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Date Posted: 10:45:55 04/04/05 Mon In reply to: Sean 's message, "O'Connor: Kilcaskan Branch" on 05:12:06 03/02/03 Sun INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS INTERNET SEARCHES SHEDDING FURTHER LIGHT ON CONNER/O'CONNOR Naming, Origins, etc. ********************* http://www.gumbleton.com/ steve.m.west@btinternet.com CONNER Cornelius Conner Esq was the 1st of the family who settled in co. Cork. His name and that of his son Daniel appear in the Jacobite Corporation of Bandon in 1689. His will bears date 1 Sep 1719. His son Daniel Conner of Bandon, Merchant, purchased estates principally situate in co. Cork. He m. and had issue, 1. Daniel of Bandon, merchant d. 1737 2. William Esq of Connerville co. Cork MP for Bandon 1765 m. Oct 1721 Anne dau of Roger Bernard Esq of Palace Anne co. Cork and had two sons Roger & William 3. George of Ballybricken who left a dau. Mary Anne m. 1778 John Lysaght, 2nd Lord Lisle; and a son Daniel m. Mary dau. of Kingsmill Pennefather Esq MP and was father of Daniel Conner Esq, JP, of Ballybricken, co. Cork. 4. Henry (Rev.) and 4 other daughters. 1. Jane m. Mr. Lapp of Cork, merchant 2. Mary m. Mr. Thomas of Everton co Carlow 3. Hannah m. Mr. Delahoyde 4. Elizabeth m. 1743 Richard Gumbleton Esq of Castle Richard (Ballygarron) GUMBLETON of co. Cork This family is supposed to have been originally from Kent, but the period of its settlement in Ireland is unknown. Ballygarron Castle & Manor beautifully situated on the river Blackwater, near Lismore co. Waterford, were purchased about 150 years ago by Richard Gumbleton esq. who left them to his son Richard Gumbleton esq, high sheriff of co. Waterford in 1732 who was father of Richard Gumbleton who m. Miss Conner of Connerville co. Cork. GUMBLETON of Castleview (Burkes 1847) Gumbleton, Richard, Esq. of Castleview, co. Cork; m in 1823, Annie, dau of ___ Fowke, esq. of Tewkesbury, county Gloucester, and had issue, - Robert-Richard, d. in 1845 - MAXWELL, R.N., b. in 1834 - Margaret - Mr. Gumbleton s. his father in 1834 Lineage: The Gumbletons of Ireland are a branch of the Kentish family Gomeldon of Somerfield, the direct line of which failed in an heiress Meliora Gomeldon who m. 1st Thomas Poole esq of Cheshire and 2ndly Thomas Stanley esq of Lancashire, attainted in 1715. The name was written variously Gumbleton or Gomeldon by both the English and Irish houses. An ancestor of the latter, William Gomeldon esq, is mentioned in a bill filed in the Irish court of Chancery against Randal, Marquess of Antrim bearing date 7 Apr 1675. The immediate progenitor of the existing family, Richard Gumbleton esq son & heir of Richard Gumbleton, Esq. of Ballygarron Co. Waterford served as High-Sheriff of the county of Waterford in 1732. By his wife a dau. of ___ Drew of Bishopstown he left a dau. Anne m. to Robert Daunt esq and a son & successor, Richard Gumbleton, Esq., of Ballygarron, otherwise Castle Richard, who m. Elizabeth dau of Daniel Conner, Esq, of Bandon, and sister of William Conner, Esq, of Connerville, co. Cork, and had issue, Richard of Castle Richard, who m. the dau of Hamilton O'Hara, Esq and left issue: Richard Edward of Castle Richard (called by him “Glencairn Abbey”) who dsp. in 1819 having devised his seat beautifully situated on the Blackwater to his Brother-in-law Mr. Bushe. Lavinia m. Henry-Amyes Bushe, Esq Rebecca m. to Admiral Sir Tristram Ricketts, KCB William of Fort William dunm. Robert Warren of whom presently George of Marston dsp Henry of Curriglass House, capt. 13th dragoons, m in 1792, Sarah, dau of the second lord Massy, and had issue (with several daus. of whom Sarah m. the Rev. G. Gumbleton; and Catherine, m. Dr. Nelligan, of Dublin) two sons, viz., Richard of Marston m. Miss Moore and has 1 dau. William of Curriglass m. Miss Purcell and had issue. Jane m. in 1775 to William Daunt, Esq. of Kilcascan Mary m. to Richard Peard, Esq of Coole Anne m.to John Rashleigh, Esq, of Ballinadee Eliza m. to R. Walton, Esq of Waltoncourt Sarah m. to M. Cranmer, Esq of Rathmore Catherine dunm. The third son, Robert-Warren Gumbleton, Esq., of Castleview, m. Margaret, dau. of John Bowen, Esq, of Oakgrove, and had issue, Richard, now of Castleview. John-Bowen, of Fort William. high-sheriff, in 1845, of the co. of waterford, barrister-at-law, b. in June, 1795, m. 6 Jan 1830 Ann, eldest dau. and coheir of Henry Everard, Esq, of Spalding co. Lincoln, and has issue, Robert, b. 2 Apr 1833 John-Henry, b. 9 Mar 1841 Henry-Everard, d. young Richard, d. in infancy Margaret Ann Meliora (m.1859 in Bengal, India, Henry Octavius