Person:William Ashe (4)

William son to Richard and Elizabeth. Source: Macroom records in Library Dublin Signed deed for estate on 27/8/ 1812 see Encumbered estate sale details in 1850. A William Ashe and Eleanor Howard had a son - John - born 26/3/1797 in Macroom 25/5/1799 DEED 521/153/34150. Indenture made between Owen McCarthy macroom, farmer on one part and Wm. Ashe of Ashgrove on 2nd part Henry Leader Tullig on 3rd part Land at Carriganortan W. Muskerry Did Anne die before that and is Eleanor his second wife. There is an Eleanor born in Macroom in 1760

Muskerry Volunteers, June 19th 1779 Captain Commandant Thos. Barker Captain William Ashe Lieutenant John Barter Ensign Mathre Menheer Chaplain Edward Synge Townsend Surgeon Richard Grey,M.D. Adjutant John Butler One company. Uniform: Blue, edged buff, buff waistcoat and breeches Reprint of the Munster Volunteer Registry 1782, With notes Transcribed by Robert Day, f.S.A. President, presented as a lecture to the Cork Historial & Archaeological Society Published in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1894, Vol. II Address to the Volunteers of Ireland - Munster Volunteer Registry

This Pamphlet, as a contemporary record of the Volunteers of Munster, is of such rarity that I have thought it worth transcribing for our Journal. It will be of interest, not merely to the general reader, but to the descendants of the various families whose names are associated with those who held command and officered the Volunteers, and to all Irishmen who are imbued with the true spirit of patriotism, and who rejoice in being descended from those who, to defend their homes from foreign invasion sprang to arms, and were equipped, armed and accoutred at their own personal charges. Not a town, village, townland or hamlet in Ireland but had its cavalry or infantry corps, until the flame of patriotism burst forth and shed its light and influence from the causeway to cape Clear and from the Tuskar Rocks to the Cliffs of Moher; the glorious result being that not less than 100,000 men stood to their arms, and by their unanimity and determination won for their country a free trade with England, in which the tax on irish manufactured goods was all but abolished, and commercial advantages were gained for the country, without which its industrial life, already but extinguished, would have been utterly destroyed. The different corps of Munster were early applied to for returns. Such as sent them are dated regularly, and those without dates never favoured the author with any, so he was obliged to insert them according to the best information he could procure from the different, reviews of this summer. N.B.-All cavalry wear helmets, infantry hats, except flank companies. The uniform, waistcoat, and breeches of every corps (except those mentioned buff) are white. "Every troop of cavalry consists of, at least, as under, some more - Farrier 1, trumpeter 1, serjeant 1, rank and file 40; total, besides Officers, 43. Where two troops are in a corps, they are not more than thirty rank and file each troop. Infantry corps of more than one company consist each company of- Serjeants 2, corporals 2, drums and fifes 2, rank and file 50; total 56. Such corps as consist of one company only are much stronger, being in general from sixty to one hundred rank and file. "In the different corps gentlemen of the first distinction are privates. The Cork Union and Glin Artillery have complete bands of ten each."