Talk:Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald

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Marguerita Carey pers comm "Gertrude Blakeney Fitzgerald was the only child of Thomas Lyon of Water Castle and his wife Grace, daughter of Robert Blakeney of Abbert. Gertrude Fitzgerald named Henry Bingham born 1797 who had been orphaned as a child and brought up by the Fitzgeralds at Lisquinlan, as heir to the Water Castle Estate which she inherited from her father but disinherited him following his first marriage to Margaret CREINE in 1822 at St Peter's Dublin.  Henry BINGHAM came to Australia on the 'Lady McNaughton' in 1837.  She did however become on friendly terms with his second wife Penelope Mary CHECKLEY whom Henry married on 3 August 1831and gave her a book dated 1841 Lisquinlan on the eve of her departure to Australia on the 'Canton'.  Gertrude Blakeney Fitzgerald died 3 November 1852 aged 65 years, the widow of Robert Uniack Fitzgerald of Corkbeg of Whitegate House and was buried on 6 November 1852. Robert Uniack Fitzgerald died in 1834. in 1852 Gertrude Blakeney Fitzgerald occupied No 2 in the townland of Ballincaroonig, Parich of Aghada. In 1840 Robert HELEN, the parish clerk was living at Blakeney Terrace, Corkbeg and in 1852 Richard CODY was living at No 7a in Ballincaroonig and Jeremiah MAHONY was also living at Ballincaroonig."Mifren (talk) 01:14, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Clotilda Fitzgerald, late of Corkbeg, in the County of Cork, Spinster, deceased : Said sum of 184l. 12s. 4d. for the peasantry of Lisquinlan and Clonmane, upon trust that the same shall always remain vested in the Government stocks, and that the interest thereof shall be given every Christmas in premiums to such of the peasantry of Lisquinlan and Clonmane as shall distinguish themselves for industry and cleanliness, according to the discretion and distribution of my nephew, the said Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald, during his life, and http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/11900/eppi_pages/279458

p109 Clotilda Fitzgerald--continued. and after his death, then according to the discretion and distribution of the person who for the time being shall for ever thereafter be the inheritor of and in possession of the Lisquinlan estate, or his or her guardian or guardians, in case of minority.

(Codicil, dated 25th April 1832.)-Now I do hereby direct the same to be annexed to said will, and to be taken as part thereof, inasmuch as the property that I am possessed of, as well my charge on the Corkbeg estate, or in the funds, will be sufficient to pay the amount of the legacies I have disposed of by my said will ; I hereby direct that said charge on the Corkbeg estate and the money in the funds (save the sum of 200l. left in charity, and the bequest of 20l. unto my maid servant, which shall be paid out of the money in the funds immediately after my decease), shall remain at interest on their present securities, until, by accumulation of the interest thereof respectively, a sum sufficient to discharge the full amount of the entire of said legacies shall be created, until which time I further direct that interest shall not commence or be payable on the legacies left by me unto my nieces. Return of Commissions of Charitable Donations and Bequests, Ireland, since 1830 Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 5 July 1844. CHARITABLE DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS (IRELAND). p108-9 Prerogative Court, 1838. Printed image digitised by the University of Southampton Library Digitisation UnitMatthew (talk) 09:17, 5 September 2012 (UTC)