Layard, as well as the following notes of epitaphs in the various churches and burying-grounds of the metropolis of Ireland.
A few names are preserved upon family vaults and gravestones in the old Huguenot cemetery near St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Five inscriptions are now illegible. The oldest that survives is in memory of a Mrs. Chaigneau:—
This tomb belongs to the family of Mr. Lewis Chaigneau, merchant.
Here lyes interred the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Chaigneau, wife of the above-named Lewis Chaigneau, with two of their children. She departed this life in the fullest assurance of a blessed resurrection, the 18th February a.d. 1707, in the 42 year of her age.
The other epitaphs or inscriptions are as follow:—
The burial-place of Mr. Stephen Lapière and his posterity.
Here lyeth the body of Mr. Lanauze, who died the 9th of 1734, aged 36 years.
Here lyeth the body of Mrs James Puneau, who departed this life
Feb. 17, 1747. Aged 50.
Peter Bosnard, Esq. Dyed the 18 October 1760,
And his Remains were here deposited with hopes of a better resurrection to immortality. Also here lieth interred his worthy wife, Susanna, who departed this life 16 June 1778.
Mr. Peter Maignon departed this life the 9 day of July 1763, aged 37.
Here lyeth the remains of Mrs. Susanna Maignon, who departed the 9 day of May 1777, aged 16 yrs; also of Mrs. Mary Maignon, wife of the above-named Mr. Peter Maignon.
Here lieth the body of Susanna Walsh,
who departed this life 25 May 1772, in the 39 year of her age;
also her father and mother, Charles and Elizabeth Labounte,
and 4 of her children.
Underneath lie the remains of
Abraham Viradit Horton, esq., who died November 29, 1797,
and also his children Jane and Harriett, who died in infancy,
Anne, who died May 6, 1807, in her 2 year,
Abraham, who died August 1824, in his 29 year,
and Maria Eleanor, who died Nov. 24, 1833, in her 39 year.
Dorothy Viradit Horton died 6 January 1866, aged 79 years.
Maria Favière, relict of the late Major Favière, who departed this life on the 13 day of April 1826, aged 71 years. In her was united every truly amiable quality, with piety the most sincere, and manners the most engaging, which endeared her to her family and friends, who deeply mourned her loss.
Here also rest the remains of Gertrude, wife of Thomas Parsons, Esq., and the youngest daughter of the above-named Maximilian and Maria Favière, who died 6 Dec. 1860, aged 71, in sure and certain hope of a joyful resurrection through the merits of her Redeemer.
[There is an inscription or heading, without date, “To the memory of the Rev. Dr. Francis Bessonet and Susanna his wife — erected by their sons James and Francis.”
There is also the Huguenot cemetery in Peter Street, which the Dublin roughs call “the old grave-yard where the Danes buried their dead a thousand years ago.” The oldest date there, now legible, is 1735.
Mr. Charles Mestaver, merchant, of city of Dublin, died 1 May 1735.
Mrs. Jane Mestaver, widow of above Charles, died 13 July 1780, aged 70.
Their son, Colonel Lewis Mestaver, caused this stone to be erected.
John Villebois, merchant, of the city of Dublin.
John Villebois, eldest son of the above, died 26 Apr. 1757, aged 20.
Also 6 of his brothers and sisters who died very young.
Peter de Gualy, Esq., died 5 Dec. 1764, aged 90.
Jane De Gualy, wife of Peter, died January 17, 1774.
Charles De Gualy, Esq., their only son, died July 1774, aged 48.
Benjamin Barrington Domville, qui mourut le 19 Oct. 1774.
[There is a tablet with a eulogistic inscription within the French Chapel.]
Anne Gellis, died 10 May 1791, aged 76.
John Gellis, died January 1815, aged 65.
Maria Teresa Gellis, died 2 February 1830, aged 82.
Major John Corneil, died 10 July 1792, aged 67.
