1600-1799 Wild
Geese
1586-1621 Spanish Flanders
A.G.R.E.G.C., reg. 18/66. The testimonies were requested by...Margaret
Daly, widow of William Tracey...
Henry, Grainne (1992) The Irish military community in Spanish
Flanders, 1586-1621. Irish
Academic Press.
IV.
Sponsors for Alberto Hugo O Donel, Madrid 1625 A.H.N.
Madrid Alcántara, Exp. 736
Patricio Tressy [Priest; born Rosclogher,
Co. Leitrim, Ireland.]
A.H.N. Madrid, Santigo, Expedientes 3146, 5853; A.G.S. Estado. Leg. 2767
Walsh,
Micheline ed
(1978) Spanish Knights. Vol IV. Irish
Manuscript Commission.
Irish Preachers and Confessors in
the Archdiocese of Malines…students at the University of Louvain, or were
ordained in the Low Countries…
9. 1646. Feb. 25. Master Thomas Tracey (Treaci). Approved for hearing the
confessions of Irish soldiers serving in the royal army. Until revocation.
Brendan
Jennings. Irish Preachers and Confessors in the Archdiocese of Malines,
1607-1794. Archivium Hibernicum,
Vol. 23 (1960), pp. 148-166
1660 Edmundus Trohy/Trosy/de Trohz (-1718) Casseliensis Hijbernus
Tipperary Co./city Tipperary
Matr. (C,
pauper) (19 Dec. 166o); MB (31 Aug. 1668 - 28 Feb. 1669); ML (31 Aug. 1668 -28
Feb. 1669); mentioned as Doctor at Antwerp in a dedication of a book (1686) by
John O'Dwyer[ nr.4 05];D octorc
itya nd citadelA
ntwerp; IPCL euven
Foundation of scholarships left sum of4,585 florins; died at Antwerp (3 June
1718). MUL, VI, p. 150, n. 16o; RAL, OUL 277, f. 536, 538; Bruneel
(2004), p. 43 nrs. 664, 670; RD, III, p. 485, n. ii
Jeroen Nilis.
Irish Students at Leuven University, 1548-1797 (With Index) Archivium
Hibernicum, Vol. 60 (2006/2007), pp. 1-304
Lart, CE, ed (1910) The parochial registers of Saint Germain-en-Laye: Jacobite extracts of births, marriages, and deaths; with
notes and appendices. Vol. One 1689-1702. St.
Catherine Press, London.
Morris. (1691. 17
Mai), a.e.b. Simon, f. Le chevalier Mores, major de
ca valeric. Irl. et
de Marie Trassi (Tracy). P. Guillaume Simon Lautree (Luttrell) Col. de cavalerie.
Irl.
M. Anne Porchell. (Purcell) ff. baron Porchel et de deff
te Pourcel. S.S. Anne
Purcell. G. S. Luttrell.
17th and 18th
Centuries Extract of the parochial registers of Nantes
Parish St Nicolas: 6
November 1693 Denis Tracy present at the baptism of François, son of Jean Kaudy (absent) by Marie Fanin
Hôtel-Dieu (Nantes
's hospital): 27 November 1751 Burial of Guillaume (William) Tracy,
priest of Elphin diocese, 27 years old, son of Thomas
Tracy and Winifred Kirchey.
(Thanks to Alain Loncle
de Forville)
Finistere (North Brittany)
Burial; Jean Trassy, Landerneau, prés de Brest+
28/01/1692 (I suppose, a soldat)
Burial Guillaume Tresy, 30 years old, soldat in Fittgerald's regiment, 21/01/1692 Parish La Chandeleur, Quimper
(Thanks to Alain Loncle
de Forville)
Irish Wild Geese at the Hôtel Royal d'Invalides Paris
There were 2,350 Irishmen listed at
the Hôtel Royal d'Invalides.
Eight Traceys are stated in the records which is a
very high number for an individual surname. It has been stated that those
admitted represented about one per cent of the number of men enlisted in a
specific regiment. As such, there may have been 800 Traceys
who served in the armies of France.
