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 12 s. vii. JULY 2i, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES. Of what this sweet wife would have been If she many days had seen ; If partial fate, which now we blam?, Had blest her with a mother's name. But Heaven otherwise disposed, And the dark tomb about her closed ; The tomb, alas ! a bed too cold So fair, so young, a bride t' enfold. On Francis Blackwell and Mary his wife. Here lies a holy and a happy pair, As once in grace, they now in glory share. They dared to suffer, and they feared to sin ; They meekly bore the cross, the crown to win ; So Jived on earth, as not afraid to die ; So died, as heirs of immortality. Reader, attend ! though dead they speak to thee ; T.ead the same paths, the same thy end shall be. The road forwards from Wycombe leads some way further in the vale, with a pretty brisk stream bordering it which turns several paper mills. Met on the road my acquaintance Dr. Ferris, who recognized me first. He lives now at Beacons- field. Stopt to dine at an inn beyond Bulstrode park. Took a walk in the park, which is laid out with taste and contains a great many deer. The fawns being lately dropt, we heard a singular noise between them and their dams, somewhat resembling bleating, but hoarser and shriller. I should have taken it at a distance for the clamour of crows and waterfowl. I do not i emember any notice in prose or verse of this circumstance. Finished our day's journey at Uxbridge, with much less difficulty than I apprehended last night. At Uxbridge the river Coin and the navigable canals are the only objects. July 9, Monday. The road to London flat and dull. We performed our first stage pretty well ; but in the second our horse was completely knocked up and we were very near leaving it at Islington. Arrived, however, at home to dinner, haying performed our journey without any one accident, and enjoyed, upon the whole, good weather. Memor. Never again to take so long a journey without more experience of the horse ; and not to push him so hard on the first days. PRONEPOS. IRISH FAMILY HISTORY: KEON. SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES. ( See ante, pp. 3, 25.) ANOTHR branch of the Keons was settled at Kilnagross, in the parish of Kiltohirt, Barony and co. of Leitrim, but I am unable to connect them to the Keonsbrook families, the following being all the particulars I have of them : (Richard) Keon of Kilnagross in the parish of Kiltohirt, Barony and co. of Leitrim, married, and had issue three eons : I. Richard Keon of Kilnagross. In hi Will dated Janua-ry, 1812, proved Jan. 23, 1812, he describes himself as " Richard Keon- the Second of Kilnagross " and desires : "to be bur. in Kiltohert in my father's grave - and burying place, at the direction, &c., of Henry Conboy of Kilo mane in Parish and Barony of Mohill, James Keon of Murhane in Parish of" Kiltohert and Ellinor Keon of Kilnagross in said Co., my lawful wife, whom I appoint Exors. To my best beloved wife Ellinor Keon alias Daniel. My only dau. Elizabeth Keon. My two nephews Francis Keon, son to Barth w ' Keon> of Dromologue and Thomas Keon son to William : Keon of Kilnagross. My House and.... in.- Clonmel to my Dau I order and appoint Dr. Francis Duignan of Drumsna Guardian and! Receiver of my Rents. To Margaret S-hanley. To my brother William Keon." Proved by James and Ellinor Keon, Jan. 23, . 1812, at Longford. He married Ellinor,. dau. of Daniel, and had issue an only dau. Elizabeth Keon. II. Bartholomew Keon of Dromologue,- who- married, and had issue a son, Francis Keon. III. William Keon of Kilnagross, who married and had issue a son, Thomas Keon. The following Will which I copied from the Prerogative Will Book, for 1811, does not give sufficient particulars to enable me to connect Dr. Keon definitely to any of the foregoing families, it is as follows : - " Doctor Keon of Keelogue, 31st Jan., 1810. Gives names of patients owing accounts : The late - Ambrose Keon of Newbrook. Patrick Walsh of Drumsna. Late Richard Walsh and his brothers Gerald and Hugh Walsh. 10 due by Walter Peyton on account of a Legacy bequeathed to- Dr. Keon by the late Richard Cunningham. To- Kate Higgins sister-in-law who is of the name Reynolds and rather simple in her judgement. To Mary Reynolds sister to Jno. Reynolds of Mohill. To Margaret McTernan alias Daly, my relations (both Legatees are close Relations ta- me). To my niece Honora Shavellin alias Reynolds, she lives at Newtown Brady, co Down. To the Rev. Connor Reynolds of Mohill and the Rev' 1 ' Mr. Reynolds now assistant Clergy- man to the Rev d ' Jno. McKeon. I appoint' the - Rev a ' Connor Reynolds of Mohill, Bartholomew Keon of Drumshambo, Exors. Signed 14th April,, 1810 ; Codicil dated 20th Dec., 1810. Granted 9th March, 1811." I should be glad if any correspondent would assist me in the ancestry of the- Reynolds mentioned in Dr. Keon's will, and the branch of the Keons to which he himself belonged. The following brief extracts fromHeases, &c., which I copied in the Registry of Deeds- 3ffice, Henrietta Street, Dublin ; W front, [rish Wills, and Dublin newspapers_of the-