I am looking for information about a Protestant family with the surname Flood from Laois. My ancestor , Edward Flood from Anatrim, Queens Co, Ireland, married Adelaide Jane Maddock, from Portsea, Hants, on 23 Feb 1847 at Gretna Hall, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. They lived in Queens County, they had a daughter, also named Adelaide in 1853.

Hi Dawn,

I recorded headstones in both Annatrim Old & New cemeterys and only one Flood there;

Olive Catherine Flood
November 1831
8 months, 8 weeks
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There are several graves that have overgrown headstones, so there could be more there.
Regards
Jack

Dear Jack,
Thank you
Regards,
Dawn

I'll learned that Edward Flood had been a member ot the 16th Regiment of Foot. He was born about 1824. He was the second son of Edward Flood, gentleman. he moved to Brooklyn about 1859 with his children Luke, John, Edward, Jr., Minnie and Adelaide. Any suggestions of where to search for more information on this family.

Hi Dawn,
I transcribed only one Flood in Old Annatrim cemetery;

Olive Catherine; November 1831; (8 months, 8 weeks)
(the oldest stones are unreadable)

St Pauls C O I Mountmellick; Charles 24/9/1998 87

Mountrath C O I; Anne; 6/2/1892 63;

Killenard; Michael/Thomas Portarlington
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Thats as they read on the headstones.
Regards
Jack

Dear Jack,
Thank you for your reply. Could I trouble you with another query? Do you know of anyone name d Flood buried in Coolkerry Parish in Middlemount/Ballyvoghlaun? or in Agabow Parish in Middlemount.
Thanks again,
Regards,
Dawn

Hi Dawn,

I have not been to Coolkerry, never heard of it until you mentioned it, but there is no Flood in Aghaboe, (different spellings).
I will check Coolkerry when I find where it is.
Regards
Jack

Hi Dawn,
I have transcribed Coolkerry but found no Flood there.

I have transcribed 107 cemeteries to date, and the name Flood does not appear around the county.
I will foward any I should come across.
Regards
Jack

Dear Jack,
Thank you for your reply. I have recently learned from Edward Flood's marriage license that he was the second son of Edward Flood, a gentleman, from Middlemount. I don't know much about burial customs at this time. Was it common at the time for Protestants to be buried on their own estates or inside Protestant Churches? If so, that may explain why there are no Floods in the cemeteries.
Regards,
Dawn

Hi Dawn,

Many different customs here in the 'old ' days.
I recently found a family buried within a Castle, within a Castle, within a Castle church !!
Very possible that on an estate there was a burial ground, some are found, some not. Any dispute within a family could mean a burial ground being destroyed, just so no traces are found. A life did'nt mean much back then, but some day a small burial ground will be discovered and names will be gathered.
I have been all around the Middlemount, Rathdowney area, and think I have found all the 'marked cemeteries, but if I hear about more, I'll be there with recorder, and Camera, in hand......!
Best wishes
Jack

Dear Jack,
Thank you for your reply. Your explanation makes sense.
Dawn

I am also looking for my Flood connections in Ireland.
Henry Kingsmill, father of John Allen Kingsmill, states that he was sub-Sheriff of "Killeugr" (possibly a property in Queens County near Borris-in-Ossory"?) and agent to his cousin Flood, who was High Sheriff.
Henry was joined the army at 20, and was a Serjeant of the 59th Regiment of Foot in Captain George Derby's Company at Gibralter in 1790 at age 34,discharged due to injury to the 4th Royal Veteran's Batallion for 3 1/2 years, and then as a Chelsea Out Pensioner whilst living in Ireland.
Also, his ancestor Henry Kingsmill (son of William or Henry Kingsmill and Miss DUNNE) mar. Mary Flood
Any ideas?

There was an Edward Flood listed as an immediate lessor a few times in Aghaboe parish in 1850

see http://www.from-ireland.net/laois/griffiths/aghaboe.htm

At the time, there were a total of four people of that surname listed in the Griffiths. By 1901, there were a total of 3 Flood families in the county.

Borris in Ossory is in the civil parish of Aghaboe, Anatrim is only a few miles up the road from that.

