Pedigree Narrative: Thomas Hurly of Knocklong to the Baronets (pp. 114–116)

Down Survey map detail showing the Knocklong tract, 608 acres, with the Hurly castle marked where the roads cross — The Knocklong tract as drawn on the Down Survey map of the Barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick (1656–1658) — the primary source behind the plat sketch used on this page in an earlier draft. It gives Knocklong at 608 acres, 0 roods, 0 perches ("whereof unpl. 8-0-0"), bordered by Ballinlong (82 acres) to the east; the small castle icon marks the Hurly seat where the tract's roads meet. The watercourse along the top boundary is most likely the Morningstar River. The small mark crossing the road is almost certainly a gate. The survey's accompanying ownership return for this plat (Plat B) names **Sir Maurice Hurly** as proprietor of Knocklong, with the same 608-0-0 acres broken down as 600-0-0 profitable land and 8-0-0 unprofitable bog — independently confirming both the acreage given in the "Baronetcy Line" note above and Sir Maurice's ownership of the estate at the time it was forfeited (see above). For the full page, click through to the Down Survey website.

This page gives the full narrative pedigree from Thomas Hurly of Knocklong down through the baronets and their many collateral marriages, ending — remarkably — with the article's own unnamed author identifying himself by name as one of the family's own descendants.

Pages 114 (cont.)–116

Pedigree

Knocklong: 608 acres, 0 roods, 0 perches.

Thomas Hurly, of Knocklong, represented the borough of Kilmallock in 1583, and during the greater part of Elizabeth's reign, and was succeeded by his son, Maurice Hurly, who married, first, Guisell Hogan, and, secondly, Grace Thornton. By his wife he had a son John and Sir Thomas Hurly, Baronet, who married Joan, second daughter of John Browne, of Knuckmunihy and Camus, commonly called the Master of Awney, by Catherine O'Ryan, daughter of Master Desmond O'Ryan, called Master for being Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and by her he had two sons, Maurice and John, and four daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest son,

Sir Maurice Hurly, who by his wife, Catherine, the daughter of O'Dwyer, had two sons, William and John, and one daughter, Lettice. He forfeited his great and ancient estates in Limerick in 1641, and being removed by Cromwell, according to a favourite expression of his, "to Connaught or to Hell," to the County of Galway, he died at his mansion of Doone, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

Sir William Hurly, Baronet, who represented the borough of Kilmallock in 1689, and being zealously attached to the interests of King James the Second, forfeited the estates in Galway granted by Cromwell to [p. 115] his father. He married Mary, daughter of Colonel Blownt, and by her had one son,

Sir John Hurly, who was taken up in Dublin about the year 1714 for raising men for the Pretender, but made his escape.

Katherine Hurly, first daughter of Sir Thomas, married Pierce Butler, fifth Lord Dunboyne, by whom she had one son, the sixth Lord, and four daughters. Anne Butler married —— English, of Co. of ——. Katherine Butler, second daughter, married Daniel O'Ryan, of Solloghode. Grace Butler, third daughter, married Walter Bourke, near the Devil's Bit, called Mac Walter Duhee O'Leagh. This Walter's sister was the wife of Col. Blownt, and mother of the Lady Hurly, wife of Sir William; and after his death she married Mac O'Brien, of Duharra. Ellinor Butler, fourth daughter, was wife of McRobiston, of Ballycloghy, County of Cork, whose daughter, Ellen, by Garrett Fitzgerald, of Kilmurry, had issue Col. Thomas Fitzgerald, the father of Garrett, who married Julian, sister of the present O'Sullivan More, and left issue—Thomas, who married Mary, daughter of Patrick Pierce, of Ballincrossig, County of Kerry.

Ellinor Hurly, fourth daughter of Sir Thomas, by David Barry, of Rathaniskie, had issue Edmond Barry, the late "Queen Anne's" foster-father.

John Hurly, second son of Sir Thomas, had issue John, the father of the late Colonel John Hurly, and three daughters.

Grace Hurly, eldest daughter, married Captain John Purdon, of Tallagh, County of Limerick. Anne Hurly, second daughter, married John Bourke, of Cahirmogill. Ellinor Hurly, third daughter, married John Lacey, of Ballinlughane, the father of John and Pierce Lacy, and of Margaret, married to Captain Owen McCarthy.

