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Louisa Augusta Lennox

Female 1743 - 1821  (77 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Louisa Augusta Lennox 
    Birth 24 Nov 1743 
    Gender Female 
    Death 1821 
    Siblings 6 Siblings 
    Person ID I364159  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 7 Dec 2009 

    Father Duke Charles Lennox,   b. 18 May 1701   d. 8 Aug 1750 (Age 49 years) 
    Mother Sarah Cadogan,   b. 18 Sep 1706   d. 25 Aug 1751 (Age 44 years) 
    Marriage 4 Dec 1719  's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F13705  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomas Conolly,   b. 1738   d. 27 Apr 1803 (Age 65 years) 
    Marriage 1758 
    Family ID F178167  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Dec 2009 

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    • third of the famous daughters of the Duke of Richmond,
      She had spent much of her childhood at Carton near Maynooth, the home of her sister Emily, Duchess of Leinster. Her elder sister Caroline married the leading English politician Henry Fox, while her younger sister Sarah led a turbulent private life before eventually setting down in Oakley Park in Celbridge in 1781. Lady Louisa had no children and instead devoted much of her energies to improvements to the house and demesne at Castletown. The Staircase Hall, Dining Room, Print Room and Long Gallery are amongst the rooms that can be considered symbols of her contribution to the house. Castletown in these years again became a lively hospitable place, with a constant stream of visitors including everybody from the Lord Lieutenant to London actress Sarah Siddons. Through her correspondence with her sisters as well as the meticulously kept household accounts a vast amount of information has survived about Castletown in the mid to late eighteenth century.
      Following the death of her husband in 1803 Lady Louisa considered selling the house for use as a barracks to alleviate some of his debts. The Barrack Board was not interested and turned down the offer. Lady Louisa changed her lifestyle and devoted the remaining years of her life to charitable works instead of improvements to the house and estate. Amongst her achievements was the establishment of a school on the site of her husbands kennels inside the gates of Castletown. A new Protestant church was also erected inside the gates to replace the previous church which had been destroyed in the 1798 rebellion. She survived her husband by eighteen years dying in August 1821. Her nephew George Napier left the following account of her funeral, which captures the esteem, in which Louisa was held by her tenantry and servants:
      soon as day light appeared, the people began to collect in the park in front of the house thousands were assembled from thirty and forty miles off, so well was she known ordered the great door to be thrown open and the procession moved from the hall moment the body appeared long loud cry of despair issued from the assembled multitude coffin was lowered into the vault; then again the that thrilling cry was heard, but louder and longer general rush was made to the vault, each striving to get a last look at the coffin which contained the remains of One they almost revered as a saint.



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