NAI

1. Letters from Theobald Butler, Sept and Nov 1824, [CSORP]. Does he name his father?

2. Business Records Survey no.117
   • This is an old PRO reference, from 1989. This item cannot now be found in NAI. It may be in [KCL].
   • See original reference.
   • From [Kelly and others, 1989, p.396].
   • It has a Blennerhassett/Chute deed of 1804 relating to Blennerville. It may have more deeds and papers.

3. Search for Caleb Chute will 1851.

More

1. CSORP searches - Butler, Yielding
2. CSORP searches - 1834 on - Blennerville, Churchtown, Blennerhassett

3. Blennerhassett in [Crossle Genealogical Abstracts]. Does not look relevant.

Wills

The Baronets family had lots of wills, but almost all were burnt in 1922.

1. DONE - Searched all Blennerhassett wills in:
   • Testamentary index cards in RR.
   • Wills 1858 on.

2. Testamentary index cards have:
   • No Yielding wills.
   • No Hurly wills.

3. [Jehan] says transcript exists of:
   • Will of Sir Robert Blennerhassett, 2nd Baronet. His will dated 17 Sept 1831. Will proved 1832.

NLI

1. Hurly in [Denny, 1923]
2. HURLY in Crisp's Visitation of Ireland
3. Eagar, 1861

4. Trinity College Estate, 1800-1923, Robert MacCarthy, 1992.

5. The College: A History of Queen's University College Cork by John A. Murphy, 1995.

NLI Ms

1. Hurly in Ms 8316 (15).
2. HURLY in Crisp's Visitation of Ireland

3. Eagar - Re-visit [Ms 4112]
   • Have read up to p.115
   • My 2008 site thought this might "have Cashell pedigree".
   • See Eagar and Cashel

NLI offsite

1. Find BLENNERHASSETT in Debrett's Baronetage before 1828.
   • Debrett's Baronetage, 1824. 929722 d 1. Offsite Special Access.
   • Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 1829. 929721 d 2. Offsite Special Access.

2. Arthur Blennerhassett of Blennerville is mentioned in connection with schools in Blennerville 1824 [Heritage Council, 2001].

RCB

1. [RCB] St. Peter's, Dublin
   • Melisent Blennerhassett baptism, 1768.
   • RCB has originals of St. Peter's baptisms 1669-1974. Also has printed index.
   • Get photograph of original.
   • Index at IrishGenealogy.ie, no image
   • Supposed to be at FindMyPast.ie but cannot find it
   • Supposed to be at Ancestry.co.uk but cannot find it

2. St.Mary's Cathedral, Limerick.
   • Millicent Agnes Yielding bapt 1742.
   • Have done first pass in St.Mary's in [NAI] Microfilm 15.

3. Rathkeale parish records, Co.Limerick.
   • Yielding baptisms and marriages.
   • Strange 1809 marriage. Transcription error from 1762 marriage?
   • Have done first pass in Rathkeale in [NAI] Microfilm 16. Only has 1781 on.

4. Could George Cashel be born/bapt in Co.Limerick?
   • Mother went to Yielding family?
   • Maybe, but have searched Co.Limerick CoI.
   • Have searched for George bapt in Rathkeale CoI par records, [NAI] Microfilm 16, 1804-10.

5. Cashel in Ballymacelligott CoI 1826-56. See originals. Includes Letitia Cashel.

Other Dublin

1. [RIA]
   • Original Diary of Justice Robert Day. Diary of 1807-1813 could mention Blennerhassett scandal.
   • Is the entire diary printed in [O'Carroll, 2004] though?
   • [Day, 1938]

2. [TCD]
   • Find BLENNERHASSETT in Debrett's Baronetage before 1828.
   • Debrett's Baronetage, 1819. Vol.1 and Vol.2. Early Printed Books Stacks. 68.ee.86 and 87.
   • Debrett's Baronetage, 1828. Vol.1 and Vol.2. Early Printed Books Stacks. G.ll.38 and 39.

3. [UCD]
   • MacSwiney papers. Letters from Cashel sisters?

4. [DCA]
   • Find source for the Richard Yeilding entry in [Dublin directory, 1738].
   • This is a special modern compilation from various sources.
   • Think the Richard Yeilding entry is NOT from Watson's Almanack. It has no general list of people at this stage.
   • The Richard Yeilding entry might be from the collection of bail bonds of Apr-Sept 1738. Now in DCA.

