Updating The Mayburys
Michael A. Smithson
December 2023
In the introduction to the chapter on The Mayburys of County Kerry in ‘The Mayburys’, published in 2011, readers were cautioned that the story of the Mayburys in Kerry was constantly evolving as research continued into this fascinating branch of the family. Soon after, the opportunity arose to review original documents and new documents were uncovered. These challenged our understanding of the first four generations of the Kerry Mayburys. The findings were presented in an article posted in January 2012. Even more research has been conducted since and the original article is updated here.
William Maybury
A re-examination of the Petty Papers held in the British Library in 2011 clarified the chronology of seventeenth century Maybury immigration to Kerry.
It had already been noted in The Mayburys that the claim that William Mabury’s name was on an undated list entitled 'The Workmens names and qualifications brought to Glanerought most of them at Sir William's charge which were forced to leave their worke…’ made by the 6th Marquis of Lansdowne, in his book Glanerought and the Petty-Fitzmaurices in 1937 was mistaken.¹ Further searches of the Petty Papers revealed other references to the Mayburys. Unfortunately, they did not mention first names. Most appear to refer to one Maybury hammermen in particular. In 1671, John Petty, the brother of Sir William Petty, wrote to Sir William's agent in Kerry, John Rutter, asking him to remember 'my lawd' to 'Mr Maybury, Mr Pinnion & Mr [Juske?] and all the Iron Tribe'.² When members of the 'Iron Tribe' abandoned Petty's mismanaged ironworks, Sir William commented in a letter dated 17 December 1672 that Maybury was once again at Enniscorthy and the Wexford ironworks would profit as a result.³ He was echoed by Rutter who wrote, in a letter dated 28 December, that Maybury and the others had returned from whence they came, and pondered on the value of superior workmen.⁴ This information affirmed the observation made in The Mayburys that one of the Mayberrys on the list of departed ironworkers was a key worker, if not a leader, among the ironworkers. We are still left wondering if this man was Thomas Mayberry, foremost on the list, although taking into account 17th century attention to hierarchy, it does seem likely.
Other Petty Papers provided a likely date for the arrival in Glanarought by William Mabury. On 25 May 1686, Thomas Dance wrote to Richard Orpen requesting that Orpen forward the remainder of Mabury's bond.⁵ This bond was almost certainly connected to William Mabury's lease of Dromoughty in the parish of Tuosist, referred to as occurring before 1688 in William Maburys's affidavit of 1 January 1692/3.⁶ It is probably not mere coincidence that William Mabury appears in the Petty estate records in the midst of Richard Orpen's restoration of iron-working operations in the Kenmare area after Sir William Petty had wound up the Glanarought Ironworks in 1677.⁷ However, the case for William Mabury being an ironworker is still open. Whatever it was that drew William to Kerry, Dance's letter and Maburys's affidavit almost certainly places William Mabury in the Kenmare area in 1686. This meant that there was a fourteen-year interval between the departure of the first recorded Mayburys in Kerry in 1672 and the arrival of William Maybury in 1686. An examination of documents held at the Lansdowne residence at Bowood found no evidence of any resident Maybury in the Kenmare area during those fourteen years - Sir William Petty's rent roll of 1684 reveals no Maybury lessee on his estate.⁸
This raised the question: what was the connection, if any, between William Mabury and the three Mayberry hammermen in Glanarought in the 1670s? A good deal of discussion in The Mayburys was devoted to this question, as well as exploring the possible relationships of William Mabury to the family of John Maybury of Cleobury Mortimer (1577-1651). It has taken about a decade to find some information that casts light on that gap in our understanding and it came from DNA testing undertaken in the early 2020s. This proved that the Kerry Mayburys were not closely related to the family of John Maybury of Cleobury Mortimer (1577-1651). His descendants carry the SNP mutation R-FTA84209 while the Kerry Maybury descendants carry the SNP mutation R-FTA43422. DNA testing of Kenmare Maybury descendants suggests that all Kerry Mayburys descend from one man or a group of very closely related men. They are closely related to another line of R-FTA43422 Mayburys who were established in the American colony of Virginia (later Mabrys) around the same time as the Mayberry hammermen were working in Ireland. Both the Kerry and the Virginian Mayburys had a Francis Maybury working in the 1670s. This enabled a simple calculation that revealed the R-FTA43422 mutation very likely emerged two generations earlier with the birth of Clement Maybury in 1575, making him the common ancestor of the Kerry and the Virginian Mayburys. This focussed attention on Clement’s son, Thomas Maybury (baptised 10 July 1621 at Wednesbury in Staffordshire), most probably Thomas Mayberry, hammerman at Enniscorthy and Glanarought.⁹ This would suggest that William Mabury was either a nephew of Thomas Mayberry by an unknown brother or his son, who was too young to have worked as an ironworker in 1672 and so went unrecorded on the Glanarought workers’ list.
