Life
1840-1922; b. Ballymoney, Antrim; ed. TCD (MA); descendant of planter soldier in reign of James I; Church of Ireland canon at Brigown, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork; antiquarian; m. Jessie Mona [nee Duff; b. Dublin, c.1844); f. of Jessie Louisa Rickard [Mrs Victor Rickard], novelist; issued Con Hegarty: A Story of Irish Life (1897) and A Chapter of Irish History (1907) being ‘personal recollections’. IF2
Works
A chapter of Irish Church History: Being some personal recollections of life and service in the Church of Ireland (1907).
References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), Con Hegarty: A Story of Irish Life (Dublin: Church of Irel. Publ. 1897), 142pp. [Con, hardworking farmer, is framed for murder of estate agent by others, who are finally arraigned and punished].
MyHeritage [genealogical website] lists Courtenay Moore (1870-1951), b. Dublin, son of namesake and Julia Mona Moore [nee Duff; b. Co. Tyrone] with whom four sons incl. Courtenay and Alexander; Courtenay Jnr. m. Jane Moore, with whom two sons Edward and Paddy and another [unnamed] - citing Census of 1901. (MyHeritage - in Portuguese - online; accessed 25.10.2023.]
Courtenay Soc.: There is a record of a genealogical correspondence written by Phillip Crossle (genealogist) to Wm. Ashmead Courtenay of Newry, USA, relating to the claim of Courtenay"s descent from Jane Seymour and instancing Edward Courtenay, soldier in the service of Col. Coote and one Francis Coutenary who was involved in the Battle of Benburb (1646). Francis was a son of Richard Courtenay who was born in Powderham, Devon, and came to Ireland with Sir A. Chicester of Donegal, in the reign of James I, marrying Mary, the only dg. of the MacDonald Earl of Antrim. (See Courtenay Society - online; accessed 25.10.2023.)
COPAC lists for Mrs [Jessie Louisa] Victor Rickard: Dregs (London 1914); The Light Above the Crossroads (NY: Dodd, Mead 1918); The Story of the Munsters (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1918); The Fire of Green Boughs (1918), 311pp.; The House of Courage (NY: Dodd, Mead 1919); Cathy Rossiter (NY: GH Doran c1920); Without Justification (London: Jonathan Cape 1923); Upstairs (London: Constable 1925; NY: Grosset & Dunlap [1928]), 317pp.; also Spring Hill; Blindfold; The Scarlet Sin; A Bird of Strange Plumage .. and num. other titles [online - 15.10.2023].
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