Church: Tralee Parish Registers *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Kerry Index Copyright ************************************************ Contributed by: Chris Hunt CHURCH: TRALEE PARISH REGISTERS [From the Rev. H. L. L. Denny.] 'The following are particulars of the earlier Parish Registers now remaining in Tralee Church, from which a number of leaves and portions of leaves are missing. BAPTISMS. 2 July, 1771 - 18 July, 1790; 5 Sept., 1791 - 11 April, 1793; 26 April, 1794 - 12 May, 1800; 27 April, 1801 - 22 May, 1802; 24 Nov., 1805 - 26 Oct., 1811; Marriages. 18 Sept., 1796 - 4 Feb., 1802; 8 April, 1806 - 24 Sept., 1810; Nov., 1817. 'Of the Registers of Burials for this period only a few fragments remain, containing the following records ':- Burials. 1805. Nov. DARBY DOWD, parish clerk of Tralee, buried in the Churchyard of Tralee, aged 76 years. 1806. 10th Jan. CHRISTRONIA ALTON, of Tralee, in the Churchyard of Tralee. 16th Feb. JOSEPH JEFFCOTT, of Tralee, in the Churchyard of Tralee, aged 82 years. 3rd April. ELIZABETH THOMSON, wife of JOHN THOMSON, buried in Tralee Churchyard, aged 40 years. 13th June. MARY DEANE, widow of SERGEANT DEANE, 9th Dragoons, buried in Tralee Churchyard, aged 60 years. 16th June. ANNE ALTON, buried in Tralee Churchyard, 60 years. 1806. 20 th July. WILLIAM, son of EDMUND and HONORA HUDSON, in Tralee Churchyard, aged 11 months. 1807. 2nd Feb. ANNE, daughter of JOSEPH & MARY JEFFCOTT, town of Tralee, 2 years. 1808. 17th Jan. THOMAS DAY, of the Town of Tralee, buried in the Churchyard of Tralee, aged 76 years. 27th Jan. The Revd, EDWARD DAY, LL.D., Vicar General of the United Dioceses of Ardfert & Aghadoe, and Archdeacon of Ardfert, buried in his family vault in the Churchyard of Tralee, aged 69 years. 2nd December. Rev. EDWARD DAY of Beaufort, Rector of the Union of Kiltalla, aged 32 years, buried in the family vault in the Churchyard of Tralee. 1812. 29th June. The Rev. MAYNARD DENNY, of Church Hill, Rector of Valentia, & Vicar of the Union of Ballinahaglish, aged 63 years, interred in the Churchyard of Tralee. James Day, Rector. _____ 'The following is a collection of various documentary records connected with the Church and Parish of Tralee, arranged chronologically. 'Extracts from an old manuscript-volume, half diary, half register, commonly known as the "Denny Family Diary." It commences with the following entries, written by Sir EDWARD DENNY (grandson of Sir EDWARD the grantee of Tralee and the Seignory of Dennyvale in 1587) in a fine clear hand ':- "I was marryed in Roper's Rest House to RUTH ROPER in Lent being . . . 1625." 'RUTH ROPER was eldest daughter of Sir THOMAS ROPER, Baron of Bantry and Viscount Baltinglass, by ANNE HARRINGTON, his wife, Sir PHILIP SIDNEY's cousin. 'Roper's Rest House was the Dublin residence of Lord BALTINGLASS. Part of it still remains, and is inhabited. It stands on a road close to the Wellington Barracks, South Circular Road, which was known until recently as " Roper's Rest," but is now called "Donore " or " Greenville Avenue." "I finished this Great Castle and came with my mother to live in itt upon the 22 of December 1627." 'The Great Castle of Tralee, chief seat of the Earls of Desmond, had been dismantled in the Elizabethan wars, and was now restored.' "MARGARETT DENNY was borne the 25 th of March 1627, being Wensday, and died the thursday sevennight after Witsunday being . . . [blank] . . . early in ye morning, her Godmothers were ye Ladye HONNOR FITZMORRIS and my mother the Lady HARRIS, Sir VALENTINE BROWNE her Godfather." 