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Vignoles
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A French Huguenot family who settled in Ireland at the end of the 17th century. The Rev John Vignoles, born 1740 married Anna Honoria daughter of the Rev Lancelot Low and ministered at Portarlington for many years. His eldest son the Very Rev Charles Augustus Vignoles, Dean of Ossory, was the principle lessor of 11 townlands in the parish of Newtown, county Westmeath, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). In the mid-1870s his estate amounted to 999 acres in the county with a further 187 acres in Queen’s County (Laois). He died in 1877 and was succeeded by his grandson Charles Howard Vignoles of Cornahir, Tyrrellpass.
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