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Below are the titles of available works about the Fontaine and Maury families that are available for sale from the Society.
To order, please send a check or money order made payable to “The Fontaine Maury Society” to:
Brian H. Nilsson, Librarian
969-B South Rolfe Street; Arlington, VA 22204-4538
E-Mail: FontaineMauryLibrary@verizon.net
Please note that all prices including shipping. Unfortunately we are unable to process credit or debit cards.
Most items are available as bound photocopies or in PDF on CD or via e-mail. Please specify what format you would like; provide your e-mail address if you would like an item via e-mail, if it is available via e-mail.
Please visit our separate page for items available by Dianne Ressinger that are available directly from her.
Items for Purchase: Books/Booklets
Memories of the British Fontaines: The Album of Kathleen Nancy Fontaine Busfield, by Kathleen Fontaine Busfield
Compilation of facts and memories of the Fontaine family by Kathleen Busfield of London covering the early family history of James Fontaine and his family in England, Ireland, Wales, and colonial America, as well as her more recent British family members.
Completed in April 2000, it includes handwritten notes, pictures, and copies of various family documents, including excerpts from Memoirs of a Huguenot Family.
19 pages
Price for Bound Photocopy: $10
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
Genealogies of Fontaines, by Mercedes Brown Cattle
Documents the descendants of Rev. Peter Fontaine through his son Aaron (1753-1823) and Aaron’s son James Terrell Fontaine (1776-1840). Thoroughly researched and documented.
Published by Edwards Brothers, Inc., of Ann Arbor, MI, in 1967.
228 pages, no index.
Price for Bound Photocopy: $30
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.S.N. and C.S.N., Author of ‘Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology,’ by Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin, Compiler
A biography by Matthew Fontaine Maury’s daughter.
Published in 1888 by Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ltd., in London.
320 pages.
Price for Bound Photocopy: $25
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Here’s Lamar Fontaine and Clarksdale, by Miriam DobbsA brief 13 page summary of Lamar Fontaine’s book, My Life and My Lectures.
Self-published by the author in 1974.
7 pages.
Price for bound copy: $ 8
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
A Tale of the Huguenots, or Memoirs of a French Refugee Family, by James (Jaques) Fontaine
Photocopy of the first edition in English of the memoirs of Jaques Fontaine.
Published in 1838 by John S. Taylor, Theological & Sunday School Bookseller, in New York.
266 pages
Price for bound copy: $23
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
My Life and My Lectures, by Lamar Fontaine, C.E., Ph.D.
Fact and fiction on the Civil War, China, India, the Russian Army, and his last years in Mississippi.
Published in 1908 by The Neale Publishing Co. in New York and Washington.
186 pages.
Price for bound copy: $27
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Prison Life of One of The Immortal Six Hundred, by Lamar Fontaine, C.E., Ph.D.
A lively 60-page account of Fontaine’s captivity from August 1864 to June 1865, among 600 Confederate Army and Navy officers held on the prison ship, Crescent City, on Morris Island, Ft. Pulaski, and Hilton Head.
Published in 1910 by Daily Register Print in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
60 pages. Free for download courtesy of F. J. (“Rocky”) Stewart. The hand-written inscription by Lamar Fontaine on the title page is to Rocky’s great-grandfather.
From Riches to Rags to Respectability: A History of a Fontaine Family and Kinfolks: Boursiquot, Maury, Glannison, Jasper, Bruton, Beall, Cox, Penick, Vickers, from 1099 to 1987, by Winston Fontaine.
Summarizes memoirs of Jaques Fontaine. Includes history of allied families Maury, Glanisson, Jasper, Bruton, Beall, Cox, Penick, and Vickers. Traces the family of Rev. Francis Fontaine (1697-1749).
Published in 1987 by Alabama Ancestors in Mobile; reprinted with corrections and additions in 1999.
273 pages, indexed.
Price for bound copy: $30
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Lineage of George Peter Cosby Fontaine, by Elizabeth Fontaine Waite Jackson
Genealogy of the son of William Maury Fontaine and grandson of Aaron Fontaine.
Self-published in March 1991 by the author in Grove Hill, AL.
11 pages, not indexed.
