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     Marie Caroline Touzi was born on 4 July 1806 in Tulle, France.¹ She was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Touzi and Marie Ursule Faucher. Marie Caroline Touzi married Charles Bardon on 17 February 1829 in Tulle. Marie Caroline Touzi died on 19 November 1882 in Tulle at the age of 76.

     Charles Bardon was born on 1 January 1806 in Tulle. He married Marie Caroline Touzi, daughter of Jean Baptiste Touzi and Marie Ursule Faucher, on 17 February 1829 in Tulle.

     Antoine Victor Bardon was born on 18 August 1827 in Tulle. He was the son of Charles Bardon and Marie Caroline Touzi. Antoine Victor Bardon married Marie Trech on 23 May 1850 in Tulle.

     Marie Trech was born on 30 November 1828 in Egletons.¹ She married Antoine Victor Bardon, son of Charles Bardon and Marie Caroline Touzi, on 23 May 1850 in Tulle.

     Anne Marie Bardon was born on 6 January 1860 in Tulle. She was the daughter of Antoine Victor Bardon and Marie Trech. Anne Marie Bardon married Andrè Bayard on 25 February 1889 in Tulle. Anne Marie Bardon died in 1939 in La Geurche.

     Andrè Bayard was born on 18 November 1862 in Cabans. He married Anne Marie Bardon, daughter of Antoine Victor Bardon and Marie Trech, on 25 February 1889 in Tulle. Andrè Bayard died on 30 September 1932 in Tulle at the age of 69.

     Marie Françoise Bayard was born on 26 April 1890 in Tulle. She was the daughter of Andrè Bayard and Anne Marie Bardon. Marie Françoise Bayard married Jean Jules Lasbories on 16 October 1909 in Le Buisson, Dordogne. Marie Françoise Bayard died on 18 February 1983 in Paris 14e at the age of 92.¹

     Jean Jules Lasbories was born on 26 September 1886.¹ He married Marie Françoise Bayard, daughter of Andrè Bayard and Anne Marie Bardon, on 16 October 1909 in Le Buisson, Dordogne. Jean Jules Lasbories died on 29 November 1948 in Vert-St.-Denis at the age of 62.¹

     Aimé Michel Myassard was born on 8 April 1906 in Geneva, Switzerland. He died circa 1992.

     Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds was born on 24 September 1782 in Devonport, Devon, or 31 Jan 1781.² He was the son of Capt. Thomas Symonds RN and Elizabeth Mallett.¹ He is the eldest son (by Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Malet, Esq., and wife afterwards of Lieut.-General Farmer, R.M. of the late Capt. Thomas Symonds, R.N. and brother (with the present Sir William. Symonds) of Commander Jermyn John Symonds, R.N., who was lost with all his crew in the Helena sloop, on the coast of Holland, 3 Nov. 1796, and of Commander John Charles Symonds, R.N. (1814), who died 16 Dec. 1840, at Keyhaven, Hants, aged 50. His uncle, the late Dr. Symonds, was Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, and successor to the poet Gray.