John Tressy
Aged 70, native of Portomne [Portumna]
county Galloway, trooper in Dossemonfs troop, Bourbon
regiment, where he served 10 years and previously 27 years in the Clare
(formerly Greder alemand, Furstemberg and Hamilton) regiment per his certificate. His
disabilities make him unfit for service. 20 May 1714, he died at la Hogue on
detachment. 13/01/1708 Vol. 16, no. 18237
Richard
Tracey: Loghrea, county Galway; aged 25; enlisted 10
August 1725; square build; 1.71 metres; good legs; good stance; short, curly
brown hair; good nose; good eyes; Skelton's troop (1728); admitted to the Invalides on 12 May 1763. [2Xv, vol. 38, no. 94640]
Richard Treacy, Aged 60, native of Canoth
[Connacht?] in
Ireland, trooper in offarrell's troop, Fitzjames Irish regiment, where he served 30 years and
previously 9 years in Berwick. He suffers from sabre wounds to the head
received in several encounters. 7 August 1765, he died at the hospital of
Calais, being on detachment with the d'Espagne company.
Received 12/05/1763, Vol. 38, no. 94640.
Thomas Trassy
Aged 46, native of Galloway in Ireland, soldier in Mannery's
company, Irish regiment of Dillon, where he served 28 years per his certificate
dated 16 August last. His disabilities make him unfit for service. He is one of
the half-pay soldiers sent to a company of invalides
at Mariembourg. 27 November 1727, he died at Ardres on detachment. Received 12/09/1726 Vol. 23, no.
41294
Thomas Trassy
aged 36 of Cork, soldier of the colonel of Galmoy's
Regiment under the Queen of England's Dragoons, in which he says he has served
8 years, as well as 6 years in Ireland. He bears an order from the Marquis of Barbesieux to be received. Harquebusier
by trade. Catholic. Received 11th February
1700. 13 May 1700. gave up his place. Given £30 PSC.
Thomas Trassy
aged 36 of Dublin, dragoon of Sr. Carroll, lieutenant colonel of the King of
England's Dragoons Regiment in which he says he has served 10 years as much in
France as in Ireland. He has had his left arm "cut" after a musket
shot at Valence. Married in Paris. Catholic.
Received 15th August 1697. 15th May 1700 he gave up
his place. Given 30 PSC.
William Tracy aged 32 of County Obredary, grenadier of Sr. Galfer,
Dillon's Regiment, in which he has served 12 years, confirmed by his
certificate. His right arm is crippled from a musket shot at Chiari. Catholic Received 28th July 1701. Died 12 October 1719. at Nantes
ATD.
William Trassy
Aged 67, native of Portomny [Portumna]
county Gallway in Ireland, sergeant in
lieutenant-colonel Schahanasy's company, Irish
regiment of Clare, where he served 42 years of which 3 as sergeant per his
certificate. His wounds and bad sight make him unfit for service. 7 February
1732, he died. Received 11/10/1730 Vol. 25, no. 46094
William Tressy
Aged 50, native of county Galloway, soldier in James Dillon's company, Dillon
regiment, where he served 5 years per his certificate, and says he served
previously 4 years in Cahieux's cavalry, 4 years in
the Brittany dragoons, and 4 years in Hamilton. He received a sabre blow to the
head and his left leg is crippled by a musket shot received at the crossing of
the river Theu in Catalonia; these with other wounds
make him unfit for service. 13 May 1698, he renounced his rights; he received
30 livres to help him on his way and his certificates
were returned to him. Received 21/02/1697 Vol. 12, no. 9031
(William Tressy, had served 13 years
in three French formations - cavalry and infantry - before he entered the
Dillon regiment and was badly wounded in Spain. He left the HRI and received a
going-away present of 30 livres. Like many others who
left the HRI, he probably had friends outside and joined them. Prior to 1690,
the HRI records noted that several of the Irish veterans who left went back to
their own country, and Tressy, may have returned to
Galway.)
Ref:
Eoghan Ó Hannracháin. Some Wild Geese of the West.
Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 54 (2002),
pp. 1-24
Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin. Two Score Galway Troopers in France.
Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 55 (2003),
pp. 64-71
In the
poem ‘Cremona’ by Emily
Lawless (1902), in the first stanza she makes a reference to “Tracy” along with
the other great names of the Irish military. However, I have been unable to
locate the origin of this reference.
“Homesick, sad, and weary,
Heartsick, hungry, dreary,
(Shout, boys, Erin's the renown!)
O'Brien, Burke, and Tracy,
MacMahon, Dillon, Lacy,
We watch the town.”
