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COLCLOUGH, Sam b 12/25/1826 Dublin,Ireland. d 4/14/1906 Glasgow, Scotland. dore48@pacbell.net 1096

COAKLEY, John Theodore b ? co Cork, Ireland name orig. spelled Coclough d Sep 1906 Vancouver Wa. name was misspelled as Goakley on d cert. m Rosa Shaumeyer b 11 Apr 1874 d ? chn Anna b 1891, John L. b 29 May 1893, Margaret b 1898, Frank b ? Catherine b 1902, Thomas b 1904?, Florence b 1906 Family last lived in Kansas City, KS. John T. bur Vancouver Wa. theresamorrison@Hotmail.com 0799

Looking for the families of Francis Richard Cokely b December 21, 1837 in Westmoreland St., Dublin, Ireland. D in California. He married Hepsibah Elizabeth Harwood September 14, 1862 in Canada. They had 5 children: Mary Isabelle b 1872 in Bay City, Michgan; Samuel Robert Cokely b June 28, 1863, d June 30, 1941 in Wasco, California; G. Frederick Cokely b August 5, 1865, married Sophia; Francis Peter Cokely ab December 2, 1867 in Bay City, Michigan; and William Harwood Cokely b. June 29, 1876 m Juliette Arnold. I would like to find these families and the ancestors of Francis Richard Cokely. The Ireland spelling could be Colclough, we have no idea. Thanks, Peggy Bush pbush12@aol.com

Eliza Cecilia COLCLOUGH b1813 London Seeking information on the above named prior to her marriage to James Adam CAPPER in approximately 1840. Believed to be connected to the Colcloughs in Co. Wexford, Ireland. Nothing known of parents or siblings. Pat Allan

Seeking information about Joseph Carew (born about 1799 in Ireland). He married Cherubina (ML 1822, Diocese of Cashel & Emily), daughter of Colclough Stretch by his wife Mary (died 13 February 1809). Cherubina Carew was born 10 October 1802, St. Mary's Parish, Limerick, co. Limerick. Joseph Carew died in October 1873 leaving issue,
I. Robert, baptised 10 February 1826, St. John's Parish, Limerick, co. Limerick.

John Hunter Gowan II. My wife is descended from his uncle Samuel, who we believe married a Colclough. Samuel's father was granted land in Tipperary and married Martha Hunter, whence comes the name. Unfortunately it is unclear whether Samuel lived in Tipperary, or whether he migrated to Wexford as the family of JHGII did. They indicate that eventually he lived in Maryborough/Maryville(?)in Leix ( Queens)... so its unclear also where he would have married Jane Colclough. JHGII had adaughter, Jane Amelia b 1778, who married an Edwward Haycock Colclough-Turner and they had a son who took the Colclough name. Their daughter married Ogle Robert Gowan, b 1803. It seems like these families were very close, and it wouldn't be a surprise if these are somehow connected to the woman I am looking for. It would indicate that she was from the Wexford area, if that were the case, since we know thats where JHGII was situated. Alex Paton <A.R._Paton@telus.net>

Information sough on any Roe Colclough marriages in Ireland in the late 1700s and early 1800s cht@indigo.ie 

I will detail the following circumstance in illustration of these principle. It took place immediately previous to the breaking out of the rebellion.

I dined at the house of Lady Colclough, a near relative of Lady Barrington, in he town of Wexford, in April, 1798. The company, so far as I recollect, consisted of about 17 persons, amongst whom were several other of tidy B '5 relatives, then members of the grand jury:

Mr. Cornelius Grogan, of Johnstown, a gentleman of very large fortune, who had represented the county; his two brothers, both wealthy men; Captain Keogh, afterwards rebel governor of Wexford, the husband of Lady B ---'s aunt; the unfortunate John Colclough, of Tintern; and the still more unfortunate Mr. Colclough; Counsellor John Beauman; Counsellor Bagenal Harvey, afterwards the rebel generalissimo; Mr. William Hatton, and some others. The conversation after dinner turning on the distracted state of the country became rather too free, and I begged some of the party to he more moderate, as our ways of thinking were so different, and my public situation did not permit me, especially at that particular period, to hear such strong language. The loyalists amongst us did not exceed four or five.

