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Tullow C of I. graveyard

a monument to John HUMFREY of Killerig ob 1827 and his wife Mary Anne ob 1811 daughter Elias CAULFIELD BEST of Bestfield.

                        At Killerig burial ground a large walled in Enclosure has been built by the Humfrey family of Dublin.

HUMFREY    This Burial Place was enclosed by John HUMFREY of Dublin for the use of his family 1808. The Remains of an Amiable wife and five of their children were here interred to whom he hopes to be united in Happiness.

Staplestown              Erected by Jacob WHITE in Memory of his mother Anne WHITE (nee MALONE) she departed this life Feb 20^th 1797 aged 45 years.

Payne                         Here lieth the body of George PAYNE son to John PAYNE of Leighlin Bridge who died Feb 1^st 1791 aged 2 ½ years.

                                    Sacred to the Honoured memory of a Beloved Husband Beauchamp URQUHART COLELOUGH of Elm Grove departed this life April 8^th 1845 aged 51 years.

                                    To the Memory of Georgina BAGENAL wife of the late Philip BAGENAL of Benekerry House who died March 1^st 1897 aged 82 years.

Old Leighlin Brid May 7^th 1826      Ellen dau of William and Jane PAYNE Leighlin Bridge

                          Aug 5^th 1827 Anne dau of John and Mary PAYNE   farmer

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Lieutenant James Alexander Corrigan

            Visitors to the museum in Tullow may have noticed an old oil painting hanging on the end wall of the of Tullow museum of an army officer in wearing a red uniform.  Circumstantial evidence leads me to believe that this oil painting it was painted about 1813 and was of Lt. James Alexander CORRIGAN of Coppagh, Ballon, Co. Carlow. His older brother Thomas CORRIGAN and his wife Elizabeth (nee TOMLINSON) were farming at Coppagh at that time, while his father was running a shipping agency business on the Grand Canal Quay in Dublin.

            James Alexander had joined the East York Militia 2nd May in 1810 at the age of 22, a non combatant force which were organized to help defend the British Isles in the event of a Napoleon (who had come to power in 1899) attempting an invasion. The Martello towers some 40 ft high were built in 1804 to help resist a sea borne invasion, (called after one which had been built at Martella Cape in Corsica and which had proved invincible to by the ships when bombarded by the guns of Admiral HOODS fleet in 1794.)

            Napoleon had closed all continental ports to trade from British ships, leaving Portugal their old only access to the Continent. It was decided in England that an invading army should be sent to Portugal to join up with the Spanish underground army (Spain having been overrun by Napoleon) in 1805.

            This war was to continue till the French were driven back out of Spain and defeated by Wellington in Toulouse in 1814 General Arthur Wellesley at Toulouse in 1814. Tolouse. So on 25th Dec 1813 James CORRIGAN decided to transferred to a fighting regiment – 71st Highland Foot regiment

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and was quickly sent out to join the troops under Wellesley in Spain. It was probably at this time he commissioned the oil painting or perhaps his father did knowing that he might never return. In the event he was commended for distinguished conduct at the battle of Tolouse, and survived the war. He returned to Ireland in 1815 and was put on half pay by the army.

            On the 6^th Feb 1815 he married in Aghade Church Alice TOMLINSON of Mill Park, Aghade, sister of his brother Thomas’s wife Elizabeth TOMLINSON.  Afterwards while in the army he served in Co.’s Carlow Wicklow Kildare and Dublin.

            In 1832, having been given a block of land by the army as a gratuity in Tasmania himself and his wife and by then their seven children and servants. He arrived embarked on the “Sarah” to travel to in Van Diemenshand (Tasmania) where he arrived 14 October 1832.  In December 1832 he purchased 640 acres of land at Jerusalem later called Colesbrook.  In January 1833 he purchased an additional 640 acres. In Jun In May 1838 he requested to be permitted to commute his commission for a grant of land, and which this was granted.  This brought his property almost up to 2000 acres.  He brought out some furniture with him which included a grandfather clock probably from his fathers house in 26 Fitzwilliam Square.  This clock was damaged in the rough crossing to on the way out to Tasmania.  However it was repaired by an Irish convict and is still growing strong.  The wooden ranch house which he built on his property he called Altamont – no doubt at the suggestion of his wife who was probably thinking of home and their neighbor at home beside Mall Park the Rev. St. George the rector of Aghade who lived in Altamont at that time.

