Family of Garrett FITZGERALD near Killarney

[Sinann]

I'm totally confused now.
Are the Fitzgerald's RC or COI?

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I'm totally confused now.
Are the Fitzgerald's RC or COI?

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[Sinann]

So is the thinking Garrett is related to the Rev.?

Those RC baptisms can't be the correct family, yes?

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So is the thinking Garrett is related to the Rev.?

Those RC baptisms can't be the correct family, yes?

Well they go across to the Bandon lot.... and Garrett Fitzgerald, Prime Minister, was part of that lot and he wasn't RC.

he was on "Who Do you think you are" program talking about his family history....

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Marriage

1824    DAY Robert    Late judge of the King's Bench    FITZGERALD Mary    d/o late B Fitzgerald MD, Bandon


http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/bandon_related_bmd_elsewhere.htm

[John Falvey]

Ballyfinnane and Firies townlands were owned by the Browne family, later Earls of Kenmare.

They leased Ballyfinnane to James Mahony of The Point in 1758, he had taken a lot of leases from the Brownes around then. He died in 1794, but I presume his descendants still held on to the land.

Firies townland was leased by the Brownes to the O'Connor Kerry family after the siege of Tralee back in 1652. They were still there until the 1860's when Barry O'Connor was going around brandishing guns at people. I suspect Barry was the son of Jeremiah who is shown in the 1836 Electoral Roll as being a freeholder in Firies, though most of the land he held there was still leasehold as per Griffiths.

There is also a John O'Connor in Firies in Griffiths. His wife and daughter moved to Australia in 1857 and left him behind, see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/O'Connor-301.

[John Falvey]

More on Connors though I wouldn't swear to the accuracy of this snippet from 1840:

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In the National Library of Ireland


"Copy of royal licence to the Rev. John Robert Fitzgerald and Edward Fitzgerald, both of Spring Hill in Co. Kerry, to take the name of Day in addition and after that of Fitzgerald and to quarter the arms of Day, July 26, 1841."