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I F tr o (.9 z= oJ Descendants of PETER LONGWORTH Generotion No. I 1. PETER1 LONGWORTH was born Abt. 1625 in ENGLAND PROB. LANCASHIRE.ENGLAND. and died 1698 in ATHLONE ,IRELAND. He married ELZABETH REYLYOR RELIE Abt. 1650 in ATHLONE ,IRELAND, daughter of JAMES REYLYOR RELIE. She was born Abt. 1632 in IRELAND, and died Aft. 1698 in ATHLONE .IFALAND. Notes for PETER LONGWORTH: From 'WESTMEATH AUTHORS' COMPILED BY MARIAN KEANEY.I969 . DR.JOHN BUCHANAN BURGESS WAS BORN IN ATHLONE. COLINTY WESTMEATH IN MARCH 1885 .}IE WAS EDUCATED AT PORTORA ROYAL SCHOOL.ENNISKILLEN,CO. FERMANAGH, AND AT TRINITY COLLEGE.DUBLIN WERE HE QUALIFIED IN MEDICINE.HISMAIN INTEREST WAS THE HISTORY OF WESTMEATH,PARTICULARLY TI{E ATHLONE AREA. I{E COMPILED A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF LOCAL INFORMA^TION FROM NEWSPAPERS IN TI{E BRITISH MUSEUM.THIS ,HOWEVER,WAS NEVER PUBLISHED.MUCH OF THIS MATERIAL IS AT PRESENT IN TI{E TEMPORARY CUSTUDY OF MR. J.O. SIMMONS OF ATI{LONE PENDING ITS BEING HANDED OVER TO TI{E PERMANENT KEEPING OF TI{E ATHLONE BRANCH OF THE LONGFORD-WESTMEATH COLTNTY LIBRARY. TI{E COLLECTION INCLUDES ATHLONE DIRECTORIES, WLLS AND DEEDS;REGISTER OF KILTOOM PARISH CHURCH .ST.MARY'S PARISH CHURCH, WILLBROOK AND DRUMRANEY METHODIST CHURCI{ES, ST. PETER'S KILKENNY WEST AND BLINOWEN PARISH CHURCMS;ATHLONE NEWSPAPERS; DICTIONARY OF ATI{LONE BIOGRAPHY: ANDVESTRY MINUTES OF THE FRANCISCAN ABBEY. ATHLONE DR. BURGESS DIED IN 1960. SOURCE;INFORMATION SLIPPLIED BY MRS. HILDA BURGESS. 4 WYNNSWARD PARK.CLONSKEAGH DUBLIN 14, WIDOW OF DR JOHN BURGESS. BIBLIOGRAPHY: I.LOCAL DIRECTORY EDITED BY JOHN BURGESS. IN ATHLONE,THE SHANNON,AND LOUGHREE BY PROFESSOR G.T. STOKES.DUBLIN.THO},4/ATHLONE,BURGESS (IS97). LAV.C.L, 2.T\?ESCRIPT COPY. WITH INDE)GS, OF RECORDSOF THE CHURCH OF IRELAND PARISH OF ST. MARY OF ATHLONE,CONTATNTNG BAPTISMS.l849-1903,MARRIAGES,l845-1890;BURIALS1849- ISSs,ANDBURIALS AT CORNAMAGH, 187I-I 901. 3.TYPESCRIPT COPY,WITH INDDGS,OF T}IE CHURCH OF IRELAND PARISH OF ST.PETER ATHLONE ,CONTAINING VESTRY MINUTES 1846-194I,REGISTER OF MARRIAGES l845-I8TO,SUCCESSION OF CLERGY AND CHURCHYARD INSCRIPTIONS. FROM JOHN BURGESS :PETER LONGWORTH WAS THE ANCESTOR OF ALL THE NLIMEROUS FAMILIES OF LONGWORTH (rN IRELAND).r{E WAS A pROSy MAN.TOO,FOR HIS WILL BEGINS,'I BEQUEATH MY SOUL TO MY GREAT CREATORHOPING IN &THROUGH TIIE MERITS OF MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST TO HAVE TI{E FULL & FREE PARDON OF ALL MY SINS 'ect. The birth years ofPeters sons , are I am afraid, a guess though the boy's names are placed as given by Mary Fitzgerald Longworth , the Girls placements may hat'e been any where in the list.Pat Longworth.All of these histories are only as good as my present knowledge lan.2002. (M.P.M.87):ABOUT 1650 rm SETTLED IN ATI{LONE,DIED 1698 "LEAVING SEVEN SONS.TO FIVE OF WHOM I{E LEAVES LEGACIES, VZ. JAMES ,JOHN,RALPH(TO WHOM F{E LEAVES BONNAHINLY & CREGGAN MILL)HENRY AND FRANCIS .TO BE PAID AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE.BUT HE LEFT EVERYTHING TO HIS WtrE DURING I{ER LIFE.TIER MAIDEN NAME WAS ELZABETH REYI-Y ORRELIE. TI# WLL WAS WITNESSED BY WILLIAM JOHNSON,ROBERT MECHAM AND ROWLAND