The Irish Bomfords 1617 to the Present

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The Bomford Family of Ireland and Allied Families

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About Peter Bamford's The Bomford Family of Ireland and Allied Families.

Family Tree

• Chapter 1 The Early Days from 1580 $$                                   ($$ = Land Summary)

  • 1.1  Bomford Origins

  • 1.2  The Start of the Lineage

  • 1.3  The Laracor Tombstone

  • 1.4  Interesting but Negative Investigation

  • 1.4.1  The Down Survey

  • 1.4.2  The Court of Claims

  • 1.4.3  Dublin of the 1660s

  • 1.4.4  The Country Tower House

  • 1.5  Eleanor Chenevix

  • 1.6  The Children

  • 1.7  Unplaced Bomfords

  • 1.8  Clonmahon (or Clonmaghan)

  • 1.8.1  Clonmahon Deed

  • 1.8.2  The Wellesley Family

  • 1.8.3  The Rowley Family

  • 1.8.4  Dean Jonathan Swift

  • 1.8.5  Thomas Sheridan’s School

  • 1.9  A Start on the Deeds

  • 1.9.1  Lease - Rahinstown and Baconstown  10th December 1691

  • 1.9.2  Lease - Enniscoffey and Oldtown  20th July 1692

  • 1.9.3   Lease - Rathflisk  20th January 1699

  • 1.9.4  Lease - Castletown   3rd September 1702

  • 1.10  The Family in 1702

  • 1.10.1  The Wilson Family

  • 1.11  Probable 17th Century Property

  • 1.11.1  The Bomford Estates in 1702

  • 1.12  The Jacobite War in Ireland  1689-91

• Chapter 2 Mostly Land 1703 ‑ 1721 $$

  • 2.1  Lease - Oldtown. Ardrums and Ferrans  1703

  • 2.2  Lease - Rathfeigh  22nd March 1706

  • 2.3  Lease - Clonfad   22nd February 1708

  • 2.4  Lease - Gallow  5th April 1709

  • 2.4.1  Gallow Lease Re-Assigned  30th April 1709

  • 2.5  Lease Gallow  23rd October 1712

  • 2.5.1  The Jones Family

  • 2.5.2  Jones of Dollinstown

  • 2.5.3  Jones of Clonmoyle

  • 2.6   Lease - Rattin   22nd November 1710

  • 2.7  Lease - Clounstown  8th December 1710

  • 2.7.1  The Wade Family

  • 2.8  Lease - Killeglan  20th December 1710

  • 2.9  Lease - Gurteen and Gainstown  1st February 1711

  • 2.10  Lease – Primatstown, Irishtown & Kilmoon  31st July 1712

  • 2.11  Lease - Cushenstown. Portlester & Bodman  27th March 1719

  • 2.11.1  The Langford Family

  • 2.11.2  The Rowley Family

  • 2.11.3  The Headfort (Taylour) Family

  • 2.12  Mostly Oliver Bomford’s Property  c1720

  • 2.13  Marriage - Stephen Bomford & Anne Smith  1713

  • 2.13.1  Marriage - Edward Bomford & Margaret Charlton

  • 2.13.2  Trinity College, Dublin

  • 2.14  Lease - Ardrums  13th February 1720

  • 2.15  Lease - Pranstown   17th February 1720

  • 2.16  Public Records

  • 2.17  Death of Colonel Laurence Bomford  25th March 1720

  • 2.17.1  The Family Tree

  • 2.18  Lease - Parkstown. Cooleronan & Crossenstown  21st February 1721

  • 2.19  Sale - Dublin Property  1st April 1721

  • 2.20  Death of Oliver Bomford  1721

  • 2.21  Will of Laurence Bomford  10th June 1721

  • 2.22  The Family and their Estates  1722

  • 2.23  The Bomford Estates  1722

• Chapter 3 Oliver, Thomas and Laurence 1721 ‑ 1729

  • 3.1  Bomford - Echlin Marriages

  • 3.1.1  Marriage of Elizabeth Bomford   1723

  • 3.1.2  Marriage of Laurence Bomford   c1733

  • 3.1.3  Marriage of Margaret Bomford  1735

  • 3.2  Lease - Cushenstown. Portlester & Bodman  16th December 1721

  • 3.2.1  Lease - Brick   30th July 1724

  • 3.2.2  Lease - Smithstown. Thomastown, Cappaghill, Reesk and part of Kilbrew  8th August 1724

  • 3.2.3  Baronies, Townlands etc

  • 3.2.4  A Further Digression. Political and Social

  • 3.3  The Mortgages of Cushenstown and Crossmacoole

  • 3.3.1  Mortgage - Cushenstown  23rd September 1727

  • 3.3.2  Mortgage - Cushenstown  8th October 1727

  • 3.3.3  Lease - Cushenstown  27th March 1728

  • 3.3.4  Mortgage - Cushenstown  27nd  November 1729

  • 3.4  Marriage Settlement Thomas Bomford and Jane Shinton  9th February 1729

  • 3.4.1  The Shinton Family

  • 3.4.2  The Shinton Houses

  • 3.5  The Death of Laurence Bomford

  • 3.5.1  Lease - Westmeath Property  9th June 1729

  • 3.5.2  Lease - Killeglan  19th December 1743

• Chapter 4 Stephen of Gallow 1724 ‑ 1738

  • 4.1  Lease - Tyrellstown  16th June 1724

  • 4.1.1  Lease - Tyrellstown  19th December 1739

  • 4.2  Lease - Ferrans  28th October 1724

  • 4.3  Lease - Gallow  3rd March 1731  /  2nd May 1735

  • 4.4  Lease - Arodstown and Dirpatrick  17th March 1725

  • 4.4.1  Lease - Dirpatrick  15th December 1726

  • 4.5  Mortgages - Dirpatrick

  • 4.6  Lease - Little Cabragh   10th April 1730

  • 4.7  Lease - Gurteen   14th December 1738

• Chapter 5 Thomas of Rahinstown 1725 ‑ 1740 $$

  • 5.1  Lease - Whitestown and Boycetown  15th February 1725

  • 5.1.1  Lease - Whitestown and Boycetown  27th June 1737

  • 5.2  Mortgage - Bellewstown (near Trim)  14th April 1725

  • 5.3  Lease - Balloughter (Hightown)  3rd January 1731

  • 5.4  Mortgages of Thomas of Rahinstown  1731 - 1739

  • 5.4.1  Memorial  26th July 1731

  • The Pakenham (Longford) Family

  • 5.4.2  £2,000 Mortgage to Jacob Pechell  10th May 1733

  • 5.4.3  £1,000 Mortgage on Balloughter  11th  December 1734

  • 5.4.4  Receipts for Bonds  16th January 1741

  • 5.4.5  Deed of Assignment of Land to Nephew  24th February 1738

  • 5.4.6  Mortgage (?) to Richard Connell  21st July 1739

  • 5.5  Letter from Thomas to Richard Connell  11th August 1739

  • 5.5.1  Summary of Thomas’ Debt

  • 5.6  Lease - Rattin and Clonfad   16th January 1740

  • The Tyrrell Family

  • 5.7  Will of Thomas the Elder of Rahinstown.   20th August 1738

  • 5.7.1  Probate of Will of Thomas Bomford  3rd February 1740

  • 5.8  The State of the Family in 1740

  • 5.9  The Bomford Estates   1740

• Chapter 6 Thomas' Mortgage Problems 1740 ‑ 1760

  • 6.1

  • 6.2 Sale of Corn etc 21st February 1740

  • 6.3 Marriage - Thomas the younger and Mary Foster 30th March 1740

  • 6.4 Death of Thomas the younger January 1741

  • 6.5 Lease - Oldtown. Ardrums and Ferrans  10th August 1744

  • 6.6 Turf from Oldtown 10th August 1744

  • 6.7 Mediation over Disputed Will of Thomas the Elder 10th August 1744

  • 6.8 Lease - Clonfad Rattin and Balloughter. 6th February 1746

  • 6.9 Termination of Boycetown 16th May 1746

  • 6.10 £2.000 Mortgage of Jacob Pechell 1750 - 1765

  • 6.10.1 £2.000 Mortgage Passed to Elizabeth Chenevix 13th October 1756

  • 6.10.2 Mortgage Passed to Daniel Chenevix. 21st October 1761

  • 6.10.3 Mortgage Passed to Daniel Chenevix 20th October 1762

  • 6.10.4 Mortgaged Lands Leased to Robert Sibthorpe 1st October 1764

  • 6.10.5 Mortgaged Lands made over to Stephen Bomford 2nd November 1765

  • 6.10.6 List of deeds left in the care of Mr Sibthorpe on 15th/16th May 1772 relating to Mr Thomas (Senior) Bomford’s mortgages 15th May 1772

