Friday 26 April 2013

Chief Justice Colclough

This is a brief post for now, but the interesting back ground to this is the attempt of Patrick Sarsfield Colclough to prove inheritance of Tintern estates, and the proof of legitimacy of the incumbents - all seems very quaint in this day and age!

Copy Marriage Certificate. Cathedral of St. Finbarre, Cork. “1808, September 29th, Guy Colclough of Newtownbarry in Co.Wexford, Lieut. in H.M. 102nd (103rd) Regt, and Elizabeth Cramp of Kinsale, by the Rev. H. Newman, by licence”.
I certify that the above is a correct extract from the Cathedral Registry.
August 24th 1874.
Robert J.Gregg D.D. Dean of Cork.


Copied from Brief in Colclough v Colclough, 1865.
Registry of Baptisms, Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Island.


Colclough- Louise Ponsonby, daughter of the Honourable Caesar Colclough, Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island, and of Susannah Leach, his wife born 13th July 1809, baptised 27th October 1809, Theophilus Desbrissay, Rector 1811. Colclough, Mary Grey Wentworth, daughter of the Honourable Chief Justice Colclough, and of Susannah Leach his wife, born 9th July 1811, baptised 27th of October 1811. Theophilus Desbrissay, Rector.

I, David Fitzgerald, Rector of St. Pauls Church, Charlotte Town, in the Parish of
Charlotte, in Prince Edward Island, do hereby Certify that the above and foregoing writing is a true and correct copy of entries in the public register book of births and baptisms for Charlotte parish in the said Island, kept according to law for the registry of births and baptisms in the said parish and now in my possession and keeping, and that Theophilus Desbrissay, above named, appears from the said book of registry to have been during the years 1809 and 1811, and for many years previously, and subsequently, rector of said parish and keeper of said register book, and that his signature in such capacity appears to the entries therein contained, dated at Charlotte Town, Charlotte parish Prince Edward Island, this 13th Day of February 1863. D.Fitzgerald, A.B. T.C.D. Rector of St.Pauls
Verified by Chas Palmer, Notary Public, 14th February, 1863 and by His Excy, Lieut. General George Dundas, Lieut. Governor, P. E. I., 14th February 1863.
Address of the Grand Jury of Prince Edward Island, to Chief Justice Colclough, Trinity

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