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From: (Sir Crispin Gaylord)
Subject: Knights of Glin
Date: 26 Mar 2002 10:25:09 -0800
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Dave Shelton <> wrote in message news:<>...

> Thanks. Here's the information that I have. I'm not sure if any of it
> is accurate. I'm in contact with the person that did the original
> research and I will have her resources soon.
>
> Katherine FitzGerald born abt. 1688 (should be listed as dead or missing
> about 1698 to 1700)
> Father: Edmund Fitzgerald
> Mother: Not Known
>
> Edmund Fitzgerald
> Father: Thomas Fitzgerald
> Mother: Mary ?
> Brothers: Richard, John, Thomas
> Sister: Katherine
>
> Thomas Fitzgerald
> Father:Gerald Fitzgerald
> Mother: Joan O' Brian
> Brothers: John
> Sisters: Honorea
>
> Gerald Fitzgerald
> Father: Thomas Fitzgerald
> Mother: Joan Butler

Dear David

After several weeks spent at my pied a terre in Belgravia I am finally
in a position to research this matter in my library. I'm afraid the
prognosis is not good.

In Burkes Landed Gentry of Ireland 1958 the following line is given
within the entry of Fitzgerald the Knight of Glin,

Edmond, father of
|__________________________
| |
John m Honoria O Connor Thomas m Joan Butler
|
Gerald m Joan O Brien
|
Thomas m Mary Fitzgerald
|
Edmond m Anne Cuffe
DSP 1773

The wives and siblings you give to each male match those in Burkes.
This would lead me to believe that your informant has garbled the
lineage in Burkes to make Thomas the father of Gerald and has moved
the chronology so as to tack on Katherine born circa 1688 as daughter
of Edmond, who in reality died without children in 1773.

I conclude that the genealogy of Katherine is false. Perhaps John is
right and she did kiss a frog, don glass slippers and was imprisoned
in a tower after her ordeal as "daughter" of the Knight of Glin.

My account is in the post.

Yours, etc

SIR CRISPIN GAYLORD, Bt

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