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Wallers in Ireland

Richard Warren Waller [12]

Richard Warren Waller [12] (pictured at right [6])moved to Ireland during or soon after the Civil War of 1642-1646. He was a puritan, probably a Quaker, and served as an officer in the army of Cromwell, probably during the conquest of Ireland in 1649. He acquired Castle Cully, originally owned by the Ryan (originally O'Mulrian) family, which was on the western slopes of Keeper Hill in the vicinity of Newport in southwestern Tipperary County, near Limerick. He also acquired a substantial amount of land near the Castle and elsewhere, totalling 1195 acres. Richard Waller was a petitioner to the Council of Agents of the Army in 1655 on behalf of the regiments regarding the conditions of the lands that they received in grant from the government in recompense for service. This was transcribed in the notes of Dr. William Petty in his notes from the Down Survey of 1655-6. These petitions clearly show that Lieutenant Richard Warren Waller was acting on behalf of the English government in Ireland, and that his land was at least in part granted for his past and present duties [5].

Cully was in ruins as a result of the war and Richard never lived in the castle; he purchased a house in South Ward near the present St. John's Square in Limerick City, using funds from his inheritance. Cully was later rebuilt, using stones from the original castle and renamed Castle Waller (see Castle Waller). According to the 1860 Ordinance Survey letters of Co. Tipperary, its original walls were 38 by 32 and a half feet, six feet four inches thick, and fifty feet in length [1].

There has been controversy surrounding the identity of Richard Warren Waller's wife Dorothy. At one time, she was asserted to be a daughter of Sir William Waller, the major general who was commander-in-chief of the forces of Parliament in the English Civil War.of 1642. According to this explanation, Richard Warren (supposedly of the family of Warrens of the Earls of Surrey), changed his name from Warren to Waller when he married the illustrious general's daugter. This appeared in a genealogy published by Burke in the 1858 edition of Landed Gentry. Hardress De Warrenne Waller [2] disputes this claim. Firstly, Sir William Waller was prominent hitorical figure whose three marriages and their offspring are well documented but there is no record of a daughter Dorothy. Also, a Warren to Waller name change would seem odd inasmuch as there was no title or inheritance to go with it, unlike the baronetcy that passed to Jonathan Wathen from Sir William Waller throuh his son Thomas (Jonathan changed his name to Jonathan Wathen-Waller, see Origins of Our Family). Furthermore, the name "Warren alias Waller" appellation dates to the first half of the sixteenth century (see Origins).

In the 1863 (4th.) edition of Burke's Landed Gentry, Dorothy was described as related to Lord Carlingford and who by her marriage passed the Tipperary property to Richard Warren Waller. and owner of Lord Carlingford's Tipperary property. According to Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Barnham Swift was created Viscount Carlingford in 1627/8 but died without a male heir, the peerage becoming extinct. His daughter Mary married Robert Feilding who then "squandered all her property" [3]. The Earldom of Carlingford was later created (in 1661) for the royalist Theobald Taaffe, Viscount Taaffe of Corren, who commanded the rebel Roman Catholic Irish army in Connaught and Munster, and would have been unlikely to marry a daughter to a Protestant Cromwellian officer. In fact, the identity of Richard Warren Waller's wife Dorothy remains a mystey and the above theories proposed for her parentage remain unfounded speculations. Similarly, Elizabeth Redmond, wife of Richard Waller (1a) is of unknown parentage even though her surname is known. This is another area for further research but so far we have found no records.

Note: Each entry in the pedigrees that follow is identified with a unique number/letter code, beginning with (1) *Richard Warren Waller [12], the founder of the Wallers of Ireland. All names in boldface have the surname Waller except where noted. Direct antecedents of the authors are marked with * with the number of generations from the younger author shown in italics.

Samuel Waller [9]	Signature of Anne Jocelyn, from marriage pre-agreement  (1730)

Monument in the cemetary of St. John's Church, Newport, Tipperary, to the memory of Sir Robert Waller (1d1a1 a), 2nd. Baronet of Newport and eldest son of Sir Robert Waller, 1st. Baronet  (contributed by Karin Waller)	Waller graves. (contributed by Richard & Helen Sanders)