Some connections to the Pigott name

In belated response to some comments:

 Sir Thomas Colclough’s daughter  Martha, married John Pigott  eldest son of Sir Robert Pigott of the Dysert, Queens County, Knight she had  issue.

So the Pigott name remains close to Colcough in 1684 Sir Caesar Colclough of Tintern Abbey, third and last Baronet of this family who died unmarried at Tintern September 22nd  1687 (no will proved or administration, obtained in Ireland). He was succeeded in his estates by his sister, in 1687 Margaret Colclough, who became heiress to his fortune. She married, 1st marriage licence, Ferns 2nd October 1673, Robert Leigh of Ballybrittas alias Rosegarland Co. Wexford Esq., and afterwards of Tintern in right of his wife. He took the name of Colclough, and dying without issue, May 1695. Margaret Leigh Colclough married secondly 1696, as second wife to her cousin Councillor John Pigott of Kilfenney, Co Limerick, who also assumed the name of Colclough. He died 8th May 1717 and was buried in Saint Paul’s in Dublin where a Tablet erected to his memory by his widow may yet be seen. His will was proved 7th June 1717.   Margaret Pigott Colclough died without issue the 23rd April 1723. Her will was proved in Dublin 2nd June 1723, and she was succeeded in the Manor of Tintern by her cousin and male heir Caesar Colclough of Duffry  Hall Co. Wexford, (Col Caesar)

All the above is taken from Beauchamp Colclough’s documents discovered by Bernard Colclough and collated by Gay Conroy.

Easter

Happy Easter.
Last time I had some thoughts on documents, their availability and their purpose. For the Colclough family there were not inconsiderable lands, prestige and dare I say it money! Proving lineage was of great profit potentially. Thus family trees produced by both Patrick Sarsfield and the defence are valuable sources, as are letters produced in the Rossborough Colclough efforts. Hore's four volumes use primary sources it seems. The papers discovered by my mighty Uncle Bernie in Dublin written or rather collated by Beauchamp Colclough give a fascinatng insight into early mid Victorian morality and politics, the undercurrent of all the landed Wexford Colclough's spreading their largesse and genes among the locals could be turned into a film, a film which would certainly have been banned in 1940's, 50's, 60's or 70's Ireland on the sayso of the Dublin castle bishops.
John

underway again

I have been neglecting my blog, so to reinvigorate it and me, here I go again. I think our names are our memories, fundamental to who we are, is that stating the obvious? So my mother and father married, a Kelly to a Colclough, tradition has it that the eight of us, the product of that union are, were Colclough's, the two girls are now a Webb and a Kinder their children are diversifying there is aready an Ellison, a name appearing in my nineteenth century Colclough documents. Tradition gives me my name, but names as I noted are what we are, our identity, it doesn't seem a great leap to move from say: John son of John, to John son of John from Stafford, to John son of John with red hair from Stafford, to want to create a short hand and a surname in English. The ancient languages are better adapted to lineage, witness 'Mac' 'O' 'Ap' etc. Part of my fascination is where Colclough which you might see as 'col-cluff' is really 'coke-lee'.
     How to find out?
The requirements of the industrial age, increasing populations, taxation, wars and the general need for order means that births, deaths and marriages have been recorded for almost everyone for 150 years. So as the digital age matures and the Irish diaspora searches, more records are becoming available, I can find good information on my Logue, Kelly and Arrigan ancestors and relations but looking much earlier than 1800 is difficult, things like the hearth tax and flax growers lists help but can be arcane.
Looking at my Colclough ancestors is a little easier now I know where to look. It's easier because documents exist. Documents are available from Tudor times because Colclough's had land, land meant manpower, meant money, meant influence, meant power. Preserving all this needed provenance from the dead, but also needed continuity and heirs from the living.
The interest in this blog shows the exponential nature of families, over 4000 page views, views from over 20 countries and from every continent, all Colclough's? It's a source of amazement to me...
Get in touch if you can, if you want to...

More to follow, more history too.
John