Genealogy of Kenmare Orpen Family, Ancestors include McGillicuddy, Connor/O’Connor, Cork Families, Swanton, Hutchinson, Ashe, Millerd, Extended Family Sir William Orpen Artist, Orpen Solicitors Dublin, Sir William Petty Industrial Industrial Settlement 1670s Kenmare.

This detailed genealogy compiled in the 1930s by a family member relying on sources many no longer available shown the occupations of many family members.  Like many Irish families Catholic as well as Protestant in the same social milieu they took the opportunities as Lawyers, Doctors, Engineers adn Administrators in an expanding British Empire.

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Dereliction on Trinity College Dublin, Estates, in Co. Kerry, 1844, Sub let to Middleman Orpen. Evidence to Parliamentary Enquiry in contrast to Lord Lansdowne Estate.

Results 1841 Election, from Booth No 6 including Bantry and Booth No 3 including Carbery, Co. Cork with some voters, names, candidate voted for, abode, property qualifications.

St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Kenmare (Teampaill Naomh Pádraig Eaglais na hÉireann an Neidín, proposed seating 1858 included Marquis of Lansdowne, Mayberry, Herbert, Herman, Orpen, Hutchins family members, Outrage when windows broken 1898 and resolution condemning same by Catholic Vestry.

1833, Properties Rented from Protestant Episcopal See of Cork 6 Ploughlands at Kilcrohane 3 Ploughlands at Crookhaven by Richard de La Coer, John Bowen, 9 Ploughlands Schull, Probably Mannions Island Carbery Island. Rev. John E Orpen, Lisheen.