Descended from a fifth son of William Handcock of county Westmeath who was granted estates in Connacht under the Acts of Restoration and was ancestor of the Lords Castlemaine.
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Reverend William Handcock married Sarah Coddington in 1821 and they had two sons, William Bryanton Handcock (1822-1874) and Robert Ball Handcock (1823-1894). see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coddingtons/15887.htm
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The Handys of Brackagh Castle and Coolalough, parish of Ardnurcher, Moycashel, Co Westmeath, intermarried with the Ormes of Co mayo and with the Flemings of Co Sligo. They were strong supporters of the Methodist movement in the mid 18th century.
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A family connected with Westport from the late 17th century, represented in the early 19th century by Captain FitzGerald Higgins who married Mary Ouseley. They had at least 2 sons. In London in July 1842 the eldest son, Charles FitzGerald Higgins, eloped with an heiress Amelia Jodrell. Another son George Gore Ouseley Higgins represented county Mayo in Parliament, where he was an advocate of tenant right and religious liberty.
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Matilda Charlotte Houstoun, wife of Captain William Houstoun, was author of ''Twenty years in the Wild West: or life in Connaught'', published in 1879. There is a memorial to the Captain in Aasleagh Church, Leenane,county Galway.
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The Hunts were a Warwickshire family who came to Ireland as Cromwellian soldiers. By the early 18th century they had estates in counties Dublin and Meath and in county Roscommon by the mid 18th century. John Hunt of Dublin (1752-1844) had 7 sons, including the Reverend John Hunt who owned land in county Roscommon, Edmund L. Hunt who held land in county Galway and James Hunt who founded the Hunt family of Danesfort, county Cork.
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Early in the 18th century Thomas Hussey from county Kildare moved to county Roscommon following his marriage to one of the heiresses of John Moore.
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