William Meadows Ireland

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I have a William Meadows at the start of our family tree which is documented in The Landed Gentry 1912 but I can't find which branch of the UK Meadows family he comes from he was married in Ireland August 1697 to Catherine who may not have been his first wife as a lot of women died in child birth and he Died 1726 and desired to be buried in St Iberius Church Wexford which would indicate he may have been a Vickar which back then was granted to the chosen few rather than a "Calling". The family came to Ireland with a lot of money and married well. The sons were highly educated in Trinity Cambridge and France also there are records of this line being born in Australia and India but I can't find where William came from in the U.K.

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There was a Lease    Date registered   17th Nov 1737
between

P1   MONCK   Charles   of   Grangegorm. DUB   Esq   
and
B       P2   MEADOWS   Arthur   of   Wexford, WEX   Tallow Chandler   

for the lives of

C       Life   MEADOWS   William   of   Wexford, WEX   Son of B   
D       Life   MEADOWS   Arthur (Jr.)   of   Wexford, WEX   Son of B   
E       Life   MEADOWS   Joseph   of   Wexford, WEX   Son of B

earliest I can see  http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=62249

Arthur was married to Ann Percival, so plenty of money there... you could try looking at Percivals for possible/probable Marriage Agreement on Nick Reddan's site   
http://irishdeedsindex.net/deeds_index/name_index.php   .

I had a great Percival lineage up last night will see if I can find it again as Ann should be on it.

[WMeadows]

Thanks for reply. I don't quite understand it though as I am still learning the lingo. The other problem with our line is that we have called most of the male offspring Arthur, Joseph, William, John and Henry so it gets quite confusing but Burks have it well documented but of course All of ireland was the UK back then when Our first William was alive! I also saw on a forum which I can't find again that the Suffolk Meadows also had a William which they lost record of! And also one of our later William Meadows went to Liverpool which I saw might be looked for on this forum also.

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This is all I see on Meadow Wills... too late for you!!

[WMeadows]

Yes I am looking for which Meadows came from the UK but this is interesting as Barbara Meadows has a large plack in St Iberius Church and I didn't know who she was but now I can see from this! Thanks you are fast and clearly know what to look for 😉

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Well it's a new bit for you so!

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He died 1721, his Will was proven 1726...

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A tiny snippet...

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"Margaret Loftus, sister of Lord Loftus of Loftus Hall married Hygatt Boyde of Rosleare Esq, Her daughter
Ann Boyde married Sam Batt of Ozier Hill, and Anne's daughter Margaret married Arthur Meadows who had
three children, one only, Arthur, survived her."