PARKE, Robert (aft. 1609-1671), of Newtown Castle, co. Leitrim, Ire.

Family and Education

b. aft. 1609, 2nd s. of Roger Parke and Alice, da. of Griffith Jones of Denbigh. m. by 1646, Anne Povey of Roscommon, at least 1da.McGrath, Biographical Dict. App. ; Bodl. Carte 164, p. 113. d. 1671.McGrath, Biographical Dict. App.; M. O’Dowd, Power, Politics and Land: Early Modern Sligo, 1568-1688 (Belfast, 1991), 100; J.B. Lyons, Surgeon-Major Parke’s African Journey, 1887-9 (Dublin, 1994), 15, 27-8.

Offices Held

Irish: feodary, Connaught by 1632. bef. 28 July 1641McGrath, Biographical Dict. MP, ?Roscommon; co. Leitrim 1661. 16 Oct. 1654McGrath, Biographical Dict.; CJI i. 591. Commr. assessment, cos. Sligo, Leitrim, 12 Jan. 1655, 24 June 1657.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655, 1657). Sheriff, co. Leitrim 1655–6; co. Sligo 1656.NAI, Ferguson MS 9, p. 269; MS 10, p. 164. J.p. co. Sligo bef. 9 Feb. 1657.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 651. Member for co. Sligo, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 224. Commr. poll money, cos. Sligo, Leitrim 24 Apr. 1660, 1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 625, 644. Member, council of Connaught, 17 Mar. 1661–?d.CSP Ire. 1660–2, p. 266.

Military: capt. of ft. regt. of Sir Charles Coote*, Prot. forces in Ireland, c.1644-June 1653.SP28/93/1, ff. 98–9.

: of Newtown Castle, Ire., co. Leitrim.

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Commons 1640-1660

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PARKE, Robert (aft. 1609-1671), of Newtown Castle, co. Leitrim, Ire.

Will

Estates

held 14 townlands in Sligo and Leitrim, as well as land at Tyrawley (Mayo) bef. 1641; by d. held at least 2,000 acres in co. Sligo; in 1670 family held 7 townlands in Leitrim and 31 in Sligo.Wood-Martin, Hist. of Sligo, ii. 277, 280; Down Survey website.

Oxford 1644

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