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Day

• References:
  • DAY (and p.2) in [Burkes Irish, 1912]
  • DAY in [Burkes Irish, 1958]

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • Mr. Justice Day of Kerry 1745-1841: A Discursive Memoir, by Ella B.Day. Exeter, 1938.
  • Mr Justice Robert Day (1746-1841): The Diaries and the Addresses to Grand Juries (1793-1829) (also here), Gerald O'Carroll, Polymath Press, Tralee, 2004.

Edward Day,
had issue:

1. Rev. John Day,
   mar 1737 to Lucy Fitzgerald [descendant of Edward I, see DAY in [Foster's Royal Descents, 1883 and 1885]],
   had issue:
   1. Edward Day, had issue:
      1. Lucy Day, mar 1796 to Rev. William Godfrey [born 1765] and had issue.
      2. Rev. Edward Day, mar 1802 to Harriet Rowan.

   2. Hon Justice Robert Day, MP,
      Bob, born 1 July 1746, NOT 1745,
      mar 1stly, 1774, to Mary Pott,
      friend of Grattan,
      built Day Place, Tralee, 1794 (or poss. 1805), a row of fine Georgian houses on Prince's St, W side of Tralee town (see map),
      friend of O'Connell,
      he was the judge in the Rowan Cashel trial 1816,
      retired 1818, age 72 yrs,
      Mary Pott died 1823,
      mar 2ndly, 1824, to Mary FitzGerald (with whom he already had two boys),
      died 1841, age 95 yrs,
      had issue by 1st wife:
      1. Elizabeth Day [Betsy], born 1778 or 1779,
         mar 1794 or 1795 [her age 16] to Sir Edward Denny, 3rd Baronet and had issue.

   
   

2. Rev. Edward Day, mar Mary Rowan and had issue:
   1. Rev. James Day, mar Margaret McGillycuddy [born est c.1760] and had issue:
      1. Sarah Day, mar John James Hickson and had issue:
         1. Mary Agnes Hickson, Co.Kerry genealogist and historian,
            did not marry,
            see controversy with James Franklin Fuller in Kerry Evening Post 1893,
            died 1899.

Grave of Mary Agnes Hickson.
Near the main entrance of St.John's graveyard, Oakpark, Tralee.
See full size.
See other shot and other shot.
Photos 2006 by Kate Healy Coburn.