Honora Fitzmaurice
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Honora Fitzmaurice was a daughter of William, Lord Kerry, and a sister of the first Earl of Kerry, and she married Sir William Piers of Tristernagh. Through her the line reaches the FitzMaurice barons of Kerry and Lixnaw and, behind them, the Geraldines, the O'Briens of Thomond and the Roches of Fermoy. Her mother was Constance Long, a London wineseller's daughter, and it is Constance who explains the odd forename of her granddaughter Constantia.
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*** CURRENT GRADE - READ FIRST (stamped 15 Sep 2026): HER WILL SURVIVES AND NAMES CONSTANTIA - registered copy, ROD PR/TB/1/8 memorial 1874 (dated 11 Mar 1707/8, registered 26 Feb 1710/11 by her daughter Constance); the probate copy burned 1922, the Registry copy did not. Details in the layers below. *** ✓ NAMED AND DOCUMENTED 21 Jul 2026 (Burke's Peerage PIERS article; Cokayne Complete Baronetage III pp.308-09): HONORA, "eldest dau. of WILLIAM, 20TH LORD KERRY" (Burke's) / "SISTER OF THOMAS, 1ST EARL OF KERRY, da. of William (Fitzmaurice), Lord Kerry, by CONSTANCE, da. of WILLIAM LONG, of London" (Cokayne); m. in or before 1678 Sir William Piers, 2nd Bt, of Tristernagh (d. 1693); d. at Dublin, WILL PR. [I.] 1710 (a surviving-record pointer - her will abstract may name her children, incl. CONSTANTIA: worth a Betham/PROI abstract hunt someday). Mother of Constantia (m. Rev. Vere Hunt 1712 - our line). Direct ancestress. Added 21 Jul 2026; named and extended same day. *** HER WILL FOUND AND READ 14 Sep 2026 - the 'possible clincher someday' foreseen in July 2026, found because the family REGISTERED the will as a deed and the Registry of Deeds never burned: dated 11 Mar 1707/8, registered 26 Feb 1710/11 by her daughter Constance (who signed and sealed the memorial) - ROD PR/TB/1/8, MEMORIAL 1874, pp.112-13 (imaged, Virtual Record Treasury; abstract IMC 1954/RoD/1/1711/41). Devise of [Ho]restowne, co. Westmeath: son WILLIAM, remainder daughter CONSTANCE, remainder daughter HONORIA, remainder Julia Connor wife of Charles Connor of Dublin. Executors: daughter Constance and son William. Witnesses: William Westbery of Dublin gent, HONORA McCARTHY 'then Servant to the said Honoria Piers', and Richard Daniel of Dublin gent. IT NAMES CONSTANTIA - filiation proven, see I99111. Note the original probate copy (pr. [I.] 1710) burned 1922 (PROI ETC 1/72); the registered copy is the survivor. Upgraded 14 Sep 2026.