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HENRy ARTHUR SHUCKBURGH UPTON
GENEALOGIST, HISTORIAN
1870 -1947
Henry Arthur Shuckburgh Upton was born in 1870 & was the only son of Arthur Shuckburgh Upton of Coolatore, Moate, Co. Westmeath and Alice Plunkett Dunne, Brittas, County Laois.
Upton had a keen interest in genealogy & local history & also served as a magistrate and a Justice of Peace for County Westmeath, before becoming High Sheriff of Westmeath. His interest in the history of High Sheriffs resulted in the publication of a paper on this subject in Kildare Archaelogical Society in 1930. In 1896 he became a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries and a fellow of the Society in 1899. He was also elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1899 and became a member of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead (Irish Memorials Association) and editor of the association's journal from 1923 to 1928.
He corresponded regularly with Thomas Sadlier of the Ulster Office of Arms, Dublin Castle, who was the treasurer of the association. Most of Upton’s correspondence & particularly his correspondence with Thomas Ulick Sadlier, covers the period 1914–1934 & 1941. Upton kept carbon copies of his outgoing correspondence & fortunately, copies of letters to Sadlier dated 1915–1933 survive. Other correspondents also feature in the collection.
The Upton collection includes many typed transcripts of deeds & pedigrees from the 17th–19th century,
mostly concerning Westmeath, Offaly & Laois. He also traced the pedigrees of various families. Upton touches on the political situation in Ireland & events like the destruction of the P.R.O. in the Four Courts 1922.
Upton's collection includes a list of individuals whose lands were confiscated after the rebellion of 1641, minute books of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Moate & Leinster dated 1798 –1852 and a copy of the list of the original subscribers towards the building of the Lying-In Hospital, Dublin.
Upton had an interest in archaeology & included newspaper cuttings etc.. in his collection. Correspondents- Dr Adolf Mahr, National Museum, Ireland, Hugh O’Neill Hencken Harvard, Thomas U. Sadlier were recorded, on matters of the management of grave inscriptions. Interest in the history of High Sheriffs gives a listing of names & genealogies, Ireland 17th–20th century.
There is information available on Henry A.S. Upton of Coolatore, brother of Elizabeth, in Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland & Burke's Irish Fanily Records, also Burke's Peerage under the Viscounts Templeton.
Henry Arthur Shuckburgh Upton, died on the 19th June 1947, at the age of 77 and bequeathed his personal archive and library of over 100 items to the Royal Irish Academy and his collection of archaeological artifacts to the National Museum. In his lifetime, he made a huge contribution to the preservation of Genealogical records.
Reference
The Royal Irish Academy
https://www.ria.ie/library/catalogues/special-collections/modern-manuscripts/upton-collection
Upton had a keen interest in genealogy & local history & also served as a magistrate and a Justice of Peace for County Westmeath, before becoming High Sheriff of Westmeath. His interest in the history of High Sheriffs resulted in the publication of a paper on this subject in Kildare Archaelogical Society in 1930. In 1896 he became a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries and a fellow of the Society in 1899. He was also elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1899 and became a member of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead (Irish Memorials Association) and editor of the association's journal from 1923 to 1928.
He corresponded regularly with Thomas Sadlier of the Ulster Office of Arms, Dublin Castle, who was the treasurer of the association. Most of Upton’s correspondence & particularly his correspondence with Thomas Ulick Sadlier, covers the period 1914–1934 & 1941. Upton kept carbon copies of his outgoing correspondence & fortunately, copies of letters to Sadlier dated 1915–1933 survive. Other correspondents also feature in the collection.
The Upton collection includes many typed transcripts of deeds & pedigrees from the 17th–19th century,
mostly concerning Westmeath, Offaly & Laois. He also traced the pedigrees of various families. Upton touches on the political situation in Ireland & events like the destruction of the P.R.O. in the Four Courts 1922.
Upton's collection includes a list of individuals whose lands were confiscated after the rebellion of 1641, minute books of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Moate & Leinster dated 1798 –1852 and a copy of the list of the original subscribers towards the building of the Lying-In Hospital, Dublin.
Upton had an interest in archaeology & included newspaper cuttings etc.. in his collection. Correspondents- Dr Adolf Mahr, National Museum, Ireland, Hugh O’Neill Hencken Harvard, Thomas U. Sadlier were recorded, on matters of the management of grave inscriptions. Interest in the history of High Sheriffs gives a listing of names & genealogies, Ireland 17th–20th century.
