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 proved in the Prerogative Court, Dublin. Gideon Delaune, Esq., was returned to the Irish House of Commons in 1695 as one of the members for Blessington, in the county of Dublin; his will was proved at Dublin in 1700. A Colonel Delaune was given the command of a regiment to be raised in Ireland in 1708. The next occurrence of the name is in 1746, when the will of Henry Delaune, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Marines, was proved at Dublin. Lastly, we meet in the Books of the Commissariot of Edinburgh with Colonel Henry Delaune, who died at Dublin on 15th July 1747, and whose sole executrix was his widow, Mrs. Lucy Delaune.  

There was a Michell Didier in London in 1588, married on 2d November of that year, in the parish church of St. Botolph, Aldgate; he was a native of Marseilles (see Burn’s Parochial Registers). In Norwich there were Melchior Didier and Marie Desbonnet, his wife, whose daughter Elizabeth was baptized in the French Church on 16th November 1595; the signature of “Melchior Dydyer” as a deacon in that church was appended to the Book of Discipline on 5th October 1594. At later dates the name appears at Canterbury:—

Other children of Abraham Didier and Lea were Jaques, b. 1664, and Elizabeth, b. 1666; also Benjamin, b. 1671; he married in London in 1698.

&#42;&#8270;* There was a grant of Naturalization to Anthony Didier on 4th April 1692, and another to Antoinette Didier on 10th August 1693, but perhaps these were refugees of the Revocation period.

 

A child of this name was baptized at Norwich in 1610, and I extracted the entry on account of a slight resemblance to my own name. But this family’s surname was never correctly ascertained, even by its own members. In 1616 the same man appears in the register as Jean Douargneau. It is said that it is the same surname that appeared in the register in 1600 as Honneneau. But passing from registrars to members of the family, the following are signatures in the Norwich Book of Discipline. An elder signed on 16th June 1590 as Jan de Honueingneu, and another office-bearer on 4th July 1615 as Jan Doueneaw.  

A public character, considered to be of the English type, and accustomed to talk about his “’osses,” seems to have been of French descent, and to have had ancestors of a more poetical type, Huguenot martyrs for conscience’ sake. Jan Ducro was a member of the Norwich French Church in 1604, and the name occurs in the baptismal register several times, written sometimes “Du Cro.” The true spelling was Ducros or Du Cros, and refugees of that name may be found in the 