NAME: MATTHEW SAUMAREZ ........ (note...name change from de Sausmarez)

BIRTH: 10 OCT 1718 Guersey, Channel Is

DEATH: 28 MAR 1778 at sea, Weymouth, England age ( 60)

• FATHER: Mattew De SAUMAREZ b: (1685-1751)
• MOTHER: Anne DURELL b: 1689, ST Helliers, Jersey d: unkown

MARRIAGE 1: Susannah DUMARESQ b: 1723, Guernsey Died 1743 age (20)

Married: 1743 , Channel Islands

CHILDREN

1. Susannah SAUMAREZ b: 1743, Guernsey

MARRIAGE 2: Carterette Le MARCHANT b: 24 JUN 1726 ,Guernsey

MARRIED:

CHILDREN

1...F...Anne Saumarez b:. 3 Jul 1752

2...M...John Saumarez b: 1755,

3...M...James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez b: 11 Mar 1757

4...M...Thomas Saumarez b: 1 Jul 1760

5...F....Charlotte Saumarez b: 22 Feb 1763

6...M...Richard Saumarez b. 13 Nov 1764

7...M...Nicholas Saumarez b: 30 Sep 1766 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

8...F...Mary Saumarez b: 16 Apr 1768 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

9...F...Carterette Saumarez b: 07 Jan 1770.

NOTES

See TIMELINE for IGI ancestral Records

See MEDIA for information sources

• Matthew Saumarez was born on 10 October 1718.1 He was the son of Matthew de Sausmarez and Anne Durell.
• Occupation...Naval Surgeon

•He married, firstly, Susannah Dumaresq, daughter of either....Thomas Dumaresq. of Jersey...... or Philip Dumaresq and Susannah Ferry, originally of Jersey Island, then moved to Boston. ( history documents are vague and unclear)

• They had one daughter born in 1743 named Susannah.
• Her mother (Susannah's) death is recorded as 1743, at the age of 20. She may have died in childbirth.
• approx. 3 years later circa 1746...Matthew remarried to Carteret Le Marchant, daughter of James & Marthe Le Marchant
• with Carteret, they had 9 Children, (5 sons , 4 dau.) They were.... Anne, John, James, Thomas, Charlotte, Richard, Nicholas, Mary & Carterette.
• Their son James, became an Admiral in the British Navy, and was given a peerage, and became Lord Admiral, James de Saumarez He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Bath (K.B.) in 1801.

He was created 1st Baronet Saumarez, in the Island of Guernsey [U.K.] on 13 June 1801.

• ...other sons, were also officers in the British Navy
• Matthews life was cut short, when he drowned on a passage to England when the ship he was on sank off Weymouth just off England in 1778.

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EXTRA NOTES

* Occupation Naval Surgeon

* Also in Guernsey Dictionary of National Biography.

• Progenitor of the present day Saumarez family. Matthew and his brothers Philip and Thomas dropped the prefix "De" and the second "s" from the original spelling of their surname, and therefore they and their descendants are "Saumarez" and not "De Sausmarez."

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http://www.thepeerage.com/p36874.htm#i368733

We now come to the brothers and sisters of the first Lord de Saumarez, children of Matthew, the fourth son, already mentioned as remarkable for his urbanity of manners and hospitality, particularly to strangers.

By his first wife, daughter of Thomas Dumaresq, Esq. of Jersey, Matthew Saumarez had issue Susannah, an only child, who married Henry Brock, Esq. of Guernsey: by his second wife, Carteret, daughter of James le Marchant, Esq. he had a numerous family. First,—Anne, the eldest daughter, was married to Isaac Dobree, Esq., and is now living a widow : she has four daughters, all married. Charlotte, second daughter, married Nicholas Peter Dobree, rector of St. Mary. Mary, the third daughter, is unmarried. Carteret, fourth daughter, married Peter Lihou, Esq. colonel of militia. Philip, the eldest son, was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and died at Gibraltar, 1774. John, the second son, surgeon-general to His Majesty's forces on the island, became heir to his father ; he married Judith, daughter of William Brock, Esq. sister of Harriet, wife of Sir Thomas. James, was the third son, and first Lord de Saumarez. Sir Thomas, the fourth son, was born at Guernsey, 1st July 1760, and entered the army at the age of 15.* He married Harriet, daughter of William Brock, Esq. of Guernsey.

We now come to the brothers and sisters of the first Lord de Saumarez, children of Matthew, the fourth son, already mentioned as remarkable for his urbanity of manners and hospitality, particularly to strangers.

