Onffroy de Verez family
The Onffroy de Vérez family comes from Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer in Calvados in department of Normandy region.
History
[edit]This French family was ennobled in January 1543, registered in the Chambre des Comptes on December 16, 1544. Maintained noble on March 9, 1599. Registration of titles of nobility in Santo Domingo in 1768.[1] It was admitted to the Association d'entraide de la noblesse française in 1953.
Notable people
[edit]Anne-Marthe-Rolland Onffroy de Verez
[edit]Anne-Marthe-Roland Onffroy,[2] born December 15, 1778, in Brittany, is a knight of the Order of Saint Louis. He was a fervent royalist. He belonged to the royal artillery corps (battalion commander). During the French Revolution, he immigrated to Jamaica with his family
Anne-Marthe-Roland Onffroy owned a coffee plantation in Jamaica. He was an artillery officer engaged in the English Army (Saint-Domingue campaigns).
In 1816, after the departure of Napoléon Bonaparte, the Onffroy family returned to Brittany[2] after selling the Jamaican coffee plantation.
Jules-Henry Onffroy de Vérez
[edit]Jules-Henry Onffroy de Thoron was a 19th-century French explorer. He is the son of Anne-Marthe-Rolland Onffroy de Verez. He recounted his travels under the name Onffroy de Thoron (Don Enrique).[3]
In 1850, he set sail for South America without a specific destination, landing at Valparaiso then in 1851 at La Serena.[4] He took part in battles against the Chileans and was expelled as undesirable. Moving to Peru, he obtained the title of "civil engineer" from the Ministry of War. However, his desire to travel persisted. He undertook two expeditions (1852 and 1861) to Peru, devoting his time to observing, drawing and establishing topographical surveys of the region.
References
[edit]- ^ François Onffroy, lord of Veret, near Bayeux, (Calvados), maintained noble in Normandy in 1666. Pierre-Roland O., settler in Saint-Domingue. Jacques-Roland O., maintained as a noble by decree of the Parliament of Brittany of July 20, 1782, commissioner of the nobility of the States of Brittany, from 1784 to 1789, for the inspection of the grants of the towns of the province, returned to Saint-Domingue in 1790, colonel of the royalist and emigrant militias of this island in 1793 (Henri Frotier de La Messelière , p. 225).
- ^ a b "Universal nobility of France, or General collection of historical genealogies of the noble houses of this kingdom. T. 15 / by Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais, Nicolas (1773-1842); with the assistance of MM. of Courcelles, the abbot of Espines, of Saint-Pons - Pages 197 to 198". gallica.bnf.fr (in French).
- ^ "Amérique équatoriale, son histoire pittoresque et politique, sa géographie et ses recherches naturelles, son état présent et son avenir".
- ^ "Bulletin de la Diana (Loire) - Pages 216 to 227" (in French).
Bibliography
[edit]- Henri Frotier de La Messelière (1912–1926). Imprimerie Prudhomme (ed.). Breton affiliations 1650-1912. Saint-Brieuc. BNF: 30469358.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). - As duas Americas. Cándido Costa, Enrique Onffroy de Thoron (vicomte.)-. 1900.
External links
[edit]Works of Onffroy de Thoron
[edit]- French-Kichua grammar and dictionary
- Equatorial America: its picturesque and political history, its geography and its natural riches, its present state and its future 1866
- The primitive language from Adam to Babel its passage to America where it is still alive - 1886
- Voyages of the fleets of Solomon and Hiram in America Geographical position of Parvain, Ophir & Tarschisch - 1869
- As duas Americas - 1900
- América ecuatorial: su historia pintoresca y política, su geografía y sus riquezas naturales, su estado presente y porvenir · Volume 1 - 1983
- Antiguidade da navegação do oceano viagens dos navios de Salomão ao Rio das Amazonas, Ophir, Tardschisch e Parvaim - 1876
- Equatorial America - Map drawn up by Viscount Onffroy de Thoron - Gallica BNF
- The Phoenicians on the island of Haiti and on the American continent - Gallica BNF
- Map of Syria and Palestine, by Viscount Onffroy Gallica BNF