Purcell (No. 1.) family genealogy

[1]Baron[2] of Loughmoe

Arms: Or, a saltire betw. four boars’ heads couped sa. Crest: A cubit arm erect ppr. habited az. cuffed ar. grasping a sword also ppr. pommel and hilt or, piercing through the jaw a boar’s head couped sa. vulned and distilling drops of blood. Motto: Aut vincam aut periam.

According to MacFirbis, the Genealogy of the Barons of Loughmoe is as follows; commencing with Charlemagne (or Charles the Great), King of France, who, A.D. 800, was crowned Emperor of the West:

1. Serlus Mór (Carolus Magnus, or Charlemagne).

2. Robeard: his son.

3. Sir Hugh: his son.

4. Risdeard: his son.

5. Pilip: his son.

6. Risdeard: his son.

7. Eumon: his son.

8. Roibin: his son.

9. Reumunn: his son.

10. Tomas: his son.

11. Bened: his son.

12. Seaan (Shane): his son.

13. Seamas (James): his son.

14. Seunfionn: his son.

15. Seumas: his son.

16. Uilliam: his son.

17. Eumon: his son.

18. Piarus: his son.

19. Tomas: his son.

20. Seamas: his son.

21. Tomas: his son.

22. James: his son; the last Baron of Loughmoe; living in 1689. Was a colonel in the army of King James II.; while his brother Tobias was a general in the army of William and Mary, and fell at the Battle of the Boyne. Mar. the Hon. Beatrice Butler, and had Thomas.

23. Thomas[3]: son of James.

24. Philip: his eldest son; had two brothers—1. Richard, 2. John.

25. Tobias, of Timogue Castle, Queen’s County, living in 1798: son of Philip. Married a Miss Scully, of Kilrush, in the county Tipperary, and had—1. John (died 1857), who had John, a lawyer, who died in Dublin in 1881; 2. James, of whom presently; 3. Tobias, a colonel in the English army; 4. William, a lawyer; 5. Edward,[4] an admiral in the Royal Navy; 6. Mary-Ann.

26. James: second son of Tobias. Served on the staff under General Sir De Lacey Evans in the war of 1835 against Don Carlos; and d. near Dublin, of his wounds, leaving one dau. Mary, d., and a son (posthumous) James-Bryan.

27. Rev. James-Bryan Purcell, of Loughmoe Hall, Mount Washington, Baltimore County, Maryland, U.S.A.: the son of James. Left Ireland at the early age of thirteen; studied medicine and served as surgeon in the U.S.A. 1866-1869; and in 1870 entered into Holy Orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States; living in 1881.

28. Tobias-Noel Purcell: his son; also living in 1881.

Notes

[1] Purcell: In tracing this pedigree, MacFirbis heads it with the words Geinealach Baruin Luachma. These Irish words mean “The Genealogy of the Barons of Loughmoe,” in the county Tipperary.

[2] Baron: This Peerage was created by the Earl of Ormonde, as Palatine of Tipperary.

[3] Thomas: There is a tradition that this Thomas had an elder brother Nicholas, who was known as the seventh and last Baron of Loughmoe, and who died 4th March, 1722; and that this Nicholas had three daughters, and one son who, in his infancy, was scalded to death, having jumped from his nurse’s arms into a vat or boiler of boiling water.

[4] Edward: This Edward Purcell had three sons and two daughters. The sons Were—1. Edward-Tobias-Willoughby Purcell, a Colonel of Artillery, and Commander of the staff for Bristol and South Wales district, living in 1881; 2. Rev. Handfield-Noel Purcell, Vicar of Fowey, living in 1881; 3. Matthew-Henry Purcell, Captain Royal Engineers, living in 1881.