There is information available on Henry A.S. Upton of Coolatore, brother of Elizabeth, in Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland & Burke's Irish Fanily Records, also Burke's Peerage under the Viscounts Templeton.
Henry Arthur Shuckburgh Upton, died on the 19th June 1947, at the age of 77 and bequeathed his personal archive and library of over 100 items to the Royal Irish Academy and his collection of archaeological artifacts to the National Museum. In his lifetime, he made a huge contribution to the preservation of Genealogical records.
Reference
The Royal Irish Academy
https://www.ria.ie/library/catalogues/special-collections/modern-manuscripts/upton-collection
The Upton Papers
The Upton Papers collected by Henry A.S.Upton of Cooletore, Co. Westmeath, was catalogued more fully in the AALH project
http://cats.ria.ie/manuadvanced.html A pdf of the archival list is accessible at https://www.ria.ie/sites/default/files/upton Search the RIA catalogues http://catalogues.ria.ie/Presto/home/home Henry Arthur Shuckburgh Upton
Brief Biography & catalogue of collection https://www.ria.ie/sites/default/files/upton |
The Upton Collection consists of the papers of Henry Arthur Shuckburgh Upton of Coolatore, Moate, Co. Westmeath, FRSAI, MRIA, 1870-1947. His genealogical pursuits are well represented in this collection and the collection includes many typewritten transcripts of deeds and pedigrees, 17th – 19th century, mostly concerning Westmeath, Offaly and Laois families. He used these documents to trace the pedigrees of various families, especially the Dunne, Hodson, Geoghegan, Fetherston and Upton families. Genealogical information also appears in Upton’s correspondence and particularly in correspondence with Thomas Ulick Sadlier.
King's Inns Admission Papers 1607-1867
http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/servlet/Controller Dublin-Historical-Record https://www.kingsinns.ie/cmsfiles/news/Dublin THE PORTRAITS OF KING'S INNS https://www.kingsinns.ie/cmsfiles/library-exhibition Index to High Sheriffs, Sheriffs and Wardens
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Landed Gentry
The Crom Estate, Upper Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh
Gentry-
People of good social position, specifically the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth. Landed gentry is a largely historical British social class consisting of land owners who could live entirely from rental income. It was distinct from, and socially "below", the aristocracy or peerage, although in fact some of the landed gentry were as wealthy as some peers. They often worked as administrators of their own lands, while others became public, political and armed forces figures. The decline of this privileged class largely stemmed from the 1870's agricultural depression.
Landed- They had plenty of it
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The primary meaning of "landed gentry" encompasses those members of the land owning classes who are not members of the peerage. The designation "landed gentry" originally referred exclusively to members of the upper class who were landlords and also commoners in the British sense, that is, they did not hold peerages, but usage became more fluid over time.
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, by Burke, John 1835 http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogi Landowners in Co. Westmeath, circa 1870s
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com Landed families of Britain and Ireland
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The St. James Magazine, and Heraldic and Historical Register by J. Bernard Burke
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The Landed Families, owned some very nice properties.
The Alloway family were Quaker merchants in the Devon/Somerset border area in the late 17th century. William Johnson Alloway (c.1771-1829), who perhaps inherited significant wealth from his father-in-law, Robert Johnson, a justice of the common pleas in Ireland, who translated the family into the county gentry by buying a small estate of around 618 acres at Ballyshaneduff (Co. Leix) and building a new house there in about 1810.
The Derries, alias Ballyshaneduff (Co. Leix)
http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/113-alloway-of-derries.html
http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/113-alloway-of-derries.html
Everton House: c.1765
William Astell acquired what was probably a 17th century manor house when he bought the Everton estate in 1713. The house stood immediately east of the parish church, and was partially rebuilt and greatly extended for Astell some years later.
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St. Giles House, Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset
St Giles House is located at Wimborne St Giles in East Dorset in England, just south of Cranborne Chase. It is the ancestral seat of the Ashley-Coopers, Earls of Shaftesbury. The estate covers over 5,500 acres (22 km2).