  • 6.10.7 Summary of Thomas the Elder’s £2,000 Mortgage

• Chapter 7 The Cousins of Clounstown & Killeglan 1734 ‑ 1759

  • 7.1  The Children of Oliver and his brother Laurence

  • 7.1.1  Oliver of Cushenstown

  • 7.1.2  Laurence of Killeglan

  • 7.2  Lease - Mill town and Ballymagiddon  28th November 1734

  • 7.2.1  Termination of above Lease   15th July 1736

  • 7.3  Marriage Licence- - Laurence Bomford & Jane Smith   10th May 1744

  • 7.4  Mortgage - Cushenstown  1734 - 1750

  • 7.4.1  Mortgage of  29th November 1743

  • 7.4.2  Mortgage of 3rd April 1747

  • 7.4.3  Mortgage of 7th April 1747

  • 7.4.4  Mortgage of 11th December 1750

  • 7.5  Lease- Pranstown   11th December 1749

  • 7.5.1  Lease- Pranstown   6th September 1750

  • 7.6  Lease - Thorntown  1752

  • 7.7  Farragh - Court Case  1731 - 1759

  • 7.7.1  The case opened on 23rd February 1731

  • 7.7.2  Farragh - Termination by Susanna  4th July 1741

  • 7.7.3  Farragh - Court Case  1753

  • 7.7.4  Farragh - Court Case  10th October 1756

  • 7.7.5  Farragh - Lease & Court Case  8th May 1759

  • 7.8  Death of Rev John Echlin   19th January 1763

  • 7.8.1  The Echlin Family  19th January 1763

  • 7.9  Lease - Wilson Property  5th March 1754

  • 7.9.1  The Wilson Family  5th March 1754

  • 7.10  Lease - Cushenstown   15th March 1754

  • 7.11  Mortgage - Clounstown   15th March 1754

  • 7.12  Mortgage - Clounstown  17th June 1756

  • 7.13  Lease - Kilbrew  12th October 1751

  • 7.13.1  Lease - Kilbrew  8th April 1761

  • 7.14  Mortgage - Rathfeigh  22nd August 1753

  • 7.15  Marriage - Arthur Bomford & Mary Tarlton  14th September 1740

  • 7.16  Marriage - Frances Bomford & Robert Madden  1753

  • 7.16.1  The Madden Family of Meadesbrook

  • 7.17  Marriage - William Bomford & Charity Ryder.  22nd March 1754

  • 7.17.1  Marriage Settlement - William Bomford & Charity Ryder.  15/20th March 1754

  • 7.18  Death of Thomas Bomford of Clounstown  2nd September 1757

  • 7.18.1  Trust in Will of Thomas of Clounstown  12th January 1764

  • 7.18.2  The Rochfort Family

• Chapter 8 Mostly Marriages 1742 ‑ 1760

  • 8.0  Edward's and Stephen's children: marriage dates

  • 8.1  Catherine Bomford Marries Antony Hamilton

  • 8.1.1  Marriage Settlement of Antony Hamilton and Catherine Bomford  15th February 1742

  • 8.1.2  Marriage Settlement  3rd March 1750

  • 8.1.3  Death of Anthony Hamilton  June 1755

  • 8.1.4  The Hamilton Family

  • 8.1.5  Hamilton Land Purchase  5th May 1770

  • 8.2  Stephen Bomford Marries Elizabeth Sibthorpe  18th April 1745

  • 8.2.1  The Foster and Sibthorpe Families

  • 8.3  Anne Bomford Marries Owen Daly  c1745

  • 8.3.1  The Cooke Family

  • 8.3.2  Elizabeth Bomford marries Christopher Standring  1 June 1741

  • 8.4  Dorcas Bomford Marries Edward Williams  c1745

  • 8.5  Ann Bomford marries Samuel L’Estrange  1750

  • 8.5.1  The Smith Family

  • 8.5.2  The L’Estrange Family

  • 8.5.3  The Bermingham Family

  • 8.6  Mary Bomford marries William Coates  22nd June 1750

  • 8.6.1  Marriage Settlement  22nd June 1750

  • 8.6.2  The Coates Family

  • 8.6.3  Death of William Coates  March 1789

  • 8.6.4  Assignment of Woodtown and Clonee  2nd November 1790

  • 8.6.5  The Coates Family Tree

  • 8.7  John Bomford and his Marriage

  • 8.7.1  Rev John Bomford marries Ann Forster  March 1753

  • 8.7.2  The Forster Family

  • 8.8  Esther Bomford marries John Kelly  1756

  • 8.9  Anne Bomford marries John Molloy  4th June 1755

  • 8.9.1  The Molloy Family and Anne’s Children

  • 8.9.2  Anne’s Marriage Dates

  • 8.10  Isaac Bomford marries Sarah Mathews  24th November 1756(ML)

  • 8.11  David Bomford marries Sarah Burtchaell  December 1756

  • 8.11.1  The Burtchaell Family

  • 8.12  Lucy Bomford marries Thomas Birmingham  c1760

• Chapter 9 The Two Stephens & The Rev John 1743 ‑ 1761

  • 9.1  Lease - Rahinstown & Baconstown  26th January 1743

  • 9.2  Lease - Dirpatrick  2nd December 1750

  • 9.2.1  Lease - Dirpatrick  31st December 1750

  • The Higgins Family

  • 9.2.2  Lease - Dirpatrick  31st December 1750

  • 9.2.3  Lease - Dirpatrick  4th May 1754

  • 9.2.4  Unplaced Bomfords

  • 9.3  Mortgage - Culmullin & Ferrans   26th June 1745

  • 9.3.1  Mortgage - Culmullin   1st October 1767

  • 9.3.2  Lease - Culmullin   19th December 1747

  • 9.3.3  Lease - Culmullin   19th December 1747

  • 9.3.4  Lease - Culmullin   30th July 1748

  • 9.3.5  Lease - Culmullin   29th October 1757

  • 9.3.6  The Dopping Family

  • 9.3.7  The Tew Family

  • 9.3.8  Lease – Culmullin (Woodtown)  18th December 1760

  • 9.3.9  A Note on the Lands of Culmullin, Woodtown & Weatherstown

  • 9.4  Lease - Ferrans  15th February 1749

  • 9.4.1  Lease – Brayfield (Ferrans)  30th March 1751

  • 9.5  Lease – Gainstown & Tyrrellstown  2nd July 1755

  • 9.5.1  Lease – Gainstown & Tyrrellstown  20th  March 1759

  • 9.6  Lease – Gallow  11th July 1758

  • 9.6.1  Lease – Gallow  1st October 1759

  • 9.7  Death of Stephen Bomford the elder  1759

  • 9.7.1  The Executors Renounce Stephen’s Will  12th November 1760

  • 9.7.2  Stephen’s Family Renounce his Will  12th June 1761

  • 9.7.3  Death of Ann (Smith), Stephen’s Wife  December 176

• Chapter 10 Edward of Hightown 1750 ‑ 1762

  • 10.1  Edward, the fourth son of Colonel Laurence Bomford

  • 10.2  Map of Hightown & Quinera  May 1749

  • 10.2.1  Lease - Balloughter (Hightown)  27th February 1750

  • 10.2.2  Lease - Hightown  7th April 1755

  • 10.3  Lease - Oldtown & Enniscoffey  2nd April 1756

  • 10.3.1  Lease - Oldtown & Enniscoffey  20th July 1756

  • 10.3.2  Mortgage  - Oldtown & Enniscoffey  2nd August 1756

  • 10.3.3  Lease - Oldtown (Leagatoor)  25th May 1761

  • 10.4  Death of Edward Bomford  June or July 1756

  • Summary of Edward’s Family

  • 10.5  A Brief to the Right Honourable John, Lord Baron Bowes of Clonlyon, Lord Chancellor of Ireland  23rd June 1762

