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 US. VII. June 21,1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 483 SOME IRISH FAMILY HISTORIES. Part I. A list of works dealing with Irish families may be found useful by those of our corre- spondents who are interested in genealogical inquiries touching Ireland. Bernard—Memoir of James Bernard, M.P., his Son the mat Earl of Bandon, and their Descen- dants.—Published 1875. Cole—Genealogy of the Family of Cole, co. Devon, with its Branches in Ireland, &c, by James Edwin Cole.—Published 1867. Pedigree ot Sir William Cole of Ennis- killen Castle.—Published 1870. Downshire—The House of, from 1600 to 1868, by H. MacCaU.—Published 1881. Eagar—The Eagar Family, co. Kerry, by Frede- rick John Eagar.—Published in Dublin, 1880. Genealogical History of the Eagar Family, by F. J. Eagar.—Published in Dublin, 1861. MacDonnell—Historical Account of the Mac- Donnells of Antrim, by George Hill.—Pub- lished in Belfast, 1873. MacManus—Genealogical Memoranda relating to the Sotheron Family and the Sept MacManus, by C. Sotheron.—Published 1871-3. O'Carroll—Pedigree of the O'Carroll Family, by Eily O'Carroll.—Published in Dublin, 1883. O'Maddens of Hy—Records of, by Dr. More Madden.—Published in Dublin, 1894. Ormsby—Pedigree of the Family of Ormsby, formerly of Lincolnshire, now of Ireland, by J. F. Fuller.—Published 1886. Palmer—Genealogical and Historical Account of the Palmer Family of Kenmare, co. Kerry, by the Rev. A. Henry Herbert Palmer.—Pub- lished 1872. Richardson—Six Generations of Friends (Quakers) in Ireland, by J. M. R.—Published in London, 1890. Sankey—Pedigree of the Sankeys of England and Ireland, by Sankey Best-Gardiner.—Published 1881. Shirley—Stemmata Shirleiana; or, Annals of the Shirley Familv, by E. P. Shirley.—Pub- lished 1873. Smyth—Genealogie de l'Ancienne et Noble Famille Smyth de Ballynatray, Comte de VVaterford, en Irlande.— Published in 1856. Stuart—Genealogical and Historical Sketch of the Stuarts of Castle Stuart, in Ireland, by the Hon. and Rev. Andrew Godfrey Stuart.— Published in Edinburgh, 1854. Taaffe—Memoirs of the Family of Taaffe.—Pub- lished in Vienna, 1856. Trench—Memoir of the Le Poer Trench Family, by Richard, Earl of Clancarty (1805).—Pub- lished in Dublin, 1874. Winthrop—Some Account of the Early Genera- tions of the Winthrop Family in Ireland.— Published in Cambridge, Mass., 1883. William MacArthur. Dublin. (To be continued.) Catholic Emancipation and the Stake. (See ante, p. 457.)—The subjoined line* by Canning were given to me when I was a boy by Mr. Speaker Denison, after- wards Lord Ossington. I do not think that they have ever been published. Addressed by an Oxford Tutor to a former Pupil, about to vote for Catholic Emancipation. Canning with crafty Robinson conspires To light in Smithfield huge, Papistic fires : To further their fell purpose, ill-concealed, The tax on coal< they partially repealed ; While Huskisson, with calculation keen, Computes how many pecks will burn a Dean. Yes I Deans shall burn ; and at their funeral pyre,. With face averted from th' unhallowed fire,— Irreverent posture I—Harrowby shall stand, And lift his coat-flaps up with either hand. G. W. E. Russell. Kensington Gravel Pits.—I prefer the old name to identify this locality, although it has been known as Notting Hill since 1830 at least. There are still a number of houses of that and of very much earlier date. Where Church Street, formerly Silver Street, enters the main thoroughfare, there are several early eighteenth-century houses, and one large house on the north side is marked for early demolition, as the site is offered for sale by the executors of the late R. W. Sutton. The built-out shops cover at least a garden—perhaps a pretentious forecourt and carriage drive. They were added about 1840, and a very interesting reference to this change occurs in a pam- phlet published in 1898. The writer, " an old inhabitant of Kensington, Notting Hill, and Paddington, with remembrances of the locality 38 years ago," dates this reference I quote as 1844 :— " Notting Hill at this time was a little country place with a few shops, and those very small. It was, however, beginning to put on an appear- ance of life, for four large shops were being erected opposite Silver Street on the garden ground fronting a mansion which had been an academy. This old house, and others which have since had shops built on their forecourts, may still be seen. Mr. King's Italian Warehouse was the first London shop opened, and a crowd nightly as- sembled to see the place lighted by gas. Shortly afterwards other shops were built before the next mansion, which had been the residence of Madame Vestris. In the front of this mansion was the turnpike and toll-keeper's house. This was the first turnpike out of London." The writer's last statement is inaccurate : he has overlooked Tyburn Turnpike. I have not verified the Vestris identification: it is of small interest, as this actress's resi- dences are as common as Nell Gwynne cottages. There were at least six academies