This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1795, as Midshipman, on board the Cambridge 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Richard Onslow at Plymouth; and from March, 1796, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 8 Oct. 1802, was employed, on the Lisbon, Halifax, West India, and Home stations, part of the time as Master's Mate, in the St. Albans 64 and Resolution 74, flag-ships of Vice-Admiral Geo. Vandeput, Dasher 18, Capt. Geo. Tobin, Asia 64, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Vandeput, Lily 14, Capt. Joseph Spear, Belleisle 74, Capt. John Whitby, and Royal Charlotte yacht, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale. He was next, 17 November 1803 and 10 May, 1803, appointed to the Dasher Sloop, Capt. Delafons, and Ville De Paris 110, flag ship of Hon. William Cornwallis, on the Irish, Mediterranean, and Channel stations; he attained the rank of Commander 22 Jan. 1806; and from March, 1807, until posted 29 Sept. 1813, he served in that capacity in the Tweed 18, in the West Indies and North Sea and on the coast of Africa. In the Ville De Paris, in which ship he performed the duties of Signal-Lieutenant, he was present, 22 Aug. 1805, in an attack made upon the French fleet close in with Brest Harbour; and while serving in the Tweed he commanded the in-shore squadron at the blockade and surrender of the city of St. Domingo, in 1809, and made prize at different times of three privateers (the Santissima Trinidad of 4 guns and 20 men [a Spanish schooner letter of marque from Puerto Cavallo bound to Cadiz on 29 February 1808], [16 March 1808 off Jamaica] L'Aventure of 3 guns and 52 men, and [in the North Sea a Danish privateer] the Steinbill of 10 guns and 30 men) and 15 sail of merchantmen. Referring to the siege of St. Domingo, Capt. William. Pryce Cumby, of the Polyphemus 64, in an official letter to Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Samuel Rowley, the Commander-in-Chief, dated 7 July, 1809, says "This despatch will be delivered to you by Capt. Symonds, of the Tweed to whose zealous attention in conducting the troops, schooners, and gun-boats, during a close and vigorous blockade of two months, I owe considerable obligation; and although the services of the squadron you did me the honour to place under my orders may not have been of a brilliant nature, I trust I may be permitted on this occasion to bear testimony to the unremitting perseverance with which the vessels maintained the stations assigned them, through all the variety of weather incident to the season, on a 'steep and dangerous shore, where no anchorage was to be obtained, as well, as to the vigilance and alacrity of those men who were employed in the night guard-boats, by whose united exertions the enemy's accustomed supply by sea was entirely cut off, and the surrender of the city greatly accelerated." Capt. Symonds accepted his present rank (Rear-Admiral) 1 Oct. 1846.

The Rear-Admiral is Chairman of the Lymington Union. He has had issue 10 children. One of his sons, Thomas Edward, is a Commander R.N; another, Jermyn Charles, is a First Lieutenant R.M. (1841) ; and a third, Octavius Cumby, fell a victim to African fever while serving with Capt. Falter Grimston Estcourt in the Eclair steamer.

The Tweed was an 18 gun sloop of war built by Iremonger of Littlehampton who launched the vessel in January 1807. On 5 November 1813 she sruck a rock in Shoal Bay, Newfoundland and about half her crew were lost.³ Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds married Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi, daughter of François Joseph Touzi and Anne Careaud, on 11 March 1815 in the Parish Church, Fareham, Hampshire. Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds again married Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi on 15 June 1817 in St Giles in Fields, London, The second wedding taking place because of the doubt over Lucinde's age caused by confusion over the French and Gregorian calendars and thus it was suspected that the first marriage may have been invalid. Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touziappear in the 1861 census at Yeaton House, Hordle, Hampshire, together with their three younger daughters. The census shows Lucinde's birthplace.² Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds died on 15 April 1868 in Yeovilton House, Lymington, Hampshire, at the age of 85.⁴

     Capt. Thomas Edward Symonds RN was born on 12 October 1817 in Boldre, Hampshire.² He was the son of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.¹ Capt. Thomas Edward Symonds RN was christened on 19 September 1818 at the Parish Church of Boldre, Hampshire.³ This officer entered the Navy 15 Nov. 1832; obtained his first commission 17 March, 1841 ; and was then appointed to the Iris 26, Capts. Hugh Nourse, William Tucker, and George Rodney Mundy, on the coast of Africa, whence he returned to England and was paid off in 1843. He attained the rank of Commander 29 April, 1847.
In a letter to The Times dated 2 September 1864 he describes himself as Retired Captain, Royal Navy. He married firstly Anne Frances Schweitzer, daughter of John George Schweitzer, on 22 July 1848 (she is the widow of the Rev. N. Tindal). Capt. Thomas Edward Symonds RN and Anne Frances Schweitzer appear on the census of 4 April 1881 at 4 Boundary Road, London, which also records Frances Barclay, aged 19 and born in Boldre, an unmarried "daughter-in-law" living with them. The census records Thomas Symonds as a retired Royal Naval Captain.⁴ Capt. Thomas Edward Symonds RN died on 25 July 1887 at the age of 69 s.p.²

     Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI was born on 19 October 1820.³ He was the son of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.^1,2 Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI was christened on 6 August 1822 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire, after the wedding of his Aunt to Alexander Gordon.⁴ He married firstly Susan Campbell Kennedy ?. Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI married secondly Maria L. (Unknown) circa 1876.⁵ Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI appears on the census of 4 April 1881 at 8 The Terrace, Grosvenor Street, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, where he is enumerated with his wife and four children (and three servants). He is described as Major Gen. R M (Retired).⁵ He died on 14 December 1897 in 4 Alfred Street, St. Andrew, Plymouth, at the age of 77.^1,2
He entered the Marines in 1837, obtained his lieutenant's commission in 1841, and was promoted to captain in 1851. He served with the Marines against the Carlists on the north coast of Spain. He was also with the Baltic expedition in 1855, for which he received the medal, and engaged with the batteries at the bombardment of Sveaborg on August 9. In 1858-60 he served in China with the expeditionary force, including the occupation of Canton, the campaign in the North of China, the action of the Sinho, the taking of Tonghu, and the storming and capture of the North Taku forts. For these services he was mentioned in dispatches, and received his brevet rank of major and the medals with two clasps. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1867, and major-general in 1869 in which year he retired. He was awarded a Greenwich Hospital pension in 1877.⁶

     Lucinde Elizabeth Symonds was born probably on 31 March 1820.³ She was the daughter of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.^1,2 Lucinde Elizabeth Symonds was christened on 20 September 1820 at The Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire. She married Rev. Clement Hammond Gosset M.A. on 17 December 1857 in The Parish Church, Hordle, Hampshire, the service being conducted by the Rev. C. Möller.^2,4 Lucinde Elizabeth Symonds and Rev. Clement Hammond Gosset M.A. appear on the census of 4 April 1881 at Langton Herring Rectory House, Langton Herring, Dorset, together with their son, two boarders, Septimus S.W. Smith and William H. Andrews (both described as students for holy orders); Mary Trevett, aged 15, of Abbotsbury was the general servant at the house.⁵ Lucinde Elizabeth Symonds died on 10 July 1883 in 8 Pulteney Buildings, Weymouth, Dorset, at the age of 63.^3,6

     Rev. Clement Hammond Gosset M.A. was born on 16 November 1826 in St. Saviours, Jersey.^3,4 He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, M.A. He married Lucinde Elizabeth Symonds, daughter of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi, on 17 December 1857 in The Parish Church, Hordle, Hampshire, the service being conducted by the Rev. C. Möller.^2,5 Rev. Clement Hammond Gosset M.A. was appointed in 1860, rector of Langton Herring and vicar of Fleet, Dorset. He and Lucinde Elizabeth Symonds appear on the census of 4 April 1881 at Langton Herring Rectory House, Langton Herring, Dorset, together with their son, two boarders, Septimus S.W. Smith and William H. Andrews (both described as students for holy orders); Mary Trevett, aged 15, of Abbotsbury was the general servant at the house.³ Rev. Clement Hammond Gosset M.A. died on 22 September 1897 at the age of 70 and this was registered in the in Weymouth, Dorset, District.^4,6

     Anne Penelope Grant Symonds was born on 27 June 1823 in Boldre, Hampshire.^3,4,5 She was the daughter of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.^1,2 Anne Penelope Grant Symonds was christened on 5 September 1823 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire.³ She and Juliana Symonds appear on the census of 4 April 1881 Annie P. Symonds and Juliana Symonds are recorded as visitors in the house of John Brown Gray a grocer of 1 & 2 Lennox Street Waterloo, Melcombe Regis, Dorset.⁶ Anne's death was registered in the quarter ending December 1902 in the Weymouth, Dorset registration district; unmarried.^1,7

     Theodore Francis Symonds was born on 23 January 1822.³ He was the son of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.^1,2 Theodore Francis Symonds was christened on 6 August 1822 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire; together with his brother.⁴ He died circa 1829 in childhood aged about 7 years. Fell off a blind pony and drowned in a stream on Walhampton Estate.^1,2

     Edward George Symonds was born on 3 July 1828.³ He was the son of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.^1,2 Edward George Symonds was christened on 30 September 1828 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire.⁴ He died in infancy.²

