The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina 
By Arthur Henry Hirsch, Ph.D.
1928, Duke University Press; 1962, Archon Books

   Another family, in interest similar to the St. Julien's,[14] deserves
attention here. It is the family of de Chastaigner Seigneurs de Cramahé (or
Cramahais) and de Lisle, also of the nobility. Their prominence in the Huguenot
colony in Dublin is shown in nearly fifty entries in the nonconformist registers
of that place.[15] In the register of the Peter Street Church, Mademoiselle
Charlotte Chastaigner de Cramahé is noted as godmother to a child of M. Daniel
Belrieu, Baron de Virazel. Three brothers, Cramahé De L'Isle, and Des Roches,
arranged to escape from France at the repeal of the Nantes Edict. The two former
succeeded and settled in England, but Des Roches was detected, seized, flogged,
mistreated, plundered, and cast into prison. After twenty-seven months of
confinement he was banished. Two other brothers, Henry Augustus Sieur de Cramahé
and Alexandre Thésée, Sieur de Lisle, went to South Carolina. They were the sons
of Roche Chastaigner de Cramahé of the ancestral chateau, five miles from La
Rochelle.[16] Henry Augustus was denizened in London, April 9, 1767, and is
listed as Henry Augustus Chastaigne de Cramahé.[17] Alexander Thésée Sieur de
Lisle (alias Thésée Castaigner) was denizened March 5, 1685-6.[18] He is found
in London as early as 1681.[19] In South Carolina these gentlemen immediately
took conspicuous positions in provincial business affairs and politics.
Alexander is found in the Assembly[20] as early as 1693 and Henry Augustus
appears on the Governor's Council.[21] The name of an elder brother, Hector, was
in 1698 on the list of applications for naturalization in Dublin.[22]
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14 See Index.

15 Pub. H. S. London.

16 T. H. S. S. C., XII. 29.

17 Pub. H. S. London, XVIII. 177 and 184. Alexander Thésée de Chastaigner, Sieur
de Lisle and his wife, Elizabeth Buretel, went to Carolina in 1685. He was
denizened in March of the same year and must have been naturalized in Carolina,
for in 1693 he was a member of the Assembly. He died in 1707. See Coll. S. C.
Hist. Soc., I. 114-9. MS Assembly Jrnl., 1693; Archives, Colonial Dames, nos. 62
and 114.

18 Ibid., XVIII. 184.

19 Ibid., XVIII. 177.

20 Cooper, List of French Protestants in England, 40.

21 MS Assembly Jrnl., 1692, 3.

22 Pub. H. S. London, XVIII. 350.

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