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Karns, Hugh |
9, 16 |
|
of TULLYCORBET; “he carried 5 cwt. each in a limit of time of white seed oats
from the present markethouse to GRAY's corner on a bet of a £1 (pound
Sterling)”; his father brought over the shorthorned roan heifers from
Liverpool and were the first to produce that breed in BALLYBAY; |
|
Kasy, (?) |
21. |
|
a butcher |
|
Kent, Duke of |
|
24 |
father of Queen Victoria |
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Ker, A. Murray |
14, 33, 59 |
|
Esquire of NEWBLISS; “Some time
after Mr. MURRAY got to be agent, married our
landlady and took the name of MURRAY KER. In 1866, Mr. A. MURRAY KER sold these lands in the Incumbered Court at
the Government valuation which
raised this farm to £ l a year,
₤4 of a rise. We paid £51 till
1888, the year I served the orignative
notice on Mr. MURRAY KER, for a fixed
rent through the Land Court, where it was reduced to £33.10.0 for the
term of 15 years. I did not say, prior to the fixing of my rent, Mr. MURRAY KER was kind enough to give me
a temporary reduction on some years. I do believe, had he got his will
in all things, he and I would have settled without any bother. “Mr.
MURRAY KER was a man of the old school who would say exactly what he meant, if it would hang him. He said to
me once, "I was a liar damn my
soul." I respected him for saying what he thought, but I was able to convince him he was astray by producing
a lease
he had never heard of. Mr. MURRAY
KER loved the Lily, and when he would hear of intermarriages with Catholics he would be at a loss to find words to
express his indignation.” in 1866, he bought back DRUMSKELT
and half of LISGORN and then raised rents to BREAKEYs. |
|
Ker, Alexander |
59.. |
|
“Alexander KER, grandson of Robert, was a
Barrister at law and chairman of the County MONAGHAN. It was he who
erected the present mansion house at NEWBLISS. He died unmarried in
1814.” |
|
Ker, Alexander |
|
54 |
SEE: KER, Mrs MURRAY; grandson of Robert KER – was “Barrister at law
and Chairman of the County”. |
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Ker, Andrew |
59 |
|
“In 1730, NEWBLISS or MULLAGNESUMMAR
in the parish of KILLEVAN was purchased by Andrew KER from the representatives
of Gilbert NICHOLSON to whom it had been granted by Charles II in 1666.” |
|
Ker, Andrew |
|
54 |
SEE: KER, Mrs MURRAY; purchased NEWBLISS or MULLAGNESUMMAR; |
|
Ker, Andrew. Dr.. |
59. |
|
left his estate to his niece, Marina Foster
KER; “[Alexander KER} was succeeded by his brother, Andrew KER, M.D., who
built and endowed the church of NEWBLISS and died in 1816.”; collected
rents from BREAKEYs and others for townlands of DRUMSKELT, SHANTNA
and half of LISGORN. |
|
Ker, Ann. |
59 |
|
married David VERNOR of Co. ARMAGH
and the KER property – “EIGHT TATES” or townlands – (CORRYHAGEN,
AGHNAMULLEN?) passed to the VERNORs of VERNORS BRIDGE as a
result. |
|
Ker, Annie (m. early 1800s) |
|
54 |
SEE: KER, Mrs. MURRAY; married David VERNOR of VERNOR’S BRIDGE;
|
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Ker, Barrister |
32, 33 |
|
disgreed with his brother the landlord, Dr.
