[Ancestor] Du Fresne

---

---

Husband [Ancestor] Du Fresne

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

---

---

Wife

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

Children

---

1 M Dr. Albert Du Fresne ¹

---

           Born: 1748 - ? Switzerland 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1823 - ? Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

---

---

General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Du Fresne

---

This was an ancient French family of honorable lineage, the name, variously written De Frain, Du Frain, Du Fresne, occurring in many localities in France, one branch belonging to the nobility of Normandy. Members of the family were largely Protestant and must have suffered exceedingly from religious persecutions, as refugee families of this name are found in the Palatinate, Switzerland, England, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

The passenger list of the ship "Louther," which arrived in Philadelphia in 1731 contains the name "Maria Forrain," whose husband may have perished at sea, circumstances pointing to her being the mother of the De Frain family of Montgomery. Her children: 1. Martin, who married prior to 1743. 2. John, who married prior to 1746. 3. Jacob, born 1730, confirmed in 1748. 4. Peter, married in 1753. 5. Elizabeth, who prior to 1747 married Adam Heilman. Muehlenburg, the founder of the Lutheran Church in America, in reporting the confirmation of the above-mentioned Elizabeth Du Frain, says her parents were Huguenots, with the inference that she was orphaned in early youth.

In 1794 Louis Fontaine De Fresne, of Paris, took the oath of allegiance at Philadelphia.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 162.