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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Wicklow => Topic started by: DudleyWinchurch on Monday 05 March 07 10:33 GMT (UK)
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Does anyone out there have any information on the history of Kilquade House? The current owners kindly replied to my queries but have no historical information prior to the 1960s.
I have an indenture document, dated 1825, for my GGGG-grandfather (I think) stating that he is Henry Cuthbert son of Robert Cuthbert, steward to John T O'Reilly of Kilquade house.
I would love to know a bit more about the house and the people who lived there, what Robert's job would have involved, and any Cuthbert family details for this family. I believe the house was built around 1780 and its location is somewhere near Kilcoole.
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Hiya DudleyWinchurch,
I phoned the librarian at the Local History Department of Wicklow Libraries and as a result of the conversation we had I've just opened a thread on Buildings of Ireland on the Irish Resources board. You may find something about Kilquade House there. If you have no luck post again and I'll get back to the librarian in Wicklow.
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland mentions that the property belonged to Hunter O'Reilly in 1837.
Chris
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Thanks Chris,
I had just found your other message and checked and unfortunately, only the gates (and what appears to be a small gatehouse) are represented on the site.
If the library have any further information or even know where the papers from the original owners might be deposited, I would be delighted to hear.
I am not having much luck with my Irish roots at present. My paternal g-grandparents were from Mayo according to just one of the English census forms they were reported on, but no further clues as yet where to look. My maternal grandmother's family seem to have no birth records and even the little information for which I do have evidence doesn't seem to be taking me any further.
Sorry, forgot to add that my ancestor Henry Cuthbert was described as the (second) son of Robert Cuthbert steward to John T O'Reilly of Kilquade House in 1825.
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I may have something, Dudley.
Dún Laoghaire Genealogical Society Journal - ISSN 0791-6523
DLGSJ Vol. 6 No. 4 The Winter1997 issue of the DLGS Journal features Residuary Account by Rory Stanley
(John Tracy O'Reilly, Esquire of Kilquade House, Co. Wicklow - died 14th October 1841).
A copy of that Journal may be in the Local History Dept of the Wicklow Library.
I'm still looking at sites on the web to see if there's anything more.
Chris
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Thanks for that too. Is that the same article on the Irish Genealogy site Journal page? I emailed them for details but got no response.
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Thanks for that too. Is that the same article on the Irish Genealogy site Journal page? I emailed them for details but got no response.
They sound like helpful people DW. I suggest you try emailing the Local History Department of Wicklow Library and ask if they have that magazine could they send you a photo copy of the article. They probably have some other documents on the O'Reilly family. You won't get much response till after Easter.
Library Service - Wicklow County Council - Link (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=109383.new#new)
Chris
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A huge huge thankyou to Moscan who has found information from a number of different sources for me on this subject. She consulted the Wicklow library service on my behalf and I now have various documents on the House, the area and local villages, the O'Reilly family and some Cuthbert references to follow up.
;D :D ;D :D ;D
Special thanks also to Christopher for all the suggestions and to Robert of the Wicklow library service for all his efforts and the documents he found for me.
By chance today I found another piece of the jigsaw through a link from Rootschat to the Tracy family website.
From: 1771 to 1812 Walkers Hibernian Magazine
O'Reilly, Capt. John Tracy (late of 5th Dragoons), of H.E.I. Co.'s 3rd Regt. of Native Cavalry=Hunter, Isabella Sarah, only child of Andrew, of Queen St., Edinburgh, late of Bengal, in St. Mary's Church, at Madras, 1 July, 1807 Jan. 1808 p. 62
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which confirms that the John T O'Reilly of Kilquade House mentioned in our apprenticeship document married Isabella Sarah Hunter, .... linking to the name of Hunter O'Reilly - presumably their son and heir, and giving me more details on the person named as Robert Cuthbert's employer.
.. another brickwall is crashing down...
I'm off to have a really good look through all these papers. it feels like Christmas!
