Fitzgerald (No. 5.) family genealogy

Of Cloyne, Abbeyfeale, and Kilkee

Arms: Same as “Fitzgerald,” No. 3.

John Fitzgerald, known as “John of Callan,” who is No. 6 on the “Fitzgibbon” pedigree, was twice married; by his second wife he had Maurice, who was the ancestor of Fitzgerald, of Cloyne, Abbeyfeale, and Kilkee.

6. John Fitzgerald: son of Thomas Mór; slain in battle, in 1261.

7. Maurice: his son.

8. Sir Richard, of Imokilly; his son.

9. Richard, the first Seneschal of Imokilly: his son.

10. Maurice: his son.

11. Richard: his son; had a brother named Edmund.

12. William: his son.

13. James, the Deacon: his son.

14. Edmund, the Deacon: his son.

15. Sir John, of Cloyne (Sir Seann O’Cluoin, or Seann Mór), Knt.: his son; was one of the largest estate-owners in Ireland; willed his estate to King Charles I. but, on the Restoration, Charles II. restored it to Sir John’s eldest son, Edmund, of Ballymalow.[1]

16. Garrett; a younger son of Sir John, of Cloyne; had an elder brother Sir Thomas, besides Edmund of Ballymalow.

17. Edmund: son of Garrett; formerly of Cork, but went to Kerry at the instance of his aunt, the Countess of Luxenaw; living in 1694.

18. Garrett, the Mauleen (or Garrett of the Wallet): son of Edmund.

19. Edmund, of Abbefeale: his son.

20. Robert: his son; died 1806; had four sons:

1. Charles, of Kilkee, of whom presently.
2. George, of Kilkee, who had a son George (living in 1881), and two daughters:
   1. Margaret, who d. unm.
   2. Mary-Anne, who married a Mr. Whyte, Merchant, in Canada.
3. Robert, of Donoughboy, Kilkee, who had two sons:
   1. John, a Civil Engineer, who emigrated to Australia.
   2. Robert, who d. unm.
4. John, of Dublin and Castleblaney, who had three sons and two daus.:
   1. William, of Castleblaney.
   2. Henry, Solicitor, Eccles Street, Dublin.
   3. James, a Law Student.
   1. Lucy, married to Dr. Wiley England.
   2. Henrietta, unm.—all living in 1881.

21. Charles, of Kilkee, R.N., C.B.; son of Robert; died in 1888.

22. Gerald Fitzgerald: his son; living in 1888; has a sister Eleanor, unmarried.

Notes

[1] Ballymalow: See the “Acts of Settlement and Explanation,” pp. 93-94 (Dublin: 1665).