1669 - Benjamin Bunbury moves to Ireland 
          Benjamin Bunbury of Killerig was the father of the Bunbury 
          family in Ireland. Born in 1643, he moved to Ireland with his wife, 
          five sons and daughter, shortly after the death of his father in 1668. 
          Burke's Peerage proposes that Benjamin first obtained Killerig from 
          the Earl of Arran in 1669 (the year he married Mary Sheppard) but 
          there are also some deeds, dated 1702, to suggest he had started out 
          as a tenant of the Duke of Ormonde. In 1695 he served as High Sheriff 
          for County Carlow. He died on 3rd April 1707, aged 63, and is buried 
          in St. Mary's of Carlow. Of his five sons, Thomas lived at Cloghna 
          (County Carlow); William lived at  
          
		  Lisnavagh (County Carlow); Matthew 
          moved to Tipperary; Benjamin inherited Killerig and the eldest son, 
          Joseph, settled at Johnstown, just outside Carlow town. The daughter, 
          Diana, married one of the Duke of Ormonde's soldiers from Kilkenny,
		   
          Thomas Barnes
        	
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