'LeMarchant1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Le Marchant of Guernsey, Le Marchant of Le Marchant Manor

                               
BP1934 reports that "The family of Le Marchant has been long settled in Guernsey, and is probably a branch of the family of Le Marchant de Bouville, in La Manche, France."
Peter Le Marchant, Lt. Governor of Guernsey (a temp Edward I who r. 1272-1307)
m. Mathilda
1. Denis Le Marchant, Provost of Guernsey (a 1331)
  m1. Bonita de Garis
  A. John Le Marchant (a 1382, bailiff)
  i. Denis Le Marchant (d c1393, lieutenant-bailiff)
  m. Jean de Chesney (dau of Sir William de Chesney)
  a. Peter Le Marchant (d 1436, jurat)
  m. Janette Lempriere
  (1) Denis Le Marchant (dsp, lieutenant-bailiff & seneschal)
  (2) John Le Marchant (jurat) ancestor of Le Marchant of the Isle of Wight
m. Collette de la Cour
  (3) Drouet Le Marchant (a 1460, Captain of Beauregard Castle)
  (A) William Le Marchant (lieutenant-bailiff)
  m. Laurence Perrin
  (i) Nicholas Le Marchant (a 1546)
  m. Philipine de la Roque
  (a) Thomas Le Marchant (d before 1586, jurat)
  m. Thomasse de la Marche
  ((1)) William Le Marchant (lieutenant-bailiff) - continued below
  m. Margaret du Port
  ((2)) Rachael Le Marchant
  m. Giles German
  ((3)) other issue (dsp) - Thomas, Eleazer
  (b)+ other issuev (dsp) - Nicholas, William
  (ii) Michelle Le Marchant
  (iii) Laurence Le Marchant
  m. Michael Le Petit
  (B) Janette Le Marchant
  m. Thomas Effart
  b. Janequin Le Marchant (dsp)
  c. Michelle Le Marchant
  m. Janequin de Plessis
  m2. Perronelle Le Moigne

 

 

William Le Marchant (lieutenant-bailiff) - continued above
m. Margaret du Port
1. Thomas Le Marchant (d 1619, jurat)
  m. Ann de Beauvoir
  A. John Le Marchant (b 1612, jurat)
  m. Rachel le Moyne de Vitre
  i. William Le Marchant had issue
  m1. Elizabeth Knapton
  m2. Marie de Saumarez
  ii. Thomas Le Marchant
  m. Martha de Lisle
  a. Thomas Le Marchant of Le Marchant Manor, Guernsey (lieutenant-bailiff)
m. Catharine Mauger
  (1) Thomas Le Marchant (dsp 1816, Colonel)
  m. Esther Fiott
  (2) John Le Marchant of Le Marchant Manor (d 1794, Colonel)
  m. Mary Catherine Hirzel
  (A) John Gaspard Le Marchant 'of Le Marchant Manor' (b 09.02.1766, d Salamanca 22.07.1812, Major General)
  m. Mary Carey (d 21.08.1811, dau of John Carey, jurat)
  (i) Carey Le Marchant (b 05.12.1791, dsp 12.03.1814, Captain)
  (ii) Sir Denis Le Marchant, 1st Bart (b 03.07.1795, d 30.10.1874, MP) had issue
m. (09.01.1835) Sarah Eliza Smith (d 06.03.1894, dau of Charles Smith of Suttons, sister of Sir Charles, Bart)
  (iii) Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant, Lt. Governor of Newfoundland & Malta (b 1803, d 06.02.1874, General, CIC Madras) had issue
  m. (28.05.1839) Margaret Anne Taylor (d 23.08.1903, dau of Rev. Robert Taylor, coheir of REv. John Watkins of Clifton Hall)
(iv) Thomas Le Marchant of New Lodge, Hertfordshire (b 21.08.1811, dsp 08.08.1873, Colonel)
  m. (02.07.1846) Frances Mary Isabella Smith (dau of James Smith of Ashlyne Hall)
  (v) Catherine Stephens Le Marchant (d 01.07.1881)
  m. (11.10.1821) Rev. Thomas Lewis Fanshawe of Parsloes (d 05.03.1858)
  (vi) Mary Le Marchant (d c1867)
  m. _ Gostling (Major General)
  (vii) Caroline Le Marchant (dsp 1875)
  m. _ Somerville (Captain)
  (viii) Helen Le Marchant (d 02.1833)
  m. (20.03.1827) Henry Shaw-Lefevre (d 03.12.1880, brother of Viscount Eversley)
  (ix) Anne Maria Le Marchant (d 25.01.1858)
  m. (10.06.1823) Daniel Tupper of Guernsey (d 02.1879)
  (B) James Le Marchant had issue ("now extinct")
  m. Susannah Falla
  (3)+ 4 daughters
  b.+ 2 daughters
2. Josias Le Marchant ancestor of Le Marchant of Melrose, St. Peter's Port, Guernsey
3.+ 5 others

Main source(s): BP1934 (Le Marchant)
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