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Sunday, July 8, 2018

Francis Wafer - Before America. Part Two




This post will continue my research of the Wafer line and show their story in Ireland. Please see Part One that was posted on January 21, 2018 for their story in England & Wales and the post from December 3, 2017 on my Wafer ancestor's life on the frontiers of early America. The research is ongoing as I continue to update and add new records. 



Wafer Chronology – Ireland
Source: The Book of the de Burgos. Trinity College Dublin.  MS 1440


Circa 1200 -  Walter Wafre - grantor  - Killegland, [now Ashbourne], co. Meath. 
A final charter in the name of Walter Wafre (ancestor of the reputed builder of Killegland Castle, one Walter Wafre, after 1400), dating from between 1194 and 1224, grants 'all my water (works) at Kilegelan, with the site of the mill, and a messuage at which Hugo the miller is tenant, with appurtenances and (rights of) common pasture (and/for) six cows (vacarum) in the aforesaid village of Kilegelan' to the Abbey of St Thomas of Dublin and 'its canons in service to God' (Gilbert 1889, 50). A note in the margin of this document, in another hand, identifies the charter as pertaining to 'the mill and mill water(work)s of Killegland donated by Walter de W'.  Again the reference to the mill and what is likely to be its (engineered) waterworks separately would seem to imply that the latter were extensive and/or elaborate. The listing of the miller's residence separately implies a separate household structure/plot, that may nevertheless have stood near to the mill site. Source: Meath 2003:1346 Killegland, Ashbourne Medieval millrace and rural landscape https://www.excavations.ie/report/2003/Meath/0010384/

Charter LVI listed in: Registry of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin in Rerum Britannicarum medii ævi scriptores, or, Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages. p. 51.    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c067274830;view=1up;seq=11





Witnesses to above Charter LVI. Note: "H[ugone] de Lascy"



c.1200 – Walter le Waffre- Witness to charter [X] of Walter de Scotot. Land in Donaghmore (co. Meath) Barony of Ratoath [between Ashbourne and Greenoge]. Source: Register of the Abbey of St Thomas. Dublin. John Thomas Gilbert, 1889. 

c.1250 - Richard le Wafre ("Domino Ricardo le Wafre, milite) - Witness to charter [LXII] of Philip, son of William [Coci]. Land in Ratoath (co. Meath) near Ashbourne. Source: Register of the Abbey of St Thomas. Dublin. John Thomas Gilbert, 1889. 

c.1265 -  Richard le Wafre  - Witness to charter [LXXVI] of Henry de Straton. Land in Donaghmore (co. Meath). Source: Register of the Abbey of St Thomas. Dublin. John Thomas Gilbert, 1889. 


1225-1250 – Radulfus [Ralph] la Wafre – a free citizen of Dublin. Source: Dublin Municipal Archives. 

1278 – Robert Le Wafre and Nicholas Comyn are nominated by the wife of John Comyn (Amabila) to be her attorneys in Ireland. Source: Calendar of documents, relating to Ireland preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1171-1307. London: Longman, 1875. 

Note: John Comyn was the 1st Anglo-Norman Archbishop of Dublin circa 1191 and he built St. Patrick's (Dublin).

1285 - Sir Ric. de Waffir [among others] gave testimony at "Dongahmor" [Meath] against Walter de Lacy. The testimony includes actions by de Lacy in "the Marches or elsewhere."  Source:  Gormanston, Christopher Preston. Calendar of the Gormanston register, from the original in the possession of the right honourable the viscount of Gormanston.  Dublin, printed at the University press, for the Royal society of antiquaries of Ireland, 1916. p. 13, 14.

1286 - Richard le Wafre. Dublin. "for agreeing without license." 
Source: Calendar of documents, relating to Ireland 
preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1285-1292. London: Longman, 1879 


1288 - Nesta, "who was the wife of Richard Wafre" roll of receipt. Meath.  "for a false action." Source: Calendar of documents, relating to Ireland 
preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1285-1292. London: Longman, 1879 

1291 - Henry le Wafre on roll of receipt, Michaelmas Term, for pledge of Roger de Portes.  Source: Calendar of documents, relating to Ireland 
preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1285-1292. London: Longman, 1879 


1292 – William Wafre (le Wafere) tenant of 1 messuage and 59 acres in Corbally, Meath (currently Westmeath, near Fore). King's writ also mentions (1) Ralph le Wafere, grandfather of William, deceased, and (2) Alice le Wafere, mother of Simon de Campeleye. Ralph gave Alice and her husband, Thomas,  9 acres in Killegelan, Meath. Ralph died before Alice died. Source: Calendar of documents, relating to Ireland preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, Vol 3 (1285-1292). London: Longman, 1879 


1293 -   Henry le Waffre and William de Keppoe - of farm of the city of Dublin.  Source: Roll of Receipt.  Calendar of documents, relating to Ireland 
preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1171-1307. Published 1875 by Longman in London 



1303 -  William Wafre, witness [Dublin] to the marriage bond: "Robert Dardyz is bound in 200m to lady Matilda Rochefort."  Source: Patent Roll 31 Edward I. A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters c. 1244 - 1509. Trinity College, Dublin.

1303-1427 - Wafer shows up on Patent Rolls in Leinster. Source: The Surnames of Ireland. Edward MacLysaght, 1985. 



1324 - William Wafre of Reccouth [Ratoath?] in Ireland acknowledges that he owes to Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester, 10,000 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of ... Source: Close Rolls, Edward II - July 1324. Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: volume 4 (1898) 



c.1325 - Jordan Waffre, Dublin City. "Nicholas the clerk accounts for 4s of the houses which belonged to Jordan Waffre..."  Source: Forty-second report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records and Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland. HMSO, [1910]. p. 64.

1333 - Edward Wafre holds five carucates in Kylegelan [note: Barony of Ratoath, Meath] and Hardloueston, rendering 10s service and suit as above [at the Court of Retouth fortnightly].  Listed as a free tenant in inquisition following the death of William de Burgh, late Earl of Ulster, and his holdings in the Barony of Retouth.  Source: "The Earldom of Ulster. Part V. Inquisitions Touching Ratoath, in Co. Meath." Goddard H. Orpen. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Sixth Series, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jun. 30, 1921), pp. 68-76.

1335 - Matilda Wafre, wife of Thomas Le Redman, grantees of a messuage in the suburbs of Dublin in the parish of St. James. Grantor: Nicholas Tynbergh. Source: "History of the Religious Guild of St. Anne." Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.  v.25 no.3 (March 1904). pg. 85.

1337-1351 – Philip Wafre, Abbot of St. Mary’s, Dublin.


1354 -  Philip Waufre, formerly Cistercian abbot of St. Mary's by Dublin. Signification that he, being of noble birth, has resigned the office on account of age and weakness, and that his successor Richard and the convent have assigned to him some possessions, tenths, and rents, with yearly portions of two monks, and other distributions of victuals, and a room and adjacent garden within the limits of the monastery, with certain privileges and immunities for his life...He therefore prays for papal confirmation and approval of what has been done.  Avignon, 11 Kal. Jan. 1354 Source: Volume XXV: 2 Innocent VI, Petitions to the Pope: 1342-1419 (1896), pp. 256-269.

Philip Wafre, Abbot, A.D. 1337-1351. 
Dunbrody. 
Contest for precedency 
between Armagh and Dublin:
… made preparations for his attendance in St. Mary's Abbey, but that he was obstructed by the Archbishop of Dublin, who would not permit him to have his cross borne before him, as he had intended, in assertion of the right of precedency of the See of Armagh over that of Dublin. This matter formed the subject of documents addressed by Edward III. to the Archbishop of Dublin and officials in Ireland.  Philip Wafre, who became Abbot of St. Mary's in 1337, is stated to have been a monk of  that Abbey. He was probably a member of the family of Wafre, or Le Wafre, which was of much importance in Shropshire.  Edward III, in 1346, on representations addressed to him by Philip Wafre. Source: Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin: with the Register of its house at Dunbrody, and Annals of Ireland, Volume 1. 


1355 - John le Wafre acknowledges that he owes 25m to Geoffrey le Wafre, [to be levied] from lands in co. Dublin unless [it is paid].  15 Aug. 1355. Source:  Close Roll  29. Edward III (Trinity College, Dublin)


1358-1361 - George, son of Edmund Wafre, staying in England, has letter nominating James de la Hide and Richard Wafer as his attorneys in Ireland for two years.  Source: Calendar of Patent Rolls Preserved (1358-1361) in the Public Record Office, London. 



1363 - Roger Wafre - Fined 10s - Culduff,  Dublin area. Source: Delafield: The Family History  by John Ross Delafield. Vol. I, 1945.


1366 - Johannis Wafre - held a position at Dublin castle. Source:  History of the viceroys of Ireland; With Notices of the Castle of Dublin...J.T. Gilbert. Dublin, 1865. pg. 548

1368 - Nicholas Waffre and Richard Cruys "amongst the prisoners taken by the Birminghams, gave for their ransom ten marks, a hauberk, and a salet worth five marks..." - Carbury, Co. Meath [East of Edenderry, current Co. Kildare]. Source: Some notices of the castle and of the ecclesiastical buildings of Trim. Comp. from various authorities. 4th ed. Butler, Richard, 1794-1862.  Dublin : Hodges, Smith & Co., 1861.  p. 41.  Also see: Annales Hiberniae / Jacobi Grace ; edited, with a translation and notes, by Richard Butler. Dublin : Irish Archaeological Society, 1842.  p.155

1382 - Thomas Wafre, clerk, (and others) grantee of seven shops in Holy Trinity Lane, parish of St. Michael. Dublin. Source: cited in Appendix to 23rd  Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland. Dublin, 1890. Vol: Rep 22-23. pg. 123

1388 - Thomas Waffre - barony of Dunboyne (co. Meath) - to collect levies. Source: Patent Roll 12 Richard II RCH (142/220 221 7 Oct. 1388) on A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters c. 1244 - 1509, Trinity College, Dublin. [ For more references to Waffre, etc. in the Chancery Letters]

1388 - Thomas Wafer, a Canon [of St. Patrick's, Dublin]. "...was joined with William Chambre, the Archdeacon,  as Guardian of the Spiritualities of the archbishopric...He was still a Canon in 1406, and one of the Vicars-Generals."  Source: Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The Province of Leinster. Henry Cotton. Hodges and Smith, 1848. pg. 194.


1389  - Thomas Waferton - regarding the vicarage of Callan, Diocese of Ossory. Source: Delafield: The Family History  by John Ross Delafield. Vol. I, 1945.

1390 - Thomas Wafre, clerk, notary public and writer of deed regarding St. Patrick's & Holy Trinity Churches. Source: Ireland. Public Record Office. Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records In Ireland. Dublin, Ireland: [Public Record Office]. pg. 84.

1390 - William Waffre. APPOINTMENT of Peter Rowe, John fitz Adam and Richard Cruys as justices to take an assize of novel disseisin that Nicholas Forster has arraigned against William s. of George Waffre, William White of Borandestoun and others concerning a tenement in Borandestoun [Boranstown, Dublin]. Source: Patent Roll 13 Richard II. A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters c. 1244 - 1509. Trinity College, Dublin

1391 – Thomas Wafre – canon of Dublin – St. Patrick’s. Also mentioned, Johannis Wafre. Source: Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and ... edited by William Henry Bliss, Jessie Alfred Twemlow, 1902. See also: Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 4 - 1362-1404:
4 Id. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 191.) To Landulph, cardinal deacon of St. Nicholas's in carcere. Reservation, motu proprio, of the deanery of Dublin, an elective major dignity with cure, value 100 marks, which is to be resigned by Master Henry Bowet, papal chaplain and auditor of causes in the court of the camera, upon his obtaining possession of the archdeaconry of Lincoln, a dignity, under the terms of the provision thereof, then void, made to him by Urban VI. Concurrent mandate to the archbishop of Bari, the bishop of Leighlin, and Thomas Wafre, canon of Dublin.  See also:  Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 5: 1398-1404


1395 - Dublin - LICENCE to Thomas Waffre clk, William Thoume chaplain, William Grenet and Nicholas Taaff to alienate to the church of Holy Trinity seven shops in Trinity Lane in the parish of St Michael, Dublin, held in free burgage by service of landgable; and LICENCE to Thomas Comyn of Ballygriffin to alienate to the same church Ballygriffin and the advowson of its church, held in chief. The premises were found by inquisition before John Aldelyme, escheator of Ire., to be worth £7 13s 4d p.a. They are to be held in frankalmoign. Attested:  Roger Mortimer, e. March, Lt C: Christ Church deeds, §259. Source: Patent Roll 19 Richard II. A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters c. 1244 - 1509. Trinity College, Dublin.

1397 – Petitions: 9 Kal. Nov.
 St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 207d.) To the bishop of Meath, and the abbots of St. Thomas the Martyr and St. Mary's without the walls, Dublin. Mandate to collate and assign to James Redenesse, Augustinian canon of Dublin, papal chaplain, the priory of Dublin, a major dignity with cure, value not exceeding 300 marks, to which on its voidance by the death of Robert Lokington, he was elected by the chapter, confirmation of which election he obtained from Thomas Wafre, then official of Dublin, and vicar general of the chapter in the voidance of the see. James now doubts whether the election and confirmation hold good. Grata devocionis.

3 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 233d.) To Clement, bishop of Telese, dwelling in the Roman court. Mandate, if he find the facts to be as stated in the recent petition of Thomas, Augustinian prior of Molynger, in the diocese of Meath—namely, that although the prior and convent have from time immemorial held to their own uses the parish church of Dounboyng, in the said diocese, nevertheless lately, namely in 1399, John, archbishop of Armagh, during a metropolitical visitation, at the instance of one Thomas Wafre, layman of the same diocese, cited prior Thomas in a cause about the institution of a priest in the chapel of Kylbride, within the bounds of the said parish, to which chapel the archbishop (disregarding the plea that the cause was pending in his own court by the prior's appeal from the court of Meath, and that he ought not therefore to proceed or act), after finishing his visitation and leaving the diocese and again returning, instituted a perpetual chaplain, deputed to him an excessive portion from the fruits of Dounboyng, and promulgated sentences of excommunication etc., from all which the prior appealed to the pope—to annul the archbishop's undue proceedings, all causes and suits which have arisen out of the above circumstances, whether pending in the Roman court or elsewhere, being hereby called up to the pope. Pastoralis officii.
4 Non. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 86.) To the bishop of Tuy, and the chancellor and Thomas Wafre, canon, of Dublin. Mandate as below. The petition of Richard Caran, who asserts that he is archdeacon of Dublin, contained that a cause arose lately between him and William Chamber, clerk, of the diocese of London, about the said archdeaconry, which he obtained by papal authority and held peaceably for some time on its voidance by the resignation, made to the pope, of Landulph cardinal deacon of St. Nicholas's in Carcere Tulliano, and that Chamber has prevented his peaceable possession; that the pope at the instance of Chamber, who was then in the Roman court, committed the cause, notwithstanding that it did not by its nature lawfully devolve to the said court, to James, [now] bishop of Aquila, then papal chaplain and auditor, before whom appeared Master James de Subinago as Caran's proctor, and who, upon Chamber's absenting himself from the said court and not appearing upon citation, pronounced him contumacious and removed him, in so far as he could, from the archdeaconry and restored Caran, condemning Chamber in fruits received and costs, which latter he afterwards taxed at 25 gold florins of the camera. The pope therefore orders the above three to execute the aforesaid, restoring Caran to possession and removing Chamber, causing satisfaction to be made to Caran for the said fruits and costs, proceeding against present or future intruders as if the above sentence had been delivered against them, and invoking, if necessary, the aid of the secular arm. Exhibita nobis.   Source:  Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland: Papal Letters, Volume 5, H.M. Stationery Office, 1904 - Great Britain

c.1398 - William Waffre - Rathconrath (co. Meath now Westmeath) -  Keeper of the Peace with Simon Burford. Source: Medieval Trim: History and Archaeology. Michael Potterton. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. pg. 379.



1402 – Rev. Nicholas Wafre, vicar of Church of St. Columb, Skryne, Meath.  Source: The Diocese of Meath, ancient and modern. 
Pub. 1862 


1405 - Robert Waffre - defendant in a lawsuit.  Culduff,  Dublin area. Source: Delafield: The Family History  by John Ross Delafield. Vol. I, 1945. 
n.d. Nicholas Waffre appointed Vicar of church at Serine. Appointed by Philip Wafre.

1406 - Thomas Wafre & Thomas Everdon, canons & Vicar-Generals in St. Patrick's Church (Dublin).  Order given.  Witnesses include Nicholas Wafre.  Source: Ireland. Public Record Office.Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records In Ireland. Dublin, Ireland: [ Public Record Office].  pg. 86.  

1407 - John Waffre - juror with William FitzLeo and others in case regarding the lands and tenements in Ballybin (parish of Cookstown, barony of Ratoath, Co. Meath) belonging to the Mortimers (Roger and son Edmund).  [The jurors are swearing under oath about their knowledge of this disputed land.] Source: Hogan, Arlene. The priory of Llanthony Prima and Secunda in Ireland, 1172–1541: lands, patronage and politics.. Pp 432. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2008. pg. 379-80.

1421 - John Waffre - appointed (with others) attorney by John Forester regarding land in Swords. Source: " Old Deeds In The Library of Trinity College—IV." Hermathena No. 70  (November, 1947). pg. 9.

1427 - John Waffre - Commission, by mainprize of John Fourche and John Waffre of co. Meath, to Richard Sydgrave of custody of 1 messuage and 1 carucate of land in Stakallan in the barony of Slane; to have for as long as they are in the K.'s hand, rendering the extent. Source: Patent Roll 5 Henry VI. A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters c. 1244 - 1509 . Trinity College, Dublin

1428 - Margaret Wafre - releases to Thomas Seys of Dublin two messuages and a garden in the parishes
of St. Brigid the Virgin and St. Michael. Source: cited in Appendix to 23rd  Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland. Dublin, 1890. Vol: Rep 22-23. pg. 144.

1431 - James Watir [sic] and Margaret Wafre, his wife, allowed to pasture three beasts in the wood and pasture  of a wood called Giffardsgrove.  Source: cited in Appendix to 23rd  Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland. Dublin, 1890. Vol: Rep 22-23. pg. 145.

1437 (Reign of Henry VI) -  John Wafre  nominated for power of attorney for Agnes Netterville in regards to the manor of Douth and land in Welham.  Source:  Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland. pg. 127.


1438 – John Wafre – listed as owing debts in the estate inventory of Richard Codde, citizen and baker of Dublin. Source: Berry, Henry Fitzpatrick. "History of the Religious Gild of S. Anne, in S. Audoen's Church, Dublin, 1430-1740, Taken from Its Records in the Haliday Collection, R.I.A." Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature 25 (1904): 21-106. Accessed December 10, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25502722. 


1447 - John Wafyer & Richard Noterie, chaplains assign to Robert Cusacke of Cosynestone lands, messauges, etc. ...in co. Meath held in dower by Elizabeth Bermingham.  Source: "The Patent Rolls of King James the First." Erck, John Caillard, d. 1851, and Ireland. Chancery. A Repertory of the Inrolments On the Patent Rolls of Chancery In Ireland, Commencing With the Reign of King James I. Vol. 1, Part 1. Dublin: J. M'Glashan, 1846. 

