The Barton estate was centred on Waterfoot near Pettigo, county Donegal. This was a branch of the Barton family of Grove, Fethard, county Tipperary. They had also acquired lands in county Fermanagh.
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The spelling of this name varies in different records. Generally the name is spelt with an 'e' with reference to the Barons Athenry and Earl of Louth. The townland is Birmingham Demesne although the house is spelt 'Bermingham'.
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The 1st Countess was a well known amateur painter and the 3rd Earl is best remembered for his association with the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in the Crimea in 1854.
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A junior branch of the Binghams of Newbrook, county Mayo, Barons Clanmorris. Two brothers Henry of Annagh and Denis of Bingham's Castle were established in the barony by the early 19th century.
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Reverend Edwin Biron (1802-1877) of Lympne, Kent, had at least 2 sons Robert John (1830-1895) and Henry Brydges (1830-1915). In 1861 one of his daughters married Sir James Charles Mathew, one of the Judges of the High Court of Justice in England.
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In 1837 John Archer Blake assumed the additional surname of Daly in compliance with the will of his great uncle Hyacinth Daly of Raford. In 1899 his son Denis Daly married Kathleen Lynch of Petersburg, parish of Ross, and died 5 months later.
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George Blake, eldest son of Richard Blake of Garracloon, was executed for his involvement in the 1798 Rebellion. Kilfraughans graveyard is located in the townland of Dowagh and contains at least one grave of the Blake family.
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The Blakes of Towerhill, county Mayo, were descended from a younger son of the Blakes of Menlo, county Galway. The Blakes of Cloonee and Inver were descended from 2 sons of Isidore Blake of Towerhill and Oldhead named Thomas and Peter.
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Walter Kittagh Bourke, who was descended from the Bourkes of Rathroe Castle, Enniscoe and Carrowkeel, Co Mayo, was a Jacobite supporter residing at Carrowkeel at the end of the 17th century. The Bourke of Curraghleagh were a junior branch of this family.
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Sir Theobald Bourke was created Viscount Bourke of Mayo in 1627. His descendant Aylmer Bourke Lambert was a prominent English botanist of the early 19th century.
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The Bowen family were located in county Mayo from the late 16th century. In the latter part of the 18th century Christopher Bowen held property from a number of landlords in the Hollymount area, barony of Kilmaine and had 2 daughters, who married into the Elwood and Blake families. Christopher Bowen's nephew, another Christopher, married Eliza Miller of Milford, parish of Kilmainemore. Their second son Croasdaile Bowen took the additional surname of Miller and inherited the Milford estate. Croasdaile's brothers included the Reverend Christopher Bowen, Charles Bowen whose descendants went to New Zealand and Robert Bowen of Greaghans.
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http://www.artema.com.au/Boyd/crosspatrick/johnc1.htm gives a detailed family tree of the Boyds of Crosspatrick, near Killala and Mount Gordon, near Castlebar, Co Mayo.
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A junior branch of the Brownes of The Neale, county Mayo, established at Westport by Colonel John Browne (c 1636-1711) at the end of the 17th century. The Colonel’s wife was a great, great granddaughter of the famous pirate queen Grace O’Malley. Their grandson became the 1st Earl of Altamont in 1771 and his grandson was created Marquess of Sligo in 1800. The Brownes have been in continuous occupation at Westport House for more than 300 years.
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A pedigree, now located in the Archives of the James Hardiman Library, Galway, traces this family back to the fifth son of Dominick Browne of Barna, Mayor of Galway in 1575 and his wife a daughter of Sir Morragh O'Flaherty.
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James Valentine Browne, Professor of Surgery at Queen's College, Galway, 1849-1887, was uncovered as an imposter, pretended to be his dead cousin.
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This family were descended from Denis Browne, Member of Parliament and known after the 1798 Rebellion as 'Denis the Rope'. He was a younger brother of John Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo.
