The parents of Mary and John Sparling where BROTHERS: PHilip and Christopher Sparling.
Philip Sparling
Son of Christopher Stuffle Sparling and Margaret Mary (Legier) Sparling
Brother of John Sparling, Peter Sparling, Catherine Sparling, George Sparling, Margaret Sparling, Catherine Sparling and Christopher George Sparling
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| Christopher Stuffle Sparling | ||
| Birth | 1726 | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Death | 1787 | |
| Christopher George Sparling | ||
| Birth | 08 Dec 1762 | Killeheen, County Limerick, Ireland |
| Gender | Male | |
| Death | 19 Oct 1821 | Rouska, County Limerick, Munster, Ireland |
Cause: Murdered ... probably political dispute ....Died 19 OCT 1821. Murdered - by "The Whiteboys". [2]. he name The Whiteboys (in Irish, na Buachaillí Bána, meaning "the white boys") comes from the white smocks or shirts that members wore over their regular clothes during their nighttime raids The Whiteboys (Irish: na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland that defended tenant-farmer land rights for subsistence farming and were particularly anti-Palatine (nothing changes).... https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sparling-509 The murdered Christopher was farming at called Rooska on the Courtney estates[6]. This is now called Rooskagh West or in Galic Rúscach Thiar. This farm is 15km by road from his burial place. "One of the best-known murders of Palatines was that of Christopher Sparling. Sparling, formerly of Adare, was killed ostensibly for taking land on the Courtenay estate, but it seems likely that his murder was at least partly a response to his having injured Whiteboys when they attacked his home three years before. Eight armed men had also broken into his house in broad daylight the previous 16 July (1821) and 'carried away two fine muskets' (NA SCP 2296/10). An account of this murder was recorded by the folklore collector Seosamh O' Dalaigh more than a century later. The seventy-one-year-old informant, Michael Liston of Monige, called the murdered man Sparnell (Sparling was deleted from the manuscript and Sparnell inserted above, which indicates that the collector knew that Sparling was the correct name of the man in question (IFC MS 629, 60-1)). The record in the burial register of Rathkeale church for Christopher Sparling, parish of Newcastle, who was buried on 19 October 1821 in Rathkeale, simply states that he was 'killed by the Whiteboys'. Liston's account states that the Sparlings were 'planted at the butt o' Rooska ... by the landlord' but that 'they were not wanted there'. He goes on to say that a man called Walker was hanged for the murder although he was not the murderer. The Limerick Chronicle,15 February 1823, states that Michael Breen was charged with Sparling's murder. The rentals of the Courtenay estate show that David Barry surrendered a farm at Ruscha [sic], on Lady Day 1819, which was then let to Christopher Sparling.'[7 | ||
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troubles began around Newcastle West in County Limerick that spawned the great Rockite movement of 1821-24, an exceptionally violent agrarian rebellion fueled by a combination of economic, sectarian, and political motives. Named for their mythical leader “Captain Rock,”? the Rockites were especially remarkable for the frequency of their resort to murder and incendiarism as weapons of warfare. They garnered support extending far beyond the ranks of the poor; their movement eventually embraced many of the better-off farmers in the southern region where they exercised an extraordinary sway—most prominently in Limerick and Cork, but also in portions of Kerry, Clare, Tipperary, Waterford, and Kilkenny. The intensity of their grievances, the frequency of their resort to sensational violence, and their appeal on key issues—especially rents and tithes—across a broad front presented a nightmarish challenge to Dublin Castle. This challenge prompted a major reorganization of the police, a purging of the local magistracy, and the introduction of large military reinforcements. Adding fuel to the conflagration was a great upsurge in sectarianism and millenarianism that accompanied this agrarian rebellion. Prophecies of imminent Protestant doom gained a firm hold at the popular level among Catholics in the affected region—indeed, far beyond the seven aforementioned counties. In short, the Rockites showed little inclination to submit to control by Catholic priests or members of the landed elite and presented a stiff test to the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland.’ 4
INTRODUCTION
The Rockite movement involved, then, a sustained outburst of agrarian violence greater than any that had previously occurred in Ireland. This is no small claim, for there had already been a long line of organized and widespread rural protests stretching back to the first “Whiteboy” movement of the early 1760s—a movement that gave rise to common use of the term “Whiteboyism” to denote the seemingly endless succession of agrarian disturbances for which Ireland became notorious in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.* The Whiteboys of the early 1760s were not the very first manifestation of regional agrarian protest in Ireland;
By the eve of the Great Famine gross inequality of income had become characteristic of Irish rural society. At the top of the structure in 1841 there were approximately 50,000 rich and 100,000 “snug” farmers, the mean size of whose holdings was 80 and 950 acres, respectively; together with the 10,000 or so landowners, they cultivated roughly half the land and controlled access to most of the rest. In the middle of the structure were 250,000 family farmers; the mean size of 11,
their holdings was about 20 acres, and they usually met their labor needs from within the family. At the bottom—the depressingly broad base of the social pyramid—were an estimated 1.3 million poor peasants and laborers. These poor peasants, or cottiers (300,000, with a mean holding of 5 acres), and the laborers (1 million, with a mean holding of 1 acre) both worked for wages and purchased food.