William Mabury's statement made in his affidavit addressed to Petty’s widow, Lady Shelburne in 1692/3 that he was 'brought at first out of England by Sir William Petty' does favour the idea that William was an R-FTA43422 nephew/cousin brought to Kerry quite separately from the Mayberry hammermen based in Enniscorthy. On the other hand, Mabury’s claim could be regarded as a sweeping statement that omits the Mayberrys’ time at Enniscorthy, or ignorance on a youthful Mabury’s part or even an attempt to embroider the facts.¹⁰ An appeal to Petty’s widow for the restitution of Mabury’s lease over Dromoughty would benefit from a reference to his Englishness and a personal connection to her deceased husband.
On balance, however, it is probable that the Mayberrys’ 1680s Glanarought venture would have been best served with the involvement of a more immediate relative and the simplest relationship is the more probable: William was Thomas’ son and the 17th century Mayburys in Wexford and Kerry: Thomas, Francis, John and William, represented a discrete family group. So, the conjecture in The Mayburys that William was a child related to the Mayberry hammermen of the 1670s seems close to the mark.
Also revealed among the documents held by the Trustees of the Bowood Collection was William Mabury’s lease over Dromoughty. Gerard Lyne could not recall its date and grouped it with several other ‘Grand Lease’ leases signed in 1697/98.¹¹ It had, in fact, been signed in 1712 and was most probably a renewal of a 21-year lease negotiated in 1691 in the midst of Richard Orpen’s struggle to regain the Glanarought agency. Examination of these leases in 2011 also answered a question that had arisen over the identity of the Maybury who had uncharacteristically signed a lease 'in a very shaky hand'.¹² The signatures on the original documents were closely examined and all were signed by the one William Mabury. The ‘very shaky hand’ was the result of William signing in a very cramped space.
The Orpens
When the Kerry Maybury chapter of The Mayburys was written, it was not possible to access a complete volume of Goddard Henry Orpen's book, The Orpen Family. The full text of Orpen’s work revealed some errors and some myths perpetuated in The Mayburys. Goddard Henry Orpen discounted much of the romantic early Orpen genealogy contained in John Burke’s, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Rachel and her brother, Richard's father, Robert, may have lived in Ireland, but the claim that he was related by marriage to influential Gaelic families is very tenuous.¹³ As for Rachel's supposed grandfather, Richard, if he was who he was claimed to be, he probably died of plague rather than on the battlefield of Naseby in 1645.¹⁴ Then there is the matter of Richard Orpen and the race to Kenmare in 1691 following the Williamite War that had seen the expulsion of Protestant planters from the Petty Estate. Richard, it seems, won the race to Kenmare and assumed that he would resume his position of agent in Kerry. His rival, Captain Topham, definitely a Protestant and not a Catholic, ran instead to influential ears and was appointed chief agent in Kerry.¹⁵ Thus was set the scene for the struggle between Topham and Orpen to gain the Kerry agency, in which William Mabury played his part to secure Richard Orpen's victory in 1694 and the return of his own land at Dromoughty.
