Justices of the Peace, Co. Cork
Rev. Paul Lymerick, 22nd October 1729.
Revised: Genealogy of Limrick family of Schull, West Cork from 1720 with their relations Benjamin Sullivan, (O’Sullivan Mór), Cork, Lawyers, East India Men, MPs
Paul Limrick, attorney, Cork, Pembroke St., 1840s was a younger brother of John Limrick Justice of the Peace of Union Hall and Schull (sons of Col. Wm. Somerville Limrick) and also brother of Dr William. Limrick of Union Hall. John Limrick JP, magistrate, crops up often in newspaper reports, esp. in relation to the great famine but also in his confrontation with O’Donovan Rossa in 1863 in Union Hall.
It is believed that the Limericks of Goleen were descendants of Robert Limrick – the son of Rev Paul Limrick of Schull – who married a Catholic and obviously forfeited any inheritance from the family (and was thus poor). The Limericks of Goleen and Schull have now disappeared from the Mizen peninsula – some went to South Wales while others emigrated to Boston in the United States.
With reference to Denny’s history and Col. William Somerville, it is interesting that Denny, a professed genealogist, chooses to ignore any illegitimate descendants, so provides comparatively little information about him other than “Col. … in the Hon. East India Co.’s Military Service, who bought a valuable estate at Union Hall, Co. Cork, and died there, unmarried, 14th August, 1831”
Denny was probably more interested in demonstrating his own family connections to the aristocracy such as the O’Sullivans.
Research by Brian Limrick shows that Colonel Limrick actually had 8 children all born in Cork after his return from India (now aged 50ish), including William, John and Paul plus another son, Thomas Hingston Limrick, and four daughters. Margaret English was mother to John (and was probably mother to all the others but no proof).
The Limrick surname is probably English from Gloucestershire where among others Thomas Limrick was MP for Gloucester in 1482. A close relative, William Lymryk of Brimpsfield in Glos. was yet another clergyman who was appointed a Canon at the Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr in Dublin at the end of the 15th C. At that time the post of canon was a post almost exclusively filled by Englishmen!
https://durrushistory.com/2015/10/09/letting-of-flour-mills-rosscarbery-1844/
https://durrushistory.com/2015/03/09/lease-of-three-ploughlands-at-ballydevlin-goleen-west-carbery-william-richard-hull-descendant-of-sir-william-hull-gunpoint-to-cornelius-driscoll-likely-ancestors-of-driscollodriscoll-middl/
https://durrushistory.com/2015/02/10/criss-crossing-the-north-atlantic-mid-to-late-18th-century-and-letter-november-1752-by-rev-james-macsparran-from-narraganset-rhode-island-new-england-to-his-friends-back-in-ireland-including-one/
From an article by Rev. H L Denny, JCHAS, 1907.
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=7461&action=edit&message=1
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I am Paul Limrick White (born June 3rd 1942 in Putney London) and am, I believe, a direct descendant of Paul Limrick of Schull. My family in England still have a portrait of Paul Limrick and also 2 other portraits of Martha and William White …the latter who was also a descendant of Paul Limrick. After a lifetime of travel in the British Merchant Navy and residency in England and New Zealand I am now living in Canada in Quebec Province with my third wife Jessica Trinity. I can be reached by e-mail and would be happy to expand on what other details of my family I know.
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Paul, I too believe I am a direct descendent of Paul Limrick of Schull, via my 2 x great grandfather Alfred White. b 1811, d 1895. I would be most interested in having a photo of the portraits mentioned above, and to share information about shared ancestors. My name is Nicola and I am contactable at nicola@mortimerstokes.com.
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Your e-mail address comes up as ‘A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
nicola@mortimerstokes.com
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Hello Paul – Thank you for trying to send me a message. Here is another email address which may work more consistently – nicolavmstokes@gmail.com
Nicola
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I do have photos of all three ancestors mentioned
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