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Henry Beecher, Grant of Deeds by the Trustees of the Forfeitures of 1688

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Henry Becher (1664-1738), 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.

Henry Beecher, (1759-1780), 1779, Creagh/Creaford, Skibbereen.  1765 11 July Cork City Newspapers.  “To be Let, part of the estate of Henry Becher (aged 5) during his minority. Lands of Gortadrohid, Ardnagreena on harbour of Baltimore etc. contact Michael Becher guardian. 1779 Hibernian Magazine Dec 1779 “Henry Becher of Creaghtford to be a J.P. of the Peace for the Co of Cork”. 1780 Hibernian Chronicle  25 Dec 1780 “Died Thursday last, Henry Becher at Creagh near Baltimore.” The guardian Michael Henry Becher [1735-1778 was his uncle & my 4 x Great Grandfather. He was married to Catherine French. Poor Henry is the one who died after a shooting accident on his 21^st birthday.

John R.  Beecher, Hollybrook, Skibbereen, listed 1856, sitting Skibbereen 1861.  1856 Ballydehob Presentment sessions. May have married Catherine Jermyn only child of Henry and Mary of Aughadown, 1805 he assigned property to Richard Hungerford and Becher Fleming to provide £225 pa should she survive him.

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John Townsend Beecher, 1760, Anne Grove, 1755 Faulkner’s Dublin Journal  22 Feb 1755 “17 Feb Married last Thursday John Townsend Becher Esq To Miss Donovan, d Rev. Morgan O’Donovan, Magistrate, Ballinacalla,  with  £5000.  Died 1761, at her lodgings near South Gate, Mrs Beecher, relict of John Townsend Beecher of Ann Grove”.  Possibly, 1771 Limerick Chronicle 10 Oct 1771,  “Thursday last at Cork Colonel John Becher of Hollybrook to Miss Bab. Townsend of Skibbereen.”Michael Beecher, 1777, Creagh, Skibbereen, member Atlantic Society literary society. Subscriber  of 1766 ‘The History of the Irish Rebellion’, Cork, 1766.  1778 Dublin Hibernian Journal Aug 24 1778, “Died-Near Bandon Michael Beecher of Creagh Esq.”  1789 Cork Evening Post 12 Jan 1789, ‘Last Sat George Pigott Rogers Esq. to Mary Twogood Becher, dau of the Late Michael Becher of Creagh, Esq’.
Michael Alleyne Richard Beecher (1839-, 1875, Ballyduvane, Clonakilty, Resident, £130, 1870, 2,101 acres, listed 1916. Landed proprietor, widower 1901.  1884, signed a  protest against the dismissal of Lord Rossmore,  Head of Orange Order, Monaghan. Sampson T.