David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ His captain’s commission from Louis XIII., dated in 1641, was extant until recently. The Ulster Journal gives us some hints as to the sufferings of his family for their Protestant faith. “The first of this family (the writer informs us) who settled in Ireland felt so deeply the utter ruin of his fortunes and his banishment from his country, that, in his anxiety to spare his children unavailing regret, he always evaded entering into the particulars of his history. ”

“ It is supposed that this employment afforded him an opportunity to quit France altogether, as we next find him, on the 17th July 1687, receiving a Dutch commission, in which he is styled Nicholas de la Cherois, late captain in the service of the King of France. He received a similar commission in the English service in 1689. He, with his brothers, served in Ireland under King William, whom he followed to Flanders, continuing in active service until the peace of Ryswick. He was promoted to the rank of Major, 1st August 1694, and took the sacrament and the oaths on the 3d of February following. ”

“ But Judith lived to the age of 113, and two or three days before her death, she proved the remarkable possession of her faculties by teaching a child to repeat the Lord’s Prayer. She never acquired the English language, having been discouraged in some early attempts to speak English by the unrestrained ridicule of Irish listeners. ”