Huguenot's in Ireland;
The Fluerys were decended from the French nobility. Shortly before the Revocation, Louis Fluery, the Protestant Pastor of Tours, fled, with his wife Esther, his son, born 1671 and two daughters, to England where they were all naturalized in 1679.
He came to Ireland as one of the private chaplins of William of Orange and was present with the army at the Boyne.
Later he became pastor at Leyden where his son, Philip Amuret (or Amaury) was educated and ordained " to preach the Gospel to the French in Ireland"
Philip Fluert was appointed chaplin to Colonel Bouchetiere's Regiment of Dragoons.
From 1716 till his death in 1734 he served in the French Church of St Patrick's in Dublin.
He was the father of Rev. Antoine Fleury, also educated at Leyden and ordained there in 1728. In 1730 the latter was licensed to the French Church of St Patrick's, a post which he resigned on his appointment to Coolbanagher in 1736. He was appointed Vicar-Choral of Lismore in 1761 and died in 1801, being buried in the French cemetery in Portarlington.
By his wife, Marie Julie, he had a son George Louis.
Another branch of the Fleury family seems to have settled in Cork, for in the Doneraile churchyard a monument existed to the memory of David Fleury, son of James Fleury and Louise Le Marchand.
A certain T.C. Fleury, who graduated in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1760, may also have had some connection with the family.
Martha Fortin does not seem to have obtained her legacy, for both ladies must have died in the same year. On March 4th 1786, probate of Martha Fortin's will is granted to Elizabeth, widow of Josias Franquefort, her executrix, and in October administration of Anne Fortin's to the Rev.George Fleury and the Rev. Richard Ryland.
Other tombstones beside that of de Bostaquet must have suffered with time. " What strikes one as strange" says a writer on the Portarlington graveyard, in the " Journal of the Association for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead" is that the earliest slab in only dated 1737, and what is stranger still is that only one inscription is in French and that in the Church as late as 1817. The inscription referred to commerates " Antoine Fleury, pasteur de la Paroisse de Coolbanagher pendent plus de 40 ans decede le 6 Avril 1801.
Aussi Richard Dowdall, Ecuier decede la huitieme juillet 1801.
Ministers of the Conformed Churches;
Amaury Fleury..1701-1730
Antoine Fleury..1730-1736.
(most of the " Conformed" and many of the Calvinist ministers were beneficed in the Church of Ireland)