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A family established in county Mayo from the 16th century, from whom descend most of the landed families named Browne in the county. Many records relating to the family's origins are in the Westport Estate Papers. Created baronet of Nova Scotia in 1636 and Baron Kilmaine in 1789.
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A family who prospered through the purchase of railway shares. In 1852 William Barber Buddicom, grandfather of Venetia Digby Buddicom, bought the Penbedw estate in North Wales.
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The Burkes were established in Bekan by the mid 18th century when Francis Burke of Bekan married Mary Kirwan of Gardenfield, near Tuam, Co Galway. A descendant John Francis Burke was the Coroner for Co Mayo in 1844 and had a son Patrick M.D. Robert Burke in his book 'Annie's Letter' gives an account of tracing his ancestors, the Burkes of Bekan.
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The family were originally de Burgo but later became more generally known as Burke. However, in the nineteenth century they also used the surname de Burgh.
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Members of the Byrne family were buried in Cam cemetery and the surname appears in both the Catholic and Protestant registers of the parishes of Cam and Kiltoom.
John Campbell, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland 1841 and of England 1859, was created Baron Campbell in 1841 and died in 1861. He was involved in the drafting of the Encumbered Estates' Bill and was a director of the Law Life Assurance Society. His son William Frederick became the 2nd Lord Campbell and inherited the title Baron Stratheden from his mother.
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The Reverend Alexander Clendining was rector of Westport in the late 18th century. He had a number of sons including Thomas Valentine, George and Alexander. George Clendining and his son George, were agents for the Marquesses of Sligo's estates from circa 1798 until 1847 when George junior was dismissed. George Clendining junior was appointed receiver on the estates of Lord Oranmore and Browne in 1843. He was declared a bankrupt in 1851. Another family member Alexander Clendining was agent to Colonel FitzGerald at Turlough and the Moores of Moorehall. The Clendinings intermarried with the O'Donels of Newport and with the Lamberts of Brookhill, county Mayo.
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Two brothers of this Herefordshire family bought estates in the barony of Erris, county Mayo, in the mid 19th century. Their grandfather was a first cousin of Robert Clive of India, who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland in 1762 as Baron Clive of Plassey.
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The Collum family were associated with the Orme family as property owners in the Barony of Tireragh, County Sligo although their main property base was in County Fermanagh.
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Charles ffrench Blake Forster records that Edmond Concannon of Carrownacreggy (died 1770) had a son Henry who married Rachael Marshal of Ballygaddy, county Galway and died in 1810. Henry Concannon had 2 sons Edmond John and James Henry, who married Olivia daughter of Neptune Lynch of Woodpark, county Roscommon. Edmond John Concannon of Waterloo married in 1815 Jane Blake of Belmont and had 6 sons Henry, John, Edmond, James Blake, Arthur and George.
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John Crofton, an Elizabethan settler, was granted lands in the counties of Roscommon and Leitrim. He had 4 sons, Edward founder of the Mote Park family, John of the Lisadurn family, William of Temple House, county Sligo and Henry of Mohill, county Leitrim.
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Reverend John Cromie, rector of Ballinrobe and brother of Sir Michael Cromie baronet, married in 1795 Emily Juliana daughter of 1st Baron Kilmaine. They had a number of children including the Reverend William Cromie and Charles Cromie who was an agent for a number of landowners in the locality including his uncle Lord Kilmaine.
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A granddaughter of the first Sir James Cuff of Ballinrobe married into the Pakenham family, Earls of Longford. A later James Cuff was created Baron Tyrawley in 1797.
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A Leinster family who held a small estate in county Roscommon. Their residence in the 19th century was Abbeville, Malahide, which was the home of Charles J. Haughey in more recent times.
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Descended from James 'Riveagh' D'Arcy, the early generations intermarried with D'Arcys, Lynchs and Blakes. Following the Famine they sold their estates and the head of the family returned to Clifden as its rector and was a strong supporter of the Irish Church Mission Society.