1451 - Robert Wafre & Peter Trevers, clerks & auditors at Garretstown [Skreen, Co. Meath] regarding accounts of Micheal Trevers in debt to Pierce Coulok.  Source: Berry, Henry F. (Henry Fitz-Patrick), 1847-1923, and Ireland. Public Record Office. Statute Rolls of the Parliament of Ireland: Reign of King Henry the Sixth : Being Vol. II of the Irish Record Office Series of Early Statutes. Dublin: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office by Alexander Thom & Co., 1910. pg. 705

1462 – Margery Waffre [Weafer?] – widow granted lands in Parsontoun, Co. Kildare. Source: 
Calendar to Christchurch Deeds, cited in Appendix to 24th Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland

Margery Waffre, [Weafer? ] widow, granted to her cousin, Wm Typpyr, [Tipper; see 1597] lands in Parsonestoun, Co Kildare, at the services due the chief lord. Dated 16/12/1462. [Deed no.970] .


1472 - Katherine Waffure listed in an inventory for John Sherreff in Howth (north of Dublin). Source: Register of Wills and Inventories of Diocese of Dublin, 1457-1483. Dublin, 1898. 


1473 – Edmund Wafyr (and Ann Petyte his wife) ordained executors in will of Alice Whyte. Garristown (near Fingal, Co. Dublin). Source: Register of Wills and Inventories of Diocese of Dublin, 1457-1483. Dublin, 1898. 



1534 – Wafer – a captain for Thomas Fitz-Gerald near Fingal.  Thomas Fitz-Gerald, eldest son to the earl of Kildare, being left lord deputy in his father's absence, a rumour was spread abroad that his father was imprisoned and beheaded in London; upon which he surrendered the sword to the council, and flew out into open rebellion. The council sent secretly to the mayor and citizens to apprehend FitzGerald and his accomplices. But either the favour of the citizens to that house, or the strength of the confederacy, or the weakness of the city, which was much dispeopled by a plague then reigning in town and country, prevented any attempt at that time however, the citizens afterwards behaved themselves with zeal and resolution against him. Fingal was the granary which usually supplied the city with corn but was now exposed to the depredations of the O'Tools, and other Irish of the mountains, assisted by John Burnell of Balgriffen, a gentlemen of a good estate in Fingal, who favoured the rebellion. The citizens having received advice that the O'Tools were busied in conducting a prey from Fingal to the mountains, sallied out to intercept them at Kilmainham-bridge. They met the enemy near the wood of Salcock, but being over-powered with numbers, they were routed and four score of them slain.
This misfortune threw the city into a consternation, which Fitz-Gerald laying hold of; demanded liberty to march his army through it, and lay siege to the castle, promising that no citizen should be injured in his property by his soldiers. The citizens took time to advise on this matter before they gave their consent; and immediately dispatched one of their aldermen, Francis Herbert, to the king to know his pleasure, who, for his discreet demeanor upon the occasion, received the honour of knighthood, and was made a member of the privy-council. They also consulted the constable of the castle, who regarding the security of the city, gave his consent to the demand, provided he were sufficiently furnished with men and provisions to withstand a siege. The citizens sent by night into the cattle a good store of provisions, and alderman John Fitzsimons, upon his own account, furnished the constable with 20 tun of wine, and 24 tun of beer, 2,000 dried ling, 16 hogsheads of powdered beef, 20 chambers for mines, and an iron chain for the draw-bridge that he had procured to be forged in his own house to avoid suspicion.
The castle being abundantly supplied, the citizens consented to Fitz-Gerald's demands, and he accordingly sent in 600 men under the command of six captains, viz. Field, Teeling, Wafer, Broad, Rouks and Purcell, who planted two or three pieces of artillery near Preston's inn, opposite to the castle-gate, and intrenched their party with strong ramparts sufficient to defend them from the shot of the castle; and to frighten the constable from annoying them with his ordinance, they threatened to place the youth of the city on the tops of their trenches, as marks at which they would be loth to aim. 
 Source:  History of the City of Dublin, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time: Containing Its Annals, Antiquities...  Vol. 1, John Warburton, James Whitelaw, et al, Dublin, 1818.  pg. 189.  [Note:  Nicholas Wafer, a Dublin yeoman,  was executed 1535 at Maynooth. Source: The Earls of Kildare, and their ancestors: from 1057 to 1773. By the Marquis of Kildare ...Charles William Fitzgerald, 4th Duke of, 1821-1886. Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1858].   

1536 – Peter Waffre listed as the king’s enemey -  [Wexford]. Source: The Surnames of Ireland. Edward MacLysaght, 1985 and "Analecta Hibernica" - Irish Manuscripts Commission.



1539 – (The Reign of Henry VIII) Thomas Wafre. Abbot, Navan Abbey, Co. Meath. "Surrender by Thomas Wafre, Abbot, with the consent of the convent, of the abbey of Blessed Virgin Mary, of Navan, in Meath County, with all its possessions in the county of Meath, Louth, Dublin, Kildare, and Carlow, and elsewhere in Ireland."  Source:  Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland. pg. 56.

