The Fenton Baronetcy, of Mitchelstown in the County of Cork, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 22 July 1661 for Maurice Fenton. The baronetcy became extinct on 17 March 1670, with the death of his son William Fenton.
Sir Maurice Fenton, of Mitchelstown, had been dubbed a knight on the morning of 7 June 1658 at Cork House by Henry Cromwell, Lord Deputy of Ireland under the Commonwealth which passed into oblivion at the Restoration.[4][5] 23 October 1653 he married Elizabeth, daughter of the regicide Sir Hardress Waller and Elizabeth Dowdall of Castletown, in the county of Limerick, and by her, who married secondly, in 1667, Sir William Petty, and was created Baroness Shelburne in her own right,[1] Maurice left at his death, in 1664, two children:
William (died 17 March 1670), son and heir on whose death the title became extinct and the estates went to his aunt Catherine's descendants and were inherited by the Earls of Kingston.[1]
^Lodge & Archdall 1789, p. 229 like, Burke & Burke 1844, p. 605, state that Maurice Fenton was made a baronet by the Lord Protector Richard Cromwell at Whithall on 25 May 1658 and by patent on 14 July the same year, however, other more modern sources (such as Shaw 1906, p. 224), do not record this baronetcy and on that date, Richard Cromwell was not Lord Protector (his father Oliver was).
Burke, Sir Bernard (1855), A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 2 (2 ed.), Hurst and Blackett, p. 48
Lodge, John; Archdall, Mervyn (1789), The Peerage of Ireland: Or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. With Engravings of Their Paternal Coats of Arms. ... By John Lodge, ... Revised, Enlarged and Continued to the Present Time; by Mervyn Archdall, ..., James Moore, p. 229
Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (1976), Burke's Irish Family Records, London: Burkes Peerage
Attribution
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard (1844), "Fenton of Mitchelstown", A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2 ed.), J. R. Smith, p. 605
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard (1844), "Fenton of Mitchelstown", A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2 ed.), J. R. Smith, p. 605
