Alcock (Counties Waterford & Wexford)

The Alcock families in counties Waterford and Wexford descend from John Alcock, of Downpatrick, county Down. His son William Alcock purchased Wilton Castle, county Wexford, around 1695 while his son Alexander served as Dean of Lismore and was married to Jane Mason of Waterford. The principal seat was at Wilton Castle, in county Wexford, where Colonel Harry Alcock owned over 7000 acres in the 1870s.

Associated Families

Alcock (Counties Waterford & Wexford)

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballytruckle (Waterford)	Ballytruckle	St. John's Without	Waterford	Waterford Rural 78	Gaultiere	Waterford	OSI Ref: S605110 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 76
Killea House	Killea	Killea	Waterford	Killea 91	Gaultiere	Waterford	OSI Ref: S680018 OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 76

Archival sources

Pedigree of Alcock of Spring House, near Wexford, and of Waterford c.1730 - 1809 Genealogical Office: Ms.168, p.63 ; National Library of Ireland
Deeds and documents relating to property at Sion Hill, Ferrybank, city of Waterford associated with the Revd Alexander Alcock and his family, 1811-1875, 19 items. Ms 911; Representative Church Body Library

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Gaultiere: 24 (Killea), 48 (Ballytruckle)
BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : 6

Modern printed sources

MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 5-6
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: AINSWORTH. J.F.National Library Report on Private Collections, No. 155: Report on the Keane Papers (from 1733), the property of Sir J. Keane, Cappoquin House, Co. Waterford, relating to the Keane and Alcock families and to lands in Co. Waterford.
WALFORD, Edward. 'The County families of the United Kingdom''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1885): 19 (Alcock. Wilton Castle)