William E. Sweetman and Mary Morgan – Bill and Mame or Mamie
Wm Edward Sweetman – Ed
March 20, 1895 – Dec. 5, 1949
Francis ( ) Sweetman - Frank
ca 1897 -19xx
Marian ( ) Sweetman - Marian
ca 1899 -19xx
Joseph (Sebastian) Sweetman – Joe
ca 1901 -19xx
Harold Morgan Sweetman - Morgan
ca 1903 – 19xx
Helen ( ) Sweetman – Helen
ca 1905 – 19xx
John ( ) Sweetman – John
ca 1907 – 19xx
Other of Bill Sweetman’s relatives (in no particular order)
Sister: Helen Sweetman – Aunt Nell
Sister: Jane Sweetman - Aunt Jen
Brother: James?
Other of Mamie Morgan’s relatives (in no particular order)
Brother: Frank Morgan - Uncle Frank - Married to?? Widower by the 1930’s
Daughter Ann Morgan died a young woman age 40’s +/-?
Brother: James Morgan – Uncle Jim – Bachelor
Saloon Keeper and Speak Easy Keeper during Prohibition
Sister: Jane - Aunt Jen. Married to “Winder” Reid, Spanish American War veteran
Also Warden at the Federal of the minimum security
prison, Danbury, CT
Sister: Theresa – Aunt Tess – married to?
Two- daughters?
Ed Sweetman & Gertrude Clair Duff Sweetman – Gert
William Edward Sweetman III - Eddie through HS, then Bill as an adult
Richard Francis Sweetman – Dick or Richard
John Roger Sweetman - John
David Joseph Sweetman – David or Dave
Isabel Mary Sweetman – Isabel
http://www.censusfinder.com/ireland.htm
Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland 1846
Dublin - A list of The Nobility, Gentry and Clergy of the City of Dublin and
It’s Suburbs and Vicinity, Page 46
Sweetman, Mr. John, Silver acre, Rathfarnham
Sweetman, Mr. John, 53 Eccles St.
Sweetman, Mr. John Andrew, Rabeny House
*page 118 & 119 missing
Dublin Vintners – Page 225
Sweetman, James, Fairview, Annex
Sweetman, John, 24, Boot lane
Sweetman, Patrick, 1, Arian quay
Waterford - Listed under ‘Ship Owners’, page 333
Roger F. Sweetman, 17, Queen St.
Irish Genealogy Search:
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Wexford
(b) Sweetman, William
1838
Parish: KILCLIEF
County: Down
(d) Sweetman, John
1896
Parish: SWORDS
County: Dublin
(d) Sweetman, William
1889
(m) Robert SALTER and Jane SWEETMAN (Ireland)
Son George
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County Kilkenny Ireland History
The Sweetman Family
Early Documented History
SUMMARY:
Sweetman - An influential family in Co.. Kilkenny and very well known in recent
generations on account of the numerous Sweetmans who have been prominent in Irish
political and cultural activities. Of this family was Milo Sweetman, Archbishop of
Armagh from 1362 to 1380, who was one of the most distinguished and influential
medieval prelates. Families of the name in Ireland are sometimes given to be of Norse
origins (albeit Anglo-Norman), arriving shortly after the 12th century Norman invasions.
Sweteman is noted as a prominent family of Kilkenny from the 14th into the 17th
centuries (if not before), and two of the name are found in the Irish Brigades in Spain in
the Hibernia Regiment in the 18th century. The title 'Baron of Erley' was applied to one
family of Sweetmans in Co. Kilkenny. Sweetman was a rare name in Co. Kilkenny, and
was found with a stronger presence in Co. Dublin, in the mid-19th century Valuation. For
an early account of Sweteman, Swetman, or Sweetman in County Kilkenny.
DANISH (Viking) - The Danes (Lochlainders, Ostmen, Vikings) had colonies in Ireland for
over centuries. Centered in Dublin and Meath ( in Fingall) and in Wexford, Waterford, Cork and
Limerick, they settled on the coasts of Ireland from the 8th century. Some old settler names
include Betagh, Coppinger, Dowdal, Drumgoole, Gould, Harold, Palmer, Plunket, Skiddy,
Sweetman, Trant, Ost.
