Comptroller-General of the Coastguard, upon receiving a commission to organize the Coastguard service on the coast of Ireland. ”

“ We have no early vouchers of the propagation of the family in the metropolis. We find a Joseph Dambrin in London in 1683 as a witness to the baptism of Joseph Longuet. In 1675 there was a Jaques Dambrin, of London, whose son, Josué, married, in Canterbury in that year, Marie, daughter of Jean Vandebroucq, of Sandwich (the lady’s maiden surname is sometimes spelt Van de Brocke, or Van de Brouke) ; they seem to have taken up their abode in Canterbury, where their children were baptized — viz., Elizabeth, in 1682, Juditcq, in 1686, and Rachel, in 1689. ”

“ For thirty years he presided over the force which he had introduced and organized. He received the honour of knighthood from the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1844. Lady Dombrain died at the Hill, Monkstown, County Dublin, on 15th September 1864, aged sixty-seven. Sir James died in September 1871. His son, the Rev. ”