Genealogy

[vostoklake]

While one part of my family tree were cattle drovers from Nottinghamshire, I was always told that the Lawlesses were actually scions of nobility from somewhere called "Cloncurry" in Ireland. And today I just found the first evidence of that:

CLONCURRY, a parish, partly in the barony of EAST OPHALY, but chiefly in that of IKEATHY and OUGHTERANY, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Kilcock; containing 2299 inhabitants.
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The manor became the property of the Aylmer family, whose ancient seat, the castle, was defended for the parliament, in 1643, by Col. Monk, who was at length obliged to abandon it for want of provisions. From the Aylmer family the estate was afterwards purchased by Sir Nicholas Lawless, subsequently created Baron Cloncurry. During the disturbances of 1798, a skirmish took place at the foot of Ovidstown Hill, in this parish, between the king's troops and a party of the insurgents who had effected their escape from the county of Wexford

Here's more on several-greats-granddad Nick.

Comments

[From: mermaid]

Huh, that's interesting. It's actually unusual for such family myths of past grandeur to be true! In my father's family, the myth was that the family owned a manor house called 'Palace Anne' near Cork. Turns out that a) the house has been ruined for a very long time, and b) my family were, at best, tenant farmers or just lived nearby.

P.S. OMGWTF Thierry Henry openly admits he handled the ball?! I hope that referee has gone into witness protection or something, because the Irish have long memories...

[From: vostoklake]

Can you imagine how nuts we'd have gone if a Bahraini had hand-passed a goal on Saturday night? The bugger wouldn't have left town with all his limbs intact.

Well, I won't be 100% confident until I see a genealogical link between the Barons Conclurry and my great-great-grandma Kathleen Lawless, and how her daughter Beryl ended up in an Calcutta orphanage with distinctly sub-continent looks...

[From: vostoklake]

Oh, it gets better - one of my apparent great-great-great-aunts was a noted 19th century novelist and is "thought to have had romantic affairs with women".

The biggest mystery would be that the noble Lawlesses of Cloncurry converted to the Anglican Church, so how my family ended up Catholic again would be interesting if the link is accurate.