  • Bomford versus Richard Fetherston

  • 10.6  Stephen the Younger’s Attempt to Regain Oldtown and Enniscoffey   9th April 1801

  • 10.7  The Fetherston Family

• Chapter 11 Children of Stephen the Elder 1760 ‑ 1780 $$

  • 11.1  Lease - Rahinstown & Baconstown

  • 11.2  Lease – Castletownbellew  13th March 1761

  • 11.2.1  Lease – Bellewstown, Red Mountain, Dunfierth and Mylerstown  18th July 1761

  • 11.2.2  Lease - Lands in the Barony of Carbery   16th October 1761

  • 11.2.3  Lease - Dunfierth, Mucklin & Mulgeeth  3rd November 1770

  • 11.2.4  The Lands of Dunfierth Parish

  • 11.3  Lease - Carlingford  19th March 1762

  • 11.3.1  Lease – Carlingford  29th September 1775

  • 11.3.2  The Stannus Family

  • 11.4  The Bomford Family  1762

  • 11.4.1  Changes in the Bomford Estates since 1740  1762

  • 11.4.2  The Bomford Estates   1762

  • 11.5  Journey by Arthur Young   June 1776

  • 11.6  Lease – Dublin Houses  2nd February 1760

  • 11.6 1  Lease – Dublin Houses  21st July 1760

  • 11.6.2  Lease – Dublin Houses  24th December 1765

  • 11.6.3  Lease – Limerick Houses  27th July 1773

  • 11.7  Request to David Bomford  20th January 1768

  • 11.8  David Bomford, Merchant of Dublin  1770 - 1788

  • 11.9  David’s Illegitimate Son, Stephen  1754/55 - 1782

  • 11.10  Will of Rev. Samuel Partridge  17th January 1774

  • 11.10.1  Stephen the Younger’s Children  1774

  • 11.11  Death of Rev John Bomford  6th February 1776

  • 11.11.1  Lease - Gallow  23rd August 1777

  • 11.12  Lease – Dublin House  15th August 1769

  • 11.13  Mortgage Given  6th December 1779

  • 11.14  Isaac Bomford Attorney  1770 - 1790

  • 11.15  Georgian Dublin

• Chapter 12 Children of Oliver & Laurence 1759 ‑ 1769

  • 12.1.1  Arthur of Rathfeigh and his wife Mary (Tarleton)

  • 12.1.2  Mary Bomford and her Three Daughters

  • 12.1.3  The Tarleton Family

  • 12.2  Laurence of Killeglan

  • 12.2.2  Death of Laurence   August 1761

  • 12.2.3  Death of Jane (Smith)  1769

  • 12.2.4  Laurence and Jane’s Children

  • 12.2.5  Marriage - Wilson Bomford &. Anne Bomford  January 1759

  • 12.2.6  Children of Wilson and Anne

  • 12.2.7  Leases - Ballyowen  1799 and 1803

  • The Earl of Carhampton

  • 12.2.8  Laurence Bomford, eldest Son

  • 12.2.9  Thomas Shinton Bomford, 2nd Son

  • 12.2.10  Wilson Bomford. 3rd Son

  • 12.3  Summary - Offspring of Laurence of Killeglan, 3rd Son of Colonel Laurence

• Chapter 13 William of Cushenstown 1760 ‑ 1803

  • 13.1  William in 1760

  • 13.2  Mortgage - Surgolstown & Laurestown  23rd December 1760

  • 13.2.1  Mortgage - Surgolstown & Laurestown  11th April l772

  • 13.2.2  Lease - Surgolstown & Laurestown   18th April 1772

  • 13.3  Lease - Primatstown  27th February 1761

  • 13.4  Lease - Pranstown   2nd June 1761

  • 13.5  Lease - Cushenstown  19th January 1762

  • 13.5.1  Lease - Cushenstown  20th February 1762

  • 13.5.2  Lease - Cushenstown  29th March 1771

  • 13.5.3  Lease - Cushenstown  31st January 1783

  • 13.5.4  Lease - Cushenstown  1st July 1784

  • 13.5.5  William’s Marriages and Children

  • 13.6  Rights of William’s Children   26th March 1783

  • 13.6.1  Settlement on William’s Children   28th June 1786

  • 13.6.2  Settlement on William’s Children   3rd July 1786

  • 13.6.3  Lease - Cushenstown etc.  5th July 1786

  • 13.6.4  Lease - Dublin House  10th January 1792

  • 13.7  William’s Property at Lake Tay

  • 13.7.1  Lease - Lake Tay   13th January 1784

  • 13.7.2  Lease - Lake Tay  27th April 1785

  • 13.7.3  Lease - Lake Tay  28th April 1785

  • 13.7.4  Lease - Ballymaslowe  9th November 1788

  • 13.8  Lease - Delgany   9th October 1790

  • 13.8.1  Lease - Delgany  20th September 1798

  • 13.9 Leases - Cushenstown

  • 13.9.1  Lease - Cushenstown  10th March 1784

  • 13.9.2  Lease - Cushenstown   16th July 1791

  • 13.9.3  Lease - Cushenstown & Dunreigh  13th December 1791

  • 13.9.4  Lease - Cushenstown, Kilmoon etc   11th March 1794

  • 13.9.5  Lease – Cushenstown, Kilmoon etc  14th May 1795

  • 13.10  Death of William of Delgany   c1803

• Chapter 14 William's Brothers & Sisters 1764 ‑ 1800

  • 14.0  Summary of William's Siblings

  • 14.1  Marriage - Thomas and Alice Jessop   12th January 1764

  • 14.2  The Bomford - Jessop Family

  • 14.3  Lease - Brick  13th May 1778

  • 14.4  Death of Jane Bomford (Shinton)  1785

  • 14.4.1  Marriage - Jane Bomford & Samuel Heally   c1st January 1770

  • 14.5  Sale of Clounstown

  • 14.5.1  Mortgage and Sale of Clounstown   26th July 1784

  • 14.5.2  Sale of Clounstown  26th July 1784

  • 14.5.3  Sale of Clounstown  13th October 1788

  • 14.6  Lease - Cyplin  26th October 1784

  • 14.6.1  Lease – Brick & Cyplin  18th December 1784

  • 14.7  Lease - Ardnacrany   6th February 1796

  • 14.8  Children of Thomas and Alice (Jessop)

  • 14.8.1  Thomas Bomford

  • 14.8.2  Robert Bomford and his wife, Martha (Battersby)

  • 14.8.3  John Bomford

  • 14.8.4  The Bomfords of Ballinakill & Co Westmeath   1799-1853

  • 14.8.5  Lease - Ballinakill  15th December 1826

  • 14.8.6  Lease - Ballinakill  25th May 1850

  • Lease - Ballinakill  20th January 1853

  • 14.8.7  Bomfords in the Militia

  • 14.8.8  Bomford Family Tree

  • 14.9  Court Case - Thomas Bomford v Rev Thomas Jessop  c1796

  • 14.10  John Bomford, Merchant of Dublin

  • 14.10.0  Marriage - John Bomford & Dorcas Ahmuty   27th November 1766

  • 14.10.1  Land Transfer - Ahmuty Property  26th September 1767

  • 14.10.2  Land Transfer - Ahmuty Property  20th August 1777

  • 14.10.3  Ahmuty - Bomford Bequest   3rd February 1790

  • 14.10.4  The Achmuty Family

  • 14.10.5  John Bomford’s Immediate Achmuty Relatives

  • 14.11  John’s Second Marriage - Mary Ann Barrington  8th October 1788

  • 14.11.1  Lease - Upper Rathdowns  29th September 1795

  • 14.12  The Daughters of Thomas Bomford and Jane (Shinton) of Clounstown

  • 14.12.1  Anne Bomford

  • 14.12.2  Elizabeth Bomford

  • 14.12.3  Frances Bomford, Mrs Madden

  • 14.12.4  Emilia Bomford. Mrs Harrison

  • 14.12.5  Jane Bomford. Mrs Heally

  • 14.12.6  Christian Bomford, Mrs Hopson (1), Mrs Russell (2)

  • 14.13  Summary –  Family of Thomas Bomford & Jane (Shinton)

