Family
According to the website of Carrigglas Manor (Tom Lefroy's house in Longford, Ireland), the Lefroy family came from the town of Cambrai in North Western corner of France. They were a Huguenot family, and one of their heads of the family, the Lord L'Offroy, died at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
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