'HONORA FITZMAURICE was wife of the 19th Lord Kerry, and daughter of Sir JOHN FITZGERALD of Cloyne. She had, with other issue, a daughter MARGARET, wife of CHRISTOPHER ROPER, Lord TEYNHAM, and a son, father of the 1st Earl of Kerry. Sir VALENTINE BROWNE was the ancestor of the Earls of Kenmare.' "Monday the 21st of September 1629 betwene 11 and 12 o'clock in the day ARTHUR DENNY was borne, his Godfather was DONOGH O'BRIAN, deputy for the Lord President Sr. W. St.LEGER, and DAVID Earle of BARRYMORE who was here, his Godmother was my Mother." 'ARTHUR DENNY, afterwards Sir Arthur, of Tralee Castle. 'DONOGH O'BRIAN was grandson of the 1st Earl of THOMOND, and ancestor of the present Lord INCHIQUIN.' "The 20th of Nov 1629 my wyfe and I began housekeeping in this greate castle." "Ye 25th of March 1630 I began first to read Chapters after dinner and supper." "Monday the 15 th of November 1630 ED DENNY was borne between six and seven att night; his Godfathers were WILLIAM STERE, Lorde Bishop of Kerry and Sr CHA. HARRIS, Kt, his Godmother Mrs. JOANE [? SUSAN] CROSBY." 'This child became afterwards Captain EDWARD DENNY, of Castle Lyons, County Cork. Sir CHARLES HARRIS was grandson of Sir THOMAS HARRIS, Sir EDWARD DENNY'S Stepfather. JOANE CROSBY was the younger daughter of Colonel DAVID CROSBIE, of Ardfert. She married GERARD RYEVES.' "Ye 20th of Aprill 1632 being friday, betweene six and seven of the clock in the morning, ANTHONY DENNY was borne, Godfathers Mr. ROBERT BLENNERHASSETT and Ensigne JOHN WISE, Godmother Mrs. ANN BADEN." 'The child's Godmother was wife of the Dean of Ardfert.' "ANN DENNY was borne uponn Sunday night att one of ye clocke, the 28 th Aprill 1633, her Godmothers Mrs. 'HASSETT for the Lady BALTINGLAS, and Mrs. STERE the Bishop of Kerry's wife; her Godfather Sr WALTER CROSBY." 'Mrs. 'HASSETT was AVICE CONWAY, wife of ROBERT BLENNERHASSETT, M.P., Tralee, 1634. Sir WALTER CROSBY was the eldest son of Bishop CROSBIE, and ancestors of the CROSBIES, Baronets.' "THOMAS DENNY was borne upon Wednesday morning betwene nine and tenn o'clock ye 16th of July 1634 att Roper's Rest House, Dublin, his Godfathers the Lo Viscount BALTINGLASS and Sir CHARLES COOTE, ye Lady TRESHAM his Godmother." 'Sir CHARLES COOTE was the 1st Baronet, ancestor of the Earls of Mountrath. Lady TRESHAM was probably a niece or sister of Lord BALTINGLASS.' "The 23d of July 1633, ye Lord Viscount WENTWORT arrived in Irland to govern ye Kingdome as Deputy. Many men feare." "ELIZABETH DENNY was borne uponn thursday, early in the morning, about six o'clocke, ye 25th of february 1635, her God-mother my mother and my Cossen MARTHA 'HASSETT, her Godfather Mr EDMUND HARRYS." 'This child lived to marry in 1654 John Blennerhasset of Ballyseedy. MARTHA 'HASSETT, was wife of John BLENNERHASSETT of Ballyseedy, and daughter of GEORGE LYNNE of Louthwick Hall, Northants. by ISABELLA FOREST, his wife, sister of ELIZABETH (FOREST) Lady DENNY.' "LUCIUS DENNY was borne uponn Wenesday, at break of day, being the 21st of June 1637, his godfathers weare the Dean GRAY and Mr THOMAS DENNY, his godmother Mis VOCKLY." 'THOMAS DENNY was the child's gran'uncle being sixth son of Sir EDWARD DENNY, Knt. Bant., who was younger son of the Rt Hon. Sir ANTHONY DENNY, one of King Henry VIII's executors, and one of the Guardians of King Edward VI. Mrs. VAUCLIER was probably wife of Capt. EDWARD VAUCLIER, an officer of Huguenot descent serving in the English army in Ireland, who settled in Kerry.' "WILLIAM DENNY was borne on teusday morning, the 11th of September 1638, his Godfathers WILLIAM St LEGER and ANTHONY STOUGHTON Esq, the Dean's wife Mrs GREY his Godmother." 'WILLIAM St LEGER was son of Sir WARHAM St LEGER, the brother officer of RALEIGH, GILBERT, and Sir Edward DENNY in the Elizabethan wars, and Grandfather of the 1st Viscount DONERAILE.' "RUTH DENNY was borne on Munday the 13th of September between six and seven o'clock in the morning, 1641, her God- mother my sister MARY ROPER and Mrs BARBARA WEST [?] and Sr PHILIP PERCIVALL." 'Sir PHILIP PERCEVAL, an eminent politican, &c, was ancestor of the Earl of EGMONT.' 'This is the last entry by Sir EDWARD DENNY, the civil war and the Irish rebellion having broken out within a couple of months after he made it.' 'Written on a page of the "Family Diary," in a seventeenth- century hand ':- "34. Item, at the instance, humble suite and earnest desire of the general assemblie of the confederate Roman Catholiques, It is concluded, awarded and agreed upon, that the Roman Catholique Regular Clergie of this Kingdome behaving themselves conformably to these articles of peace shall not be molested in the possessions wch at present they have of monasteries belonging to any Roman Catholique wth in the said Kingdome, untill setlemt by parliament, and the said Clergie shall not be molested in the enjoying of such possessions as hitherto since the wars they enjoyed for theire . . . livelyhood from the said Roman Catholiques, and the scites [?] and premises [?] hereby intended are declared to be the body of the Abbey and garden, and orchard of such Abbey if any there bee, and what else is contained wth in the walls, meares or . . . that doth just by the walls there of and noe more." "Copia vera exam: ex origin : coram nobis ANTH. STOUGHTON. JAMES NAGLE. THOMAS PARKES. DAN. MORIARTY." Date probably 1642. 'Extract from the MS. autobiography of the Rev. DEVEREUX SPRATT (son of the Rev. THOMAS SPRATT, of Stratton-on-the- Fosse, County Somerset, and ELIZABETH, his wife, daughter of the Rev. ROBERT COOKE, of the Island, Kerry), who was tutor to Sir EDWARD DENNY'S sons at Tralee ':- "In February 1641, it [the rebellion] reached us [in Tralee], the whole country being up in rebellion, and the two companies besieging us in two castles, when I saw the miserable destruction of 120 men, women, and children, by sword and famine and many diseases, among whom fell my mother ELIZABETH and my youngest brother JOSEPH, both of whom lie interred there." ' Sir THOMAS HARRIS of Cornworthy, Devon, Sir EDWARD DENNY'S stepfather, who commanded the garrison of Tralee, also died during the Siege and was buried there, about May or June, 1641/2.' 'The "Family Diary" continued by Sir ARTHUR DENNY, eldest son and heir of Sir EDWARD and Hon. RUTH ':- "The end of one Generation and ye Begining of an other. I was marryed upon ye 9th of September, 1651, unto ye Lady ELLEN BARRY, daughter to ye Earl of BARRYMORE : ARTHUR DENNY." 'The Earl of BARRYMORE was DAVID, Viscount BUTTEVANT, premier Viscount of Ireland, created Earl of BARRYMORE in 1627, whose wife was Lady ALICE BOYLE, daughter of the 1st, "the great," Earl of Cork.' "I beganne to keep howse in this greate Castle of Traly, upon Thursday Novembr . . . 1658." "EDWARD DENNY was borne att Castlelyons, upon the 10th of Febr 1652, between eleaven and twelve in the morninge, his Godmother ye Lady BROGHILL, his Godfathers the Earle of Corke and Sr PERCY SMYTH." 