Claude Fonnereau (22 March 1677,

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– 5 April 1740,

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) was a

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refugee who settled in

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and became a prominent merchant. He was the founding father of the Fonnereau family in

. In 1735 he purchased

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, from

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. He was a Director of the

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from 1738 to 1740.

Family life

Claude was the son of Zacharie Fonnereau and Marguerite Chataigner. He married Elizabeth Bureau, also a Huguenot, the daughter of Anne Bureau, and had several children: *

Thomas Fonnereau Thomas Fonnereau (27 October 1699, in London – 20 March 1779) was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1741 and 1779. Fonnrereau was the eldest son of Claude Fonnereau, a wealthy Huguenot merchant who ...

(1699–1779), a merchant and politician, who inherited his father's estates, including Christchurch Mansion * Dr. Claude (or Claudius) Fonnereau (1701–1785), who inherited Christchurch Mansion on his elder brother's death * Elizabeth Frances Fonnereau (born 1702), who married James (Jacques) Benezet, also from a Huguenot family, who had settled in

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* Abel Fonnereau (1703–1753) * Anne Fonnereau (born 1704), who married Philip Champion de Crespigny (1704–1765), Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Fonnereau also from a Huguenot family, who had settled in

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, and was the father of Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 1st Baronet, and

Philip Champion de Crespigny Philip Champion de Crespigny (1738–1803) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1790. He was of Huguenot descent, the son of Philip Champion de Crespigny (1704-1765), proctor of the Admiralty cour ...

Zachary Philip Fonnereau Zachary Philip Fonnereau (31 January 1706 – 15 August 1778) was a British businessman and politician. Early life Fonnereau was born in London on 31 January 1706, the fourth son of Claude Fonnereau of Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, a London m ...

(1706–1778), a merchant and politician who was the father of Philip Fonnereau and Martyn Fonnereau and grandfather of Thomas George Fonnereau * Peter Fonnereau (1709–1743) * Marie Anne (born 1711), who married

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* Elizabeth (born 1712), who married Mr. De Hauteville

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fonnereau, Claude 1677 births 1740 deaths Huguenots Businesspeople from Ipswich French emigrants to the Kingdom of Great Britain 18th-century English businesspeople People from La Rochelle People associated with the Bank of England