tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62435713351204655942024-03-27T06:37:00.448+00:00Comerford Family HistoryA blog devoted to the history of the Comerford, Comberford and Quemerford familiesPatrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-87358652426953455762018-07-09T12:00:00.002+01:002023-01-25T13:33:49.213+00:00Welcome to ‘Comerford Family History’Welcome to the story of the Comerford, Comberford and Quemerford families
Some words of welcome from Patrick Comerford:
Welcome to my blog on the Comerford Family History, looking at the history of the Comerford family in Ireland, especially in Co Kilkenny, Co Wexford and Dublin, and the history of the Quemerford family in Wiltshire and the Comberford family in Staffordshire.
The essays on Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-53419737898956202802009-08-13T15:48:00.008+01:002018-07-09T12:08:54.937+01:001: Opening the door into family historyDoorways into the Comerford family history: the front door of Quemerford House in Quemerford, Calne, Wiltshire (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)
Doorways into the Comerford family history: the doorway at Ballybur Castle, Co Kilkenny (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)
Doorways into the Comerford family history: the portico of Comberford Hall in Staffordshire
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Professor Katie CannonPatrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-22365408325315765622009-08-12T16:16:00.006+01:002020-05-14T16:40:43.968+01:002: Quemerford and Comerford family origins 2.1: Welcome to Quemerford: where the Comerford family finds its origins (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2009)
By Patrick Comerford
According to the 19th century genealogist, Sir William Betham (1779-1853), the Comerford family was of Norman origin, coming to England with William the Conqueror in 1066, and then to Ireland in 1189. An account of the family origins that had wide currency in the Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-61680026725332797732009-08-11T22:37:00.008+01:002013-05-23T20:30:27.959+01:003: From Calne to Callan: the first members of the Quemerford and Comerford families3.1: Quemerford: this part of Calne in Wiltshire gave its name to the Comerford family in Ireland (Photograph © Patrick Comerford, 2008).
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The origins of the Quemerford and Comerford family in Wiltshire and their move to Co Kilkenny are traced in Chapter 2: Quemerford and Comerford family origins. From that narrative, we see that the first member of the family using the name of Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-29491043151136309962009-08-10T18:52:00.020+01:002020-05-14T16:50:20.306+01:004: Comerford of Ballybur Castle and Kilkenny City4.1: Ballybur Castle, ancestral home of the Comerford family of Ballybur and Kilkenny City (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2011)
By Patrick Comerford
GERALD COMERFORD (fl 1300-1302?). According to a volume of pedigrees in the possession of Blake Forster, Gerald Comerford was Guardian of the Peace for Kilkenny in 1300, and in 1302 he married Arabella Plunket, daughter of Sir Anthony Plunket.[1]
Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-2536100874763213692009-08-09T20:41:00.021+01:002020-05-14T16:43:30.883+01:005: The Comerfords of DanganmoreThe ruins of Danganmore Castle, once owned by the Comerford family, are incorporated into the Forristal family home (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2012)
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Danganmore, near Casle Morres,[1] is a townland of 376 acres in the parish of Dunnamaggin in the Barony of Kells, Co Kilkenny, and Danganmore Castle was 150 metres south of the churchyard.[2]
The old churchyard in Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-54552819856869104402009-08-08T23:30:00.015+01:002017-07-27T20:14:37.479+01:006: Comerford of Ballymack and CallanThe monument to Thomas Comerford in the ruined South Aisle in Saint Mary's Church, Callan (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2011)
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RICHARD COMERFORD ‘Senior’ (ca 1462-ca 1532). Richard, who was born ca 1462, may have been a brother of both Bishop Edmond Comerford. [See Chapter 4: Comerford of Ballybur Castle and Kilkenny City]. Richard married Ellen Freny (or French), daughter Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-17039901999799347882009-08-07T11:55:00.007+01:002020-05-14T16:44:59.555+01:007: The Comerfords of Castleinch and WaterfordDesart Court ... built by the Cuffe family on the site of the Castleinch estate owned for generations by the Comerford family
Patrick Comerford
The Quemerford or Comerford family was involved in the civic, mercantile, social, political and ecclesiastical life of the City of Waterford from the early decades of the 15th century. The branch of the Comerford family connected with Inchiholohan for Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-78604130351365835632009-08-06T20:28:00.060+01:002022-07-24T19:31:39.476+01:008: Comerford of Bunclody and Dublin8.1: Bunclody in the 21st century: this branch of the Comerford family moved to the Bunclody area in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
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Introduction
At the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, one line of the Comerford family of Ballybur [see Chapter 4: Comerford of Ballybur Castle and Kilkenny City] moved from Kilkenny to the area around Newtownbarry (Bunclody), in northPatrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-53441880371557488042009-08-05T20:38:00.009+01:002018-11-16T14:23:32.705+00:009: Sinnott y Comerford and Kelly y Comerford of Wexford and ArgentinaWillie Sinnott y Comerford, who died in Buenos Aires in 1940: the Comerford name continued in his family in Argentina
Patrick Comerford
The Comerford family name continued to be used in Argentina by two families whose direct male line of descent was derived from a Kelly and a Sinnott family in Co Wexford.
The sisters Margaret and Bridget Comerford, who moved to Argentina, married into the Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-89949563366944861732009-08-04T20:48:00.007+01:002019-04-02T21:10:03.148+01:0010: Comerford of Co Wexford and Minooka, Illinois The Comerford Farm in Minooka, Illinois, ca 1888 (Photograph courtesy John L Baskerville)
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A Comerford family with origins in Co Wexford has been intimately involved in the founding and later history of Minooka in Illinois, a town 65 miles outside Chicago. Minooka was originally home to the Potowatomie Indians, who first lived in the surrounding area.[1]
Minooka dates back Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-46776901234088529492009-08-03T14:46:00.011+01:002013-05-07T19:34:51.981+01:0011: Comerford of Horetown, Newbawn, &c., Co WexfordThe castle at Fethard-on-Sea was the official residence of Edmond Comerford as Bishop of Ferns at the beginning of the 16th century. One branch of the Comerford family was living nearby in Fethard-on-Sea in the 19th and the early 20th century (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2011)
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Newbawn is in Adamstown Parish, Co Wexford. The Sweetman family was associated with this parish Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-84941024968850732892009-08-02T15:45:00.009+01:002022-06-26T21:43:18.601+01:0012: Comerford of Wexford TownThe Franciscan Friary in Wexford Town and John Street, seen from the gates of Rowe Street Church. Generations of Comerfords were baptised here in the 18th and 19th centuries when they lived in John Street and the neighbourhood (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2007)
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The Comerford family has been present in Wexford Town since the end of the 17th or the beginning of the 18th Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-86293510727014581942009-08-01T18:39:00.037+01:002023-03-13T18:01:27.512+00:0013: Comerford of Ballinakill, Rathdrum and CourtownArdavon House, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow … home to generations of this branch of the Comerford family
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The Comerford family of Ardavon House, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, founded Rathdrum Mill, beside Rathdrum Bridge, in the mid-19th century. Rathdrum Mill finally closed in 1935. Ardavon House occupied a prominent site at the northern end of the town, facing the junction of the Main StreetPatrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-70857439675935415002009-07-31T19:03:00.024+01:002023-10-03T14:58:41.552+01:0014: Comerford of Wexford and Cork and Comerford-Casey of Cork12.1: Anthony Hope Hawkins, author of The Prisoner of Zenda, was the son of the Revd Edwards Comerford Hawkins (1827-1906), of Saint Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, and through him was descended from the Comerford family of Wexford and Cork.
Patrick Comerford
According to John O’Hart, the Comerfords of Cork are said to be a branch of the Comerford family of Co Wexford.[1] However, Joseph Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-52628357858970306672009-07-30T19:52:00.011+01:002023-04-30T21:28:32.074+01:0015: Comerford of DundalkWaterford Cathedral (Roman Catholic), where Edward Comerford from Dundalk was the organist. He died in Waterford in 1894. (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2007)
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Another family of Comerfords is found in counties Longford, Monaghan and Louth, where the name is often a variant of Comiskey. However, some descendants of the Comerfords of Kilkenny and Bunclody [see Chapter 8: Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-60041103688833565332009-07-29T13:38:00.008+01:002023-10-03T15:03:04.600+01:0016: Comerford of Wexford and HampshireThe parish records at Saint Mary's Church, Alverstoke, west of Portsmouth Harbour, hold details of many members of this branch of the Commerford family
Comerford of Wexford, Hampshire and Jersey
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One Comerford or Commerford family with roots in Co Wexford appears in the 19th century in Hampshire and in Jersey in the Channel Islands, and can be traced through local parish Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-6884968729091256712009-07-28T14:26:00.020+01:002022-07-29T07:05:29.296+01:0017: Comerford of Galway and Co Clare Comerford House, near Spanish Arch, Galway: donated to Galway City by the Comerford family and for a time the home of the Galway City Museum (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2009)
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Comerford House, beside the Spanish Arch in Galway, was home to the Comerford family for a number of generations before being donated to Galway Corporation. It has been an award-winning city museum Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-56651172632109869772009-07-27T16:46:00.019+01:002022-12-06T16:03:12.132+00:0018: Comerford of Somerset, Monmouth and RathgarPill Creek on the banks of the River Avon in Somerset ... generations of Comerford men living in Pill worked on the River Avon and the Bristol Channel as pilots and mariners
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A Comerford family from Ireland moved to Somerset in England in the early 19th century. I have long been fascinated by this family. Although I have been unable, to date, to establish which part of Ireland Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-82831392752475133592009-07-26T16:48:00.021+01:002021-12-07T10:07:32.033+00:0019: Comerford of Balbriggan and Skerries, Co DublinThe Harbour, built by the Hamilton family, and the railway aqueduct in Balbriggan ... the Comerford family was involved in running one of the main mills that brought industry and prosperity to this north Dublin harbour town in the late 18th century (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2010)
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This is essay is a stub. I would welcome comments and further information from any reader Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-50161222882817977972009-07-25T16:26:00.010+01:002020-05-14T16:47:22.080+01:0020: Comerford, Marquis d’Anglure
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The Comerford family of Ireland has been associated with the village of Anglure in France since the early 18th century, when Joseph Comerford of Clonmel, Co Tipperary, bought the village and château of Anglure, and with them acquired the title of Marquis d’Anglure. [1]
This Joseph Comerford also fancifully claimed descent from the Comerfords of Danganmore and registered a Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-36367242534535190222009-07-24T13:39:00.009+01:002020-05-21T17:04:39.664+01:0021: The Comerford family: Coats of Arms and HeraldryThe arms used by the Comerford families of Co Kilkenny and Co Wexford from at least the 17th century
By Patrick Comerford
The earliest representations of Comerford coats-of-arms are found in the churchyard of Saint Mary’s, Callan. The tomb of Gerald Comerford of Castleinch, dated 1604, shows a bugle horn, stringed, between three pierced six-pointed mullets.
This may be a minor variation on Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-27438571004931615992009-07-24T13:00:00.003+01:002022-08-06T13:56:08.368+01:0022: Comerford of Holborn and Cheyne Court, LondonJames Comerford’s bookplates have become collectors’ items … they perpetuate the claims of the Comerford family in Ireland to descent from the Comberford family of Staffordshire
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An interesting branch of the Comerford family in London, has been involved in book collecting for three generations and in medicine for two generations. Although there are some traditions that this Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-87617330521459784612009-07-23T16:50:00.012+01:002013-04-13T00:04:24.396+01:00Comerford Profiles 1: Edmund Comerford (d. 1509): the last pre-Reformation Bishop of Ferns1.1: Saint Edan’s Cathedral, Ferns: Bishop Edmund Comerford, who died in 1509, was the last pre-Reformation Bishop of Ferns (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2009)
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Edmund Comerford, Bishop of Ferns, who died on Easter Day, 8 April 1509, was the last pre-Reformation Bishop of Ferns. His immediate successors – Nicholas Comyn (later Bishop of Waterford and Lismore), John Purcell Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243571335120465594.post-55280842682262454072009-07-22T16:52:00.008+01:002013-04-13T13:05:21.128+01:00Comerford Profiles 2: William Comerford (ca. 1486-ca. 1539): the Reformation Dean of Ossory2.1: Saint Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny ... William Comerford was dean of the cathedral for 30 years from 1509 until 1539 (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2011)
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William Comerford (ca. 1486-ca. 1539) was the Dean of Saint Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, for about thirty years from 1509 to 1539, holding office at the time of the Reformation and while the Reformation Parliament met Patrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.com0