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Roe (Roesborough)
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Andrew Roe settled in county Tipperary in the early 18th century and purchased Roesborough from the Duke of Ormond. He had three sons who founded the Roe families of Roesborough, Grantstown and Rockwell. James Roe was the progenitor of the Roesborough branch and his descendant also named James married in the early 19th century Catherine daughter of Richard Chadwick of Perryville, county Tipperary. James was Member of Parliament for Cashel 1833-1834. Their son George Charles Lionel Roe held an estate in the parish of Tipperary in the mid 19th century. Part of the Roesborough estate was advertised for sale in May 1872 and George Charles Lionel Roe's life estate in the lands of Baronstown, Ballinvee and part of Roesborough, 609 acres in the barony of Clanwilliam, was also offered for sale in April 1873. In the 1870s George Roe of Heidelberg, Baden, owned 630 acres in county Tipperary. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~roehickey/roe.htm
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