     Juliana Symonds was born on 11 May 1826 in Boldre, Hampshire.³ She was the daughter of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.^1,2 Juliana Symonds was christened on 26 August 1826 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire.³ She and Anne Penelope Grant Symonds appear on the census of 4 April 1881 Annie P. Symonds and Juliana Symonds are recorded as visitors in the house of John Brown Gray a grocer of 1 & 2 Lennox Street Waterloo, Melcombe Regis, Dorset.⁴ Juliana's death was registered in the quarter ending February 1899 in the Weymouth, Dorset registration district; unmarried.^5,6

     Octavius Cumby Symonds RN was born on 27 April 1830.² He was the son of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.¹ Octavius Cumby Symonds RN was christened on 23 February 1831 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire.² He died in September 1845 at the age of 15 of plague aboard the steam sloop HMS Eclair to which he had been appointed as one a cadet on 6 September 1844.^1,3
There is a memorial in Royal Garrison Church, Portsmouth which reads: "Sacred to the memory of Commander W.(alter) G.(rimsonton) B. Estcourt Late in command of Her Majesty's steam sloop Eclair who died on 16th September 1845 aged 38 years on passage from Bona Vista to Madeira, from fever, contracted on the coast of Africa while employed in the suppression of the Slave Trade. His brother officers and friends to whom he had become endeared by his many virtues have erected this tablet to record the deep sense of their loss, and perpetuate the memory of his worth. With Commander Estcourt, perished 65 Officers and Men in the short period of two months."

     William Cunningham Symonds was christened on 12 February 1832 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire, this record gives his name as William Comingham Symonds.² He was the son of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.¹ William Cunningham Symonds died on 8 March 1854 at the age of 22 killed in an accidental explosion whilst supervising the blasting of a root of a tree with gunpowder.
The London Gazette of 21 March mentions a promotion vice 1st. Lt. Symonds, deceased.^1,3

     Zébée Helen Emilia Jessie Symonds was christened on 6 March 1836 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire.³ She was the daughter of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.^1,2 Zébée Helen Emilia Jessie Symonds married Maj. Gen. Francis Edward Cox RE, son of Samuel Fortnom Cox and Mary Emily Sheffield, on 5 September 1861 in Hordle, Lymington, Hampshire, The Annual Register spells her name Emilia.^4,5,6 Zébée Helen Emilia Jessie Symonds appears on the census of 1881 at 9 St. Johns Terrace, Radipole, Dorset, together with her children Rosamund, Felicia, Walter, St. John and a servant Ellen Flood.³ She appears on the census of 5 April 1891 at Melcombe Regis, Dorset, described as a lodger, living on her own means.⁷ Zébée's death was registered in the quarter ending March 1909 in the Weymouth registration district.⁵

     Maj. Gen. Francis Edward Cox RE was born on 7 September 1827. He was the son of Samuel Fortnom Cox and Mary Emily Sheffield. Maj. Gen. Francis Edward Cox RE was christened on 11 October 1827 at St. Mary's, Marylebone Road, London. On 6 August 1846 he entered military service as a 2nd Lieutenant. He held regimental ranks of Lieutenant, 20 February 1847; 2nd. Captain, 1 April 1855; Captain, 28 November 1859; Lt. Colonel, 19 June 1872; Colonel 18 January 1882 and Army ranks of Major, 26 April 1859; Lt. Colonel, 4 June 1870, Colonel 19 June 1877; Major General 9 September 1885. He saw war service in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858 and retired from the Royal Engineers on 7 September 1885 with an annuity and honourary rank. He married Zébée Helen Emilia Jessie Symonds, daughter of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi, on 5 September 1861 in Hordle, Lymington, Hampshire, The Annual Register spells her name Emilia.^2,3,4 Francis's death was registered in the quarter ending June 1904 in the Christchurch, Dorset registration district.³

     Lt. Col. St. John Augustus Cox C.M.G., O.B.E. was born on 22 October 1870 in St. Johns, New Brunswick, Canada.^3,4 He was the son of Maj. Gen. Francis Edward Cox RE and Zébée Helen Emilia Jessie Symonds.² Lt. Col. St. John Augustus Cox C.M.G., O.B.E. died on 11 April 1936 in Colchester, Essex, at the age of 65. Late The Royal Warwickshire Regiment and The Royal Irish Regiment.¹

