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Note: LEWIS AGASSlZ, R.N. and R.M.L.I., Lewis Agassiz was the eldest son of Captain James John Charles Agassiz, R.N. He was born at Exeter, 18th March, 1793. He served as a midshipman in the Navy on a ship commanded by his father for about two years, and then, on 21st August, 1809, was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Marine Light Infantry. He retired 14th May, 1817, on half pay. His war services are recorded in Hart's Army List, 1865, as follows:-
" Lieutenant Agassiz served at the defence of Cadiz and on the expedition to Malaga in 1810. At the blockade of Toulon in 1811-12, including partial actions and affairs of boats. Served with the 3rd Battalion Royal Marines during the Amcrican War in l814-15, including the operations in Chesapeake Bay, hattle of Bladensburg, capture of Washington, advance on Baltimore, taking of Fort Point Pitre, and town of St. Mary's, in Georgia, and other services performed there during the war."
He was the author of a book called A Journey to Switzerland, published about 1832. He married, first, on 2nd September, 1817, at Mistley, Essex, a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Phillebrown, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Nunn. She was born on 3rd January, 1780. Her father, Robert Nunn, died 6th June, 1828, aged 78, and wvas buried at Mistley Heath, near Manningtree, Essex. In the British Museum Library there is a work called Davy's Suffolk Collections, and in Vol. 67, under the name "Nunn," there is a history of the Nunn family. From this history it appears that the Nunns, whose name was in olden times spelt Nunne, have long been settled about the Essex and Suffolk borders. There is an entry copied from the parish register of South Pickenham under date 1590, which reads as follows:-
" Edmund Nunne:-This family hath still an estate in this parish, and John Nunne, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, had it lately."
Mr. Lewis Agassiz's children by his first wife were. Lewis Robert, wo died while an infant, 12th July, 1818 and was buried at Mistley Heath. Elizabeth Mary Anne, born at Loughton, Essex, 13th September, 1819. Married Captain, afterwards, Lieutenant-Colonel, Frederick Brandreth, Scots Fusilier Guards, on 12th January, 1841, at Mistley, Essex. Colonel Brandreth, according to Burke's Landed Gentry, l 850, was twin brother, but younger, to the Rev. William Harper Brandreth, Rector of Standish Their mother was Alice,daughter of William Harper, of Davenham Hall, Chester. He was born at Stublach, Chester, on 16th September, 1812, and was a son of Joseph Pilkington Brandreth. He entered the Scots Fusilier Guards as 2nd Lieutenant 4th July, 1829, and after attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in that regiment, he retired on 2nd October, 1846. In 1861 he changed his name to Gandy. ( Hart's Army Lists, 1860-1861.) Mrs. Brandreth died at Exeter in 1850. Colonel Brandreth died at Southport, 25th May, 1883. His son, Captain Fred. Lewis Brandreth, entered the Hussars by commission dated 23rd September, 1862. Mr. Lewis Agassiz's first wife died 28th December, 1825, and was buried at Miistley Heath, near Mistley, Essex. A very handsome tablet was erected to her memory by her her husband in Bradfield Church. Mr. Lewis Agassiz rnarried secondly, at Mistley, Essex, on 9th February, 1827, Sarah Eliza, second daughter of Thomas Nunn, of Manningtree, a cousin of his first wife. (Gentleman's Magazine, March, 1827.) The death of Thomas Nunn, which occurred on 17th May,1834, is recorded in Davy's Suffolk Collection, Vol. 67, in the following words:
"On 17th March, 1834, died at his residence, Lawford House, Essex, in his 81st year, Thomas Nunn, Esquire, for nearly 40 years an active Magistrate of Essex, and also a Banker of Manningtree. As a confidential adviser he was greatly esteemed and will be long remembered by a large circle of relatives and friends "
CHILDREN: Lewis Nunn, born 24th December, 1827. Arthur James John, born at Bradfield 24th December, 1828 He was killed by falling down a well, at Prince Edward's Island, 6th May, 1851. Eliza Louisa Susannah Vaudine, born at Lausanne, Switzerland, 16th August, 1830. Married John Mount Ayles, her cousin, Captain of the ship "Dover Castle,'' belonging to Richard Green and Co., now F. Green and Co., London. She died 7th February, 1867, and was buried at Bradfield. Rodolph, born l6th January, 1836. Mary Ann, born at Manheim on Rhine, 28th February, 1834. Thomas Griesdale, born 10th January, 1838. Died at Dawlish, 21stJanuary, 1840. Frederick Carrington, born 10th January, 1838. Alfred, born 11th January, 1840. Roland Lewis, born 21st April, 1841. Eliza Eleanor, born 30th December, 1842, at Honef on Rhine. Married a stockbroker, Philip Alfred Davies, son of Thomas Davies, of Blackheath, at Parish Church, Littleham, Exmouth, 3rd April, 1872. Her son, Hubert Roland Agassiz Davies, entered the Wiltshire Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant 14th September, 190)1. She diecl March, 1881. James Albert Frederick William, born 3rd July, 1844, at Honef on Rhine. Edward Albert, born 24th November 1846, at Bradfield. Elizabeth Ann, born 21st March, 1850. Died at Exeter, 9th September, 1850. Buried at Dawlish. Mr. Lewis Agassiz died 23rd April, 1866, at Stour Lodge, Bradfield,. and was buried at Mistley Heath. His widow died 30th March, 1884 and was b)uried at Bradfield. A tablet in the Church, at Bradfield, reads:
"In affectionate remembrance of Lewis Agassiz, of Stour Lodge, in this parish, who died April, 23d 1866, in the 74th, year of his age. Also of his beloved daughter, Vaudine, wife of John Mount Ayles, who died Feb 7th 1867, aged 36 years."
Note:-The name Carrington has sometimes been given to members of the Agassiz family as a Christian name. It was a name in use among the Nunns, who had, I think, married into the Carrington family. After the death of Thomas Nunn, of Nunn & Co., Banker s, Manningtree, Essex, the bank went to his son Carrington Nunn, who died, unmarried, on tlle 25th December, 1863. After Carrington Nunn's death his nephew, another Thomas Nunn, had the bank for some years, but sold it to The I,ondon and Country Bank. Both Carrington and the second Thomas Nunn were masters of the Essex and Suffolk hounds. According to Baily's Magazine, January, 1892, Carrington Nunn was master for about half-a-century. There was a Miss Nunn who married the Revd. Robert Southey, Rector of Ardleigh, son of Southey the poet. Another Miss Nunn married Mr. Acton Chaplin. and he daughter Caroline Elizabeth Chaplin married Colonel William Havelock, of the 14th. Dragoons, and was mother of Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock, K. C. M. G. Both these ladies (the Misses Nunn) were sisters-in-law to Mr. Lewis Agassiz, of Stour Lodge, Bradfield. Vaudine is a name that I have always understood was "coined " by Mr. Lewis Agassiz, of Stour Lodge, and his second daughter was the first person to bear it. It indicates a child of the Canton de Vaud, from which the Agassiz family came.
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