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Author: Rondeau, James

Biography:

RONDEAU, James (1776-1849: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 27 May 1776 at St. Christopher’s Alley, Shoreditch, London, and baptised on 18 June at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, the eldest of ten children of James Rondeau (1756-1828), a Bethnal Green silk weaver, and Mary Vigo (1753-1833), who had married on 29 Dec. 1777 at St. Dunstan’s in the East, Stepney, London. Both his parents were probably of French Huguenot descent. Nothing is known of his education. He married a widow, Martha (Portal) Burton (1768-1855) on 6 Mar. 1813 at St. Mary, Islington. They do not appear to have had any children. He is recorded conducting a Classical and Commercial Academy at Clayhill, Enfield, from around 1819 to 1835 and possibly much longer. He died on 13 June 1849 at his residence, Manor House, Bull’s Cross, Enfield, Middlesex, and was buried at St. Andrew’s, Enfield. In addition to the verse listed here, he wrote Anti-Negro Emancipation. An Appeal to William Wilberforce (1824), criticising the abolition movement for unleashing the “demon of discontent”; and two pedagogical works, The Elements of Truth, or the Missionary Assistant and Vademecum (1835), and A Short Address to the Conductors of Missionary Societies (1835). (ancestry.co.uk 25 Feb. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 25 Feb. 2024; Morning Post 27 Dec. 1819; Evangelical Magazine July 1821, 12; LES 19 June 1849; Hampshire Advertiser 17 Feb. 1855) AA

 

Other Names:

  • J. Rondeau
 

Books written (3):

2nd edn. [of Humorous Recitations] London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Lepard, 1822