Capt. Thomas Durell

Thomas Durell Pedigree Male

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Birth:  1685   , Jersey, Channel Islands  

Father: John Durell Family
Mother: Ann Dumaresq
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Captain Thomas Durell, 1685-1741, Philip's uncle, was also a map-maker, and according to R.V.Tooley drew the harbour and Island of Canso, 1732, and the sea coasts of New England; Nova Scotia; Newfoundland (undated). Dictionary of Mapmakers.

Since the sources do not fully agree, some of the above may be incorrect. The sources quoted by Balleine include Charnock; and Clowes, W.L. The Royal Navy; Waugh, W.T. James Wolfe; Parkman, F. Montcalm & Wolfe.

Lloyd, in the Capture of Quebec, 1959, p 59, retails some peculiarly unflattering remarks made by Wolfe about Durell, prior to the capture of Quebec, as follows: "Wolfe ..... complained to Pitt about 'the thorough aversion conceived by the marine of this country against navigating the river St Lawrence ..... I will add from my own knowledge that the second naval officer in command there (Philip Durell) is vastly unequal to the weight of the business; and it is of the first importance to the country that it doth not fall into such hands'". But see also pp 117-119 of Furneaux's The Seven Years War, 1973. In spite of his "dilatoriness", which apparently lost the English attack the element of surprise, Durell seems to have accomplished the navigation up the St Lawrence with unprecedented success. The accounts are not totally clear.

An excellent biography of Philip Durell, by W.A.B.Douglas, in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, online, has the following comment: "Despite a hard winter all his (Durell's) ships were ready by 8 April 1759, but when Major-General Wolfe and Vice-Admiral Charles Saunders arrived in Halifax on 30 April they found Durell still in port. Even though the ships were at single anchor, awaiting only a favourable wind, Wolfe was displeased. Durell's peers in the naval service, however, did not in the end find fault with him. Ice conditions that spring had been particularly severe, and ships were unable to get into the Gulf of St Lawrence or Louisbourg harbour as late as mid-April." Wolfe appears to have harboured some personal dislike of Durell.

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Thomas DURELL (AFN: 14L9-XZ7) Pedigree

Sex:  M  Family  

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Event(s)

Birth:   1685   

 , Jersey, Channel Isles   

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Parents

Father:  John DURELL (AFN: 14L9-X6G)  Family  

Mother:  Ann DUMARESQ (AFN: 14L3-TDC)   

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Marriage(s)

Spouse:  Anne BULKELEY (AFN: 14L9-Z0D)  Family  

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