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76 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 76. Gennys of Launceston* (IX., p. 63, par. 63. From Notes and Queries, 12 S. I., Mar. 4tli, 1916, par. 193). — Some of the Cornish family of Gennys, or Gennis, which was resident in the neighbourhood of Launceston from early in the fourteenth century, were tenants on the lands there of Pierce Edgcumbe, of Mount Edgcumbe. Pierce Edgcumbe had a daughter Margaret, who married Sir Edward Denny, Knight Banneret, grantee of Tralee Castle and the surrounding lands, and died in 1648. The Dennys "plated" on their Irish estate various tenants of "British race and blood," most of whom came from their own and their relatives' estates in England. Amongst these tenants we find, in 1677, John Gennis, of Tralee, who was probably one of the settlers brought over to take the place of those exterminated in the rebellion. It is highly probable that he was a Gennis from Launceston. The names John and William, most common in the Tralee family, are also most common, with the exception of Nicholas, in the Cornish family. See memoir and pedigree of Gennis, or Ginnis, of Tralee, by the present writer in J. King's History of Kerry, pt. iii., p. 261. H.L.L.D. Notes and Queries, No. 13, 12 S., Mar. 25, 1916, p. 249: — I am much interested in the reply of H.L.L.D. to the query of Miss Gertrude Thrift, as the family of Gennys played a prominent part for a long period in the civic life of Launceston. It appears from Messrs. R. and O. B- Peters' Histories of Launceston and Dunheved that a John Gennys was Mayor of the borough in 15S4, 1595, 1605, 1617, and 1632 ; and he signed, next to the then Mayor, on Sept. 27, 1620, the declaration of the Common Seal of Launceston on behalf of the Corporation {The Visitation of Cornwall in 1620, Harleian Society's edition, p. 281). Nicholas Gennys was Mayor in 1641, 1657, and 1666; and Richard Gennys in 1658; while a Nicholas Ginnys was Mayor of Plymouth in 1703 (R. N. Worth's History of Plymouth, p. 215). Nicholas Gennys, of Launceston, proves the most pro- minent figure of all these. He married Katherine daughter of • The enquiry concerning this family which appeared in our Inst issue was also published in Notes and Queries, and by the courtesy of the editor of that Journal we print the replies which he received. — Eus.