17 February
1868 (FJ) Weekly News Trial - Manchester Martyrs
Mr. Heron,
resuming his address...where the Irish mother pressed over her first born and
wished him to be a freeman. He turned to foreign countries - to the Blakes and O'Donnells, who had
founded in Spain a long line of princes, marshals, and captain-generals, to the
Butlers, Traceys, and Dillons,
who were the foremost captains in the army of Austria and Russia...
1749 The Tracy case.
Albemarle to
Bedford. The Tracy Case. Also a Frenchman of Irish extraction has been executed in the
Bastille for writing a satire against the king. UK Secretaries of State: State Papers
Foreign, France SP 78/233/
|
Paris 12. Aug. 1749 H.G. the El of Albemarle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paris 1st/12th
August 1749 His Grace the Duke of Beford My Lord, I
was honour’d last Saturday with your Grace’s
Dispatch of the 24th of last month inclosing the case of Mrs.
Susanna Tracy. I have lately had a Memorial delivered to me by her sister to
the same purport as that youres Grace has now sent
me, and I waited only for the return of the French Court to Versailles to
speak of it to Mr. Puyzieulre, and to demand he as a subject of Great Britain. This is a Prolectess(?)
I thought I could not refuse her; and now that I have received by Your Grace
His Majesty’s Commands, I shall be more express in my representations; and
have drawn up a Memorial on that subject, which I shall convey to him
tomorrow; and from the Justice of the Demand I cannot expect there will be
the least Delay in ordering the necessary redress(?).
When I shall have taken her out of the convent, (?) proper care shall be had
of her till some person appointed to conduct her to England comes to receive
her, which your Grace is pleased to acquaint me I shall be apprized of in time. Next
Tuesday the Foreign Minister will have the opportunity of being admitted to
Audiences, and till then I don’t expect to have any thing
of moment to communicate to Your Grace. This Court seems now a little more
quiet than they were, in their Apprehension on the side of Russin(?). A
man of Irish extraction, but born in this country, was taken up some time ago
for writing a satire against the Court, in which, after calling the French
King a Tyrant, he added, that thos there was no
Henry the Fourth, there might yet another Ravaillac(?)
be found. This author was secretly executed last Saturday in the Bastille. I
have the Honour to be with the greatest Respect My
Lord Your
Grace’s Most
obedient, humble Servant Albemarle P.S. Since I have wrote my letter I have been
informed Mr. Tracy is in Paris. Colol. Yorke sent for him at my Desire. Mr. Tracy has given him
his Word of Honour (which is again repeated in the inclosed
letter I have the honour of transmitting to Your Grace) that if he is allow’d to take his Wife out of the Convent, and to carry
her to England he will use her well. This I thought the best way of
proceeding and therefore I have stops(?) any
application to the French Minister. I shall see Mr. Tacy
myself to morrow, when I will make him renew, in
the most solemn manner, the same promise he has made to Colol.
Yorke. Alb |
1768 Members of Ultonia Irish Regiment
Murphy, W.S., An
Irish Regiment in Mexico, 1768-1771 in 'The Irish
Sword' (Dublin) 2:8 (Summer
1956), pp. 257-263. Members of Ultonia
Irish regiment of the Spanish
army arrived in Mexico on
18 June 1768 as a part of Charles III's
strategy to protect that country from a possible
British invasion. Most of the officers were Irish or had Irish family names. The regiment returned to Spain in
1771. Short biographies of Colonel Marcos Keating, Cadet Carlos Connely, Captain Lucas Treby (Tracy), Captain
Patricio O'Heir, Captain
Diego Barry, and Captain Diego Quinn.
1794 Irish
College Toulouse
Six Irish student had
been imprisoned in the Irish College in Toulouse…released on 30 October
[1794]…The six students were Tracy, O’Meara, Cotter, Murphy, and two brothers
named MacCarthy. In their session of 7 November 1794,
the Committee of Public Safety ordered that the navy put them on a neutral ship
to Hamburg and from hence to Ireland.
Swords, Liam (19??) The green cockade, the Irish in the French Revolution
1789-1815.
References:
D'Alton, John (1855) Illustrations Historical and
Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List (1689).
Dublin.
Lawless, Emily (1902) With the wild geese. Isbister & Co. Ltd.
O'Callaghan,
John Cornelius (1870) History of the Irish Brigades in the service of France. Cameron & Ferguson, Glasgow.
Ó
hAnmracháin, Eoghan:
‘Wexford Veterans in the Hôtel Royal des Invalids,
Paris’ in The Past 2006.