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THE IRISH GENEALOGIST OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE IRISH GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY Vol. 13, No. 4 2013 CONTENTS Chairman’s Report 2013 Steven C. ffeary-Smyrl 273 Tributes: Captain Graham H. Hennessy, RM; Mona Germaine Dolan 276 New Vice Presidents – Mary Casteleyn, Peter Manning, Rosalind McCutcheon 281 New Fellows – Terry Eakin, Claire Santry, Jill Williams 285 Spanish Archives of Primary Source Material for the Irish: Part II Samuel Fannin 288 The de la Chapelle or Supple or de Capel-Brooke families of Cork, Limerick and Kerry Paul MacCotter 311 A Census of the Half Parish of Ballysadare, Co. Sligo, c.1700 R. Andrew Pierce 344 An Account of pensions which stood charged on the Civil List of Ireland in February 1713/1714. Mary Casteleyn 347 The Will of John Butler of Kilcash, County Tipperary John Kirwan 375 Millerick: A History/Spirituality of an Irish Surname Martin Millerick 385 The Kirwans of Galway City and County and of the County of Mayo Michael Kirwan 389 An Irish Scandal: The Marriage Breakdown of Lord and Lady George Beresford Elaine Lockhart 410 The Duffy Publishing Family John Brennan 426 Ireland – Maritime Canada – New England Terrence M. Punch 436 The Catholic Registers of Killea and Crooke, Co. Waterford Peter Manning 443 Reviews 458 Report and Financial Statements – Year ended 31 December 2012 462 Table of Contents, Vol. 13 465 Submissions to the Journal – style rules 467 How to find our library at The Society of Genealogists IBC Composed and printed in Great Britain by Doppler Press 5 Wates Way, Brentwood, Essex CM15 9TB Tel: 01634 364906 ISSN 0306-8358 © Irish Genealogical Research Society THE LIBRARY OF THE IRISH GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY IS AT THE SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS, LONDON. Location The lease on our premises in the crypt of St Magnus the Martyr in the City of London expired in March 2013 and we are actively seeking new permanent accommodation. In the meantime, we have negotiated a temporary home with the Society of Genealogists (SOG) at their premises at 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA. IGRS members do not need to be members of SOG to visit the Library; you will be issued with a special temporary pass to the IGRS section for the day. While we are very grateful to all at SOG for their help and welcome, our space there is limited and this is very much a temporary arrangement while we seek a more permanent solution. The bulk of the Library holdings have been placed in store, but we have locked away most of our unique holdings. Some of these are at Goswell Road and others are being held by Library volunteers. No correspondence should be sent to the library of the Society of Genealogists. The IGRS official postal address is: 18 Stratford Avenue, Rainham, Kent, England ME8 OEP. For updates, please consult the society's website: www.irishancestors.ie E-mail address for enquiries: [email protected] Opening times: As previously, the IGRS Library will be open only on Saturdays. However, to fit in with the SOG schedule, our operating times are slightly amended; we will be open from 1.30pm to 5.30pm. HOW TO GET THERE By Car: Charterhouse Buildings is a cul-de-sac at the junction of Goswell Road and Clerkenwell Road (between the Pret a Manger sandwich bar and Pizza Express). The junction is about 500 metres north of Barbican station and a little further from Farringdon and Old Street stations. The Society occupies the last building on the left in the cul-de-sac. Parking outside the SoG is restricted including Saturday until 1:30pm. There is some limited meter parking in Goswell Road. Parking might be obtained in Charterhouse Square, Glasshouse Yard or behind the ‘Hat and Feathers’ Pub in Great Sutton Street. By Underground: Barbican and Farringdon stations are on the Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines. Farringdon Station is also on the Thameslink line. Old Street and Angel stations are on the Northern Line (City Branch). St Paul's station is on the Central Line. On certain Saturdays, Old Street is the nearest Tube Station. Then by bus from Exit 6 (bus 55 or 243 to Clerkenwell Road). Or on foot from Exit 6 or 7 - then on past St Luke's Church to the Goswell Road crossroads. Charterhouse Buildings is in a cul-de-sac at the junction of Goswell Road and Clerkenwell Road. By Bus: Buses 4, 55, 56, 153, 243 and 505 stop nearby. By Surface Rail: From Victoria, Paddington and Liverpool Street: take the Circle Line to Barbican Station. From Waterloo Station: take Bus No 4 direct, or the Northern Line to Embankment or Baker Street, then the Circle Line to Barbican Station. From London Bridge Station: take the Thameslink service to Farringdon or the Northern Line to Moorgate, then the Circle Line to Barbican Station. The Irish