Grandee pt. 2 The original Irish Grandee

Some information on Sir Anthony, the original grandee.

Journal of the Acts of the Council. Dublin Castle. 16th December 1581.  
Order by the Lord Deputy and Council.    
We have thought it expedient for the better bridling of the dismembered Septs of the Cavenaghes, bordering upon the Counties of Wexford, Kilkenny & Catherlogh, to erect & build a fort at St.Molins Mete for a Government Garrison to be lodged there for the defence and quiet of those borders. Towards the building and setting uppe, the several inhabitants of the County Wexford have already of their own freewill and awarde gelded and paid and used to give and geld and paid in to the hands of Anthony Colclough Esqr., the sum of £200 sterling, for as the charge and expense of the building and erecting of the said forte will be estimation amount to a farr greater sume which we think not reasonable should lye wholly upon her Majesty considering the continuall charge her Highness be at, the maintteynninge of the Garrison to be placed there, and the Counties of Kilkenny & Catherlogh are to receive and enjoye the benifit and comoditie of the quiet which is likely to ensure upon the success of that garrison if placed there, and also the Citie of Waterford and the towne of Kilkenny by reason of the security that will growe thereby to the trade with both the one and the other hath upon that River.  And which in that place was heretofore wanted to be ympeached & let by spoile & robbing of the Merchants & boats trading uppon the same.  We have therefore thought good, and do thereby condiscend, concludee & agree that the Countie of Kilkenny shall boarde and paie-towards the building of the said forte, the like sume of £200 sterling, & as the Countie of Wexford hath borne & paid, & the Countie of Catherlogh likewise the sume of £50 sterling, & we to make uppe the full sume of £315 sterling which is suppose by estimate to be the least that will be expended in the said building, that the Citie of Waterford shall bear & paie the sume of 100 Marks sterling. For the levying of which several sumes ammounting in the whole to the foresaid sume of £350 sterling. Accordingly our pleasure is there shall be Warrants dyrected as well to the Sheriffs of the foresaid Counties, as to the Officers of the said Citie of Waterford & Towne of Kilkenny, the same to be delivered & paid to the hands of the said Anthony Colclough Esqr to whom we have committed the same, & charge of that mark, to be by him disbursed uppon the sd building by account given at Dublin this 16th daie of Dec 1581.
R.Gormanstown.   J. Trimleston.                   Robert Dillon.   H. Wallop.                 Christ Malby.  
N.  White. Ed Warburton.   Lucas Dillon.                    Jeoffrey Fenton.

Calender of State Papers, relating to Ireland, Edited by H.J. Hamilton, London Record Office. Carlow, April 12th 1548.           
Anthony Colcloght and Bryan Jonys to the Lord Deputy Bellingham         
“Having delivered his letters to Cahir Mc Arte Kavanagh, who refused to restore the prey, and denied that the thief was his man.  He said he would want no man to be hanged for stealing only, sticking to the Brehon Law of restitution. They have got back the horse which was taken in Moryt Oges prey. Sir Richard Butler did not come according to his promise to answer on his part, his examples are evil to all men, as taking of preys, bordrages, wounding of men by the night, and taking gentlewomen prisoners”   

Carlow, May 27th 1548.     
Anthony Colclocht to the same.       “ Stating that the bearer Morgett Oge was coming to submit himself, who complained of being ill used, by Watkin Apowell,”

Carlow, September 5th 1548.        
Anthony Colcloght to the same.      “ Murtough (Murrough) Bacagh, has promised that he and and Cahir Mc Art Kavanagh would  submit”.                                                 

September 5th 1548.         
Lord Deputy Bellingham, to Anthony Colcloght.    
“Does not see Bryan Jonys hand to his letter of September 5th  warns him to be cautious how he receives persons on promise of submission,”

Carlow, January 6th 1549.    
Anthony Colcloght to the Lord Deputy Bellingham.    “Has Apprehended Edmond Reeve a Wall, and sent him to the gaol of Ballyadanis.”

Carlow, January 27th 1549.      
Anthony Colclough to Cahir Mc Arte Kavanagh.            
“ To keep his appointment of meeting him on Thursday Sevennight Is appointed to reside at Leighlin Bridge”.

Leighlin Bridge, February 1st 1549.      
Anthony Colcloght, to the Lord Deputy Bellingham         
“Has arrived at Leighlin, where he has begun to work a very good quarry of slate, which will be useful for Carlow as well as Leighlin. Desires 6 pickaxes, 20 shovels, some ordnance, powder and money. The Country will be glad to shew the utmost of their power in these works”.

Calendar of State Papers, (Carew).
January, 1549      
Bellingham Secretary to Anthony Colclough.   
“ To send away Mr. Rogers horse, if he be recovered of his disease, to prepare the house, (of Leighlin Bridge) as much as in him lieth, for “his Lordship knoweth of none other place to resort unto this winter”.

Calendar of State Papers, London Records Office.
Leighlin Bridge  February 13th, 1549.        
Anthony Colcloght to the Lord Deputy Bellingham.      
The bearer William O Broyn offers to inhabit the Grove and would do more, but for fear of the Countess of Ormonde. “ Sir, I have sent you your horse, for heyre I can not gett no mete for hym, for I am glad to lede my hay from Karlaght (Carlow) to serve which comings here upon Monday next to care teymer (Timber)” “Sir you shall have the fairest Cabull here that shall be in within all Ireland, and I trust a prattye hansum Lowgive for your selft”,  Prays him to write to Shane Barry Sergeant to cause the Country to keep better than they do.

Kilkenny, April 26th 1549.
The Sovereign of Kilkenny to the Lord Deputy, 
“Had received his letters by Anthony Colcloght and had in compliance with them, warned all the Priests of that Country to appear personally before him and the Council wherever the same shall be on the following Sunday.”

