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#7800, Claude FONNEREAU
| Born | 1675 in La Rochelle, France |
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| Died | 1740 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire |
| Father | Zacherie FONNEREAU (1636 - 1678) |
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| Mother | Marguerite CHATAIGNER (1636 - 1720) |
of Christchurch Mansion. Claude's year of birth may have been in 1676 or 1677. The Fonnereaus were a Huguenot merchant family based in London. In the year of the death of his wife Elizabeth, Claude purchased Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich in 1735 from Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford. When he died he left nine children and vast wealth.
Claude and his family lived in Scythe Lane in the parish of St Antholin's, London. His certificate of denization is dated 15 04 1693, when he was about 17, and he was naturalised by Act of Parliament on 02 04 1698.
In his will, Claude left Christchurch to his eldest son Thomas and his house in Scyth Lane to his sons Zachary and Peter, on the condition that his wife and daughters be allowed to continue to live there free of rent.
An entry in the family bible states that Claude "died suddenly in his coach the 5th of April, 1740, at Hogsdon, coming from his Country House at Edmonton to London". (This has since been interpreted as Hoddeston in Hertfordshire but is almost certainly Hoxton, near Shoreditch).
Claude was buried near his first wife in the chancel of St Antholin's on 16 04 1740.
Timeline
Born
Death of Father, Zacherie FONNEREAU
Married Elizabeth BUREAU in St Mary Magdelene, Old Fish St, London
Birth of Son, Thomas FONNEREAU
Birth of Son, Claudius FONNEREAU
Birth of Daughter, Elizabeth Frances FONNEREAU
Birth of Son, Abel FONNEREAU
Birth of Daughter, Anne FONNEREAU
Birth of Son, John FONNEREAU
Birth of Son, Zachary Philip FONNEREAU
Death of Son, John FONNEREAU
Birth of Son, Peter FONNEREAU
Birth of Daughter, Mary Anne FONNEREAU
Birth of Daughter, Elizabeth FONNEREAU
Death of Mother, Marguerite CHATAIGNER
Death of wife, Elizabeth BUREAU
Married Anne BOEHM in St Antholin's, London
Died 1740