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  of the East Kent Millitia (born 1757, died 1838), married, in 1791, Anne, daughter, and eventually co-heiress of Henry Cressett Pelham, Esq. of Crowhurst Park, Sussex, and had three sons and seven daughters, of whom the second son is the Rev. John Papillon, Rector of Lexden, father of the Rev. Thomas Leslie Papillon, Fellow of New College (formerly of Merton College), Oxford. The next head of the family was the eldest son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Papillon, Thomas Papillon, Esq. of Crowhurst Park (born 7th March 1803), J.P. and D.L., who married, in 1825, Frances Margaret, second daughter of the late Sir Henry Oxenden of Broome Park, Kent. His sons are — (1.) Philip Oxenden Papillon, Esq. of Lexden Manor House (successor to his grand-uncle), M.P. for Colchester from 1859 to 1865, who married Emily Caroline, third daughter of the Very Rev. Thomas Gamier, Dean of Lincoln, and now the head of the family. (2.) Rev. Thomas Henry Papillon, Rector of Crowhurst. (3.) Major John Ash ton Papillon of the Royal Engineers, who married Lydia, fifth daughter of Rev. William Girardot, of Hinton Charterhouse, Somersetshire. (4.) Captain David Papillon, 92d Highlanders. The family motto is, Ditat servata fides; on the shield are three representations of a butterfly (papillon), and a chevron. Over the family vault at Acrise is this inscription:—

&#42;&#8270;* Mr. John Dubois, citizen and weaver, whose name in 1682 was associated with Mr. Thomas Papillon, was probably of Huguenot origin. He married Sarah Waldo (sister of Sir Edward), and had three children — (1.) John (died before 1707). (2.) Charles, of Mitcham, Surrey, who died 20th October 1740, aged eighty-three, celebrated for his botanic garden and collections of shells and fossils. (3.) Mary, born in the East Indies about 1694, was married to her cousin, Peter Waldo, of Mitcham (eighth child of Samuel), and died 20th January 1773. Jacques du Boys (or, du Bois) was a refugee from the neighbourhood of Lisle in Flanders (son of Guylliam du Boys), and he is on record in the visitation of London, as one “who came over into England in the tyme of persecution,” with his wife, Jane, daughter of Gregory Matelyne. These are declared to be the parents of Peter du Bois, merchant in Cordwayner Ward, London, who was living in 1634, having married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of John Monier; secondly, Katherine, daughter of John Bulteel; and, thirdly, Mary, daughter of Friscobald, of Florence.  

The pedigree of this family is in Heralds’ College, London, has been brought down to the year 1694, and continued to 1711. It might, I believe, be continued further, but being a Norman family, it is possible that its representatives may think that they “came with the Conqueror.” My impression is (as our facetious weekly visitor, Punch, would say) that they came by another boat.

The parent stem is designated Carbonnel, Signeur de Chassagia et de Souzdevae (Normandie). The first person named is Nicolas Carbonnel, Vicomte de Constantin, who, with Guillametta de Constantin, his wife, belonged to the parish of Marigni. His son was Thomas, merchant of Caen, who, by his wife, Marie, daughter of Jaques Carrel, a gentleman of Caen, was the father of three sons and six daughters. The sons were Jean, Guillaume, and Michel. Jean was for a time one of the secretaries to Louis XIV., and he had one son, Jaques, and one daughter, Marie; it is doubtful if he or his children were ever in England. The same may be said of Michel Carbonnel of Caen, merchant, who had four sons, all represented in the pedigree as having died unmarried, except the second, named Daniel.

Guillaume Carbonnel, however, was among the refugees and merchant strangers in London. He married in the parish church of St. Antholin, on 22d May 1654, Elizabeth, only daughter of Jean de Lillers and Anne Maurois. The five daughters of this respected couple died unmarried before 1694. But there were seven sons, six of whom grew up, and occupied good positions in life. The eldest son, John Carbonnel, of London, merchant, married Sarah, daughter of Edmund Sawyer of Haywood, Berkshire, who died 13th January 1702 (n.s.), leaving an only child, William, who was living in 1711. The marriage of the second son, Thomas, also a merchant in London, is recorded, to Mary, daughter and co-heir of Richard Ailey; he had two daughters, Mary and Frances — also an only son, Thomas, who, with his father, seems