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 resolve to fly, along with their four sons and three daughters. The third son, Jean, was persuaded by his military uncle to remain with his regiment, and he founded a French Romanist family at the Chateau de Pouilly, near Metz; and his eldest brother, Pierre, afterwards returned to France, and also became a Roman Catholic. But, according to their resolve, the parents and six children fled in the year 1714; the two youngest were Jean Jacques (born 1711), and Marthe (born 1713). The fugitives set out from the family mansion, near Nismes, and experienced great sufferings and privations in their perilous journey, travelling by night, and concealing themselves by day, until they reached St. Malo, whence they crossed to Guernsey. In that island two sons and three daughters grew up as British subjects; of these, one son and two daughters died in London unmarried; Martha died in Guernsey in 1787, aged seventy-four, and Jean Jacques founded a family; it was in 1764 that he died, aged fifty-three, leaving by his wife (née Mary Neel, of Jersey) a daughter, Mary (Mrs. Bowden), and a son John (born 1763, died 1821), King’s Comptroller, or Advocate-General, and Colonel of the 1st or East Regiment of Guernsey Militia. Colonel de la Condamine, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Coutart, Esq. of Guernsey, was the father of five sons and two daughters, namely, John de la Condamine, Esq. (born 1792), William (born 1795, died 1854), Captain Thomas de la Condamine (born 1797), who married Miss Janet Mary Agnew of Cairn Castle, Robert Coutart de la Condamine, Esq. of Edinburgh (born 1800, died 1870), James (born 1803), Mary (born 1788, died 1840), wife of Captain David Carnegie, late of the 102nd Fusiliers, and Elizabeth (born 1790, died 1847).  . — A prosperous and well-connected family in the county of Limerick, the heads of which have long resided in Rathkeale, descends from a Huguenot refugee of Alsace, who left France at the Revocation epoch. Their surname is variously spelt, Delmege, or Dolmage. The first on record is a grandson of the refugee, known as Adam Dolmage of Rathkeale; his eldest son Julius was born in 1772, and married Susanne, daughter of Monsieur de Gorrequer, a French emigrant at the period of the first French Revolution, said to be a descendant of the Comtes de Morlaix. The next chief of the family was Julius (son of Julius), born in 1800, married in 1833, and died in 1868, whose eldest son, Julius de Gorrequer Delmege, was a Colonel in the Persian Army, and knight of the Lion and Sun, but died unmarried. Thus the headship of the family devolved on the second son, Austin, born in 1838, who still survives and has several sons. Austin Dolmage, Esq., was formerly of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers; he subsequently, as a volunteer in the Italian army, earned the knighthoods of SS. Maurice and Lazard, and of the Corona of Italy. (The first on record, Adam, had younger sons, named Tobias, Christopher, James, and John, who have representatives; of these, John was rector of Bannagher and prebendary of Droughta, father of John Evans Dolmage of Montgraigue, and of Adam William Stafford Dolmage, barrister-at-law.)  . — The venerated refugee of this name, whom we have already memorialized, and who died about 1744, left one son and namesake, Isaac. What branch of business the refugee established in Dublin I am not informed, but probably it was that in which he was followed by his son, whom I first meet in his “prerogative marriage license,” dated 17th May 1733, where the happy couple are described as “Isaac D’Olier, goldsmith, of St. Werburgh’s, Dublin, and Joyce Keen, of the same parish, spinster.” The family pedigree states that she was a daughter of Arthur Keene, Esq. of Ulverston, Lancashire. Their marriage took place on 29th May 1733, and their eldest son was baptized on 12th March 1733 (i.e., 1734 new style). She died in 1771 (aged sixty-two), and he in 1781. The Prerogative Will of Isaac D’Olier, the elder, of Little Forest, Dublin, gentleman, which was dated in 1778, and proved on 28th February 1781, mentions his three sons, Isaac, Richard, and Jeremiah. Isaac (born 1734) is called in his Dublin Marriage License, dated 28th April 1768, “Isaac D’Olier of Little Forest, gentleman;” after his father’s death he is styled “of Finglas.” It would appear that his father and he, as the heads of the family, had renounced business; because each of his two brothers, who took wives at the same period, is styled “goldsmith.” Isaac died in 1790 (aged fifty-six). As to his brothers, the Dublin marriage license of Richard is dated 11th February 1768, and that of Jeremiah 24th February 1769.

Richard was led to visit France, landing at Bourdeaux, and sojourning at Montauban, by medical advice, for about three years from August 1791. The leaders of the French Revolution arrested him, and imprisoned him as a suspected conspirator. In order to obtain his release his friends in Dublin made affidavits on 18th April 1794, before the Mayor, to the effect that Richard D’Olier was a grandson of a refugee from the persecutions in France in the reign of Louis XIV. (this was