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Peacocke (Fort Etna)
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George Peacocke was granted over 1,500 acres in the barony of Pubblebrien, county Limerick in 1666. Septimus Peacocke was the fifth son of James Peacocke of Graige and Fort Etna, county Limerick. In 1720 James leased Fort Etna to his stepson, Thomas Goodricke, who left his interest in Fort Etna to Septimus by his will dated 1741. Members of the Peacocke family, including Sir Francis Peacocke of Barntic, county Clare, owned townlands in the parishes of Crecora, Killanahan and Mungret, barony of Pubblebrien, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Villiers Peacocke of Dooneen was descended from Edmund Peacocke who married Alice Ponsonby of Crotta in 1718. Edmund was connected to the Peacockes of Fort Etna. In 1803 Villiers Peacocke married Ellen, daughter of John Purcell of High Fort, county Cork, and had a number of children. In 1835 Thomas Goodricke Peacock married Sarah Leslie and they had three sons, Goodricke Thomas of Fort William, Peter Leslie of Fort Etna and Charles Henry of Belmont, county Wexford. G.F[T?]. Peacock of Dublin owned 647 acres and Thomas G. Peacock of Paris owned 33 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s.
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