Walter ‘the Elder’ Spring

Biography

Walter Spring was the son of Annabella Spring and Thomas Spring.[1][2][3][4]

He served as High Sheriff of Kerry in 1609.[2] According to The Spring family of Suffolk and County Kerry, and branches in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, he married Mary Crosbie sometime before 1610.[5] Their children were:[5]

1. Katherine Spring
2. Edward Spring
3. Annabella Spring

According to The Spring family of Suffolk and County Kerry, after Mary died, Walter remarried to Thomasine Browne.[5][6] This was probably in 1630.[7]

For a time, Walter lived at the Abbey of Killagha.[5]

Walter died on 30 June 1631 ("ult. die. Junii 1631").[5][6] Thomasine married Daniel Oge O'Sullivane in 1638.[8]

Research notes

• Birth year guessed. Parents Annabelle and Thomas were said to have married post-1580, and Thomas died in 1597.[9]
• Wife: according to The Peerage, Walter was married to Alice Blennerhassett.[3] This is believed to be incorrect, and it is thought that Walter's wife was actually Mary Crosbie, as stated on Wikipedia,[10] in "The Spring family of Suffolk and County Kerry, and branches in Australia, New Zealand and the USA",[5] and in the Old Kerry Records book?[4]
• For interest, according to The Peerage, Alice and Walter's children were:[3]
  • Avice Spring
  • Edward Spring
• According to Wikipedia and The Peerage, Walter was his parents' younger son,[2][3] but he is referred to as their eldest son in The Blennerhassett Pedigree chapter of the Old Kerry Records book (1872).[4]

Sources

1. Howard, Joseph J., ed. Visitation of Suffolk Made by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1561, with Additions from Family Documents, Original Wills, Jermyn, Davy and Other Mss, p. 204. Vol. 1 (Lowestoft, England: Samuel Tymms, 1866).
2. "Thomas Spring of Castlemaine." (27 November 2017). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21 February 2018 by Clare Spring from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Spring_of_Castlem....
3. Lundy, Daryl (compiler). "Walter Spring." The Peerage. Retrieved by Clare Spring on 22 February 2018 from http://www.thepeerage.com/p27963.htm#i279622.
4. "Selections from Old Kerry Records." 1872. Watson & Hazell, pp. 73–74. Retrieved 19 May 2018 by Clare Spring from https://web.archive.org/web/20170405053150/http://www.researchirela....
5. William Anthony Spring and Jane Vivien Spring [researchers and compilers]. 2000. "The Spring family of Suffolk and County Kerry, and branches in Australia, New Zealand and the USA," p. 6. Accessed 3 March 2018 at the National Library of Australia by Clare Spring. https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21876001.
6. Repertory of inquisitions from the Chancery Rolls Office, Dublin, County Kerry, Vols. I-III. RIA OS EI/38/89 - Inquisition, Walter Spring, taken at Tralee on 17/01/1632
7. Patent Roll, 8 Charles I, Part 1 - NAI Lodge/18/2679 - Pardon and license of alienation to WALTER SPRINGE, RICHARD NECARRIAGE, AULIFFE O’HUOLUGHANE, TEIGE McDONNOGH O’MURRIERTAGH and DAVID CROSBY
8. Patent Roll, 14 Charles I, Part 4] NAI Lodge/18/1845 - License of marriage granted to THOMASIN, widow of WALTER SPRINGE, for marrying DANIEL OGE O’SULLIVAN
9. "Capt. Thomas Spring." HumphreysFamilyTree.com. Retrieved 1 July 2018 by Clare Spring from http://humphrysfamilytree.com/Spring/capt.thomas.html. Archived 1 March 2017 at https://web.archive.org/web/20170301131810/http://humphrysfamilytre....
10. ↑ "Walter Spring." (27 November 2017). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21 February 2018 by Clare Spring from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Spring&oldid=8124....

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Founder of the Ballyraemeen branch of the Spring family in Kerry. A grandson or great-grandson of Thomas Spring of Castlemaine, original Spring settler through his eldest son Thomas Spring and possibly another Thomas Spring of Keelaclohane.

The Spring family of Suffolk and County Kerry, and branches in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, William Anthony Spring and Jane Vivien Spring, 2nd edn, Sydney, 2000. Copy in National Library of Australia.