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The Right Honourable William Wentworth Fitzwilliam Hume Dick was a son of William Hoare Hume of Humewood, county Wicklow and Charlotte daughter of Samuel Dick of Dublin. He was succeeded by his nephew Captain Quintin Hume Dick in 1892.
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A Scottish family from Angus, John Doig was a doctor in the British Army medical service. He served in India where a number of his children were born.
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Thomas F. Eastwood married Maria Louise Oude/Onge in Moyard Church in 1854. Thomas Eastwood, an officer in the Inland Revenue from Rochester, Kent, was buried at St Nicholas, Galway, on 1 January 1854 aged 45. It is not known if he was connected to the Addergoole family, see HIGGINS, Jim and HERINGKLEE, Susanne. ''Monuments of St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway''. Monument No. 140.
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A branch of the Elwood family settled at Kilkeeran Castle, in the parish of Kilmainebeg, barony of Kilmaine, count Mayo, in the mid 17th century. Thomas Elwood is variously described as of Kilkeeran, Loughmask and Cloonkerry in early 18th century documents. He leased lands held from the See of Tuam and from others. By the 19th century his descendants were settled at Strandhill in the parish of Cong and at Annefield House in the parish of Kilcommon. Another branch of this family had lands in county Roscommon and they retained Kilkeeran and the lands in the parish of Kilmainebeg.
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This family came, possibly from Maguire's Bridge in county Fermanagh, to settle in county Mayo in the mid 18th century. They were located mainly in the Hollymount, Claremorris and Kilmaine areas but also just across the county Galway border at Headford and Clonbur. They were closely connected with the Ruttledge family.
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Desmond Norton writes that John Ferrall was the son of Terrance Ferrall and that John had a brother Richard who was the father of Daniel Henry Ferrall. D.H. Ferrall's sisters were Catherine who married E.J. Irwin (parents of Edward and Daniel Irwin), Louisa married Edmond Taaffe of Woodfield, Rose married Pat Nolan (parents of John Nolan Ferrall) and Mrs Conmee.
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A family transplanted from county Kilkenny to county Mayo in the 17th century. George Robert FitzGerald known as 'Fighting FitzGerald' is their most well known member.
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Arthur French was created Baron de Freyne of Artagh in the English Peerage on 16 May 1839 and Baron de Freyne of Coolavin in the Irish Peerage on 5 April 1851.
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An old Sussex family tracing back to the 15th century. A number of family members were clerics. Their main residence was Brickwall House, Sussex.
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A family who were living in the vicinity of the village of Shruel on the border of counties Galway and Mayo at the end of the 17th century, see gravestone inscriptions inside the ruin of Headford church (Church of Ireland). The Fynns were maternal ancestors of Sir William Wilde, father of Oscar Wilde.
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Arthur Gamble of Washbrook, county Westmeath married in 1860 Alicia Frances Fetherstonhaugh of Carrick, county Westmeath, a granddaughter of Elizabeth Orme.
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In the late 17th and early 18th centuries three members of the Gonne family served as rectors of the parish of Crossboyne, barony of Clanmorris, county Mayo.
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Sir Richard Griffith compiler of 'Griffith's Valuation' was a son of Richard Griffith of Millicent, county Kildare. William Downes Griffith was his half brother.
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Benjamin Guinness of Dublin bought part of the Cong estate of the O'Donels of Newport, Co Mayo in the early 1850s and Ashford House and estate from Lord Oranmore and Browne in 1854. Sir Benjamin was created a baronet in 1867 and was father of Arthur Guinness who inherited the Ashford estate in 1868 and was created Baron Ardilaun in 1880.