Genealogy Of The Early Kenmare Mayburys
A good deal of discussion in The Mayburys centres on reconstructing the genealogy of the family at Kenmare in the late 17th and first half of the 18th centuries. The primary sources for this task were Burke’s Commoners, published in 1838; a Genealogy of the Family of Palmer published by Rev. A. Henry Herbert Palmer in 1874; and 'An Account of Richard Hawkes Maybury's Forefathers' written by seventeen-year-old Richard in 1865.¹⁶ Supplementing these were fragments: documents published in various academic articles and records uncovered by family historians. There was confusion over the identity of the Mayburys’ various Duckett wives and the ‘Francis Maybury, Gent., administrator of William Maybury, Gent., deceased’ who suddenly appeared in documents in 1773. Was this ‘William Maybury, Gent., deceased’ William Maybury of Cleady who signed an Attornment of Lease in 1763? Was the William Maybury of Cleady who was signing leases in 1773 actually his son and heir, William Maybury of Cleady III?
Research at Bowood House, England, conducted soon after the publication of The Mayburys in 2011 quickly confirmed certain deductions, corrected errors and uncovered further details. They also vindicated several details provided by Richard Hawkes Maybury in his 'An Account of Richard Hawkes Maybury's Forefathers'. Papers were located that documented a dispute in 1796-7 between Cornelius Hawkes, on one side, and Augustus Maybury's widow, Mary, and her son, William Bowen, an executor of Bastable Maybury's estate, on the other.¹⁷
The first revelation concerned the supposed death of William Maybury II in 1773 and his replacement by his son, William Maybury (III) of Cleady. This assumption proved groundless, not only from the evidence contained in the Hawkes' case papers, but also from an examination of original documents signed by Augustus and William Maybury and John Mayberry between 1763 and 1773. If William Maybury II had died by 1773, a new signature - that of William Maybury III of Cleady - should have appeared on the documents of that year. Instead, William's signature remained unchanged from 1763. In addition, a memorial submitted by Corless Hawkes in 1796 stated that Augustus Maybury had taken out the last lease over the townland of Gortnadullagh with his brother William Maybury. That last lease was taken in 1773. This evidence caused William Maybury II, supposed father of William Maybury III of Cleady, and an assumed generation of Cleady Mayburys to be deleted from the Kenmare Maybury family tree.
The second revelation concerned the marriage of Richard Maybery, father of John Mayberry. Richard Maybery did marry a Duckett, a sister of William Duckett, but she was not Petra Duckett, daughter of Samuel Duckett and sister of another William Duckett. Bastable Maybury, son of Augustus Maybury, married Petra Duckett, daughter of Samuel Duckett and Margaret Palmer, on c.20 January 1779.¹⁸ Later research found that Richard had married a Mary Duckett.
The Hawkes case papers also explained in some detail how Augustus Maybury came to hold the townland of Kilgortaree - he married Mary, the widow of Robert Bowen of Kilgortaree. In his discussion of the Hawkes case, Henry Pelham, Lord Lansdowne's agent, identified William Bowen, executor of Bastable Maybury's estate, as the son of Augustus Maybury's wife by a former husband.¹⁹ The Hawkes case papers name Augustus' wife as Mary (also known as Molly).²⁰ In Burke's Commoners, William Bowen is shown to be the son of Robert Bowen and Mary Bastable, although the assertion that he married Hannah, daughter of Augustus Maybury is questionable (as will be discussed below).²¹ The Bowens had held the townland of Kilgortaree at least since 1713 when it was in the possession of William Bowen.²² Around 1743, Robert Bowen, most probably a relative of William, had taken over as tenant at Kilgortaree.²³ By 1763, Robert had died and the Widow Bowen was in possession of Kilgortaree and its mill.²⁴ It is apparent that Augustus married the widow Mary (Bastable) Bowen because Kilgortaree was recorded as tenanted by a Maybury by 1766, almost certainly Augustus Maybury who held it until 1785.²⁵ The marriage also explains the name of Augustus Maybury's only son, Bastable.
