DR - Cork Past and Present

134 CLONFERT. [CLOYNE.
1787. Dec. 7. Boyle Aldworth, esq., was buried. He left
£46 3s. Id. to the poor of the parish.
1789. Feb. 24. Margaret O'Keef renounced Popery in ye
parish church of Newmarket, She was married on the same
day to Michael Hudson.
1792. July 22. RICHARD WOODWARD (vice Boyse, deceased), V.
Clonfert and P. Lackeen. [D.R.] On 17th June, 1793, lie
was again collated on receiving Castlemagner in addition.
[F.F.] In 1799 lie became P. Glanworth, q. v.
1794. Henry Weston, A.B., who, on 18th July, 1772, had
been licensed to the curacy of Clonfert, died, and was buried
at Newmarket. He lost his life by the accidental discharge of
a gun, January 29, 1794.
Mr. Weston was also Chaplain to the Newmarket Rangers, a
corps of volunteers enrolled in 1778.
1798. August 12. ANDREW M CLINTOCK (vice Woodward, resigned),
V. Clonfert. [F.F.]
1805. The number of Protestant families is 61. [Archb. Brod.]
Mr. M'Clintock has cure of souls, and resides regularly in
summer, but is allowed to live at Bath in winter, being gouty.
The duties are performed by his Curates, Rev. Robert Bullen
and Rev. George Mayberry, at £50 each. One church and
one chapel of ease at Kanturk. No glebe-house, but one is
about to be built. [Rep. 1806.]
Andrew M`Clintock was ordained Priest at Cloyne on 5th
October, 1794, for the curacy of Clonfert. He died in 1807.
1807. Sept. 8. ROBERT KIRCHOFFER (vice M'Clintock, deceased), V.
Clonfert. [F.F.] In 1808 lie became V. Clondrohid, q. Y.
1808. June 15. A vestry is held in Newmarket Church, for
the purpose of making Kanturk a perpetual cure, and the following
plowlands are allotted to Kanturk chapel of ease, viz.,
Kanturk, Stradeen, Curra rh, Meelsheragh, Rusline, Coolavotas,
Kilnoekin,Knockelly,Knock skeehy, Knockskovane,Gooseberryhill,
Carrigcashel, Barleyhill, Lisnire, Duargile, Callaghan's
Rossacon, Callaglian's Lisniealcoming, Murphy's do., 2 Clonticoniades,
Greenfield, Gnrtnacouiroe, and Gurtraskreggy.
1808. Sept. 10. FRANCIS HEWITT (?dce Kirchofler, resigned), V.
Clonfert. [F. F,]
F. Hewitt (son of Thomas Hewitt, esq., of Cork, who was
buried at Ballymodan, and of Catherine Eason, his wife), was
ordained Deacon on 25th July, and Priest on 21st Dec., 1797,
at Cork. On 26th August, 1797, lie was licensed to the curacy
of St. Paul, Cork. From 1799 to 1808 he was V. Clonmeen,
Roskeen, and Kilcorney.
He married, firstly, Eliza, dau. of Robert Reeves, esq., of
Cork, and by her had three sons, Thomas, Barrister-at-Law ;
Robert, died unmarried ; and Francis, Colonel H.E.LC., who
married his cousin, Elisabeth Henrietta Hewitt, and died Sp.
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Rev. F. Hewitt married, 2ndly, at St. Mary, Shandon, Cork, on
8th Nov., 1803, Anna, sister of Alderman Harding, of Cork,
and relict of Joseph Rogers, esq., of Cork. By his second wife
he had 3 sons, John, and Henry, now in Australia ; and Charles,
M.D.; besides 2 daughters, who both married sons of Rev. Robert
Bullen, of Newmarket.
Mr. Hewitt died on 8th Nov., 1818. A tablet to his memory
is in the church of Newmarket, where lie was buried.
1819. Feb. 7. ROBERT LONGFIELD, A.M. (vice Hewitt, deceased), V.
Clonfert als Trinity Christchurch, Newmarket. [D.R.]
Robert Longfield (son of Colonel Mountiford Longfield, M.P.,
of Castlemary, county Cork, by Miss Bateman, of Oakpark,
county Kerry), was ordained Deacon on 23rd Dec., 1798, at
Cork, and Priest on 1st Sept., 1799, at Cloyne. He was P.
Coole from 1810 to 1819, and V. Clonfert from 1819 to 1823.
He also held the P. Disert, Lismore, from August to December,
1810 ; from Dec. 1810 to 1813, the V. Kilcash, Templethay,
Killalone,and Kil grant, in the diocese of Waterford and Lismore;
and from 1813 to 1823, the R. Drakestown and Castletown,
Kilpatrick, in heath diocese. He resigned his church preferment
of Clonfert on 5th Sept., 1323, on succeeding to the
estates of Castlemary.
He married, on 11th Dec., 1811, at St. Peter's, Dublin,
Cherry, daughter and heiress of Thomas Hngo, esq., of Drummeen,
county Wicklow. He had issue by her five sons,
Mountiford, now of Castlemary, D.L. for Cork county ; Robert ;
Richard, died Hoot.; William, Major of the West Cork Artillery;
and Thomas, ordained Deacon at Cork on 11th March, 1855,
and licensed to the curacy Of Clon(1rohid on 18th January,
1859.
The Rev. Robert Lon„"field had also seven daughters, Frances,
wife of Richard Beare Tooker, esq. ; Caroline Maria, died uanz.;
Cherry, who was married to William Oliver Jackson, esq., of
Abanesk, Midleton, and died lately ; Letitia, Margaret, and
Emily, who all died e ann.; and Bessy, wife of Maziere John
Brady, esq., second son of the LORD CHANCELLOR.
The Rev. Robert Lon-field was buried in the family vault at
Coyne, on 15th January, 1343.
1823. Sept. 27. RICHARD NEVILLE (v4ee Longfield, resigned), V.
Clonfert. [1).R.] In 1831 he became R. Clonpriest, q. Y.
1823. In this year St. Leger Aldworthi, esq., died at Sunday's
Well, near Cork. He was son of Boyle Aldworth by Martha,
dau. of Colonel Christopher Rogers. St. Leger Aldworth, in
his will (dated 1822, and proved on 12th March, 1824), bequeathed
" £1,000 for the purpose of establishing a manufacture
of whatsoever kind as may be considered as most conducive
to the advantage of the people, by my executors, in the town of
Newmarket, and which may profitably employ a considerable