Roman Catholic vicar. Madame Le Fanu died, and her brodier claimed the children to be educated by him. The magistrates of Caen made an order accordingly, which was confirmed on appeal by the Parliament of Rome in 1671. Le Fanu refused to give up his children. He was therefore tried, and sentenced to imprisonment, and was shut up for three years. At last he fled to England, and eventually settled in Ireland.
Owing to his want of leisure, the eminent representative of the Le Fanu family furnished to my informant no genealogical minutiae; hence his Christian name is wrong in my volume second. The death of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (on 7th February 1873) has been the mournful occasion of more correct information, an obituary account having appeared in the Dublin University Magazine, of which he was editor and proprietor.
William Le Fanu = Henriette Raboteau.
Joseph Le Fanu, Clerk of the Coast in Ireland, = Alicia Sheridan.
Very Rev. Thomas Philip Le Fanu, D.D., = Emma Dobbin.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (born 1814, died 1873), = Susan, daughter of George Bennett, Q.C. (died 1858).
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was called to the Irish Bar in 1839, but forsook law for literature.
His first novel was “The House by the Churchyard;” his last was entitled, “Willing to Die.” From a private letter from him, dated 23d April 1866, I quote the following:— “My dear father recollected Henriette Raboteau, his grandmother — he a very young child — she an old woman, a good deal past eighty, muffled in furs. I have her portrait by Mercier — pretty and demure, in a long-waisted white satin dress, and a little mob cap (I have gone and looked in the parlour at it; the cap is graver than that, but her young pretty face and brown hair confused me; she has also a kerchief with lace to it over her neck and shoulders, a little primly placed). The portrait altogether has a curious character of prettiness and formality; and she looks truly a lady.”
It is interesting to observe how the refugees have intertwined among the old families of their adopted country. The Tardy family furnishes an illustration. James Tardy, Esq., the refugee’s son who founded a family, married in 1813 Mary Anne, daughter of James Johnston, Esq., by Jane Lucretia Fisher, his wife, a lady descended from the Lord Primate, Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of Armagh, by the Lady Lucretia Hyde (daughter of the first Earl of Clarendon, sister of Anne, the first consort of James II., and aunt of Queen Anne). To Lady Lucretia Marsh Queen Anne bequeathed a valuable oak cabinet, having on its doors the arms of the family of Hyde, surmounted by the Earl’s coronet, finely blazoned, and bearing the date 1660. This precious relic was brought by the above named Mrs Tardy into her husband’s possession; and as an heirloom from the great statesman and historian, it is still preserved and justly valued by the Rev. Elias Tardy, M.A. and J.P., rector of Aughnamullen.
The following names occur in this chapter:—
Page 267. Faye, Meschinet.
Page 268. Jennede, Castin, Renouward, La Touche, Hassard, Pratt, King, Martyn, Colville, Malet, Napper, Dunne, Bryan.
Page 269. Burton, Loyd, Pelissier, Mercier, Sheridan, Rose.
Page 270. Grogan, Boileau, Thornton, Torpie.
Page 271. Chaigneau, Duke of Kent, Drummond, Cotterill.
Chapter XXV. (pp. 271-2S0).
Offspring of the Refugees among the Clergy.
(1.) Page 271. Richard Chenevix, D.D., Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (died 1779), was a grandson of Pasteur Phillippe Chenevix and Anne de Boubers.
(2.) Page 273. Henry William Majendie, D.D., Bishop of Bangor (born 1754, died 1830).