By his first wife, daughter of Thomas Dumaresq, Esq. of Jersey, Matthew Saumarez had issue Susannah, an only child, who married Henry Brock, Esq. of Guernsey: by his second wife, Carteret, daughter of James le Marchant, Esq. he had a numerous family. First,—Anne, the eldest daughter, was married to Isaac Dobree, Esq., and is now living a widow: she has four daughters, all married. Charlotte, second daughter, married Nicholas Peter Dobree, rector of St. Mary. Mary, the third daughter, is unmarried. Carteret, fourth daughter, married Peter Lihou, Esq. colonel of militia. Philip, the eldest son, was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and died at Gibraltar, 1774. John, the second son, surgeon-general to His Majesty's forces on the island, became heir to his father; he married Judith, daughter of William Brock, Esq. sister of Harriet, wife of Sir Thomas. James, was the third son, and first Lord de Saumarez. Sir Thomas, the fourth son, was born at Guernsey, 1st July 1760, and entered the army at the age of 15.[20] He married Harriet, daughter of William Brock, Esq. of Guernsey.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27151/27151-h/27151-h.htm#Page_332

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Married Susannah Dumaresq first. Had one child Susannah ( my ...? great grandmother).

Then he married Carteret Le Marchant and had numerous children (10). 9 lived to adulthood.

3rd son James became LORD de SAUMAREZ... (My great grans half brother).

Matthew drowned on his passage to England in March 1778 (off Weymouth)

Thomas Careye and his wife, Elizabeth had been on a visit to Guernsey, to introduce her to her new relations following their marriage five months earlier.

On their return to England the vessel in which they were travelling was overturned in a squall near Portland. They were both drowned as well as several others of the passengers; 

Amongst those drowned was MATTEW SAUMAREZ, the father of the first Lord de Sausmarez.

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by his 1st marriage.......................1 Susannah, who m. Henry Brock, Esq.,

by the 2nd marriage.

2 Philip, a Lieutenant in the R.N., deceased.

3 John m. Judith, daughter of William Brock, Esq.

4 Sir James, G.C.B., the present Peer, (see The Peerage Volume,) created a Baronet in 1801, and Baron De Saumark/, of the Island of Guernsey, in 1831.

5 Sir Thomas, Knt., a Lieut.-general in the army,............... m. Harriet, daughter of William Brock, Esq.

6 Richard Saumarez, Esq., Surgeon, F.R. and A.S., President and Honorary Memher of various philosophical societies, and Author of several Philosophical works.

7 Nicholas, late Collector-general of the revenues of Cevlon. .

8 Anne, m. Isaac Dohree, Esq..

9 Charlotte, m. the Rev. Nicholas Dohree.

10 .Alary.

11 Carteret, m. Peter Listron, Esq.

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Matthew Saumarez

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Death:  MAR 1778     

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 Spouse:  Susanna Dumaresq  Family 

Marriage: About 1748 , , Channel Islands
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Family Background

In Guernsey there is Sausmarez Manor, which is spelt differently to the Admiral's name. The Sausmarez family is first mentioned in Guernsey in 1115 in connection with the consecration of a church. The Sausmarez family held the lordship of the manor until 1557 when George Sausmarez died without issue. The estate then passed to his sister Judith, who had married John Andrews, an Englishman from Northamptonshire, who had gone to Guernsey as as Lieutenant to the Governor the island. They had a son, John, who was known as John Andros, and he succeeded to the manor. John and five successors were Seigneurs of Sausmarez over the next two centuries. One of them, Sir Edmond Andros, was in 1674 the Bailiff and Lieutenant of Guernsey and also the Governor of the Colonies of New York, New England, North Carolina, Virginia, Massachusetts, New Plymouth and New Jersey. He left his estates in Guernsey to his nephew with the instruction that a new manor house should be built and this is the one, constructed between 1714 and 1718, that remains today. Charles Andros succeeded his father in 1746 but in 1748 sold the manor back to a cadet branch of the Sausmarez family.

Matthew Sausmarez (1685-1778) married Anne Durell, the daughter of a wealthy Jerseyman at St. Helier in Jersey on 1 January 1705. With the money she brought to the marriage, Matthew built a privateer. It is remarkable that while pursuing piracy at sea he had a career as an advocate. This couple had 11 children as shown in the pedigree in the appendix.

Matthew's eldest son, Jean or John was also an advocate. His second son, Philip, born in 1710, was the first of the family to serve in the Royal Navy. He was on Commodore Anson's trip to the Far East in H.M.S. Centurion in the 1740s. This was an expedition that was remarkable for two reasons - the great mortality from scurvy and the immense treasure brought back from the capture of a Spanish galleon off Manilla. Anson's share of the prize secured the fortune of his family in Staffordshire, allowing the building of the present Shugborough Hall, the family home of the late Lord Lichfield, the photographer. Philip Sausmarez was subsequently killed in a naval action with the French on 4 October 1747. His prize money helped the family buy back the manor from Charles Andros. There is a memorial to him in Westminster Abbey. Philip's brother, Thomas, was a naval captain from 1748. He captured the French vessel, Belliqeux, in the Bristol Channel and commanded her in the West Indies in 1861. He died in 1766.

It was Matthew's fifth son, also Matthew, born in 1717, who was the father of Admiral James Saumarez.