The tone of the conversation was soon lowered, but not before I had made up my mind as to the probable fate of several in company, though I certainly had no idea that, in little more than a month, a sanguinary rebellion would desolate my native land, and violent deaths, within three months, befal a great proportion of that joyous assemblage. I had seen enough, however, to convince me that all was not right, and that, by plunging one step farther, most of my relatives and friends would be in imminent danger.

The party, however, broke up; and next morning Mr. Beauman and myself, happening to meet on the bridge, talked over the occurrences of the previous day, uniting in opinion as to the inauspicious aspect of things, and actually proceeding to make out a list of those amongst the dinner party whom we considered likely to fall victims! and it so turned out that every ane of our predictions was verified. It was superficial observation alone that led me to think as I did at that moment, but a decided presentiment of what eventually happened soon after took possession of me; and, indeed, so full was I of forebodings, that I have more than once been roused out of my sleep by the horrid ideas floating through my mind!

Sir Vesey Colclough, member for County Wexford, who understood books and wine better than any of the party, had all his days treated money so extremely ill, that it would continue no longer in his service! - and the dross (as he termed it) having entirely forsaken him, he bequeathed an immense landed property, during his life, to the uses of custodiams, elegits, and judgments, which never fail to place a gentleman's acres under the special guardianship of the attorneys. He was father to that excellent man, John Colclough, who was killed at Wexford, and to the present Caesar Colclough, whose fall might probably have afforded rather less cause of regret.

Sir Vesey added much to the pleasantry of the party by occasionally forcing on them deep subjects of literature, of which few of his companions could make either head or tail: but to avoid the imputation of ignorance, they often gave the most ludicrous proofs of it on literary subjects, geography, and astronomy, with which he eternally bored them.

On the general election of 1808, Mr. John Colclough, of Tintern Abbey, County Wexford, a near relative of mine, and locum tenens of his elder brother, Mr. Caesar Colclough, who had been long resident on the Continent, declared himself for the second time candidate for Wexford County, which he had represented in the previous Parliament. The Colclough estates were large, the freeholders thereon numerous, and devoted to the interest of their patriotic leader, whose uncle, Mr. John Grogan, of Johnstown Castle, also a relative of mine, possessed of a very large fortune and extensive tenantry, had united with his nephew and other most respectable and independent gentlemen of that county, to liberate its representation from the trammels of certain noblemen who had for many years usurped its domination. Mr. Coldough was determined to put the pride, spirit, and patriotism of the county to proof, and therefore proposed Mr. Richard Brinsley Sheridan as joint-candidate with himself, declaring that he was authorised by the independent freeholders of the county to say, that they should feel the greatest gratification in being represented by so distinguished an ornament to the name of Irishman.

It is to be lamented that the biographers and eulogists of Richard Brinsley Sheridan should have suppressed some of the most creditable incidents of his variegated life, whilst his memory is disgraced by pretended friends and literary admirers.

These writers have raked up from his ashes, and exposed to public indignation, every failing of that great and gifted man: so that, if their own productions were by any chance to become permanent, they would send him down to posterity as a witty but low and dissipated sharper, or, in their very best colouring, as the most talented of mean and worthless mendicants. But Sheridan's reputation will outlive all such attempts to obliterate it; whilst the ignorance of his libellers is conspicuous from their entire omission of some of the most interesting events of his career, at the same time that others are vouched for, which to my individual knowledge are gross misrepresentations.

Amongst the incidents that have been overlooked is one both extraordinary and melancholy, and forming an honourable comment on Mr. Sheridan's public character. I was myself mentally interested in the whole transaction, and can therefore give it on my own responsibility. I am, indeed, most anxious to rescue his memory from the rough hands which, in sketching their subject, have placed the mane of the lion upon the shoulders of a mountebank.

In speaking thus, I deeply regret that one of these biographers should be a man whom I esteem, and I regret it the more, since he has used poor Sheridan as a chopping-block, whereon to hack the character of the most illustrious person of the British empire, who, for the first time in his life, I believe, has been accused of pecuniary illiberality. A circumstance accidentally came to my knowledge to prove that charge the very reverse of truth. But an opportunity will be taken by me of observing still more explicitly on these friends of Mr. Sheridan.

