Paul Cudmore (abt. 1614 - abt. 1692)

Born about 1614 in England

Husband of Ann (Gale) Cudmore — married 1655 in Ireland

Descendants

Died about 1692 at about age 78 in Ireland

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Biography

This profile is part of the Cudmore Name Study.

Paul Cudmore (abt 1614 – abt 1700) was a lawyer who is said to have been born in England and came to Ireland with Cromwell’s army in the regiment of Colonel Phaire. Paul’s future father-in-law, Captain Michael Gale (died 1681), was a member of the same regiment.^[1]

Cudmore married Anne Gale in 1655^[2] becoming the son-in-law of Captain Michael Gale.

Cudmore is referenced frequently in the Receiver Generals Account from May 1655 as abstracted in the Crossle genealogical abstracts^[3].

Paul Cudmore is listed in 1656 as an assistant to John Boswell, chief clerk to the Office of the Commissioners General of Revenue and Stores. Cudmore was earning 50 pounds, Boswell 60 pounds and the Commissioners (Henry Markham, Edward Roberts and Roger Kingdon) 200 pounds each.^[4]

In 1656 Paul Cudmore received a payment for Colonel Saunders.^[5]

Paul was admitted to the King’s Inns in Ireland 28 January 1657.^[6] He was described as Paul Cudmore Esq. I could not find a record of him having been admitted to one of the London Inns. Paul Cudmore practiced as a solicitor and in the 1680s served in that capacity to Colonel Phaire at the time of his death in 1682.^[7]

In 1663 Paul Cudmore and Michael Gale were implicated in a plot to overthrow the new King. Cudmore and Gale were named in a deposition sent on 26 June 1663 by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery to King Charles II informing the King of a plot to overthrow the government.

Orrery wrote, “The four mentioned in his enclosed deposition were officers who served under Phaier.” Orrery imprisoned Paul Cudmore, Gale, the two other men, and Colonel Phaire. The deposition stated :

On a Sabbath day in the afternoon about the end of April last, deponent met Mr. Samuel Corbett, who told deponent that Captain Michael Gale wished to speak to him. Deponent was asked to meet Gale, Captain John Taylor, Paul Cudmore and Corbett at the Stone- house beyond the bridge of Carrigeline [Carrigalinel], in the barony of Kirricarry [Kerricurihy] , co. Cork, on the next Wednesday.^[8]

On 31 July 1663 James Butler, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, ordered Phaire’s release. In 1660 Ormond had played a part in Phaire’s acquittal of the charge of regicide. Presumably Paul Cudmore and Michael Gale were released at the same time.

Although the Earl of Orrery referred to Paul Cudmore as an army officer under Phaire, only two of the men he named were given an army rank. It is likely that Cudmore served Phaire in an administrative rather than a military role.

Paul Cudmore is mentioned in the Dublin Assembly Roll of 1669-70 as supplying timber for the hospital on Oxmantowne Green.^[9]

Research notes

Paul is not mentioned in the Visitation of Devon entry for Cudmore 1620.^[10] Perhaps he was not born before 1620. He is also not mentioned in the Visitation of Essex 1634 - entry for John Cudmore page 387.^[11]

From Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph in the County of Stafford pages 125-6:

The Cudmores are descended from Paul Cudmore, of Rathgobbar in Ireland. He held land in the baronies of Barrymore and Innokillie.(Grant, 1658.) He is believed to have been a brother of Edmund Cudmore, one of Cromwell’s officers who settled in Ireland, of Kilmallock, co. Limerick, mentioned in the Will of his grandfather in 1637. Edmund Cudmore, of Cahoreley, co. Limerick,(Will, dated 1696, proved P.C. Ireland 1698.) was ancestor of James Francis Cudmore, of Paringa Hall, Glenelg, South Australia, father of Arthur Murray Cudmore who married Kathleen Mary Cavenagh- Mainwaring. ^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ Ritchie, Elsie B. For the love of the land : the history of the Cudmore family. E. Ritchie, [Ermington, N.S.W.], 2000.
2. ↑ Ritchie history of the Cudmore family page 30. Yet to find another record of this marriage.
3. ↑ Crossle genealogical abstracts: military records which can be retrieved through FindMyPast. First Mention in these abstracts seems to be May 1655 (https://search.findmypast.com.au/record?id=S2%2FIRE%2FNAI%2F007634858%2F00361&parentid=IRE%2FNAI%2FGENABS%2F01162477%2F1)
4. ↑ https://beyond2022.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/6.-Commonwealth-Papers.pdf page 17
5. ↑ The history of the survey of Ireland, commonly called the Down survey, A.D. 1655-6 by Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687; Irish Archaeological Society; Larcom, Thomas Aiskew, Sir, 1801-1871 Publication date 1851 page 165. Retrieved through archive.org
6. ↑ http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/digital/Kings%20Inns%20Admission%20Papers%201607-1867/pageflip.html
7. ↑ from http://pigott-gorrie.blogspot.com/2013/ :
   • The only mention of a son Robert (Robin) is contained in the Chancery Bill: CUDMORE v PHAIRE, 6 June 1685. Paul CUDMORE, solicitor to the late Colonel PHAIRE, cites a letter from the Colonel to tell him "...he was then sending his son Robin to the grave who died two days before," and in her reply to this suit, the widow Elizabeth PHAIRE says (13 November 1685) that "...she cannot remember the precise time of her son Robert's death, but believes it may be a year before that of his father."
   • Robert PHAIRE was recorded as having died at Grange in the autumn of 1682, aged 63, "...peaceably near Cork and was buried in the Anabaptist burying yard of that city" [SMITH's "History of Cork," Volume i, page 206]. There is some indication that he may have died on 19 September 1683, aged 62, as the result of a stroke - a letter written by Paul CUDMORE, PHAIRE's Solicitor, who had just travelled from Dublin to PHAIRE's house in Cork, wrote that PHAIRE "...was ill at the time and died soon after having been for some days before his death speechless" [unsourced quote by Barbara PHAYRE, "Cromwell's Legacy," page 30].
8. ↑ Mahaffey, John P. (editor). "Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Ireland Preserved in the Public Record Office : Great Britain. Public Record Office (1663 - 1665)" Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1907, volume II page 151 retrieved through archive.org..
9. ↑ Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin Vol.4 at Page 495 viewed through archive.org
10. ↑ Vivian: Page 80 retrieved through archive.org
11. ↑ retrieved through HathiTrust https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075683548&view=1up&seq=409&skin=2021
12. ↑ Cavenagh-Mainwaring, J. G. The Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph in the County of Stafford. An account of the family, and its connections by marriage and descent; with special reference to the Manor of Whitmore. about 1935. pages 125-6 retrieved through archive.org

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 12 December 2020, 22:33), entry for Paul Cudmore (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:G756-C24 ); contributed by various users.
• Ritchie, Elsie B. For the love of the land : the history of the Cudmore family. E. Ritchie, [Ermington, N.S.W.], 2000.
• Young, Anne. "C is for Carrigaline." Anne's Family History, 2 Apr. 2021, https://anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/c-is-for-carrigaline/.