Series 8 - Castle Howard/ Cronebane

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IE OCL P131/8

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Castle Howard/ Cronebane

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  • 1835 - 1960 (Creation)

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(1890-1972)

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Sheelah Trench was born to Benjamin Bloomfield Trench and his wife Dora on 25 May 1890. She married Langlois Massy Lefroy, son of Col. Augustine Hugh leroy and Isabel Mary Heppelthwaite on 15 October 1924. They had no children and Sheelah died on 13 May 1972.

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This series relates mainly to Sheelah Lefroy and her husband Langlois Lefroy.

Castle Howard was purchased by Langlois Lefroy circa 1924, who in that year would have been flush with the capital which his wife, Sheelah's marriage settlement, brought to them. . He sold Cronebane in 1954, on inheriting Carrigglas Manor, Longford, Co. Longford, from his elder brother, and died in 1957, when his widow, Sheelah, née Trench, moved back to Loughton to live with her unmarried sister, Thora. The last item in the box is a statement of account for 1957-1958 showing the value of the late Langlois Lefroy's and his wife, Sheelah's, investments under the provisions of her marriage settlement of 1924.

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