David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Item, I give and devise unto my said grand-daughter, Elizabeth Oldfield, and heirs, all that messuage and tenement, with the appurtenances, situate, and being in a certain lane called Turnagain Lane, in the Parish of All Saints, in the said city, and now in the occupation of Saffory Day and a Frenchman. Item, I give unto son, Israel Lefroy, and his assignes during his life, my piece of land called the Tenterfield, lying in a place called the Friers in the said city, and after his decease, I give the said piece of land, called the Tenterfield, unto my grandson, Thomas Lefroy, and his heirs. ”

“ Pierre, third son, ist November 1592; two daughters, each named Marie, who died in infancy (a Loffroy, supposed to be a fourth son of the refugee, appears in 1627, namely, Thomas Loffroy, who had a wife, Anne, and an infant, Esaie, in 1626, and an infant, Jeanne, in 1628, which Esaie died in 1646, and which Jeanne was married in 1656 to Pierre Le Due) . The above-named David Loffroy married, on 6th December 1616, Marie, daughter of Jan du Beuf; the birth of their daughter, Anne, is registered at Canterbury, but thereafter they are not heard of, and it is said that they emigrated to Rotterdam. ”

“ Regiments once quartered in Ireland during last century were usually allowed to stay there. There our hero served, and received his several steps of promotion during twenty-eight years, and he lived for other twenty-eight years as a retired Lieut-Colonel in his house at Limerick. ”

“ He was treasurer of the Irish Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and after the Disestablishment he retired on a pension and took up his abode in France. Benjamin Lefroy, born in Dublin 25th March 1815, died young. (2.) The English Lefroys. This line in its senior representatives has not been migratory, though through varying nomenclature it appears at an earlier date as Lefroy of Ewshott House, and at a later as Lefroy of Itchell Manor. Ecclesiastically, it was always similarly localized. Its founder was the second son of Mr. ”