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Robert Fitzgerald, 17th Knight of Kerry

Robert Fitzgerald, 17th Knight of Kerry.
Portrait of 1765.
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Robert Fitzgerald, 17th Knight of Kerry,
born 1716.
See wikipedia and wikitree and genealogics and thepeerage.
He mar 3rdly, 1770, to Katherine Sandes.
He succ 1779.
He died 1781.
He had issue by 3rd wife:

1. Maurice Fitzgerald, 18th Knight of Kerry,
   born 1774.
   See wikipedia.
   He succeeded as a child when his father died 1781.
   He was the ward of his much older cousin Judge Robert Day of Tralee.
   He died 1849.
   He had issue:
   1. Sir Peter Fitzgerald, 1st Baronet, and 19th Knight of Kerry,
      born 1808.
      See wikipedia.
      He was cr Baronet 1880.
      He died 1880.
      Ancestor of Fitzgerald, Baronets, and Knights of Kerry.

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Sources yet to be fully consulted

• Knight of Kerry papers

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• FitzGerald baronets of Valentia