On the general election of 1808, Mr. John Colclough, of Tintern Abbey, County Wexford, a near relative of mine, and locum tenens of his elder brother, Mr. Caesar Colclough, who had been long resident on the Continent, declared himself for the second time candidate for Wexford County, which he had represented in the previous Parliament. The Colclough estates were large, the freeholders thereon numerous, and devoted to the interest of their patriotic leader, whose uncle, Mr. John Grogan, of Johnstown Castle, also a relative of mine, possessed of a very large fortune and extensive tenantry, had united with his nephew and other most respectable and independent gentlemen of that county, to liberate its representation from the trammels of certain noblemen who had for many years usurped its domination. Mr. Coldough was determined to put the pride, spirit, and patriotism of the county to proof, and therefore proposed Mr. Richard Brinsley Sheridan as joint-candidate with himself, declaring that he was authorised by the independent freeholders of the county to say, that they should feel the greatest gratification in being represented by so distinguished an ornament to the name of Irishman.

Mr. Colclough and Mr. Sheridan were therefore nominated on the one hand; and Mr. Alcock, supported by the interest of the influenced electors, on the other.

Never yet was any poll conducted by more resolute, active, and zealous partisans; but it is lamentable to add that they were equally intemperate as zealous. The flame of patriotism had caught the mass of the population; tenants no longer obeyed the dictates of their absent landlords nor the men aces of tyrannic agents: no man could count on the votes of his former vassals. The hustings was thronged with crowds of tenantry, constitutionally breaking away from their shackles, and voting according to their principles of free agency for Sheridan -a man known to them only by the celebrity of his talents. The poll proceeded-the independent party was advancing fast to success; and had the election continued, there is no doubt but that Mr. Sheridan would have been a representative for Wexford County. At this crisis occurred one of the most unfortunate and melancholy events on Irish record, and by which the contest was terminated, as if the untoward destiny of Sheridan withered everything that came in contact with it.

Several tenants of a person who had given his interest to Mr. Alcock absolutely refused to vote for that gentleman, declaring that at every risk they would support Colclough and "the great Sheridan." Mr. Alcock's partisans perverted the free agency of these men into seduction on the part of Mr. Colclough, hence a feeling decidedly hostile was excited; the fierce zeal and frenzy of election partisanship burst into a flame, and Mr. Colclough was required to decline such votes, or to receive them at his peril.

Of course he disregarded this outrageous threat, and open war ensued. One party lost sight of reason - both of humanity; and it was determined that before the opening of next morning's poll the candidates should decide, by single combat, the contested question, and of course the election itself. With what indignation and horror must such a resolution, at once assailing law, good morals, and decency, be now regarded! and how will the feeling of surprise increase from its being passed over with impunity!

Early on the eventful morning many hundred people assembled to witness the affair; and it will scarcely be believed that no less than eleven or twelve county justices stood by, passive spectators of the bloody scene which followed, without an effort, or apparently a wish, to stop the proceeding.

Both combatants were remarkably near-sighted, and Mr. Alcock determined on wearing glasses, which was resisted by the friends of Mr. Colclough, who would wear none. The partisans of the former, however, persevered, and he did wear them. The ground at length was marked; the anxious crowd separated on either side, as their party feelings led them, but all seemed to feel a common sense of horror and repugnance. The unfeeling seconds handed to each principal a couple of pistols, and placing them about eight or nine steps asunder withdrew, leaving two gentlemen of fortune and character, brother candidates for the county, and former friends, nay, intimate companions, standing in the centre of a field, without any personal offence given or received, encouraged by false friends, and permitted by unworthy magistrates to butcher each other as quickly and as effectually as their position and weapons would admit.

The sight was awful! a dead silence and pause ensued: the great crowd stood in motionless suspense, the combatants presented, men scarcely breathed, the word was given, Mr. Alcock fired first, and his friend, his companion, one of the best men of Ireland, instantly fell forward, shot through the heart! He spoke not, but turning on one side, his heart's blood gushed forth, his limbs quivered, he groaned and expired. His pistol exploded after he was struck, of course without effect.