• Chapter 15 The Bomfords of Rahinstown 1779 ‑ 1800

  • 15.1  The Older Generation  1780

  • 15.1.1  Death of Ann L’Estrange (Bomford)  1784

  • 15.1.2  The Mulock Family

  • 15.2  The Younger Generation  1780

  • 15.3  Lease - Ross  3rd June 1772

  • 15.3 1  Lease - Ross  10th August 1781

  • 15.3.2  Mortgage Re-payment  20th December 1787

  • 15.3.3  Rahinstown House

  • 15.4  Robert Bomford – Army Career  1771 - 1793

  • 15.5  Marriage - Robert Bomford & Maria Massy-Dawson  1792

  • 15.5.1  The Massy Family

  • 15.5.2  Massy v Headfort - A Case of Seduction

  • 15.6  Marriage - Margaret Bomford & John Mockler of Trim   c1778

  • 15.6.1  Trim Parish Records

  • 15.6.2  Military Records

  • 15.6.3  Bomford Documents

  • 15.6.4  Probable Mockler Family Tree

  • 15.7  Locally Raised Forces in Meath

  • 15.7.1  Meath Militia

  • 15.7.2  Meath Volunteers

  • 15.7.3  Meath Yeomanry

  • 15.8  Trevor Bomford   1760-1797

  • 15.8.1  Trevor - An Attorney  12th June 1787

  • 15.8.2  Marriage - Trevor Bomford & Mary Bateman   September 1789

  • 15.8.3  Dublin House lease by Trevor Bomford  3rd August 1795

  • 15.8.4  Trevor’s wife - Mary Bateman

  • The McDonnell Family

  • 15.8.5  The Bateman Family

  • 15.8.6  The Crosbie Family

  • 15.9  Death of Stephen  1790 - 1791

  • 15.10  Frances Jane Bomford  c1760 - ?

  • 15.10.1  Marriage - Frances Jane and Col Cromwell Massy  November 1800

  • 15.11  Brief Concerning the Disputed Bog of Clonfad   1793

  • 15.11.1  Clonfad

  • 15.11.2  Letter from Richard Dardis

  • 15.12  Case of Bankruptcy   22nd December 1785

  • 15.12.1  Another Case of Bankruptcy  18th December 1787

  • 15.12.2  Deed of Assignment of the Bankrupt  A month later

  • 15.13  Leases & Purchase of Drumlargan  1787 - 1808

  • 15.13.1  John Osborn’s Deed of Settlement  22nd April 1708

  • 15.13.2  Lease - Drumlargan & Knockturin  28th February 1795

  • 15.13.3  Lease - Drumlargan, Knockturin etc  31st October 1803

  • 15.13.4  Lease - Drumlargan, Knockturin etc  1st May 1805

  • 15.13.5  Final Settlement of Drumlargan etc   11th July 1808

  • 15.13.6  Summary of Drumlargan Leases

  • 15.13.7  The Coddington Family

  • 15.13.8  Townland Place Names & Position

  • 15.13.9  The Battle of Drumlargan  8th August 1647

  • 15.13.10  The Church of Drumlargan

• Chapter 16 David & his Brother Isaac 1780 ‑ c1800 $$

  • 16.1  Death of John Bomford  1776

  • 16.1.1  David Bomford  1780

  • 16.1.2  David's Family  1780

  • 16.1.3  Isaac Bomford  1780

  • 16.1.4  Lease - Gurteen  9th February 1781

  • 16.1.5  Lease - Kilglan   19th February 1788

  • 16.2  Marriage - Jane Bomford & Duke Cooper  August 1785

  • 16.2.1  The Cooper Family

  • 16.3  Marriage - Anne Bomford & John North  September 1786

  • 16.3.1  Marriage Settlement  8th May 1786

  • 16.3.2  Whitewell

  • 16.4  The North Family

  • 16.4.1  Francis North

  • 16.4.2  Joseph North

  • Bagot Family of Kilcoursey, King’s Co

  • 16.4.3  William North of Kilbride

  • 16.4.4  John North of Tyrellspass

  • 16.4.5  Roger North of Guilford 

  • 16.4.6  North family of Westmeath

  • 16.4.7  Joseph and Roger North of Brackland & William North of Clonfad

  • 16.5  Isaac Bomford 1788-1805 Almanack Entries

  • 16.6  Isaac Bomford the Elder   1730-1793

  • 16.6.1  Death of Sarah, Isaac’s Wife

  • 16.6.2  The Mathews Family

  • 16.7  Marriage Anne Trevor & Rev Newburgh Burroughs  September 1791

  • 16.7.1  Marriage Settlement  19th August 1791

  • 16.7.2  The Burroughs Family

  • 16.7.3  After the Marriage

  • 16.8  Summary of Isaac and his Family

  • 16.9  Summary of the Bomford Family  1800

  • 16.9.1  Changes in the Bomford Estates since 1762  1800

  • 16.9.2  The Bomford Estates  1800

  • Co Kildare Properties (Map and list)

  • Co Meath Properties (Map and list)

  • Co Westmeath Properties (Map and List)

• Chapter 17 The Last of Oliver's & Laurence's Branches; & The Unplaced Bomfords 1836 - 1899

  • 17.1  The Children of William of Delgany

  • 17.2  Leases of Cushenstown & Surrounds  1803-1810

  • 17.2.1  Marriage Settlement – Thomas Bomford & Rebecca Eyre   19th October 1807

  • 17.2.2  Thomas’ Brothers and Sisters

  • 17.2.3  Leases - Delgany  1808-1815

  • 17.2.4  Marriage Settlement - Edith Bomford and Richard Jeffares  17th October 1815

  • 17.2.5  Marriage - Margaret Helen Bomford & John Johnson Hunt  1791

  • 17.2.6  Marriage of Elizabeth Bomford and John Cooper

  • 17.2.7  Summary of William’s Marriages and Children

  • 17.2.8  The Inheritance of Cushenstown etc

  • Part B - The Unplaced Bomfords (see also 9.2.4)

  • 17.3.1  Marriage of Elizabeth Bomford and John Cooper

  • 17.3.2  Jane Bomford’s Two Marriages

  • 17.3.4  Mrs A Bomford Kelly

  • 17.4.1  Launcelot Richard Bomford

  • 17.4.2  Launcelot Richard Bomford the Younger

  • 17.4.3  Wilson Bomford

  • 17.4.4  Edward Bomford

  • 17.4.5  Sarah Bomford & her Sons  After 1835

  • 17.5  Four Bomfords Shoemakers of Dublin

  • 17.5.1  Laurence Bomford & his wife Elizabeth Cheevers   31st May 1796

  • 17.5.2  William Bomford & his wife Ann Jordan  21st September 1803

  • 17.5.3  William Bomford the Younger & his wife Jane

  • 17.5.4  William’s wife Jane Marries William Daly  4th August 1854

  • 17.5.5  Thomas Bomford, Shoemaker

  • 17.5.6  William Benjamin Bomford of Mullingar

  • 17.5.7  Speculation

  • 17.8  The Bomfords of Trim  1771-1837

  • 17.8.1  Edward Bomford marries Margaret Plunket   1798

  • 17.8.2  William Bomford Assigns a Trim House   16th January 1831

  • 17.8.3  Introducing the Emigration to Tasmania  1833

  • 17.8.4  Isaac Bomford of Tasmania  1800 - 1886

  • 17.8.5  Peter Isaac Bomford  1834 - 1910

  • 17.8.6  Doctor John Bede Bomford  1836 - 1901

  • 17.8.7  Francis Edward Bomford  1840 - 1916

  • 17.8.8  Rachel Mary Bomford  1849 - 1939

  • 17.9  The Bomfords of Dirpatrick  1729-75

  • 17.9.1  The Bomfords of Agher Parish  1808-18

  • 17.9.2  Speculation

  • 17.10.1  John Bomford marries Anne Smyth   1713

  • 17.10.2  Edmund Bomford

  • 17.10.3  Frances Bomford marries Thomas Raper

  • 17.10.4  Rebecca Bomford marries John Douglas

  • 17.10.5  Death of John Bomford  1813

  • 17.10.6  Louisa Bomford  1870 - 1872

  • 17.10.7  William Bomford  1878 - 1892

  • 17.10.8  Rev William John Bomford  1863 – 1875

  • 17.10.9  Oliver Bomford of Tourane, Sligo

  • 17.10.10  Death of George Bomford, 15th May 1879

  • 17.10.11  William Bomford and family arrive in New South Wales 19 February 1848

