Patrick GREHAN Senior was born 1756 in Dublin, Ireland, and died 1832 in Dublin, Ireland.  He married Judith MOORE, daughter of Edward MOORE.  She  is Celia O’Bryen’s grandmother, and Celia O’B is my childrens’ great great great grandmother.

Piers Butler is Lewis More’s maternal great grandfather by his mother Margaret Butler.

The 2^nd son Roger O’More, Caoch, Lord of Leix was slain by his brother Philip 1556. He m.Margaret, dau. and heir of Thomas Butler, 3^rd son of Pierce, 8^th Earl of Ormonde, and had issue.

1. Rory, slain 1578, he had a dau. Honora, wife of John Morres, Esq, co. Tipperary.
2. Charles of Balyna,

( He may well be the above in a gaelic spelling Kedagh ), page to Queen Elizabeth, who gave him Balyna as a new year’s gift. He m. the dau. of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Knt of Luagh, co. Kildare

1. Lewis, whose son Walter, m. Alicia Elliott, and had a son,  (Lewis More is Edmund More’s great grandfather)

1. Patrick, father of (by Joan, his wife, dau. of O’Hely, of co. limerick)

1. Edmund Moore esq., who (m. Elizabeth, dau.of Maurice Graham esq)., and had (with seven daus.) one son,  (Judith Grehan’s great grandfather)

1. James Moore, esq. of Dublin who d. 2 june 1741, leaving (by Mary his wife, dau. of James Cullen esq, and widow of col. Keating) three sons

1. Roger, who d.s.p.; (decessit sine prole)
2. Edward, of whom presently;
3. James, col of a regt in the French service, and afterwards Lieut-Col in the British army, who d. at Fontainbleau, 1813.

The 2^nd son, Edward Moore esq of Mount Browne, co. Dublin, m. Jane Reynolds , of Dublin, and dying about the year 1787, left with three daus.,

1. Jane, wife of Owen O’Conor, esq of Belanagare;
2. Maria, wife of Valentine O’Connor, esq of Dublin; and
3. Judith, wife of Patrick Grehan, esq of Dublin   (see the top)

James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (b. about 1359 – died 7 September 1405) is the common connection. He had two sons. His eldest son James became 4th Earl of Ormond, and his second son was Sir Richard Butler (1395-1443) of Polestown.

James, 4th Earl of Ormond, had three sons

• James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, who died without any legitimate children (1420 – 1 May 1461)
• John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, who died without any legitimate children (1422 – 14 December 1476)
• Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. (1426-1515) (1st cousin to Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler, Sir Richard Butler’s son)

Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond,  married firstly Anne Hankford (1431-1485) in 1445, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard II Hankford (c.1397-1431) of Annery, Monkleigh, Devon, and had two daughters who inherited the Butler estates in England:

• Anne Butler (1455-June 5, 1533), heiress through her mother of Annery, who married firstly Ambrose Cressacre, esquire, by whom she had no issue, and secondly Sir James St Leger (d.1509), by whom she had two sons, Sir George St Leger, and James St Leger.

• Lady Margaret Butler (1465-1537), (2nd cousins to Sir James Butler, son of Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler).  She married Sir William Boleyn, by whom she had six sons and five daughters, including Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, father of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII.

Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, (3rd cousins to Piers Butler, son of Sir James Butler)

Anne Boleyn, (4th cousins to Thomas Butler, son of Piers, and father of Margaret Butler, wife of Rory O’More) ,

This makes Margaret Butler, a 4th cousin, once removed of Anne Boleyn.

Elizabeth ( 5th cousin with Margaret Butler)

Sir Richard Butler (1395-1443) of Polestown, County Kilkenny, was the second son of James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond, and Anne Welles. His older brother James inherited the earldom, becoming the 4th Earl.  Following the extinction of the senior family line, his great-grandson, Piers Butler, became the 8th Earl of Ormond.

Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler of Polestown, (1420 – June 13 1464) was the eldest son of Sir Richard Butler of Polestown and adopted the Gaelic title of The MacRichard of Ossory. He married Catherine O’Carroll, (who died in 1506) the daughter of Mulroney O’Carroll, Barbatus, King of Elyocarroll (which abutted Ossory). They had three sons, the eldest of whom succeeded him as “The MacRichard of Ossory”:

• Sir James Butler
• Walter Butler of Polestown
• John Butler

Sir James Butler, Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord of the Manor of Advowson of Callan (1438-1487) The dates are doubtful for his birth.

Piers Butler (1467-1539) is James’s only legitimate son, and the 8th Earl of Ormond.

Patrick GREHAN Senior was born 1756 in Dublin, Ireland, and died 1832 in Dublin, Ireland.  He married Judith MOORE, daughter of Edward MOORE.  She  is Celia O’Bryen’s grandmother

Piers Butler is Lewis More’s maternal great grandfather by his mother Margaret Butler.

The 2^nd son Roger O’More, Caoch, Lord of Leix was slain by his brother Philip 1556. He m.Margaret, dau. and heir of Thomas Butler, 3^rd son of Pierce, 8^th Earl of Ormonde, and had issue.