     Brigadier-General Francis William Henry Cox C.B., C.I.E. was born on 29 October 1863.^1,2 He was the son of Maj. Gen. Francis Edward Cox RE and Zébée Helen Emilia Jessie Symonds.^1,2 Brigadier-General Francis William Henry Cox C.B., C.I.E. was christened on 8 December 1863 at St. Mary's Church, Portsea, Hampshire.³ He was commissioned as a Lieutenant with seniority from 6 February 1884.⁴ The marriage of Brigadier-General Francis William Henry Cox C.B., C.I.E. and Ethel Sophie Armstrong was registered in the quarter ending December 1903 in the South Shields Registration District.⁵ He transferred from the Oxford Light Infantry into the Indian Army (72 Punjabis).⁶ Brigadier-General Francis William Henry Cox C.B., C.I.E. died on 16 November 1928 at the age of 65.^1,2

     Felicia Lucinde Emily Cox was born on 16 June 1865 in Hillsea, Hampshire, the 1881 census gives her first name as Scilica but the subsequent marriage record records her as Felicia.^2,3 She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Francis Edward Cox RE and Zébée Helen Emilia Jessie Symonds.¹ The marriage of Felicia Lucinde Emily Cox and George Seymour Nash was registered in the quarter ending June 1909 in the Isle of Wight Registration District.⁴ Felicia Lucinde Emily Cox died after March 1930 s.p.⁵

     Frances Zébée Rosamund Cox was christened on 23 September 1862 at St. Peter, Southampton.² She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Francis Edward Cox RE and Zébée Helen Emilia Jessie Symonds.¹ Not thought to have married nor to have had issue.

     Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich was born on 18 June 1743 in Gordon Castle and was styled Marquess of Huntley. He was the son of Cosmo George Gordon 3rd Duke of Gordon, 6th Marquess and Lady Katharine Gordon. Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich was christened on 21 June 1743 at Bellie.² He was educated between 26 July 1758 and 1760 at Eton and it is said, at Harrow. He married Jane Maxwell, daughter of Sir William Maxwell 3rd. Bart. and Magdalen Blair, on 23 October 1767 in Ayton, Berwick, and also at Mr. Fordyce's house in Argyll Street, Edinburgh. Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich married Jean Christie, daughter of Mrs. Susan Roberstson, on 30 July 1820 in Kirk of Fochabers, Bellie, by the Rev. William Rennie.³ Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich died on 17 June 1827 in Mount Street, Berkeley Square, London, at the age of 83. He was buried in Elgin Cathedral.

     Isabel Williamson was born circa 1777.² She was the daughter of David Williamson.²

     Capt. Thomas Symonds RN was born circa 1732.² He was the son of Rev. John Symonds and Mary Spring. Capt. Thomas Symonds RN married firstly Mary Ann Noble. Capt. Thomas Symonds RN married secondly Elizabeth Mallett, daughter of Hugh Malet, on 25 March 1780 in Stoke Damerel, Devon.³ On 10 October 1781 he was in command of HMS Charon when his ship, along with three others, Guadaloupe, Fowey and Vulcan together with some transports were burnt in the Chesapeake before Yorktown by red hot shot from the American batteries. Together with Lord Cornwallis who commanded the garrisons of York and Gloucester, he signed the articles of capitulation on behalf of the British naval forces in the York river, before George Washington, thus ending the war with America.⁴ Capt. Thomas Symonds RN died on 25 May 1792 in St. Edmund's Hill. He was buried in St Mary’s Parish Church, Pakenham, Suffolk, where he shares a mural tablet with his son Jermyn John.²

     Lt. Jermyn John Symonds R.N. was christened on 15 November 1765 at St. James, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.³ He was the son of Capt. Thomas Symonds RN and Mary Ann Noble.^1,2 Lt. Jermyn John Symonds R.N. was promoted third lieutenant on his father's ship Charon on 16 June 1780. He died on 3 November 1796 at the age of 30 when commander of the sloop Helena, 14 guns, which was lost with all hands off the coast of Holland. She foundered in a squall and about 80 men and boys were lost.⁴