The Hawkes case papers cast light on the events of 1785, a tragic year for the Kilgortaree Mayburys, when Augustus, then his son Bastable died within months of each other. Bastable's widow, Petra, remarried a year later, to Thomas Palmer in around 2 September 1786 (date of Marriage Articles).²⁶ The papers also confirm what had already been deduced, that Bastable and Petra's only child, Mary Maybury, inherited a good deal of the land inherited by Bastable from his father, Augustus, in 1785.
Returning to William Bowen, the son that Mary (Bastable) Bowen brought to her marriage with Augustus Maybury. It is now difficult to accept the claim made in Burke's Commoners that William married Hannah, daughter of Augustus Maybury.²⁷ If Hannah was the daughter of Mary (Bastable) Bowen and Augustus Maybury, a marriage to her half-brother William Bowen would be impossible. Even more doubt is cast on such a union by the Hawkes case papers that establish that Hannah Maybury was married to someone else. The papers mention two daughters of Augustus Maybury: Hannah and Peg (Margaret?), as well as their husbands: Myles Reardon of Cahir and William Gill of Whiddy, Bantry Bay.²⁸ Unfortunately, it is unclear who was married to whom.
Hannah and Peg (Margaret?) appear not to have been the only daughters of Augustus Maybury. The Hawkes case papers also identify a grandson of Augustus, Richard Aldwell. As Richard was a beneficiary of Augustus' estate, it is expected that he is evidence for a daughter (probably deceased) who had married an Aldwell.²⁹
As for Cornelius Hawkes' claims over the townland of Gortnadullagh, they were dismissed and Lord Lansdowne allowed Augustus' widow, Mary, to continue possession of this land. This was not the end of the matter. Chancery Bills indicate a case brought by Corless Hawkes and Catherine [sic] his wife against Robert Bowen, William Bowen, Mary Mayberry senr., Thomas Palmer and Celia his wife in 15 January 1801. The matter was not settled until June/July 1804. Nevertheless, research continued into Maybury holdings at Gortnadullagh. Augustus' brother, William Maybury of Cleady, had held his share of Gortnadullagh until his death in 1794 and, for a short time, it was solely in the hands of his son, James.
Research into the archives at Bowood in 2011 uncovered an interesting entry in the Lansdowne Estate rentals.³⁰ In 1796, there were changes at Gortnadullagh: a John Maybury occupied took part of the Maybury share of the townland with the balance in the hands of James Maybury, son of William Maybury of Cleady, and Mary, widow of Augustus Maybury of Kilgortaree. Then, in 1802, representatives of Mary Maybury, Augustus of Kilgortaree’s widow, took over the administration of her holdings at Gortnadullagh, suggesting that she had either died or became infirm. The research report posted on Don Collins’ website in 2012 noted that if researchers could identify this John Maybury and discover the fate of Mary Maybury's share of Gortnadullagh after 1803, several of the Kerry Maybury mysteries discussed in The Mayburys may yet be solved.
In the decade that followed, several pieces of evidence began to fit together:
An entry in Griffith’s valuation revealed that a John Maybury, probable eldest son of John of 1796, was holding part of Gortnadullagh in 1852;
Oral evidence linked a George Maybury who established a Maybury family at Gearhanagoul, south-east of Kenmare, to Gortnadullagh;
A Thomas Maybury was revealed as the son of John Maybury, farmer of Kenmare, along with the names of several other sons, including a John and a George - all details gleaned from letters detailing a rather confused family history written by Thomas’ son, William Maybury of Kansas;
The 1803 will of William Maybury of Cloghereen, a member of the family who held an interest in the Mayburys’ land at Gortnadullagh in 1773, mentioned a son John.
Tying all these fragments together was the continuing tradition in all these family lines of giving the surname Duckett to male children – an obvious celebration of the marriage of William’s son (and John of 1796’s suspected brother), George Maybury of Lakeview (d. 1846) to Isabella Duckett in 1804. This provided the basis for arguing that the Gortnadullagh and Gearhanagoul Mayburys were a branch of the Mayburys of Cloghereen and probable descendants of the 17th century hammerman, Francis Mayberry.
