In “Recherche Genealogiques sur les contés de Boulogne, etc., Tome I., pp. 312,” is mentioned a family of “Du Campe” in Boulogne who had the arms on a shield of silver, two bars, red. The ancestry is as follows:
“Jean Rolant Du Campe, married to Marie de Euyl, was the father of Martin, 1482; ——, of Bois-le-Duc, father of Robert, married at Montreuil in 1538 first to Helene Gressier, daughter of Antoine and Peronne du Camp and second to Jacqueline Le Bois (remarried to Gabriel de Lozieres). He had by his first marriage Nicholas, Sieur de Hubert, who married at Montreuil in 1569 Laurence de Lozieres, the daughter of his stepmother, whence he had issue Francois and Jeanne, the wife of Jean Le Vasseur. Francois, Sieur de Cambremont, married in 1617 Jacqueline Lesseline, daughter of Pierre, Sieur de La Malotterie, captain and high bailiff of Samer, and Agnes Bertrand, and had issue Philippe and Louis, priest of the Oratory of Boulogne.
“Philippe, Sieur de Tardinghen and Longueville, musketeer of the king, attached to the regiment of the marines, married at Calais 24 February, 1672, Adrienne Marguerite Lepigault, daughter of Nicolas, Sieur de Vertesalle, mayor and judge-consul of Calais, and Jeanne Pollart (Nobillaire de Rousseville), and had issue Louis, esquire, Sieur of Tardinghen, Ostove, Longatte, La Teutrie and Noir-Bonningue, who purchased in 1710 the estates of Frency and Rosamel paying 46,050 pounds for the inheritance of Monseigneur Augustine de Gouffier, Count of Rosamel. He married in 1696 Antoinette Catherine Carpentier, daughter of Antoine, Sieur of Lespagnerie and Catherine de Courteville d’Hodieg. He was master of the waters and forests at Boulogne, and the father of many children. From him descended the present Du Campes of Rosamel, allied to the La Rue, Le Blond de Plouy, Cacheleu d’Houdan, etc., among whom were Daniel Antoine, lieutenant in the Liannois regiment in 1729; Claude Louis Marie, marshal of the camp in 1789; and in the present century a rear-admiral, minister of war, father of another rear-admiral, a son of whom is at the present time commander of a vessel.”
There are many references concerning these “Du Campes” in the archives of the Department Pas du Calais at Arras, from which may be learned the following facts: Francois and Jacqueline (Lesseline) Du Campe had issue Guillaume, eldest son, an advocate at Sarlement, and later Sieur of Cambremont; Philippe, second son, baptized at parish of St. Joseph on 9 November, 1646, his godfather being Philippe de Crequy, Chevalier-Seigneur de Hesmont, Souverains Moulins, Wimille, and other estates; Francoise, a daughter, who signed a marriage contract with Regnaut Destailleur, Knight, Sieur de Questreque, on 10 September, 1659, and had a child, Marie Francoise Destailleur, married to Bertrand de La Haye, Seigneur de la Houssaye, on 27 January, 1684, by Louis, priest of the Oratory; Louis, who was priest of the Oratory at Boulogne, and died 8 November, 1700.
Philippe and Adrienne (Lepigault) Du Campe had a son Louis and a daughter Nicolle, who married Jean de Lafontaine, Sieur Dufart.
Louis and Antoinette (Carpentier) Du Campe had a son Louis Antoine baptized 15 April, 1697, and a son Francois, baptized 10 October, 1712.
Daniel Antoine Du Campe, squire and Seigneur de Rosamel, was married on 7 January, 1727, to Marie Marguerite de la Rue du Rosny, by Louis Claude Du Campe, priest of the parish of St. Joseph, and had a son Daniel, baptized on 20 September, 1729–30.
Claude Louis Marie Du Campe, Chevalier, Seigneur de Rosamel, Chevalier of St. Louis, Major of the Royal Navarre Regiment, married Marie Armande Cecile de St. Martin, who died 17 February, 1765, aged 19 years. He was also Seigneur of Frency, Seguian, Journy, Lamotte, Courteville, and Zelucy.
Claude Charles Marie Du Camp de Rosamel was born at Boulogne 1774 (?), was minister of marine, and died 19 March, 1873.
In addition to above “Du Campes” clearly related to the great Du Campe family of Boulogne, we also find the following mentioned in the Arras archives: