3/10/2023 0 Comments Retrace my family tree![]() She says James Staunton, of Six Noggins, married the daughter of Liam, of Corrymailley she says, and Lady Harriet O’Malley. My interest in the family is there intermarriages with my relatives the O’Malleys.Īlthough she doesn’t give a date I am going to say approx 1840-1850 based on my knowledge of future generations marriages. I recently received a copy of a letter telling the history of the family of Wynn (née Staunton) Salter in 1984 when they were probating the will of Molly Sullivan grand daughter of Patrick Staunton and Winifred (Née Ruane) Staunton. Simply Sign up for your free weekly Letter from Ireland by clicking here. We’ll help you discover how your ancestors lived, what their Irish homeland was like & lots more. ![]() Is your Irish surname amongst them? Is there a king in your Irish ancestry tree? If you’d like to find out more about where your ancestors came from why not sign up to our weekly Newsletter. So, who were these families? I have listed the family names below. The “overlords” had the right to call up troops from the other lords in their area and extract some taxes – but mostly all of the lordships were autonomous. They intermarried with other royal families to establish beneficial alliances and sponsored churches and monasteries on their lands. The lords kept historians and genealogists, they reclaimed old royal inauguration sites, they entertained with their poets and bards. A Gaelic revival was also underway – a remembering of Ireland before the invasions of the 1100s. They had their territory guarded by Gallowglass and the towerhouses and castles we see today. These Lords were spread through the 4 provinces of Ireland. These 90 or so “captains” – (by this time also known as “lords” rather than Kings) – were the autonomous royal families of Ireland.Ĭastledonovan, County Cork – Seat of the O’Donovans Lords of Ireland. Also there be thirty great captains of the English folk (Normans) that follow the same Irish order and every one of them makes war and peace for himself without any licence of the King.” “there reigneth more than 60 chief captains … that liveth only by the sword, and obeyth unto no other temporal person. So, who were the royal families of Ireland around 1515? A well known English state paper of the time tells us that beyond the pale: ![]() Beyond that was “beyond the Pale” – a land of individual chiefdoms and seeming lawlessness. What was left of the old English administration was in an area around Dublin called the Pale. Also, by that time, many of the Normans had been fully subsumed into Gaelic culture – adopting Gaelic customs. The Rock of Cashel – Seat of the Kings of Munsterīy that time, the surname system had been fully introduced, so we can mention your surnames in connection with these royal families.
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