Price for bound copy: $ 8
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian and Civil Wars, by General Dabney Herndon Maury, USA, CSA
Autobiography describing his war adventures. He also served as U.S. Minister to Colombia. Courtesy of Sallie Anne Werth Hicks.
Published in 1894 by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York.
279 pages, not indexed.
Price for bound copy: $25
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Description of Honors Awarded to Matthew Fontaine Maury, L.L.D.-U.S.N.-C.S.W., and Corresponding Relating Thereto, by Sallie Anne Werth Hicks
Based on a description and correspondence compiled by Richard L. Maury in 1897 and Mary Maury Werth in December 1909.
Published in 1991.
82 pages.
Price for bound copy: $13
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
First Lessons in Geography, by Matthew Fontaine Maury
Includes comments by Sallie Anne Werth Hicks. Originally published in 1889 by University Publishing Co. in New York.
66 pages.
Price for bound copy: $12
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
The Huguenot Martyrs of Meaux, Commonly Called The Fourteen at Meaux - A Speech to the Huguenot Society, by Colonel Richard L. Maury
A paper written and delivered on this October 7, 1546, event by Richard Maury, son of Matthew Fontaine Maury, in 1899 to the Huguenot Society.
16 pages.
Price for bound copy: $ 8
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
The Fontaine Trail, by John May
10 page booklet with detailed directions for self-guided tours of sites in France, England, and Ireland where Jaques Fontaine lived, worked, and traveled during his perilous times. 1999.
Price for bound copy: $ 5
Price for PDF on CD: $ 5
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
Ancestors and Descendants of the Reverend Peter Fontaine (1691-1759) of Westover Parish, Charles City County, Virginia, by Charles J. Ragland
Part I consists of 315 pages containing 213 biographical sketches of ancestors and descendants bearing the Fontaine name. Sketches vary in content and depth. Factual data is enhanced with material to reflect aspects of subjects’ character, accomplishments, and/or failures.
Part II contains 188 pages of genealogical charts listing presently known descendants and includes basic data such as birth, marriage, death, places of residents, occupations, etc. Well-organized, documented, and indexed.
Self-published by the author in Winston-Salem, NC.
Indexed.
Part I for bound copy: $33
Part I for PDF on CD: $ 8
Part II for bound copy: $22
Part II for PDF on CD: $ 8
Both for bound copies: $50
Both for PDF on CD: $10
Not available via e-mail
A Structure of the Fontaine Family from 1658 as Reflected Through the Lineage of Active Members of the Fontaine/Maury Society, by Charles James Ragland, Compiler
Lineages of active members of the Fontaine/Maury Society. Ancestor charts supplied by members of the Society. Essential for continuing research.
Self-published in 1993 by the author in Winston-Salem, NC.
92 pages, indexed. Sample pages from “A Structure.”
Price for bound copy: $17
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Huguenot Cemetery Memorial Dedication Program/Presentations in Dublin, Ireland, on May 15, 1999, by Dianne W. Ressinger, Compiler
Includes photograph of the Fontaine plaque in Dublin’s Huguenot Cemetery on Merrion Row; address by Professor Ruth Whelan of National University of Ireland, Maynooth, at the dedication ceremony; and lecture by Dianne Ressinger on the life of Jaques Fontaine. Courtesy of Dianne Ressinger.
16 pages.
Price for bound copy: $10
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
The Allied Families of the Missouri Fountains (Fontaines): Joseph Fontaine 1748-1813 m. 1773 Mary (Polly) Good 1754-1812; The Ancestors of Mary Goode and Especially the History of the Goode Family, by Vida Leola Vance
History of descendants of Joseph Fontaine (1748-1813) who married Mary Goode.
Published in 1988.
116 pages, not indexed.
Price for bound copy: $22
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
The Missouri Fountains and their Descendants: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of Reverend Peter Fontaine of Westover Parish, a Virginia Huguenot Colonist of the Eighteen Century, with Pertinent Data on the Related Families from ca 1480 to 1967, by Vida Leola Vance
Chronicles the ancestors and descendants of Joseph Fontaine (1748-1813), son of Rev. Peter Fontaine. Joseph migrated to Kentucky and Missouri.
Self-published in 1967 in Missouri by the author.
236 pages, indexed.
