David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Delmé née Maurois, having been left a widow in 1653, joined in London her son Elie, pasteur of Threadneedle Street. At the date of her husband’s death, her son, Peter Delmé, was aged twenty-three, and John Delmé was aged twenty. Before many years these were her only surviving sons, and both became prosperous merchants and men of rare excellence. Mr. Peter Delmé citizen and dyer, in or about 1664, married Sibilla Nightingale; they lived in the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle, where their eldest son, an infant, was buried on 26th January 1665 (new style) ; she survived him for many years. ”

“ There seems always to have been a close correspondence between the refugee families of Norwich and Canterbury, and frequent intermarriages. It was while he was minister at Norwich that the pasteur, Philippe Delmé, on 29th December 1616, was married at Canterbury to Elizabeth Maurois. (This lady in her will mentioned a nephew, David Desquire of Norwich, who signed as a deacon there on 29th May 1634.) Mr. Delmé was translated to the French Church of Canterbury in or about 1619; and as he is the ancestor of the old English family, that family in its second stage was a Canterbury family. ”

“ The witnesses were his uncle, John Delmé, and Anne, wife of Joseph De la Motte, for whom the infant’s grandmother stood proxy. The next mention I find of him is in the will of that uncle, dated 1707. Mr. Peter Delmé was then forty years of age. Possessing an ample fortune, and not requiring any substantial legacy, he was ignored as a nephew, and was appointed one of his uncle’s executors as a “good friend” of the testator. In or about the year 1709 he married Anne, daughter of Cornelius Macham, of Southampton, and his eldest son and heir was born in 1710. Mr. ”