The 3rd great-grandfather (great-great-great grandfather) of my wife (born in Peterborough, Ontario) was Francis Young of Young’s Point, and most of her other ancestors also emigrated to Canada from Ireland. We went to Ireland in the fall of 2016 principally to visit the origin locations of these ancestors. This included Newport, County Tipperary, where Francis Young and his wife Elizabeth Barrrington-Blackall originated. We eventually met a Younge family (spelled with an ‘e’) and others there that confirmed that the Barringtons were a leading family in the area and we were able to find a Barrington lineage chart, but we could not find any links to Francis Young or Elizabeth.
Then, months later, the Younge’s we met sent us a lineage chart that they had received from a local cousin (who it turns out was writing a historical book on the region), that confirmed that not only was Francis Young the son of Catherine Barrington, but that Elizabeth Barrington-Blackall’s father, John Blackall, was a son of Elizabeth Barrington who was Catherine Barrington’s sister! In other word’s Francis’s mother and Elizabeth Barrington-Blackall’s grandmother were sisters, so they were first cousins once-removed. This lineage mated perfectly with the Barrington lineage we had found in Ireland and showed conclusively that Francis’s grandfather was Benjamin Barrington (a Sheriff of Limerick City), whose father was Benjamin Barrington (also a Sheriff of Limerick City), whose father was Samuel Barrington, a master clock and chime maker and was buried with his father Francis Barrington in nearby Limerick Cathedral. When you Google you should be able to quickly find a Wikipedia page for a Sir Francis Barrington c. 1570-1628. This clearly is not the same Francis Barrington as Samuel’s father, but online there are a few references to Francis Barrington (1570-1628) having a son Francis, who in turn had a son Francis, and that both of the Francis Barringtons had a link to Oliver Cromwell (see attached full report for details) so it seemed a distinct possibility that Samuel’s father was either the son or grandson of Francis Barrington (1570-1628). Not only that, but Francis Barrington 1570-1628 was a descendant of the Barrington’s of Barrington Hall, Broad Oak, Essex, England (Google this family for more information) who in turn were descendants of an Odu du Barrentin of Barrentin, France who came to England with the Normans in 1066! (again, Google Barrington Hall Essex for more information). Furthermore, by searching for Sir Francis Barrington 1st Baronet on Wikipedia and clicking through the links the to each success parent, you will quickly find that he was a direct descendant of 6 Plantagenet Kings of England from Henry II through to Edward III who died in 1177. This desendancy goes back through a line of Norman Lords to 900 AD. Even more interesting is that Edward III’s wife was Isabella of Francis, daughter of Phillip IV King of France, son of 9 Kings of France of the Capet Dynasty, and then through several European Lords and Counts all the way back to the founder of the Merovingian Dynasty born in 415 AD!
However, it still remained to show conclusively that Samuel Barrington was a direct descendant of Francis Barrington 1570-1628. This proof came after I contacted the same cousin of the Younges who provided the key information linking to the Barringtons, who sent me copies of reports from the 1831 Old Limerick Journal that gives this proof. The attached full report and its 4 appendices give the complete story. If you have trouble downloading it, please post on this board with your email address and I can email you all of this information.
This means that anyone who can trace their ancestry to Francis Young through one of his 9 children are direct descendants, through a continuous line of fathers or mothers, to a line of 6 Plantagenet Kings of England and 10 Capet Kings of France. The entire lineage is shown in the attached Appendix I.
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