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    1. [HWE] Clement, Elliott, Dore
    2. Barbara Holt
    3. This is in response to Lesley Jones' Look-Up offer posted to this List on 5 January 2001 and also to Andrea's request for renewal of our interests. Last year I found three men of religion in Ireland who seem as though they could be my Irish ancestors, in a book by Rev Philip Dwyer(1878) called "The Diocese of Killaloe" which is on film in the LDS library (590 pages). It is similar to Lesley's book in that it quotes some of the same sources ( eg Cotton) and drops into long passages of Latin frequently. Lesley, if your fiche of the book : "Protestant Exiles from France in the reign of Louis XIV or the Huguenot refugees and Their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland" by Agnew, David C.A., 1874, has a good name index and the time period seems right to you, I would be most grateful if you would look for these three men in it. They are: JOSEPH CLEMENT, Church of Ireland Vicar of Roscrea, a Munster man inducted on Feb 25, 1621. SAMUEL ELLIOTT, attended Trinity College, Dublin, Church of Ireland Rector of Killenboy, County Clare in 1626 - 1633, said to have been made Archdeacon 1641. ( I had assumed Elliott was of Scots-Irish descent until seeing the name Eliot / Elot posted on one of Andrea's lists. It had seemed odd to me that a man from a well-known Border Scots family would become a Minister of the Church of Ireland, tho I suppose anything's possible). LEWIS JONES, C of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (born abt 1560 - d 1646). Jones was born in Wales. But his Will, included in the book by Dyer, shows that he had a son Michael, whose middle name was DORE. As this name has been mentioned on the List as a possible Huguenot one, I include Jones as he may have had a Huguenot wife or mother. Also mentioned in the Will is Mary Elliott, whom I presume to be Jones' married daughter and very possibly, the wife of Rev Samuel Elliott. There are other Dutch and French-sounding names mentioned in Dyer's book, which may be of interest to others searching for Huguenot ancestors in Ireland in the 17th century. I hope to hear fom you, Lesley. Most gratefully, Barbara Holt in rural New Zealand.

    01/06/2001 01:40:29