'Castle Lyons was the mansion of the Earls of BARRYMORE in Cork. LADY BROGHILL was Lady MARGARET HOWARD, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Suffolk, who married ROGER BOYLE, Lord BROGHILL (afterwards Earl of ORRERY), fifth son of the 1st Earl of Cork, and granduncle of Edward Denny (afterwards Colonel Edward, of Tralee Castle), for whom his wife stood sponsor. The Earl of Cork, Richard, 2nd Earl, created Earl of Burlington in England.' 'Sir PERCY SMYTH, of Ballynytray, County Waterford, nephew maternally of the 1st Earl of Cork.' "ARTHUR DENNY was borne att Castlelyones the 2 of January, att 2 of ye clock, on Wensdaye morneinge, 1660, his Godmother was MARTHA Countess of BARRYMORE, his Godfathers, Francis Lord Viscount SHANNON and JOHN JEPHSONN of Moyallow, Esq." 'MARTHA Countess of BARRYMORE, wife of RICHARD, 2nd Earl, and daughter of HENRY LAWRENCE, Esq. Viscount SHANNON, son of the 1st Earl of Cork.' "WILLIAM DENNY was borne att Traly, January 16 th 1663, his Godfather was WILLIAM, Lord Baron of Kerry, and JOHN BLENNER- HASSET, Esq. the sonne of ROBERT and Mrs. HONORA STOUGHTON, & my sister ELIZABETH HASSET his Godmothers." 'WILLIAM, Lord Kerry, the 20th Baron. ROBERT BLENNERHASSETT, of Littur, younger brother of the owner of Ballyseedy. HONORA STOUGHTON, granddaugnter maternally of DERMOT, 5th Lord INCHIQUIN.' "ELLEN DENNY was borne att Traly, Aprill 3d 1665, her God- fathers were my brother LUCIUS DENNY and my cosen FRANCIS LYNNE, her Godmothers Mrs ISABELLA VAUCKLIER and Mrs JOAN COMMYNS." 'This child was afterwards wife of WILLIAM CARRIGUE, Esq., of Glandine, County Kerry.' 'This was the last entry made by Sir ARTHUR DENNY. His eldest son, Colonel Edward Denny, made no entries in the old diary.' Record from the notebook of Provost SAMUEL WINTERS (MS. F. 6. 3. T.C.D. Library) of persons whom he baptized in Tralee when visiting the College Estates in Kerry in 1655 ':- "ELIZ: SYLLEVAN - July 8 \ MARY NICOLLS- July 8 \ - Tralee" E D. SMITH- June 25 th / MARY TUFF- June 27 th / 'Extract from the will of Sir ARTHUR DENNY, above mentioned, who died 1st April, 1672-3, dated 19th May, 1671':- "My body to be buried in ye church of Tralee (in ye vault wherein lyeth ye body of my dearly beloved late wife ye Lady ELLEN DENNY)." 'Extract from the will of ELIZABETH BLENNERHASSETT, nee DENNY, of Tralee, dated 2nd November, 1689, proved 22nd May, 1696':- "My body to be buried in Traly Church, near my brother WILLIAM DENNY." 'Extract from the Tralee Church, or "DENNY," Bible. This Bible is in black-letter, and bears the date 1640. Up to some years ago it had still attached to it steel plaques with holes pierced in them, through which a chain was passed to fasten the volume to the reading-desk in the aisle. But the old binding having dropped to pieces, the book was re- bound previous to its being restored to the church to which it originally belonged by the late Sir EDWARD DENNY, Bart. "It is possible," said Miss HICKSON, the well- known antiquary, "that this is the only one of the English Bibles printed before 1641, and used in the country churches of Munster, which escaped destruction in that calamitous year." ' 'On a blank page at the commencement of the New Testament are the following entries ':- "1686. The 7th of January died in Traly that worthy and ingenuous Gentleman, ARTHUR BLENNERHASSETT, Esq. of Ballyseedy, one of his Majesties Justices of the peace, and was buried at Bally Carthy, being the parish church where that family are interred, to the great grief of all who knew him, being a gentleman of exquisite parts." 