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 * The Grange**

Other sons were Aleth and Beric (both born in France)
 * Eugene F.L.L.de Lacroix || 35 || landowner || Christchurch London ||
 * John Groom || 67 || father-in-law retired collector of customs || Essex ||
 * Sarah Groom || 59 || mother-in- law || Middlesex ||
 * Eugene de Lacroix || 12 || son || Chediston ||
 * Helen A. de Lacroix || 10 || daughter || Harleston ||
 * William de Lacroix || 9 || son || Harleston ||
 * Rancliffe de Lacroix || 8 || son || Harleston ||
 * Fleetwood de Lacroix || 7 || son || Harleston ||
 * Clement de Lacroix || 5 || son || Chediston ||
 * Emilie Chantrel || 21 || cook || France ||
 * Florence Elmy || 16 || housemaid || Blyford ||
 * Anne Dunnett || 15 || housemaid || Cookley ||
 * Arthur Croft || 18 || groom || Halesworth ||

Helen de Lacroix (left) at the 'Stone of Ched' with Miss Margery Upcher (right), daughter of the Rector of Halesworth Vicar of Chediston; she was Helen's future sister-in-law. (1913) //photograph by courtesy of Mrs J. Aldous of Chediston Hall.//

Note about the de Lacroix and Parkyns families by Frank Leguen de Lacroix (Jan. 2008)

//"Chediston Hall belonged to George Parkyns (originally from Bunny in Nottinghamshire). His son died before him and the estate passed to his sister Marie Clare Parkyns who was the wife of my great great great grandfather François Leguen de Lacroix, the so called "last corsair of St Malo" in Britanny. Leguen de Lacroix and Parkyns had shared experiences trading in the far east after the Napoleonic wars in which they had fought on opposite sides. Parkyns' widow, who re-married and became Mrs Rant, had the use of the Hall, paying rent to remain there with her new husband until, when she died, my great grandfather Eugene Louis Leguen de Lacroix took possession. He married Helen Groom of Chediston Grange. The girl on the above photo is Helen, their daughter, who died in Ceylon. The eldest son was Eugene (my grandfather) who spent most of his life in S Africa and inherited the estate on the death of his father in 1936. Other sons were William (who died in California), Rancliffe, Fleetwood, Aleth, Clement and Beric. Clement, Aleth and Beric lived in and around Halesworth for most of their lives. My father Eugene Thomas Parkyns Leguen de Lacroix sold the estate and farms in the mid fifties but still lives in Suffolk. I remember visiting the Hall as a child but it was uninhabitable due to a fire which had destroyed much of the building".//