Rathkeale - Palatine families

[Annie46]

Does anyone have information on the Palatine families who emigrated to the Southwell Estate in the late 18th century. Especially interested in the family of Johann Brough who was a vine dresser

Anne

[Christopher]

Hello Anne,

There is an Irish Palatine Association that might be able to assist. I'm not certain whether you have to join the Association before they put you in touch with experts on Palatine families but there's no harm in asking ... 

www.anirelandattraction.com/a_print/print_entries_frames.php?&e=455SYT&a=0

A great many Palatine families left Ireland but Sir Thomas Southwell managed to persuade some of his tenants to stay and within a few years more Palatine families settled on his lands www.teskey.org/palhist.html

Christopher

[VivienHick]

Annie,
I've only just seen your post of 2007. The last record that I have found for Brough/Braugh is from the 1720 list of Palatines on the Southwell Estate. He is also listed as Hans Felten Brough. There is over twenty years of a gap before the extant parish records in Rathkeale begin and the family does not turn up there or in any of the extant records for the Palatine areas in Counties Limerick and Kerry. Do you have family connections?
Vivien Hick

[Ronan Mahon]

Hi All,
Im in the process of tracing the Bakers down in Rathkeale who are a Palatine family.There is a Palatine association down there and they have just had a 300 years festival.

[Annie46]

Hi Vivien

Yes my mother was a Brough and her great grandfather Thomas Brough was bon in Dublin in 1824, joined the army in 1842 and was sent out to the colonies as part of the convict guard in 1846. He settled in NZ after his time was up with his wife and children