1539 - Thomas Wafre, former Abbot of Navan, given a pension. In the surrender of the Abbey, he was "seized of 40 acres of arable land in Hurlestown [probably Hurdlestown, Kells]..."  Source:  Cogan, Anthony, 1826-1872. The Diocese of Meath: Ancient And Modern. Dublin: J. F. Fowler; [etc., etc.]. pg.226.  [Also stated in Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland, 7th Report, 1875 pg. 40: "Sir Thomas Wafre, abbot of the late abbey of the B.V.M. of the Nawan (sic), ad his 'conbretherne' - The abbot, £15..."

1540 - Matthew Wafer - "of Monketon." Juror re. Friary of Skreen (co. Meath).  Source: Extents of Irish Monastic Possessions, 1540-41. Newport B. White, ed. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1943. pg. 306


1540-41 - Nicholas Wafre - Newcastell (co. Meath). Listed as holding a "castle or tenement...to farm from the late abbot p.t.a..." Source: Extents of Irish Monastic Possessions, 1540-41. Newport B. White, ed. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1943. pg. 251. 


1540-41 - Nicholas Wafre - Little Moieton (co. Meath). Listed as paying to "the baron of Tryme."  Source: Extents of Irish Monastic Possessions, 1540-41. Newport B. White, ed. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1943. pg. 301.

1541  - Peter Waffer - co. Wexford. Juror. Case for the  Dominican House of Arklow. Source: Extents of Irish Monastic Possessions, 1540-41. Newport B. White, ed. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1943. pg.373.


1544 – Nicholas Wafer – Meath. Source: The Surnames of Ireland. Edward MacLysaght, 1985. 


1546 – Thomas Wafre and John Wogan.  Regarding the  church at Donoghmore, co. Meath. Prebendaries of St. Patrick's at the Suppression.  Source: Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The Province of Leinster. Henry Cotton. Hodges and Smith, 1848. pg 183.


1546 - Thomas Wafre nominated power of attorney by Agnes Netterville regarding the manor of Douth and premises and land in Wilham.  Source: Calendar of the patent and close rolls of chancery in Ireland. Vol. 1. [Henry VIII], pb. 127.

1547 - Thomas Wafre, "prebendary of Donaghmore in O'Maylye" pension of £3. Source: The Reformation in Dublin, 1536-1558...Myles Vincent Ronan. London, 1926.

1569 - Roger Waffre.  "Grant to Roger Waffre, gent; of the offices of clerk of the peace, clerk of the crown, and clerk of the assizes in the provinces of Connaught and Thomond, and the several counties of the same. To hold during pleasure, with the accustomed fees."  Source: "Fiants - Elizabeth"  The Eleventh report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland / presented to both houses of the Parliament by command of Her Majesty.  pg. 213. 

1592 - Lucas Wayfare, nephew of Robert Bowen. Mary Bowen, wife of Lucas Wafer. Regarding the murder of Robert Stanton. Source:  Calendar of the state papers relating to Ireland of the reign(s) of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth.  v.5 1592-1596. pg. 42.


1592 - Richard Waffer - signer in document regarding the Hill of Lacke-M'Keghoe. Source: Calendar of State Papers, Ireland Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1588-1592.  Elizabeth I: volume 166, July 1592.

1595 - John Waffer of Kilboy, Margallen, County Meath. Source: "A Perambulation of Leinster, Meath, and Louth, of which consist the English Pale. And first of the county of Dublin." In The ENGLISH PALE. 109 - Lambeth Palace Library. MSS/596-638 - Carew Manuscripts

1598 - "Weafy of the Blackehil 2 armed horsemen" -  named among those men "Rising out of Ratoath [East Meath]." Source: Hogan, Edmund. The Description of Ireland: And the State Thereof as it is at this Present in Anno 1598. M. H. Gill, 1878. p.93

1598 - Lucas Wafer. Pardoned for a murder indictment.  Source:  Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland. pg. 377.

1598 – John Wafer, Dublin merchant. 
 

1598 - "Jn. Waffer of Kilboy" Slane [East Meath].  Also "Jn. Waffer of Gainstown, Navan [County Meath]. Source: Hogan, Edmund. The Description of Ireland: And the State Thereof as it is at this Present in Anno 1598. M. H. Gill, 1878. p. 94.

1598 - "Wafer of Grunston" [East Meath]. [probably Gunstown, Ratoath, Meath].  Source: Hogan, Edmund. The Description of Ireland: And the State Thereof as it is at this Present in Anno 1598. M. H. Gill, 1878. p. 100.

1603 - John Wafer in Navan, Co. Meath. Source:  Calendar of State Papers, Ireland Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1603-1606 James I: June 1603 

1608 - Francis Waffer of Balemony, County Wexford. The Gentlemen of the Barony of Ballaighene. Source: The GRAND PANEL of the county of Wexford. 109 - Lambeth Palace Library. MSS/596-638 - Carew Manuscripts

1619 - Roger Waffer, of Dublin, gent. Source: The register of admissions to Gray's inn, 1521-1889, together with the register of marriages in Gray's inn chapel, 1695-1754:  Publisher: London, Priv. print. by the Hansard Publishing Union, ltd.  folio 763

1621 - Katherine Wafer or Wafre. Burial. Residence: Dublin. Wife of John Fleming. Source: The Consolidated Index To the Records of the Genealogical Office Dublin, Ireland. Comp. by Virginia Wade McAnlis.  Pub. by Virginia Wade McAnlis  82 Gunn Road  Port Angeles WA 98362-9108 U.S.A. 

