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====== Ireland, 17th to 19th centuries ====== | ====== Ireland, 17th to 19th centuries ====== | ||
- | The Irish connection started with Captain Thomas Prior (initially his name was spelt Pryor, but by the time he died, it was Prior. For the sake of clarity, we’ll use Prior) being granted land in Queen' | + | The Irish connection started with Captain Thomas Prior (initially his name was spelt Pryor, but by the time he died, it was Prior. For the sake of clarity, we’ll use Prior) being granted land in Queen' |
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- | ===== Six Generations in Ireland ===== | + | ===== First Generations |
- | The following summarises the Priors/ | + | The following summarises the three generations of Priors who lived in Ireland: click on the name for more about that person.\\ |
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- | | + | [[Captain Thomas Prior]] (1616 - 17 March 1690 or 1691)((Teddy Fennelly, //Thomas Prior. His Life, Times and Legacy//, Ireland: Arderin Publishing, 2001, pp.81 gives his date of death as 17 March 1691; the birth date and 1690 date of death is from Patrick Prior' |
- | [[Captain Thomas Prior]] (d. 17 March ?1690)((Teddy Fennelly, //Thomas Prior. His Life, Times and Legacy//, Ireland: Arderin Publishing, 2001, pp.81 gives his date of death as 17 March 1691.)). | + | |
| [[Colonel Thomas Prior]] (d. 1700) m. | | [[Colonel Thomas Prior]] (d. 1700) m. | ||
- | | [[Richard Prior]] (d. 1736) Single? | + | | [[Richard Prior]] (d. 1736) Single, |
- | | [[Thomas (Tom) Prior]] (1679-21 October 1751) Colonel Prior' | + | |
- | | [[John Murray/ | + | |
- | | [[Andrew Murray-Prior]] (c.1747-95) | + | |
- | | 1st* [[Thomas Murray-Prior]] (1773 - 5 November 1854) m. 1799 [[Thomas Murray-Prior|Catherine Palmer]] (d. 1802) m. (2) or de facto? [[Thomas Murray-Prior|Mary Ann Thompson]] and other possible liaisons producing | + | |
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- | With the acquisition of a country property with tenants, the Priors and subsequently Murray-Priors established themselves as part of the Anglo-Irish gentry. The men were accorded the courtesy title [[wp> | + | |
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- | ==== * The Thomas Tradition ==== | + | |
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- | The above Thomas M-P is labelled the 1st because, ever since that Thomas M-P was born in 1773, the tradition has been followed that each Thomas and his wife call their first-born son Thomas. It’s a bonus that the name celebrates the first Prior in Ireland as well as the great Tom Prior whose will prompted the formation of the Murray-Prior name. It is less of a bonus when trying to keep track of which Thomas is which! Nevertheless it is an incredible achievement, | + | |