Dennis Hurly, a descendant of the brother of Sir Thomas, or of Maurice Hurly, married Anne, fifth daughter of Robert, second son of John Blennerhassett, of Ballyseedy, and Alice Conway, second daughter and co-heir of Elizabeth Conway, of Castle Conway, and by her had issue five sons—Thomas, Charles, John, Dennis, and William. The last two died young.

Thomas Hurly, first son, married Alice, daughter to his uncle, Thomas Blennerhassett, by Jane Darby, and by her had issue three daughters.

Anne Hurly, eldest daughter, died unmarried.

Alice Hurly, second daughter, married Arthur Browne, of Ventry and Ballinvarrig, and had two sons, Frederick and Thomas, who both died unmarried, and two daughters—Alice Browne, who married Henry Sandes, of Moyvane, and by him had a numerous issue; and the second daughter, Letitia Browne, married her cousin, Thomas Hurly, and had a son, Charles.

The ancestors of Arthur Browne were settled in this country in or [p. 116] before the reign of Henry the Seventh, and he, many years before his death, sold his very respectable estate to his cousin, the first Lord Ventry.

Jane Hurly, third daughter, married John Mason, of Ballybonney, eldest son of James Mason and Catherine Power, by whom she had one daughter.

Charles Hurly, second son of Dennis and Anne Blennerhassett, married Alice Fitzgerald, sole daughter and heir of Edmond Fitzgerald, of Morniregane, and by her had two sons and one daughter, Mary Anne, who married Thomas Langley, of Co. Tipperary, and had several children.

Thomas Hurly, first son, married Letitia, second daughter of Arthur Browne and Alice Hurly, and had one son, Charles, now deceased.

John Hurly, second son of Charles and Alice Fitzgerald, married Mary Conway, daughter of Edmond Conway and Christian Rice, by whom he had two sons, Robert Conway and John, and seven daughters.

Letitia, first daughter, married Rowland, fourth son of Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Baronet, and by him had issue John Hurly, Richard Francis, and Rowland Conway, who died young, and five daughters—Melicent, Agnes, Mary, Letitia, Lucy, and Alice.

Alice Hurly, second daughter, by Alexander Elliott, left issue—Alexander, Thomas, and Lucy.

Christian Hurly, third daughter, by James Magill, left two sons, John Hurly and Darby, and Sarah, Lucy, Christian, and Letitia.

Lucy Hurly, fourth daughter, died unmarried.

Arabella Hurly, fifth daughter, died young.

Mary Hurly, sixth daughter, by Barry Collins, has issue—Thomas, John, Barry, Robert, and two daughters, Mary and Sarah.

Robert Conway Hurly, first son of John and Mary Conway, is unmarried.

The writer of this book, John Hurly, second son, married Anna Maria Teresa Hill, only daughter of Hugh Hill, of Mount Hill, Co. of Armagh, by Eliza, daughter of Richard Kirwan, of Creg Castle, Co. of Galway, and Anne Blake, daughter of Sir Thomas Blake, Baronet, and has issue—Robert Conway, Hugh, Richard Kirwan, and John, and four daughters—Eliza, Maria Teresa, Alice, and Letitia.

Robert Conway Hurly, first son of John and Anna Hill, married Dorcas, eldest daughter of Arthur Blennerhassett, of Ballyseedy, and Frances Grady.

The bracketed page citations above ([p. 115], [p. 116]) mark the original page breaks; the horizontal rule after Sir John Hurly's entry marks a clear break in the original printing between the direct baronetcy line and the collateral-family narrative that follows. Spelling and punctuation otherwise follow the 1905 printing exactly, including the blank-name entries ("married —— English, of Co. of ——") as printed.

This is the densest run of names anywhere in the article — several generations of marriages, in-laws, and collateral lines compressed into a page and a half of continuous prose, with more than one recurring forename (three separate "Thomas Hurly"s, two separate "John Hurly"s, two separate "Robert Conway Hurly"s) across close, easily-conflated generations. We have transcribed it exactly as printed and have not attempted to untangle or diagram the full family tree it implies; anyone using this page for their own research should read the generational relationships carefully rather than assuming any two same-named individuals here are the same person.

