Awesome presentation, did you do all this yourself or did you have other researchers involved ?

Have to linked DNA tests to this work ?

Fred Nolan

Thanks for the comment.  I did indeed do this myself, but it was the good fortune of meeting 'Tom' on the main street in Newport, who personally took us to the head of the local Genealogy Society, then to meet the Younges at their home near Newport, then to Glenstal Abbey and Crokers Pub in Murroe, where we fortunately took a photo of the Barrington lineage on the wall, and then receiving the crucial information from the Younge's local cousin making the link to Samuel Barrington the clock and chime maker.  All the rest was found through fairly simple Google searches, especially the simplicity of finding names of parents on Wikipedia.  Of course, this was only possible because Sir Francis Barrington was famous enough in the early 1600's to have a Wikipedia page today.

I understand that Richard III's remains were found a few years ago and confirmed through DNA testing with living descendents.  Richard III was the cousin to this lineage, but not in the direct line, so I'm wondering if this link could be confirmed through a DNA comparison to my wife, our children or our grandchildren, with help from the UK people who have Richard III's DNA record.  Any help or suggestions as to who to contact would be appreciated.

Wow!!  Congratulations Dave on this wonderful piece of work. I feel so proud to be part of it. It makes your visit to Ballinahinch and the research for my book about our Younge ancestors and their descendants in North Tipperary and beyond worthwhile.

Well done

Mary

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Hello David,

What fabulous research.

Mary Ann Young and James Scollard are my great-great grandparents and I have been struggling for years to connect Francis Young and Elizabeth Balckall-Barrington to their lineage in Ireland.  Your article answers all my questions.

You might find it interesting that one of the letters recommending the Young family in the archival collection at the Peterborough Museum and Archives is signed by Croker Barrington.  It seems that Francis tried to emigrate in 1823 with Robinson and finally made it on the last ship out of Cobh in 1825.

I volunteer as a researcher at the PMA and have been working with the Robinson documents. A warm hello to your wife! My grandmother was her grandfather's youngest sister Mary Frances Scollard (Fanny) married to Patrick O'Connor.

Cheers, Marie O'Connor

Hi Marie, yes my wife Adele remembers her grandfather Frank Scollard (who died in 1958 when she was 11)  and vaguely remembers that he had a sister named Fanny.  Please email me at kerluked@gmail.com if you want to follow up on this.  We are also very interested in trying to find out the original location of the first of this Scollard line to emigrate to Canada.  You probably know that William Scollard was James Scollard's father, and that he emigrated to Canada in c.1817 with his brother John, first to Cavan and then to Ennismore.  We had unconfirmed reports that they came from the Ballyhahil/Glin region of County Limerick.  We visited those towns on our 2016 trip to Ireland and discovered that there are indeed Scollards in Ballyhahill, but haven't been able to get any further than that.  Please let me know if you can help with this.

Kudos, David, for some impressive research. I am a descendent of one of the Francis Young children (John) who, as you mention, moved on to Chicago after settling in Young’s Point, Ontario for a while. John’s son John (born in Young’s Point) later established my branch of the family in Ottawa, Illinois, where incidentally he served as mayor for one term. That term was in the 1880s when the town’s population was around 9,000.

You rightly describe Colonel Francis Barrington as a “crucial link” in the family tree. In my own research I have seen it cited in a couple of instances that there is no evidence of a Barrington having come over to Ireland with the Cromwellian forces. But there is plenty that can be found on the Internet to refute this. See for example: http://wiki.bcw-project.org/commonwealth/foot-regiments/anthony-buller. As a captain in Colonel John Okey’s Regiment of Dragoons, Francis Barrington came over from England in March 1650 to help form Colonel Henry Cromwell’s (Oliver’s son) Regiment of Horse. But he didn’t spend more than a few years in Ireland (which certainly could have been enough time to establish or start a family there). That is because from December 1654 to January 1655, now as a lieutenant colonel, he sailed from Portsmouth to Barbados as a part of Colonel Anthony Buller’s Regiment of Foot, in execution of Oliver Cromwell’s “Western Design.” In turn, he participated in the 1655 taking of Jamaica from the Spanish; was promoted to colonel that same year; was garrisoned in Jamaica, also establishing himself as a planter there; and in 1660 was accidentally shot and killed by a sentry while making the rounds of his troops. Consistent with the Limerick Barrington family claim, he was the grandson of Sir Francis Barrington, 1st Baronet of Hatfield Broad Oak (Essex). This confirms your conclusion that he was either the son or grandson of Sir Francis. However, he was not, as you speculate, the son of Sir Francis’s son Francis. Rather, he was the son of Sir Francis’s son Robert. It turns out that Sir Francis had two grandsons named Francis. The 1683 grave marker in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick probably does not contain Colonel Francis’s remains. More likely it is a memorial, possibly commissioned by his son Samuel. One implication of Colonel Francis’s voyage to the West Indies in 1654-55 is that Francis Young was not the first in his lineage to journey to and settle in the New World. That distinction fell to Francis Young’s third great-grandfather Colonel Francis Barrington, 170 years earlier.

There is even a Wikipedia page devoted to the colonel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Barrington_(planter).

Thomas M. Scherer
Washington, DC
November 25, 2020

Hopefully someone can help me?  A William Keyburn (c1726 -?) married Elizabeth Barrington in 1750.  William was involved in pewtering and received freedom of Limerick 29/6/1752.  This Elizabeth was (almost certainly) related to Croker Barrington, silversmith of Cork, I believe his sister(?).  All three are mentioned in Dublin Registry of Deeds 178228.  According to the 1769 Deed William and Elizabeth, due to "unhappy differences" had agreed to live separately.  I understand they had two children at least, William and George.  Is this the Elizabeth Barrington that married her first cousin named Blackhall/Blackall?