1. Rory, slain 1578, he had a dau. Honora, wife of John Morres, Esq, co. Tipperary.
2. Charles of Balyna,

( He may well be the above in a gaelic spelling “Kedagh” ), page to Queen Elizabeth, who gave him Balyna as a new year’s gift. He m. the dau. of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Knt of Luagh, co. Kildare

1. Lewis, whose son Walter, m. Alicia Elliott, and had a son,  (Lewis More is Edmund More’s great grandfather)

1. Patrick, father of (by Joan, his wife, dau. of O’Hely, of co. limerick)

1. Edmund Moore esq., (Judith Grehan’s great grandfather) who (m. Elizabeth, dau.of Maurice Graham esq)., and had (with seven daus.) one son,

1. James Moore, esq. of Dublin who d. 2 june 1741, leaving (by Mary his wife, dau. of James Cullen esq, and widow of col. Keating) three sons

1. Roger, who d.s.p.; (decessit sine prole)
2. Edward, of whom presently;
3. James, col of a regt in the French service, and afterwards Lieut-Col in the British army, who d. at Fontainbleau, 1813.

The 2^nd son, Edward Moore esq of Mount Browne, co. Dublin, m. Jane Reynolds , of Dublin, and dying about the year 1787, left with three daus.,

1. Jane, wife of Owen O’Conor, esq of Belanagare;
2. Maria, wife of Valentine O’Connor, esq of Dublin; and
3. Judith, wife of Patrick Grehan, esq of Dublin   (see the top)

Preacher Apostolic

The Preacher Apostolic is a dignitary of the pontifical household whose task is to give meditation to the pope, as well as other senior officials of the Roman Catholic Church. The office of the Preacher Apostolic was established by Pope Paul IV in 1555, as one of the main reforms that the pope had planned to implement. The new office was unpopular especially among the prelates because the Preacher Apostolic had been known to bring moral teachings to the Papal court, and remind them of their respective duties. The Preacher Apostolic is also referred to as the Preacher to the Papal Household. The Preacher Apostolic is the only individual who is permitted to preach to the pope.

Before 1555, Franciscan clerics used to preach regularly in front of the Papal Court. After the formation of the  office in 1555, the Preacher Apostolic is appointed by the pontiff, though generally presented by their predecessor, or by the superior general of the Capuchins. He receives a notification in the form of a Rescript by the Cardinal of the Apostolic Palace, and becomes ipso facto a Palatine prelate,and a member of the papal household. As such, he enjoys all the privileges attached to these titles.

The Preacher Apostolic preaches to the assembled papal court four times during Advent and on  a weekly basis during Lent. He delivers the sermons in Advent on the Feasts of St. Andrew, St. Nicholas, St. Lucy and St. Thomas; and on Fridays in Lent, except in the Holy Week; during which the Passion Sermon is preached on Tuesdays.

The papal Court meets in the throne-room in the Vatican; the pulpit occupies the place of the throne. After everybody takes their positions, the sermon begins with an “Ave Maria”, which is recited loudly and answered by the audience. The pontiff is assisted by his majordomo and the master of the camera. The sitting arrangement in the papal Court is as follows: the front seats are occupied by the cardinals, followed by the bishops behind them, then the prelates and then the general heads of the Mendicant Orders. Nobody else is allowed into the papal Court unless permitted to do so by the pope.

At the end of the sermon, the Preacher Apostolic returns to the pope, kisses his feet, takes leave of him and he is then driven back to his convent. It is only the Preacher Apostolic who gives sermons in the papal Court. The sermon is considered confidential.

The Noble Guard (Italian: Guardia Nobile) was one of the household guard units serving the Pope. It was formed by Pope Pius VII in 1801 as a regiment of heavy cavalry. Conceived as the Pope’s personal guard, the unit provided a mounted escort for the Pope when he moved about Rome in his carriage and mounted guard outside his apartments in the papal palaces. The guardsmen were also available for special missions within the Papal States at the behest of the pope. One of their first major duties was to escort Pius VII to Paris for the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte. Exclusively a palace guard, the Noble Guard saw no active military service or combat during the several military campaigns that engaged the Papal States between 1801 and 1870. With the unification of Italy and the abolition of the Papal States in 1870, the Noble Guard restricted its activity to the buildings and grounds of the Vatican. Though nominally still a cavalry unit, the unit had little opportunity to deploy on horseback in the limited confines of the Vatican, although two mounted troopers would accompany the papal carriage when the Pope was driven around the Vatican gardens. In 1904 mounted service was abolished entirely and the last horses were sold off. Originally armed with carbines, pistols and sabers, after 1870 the guardsmen carried only a saber.

The corps was always a volunteer one – its members were not paid for their service, although they received an allowance for their uniforms. Recruits were drawn from noble families in Rome, although in the twentieth century requirements were relaxed in practice to allow nobility from other regions of Italy to join the corps. The commander of the corps was called the Captain. One of the subordinate positions within the corps was that of Hereditary Standard-Bearer, who was responsible for carrying the standard of the Catholic Church.

After 1870, the Noble Guard, now reduced to a force of fewer than 70 men, performed mainly ceremonial duties as an honor guard. Guardsmen most commonly appeared in public when the pope presided over ceremonies in Saint Peter’s Basilica. When the pope was carried in the sedia gestatoria, Noble Guards walked alongside the papal chair. During the hours reserved for papal audiences, guardsmen also stood in the antechamber of the papal apartments and, on formal occasions, on either side of the papal throne. During the Second World War, the Noble Guard shared responsibility with the Swiss Guard for the personal security of Pope Pius XII. For the first time since 1870 pistols were issued to duty personnel. Throughout the war, Noble Guards mounted guard outside the papal apartment night and day and guardsmen followed Pius XII when he took his daily walks in the Vatican Gardens.

The guard was abolished by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as part of the reforms of the Church following Vatican II.

Anna Mary Wall m. Michael Jordan July 1878 Parish of Killian and Kilronan Ballygar