René de la Doueste LETABLERE

  General Notes:

Letablere - notes: [Le Tablere: Letablere, or De L'Establere, an ancient
family in France, several members of which settled in England and Ireland.
Of these Rene de la Donespe, lord of the manor of Lestablere, in Lower
Poitou, left france, in 1685, at the age of 22 and arrived in Holland the
same year, when he entered the military service of the Prince of Orange. He
was an officer in Du Cambon's Foot at the Battle the Boyne, and afterward in
Lifford's Horse. Having settled in Dublin, he died there in 1729, at the age
of 66.

Littons of Manilla: Rene de la Douespe Letablere was the lord of the manor of Lestablere, which used to stand " in the parishes of Saint-Germain and Mouchamps, near Fontenai, in Lower Poitou". A Hugeunot (Calvinist Protestant), he fled France in 1685 as a 22 year-old, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes which triggered wide-spread persecution by the dominantly Catholic population. He arrived in Holland from Caen in the same year and entered the military service of the Prince of Orange. He was an officer in Du Cambon's Foot at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and later, in Liffor's House. He settled in Dublin and shortened his name to Letablere. He had at least one son, Daniel Letablere (see Generation 6).

René married.