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 Referring to the second column, the reader will take note of the three surviving Crommelin male heirs, at the time when the Countess of Mount-Alexander gave one half of her estates to the head of the De la Cherois family. The other half, being the Carrowdore portion, she gave to the Nicholas Crommelin of our second column, whom we must now call Crommelin of Carrowdore. When Crommelin of Carrowdore had to leave his earthly inheritance, he saw that the male line of Crommelins was disappearing, he himself and (Daniel) his next brother being unmarried, and his youngest brother (whose Christian name was De la Cherois) having an only child, a daughter. He, therefore, bequeathed his name and estate to his younger cousin, Samuel De la Cherois, junior, who thus became Samuel De la Cherois-Crommelin of Carrowdore Castle. Having discovered the first De la Cherois-Crommelin, the enquirer sees a direct line of posterity. Samuel (born 1744, died 1816) was succeeded by Nicholas (born 1783, died 1863), who married the Hon. Elizabeth De Moleyns, daughter of the 2nd Lord Ventry. Nicholas was the father of Nicholas (born 1819), of Rockport, county Antrim, and of Samuel Arthur Hill De la Cherois-Crommelin, Esq. (born 1817), the head of the family of Carrowdore Castle, County Down, whose heir-apparent is Frederic-Armand De la Cherois-Crommelin (born in 1861).

Of the Crommelins of last century, Daniel emigrated to New York, and his descendants to the East Indies. During the Indian mutiny the name was honourably represented among British officers. Of these I have no definite information; but I observe in the Army List Lieut-General William Arden Crommelin, C.B., of the Royal Engineers (late Bengal), and Lieut.-Col. J.A. Crommelin, officer of H.M. Indian Forces, retired on full pay; and of the young generation, Lieutenant Clarence Yule Crommelin.

The monument erected by Lady Mount-Alexander may be displayed thus:—

 . — Andre de la Condamine, Coseigneur de Serves (born 1560), left a son, Jean (born 1583), a lord of the bedchamber. Jean was the father of Gabriel and Antoine — from the latter descended the litterateur De la Condamine. Gabriel de la Condamine (born 1606) had a son, George, father of Andre and Charles-Antoine; the latter was Colonel of the Regiment de Piedmont, and he conformed to Romanism. André de la Condamine of Nismes (born 1665) continued a Huguenot. He married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Agerre de Fons; continuing to reside in France, they submitted for many years to much persecution, although they could not altogether elude some outward conformity to Romish worship, as they formally and humbly acknowledged in the year 1719. The fury of their adversaries, breaking out without restraint after the Peace of Utrecht, made them