Rory"Ruairí, Roger"O'More aka Ó Mórdha, Moore, O'Moore
Son of Calvagh o'More and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Jane (Barnewell) Moore — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DescendantsFather of Anne (O More) Sarsfield
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(Sir) Rory or Roger O'More, also spelled O'Moore or Moore (Irish: Ruairí Ó Mórdha) (c. 1600 – 16 February 1655) was an Irish landowner of ancient lineage.
He was the grandson of the O'More Chieftain of Laois, Rory Caech O'More (d 1546) and Margaret Butler, and nephew of the great O'More chieftain rebel Rory Oge O'More (d 1578).
He belonged to an ancient Irish noble family claiming descent from the mythical Conall Cernach. He was born in Queen's County (now County Laois) around 1600.
He is most notable for being one of the four principal organizers of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.[1]
Rory was the 10x great grand father of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
His uncle Ruairí Óg Ó Mórdha, King of Laois, had fought against the English. In 1556 Queen Mary confiscated the O'Mores' lands and created "Queen's County". Over 180 family members, who were peaceful and had taken no part in any rebellion, were killed with virtually all of the leaders of Laois and Offaly by English forces at a feast at Mullaghmast, County Kildare in 1577, Rory Óg and his wife Maighréad (Margaret) O'Byrne, sister of Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne, were hunted down and killed soon afterwards. This led to the political downfall of the O'Moore family; their estates were given to English 'undertakers'.
His father Callogh[2] (alias Charles, Calvagh, or Callough) had been granted the Balyna estate in 1574 by Queen Elizabeth I. Balyna is in County Kildare, not far from Enfield, County Meath. Sir Roger Moore, as he became known, inherited this as a minor on his father's death in 1618.
Irish Rebellion: 1641 - founding of the Irish Catholic Confederation and beginning of the Confederate War - along with Felim (Phelim) O'Neill, Donough MacCarty, Connor Maguire[3], William St Leger, grandson of Anthony St. Leger[4], James Butler, Charles Coote, Robert Monro, and others.[5]
According to Burke, Rory married Jane, daughter of Sir Patrick Barnewall of Turvey, Donabate, County Dublin, and they had one son (Charles d 1691) and four daughters.
According to the pedigree chart "The O'Mores of Ballina, Co. Kildare"[6] the marriage of Col. Rory O'More and Jane Barnewall produced two sons and four daughters: Col. Charles (killed at Battle of Aughrim in 1691), Connell (d.1653), Anne (married Patrick Sarsfeld of Tully, Co. Kildare), Eleanor (married 1. Brian O'Kelly d.1684 and 2. Donnell mac Murrough Kavanagh), Mary (married Col. Tirlough mac Henry O'Neill), and Elizabeth (d.1729 age 100; married Christopher Bieling[?]).
Burke's Irish Family Records (1976, p. 908) includes a fifth daughter, Bridget, living 1700, died unmarried.
It has been claimed (and was previously shown on WikiTree) that Rory O'More (and his wife Jane Barnewall) were the parents of James Moore (Colonial Governor of South Carolina) and of the latter's sister Mrs. Alice Coachman.[7] Although James and Alice's parents have not been identified, they were certainly siblings, for James's will (made on 1 November 1703 and proved on 6 November 1706[8]) contains the following bequest:
for love and affection to my brother-in-law, Tilney Coachman of same county, gentleman, and Alice, his wife, or the survivor of them, a plantation of 500 acres of land, then in possession of said Tilney Coachman, being in Berkeley, lying near Moore's plantation called "Wassamissah" to go after the death of the survivor to James Coachman, eldest son, or in case of his not surviving to the next son, John Coachman.[9]
See James Moore's biography for various counter-arguments as to why he and Alice were not children of Rory and Jane.
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