Mary (Brereton) O'Brien (bef. 1580 - abt. 1640)

Born before 28 Dec 1580 in Brereton cum Smethwick, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry O'Brien — married 13 Jul 1608 (to 1639) in Brereton, Cheshire England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about Apr 1640 after about age 59 in Thomond, Clare, Ireland

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Biography

Mary Brereton was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Mary Brereton was baptised on 28 December, 1580, at Brereton, Cheshire, England.^[1]

She was the daughter of Sir William Brereton, Knt^[2] and his wife, Margaret Savage.^[1] Margaret was the daughter of sir John Savage, kt, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of the earl of Rutland.^[1]

Her parents had seven children, but Mary and her youngest sibling, Sir John Brereton of Brereton, born 25 February, 1591, were the only ones to survive childhood.^[1]

Mary was 16 years old when Margaret, her mother, died on 7 April, 1597.^[1]

On 9 July, 1608, the Archdeaconry of Chester issued a Marriage Licence Bond for Henry Lord Brian, Baron of Incequin, to marry Mary Brereton, Spinster, daughter of Sir William Brereton of Brereton, Knt, without proclamation of banns, at Church Hulme, Cheshire; their Bondsman was Peter Walsh.^[2] They married on 13 July, 1608,^[1] at Brereton, Cheshire, England. Mary's husband, Henry, lord Inchiquin, was earl of Thomond after 1630.^[1] He was the son of Donough O'Brien, earl of Thomond and his wife, Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald.

On 11 May, 1624, Mary's father was created lord Brereton of Leighlin in Ireland.^[1]

Mary, Countess of Thomond, died in April, 1640, at age 59, at Thomond, Clare, Ireland.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} George Ormerod, "Containing the Hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, ed. Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), III:89, e-book, HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924088434059?urlappend=%3Bseq=113%3Bownerid=13510798902313265-135 : accessed 25 August, 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Wm Fergusson Irvine, ed., "Marriage Licences Granted Within the Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester. Vol I. 1606-1616". (London: The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol LIII, 1907), 39. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/recordsocietyfo04chesgoog/page/n53/mode/1up : accessed 25 August, 2022).

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• Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Baronetage, 1611-1880 (Exeter, England: W. Pollard, 1900-1906.), 1:91
• Cheshire, England, Select Bishop's Transcripts, 1576-1933 FHL Film Number 1655594 (Church Hulme, Cheshire, England 13 July 1608 Henry Bryan married Marie Brereton) Viewed at Ancestry. Text only