'The subject of this record was the eldest son of JOHN BLENNER- HASSETT and ELIZABETH DENNY, his wife. He married in 1677 ANNE, daughter of Sir BOYLE MAYNARD, and died without issue.' "Tralee Church Bible The 20 of May 1689 being then put in to the custody of W. S." _____ "The 2d of Septemr 1691, the mansion house the castell of Tralee, the seat of that Worthy and constant and Loyal gentleman EDWARD DENNY, Esqr was burnd by Coll: Ruth, by order of Sr James COTTER Knight, who was then Govor of this county Kerry, after he had received a good Summe from Madam DENNY to save it, and engaged his hand and faith to the performance, butt not like a gentleman broke his engagement." " This Bible was preserved by the care of W. S. all the time of the ware more espesely when the towne was burnd in August and September in the yeare 91 : given under my hand this 19 th Octo r 1691 in Tralee in the County Kerry." _____ "The distroers are distroyd and I am preserved soe they that sowe in tears shall reap in joye. psal. 125-6. By Will : Stamford " [image of bible here] An Entry in the Tralee Church of "Denny" Bible. (image here] 'WILLIAM STAMFORD was the Rector of Tralee. 'Madam DENNY above mentioned was MARY, daughter of Sir BOYLE MAYNARD.' 'On a blank page opposite the first psalm (the large initial letter " B " of which contains within it, probably in compliment to the great Lord BURGHLEY, a Cecil coat-of-arms - quarterly, 1 and 4, Cecil; 2, Caerlion; 3, Wallcott)':- "1700. The 3d of Octob: came to Tralee the . . . Madam LITICIA DENNY, the doughter of the Right Hon ble THOMAS Lord CONINGSBEE. She made hir entry with divers gentillmen of qualety, and about 200 horse of the tennaunts, and Shee and hir husbund received with much joye in the Castill of Tralee by the father Coll: EDWARD DENNY, and the mother Madam DENNY and by all the noble relations." "The 8th of June 1701. The young Lady LETICIA DENNY was brought to bed of a doughter, aboute one of the clocke in the morning being Sunday, and that afternoon christened by Dean JOHN RICHARDS, named FRANSIS LUSIA. Godfathers: THOMAS Lord CONINGSBEE, presented by Mr BARRY DENNY, Coll. EDWARD DENNY. Godmothers: The Lady WHARTON ; presented by yonge Mrs MARY DENNY, the Lady Coningsbee, by Mrs URSULIA CONINGSBEE." 'This child afterwards became wife of ARTHUR, second brother of JOHN BLENNERHASSETT, of Ballyseedy, and died without issue. BARRY DENNY, of Castle Lyons, County Cork, M.P., Colonel EDWARD DENNY'S first cousin. Lady WHARTON, Lord CONINGSBY'S first cousin, wife of THOMAS, Marquess of WHARTON, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. MARY DENNY, the child's aunt, afterwards wife of THOMAS CROSBIE, of Ballyheigue. Lady CONINGSBY, the Earl of Coningsby's second wife, nee Lady FRANCES JONES, also Colonel DENNY'S cousin. URSULA CONINGSBY, Lord CONINGSBY'S first cousin, afterwards wife of BARRY MAYNARD.' 'Entries upon a sheet of parchment, the only remaining fragment of the old Parish Registers of Tralee, which are said to have been lost in 1798. Most, if not all, of these entries are in the handwriting of Colonel EDWARD DENny who married MARY MAYNARD.' 'On the front side of the sheet, which was evidently the first page of a book':- EDVARDUS DENNY Armiger Gardianus Ecclesiae Traleensis Hunc librum In usum dictae Ecclesiae Donavit 3° die Decembris Anno Dom: 1702. 