Price for bound copy: $30
Price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Items for Purchase: Cards, Videos, etc.
Postcard Drawing of Jean de la Fontaine’s Home at Sévilly
Postcard drawing of the house of Jean de la Fontaine (ca. 1500-1563) and his family, where they were murdered there by Catholic troops in 1563. The fortified château at Sévilly, just outside the small town of Ste.-Sabine-sur-Longève in the Department of La Sarthe, France, is still standing. The house was identified through meticulous research by Paul Mason of West Sussex, England. Postcard courtesy of Joe Fontaine.
Price for hard copy: $ 1
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 1
Not available via CD
Fontaine 8½ x11 Family Crest.
In bright colors (gold, silver, red, and purple), suitable for framing. Courtesy of the late James Hicks, Jr.
Price for paper copy: $ 5
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
The Fontaine/Maury Society Newsletters
Price for single paper copy: $ 1
Price for single PDF issue via e-mail: $ 1
Early issues from 1972, consecutive since August 1984) through the present
Complete set price for bound copy: $30
Complete set price for PDF on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
✭New Item! Fontaine Maury Grand Reunion at La Rochelle, France, September 2003
A 24 page album recording the visit of Society members to Fontaine family sites in France. This album contains a two page summary of the trip, followed by photographs.
Price for PDF on CD: $ 5
Huguenot Cemetery Memorial Dedication Video, Dublin, Ireland, May 15, 1999
Includes cemetery ceremony, lecture by Dianne W. Ressinger, and after-dinner remarks.
Videotape courtesy of Ray Kessler
Price for videotape: $12
Not available on CD or email
Jacques de la Fontaine 8½ x 11 Portrait (1549-1633).
Grandfather of Jaques, the refugee. Courtesy of the late James Hicks, Jr.
Price for paper copy: $ 5
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
Reverend Peter Fontaine 8½ x 11 Portrait / One Page Biography; or as Notecard.
Color portrait of the Reverend at age 24 upon his graduation from Trinity College and his ordination into the ministry. Reproduced from a miniature painting which, according to family tradition, Peter gave to his parents prior to departing to America, fearing that he would never see them again. The miniature was eventually sent to Peter Fontaine, Jr., at “Rock Castle” in Hanover County, VA, and was last seen in 1840. It was probably destroyed either during the Civil War or when the family home at “Beaverdam” burned in 1869. Courtesy of Charles Ragland.
Price for paper copy: $ 5
Price for PDF via e-mail: $ 5
Genealogical Chart of the Winston Family, by Marie Rauschenberg Rice
Excellent circular family tree, 25x25, suitable for framing. Isaac Winston, born 1620 in England, is in the center of the chart, 12 generations of descendants are identified in concentric circles. The chart includes the family of Mary Anne Fontaine (1718-1780s), daughter of the Reverend Peter Fontaine (1691-1759), who married Isaac Winston (1715-1766), and other allied families to the Fontaines and Maurys, including the Armistead and Dabney families. Courtesy of Marie Rauschenberg Rice.
Price for paper copy: $15
Not available on CD or via e-mail
Genealogical Chart of the Fontaine and Maury Families, by Anne Maury
Excellent circular family tree, 30x36, suitable for framing. Jean de la Fontaine, died 1563 in France, is in the center of the chart. Eight generations are identified in the concentric circles.
Click to see a picture of the framed chart
Price for paper copy: $15
Not available on CD or via e-mail
Items for Look-Up Service
These are items available in our small library holdings
that are NOT available for sale. Please contact the librarian
for look-up service
Seeker of the Seaways: A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pioneer Oceanographer, by Janice F. Beaty.
This biography was published in 1966 and draws on Frances Leigh Williams’ extensive bibliography and Diana Maury Corbin’s work. The book includes a short bibliography but has no footnotes, end-notes, or index.
Published by Pantheon Books of New York in 1966. 163 pages.
Not available for purchase, available for look-up service only.
Second Family of Rev. Peter Fontaine, compiled by Randolph Newell Currie.
This 15 page booklet provides details on the family of the Reverend Peter Fontaine with his second wife, Sarah Wade, providing details of each of their six children: Moses; Sarah; Elizabeth; Joseph; Aaron; and Abraham. It also itemizes the books mentioned in the will of the Reverend Peter Fontaine.
