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Lefroy (Killaloe)
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This was a junior branch of the Lefroy family of Carrig-glass, county Longford. They were descended from the Reverend Henry Lefroy who married Dorothea O'Grady of Kilballyowen, county Clare in 1814. Their third son, Henry Maunsell, lived at Fern Hollow, Killaloe. He had a milling business in the town. Weir writes that a house named Cambrai was built at Knockyclovaun, parish of Killaloe, for Henry M. Lefroy's son in the early 20th century. Henry M. Lefroy is recorded as owning a mansion house at Knockyclovaun valued at £33 in 1906.
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Lefroy (Carrickglass)
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Burke writes that the Lefroys were originally a Huguenot family who settled in the Canterbury area of England. A descendent of this family, Anthony Peter Lefroy, was posted to Ireland in his army role and later married Ann Gardiner of the Doonass family. Their son, Thomas Langlois Lefroy, (1776-1869) served as Chief Justice in Ireland and is also remembered for an association with the English author, Jane Austen. He purchased Carrigglass Manor in County Longford and was among the principal lessors in the parish of Killoe and Templemichael, baronies of Ardagh and Longford, at the time of Griffiths Valuation in the early 1850s. In the 1870s the Lefroy estate amounted to over 4000 acres in County Longford as well as over 300 acres in County Kilkenny.
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