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The society was established in 1979 as a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-political organisation. They aim to promote the study of family history local history , genealogy , and heraldry , and encourage the collection and preservation of records relating to the history of Queensland families.
Winners include Marianne Eastgate (1991), Rosemary and Eric Kopittke (2006), Paul Mackett (2009), and Shauna Hicks (2009). The Queensland Family History Society describes the award as the most prestigious award in the field of family history in Australasia. [9] AFFHO confers the Nick Vine Hall Award to promote family history journals and ...
The Shee family were descended from Gaelic lords Clan Ua Seaghdha in the Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry, in southwestern Ireland. [2] During the 14th century they moved to Tipperary and then on to Kilkenny where Richard Shee's grandfather Robert O'Shee rose to prominence and was recorded as being sovereign of Kilkenny city.
John Bradley (11 January 1954 – 7 November 2014) [1] was a historian and archaeologist at NUI Maynooth. [2] He grew up in Kilkenny and published many papers about his hometown.
According to Kilkenny: History and Society (1990), by Willian Nolan and Kevin Phelan, [12] Robert Langrishe completed the outright purchase of the fee simple of their Knocktopher lands of over 800 acres in 1757, lands that had previously been held by them on a lease of lives renewable since 1698. Although John was married five times he had only ...
Killamery (Irish: Cill Lamraí) [1] is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Located near the County Tipperary border, [ 2 ] it is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. [ 1 ] Killamery lies on the N76 national secondary road , [ 3 ] halfway between Kilkenny to the northeast and Clonmel to the southwest.
He is listed as a Cromwellian Adventurer and at least some of his lands were taken from the Kilkenny local Shee family. [3] [4] His descendant was the barrister Sir John Blunden, 1st Baronet who built and lived in Castle Blunden. Like his father he was a member of the Irish House of Commons, elected for the constituency of Kilkenny City in 1761.
The Order of Friars Minor was founded by Francis of Assisi in 1209; they came to Ireland around 1226, and St Francis Abbey was founded in Kilkenny as a small rectangular chapel between 1231 and April 1234 by Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke. In 1245, it received a royal grant for clothing.