Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameMaurice FITZGERALD, 7G Grandfather
MotherMargaret ASHE (~1665-)
Spouses
1Penelope BARRETT, 7G Grandmother
ChildrenWilliam Vesey (1714->1809)
Web Notes notes for Maurice FITZGERALD
From Burke's Irish Family Records:
p427-dropped surname of FitzGibbon, of Lahardin, co Clare

Had several sons and daughters, besides second son, William Fitzgerald.

From "The History and Topography of the County of Clare from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the 18th Century" by James Frost, pub 1893 and again in 1973, p 427 fn 2:
Lahardan was the residence of the Fitzgeralds, one of whom, the Right Honorable James Fitzgerald, was father of Vesey, first Lord Fitzgerald. They held under a lease made in 1734, by Theobald Butler to Maurice Fitzgerald, gent., of Lahardan.

Lahardan comes from Leith Ardán and means a very little hill.

It was about 1736 that the Fitzgeralds built and moved into Lahardan House.
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