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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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William Ireland from Chester settled in Ireland in the late 17th century, purchasing estates in counties Kildare and Laois and married Margaret de Courcey sister and heir of Almerius de Courcery, Lord Kingsale. Their grandson Richard Ireland settled in the vicinity of Headford, county Galway and married Catherine Lynch of Lydican. Their son the Reverend William Ireland, Warden of Galway, married Magdalen daughter of John Irwin of Lisbally, county Sligo and granddaughter of Henry Irwin of Roxborough, county Roscommon. They had 2 sons De Courcey Ireland and Richard Ireland. De Courcey Ireland and his wife Susanna Stanley, sister of Sir Edmund Stanley, whose grandfather acquired the estates of Low Park and Bethlem, Kilkenny West, county Westmeath, in the early 18th century, had 6 sons, including Arthur Ireland, bursar of Queen's College, Galway.
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A family descended from a Cromwellian soldier who bought and was granted extensive estates in the barony of Tirawley, Co Mayo. Branches of the family lived at Enniscoe, Carrowmore and Fortland in the barony.
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The Jennings were descended from the Norman family of de Burgo or Bourke. They were the McSeonins or sons of John, anglicised to Jonine and later to Jennings. The Jennings family held extensive lands in the barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo, before the land upheavels of the 17th century when they were deprived of most of their estates. Michael Newton from Ontario, Canada, did a large amount of research on the Jennings family in the 1980s, copies are in the library of the Irish Genealogical Society, London. The Mount Jenings and Fountainhill branches of the family spelt their name without a double 'n'. Theobald Jenings of Fountainhill and George Jenings of Castletown, uncle of George Jenings of Mount Jenings appear to have been brothers.
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The MacJordans, chiefs of the barony of Gallen, were established at Ballylahan Castle in the 17th century. They lost the majority of their lands under the Cromwellian confiscation but were allowed to retain the Rosslevin estate in the parish of Bohola. They dropped the prefix 'Mac' towards the end of the 17th century.
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A family associated with Cashel, county Tipperary. Their property there was eventually inherited by the Fitzgerald family who took the additional name of Judkin.
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A well known family who lived in the town of Ballinrobe, county Mayo from the 18th to the 20th century. One family member is the musician Courtney Kenny and this family is also connected to the composer Percy French.
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The Kings were one of the most influential landed families in the West of Ireland. The family also held extensive lands in other parts of the country notably around Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, held as the Earls of Kingston.
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A family who settled in the west of Ireland in the early 17th century and were established at Castleton and Moyne Abbey, county Mayo by the early 18th century. From the mid 19th century they had residences at Yeo Vale, Bideford, North Devon and at Glencarha, county Mayo. Other branches of the family were living on Bartragh Island and in the town of Killala.
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A Scottish family who settled in county Donegal in the early 18th century. The historian Hubert T.Knox, author of ''The History of Mayo to the close of the 16th century'', London, 1908, and other works, was a member of this family.
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The Knoxes of Moyne Abbey and Knoxes of Castlereagh were the 2 main lines descended from William Knox of Lifford, Co Donegal. Lawrence Edward Knox, grandson of John Knox of Castlereagh (1783-1861), founded the 'Irish Times' in 1859. His father had moved to Sussex when the Castlereagh estate was sold in 1853 but some of his uncles remained in Co Mayo. The Knoxes of Mount Falcon are a junior branch of this family.
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The Knoxes of Moyne Abbey and the Knoxes of Castlereagh were the two main lines descended from William Knox of Lifford, county Donegal. The Blake Knoxes, Knox Gores, Saunders Knox Gores, Pery Knox Gores and the Knoxes of Rappa, Bushfield, Netley Park, Greenwoodpark, Palmerstown and Errew Grange are all descended from the Knoxes of Moyne Abbey.
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The Lamberts of counties Galway and Mayo all appear to descend from a John Lambert of Yorkshire who settled at Creg Clare, which he leased from the Earl of Clanricarde, in the late 1660s.
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A Scottish family resident in counties Leitrim and Roscommon by the early 18th century. The family tree in the National Library of Ireland shows Frederick Lawder of Mough and Christopher Lawder of Drumsna as brothers.