The Sweetmans of Castle Eve
The following passage comes from Carrigan's History and Antiquities of the Diocese of
Ossory, published in 1905 by Rev. Canon William Carrigan, and entitled "The
Sweetmans of Castle Eve."
The Sweetmans or Swetmans succeeded the D'Erleys in their property of Earlstown, and
title Baron of Erley, probably towards the close of the 14th century, when the family first
began to take a prominent place in local affairs. Milo Sweetman was treasurer of Ossory
in 1360, in which year he was elected Bishop of the Diocese by the Chapter. His election
was cancelled by the Opoe, who, however, in the following year appointed him
Archbishop of Armagh. Having governed the Primatial See for nineteen years he died in
1380, and is buried in Dromiskin, Co. Louth.
John Sweetman was appointed Keeper of the Peace for Co. Kilkenny, in 1382; he was
Sheriff of the same county Nov. 13th, 1390. In 1405, Nicholas Sweetman was appointed
Keeper of the Peace for Co. Kilkenny. In 1478, John Sweetman was chief lord of all the
Barony of Erley (source: Register of Kells Priory). He is, no doubt, identical with the
"John Sweetman, son and heir of Nicholas Sweetman of Castellyse [i.e. Castellyfe, or
Castle Eve) in the Co. Kilkenny, gent.," who received a royal pardon for treasons &c.,
Oct. 23rd, 1482 (source: Patent Rolls).
William Swetman, BAron of Erley, died, as his monument in Newtown Church testifies,
in 1507.
James Swetman was presented, with the other gentry of Co. Kilkenny, in 1537, for
charging coyne and livery. He was Sheriff of Co. Kilkenny in 1543. He was still living in
March, 1549, when we find James Sweteman, of Castelliff, and William Swetman, of
Tullahaght, Co. Kilkenny, gents., receiving pardons.
William Sweetman, next Baron of Erley, was the largest freeholder in the Barony of
Kells, about 1560, his estate being then valued at 74 pounds. He was Sheriff of Co.
Kilkenny, in 1564, and was pardoned in 1567, after which he appears no more.
John Sweetman, his [son ? and] successor, who set up the slab with the family
escutcheon, in Castle Eve castle, in 1580, was arrested for complicity in the rebellion of
James Fitz Maurice, in 1583, but was soon after liberated. He was more fortunate than his
brother George Swetman, who, being arraigned on the same charge, was found guilty and
put to death. As "Sweeteman living in Castlelyf," John Swetman is reckoned among the
chief nobility of Co. Kilkenny, in 1596. He erected his monument in Newtown church in
1600, and died May 28th, 1605. By Inquisition of April 5th, 1638, he was found to have
been seised, in his lifetime, of the manor of Erley otherwise Earlestown, with the
appurtenances, and of the towns and lands of Castleleife, Rathculbin and Spruce's Haies,
parcel of the said manor, and of Foulke's town in the aforesaid county [of Kilkenny]; and
he was further found to have died on the third of May 1605, at which date his grandnephew [recte grandson] and heir, William Sweetman was but 10 years old (source:
Inquis. Lageniae).
William Sweetman, just mentioned, was the next Baron of Erley. He became of age in
January 1615-16, at which date, as son and heir of James Sweetman, son and heir of John
Sweetman, he had Pardon of Intrusion and Alienation "as to the manor of Early otherwise
Earliston, the towns and lands of Castleiff, Rathcu[l]bin otherwise Rathcu[l]bbin,
Spruce's Haies otherwise Garranspure, Tullaghmaine otherwise Tulleame and
Killtullaghmaen, Fowkestowne, Hodesgrove otherwise Garranhody, together with a chief
rent out of Owentown (Ovenstown), all the Kilkenny Co., for a fine of 10 pounds Irish."