  • 17.10.12  NSW Birth Death and Marriage Records

  • 17.11 The Dublin Census, 1911

    17.11.1 John Bomford

    17.11.2 Victoria Adela Bomford

    17.11.3 Anne Bomford

    17.11.4 James Bomford

    17.11.5 Nicholas Bomford

    17.11.6  Elizabeth Bomford

    17.11.7 Dublin Parish Records

    17.12  Summary of Unplaced Bomfords

• Chapter 18 Stephen the Younger & his Children 1797 ‑ 1816

  • 18.1.1  Death of Stephen the Younger  24th May 1806

  • 18.1.2  Will of Stephen of Rahinstown  4th October 1800

  • 18.1.3  Death of Elizabeth wife of Stephen of Rahinstown  1807

  • 18.2  Will of Antony, 4th son of Stephen of Rahinstown  22nd September 1805

  • 18.3  Ephraim Bomford, 7th Son of Stephen of Rahinstown

  • 18.4  Chichester Bomford, 8th son of Stephen of Rahinstown

  • 18.5  Trevor Bomford, 6th son of Stephen of Rahinstown

  • 18.5.1  Death of Trevor Bomford  February 1797

  • 18.5.2  Death of Mary Bomford (Probate)  22nd July 1809

  • 18.5.3  Marriage of Mary Anne Bomford & Francis Chute  13th February 1810

  • 18.5.4  The Chute Family

  • 18.5.5  Military Bomford Connections  1849

  • 18.5.6  The Blennerhassett Family

  • 18.5.7  Kerry Houses  1838

  • 18.6  Marriage – Frances Rose Bomford & Samuel Pratt Winter  20th July 1812

  • 18.6.1  Marriage Settlement  27th February 1812

  • 18.6.2  Change of Trustees of 1812 Settlement  27th September 1831

  • 18.7  The Children of Samuel Pratt Winter & Frances Rose Bomford

  • 18.7.1  Mary Winter

  • 18.7.2  George Winter

  • 18.7.3  Samuel Pratt Winter

  • 18.7.4  Margaret Winter

  • 18.7.5  Frances Jane Winter  1819-1910

  • 18.7.6  Arbella Winter – Mrs Cecil Pybus Cooke

  • 18.7.7  Trevor Winter  1822 - 1885

  • 18.7.8  Anna Maria Sarah Winter  1824 - 1856

  • 18.7.9  The Winters and Early Victoria

  • 18.7.10  Summary of Trevor Bomford & his Family

  • 18.8  George Bomford, the Elder, 5th Son of Stephen

  • 18.8.1  Lease - Clonfad   2nd May 1807

  • 18.8.2  Lease - Cluide  c1809

  • 18.8.3  Release of Rahinstown etc by George to Robert Bomford  10th May 1808

  • 18.8.4  Marriage - George Bomford & Arbella Winter  22nd March 1809

  • 18.8.5  Mortgage of Tullyard for £4.000   21st March 1809

  • 18.8.6  Death of George Bomford the Elder   January 1814

  • 18.8.7  George’s Estate - Prerogative Inventory  22nd ? 1814

  • 18.8.9  Entries in the Family Bible  1811 - 1815

  • 18.9.1  George Bomford’s Houses

  • 18.9.2  Arbella Bomford Buys a Town House  27th October 1814

  • 18.9.3  Arbella Bomford Dies  September 1815

  • 18.9.4  Will of Arbella Bomford  29th July 1815

  • 18.9.5  Codicil to Will  27th August 1815

  • 18.9.6  Probate of Will  12th February 1816

• Chapter 19 Robert of Rahinstown & David of Gallow 1802 ‑ 1817 $$

  • 19.1  Robert of Rahinstown, 2nd son of Stephen the Younger   1751 - 1817

  • 19.1.1  Massy Property  2nd August 1802

  • 19.1.2  Rahinstown Handed over to Robert   10th May 1808

  • 19.2  Settlement to Ephraim Bomford  4th May 1809

  • 19.2.1  Settlement to Chichester Bomford  25th April 1810

  • 19.2.2  Settlement of Robert Bomford  28th June 1811

  • 19.2.3  Death of Robert Bomford of Rahinstown   18th April 1817

  • 19.3  David Bomford - Grandson of Colonel Laurence   1730 - c1809

  • 19.4  Marriage Settlement – Sarah Frances Bomford & John Coates of Culcor  27th April 1803

  • 19.4.1  The Coates Family

  • 19.4.2  Culcor & Bridestream House

  • 19.4.3  The Children of the Marriage

  • 19.5  Marriage Settlement Isaac Bomford and Jane Holdcroft  26th February 1807

  • 19.6  Will of David Bomford  19th April 1807

  • 19.6.1  Death of David Bomford of Gallow  1809

  • 19.6.2  Death of Sarah Bomford, Wife of David  1816

  • 19.7  The Bomford Family & their Estates   1820

  • 19.8  Property Changes since 1800

  • 19.9  The Bomford Estates (Statute acres)  1820

• Chapter 20 The Minority of George the Younger 1814 ‑ 1832

  • 20.1  The Winters of Agher

  • 20.1.1  The Early Winters

  • 20.2  Agher, early days, and the Pratt Family

  • 20.2.1  The Pratt Family

  • 20.3  Agher Church

  • 20.4  Samuel Winter and his Children

  • 20.4.1  Lady Arabella Denny

  • 20.5  Agher, and young George and Samuel Bomford in 1820

  • 20.5.1  Agher about 1820

  • 20.6  The Winter Cousins

  • 20.6.1  The Caulfeild Family

  • 20.6.2  Later Winters

  • 20.6.3  The Future of the Winter Houses

  • 20.6.4  Winter Family Portraits

  • 20.6.5  Winter Deed of Assignment  8th May 1827

  • 20.7  Education of George and Samuel Bomford  1817-1832

  • 20.8  Final Payment for Drumlargan etc  4th March 1815

  • 20.9  The End of the Lands in Co Kildare

  • 20.9.1  Mortgage Re-Payment on Dunfierth etc  14th October 1817

  • 20.9.2  Mortage re-payment on Dunfierth ect.  14th December 1817

  • 20.9.3  Sale of Dunfierth & Mucklin etc  17th February 1821

  • 20.10  Rent roll of the Minor, George Bomford  c1828

• Chapter 21 Robert's Children - Marriages & Settlements 1821 ‑ 1839

  • 21.1  Robert's Provision for his Wife and Children

  • 21.2  Maria Bomford  (the Mother) 

  • 21.2.1  Second Mortgage on Rahinstown  20th March 1824

  • 21.3  Jane Rosetta  (2nd Daughter)

  • 21.3.1  Marriage – Jane Rosetta Bomford & Richard Martin Southcote Mansergh  25th February 1822

  • 21.3.2  Jane Rosetta’s Children

  • 21.3.3  Jane Rosetta’s Family Tree

  • 21.4  Annette Maria  (Eldest Daughter)

  • 21.4.1  The Hesketh Family

  • 21.4.2  Marriage Annette Maria & Sir Thomas Henry Hesketh  3rd April 1824

  • 21.4.3  The Children of Annette Maria and Sir Thomas Hesketh

  • 21.4.4  Lord Haldon’s Family   Annette Maria’s Son-in-Law

  • 21.5  Robert George Bomford  (Only Son)

  • 21.5.1  Marriage Settlement  –  Robert George Bomford & Elizabeth Kennedy   9th October 1826

  • 21.5.2  Portrait of Robert George

  • 21.5.3  The Kennedy Family

  • 21.6  Frances Georgina Bomford  (3rd daughter)

  • 21.6.1  Mortgage on Rahinstown etc  20th April 1827

  • 21.6.2  Marriage Settlement of Frances Georgina Bomford and Richard Bolton  9th May 1827

  • 21.6.3  Richard Bolton of Bective Abbey and his family

  • 21.7  Jemima Letitia Bomford  (4th Daughter)

  • 21.7.1  Marriage Settlement - Jemima Letitia Bomford and Richard Bolton  15th March 1833

