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b. c. 1600, 1st s. of Tristram Beresford of Coleraine and Susanna, da. of --- Brooke of London. m. (1) by 1636, Anne, da. of John Rowley of Castleroe, co. Londonderry, 1s. 2da.; (2) Sarah, da. of --- Sackville, 4s. 3da.CB; DIB; C.E. de la Poer Beresford, ‘An Historical account of the Beresford Fam.’ Gen. Mag. i. 663. suc. fa. Sept. 1649.T.W. Moody, The Londonderry Plantation (Belfast, 1939), 282; Acts of Corporation of Coleraine ed. B. McGrath (Dublin, 2017), 204. Kntd. 1664. cr. Bt 5 May 1665. d. 15 Jan. 1673.CB.
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Military: gov. Culmore Fort, co. Londonderry c.1627-May 1635.CSP Ire. 1625–32, p. 274; 1647–60, p. 192. Capt. of ft. Londonderry garrison, 1642–4.HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 126, 135. Capt. regt. of Ld. Folliot, British army in Ulster, Aug. 1645-Oct. 1648.CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 416, 616; 1647–60, p. 30. Lt-col. reg. of Thomas Coote* by Sept. 1650-Aug. 1653.SP28/93, f. 100; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 209. Capt. army in Ireland, Oct. 1658-Dec. 1660.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 289; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 268.

Irish: surveyor, cos. Londonderry, Donegal and Tyrone Mar. 1654.Civil Survey, iii. 19, 70, 85, 141, 165, 196, 218, 246, 308, 412. Commr. assessment, co. Londonderry 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655, 24 June 1657;An Assessment for Ire. (1654, 1655, 1657). security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Member for co. Londonderry, gen. convention, Feb. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 178. Commr. poll money, cos. Londonderry, Antrim, Cavan 24 Apr. 1660–1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 626–7, 645–6. MP, co. Londonderry 1661–6.CJI, i. 592.

Civic: freeman, Coleraine 5 Dec. 1625; ald. 6 May 1650; mayor bef. July 1655-Nov. 1656;Coleraine ed. McGrath, 10, 212, 249, 251, 256. chief burgess, Londonderry 24 Mar. 1657.Bishopric of Derry, ed. T.W. Moody and J.G. Simms (2 vols. Dublin, 1968), i. 281.

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BERESFORD, Tristram (c.1600-73), of Coleraine, co. Londonderry.

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at least 7,000 acres in co. Londonderry by 1654;Civil Survey, iii. 151-231. acquired landed interests in cos. Sligo, Galway and Antrim, late 1650s;NAI, Ferguson MS 10, p. 26; C6/135/13; C6/135/15; CSP Ire. 1660-2, p. 534. granted lands in 40 townlands in co. Cavan, 1670.CSP Ire. 1669-70, pp. 177, 260-1; Down Survey website.
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