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Thomas Contarine (abt. 1683)

Rev Thomas Contarine
Born about in Cheshire, Englandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Died [date unknown] in Emlaghmore, Oran, County Roscommonmap
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Biography

Church of Ireland Clergy

Thomas was the son of Austin.

He was educated by Mr Maxwell of Wrexham and entered Trinity College Dublin on 2 October 1701, aged 18. Sch 1705, B.A. 1706. [1]

The Rev. Thomas Contarine married Jane Goldsmith (c1682-1744), and both were buried in the Parish Church (Church of Ireland) at Oran, Co. Roscommon.

"[ Mark Antony Mills ], in his later years, settled in the vale called “Tempo,” which residence he inherited from the Rev Mr Contarine, whose only child was the lady IMMORTALISED BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH in his “Letters from Tempo,” as the cousin Jane, whose taper fingers moved so nimbly over the keys of her spinet In the old house of Kilmore, when collecting facts for his Life Goldsmith, visited Mark Antony Mills at Tempo. A ruined wing of the building called “the poet’s room” is pointed out there still. The traditions of the county teem with stories of the Mills, the Goldsmiths, and the Contarines, father and daughter." [2]

Sources

  1. FindmyPast - Alumni Dublinenses - 1924 Edition Note: Published in 1924, this is the first edition Alumni Dublinenses, a register of provosts, professors, graduates and students of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.
  2. George Kelly, An Old Roscommon Family, Roscommon Messenger, 20 May 1911, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:An_Old_Roscommon_Family
  • forgottenvictorians.com/tag/jane-lawder
  • ricorso.net
  • Murray, Patrick. "The Riddle of Goldsmith's Ancestry." Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 63, no. 250 (1974): 177-90. Accessed February 7, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30088931.




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