CHAMARETTE: France > England > c1817 India
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More Info re: CHAMARETTE
| buymailus (View posts) | Posted: 12 Nov 2003 4:27PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Chamarette, Johannes, Thompson
Thank you Tony. I'm in the USA so (having only just started research) have not yet looked at any records in London. By the time they went to India the Chamarettes were English, having fled the Huguenot persecution in France. From the Internet I have this information from St Georges Church in Hyderabad -
This family can be traced to Andrew Chamarette who served in the Survey of India and was posted to the Nizam’s Dominions during 1817-1845. He married at Secunderabad, Katherine Johannes a spinster daughter of an Armenian soldier of fortune in the service of the ‘Paigah’ of Vicar-ul-Umrah at the French Gardens on 3 October 1820. Although born in England, he was of Huguenot descent and his forefather left the village of Chamaret in the south of France when the persecution was on. Andrew and Katherine had five children, Andrew, Peter, James, John, and Mary. John Edward Chamarette was Assistant Surveyor. He was born 23 January 1828 and baptised 21 June 1829 at Secunderabad. He married Winifred Amelia Thompson daughter of Lt. Quarter Master William Thompson on 12 August 1856 at the Government Cuthchery at Lingsoogour in the Raichur Doab. He served 14 years in the Hyderabad Contingent and 30 years in the Nizam’s Army as a medical officer. They had six children Major Arthur John Andrew HEH the Nizam’s Own 3rd Infantry born 78.1861 died at Bangalore 7.11.1920, Whitelaw, Thompson, Lancaster, Julie and Jane Amelia. Thompson Chamarette was Chief of Staff HEH the Nizam’s Army and a strong supporter of the Community and the Church serving on both school and church committees. He was one of the board members who met to decide to accept the offer of the Australian Church Missionary Society to run the church and schools. His wife Anne Louisa died on 7.1.1931
I'm also interested in how they got to England in the first place during the Huguenot persecution, and what their surname was at that time.
If you are interested in looking into this further, I would be grateful for anything you can dig up. I shall be in England around Christmas time, and intend to do some research in person then.
This family can be traced to Andrew Chamarette who served in the Survey of India and was posted to the Nizam’s Dominions during 1817-1845. He married at Secunderabad, Katherine Johannes a spinster daughter of an Armenian soldier of fortune in the service of the ‘Paigah’ of Vicar-ul-Umrah at the French Gardens on 3 October 1820. Although born in England, he was of Huguenot descent and his forefather left the village of Chamaret in the south of France when the persecution was on. Andrew and Katherine had five children, Andrew, Peter, James, John, and Mary. John Edward Chamarette was Assistant Surveyor. He was born 23 January 1828 and baptised 21 June 1829 at Secunderabad. He married Winifred Amelia Thompson daughter of Lt. Quarter Master William Thompson on 12 August 1856 at the Government Cuthchery at Lingsoogour in the Raichur Doab. He served 14 years in the Hyderabad Contingent and 30 years in the Nizam’s Army as a medical officer. They had six children Major Arthur John Andrew HEH the Nizam’s Own 3rd Infantry born 78.1861 died at Bangalore 7.11.1920, Whitelaw, Thompson, Lancaster, Julie and Jane Amelia. Thompson Chamarette was Chief of Staff HEH the Nizam’s Army and a strong supporter of the Community and the Church serving on both school and church committees. He was one of the board members who met to decide to accept the offer of the Australian Church Missionary Society to run the church and schools. His wife Anne Louisa died on 7.1.1931
I'm also interested in how they got to England in the first place during the Huguenot persecution, and what their surname was at that time.
If you are interested in looking into this further, I would be grateful for anything you can dig up. I shall be in England around Christmas time, and intend to do some research in person then.