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Hi Guys
I know a little of a large house in Kilquade. I'm not sure if its the same one. Its North of Druids Glen Golf course.
My family owned it from the first half of the 1900s. They were Gilmores. Their nephew Jack Hudson managed it.
If anyone can confirm to me where this house is it would be great.
Someone even said it was knocked down?? hope not
Niall
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Kilquade House
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,728497,707661,11,9
clicking on Street Map will show how much of it is left today.
Woodstock House is between Druids Glen and Kilquade House.
Well it seems to be in the middle of the golf course now so I guess it's part of Druids Glen now.
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Oh Wow Thanks for that.
Now I know where it is.
I only know a little of its history but I have old photos to share if anyone would like them.
I presume its owned privately these days.
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Hello,
I am a local amateur historian in Kilcoole and we would like to include a section on the history of Kilquade House in our revised history.
I see that several members of this thread found documents or photographs of the house. I would be delighted to see them and evaluate them for inclusion in our history.
James Scott, Kilcoole
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I too would also like to see these photos, I have traced my grandmother to this house im the early 1940's
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Livingstone Thompson b.1810 in Dublin and died on the 19th September 1874 living at Kilquade House, Newtown, Mont Kennedy, Co. Wicklow, he had married Florida Norman and his brother was John Graves Livingstone Thompson, who changed his name to Livingstone on the 12th May 1863 and died in Bristol on the 17th May 1902.
Any information about their parents would be helpful, their grandparents were John Thompson and Mary Ann Graves, who later married Alexander Irwin.
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Livingstone Thompson b.1810 in Dublin and died on the 19th September 1874 living at Kilquade House, Newtown, Mont Kennedy, Co. Wicklow...
For reference, here's the link (and written and transcribed as Levingston)- #259
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1874/020653/7247167.pdf
Newcastle R.D. Rathdrum S.R.D.
Kilquade House
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,728497,707661,11,9
Link no longer works.
OSi National Townland and Historical Map Viewer.
MapGenie 25 Inch [1897-1913] in Basemap Gallery
https://arcg.is/1W9qm8
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Livingstone Thompson b.1810 in Dublin and died on the 19th September 1874 living at Kilquade House, Newtown, Mont Kennedy, Co. Wicklow...
For reference, here's the link (and written and transcribed as Levingston)- #259
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1874/020653/7247167.pdf
Newcastle R.D. Rathdrum S.R.D.
His wife Florinda nee Norman died in 1896 and is buried at Killiskey.
Here is a link about him
https://www.festipedia.org.uk/wiki/Livingston_Thompson_(1810)
and his brother John Graves Livingston, who had married at Newmill, Armagh on the 17th September 1845, Sarah Henrietta Caroline Sophia the 2nd daughter of the Hon. Andrew Godfrey Stuart of Lisdhu, Co. Tyrone.
https://www.festipedia.org.uk/wiki/John_Graves_Livingston
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Hi
There appears to be an Algeo connection as in the Will of Margaret Algeo of Dublin who died in 1863 refers to Livingston Thompson of Castlegrange, near Ashford, Co Wicklow, as Nephew of the deceased. See:-
http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014889/005014889_00329.pdf
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Hi
There appears to be an Algeo connection as in the Will of Margaret Algeo of Dublin who died in 1863 refers to Livingston Thompson of Castlegrange, near Ashford, Co Wicklow, as Nephew of the deceased. See:-
http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014889/005014889_00329.pdf
Yes that would be correct, by reading the letters of Mary Graves (1772-1860, the daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas Graves) to her aunts in Ireland, dated 26th March 1832, she says " I have just received the sad news of poor Mrs. Thompson's death from Livingstone and is her death likely to make any difference to Jane Thompson and Mary Ann. What has Mrs.T. left?, I hope she has left something to her sister in law. I suppose poor Maria must be consigned for education to that affected simpleton her aunt Algoe. What will the young men do. When will John T. be of age, how is the health of Maria and her brother."