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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow County, Portarlington County Laois, and Dublin City.
« on: Monday 09 August 10 01:59 BST (UK)  »
For those who may be interested;
...Alderman Thos Meade was married to Harriet Brownrigg, daughter of Henry Brownrigg of Wingfield, Co. Wexford who died in 1723.

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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow County, Portarlington County Laois, and Dublin City.
« on: Monday 09 August 10 01:57 BST (UK)  »
For those who may be interested;
...Alderman Thos Meade was married to Harriet Brownrigg, daughter of Henry Brownrigg of Wingfield, Co. Wexford who died in 1723.

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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow County, Portarlington County Laois, and Dublin City.
« on: Monday 09 August 10 01:55 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: kenneth cooke on Tuesday 02 March 10 21:53 GMT (UK)
Ray,
Donnybrook Fair was an occasion when more security than usual was needed.
I believe that a 'peace officer' was recruited for that specific occasion.
Over the centuries Donnybrook Fair in South Dublin had become notorious for its riots and fights. The saying, ‘It was a regular Donnybrook’ meant ‘a scene of uproar, or free fight’. An item in ‘Pue’s Occurrences’ of 29 August 1758 describes the efforts made to keep the peace:
"Sunday 27th Dublin-  This and the preceding day the Rt.Hon.the Lord Mayor, Alderman Thos Meade, and High Sheriffs Messrs Michael Sweny and Wm. Forbes, attended by the High and Petty Constables and a party of the Army, went to Donnybrook fair and staid there till night each day, by which means His Lordship preserved the peace, and prevented the many riots and disorders which frequently happen at said fair, to the great terror of the inhabitants and other persons who resort thereto."
The Donnybrook Fair was finally banned in 1855. Alderman Michael Sweny was
the uncle of Eugene who married Eliz Halpen.
Ken

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Offaly (Kings) / Re: King's County landlords/ land agents
« on: Monday 09 August 10 01:35 BST (UK)  »
Arthur Blundell Trumbull Sandys Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire, came of age in 1809. Although his mother received two thirds of the rent from the Edenderry estate until her death in 1836, he paid off his father’s debts, had the mud walled cabins of the town’s main street replaced with slated stone houses (overseen by land agents John and James Brownrigg, who designed the attractive Blundell House in 1813), and was also responsible for the handsome Cormarket / Courthouse (1826). <www.irelandbyways.com>
There is a large amount of information online since John Brownrigg besides being a land agent, he was a magistrate, land surveyor and canal engineer.  Hope this helps your project.

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