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Conway notes in Kerry Evening Post

Notes, letters and articles on Conway and other topics in the Kerry Evening Post, 1897 and 1908.
Mainly from:

• Mary Agnes Hickson (died 1899)
• Anne Margaret Rowan (died 1913)

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1897 notes

• 9 Jan 1897 by Mary Agnes Hickson.
  Notes on Shiercliffe.

• 27 Jan 1897 by Hickson.
  Notes on Herbert.

• 13 Feb 1897 by Anne Margaret Rowan.
  Pedigree of Conway dated 1791.
  Claims to show descent of Conway of Cloghane from Sir Fulke Conway.
  Note that [Smith, 1756] also thought that Conway of Cloghane were closely connected to Sir Fulke Conway.

  
  

  
  Introduction to pedigree of Conway dated 1791.
  Pedigree signed by Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford.
  Taken from papers at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire.
  From Anne Margaret Rowan. Kerry Evening Post, 13 Feb 1897.

  
  

• 17 Feb 1897 by Hickson.
  Reply to Rowan.
  Online copy of this is missing. The 17 Feb link actually leads to the 20 Feb issue.
  From the following reply, we can detect that Hickson disputes the descent of Conway of Cloghane. Says Sir Fulke Conway had no son.

• 20 Feb 1897 by Rowan.
  Reply to Hickson.

• 24 Feb 1897 by Hickson.
  Hickson suggests the Conway of Cloghane descent is false, and is a later addition to the 1791 pedigree.

• 27 Feb 1897 by Hickson.
  Other Kerry history.

• 3 Mar 1897 by Hickson.
  More on how the Conway of Cloghane descent is probably false.

• 6 Mar 1897 by Rowan.
  Defends the Conway of Cloghane descent.
  She also has a letter of 1774 making claims about the Conway pedigree. These claims are rather vague.

  
  

  
  Extract of the 1774 letter published by Anne Margaret Rowan on 6 Mar 1897.
  This claims that Jenkin Conway the younger was 1st cousin of "Lord Conway" (one of the Viscounts Conway).
  This pedigree is vague.

  
  
  Notes by Anne Margaret Rowan on 6 Mar 1897.
  She tries to figure out who is the ancestor of Jenkin Conway of Killorglin.

  
  

• 10 Mar 1897 by Hickson.
  Says the 1774 letter lacks evidence.

• 17 Mar 1897 by Hickson.
  Other Kerry history.

• 24 Mar 1897 by Hickson.
  Looks at the Conway pedigree.
  She goes with the "Black Jack's Book" descent for Jenkin Conway of Kerry (through Piers Conwy).
  She says a correspondent has visited the PRO and found clear evidence that Sir Fulke Conway had no son.

• 31 Mar 1897. Both Rowan and Hickson.
  Rowan agrees that Sir Fulke Conway apparently had no son, so there is a problem in her descent. She discusses Capt. Jenkin's possible ancestry.
  Hickson writes more on Conway of Cloghane and Sir Fulke Conway. She says the origin of Conway of Cloghane is unproved.

• 3 Apr 1897 by Hickson.
  Hickson has the Visitation of Warwickshire of 1619. She says this proves Rowan's pedigrees of 1774 and 1791 are wrong.
  Note Hickson is wrong to think Black Jack's mother died in 1663. This should be 1683.

• 10 Apr 1897 by Hickson.
  She outlines the pedigree of Conway of Arrow on pp.26-27 of Visitation of Warwickshire of 1619.
  She refutes any descent of Conway of Cloghane from Sir Fulke Conway.
  She suggests Conway of Cloghane are no relation at all of Sir Fulke Conway and his brother the 1st Viscount Conway, or at best, only very distant ones.

• 14 Apr 1897 by Hickson.
  She gives details of the marriage and life of Elizabeth Roe and James Conway of Cloghane in the 1630s.
  This article incorrectly says the last article was 7 Apr 1897. There was no article on that date.

• 21 Apr 1897 by Hickson.
  Sums up all the evidence against Rowan's theory of the origin of Conway of Cloghane.
  Shows the true origin of Conway of Cloghane in Co.Dublin. No apparent relation of Conway of Wales or Warwickshire.

• 28 Apr 1897 by Hickson.
  More on the Irish family connections of Conway of Co.Dublin and later of Cloghane.

• 8 May 1897 by Hickson.
  More on the Irish family connections of Conway of Cloghane.

• 15 May 1897 by Hickson.
  More on Conway of Cloghane.

• 26 May 1897 by Hickson.
  Descendants of Conway of Cloghane.

• 5 June 1897 by Hickson.
  Descendants of Conway of Cloghane.

• 12 June 1897 by Hickson.
  Hickson on the descendants of Conway of Cloghane.
  Also an anonymous letter about MacCarthy Mor and Conway.

• 19 June 1897 by Hickson.
  Reply from Hickson about MacCarthy Mor and Conway.

• 23 June 1897 by Hickson.
  Descendants of Conway of Cloghane.

• 3 July 1897 by Hickson.
  Descendants of Conway of Cloghane.
  Some notes on Hurly.

• 14 July 1897 by Hickson.
  She has been sent a copy of a Ms pedigree of Conway of Cloghane, dated 1793. She thinks it is full of fiction.

• 28 July 1897 by Hickson.
  More on Conway of Cloghane.

• 31 July 1897 by Hickson.
  Errata.

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1908 notes

• 2 May 1908.
  "Kerry Notes".
  They are starting a series of reprints of "Old Kerry Records" by the late Mary Agnes Hickson (died 1899), which originally appeared in the Kerry Evening Post in the 1870s.
  It is not clear if these appeared in print in the Old Kerry Records volumes or not.

• 9 May 1908.
  "Kerry Notes". Reprint of Hickson.
  The Conways of Killorglin.

  
  

• 13 May 1908.
  "Kerry Notes".
  The Conways of Cloghane.
  This shows the old theory of connection of Conway of Cloghane to Sir Fulke Conway that is found in [Smith, 1756].
  Hickson rejects this theory in 1897 above. But it seems she accepted it at first from Smith. (Recall these notes are apparently from the 1870s.)

  
  

  
  From p.53 of [Smith, 1756].
  Smith thought that Conway of Cloghane were closely connected to Sir Fulke Conway.

  
  

• 16 May 1908.
  "Kerry Notes".
  The Conways of Cloghane.

• 20 May 1908.
  "Kerry Notes".
  The Conways of Cloghane.

• 23 May 1908, p.3.
  Letter from Anne Margaret Rowan.

  
  

   
  Conway notes by Anne Margaret Rowan.
  From Kerry Evening Post, 23 May 1908, p.3.
  She has a descent of Capt. Jenkin Conway from Edward Conwy of Arrow.
  And she has a descent of Conway of Dublin and Cloghane from Edward's brother John Conwy of Bodrhyddan.
  This is what was originally in [Hickson, 1874]. But it takes no account of the 1897 discusson, which seems to prove both of these lines wrong.

  
  

• 23 May 1908, p.4.
  "Kerry Notes".
  Biographies of Commissioners for Kerry in 10th William III (28 Dec 1697 to 27 Dec 1698).
  Has a tree showing how Robert Emmet and Daniel O'Connell are both descendants of Capt. Jenkin Conway.

• 27 May 1908.
  "Kerry Notes".
  Biographies of Commissioners for Kerry in 7th William III (28 Dec 1694 to 27 Dec 1695).

• 10 June 1908.
  Letter from Samuel Trant McCarthy. About Conway of Cloghane.