HENRY.O4.PM.AUG 87 AND A.17.C.);1662 IN FIEARTH MONEY RETURNS - SHOWN AS OWNER WITH STARKEY OF CREGGAN; IN 1684 A SIGNED ADDRESS TO KING JAMES II. FROM'Tttg LANDLORDS AND LANDED GENTRY BY BURKE' ; 'SOUTH WESTMEATH-FARM AND FOLK'BY JEREMIAH SI{EEHAN PAGE 48 -53. TI{E LONGWORTHS OF CREGGAN AND GLYNWOOD: THE FIRST LONGWORTH TO COME TO IRELAND WAS PETER: FIE WAS APPARENTLY A SOLDIER IN THE CROMWELLIAN ARMY .10. ACCORDING TO REVD. PAUL WALSH, I{E WAS LIVTNG IN ATHLONE IN 1650, AND MOVED TO CREGGAN .WHERE HE HAD OBTA]NED LAND .BY 1662.BY EARLY ITOO'S.THEY HAD ADDED TUBBIT AND GLYNTWOOD ESTATES AND }#LD ORIES AND BALLYDONAGH ON LEASE,FROM MORGAN DALY OF DILCLEAGH .' SEE ABOVE BOOK FOR FURTHER IMFORMATION. ALSO L.D.S. QUOTED THAT ALL IRISH LONGWORTHS CAME FROM ONE FAMILY. GENFORUN:LONGWORTH ROLL CALL 23 FEB.2OOO JOHN LONGWORTI{ SWIFT. STATES PETER FROM BOLTON LANCASHIRE ENGLAND. FROM JOHN LONGWORTH SWIFT ,MAY 2OOO,THROUGH GENFORLM ,IN AMERICA. FAMILY TREE BY MARY FITZGERALD LONGWORTH HIS GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTFIER.TI-M NOW CURRENT LINAGE OF SONS WITH ADDITION OF TWO DAUGHTERS.MARY ALSO NOTES THAT WHEN WILLIAM III LANDED IN JUNE 1690: PETER AND HIS SEVEN SONS WENT TO JOIN HIM FOR THE BATTLE .PETER JUNIOR AND T}IE SEVENTH UNKNOWN SON DIED BEFORE THEIR FATIMR IN 1698 SO TI{EY MAY HAVE BEEN WOUNDED OR KILLED IN THE WAR. Lancashire Life March 1967 published ; Is your name Longworth ?.a page of early Longworths.Including the Arms of Longworth of Longworth, in Lancastershire, which is'Argent three dragons heads couped sable.' Three black heads cut off at the neck on a silver shield. "Queens County, Ireland March 1832 i DescriptionofthekindredandallianceofFrancisLongworthofCharlottetown, by his father and mother. The said Francis Longworth was son to Francis Longworth formerly of Cloulimon near Moate in the county of Westmeath, and after of Esker, near Doon, and Ballycumber in the Kings County, and later of Clondalin near Athlone in the county of Westmeath, and the said Francis Longworth was son of John Longworth, formerly of Toubut in the County Westmeath and the said Jon Longworth was son to John Longworth of Cragan near Athlone in the said county who came over from Lancashire in England u'ith Oliver Cromwell and settled in Cragan after the disturbance. The said John Longworth had seven sons, when King William lande4 lst Francis after of Cragan, 2n{ John of Toubut, 3rd Ralph of the Mill, 4th Peter of Bonnahinley, 5th Harry of Cannaugh. I can't say what the names of the other two sons were, also two daughters who were after married - notw'ithstanding he had been bedridden for some time, when William landed he was on horseback before any of his sons who all seven joined King William's army and went with him. A description of the kindred and alliance of Francis Longworth by his mother Mary Longworth otherwise Fitzgerald daughter of James Fitzgerald of Clondalyn in King's county who was nephew to the Knight of Glinn also to Sir Toby Butler he was related to the Shorts near Carlow and the Cosby's and Daury's in the county Kerr],, and to Stephen Rawson, and also acknowledged by the Leinster family to be a relation of theirs by the Francis Longworth Grandmother Catherine