Person:Robert Ashe (1)

From Macroom records “6 Apr 1755 Robert son of Richard and Elizabeth.” Ashe Robert, A.B. Deacon at Cork, 1 Nov. 1778; Priest at Cloyne, 21 Sept 1781; licensed to be curate of Inchigeelagh, Cloyne , at #50, on 23 Feb.1786. He married Rebecca, dau.of Rev. Simon Davies, R. Kilcoman, Cloyne,q.v. In his will ( dated 23 April,1811 and proved at Cork,on 24 Nov. 1824), he is styled the Rev. Robert Ashe, “of Buckstone, in the N.W. suburbs of Cork City).” He desires to be buried “in the vault of his great grandfather, on the left-hand side of the Communion table, within the walls of the church of Macroom,” and he leaves ten pounds for the Protestant poor of that parish. He mentions his niece-in -law, Frances Leader ( see Vol.II., page 250): his grand-daughter, Mary, only child of his second son, Robert, by Ellen, his present wife: and his eldest son Richard, inheritor “of a large property by his birth-right.” The Rev. Robert Ashe died on 12 June ,1812,at his lodgings at Macrump. ( Cork Intell.)