race Lawless Lee mentions on page 184 of "The Huguenot Settlements in Ireland" that a John De Blaquiere from Limousin who became associated with Crommelin in the founding of a linen industry in the north of Ireland, fled to England in 1685 and married Mary De Varennes, daughter of a refugee. One of their sons became a merchant in London, another settled in Lisburn and married a Crommelin. A fifth son, John became Secretary to the Legation in Paris and later Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Lee wrote that Smiles stated he was made a Baron in 1784 and in 1800 raised to the peerage as Lord de Blaquiere of Ardkill. She adds "but he must have achieved a very great age before receiving these dignities." No other references to the name De Varennes in Lee's book but much more about the Crommelins and other families they married into. Barbara Holt in New Zealand