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Shaw House, Berkshire
Shaw House is surprisingly little-known, yet (externally, at least) it is a largely unaltered Elizabethan great house, built on rising ground north of the River Lambourn. It was built in 1579-81 for Thomas Dolman (d. 1622), the second son and chosen heir of his father, a Newbury clothier
Manor Houses & Castles, Ireland
http://www.castlesandmanorhouses.com/manorhouses |
Classiebawn Castle
Classiebawn Castle is a country house built for Viscount Palmerston on what was formerly a 10,000 acre estate on the Mullaghmore peninsula near the village of Cliffoney, County Sligo
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The Upton family were considered Landed Gentry
BURKE’S PEERAGE NEW AND REVISED FAMILIES
http://www.burkespeerage.com/new_records.php The Cork Examiner, 2 January 1862
http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Cork/1862/JAN.html |
A Genealogical & Heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke 1879
https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhera02byu The Upton family are listed in Burke's Peerage
Burke's Peerage
http://www.burkespeerage.com/search_index Burke's Landed Gentry (originally titled Burke's Commoners) is the result of nearly two centuries' intense work by the Burke family and others since, in building a collection of authoritative books on genealogy and heraldry which has evolved alongside Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage.
BURKE'S PEERAGE FAMILY INDEX
http://www.burkespeerage.com/record_to_view BURKE'S PEERAGE GENERAL ARMORY
http://www.burkespeerage.com/record_to_view BURKE'S PEERAGE COLONIAL GENTRY
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Rock of Dunamase View, Laois
The History of the Queen’s County: Castlebrack
This parish had its name from that castle, which has been long since in ruins. http://www.from-ireland.net/county/article Laois Genealogy http://www.from-ireland.net/county-laois All that's left of Castlebrack castle
"Bréac" is a Gaelic word meaning multi-coloured or speckled. Hence, Castlebrack means a stone fortification with a speckled appearance. This castle was located a short distance south of Castlebrack graveyard and was built by Tadhg MacLaighnigh Ui Duinn, a chief in 1475.
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading Castlebrack- Reaching out program
Castlebrack is part of the Roman Catholic parish of Mountmellick in Co Laois http://www.irelandxo.com/ireland/laois/castlebra Reaching out program
Post a message, get news on upcoming local events and be involved in all of your parish's happenings as part of its virtual global network http://www.irelandxo.com/ireland |
Pictures from Harry's April '99 Trip to Ireland
http://www.dunnes.net/Pages/Harry/pages/o499trip Castlebrack Graveyard
The graveyard is in rural area, surrounded by undulating pasture land. Graveyard contains ruins of medieval church situated on rising ground within centre of graveyard; marked on 1841 OS map as 'Church (in ruins)'. Register of Burials available: No Family graves search
http://historicgraves.com/familysearch_map List of Historic Graveyards http://historicgraves.com/graveyards Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland
http://www.iancantwell.com/BrianCantwellMemorials The Beauties of Ireland: Being Original Delineations, Volume 2 1826
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MEEDAAAA A View of Ancient & Modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added a tour to Bellevue, in the county of Wicklow, the seat of Peter La Touche ..by Ferrar, John, of Limerick 1796
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Castle or Stately Manor?
The Lying-in Hospital and Rotunda, Dublin, Ireland
History of the Rotunda
In 1745 Bartholomew Mosse, surgeon and man-midwife, founded the original Dublin Lying-In Hospital as a maternity training hospital, the first of its kind. https://www.rotunda.ie/AboutUs/HistoryoftheRotun |
Lying-in Hospital and Rotunda, side view
The Book of the Rotunda Hospital : an illustrated history of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital from its foundation in 1745 to the present time
by Kirkpatrick, Thomas Percy Claude, b.1869; Jellet, Henry, b.1872; Rotunda Hospital (Dublin, Ireland); Dublin Lying-in Hospital https://archive.org/stream/bookofrotundahos00 Chronology of the Rotunda
The Rotunda Hospital is unique as an institution in that it has continued to provide an unbroken record of service to women and babies since its foundation in 1745 and has occupied its present premises since 1757. https://www.rotunda.ie/Portals/0/Documents The Castles of Ireland
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Coolatore House
Coolatore House
Detached nine-bay two-storey country house northeast of Moate, built c.1866, for Arthur Upton, and extended c.1894. Previously used as a guest house. Cut stone date plaques and motifs to a number of the gables apexes. Constructed of squared coursed limestone over projecting cut limestone plinth. Square-headed window openings with brick block-and-start dressings, cut stone sills and two-over-two and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Set back from road in mature landscaped grounds with main entrance to the west and a complex of outbuildings to the north. http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search |