Origins of the Irish Hungerfords: New Evidence
This article was extensively researched and written by Peter Sherlock [E.4.1a.6b.5c.1d.2e], and initially published in HAFS Journal Vol 15 No 4, November 2020. One of …
Irish Hungerford Ancestry
A series of posts detailing the Irish ancestors of Emanuel Hungerford [E].
Knight Hungerford ancestry – what the DNA showed
Following the story that John Knight appeared to be the son of Emanuel Hungerford, John’s great-grandson Alan Knight did an AncestryDNA® test and a Y-DNA …
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Margaret Hungerford (?-?1690)
Margaret Hungerford was born at unknown date, probably in Co Cork, to Thomas Hungerford and Mary May. She was born after her parents’ marriage in 1640 and, as she was married in 1680, probably no later than the early 1660s.
Margaret Hungerford and Thomas Knolles were married in 1680 (Cork Marriage Licence Bonds). They had three daughters.
Thomas Knolles (1660-1707)
Thomas Knolles was born on 6 December 1660 probably at Co Cork, the only son of Thomas Knolles and Dorothy Busteed (Burke, Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, 1850 v 3 p 361).
Thomas inherited the estates of Killeighy and Knockahowlea, Cork, and at Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, from his father in 1677.
Mary Hewytt (?-1684)
Mary Hewytt was born on an unknown date probably in Co Cork, the daughter of Thomas Hewytt of Clancoole and an unknown woman. As she was married in 1681 and had children in 1682 and 1684, she was probably born in the 1650s or early 1660s and may have been the sister of the Thomas Hewytt who married Jane Hungerford in 1686 in Cork.
George Synge (c1649-1692)
George Synge was born about 1649, Co Cork, the youngest son of George Synge, Bishop of Cloyne, and his second wife Elizabeth Stevens.
He was tutored by Mr Scroggs and entered Trinity College Dublin as a pensioner on 27 February (1665) 1666 aged 16 years (Alumni Dublinenses 1924 p 798). He received the MA about 1673 and the LLD about 1683.
George Daunt (c1631-c1697)
George Daunt was born about 1631, possibly in Cork. He was the fourth and youngest son of Thomas Daunt and Katherine Clayton. In 1682 his brother Achilles stated that George was aged 50 and living at Gortigrenane, Cork (Visitation of Gloucestershire 1682-3 p 55).
Martha Turner (?1650-1710)
Martha Turner was born on an unknown date, the daughter of Henry Turner and Dorothy Boyle. She was probably the younger sister of Elizabeth Turner who married Henry Becher, and perhaps born shortly before her father’s death in 1653.
Edward Cranfield (?1641-1700)
Edward Cranfield was born at unknown date, probably in Barbados, the son of Edward Cranfield and Elizabeth Parker. He was born after his father’s arrival in Barbados in 1633 and before his father’s death in 1649.
Edward Cranfield was raised in Barbados and appears to have been resident there as late as 1662 when he sold 360 acres of land to Nathaniel Kingsland for “a valuable sum of sugar” (Genealogies of Barbados Families p 371). By 1663 he was in London when he launched a suit against his uncle Lord Morley concerning the administration of the affairs of his mother Elizabeth, who had been declared to be a lunatic and had left unadministered parts of his father’s estate (Lords Journals v XI p 574).
Mary Bush (1662-1750)
Mary Bush was born in 1662 at Bath, Somerset, the daughter of John Bush and Ann Chapman. She was baptised on 27 December 1662 at Bath Abbey (Bath Abbey Registers).
Mary was the eldest surviving child of her parents, and was related to many of Bath’s most prominent families who, like her father, served as aldermen and mayors of the Bath Corporation.
Elizabeth Turner (?1647-c1721)
Elizabeth Turner was born on an unknown date, the daughter of Henry Turner and Dorothy Boyle. As her youngest child was born in 1688 Elizabeth must have been born after 1642, and before the death of her father Henry in 1653.
As Elizabeth’s father died when she was a young child. She was probably raised by her mother and her stepfather Thomas Roberts, a clergyman in the Dioceses of Cork and Ross and of Cloyne who died in 1664.
Thomas Becher (c1640-1709)
Thomas Becher was born about 1640, Baltimore, Co Cork, the son of Henry Becher and Elizabeth Notte.
Thomas was educated by a Mr French at Baltimore, and on 2 June 1658 was admitted to Trinity College Dublin aged 18, giving his birth place as Baltimore (Alumni Dublinensis 1924 p 55).
When was Emanuel born? Can you prove it?
Since HAFS was founded in 1990, all its publications have stated that Emanuel Hungerford, patriarch of the Australian Hungerfords, was born in Co Cork on 1 February 1785. My new set of posts on the Ancestry of Emanuel Hungerford aims to provide evidence for the names, relationships, dates and places and items of interest about each of his ancestors
Mary Moore (c1661-?1730)
Mary Moore was born about 1661, probably in Co Cork, daughter of Emanuel Moore, Baronet, and Martha Hull. She was born after her parents’ marriage in 1660 and (as she was married in 1677) probably no later than 1663.
Richard Hungerford (?1650-1729)
Richard Hungerford was born at unknown date, probably in Co Cork, the eldest son of Thomas Hungerford and Mary May. He was born after his parents’ marriage in 1640 and before the birth of his younger brother John in 1658.
Ann Knolles (?1685-c1737)
Ann Knolles was born in the 1680s in Co Cork, the second daughter of Thomas Knolles and Margaret Hungerford. Her birth took place after her parents’ marriage in 1680 and before the death of her mother and remarriage of her father in 1692 (O’Hart Irish Pedigrees 1915 v 2 p 274).
Henry Daunt (?1677-c1739)
Henry Daunt was probably born about 1677 in Co Cork, the younger son of George Daunt and Martha Turner. He was born after the birth of his brother in about 1675 and (as he was married in 1698) probably no later than 1683.
Elizabeth Synge (c1682-1757)
Elizabeth Synge was born about 1682, probably at Bandon, Cork, the only daughter of George Synge and Mary Hewitt. Her birth date was after her parents’ marriage in 1681 and before her mother’s death in 1684, although her monument at Owlpen suggests a birth date of about 1676.
Thomas Daunt (c1675-1749)
Thomas Daunt was born about 1675 in county Cork, the eldest son of George Daunt and Martha Turner. His monument in Owlpen described him as aged 73 years at his death in February (1748) 1749 giving a birth year of 1675 or 1676.
Mary Cranfield (1687-1753)
Mary Cranfield was born in 1687 at Bath, Somerset, the eldest child of Edward Cranfield and his wife Mary. She was baptised 5 September 1687 at Bath Abbey (Bath Abbey Registers).