Armorial Families: Hurly of Fenit House, Co. Kerry

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Armorial Families: Hurly of Fenit House, Co. Kerry
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Armorial Families - Hurly
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Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (ed.), Armorial Families
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Repeats, word for word, the arms/crest/motto of the 1854 Ulster King of Arms confirmation to Robert Conway Hurly (see source "Hurly Arms Confirmation 1854"): Azure, on a fesse between three crosses crosslet Or, a dexter hand couped between two mullets Gules; Crest, an antique Irish crown Or with a naked arm embowed proper holding a cross crosslet gold; Motto, DEXTRA CRUCE VINCIT.

Carries the pedigree forward past 1854, in two branches:

BRANCH A - sons of Robert Conway Hurly, Esq., JP, of Bridge House, Co. Kerry (b.1815, d.1870), m. (2nd) Annie, dau. of William Comyns of Witheridge, Co. Devon:

  1. John Conway Hurly, Esq., JP Co. Kerry, Capt. 3rd Batt. South Lancashire Regt., b.1862; m.1891 Maud Isabel (d.1892), dau. of Rev. George William Grogan, Rector of Withington, Lancashire; issue: Robert William Conway Hurly, Gentleman, b.1892, Glenduff, Tralee.
  2. Rev. Francis Thomas Barnewall Hurly, Curate of St Giles Cripplegate, London.
  3. Major Maurice Randall Hurly, 33rd Burma Infantry, b.1864; m.1890 Nora, dau. of Robert Fitzmaurice MD of Cloghers, Tralee; res. Mandalay.

BRANCH B - descendant of John Hurly, Gentleman, of Fenit House, Co. Kerry (d.1878), m.1853 Elizabeth Augusta, dau. of C. Grant of Kinchindy:
John Charles Denis Hurly, Esq., JP Co. Kerry, High Sheriff 1888, b.1864. Estates: Fenit, Aglish, Kilshenane, Kilfeighney, Clash &c. Address: Fenit House, Fenit, Tralee. Club: St James's.

Relationship of the Fenit House branch to the Bridge House/Robert Conway Hurly branch is not spelled out in this entry beyond the shared arms - flagged for further research (Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, Kerry valuation records).

Full transcription and notes in D. Hurley's Claude research project ("Ballinacarriga Castle"), appended to claude/confirmation-of-arms-hurly-1854.txt.

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September 28, 2026 – 09:12:47
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