Fitzgerald otherwise Hunt she was sister to the Rev John Hunt of Clepook in the Queen's county, and niece to Dean Delany, she was also cousin germaine to Mrs. Barker of Glassniven in the county Dublin, also to Baron Georges Father she was related to the Dames of Britice, the Droughts of the Heath in the Queens CounS, and to Coleloughs' Grogans and other familys in the counf Weford and the Vesey's in the county Dublin the said James and Catherine Fitzgerald Grandfather and Grand Mother of Said Francis Longworth left issue at their death four sons and one daughter who were provided for as follows, Hunt Fitzgenld, a major in the 35th foot, Samuel Fitzgerald a lieutenant and a quartermaster in the 36th foot Jonh Fitzgerald a lieuetenant in the 7th Royal British Fusiliers and after a captain in another regiment, and Captain Alexander Fitzgerald late of Longworth Castletown in the Queen's county, and Mary the said Francis Longworth's mother. The family of anciently descended from Germany, bear for field azure on a fesse between three crescents argent, as many Dragon's heads erased proper. Crest on helmet and wreath of its colors a Talbot Dog's head - is erased prop.i MoUo Virtute et Valore. Explanation - the Field being blue denoteth sincerity. The Fesse a military b"tt or girdle of honor. The half moons denote celestial beauq', the Dragons, courage and magnanimity. The Talbot Dog, Fidelity and Intrepidity and Motto by Virtue and Valor." The previous text was transcribed from a tlpescript carbon copy bearing a pencilled note by Otis Peabody qpescript Swift AateO July 13, l93l which indicates that the carbon copy was made prior to that date. The carbon copy was among papers found in the safe deposit box of Ethel Longworth Swift (great- granddaughter ofFrancis Longworth ofCharlottetown) after her death in 1963. The vagaries ofsentence itructure, punctuation and spelling in this transcription are exactly as they appear in the ['pescript carbon copy, which was presumably transcribed in turn loy an unlmown person from a handwritten original the whereabouts of which is now also unknown. Jack Swift (John Longworth Swift) Georgetown, Maine. U. S.A. has any John W. Bate of London .Ontario asks on Wge 4 of his letter, 8 March 1992 if Muriel Longworth imformation on the original Cromwellian Colonel Longrvorth? prepared by Lola Patricia Longworth Lord St. Laurieton,N.S.W. Australia. e-mail; [email protected] More About PETER LONGWORTH: FACI I: DR.JOHN BURGESS'PAPERS ,PUBLIC LIBRARY,ATHLONE IF€LAND. FACI2:1650. PETER LONGWORTH WAS ANCSTOR OF ALL T}M NUMEROUS FAMILIES' Fact 3: WILL SEE NOTES; Children of PETER LONGWORTH and ELZABETH RELIE are: 2. i. FRANCIS2 LONGWORTH, b. Abt. 1652, CREGGAN CASTLE,WESTMEATH,IRELAND, 3. ii. JOHN LONGWORTH, b. Abt. 1654. CRECTGAN CASTLE,WESTMEATH, R.ELAND; dl OF TOUBUT,IRELAND. '\ 4. iii- RALPH LONGWORTII, b. Abt. 1656, CREGGAN CASTLE ,WESTMEATH ,IREIAND iv. PETER LoNGwoRTH, b. Abt. 1658, CREEGAN CASTLE ,WESTMEATH IRELAND; d. Abt. 1691. IRELAND. More About PETER LONGWORTH: Fact 1:MENTIONED BY MARY FITZGERALD LONGWORTH Fact 2: CALLED BY MARY " PETER OF BONNAIIINLEY." Fact 3: THOUGIIT TO HAVE DIED IN THE WAR IN IRELAND Fact 4: BETWEEN JAMES TIIE 2ND AND WILLIAM TIIE 3RD v.