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Welcome to the De La Rue genealogy page! This can be the central point of reference for that genealogy from the De La Rue people of Australia. (Substitute spellings: Delarue or de la Rue.) In case you are a member of any with the people detailed under, this web page is to suit your needs!
The Caroline Agnes
My major interest would be to document the descendants of Thomas and Tabitha (née Edwards) De La Rue, of Leicestershire and Surrey, England, who arrived at Position Henry, Port Phillip District, NSW (now part of Geelong, Victoria), Australia on 28 Jun 1849. They arrived with eight youngsters as assisted migrants around the Caroline Agnes (570t, Master J. Alexander), right after departing London, 24 Feb 1849, and settled at Germantown (now Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong), Vic. Two much more children have been born in Australia after they arrived. Thomas was my great-great-grandfather,
microsoft Office 2010 keygen, and was born in Linghton, Leicestershire on 5 Dec 1808. The young children born in England ended up christened in Camberwell and Walworth in Surrey, so it seems that the family ended up dwelling there for a couple of many years ahead of they left. I've data of above two,000 descendants (which includes spouses) of Thomas and Tabitha.
Other De La Rue households of interest incorporate:
William de la Rue of Forest, Guernsey (born fifteen Nov 1822), who arrived in Melbourne, Victoria in Jun 1854. He arrived along with his two younger brothers around the Saldanha, having left Liverpool in Mar 1854, and settled at El Dorado, Victoria. William married Louisa Augusta Borchers of Goslar, Hanover, Germany on 4 Sep 1867 at El Dorado. It seems that most of the De La Rues of any be aware in Victoria are descendants of William and Louisa; We have documents of more than 155 descendants (such as spouses) of this family.
Hippolyte Felix Ferdinand De La Rue, of Berck, Normandy, France, who arrived to Sydney in 1840. This loved ones is documented within the guides A Bunyip Close Behind Me and Women Didn’t, by Eugenie Crawford. Hippolyte established a jewellery shop in George St, Sydney in 1850.
Charles Delarue of Colmar, Alsace, France (born 1824), who arrived in NSW between 1824 and 1860. He married Emma Hines (or Hinds) at Murringo, NSW on 31 Oct 1860; they had 8 kids. This family includes sports presenter Dennis Cometti in its ranks. We have not yet documented all the recent information on this family members.
Thomas de la Rue, of Forest, Guernsey (born 24 Mar 1793), who moved to England and set up as a printer. The company he founded is still in existence – see the history page at delarue.com. This is available in much more detail in Lorna Houseman’s book The House that Thomas Built. It is not clear how many descendants of this loved ones are in Australia, but there is at least one in New Zealand. Although Thomas was born within the same village as William, as yet I cannot find any family connection.
Eliza Anne De La Rue, apparently of Paris, France (born about 1824). Keryn contacted me regarding Eliza, her great-great-great-grandmother, who I was previously unaware of. She lived in Melbourne, but there is a fantastic deal of uncertainty about her. She said that she married John Winbanks in Sydney in 1854.
A number of members from the families are also engaged in this research. I am also researching my own ‘pedigree’ as much as possible – other family names of curiosity consist of Kelly, Westwood and Lamb. There is convict ancestry here – the De La Rue household is linked to the Thorowgood household, and the Kelly loved ones is linked to First Fleet convicts Nathaniel Lucas and Olivia Gascoigne.
Photos
I do not seem to have any photos of Thomas, but this can be a tin-type that we believe is of Tabitha Edwards:
Tabitha Edwards, 1813-1882
My great-grandparents:
James De La Rue Snr (1831-1893) and Sarah Betts (1839-1914)
My grandparents:
James De La Rue Jnr (1860-1917) and Annie Westwood (1869-1944 – photo 1940)
The name “De La Rue”
The name is French in origin (meaning “of the street” or “of your road”). In the original French it is spelled “de la Rue”; today it is also often spelled as one word in English-speaking countries. Other substitute spellings found consist of “De La Rew”, “De La Roux” and ”De La Reu”. Some of these variations may be due to varying levels of literacy. Then there may be the question of the relationship to “La Rue” and “Rue”. (In some countries, prefixes like “de la” are sometimes ignored.)
The name appears in France, and has also been within the Channel Islands (particularly Guernsey) for some time. There are suggestions the name may have either noble or Huguenot associations, and that it arrived in England from France as early as the late 11th century. An alternative version of a De La Rue loved ones tree included in Lorna Houseman’s book The House that Thomas Built states the first recorded appearance with the name in Guernsey was a land grant from a Danish king within the 12th century.