June 12th 1549.     
Anthony Colcloght to the Lord Deputy.     
“ In favour of the bearer, Shane Ballowe Mc William who requests a pardon for himself and his two sons, He has promised to be a good neighbour both to Carlow and this House, knows no theyfffes that be come in Idrone, but Idrought is full”.  

Calendar of Patent and Close Rolls. Dublin. 4th Edward VI.
February 17th 1550.
Pardon of Anthony Colcloughe of Leighlin Bridge, a.v.b.r. &, with the advowson of the Vicarage, Kylteyrke, a.v.b.r. £12 with the advowson or the Vicarage. Kylemore, a.v.b.r. 13-10-0 with the advowson of the Vicarage, Naas, a v b r. £5-6-8. a v b r, 40/- Ballygarvan, Clomyn, a v b r, 15/4. Tinterne a b v r. £4-13-4, and Whitechurch in Fassaghbente, a b v r, 20/-  with the annual pension of 6/8 payable out of the Vicarage of Kyllaghy, All the said lands lie and are situate in this County.

27th August,  18th Elizabeth, this monastery with appurtenances, in the towns and vicinities  Tynterne, le Nashe, Donnughmeine, Rathnegernegh, Bowle, Scarte, Donedowne, alias Gronduffe, Tobernasan, Ballygarvey, Cunistown, Ballytersin, and Clonin,  all the lands etc., in the town and vicinity of St.Brandon, Grange of Kylmore, Ballybought, and Castletown in this County, and all the Tythes, and reversion of the premises, were granted for ever in Capite to Anthony Colclough, at the annual rent of £26-4-0 Irish money.

On the death of that Distinguished man.
Sir Anthony Colclough Knight.
To be of Ancient race, and of a long line of Ancestors, to spring from a family adorned by many honors, Such Goods are enjoyed only by fickle Fortune’s aid. But to possess the time affection of ones fellow countrymen, with the assent of the public; to be really virtuous, and to be rewarded by these real honors, to have so firm a mind as never to be daunted by danger, these we may call our own, and not the possessions of our Ancestors. In him Nature and Fortune contended which should confer the most. And here, Traveller, you have all in this one tomb.

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A place name with slight convolution and an unashamed advertisement visit the Colclough Walled Garden
Colclough Walled Garden

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Convolution again, but Genome wise there are  few more people I'm matching with via DNA, with very interesting paper trails, one back via the Piggott family as far as Martha Colclough, Sir Anthony's granddaughter, all very exciting, if you've had DNA done get in touch, I would say though don't publish personal info leave a message and we can have email contact.

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Ádh mór ort
Tóg go bog é
John

A Grandee. Part 1

A Colclough Grandee. Part 1.

Slight deviation from names here, but it serves a purpose, whereas a grandee might be defined as a person of high status or eminence (rather than the classic Spanish or Portuguese nobleman). This will give me an excuse to quote from a book in my ‘library’. Evenings In the Duffrey (1875) Patrick Kennedy.

A background to this would be the days when an evening’s entertainment was the recounting of tales by the fireside.

                “When we were at leisure in the evening, some allusion was made to the subjects of the previous evening, but Jane and the youngsters clamoured against the introduction of any more old chronicles of sufferings and dismalities. Mr Lucas relieved their fears by saying that he would give them the substance of what took place at Duffrey Hall a short time after Denis’s imprisonment, but there should be nothing dismal about it. The gentleman who occupied the old seat at the time was Adam Colclough, brother of the Vesey whose disagreeable duty it had been to take Dennis into custody.

                The story teller went on… “The most ancient seat of the family is Tintern Abbey where our member Caesar Colclough now lives. It was founded about seven hundred years ago, and called after Tintern in Wales. A knight built it in consequence of a vow he made when in danger of his life at sea. The Colclough’s got possession in Elizabeth’s time, but they remained Catholics till within the memory of some old people I have talked with. The change of religion was made to prevent the estate passing out of the family. The first Protestant of the name often served Mass when a boy…” (Kennedy, 1875, p278.)

Despite the change in religion the locals spoke in admiration of their ‘masters’. The fireside story teller saying “ I do not remember to have ever heard of a tyrannical thing done by the family, and I have heard of numbers of kind and generous ones” (Kennedy, 1875, p 278.)

                The book provides and whimsical but useful description of the area of the Duffrey, “I would not desire a pleasanter occupation on a fine morning than a walk through KIlaughrim and Moynart wood, past Duffrey Hall, and up the gap of Scollagh, with glimpses of Black Stairs on the left and Mount Leinster on the right, marking the variety formed by the grey rocks and purple heath above, and the green patches lying like islands among them, and thecultivtated fields stretching with their stone fences, till they meet the clumps of big trees about Wood Brook, and the noisy Urrin as it tears down the pass that’s cut for it.” (Kennedy, 1875, P279.)

                Adam Colclough from the book is written as “The master of the house was taking his ease in a rustic chair in his garden; his three cornered hat hung on the back of this seat, and the curls of his wig were falling on his shoulders. The features were expressive of good nature, with a dash of testiness”.  The conversation took in hurling, hunting and farming. (Kennedy, 1875, P279.)

                Adam as the local landlord was asked to make judgements in disputes, people would come and petition him, he was generally spoken of as fair and just.  One of his tenants came to complain about a local squire and neighbour a certain Jones of Achasallach, the complainant was of a bardic nature hence;

A new song in honour of Adam Colclough

Good neighbours, and the nine muses, I pray you pay attention,

While I sing of the scare-crow that keeps us in subjection,

Though he dresses fine and grand, the real blood of the county,

Look on him with contempt for they’re all gentlemen of honesty.