Who Married Rachel Orpen?
What had been accepted in The Mayburys in 2011 was that William Mabury had married Rachel Orpen, sister of Petty’s agent Richard Orpen. That conclusion had been reached by the Rev. A. Henry Herbert Palmer in his ‘Genealogy of the Family of Palmer, of Kenmare Co. Kerry, Ireland’, published in 1874, and the noted Irish historian, Goddard Henry Orpen, in his book, The Orpen Family, published in 1930.³¹ Orpen had, as one of his sources, a genealogy compiled by Emanuel Hutchinson Orpen (1782-1863) – it could not be located in 2011. These rejected the claim published in the ‘Alterations and Additions’ section prefacing Volume IV of Burke’s Commoners that John Mayberry had married Rachel Orpen, heading the Mayberry family at Kenmare. Nevertheless, The Mayburys cautioned that Palmer and the Orpens may have rejected John Mayberry due to the predominance of William’s name in Orpen documents. It would appear that this was exactly the case.
Initial results from DNA testing in 2021 and 2022 appeared to show that the Kenmare Mayberrys and Mayburys were not as closely related as previously assumed. Further testing brought their relationship much closer, but the information had called into question previous assumptions and led to an immediate re-evaluation of the evidence for the 17th and early 18th century Mayburys. The discovery of a copy of Emanuel Hutchinson Orpen’s Mayberry genealogy allowed some understanding of how John Mayberry was replaced by William Mabury in the eyes of genealogists after 1838.
It appears that one of the Orpen genealogists obtained copies of two pedigrees: one from the Mayberry family of Kenmare, with whom Richard J T Orpen was quite familiar; and one from the Orpens’ fellow Dublin attorney, William Duckett of Mount Street, Dublin, grandson of Augustus Maybury of Kilgortaree by his eldest daughter Mary. Obviously, no pedigree of William Maybury of Cleady’s family was submitted. William was mentioned but was confused with Augustus’ stepson, William Bowen. The Orpens, interested mainly in Rachel, were probably not inclined to research William’s line further.
The Mayberry pedigree nominated John Mayberry as the husband of Rachel Orpen, father of Richard Mayberry and grandfather of John Mayberry of Greenlane. It appears that the Mayberry and the Maybury-Duckett pedigrees were subsequently merged with Augustus Maybury of Kilgortaree added as the second son of Richard Mayberry. When the merged Mayberry pedigree was submitted, probably by Richard J T Orpen, and published in the ‘Alterations and Additions’ section of Commoners, the first two Mayberry generations and the Augustus Mayberry pedigree were condensed into a single unwieldy paragraph and the rest of the entry concentrated on the more socially prominent Kenmare Mayberry family. The picture was further complicated when Emanuel Hutchinson Orpen must have decided that William Mabury, whose name was most prominent in documents held by the Orpen family, was Rachel Orpen’s husband rather than the John Mayberry whose name was not to be found in Orpen documents (he may have died by the 1690s). This substitution was endorsed in 1930 by the noted Irish historian, Goddard Henry Orpen, who had accessed further documents in the possession of the Marquis of Lansdowne. All bore the name, William Mabury, except the list bearing the name John Mayberry, the hammerman of 1672. That was clearly overlooked.
The re-evaluation of historical evidence and consideration of DNA evidence has rehabilitated John Mayberry, restoring him to the head of the Kenmare Mayberry family, noting the documentary proof of his presence at Glanarought around 1670 that allowed him to marry Rachel Orpen, who Goddard Henry Orpen believed had married around this time. William Mabury is now claimed as head of the Maybury family. This two-lineage model of Maybury settlement of Kenmare explains patterns in property inheritance noted at Kenmare that saw property pass from William Mabury to Augustus and William Maybury and from Richard Maybery, claimed son of John Mayberry, to John Mayberry of Greenlane. Likewise, the Mabury name was inherited and transformed into Maybury and Maybery into Mayberry.
