Storeys of Old.

"At Brighton, on the 13th February, 1885, General P. F. Story, C.B., Bengal Cavalry, aged 75 years." Of the Story family of Kneveton, Notts., and Lockington, Leicestershire, we shall have something to say later on.

James Story, of Ture, in the county of Cavan, born in 1828, was High Sheriff of county Cavan in 1860; was a Justice of the Peace for counties Cavan and Tyrone. He was also M.A. of Cambridge and Dublin Universities, an F.Z.S., an F.B.S., and had the honour of being a Knight Commander of the Order of Charles III. of Spain. Mr. Story died unmarried on the 4th February, 1894. He was succeeded by his only surviving sister, Sarah Mary Anne Story, and by his nephew, Francis Coryndon Carpenter Rowe, Esq., J, P., of the county of Cornwall, son of the late Sir W. C. Rowe.

There are various letters to Colonel Story on his family connections. One is by R. C. J. Lyons dealing with the Story-Grattan alliance. In it are particulars not only relating to "the Rev. Joseph Story, Dean of Ferns and Sophia Story, alias Grattan alias Gore, and Elizabeth Grattan, spinster, daughter of the said Sophia Story," but to the Bristows. (Letter dated 2 Adelaide Street, Kingston, Jan. 4th, 1903.)

Bishop Story made his will in 1752. Mr. Lyons, in a letter dated February 3rd, 1903, alludes to the Armstrongs and the Bristows, and to a long suit between Colonel Story's ancestress, Frances Arabella Story and her husband's half-brother, the Rev. Ralph Grattan. Law suits against other people are likewise mentioned. In another letter of Mr. Lyon's allusion is made to the Wade family. The Sophia Wade and Sophia Bristow named in the Bishop of Kilmore's will were his wife's granddaughters. (See Law Suit Record, 1756.)

Extract from the letter of John Story, Esq., J. P., of Carradice, Co. Leitrim:

"I always understood that my ancestors had come over from England with Oliver Cromwell, but in what capacity or under what circumstances I never knew. They took root somewhere in the north, but as to the locality, I know not. About the year 1780 or 1790 Colonel Story, a grand uncle of mine, was in Belturbet in command of military there, but I don't know the name of the regiment. He manifestly prided himself on his physique, as he looked upon an uncle of mine who called upon him in Belturbet as only a 'Lilliputian.' 'Why, Johnnie, how is it you are so small?' Johnnie was then a young man, and in stature about 5ft. 6in. or 5ft. 7in. At ten or twelve years of age, in a senseless juvenile freak, I wrote my name Storey in all my school books. No notice was taken of the foolish act either by teacher or parents and others at home, and so from that time to this I have retained the intruding superfluous e, though I have often regretted it, as it seemed to me I was cutting myself off from the parent stock. . . . . I shall try, even at this late time of life, whether I can trace my lineage back to the. original stock." (Dated Pickie Hotel, Bangor, co. Down, 17th October, 1902.)

A letter, dated University, Glasgow, 28th Nov., 1903, is from Principal Story of the said University. The writer alludes to the fact that his grandfather was a schoolmaster and land agent or, "as we call it in Scotland, 'factor,' in Roxburghshire, close to the border. The Principal also states that his father was a clergyman of the Scottish Church. It is possible that the John Story of Bishop Wearmouth may have had some connection with my forebears-at least, Bishop Wearmouth is not far from the border. My grandfather's name was George, my father's Robert. Signed, R. Herbert Story."