Can he compare his bogs and heaths to the woods of Moghurry’

Where the bugles were a soundin’ and the huntsman a runnin’,

He thinks himself a lord, when he kills a black nosed sheep,

While three ox-beefs are slaughtered in Moghurry every week.

No, but he’ll go to Dublin to finish the old law-shuit,

He’ll put into his budget his ends and his awls:

He’ll lay them on his back, and carry ‘em very sassty,

He’ll step into his bulk, an’ he’ll folly his ould callin’.

Now this Jones of Achasallach is a monkey faced rascal;

He’s swarthy in the face, and admi’rable yella;

Not so by Adam Colclough, he’s both white and red;

He’s handsome when he’s dressed, and much handsomer in bed.

And Miss Kitty and Miss Mary, they’re both fair and tall,

They’re as courteous in behaviour as a fleet o’ man o’ war.

When they walk in crimson mantles under the old trees,

T’s Venus and Diana you fancy that you sees.

If you go to Achasallach, and stay but half a day,

You’ll surely have a belly-ache before you come away;

If you go to Moghurry in the beginning of the week,

You’ll get beer ale and brandy till Saturday night.

Now may our Duffrey heroes, and the Yellow Bellies all,

For ever best the Wicklow boys at hurling and football;

May Jones of Achasallach be banished over say,

And Colclough reign at Duffrey Hall for ever and a day.

This caused the gathered much amusement, Mr Colclough “whose sides were aching, cried out, ‘that will do, Peter; I really feel unworthy of praise, wrapped up, moreover, in such sublime poetry. No matter I will speak to Mr Jones, and I venture to promise that you will see your turf safely stacked in your barn…’ (Kennedy, 1875, Pp 285-287.)

Reference:

Kennedy, P., 1875. Evenings in the Duffrey (1875). 1st ed. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill

There are more anecdotes from Mr Kennedy’s  book, so we’ll call this part 1.

A place name in line with other posts, and a name I like, Graig na Manach, the monk's village in the Bearla (English).

Graiguenamanagh

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Graiguenamanagh Gráig na Manach
Town
View of Graiguenamanagh and the church from the River Barrow
Graiguenamanagh Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°32′00″N 6°57′00″W / 52.533333°N 6.95°W / 52.533333; -6.95Coordinates: 52°32′00″N 6°57′00″W / 52.533333°N 6.95°W / 52.533333; -6.95
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Kilkenny
Elevation	32 m (105 ft)
Population (2006)
• Urban	1,545
• Rural	932
Irish Grid Reference	S705440

Graiguenamanagh or Graignamanagh (Irish: Gráig na Manach, meaning "village of the monks") is a town in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located on the R705 regional road by the border with County Carlow on the River Barrow at the foot of Brandon Hill. It is home to Duiske Abbey,^[1] the largest and perhaps the finest of the thirty-four medieval Cistercian abbeys in Ireland.

History

The River Barrow, historically a significant highway, was developed as a commercial navigation in the mid seventeen hundreds and Graiguenamanagh served as the main base for commercial barges operating on the river until barge traffic ceased in 1959. The barges that at one time lined the quaysides are now replaced by some one hundred pleasure craft.
Near to the town are the ruined remains of the early Christian church of Ullard, founded by Saint Fiachra in the seventh century. St Fiachra subsequently moved to France, where he is known as St Fiacre, and founded the celebrated monastery at Meaux. He is the patron saint of gardeners and taxi drivers; French cabs are often known as fiacres in his honour. Some few miles downstream from Graiguenamanagh the ruins of the ancient monastic establishment at St. Mullins are situated in an area of great beauty and historic interest.

Graiguenamanagh.

Year	Pop.	±%
1821	1,546	—
1831	2,130	+37.8%
1841	2,248	+5.5%
1851	1,710	−23.9%
1861	1,320	−22.8%
1871	1,272	−3.6%
1881	1,172	−7.9%
1891	973	−17.0%
1901	852	−12.4%
1911	844	−0.9%
1926	799	−5.3%
1936	845	+5.8%
1946	1,064	+25.9%
1951	1,076	+1.1%
1956	1,366	+27.0%
1961	1,244	−8.9%
1966	1,177	−5.4%
1971	1,303	+10.7%
1981	1,532	+17.6%
1986	1,485	−3.1%
1991	1,395	−6.1%
1996	1,374	−1.5%
2002	1,435	+4.4%
2006	1,376	−4.1%
2011	1,543	+12.1%
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Recreation

Walking, cycling and watersports are among the more popular pursuits of Graiguenamanagh area and with the South Leinster Way meandering through the lovely Barrow Valley and traversing nearby Brandon Hill, scope is provided for a gentle stroll or a vigorous, day-long hike. The Barrow's aquatic facilities include fishing, swimming, kayaking and canoeing. Graigue, as the town is popularly known, is home to a rowing club, a canoe club, an athletics club, the G.A.A(Hurling and Gaelic football) and a soccer club, Highview Athletic.
In the centre of the town, its handsome modern library features a comprehensive Local History Section. It provides an Internet Service to the public and, in addition to its other functions, hosts periodic art exhibitions. The very active Graiguenamanagh Historical Society also sponsor a series of talks and lectures at this venue during the winter season. Adjacent to the library is The Abbey Centre, the home of a Christian Art Gallery and small museum. Here also for the genealogically inclined may be perused the Graiguenamanagh Parish Birth and Marriage Registers.

Duiske Abbey[edit]

View of the 13th-century nave in the early English style which was restored in 1974.^[4]

The Duiske Abbey, which takes its name from the little river Duiske (Blackwater) which joins the Barrow here, was founded by William Marshall in 1204 and was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1536. Significant remains of the monastery exist to the rear of the houses that line the east side of Lower Main Street. The abbey's large "Early English" gothic church, was restored in the 1970s and in its northern aisle a model shows the monastery as it was in the fourteenth century.

