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French (Belturbet)
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When Matthew French of Belturbet, Co Cavan, made his will in 1688, he left a third of his lands, houses and tenements in Cos Fermanagh and Cavan and in the Corporation of Belturbet to his wife Elinor. Matthew French also had property in Dublin. His eldest son Richard married Mary Perrott of Dromhonie, Co Cavan. His second son Matthew French junior of Dublin and Belturbet married Mary Meade. Their only son was the Reverend Matthew French who had one son Matthew (died in 1739) and a daughter Marianne who married the Reverend Andrew Nixon of Nixon Lodge, county Cavan.
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