One problem with this revision is that it contradicts the pedigree created by Richard Hawkes Maybury in 1865 that claimed Augustus and William Maybury and John Mayberry of Greenlane were brothers. It is argued that this perception probably arose in the community due to familial arrangements put in place following the death of William Mabury c.1720 that deprived the young Augustus and William of the financial support of a father.
A further result of the re-evaluation of historical evidence and additional DNA testing has been the recognition of the hammerman Francis Mayberry’s continuing connection with Glanarought and Richard Orpen beyond the period of his employment at Petty’s ironworks. This included an instance where he, his probable son Francis and Richard Maybery were involved in legal proceedings as defendants in 1706. The legacy of this connection was a financial interest in William Mabury’s property that was inherited by the Cloghereen Mayburys and revealed during property negotiations between the Kenmare Mayburys and Lord Shelburne in 1773. This indicated, not only that Francis was one of William partners in the acquisition of Dromoughty in 1686, but that the Cloghereen Mayburys were his probable descendants. It also explains the very close relationship between the Greenlane Mayberrys and the Cloghereen Mayburys, that included intermarriage and contractual involvements, lasting into the 19th century.
If previous experience is any guide, this will not be the last revision of Maybury family history and genealogy.
Michael A Smithson
January 2012; revised December 2023.
¹ Henry William Edmund Petty FitzMaurice Lansdowne, 6th Marquis of Lansdowne, Glanerought and the Petty-FitzMaurices, Oxford University Press, 1937, p.18.
² John Petty to John Rutter, 23 May 1671, Petty Papers, British Library, Add. Ms.72859, f.3 verso.
³ Sir William Petty to John Rutter, 17 December 1672, Petty Papers, British Library, Add. Ms. 72858, f.71r.
⁴ John Rutter to Sir William Petty, 28 December 1672, Petty Papers, British Library, Add. Ms.72861, f.28v.
⁵ Thomas Dance to Richard Orpen, 25 May 1686, British Library, Add. Ms.72863, f.70v-71r.
⁶ Orpen, Goddard Henry Orpen, The Orpen Family. Being an account of the life and writings of Richard Orpen of Killowen ... together with some researches into his forbears in England and brief notices of the various branches of the Orpen family descended from him, Butler & Tanner: Frome & London, 1930, pp. 99-100.
⁷ Thomas Dance to Richard Orpen, 23 Oct 1686, British Library, Add. Ms.72863, f.88r.
⁸ Rent Roll of Sir William Petty's Estate for the Year 1684, The Trustees of the Bowood Collection.
⁹ Unfortunately, suspects for the progenitor of the Mayburys of Virginia are harder to find among Clement’s children. Six of his children have been located in Staffordshire and Gloucestershire parish records, baptised from 1608 to 1624, and only one other son, Edward, is recorded. If Edward was the father of Francis Maybury of Virginia, the given name was not carried on to Francis’ descendants, nor was it popular among the Kerry Mayburys. It is quite possible that Clement had other children whose names are not to be found in surviving records. See Don Collins, The Mayburys, pp.53-54.
¹⁰ Ironworkers at Enniscorthy seem to have been drawn from the Forest of Dean in England and south Wales (T. C. Barnard, ‘An Anglo-Irish Industrial Enterprise: Iron-making at Enniscorthy Co. Wexford 1657-92’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol.85, p.118). Clement Maybury spent some time in the Forest of Dean around 1617 and it is interesting that James Maybury of Muckross (b.1843) claimed that his family were descendants 'of the Maybury family of England, from whence his early ancestors settled in Wales' (William W. Scott, History of Passaic and Its Environs, Volume III, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., New York and Chicago, 1922, p.376).
¹¹ See Gerard J. Lyne, ‘Land Tenure in Kenmare and Tuosist 1696-c.1716’, Journal of the Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society, No.10, 1977, p.42.
¹² ibid.