There are two Flood headstones in the old graveyard of Anatrim, they are in what could be described as a tamily tomb in the body of the church, not our in the main graveyard.

These two photos can be seen at
http://www.laoisgenealogy.com/graves/anatrimold/index.htm

Neither stone has deteriorated too much, however, it is not possible to read them even using with my original photographs - they need to be cleaned a bit. The first seems to be to a Robin Flood who died on Christmas day 18(?0)9. There also seems to be mention of a Cath. Flood. I can't make out any names on the second stone.

Jane
http://janesirishplace.spaces.live.com/ - Gravestone blog
http://www.from-ireland.net
http://www.laoisgenealogy.com

Hi Jane,
I've just found your e-mail mar 20 2008 7.12pm....someone looking for the name Flood.
Not my relation, but I managed to pick up your e-mail address: Janeinirishplace.spaces.live.com/-Gravestone Blog .What a great job you have done on photographing those graves all over diferent areas. I've put the address into my favourites so that I can keep going back to them.... I've seen some of what might be my relatives in one or two of them already....is there any way I could get the magnification any higher to read some of the very old ones??? I'm not certain how to join your Blog list, get my husband to sort that out hopefully !!!
Keep up the good work.
Regards
Sheila, Fife

Thank you for that.
It may not be definitive, but I think it gives a good "big picture" account!
There are several familiar names found in the listed "Immediate Lessors" ie Flood, White, Palmer,Fitzpatrick and Dunne, all names found in direct relationship to the Kingsmill family, and also Walpole, another name connected to the family. In my message I meant to say that my Henry Kingsmill was a sub Sheriff, Flood was Sheriff, and Henry was a land agent for his brother Luke. It would appear that nearly all the Kingsmill's came to Australia, other than Henry and his elder son Luke, who died at Castle Bellingham. I am wondering if Luke may have been a land agent for the family also, living equidistant north of Dublin.
I had read somewhere that possibly landowners were mostly buried on their estates, and that is why there is scant little to be found of these family names in cemeteries, and if there were any antaganism (which there was), possibly these graves may have been turned over, which sounds like a creditable theory to me.
I also learnt from the blurb of the "events page" Kilkenny Family History group, that recently an historian was to speak on the danger of the occupation of Land Agent, and in that county alone there were 9 deaths in 15 years. The land agents were apparently singularly blamed for the potato famine, as is peoples wont! It is little wonder that the family had a mass exodus!
Interesting that Henry's sons, Henry and John, worked in the equivalent job in Australia as Sheriff's Bailiff's (Sydney, Dungog and East Maitland)...appears to be the family trade going back eons.
It would appear to me, looking at the "big picture" that there is a connection to "Edward Flood esq."landowner, or at least his predecessor.

Thank you for the information. I was very excited to see the photos, not only of the gravestones, by of the cemetery and church.
I am not surprised to find that Floods are in a family tomb in the body of the Church. It confirms what is written in “The History and antiquities of the Dipcese of Ossory” (1905) This book has been digitalized by Google. According to this book, The Sharpes of Round-wood and the Floods of Middlemount converted the church into a mortuary chapel in the 18th Century. At the time that the book was written there was a slab over a doorway with a coat of arms and the words: “Anthony Sharpe, Esq., A.D. 1776”
There is a marriage connection between the Floods of Middlemount and the Sharps of Roundwood.
From the Ossory Marriage Bond index
www.from-ireland.net/gene/laoisossorymlbs1.htm
Flood, Luke, Middlemount, Esq. married Sharpe, Frances, Queens Co., Protestant, 12 May 1755

This is confirmed by “The History and Genealogy of Fenwick’s Colony, NJ” (1876) by Thomas Shourd, this book has been digitalized and is available on the internet.
Page 245
“Anthony Sharp, the eldest son of Isaac Sharp, married and had 2 children, on of who whose name was Issaac, died in his minority. The daughter, Francis Sharp, married Luke Flood, of Queens County, Ireland. The Family of the Floods are an ancient family of both England and Ireland. Francis and her husband resided on the great landed estate called Roundwood, that was owned by the first Anthony Sharp.”