KER who wanted to force BREAKEYs off their land; |
|
Ker, Colonel |
11, 19, 20, 34 |
|
“Colonel
KER of MOUNTAIN LODGE was reared during his minority by the Isaiah
BREAKEYs of MILLMORE HOUSE. When of age he turned the water off the GREENVALE
MILLS and by doing so ruined the BREAKEYs. The linen had to be taken
to QUEENS COUNTY to be bleached by Obadiah. Isaiah died in two years
after. Colonel KER would not renew with Andy, his son, and so put the
property out of both hands. Andy went to law with Colonel KER about diverting
the water course. As we had no Court of Equity in those days, Andy was
beaten. Colonel KER being so eager to punish him auctioned all in and about MILLMORE
HOUSE for the costs of a dismiss before the Judge left MONAGHAN. A
very serious offence to this day. Andy turned about and took £300 off Colonel
KER for destruction of property and contempt of the Judge and so the property
was lost to our blood relations who built MILLMORE HOUSE and all the
mills in GREENVALE.”; “In 1798, a company of 10 revenue men
dressed as soldiers were looking for a poteen house at CROSSDUFF. A
United Irish mob thought they were soldiers looking up United Irishmen and
pursued them to CREEVE when Colonel KER of MOUNTAIN LODGE met
them. The leader of the mob said if he would get the men to stack their arms
till the matter would be talked over he would make the mob disperse. The
moment the guns were put up the rebels killed 9 of the soldiers. Colonel KER
got the 10th man on his horse behind him and dashed into BALLYBAY.
Next day, Grandfather was called on the jury at the inquest and Father, a boy
of 14 went along. The 9 men were stretched naked on planks in the old MARKET
HOUSE. Heads hanging on some, skulls open on others, the ugliest sight he
ever saw. The leader of the mob with others were hung on the gallows hill in MONAGHAN.” He said “the smell of Presbyterians would
make them sick”; Colonel of the old MONAGHAN Militia before Colonel
LEWIS. |
|
Ker, Colonel |
|
17, 18, 19, 56 |
“Now speaking of strange things Colonel KER of MOUNTAIN LODGE had
a very out of the way funeral as ever was heard of in this
county over fifty years ago. My uncle LACKY [LEAKEY] was Crown Solicitor in MONAGHAN.
Knowing an order was taken out for Mr. KER’s body & would be in the hands of bailiffs to
execute it in less than three days, wrote to Colonel KER to that
effect & to get out of the way Mr KER had heart disease & died rather
suddenly. Mrs. KER sent for the Yeomen to bury him as Mr. KER was over them.
It was a COOTEHILL horse was ordered, strange to say when the coffin
was put in the hearse with Colonel KER’s remains the horses refused to draw a
thing they had never done before. Mrs. KER seeing this called the Yeomen
together, gave them a big drink & said to take the coffin & carry it
as quickly as you can to AUGHNAMULLAN Vault I expect the bailiffs
every moment for the Colonels body. In those days your body could be taken
dead or alive for debt provided you were not under the sod. Revd Wm. ROPER
was resident Rector in the parish at the time Mr. ROPER ordered out two of
his mashines for the funeral. The present sexton of AUGHNAMULLEN
church was a boy of Mr. ROPERs at the time & drove the SMALL mashine
& revd. ROPER used his coach. When Mr. ROPER's machines got the length of
VELDONS CROSS they met the funeral about 20 yeomen not pretending to
walk but running with the coffin. The illjudgment of Colonel KER was the
death of the soldiers in CRIEVE doing as he was bid by the leader of
the rebels in compelling the soldiers to stack their arms when the rebels
rushed in & murdered them. Ever after Colonel KER stank in the eyes of
all people. He & his wife were, death on presbyterians and not one or a
roman catholic was at his funeral, nor did Mrs. KER wish them to be. When the
funeral was over Jenny DOWNEY who was a labourer & lived convenient to
the Rectory said to Revd. ROPER you said this our brother is gone to Heaven
& Mrs. KER tout us to go quick she expected the bailiffs to make
him pay his debt. Now who am I to believe if he has not paid people is that
the way to go to Heaven. Now DOWNEY when you are so particular (said the
Rector ROPER) there is no use in telling you anything, you know as well as I
do if I do not read the funeral service as it is in the book I will loose the
stripes. Now Mr. ROPER said DOWNEY I was not near content with you the other
day when you said Peggy Scofel was gone to Heaven & you knowing God Kilt
her in a bad action by a palatic stroke as he called it. The Rector
thought of a much better answer. You know DOWNEY we are not to judge lest we
be judged ourselves. By this time the bailiffs had reached MOUNTAIN LODGE.