He took part with his countrymen in the War of the Confederate Catholics, for which he
forfeited under Cromwell in 1653, and was transplanted to Connaught in 1654. The time
and place of his death are unknown. By his wife, Joan, daughter of Thomas Walsh of
Piltown, Co. Waterford, son of Sir Nicholas Walsh, he had five sons, viz., John, Edward,
Piers, ffrancis, and Nicholas.
John, the eldest son, is presumably the John Sweetman who forfeited Rathculbin under
Cromwell, and was transplanted to Connaught in 1654. He must have returned from
Connaught at the Restoration, as his will, now in the Record Office, Dublin, is dated from
Castle Ife, in 1672. Probate of the will was taken out, April 17th, 1690, by Beale Archer
al' Sweetman, testator's widow, and by Mary Conway al' Sweetman, his only child and
heir.
Mary Sweetman's husband, "Hugh Conway of Castleiffe, gent.," by his will made May
10th 1690, bequeaths all his real estate, as well what he has now as what may descend to
him hereafter, to Patrick Conway, his eldest son and heir and his lawful heirs; remainder
to his third son Silvester Conway, and his lawful heirs; he bequeaths his wife Mary
Sweetman one-third of all he possesses, and appoints he and his eldest son, Patrick
Conway, his executors; overseers, his cousins, Captain Henry Archer of the city of
Kilkenny, and John Shee, gent., of the city of Dublin; he mentions his mortgages on lands
in Meath, Kildare, &c. ... This will was proved, Nov. 18th, 1702, by the testator's eldest
son and heir, Patrick Conway of Magestown (Maxtown), Co. Kilkenny, saving the right
of testator's relict, Mary Comerford al' Conway al' Sweetman.
The Sweetmans held on in the neighborhood of their old Castles till about 1845, when the
last of them emigrated. They are said to have been men of large stature and great bodily
strength.
Most Rev. Dr. Nicholas Sweetman, Bishop of Ferns, inherited some of the family
characteristics, as he is described as possessing an "iron frame and great powers of body."
He was appointed Bishop of Ferns, by Papal Brief of Jany. 25, 1745. His death, which
occurred in Oct. 1786, is thus recorded in Finn's Leinster Journal of Wednesday, Nov.
1st, same year:
"Died on the 21st (recte 19th) inst, in Wexford, Dr. Nicholas Sweetman, aged 90 years. He had been titular
Bishop of Ferns 42 years. He was born in the county Kilkenny, of the family of the Sweetman's of Castle
Eve, near Callan, Barons of Erley for ages until the year 1653. His father had lost a small estate in the
aforesaid county by the late revolution, and his grandfather a very large one by Cromwell's sanguinary
proscriptions," &c.
John Sweetman, Esq., Drumbaragh, Kells, Co. Meath, is the best known and most
respected of the Sweetman family in this country at the present time (circa 1905). His
parents were John Sweetman and Honoria, only child of Malachy O'Connor of Dublin;
his grandparents were Michael Sweetman and Alicia Taaffe; his great-grandparents were
Patrick Sweetman and E. Thunder; his 2nd great-grandparents were John Sweetman and
a daughter of Patrick Sweetman of Stephen's Green Brewery, whose will was proved in
1771; and his 3rd great-grandparents were John Sweetman, Esq. of Ashton Quay
Brewery, Dublin (will proved 1757) and Margaret Dodd (will proved 1767).
It is probable that the John Sweetman who appears last in this pedigree was descended
from William Sweetman, the forfeiting proprietor of Castle Eve, in Cromwell's time. "I
heard from Mr. Laurence Sweetman, of the County Wexford, that two sons of this
William Sweetman, viz. Francis and Nicholas, settled in County Wexford, and that two
other sons settled in Dublin." (as quoted to Rev. Carrigan)
Sweetman is pronounced Swuthamonn (all syllables short, accent on the first syllable) by
those who still speak Irish in the neighborhood of Castle Eve.
For an earlier account of Earlstown, see The d'Erley Family.
