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I am indebted to Jenny Stiles in Australia for additional information, she is a Beecher descendant.

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John William Becher, 1855, Castle Hyde, Fermoy, Usually Resident, £432. Subscriber  Hollybrook as D.L. 1861 Rev. Gibson’s History of Cork. I have John William Becher as born 20 Jan 1849 and baptized 16 Feb 1849 at Abbeystrewry, Co Cork, the son of Richard “O’Donovan” Becher & Bessie Hungerford. In 1881 he married at the Catholic chapel at Skibbereen to Ellen Young. He was a farmer/farm servant. Still living in 1911. 

Edward Beecher, 1767, Ballicallen.  This is most likely Edward Becher, son of Lionel Becher & Catherine Dunscombe. He was of Bally Cotton & died at Crookhaven in July 1797. He married Jane Bousfield in 1756 & Ruth Herrick in 1761. 

SIR JOHN WRIXON-BECHER, 3rd Baronet (1828-1914), JP DL, High Sheriff of County Cork, 1867, who espoused, in 1857, the Lady Emily Catherine Hare, daughter of William, 2nd Earl of Listowel.  His son Sir Eustace William Wyndham Wrixon Becher (1860-1934) Bart, DL, 1915, Creagh, Skibbereen, Ballygiblin, Mallow, listed  1922.  Executor of his father Sir John Wrixon Becher, M.A., D.L., (1828-1914), £11,299.

Sir Eustace William Wyndham Wrixon Becher (1860-1934) Bart, DL, 1915, Creagh, Skibbereen, Ballygiblin, Mallow, listed  1922.  Executor of his father Sir John Wrixon Becher, M.A., D.L., (1828-1914), £11,299.  1911 living Roxboro, Co. Limerick living off land income, wife born London, 8 servants. His father was the third  holder of the baronetcy created in 1831 for Sir William Wrixon-Becher and to his death passed to his son Sir John. He married, in 1907, Constance, daughter of Augustus, 6th Baron Calthorpe, and had issue, WILLIAM FANE, his successor.

Henry Becher (1664-, TCD in 1683 aged 19, son of Thomas Sherkin Island,  1705, witness to 1717 deed with Emanuel Moore. Henry Becher was Thomas Becher’s eldest son. He married Henrietta Owen in 1698. His heir was John Becher. Henry died in 1738.  etc see document

Phane Beecher

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Burke’s ”Irish Family Records” and Smith both indicate that the Beechers were originally a Kent family. Fane Becher was granted over 12,000 acres in county Cork during the reign of Elizabeth I. Henry Beecher was granted land in West Carbery in 1669 and is recorded as the purchaser of land from Lord Kingston and Sir William Petty. In 1778 Mary daughter of John Townshend Becher of Creagh and Annisgrove, county Cork, married William Wrixon of Cecilstown, county Cork. She succeeded to the estates of her brother Henry Becher of Creagh. Their eldest son William Wrixon of Ballygiblin assumed the name of Becher and was made a baronet in 1831. He married an actress, Miss O’Neill, and had a number of children. Griffith’s Valuation records Sir William Wrixon Beecher holding an estate in the parishes of Castlemagner, Clonfert, Kilmeen, Knocktemple and Subulter, barony of Duhallow, county Cork. Sir Henry Becher, who succeeded his father in 1850, was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Castlehaven, Aghadown, Creagh and Tullagh in the barony of West Carbery, county Cork. Sir William Becher also held land in the parish of Kilvellane, barony of Owney and Arra, county Tipperary. The estate of Sir Henry Wrixon Becher of Ballygiblin amounted to 18,933 acres in county Cork and 358 acres in county Tipperary in the 1870s. Michael A Becher held townlands in the parish of Kilmeen, barony of East Carbery and in the 1870s Michael R. A. Becher of Ballyduvane, Clonakilty owned over 2,000 acres in county Cork. In 1854 lands and mining interests, the property of Edward Baldwin Becher, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court, and includes a report on the mines of Coolaghmore and Coolaghbeg. The Freeman’s Journal provides details of the purchasers of lots sold at auction, though it indicates that some lots were sold by private contract. In the 1870s the Becher estate in Cork (a combination of the Wrixon and Becher estates) amounted to over 18,000 acres while he also held lands in Tipperary. The estate of the representatives of the late John Beecher amounted to over 1600 acres in the 1870s. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation, Edward and George Beecher were among the principal lessors in the parish of Kilcoe while Richard Beecher was the lessor of townlands in the parish of Skull. Eliza Beecher held several townlands in the parish of Kilgarriff, barony of Ibane & Barryroe, at the same time. In October 1851, 17,000 acres, the estate of Richard H. Hedges Beecher, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. Lot 1 included the owner’s house at Hollybrook. A sale of the remaining lots took place in February 1852 and included the house at Lakelands, leased to Richard O’Donovan Beecher. In April 1858, the house and demesne at Hollybrook were again offered for sale. The Freeman’s Journal reports their purchase, in trust, by Robert Johnson. An extensive family history of both the Becher/Beecher and Wrixon families is given by Grove White and published in the ”Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society” (1907) under Ballygiblin. The spelling Becher and Beecher are used almost interchangably thoughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.