1626/27 - Roger Wafer of "Sianston" [probably Simonstown, Parish of Donaghmore, Barony of Navan] Co. Meath.  In reference to Jack Fleminge.  Source: Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariæ Hiberniæ asservatarum, repertorium, Volume 2. Ireland. Chancery, 1829. No pagination.

1627/28 - Thomas Wafer. Wexford. In referene to "Gillpatrick oge McLyshagh." Source: Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariæ Hiberniæ asservatarum, repertorium, Volume 2. Ireland. Chancery, 1829. No pagination.

1628 - Joh. Wafer of "Gyanstowne [Gainstown, Parish of Ardbraccan, Baroney of Navan]. Meath. In reference to Edward Plunkett. Source: Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariæ Hiberniæ asservatarum, repertorium, Volume 2. Ireland. Chancery, 1829. No pagination.

1628/1631 – Elizabeth Wafer alias Plunkett, widow, Dublin listed in prerogative grant.  Source:  Index to Prerogative Grants - Eire. 1595-1810 (1536-1810).  London: Public Record Office.
  [Note: Elizabeth was the daughter of Sir John Plunkett of Bewley, Co. Louth and Maud Eustace. Elizabeth married 1st Nicholas White and 2nd to "Nicholas Wafer of Navan." Source: "The Descendants of Margaret Dartas (D’Artois)... 
" by K. W. Nicholls as published in Irish Genealogist; Volume 4, Number 5 (November 1972). 

1629 - Roger Wafer of "Gyanstowne"  [Gainstown, Parish of Ardbraccan, Baroney of Navan]. Westmeath. In reference to Edward Dowdall. Source: Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariæ Hiberniæ asservatarum, repertorium, Volume 2. Ireland. Chancery, 1829. No pagination.

1634 – Roger Wafer, gentleman, Guyanstown, Co. Meath listed in prerogative grant. Source:  Index to Prerogative Grants - Eire. 1595-1810 (1536-1810).  London: Public Record Office.  

1634 - Roger Wafer, resident Castleton. Burial County Meath. Wife: Anne Panting burial 1621. Source: The Consolidated Index To the Records of the Genealogical Office Dublin, Ireland. Comp. by Virginia Wade McAnlis.  Pub. by Virginia Wade McAnlis  82 Gunn Road  Port Angeles WA 98362-9108 U.S.A. 

1640/41 – Thomas Wafer, Irish papist.  Inch, Gorey, Co. Wexford (112 acres). Source: The Down Survey of Ireland. Trinity College Dublin.   http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/index.html

1640/41 - Francis Wafer and Abraham Strang, Irish papists. Kilkevan, Gorey, Co. Wexford (397 acres).  Source: The Down Survey of Ireland. Trinity College Dublin.   http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/index.html


1640/41 - Francis Waffer, papist. Gyanstowne, "Castletown Kilberry," Kilberry, Barony of Morgallion, Co. Meath (142 acres). Source: The Down Survey of Ireland. Trinity College Dublin. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/index.html

1640/41 - Francis Waffer, papist. Gyanstowne,  Barony of Morgallion,  Co. Meath (181 acres). Source: The Down Survey of Ireland. Trinity College Dublin. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/index.html

1640/41 - Francis Wafer, papist. Skreen, Barony of Skreen, Co. Meath. Source: The Down Survey of Ireland. Trinity College Dublin. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/index.html

1640/41 - William Wafer and Francis Wafer. Barony of Navan, Co. Meath. Source: The Down Survey of Ireland. Trinity College Dublin. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/index.html

1641 - Thomas Wafer - Catholic proprietor in Inch, Co. Wexford who had forfeited his land. Source: History of the Town and County of Wexford... Vol. 6. H.F. & P,H. Hore. London, 1900-1911. pg. 662.

1641 – Maraget, daughter of William Wafer, buried. Dublin.  Source: The Register of St. John the Evangelist, Dublin, 1619-1699. Dublin, 1906. 

1650 – Felix, son of William Wafer, buried. Dublin. Source: The Register of St. John the Evangelist, Dublin, 1619-1699. Dublin, 1906. 


1653 – Rose Wafer buried. Dublin. Source: The Register of St. John the Evangelist, Dublin, 1619-1699. Dublin, 1906. 


1656 - Francis Waffer of Gainestown Co. Meath (64 acres) transplanted to Connaught. Source:  The Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, Preserved at the Castle, Kilkenny, Volume 2. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1899. pg. 176.  


1656 - Francis Waffer of  Co. Wexford (110 acres) transplanted to Connaught. Source:  The Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, Preserved at the Castle, Kilkenny, Volume 2. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1899. pg. 176.


1656 - Richard Waffer of  Co. Meath (37 acres) transplanted to Connaught. Source:  The Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, Preserved at the Castle, Kilkenny, Volume 2. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1899. pg. 176. 


