The Sunday School Society for Ireland has published “A Tribute of Regard to the Memory of the late Mr William Le Febure.” He died at Edermine Rectory on the 31st May 1873, aged seventy-one. Having paid annual visits throughout the United Kingdom for many years, he was well known and universally beloved. The evidence of his Huguenot descent, besides tradition, consists of three French seals, two of which have armorial bearings which may be described thus:— (1.) On a cartouche (or oval escutcheon) a cross pattée fitché within an orle of nine stars (or mullets); crest (on a helmet with mantling, surmounted by a coronet) a pheon, or arrow-head. (2.) Crest and coronet, as in number 1. Dr Purdon also recognises the descent in his pamphlet on “The Huguenots,” p. 13, “Wicklow received several families as settlers, among whom I cite the name of Le Febure, whose descendant is now well known to some of us.”
Pp. 37, 49. Lernoult. — The following advertisement appeared in the London Gazette of November 29, 1806:— “If the next of kin of the late Rev. Francis Lernoult, late of Newington, in the county of Oxford, but since of Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, clerk, deceased, will apply to Messrs Strong, Still, and Strong, Lincoln’s Inn, New Square, they will hear of something to their advantage.”
P. 40. Among the children of Louis Gaston, for Tenney-Guy read Tenne-Guy. This is another form of “Taneguy,” which occurs as a baptismal name in the family of Le Court, p. 65.
P. 49. Espinasse.
Guillaume de l’Espinasse
a gentleman of Languedoc, refugee in Dublin. m. 1st, Mary Gunning (no issue),
m. 2d, Isabella, daughter of Isaac Ward, Barrister at law.
Isaac Espinasse of Kill.
Richard,
of Kill
Abbey.
Isaac, of
Hextable House, Kent,
Bencher of Gray’s Inn.
Henry William,
Lieut.-Colonel.
William,
of Dublin,
m. 1799, = Susanna
Magdaline,
daughter of
Lt.-Col.
Henry Mangin.
Robert,
of
Gray’s Inn. = Emily, daughter of
Hon. George
William Petre.
James Espinasse, Barrister-at-law.
Another refugee, Paul de l’Espinasse, who settled in Dublin in 1689, had a son John Espinasse, Sheriff of the city of Dublin in 1745, unmarried. Jean l’Espinasse de Fonvive was elected a Director of the French Hospital in 1721.
P. 50. Bourgeois, pp. 47, 53. Le Bourgeois. — The pedigree of a refugee family, representing one or other of these surnames, is on record, beginning with Edward, burgess of St Alphage, Canterbury, living in 1729, and Elizabeth his wife.
P. 54. For Cahaue read Cahuac. — The surname Cahusac occurs in England.
P. 66. Allais. — There was proved at London, in 1717, the will of Nicolas Allais, of the city ot Rohan [Rouen] in Normandy, who, in order to leave all his property to his wife, names each of his sons and other relatives, assigning to each the legacy of one shilling, and to all others, who pretend to have a claim on his remembrance, one shilling each. His wife’s name was Mary Saint-Fresne; his sons, Nicholas, Peter, and Michael; and his relatives bore the surnames of Allais, Moustier, and Plastier.
P. 74. Teulon. — The refugees Pierre and Antoine Tholon or Teulon, fled from Nismes to Greenwich; they were descended from Marc Tholon, Sieur de Guiral, and their family were of Nismes, where representatives still reside. Antoine remained at Greenwich, and left descendants by his wife, Marie de la Roche; he is represented by Seymour Teulon, Esq. of Limpsfield, Surrey, and by Samuel Saunders Teulon and William Milford Teulon, architects. Pierre Teulon removed to Cork; from him descended Lieutenant-Colonels George, Charles,