The bystanders looked almost petrified, the profound stillness continued for a moment, horror having seized the multitude, when on the sudden a loud and universal yell, the ancient practice of the Irish peasantry on the death of a chieftain, simultaneously burst out like a peal of thunder from every quarter of the field - a yell so savage and continuous, so like the tone of revenge, that it would have appalled any stranger to the customs of the country.

Alcock and his partisans immediately retreated; those of Colclough collected round his body, and their candidate, a few moments before in health, spirits, and vigour! was mournfully borne back upon a plank to the town of his nativity, and carried lifeless through those very streets which bad that morning been prepared to signalise his triumph.

The election-poll of course proceeded without further opposition. The joint friends of Colclough and Sheridan, deprived of their support, and thunderstruck at the event, thought of nothing but lamentation; and in one hour Mr. Alcock was declared duly elected for Wexford County, solely through the death of his brother candidate, whom he had himself that morning unjustly immolated.

A more wanton duel, a more unnecessary, cruet and in all points illegal transaction, never occurred in the united empire; yet, strange to say, of those 11 or 12 magistrates who actually stood by, as amateurs or partisans, in defiance of the law and of their duty, not one was displaced or punished - a precedent of impunity most discreditable to the high authorities of that day, dangerous to the peace of the country, and subversive of the first principles of free election. Judge of Sheridan's feelings on receiving this intelligence! and judge of the correctness of his biographers, who have suppressed the incident.

Nor was poor Colclough's death the last act of the tragedy. His friends thought themselves called on to prosecute Mr. Alcock, who fled, but subsequently returned and surrendered for trial. I attended as special counsel for the prosecution: Baron Smith tried the cause. The evidence was stronger than I have deemed it necessary to recite. The baron stated his opinion on the legal distinctions as applicable to duelling, and on that opinion the bar differed. It was not the wish of the prosecutors to do more than mark the transaction by a conviction for manslaughter, which the law, under the circumstances, seemed to render imperative. However, the then politics of Wexford juries differed not unfrequently both from the laws of God and the statute book, and the verdict returned in this instance was, to the surprise of every one, a general acquittal.

But, alas I the acquitted duellist suffered more in mind than his victim had done in body. The horror of the scene, and the solemnity of the trial, combined to make a fatal inroad on his reason! He became melancholy; his understanding gradually declined, a dark gloom enveloped his entire intellect, and an excellent young man and perfect gentleman at length sank into irrecoverable imbecility.

Goaded by the vicious frenzy of election partisans, he had slain his friend, and, haunted by reflection and sorrow, he ended his own days in personal restraint and mental ruin.

Two other duels were fought upon the same occasion, but with little injury and still less interest. Mr. Caesar Colclough has since returned from the Continent, and, on the strength of his late brother's popularity, was elected member for County Wexford. He has not, however, followed up the high reputation of that brother, nor very satisfactorily fulfilled the expectations of his constituents.

But to this sanguinary and fatal duel there was yet another sad corollary. Miss Alcock, sister of the member, had been most deeply affected by the mournful catastrophe. She had known Colclough long and intimately; and being an amiable and sensitive young woman, her brother's absence, his trial, and his subsequent depression, kept the gloomy transaction alive in her mind; hence she also gradually wasted; and the death of her brother sinking deeper and deeper into a heart, all the sources of tranquillity whereof had been dried up, her reason wandered, at length fled, and she did not long survive the dreadful fate of her friend and of her brother.

Lord Redesdale never could pronounce the name of Mr. Colclough, a suitor in the Chancery court. It was extremely amusing to hear how he laboured to get it off his tongue, but quite in vain! Callcloff was his nearest effort. I often wished I could recommend him to try his dog-teeth.

From Phineas Finn by Anthony TrollopChapter 6 Lord Brentford's dinner

``More likely twenty-two,'' said Mr Bonteen. ``There is Colcleugh so ill they can't possibly bring him up, and young Rochester is at Vienna, and Gunning is sulking about something, and Moody has lost his eldest son. By George! they pressed him to come up, although Frank Moody won't be buried till Friday.''