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answered the survey.  DUMARESQ, PERRY, naval officer, office
holder, jp, and judge; b. 19 Sept. 1788 on the island of Jersey,
son of Philippe (Philip) Dumaresq and Jersua (Jerusha) Perry; m.
21 Nov. 1808 Louisa W. Newton in St Paul’s Church (Anglican) in
Halifax, and they had 13 children; m. secondly 6 Aug. 1833 Mary
Stewart in Dalhousie, N.B., and they had no children; d. there
13 March 1839.  Perry Dumaresq came from a family of Jersey
nobility whose titles had descended from Guillé Dumaresq,
seigneur of La Haule, born in 1360 in the parish of St Brelade.
Perry was the grandson of John Dumaresq, a Jersey mathematician
and astronomer. The family had a tradition of military service
and had supplied many officers to the Royal Navy. In the period
1800–20 Perry’s father was a customs officer at Sydney, Cape
Breton Island, as well as a member of the Executive Council of
this colony. Perry himself f