'The lower portion of the page on this side is much injured by damp. There is some almost illegible writing on it, most of which appears to be only scribbling. The following alone can be deciphered ':- To The Right Honble To the Honble Lord Coningsby Lord Barron of . . . t Ho . . . Kerry & Lixnaw . . . London. . . . Kenmare John Richard Kerry, Ireland. of Traley . . . 'On the other side':- Christnings, 1701, 1702. "WILLIAM the son of Mr FRANCIS MAYNARD and AMY his wife was baptized the 26 of Jan 1702." LUCY FRANCES DENNY daughter of EDWARD DENNY, Esq. and LOETITIA his wife was baptizd June the Eighth 1701." "EDWARD son of EDWARD DENNY, Esq. and LOETITIA was baptizd December the thirteenth 1702." "ARTHUR son of EDWARD DENNY, Esq. and LOETITIA his wife was baptizd April 29 1704." 'This child was afterwards Colonel ARTHUR DENNY, husband of the celebrated Lady ARABELLA DENNY.' "ELIZABETH daughter of Mr THO: BLENERHASSET and JANE his wife was baptizd." "JOHN son of THOMAS BLENERHASSET and JANE his wife was baptizd." "JOHN son of ROBERT ROME and ANNE his wife was baptiz'd Nov: 20 1703." "EDWARD the son of THOMAS CRANFIELD was baptized the 21 of Nov. 1703." 'The "Family Diary " continued by Sir THOMAS DENNY, son of Colonel EDWARD and Lady LETITIA':- "I was married the 13 of 9 ber. 1740 to my Cousin Miss AGNES BLENNERHASSET daughter of JOHN BLENNERHASSETT of Ballyshedee. Tho Denny." 'AGNES BLENNERHASSETT was the eldest daughter of Colonel JOHN BLENNERHASSETT, M.P., "Father" of the Irish House of Commons, by JANE, his wife, daughter of Colonel EDWARD DENNY and MARY, his wife, nee MAYNARD.' "I had a son born y e 10 of 7ber 1741, called THOMAS CONNINGESBY, he died at about three weeks old." "My second son ANTHONY ARTHUR was born ye 16 th of 7ber, 1742, at three a clock in the afternoon ; his godfathers WILLIAM Earl of Kerry and my cousin THOMAS Lord SOUTHWELL, his god- mother Lady ARABELLA DENNY my sister-in-law." 'Lord Kerry, the 2nd Earl, Lady ARABELLA DENNY'S brother. Lord SOUTHWELL 3rd Baron and 1st Viscount, grandson of the first Baron, by Lady MELIORA CONINGSBY, his wife, Lady LETITIA DENNY'S sister.' "My daughter LOETITIA DENNY was born ye 6th of October 1743- three." 'This child, eventually co-heir to her father, married in 1758 Colonel ROWLAND BATEMAN, M.P., of Oak Park, near Tralee.' "My third son WILLIAM DENNY was born ye 23 rd of January 1744 at Prospect Hall." 'Prospect Hall stood on the shore of the Lower Lake, Killarney.' "My fourth son Thomas was born y e 25 th of June 1746 at Prospect Hall." "My fifth son THOMAS was born att prospect Hall, ye 6th of July at one a clock in ye morning 1747-seven ; his Godfathers the Lord KENMARE, and ROWLAND BEATEMAN, Esqr ., his Godmothers my cousin HELENA HEDGES AIRES and my Aunt MAYNARD." 'HELEN, daughter of EDWARD HERBERT, of Kilcow, and his wife FRANCES, daughter of NICHOLAS, Viscount Kenmare, married RICHARD HEDGES EYRE, Esq., of Macroom Castle (grandson maternally of EDWARD EYRE, of Galway, by JANE, his wife, daughter of Sir WILLIAM MAYNARD, Bart.), and had, with other issue, two daughters, FRANCES, mother of the 1st Earl of BANTRY, and HELENA, who married Rev. George MANSELL, Dean of Leighlin. The latter must be the lady named in the entry here.' "My daughter JANE DENNY was born ye 28 th of August, on Sunday morn at eight a clock, 1748 ; her Godfathers Sir MAU CROSBIE Kt and my father-in-law, her Godmothers my sisters DENNY and PONSONBY." 