Hi, You may already have this but just in case you don't---- This Vance family tombstone was copied in 1965 by Robert G. Cooney Jr. It is located in the cemetery at the Tamlagth Church, Church of Ireland, in County Londonderry, Ireland. The Church is located across the river from the community of Coagh that is located in County Tyrone, Ireland. "In memory of the late John Vance, Esqr. of Loagh. Born 1742, deceased 1799, eldest son of Jas. Vance Esqr., who was second son of John Vance Esq., whose father was John Vance the Elder, who first obtained a lease of the lands of Coagh. He was the eldest son of Dr. Launcelot Vance, Surgeon and afterwards Colonel of the Coleraine Regiment who died from excessive fatigue within the walls of Derry during the memorable siege thereof in 1689 and whose father was the Reverend (blank spot of tombstone) Vans who fled from the South of Scotland to Ireland during the religious persecutions there about the middle of the 17th century and was a cadet of the ancient and distinguished family of Vans or Van of Bannbarragh in Wigtonshire, a younger branch of that of the Lords Dirleton in East Leasheare who were descended of the Vans who accompanied to England from France, William the Conqueror of Normandy where they were lords of Province and Normandy and Soversigne, Counts of Orange and Dukes of Andre holding a distinguished part in European history before the advent of Charlemagne. Erected by Robert Anstrusher Balbirnie Vans Esqr. Grandson to the first named John Vance" Linda Miller Louden/Hughes Family History Web Page is at the following address: http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/m/i/l/Linda-S-Miller/index.html