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I'm afraid I have no idea what "Saunders Court information" is - can you elaborate please?
If there is anything specific you need help with give as many details as you can and we will try to help.
Heywood,
Saunders Court in Wexford Ireland has a family burial ground. I have consulted the message board post regarding the Burial Ground information at Saunders Court. No response there yet.
However I will explain.
David Goodall wrote "Frayne's of Co. Wexford" for the Irish Genealogist in 1970. Vol 4 Issue 3. In it is identified the descendancy of Michael Frayne who was in some way related to Richard Saunders. He listed the descendants of Michael Frayne using sources that included the burials at Saunders Court Co. Wexford and the Ferns Marriages. One of the descendants is Saunders Frayne who died in 1836 who married a Mary Boardman. If the burial information is correct Saunders Frayne would have been born (forgive the error as I am not by my research materials) about 1756.
Having traced my American lineage to Co. Wexford (emigration date at about 1853), then ruling out the the other known Fraynes from Griffith's Valuation, I believe that Goodall's descendancy information is my lineage. However, there is one caveat to the information. Mary Boardman died Augusta, Georgia US. I have found absolutely no evidence that Sanders Frayne ever arrived in the US. Mary's records in Augusta show her as having been born about 1790 or 1798. (No exact birth records date has been found with these early American Fraynes). The Ferns Marriage information says that Sanders and Married around 1817. This would have placed Sanders at 56 years old at the time of marriage. While it is not uncommon for a man to marry a younger woman at that time, I question the validity of the association between the marriage record at Ferns to the burial information as Saunders Court Co. Wexford.
Mary Boardman Frayne resided with her children (4 of them) in Augusta Georgia US from about 1853 to her death in 1872. Her children Walter, Richard, Saunders all died within 2 years of her. Except Jacob who appears to have been the black sheep of the family, he died in 1889 after murdering a man of Augusta. My great grandfather was five when his mother also passed away, an orphan whose guardianship was hotly sought after by many prominent businessmen/women. (Apparently the estate was worth 14 thousand dollars in 1872.). I mention this to explain that all that was left by way of genealogical information is a family chart compiled by my grandmother between 1965 and 1970 after her husband George Frain passed at the age of 52 in 1957. This family chart claimed that the spouse of Mary Boardman was Richard Alexander Frayne.
In short, either Goodall's record is in error, or the family recollection is in error.
I still believe that the Augusta Georgia family is related to the Saunders Frayne of Saunders Court Co. Wexford. However it may be that Mary Boardman married the son of Saunders Frayne of Saunders Court (likely also named Saunders) and that they lived in Oulart or (again forgive potential errors here) Meelna, Garra.
This information is also based off the same family chart that states Mary Boardman has a sister by the name of Elizabeth who married Edward Stephens. One of Edwards children was named Elias. (In a curious twist, Mary Boardmans son Saunders Alexander Frayne went back to Ireland after arriving in Augusta to marry the daughter of Elizabeth Boardman Stepehens, and brought her back to Augusta. Also named Mary. If his information is correct then they were first cousins.) The Tithe Applotment (I think this was in 1824 but I would have to check the records) books have show the following in Meelna, Charles Boardman, Sanders Frayne, and Elias Stephens within a short few lines of each other.
Is it possible that Saunders Frayne of Saunders Court move to Meelna after the birth of his two children Sarah and Joseph? (1817 and 1818 respectively). (The same family chart shows two unnamed children.)
Based off this information would you agree that there is an error somewhere?
GTD
