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Lundy Foot (1764 - 1835)

Lundy Foot
Born in Rosbercon, County Kilkenny, Irelandmap
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Husband of — married 29 Oct 1790 [location unknown]
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Died at age 70 in Rosbercon, County Kilkenny, Irelandmap
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Biography

Lundy was born in 1764. He was the son of Lundy Foot and Catherine Williams.

Lundy Foot of Rosbercon Castle and The Rower, Co. Kilkenny, and Orlagh, Co. Dublin. J.P. for both counties. B.A. Dublin, called to the Bar, King's Inn 1788.

Lundy married Anne Gilbert, daughter of William Gilbert of Dublin on 29 October 1790.

Children

  1. Lundy Edward married Lelias Callwell
  2. Simon Charles (Rev) married (1) Matilda Frances Enraght-Moony (2) Maria Turner
  3. Catherine married Francis Moony Enraght-Moony

Biography by Linde Lunney - Dictionary of Irish Biography [1]

Lundy Foot was a JP for Co. Kilkenny and Co. Dublin, where the family had estates; in 1816 he earned lasting public hatred when he determinedly pursued and successfully convicted a father and his two sons, Peter, Joe, and William Kearney, who had been accused of a murder though the victim's body was never found. The three Kearneys were executed in a field near Bohernabreena, close to Foot's house at Orlagh, Co. Dublin; the public execution was attended by thousands of people who opposed the sentence, and it was long held in folk memory. Foot moved to Rossbercon, Co. Kilkenny, where he himself was twice the victim of violence: on one occasion he was riddled with gunshots, and some time later, after he had recovered, he was attacked again (2 January 1835) and battered to death with a large stone by the son of an evicted tenant whose farm had been acquired by Foot. Lundy Edward Foot, son of the victim, was prosecutor in the resulting trial, where a conviction was unexpectedly achieved when a child testified against the murderer.

Lundy Foot is buried in the St. Matthew's Churchyard, Irishtown, County Dublin, Ireland

Sources

  1. https://dib.cambridge.org/advancedsearch.do




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