Goresbridge in Graiguenamanagh is associated with the Colclough name, many names appearing in my varied searches for family, a definite branch of the family here.

F

This episode I’ll try Christian names, Francis seems as good as any.

So from Beauchamp H.D. Colclough 1879 documents.

Clare Agard wife of Sir Anthony was the daughter of Francis Agard of Staffordshire, governor of Wexford, privy councillor in Ireland mid-16^th century.

Son of Sir Anthony and Clare was Francis, noted to have died before 1576, without children.

Inscription on Sir Anthonys Tomb in the old Church, Tintern.

“ In obitum egregii viri Anthonii Colclough, militis. Pristina Sublimi proavorum stemate ducta, Et seres magnis orta ab imaginibus: Atque superba manus variis ornata tropheis, Haec sortis fragili sola parantum ope. Ast sincerus amor patria vox consona vulgi. Et verus verd candor honore niteus; Nescia vel duris flecti constantia rebus, Non aliena sed moc nostra vocare licet. Utrum plura daret sors et natura vicissim, Certarunt uno hoc cuncta viator habes.

Here lieth the body of Syr Anthony Colcloughe, Knight Eldest Sune of Richard Colcloughe of Wollstaton in Staffordshire, Esquire., Who came first into this land, the 34 year of Henry the 8 and then was Captayne of the Pensioners, in which place and others of greater charg, he continued a most faythful servitor, during the life of Edward the vi, and Queen Mary, and until the xxvi year of our most noble Queen Elizabeth, and then died the ix of December 1584.  He left by his wife Clare Agare daughter of Thomas Agare Esquire., 7 sonns, Francis, Ratlife, Anthony, Syr Thomas Colcloughe, Knight, John, Mathew, Lenard, and 5 Daughters. Jaquet was married to Nichlas Walshe Esquire of the Privie Counsayle, and one of the Justice of the Kings Bench in Ireland, Fraunc, married to William Smethewike of Smethewick in Cheshire, Maria married to Thom Cots, of Woodcot, in Shropshire Esquire., Clare married to William Snead of Brodwal in Staffordshier, Esquire.,  Elinor died iunge.

Translation of the Latin epitaph, by John P.Prendergast Esqr., Author of the Cromwellian Settlement in Ireland, 1877

A Francis I’d like to have met, next…

Mary Barnewall was daughter of Honorable Francis Barnewall, she was married in 1691 to Dudley Colclough of Duffry Hall.

Their offspring included Francis  mentioned in Part Nuptial Deed of Settlement of Dudley Colclough of Mohurry

Copied from manuscript Book of the Late Caesar Colclough Extract from Part Nuptial Deed of Settlement of Dudley Colclough of Mohurry, dated 26th March 1700. 

“To the use of said Caesar Colclough, eldest son of said Dudley, during his life without impeachment of waste. Remainder to his first and other sons in tail male, Remainder to Francis Colclough, second son of said Dudley, during his life, Remainder to his first and other sons in tail male. Remainder to the third son of said Dudley, to be lawfully begotten, and like Remainder to the fourth, fifth, sixth, and every other son of the said Dudley, and to the heirs male of their bodies. Remainder to Adam Colclough brother to the said Dudley, for life without impeachment of waste. Remainder to his first and other sons in tail male. Remainder to Margaret Pigott Colclough, for her life. Remainder to Adam Colclough of-------in Nottinghamshire for life without impeachment of waste. Remainder to William Colclough (since dead without issue) son to the last named Adam Colclough for life. Remainder to his first and other sons, in tail male.  Remainder to the second, third, and other sons of said Adam. Remainder to Caesar Colclough of Rosegarland for life. Remainder to Anthony Colclough his eldest son for life. Remainder to the second, third, and other sons of said Caesar of Rosegarland  in tail male. Remainder to the heirs of the body of said Dudley Colclough.  Remainder to Walter Bagenal Esq., and the heirs male of his body. Remainder over to the right heirs of the said Dudley Colclough.”

