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Thomas Fitzwilliam

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • "The Bathes of Drumcondra", Reportorium 1(2) 1956, p.328-330.

Merrion Burial Ground.

Thomas Fitzwilliam (see here),
born prob. 1465 ("came of age in 1486"),
of Dundrum, Bray, Baggotrath, Merrion and Thorn Castle, all in Co.Dublin [the castles of Merrion, Thorncastle and Dundrum included the lands of Booterstown, Mount Merrion, Kilmacud, Ballinteer, Donnybrook, Ringsend, Irishtown and Sandymount],
mar Eleanor Dowdall,
lived at Baggotrath,
died 1517 [Ball, vol.2, 1903], NOT 1529, age prob. 52 yrs, having had issue:

1. Richard Fitzwilliam, of Merrion, Baggotrath and Dundrum,
   lived at Baggotrath,
   supporter of his 1st cousin Garret Og Fitzgerald, 9th Earl of Kildare,
   mar Catherine Bathe,
   died at Baggotrath 1528, when still a young man [Ball, vol.2, 1903],
   at death left bequest to the Church of Merrion,
   think [Burkes Extinct] is wrong to say he died 20th Dec 1541,
   bur White Friars' Monastery, Dublin [between Aungier St and St.Patrick's Cathedral],
   White Friars' Monastery was dissolved in 1539,
   had issue:
   1. Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, Kt, born c.1519.

   2. Michael Fitzwilliam, of Donamore, Co.Meath,
      mar Mary Preston and had issue:
      1. Elizabeth Fitzwilliam,
         mar Gerald Fitz-Gerald [unidentified, executed after rebellion].

   3. Katherine Fitzwilliam,
      mar John Cashell,
      living as widow at Baggotrath by 1568,
      died at Baggotrath 1574 (see BAGGOTRATH in [Ball, vol.2, 1903], which quotes her will).

2. Sir William Fitzwilliam,
   started in service of William Fitzwilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton (cr 1537, died 1543),
   granted the manor of Celbridge, Co.Kildare, 1537,
   member of the Privy Council, knighted by Edward VI (reigned 1547-53),
   spoken of by Queen Elizabeth (reigned 1558-1603) as a person who stood high in her esteem [Ball, vol.2, 1903],
   lived at Windsor,
   mar Jane Travers [sister of Sir John Travers],
   died c.1560, having had issue:
   1. Catherine Fitzwilliam,
      mar Christopher Preston, 4th Viscount Gormanston and had issue.

3. Alison Fitzwilliam,
   mar 1524 to Christopher Ussher and had issue,
   by this marriage Donnybrook (then only lands, no castle) passed into the Ussher family,
   though the Fitzwilliams retained the profitable mill of Donnybrook.

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Dublin around 1500

Model of Dublin around 1500.
Looking from the N. Dublin Castle on LHS. Christ Church Cathedral in centre. St.Audoen's church on RHS.
At Dublinia.
Photo 2011. See full size.

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• There is a new church at the site of White Friars' Monastery, Aungier St, Dublin, which supposedly contains the remains of St.Valentine.