Genealogical Research Society Registered UK Charity No 235886 President Fergus Gillespie, MA (former Chief Herald of Ireland) Vice-Presidents Sir Christopher Coote, Bart Walter J. P. Curley (sometime US Ambassador to France and to Ireland) The O’Conor Don Julian C. Walton, MA FIGRS Sir David Goodall, GCMG FIGRS Mary Casteleyn, FCILP FIGRS, Vice-Chairman Peter Manning, FIGRS, General Secretary Rosalind G. McCutcheon, MA FIGRS, Newsletter Hon. Editor Members of Council The President, Vice-Presidents and Hon. Editor, ex officio Lindsay Bellhouse, BA DipEd FIGRS, Hon. Librarian Linda Clayton, MAPGI, Hon. Secretary: Ireland Branch Joanna Cicely Fennell, MA PGCert Gen. Studies Steven C. ffeary-Smyrl, MAPGI FIGRS, Chairman Mark Goold, BA MPhil, Hon. Membership Secretary Máire Mac Conghail, BA FIGRS, Chairman: Ireland Branch Nick Reddan, MSc GradDipStat BEc FIGRS, Webmaster Christopher Richards, MA MB ChB MRCGP FIGRS, Hon. Treasurer Edward J. Rowland, BComm, Assistant Hon. Treasurer: Ireland Branch Claire Santry, FIGRS, E-bulletin, Public Relations and Marketing Jill Williams BA FCCA HDipEd FIGRS, Facebook editor and Manager Hon. Editor, The Irish Genealogist David J. Butler, BA HDipGIS PhD (NUI) FRGS FRHistS FRSA Editorial Committee Mary Casteleyn; Peter Manning; Christopher Richards Ireland Branch Committee Chairman, Máire Mac Conghail; Hon. Secretary, Linda Clayton; Hon. Treasurer, Edward Rowland; Members: Claire Bradley; Des Clarke; Gay Conroy; Vivien Costello; Catherine Delaney; Sandra Doble; John Dyer; Joanna Fennell; Hilary McDonagh; Steven C. ffeary-Smyrl; Hilary Tulloch; Rosaleen Underwood Subscription £21 (£20, if standing order), US$35 or €26 (€25, if standing order) due 1 January, 2014 Bankers United Kingdom: Cater Allen Private Bank, 9 Nelson Street, Bradford BD1 5AN; Ireland: Allied Irish Banks plc, 100/101 Grafton Street, Dublin 2, Ireland THE IRISH GENEALOGIST Vol. 13 No. 4 (2013) Chairman’s Report 2013 The world of Irish genealogy has been particularly busy in 2013 not only for the Society but also in general, across Ireland and internationally. To coincide with St Patrick’s Day we launched www.irishancestors.ie our new website. This marked a major change in how the Society interacts with its members. Having solicited members’ views in 2012 through the Society’s Newsletter about how you thought the Society might best serve its members, the overwhelming response was that more of the Society’s unique holdings needed to be made available online. Council soon realised that to achieve what was required a new website was needed. Luckily at this time we had been joined on Council by Claire Santry whose knowledge and IT contacts proved invaluable. I won’t pretend it was a pain-free exercise, given that most of us on Council had little technical knowledge of how a website is created. We certainly tried Claire’s patience as she acted as the intermediary with the website designer, Carl Brown! Thank goodness our existing Australia-based webmaster, Nick Reddan, was on hand to make the migration of data from the former site as painless as possible. However, the feedback we have received from you since March has certainly made it clear that the project has been a complete success. In addition to including some of the society’s indexes and transcripts, available in the password protected Members’ Area of the site; we were particularly keen to include publicly accessible data too. One of the most important free resources has been Roz McCutcheon’s Marriage Finder. It acts as a pointer to alternative sources for information about pre-civil registration marriages in Ireland and now runs to over 30,000 marriages. Further, between brides, grooms and parents, it notes references to almost 80,000 names. It is continually growing, and includes data from such disparate resources as deeds, wills, gravestone inscriptions, court records, personal letters, diaries, bibles, pedigrees, family notes and newspaper notices. In addition, in the latter part of 2013 the Society launched a names database to the first ten volumes of this journal, covering the years 1937-2001. The index runs to a quarter of a million names and is available to all. It is expected that the index will be brought right up-to-date in 2014, adding several hundred thousand more names to it. Also in 2014 (for members only), it is hoped that scanned images of the articles can be linked to the index entries, thereby creating an invaluable resource providing online access to the many thousands of articles published in the journal over the past three quarters of a century. The Society has negotiated a number of special offers for members with a number of companies involved in aspects of Irish genealogy. Details of these can be found in the Members’ Area of the website and include discounts with Ancestry.com, London’s ‘WDYTYA? Live’ show and the Irish Family History Handbook. 273 THE IRISH GENEALOGIST Vol.