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            In due course Lt. James had been issued a probation servant named John CASSIDY who had been sentenced to a 15 years deportation order from by a Court in Trim Co. Meath and came who came from Donoughmore Co. Meath.  He had come out on the ship “Egyptian”.  He told Lt. James his family had been left destitute in Ireland and he was anxious to have his family them brought out from Ireland, consisting which consisted of his wife Bridget CASSIDY, and Children ANNE 18, Peter 16, John 14, Mary 12, Matthew 10 from the Parish of Donoughmore and Roman Catholic.  On Nov 27^th 1843, Lt. James wrote to the governors office in advising them that should the family be sent to this Colony, I hereby guarantee that they should will not become a burden to the Colonial Government.  (He must have been impressed by John CASSIDY.)

            The Tasmanian census returns for 1842 show James CORRIGAN his wife and five children and three servants living at ALTAMONT.  The subsequent census for 1851 show James CORRIGAN still at Altamont with 18 other persons which included 9 servants, so it is probably probable that the CASSIDY’S had arrived by 1851 – it would be interesting if some one could check out this family of CASSIDYS from this end and see what is known of them now.

            James eldest sister Mary had married Benjamin COLEMAN of Urglin in Aghade Church on March 16^th 1790.  Their second daughter Mary COLEMAN married George COPE of Urglin about 1820.  George COPE was a custom officer in Dublin where they set up home.  George and Mary had about nine children of which about five went to Australia, one of these Alicia COPE married Lt. James CORRIGAN’S son John TOMLINSON CORRIGAN on January 1^st 1851, while Charlotte Jane COPE married William Robert CORRIGAN.   Alicia ROPES Great grandson Robert Michael LEWIS of the Australian Police

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            Lt. James CORRIGAN’S youngest son Frederick Thomas married Frances Mary LUTTRELL on December 27, 1872 and had four children.  Frances father could was descended from Edward LUTTRELL who arrived in Sydney in 1803 as Colonial Surgeon.  He moved with his family to Hobart in Tasmania 1818.  Dr. Edward LUTTRELL could trace his descent through the LUTTRELLS of Dunster Castle in Somerset England and back to Sir Geoffrey DE LUTTRELL of Gamston, Normanstown in Nottinghamshire who in 1207 bought the site and lands of Luttrellstown County Dublin.  On 31/02?/1851 His youngest daughter Mary Anne married William BROWNE of Broguestown Co. Kildare.  Not yet proven but thought to be a relative of the BROWNES who owned a Mill on the Burren at Paupish in Carlow in the middle of the last century and was sent to Cyprus for a six months tour of duty with the U.N.  After hi When the tour six months ended he came to Ireland with his wife who is also of Irish descent in October 1993?, and visited the Aghade area and met his Irish – by now distant cousins.            

          Back in Aghade on July 2nd 1845 Jane TOMLINSON age 22 niece of Lt. James TOMLINSON’S wife Alice married John ARUNDELL a publishers agent.  They subsequently had six children, three boys who died young and three girls.  The eldest girl Mary Adelaide born 31st October 1848 about 1872 she was later went on to marry Thomas CORRIGAN of Killerig House.  The ARUNDELL family at this time were hiring at Knockarda House Paynestown, on the Oak Park Estate or Burton Hall Estate.  It would seem that Mrs. ARUNDELL (nee TOMLINSON) had come into possession of the Lt. James CORRIGAN painting which probably after her death on Nov 6th 1897 was came went to Adelaide CORRIGAN her daughter living in Killerig, and subsequently to her son one of two sons who were married to two BURGESS sisters from the Lodge Tullow from and from where the painting has finally come to rest in the museum.