John’s here’s a small
trawl of John up to the end of the 18th century. The italics are
mine. JC
Colclough, originally spelled Coldcloughley, literally “The
place of the Cold Rocky Valley”, descriptive there can be little doubt of the
residence of the family at the time when surnames first came into use, as the
following extract, treating of the composition of family names and taken from
Elvin’s anecdotes of Heraldry page 172, will exemplify.
“It is only in fact with respect to compound names that we
are justified in saying that a family name is derived from that of a locality,
for then the very composition in a manner defines the place, and if the natural
characteristics of that place be mentioned in it, proof is at once afforded
that the family name is posterior to the local term. Thus for instance the Arms
of Ernle County Sussex, an Argent, on a bent sable, three eagles displayed or,
and they have a reference to the family which is taken from a village so called
from the Saxon ”Erne” an Eagle, and ”leye” a place or habitation. Now from the
peculiar situation of this village, the propriety of the term “Eagles Place”,
as applied to it is obvious and there can be no reasonable doubt that the Ernle
family (being at first called William, John, or whatever the name might be ) de
Ernleigh, gradually dropped the “de” and took the local appellation for their
surname.
At what time the original spelling, ’Coldcloughley’ was
altered and the letters of the final syllable dropped, it is now impossible to
say; it must have been at an early period, but although the name has been
variously spelled since, and sometimes phonetically as Cokely, Coakley or
Cokelee, the original pronunciation has been invariably retained. Ward in his “History of the Borough
of Stoke upon Trent”, fixes the locality from which the family name is derived,
at Oldcot in the Parish of Wolstanton, Staffordshire. Whether this is so or not
I am not now in a position to say, an examination of the locality might decide
the point. But certain it is that there were Colclough families there at the
time of Edward III as the family were
possessed of considerable property in that neighbourhood and which was
largely increased subsequently by the marriage of John Colclough of Bluerton
Ist Edward V, with Agnes one of the co-heiress(es) of Lockwood.
This John from the pedigree:
1483
John Colclough of Bluerton. (Ingleton) in County Stafford
who married I Edward V (1483) Agnes daughter and co-heiress of Richard Lockwood
of Lockwood, and had four sons, viz...
1. Richard his heir.
2. Thomas of Delphe House see Collateral D. (More
of which another time).
3. John,
4. Ralph see
Collateral, E1.
This John, the
grandfather of Sir Anthony…
Sir Anthony’s 5th son
was John born circa 1565.
Sir Anthony’s grandson was
John of Pouldairig, (living 1642) who married Katherine
daughter of Sir Walter Sinnott Knight,
son and heir of Richard Sinnott of Ballybrittas alias Rosegarland Co. Wexford,
Esq.,(Knight of the Shire in 1559) and died before May 1649 leaving issue two
sons and four daughters viz.
1. Adam, died 1652,s.p. nuncupation Will dated 1652;
2. Anthony, died young, s.p.
3. Mary married James Butler of Clough, same Co. Esq., of
the Barons Kayers family.
4. Martha, married Thomas Cullen of Cullenstown.
5. Clara, a nun.
6. Katharine, died unmarried.
Sir Anthony’s great great
grandson was:
John, of St. Kearns and Wexford, a
merchant who married 1730, Margaret daughter of Edward Sutton of Summerhill,
Co. Wexford Esq., and died July 1770. Will proved 8th August following having
issue two sons and one daughter:
(1)
Thomas Francis, of Ballyteige Castle.
Co.Wexford, who married 1769 Katherine dau. of Henry McMahon, of Clara, Co,
Clare. Esqr and died 18th Dec. 1790 having had issue two sons and two daughters
viz.
1. Dudley Thomas, died unmarried v.p.
2. John Henry,
of Ballyteige Castle, who married 1796, Elizabeth daughter of Joseph Berry of
Ballykeely, Co. Wexford. John H. Colclough, was one of those hanged on the bridge of Wexford in the year 1798.
Will proved 23rd October 1799. He had issue one daughter Elizabeth who married
1829, John George Young Esq., Lieut.18th Royal Irish. (John Henry also had
issue a illegitimate son Thomas Colclough who was educated in Dublin, and was
supposed to have emigrated to Montserrat in the West Indies.)
3 Margaret
Anne, died unmarried
4 Mary
Katherine, married to Colonel Jeremiah Fitzhenry of Borohill, Co. Wexford, had
issue, she died 1859.
(2). John, (son of John of
Wexford) also a merchant in the town of
Wexford, married and emigrated about the year 1761, to the West Indies,
(Montserrat), he had issue two sons and two daughters, viz.
1. Dudley,
2. John,
3. Margaret,
4. Mary.
(3) Mary, only daughter of John
of Wexford, married Edward Devereux of Sallystown, Co Wexford, Esqr.
So onto a place name. Johnstown Castle:
This was the home of the Esmonde’s, from which Katherine married Sir
Dudley Colclough of Monart.
Then later in the 18th century noted as the home of John
Grogan, whose daughter Catherine married 2nd August 1765 Portpatrick Scotland to Vesey Colclough b1 July 1745. This Vesey was
noted to have had a large number of ‘illegitimate ‘children in the Kiltealy
area of Co.Wexford
Seems a rather nice place go visit!
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