Re: Walcott, Colonel d.1683 ,of Limerick,Irl
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Walcott, Colonel d.1683 ,of Limerick,Irl
7/13/98
Lt. Col. Thomas Walcot, of Croagh, Co. Limerick, Ireland. Thomas was a judge. He was executed in 1683 for his part in the Rye House Plot, a conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and his brother, James, Duke of York as they traveled from Newmarket races to London past Rye House in Hertfordshire. The plot was aborted but was betrayed to the government. However, his attainder was reversed in 1698 in favor of his eldest son, John Walcot. Thomas m. Jane, dau. Thomas Blayney and neice of Baron Blaney; they had nine children, of which Catherine Walcot (born ca 1658) married William Fitzgerald of Six-Mile-Bridge and Moy Castle, Co Clare, Ireland. Their daughter Eleanor Fitzgerald, born c. 1701,married her cousin, John Minchin Walcott. He assumed the surname Walcott on succeeding to the Croagh Estate on the death of his kinsman John Walcott in March 1736. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was called to the Irish Bar in 1726, and was MP for Askeaton 1751.