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The various brances of the Levinge family are all related. The Levinges baronets lived at High Park, county Westmeath. A junior branch of the family of lived at Levington Park, county Westmeath. Their English residence was Parwick Hall, Derby.
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Samuel Lindsey of Garrankeel, parish of Kilmoremoy, barony of Tirawley, county Mayo, married Jane daughter of Thomas Bell of Streamstown, county Mayo and his wife Elizabeth Crofton of Mohill. Samuel Lindsey died in 1715 and left 2 sons, Thomas Lindsey of Turin, parish of Kilmainemore and Robert Lindsey of Belleek, parish of Kilmoremoy. From the Turin Lindseys descend the Lindsey-Bucknalls and the Lindseys of Castlebar, Hollymount and Wilfort. Robert Lindsey of Belleek had a son Samuel Lindsey of Ballina, who married Letitia Elwood of Cloonkerry, Co Mayo in February 1769, see Acc. 1158/2/6 National Archives.
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The Lindseys of Wilfort, near Tuam, Co Galway were a junior branch of the Lindseys of Turin and Hollymount, barony of Kilmaine, Co Mayo, with descent from Robert Lindsey, a younger brother of Thomas Lindsey of Turin. Robert's grandson William Lindsey of Wilfort, married Francis M Chaloner of King's Fort, Co Meath.
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A family who lived at Cuslough, near Ballinrobe, county Mayo, in the mid 19th century. A Richard Livesay was a lawyer and agent to the 1st Marquess of Sligo.
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Captain Patrick Logan is sometimes considered to be the founder of Queensland, Australia and some places there still bear his name. In 1823 he married Letitia Anne O'Beirne in St John's Church, Sligo. They had 2 children, a son Robert Abraham Logan who became a Lieutenant Colonel and a daughter Letitia Bingham Logan.
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Andrew Henry Lynch compiled statistics on the population of Ireland in the second decade of the 19th century. He was a lawyer and Member of Parliament for county Galway 1832-1841.
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Descended from the Malones of Baronston, county Westmeath, members of this family were prominent in the legal circles of 18th century Ireland. The Honourable Anthony Malone M.P. was Prime Serjeant and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1757-1760 and uncle of Baron Sunderlin.
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Martin J. Blake writes that the Martyns of Curraghmore were descended from Geoffrey Martin, Mayor of Galway in 1631, whose eldest son John was transplanted from Galway to 500 acres in the barony of Ballynahinch, county Galway by the Cromwellian Commissioners. G.V.Martyn, a member of this family, wrote a number of articles in the ''Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'' in the early years of the 20th century.
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A family from county Donegal who served as members of Parliament and in the legal profession. In 1793 Catherine McCausland married William Plunket 1st Baron Plunket. Her nephew Sir Richard Bolton McCausland inherited the Drimbawn, county Mayo property of his first cousin Catherine Plunket.
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Martin McDonnell and Farrell McDonnell may have been related. They both acquired estates in counties Galway and Roscommon in the latter part of the 19th century.
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George McNamara was a son of Florence McNamara of Dromyn, county Clare. He was reputed to be a highwayman and became a popular figure in local folklore.
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John Moore elected President of the Republic of Connaught in 1798, George Henry Moore supporter of tenant right and the author, George Augustus Moore, were all members of the family of Moore of Moorehall.
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The O'Naghtens were one of the tribes of Hy-Many and their territory was in the parish of Drum, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. A branch of the family managed to retain some of their former estates after the Acts of Settlement and conformed to the Protestant religion in the 18th century and became known as Naghten.
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Rev Edward Nangle of the Achill Mission settlement at Doogort, Achill Island. At the time of Griffith's Valuation he was occupying the glebe at Skreen, barony of Tireragh.
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Elizabethean settlers in Ireland who obtained an estate in county Longford in the early 17th century. Much of their estate was purchased from the Talbots.
