Catalogue description Records of the Ducarel family

Deeds, accounts, estate papers and trusts, including a great deal of family correspondence.

Ducarel family of France, England and India

Deposited by Mr. P. S. Palmer

See also (1) J. Whiting, 'Correspondence of G.G. Ducarel in the Service of the East India Company, 1764-1784' Gloucestershire in the 18th Century (1966) CMS 54/1

(2) J. Whithing, 'G.G. Ducarel and the East India Company, 1765-1784' Indian Archives, Vol. 16 (1968) PE 87/1

(3) B.S. Smith, 'Catalogue of the Ducarel papers relating to India in the Gloucestershire Records Office, England', Indian Archives Vol. 17 (1968) PE 87/2

Jacques Coltee Ducarel, son of Jean Coltee, Sieur Ducarel, an advocate of the French Parliament, was ennobled as chevalier by Louis XIV in 1713, but died in 1718. His widow left France in the same year, presumably as a Protestant refugee, with his three young sons, and their French property was confiscated. The eldest son, Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1713-1785) was sent to Eton and Oxford, and became LL.D., F.S.A., F.R.S., Keeper of the Lambeth Palace Library, and an antiquary and archivist of distinction. [See Dictionary of National Biography]. Some of the records relate to his work at Lambeth. The second brother, James seems to have returned to live in France. The youngest brother Adrian, was the only one to leave descendants, having two sons, James who died in India unmarried as a major in the army, and Gerard Gustavus, who after service with the East India Company retired to Exmouth. His son Philip John Ducarel, the last male member of the family, settled in 1812 at Newland House, Newland, Glos., where he died in 1855. His papers came to the Palmer family, which was related by marriage.

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