EUSTACE FAMILIES POST November 2013 Eustace Families Post Eustace Families Association Minneapolis, Minnesota November 2013 1 EUSTACE FAMILIES POST November 2013 Eustace Families Association The Eustace Families Association was Editor & North American/Ireland Link: formed in 1976 with the objectives of: Ronald F. Eustice Preserving for posterity the considerable 13768 Trost Trail knowledge now held in the histories of Savage, MN 55378 families originating in Flanders and the e-mail: [email protected] British Isles who bear the name “Eu- stace” or spelling variants thereof and of Great Britain Link: their descendants throughout the world. David Eustace Encouraging and assisting The Keep, Kidnapper’s Lane, Leckhampton namesakes to research the story of their Cheltenham, Glos. GL53 ONL immediate and extended families and to United Kingdom disseminate the knowledge gained to e-mail: [email protected] those interested. Developing and extending Australia/New Zealand Links: friendship and understanding between Jim Eustice namesakes and welcoming visitors from 28 Wilkinson Court overseas. Enfield, SA 5085 The Eustace Families Associa- e-mail: [email protected] tion was formed in the United Kingdom by the late Donald W. Eustace of Chis- Contributing Editors in this issue: wick (London), and other family mem- Terry Diebel bers. Following the death of Donald 1439 Knollwood Road Eustace in 1993, the Eustace Families Mendota Heights, MN 55118 Association took a brief hiatus. In 1995, e-mail: [email protected] David Eustace of Cheltenham, Glosces- tershire, England and Ronald Eustice Karen (Bockop) Nodorft of Savage, Minnesota, USA began to 810 3rd Street correspond via e-mail and the Eustace Monticello, MN 55362 Families Association was resurrected. e-mail: [email protected] Eustace Families Musters (Reunions) Need a gift idea? Give a gift subscription have been held in 1979 (Pyrton), of the Eustace Families Post to that rela- 1981(Bledlow), 1983 (Watlington), tive who already has “everything”. One 1985 (Lambeth) and 1999 (Watlington). size fits all. A gift subscription will make The Great Eustace Gathering was held an ever lasting gift because family history at Ballymore Eustace, Ireland in 2009. lasts forever. The Eustice family of Waseca County, Minnesota has had well-attended fam- ily gatherings on numerous occasions. In 2011 Eustice families of New Jersey held a gathering with over 100 in at- Eustace Families Association Families Eustace tendance. Membership applications may be obtained through contact with any member of the volunteer committee. 2 EUSTACE FAMILIES POST November 2013 From The Editor’s Desk IN THIS ISSUE: PAGE Eustace Families of Furroor, Kilmaley, County Clare 4 Michael & Catherine (Gleeson) Eustace of Furroor, County Clare 5-6 Michael Eustace & Honor Eustace of Furoor, Kilmaley 7-9 John Eustace and Ellen Thompson of Furroor, Kilmaley 10 Jackie Eustace of Furroor, Kilmaley 11 Patrick Eustace and Bridget Moroney of Furroor, Kilmaley 12 Michael Eustace & Mary McMahon Family of Kilmaley 13-14 Thomas Eustace & Ann Devaney Family of Kilmaley 15 Ronald F. Eustice Good Times in Ireland Remembered: June/July 2013 16-20 In This Issue: Eustice Girls Excel in Tennis and Volleyball at Mora High School 21 Eustaces of Co. Clare, Ireland: Bob Eustice: Byron, Minnesota’s “Good Neighbor” 22 Thanks to long-time Eustace Fami- Eustice Picnic & John Eustice Memorial 23 lies Association member and Clare Collin Eustis Makes a Military Choice 24 County Eustace descendant, Terry Who were the Cornish? 25 Diebel, Mendota Heights, Minneso- Introducing Karen & Roger Nodorft 26-28 ta for extensive research on the Eu- John Eustice & Jane Oatey Family of LaFayette County, Wisconsin 29 staces of County Clare, Ireland. See John Eustice & Margaret Garvey & Mary Priscilla Richards Family 30 pages 4-15 to learn more. This is the John Eustice & Margaret Jones Family of Rewey, Wisconsin 31-34 second part of a continuing series. Eustace Families of Craddockstown, County Kildare 35-37 There will be at least two more ar- Martyrs of the Pale 38 ticles by Terry in future issues which Monkstown Castle, Dublin, Ireland 39 will trace the Clare Eustace families We Welcome 40 from their early origins at Confey, Lives Remembered 40-43 County Kildare to the present day. Useless Eustace 44 The largest concentration of Irish Eustaces (outside of Dublin) Share the News! We are always in need There is a home for your old EFP! is in County Clare. In the next issue, of announcements and articles for the There is a demand for back issues of we will learn about the Eustaces of Eustace Families Post. This issue in- the Eustace Families Post. We often re- Kildysart, Shanakea, County Clare. cludes articles by Karen Nodorft origi- ceive requests from new members and Ireland Revisited: nally from New Glarus, Wisconsin and from libraries for back issues. Recently In June and July, I traveled to Ireland now of Monticello, Minnesota. Karen’s a request came from the Allen