Francis Fontaine b. 16 Sep 1697 Cork, Cork, Ireland d. Sep 1749 York County, Virginia, USA: My Family History

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1697 - 1749 (51 years)

Father	James Fontaine, b. 7 Apr 1658, Jenouille-Jaffe Estate, Veaux, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France d. 20 May 1728, Dublin, Ireland (Age 70 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Anne Elizabeth Boursiquot, b. 8 Feb 1686, Barnstable, Devon, England d. 29 Jan 1721, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (Age 34 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	8 Feb 1686	Par. Church, Barnstable, North Devon, England
Family ID	F9310	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Mary Glannison, b. 1679/1701, IRL d. 1733, Williamsburg, VA (Age 32 years)

Marriage 4 Jan 1720 Westminster, Middlesex, England [1]

Children

	1. Jr. Francis Fontaine, Jr, b. 1721, St Margaret's Par, King William, King William, Virginia, USA d. Sep 1783, New Bern, Craven, North Carolina, USA (Age 62 years) [natural]
	2. Mary Fontaine, b. 1724, Virginia, USA d. 1765, North Carolina, USA (Age 41 years) [natural]
	3. John David Fontaine, b. 1726, Williamsburg West, James City County, Virginia, USA d. Aug 1759, New Bern, Craven, North Carolina, USA (Age 33 years) [natural]
	4. Thomas Fontaine, b. 1730, Virginia, USA d. Abt Jul 1745, Virginia, USA (Age 15 years) [natural]

Family ID F9318 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 31 Dec 2022

Family 2 Susanna Brush Barbor, b. 1701, Williamsburg West, James City County, Virginia, USA d. 20 Sep 1756, York County, Virginia, USA (Age 55 years)

Marriage 1735 Virginia, USA

Children

	1. James Maury Fontaine, b. 1738, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA d. 11 Mar 1795, Gloucester County, Virginia (Age 57 years) [natural]
	2. Judith Barbor Fontaine, b. 1740, Virginia, USA d. Virginia, USA [natural]

Family ID F9319 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 31 Dec 2022

Event Map

	Birth - 16 Sep 1697 - Cork, Cork, Ireland
	Christening - 19 Sep 1697 - Cork, Ireland
	Marriage - 4 Jan 1720 - Westminster, Middlesex, England
	Marriage - 1735 - Virginia, USA
	Death - Sep 1749 - York County, Virginia, USA
	Burial - - Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA

Notes

Entered Trinity College in June 1712. Enrolled in the Inns of Court at the Temple, in London, to study law, but later returned to Dublin to prepare for the ministry.

Received B.A. degree in 1716 and Master of Arts degree in 1719 from Trinity College in Dublin. Married in 1720 and sailed for America in 1721 where he became Rector of St. Margaret's Parish in King William County, Virginia.

In 1723, became Rector of York-Hampton Parish and apparently remained there for the remainder of his life. On February 2, 1727, was appointed Chaplain of the House of Burgesses. In the same year, he was appointed to the faculty of William and Mary College where he established the Department of Oriental Languages (Hebrew).

[S448] Ancestry.com, England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;), The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; General Register Office: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non-parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857; Class Number: RG 4; Piece Number: 4539.

England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970
[S85] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Deaths, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.;).
[S59] Gale Research, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.Original data - Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenge;), Place: Virginia; Year: 1720; Page Number: 28.
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