Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-26

Here his son, John MacMahon, of Autun,
married an heiress, and was created Count
ID Equilly. On September %, l749, the
count applied to the Irish government of that
day-accompanylng his application with the
necessary fees, etc, for the officers of the u
stel king -at-anns-to have his genealogy, to-
gether with the records, etc of his family
duly authenticated, collected and recorded
with all necessary veriication, in order that
his children and their posterity in France
might have all-suficient proof of the proud
fact that they were Irish. All this was ac-
cordIngly done, as may be seen In the records
at birmingham tower, Dublin castle, coun-
tersIgned by the then lord lieutenant of Ire
| land, and the various other requisite sigma
lures. In those records he Is described as of
the noble family paternally of MacMahon of
C!onderalla TN Clare), and naturally of the
noble family of the O'SuIivan Beare." He
was the grandfather of the marshal duke of
Magenta.
Tue counts genealogy commences in the
middle of the fifteenth century, and traces
him through eight generations, as follows:
Terence MacMahon, proprietor of Clonde-
rella, married Helena, daughter of Maurice
Fitzgerald, earl of Kildare, died 1472, and
was inferred IN the monastery of Ashelm, IN
Munster. He was succeeded by his son, Do
natus MacMahon, who married Honoria
O'Brien, of the noble family Of Thomond;
and his son, Terence MacMahon, Esq, mar
ried Johanna, daughter of John MacNamara,
Esq, OF DonaghtlD, commonly styled Mac
Namara Reagh," and had a son, Bernard
MacMahon, Esq, whose wife was Margar1ta,
daughter at Donatus O'Brien, OF Daugh.
Mortagh MacMahon, son Of Bernard, mar
| ried Eleonora, dau shter of VIM. O'Nelan,
of Emri, colonel of a regiment of horse In
the army of Charles l, and was father of
Maurice MacMahon, Esq, whose wife, Helen,
was daughter of Maurice Fitzgerald, Esq
yrrht Of III Moha
of Maurice. married Helena, daughter of
Emanuel Sheehy, Esq, of Bailyhane, and
was father of the above named Patrick Mac
Mahon. who married Margarita, daughter of
John O'SullIvar, Esq, mother of John, first
Count d Equilly. 900
The descent of Count MacMahon, mater
nally through the O'Sulhvans, is as follows:
Mortagh O'Sullivan Beare, of Bantry, in the
county of Cork, married Maryann, daughter
OF james Lord Desmond, and dying was in
tered, 154l, In the convent of Friars Miners,
Cork. His son, John O'Sullivan, of Bantry,
married Johanna, daughter of Gerald de
Courcey, baron of Kinsale, and died in 1873,
leaving Daniel o Sullivan, Esq, his son, WHO
married Anna, daughter of Christopher
ODriscoll, of Baltimore, in the county Colk,
and died at Madrid, leaving his son, John
O'Sullivan, of Bantry, who married Marga-
ret, daughter of James O'Donavan, of Ros-
carberry. Bartholomew O'Sullivan, son of
John, was colonel in the army of James II,
at the siege of Limerick, and married Helena.
daughter of Thomas Fitzmaurice, baron of
Kerry, by whom he had M;10r John O'Sulh-
van, of Bantry, who married Honoria, daugh-
ter of Robert MaeCarthy, of Castro Leonino,
in the county of Cork, grandson of Daniel
MacCarthy, lord of Gloncare. and Margaret,
his wife, daughter OF u Donogh, Lord Des-
Margarita, who married Partick MacMahon,
ESQ of Torre0illo