ANCESTRY OF THE LATE MARSHAL Mac MAHON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 48, 30 March 1894, Page 31

ANCESTRY OF THE LATE MARSHAL Mac MA HON.

Mabshal MacMahon was of the Clare MacMahois. Tbesa Clare MacMahons differ io descent from the Uiaier or ifona^ban MacMabons. The latter are of the racaof Clan Cilia of the line of Heremon, while the former are descendants from the O'Briens, kings of Mangier, of the race of Heber. Patrick MacMahon, of Torrodale, in the County of Limer.ck, was married to Margaiet, daughter of John O'Sulhvan, of Bantry, in the County of Cork, of the house of O'Sullivaa Beare. Identified with the cause of the Stuartp, he sheathed his sword at the treaty of Limerick, and reired with his wife to the friendly shores of Franc*. There bis son, John MacMahon, of Antrim, married an heiress, and was created Count d'Equilly. On the 28th of September, 1749, the Count applied to the Irish Government of that day, accompanying the application with tie necessary fees, e'e, for the officers of the Ulster King-at-Arms, to have his genealogy, together with the records, etc., of his family, duly authenticated, collected and recorded, " in order that bis children and their prosterity in France, might have sufficient proof of the proud fact that they were Irish." In these records he is described as of " the noble family, paternally, of tbe MacMabons of Clondirala, in Clare ; and, maternally, of the noble family of O'Sullivan Beare." Ha was grandfather of the Marshal Duke of Magenta. The Count* genealogy commences in the middle of tbe fifteenth century, and traces through eight generations :—: — Terence MacMahon, proprietor of Clondirala, married Helena, daughter of Maurice Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare, died in 1472, and waa interred in the Monastery of Ashelin, in Munster. He was succeeded by his son, Donatus MacMahon, who married Honor* O'Brien, of the noble family of Thomond , and his son, Terence MacMahon, married Joanna, daughter of John MacNamara, of Dobaghtin, commonly styled " MacNamara Beagb," and bad a boo, Bernard MacMabon, whose wife was Margaretta, daughter of Donatus O'Brien, of Daugh. Montagh MacMahon, son of Bernard, married Eleanora, daughter of William O'Nelan, of Emri, colonel of a cavalry regiment in the •rmy of Charles I, and was father of Maurice MacMahon, whose wife Helena was daughter of Maurice Fitzgerald, of Ballinoe, Knight of Glyna. Mortagh MacMahon, ion of Maurice, married Helena, daughter of Emmanuel MacSbeeby, of Billylinan, and was father of the abovenamed Patrick MacMahon, who married Marunretta, daugh er of John O'Sullivao, mother of John, first Count d'Equilly. The descent of the Count MacMahon, maternally, through the O'Sullivao 8, is as follows : — Moitagh O'Sullivan Bere, of Bantry. in the County of Cork, married Mary Ann, daughter of James Lord De-mond, and dying was interred 1541 in tbe Convent of Friars Minor, Coik. His Bon, John O'Sullivan, of Bantry, married Joanna, daughter of Gerald de Courcy, Baron of Kinsale, and died 1578, leaving Dauiel O'Sullivan, his son, who married AnnP, daughter of Christopher O'Dritcoll, of Baltimore, in the County of Cork, and died ac Madrid, leaviog his son John Sullivan, of Bantry, who nurried Margaret, daughter of James O'Donovan, of Roecarberry, County of Cork. Bartholomew O'Sullivan, son of John, was colonel in the army of James 11 , at the siege of Limerick, and married Helen*, daughier of Thomas Fitimaurice, Baron of Kerry. His son, Major John O'Bulliv»D, of Bantry, married Honoris, daughter of Robert McCarthy, of Castro Leonino, in tbe County of Cork, grandson of Daniel McCarthy, Lord of Glenclare, and Margaret, his wife, daughter of Donogh, Lord Desmond, and died in 1731. Their daughter was Margaretta, who married Patrick MacMahon, of Torrodale. Through bis grandmother Helena, daughter of Emmanuel McSbeehy, John McMahon, Count d'Equilly, was related to the Fitzgibboos of Ballynahincb, the Lacys of Balhngarry, the Purcella of Croagb. the Lysaghta of Shandagan, the O'Callaghans, the McNamaras of Cnvagb, the McMahons of Corrigolt, and through the McCartys and Fitzgeralda, with all tbe leading families of Munster, of the native and Anglo-Norman descent— ip*** Ilibernit Hiberniores.— Boston Pilot.

Socialism would appear to be on the wane in England and in fact the Social Democratic Federation set ma to be losing whatever grip it had upon a small section of tbe public. Tne mora moderate amongst the Socialists are returning to liadicalism, perhaps Jhey have begun to realise tbe fact that nothing practical comes from utterly impracticable organisation. The attack upon Mr John Burns who has workoi strenuously in Parliament to obtain all the benefits be can for the workingmar, has «nly redounded to the credit of that most practical Labour leader.