David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Uncle De la Valade was French minister in Lisburn for upwards of forty years; the second minister remained only two years and a half; the third and last minister was Saumarez Du Bourdieu, “who was minister for forty-five years, and was so beloved in the neighbourhood that in the insurrection of 1798 he was the only person in Lisburn whom the insurgents had agreed to spare.” He died the Incumbent of Lambeg parish [in 1813] , aged ninety-six. He left three sons, John, Shem, and Saumarez; the third was a military surgeon, unmarried; Shem’s grandchildren settled in Dublin. ”

“ The Dubourdieu family became an Irish one. Rev. Charles De la Valade, a refugee pasteur, was the first minister of the French Church of Lisburn, he being the brother-in-law of Alexander Crommelin, who had married his sister ”