  • 21.7.2  The Bolton Family

  • 21.7.3  Lyndon Bolton’s Children

  • 21.7.4  Richard and Jemima Letitia Bolton and their Children

  • The Crown Jewels

  • 21.8  Susan Margaret Bomford    5th Daughter

  • 21.8.1  Charles Rudinge Martin

  • 21.8.2  Marriage Settlement - Susan Margaret Bomford & Charles Rudinge Martin  29th January 1827

  • 21.8.3  The Martin Family

  • 21.8.4  The children Susan Margaret Bomford & Charles Rudinge Martin

  • 21.8.5  Children of Rev George Henry Martin

  • 21.9   Sarah Maria Bomford    (Youngest, 6th Daughter)

  • 21.9.1  Robert’s Settlement on Sarah Maria  20th February 1839

  • 21.9.2  Marriage - Sarah Maria Bomford and the Honourable Frederick James Tollemache  26th August 1831

  • 21.9.3  The Tollemache Family

  • 21.9.4  Wedding of Sarah Maria Bomford and Frederick Tollemache

• Chapter 22 The End of the Rahinstown Family 1831 ‑ 1858

  • 22.1  Robert George Bomford

  • 22.2  Rahinstown Mortgages and Release

  • 22.2.1  Rahinstown Mortgage  1st November 1831

  • 22.2.2  Rahinstown Mortgage  30th May 1838

  • The Armstrong Family

  • 22.2.3  Rahinstown Mortgage for £12,000   29th December 1838

  • 22.2.4  Deed of Release of Rahinstown   14th February 1839

  • 22.2.5  Deed of Release of Rahinstown   17th August 1839

  • 22.3  Ordnance Survey Field Name Books   1836

  • 22.4  Kennedy Property

  • 22.4.1  Kennedy Property   13th April 1834

  • 22.4.2  Kennedy Property   21st July 1846

  • 22.5  Dispute and Lease of Rahinstown and Baconstown   13th May 1841

  • 22.5.1  Continuation  13th October 1843

  • The Arthur Family

  • 22.5.2  Rahinstown & Baconstown  20th May 1847

  • 22.6.  The Land of Mullagh  14th October 1845

  • 22.6.1  The Trust - Mullagh  20th May 1847

  • 22.6.2  Lease - Mullagh  27th May 1858

  • 22.6.3  Lease - Mullagh  27th May 1858

  • 22.7  Death of Robert George Bomford  11th December 1846

  • 22.8  Death of Maria Bomford  10th July 1848

  • 22.9  The Sale of Rahinstown, Baconstown, Dirpatrick and Arrodstown  1850  - 1854