Murder without Remorse
Two other murders gave extensive popular satisfaction and furnished a significant stimulus to the growth of organized discontent. One was the fatal shooting of the Palatine Christopher Sparling at Ashgrove near Newcastle in mid-October 1821.?° Sparling’s was a celebrated case because of its special circumstances. Sparling had earlier been persuaded by Hoskins to take the lands of Rooskagh on the Courtenay estate in Ardagh parish. He had invested a large sum in building a new farmhouse and out-offices and in making other improvements, but he fell into a dispute with Hoskins about his rent, as a result of which the agent had Sparling’s substance seized and auctioned at Newcastle. Normally, this characteristically harsh treatment might have elicited sympathy for the victim, but not in this instance because the Palatine Sparling had come to the Courtenay estate in response to Hoskins’s “fair promises to establish a colony of loyal Protestants” on the property. This kind of activity was always likely to provoke a violent response from the Catholic side. In addition, Sparling had also earned hatred in another way. It was said that in an earlier attack on his house at Patrickswell, he had “defended himself and [his] family most nobly, shooting some and wounding others severely.” The consequence was that Sparling and his family were marked down for destruction: “the lower orders seemed to think their assassination [a] meritorious and laudable act.”*! 48
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Notorious victims of the Rockites were repeatedly depicted as terrible warnings to others who might be foolhardy enough to persist in breaking Rockite laws. In December 1821 a County Limerick offender received the terse message, “John Reilly, I desire you to quit this place, or else you may expect the same usage Sparling got... .”°* (The Palatine gentleman Christopher Sparling had been shot and fatally wounded in the previous October.)°?
Captain Rock: the Irish agrarian rebellion of 1821-1824
Parents of Mary Sparling!
- Christopher Sparling (Murdered)....1762–1821
- Ann Corneil1769–1866
Parents of John Sparling, husband of Mary Sparling:
Parents and Siblings
- Philip Sparling1765–1835
- Catherine Ann Cronsberry1763–1845
parents of Philip Sparling
Parents and Siblings
- John Sparling1730–1786
- Catherine Corry1739–1784
When John Sparling was born on 11 May 1730, in County Limerick, Ireland, his father, Jürgen "George" Sparling, was 31 and his mother, Margaret Hanna Steuffel, was 35. He married Elizabeth Teskey on 28 October 1784, in Rathkeale, County Limerick, Ireland.
My great (Chappell/Switzer)-great (Hanley/Switzer)-great (Sparling/Hanley)-Great Grandparents (Sparling/Sparling)
Susanna Sparling's parents were FIRST COUSINS!! DANG!!
John Sparling (1782-1838) married his first cousin Mary Sparling (1786-1871)in 1804.They lived at Maryvale farm, Derry which should be in the parish of Killaloe in County Clare.
