Colpoys of Ballycar

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msynge
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Colpoys of Ballycar

Post by msynge » Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:59 pm

Mary Colpoys, called "the beautiful Molly" by Nicholas Woulfe in a poem of 1758 called The Granahan Hunt, married James Fitzgerald of Shepperton, a scion of the Fitzgeralds of Carrigoran. James's mother was also a Colpoys, Alice, daughter of George Colpoys of Ballycar, sheriff of county Clare in 1711, but the provenance of her daughter-in-law, the beautiful Molly, is a mystery.

Thomas Westropp published some notes on the Colpoys of Ballycar in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland in 1897 (page 431-432) and in 1898 (pages 71-72), but Molly is not noticed. The Colpoys family was not very big, so who were Molly's parents?

Michael Synge

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