Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Fontaine Family Papers, Accession 6358-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Henry Brooke Maury of Westport, Connecticut, gave these papers to the Library on February 23, 1988.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

The Fontaine family papers consist of an undated commonplace book belonging to [ Ann Maury ] which contains religious essays, a paper about the origins of the Fontaine family compiled by William Maury , May 1830, and a bound manuscript entitled "A History of the Family of the Fontaines" by the Rev. James [Jacques] Fontaine . The Reverend Fontaine was a Huguenot minister who fled from France to England and finally settled in Ireland where he wrote this autobiography for his family in 1722.

This particular manuscript was copied and translated from the French by Fontaine's great-great granddaughter, Ann Maury, during 1825-1826, who also later published the manuscript as Memoirs of a Huguenot Family .

The manuscript was bequeathed to Henry Brooke Maury by his cousin, Virginia Walker Maury, daughter of Charles Walker Maury, the son of William Lewis Maury and a descendant of James Fontaine.