¹³ Goddard Henry Orpen, The Orpen Family, Butler & Tanner: Frome & London, 1930, p. 22.
¹⁴ ibid., p.38.
¹⁵ ibid., pp. 88-91..
¹⁶ Rev. A. Henry Herbert Palmer, ‘Genealogy of the Family of Palmer, of Kenmare Co. Kerry, Ireland’ in Joseph Jackson Howard (ed.), Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol. 1, New Series, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London, 1874, p.298.
¹⁷ Henry Pelham, 'A Report on the Several Petitions & Memorials of Thomas Palmer, Corless Hawkes etc', c.1797, Co. Kerry 1792-1803, No. 75, The Trustees of the Bowood Collection.
¹⁸ Articles of Intermarriage between Bastable Maybury, Augustus Maybury, Samuel Duckett and Petra Duckett, 20 January 1779, Henry Pelham, 'A Report on the Several Petitions & Memorials of Thomas Palmer, Corless Hawkes etc', c.1797, No. 75, attachment 13, Co. Kerry 1792-1803, The Trustees of the Bowood Collection.
¹⁹ Henry Pelham, 'A Report on the Several Petitions & Memorials of Thomas Palmer, Corless Hawkes etc', p.III - IV.
²⁰ Affidavit of Thomas Duckett of Clonmel, 13 October 1796, attachment 6. Joint Affidavit of Myles Reardon, Richard Aldwell and John Harrington, 15 Dec 1796, attachment 8, Henry Pelham, 'A Report on the Several Petitions & Memorials of Thomas Palmer, Corless Hawkes etc'.
²¹ Burke, Commoners, p.ix.
²² Papers relating to College estates, Munster, Trinity College Dublin manuscript collection, Mun/P/23/1508. This document is undated, but as it shows William Mawberry holding Currabeg, it would date prior to 1722. In fact, the document is most probably associated with the Trinity College vs Lord Shelburne legal case of 1713, acted upon in 1714. William Bowen is also shown on a list of people to be served injunctions in the College vs Shelburne case c.1713 (Mun/P/23/1101).
²³ 23 Jan 1743/4, Trinity College Dublin, Mun/P/23/1453.
²⁴ List of Orpen sub-tenants (post 1743, but pre-1766 - most certainly pre-1763 as Richard Mayberry is shown to hold Curraghbeg and part Gortalinny).
²⁵ Survey and valuation conducted around 1766 by Mrs Elizabeth Lavery, College Chief Tenant of Gortagass, Trinity College Dublin manuscript collection, Mun/P/23/1509.
²⁶ Petition of Thomas Palmer of Cahir, 'A Report on the Several Petitions & Memorials of Thomas Palmer, Corless Hawkes etc', No. 75, Henry Pelham, 'A Report on the Several Petitions & Memorials of Thomas Palmer, Corless Hawkes etc', p. 3, Co. Kerry 1792-1803, The Trustees of the Bowood Collection.
²⁷ Burke, Commoners, p.ix.
²⁸ Joint Affidavit of Myles Reardon, Richard Aldwell and John Harrington, 15 Dec 1796, attachment 8, Henry Pelham, 'A Report on the Several Petitions & Memorials of Thomas Palmer, Corless Hawkes etc'.
²⁹ Joint Affidavit of Myles Reardon, Richard Aldwell and John Harrington, 15 Dec 1796, attachment 8; Affidavit of Thomas Duckett of Clonmel, 13 October 1796, attachment 6, Henry Pelham, 'A Report on the Several Petitions & Memorials of Thomas Palmer, Corless Hawkes etc'.
³⁰ County Kerry Rentals and Accounts 1773-1803, No.311, 1796, The Trustees of the Bowood Collection.
³¹ Rev. A. Henry Herbert Palmer, ‘Genealogy of the Family of Palmer, of Kenmare Co. Kerry, Ireland’ in Joseph Jackson Howard (ed.), Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol. 1, New Series, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London, 1874, p.298.Goddard Henry Orpen, The Orpen Family, pp. p.99; 106, n2.