The Gifford Family
Earlier generations of this family spelled their name as Giffard.
Ann Gifford
Birth: 1772
Father: Thomas
Gifford
Mother: Jane (French) Gifford
Death: 8 May 1832
Sources:
Dorothy Gifford
Baptised: 21 February 1660, in St. Bride's Church,
Dublin, Ireland
Father: Jasper
Gifford
Mother: Anne (Ravenscroft)
Gifford
Burial: 4 March 1661, in the
chancel, St. Bride's Church, Dublin,
Ireland.
Note that Burke's reads "bapt. ... 21 Feb. 1660, and buried
... 4 March
following". I assume that this means 4 March of the following year
(1661),
rather than the following March (i.e. 1660).
Sources:
Elizabeth Gifford
Father: Jasper Gifford
Mother: Anne (Ravenscroft)
Gifford
Married (1st): William Dodd, of
The Great Island, County Wexford,
Ireland
Married (2nd): Richard Cross, of
Ballybrazil, County Wexford,
Ireland, on 12 May 1718
Sources:
Henry Gifford
of New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland
Birth: About 1668
Father: Jasper
Gifford
Mother: Anne (Ravenscroft)
Gifford
Married: Elizabeth Napper on
24 October 1696
Children:
- Anne Gifford
- Catran Gifford
- Elin Gifford
- Jane Gifford
- John Gifford
- Napper Gifford
Burke's Landed Gentry says that Henry had two sons, and five
daughters,
so one child is unaccounted for here.
Death: About 1760
Notes: Henry was attainted in
1689, by James II, for being a
Protestant.
Henry's birthdate is given in
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cricha/index.htm
as "about 1668". Since his parents were only married in "about 1682"
(according
to IGI film), some of the data is incorrect.
Sources:
Jane (Gifford) Jacob
Father: Thomas Gifford
Mother: Jane
(French) Gifford
Married: John Jacob on 25 April
1793
Sources:
Jasper
Gifford
of Polemaloe (now Pilltown),
County Wexford (now County Kilkenny), Ireland
Birth: About 1625
Father: William Giffard
Mother: Dorothy (Scowles) Giffard
Married: Anne Ravenscroft
Children:
Death: 1670
Notes: Jasper Gifford emigrated
from
England to Ireland, initially
to Dublin where Burke's Landed Gentry notes that he "purchased, by
deed,
dated 20 July 1661, the lands of Polemaloe (now called Pilltown),
Whitechurch,
and Ballykelly, co. Wexford". He settled in Polemaloe, County Wexford.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cricha/index.htm notes that he had "grants
administered"
in 1670. The Oxford Alumni record of his son reads "Gifford,
Ravenscroft;
s of Jasper of "Polmers" near Ross in Ireland, gent. Merton Coll matric
18 July 1684, aged 17 BA from New College 1689."
The Ancestral File (AFN: 9HPK-87) has a death date
for Jasper of 1560,
but this is clearly wrong (by a hundred years!). The IGI film has a
birth
date of 1650 which fits with the marriage date in the IGI of 1682, but
not much else. I do not believe either of these IGI dates to be
correct.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cricha/index.htm has Jasper's birth as in
1625.
The marriage date, and even Jasper's birth year, from the IGI, does not
correspond with the "about" birth date of any of the children, from the
data on www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cricha/index.htm. Burke's Landed
Gentry
lists the death date as 1670.
Sources:
Joan Gifford
Father: Ravenscroft
Gifford
Mother: Lettice
(Greenwell) Gifford
Death: November 1727
Sources:
John
Gifford
Title: Colonel
Birth: 1622
Father: William Giffard
Mother: Dorothy (Scowles) Giffard
Notes: John Gifford was a
Colonel
in the Army.He got grants of
Agharn and other lands in County Cork, by patent dated 28 September
1656
(possible 1666?). He was a free Burgess of the
Borough of New Ross,
County Wexford, and was the ancestor of the Giffords of Agharn.
Sources:
Margaret Gifford
Birth: February 1770
Father: Thomas
Gifford
Mother: Jane (French) Gifford
Death: died young
Sources:
Marianne (Gifford) Groome
Burke's Landed Gentry has her name as Mary Anne
Father: Thomas
Gifford
Mother: Sarah
(_____) Gifford
Married: Edward Groome on 24
July 1761, in Kilkenny, Ireland
Children:
Sources:
Nicholas
Gifford
of Ballysop, County Wexford, Ireland
Birth: 1707
Father: Ravenscroft
Gifford
Mother: Anne (Crompton) Gifford
Married: Catherine Sweeney
on 27 January 1737
Children:
- William Gifford (1740 - 1779)
- Ravenscroft Gifford ( ? - 1762)
Death: 1770
Will: Dated 23 July 1763, proved
10 April
1770
Sources:
Ravenscroft
Gifford
of Ballysop, County Wexford, Ireland
Birth: 1666 or 1667
 |
| New
College in 1670 |
Father:
Jasper
Gifford
Mother: Anne (Ravenscroft)
Gifford
Education: Matriculated at
Merton College, Oxford on 18 July
1684; BA from New College, Oxford, 1689
Married (1st): Lettice Greenwell
in March 1693
Children:
Married (2nd): Anne Crompton
Children:
Occupation: Army Captain; J.P. in County
Wexford
Death: 1736
Will: Dated 10 May 1733, was
proved 3 November 1736
Sources:
- Birth: Aged 17 at Oxford
matriculation in 1684
- Education: Alumni Oxonienses
1500-1714 (researched by Christopher
Richards); entry reads "Gifford, Ravenscroft; s of Jasper of
"Polmers"
near Ross in Ireland, gent. Merton Coll matric 18 July 1684, aged 17 BA
from New College 1689."
- Groome family tree written by W.F. Montague Groome in 1922,
with later
annotations
- http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmricha/index.htm
- Occupation, Will: Extinct
and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland (1841)
- Death:
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cricha/index.htm has date, and
it corresponds with the will data from Burke's.
Ravenscroft
Gifford
Father: Ravenscroft
Gifford
Mother: Anne
(Crompton) Gifford
Occupation: Ravenscroft was an
Officer in the Spanish Army
Sources:
Ravenscroft Gifford
Birth: 1726
Father: Thomas
Gifford
Mother: Sarah
(_____) Gifford
Notes: Died unmarried
Sources:
Sarah (_____, Gifford) Blunt
Married (1st): Thomas
Gifford
Children:
Married (2nd): Anthony Blunt in
September 1741
Death: 1769
Sources:
Sarah (Gifford) Glascott
Father: Thomas Gifford
Mother: Jane
(French) Gifford
Married: Adam Glascott on
10 March 1799
Death: 28 November
1837
Sources:
Thomas
Gifford
of New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland
Father: Ravenscroft
Gifford
Mother: Anne (Crompton) Gifford
Married: Sarah
Children:
Sources:
Thomas Gifford
of New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland
Father: Thomas
Gifford
Mother: Sarah
(_____) Gifford
Married: Jane French on 30 June
1766
Children:
Sources:
William
Gifford
of Polemaloe, County Wexford, Ireland
Birth: About 1663
Father: Jasper
Gifford
Mother: Anne (Ravenscroft)
Gifford
Married: Margaret Clement Milward
on 10 December 1699
Children:
- Anne Gifford
- William Gifford
- 2 other sons
- 3 other daughters
Death: About 1753
Will: Dated 17 June 1743, was
proved 4
August 1753
Notes: William sold his estate
to
his son-in-law, George Glascott.
William's birthdate is given in
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cricha/index.htm
as "about 1663". Since his parents were only married in "about 1682"
(according
to IGI film), some of the data is incorrect.
Sources:
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