David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Bishop Power Trench had, when quite a young man, been admitted to the See of Waterford, and at first the clergy were disposed to animadvert on so many military men being guests at his palace. Archdeacon Fleury, “who would do and say what no other man would attempt,” being present at the bishop’s grand reception of his clergy, walked up to him and said, “I am most happy, my lord, to see that your lordship has recovered from your scarlet fever.” ”

“ Archdeacon Fleury’s great-grandfather was Louis Fleury, Pasteur of Tours, who, with Esther his wife, one son, and two daughters, Esther and Mary, fled to England in 1683. The pasteur and his family were naturalized in England, 27th April 1687. (See List xiii.) The son, Philip Amauret Fleury (born 1671) , a graduate of Leydcn, was ordained to preach the Gospel to the French in Ireland. Antoine Fleury, grandson of the old refugee, was also a graduate of Leydcn, where he was ordained 4th September 1728, but eventually settled in Ireland, and married one of the noble family of Rochebrune ”