Bøker av Arthur Kavanagh

This book is a stand-alone and updated version of the the histories of De Renzy and Dundas families of Co. Wexford which were part of the book entitled The Wexford Gentry II. This book examines in some detail the advent of each family into County Wexford and to their estate known as Clobemon which lay on the banks of the Slaney river halfway between the towns of Newtownbarry (Bunclody) and Enniscorthy. This is a biography and memoir of two prominent Wexford families.While the De Renzy family were the first owners of the estate following the Cromwellian Settlement in the 17th century the Dundas family became owners by purchase in the 19th century.The descendants of the De Renzy and Dundas families are traced from available records.

There may well have been other families of Doynes in Antrim as research shows there was a Robert Doyne born in 1647, in County Antrim, Ireland.Robert's father, Thomas William Doyne, was 52 and his mother, Sarah Ann Wharton, was 35 when Robert was born. Robert married Mary Stone about 1674, in Charles, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. In 1680, at the age of 33, his occupation is listed as high sheriff. He died on 23 July 1689, in Charles, Maryland, British Colonial America, at the age of 42, and was buried in Saint Ignatius Cemetery, Port Tobacco, Charles, Maryland, United States.Michael Doyne, of Dublin and Antrim, son of Teig Reagh, was dispossessed under the Cromwellian Act of Confiscation of 1652, but his widow obtained a decree of Innocence in 1662, by which all the lands subject to her inheritance were restored to her only son, Robert.