In France the name was "Crockeshawney" and was pronounced Crocketawney. Antoine Dessaure Peronette De Crocketagne was born 10 July 1643 near Montauban, France. In 1664, at the age of twenty-one year's, he was awarded a commission by King Louis XIV and appointed the agent for wine and salt in the King's household troops. He married Louise de Saix in 1669. (Through this marriage the Crockett's are connected to the Marquis De La Fayette, his mother having been Miss de Saix, (Louise's cousin.) When Antoine was converted to the Protestantism by the preaching of James Fontaine, he was banished by Louis XIV whereupon Antoine fled to Ireland in 1677. He changed his name to Crockett after the birth of his first child.

From the research of Dorothy Freeman Crumb and William Curt is Freeman: the Crockett genealogy begins with Antoine Dessaure Peronette De Crocketagne, son of Gabriel Gustave De Crocketagne. Gabriel lived near Montauban in the south of France and was married in 1642. You will learn that the first ancestor of the Crockett family in the United States was a Frenchman and a member of the household troops of Louis XIV. After serving his term out with the household guards of Louis, he returned to Montauban, in the south of France, and fell in with such Protestants in the south of France as the La Fontaine's, Maurey's and the Legres' and was converted by the company of such worthy men as the Maurey's, who had entire control of the wine and salt trade in the south of France. Copied from papers of Sam'l M. Duncan, written April, 1898 Nicholasville, Kentucky.

CROCKETT FAMILY OF TENNESSEE BY FRENCH AND ARMSTRONG--By tradition, Antoine was one of the handsomest men in southern France. He drew the personal attention of the King Louis, by his fine personal appearance and love of duty. The King was eager to retain him in his service and to place him second in command of the household guards. He was given this commission in 1664 when he was 21. It was there that he met, among many of the nobility, the beautiful Louise de Saix in 1669. He then resigned his commission as second in command of the King 's household guards, in order to establish a home of his own. It was through the influence on the Maury family who he was working as a commercial agent in the wine and salt trade of Southern France that he was converted to the Protestant faith. It was ordered in 1672, that all heretics, Huguenots, leave the south of France within twenty days. Antoine, with his wife and infant son, Gabriel, fled across the English Channel and remained in England for a short time but shortly fled to Ireland. To escape their French identity they changed their name to Crockett.