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Australia / Re: FITZMAURICE/MEADE
« on: Sunday 07 April 13 05:47 BST (UK) »
I have evidence now that Kate Fitzmaurice was indeed married to a Fitzmaurice as she is referred to in the estate administration of her brother, Major Roche Meade, as 'Kate Fitzmaurice - Widow, Catherine Street, Limerick'. This was in December 1849. Roche Meade died in November 1849 and his estate went to his only next of kin being his two sisters Kate Fitzmaurice and Mary Anne Burgess, both widows and his half brother Stephen Meade who was appointed joint administrator of Roche Meade's estate. Mrs Kate Fitzmaurice is the mother of Mary Agnes (Williamson) Grant (first marriage?) and then second marriage Powell. Quite a few items of memorabilia belonging to Roche Meade (forage cap for instance) were in our family's possession. The Meade family (apart from Stephen Meade who married a Maria Burgess in 1826) appear to disappear from Ireland. John Meade Thomas and Edmund Fennell appeared in the Court of Chancery in London in 1819 on charges relating to the misadministration of an estate for which they both were executors. I wonder if the disgrace of this forced them to leave Ireland. However Mary Agnes seems to be certain she was born in Ireland somewhere.