Lodge family genealogy

Of Clonfada, County Limerick[1]

Arms: Per bend sinister ar. and sa. crusillée fitchée a lion ramp. counterchanged, armed and langued gu.

Thomas Lodge, Milés, Major, London, had:

2. William, of Castlebank, co. Limerick, Arm., who had:

3. Thomas, of Clonfada, county Limerick, who died 13th March, 1637. He m. Alice, dau. of — Woodward, of Derough.

Notes

[1] Lodge: John Lodge, the distinguished archivist, was born in England early in the 18th century, and was educated at Cambridge University. In 1751, he was appointed Deputy-Keeper of the Bermingham Tower Records, in Dublin Castle; and three years afterwards, his Peerage of Ireland was published in 4 vols. 8vo. in Dublin. In 1759 he was appointed Deputy-Clerk and Keeper of the Rolls. In 1770 he published anonymously The Usage of Holding Parliaments in Ireland; and in 1772, also anonymously, a valuable collection of historical tracts entitled Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica, 2 vols. 8vo. He died at Bath 22nd February, 1774. His wonderful collection of Indexes remained in the possession of his family for nine years, until 1783, when they were deposited in the office of the Civil Department of the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, in return for a life pension of £100 a year to his widow, and £200 a year to his son, the Rev. William Lodge. Mervyn Archdall, in 1789, published his edition of Lodge’s Peerage of Ireland, in 7 vols. Dr. Reeves writes: “In the department of genealogy Lodge was the most distinguished compiler that Ireland has produced; Archdall is to him what Harris is to Ware.” The only survivor of John Lodge’s nine children was the Rev. William Lodge, above mentioned, who was in 1790 Chancellor of Armagh Cathedral, and rector of Kilmore, in the same diocese; through whom several of his father’s books came into the Armagh Library; and a further accession to the same Library was made about 1867 by the purchase from his grandson, son of Rev. William Lodge, rector of Killybegs, of a large collection of his grandfather’s papers.