They asked Mrs. KER was the Colonel in the house, no said she be is at the
church, When they got to the church one of them asked James M’MAHON did he
see Colonel KER about lately, no said he, he was in a suit of deal & I am
after helping to put him under the sod. You may kiss the hares foot for you
are like Paddy Black & the ghost your late. “Any person who
questions the truth of this strange funeral has only to ask Alick WEBSTER who is the sexton of AUGHNAMULLAN
church at this present time & was a boy driving one of Revd. ROPERs
mashines at the funeral of Colonel KER” |
|
Ker, Dr. |
32, 33, 34, 58 |
|
landlord who attempted to force Thomas
Cathcart’s father off the land in order to give it to the illegitimate son of
his brother who worked in his office; he raised the rents and after he died,
the townland was “put into the Incumbered Court”; “Dacre HAMILTON, Colonel
LEWIS, and Dr. KER were the three office tyrants of this County in their
day”; landlord of SHANTRA; |
|
Ker, Dr. Andrew |
|
54 |
SEE: KER, Mrs. MURRAY; built the church at NEWBLISS; brother
of Alexander; grandson of Robert; |
|
Ker, John |
58 |
|
came from Scotland soon after the
Revolution of 1688; ancestor of Mrs. MURRAY KER |
|
Ker, John |
|
54 |
SEE: KER, Mrs. MURRAY; came from Scotland after 1688 revolution;
earliest residence was in AUGHNAMULLEN PARISH, townland of CORRYHAGEN; |
|
Ker, Marina Foster |
59 |
|
niece of Andrew KER, M.D. who inherited his
estate |
|
Ker, Marina Foster |
|
55 |
SEE: KER, Mrs. MURRAY; |
|
Ker, Mr. |
|
18 |
SEE: KER, Colonel |
|
Ker, Mrs.
|
39, 58 |
|
d. Feb 1900, of NEWBLISS; descended
through a family of Scotch extraction, from Mr. John KER who came from
Scotland soon after the Revolution of 1688; she was the niece of the
landlord, Dr. KER and after his death inherited the estate. When she married
a Mr. MURRAY, he changed his name to “MURRAY KER”; her father was the rector
of AGHNAMULLEN parish and died when he shot himself in the rectory; |
|
Ker, Mrs. |
|
18 |
wife of Colonel KER. SEE: KER, Colonel |
|
Ker, Mrs. Murray |
|
54 |
“Mrs. MURRAY KERR was descended through a family of Scotch extraction
from Mr .John KERR who came from Scotland after the revolution of (1688). The earliest residence of the KERRs' in Ireland was
in AUGHNAMULLAN Parish and townland of CORRYHAGAN quite
near to the lake. In my day the house was inhabited by David GILLIS
and rebuilt by him the time this railway was being built from B.BAY to COOTEHILL. A considerable estate
known as the "EIGHT TATES" or townlands passed by the
marriage of Annie KERR to David Vernor of County ARMAGH early in the
last century and still remains in the possession of the Vernors of. VERNORS
BRIDGE a family which was long connected with the representation of the
County ARMAGH in Parliament, In 1730 NEWBLISS or MULLAGNESUMMAR
in the Parish of KILLEVAN was purchased by Andrew KERR, the
representatives of Gilbert NICHOLSON to whom it had been granted by Chas. 2nd
in (1666). Robert KERR son of Andrew removed to NEWBLISS and built the
old family mansion in 1740, part of which is still standing. Alexander KERR grandson
of Robert was Barrister at law and. Chairman of the County :MONAGHAN
and it was he who erected the present mansion house at NEWBLISS he
died unmarried in 1814. He was succeeded by his brother Andrew KERR M. D. who
built the Church of NEWBLISS in 1848. He left his estate to his
sisters & afterwards to nieceMarina Foster KERR.” |
|
Ker, Richard |
14 |
|
of NEWBLISS, brother of William KER
took possession of the “Island farm” that Thomas Cathcart BREAKEY’s father
farmed; |
|
Ker, Richard |
|
55 |
SEE: KER, Wm |
|
Ker, Robert |
