Author talk:Mary Agnes Hickson
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[edit]- Joy-McGillycuddy Family Tree
Mary Agnes Hickson
Father: John James (Attorney) Hickson
Mother: Sarah Day
Birth: 7 Apr 1811 Hillville, Kerry, Ireland
Death: 6 Apr 1899 Cork, Ireland
Probate
[edit]Deceased Surname: Hickson
Deceased Forename: Mary Agnes
Primary Beneficiary/Executor: Francis M'gillacuddy Denny
Sec. Beneficiary/Executor: Isabella M Legge
Date of Death6 Apr 1899
County of Death: Cork
blennerhassettfamilytree.com
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MARY AGNES HICKSON
A DISTINGUISHED ANTIQUARIAN
AND GENEALOGIST :
DAUGHTER OF JOHN JAMES HICKSON
FORMERLY OF HILLVILLE, Co KERRY.
DIED AT KINGSTON COLLEGE,
MITCHELLSTOWN, Co CORK.
6TH APRIL, 1899.
AGED 75 YEARS.
RESTORED IN 1999 BY "TRALEE
LADIES' 99 PROBUS CLUB" AND
"KERRY ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY".
Mary Agnes Hickson (b.7-Apr-1811 d.6-Apr-1899) was the daughter of John James Hickson & Sarah Day, and through Sarah Day the great-great-granddaughter of Anne Blennerhassett (b.21-Jan-1694 at Castle Conway) and Denis (Donogh) McGillicuddy, "The McGillicuddy of the Reeks".
Her residence "Hillville" at Stradbally, Clohane, Co.Kerry was built by her father in 1833 on the site of an earlier house. An eminent Co.Kerry historian and genealogist, M.A.H. was a regular contributor to the "Old Kerry Records" series published in the "Kerry Evening Post". That newspaper also carried a fascinating and lengthy correspondence between M.A.H. and James Franklin Fuller (another noted Kerry historian & genealogist; also architect of the 1880s remodelling of Ballyseedy Castle) disagreeing about the Royal ancestry of Martha Lynne (b.c1595/1600) who in 1627 married Capt. John Blennerhassett of Ballycarty & Ballyseedy (b.est.c1595 d.1676).
M.A.H. was author of three volumes of Co.History, "Selections from Old Kerry Records" vol.1 1872 & vol.2 1874, and "Ireland in the 17th Century" 1884, each of them containing much information of Blennerhassett family interest. In particular, "Selections from Old Kerry Records" vol.1 1872 on pp.33-108 reproduces her transcript of "The Blennerhassett Pedigree AD 1580-1736", copied by her from "Black Jack's Book", a Ms. genealogy of the Blennerhassett and related families by Capt. John "Black Jack" Blennerhassett of Castle Conway (d.1738), completed c1736.
Her own transcription Ms. of "Black Jack's Book" was in 1921 given by Rev. Sir H.L.L. Denny (another well known Kerry genealogist) to the library of "The Societyof Genealogists" in London, where it remains, recently rebound. Hers was the second transcription of this Ms., the first by Archdeacon Rev. Arthur Blennerhassett Rowan (yet another renowned Co.Kerry historian) in 1855. A photocopy of his transcription Ms. is [NLI Ms.5629].