Anthony Sharp’s will is recorded in the “Registry of Deeds, Dublin”
In his will he mentions his daughter, Frances. He leaves his rents of estates to his grandson, Robt. Anthony Flood provided he takes the surname of Sharp.

There is evidence that Luke Flood had a son, Edward, by a second marriage.

Regarding the marriage between Flood, Luke, Middlemount, Esq. and Sharpe, Frances, Queens Co., Protestant, 12 May 1755, I know Luke Flood and Frances Sharp had at least one child, Robert Anthony Flood, who later changed his surname to Sharp. I am looking for any other children of Luke Flood and Frances Sharp.

Some reference that may or may not be children of Luke Flood

From An Index to Marriages in Walker’s Hiberian Magazine:
Rev. Sewell Hubber, of Meyne to Miss Flood, Roundwood, Queens co., 16 Nov 1779

This may be a reference to the same person, (if so, one reference is misspelled)
From The Gentlemen’s Magazine Published 1845 (This has been digitalized and is available if you set your search engine for books)
Obituaries
June 29
Lately, At Moneydear, Catherine, Relict of Rev. Newell Hutber, of Moyne, Rector of Ballyinakill, and eldest dau. Of the late Col. Flood, of Roundwood, Queens’s Co.

Her husband’s name may have actually been Rev. Sewell Stubber
In the County Families of the United Kingdom, 1864
STUBBER, Robert HAMILTON- Esq., of Moyne, Queen's Co.
Eldest son of the late Rev. A.C. HAmilton, Rector of Thomastown, co. Kilkenny, by Eleanor, dau, of the Rev. Sewell Stubber, of Moyne: b. 1803, S, 1824, M. 1840 Olivia, Dau of the Rev. E. Lucas, widow of H. Smyth, Esq., and has with other issue, Robert HAMILTON, B. 1844


From Marriage License Bonds of Upper Ossory:
Flood, Jane, Roundwood, Parish of Offerlane, Protestant, 27 April 1786 to Graves, Andrew, Maryborough, Gent

From the same source as above:
Miss Flood to William Palmer, 1776

She may not have been Luke Flood’s daughter, I include her because in in Jonah Barrington’s book Personal Sketches of His Own Time publish in 1869, it is cleat that the Palmer and Flood families were friends. This book has also been digitized.

Luke Flood may have married for a second time about 1793 to Aletta Biggs Armstrong, see www.antonymaitland.com for an account of this marriage and offspring.

Some reference that may or may not be children of Luke Flood

From An Index to Marriages in Walker’s Hiberian Magazine:
Rev. Sewell Hubber, of Meyne to Miss Flood, Roundwood, Queens co., 16 Nov 1779

This may be a reference to the same person, (if so, one reference is misspelled)
From The Gentlemen’s Magazine Published 1845 (This has been digitalized and is available if you set your search engine for books)
Obituaries
June 29
Lately, At Moneydear, Catherine, Relict of Rev. Newell Hutber, of Moyne, Rector of Ballyinakill, and eldest dau. Of the late Col. Flood, of Roundwood, Queens’s Co.

Her husband’s name may have actually been Rev. Sewell Stubber
In the County Families of the United Kingdom, 1864
STUBBER, Robert HAMILTON- Esq., of Moyne, Queen's Co.
Eldest son of the late Rev. A.C. HAmilton, Rector of Thomastown, co. Kilkenny, by Eleanor, dau, of the Rev. Sewell Stubber, of Moyne: b. 1803, S, 1824, M. 1840 Olivia, Dau of the Rev. E. Lucas, widow of H. Smyth, Esq., and has with other issue, Robert HAMILTON, B. 1844


From Marriage License Bonds of Upper Ossory:
Flood, Jane, Roundwood, Parish of Offerlane, Protestant, 27 April 1786 to Graves, Andrew, Maryborough, Gent

From the same source as above:
Miss Flood to William Palmer, 1776

She may not have been Luke Flood’s daughter, I include her because in in Jonah Barrington’s book Personal Sketches of His Own Time publish in 1869, it is cleat that the Palmer and Flood families were friends. This book has also been digitized.

Luke Flood may have married for a second time about 1793 to Aletta Biggs Armstrong, see www.antonymaitland.com for an account of this marriage and offspring.