Richard Hedges Becher (bef. 1799)

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Biography of Richard Hedges BECHER

• son of Richard Hedges Becher, Sr.

• Was not the owner of Hollybrook- that was owned by his older half brother John Becher & his descendants- may be the owner of Hollybrook, in County Cork, according to this quote from "Famine in the West Cork" from the Southern Star in 2004: A campaign for Tenant Rights was starting up at this time and there were some big meetings, including one at Skibbereen in November which was actually chaired by one of the landlords, R.H. Becher [Was Richard Henry Hedges Becher] of Hollybrook, This meeting took place in the 1840s and his father had already passed away by that time.

Alive in 1834 as he renounced being executor for the will of his sister Mary. Could be the Richard Becher living in Kilgarvan, Kerry in 1834 in the household of his sister Leticia & married Johana Brady 2 March 1835 at Kilgarvan

A Census of Protestant Inhabitants in Kilgarvan 1834 records the following households; Henry Richard Orpen Richard Becher Orpen Thomas Orpen Henry Orpen Richard Beecher [presumably Letitia's brother Richard Becher]

& Richard Edward Orpen Fanny Orpen Richard B Orpen Henry Orpen Margaret Maria Orpen

Sources

• Irish Idenity website
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p27190.htm#i271895