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In the mid 17th century the Nolans owned a large estate in county Mayo and resided at the Ballinrobe Castle. They lost much of their property to the Cuffs at the time of the Cromwellian confiscation and were transplanted to Ballinderry, near Tuam, county Galway, although they still retained some land in county Mayo. John Nolan of Ballinderry had 2 sons Patrick and Andrew from who descend the Nolans of Ballinderry and Ballybanagher respectively.
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One branch of the family who served in the army of the Austrian Empire lived at Newcastle, near Swineford, Co Mayo at the end of the 18th century.
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Sir Charles O'Hara, created Baron Tyrawley in 1706, and his son James 2nd Baron both had distinguished military careers in the wars on the continent of Europe in the 18th century. The title became extinct with the death of the 2nd Baron in 1774.
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The Kilboyne, Spencer Park and Newcastle branches of the O'Malley family were descended from Owen O'Malley of Burrishoole (1650-1738)and his wife Martha Browne of the Neale.
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The descendants of the Reverend John O'Rorke, a Protestant clergyman, who acquired land in the Tuam area of county Galway. Lady Molly Cusack Smith,the first lady Master of the Galway Blazers,was a member of this family.
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James O'Sullivan married Mary Moore one of the co heiresses of the Moore estate in the parish of Drum, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon, in the mid 18th century. They had one son John, who had 3 sons James, Patrick and John. Patrick married Jane De Burgh in 1802 and his younger brother John married Dorothea Delaney.
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The Ormes settled in the parish of Crossmolina early in the 18th century. A younger son of this branch of the Orme family married into the Knoxes of Rappa and lived at Glenmore, Crossmolina. His sisters married Samuel Handy and Godfrey Fetherstonhaugh.
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Elizabethan settlers located at first in county Sligo, from where they spread into counties Mayo, Roscommon and Galway. The Ballinamore branch were descended from the Ormsby of Comyn or Cummin in county Sligo.
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Hamilton Peyton, a younger son of John Peyton of Laheen, county Leitrim, married Susannah daugher of William Chambers of Kilboyne, county Mayo, and widow of Edmond Fynn of Ballymagibbon. They had a son John Hamilton Peyton and a grandson Bernard Peyton of Castlebar.
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The Phibbs family were important landowners in County Sligo and in the adjoining counties of Roscommon and Leitrim from the 18th century onwards
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The Pike family settled in county Cork in the 17th century. William Pike was a barrister and third son of Jonathon Pike of Beechgrove, county Tyrone.
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The Potts family resided at Correen Castle from the early 19th century. They were descended from a David Potts and Jan Trumperant. See http://www.geocities.com/u_furley/potts.html
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In 1834 a member of the Pratt family of Cabra Castle, Co Cavan, married the Jackson heiress of Enniscoe in the parish of Crossmolina, Co Mayo.
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Alexander George Richey (1830-1883) was a prominent historian, author and lawyer. He wrote a number of books on the history of Ireland and on the Irish land laws.
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Dr Watkin William Roberts was married in 1843 to Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth Ormsby of Lackafinna and Strandhill, parish of Cong, county Mayo.
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Originally the family surname was Southwell. Sophia Coussmaker Baroness de Clifford was married to John Russell a nephew of the 5th and 6th Dukes of Bedford.
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A Richard Rutledge held land in counties Roscommon and Mayo early in the 17th century and it is probable that he was the ancestor of the Ruttledges in county Mayo. The Westport Estate Papers document a Peter Ruttledge in the parish of Shruel on the Galway/Mayo border in the 1660s. At the beginning of the 18th century the Ruttledge family were located in the area around Headford, county Galway, where three children of Andrew and Olivia Rutledge were buried between 1698-1705, their gravestones are among those that pave the aisle of the old Protestant church. Three sons of Andrew and Olivia Ruttledge settled in county Mayo in the early 18th century. They were Peter Ruttledge of Cornfield, James of Tawnaghmore and Andrew of Foxford. Their eldest son Thomas of Headford, had a son William a soap boiler in Hollymount who founded the Ballyhowly and Carravilla branches of the family.
