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 David Montolieu, Baron de Saint-Hippolite, born 1668, died 1761. = Mary Molenier.

Louis Charles, born 1719, died 1776. = Miss Leheup.

Elizabeth, = Hon, and Rev. Gideon Murray, Prebendary of Durham.

Mary Clara, married to Alexander, 7th Lord Elibank, great grandfather of Montolieu Fox Murray, 10th Lord Elibank.

A daughter, married to Wriothesley Digby, Esq.

Ann, married to Sir James Bland Lamb, Bart. (formerly Burges.)

Julia, married to Sir H. Bouverie.

Elizabeth, married to 8th Lord Cranstoun, Captain, R.N.

Alexander, 7th Lord Elibank, married his cousin, Mary Clara, already mentioned.

Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb, Bart., married to the Dowager Lady Montgomerie. [These baronets quarter the arms of Montolieu.]

(7.) The Marquis of Puissar (p. 176) was a refugee officer to whom King William gave the Colonelcy of the 24th foot. (This regiment has been mistaken for a French refugee regiment, and called Pisars or Pizar’s.) Louis James, Marquis de Puissar, married, in 1685, Catherine, daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, knight. The Marquis died in 1701, and his widow married her cousin, Colonel the Hon. William Villiers, second son of the third Viscount Grandison.

The researches of Colonel Chester, proving De Puissar’s surname to have been Le Vasseur, have revealed his pedigree, previously unknown. The widow of our Marquis made her Will in 1706 (proved by her second husband in 1709), through which his names have been ascertained. She does not call him a Marquis; but it must be remembered that his Marquisate was a French courtesy-title, which could not be retained in English society by his widow on her remarrying; her legal title as a widow was Mrs Catherine Puissar (she is so styled in the Irish Pension List). It is stated in official documents that her husband was “commonly called Marquis de Puissar.” His name was Louis Jacques Le Vasseur-Cougnue. His father was George le Vasseur-Cougnée, Marquis de Thouars, as to whom Haag states that he married a Dutch lady, and had a son, Charles Gaspard. The title of Marquis de Thouars was also a courtesy-title. Joachim le Vasseur, Seigneur de Coigners, alias de Coignée, alias de Cognée, alias de Cougnée, was killed in the St Bartholomew massacre. His first wife’s name was Louise de Thouars, and she was the mother of his children. The eldest son was Jacques le Vasseur, Sieur de Coigners, Thouars, and Fargot, whom Anselm calls Seigneur de la Coignée au Maine; but he dying childless, the representation of the family devolved on his brother, Joachim le Vasseur, Sieur d’Aillières, who died in 1629, and was styled “Le Vasseur-Cougnée.” His son and successor, Louis le Vasseur, Seigneur de Coigners, married Susanne de Mallery, and had seven children; of whom the eldest son, Jacques, Marquis de Coigners, abjured Protestantism and continued the family in France; the second son was Georges, Marquis de Thouars, father of De Puissar [or Des Puisars].

(8.) Du Quesne (pp. 176-178). The illustrious admiral and enthusiastic Protestant, Abraham, Marquis Du Quesne, was not allowed to leave France. 