County at the invitation of two family history mother was a Eustice whose family can Genealogical Center in Fort Wayne, In- and local culture groups. These well- trace their ancestry back to John Eus- diana for all back issues of the Eustace attended events were held at Duck- tice who left Cornwall for America in Families Post. Libraries currently re- ett’s Grove in Carlow. (More about 1846 at the age of 19. Karen Nodorft ceiving the EFP include the Wisconsin Duckett’s Grove in a future issue). became aware of the Eustace Families Historical Library, Madison, The Min- I was invited to share the results of Post (EFP) when she inherited several nesota Genealogical Society, St. Paul; our family history research as well issues of the EFP published during the The History Center of the Church of as discuss the Eustace Families As- mid 1980s from a deceased relative. Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day-Saints, sociation Y-chromosome DNA proj- The Man on the Front Cover: Salt Lake City; The Newberry Library, ect which now has close to 200 par- Pictured on the cover is Jackie Eustace Chicago; The Waseca County Histori- ticipants. Pages 16-20 of this issue of Furroor, Kilmaley, Ireland. Jackie cal Society, Minnesota Historical Soci- include photographs of many of the lives in the home that four generations ety, the County Kildare Family History Eustaces and Eustace descendants of Eustaces have lived in. He’s delight- Center, Naas, Ireland and the National who I met; many for the first time. fully Irish and and lives only a few Library of Ireland, Dublin. My wife Margaret and daughter An- miles from the place in County Clare Your local family history cen- nMarie joined me for part of the trip. where his ancestors were forced to flee ter may be interested in adding the EFP I am very grateful to all those who by Oliver Cromwell in 1654. Thank you to its collection. Contact them. We are shared their hospitality with me. Jackie, for a wonderful day in Furroor. all part of local history somewhere. Learn more about the Eustace/Eustice/Eustis families at www.roneustice.com, http://www. dave.eustace.dial.pipex.com/index.htm and http://www.eustice.info/ 3 EUSTACE FAMILIES POST November 2013 The Eustace Families of Furroor, Kilmaley, County Clare, Ireland By Terry Diebel in Mendota Heights, Minnesota The April 2013 issue of the Eustace Families Post featured In this edition of the Eustace Families Post, the second seg- the first of a series of articles about the history of a Eustace ment about the County Clare Eustace family focuses on the family branch whose descendants settled in County Clare, history of a branch of this family who settled in the Parish Ireland. As we learned in the first article, it is highly likely of Kilmaley, County Clare nearly two hundred years after that the Eustace families claiming County Clare as their an- transplantation. cestral home can trace their roots to James Eustace of Con- The history of the Eustace family in Kilmaley fey, County Kildare. begins with Michael Eustace who was born about 1813 in In the 1600’s, James Eustace was a gentleman County Clare. His parents’ names are unknown. Michael farmer who owned 396 acres of land in Confey and New- Eustace married Catherine (Kate) Gleeson in the Church towne which included Confey Castle (the ruins of which of St. John, Kilmaley, Diocese of Killaloe on February 20, are still standing today outside the Confey cemetery) plus 1841. After his marriage to Kate, Michael took possession 21 acres of land in Ballingorne. James Eustace descended of part of John Gleeson’s (Kate’s father) land in Furroor. from the once noble Kildare Eustace family who defended According to the Tithe Applotment Book of 1821-1837, the English Pale with their large land holdings and castles. John Gleeson (and James Hehir) rented over 200 acres in James Eustace and his son, Nicholas, were de- the townland of Furroor, Kilmaley. The same record shows clared outlaws soon after the Irish Uprising of 1641 and the John Gleeson recorded as renting 50+ acres of pasture land defeat of the Catholic Confederacy. Their extensive lands in Boulineaska, Furroor. were forfeited a decade later. Clare was set aside to accom- By the 1855 Griffith’s Valuation, Michael Eustace modate the “delinquent proprietors”, i.e. those proprietors is recorded renting the land in Furroor. According to John whose land was confiscated because they did not actively Mayer’s book, Families of Kilmaley Parish: A Two-Hundred oppose the rebellion. In 1654 as a result of the Cromwellian Year Review, Michael Eustace’s land included “three parcels Transplantation, the family of James Eustace; Anne, Mar- of land totaling over 113 acres.” Michael Eustace “was also tha, Francis, John and Cisly Eustace, probably his children part of a group of five individuals renting over 333 acres of and grandchildren, were removed to the townland of Dru- land identified as mountain.” millehy, Kilmacduane Parish, County Clare.