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 John Henry Antes, of Fredericks county, Pennsylvania, and by her had, besides his three sons, a daughter, Mary-Agnes. (As the La Trobes were ministers and authors, I shall return to them.)

Mary Agnes La Trobe was married to John Bateman, Esq. (born 1772, died 1851), of Wyke in Yorkshire, afterwards of Ockbrook, Derbyshire. Her eldest son, John Frederic, born in 1810, is now of Moor Park in Surrey, F.R.S.S., L. and E.; he married, in 1841, Anne, the only daughter of the late Sir William Fairbairn, baronet, LL.D., F.R.S., corresponding member of the Institute of France. By baptismal names both father and son shewed their regard for the memory of the La Trobes; and the latter, at the earnest request of the family, assumed, in 1883, by Royal License, the surname and arms of La Trobe, and is now John Frederic La Trobe-Bateman, Esq., F.R.S.; his eldest son, is Rev. William Fairbairn La Trobe-Bateman, M.A., Incumbent of St. John’s, Upper Norwood, Surrey.  . — Robert Abraham Luard, of Caen in Normandy, was a Huguenot refugee in London. In the ancient province of Maine, and near to the town of Le Mans, there is a Chateau de Luart, and probably his family was originally cradled there. He married Miss Verbeck, and their son, Peter Abraham Luard (born 1703, died 1768), became a great Hamburgh merchant. The senior line of the family derives from his only son, by his first wife, Peter Robert Luard (born 1727, died 1802), who married Jane, daughter of Zachariah Bouryan, Esq.; his heir was Captain Peter John Luard, of Blyborough, who married Louisa, daughter of Charles Dalbiac, Esq., and dying in 1836 was succeeded by Charles Bouryan Luard (born 1785, died 1855), father of the present George Augustus Luard, Esq. of Blyborough Hall, Lincolnshire. His next brother, John Godfrey Luard (born 1829, died 1862), is represented by another John-Godfrey. Returning to Peter Abraham, we find that he had, by his second marriage, one son, William, whose second son, William, founded or resuscitated the family of Wright of Hatfield Priory, and the third son was the ancestor of Admiral William Garnham Luard, C.B., of the Lodge, Witham. Reverting to Captain Peter John Luard, we observe that he had eight sons, the seventh being Major Robert Luard of the Mote, Tonbridge.  . — This noble family both in France and in England has been so largely connected with the Church and with the Protestant Reformation, that I reserve my notes as to its antecedents for Chapter xxiii. We begin here with the Right Rev. Henry William Majendie, D.D., Bishop successively of the sees of Chester and Bangor (born 7th October 1754, died 28th July 1830). He had one brother, Lewis Majendie, Esq. (born 4th January 1756, died 13th August 1833).

(1) . Bishop Majendie married Anne Routledge in 1785. Their eldest son was Rev. George John Majendie (born 25th September 1795, died 2nd November 1842); he married, on 2nd May 1839, Susan Maria, widow of Rev. James Du Boulay, D.D. (she died on 13th June 1875). Their eldest son is Rev. Henry William Majendie, M.A. Oxon., born 12th February 1840, ordained by the Bishop of Oxford in 1868.

The next son of the bishop who left descendants was Rev. Stuart Majendie, Rector of Longdon (born 20th October 1799, died 28th September 1871); he married, on 13th October 1835, Mary Angelina, daughter of Michael Hughes, Esq. of Sherdley Hall (she died on 1st April 1857), and had four sons and eight daughters, The eldest son, William Henry Francis Majendie (born 3rd August 1842), married, on 30th April 1858, Christina Maria, daughter of Richard Martin Southcote Mansergh, Esq., of Grenane, near Tipperary, and has two sons, Richard-Stuart and Bertran.

The bishop’s son, John Routledge Majendie, Esq., was born on 12th December 1800, and died on 12th July 1850. He married Harriet Mary, daughter of George Dering, Esq. (son of Sir Edward, sixth baronet), and sister of George Charles Robert Dering, Esq. of Barham Court. This Mr. Majendie is numerously represented.

(2). We return to the bishop’s brother, Lewis Majendie. He became the proprietor of Hedingham Castle in Essex, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Hoghton, Bart., and grand-daughter and heiress of William Ashhurst, Esq.; he quartered the arms of Ashhurst and Hoghton with those of Majendie; the shield of the latter Huguenot family combines the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. Mr. Majendie (as already stated) died in 1833, and was succeeded by his elder son, Ashhurst Majendie, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., who was married, but died in 1868 without heirs. He had been predeceased by his younger brother, Rev. Henry Lewis Majendie, vicar of Great Dunmow, who died on 6th January 1863, so that the next proprietor of Hedingham Castle was that vicar’s eldest son, Lewis Ashhurst Majendie, Esq.; the second son was Arnold Henry Ashhurst Majendie, who died in Queensland in 1873, aged thirty-five; the third son is the Rev. Severne Andrew Ashhurst Majendie, M.A. Oxon. Lewis Ashurst Majendie, Esq., M.A.