19, 59 |
|
“Robert KER, son of Andrew, removed to NEWBLISS
and built the old family mansion in 1740, part of which is still standing.”;
had grandsons, Alexander and Dr. Andrew KER; landlord of NEWBLISS
estates who has to make good the “sess” after Dick CROSS stole the money and
divvied it up with BRADFORD |
|
Ker, Robert |
|
25 |
likely a descendant of the previous Robert KER. |
|
Ker, Robert AKA Kerr |
|
54 |
“Robert KERR son of Andrew removed to NEWBLISS and built the
old family mansion in 1740, part of which is still standing..” |
|
Ker, William |
14, 32, 33, 66 |
|
illegitimate son of Barrister KER who
worked in the office of Dr. KER, the landlord; neighbour of Thomas Cathcart
BREAKEY and said to “rob every man”. |
|
Ker, William AKA KERR |
|
55 |
“When Wm. KERR
came to live in the Island farm (as it is called), he had no pass but through
this yard, and as he stubbed & cleared about 18 acres every tree drawn
through this yard, the pass got very bad. Wm. KERR said to my father [John
BREAKEY] give me a pass round your meadown and I will give you £40 and you
shall have the rite of pass to your meadows on it when required. Father said
he would but like some of old did not
ask, the money to the pass was finished. By that time Wm. KERR had built a
house and as he kept a loansfund & a lot of shareholders in it he began
to plan how to robb all men. He gathered up all the money he could, took a
moonlight flit cheated the shareholders over £2,000, Father out of £40. Went
to America and never returned. His brother Richard KERR of NEWBLISS
took possession of the Farm, and set it to Tom MARTIN who lived where James
DALY now lives. Tom MARTIN gave the farm to his adopted son in law Tom
Woods.” |
|
Kerins, Hugh |
61. |
|
an ancestor whose funeral was at TULLYCORBIT
and the last funereal there where loud keening was heard – the tradition died
out |
|
Kerr, Colonel SEE: Ker, Colonel |
|
50, 56, 57 |
|
|
Kilpatrick, John |
|
46 |
SEE: CUNNINGHAM, Mr. Book II, p46 CORDUFFLESS House built by
BREAKEY |
|
Kilpatrick, William |
61 |
|
an Orangeman who met Thomas Cathcart
BREAKEY on the way to a march and asked if he was “a sauncy foot”. BREAKEY
suggested that he take the cap off his gun to prevent an accident. KILPATRICK
didn’t and it resulted in the untimely accidental death of THOMPSON STUART. |
|
King John |
|
51 |
See: TOOLEY, Mrs. |
|
King Tanau |
|
22 |
“Now I will change the subject to the death of King of the Fiji
Islands Thakombau; the late cannibal King of the Fiji. This canibal began his
blood- thirsty career at the tender age of six years, & inaugurated his
reign by strangling his mother with his own hands. The influence of heredity
was manifest in him, for his father, King Tanau was even a greater fiend than
his son, which is saying a great deal. It was formerly the custom in Fiji to
kill the victims destined for the ovens with clubs, but king Tanau
conceived the pleasant little scheme of making the human joints arrange
themselves all ready for cocking, and then roast them alive. If a bit behind
his much to be feared father in inquity Thakombau far surpassed him in
numbers of people he killed & ate. One of the minor chiefs whose
opportunities for murder & cannibalism were presumably more limited than
those of his sovereign used to keep count of his victims by means of a pile
of stones. These reached a grand total of 872, and King Thakombau is known to
have been considerably greater than this. All things considered it is well
for the beautiful land of Fiji that King Thakombau is dead. When a wee boy I
heard a traveler who had been out in those islands, deliver a lecture in BELFAST.
