MacCarthy Mór family genealogy
Of Coshmange County Kerry
See p. 112, Vol. I.
From the Carewe MSS., at Lambeth (Vols. 599 and 626), and Sir William Betham. And from the Carewe MSS., at Lambeth, Vol. 626, fol. 4; and the “Thomond Pedigrees,” Vol. 599.
“The Carties of Coshmange, in Desmond.”
Feach (or Fiacha), the third son of Cormac, who (see p. 112, Vol. I.) is No. 115 on the “MacCarthy Mór” pedigree, was the ancestor of this branch of that family:
116. Fiacha MacCarthy Mór: third son of Cormac.
117. Owen, of Coshmange: his son.
118. Donal, of East Coshmange: his son.
119. Cormac, of Molahuffe: his son.
120. Dermod: his son.
121. Owen (or Eugene): his son.
(Here the Lambeth MSS. end, A.D. 1620; and we continue the Pedigree from Sir W. Betham.)
122. Donogh (or Denis[1]): his son; living, A.D. 1695.
123. Cormac: his son.
124. Michael: his son; went with King James II. to France; d. and was buried at Caen, in Normandy, 5th Sept., 1744, œtatis circa 71.
125. Michael: his son; mar. Mary le Grand d’Ennerville, of Aguerny, in Normandy: buried at Caen, 3rd Sept., 1763. He had three sons:— 1. John Gabriel; 2. John, Knight of St. Louis, Captain of the Irish Brigade, b. 1739, d. unmar. May, 1788; 3. Charles Thaddeus François, Knight of St. Louis, Colonel in the Life Guards of Louis XIV., afterwards Captain in the 9th British Regiment of Foot; unmar., and living, A.D. 1811.
126. John Gabriel: his son; mar. and left issue—two sons and one daughter:—1. John-Henry, b. 1765, Captain of the Irish Brigade, d. unmar. 1793, buried at Liége in Flanders; 2. Sir Charles, Knight, etc., Colonel in the British Service, and Governor of Cape Coast Castle in Africa, killed by the Ashantees, 21st Jan., 1824; 3. The daughter mar. Charles François Comte Fontaine de Mervé, d. s. p.
Notes
[1] Denis: The following is a translation of a Certificate by King James II., respecting this Donogh or Denis:
“La Sieur Denis MacCarthy, who has faithfully served us in our Irish troops, as well in France as in Ireland, having very humbly represented to us that it would be advantageous to him to have our certificate relative to his family, which, having judged it reasonable to grant, we certify that we know by the testimony of many persons of quality our faithful servants in the Kingdom of Ireland, that the said MacCarthy is the legitimate and eldest son of Eugene MacCarthy, gentleman, son of Dermod MacCarthy, of Cosmaigny, in the county of Kerry, Esquire, one of the branches of the ancient house of MacCarthy Mór.
“Given at St. Germain-en-Laye, this Twenty-Fifth Day of July, 1695.”
(Signed) JACQUES, R.”