Where started the Memphis Misraim rite?

The Rite of Memphis-Misraim originated from the amalgamation of two distinct Egyptian Masonic bodies—the Rite of Memphis and the Rite of Misraim—both of which arose in France during the first half of the nineteenth century before being unified in 1881, as an article on The Square Magazine's website notes.

The Rite of Memphis was established in France, where a lodge of the rite was formed at Montauban in April 1815 by Gabriel Mathieu Marconis and his associates 1. Jacques Étienne Marconis, writing as its Grand Hierophant, put forward a legendary history attributing its ultimate origin to Ormus, a priest of Alexandria converted by Saint Mark, whose disciples were said to have guarded Egyptian esoteric wisdom and passed it to the Knights Templar 1.