Lucy SPRIGGE 2
- Born: Est 1680
- Marriage (1): Peter HOLMES in 1700 1
General Notes:
http://www.ancestryireland.com/history-of-the-irish-parliament/constituencies/banagher/
The Banagher Borough Book 1693-1748 gives some interesting sidelights on the borough's affairs; for example, on 21 February 1694 Col. James Hamilton, an absentee, was removed by the common council because he was useless to them, and in 1705 Randall Knight, a burgess, was to be disfranchised unless he showed up at the next common council meeting. Elections for the sovereign were always unanimous, though not all burgesses were present, and between 1700 and 1727 the sovereign was almost invariably George or Peter Holmes (1031, 1032) or Hon. Charles Plunkett (1684). On 15 October 1715 the Hon. Charles Plunkett and Thomas Lestrange (1229) were unanimously elected MPs, and in 1727 the Hon. Charles Plunkett and George Holmes were similarly elected. After Charles Plunkett died in September 1729, William Sprigge (1975) was unanimously elected on 11 October 1729.
On 28 May 1734 Galbraith Holmes was elected MP in place of his father George Holmes, who died on 29 April 1734, by a majority of 25 to 14. Some seven months later he was declared not duly elected. There appears to have been a dispute in the borough which lasted for some years and upset the dominance of the Holmes family, as in 1735 Robert Holmes (5015) was elected MP in place of William Sprigge (1975),who died in August 1735, by a majority of 25 to 14, and then he was declared not duly elected. The two Holmeses were successfully challenged by Richard Trench (2109) and Henry Lestrange (1228). This was a reflection of a quarrel in the borough that lasted for about a dozen years, during which time Sir Laurence Parsons was elected a burgess in 1740 and sovereign in 1742. Parsons had married Mary, the daughter and co-heir of William Sprigge, in 1730, so he possibly felt that he had inherited Sprigge's interest in Banagher. The Holmeses were also connected with the Sprigges, as the not-duly-elected Robert Holmes' mother, and the aunt of Mary Parsons, was Lucy Sprigge.
Lucy married Peter HOLMES, son of George HOLMES M.P. and Lucey, in 1700.1 (Peter HOLMES was born in 1675 of Ballishiell, Kings, Ireland and of Johnstown, Tipperary, Ireland 2 and died Feb 1731-1732 in Newhale, Kildare, Ireland 2.)
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