novans

Updated: August 9, 2026

Don't you know he is related to the Donovans?" "Impossible!" "Fact, my dear, I assure you, according to Mrs. Donovan, who told me that the De Novans and the Desboroughs were cognate Norman families, who settled in Ireland together, and have since frequently inter-married." "I suppose," said Mrs. Buckley, laughing, "that Desborough did not deny it."

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn