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The Comerford Family History Blog
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)
Ballybur Castle
Ballybur Castle, Co Kilkenny
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 development expert in Africa
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
41: Major James J Comerford (1899-1950), reorganised the Dublin fire service
42: Charles Blake-Forster (1851-1874), genealogist and heir to the Comerford family of Co Galway
Appendices
1: Comerford and some other placenames
2: Comerford shopfronts and signs
3: The bizarre pedigree of Joseph Comerford (1724)
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: Comberford Village today
10: The Moat House, Tamworth
11: Wednesbury and the Comberford family
12: Comberford coats of arms and heraldry
13: The Comberford Family in Lichfield
Comberford Appendix 1: The Beaumont family of Wednesbury
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About Me
Patrick Comerford
Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
I am an Anglican priest, retired Priest-in-Charge of Ratkeale and Kilnaughtin Group of parishes, retired Canon Precentor of Limerick, Killaloe and Clonfert Cathedrals, and a retired theology professor
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