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 188 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.viii.MABCH6,io2u "Mr. Rich of Covent Garden Theatre." William Latton, Esq., appears in 'The Court and City Register ' for 1747, p. 109, as His Majesty's Consul in Morocco, and Rich was the manager of Covent Garden Theatre at the date given. , ROBERT PIERPOINT. MARRIAGES. (See 12 S. v. 262.) Further to my Note at this reference, the following information may be found useful : At Edinburgh, January, 1789, Mr. Dewar, surgeon, to Ann Stewart, dau. of John Stewart, Esq., of East Craigs. At Blackwood, January, 1789, Rev. John Shaw of Queen's College, Oxford, to Mary Dunbar. At Glasgow, January, 1789, John Murray, Esq., to Isabella Lindesay, dau. of Prof. Dr. Hercules Lindesay. At Ayr, January, 1798, James Maxwell, Esq., of Williamwood, to Mary Campbell, dau. of John Campbell of Ayr. At Glasgow, January, 1789, Andrew McCulloch of Ayr, to Janet Douglas, dau. of Andrew Douglas of Ayr. At Aberdeen, Jan. 29, 1789, Alexander Harvey of Broadland, to Mary Morison, dau. of James Morison of Terreglestown. At Edinburgh, Feb. 11, 1789, Dr. A. Thomson, late of Jamaica, to Rachel Pittillo of Balhoussie, Fifeshire. At Edinburgh, Feb. 16, 1789, Rev. George Sym, to Sarah Couper, dau. of Rev. Mr. Couper of Lochwinnoch. At Brightmoney, Feb. 14, 1789, Ranold Stewart to Miss Fraser, dau. of Capt. Fraser of Brightmoney. JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39 Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. (To be continued.) NUNS AND DANCING. In * Southey's Commonplace Book ' 4th Series, p. 568, is this entry : "The English nuns at Ghent told Mrs. Carter that country dances were one of their amusements, and that they had the newest from England. Mem., vol. l,p.264." For Mrs. Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806), see the 'D.N.B.' In the Catholic Record Society's nineteenth volume ('Miscellanea xi.') at p. 1, it is stated : "The Benedictine Abbey of the Immaculate Conception of our Blessed Lady was founded at Ghent A.D. 1624 for English subjects. It was a filiation of the monastery at Brussels established in 1598 by Lady Mary Percy, daughter of the Earl of Northumberland, and was colonised by four pro- fessed nuns of Brussels When the French Revolutionary army invaded Flanders in 1794, the- community fled to England, and settled at Piestor* in Lancashire; then (in 1811) it was transferred to Caverswall Castle in Staffordshire, and finally in 1853 to Oulton near (Stone, in the same county where it still exists." In November of last year the late Dame'- Laurentia Ward, O.S.B.", who died Feb. 3, 1921, in the fifty-third year of her religious profession, having been twenty-one years Abbess of Oulton Abbey, wrote to me : " We had several in the community who had 1 known some of the Ghent members when I entered in 1866 One of our old members related that one from 'Ghent used to say: 'We always had a? dance on 'Our Lady's wedding-day,' that is the 23rd of January I quite believe that our nuns at Ghent had a style of recreation that was more lively than the present style but still the country dances as an amusement was rather far- fetched. Of course I cannot guarantee or vouott one way or the other ; I can only say 1 never heard of them." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct. THE O' FLAHERTY FAMILY, KINGS OF CONNAUGHT. The pedigree of this ancient Irish family, as shewn in B. O'Flaherty's ' lar-Gonnacht,' is very incomplete, and,, among other deficiencies, it fails entirely to name those who were the husbands of numerous " daughters." I have been en- deavouring for some years to discover the- history of one of these " daughters," who is said to have been married first of all to the first Viscount Castlereagh (1769- 1822), and afterwards to Wilson, Bar- rister-at-Law, agent to Lord Londonderry.. The 'D.N.B.' states that Lord Castlereagh was only married once to Lady Emily Anne, voungest daughter to John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire and I sup- pose the authority of the valuable work must be taken to be correct. The same applies to the statement made therein that he had no children. I have been unable to discover whether Lord Londonderry (Query, Lord Castlereagh or his father ?) had for his agent a man named Wilson, who besides being a kinsman, is said also to have been related to Lord Edward Fitz- Gerald and to the Earls of Kildare. En- deavoiirs made to discover anything about