Catherine Travers
1765 – 1840
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Catherine Travers married into Drombeg in 1782 and brought with her, through her mother, the blood of Elizabeth Freke, elder sister of the Sir Arthur Freke who bought Rathbarry in 1641. The result was that the Joneses of Drombeg paid their head-rent to their own cousins.
Research notes
[DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER.] Note added 24 Jul 2026, drawn from Tu Ne Cede Malis v3.3 and the trade-book chapters. Deceased; the living-person rule does not apply.
Marriage: Marriage Licence Bond, Diocese of Cork & Ross (Public Record Office of Ireland) - "Henry Jones and Catherine Travers, 1782" (Cork & Ross Marriage Licences A-M, 1751-1845, indexed under Jones). Primary surviving index; the original bonds burned 1922, the PROI bond index survives. Independently corroborated by Casey, Downey-Prince & Dietrich, "Index of O'Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater in Ireland" (Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1952-71), via the Irish Records Extraction Database. Further corroborated by their son being named Jonas Travers Jones after Catherine's father.