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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1841/1851 help please - MASON of PIMILICO
« on: Wednesday 22 February 12 16:42 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Billy, for your quick reply. It would be wonderful to trace this ancestor if possible.

I've made a list of the Masons descended from John of Sion referred to by all the contributors on these boards, and I have been getting little bits of information through histories of counties in Ireland too. It takes hours....

Looking forward to more bits of the jigsaw.

Regards
clonbyrn

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1841/1851 help please - MASON of PIMILICO
« on: Monday 20 February 12 18:56 GMT (UK)  »
Great to find so much inspiring information through you all.
I am chasing my 3rd. gt-grandfather Rev. Abraham Mason who married Isabel Wall. The family is Irish- or Anglo-Irish- but always thought of themselves as Irish.
He was born about 1775 and she was c. 1780. I can't find anything more about her yet. Rev. Abraham studied at Oxford as well as in Dublin (TCD) and is referred to as 'Gent., of Dublin..and of St. Anne's (C of I) Church, Dublin.'
His eldest son, Rev. Thomas Wall Mason was a prize-winner at TCD in 1820; and inside the book there is a bookplate with a double-headed lion on a shield, surmounted by the mermaid crest; and with a motto underneath reading 'Gloria Deo in Profundis'. Thomas Wall Mason also graduated from Oxford, as did his brothers Abraham II, Jacob and Joseph.
We have in the family a heavy gold signet ring with the mermaid crest on an onyx. Sadly the old stone got lost; but I remember it had an engraved buckled belt as part of the decoration, with the inscription Dum Spiro Spero.
All this seems to be leading me towards the Masons of Masonbrook, but I can't find an Abraham anywhere in various d/b's. Who were his parents?

Can anyone suggest a new line to pursue?
Your help much appreciated.
clonbyrn

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