He and his party come on a pack of natives who were cooking a girl with a
stick ran through her body kept up at either end by stones once in a while
turned over a fire. He had no bother in hunting them away & put the body
under ground. Returning that way at the end of some days he found it had been
raised & likely eaten up. Now my dear children we should thank God we
have no wild animals, cannibals or even mad dogs to fear in our country.” |
|
King Thakombau |
|
21, 22 |
SEE: King Tanau |
|
King, (?) Miss AKA Elizabeth |
12 |
|
married James SMALL who had the first
tannery in CO. CAVAN; grandmother of Thomas Cathcart BREAKEY |
|
King, A. |
32 |
|
a strong member of the town congregation
who pulled down the first Seceeders meeting house near CONVENT LAKE on
account of legalities surrounding title. He then incorporated it into a
brewery. |
|
Lacky, Uncle SEE: Leakey |
|
|
|
|
Laertes |
|
42 |
SEE: HOMER |
|
Latimer, Billy |
25, 57, 58 |
|
“Big Billy” of CLOCIN “was the last
of the yeomen and like his ancestors was unlettered and grossly ignorant”; he
was tricked into wearing stockings that dogs loved to urinate on and later
was in on the joke surrounding LEWIS
who had unknowingly become the next victim of the practical joke. |
|
Latimer, John |
46 |
|
“The week before John LATIMER of LISGORN
died, he sent for Dr. YOUNG of MONAGHAN” |
|
Latimer, William |
20, 60 |
|
when the potato crop failed in 1846, he had
the last pig in the parish; Thomas Cathcart BREAKEY’s father bought this pig
“and it turned out valuable”. |
|
Lawless, Jack |
|
12, 24 |
SEE: LAWLESS, John, also BRUNKER, Brabsty story; “frustrated in
burning BALLYBAY” |
|
Lawless, John AKA “Jack” |
28 |
|
a newspaper proprietor from BELFAST;
“formed a triumphal procession of Ribbonmen through MEATH, Louth, and
the Southern part of MONAGHAN. What the exact meaning of this
procession is not clearly known. People joined the procession believing it
was the beginning of a great national rising, though they were armed with
nothing but sticks. The triumphal march had reached close to BALLINTRA,
south of BALLYBAY where Sam GRAY had a large number of men,
principally Yeomen and Orangemen, armed to stop the procession. A large
company of troops under the command of General THORNTON intercepted the
processionists, and the persuasion of General THORNTON and a local priest,
the people were induced to return home. When Sam GRAY heard LAWLESS was
coming to BALLYBAY he sent him word to not come or he would run him
and his men into the LOUGH MAJOR. Jack LAWLESS sent him word in return
he would go and burn BALLYBAY. GRAY got afraid for once in
his life and sent for General THORNTON and his men. It was supposed LAWLESS
had 100,000 Ribbonmen in his gigantic procession.” |
|
Laycock Matilda |
7 |
|
“a Sheffield lady of good fame and fortune”
who married James BREAKEY |
|
Leakey, AKA Lacky |
|
17 |
Crown solicitor in MONAGHAN. |
|
Leakey, AKA Lacky |
5, 55 |
|
solicitor & husband of Mary BREAKY,
daughter of William “Billy bon” BREAKEY & Mary SCOTT |
|
Leekey, Elias |
15 |
|
a solicitor of MONAGHAN who married
Letitia BREAKEY, part of Thomas Cathcart BREAKY’s grandfather’s family |
|
Lees, (?) |
51 |
|
of LEESBORO near NEWBLISS, “a
grand old family, their property is now in the hands of Sir William POWER” |
|
LeScrope, Sir William |
|
42 |
Had title to Isle of Man |
|
|
68 |
|
SOURCE: At the Ford of the Birches:
of BALLYBAY; the LESLIE family were active in the DERRYVALLEY