1657 - Thomas and Frances Wafer - on list of "Papist Proprietors" from Gorey, co. Wexford who forfeited under the Cromwellian Settlement.  Source: The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, When Cromwell Came to Ireland... John O' Hart. Heritage Books, 2007 (facsimile from the 1884 edition).


1662 - Fr. Simon Wafre, of the fame Ord. Reader of Divinity. Signed remonstrance, pledging loyalty to King Charles II. (Remonstrance lobbied by Fr. Oliver Darcy, bishop of Dromore.)  Source: An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland : From the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the Settlement Under King William... John Curry. Dublin, 1775. pg. 435.

1663  - Francis Wafer - Petition of Francis Wafer to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: Petitioner was possessed of a small but ancient estate in the county of Meath until dispossessed thereof by the late usurping power. ... he prays for some present-relief. Source:  Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections. MSS. Carte 1-279 - CARTE PAPERS. MS. Carte 60 - Papers (chiefly copies) of the 1st duke of Ormonde, relating to the public affairs of Ireland, chiefly 1662-1690 but some earlier. Ref. MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 413.

1666 - Francis Wafer -A Certificate by Thomas Mocket, in support of the recitals of the Petition of Francis Wafer. Re: Petition of Francis Wafer, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [concerning losses inflicted on petitioner by the later usurped powers in Ireland] : written from [Dublin]. Source: 161 - Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS. Carte 1-279 - CARTE PAPERS
MS. Carte 34 - Correspondence of the first Duke of Ormonde, with some miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to the public affairs of Ireland. MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 546

1673 - Francis Waffre - Will. Ballinmoney, Co. Wexford. Source:  Index to Prerogative Grants - Eire. 1595-1810 (1536-1810).  London: Public Record Office.

1689 - Thomas Wafer - listed as a Lieutenant under Capt. Michael Roth, The King's Regiment. Source:  Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List (1689). John D'Alton. Vol. I. 



1701 - Robert Wayford, Dublin merchant. Probate. Source: Ireland, Diocesan and Prerogative Wills & Administrations Indexes, 1595-1858. Online scans available at FamilySearch.com.

1716-1721 - Richard Wafer and wife Anne and son Henry Wafer. Also named David Wafer and Thomas Wafer. Grantors.  Names and relationships from deeds for land in Gorey, Co. Wexford (includes Kilbegnet and Tincurragh). Source: Deed Numbers 7733, 24916, and 18376. Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills, 1708-1929. Registry of Deeds, Dublin Ireland. Online scans available at FamilySearch.com.  

1723 - Jane Wayford, widow. Probate. Residence: Dublin.  Source: Ireland, Diocesan and Prerogative Wills & Administrations Indexes, 1595-1858. Online scans available at FamilySearch.com.

1740 – Elizabeth Waffer buried. Dublin. Source: The Register of the Parish of St. Peter and St. Kevin, Dublin. 1669-1761. Dublin, 1911.


1742 - Mary Wafar, Gorey, co. Wexford. Mentioned in deed and referred to as the widow of Wm. Murphy and the wife of Miles Kavenagh. Land is 12 acres in Killbegnett.  Source:  Registry of Deeds Project [online]. 


1745 – James Whafre, Dublin linendraper, listed in prerogative grant.


1765  - James Wafer, age 31, in Killinagh (Killena ) and Fairs (Gorey, co. Wexford). re. return of the rental of the forfeited lands in the hands of the Crown from the rebellion of 1798. Source: The Third  Report of the Commissioners, 1806. pg. 128.



1767 – George Wafer and Marks Wafer named in will of R. Burkitt of Cookstown, Co. Wexford. Source: Registry of Deeds, Dublin. Abstracts of Wills, Vol. II, 1746-85. Dublin,   1954. 



1793 - Elizabeth Waffer (Wafter), marriage to William Parker. Source: Index to the Act of Grant Books and to Original Wills. Diocese of Dublin to 1800. pg. 348. 


1797 - Mary, daughter of Francis Wafer and Mary Bryan, of Killincooley,  - Baptized. Source:  Litter (Kilmuckridge) Parish Registers. Co. Wexford

1823 - Rev. Francis Wafer, curate.  Ferns, Co. Wexford.

1836 - Rev. Francis Wafer. Lived. Newtownbarry

1848-64 – Wafer name appears mainly in Co. Wexford.

- Weafer name appears x4 in Co. Wexford and x1 in Dublin.

1866 - Rev. Francis Wafer died (Marshalstown?).  Source: History of the Diocese of Ferns. W.H. Grattan Flood. Waterford, 1916.

Note on terms:

" Old Latin Deeds In The Library of Trinity College—II." Hermathena No. 67  (May, 1946). pg. 2.







It is very doubtful there will be a record uncovered that states exactly where in Ireland the immigrant to America, Francis Wafer, came from.  Based upon the information provided to his grandson and the information from the above chronology,  I believe Francis was living in the Gory area of County Wexford when he left his father's farm and sailed to America. 

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