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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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