Some Account of the Family of O'Hurly

14. Pedigree of the Hurlys of Knocklong, Continued

Journal of the Cork Historical and Archæological Society, Vol. XI, 2nd Series (1905), p. 178

On the same page as the Knocklong Hill legend (Section 13), the article picks its pedigree back up exactly where it left off at page 116 — and, in doing so, names the pedigree's own writer. This is the passage this project has already drawn on, at Section 9, to identify "the writer of this book": Robert Conway Hurly, unmarried clergyman and Vicar-General of Ardfert and Aghadoe.

Page 178

Pedigree of the Hurlys of Knocklong.

(Continued from p. 116.)

Robert Conway Hurly, first son of John Hurly and Mary Conway, was unmarried, and was the writer of this book, he was a clergyman of the Established Church, and was Vicar-General of the Diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe.

John Hurly, second son, of Bridge House, Tralee, married Anna Maria Teresa Hill, only daughter of Colonel Hugh Hill, of Mount Hill, County Armagh, by Eliza, daughter of Richard Kirwin, of Creg Castle, Co. Galway, and Anna Blake, daughter of Sir Thomas Blake, Bart., and has issue—Robert Conway, Hugh Richard Kirwin, and John, and four daughters—Eliza, Maria Teresa, Alice, and Letitia.

Robert Conway Hurly, of Glenduffe, Co. Kerry, first son of John Hurly and Anna Hill, b. 2 June, 1815; married, first, 27 May, 1845, Dorcas, eldest dau. of Arthur Blennerhassett, of Ballyseedy, M.P. Co. Kerry, by whom he had no issue. He married, secondly, 1860, Annie, second dau. of William Comyns, of Witheridge, Co. Devon, by whom he had issue—1st, John Conway, now of Glenduffe, b. 1862; married, 1881, Maud Isabel, dau. of Rev. George William Grogan, M.A., and by her (who died 1892) had issue one son, Robert William Conway, b. 18th March, 1892. 2nd, Maurice Randall. 3rd, Francis Thomas Barnwell; and Roberta Mary Conway.

Hugh Richard Kirwin, second son of John and Anna Hill, was an officer in the army. He died unmarried.

John, of Fenit House, Fenit, Co. Kerry (third son of John Hurly and Anna Hill), m. 18th December, 1858, Elizabeth Augusta, widow of William Dundas Boyd, Lieut. Light Dragoons, and third daughter of Colquhoun Grant, Esq., of Kinchurdy, Morayshire. He died October, 1878, and left issue—

John Charles Denis Hurly, of Fenit, b. 1864; High Sheriff of the County Kerry 1888; and two daughters—Ellinor Mary, Augusta Hobart.

This is the same J. C. D. Hurly of Fenit House named in the article's own opening (see Section 1) as the source of the family papers and, per the plate at Section 9, of the Blennerhassett family miniatures reproduced there. The pedigree presented here is fully consistent with the identification of Robert Conway Hurly as author reached independently in Section 9, and adds the useful detail that he was a clergyman of the (Anglican) Established Church, not the Roman Catholic Church his own more distant ancestors are shown practicing earlier in this pedigree — unremarkable for a Church of Ireland family of this social class and period, but worth noting given how much of this article's earlier material concerns specifically Catholic religious institutions and clergy.

Historical Note — the Author, Confirmed

Taken together with the Blennerhassett family chart material discussed at Section 9, this passage effectively confirms the pedigree's authorship in the author's own words rather than through external inference. Robert Conway Hurly (b. 2 June 1815), Vicar-General of Ardfert and Aghadoe, unmarried, first son of John Hurly of Bridge House, Tralee and Anna Maria Teresa Hill, is named here directly as "the writer of this book." This is a stronger statement than this project could make on its own at Section 9, and it removes any remaining ambiguity about whose research and family papers underlie the pedigree sections of this article.

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