Richard de la Rue (who has commented beneath) reported recently that the De La Rue Company presented a loved ones tree at an exhibition several decades ago which included research into the origins of your name in Guernsey. This research reported that there are two distinct families on Guernsey, the latest of which arrived to your island as Huguenot exiles within the 16th century from the Limoges area of France. He reports that the earliest known record with the name in Guernsey dates back to a document of 1179. Richard also wrote:
“A couple of decades ago [2001], La Société Guernesiaise assisted University College London (UCL) and the BBC in a project called ‘The Blood with the Vikings’ in which they traced the reach of your Vikings according towards the DNA in each long lived family in Guernsey. (It made pretty dull TV.) The Viking gene shows up as a particular type from the male chromosome and they tested this against one representative of each old Guernsey loved ones. I had the privilege of being the representative for that De La Rues and was told that I had a gene commonly found in Norway; thus I think this points to me belonging towards the older De La Rue family members dating back to 1179 rather than the lot that came from southern-central France. All very tenuous I know, but when people ask me how long We have lived in Guernsey, I like the romance of replying that I’ve been here for 800 years!”
As I can only trace my De La Rue forebears back to Leicestershire, I still cannot connect my family members back to any of these origins – nor to any of your other households mentioned here!
Heraldry and nobility
I have seen two distinct Coats of Arms for the De La Rue name. One of these (which is listed formally in Burke’s Peerage) belongs to one branch of the family of Thomas de la Rue,
Windows 7 Enterprise Key, the printer. His grandson Thomas Andros De La Rue was created a Baronet on 17 Jun 1898, and thus the coat of arms strictly only belongs to his descendants. Andrew George Ilay De La Rue of London may be the current (fourth) Baronet. Read much more on Wikipedia. (Should you be not a member of this household, then any heraldry organisation that would like to convince you that you are entitled to it probably only wants your money!)
The formal description of this Coat of Arms is: “Or three bars gu., each charged with as many estoiles of your first,
Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key, in chief an increscent and a decrescent with the second. Crest – A brazier gu. fired between two branches of laurel, issuant from the flames thereof, a serpent nowed and erect ppr”. The motto with this really is: ”Cherche la verité” (”Seek the truth”).
The other coat of arms I've only seen rough sketches of, and have no clarity around the origin (or accuracy) of this at all. This one includes forts or castles.
Lamb Family
Jane Lamb (née Burton), about 1909
My mother’s mother was Alice Dale Lamb, born on 16 Jul 1887. Her parents have been Peter Lamb and Jane Burton, and they arrived in Australia in Nov 1884 on the Loch Ness (one from the Loch Line ships – made infamous by the sinking from the Loch Ard). Peter was 25, Jane 26, and their eldest daughter Lizzie had her first birthday on the ship around the way out. The Lamb family members in Australia stayed in touch with their relatives in Scotland down the generations since, and I've maintained some contact with them myself, visiting Peter’s household home in Greenlaw, Berwickshire, in 1983, which is still owned and occupied by the Lamb family. Of all my pedigree, this really is the only household that we still have some contact with in their country of origin.
Thorowgood family
Joseph Thorowgood was born in Cardington, England in around 1800. He was charged on four counts of sheep stealing on 24 Oct 1828, and transported for life, leaving on the “Bussorah Merchant” on 6 Oct 1829,
Office 2007 Keygen, arriving Hobart, Tasmania 18 Jan 1830. He left his wife and four young children in England; Mary Ann was expecting the fifth (Elizabeth). They ended up later allowed to join him, arriving on 10 Jan 1833. Joseph was my great-great-great-grandfather – his daughter Edith married Robert Betts, and their daughter Sarah married James De La Rue, my great-grandfather.
There are many variations on the spelling of his surname – it was spelt “Thorogood” on ship’s records, but also appears as “Thoroughgood”, “Thurgood”, “Thurrowgood” and others.
His family members was documented within the book “The Thurrowgood Story” by the late John F Hill, which had a limited publishing run of 400 numbered copies, in around 1985. Some copies of this book are still available from the Colac & District Family members History Group Inc., at PO Box 219, Colac, Vic 3250.
GEDCOM Files
Information within the above people is available on request in two files:
DeLaRue – The families of Thomas and Tabitha De La Rue and William de la Rue. This also includes all information on my own pedigree.
DeLaRueX – All other available De La Rue information – the families of Hippolyte Felix Ferdinand De La Rue, Charles Delarue, Thomas de la Rue and some information found that are not yet connected.
Please contact me or use the comment field below if you would like a copy of these files, and I can email them to you.
More info
A public copy of my family’s GEDCOM file has also been uploaded at Ancestry.com; although I have since acquired much more information. You can view the database here – but you may need to register with them first (free).
Please contact me for a lot more details. I am happy to load any information around the households here.
My genealogy software of choice is FZip Family members Tree.
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