chuch and were also mill owners in the region. |
|
Leslie, (?) Mrs. |
10 |
|
of BALLYBAY HOUSE; gave Thomas
Cathcart BREAKEY ₤1 for preserving a peacock with its tail up and her
cook gave him ₤1 for preserving
eggs “from the Jenny Wren to the Swan”. |
|
Leslie, John. Sir |
65 |
|
estate at PITICRUE and had John
CUNNINGHAM as an agent. |
|
Leslie, Mr. |
|
13 |
“destroyed a grand well on Pat BANNON’s hill by bringing it to the
last of Mr. GILBERTs row of houses.” |
|
Leslies |
|
54 |
“The LESLIES bought the estate in 1750 [I believe he is referring to CORNAMACKAGLASS.] |
|
Lewis, (?) Colonel |
34, 57, 58 |
|
Colonel of the old MONAGHAN Militia;
refused to take a respectable .farmer's
rent, and ordered him out of his
office for daring to come into his presence with a beard on him; butt of joke inflicted by his
friend Sam GRAY (involving stockings that a dog liked to urinate on) |
|
Lewis, Arthur Gamble |
31 |
|
last provost in MONAGHAN and agent
for the ROSSMORE estate; Colonel of the old MONAGHAN Militia
and “the last man to wear the old Yeoman’s uniform through the streets of MONAGHAN”. |
|
Lister, (?) |
76 |
|
of DUNDRUMOND, people of “pluck” |
|
Lister, James |
76 |
|
was dealt falsely by Seedman CLARK and
fought back making CLARK surrender |
|
Lister, John |
69 |
|
of DUNRAMON “one of the most
truthful men of the present day” |
|
Lister, John |
|
5, 6 |
“A setting dog come to Mr. John LISTER DUNDRUMON in rather a
misterious way, for some days he would appear at the house for a short time,
at length he was treated kindly by Mr. LISTER. No person ever turned up for
the dog & he become very much attached to Mr. LISTER, & kept by him
day & night for several years when Mr. LISTER took a serious and tedious
illness. During that time for weeks the dog looked gloomy & in the end
died whether from want of exercise or grief is a question to be solved.” |
|
Little, John |
|
35 |
SEE: Robin Hood |
|
Lockart, James |
23, 37 |
|
lives in house that had been Rev’d James
MORRELL and Rev. John ARNOLD’s; |
|
Lockart, William |
37 |
|
“Mr. William LOCKHART took away the old mud
cabins in the yard and built :a very fine
barn. His son, James, a few years
ago, removed the dwelling house of his father and old residence of Rev'd. William ARNOLD and Rev'd. James MORELL
and, regardless of expense, built the present residence.” |
|
Long, George |
41, 42 |
|
servant of James BREAKEY raised in the
family home; accompanied Edward BREAKEY to BELFAST and when it was
clear he was ill, left him with his brother John BREAKEY, a doctor at the
General Hospital where he died. |
|
Long, James |
25 |
|
at his house in BOWLK, there were
large weights sunk into the ground used to chain a bull for bull fights. |
|
Lord Camden |
|
8 |
“In 1798 the rebels were more afraid of
them [Orangemen] than the regular troops, but Lord CAMDEN refused to employ
them & thereby give a sectarian character to the rebellion.” |
|
Loren, Rev. John |
|
20 |
told a story – SEE: MORELL |
|
Louis XIV |
2 |
|
King of France |
|
Louis XV, |
|
33 |
SEE: SANCY |
|
Low, Bruce |
|
44 |
author of article see: Claverhouse Book II, p44 |
|
Lunney, (?) |
47 |
|
of COOTEHILL, later there were
LUNNEYs in Philadelphia who James BREAKEY met when he first emigrated. |
|
Lyttle, William |
17, 69 |
|
sexton of First BALLYBAY Church
(attended by Thomas Cathcart BREAKEY), whose father was known to pack 30
stone of oats on the back of a horse 14 hands high |