An early will of the above Dudley…

In the name of God, Amen. I, Dudley Colclough of Mohurry etc.,  “I will that my dear and well beloved wife Mary Colclough shall have and enjoy all my household goods plate, jewells, rings, furniture, linen and woolen, horses, mares, cows, sheep, coaches, chaises, and their harness, of what nature or kind soever. And the remaining part of my personal goods and chattles, debts, arrears of rents and assets, to be in the power and management of my Executors hereafter to be named”.  Recites deed of settlement (date not given) formerly made and enrolled, whereby he settled his real estate on his dear eldest son Caesar Colclough, and gave his eldest daughter Margaret Colclough as portion £1000, also to his second son Francis Colclough £600, also £1400, to be equally divided amongst the rest of his younger children hereafter named, payable out of his real estate, except such part of it in jointure of his dear wife, and whereas under said deed of settlement he had power to raise out of his real estate, the further sum of --- not exceeding £1500. “I the said Dudley Colclough in pursuance of said power to me reserved, bequeath the sum of £100 part of the said £1500, to be added to the sd sum of £1400, to make up £1500, which sum I order to be equally divided between my youngest children, Maryanne Colclough, Thomas Colclough, John Colclough, Henry Colclough, and Dudley Colclough £300 to each. Which sums being for their present advancement, I direct my Executors shall advance to them at such times as they shall think fit, and in case any of my sd younger children should die before the receipt of their respective sums, it is my will, that such be divided among the remaining of my said five younger children”. Bequeaths in addition to the sd sum of £300 -£500 to his dear daughter Marianne Colclough, to be paid her on her day of marriage, and which £500 is to be taken out of the sd sum of £1500, but in case she should die unmarried sd sum of £500 to revert back to his estate, which would there remain discharged thereof. Recites power reserved under said settlement for the reasonable maintenance and support of all his younger children until they have received their several portions, and pursuant to the intent thereof. “ I direct that £30 be paid my son Francis, £30 to my daughter Margaret, £30 to my daughter Marianne, and £20 apiece to my sons Thomas, John, Henry, and Dudley, the same to be levied out of my real estate (except such part as is in jointure to my dear wife) and paid yearly at the usual gales, and same payments to commence from the date of my death’”.  Gives his Executors full power to raise £100 out of the £600 for his son Francis, and gives also such sums for his younger sons, and out of their portions respectively, as sd Exors shall deem meet and fit, for prefering them to trades or otherwise, directs interest to be paid on younger childrens portions till principal sums to be paid in full. Item, Bequeaths his natural brother Mr. Oliver Colclough £150 for his maintenance and support, the same to be paid within three years of testator’s death, and bearing interest till paid, and sd £150 to be part of sd £1500”. Bequeaths unto Father Michael Fitzhenry, his Parish Priest £3, to be paid at testator's decease, and directs that sd Priest, shall hold the lands of Shroughmore during his life rent free, and be discharged of all arrears of rent due on said lands, directs each one of Romish Clergy in the Diocese of Ferns, to be paid the sum of £1, at the time of testator's burial. Directs £40 to be distributed to the poor as his Exors shall deem fit. Directs all his debts to be paid out of the sd £1500. Directs that £150 be expended on his funeral, the said sum to come out of arrears of rent due at time of testator's death, and if there should happen to be a deficiency, the s deficiency to be made up out of the sdd £1500. “Item. I give and bequeath unto my dear brother Adam Colclough, a suit of mourning, the like unto my beloved cousins and kindsmen, Sir Pierse Butler, Knt, and Caesar Colclough Esqr, and the like unto Mr Oliver Colclough, to be deducted out of the £1500 aforesaid.  I constitute and appoint the said Pierse Butler to be sole Executor of this my will and the sd Caesar Colclough overseer of the same.“ Directs his Executor to pay to his sister in law Mrs Bridget Barnwall whatever may be due her, and to deduct the same from the aforesaid £1500, “All which I publish and declare to be my last will and Testament and no other”. 

In witness etc., 2nd of July 1712.                                   

Dudley Colclough. 

Probate granted same year in the Diocese of Ferns. 

Copied from a Manuscript Book of the late Caesar Colcloughs, which was found by me (Beauchamp H.D. Colclough) in an old press in the Abbey in 1853, and compared with original will in the New Record Court, Dublin, Novr 1873.

However Francis was to be excluded…

12th George I, 1725.  An Act (passed at Westminster) for vesting certain lands and hereditaments in the Kingdom of Ireland, the Estate of Caesar Colclough Esqr, in Trustees, to be sold or Mortgaged for raising money to discharge encumbrances affecting the same, and for other purposes,  (Taken from printed copy of act) .

And whereas, the said Dudley Colclough, by his last will and testament in writing, dated the 2nd of July 1712, pursuant to the power reserved to him by said settlement, charged the said Towns  Lands, and Premises with several legacies, debts, and sums of money greatly exceeding the said sum of £1500, And shortly after died, leaving Issue the said Caesar Colclough his eldest Son and Heir, then a minor of the age of 16 years or thereabouts, and 5 younger sons named Francis, Thomas, John, Henry, and Dudley and two Daughters Margaret (who is since married to Charles Birne Esqr,) and Mariana, (who  is since married to John Birne Esqr,) and the portions of such younger sons and daughters provided by the said settlement to be raised out of the said Premises by the said Term of 61 years, amount together to the sum of £3100 and leaving the said Mary his widow…

And Whereas the said Francis Colclough, 2nd Son of the said Dudley was enticed into the French service when he was about 14 years old, for which Fact he had been lately outlawed, and his estate for life in the Premises expectant on the death of the said Caesar Colclough, and on failure of his Issue male, is become vested in his Majesty…

Saving nevertheless to the Kings most excellent Majesty, his heirs and successors all estate, right and interest (other than, and except such estate right or Interest as his Majesty, his heirs or successors, have, shall, or may have, or claim by virtue of the attainder of the said Francis Colclough) and also saving and reserving to all and every other person and persons, bodies political and corporate, their heirs and successors (other than, and except the said Caesar Colclough and Henrietta his wife, and the issue of their bodies, and all and every person and persons claiming in remainder or reversion by or under the said several recited settlements, and several and respective heirs male, and female of their several and respective bodies issuing; And also all and every other person and persons whatsoever, claiming or deriving any estate, use, right, title, or Interest into, or out of the said premises, by, from, or under the said respective settlements, or either of them, or under the Will of the said Dudley the Father) All such right, title, estate, and Interest both in law and equity, as they, or any of them, had, could, or ought to have of, in, or to the said lands tenements and hereditaments herein before mentioned, as fully to all Intent and purposes, as if this act had never been made.

Their son Francis mentioned above was Captain Francis Colclough, of the Duke of Berwick’s regiment of the Irish Brigade in France, was noted to be one of the wounded at Fontenoy 1745, possibly having gone to France after an argument over money with his brother.