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John Ryder, Archbishop of Tuam 1752-1775, had a son the Reverend Charles Dudley Ryder, Provost of Tuam, who married Elizabeth Catherine Charnel, heiress to Snareston Hall, Leicestershire. Their daughter Katherine married Samuel Madden of Hilton Park, Clones, county Monaghan.
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James R Hope was the third son of General the Honourable Sir Alexander Hope, grandson of the 2nd Earl of Hopetown. He married Charlotte Scott, granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott and assumed the name of Scott.
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Sir James Shaen, Surveyor General of Ireland, left his estates to his son Sir Arthur Shaen, who had 2 daughters and heiresses. One daughter, Frances, married Sir John Bingham of Newbrook, county Mayo in 1738 and the other daughter, Susannah, married Henry Boyle Carter of Castle Martin, county Kildare in 1750.
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Skerretts were established in the barony of Clare from the 17th century. Three sons of Dominick Skerrett, Mayor of Galway in 1642 founded the Skerrett families of Carnacrow, Dangan and Ballinduff. Family members later settled at Drumgriffin and Ardskeabeg. Mark Skerrett, a family member, was Archbishop of Tuam (1740-1784).
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Burke's ''Landed Gentry of Ireland'' (1904) suggests that the Smyths of Portlick were a branch of the Smyths of Gaybrook, near Mullingar, county Westmeath.
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The St Georges of Headford Castle and of Tyrone both trace their ancestry back through the female line to the St Georges of Hatley St George, Cambridgeshire and share a common ancestry with the St Georges of Carrickdrumrusk, county Leitrim, Barons St George of Hatley St George.
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The St Georges of Headford Castle and of Tyrone both trace their ancestry back through the female line to the St Georges of Hatley St George, Cambridgeshire and share a common ancestry with the St Georges of Carrickdrumrusk, county Leitrim, Barons St George of Hatley St George.
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In 1856 Walter Trevor Stannus of Lisburn, county Antrim, married the Honourable Catherine Geraldine Fitzgerald Vesey 4th daugher of Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey and in 1857 his brother the Reverend Beauchamp Walter Stannus married the Honourable Mabella Geraldine Fitzgerald Vesey eldest daughter of Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey. The two Stannus brothers were younger sons of the Reverend James Stannus, Dean of Ross and rector of Lisburn.
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Joseph Stock, Bishop of Killala 1798-1810 (Church of Ireland), is well known for the account he wrote of the French landing in Killala Bay in 1798. His eldest son Reverend Edwin Stock was later rector of Crossmolina, county Mayo. St George Stock son of Edwin married a daughter of William Atkinson of Rahans, county Mayo.
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William Armstrong and his wife took the additional surnames of Lushington and Tulloch on inheriting money from Kathleen Armstrong's aunt Mrs Tulloch.
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Lady Waller was Rebecca, youngest daughter of Arthur Guinness of Dublin and sister of Benjamin Lee Guinness of Ashford Castle, parish of Cong, Co Mayo.
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Alexander Wadham Wyndham a Captain in the Scots Greys was the son of William Wyndham and Laetitia Popham. He married Emma Trevelyan in London in 1830 and lived at West Lodge, Dorset.
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A family living in the Boyle area of county Roscommon at the end of the 17th century. The name appears to have died out early in the 18th century due to lack of male heirs. Henry Yeadon was Archdeacon of Achonry in the late 17th century. The family intermarried with the Lloyds of Rockville, the Kelly of Kellybrook and the Phibbs of Rathmullen.
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In 1791 a daughter of Chief Baron Yelveston married the 1st Lord Clanmorris. The title Viscount Avonmore was conferred on the head of the family in 1800.
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