Storeys of Old.

who went to Tyrone or thereabouts, and Lady Dillon and others were of that family, and one of them has a parish (Curate or Rector, I know not) in Monaghan, and his sister I have heard of working at the School of Art in Dublin, where some friends of mine know her well.

"Then there was a Robert Story, who was one of the most noble-hearted and excellent men, a friend of Chalmers and Irving, of Erskine and Campbell, whose life I have read, and most interesting it is too. He spells his name Story, and I wish I could ascertain his arms and crest.

"I am afraid I help you very little, but what I once knew I now forget, not Mrs. Story, for she rises very vividly before me. She was the woman of whom the then Lord Lieutenant spoke as he requested that Mr. Story, her husband, might be presented to him: "Show me the man that had courage to marry that woman!" He was famous for an imperturbable temper, and, certainly, he allowed wife and children perfect liberty at Bingfield, Ballyconnell and Templeport to choose between. They troubled Mrs. Story very little till she was so old and feeble that someone must stay with her, and then [the] Sandersons and Richardsons came and lived there, and then your father, your aunt Ellen and I used to go often daily to play with our cousins, and ramble about in the summer days."

Here are extracts from a letter written to Lieut.-Col. Story by the late Mr. Anthony Browne Herbert Story, thirty-six years private secretary to five Governors of the Isle of Man. The letter is dated 18th April, 1901.

"I can go no further back than my grandfather, with whom we lived at St. Albans until his death in 1851. He was an old-fashioned country solicitor, quite in the front rank with high-class family business only. He married well, and my grandmother was connected with the Verulam family, who had married into hers. Grandfather had four sons: the eldest, my father, who died in 1848, leaving me and three sisters; Henry, father of Miss Edith Story, of Weisbaden, left only one son living at his death-he has five or six daughters, but no sons. I, however, have three sons, all unmarried. Grandfather was also a private banker, and (apparently) had considerable property and a good establishment - men-servants, carriages, five or six gardeners, &c., and was holding a high position in the county, and knew everybody. My father died, leaving my widowed mother, self, aged 13, and three sisters, all younger, destined to go forth from a happy, if not even luxurious, home to face the world. In my young days the Bryanstone Square people were always spoken of as the Hamilton Storys.* Miss Mary Story, of Bryanstone Square, certainly visited at St. Albans, and my two aunts as certainly visited at Bryanstone Square. Like you, I never met Captain James Story. I always understood that they were related, and we all bore the same crest, &c. I fancy my father must have inquired about this, as you will see by the enclosed from Dublin Castle, with pedigree. This may interest you. Please return it. My grandfather's name was John Samuel. His third son bore the same name. Now it may be significant to note the Old Testament names in the enclosed pedigree. I have never found our name common, and am surprised you have found it so in the North of England. You will find very few instances of it in the army, navy, clergy or law list. I am the only member of the English bar of the name now. Captain James was, and there is no soldier of the name in London. I have only met two men of the name; one was a youngster down on his luck in Queensland, in the sixties, where I was very well known, and Had a cattle station. Having no money and a knocked-up horse, he managed to get to me I kept him for some weeks till his horse was fat, and then passed him on. I could not find out who he was. He said he came from India for no apparent reason. He spoke of South Wales; was a Roman Catholic, and (said) he was with his mother in Rome when Garibaldi turned out the Pope, He was a gentleman, but of quite another family.

*It is a singular fact that family of Hamilton Story have been connected with Grinsdale, near Carlisle, many years.