  • 22.9.1  Mortgage on Rahinstown  27th February 1850

  • 22.9.2  Redemption of Rahinstown £12,000 Mortgage   4th July 1850

  • 22.9.3  Lease of Rahinstown   20th October 1851

  • 22.10  Elizabeth Marries Secondly Marcus Beresford  6th June 1850

• Chapter 23 Isaac Introduces the North‑Bomfords 1815 ‑ 1840 $$

  • 23.1  Start of the North Bomford Lineage

  • 23.1.1  Lease Ferrans  8th May 1815

  • 23.1.2  Lease -Gallow. Ferrans & Tyrrellstown  31st December 1819

  • 23.1.3  Entail Removed on Gallow Ferrans & Tyrrellstown  1st February 1820

  • 23.1.4  Lease of Gallow &. Ferrans   5th February 1829

  • 23.2  Marriage - Isaac North & Belinda Emily Pilkington  8th October 1830

  • 23.2.1  The Pilkington and Emerson Families

  • 23.3  Ordnance Survey of Isaac Bomford’s Estates  1836

  • 23.3.1  Isaac Bomford’s Land

  • 23.3.2  Isaac Bomford’s Houses

  • 23.4  Death of Isaac Bomford   1837

  • 23.4.1  Will of Isaac Bomford  12th December 1835

  • The Cooper and Coates Families

  • 23.5  Probate of Isaac’s Will  August 1837

  • 23.6  Death of Jane Bomford   27th May 1840

  • 23.7  The North Family  1835 - 1896

  • 23.7.1  Will of David North  16th November 1860

  • 23.7.2  Tyrrellstown

  • 23.7.3  David North’s Children

• Chapter 24 George the Younger comes of Age 1832 ‑ 1837 $$

  • 24.1  Marriage Settlement - George Bomford & Arbella Winter  21st July 1832

  • 24.1.1  Marriage of George and Arbella  23rd July l832

  • 24.2  George’s Account Book  December 1832 - December 1834

  • 24.3  George’s Commission as a Justice of the Peace  7th November 1834

  • 24.4  Letter from Myles O’Reilly  5th October 1832

  • 24.4.1  The Last Letter from Myles O’Reilly   2nd May 1837

  • 24.4.2  The O’Reilly Family

  • 24.5  The Reynell Family

  • 24.6  Purchase of Oakley Park   1837

  • Map, Oakley Park (Laurencetown) 1730

  • 24.6.1  Oakley Park Cleared of Mortgages

  • 24.6.2  Conveyance of Oakley Park to George Bomford  9th November 1837

  • 24.6.3  Conveyance and Indemnity of Oakley Park  May 1839

  • 24.7  Purchase of Baltrasna  1793 - 1837

  • 24.7.1  Lease - Baltrasna  1st October 1793

  • 24.7.2  Lease - Baltrasna  1st April 1832

  • 24.7.3  Lease - Baltrasna  31st May 1834

  • 24.7.4  Baltrasna Mortgages Cleared  9th December 1835

  • 24.7.5  Purchase of Baltrasna by George Bomford  12th June 1837

  • 24.7.6  The Hussey Family

  • 24.8  Ordnance Survey of George’s Properties  1836

  • 24.8.1  Drumlargan   1836

  • 24.8.2  Knockstown (Extract from survey)  1836

  • 24.8.3  Baltrasna

  • 24.8.4   Ginnetts  1836

  • 24.8.5  Oakley Park

  • 24.8.6  Clonfad

  • 24.8.7  Rattin

  • 24.8.8  Cluide

  • 24.8.9  Summary of George’s Property  1836

  • 24.9  Summary of all Bomford Property  1837

  • 24.9.1  The Family  1837

  • 24.9.2  Robert George of Rahinstown and his Sisters

  • 24.9.3  George of Oakley Park and Brother Samuel

  • 24.9.4  Isaac of Gallow and Ferrans

• Chapter 25 George of Oakley Park 1838 ‑ 1849

  • 25.1  Children of George and Arbella

  • 25.2  Oakley Park House Extension: Date of the Extension  1838 to 1839

  • 25.2.1  Leases of Parts of Oakley Park  1838

  • 25.2.2  The Barnes Family

  • 25.3  Neighbours and Townlands Adjacent to Oakley Park

  • Oakley Park Map 1836

  • 25.3.1  Neighbours Further Away

  • 25.3.2  The Town of Kells

  • 25.3.3  Disturbances in the Moynalty Area

  • 25.3.4  The Night of the Big Wind  6th January 1839

  • 25.4  Portraits of George and Arbella  1847

  • 25.5  Bomford Arms and Crest

  • 25.6  Children’s Letters (and Verse)  13th February 1842

  • 25.7  Drumlargan Rent from F. P. Winter  1st May 1846

  • 25.7.1  Schedule of Deeds  6th June 1846

  • 25.8  The Famine  1846 - 1849

• Chapter 26 Samuel Bomford & his Family 1813 ‑ 1980s

  • 26.1 Early Days

  • 26.2  An Extraordinary Deed  1834

  • 26.2.1  Marriage of Samuel Bomford  1839

  • 26.2.2  Relations at the Wedding  11th July 1839

  • 26.3  Later Movements and Houses

  • 26.3.1  Death of Samuel and Frances Jane Bomford

  • 26.4  Deeds Concerning Samuel

  • 26.4.1  Re-Assignment of £4,000 Loan  15th February 1861

  • 26.4.2  Mortgage to Samuel Arthur Reynell  30th November 1864

  • 26.4.3  £10,000 Mortgage on Oakley Park  1st August 1837

  • 26.5  Children of Samuel and Frances Jane Bomford

  • 26.5.1  Caroline Frances Bomford  1840 - 1859

  • 26.5.2  Rodon Bomford

  • 26.5.3  Rodon Charles Bomford  1845 - 1915

  • 26.5.4  Laurence George Bomford  1847 - 1926

  • 26.5.5  Trevor Bomford  1849 - 1929

  • 26.5.6  Gerald Bomford, Sir  1851 - 1915

  • 26.5.7  Victor Reginald Bomford  1859 - 1900

  • 26.6  Children of Trevor Bomford  1849 - 1929

  • 26.6.1  Trevor Laurence Bomford  1885 - 1945

  • 26.6.2  Kenneth Chichester Bomford  1886 - 1908

  • 26.6.3  Caroline Frances Bomford  1888 - 1968

  • 26.6.4  Alan Claude Bomford  1891 - 1914

  • 26.6.5  Marjorie Ruth Bomford  1893 - 1929

  • 26.6.6  Raymond Francis Bomford  1901 - 1953

  • 26.7  Children of Sir Gerald Bomford  1851 -1915

  • 26.7.1  Hugh Bomford, Sir  1882 - 1939

  • 26.7.2  Lorna Bomford  1883 - 1962

  • 26.7.3  Nora Bomford  1894 -1968

  • 26.7.4  Guy Bomford  1899 - 1996

• Chapter 27 The North‑Bomfords of Ferrans 1836 ‑ 1899 $$

  • 27.1  Isaac North  c1791 - 1866

  • 27.1.1  Dublin Houses   1836 - 1863

  • 27.2  Death of Belinda Emily North-Bomford  1852

  • 27.2.1  Their Children

  • 27.3  Griffith’s Valuation of Rateable Properties  20th October 1854

  • 27.3.1  The North-Bomford Country Houses

  • 27.3.2  Census Extracts Concerning Ferrans and Gallow  1871

  • 27.4.1  Marriage Settlement – Mary Jane and John Emerson  6th March 1850

  • 27.4.2  Part of Settlement Payment to Mary Jane  3rd May 1871

  • 27.4.3  Death of John and Mary Jane Emerson

  • 27.4.4  Children of John and Mary Jane Emerson

  • 27.5  Isaac North-Bomford - The Eldest Son  1834 - 1862

  • 27.5.1  Captaincy and Annuity  26th March 1862

  • 27.5.2  Death of Isaac North-Bomford - The Father  10th October 1866

  • 27.6  Annabella North-Bomford  c1836 - 1899

  • 27.6.1  Marriage Settlement Annabella North-Bomford and Benjamin Whitney  11th April 1860

  • 27.6.2  The Whitney Family

  • 27.7  John North-Bomford  1838 - 1905

  • 27.8  David George North-Bomford  1840 - 1869

  • 27.8.1  Marriage Settlement between David George North-Bomford and Mary Gubbins  10th May 1867

  • 27.8.2  Memorial to Marriage Settlement  7th June 1867

  • 27.8.3  The Gubbins Family

  • 27.8.4  Settlement on David George North-Bomford  3rd November 1868

  • 27.8.5  Death of David George North-Bomford  13th October 1869

  • 27.8.6  Mary North-Bomford Marries Again  14th November 1871

  • 27.8.7  The Keane Family

  • 27.8.8  Annabella North-Bomford  (Only daughter of David)  1868 - ?

  • 27.8.9  Marriage Settlement Annabella North-Bomford and Thomas Griffin  11th April 1899

  • 27.9  Horatio North-Bomford  1847 –  (?) 1935

  • 27.9.1  Lease - Brayfield  7th December 1865

  • 27.9.2  Mortgages Granted by Horatio  1868 - 1877

  • 27.9.3  Marriage of Horatio North Bomford and Alice Louisa Emily Somers  c1875

  • 27.9.4  Death of Horatio and Alice North-Bomford

  • 27.9.5  Isaac John North-Bomford  (Son of Horatio)  1882 - 1968

  • 27.10  Belinda Emily North-Bomford  c1849 – ?

  • 27.10.1  Marriage Settlement – Belinda Emily North Bomford and Edward Napoleon L’Estrange  1st April 1878

  • 27.10.2  Edward Bomford L’Estrange – (only son of Belinda)  1883 - 1951

  • 27.11  Summary of Isaac North-Bomford and his Children

• Chapter 28 The Johns of Ferrans 1866 ‑ 1965

  • 28.1.1  John North-Bomford  1838 - 1905

  • 28.1.2  Lease of Ferrans and Gallow  19th March 1863

  • 28.1.3  Mortgage of Ferrans and Gallow  7th February 1866

  • 28.2.1  Marriage Settlement of John North-Bomford and Charlotte Maria Devenish-Meares  23rd July 1867

  • 28.2.2  The Devenish-Meares and Kelly Families

  • 28.3  Mortgages  3rd November 1868

  • 28.3.1  £200 Loan Repaid  3rd November 1868

  • 28.3.2  £3,750 Mortgage on Gallow and Ferrans  3rd November 1868

  • 28.4  John’s Second Marriage

  • 28.4.1  Marriage Settlement, John North-Bomford and Mary Wilhelmina Constance Kaye  4th September 1882

  • 28.4.2  The Kaye Family

  • 28.4.3  The Barker Family

  • 28.4.4  After the Marriage

  • 28.5  Mary Wilhelmina Marries Again  16th December 1908

  • 28.6  John George North-Bomford  1883 - 1965

  • 28.6.1  Ferrans House Burnt during ‘The Troubles’  1923

  • 28.7  David John North-Bomford  1912 - 1949

  • 28.8  Summary of John North-Bomford and his Family

• Chapter 29 George Bomford's Land 1854 ‑ 1899 $$

  • 29.1  George's Land in 1854

  • Oakley Park Map

  • 29.2  Oakley Park or Lawrencetown  Valuation 1854

  • 29.2.1  Land Improvements  1860 - 1866

  • 29.2.2  Summary of Oakley Park Leases and Rents

  • 29.3  Drumlargan  1854

  • 29.3.1   Drumlargan House Improvement  c1865

  • 29.3.2  Grants for Land Improvements

  • 29.3.3  Drumlargan Balloon Houses

  • 29.3.4  Drumlargan Income

  • 29.4   Knockstown

  • 29.4.1  Tithes  11th May 1870

  • 29.5  Baltrasna  Survey of 1854

  • 29.5.1  Rents from Baltrasna and Knockstown

  • 29.6  Cluide  Survey  of 1854

  • 29.7  Rattin  Survey of 1854

  • 29.7.1  Clonfad  Survey  of  1854

  • 29.7.2  John Francis Bomford becomes a Landlord  1861

  • 29.7.3  Tenants and Rents of Clonfad and Rattin  1854 -1903

  • 29.7.4  The Gaynor Valuation

  • 29.7.5  Cleary Valuation

  • 29.7.6  Other Valuations and some Politics

  • 29.8  Census of Ireland   1871

  • 29.9  The Neville mortgage of Clonfad

  • 29.9.1  The Neville Family

  • 29.9.2  Clonfad Unable to Sustain Interest

• Chapter 30 George & his Family 1850 ‑ 1890s

  • 30.1 George's Family in 1850

  • 30.1.1  House and Garden

  • 30.1.2  Trees and the Hunt

  • 30.1.3  Duties and Activities

  • 30.1.4  Letters

  • 30.2  George Winter Bomford  1834 - 1884

  • 30.2.1  Affidavit of 20th June 1857

  • 30.2.2  Marriage of George Winter Bomford and Flora Mary McVeigh Sadleir  17th April 1861

  • 30.2.3  The Sadleir Family

  • 30.2.4  The Australian Visit

  • 30.2.5  Indenture concerning £1,000 loan  17th May 1867

  • 30.2.6  Death of George Winter Bomford  22nd June 1884

  • 30.2.7  George Winter Bomford’s Family

  • 30.2.8  Summary of George Winter Bomford and his Family

  • 30.3  John Francis Bomford: His Early Life  1837 - 1911

  • 30.3.1  Marriage of John Francis Bomford and Elinor Jane Bolton  29th November 1866

  • 30.3.2  Elinor Bolton’s Brothers and Sister, and their Families

  • 30.3.3  The Move to Drumlargan

  • 30.3.4  A Wild Oat ?

