328 FERMOY. VIII. 1G35. S. Maurice (Roche), Viscount RocnE of Fermoy [I.], a. and h., took his scut (by prosy) in the House of Lords [I.], 20 Oct, 1640.(- 1 ) lie was deeply involved in tile troubles of 16-11, being a Col. in the Minister Army and was outlawed in co. Cork, 23 Out. 1013. He was by act of l'arl. 12 Aug. 1052, excepted from pardon, and his estates, said to be worth £50,000 a year, were divided among the followers of Cromwell, lie petitioned the Lords Justices [I.] in March 1600/1 stating the "very low condition " to which ho "a Peer of this realm, of English extraction " and " without conviction or attainder by his Peers " was reduced. He hi. about 1625 Catharine [or Ellen}, da. of John Power, s. and h. ap. of Richard, Barou Power [[.] He appears to have been the "Lord Roche" who in 16S7 had a pension of £100 a year and who was slain at Anghrim 12 July 1691, lighting for King James II.( b ) His widow Catharine living 1703. IX. 1091. 9. David (RocnE), Viscount Roche of Fermoy [I.], s. and h., who in 1050 as " Mr. David lioch, s. and h., unto Lord Roch" appears to have "had a good party in the west of Ireland" in the Roman Catholic interest.^) He was an officer in the Navy. He took his seat in Pari. [I.] lie d. uum. being drowned in a great storm near Plymouth in 1703. Admon. 27 July 1704, to his mother Catharine, the Dow. Viscountess. X. 1703, 10. Ulick (RocnE), Viscount Roche of Fermoy [I.], to nephew and h., beings, and h. of the Hon. John Roche, by Catharine 1733. Condon, his wife, which John was next br. to the last Viscount. He m. Ann, widow of ( — ) Pt/HCELL, da. of ( — ) Caur, of co. Northum- berland, or(as others state) Anna Maria, da. of Charles O'Haka. He d. s.p.m.( d ) in 1733 when the title is presumed to have become extinct. Will dat. 6 Nov. 1729, pr. 16 June 1733. John Roclm, of BaHydangarj, a Gen. in the King of Sardinia's army, who was at the siege of Gerona in 1740, appears to have assumed the title. He is thus (somewhat obscurely) alluded to in Smith's " History of Cork," 1750 (vol. i, p. 345), as " the present descendant of the family whose name is Johu teas cousin german to Ulick, who nssumed the title of Lord Roche, being of a collateral line." Barony [I.] J. Edmund-Burke Roche, of Trabolgan, co. Cork, only I 1 856 s ' an '^ k. °£ Edward R. of the same, by Margaret Honoria, only da. and h. of William Curtain, was b. Aug. 1815 ; M.P. for co. Cork, 1837-55 ; sue. his father, March 1855 ; was gazetted as an Irish Peer (Baron Fermoy) in 1855, but in consequence of an incompleteness in the circum- stances enabling the crown to create an Irish Peer at that date(°) obtained a fresh patent, whereby, 10 Sep. 1856, he was cr. BARON FERMOY, of co. Cork [I], lie was Lord Lieut, co. Cork, 1856-74 ; M.P. for Maryleboue, 1855-09. He m. 22 Aug. 1S4S, at West Tivyford, Midx., Elizabeth Caroline, 1st da. of James B. Booth by, of Twyford Abbey. He d. 17 Sep. 1874, in his 70th year at Trabolgan. His widow living 1890. ( a ) It appears that Viscount Mouutgarret (whose creation dated 1550) claimed precedence of him but was, with a salvo jure, ranked beneath him. ( b ) See vol. i, p. 311, note "b," tub " Bellew." ( c ) See a letter of the (Catholic) Archbishop of Cashel of that date quoted in Burke's "Extinct Peerage," sub "Roche." See also in Smith's " History of Cork" (1750), vol. i, p. 345, a letter to the Duke of Ormond, 14 June 1667, us to Lord Roche's necessity. ( d ) His da. and h., Anna Maria, d. 1763. He appears to have had a brother David Roche, who, according to some, survived him and became the 11th Viscount. (°) The three extinctions maile use of (under the special clause in the Act of Union) for this creation, were (1) Tyreonncl ; (2) Melbourne (to neither of which there could be " any objection) and (3) Mountrath. Now the Earldom of Monntrath had become extinct as far back as 1802, the Barony of Castle Coute, which was held by the same person as that Earldom at the time of the Union, remaining. The extinction of this Earldom was the first of a similar nature that had occurred since the Union and was