'This child became eventually co-heir to her father, and married her cousin, Sir BARRY DENNY, Bart. Sir MAURICE CROSBIE, created, in 1758, Baron BRANDEN, was husband of Lady ELIZABETH ANNE FITZMAURICE, Lady ARABELLA DENNY'S sister.' "My daughter MARY DENNY was born at eight a clock a Thursday Morning ye 20th of July 1749." "My sixth son ROBERT MAYNARD DENNY was born in Dublin in Aungier Street, the 2nd of January 1750-51 in the morning; his Godfathers my cousin ROBERT MAYNARD, Esqr., of Hammersmith, and AR CROSBIE, Esqr., his Godmother my Aunt CATHERINE SPRIGG; he died in Dublin the fourth of March, 1752 (new stile) and is buried in Peter's Churchyard. God preserve ye rest to me. T. Denny." 'CATHERINE SPRIGGE, daughter of Colonel EDWARD DENNY and MARY MAYNARD, and wife of WILLIAM SPRIGGE, M.P., of Clonevoe, King's County, from whose daughter MARY, Lady PARSONS, the Earl of Rosse is descended.' "My daughter FRANCES was born the 28th of March 1752, and dyed at nine days old." "My seventh son EDWARD DENNY was born Wensday the ninth of May, new stile, 1753." 'This is the last entry in the old Diary commenced in 1625.' ' Extract from the will of Lady ARABELLA DENNY, who died in 1792':- "I desire that I may be put in a leaden coffin, and my jugular veins opened, and then enclosed in an oak coffin, and conveyed to the Church of Tralee, on a hearse with but one mourning coach. Two servants and the driver of each carriage to be allowed their expenses on the road, the servants 4/4 and the drivers 2/8 per day, for fourteen days only, being full time for their return." From "The Kerry Magazine," 1856':- "Funeral of Lady ARABELLA DENNY. "About the same time, the remains of this estimable lady (in a word, one of the most amiable women in Ireland), who died in Dublin [at Lisaniskea, Blackrock], arrived in Tralee, of a summer's Sunday evening, conveyed in the first hearse that ever reached Tralee, marked 'Fowler, Dublin.' The corpse was privately waked in the Church that night, and interred next day in Tralee Church, in the DENNY Vault, attended by a large assemblage of all classes. The most remarkable circumstance attending the funeral was the 'wailing of the twelve mourners.' These were twelve widows, who each received two suits of black yearly and donations at festivals, from her ladyship, since the death of Col. ARTHUR, her husband." _____ 'The living of Tralee was in the gift of the Denny family from 1587 down to the time of the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1870. The following is a list of some of the Rectors':- 1635-38 (about). - Very Rev. THOMAS GRAY, Dean of Ardfert; also Rector of Clogherbrien and Armagh. 1642. - (?) VENDEVEREUX SPRATT, Archdeacon of Ardfert. 1671 (in and about). - The Revd. JOHN FREESTON. 1689-91 (about).- Rev. WILLIAM STAMFORD. 1710-25 (about).- Rev. MAURICE O'CONNOR Scholar T.C.D. Feb. 1701, aged 14; B.A. 1705), died about 1725. 1805 (before). - Rev. JOHN BLENNERHASSETT. 1805-1817. - Rev. JAMES DAY, Vicar-General of Ardfert and Aghadoe, and Curate of Ratass; died 1817. 1817-1831. - Rev. EDWARD MAYNARD DENNY, M.A., T.C.D., afterwards Vicar of Listowel. (Rev. EDWARD HERBERT, Curate, about 1817-22). 1831-1861. - Rev. ANTHONY DENNY, M.A., Oxon. ; afterwards Archdeacon of Ardfert, and Rector of Kilgobbin, County Kerry, 1861-1885 ; died 1891. 1861-1907.- VEN. RAYMOND d'AUDEMAR ORPEN, D.D., Archdeacon of Ardfert. Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe, 1907. 1907.- Rev. Canon W. M. Foley, B.D. SOURCE: Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland. 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