  • 30.4  Arbella Anna Bomford   (Mrs Ruxton)  1839 - 1910

  • 30.4.1  Marriage Settlement  20th August 1863

  • 30.4.2  The Ruxton Family

  • 30.4.3  The Ruxton Houses

  • 30.4.4  Arbella Anna’s later Life

  • 30.4.5  Summary of Arbella Anna, Mrs Ruxton

  • 30.5  Anne Bomford   1833 - 1912

  • 30.6  Samuel Stephen Bomford  1841 -1872

  • 30.7  Elizabeth Bomford  1843 - ?

  • 30.8  Victoria Adela Bomford  1849 - ?

  • 30.9  Margaret (Meggie) Winter Bomford  1855 - 1928

  • 30.10  Robert Laurence Bomford  1857 - 1931

• Chapter 31 Bomford Trustees & Mortgages 1832 ‑ 1899

  • 31.1  Caulfeild - Winter - Preston marriage settlements

  • 31.2  George Bomford’s Mortgages

  • 31.2.1  £1,000 Mortgage to Hinds on Drumlargan and Clonfad

  • 31.2.2  £800 Mortgage to Hinds on Oakley Park

  • 31.2.3  Loan to George by Samuel Bomford

  • 31.2.4  £3,000 Mortgage by Neville on Clonfad

  • 31.2.5  Mortgage Summary

  • 31.3   ‘Accounts with Mother’  1889

  • 31.3.1  Money Owed to Arbella Bomford

  • 31.4  Payment of Hinds Mortgage  9th June 1899

  • 31.5  John Francis Bomford’s Mortgages

  • 31.5.1  Mortgages to Christopher Barry

  • 31.5.2  £1,000 Loan from Arbella Bomford

  • 31.5.3  £425 PWD Loan  22nd October 1891

  • 31.5.4  £1.700 Drumlargan Mortgage  2nd August 1893

• Chapter 32 Family Trouble 1881 ‑ l900

  • 32.1  The Inheritance of Drumlargan and Knockstown

  • 32.2  Knockstown Ownership

  • 32.2.1  The Sale of Drumlargan House & Home Farm

  • 32.3  Death of George Bomford  (21st?) March 1886

  • 32.4  George’s Family  1886

  • 32.5  ‘Accounts with Mother’  1889

  • 32.6  Letter from Arbella Bomford

  • 32.6.1  Visit of John Francis to Oakley Park  January 1891

  • 32.6.2  2nd Will of Arbella Bomford  11th February 1891

  • 32.6.3  From J Clark to John Francis (at a hotel in Dungannon)  17th May 1898

  • 32.7  Seventeen Letters

  • 32.8  Death of Arbella Bomford  8th January 1900

  • 32.8.1  Death Certificate  9th January 1900

  • 32.9  The Disposal of Arbella’s Property

  • 32.9.1  Family Movements  1900

  • 32.9.2  General

  • 32.9.3  Sale of Livestock and Vehicles  January 1900

  • 32.9.4  Leasing of the Oakley Park Land

  • 32.9.5  Sale of Household Effects

  • 32.9.6.  Initial Probate of Arbella’s Estate  2nd April 1901

  • 32.9.7  Suggested Settlement by John Francis  23rd April 1901

  • 32.9.8  Final Probate of Arbella Bomford  20th July 1911

• Chapter 33 John Francis' Children 1870 ‑ 1980s

  • 33.0  John Francis' Children

  • 33.1  John Francis' Bible

  • 33.1.1  The Children’s Younger Days

  • 33.1.2  Memorial to the Bomford Family

  • 33.2  Anna Arbella Bomford   (Mrs Longfield)

  • 33.2.1  The Longfield Family

  • 33.2.2  The Longfield Children

  • 33.3  John Stephen Bomford

  • 33.4  Lyndon Henry Bomford

  • 33.5  Elinor May Bomford (Mrs Constable)

  • 33.5.1  The Constable Family

  • 33.5.2  Their Life after their Marriage

  • 33.5.3  The Constable Children

  • 33.5.4  Covent Garden Ticket

  • 33.6  Samuel Richard Bomford

  • 33.7  Gwendoline Bomford   (Mrs Shelford)

  • 33.7.1  The Shelford Family

  • 33.7.2  Children of Leonard and Gwendoline Shelford

  • 33.8  Charles Francis Bomford

  • 33.9  Trevor Broughton Bomford

  • 33.9.1  The Chaloner Family

  • 33.9.2  The Children of Trevor Bomford and Henrietta Chaloner

  • 33.10  William Harold Bomford

  • 33.10.1  The Children of William and Bessie Bomford

  • 33.10.2  Alzheimer’s Disease

• Chapter 34 Death of John Francis & the End of the Irish Land  1911 - 1933 $$

  • 34.1.1  Changing Circumstances

  • 34.1.2  Death of John Francis Bomford 13th September 1911

  • 34.1.3  Death of Elinor Jane Bomford 14th July 1924

  • 34.2.1  Untenanted Lands Return 1906

  • 34.2.2   Overall Total of Bomford Lands 1906

  • 34.2.3   Surveys of 1933 and 1955

  • 34.2.4   Complete Summary of all Bomford Lands     

  • 34.3  Valuation of Oakley Park 1906

  • 34.3.1  The Wind-down of Oakley Park

  • 34.3.2  Oakley Park Summary

  • 34.3.3  Auction of Oakley Park 1955

  • 34.4  1906 Valuation of Drumlargan

  • 34.4.1 1933 Valuation of Drumlargan

  • 34.5  1906 Valuation of Knockstown

  • 34.6  1906 Valuation of Baltrasna

  • 34.7  Clonfad and Rattin

  • 34.8  1906 Valuation of Cluide

  • 34.9  Some Childhood Memories of Pre-War Oakley Park

  • 34.9.1  The Place

  • 34.9.2  Haymaking

  • 34.9.3  The Harvest

  • 34.9.4  The Animals

  • 34.9.5  The Dairy

  • 34.9.6  The House and Garden

  • Floor Plans of Oakley Park c1920

• Chapter 35 George Lyndon & his Family 1890s ‑ 2005

  • 35.1  George Lyndon Bomford

  • 35.2  Marriage of George Lyndon and Helen Maude, 5th August 1897

  • 35.3  The Corbould-Warren Family

  • 35.4  Death of George and Maude Bomford

  • 35.5  Children of George and Maude Bomford

  • 35.5.1  Elinor Louise Bomford

  • 35.5.2  George Warren Bomford

  • 35.6  Evelyn Maude Bomford

  • 35.6.1  The Bamford Family

  • 35.6.2  The Martin and Clifford Families

  • 35.6.3  Frederick Bamford’s Marriage and Later

  • 35.6.4  Percival Clifford Bamford

  • 35.6.5  Wilfred Clifford Bamford

  • 35.6.6  Clifford Peter Bamford

  • 35.6.7  Brian Philip Bamford

  • 35.7  Dorothy Eileen Bomford

  • 35.8  John Lyndon Bomford

  • 35.9  Joan Annella Bomford

  • 35.9.1  The David Family

  • 35.9.2  The Ussher Family

  • 35.9.3  The Edgeworth Family

  • 35.9.4   Children of Armine and Joan David

• Chapter 36 Conclusion

  • 36.1  Reflections on the Family

  • 36.1.1  The Troubles

  • 36.1.2  The Bomfords and The Troubles

  • 36.2  Reminiscences of George Warren Bomford

  • 36.2.1  At Clifton

  • 36.2.2  Gentlemen Cadets

  • 36.2.3  An Unusual Odyssey

  • 36.2.4  The Pad Elephant

  • 36.2.5  His Highness of Bikanir

  • 36.2.6  With the Desert Rats of North Africa

  • 36.3  More childhood memories

• Appendixes

  • Appendix A    The Bomford Irish Houses

  • Appendix B    Land Summary

  • Appendix C    The Norman Barons in Ireland

  • Appendix D    The Famine

  • Appendix E    Index of Family Trees

  • Appendix F    Index of Allied Families

  • Appendix G    Killed in Action

• Maps

  • Map of disputed bog of Clonfad

  • Map of the land of Ross

  • Co Kildare properties

  • Meath properties

  • Westmeath properties

  • 1730 Survey of Laurencetown (Oakley Park)

  • Townland of Oakley Park based on 1836 OS

  • Oakley Park based on 1883 Ordnance Survey

• Oakley Park

  • The 1839 Extension

  • Transverse Section Plan of the 1839 extension

  • Floor plans c1920