5. GROI
   • Hewson

Other Ireland

1. [KCL]
   • Chute papers

   • Blennerhassett papers again.

   • P30 Blennerhassett papers
     Seems to be mainly Blennerhassett of Ballyseedy, but family tree may show other lines.

2. Dromavally, Killorglin
   • Rowland Blennerhassett junior was buried 1840 in "the family vault at Droumavally".
   • No burial register survives for Killorglin for this period.
   • See Dromavally (old) burials 1927 on.
   • Grave photos. Has a Blennerhassett grave from 1870s.

UK

1. 4th Baronet papers

2. [BL]
   • Richard Francis Blennerhassett letters.

LR

• Blennerhassett deeds in LR

DONE

• DONE - Looked at all Rowland Blennerhassett in 1758-1821
• DONE - Looked at all Robert Blennerhassett in 1800-1809
• DONE - Looked at all Baronet branch names in 1804-1859

Searching for Baronet branch deeds

• Robert (d.1766), Frances
  • Rowland (d.1821)
    • Millicent
    • Richard (d.1817), Agnes (d.1842)
    • Robert (d.1831)
    • Arthur (d.1839), Helena Jane (d.1846)
    • William (d.1842), Elizabeth (d.1857)
    • Rowland (d.1854), Letitia (d.pre-1855)
  • Arthur (d.1790), Catherine (d.1810)
    • Robert(d.1814), Catherine (d.1841)

• Find wills / will substitutes for Millicent's siblings.
• In a multi-person deed, the name it is listed under in the index is often fairly random. This is true for both the Grantor and Grantee side. Just need to search anything remotely plausible.
• (todo) Search for other Kerry surnames as Grantor to Blennerhassett.

To do

• Mark all searched deeds in yellow in table.

• Do similar table and search for all YIELDING / YEILDING deeds.
• Search BUTLER of Waterville/Belville. Going to be hard. Too many false hits.
• Search HASSETT.

• View originals:
  • Arthur Blennerhassett marriage settlement, 1799. His mother Millicent Agnes Yielding was apparently alive as at this deed. Online image is illegible. See original. How is her name spelt?
  • [Deed, May 1795]. Online image is obscured. See original.
  • [Deed, apparently 1789]. Online image is hard to read. See original. Is it really 1789?
  • Rosana Blennerhassett in Grantors Index 1816. Reference is illegible online.

• Find these:
  • Godfrey to Blennerhassett, 1788. [Deed, Dec 1802] refers to a deed of 25 Mar 1788 from Edward Godfrey to Rowland Blennerhassett about the house in Tralee where the 1st Baronet then lived.
    Searched Godfrey in Grantor index 1788 to 1792. Not found.

  • What appears to be yet another Deed of 25 Mar 1804. Richard Blennerhassett of Ballymacprior and Richard Chute of Chute Hall and Richard Blennerhassett of Blennerville. Transcript in [Kelly and others, 1989, p.396].
    Searched Blennerhassett in Grantor index 1804 to 1809. Not found.

Misc

• Irrelevant: Blennerhassett of Newmarket, Co.Cork.
  • Deed, 1784. Arthur Blennerhassett of Dublin and Melian Blennerhassett of Rathkeale, widow. 435 289 285306.
  • Deed, 1794. Melian Blennerhassett of Dublin, widow, to Stoughton. 479 449 308212 (think not 306212).
  • Deed, 1797. Melian Blennerhassett of Co.Cork, widow, and her dau Sarah. 511 40 330125.
  • Deed, 1800. Registered 1806. [LR] 584 158 396318. Arthur William Blennerhassett.

• Unidentified:
  • Deed, 1788. Registered 1788. [LR] 387 541 263841. Arthur Blennerhassett of Dublin and Thomas O'Connor.
  • Deed, 1792. Registered 1801. Robert Blennerhassett of Milltown, Co.Kerry, to John Shea. 537 207 352595.
  • Deed, 1796. Registered 1804. [LR] 564 95 376561. Arthur Blennerhassett of Tralee to John O'Hagan.
  • Deed, 1806. Registered 1806. [LR] 586 9 394547. Arthur Blennerhassett of Tralee to O'Connor.
  • Deed, 1809. Registered 1809. [LR] 613 260 418577. Arthur Blennerhassett of Dublin, attorney, and Michael Dwyer.
  • Deed, 1840. Registered 1840. [LR] 1840 19 100. Arthur Blennerhassett of "Ballyordey", Co.Kerry.

