B54199-Tighe

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Name of the family:

Tighe

Blason:

Per chev. embattled ar. and sa. nine crosses crosslet, five in saltire in chief, and four in cross in base counterchanged.

Crest(s):

A wolf's head erased ppr. gorged with a plain collar az. thereon a cross crosslet or, betw. two bezants.

Motto:

Suminum neo metuam diem nee optem.

Info about the family:

Woodstock, co. Kilkenny, and Rossana, co. Wicklow; granted by St. George, Ulster, 1665, to Alderman Richard Tighe, Mayor of Dublin 1651, High Sheriff co. Dublin 1655, and of co. Kildare 1662, who acquired estates in cos. Carlow, Dublin, and Westmeath, temp. Charles I. and Charles II., and d. 1673; his grandson, Right Hon. Richard Tiohe, M.P. temp. George I., m. Barbara, dau. and co-heiress of Christian Bore, Esq., of Drinagh and Borrmount, co. Wexford, and was grandfather of William Tighe, Esq., of Rossana, co. Wicklow, M.P., who tu. Sarah, only child of the Right Hon. Sir William Fownes, Bart.,of Woodstock; their son and heir, William Tiohe, of Woodstock, M.P., m. in 1793, Marianne, dau. and co-heir of Daniel Gahan, of Coolquil, co. Tipperary, M.P., and eventually co-heir of her maternal uncle, Matthew Bunbury, of Kilfeocle, in the same co., and was father of the Right Hon. William Frederick Fownes Tiohe, of Woodstock, P.C., Lord-Lieut, and Custos Rotulorum, co. Kilkenny

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