As noted below by Beauchamp H.D. Colclough 1879

Colonel Caesar’s lavish expenditure and as a consequence., numerous debts, drove him to the expedient of breaking the entail, and we find him in 1725 petitioning the Irish Parliament  for an Act to do so. This first attempt was unsuccessful, but in the following year he obtained an Act of the Imperial Parliament under which large portions of the Estates were sold, and again, some years afterwards, 1746, he obtained a similar Act from the Irish Parliament, by which he was enabled to dispose of great deal more. Notwithstanding all which, he was never out of monetary troubles, even with the members of his own immediate family, as may be seen by a letter addressed to him by his brother Henry, which I found with other papers in the Abbey after the first trial,)  and by the Will of the youngest brother Dudley, of Balecormuck. One of his favourite devices, was the assignment of his life interest in a Townsland, instance Rossard to his brother Henry.  It is said that an open rupture about money took place between him and his next brother Francis, and which was perhaps the cause of the latters joining the ranks of the Irish Brigade in the service of France, and his consequent outlawry.

O’Callaghans History of the Irish Brigades in the service of France pp.364, 365. In the Lists published of the killed and wounded in the Irish Brigade, at the Battle of Fontenoy 1745, there appears the name of Captain Colclough, (Francis) of the Duke of Berwicks Regiment, wounded, and it states that gratuities of 600 Francs were given to wounded Captains.

Francis’ banishment followed him down the generations it seems from the following…

Extracted from the original letter, Mrs J.T.R.C. to the present writer (Beauchamp H.D. Colclough 1879)        

Tintern Abbey, March 4th, 1875.

My dear Beauchamp,

                I must begin by congratulating you on the upward steps you have ascended to in your Regiment. I think you are now as elevated in Military rank as any of our name were. As I have unfortunately momentarily mislaid your letters, you may not have a reply to your numerous queries. My brother never breathed, so was not baptised- he was born I believe in the year 1807, about a year after my parents’ arrival abroad. Caesar he would doubtless have been called after his good and gifted father, so high up on the family tree, and the name of Edward would have been added in honor of his father’s illustrious friend, the Duke of Kent. I do not think any of my numerous aunts were married- I always heard of them as dying young.  One I heard was to have been married to a Grogan of Johnstown. If the Catherine Colclough, buried at Templeshanbo in 1828, had been one of them, I surely would have known it, or heard it from either my Uncle Dudley or Sarsfield’s family with whom we had such constant and intimate intercourse. The Francis Colclough I know nothing about. Sir B. Burke, I am aware, was preparing a pedigree of my beloved husband's family, and I believe their Rank was as high if not higher than ours, as they descended from Dukes. (I forgot at this moment our descent from the Plantagenets). I know nothing more that I can inform you of everything relating to my personal family, is matter of legal and historic record as my beloved husband left no stone unturned, and now blessed be God, tho not enjoying his earthly inheritance, he is the possessor of that inheritance which passes not away. I am sure you must be greatly busy with all the arranging of your book. Susie and hers left us yesterday week, Louisa and Bill are away for a few days, so May and I keep garrison.  She joins in kind love, and believe me your affectionate cousin,

          Mary G.W.R. Colclough.

Lieut. Colonel Colclough, 34 Grosvenor Road, Rathgar, Dublin.

Francis, persona non grata, a man I’d have been happy to engaged with…

Another Francis of that era…

Deeds Registry Office, Dublin. B.41, p.81, no 24635. Deed of Gift, Adam Colclough to children. Dated 26th August, 1717. Registered, 13th November 1723. 

Adam Colclough of Graigs, County Wexford, (Boley) 1st Part, Caesar Colclough of Rosegarland, and John Walsh of Moneyseed, Co.Wexford.  Said Adam in order to make provision for his children to wit, Patrick Colclough, Francis, Thomasina, Catherine, and Richard Colclough, settles on them certain mortgages and charges on Tintern, under deed from Margaret Pigott Colclough, to said Adam.

Mrs Mary GW Colclough ended up with a Francis in the family though…

Louisa Maria Susana daughter of Mary Grey Wentworth Colclough and John Thomas Rossborough, married Francis Digby Biddulph of Rathrobin Kings County - Co. Offaly. 1884 Louisa Maria Susanna Colclough, of Tintern Abbey and Duffry Hall, Co. Wexford, who had married Francis Digby Biddulph of Rathrobin. Mr and Mrs Biddulph assumed the surname and Arms of Colclough by Royal Letters Patent 1886. He was captain in the 3rd Middlesex Militia, and he died 13 July 1895, and Mrs Biddulph Colclough died 19 January 1912 leaving issue one son and one daughter:

1.       Caesar Francis Thomas Bickerstaffe Biddulph, born September 15th 1886, died and 6 July 1888 aged 1 year and ten months.

2.       Lucy Wilmot Maria Susanna Colclough born 2nd June 1890 and lived in Tintern Abbey, until 1959 when she presented Tintern Abbey to the Nation.  She retained the lands remaining to her following the land Acts of the 1890s. What neither she or her predecessors knew was that the family had lived on top of a graveyard for 400 years. It was only following an archaeological dig in 1982 that this was discovered.

She was the last of the Tintern Colcloughs, and prior to presenting the Abbey  to the Nation she had the rooms cleared and the rubbish burned. The ‘rubbish’ that was destroyed, except for a few items saved by a curious workman, consisted of all the estate records and other documents dating from the 16th century; and so a priceless collection of manuscripts and documents of great importance to the nation was inadvertently destroyed. Miss Lucy Wilmot Susanna Colclough died in Ely Nursing Home in Wexford Town, 22nd December 1983 age 93 years.

Another military Francis.

1860.  Colour Sergeant Francis Colclough of the Wexford Militia, subsequently transferred to the Westmeath Rifles at his own request. He died without issue at Mullingar 16th August 1871, his father had been a soldier, and he was brought up at the Royal Hibernian School, Phoenix Park, and joined the 99th Regt, as a drummer.

It is apposite to lock Fontenoy into Colclough history…

Battle of Fontenoy

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Battle of Fontenoy, (May 11, 1745), confrontation that led to the French conquest of Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession. It was the most famous victory of the French marshal Maurice, Count de Saxe.