Historical Note — the Baronetcy Line, Now in Full

This page retells, with far more genealogical detail, the same baronet succession already narrated in Section 5: Thomas Hurly of Knocklong (Perrot's Parliament, 1585) → Maurice → Sir Thomas, Baronet (Confederate Catholic, d. 1683 in Connacht exile) → Sir Maurice (forfeited 1641, died at Doone, Co. Galway) → Sir William (Kilmallock M.P. 1689, forfeited the Galway estate for his Jacobite loyalty) → Sir John (fled arrest in 1714). What's new here isn't the political narrative, already covered, but the domestic detail around it: wives' names and families (Guisell Hogan and Grace Thornton for Maurice; Joan Browne for Sir Thomas; Catherine O'Dwyer for Sir Maurice; Mary Blount for Sir William), the estate's exact acreage (608 acres at Knocklong), and a full roster of siblings and their own marriages into Butler (Lord Dunboyne), Fitzgerald, Bourke, Barry, Purdon, and Lacey families — the kind of dense collateral detail typical of a pedigree compiled for a specific family's own use rather than for general publication.

Historical Note — "The Writer of This Book"

The phrase "The writer of this book, John Hurly, second son, married Anna Maria Teresa Hill..." is not a byline for the 1905 CHAS article, which remains anonymous (the Society's own archive catalogs it as "Author: Anonymous"). It's a first-person aside surviving from an earlier, separate document that this stretch of the article is quoting closely, page breaks and all, rather than digesting into third person — a common feature of antiquarian pedigree articles built up from family papers.

The man named is identifiable: John Hurly Jr. of Bridge House, Tralee (Clerk of the Crown & Peace for Kerry, d. 1854), via a Blennerhassett family genealogical chart (Blennerhassett family of Castle Conway, Killorglin and Rossbeigh, Co. Kerry, sheet K 69–K 70, compiled by Bill Jehan, rev. Nov. 2014), whose record of his marriage and children matches this pedigree's list name for name. What "this book" itself was, and whether it survives anywhere today, we don't know — most plausibly it was among the "documents connected with the history of the family" that the article's introduction (Section 1) describes J. C. D. Hurly of Fenit lending to the 1905 author.

A Note on the Two Robert Conway Hurlys

The name "Robert Conway" recurs twice in close succession here, for two different men of different generations, both descended from the Mary Conway named earlier in this same paragraph (daughter of Edmond Conway and Christian Rice) — hence the repeated use of "Conway" as a forename, a common Irish and English naming practice for marking a maternal family connection. The first, "Robert Conway Hurly, first son of John and Mary Conway," is the Rev. Robert Conway Hurly, Rector of Killiney and Vicar-General of Ardfert & Aghadoe (d. 1849 unmarried) — the elder brother of "the writer of this book," John Hurly Jr. (d. 1854), identified in the note above. The second, "Robert Conway Hurly, first son of John and Anna Hill," is John Hurly Jr.'s own son, Robert Conway Hurly, A.M. (b. 2 June 1815, d. 11 September 1870), Barrister and J.P. of Bridge House and Glenduffe House, Tralee, who married Dorcas Blennerhassett in 1845 — his uncle and namesake, the Rev. Robert Conway Hurly, performed the ceremony. A hurley-coat-of-arms image in this project's collection, associated with "Robert Conway Hurley, Esq." in the nineteenth century, most plausibly belongs to this younger Robert Conway Hurly given his generation and closer fit to the coat-of-arms attribution, though the identification isn't certain.

Glossary

Lord Dunboyne: A title in the Butler family, one of Ireland's most prominent Anglo-Norman noble houses. The fifth Lord Dunboyne named here (Pierce Butler) married into this family in the seventeenth century; a much later holder of the title, John Butler, twelfth Baron Dunboyne, is a distinct and separately notable figure — a Catholic bishop who controversially conformed to the Church of Ireland in 1787 to inherit the barony and later sought reconciliation with Rome before his death. The two should not be confused; nothing in this article's text suggests it means the later, more famous Dunboyne.