Talk:Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald

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rather than just editing by deleting please consider discussing here first to establish best practice and mutual benefit for future history researchersMifren (talk) 18:02, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

The problem is not with Sir Robert; he was certainly a notable politician in his time. The fact is that Wikipedia is not a genealogy. His family lineage is not important to the article, or to any reasonable understanding of the man or what he accomplished. What are you doing up anyway, it must be like 5am in Adelaide?--Yeti Hunter (talk) 18:25, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Lineage

The Uniacke family are considered to be a branch of the Old English Anglo-Norman Desmond Geraldine FitzGerald family from rivalry with the House of Butler. (Some say originally a family from Saint-Uniac in Brittany, France.) Mentioned early in the Bermingham Tower Records of Dublin Castle. Thomas Uniacke, son of Maurice Uniacke of Youghal, County Cork by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Garrett FitzGerald, married Helena, daughter and co-h. of Christian Borr of Borr Mount, County Wexford by whom he had issue:
1. Borr, of Youghall, esq. married 1760, Anne, eldest daughter of Frederick Trench, of Mote (Moate), County Galway, and had issue, Robert Uniacke, of Woodhouse, County Waterford, married January 7, 1790, Nanette-Constantia, daughter of the Right Honourable John Beresford, brother of George de la Poer, 1st marquess of Waterford.
2. Col Robert, of Corkbeg.
3. Maurice, of Woodhouse, County Waterford, married Barbara, daughter and heir of James Uniacke of Сарра, Cоunty Tipperary, and died 1745, leaving an only daughter Barbara, married Walter Atkin of Leadington, County Cork.
4. Clotilda, m. William Wallis or Wallace, of Ballycronane, Cоunty Cork.

Col. Robert Uniacke, second son of Thomas, was of Corkbeg, Cоunty Cork, took the name of Fitzgerald in compliance with the will of his grandmother's brother Sir Robert FitzGerald (son of Sir Garrett FitzGerald of Lisquinlan and Corkbeg, s/o Sir William FitzGerald of Lisquinlan, maternal grandson of Sir Robert Tynte of Youghal and Ballycronane). He married Frances-Lepp, daughter of Judge John Judkin, esq. of Ballymore Cashel and rf. 1778, leaving issue by her, (who died August 1791):
1. Robert, of Corkbeg, esq. Member of Parliament for County Cork, (1801 to 1806), who married Louisa Petitot, daughter of Rev. Richard Bullen, and had issue:
2. Col Sir Thomas, the first Judkin-FitzGerald baronet of Lisheen, Co. Tipperary
3. Eleanor, married Rev. Robert Dring, of Bork Grove, County Cork.
4. Clotilda.
5. Elizabeth, died unmarried (1799).
6. Helen, married Henry Brabazon of Wilville, County Louth. Mifren (talk) 15:47, 1 March 2009 (UTC)