The battle was fought 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Tournai (in modern Belgium), between 52,000 French troops under de Saxe and about 50,000 Allied troops (composed of English, Hanoverian, Dutch, and Austrian units) under William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, son of King George II of England. Cumberland was marching to relieve Tournai, which the French had besieged. De Saxe prepared to meet the Allied attack from a strong defensive position, which included hastily constructed redoubts. The Allied attack was a direct frontal push, with the Dutch and Austrians attacking the French right and the British and Hanoverians striking the well-prepared left. After initial attacks failed, Cumberland sent 15,000 infantry against the French left. When these troops halted to dress ranks, there occurred a celebrated incident in which Lord Charles Hay, of the Allied forces, dashed forward from the lines, drank a toast, and, according to a doubtful story related by Voltaire, invited the French to fire first. After entering the French camp in this first assault, the British retreated to reform and advance once again. Finally, the French artillery, cavalry counterattacks, and the charge of the Irish Brigade (in the French service) against the British right forced the massive Anglo-Hanoverian infantry formation to retreat with about 50 percent losses. Dutch losses in the other sector were also heavy. Total French losses were about 7,500. Cumberland retreated toward Brussels, and de Saxe followed the victory by taking Tournai and most of Flanders during the next four months.

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The Irish at Fontenoy

STORY OF IRELAND

By A. M. Sullivan

CHAPTER LXXV. (continued)

From the Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900)

« Chapter LXXV. (Irish Brigade) | Contents | Chapter LXXV. (Bonnie Prince Charlie) »

Far more memorable, however, far more important, was the ever-glorious day of Fontenoy—a name which to this day thrills the Irish heart with pride. Of this great battle—fought May 11, 1745—in which the Irish Brigade turned the fortunes of the day, and saved the honor of France, I take the subjoined account, prefixed to Davis' well-known poem, which I also quote:

"A French army of seventy-nine thousand men, commanded by Marshal Saxe, and encouraged by the presence of both the King and the Dauphin, laid siege to Tournay, early in May, 1745. The Duke of Cumberland advanced at the head of fifty-five thousand men, chiefly English and Dutch to relieve the town. At the duke's approach, Saxe and the king advanced a few miles from Tournay with forty-five thousand men, leaving eighteen thousand to continue the siege, and six thousand to guard the Scheldt. Saxe posted his army along a range of slopes thus: his center was on the village of Fontenoy, his left stretched off through the wood of Barri, his right reached to the town of St. Antoine, close to the Scheldt. He fortified his right and center by the villages of Fontenoy and St. Antoine, and redoubts near them. His extreme left was also strengthened by a redoubt in the wood of Barri; but his left center, between that wood and the village of Fontenoy, was not guarded by anything save slight lines. Cumberland had the Dutch, under Waldeck, on his left, and twice they attempted to carry St. Antoine, but were repelled with heavy loss. The same fate attended the English in the center, who thrice forced their way to Fontenoy, but returned fewer and sadder men. Ingoldsby was then ordered to attack the wood of Barri with Cumberland's right. He did so, and broke into the wood, when the artillery of the redoubt suddenly opened on him, which, assisted by a constant fire from the French tirailleurs (light infantry), drove him back.

"The duke now resolved to make one great and final effort. He selected his best regiments, veteran English corps, and formed them into a single column of six thousand men. At its head were six cannon, and as many more on the flanks, which did good service. Lord John Hay commanded this great mass. Everything being now ready, the column advanced slowly and evenly as if on the parade ground. It mounted the slope of Saxe's position, and pressed on between the wood of Barri and the village of Fontenoy. In doing so, it was exposed to a cruel fire of artillery and sharpshooters, but it stood the storm, and got behind Fontenoy.

"The moment the object of the column was seen, the French troops were hurried in upon them. The cavalry charged; but the English hardly paused to offer the raised bayonet, and then poured in a fatal fire. On they went, till within a short distance, and then threw in their balls with great precision, the officers actually laying their canes along the muskets to make the men fire low. Mass after mass of infantry was broken, and on went the column, reduced but still apparently invincible! Duc Richelieu had four cannon hurried to the front, and he literally battered the head of the column, while the household cavalry surrounded them, and in repeated charges, wore down their strength. But these French were fearful sufferers. The day seemed virtually lost, and King Louis was about to leave the field. In this juncture, Saxe ordered up his last reserve—the Irish Brigade. It consisted that day of the regiments of Clare, Lally, Dillon, Berwick, Roth, and Buckley, with Fitzjames' horse. O'Brien, Lord Clare, was in command. Aided by the French regiments of Normandy and Vaisseany, they were ordered to charge upon the flank of the English with fixed bayonets without firing.

Upon the approach of this splendid body of men, the English were halted on the slope of a hill, and up that slope the brigade rushed rapidly and in fine order; the stimulating cry of 'Cuimhnigidh ar Liumneac, agus ar fheile na Sacsanach,' 'Remember Limerick and British faith,' being re-echoed from man to man. The fortune of the field was no longer doubtful. The English were weary with a long day's fighting, cut up by cannon, charge, and musketry, and dispirited by the appearance of the Brigade. Still they gave their fire well and fatally; but they were literally stunned by the shout, and shattered by the Irish charge. They broke before the Irish bayonets, and tumbled down the far side of the hill disorganized, hopeless, and falling by hundreds. The victory was bloody and complete. Louis is said to have ridden down to the Irish bivouac, and personally thanked them; and George the Second, on hearing it, uttered that memorable imprecation on the penal code, 'Cursed be the laws which deprive me of such subjects.' The one English volley and the short struggle on the crest of the hill cost the Irish dear. One-fourth of the officers, including Colonel Dillon, were killed, and one-third of the men. The capture of Ghent, Bruges, Ostend, and Oudenard, followed the victory of Fontenoy."

