1669 - Benjamin Bunbury moves to Ireland
Benjamin Bunbury of Killerig was the father of the Bunbury
family in Ireland. Born in 1643, he moved to Ireland with his wife,
five sons and daughter, shortly after the death of his father in 1668.
Burke's Peerage proposes that Benjamin first obtained Killerig from
the Earl of Arran in 1669 (the year he married Mary Sheppard) but
there are also some deeds, dated 1702, to suggest he had started out
as a tenant of the Duke of Ormonde. In 1695 he served as High Sheriff
for County Carlow. He died on 3rd April 1707, aged 63, and is buried
in St. Mary's of Carlow. Of his five sons, Thomas lived at Cloghna
(County Carlow); William lived at
Lisnavagh (County Carlow); Matthew
moved to Tipperary; Benjamin inherited Killerig and the eldest son,
Joseph, settled at Johnstown, just outside Carlow town. The daughter,
Diana, married one of the Duke of Ormonde's soldiers from Kilkenny,
Thomas Barnes
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