Comerford Family History: February 2012

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With resources on the Comerford, Comberford and Quemerford families of Staffordshire, Wiltshire, Kilkenny and Wexford, and their branches.

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Registered One-Name Studies: Comerford, Comberford, Commerford, Quemerford and Comerton

Member of the Genealogical Society of Ireland (MGSI)

Member of the Genealogical Society of Ireland (MGSI)

Ballybur Castle

Ballybur Castle

Ballybur Castle, Co Kilkenny

Quemerford House

Quemerford House

Quemerford House, Calne, Wiltshire

Part 1: The Comerfords of Ireland

Welcome to ‘Comerford Family History’

1: Opening the door into family history

2: Quemerford and Comerford family origins

3: From Calne to Callan: the first members of the Quemerford and Comerford families

4: Comerford of Ballybur Castle and Kilkenny City

5: The Comerfords of Danganmore

6: Comerford of Ballymack and Callan

7: The Comerfords of Castleinch and Waterford

8: Comerford of Bunclody and Dublin

9: Sinnott y Comerford of Wexford and Argentina

10: Comerford of Co Wexford and Minooka, Illinois

11: Comerford of Horetown, Newbawn, &c., Co Wexford

12: Comerford of Wexford Town

13: Comerford of Ballinakill, Rathdrum and Courtown

14: Comerford of Wexford and Cork and Comerford-Casey of Cork

15: Comerford of Dundalk

16: Comerford of Wexford and Hampshire

17: Comerford of Galway

18: Comerford of Somerset, Monmouth and Rathgar

19: Comerford of Balbriggan and Skerries, Co Dublin

20: Comerford, Marquis d’Anglure

21: The Comerford family: Coats of Arms and Heraldry

Part 2: Comerford Profiles

1: Edmund Comerford (d. 1509): the last pre-Reformation Bishop of Ferns

2: William Comerford (ca. 1486-ca. 1539): the Reformation Dean of Ossory

3: Revd Dr Nicholas Comerford, SJ (c. 1540–c. 1599), Jesuit theologian

4: Justice Garret Comerford (ca 1558-1604), judge and politician

5: Patrick Comerford (1586-1652), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore

6: Nicholas Comberford (ca 1600-1673), 17th-century cartographer

7: Edward Comerford (ca 1600-ca 1660), MP for Callan

8: Nicholas Commerford (1652-post 1667), deported to Barbados

9: Joseph Comerford (d. 1729), Marquis d’Anglure

10: the Most Revd Dr Edward Comerford (ca 1644-1710), Archbishop of Cashel

11: Maria Theresa Comerford, Duchess of Wharton

12: James Comerford (1775-1825) and witnesses to the 1798 Rising

13: John Comerford (1770-1832), artist

14: James Comerford (ca 1720-1808)

15: George Comerford (ca 1814-1838), early Australian bushranger

16: Bishop Michael Comerford (1831-1895), bishop and historian

17: James Comerford, JP, FSA (1807-1881): antiquarian and book collector

18: James Comerford (1817-1902), Victorian stucco artist and architect

19: Stephen Edward Comerford (1867-1921), stuccodore and trade unionist

20: the Revd Edwards Comerford Hawkins (1827-1906) and ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’

21: Máire Comerford (1893-1982), republican activist and journalist

22: Judge James J. Comerford (1901-1988), leader of the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade

23: Princess Kathleen Comerford Scherbatow (1914-1999)

24: Joe Comerford, film-maker

25: Andy Comerford, Kilkenny hurler

26: Martin Comerford, Kilkenny hurler

27: Cristeta Comerford, White House Chef

28: Jane Comerford, singer, songwriter

29: Paddy Comerford and Ignatius Comerford, Cork theatre cousins

30: Michael E Comerford (1865- ), cinema proprietor

31: Jim Comerford (1913-2006), Australian trade unionist

32: Ashlee Comerford, Canadian artist

33: Chris Comerford, Irish businessman

34: Some Comerford surgeons in war and peace

35: Comerford war dead

36: Some Comerford missionaries

37: Dr Joe Comerford, UN expert murdered in Congo

38: Pierce Comerford (1944-2010), maintaining a tradition at Coolgreany

39: Marie Comerford (1956-2009), mother of a bomb victim, she died of a broken heart

40: James Butler (1665-1745), 2nd Duke of Ormond, a Jacobite who used the name Comerford in exile

Appendices

1: Comerford and some other placenames

2: Comerford shopfronts and signs

3: The bizarre pedigree of Joseph Comerford (1724)

Comberford Hall

Comberford Hall

Comberford Hall, Staffordshire

Part 3: Comberford of Comberford

1: The Comberford Family of Comberford, Staffordshire, an introduction

2: Comerford and Comberford, ties of kinship and affection

3: The early Comberford family

4: Comberford wealth from Wednesbury

5: Recusants, royal guests and civil war

6: ‘A family brought low …’

7: The Quaker Comberfords of Bradley, Staffordshire

8: Comberford Hall

9: The Moat House, Tamworth

10: Wednesbury and the Comberford family

11: Comberford coats of arms and heraldry

12: The Comberford Family in Lichfield

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About Me

Patrick Comerford: Dublin, Ireland; I am a priest in the Church of Ireland (Anglican), Lecturer in Anglicanism and Liturgy in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, and a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. For many years I worked as a journalist with the Lichfield Mercury, the Wexford People and The Irish Times, where I was Foreign Desk Editor until 2002. Visit me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/revpatrickcomerford

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Also worth visiting

The story of Stephen Comerford and World War I
Quemerford on Wikipedia
The early Comerford family in Co Kilkenny
Comerford Family Genealogy Forum
Patrick Comerford's blogspot

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