Self-published by the author in Sylvania, Ohio, date not listed.
Copy donated to the Society by the author in 1990.
Not available for purchase, available for look-up service only.
3000 Years in the Life of an American Family (1240 B.C. to 2002 A.D.), by Walter Evans and John Humphrey Evans, IV
History of Evans, Fontaine, Vernon, Hutchinson, Marbury, Pierce, and Terrell families, as well as others.
Published in 2002 by Gateway Press in Baltimore, MD. 560 pages.
Copy in Society collection courtesy of Walter Evans.
Not available for purchase, available for look-up service only
Matthew Fontaine Maury: Trail Maker of the Seas, by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
Biography of Matthew F. Maury.
Published in 1943 by Longmans, Green and Co., Inc., of New York. 226 pages, no index.
Not available for purchase, available for look-up service only
The Descendants of James Heap 1740-2001, by Roland G. Heap, Editor.
History of the descendants of James Heap (born about 1740) of Keighley Yorkshire, England, and his wife Ann Ellis, with whom he married in 1769. This booklet has a particular focus on the descendants of Fred Heap, fifth generation from James Heap, and his wife Anne Elizabeth Fontaine, the youngest daughter of John Fontaine (1809-1889) and descendants of Jaques Fontaine. James and Anne Elizabeth Heap immigrated to Australia in 1911.
Self-published by the editor and his family in March 2002 in Toowoon Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
Copy in Society collection courtesy of Roland Heap.
Not available for purchase, available for look-up service only
Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas, by Charles Lee Lewis.
This biography was written by an associate professor at the United States Naval Academy and was endorsed by the Maury Association when it was first published.
Published in 1927 by the United States Naval Institute in Annapolis, Maryland. 264 pages, indexed.
Not available for purchase, available for look-up service only
Intimate Virginiana: A Century of Maury Travels by Land and Sea, by Anne Fontaine Maury, Editor. One of the best accounts of the early Maury family. Published in 1941 in Richmond, VA, by the Dietz Press, Publishers. 336 pages. Includes bibliographic notes, no index.
Not available for purchase, available for look-up service only
One American Family: Some Maury Memories, Legends and Records, by Lydia Lowndes Maury Skeels. A history of the Maurys from the original emigrants, Matthew Maury and Mary Anne Fontaine, through a number of their descendants, including Matthew Fontaine Maury the oceanographer, his brother John Minor Maury, and nephew Dabney Herndon Maury, the impact of the Civil War, and twentieth century family members including Ellen Maury Slayden, Elizabeth Maury Coombs, Maury Maverick, and Henry Lowndes Maury. Self-published by the author by Parousia Press in Storrs, Connecticut, in 1981, as a limited edition with 200 copies. 299 pages, references, and a pull-out genealogical chart. No index. This signed copy was donated to the Society by Andrée Elmary Pelletier in memory of her friend Lydia Lowndes Maury Skeels.
Not available for purchase, available for look-up service only
The Maury Family Tree: Descendants of Mary Anne Fontaine (1690-1755) and Matthew Maury (1686-1752), by Sue Crabtree West-Teague
This book is an update of Sue Teague’s 1979 and 1983 book on the Maury family. Mrs. Teague has very kindly offered her book for sale through our Society and is making a donation to the Society for each sale made.
Self-published in 2004 in Birmingham, Alabama, by the author. Hardback book, 569 pages, indexed.
Not available for purchase, available for look-up service only
Ordering Information:
To order, please send a check or money order made payable to “The Fontaine Maury Society” to:
Brian H. Nilsson, Librarian
969-B South Rolfe Street; Arlington, VA 22204-4538
E-Mail: FontaineMauryLibrary@verizon.net
Please note that all prices including shipping. Unfortunately we are unable to process credit or debit cards.
Most items are available as bound photocopies or in PDF on CD or via e-mail. Please specify what format you would like; provide your e-mail address if you would like an item via e-mail, if it is available via e-mail.
Please visit our separate page for items available by Dianne Ressinger that are available directly from her.
Please visit our “Membership” page for information about joining our Society and our “Announcements” page about special upcoming events.
Revised January 2010 by Brian H. Nilsson
