The Kilroy Family

Agendo et Fereno

Alan James Minchin Kilroy

Alan James Michin Kilroy (right) with his sister Annie Kathleen (Kilroy) Gosnell
(Darjeeling 1942)

photograph from Jerry Gosnell

Birth: 24 October 1897, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: William Wesley Kilroy

Mother: Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy

Death: 26 December 1974, in county Meath, Ireland

Sources:

Birth: IGI; Ancestral File (AFN: KMQ4-37)
Death: IGI

Alexander Robert Kilroy

of "Omard", county Cavan

Birth: 1806/7

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Maria Lucinda Fry

Children:

Alexander Kilroy
Philip Le Feuvre Kilroy ( ? - 1905)
Maria Kilroy
William James Kilroy

Occupation: Staff Surgeon in the Royal Navy

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: 1821 census
Letter from Lancelot Kilroy
Letter written by William Dickson Kilroy (1947)

Alexander Kilroy

Birth: at "Omard", county Cavan

Father: Alexander Kilroy

Mother: Maria Lucinda (Fry) Kilroy

Notes: Alexander was an army medical officer.

Sources:

Letter from Lancelot Kilroy

Anne (Kilroy) Fry

Birth: 1804, in Turin, parish of Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: John Fry

Children:

William Fry (1841 - ? )
John Fry (1844 - ? )
James Fry (1846 - ? )
Mary Ann Fry (1855 - ? )
Henry Fry (1862 - ? )
Richard Fry (1864 - ? )

Sources:

Birth: IGI
Father: IGI
Mother: IGI
Marriage: WorldConnect

Annie Kathleen Maxwell (Kilroy) Gosnell

Annie Kathleen (Kilroy) Gosnell
(1923, Dublin)

photograph from Jerry Gosnell

known as "Kay"

Birth: 5 August 1896, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: William Wesley Kilroy

Mother: Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy

Married: Kenneth Arthur Gosnell on 31 October 1922, in St. Paul's Church, Nasirabad, Rajputana, India

Death: 28 February 1984, in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa

Burial: Garden of Remembrance, White River, Transvaal, South Africa

Photographs:

Childhood

photo from Chris Gosnell

Wedding
(1922, Nasirabad)

photo from Jerry Gosnell

Riding Jenny
(1934)

photo from Jerry Gosnell

At Bexhill-on-Sea
(March 1935)

photo from Jerry Gosnell

Fishing with Ken Gosnell and Tony Kilroy
(Lough Sheelin, May 1935)

photo from Jerry Gosnell

In Jalapahar, near Darjeeling, 1941

photo from Jerry Gosnell

Phalut Trek - snowstorm near Tonglu (May 1942)

photo from Jerry Gosnell

Backyard Cricket
(1943, Poona)

photo from Jerry Gosnell

White River
(1965)

photo from Jerry Gosnell

with Ken Gosnell
(White River, 1978)

photo from Jerry Gosnell

scroll with your mouse to see more pictures; click on an image for enlargement

Sources:

Birth: Birth certificate (in possession of Chris Gosnell); Ancestral File (AFN: KMQ4-LS) and IGI entries have 6 August 1896.
Father: Birth certificate
Mother: Birth certificate
Marriage: Marriage certificate (in possession of Chris Gosnell)
Death: Estate documents (in possession of Chris Gosnell)
Burial: Chris Gosnell

Anthony Kilroy

Birth: 1776, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: _____ Kilroy

Married: Elizabeth _____

Children:

John Kilroy (1796 - ? )
Mary Kilroy (1800 - ? )
Hannah Kilroy (1802 - ? )
Anne Kilroy (1804 - ? )
James Kilroy (1806 - 1880)
Jane Kilroy (1809 - ? )
Fanny Kilroy (1813 - ? )
Abraham Kilroy (1817 - ? )
Isaiah Kilroy (1817 - ? )
Anthony Kilroy (1820 - ? )

Death: 1825. Annie Kathleen Kilroy writes that "Great grandfather Kilroy" was killed coming home from a hunt in his red coat. He was walking his horse with Lord Farnham when his horse slipped and threw him. The date of this event is not entirely clear. Kathleen notes that he left a son aged 19, (making this event about 1825) but also that "Grandfather married at 21", a marriage we know happened in 1834, so this death could conceivably have been two years earlier, in 1832. Either way, Lord Farnham would have been the 5th Baron, John Barry Maxwell (1767 - 1838).

Sources:

Birth: WorldConnect
Marriage: WorldConnect; Elizabeth details from WorldConnect
Death: Kilroy family notes

Anthony Kilroy

of "Omard Vale", county Cavan

Birth: 1804/5

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Children:

3 sons
_____ Kilroy
Katherine Jane Kilroy
_____ Kilroy
Henrietta Kilroy

Notes: Kitty Bourke-Wright, Anthony's grand-daughter writes that Anthony sold Omard about 1876, and went to live in England. She writes that she "used to hear as a child what a good man Grandfather Anthony Kilroy was and how he - the eldest - had brought up a large family of brothers and sisters when their father (or their parents) had died at an early age". W.W. Kilroy wrote in 1926 that all of Anthony's children were then dead.

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: 1821 census
Letter from Kitty Bourke-Wright
Letter from Lancelot Kilroy
Letter from William Wesley Kilroy (1926)
Kilroy family notes

Anthony Kilroy

Birth: 1 January 1840, in Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Death: before 1926, in Australia

Notes: Anthony went to Australia and New Zealand with his brother George

Sources:

Birth: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-98)
Death: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-98); In a letter written in 1926, William Wesley Kilroy notes that all five of his brothers are dead.
Notes: Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

Cecil Montague Godfrey Kilroy

photograph from Chris Gosnell

Kilroy family picnic at Lough Sheelin in May 1935. Cecil is standing on the right. Others featured are William Ernest Kilroy (left), Ken Gosnell (standing left), Richard Tony Kilroy (front) and Louise (Waldron) Kilroy

photograph from Jerry Gosnell

Birth: 8 February 1890, in Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: William Wesley Kilroy

Mother: Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy

Death: 22 February 1961, in Dublin, Ireland, aged 71

Buried: 24 February 1961, in Deansgrange Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
The Headstone reads:
CECIL GODFREY KILROY | died 22nd Feb. 1961 aged 71 | "Abide with Me"

Sources:

Birth: IGI; Ancestral File (AFN: KMQ3-ZK)
Death: IGI; Ancestral File (AFN: KMQ3-ZK)
Burial: Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives: Headstones: DUBLIN Deansgrange Cemetery, St. Nessan's Part 2, Deansgrange, Co. Dublin; contributed by Joyce Tunstead

Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Birth: 1780, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Married: Anthony Kilroy

Children:

John Kilroy (1796 - ? )
Mary Kilroy (1800 - ? )
Hannah Kilroy (1802 - ? )
Anne Kilroy (1804 - ? )
James Kilroy (1806 - 1880)
Jane Kilroy (1809 - ? )
Fanny Kilroy (1813 - ? )
Abraham Kilroy (1817 - ? )
Isaiah Kilroy (1817 - ? )
Anthony Kilroy (1820 - ? )

Sources:

Birth: WorldConnect
Marriage: WorldConnect

Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Gravestone of Richard and Elizabeth Kilroy, and their daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, in the churchyard at Ballymachugh Parish Church. It is probably part of the old church wall.

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Detail of the gravestone:

Here Until the Resurrection are
deposited the Remains of Rich^d
Kilroy Esq of Omard and of
Elizabeth his beloved Wife the
Former Dep^d this life on the 18^th
April 1823 aged 43 Years the Latter
on the 19^th August 1830 aged 45 Years
also the Remains of Hannah their
Eldest daughter who Dep^d this
life the 7^th of Sep^t 1827 aged 19 Years
and of Elizabeth their Fourth
Daughter who Dep^d this life on
the 28 of Aug. 1827 aged 13 Years
This tribute to the memory of
Rich^d and Elizabeth Kilroy has
been Raised by their affectionate
Daughters Maria Maxwell
and Frances Fearns

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Birth: 1784/5

Married: Richard Kilroy

Children:

Anthony Kilroy (1805 - ? )
Alexander Robert Kilroy (1807 - ? )
Hannah Kilroy (1808 - 1827)
Maria Kilroy (1811 - ? )
Frances Kilroy (1813 - ? )
Elizabeth Kilroy (1814 - 1827)
Richard Kilroy (1817 - ? )
James Kilroy (1819 - ? )
John Kilroy (1820 - ? )
Sallie Kilroy

Death: 19 August 1830, aged 45

Buried: Ballymachugh Parish Church, county Cavan, Ireland

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: Aged 45 at death in 1830; the 1821 census lists Elizabeth's age as 35, although this may have been rounded.
Death: Inscription on gravestone in Ballymachugh Parish Church
Burial: Inscription on gravestone in Ballymachugh Parish Church

Elizabeth Kilroy

Gravestone of Richard and Elizabeth Kilroy, and their daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, in the churchyard at Ballymachugh Parish Church. It is probably part of the old church wall.

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Detail of the gravestone:

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Birth: 1813/4

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Death: 28 August 1827

Buried: Ballymachugh Parish Church, county Cavan, Ireland

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: Aged 13 at death in 1827; aged 6 at 1821 census
Death: Inscription on gravestone in Ballymachugh Parish Church
Burial: Inscription on gravestone in Ballymachugh Parish Church

Elizabeth Frances (Kilroy) Porter

known as "Lizzie"

Birth: 15 May 1836, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married: George Porter on 11 April 1860, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Children:

George Edmund Porter (1865 - 1921)
Arthur Watkin Porter (1866 - ? )
Mary Olivia Porter (1869 - ? )
Lucy Susana Victoria Porter (1870 - ? )
Cecil Mark Porter (1878 - ? )
Emma Gertrude Porter (1878 - ? )

Death: in 1901, aged 65

Sources:

Birth: IGI Film 2034393
Marriage: IGI Film 1985595
Death: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-98); age at death from Kilroy notes.
Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

Elizabeth Mary (_____) Kilroy

Ballymachugh Parish Church

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Married: James Watkin Kilroy in 1891, in Kells, Ireland

Death: 16 August 1907

Buried: Ballymachugh

Sources:

Marriage: Ireland Marriage Index (3Q1891 vol 2 p689)
Death: A note from Kathleen Kilroy noting Kilroys buried at Ballymachugh

Emma Martha (Kilroy) Carson

Birth: 12 March 1850, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married: Sam Carson

Children:

1 daughter

Sources:

Birth: IGI Film 2034393
Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

Frances (Kilroy) Fearns

Ballymachugh Parish Church

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Birth: 1812/3

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: _____ Fearns

Buried: Ballymachugh

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: 1821 census
Marriage: Inscription on father's gravestone in Ballymachugh Parish Church
Burial: A note from Kathleen Kilroy noting Kilroys buried at Ballymachugh

George Thomas Kilroy

Birth: 24 May 1838, in Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Death: before 1926, in Australia

Notes: Anthony went to Australia and New Zealand with his brother George

Sources:

Birth: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-83)
Death: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-83); In a letter written in 1926, William Wesley Kilroy notes that all five of his brothers are dead.
Notes: Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

George Kilroy

Father: Mark Kilroy

Occupation: Clergyman

Sources:

Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

Hannah Kilroy

Birth: 1802, in Turin, parish of Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Sources:

Birth: IGI
Father: IGI
Mother: IGI

Hannah Kilroy

Gravestone of Richard and Elizabeth Kilroy, and their daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, in the churchyard at Ballymachugh Parish Church. It is probably part of the old church wall.

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Detail of the gravestone:

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Birth: 1808

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Death: 7 September 1827, aged 19

Buried: Ballymachugh Parish Church, county Cavan, Ireland

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: Aged 19 at death in 1827; aged 12 at 1821 census
Death: Inscription on gravestone in Ballymachugh Parish Church
Burial: Inscription on gravestone in Ballymachugh Parish Church

Henrietta Kilroy

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Death: in India

Sources:

Kilroy family notes

James Kilroy

Ballymachugh Parish Church

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Birth: 1806, in county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Anne Moore on 25 February 1834

Children:

Mary Jane Kilroy (1835 - 1914)
Elizabeth Frances Kilroy (1836 - 1901)
George Thomas Kilroy (1838 - ? )
Anthony Kilroy (1840 - ? )
Margaret Anne Kilroy (1842 - 1920)
Matilda Kilroy (1843 - ? )
John James Kilroy (1845 - ? )
Susanna Kilroy (1846 - 1922)
James Watkin Kilroy (1848 - 1899)
Emma Martha Kilroy (1850 - ? )
Lucy Kilroy (1852 - ? )
Mark Moore Kilroy (1854 - 1918)
William Wesley Kilroy (1856 - 1931)

Occupation: Farmer

Death: 2 April 1880, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Buried: Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Notes: James lived at Turin, Ballymachugh parish, county Cavan, and then came to Moat View near Oldcastle, county Meath, about 1869. In a letter in 1926, his son William writes that he was "of Fortland Co. Cavan". Fortland is another townland in Ballymachugh. In the same letter in 1926, William notes that all five of his brothers were dead.

Sources:

Birth: From gravestone (aged 74 at death on 2/4/1880), and a letter from Anthony Kilroy. Place from WorldConnect. The IGI has the birthplace as "Moate, Meath" but I do not believe this is correct.
Father: IGI
Mother: IGI
Marriage: From birth record of William - IGI (Film 8718130 Sheet 42); date from note above. The IGI (AFN: KMQ4-4D) has the marriage date as 15 February 1834.
Occupation: From marriage certificate of daugheter Eliza Kilroy researched by Angela Wise
Death: A note from Kathleen Kilroy noting Kilroys buried at Ballymachugh; Ireland Death Index (1880 vol 3 p313) (registered in Oldcastle)

James Kilroy

Birth: 1818/9

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Notes: Richard was perhaps the son of Richard Kilroy of Omard who married Kate Wigglesworth

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: 1821 census

James Watkin Kilroy

Ballymachugh Parish Church

photo by Alan Hutchinson

of Halfcarton & Derrysheridan

Birth: 21 April 1848, in Turin, Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married (1st): Maria

Married (2nd): Elizabeth Mary in 1891, in Kells, Ireland

Death: 3 October 1899, in Cavan, Ireland

Buried: Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Notes: James had a daughter, who became Mrs. Mason.

Sources:

Birth: IGI Film: 2034451
Marriage (2nd): Ireland Marriage Index (3Q1891 vol 2 p689)
Death: A note from Kathleen Kilroy noting Kilroys buried at Ballymachugh; Ireland Death Index (1899 vol 3 p187) (registered in Oldcastle)
Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

John Kilroy

Birth: 1796, in Turin, parish of Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Sources:

Birth: IGI
Father: IGI
Mother: IGI

John Kilroy

Birth: 1819/20

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Notes: Richard was perhaps the son of Richard Kilroy of Omard who married Kate Wigglesworth

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: 1821 census

John James Kilroy

Birth: 12 May 1845, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Notes: Kathleen remarks that she thinks John died young.

Sources:

Birth: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-DR); place from WorldConnect
Notes: Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

Katherine Jane (Kilroy) Bourke-Wright

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Married: Reverend Bourke-Wright

Children:

Kitty Bourke-Wright (186? - ? )

Death: when her daughter, Kitty, was only 2 years old; late 1860's or early 1870's

Notes:
Kitty wrote a letter in the 1940's and was in her seventies at that time which, along with her father's re-marriage in 1871, places her birth probably in the late 1860's.

Sources:

Letter from Kitty Bourke-Wright
Kilroy family notes

Lucy Kilroy

Birth: 1852, in Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Sources:

Birth: IGI AFN: KMQ4-JG

Margaret Anne (Kilroy) Gill

known as "Maggie"

Birth: 2 Jan 1842, in Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married: Ben Gill

Children:

2 sons
4 or 5 daughters

Death: 18 Setember 1920

Sources:

Birth: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-BF). A separate IGI entry (batch number 8718130) states the year of birth as 1841, and the place as Ballivor, county Meath, Ireland.
Death: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-BF); Kathleen's notes, from the gravestone, notes age at death as 79. The specific dates above (from the IGI) give an age at death of 78.
Notes: Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

Maria (Kilroy) Maxwell

Ballymachugh Parish Church

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Birth: 1810/1

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Henry Maxwell on 23 June 1831, in the presence of her brother, Anthony.

Children:

Buried: Ballymachugh

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: 1821 census
Marriage: Alan Hutchinson's Wilton web site
Burial: A note from Kathleen Kilroy noting Kilroys buried at Ballymachugh

Maria (_____) Kilroy

Birth: 1852/3

Married: James Watkin Kilroy

Death: 10 December 1888

Buried: Ballymachugh

Sources:

Birth: Aged 35 at death.
Death: A note from Kathleen Kilroy noting Kilroys buried at Ballymachugh

Maria Kilroy

Birth: at "Omard", county Cavan

Father: Alexander Kilroy

Mother: Maria Lucinda (Fry) Kilroy

Notes: Spinster

Sources:

Letter from Lancelot Kilroy

Mark Moore Kilroy

Birth: 19 March 1854, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Children:

Reggie Kilroy
George Kilroy

Notes: Mark emigrated to New Zealand

Death: 1918, aged 64, in New Zealand

Sources:

Birth: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-H9); place from WorldConnect
Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

Mary Kilroy

Birth: 1800, in Turin, parish of Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Sources:

Birth: IGI
Father: IGI
Mother: IGI

Mary Jane (Kilroy, Hannon) Lowry

Birth: 7 January 1835, in Turin, Ballymachugh parish, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married (1st): Thomas Hannon on 13 September 1855, in Turin, Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Children:

William Thomas Hannon
Sophie Hannon
Zoe Hannon

Married (2nd): Joseph Lowry

Children:

5 sons
2 daughters

Batchelors Lodge in Kells, county Meath

Death: 1914

Notes: The family owned a property named Batchelors Lodge in Kells, county Meath, which is still in the Lowry family, now an equestrian center.

Sources:

Birth: IGI film number 1985656
Marriage (1st): IGI film number 1985594; Ireland Marriage Index 1855 Vol 3 p502
Death: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-6Q); Kathleen's notes, from the gravestone, notes age at death as 79
Notes: Correspondence with Peter Finkle

Matilda (Kilroy) Elliott

Birth: 13 February 1843, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married: John David Elliott on 22 May 1867, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Children:

1 daughter

Notes: Emigrated to Canada

Death: in the United States

Sources:

Birth: IGI film number 2034393
Marriage: IGI film number 1985594; Ireland Marriage Index (1867 Vol 8 p53)
Death: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-CL)
Notes: Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

Phillip Le Feuvre Kilroy

Birth: at "Omard", county Cavan

Father: Alexander Kilroy

Mother: Maria Lucinda (Fry) Kilroy

Children:

Lancelot Kilroy
William Dickson Kilroy
Louise Maria Kilroy

Death: 1905

Notes: Philip was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C. (Royal Army Medical Corps)

Sources:

Letter from Lancelot Kilroy

Reggie Kilroy

Father: Mark Kilroy

Notes: Reggie fought with Anzaca in World War I

Sources:

Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

Richard Kilroy

Gravestone of Richard and Elizabeth Kilroy, and their daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, in the churchyard at Ballymachugh Parish Church. It is probably part of the old church wall.

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Detail of the gravestone:

photo by Alan Hutchinson

Birth: 1779/80

Father: _____ Kilroy

Married: Elizabeth

Children:

Anthony Kilroy (1805 - ? )
Alexander Robert Kilroy (1807 - ? )
Hannah Kilroy (1808 - 1827)
Maria Kilroy (1811 - ? )
Frances Kilroy (1813 - ? )
Elizabeth Kilroy (1814 - 1827)
Richard Kilroy (1817 - ? )
James Kilroy (1819 - ? )
John Kilroy (1820 - ? )
Sallie Kilroy

Occupation: Farmer. In the 1821 census, Richard is recorded as owning 109 acres in the townland of Omard, an extremely large area for this time and place, and indicates he was a very wealthy man.

Death: 18 April 1823, aged 43. Alan Hutchinson has his date of death as 20 April 1843, and his age at death as 44.

Buried: Ballymachugh Parish Church, county Cavan, Ireland

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: Richard's gravestone inscription at Ballymachugh has his age as 43 at his death in 1823, and Alan Hutchinson lists his age as 44 at his death. The 1821 census lists Richard as aged 40, although this may have been rounded.
Occupation: 1821 census
Death: Inscription on gravestone in Ballymachugh Parish Church; Alan Hutchinson's Wilton web site
Burial: Inscription on gravestone in Ballymachugh Parish Church
Children: 1821 census; Kilroy family notes

Richard Kilroy

Birth: 1816/7

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Notes: Richard was perhaps the son of Richard Kilroy of Omard who married Kate Wigglesworth

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Birth: 1821 census

Richard Anthony Kilroy

Richard Anthony Kilroy
(May 1935)

photograph from Jerry Gosnell

Richard Anthony Kilroy

photograph from Jerry Gosnell

known as "Tony"

Birth: 27 February 1894, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: William Wesley Kilroy

Mother: Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy

Notes: Richard served in World War I, enlisting in the 12th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles in Calgary on 18 June 1915 (Trooper 117338)

Death: 8 July 1971, in county Meath, Ireland

Sources:

Birth: Ancestral File (AFN: KMQ4-1V) and birthday book belonging to Henrietta (Groome) Bowen; IGI has 24 February 1894.
Notes: http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/rolls/nominal_k.html
Death: IGI; Ancestral File (AFN: KMQ4-1V)

Sallie (Kilroy) Russell

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Tom Russell

Children:

Notes: Sallie is listed in the Kilroy family notes as a member of this family. She does not appear with the family in the 1821 census, and was probably born after the census but before her father's death in 1823.

Sources:

Kilroy family notes

Susanna Kilroy

Birth: 30 June 1846, in Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Death: 26 December 1922, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath.

Notes: Known as "Lily"

Sources:

Birth: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-FX)
Death: IGI (AFN: KMQ4-FX), place from Kilroy notes
Notes: Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy

William Wesley Kilroy

scan by Chris Gosnell

Birth: 27 April 1856 in Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married: Annie Catherine Maxwell Groome on 20 September 1888, in Drogheda, county Louth, Ireland

Children:

Cecil Montague Godfrey Kilroy (1890 - 1961)
William Ernest Kilroy (1892 - 1973)
Richard Anthony Kilroy (1894 - 1971)
Annie Kathleen Maxwell Kilroy (1896 - 1984)
Alan James Minchin Kilroy (1897 - 1974)

Death: 6 May 1931, in Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Buried: in Killeagh, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Notes:
William was Master of the Ballymacad fox hounds.
In 1896, William lived at "Moat View", Oldcastle, county Meath. William is referred to in the obituary of his mother-in-law, Harritte Maxwell (Carpendale) Groome in 1901 as still living in Moat View, and the address is used when he is names as next of kin in the enlistment of his son Richard in 1915. In 1926, he writes a letter from Moat View, and notes that he is "Assessor for Honr Mr Justice Wylie Land Judge" and that he valued land all over Ireland "for him & others". Previously, he had had a large stud farm, but reduced its size in 1914, because his work took him away from home so much. William was an executor of the will of his wife's aunt, Catherine Dalzell Carpendale in 1917, at which time he is listed as a Surveyor.

Sources:

Birth: IGI (Film 8718130 Sheet 42)
Marriage: Ireland Marriage Index (3Q 1888 Vol 2 page 367). The actual date is given in a letter from his daughter Annie Kathleen to Christopher James Gosnell.
Death: Notes on the Kilroy family from Kathleen Kilroy. Place from IGI AFN: KMQ4-LS.

William James Kilroy

Birth: at "Omard", county Cavan

Father: Alexander Kilroy

Mother: Maria Lucinda (Fry) Kilroy

Notes: William was Fleet Paymaster in the Royal Navy.

Sources:

Letter from Lancelot Kilroy

William Ernest Kilroy

photograph from Chris Gosnell

Kilroy family picnic at Lough Sheelin in May 1935. William Ernest is seated far left. Others featured are Ken Gosnell (standing left), Richard Tony Kilroy (front) and Louise (Waldron) Kilroy and Cecil Kilroy (standing right)

photograph from Jerry Gosnell

known as "Ernest"

Birth: 12 September 1892, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: William Wesley Kilroy

Mother: Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy

Married: Louise Emily Madeline Waldron on 6 April 1927 in Athboy Church, Athboy, county Meath, Ireland

Death: 23 August 1973, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Buried: Killeagh Cemetery, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Sources:

Birth: IGI; Ancestral File (AFN: KMQ3-ZK)
Marriage: IGI
Death: IGI; Ancestral File (AFN: KMQ3-ZK)
Burial: IGI

_____ Kilroy

Children:

Anthony Kilroy (1776 - 1825)
Richard Kilroy (1780 - 1823)

Sources:

Kilroy family notes

Anthony Kilroy

Father: _____ Kilroy

Children:

Anne Kilroy
Mary Kilroy
Jane Kilroy
Anthony Kilroy
Abraham Kilroy
Fanny Kilroy
John Kilroy
Hannah Kilroy
James Kilroy (1806 - 1880)
Isaiah Kilroy

Death: 1825. Kathleen Kilroy writes that "Great grandfather Kilroy" was killed coming home from a hunt in his red coat. He was walking his horse with Lord Farnham when his horse slipped and threw him. The date of this event is not entirely clear. Kathleen notes that he left a son aged 19, (making this event about 1825) but also that "Grandfather married at 21", a marriage we know happened in 1834, so this death could conceivably have been two years earlier, in 1832. Either way, Lord Farnham would have been the 5th Baron, John Barry Maxwell (1767 - 1838).

Sources:

Kilroy family notes

Catherine Wilhelmina Wiglesworth

photo from Joe Lineberger

_____ Kilroy

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Kate Wigglesworth, of "Church Park" near Roscommon. Kate is probably the Catherine Wilhelmina Wiglesworth of Church Park shown in this photograph. Catherine Wilhelmina had a brother, Joseph Wigelsworth born 21 March, 1827.

Sources:

Kate Wigglesworth: Letter from Kitty Bourke-Wright
Catherine Wilhelmina Wiglesworth and Joseph Wiglesworth: Joe Lineberger

____ (Kilroy) Purdon

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Married: Dr. Purdon

Sources:

Kilroy family notes

____ (Kilroy) Whiteside

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Married: Reverend Whiteside

Sources:

Kilroy family notes

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