Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Daniel CLEMENTS | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DANIEL,2 liv. 1658; oath al. Nov., 1677, at Hv. [ref 36:96] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DANIEL2 CLEMENTS (Robert1), born in England, probably at Ansley, Warwickshire, about 1624, died at Rathkenny, Co. Cavan, Ireland, in 1680. He married in Ireland, before 1660, Elizabeth (___), who survived him. Daniel Clements began his career with his brother, Abraham, in the Army of the Commonwealth. In the Commonwealth Exchequer Papers for 1643-45, his name appears with that of his brother, in a petition for the payment of arrears of pay due them, and also, later, in a receipt for the money which they were paid. On 24 Apr. 1645, Daniel Clements was a member of Corporal Clark's squadron, and again on the 27th of May and the 1st of July of the same year. His name, however, does not appear in the muster of that squadron on 30 Oct. 1645. He was a member of Corporal Chilwell's squadron in Captain Laifield's troop, 4 Dec. 1645, but, in the muster of that squadron, 18 Apr. 1646, his name does not appear. Daniel was in possession of his property at Rathkenny before 1657, for there is extant a certificate of the receipt from "Cornett Daniell Clements" of the sum of twelve pounds, for tithes of the parishes of "Drong & Larragh" to the 30th of April of that year. These lands were formerly in the possession of Philip MacHugh Oge O'Reilly. Traditions have been preserved among the local peasantry that Daniel always showed great kindness and generosity towards the descendants of the former owners of his property. According to one story, when some of the descendants of the rebel O'Reillys were in hiding in the bogs about Rathkenny, Daniel, not only respected their concealment, but brought them bread and meat, and daily fed them from his own table. Another tradition relates that one day, when Daniel was shooting over the bogs near Rathkenny, he came upon a man and a woman in a state of starvation. Unable to conceal themselves, they told him how they had been driven from their home at Kildrumfertan, and discovered themselves as O'Gowans. The story says that they were in hiding from the English soldiery, and that the penalty of assisting such was forfeiture of estates. Daniel went back to the house and returned with bread and meat in his pocket. For two months, he daily came to them with food. He would sit and talk with them in their rough shanty on the bog, and he learned from them that one of O'Gowan's brothers was an ecclesiastic. Time passed and O'Gowan died. Daniel and O'Gowan's brother, the priest, were evidently in ignorance of his death. The brother, in passing over the hill near Drung churchyard, heard a woman wailing for the dead. On turning into the churchyard he found that his brother's wife, a tall strong woman (a lady of noble family in Monaghan) had plaited ropes of rush, and winding them around her husband's body, had carried it to the churchyard, where she sat and wept. The priest told Daniel, and together they buried him. Shortly afterwards the priest managed to have a little oratory and shelter near by, and the first mass performed there was for Daniel and his family, Protestants though they were. One of O'Gowan's sons was afterwards employed by Daniel as his steward at Rathkenny. Daniel Clements was High Sheriff of Cavan in 1674, and was made a Justice of the Peace for the county in the following year. He died in 1680, and was buried at Drung, where his tomb, with an inscription which is now, unfortunately, illegible, may still be seen in the old churchyard. Children: Lydia, Elizabeth, Robert. [ref 88:871] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - WILL of DANIEL CLEMENTS, 25 May 1680 - 11 Jun 1680: "In the Name of God Amen I Daniell Clements of Rakenny in the County of Cavan, Esq., being sick in body but of sound and perfect memory thanks be to god for the same doe make this my last will and testament and doe hereby revoake and disannull all former wills by me made. Imprimis I give and bequeath my soul into the hands of almighty god my maker Surely trusting that in and through the merritts of Jesus Christ my Saviour I shall receive pardon and forgiveness of all my Sinns and life Eternall; And my body to the earth to be buried in such decent manner and place as my Executors hereafter named shall appoint and thinke fitt. Item I give and bequeath to my dear and well-beloved wife Eliz. Clements all the three poles of Land called by the names of Ion Macglennon Cora and the two half poles of Rakenny during her natural life also the two mills of Cora being a Corn mill and a tuck mill and also the pottle of Corminny att the rent of fifty shillings p. annun during her life to be paid to my son Robert Clements when he shall come to the age of twenty one years, and as for my goods and chattels I bequeath and give them all to my beloved wife except two horse wch I give to my son Robert Clements who is to remain in Rakenny wth his mother untill he shall be twenty one years of age during all wch tyme his mother shall provide him meat drink and cloathing free, as also ten pounds a year and the keeping of two horses untill he shall come to the age of twenty one years, and I doe give to my wife all the rents of all my lands to her own use during the minority of my Sonn Robert Clements. Item I give and bequeath to my son Robert Clements forever all my lands wch are not before given to my wife; when he shall come to the age of twenty one years as also all the above three poles of Ion Macglennon Cora and Rakenny forever after the decease of my wife. But if my sonn Robert Clements doe die before he come of age or without Issue then after the decease of my wife who shall in such case during her life injoy them; I give all my lands to the heirs males of my daughters Lidia Burke and Eliz. Cunningham to be equally divided betweene them always provided and it is my will that if any of the sd heires be Papists that then such shall not injoy any part of my estate, but only the Protistant heires and for want of heires males to their Protistant heires ffemales to be equally divided betweene them. Item I give and bequeath to my son-in-law ffrancis Burke the sum of Nine pound ten shill: wch he ows me, as also the pole of Crossmotto wher he now lives att the yearly rental of two pounds for six years to commence at Alsts next but he is to pay my wife the four pounds due at May Day last and he is to have the sd pole for ten years more after the expiration of the six years above at the yearly rental of sixteen pounds and then to deliver up the peacable possession to my heirs. Item I give and bequeath to my grandchild Dan Burke a bond of nine pounds due fr Philip Brogan. Item I give and bequeath my grandchild Katherin Cunningham the sum of twenty pounds towards a portion ten pounds to be pd by my wife and ten pounds by my son when she shall be twelve years of age. Item I doe make my wife and my son Robert Clements to be Joynt Executors of this my last will and testament and my beloved Cou. Joseph Pratt to be overseer of this my last will in wittnes wherof I have sett my hand and seal this 28th day of May 1680. DAN: CLEMENTS (seal) Witnesses present at sealing and delivery hereof. JOSEPH MCALLANE NICH MCALLANE SARAH (her mark) FFLUDDY This will was admitted to probate, 11 June 1680. Joseph Pratt, who was chosen by Daniel to be overseer of his will, was the husband of Lydia, daughter of Abraham Clements. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
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