Find letters of any Co.Kerry gentry family around 1806.

If there was a Blennerhassett scandal around 1806, almost any Co.Kerry family might mention it in gossip.

• Knight of Kerry papers at [PRO.NI]
  • Volumes 9 and 10 are 1803-1816 letters and papers of Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry.

George Cashel at school

1. Find listing of school children 1810-28
2. Blennerville or Churchtown

3. Erasmus Smith school, Blennerville
4. Erasmus Smith schools archive says about Blennerville school:
   • Founded 1811. Patron Sir R. Blennerhassett
   • Architectural plans exist 1812
   • Property documents exist 1812-1840.
   • No correspondence exists. This means no list of pupils exists.
   • Discontinued (from Erasmus Smith system) 1839. New school built 1840.

Letitia Yielding theory

• Letitia Yielding of Tralee
  • Some of the facts fit quite well.
  • See notes on Yielding theory.
  • See notes on Letitia Cashel.
  • Find more about the 1811 legal case.

Other theories

1. Arthur of Fortfield had a natural dau Elizabeth
   • She mar pre-1798 to Denis Murphy.
   • Maybe Murphy died and she then married Cashel?
   • We would then be looking for the marriage of Cashel with the widow Elizabeth Murphy, having issue George Cashel, born 1807.

2. The name "Alice"
   • Blennerhassett Cashel named his daughter Alice Cashel in 1878. "Alice" is an unusual name.
   • There are a number of Alice Blennerhassetts. The 1st Baronet's sister was Alice Blennerhassett.
   • But it was Blennerhassett Cashel's 5th daughter, so maybe just a randomly chosen name.

3. Oliver Mason Creagh mar Cashel
   • He mar 1stly in 1863 to Letitia Collis (born 1837), grand-dau of Rowland Blennerhassett and Letitia Hurly.
   • After she died he mar 2ndly in 1869 to Annie Cashel.

George Cashel in letters / politics

• George Cashel is apparently supporting Home Rule politics at Carlow in 1879.
• According to my theory, his 1st cousin's son Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett was elected Home Rule MP in 1872.
• Maybe George wrote to him?

• Note that Letitia Blennerhassett (Hurly) is of the Home Rule line. Though she died long before Home Rule times. She died before 1834. She is grandmother of the Home Rule MP. She may be George Cashel's aunt.

• Records of Home Rule association at Carlow?
• Newspaper search for meetings.

Blennerhassett Cashel in letters / politics

Blennerhassett Cashel knew Stephen O'Mara, MP.
He maybe knew David Sheehy, MP. He apparently went to his mother-in-law's funeral.
He went to a talk by 4th Baronet.
Did he correspond with any of these? Was he interested in politics? Does he appear in any letters?

1. NUIG - Rynne papers

2. Undated Rynne papers (Stephen O'Mara)

3. NLI - James O'Mara papers

4. UL - Stephen O'Mara the younger papers

   
   

5. David Sheehy, MP letters
   • Sheehy Skeffington Papers. [NLI] Ms.

6. Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett, Home Rule MP letters
   • He was alive in 1900 when James O'Mara became Home Rule MP. Wonder did he write to James, who had married (possibly) the dau of his 2nd cousin.

7. 4th Baronet, Liberal MP papers
   • Did (his 2nd cousin?) Blennerhassett Cashel of Cork correspond with him when he was President of Queens College Cork?
   • For 4th Baronet papers from Queen's College, Cork, period, try reading the histories of UCC.
   • 4th Baronet was alive in 1900 when James O'Mara became MP. Wonder did he write to James, who had married (possibly) the dau of his 2nd cousin.

Blennerhassett Cashel was involved in the following. Find records:

• Catholic Institute, Limerick, 1892. He was apparently Secretary.

• Cork Catholic Young Men's Society (or Cork Young Men's Society), Cork, 1898 to 1904.
  See Cork Catholic Young Men's Society - A History - 1852 - 2010. See advert.