Currie, and had issue) Frances Mary, d. in infancy George in Holy orders, of Belgrove, m. 1st his cousin Sarah, dau. of Capt. Henry Gumbleton; and 2ndly Miss Penrose of Woodhill: by the latter of whom he has two sons, William-Edward and George Margaret, m. to Capt. Richard-Gumbleton Daunt Eliza, m. to Benjamin Hutchins, Esq Jane, second wife of Joseph Daunt, Esq of Kilcascan Mary-Anne, wife of William Percy, Esq Lavinia, m. to Charles Colthurst, Esq of Clonmoyle Diana, m. to Richard Garde, Esq Arms: Or, on a fesse, wavy, gu., three mullets, of the field, on a canton, az., a fleur-de-lis, gold Crest: A demi-griffin, with wings endorsed, arg., beaked and legged, gu., holding a mullet, or. Motto: Momento Mori Seats: Castle View, near Tallow, of Richard Gumbleton, Esq.; Fort William, near Lismore, of JB Gumbleton, Esq.; Belgrove, near Cove, of the Rev. G Gumbleton; Marston, near Tallow, of Richard-Henry Gumbleton, Esq.; and Curriglass House, near Tallow, of Mrs. Gumbleton, widow of William Gumbleton, Esq. ***************** http://www.irishargentine.org/mcginnperu1.htm St. Patrick's Day in Peru, 1824 By Brian McGinn NOTES: The O'Connors were descended from an English family of Protestant merchants named Conner that settled in Cork during the seventeenth century. Francis' father Roger, who along with his better-known brother Arthur became United Irishmen, Gaelicized the surname to O'Connor, while the rest retained the original Conner. See Laurence M. Geary, 'Fraternally Yours: Roderic and Francis Burdett O'Conner' in Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Vol. XCV., N° 254 (January-December 1990), p. 120. Francisco Burdett started out as William, while his brother Feargus Edward was originally named Edward Bowen; both forenames were changed by their father in early life, the former in honor of Roger's friend and patron Sir Francis Burdett, a Baronet and radical member of the English Parliament. See Richard Robert Madden, 'The United Irishmen: Their Lives and Times' (New York: Tandy Publishing Company, 1911), p. 160; Eric Lambert, 'General Francis Burdett O'Connor' in The Irish Sword, Vol. XIII, N° 51 (Winter 1977), p. 128. This imaginative rewriting of family history led later generations of the faux-Irish family to claim descent from Rory O'Connor, last of the Irish High Kings; Mulhall reports that Francisco Burdett adopted the coat of arms of the Royal O'Connors as his own. See Michael G. Mulhall, 'The English in South America' (Buenos Aires: Standard Printing Office, 1878), pp. 263-64. The consequences of such genealogical delusions can be seen in the words of Tomas O'Connor d'Arlach, who arranged for the publication of the memoirs of Francisco Burdett: 'My grandfather was the last representative of that ancient royal house of Ireland that has nurtured in its bosom so many distinguished men who have brought imperishable glory to the fatherland, some in the halls of Parliament, others in the forum, in letters, in diplomacy, and on the field of battle, and still others in sacrificing their lives as martyrs for the Catholic faith and to their religious belief, which the family has preserved intact through the centuries'; see Enrique Naranjo M(artinez), 'Irish Participation in Bolívar's Campaigns' (Washington, D.C., 1927; rpt. from the Bulletin of the Pan American Union, October, 1925), p. 5. The claim to martyrdom is especially ironic in light of the fact that Roger and his son Arthur were lifelong atheists; Francis Burdett apparently shared their beliefs while in Ireland, but became a devout Catholic in South America and died with the Last Rites. James Dunkerley provides a theoretical explanation of the motives for this claim (royal descent) in the sons' attitude to the contrast between their father Roger, 'a sportsman and spectacular spendthrift' and their uncle Arthur, a 'renegade MP, hardline leader of the United Irishmen and convicted traitor to the British crown, who was idolized by his nephews as a persecuted and heroic patriot. The imbalance between their father and uncle in terms of public profile and achievement possibly helps to explain why both Frank and Feargus maintained throughout their lives that the family descended from the kings of Connaught, thereby providing some dynastic compensation -perhaps even excuse- for the fact that Roger was, in the words of Graham Wallas, 'a semi-lunatic'; see James Dunkerley, 'The Third Man: Francisco Burdett O'Connor and the Emancipation of the Americas' (University of London: Institute of Latin American Studies, Occasional Papers N° 20; 1999) pp. 2-3. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |