The lineages

What this page publishes

• Deceased people, and public figures only in their public role.
• Institutions, companies, family foundations and places that bear the name of these families.
• No living person, no address, no private family tree.
• Each step carries its status — confirmed, probable or hypothesis — and its public sources.

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Claude Martin’s archives also hold a printed tree, that of the Verbizier, glass-making gentlemen of the Ariège, drawn up in 1905 by Élisée de Robert-Garils: Genealogy of the de Verbizier or Verbigier family (1905).

• Fauquier: from Clairac to the Bank of England and Virginia Confirmed
• Dutilh: from Amsterdam and Rotterdam to a family foundation Confirmed
• Balguerie: Amsterdam and Utrecht, and the Balgueries of Bordeaux Probable
• Labat: from Portarlington to the Labatt brewers of Canada? Hypothesis

Dutilh: from Amsterdam and Rotterdam to a family foundation

Confirmed

Two branches from Clairac, in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, whose archives are kept in Rotterdam; the family set up a foundation in 1962.

1. Pierre Dutilh

   died 1748

   Confirmed

   “Van Clairac”, merchant, married in Amsterdam in 1698; buried in Amsterdam in 1748. His son Abel Pierre was born there in 1717 and became a merchant there.

   Sources: research lab record · [W34]

2. Jacques Dutilh

   died 1746

   Probable

   Born in Clairac, married at the Walloon Church of Rotterdam in 1721, buried in Rotterdam in 1746; the family foundation makes him a nephew of Pierre, who arrived in Rotterdam in 1718.

   Sources: research lab record · [W34]

3. Étienne (Stephen) Dutilh

   1751 – 1810

   Confirmed

   Born on 17 November 1751; record in the parish register of Clairac (AD 47); the date is also given by the Nederlands Patriciaat, according to Chris Dutilh. Son of Pierre Dutilh and Marie Perrier (the record is difficult to read: “Perier” or “Persiet”); his parents live in “le bourg de Massac (?)”, uncertain reading, to be checked. Merchant in Rotterdam and London, then in Philadelphia from 1783, where he founded the firm Dutilh & Wachsmuth (1790). The family foundation counts him among the Dutilhs of Rotterdam (he left in 1768 for an apprenticeship with his cousins).

   Sources: [W82] [W36] [W45]

4. Archives de la famille Dutilh

   Institution

   Confirmed

   Most of the family archive is kept at the Stadsarchief Rotterdam (collection 160).

   Sources: [W35] [W34]

5. Familiestichting Dutilh

   Institution, 1962

   Confirmed

   The family foundation, set up in 1962, publishes the magazine Dutilhiteiten and keeps the family archive; family members gathered in Philadelphia in 2014 and in Clairac in 2017.

   Sources: family page · [W34]

6. NautaDutilh

   Company

   Confirmed

   One of the major law firms in the Netherlands bears the family name; according to the foundation, the family has not been involved in it since 1982.

   Sources: [W34]

Limits

• The 19th- and 20th-century generations are not detailed here: the family’s published genealogy (Nederland’s Patriciaat) has not been reviewed.
• No living person is named: the foundation is the family’s point of contact.

The research lab record

Labat: from Portarlington to the Labatt brewers of Canada?

Hypothesis

A family tradition traces the Canadian Labatt brewers back to an André Labat settled in Portarlington (Ireland) around 1699; Claude Martin noted Labats from Clairac in London and Ireland. The link remains to be proven.

1. André et Marie Labat

   17th-18th centuries

   Confirmed

   Claude Martin records Labats from Clairac in London in 1688 (André, Marie); in Portarlington, the register of the French church shows an André Labat (1714-1729) and his sister Marie, widow of Marc de Chateauneuf in 1730.

   Sources: research lab record · [W43]

2. Tradition de la famille Labatt

   Family tradition

   Hypothesis

   According to the family history recounted in Mountmellick, the ancestor André Labat, a Huguenot officer settled in Portarlington around 1699, was “a native of Claret, near Montpellier” and “marquis de Clairac”: Claret and Clairac are two different places, and no primary source confirms this title.

   Sources: [W41]

3. John Kinder Labatt

   1803 – 1866

   Hypothesis

   Born in Mountmellick (Ireland) in 1803, son of Valentine Knightley Chetwode Labat, of a Huguenot family “from the Bordeaux region”; in 1847 he invested in a brewery in London (Canada West, now Ontario), which became the London Brewery in 1854, the origin of the Labatt company.

   Sources: [W40]

4. Labatt Historic Collection

   Institution, 2011

   Confirmed

   The Labatt company archives, donated in 2011, are kept by Western University in London (Ontario).

   Sources: [W42]

Limits

• No document links the André Labat of Portarlington to the André de Labat who left Clairac for London, nor either of them to John Kinder Labatt: the lead remains a hypothesis.

The research lab record

Lineages not established

From the 1960s, Claude Martin welcomed descendants of the Saffin, Dutilh, Darné and Cobet families, who came from Vienna, London, Frankfurt, Mauritius, Rotterdam or Philadelphia [A]. For three of them, no lineage could be followed in public sources:

• Saffin — Claude Martin counts the Saffins among the families whose descendants came to meet him; no public lineage has been found. A Jacques Saffin was active in Amsterdam (1704, 1709) among merchants from Clairac, but no record says he was from Clairac.
• Darné — The same: the panel devoted to Claude Martin names the family, without place or date; no public source found.
• Cobet — The name could be a variant of Caubet, a family well attested on Claude Martin’s list (Amsterdam, Germany), but Claude Martin does not make this connection and it is not proven.

A study of the families of Clairac by David Gevaux appeared in Huguenot Families (no. 19), the journal of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland [W44]: it is not freely available and has not been read.