"Thrice, at the huts of Fontenoy, the English column failed,

And thrice the lines of St. Antoine the Dutch in vain assailed;

For town and slope were filled with foot and flanking battery,

And well they swept the English ranks and Dutch auxiliary.

As vainly, through De Barri's Wood the British soldiers burst,

The French artillery drove them back, diminished and dispersed.

The bloody Duke of Cumberland beheld with anxious eye,

And ordered up his last reserve, his latest chance to try.

On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, how fast his generals ride!

And mustering come his chosen troops, like clouds at eventide.

"Six thousand English veterans in stately column tread;

Their cannon blaze in front and flank; Lord Hay is at their head;

Steady they step adown the slope—steady they climb the hill,

Steady they load—steady they fire, moving right onward still.

Betwixt the wood and Fontenoy, as through a furnace blast,

Through rampart, trench, and palisade, and bullets showering fast;

And on the open plain above they rose and kept their course,

With ready fire and grim resolve, that mocked at hostile force.

Past Fontenoy, past Fontenoy, while thinner grow their ranks—

They break as broke the Zuyder Zee through Holland's ocean banks.

'More idly than the summer flies, French tirailleurs rush round;

As stubble to the lava tide, French squadrons strew the ground;

Bombshell and grape, and round shot tore, still on they marched and fired—

Fast from each volley grenadier and voltigeur retired.

'Push on my household cavalry!' King Louis madly cried.

To death they rush, but rude their shock—not unavenged they died.

On through the camp the column trod—King Louis turns his rein:

'Not yet, my liege,' Saxe interposed, 'the Irish troops remain;'

And Fontenoy, famed Fontenoy, had been a Waterloo,

Were not these exiles ready then, fresh, vehement, and true.

"'Lord Clare,' he says, 'you have your wish: there are your Saxon foes!'

The Marshal almost smiles to see, so furiously he goes!

How fierce the smile these exiles wear, who're wont to look so gay;

The treasured wrongs of fifty years are in their hearts to-day.

The treaty broken ere the ink wherewith 'twas writ could dry,

Their plundered homes, their ruined shrines, their women's parting cry,

Their priesthood hunted down like wolves, their country overthrown!

Each looks as if revenge for all were staked on him alone.

On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, nor ever yet elsewhere,

Pushed on to fight a nobler band than those proud exiles were.

"O'Brien's voice is hoarse with joy, as halting he commands,

'Fix bay'nets—charge!'—Like mountain storm rush on these fiery bands!

Thin is the English column now, and faint their volleys grow,

Yet must'ring all the strength they have, they made a gallant show.

They dress their ranks upon the hill to face that battle wind!

Their bayonets the breakers' foam; like rocks the men behind!

One volley crashes from their line, when through the surging smoke,

With empty guns clutched in their hands, the headlong Irish broke,

On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, hark to that fierce huzza!

'Revenge! remember Limerick! dash down the Sassenagh!'

"Like lions leaping at a fold when mad with hunger's pang,

Right up against the English line the Irish exiles sprang.

Bright was their steel, 'tis bloody now, their guns are filled with gore;

Through shattered ranks, and severed piles, and trampled flags they tore;

The English strove with desperate strength, paused, rallied, staggered, fled—

The green hillside is matted close with dying and with dead.

Across the plain and far away passed on that hideous wrack,

While cavalier and fantassin dash in upon their track.

On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, like eagles in the sun,

With bloody plumes the Irish stand—the field is fought and won!"

http://www.libraryireland.com/Atlas/LXXV-Irish-Brigade-Fontenoy.php  accessed  1st October 2017

I’d like to think Francis had ‘beagan Gaeilge aici’…despite his background.

Some officers of the Irish Brigade are believed to have cried out Cuimhnígí ar Luimneach agus ar fheall na Sasanach!^[18] ("Remember Limerick and Saxon perfidy") at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745. Modern research by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin claims that it is very doubtful if the regiments would also have been chanting in Irish, a language unknown to probably a majority of the brigade at the time.^[19] Others strongly dispute this, as over the course of 100 years new recruits were brought into the brigade mostly from the Irish-speaking regions of West Munster, the homeland of, among other the O'Connell family. Stephen McGarry also makes the point in his book Irish Brigades Abroad that Irish was widely spoken in the Irish regiments of France.^[20] Daniel Charles O'Connell was the uncle of The Liberator Daniel O'Connell and was the last Colonel of the French Irish Brigade in 1794 and rose to general rank. The O'Connells were native Irish speakers and members of dispossessed Gaelic Aristocracy. According to official French Army regulations, officers of the Irish Brigade regiments had to be Irish, half of whom had to be born in Ireland and the other half born of Irish descent in France.^[21] In practice by the outbreak of the French Revolution most serving officers of the Brigade fell into the second category.

Seamus MacManus shows in his book The Story of The Irish Race (1921):

"In truth, it was not the "Wild Geese" who forgot the tongue of the Gael or let it perish. We are told that the watchwords and the words of command in the "Brigade" were always in Irish and that officers who did not know the language before they entered the service found themselves of necessity compelled to learn it."^[22]

19. Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin, "Casualties in the Ranks of the Clare Regiment at Fontenoy", Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Number 99, 1994.

20. McGarry, Stephen, Irish Brigades Abroad, Dublin 2013 p. 31-2,

21. Moulliard, Lucien, The French Army of Louis XIV, Nafziger Collection, 2004, ISBN 1-58545-122-3, p. 64, translated by G.F. Nafziger from the original 1882 French publication.

22. MacManus, Seamus, The Story of The Irish Race, Gramercy, ISBN 0-517-06408-1, p. 477

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Brigade_(France) accessed 1st October 2017