Prime Iron Rochfort

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During the English Civil War Prime Iron Rochfort of Clogrenane, County Cork, served under Sir Charles Coote's Regiment in 1641, and in 1642 he was a Captain of Foot, garrisoned in Naas with 100 other men during In 1647 he was a Lt. Col under Col. Long. It was around this time he was married to Thomasine Pigott Hull, widow of Argentine Hull of Leamcon, Co. Cork, who died in 1637. Widow Hull had two children, Charles (b. 1636) and Mary(b. 1638) who was probably born post-humously. "TCD, 1641 Depositions Project, online transcript January 1970

" Prime Iron and Thomasine had two daughters, Thomasine (1648-1648), and Dorothy, (b. 1649). A third child, and heir, Robert, was born after the death of Prime Iron.

Lt. Col Prime Iron Rochfort was court martiailed for the death of Major Turner, a fellow officer on 9 March 1652. The trial of Lt.Col.Rochfort indicates that Major Turner was bludgeoned to the head, without malice or intent to kill, but later died of his wounds. There is no detail in the court transcript to indicate what precipitated the incident. "I. Gentles, H. Maclean & M.

O Siochrú, ‘Minutes of courts martial held in Dublin, 1651–53’,
Archivium Hibernicum (2011). "Rather unexpectedly the Army treated the case as one of murder, and he was found guilty and on May 14, 1652 was shot..[4] He is buried at St. Patrick's in Dublin next to his brother, James.