Roche (No. 1.) family genealogy

Ginel. An Roisdigh (Anglicé): “The Roche Genealogy.”[1]

Arms: Gu. three roaches naiant in pale ar.

1. Alasdrum.

2. Daibhidh: his son.

3. Seaan: his son.

4. Muiris: his son.

5. Daibhidh (2): his son.

6. Muiris (2): his son.

7. Daibhidh (3): his son.

8. Muiris (4): his son.

9. Daibhidh (5): his son.

10. Muiris (6): his son.

11. Daibhidh An Roisdigh (or David Roche): his son (“roiste:” Irish, a roach).

Notes

[1] Roche: Dalton, at p. 60 of his History of the County Dublin, gives some interesting particulars of Philip Roche, who was a Captain in Sir Michael Creagh’s regiment, in the service of King James II. He was of a respectable family, and was possessed of some property. Having accepted a Commission from King James, Captain Philip Roche was included in the articles of Limerick, and thus preserved his estate.

Of the Waterford branch of this family was Regina Maria Roche (born in 1765), who was a distinguished novelist. Allibone notes sixteen works written by her between 1793 and 1822 or 1823. Her latter years were spent in retirement at her residence on the Mall, in Waterford, where she died on the 17th of May, 1845. The Gentleman's Magazine speaks of Miss Roche as the “author of The Children the Abbey, and other novels which delighted our elders half a century ago.”