Robert MADDEN
- Born: 1727, Meadebrook, , Meath, Ireland 1
- Marriage (1): Frances BOMFORD on 26 Feb 1753 in Trevet, , Meath, Ireland 1
General Notes:
of Meadesbrook, Co.meath
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In the 1750s, Robert's descendent Robert Madden and his wife Frances (nee Bomford) went to live at Meadesbrook, near Frances's brother William Bomford of Cushenstown House. The 1836 survey records of Meadesbrook: "A gentleman's seat, with a small pleasure ground, a garden, an orchard and a pond attached", but this is over 80 years later when "Mrs Madden" was living there. Meadesbrook is still occupied to this day, but the Maddens have left. Frances and Robert Madden had three children. Their daughter Anne was probably born first, soon after the marriage - in June 1774 she married Joseph Rathborne of Ballymore, Co Meath, eldest son of William Rathborne of Dublin. Robert and Frances's eldest son John Madden He was born in 1758, educated at Trinity College Dublin (BA 1781), became a clergyman and died in May 1845 aged 87, his death being reported in the Meath Herald. A Rev John Madden was curate of Garristown, two miles east of Meadesbrook, from 1804 until 1811 when he became Curate of Dunshaughlin This might be Robert and Frances' son except that there is a gap of 20 years between his leaving Trinity in 1781 and his first curacy, this is unlikely and so it is thought that their son must have gone to England and become a clergyman over there since he is not mentioned in the Church of Ireland records. He was living at Meadesbrook in 1803. Robert and Frances's younger son Robert appears to have been a farmer.
Robert married Frances BOMFORD on 26 Feb 1753 in Trevet, , Meath, Ireland.1 (Frances BOMFORD was born in 1731 in Trevet, , Meath, Ireland 2.)
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