The Calendar of Ormond Deeds
When consulting the Ormond Deeds the first mention of the name Swetman appears in
the form of Robert Swetman, who was a witness to a grant dated January, 1316 N.S. of
lands in Yagoeston, as well as Roweston and Smytheston both in Ogenty (the area about
Thomastown). A Robert 'Suetman' was a witness, March 14, 1319, of letters patent of
Roger fitz Milo, baron of Overk, by which he granted and quitclaimed for ever to
Edmund Butler and his heirs all his right in the lordship of the free tenants and others in
the barony of Overk, &c. The same Robert Swetman further witnessed the transfer of the
Barony of Overk on March 29, 1319.
In the Estreats of Co. Kilkenny, 20 Edward II (1326) the name Gilbert Sweteman is cited
alongside that of Richard le Whyte and Simon Glascaruk. In the same document is cited a
Sibilla Sweteman.
In a record dated July 20, 1378, "John Sweteman and Johanna his wife grant to Clement
Botiller of Rosponte [New Ross, Co. Wexford] a messuage in 'Gotestret' in Rosponte,
lying between the King's way on the east and the channel of the river Barrow on the west
in length, and in breadth between Ralph Cok's land on the north and Henry Botiller's
tenement on the south."
In a record dated January 12, 1422, "Nicholas son of John Swetman gives and grants to
Robert Folyng of Kilkenny one messuage, forty acres of arable, four of meadow and four
of moor in Gebonneschephous and Lesmenane which formerly belonged to Gilbert
Swetman."
In the Rental of the lordship of the Earl of Ormond in counties Kilkenny and Tipperay,
dated April 1426, a Henry Swetman is among those tenants listed. A Henry Sueteman
again appears in the tenants list date Arpil 1432, as well as in those date April, 1434. In a
similar list date 1442-43, a Henry Sweteman is listed again, this time under the rental due
to the lordship of Grenagh.
On February 3, 1443, Nicholas son of John Sweteman gave and granted to Thomas Barre,
chaplain, vicar of Thomastown, a messuage in the borough of Thomastown.
On June 16, 1449 we find that John Swetman and Richard Purcell gave and granted to
James, Earl of Ormond, their manor of Donmore, together with all rents, homages and
services of all free tenants belonging to the same. Three years later James, Earl of
Ormond, granted this manor to his nephew, Edmund, son of Richard Botiller (James'
brother). John Sweteman is mentioned in that latter transfer.
In a copy of three deeds, a John Sweetman is mentioned. The first deed, dated July 2,
1457, John Sweetman grants to Robert Roth 11 acres of arable land in the borough of
Kilkenny. In the 2nd deed, dated November 10, 1479, John Sweetman, gentleman
burgess of Kilkenny grants to William Courry "that moiety of all arable lands, meadows,
etc., of Arlis on the other side of the Nore with a mill pond and 'kiddelis', which is not yet
divided between grantor and Robert Purcell, son and heir of Richard Purcell. The 3rd
deed, dated February 10, 1486, a release is made to William Courry of lands including " a
garden in 'le Medoc Hayes' etc. not yet divided between John Sweetman, son and heir of
Nicholas Sweetman, and Robert son of Richard Purcell of Dirlegh [also spelled as
Dirrlyegh], " as well as "all messuages, lands, rents, services, etc/. which are contained in
an indenture made by John and William Sweetman in favour of William Courry."
On March 6, 1472, John Swetyman gives and grants to Nicholas Broun and Nicholas
Torner the half of his manor of Douncormoc and half of his tenement of Balmakearwill
with the half of all revenues of the court, with half of his mill in Douncormoc with its
appurtenances. Also half of his town of Clonmene with half of its revenues and also half
of his town of Tathmon... Four days later, John Sweteman, baron of Darlieston [likely
D'Erleyston, or Earlstown], appoints bailiffs for placing Nicholas Broun and Nicholas
Tornour in full seisin of a messuage and three carucates of land in the forest of Tamon.
Sometime in 1483, John Swetman, gentleman, gave, granted and quit-claimed to James
Butler, son of Edmund fitzRichard Butler, the manor of Balykyth with all its
appurtenances.
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