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John Sparling, b. 1782, County Clare, Ireland d. 31 Aug 1838, County Clare, Munster, Ireland (Age 56 years) | ||
| Relationship | natural | |
| WIFE | Mary Corneil Sparling, b. 23 May 1786, County Limerick, Ireland d. 04 Sep 1871, St. Marys, Perth County, Ontario | |
He was a farmer. Their son, John Sparling (1812-1871) lived in the townland of Upper Ryninch (or Ryninch Upper) in Co. Tipperary just north of the City of Killaloe.... They emigrated to Upper Canada about 1841 with John's sister, Susanna Hanley, uncle, Christopher Sparling and brother, Frederick Sparling
From Lois Sparling:
John Sparling's first wife, Mary Jane Williams, and a daughter, Ann (1835 - 1852), are buried in the Sparling Cemetery close to St. Marys, Ontario. His mother, Mary Sparling (1786 - 1871) died in St. Marys, Ontario, at the home of his brother, Frederick Aquila Sparling (c. 1817 - 1882). Two of John's older children, Robert Sparling (1840 - 1902) and Mary Jane Sparling (1845 - 1873) are buried in St Marys Cemetery. His son, Rev. Dr. Joseph Walter Sparling (1843 - 1912) is buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg.
A Hanly first married a Sparling in Ireland on February 10, 1831, when Susanna Sparling married Roger Hanly in Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland. [1, 2]Marriage Details
- Date: February 10, 1831
- Location: Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland
- Bride: Susanna (or Susannah) Sparling (born March 30, 1808, in Killaloe)
- Groom: Roger "Rody" Hanly (born January 1812)
- Later Life: The couple later emigrated, appearing in Ontario, Canada, where Susanna passed away in 1898
Cousin marriages were incredibly common among the Irish Palatines due to their unique status as a strict religious and cultural enclave. [1]The Irish Palatines were 300 families of German Protestants from the Palatinate region who fled French invasions and were resettled in Ireland (primarily County Limerick) around 1709. Because they were a small, distinct group drop-planted into a predominantly Irish Catholic landscape, they maintained tight-knit community structures to preserve their culture, landholdings, and Protestant faith. [1]Why Cousin Marriages Occurred Frequently
- Endogamy (Marrying Within the Group): For the first several generations, Irish Palatines married almost exclusively within their own circles. For example, historical records show that in Rathkeale (the heart of Palatine settlement) between 1742 and 1780, only 7 out of 80 recorded marriages involved someone from outside the Palatine community. [1]
- Limited Pool of Partners: With only a few hundred original families—such as the Shiers, Teskeys, Ruttles, Switzers, and Delmages—the community quickly became deeply interconnected. After two or three generations, it became nearly impossible to find a spouse within the community who was not a first, second, or third cousin. [1, 2, 3]
- Preservation of Land and Wealth: Marrying cousins ensured that the valuable land leases granted to them by Protestant landlords remained within the family network rather than being fractured or lost. [1]
Tracing the GenealogyIf you are researching Irish Palatine family trees, you will frequently encounter pedigree collapse (where an individual's family tree shrinks because relatives married each other). It is common to see:
- Sibling Exchanges: Two brothers from one Palatine family marrying two sisters from another.
- Repeated Surnames: Surnames looping back into the tree every generation.
This practice only began to break down in the 19th century as many Irish Palatines converted to Methodism and eventually migrated en masse to Canada and the United States, where their tight-knit communal barriers gradually
It appears my ancestors of Irish-Palantine were inbred cousins?! Sparling-Hanley (Hanly) Maybe that's why they changed the spelling of Hanly to Hanley! Wow.
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- The Marriage: They were married on February 10, 1831, in Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland.
- The Parents: Brother A and Sister A marry Sister B and Brother B (two sibling pairs).
- The First Generation: The children born to these two couples are double first cousins because they share both sets of grandparents (the grandparents from both the maternal and paternal sides are the same two sets of parents).
- Shared DNA: Regular first cousins share about 12.5% of their DNA. Double first cousins share about 25% of their DNA, which is the same amount shared by half-siblings or an aunt/uncle and niece/nephew. [1, 2]
- Genetic Risks: Users on Quora agree that marrying a double cousin elevates the risk of autosomal recessive genetic disorders in offspring compared to unrelated couples, mirroring the risks associated with closer-degree relative unions
- - My mom met "Nettie" - Margaret Annetta J. Switzer
- My mom also met Carry who never married - when my mom was Ten her grandmother Alvina moved Carry into a nursing home.
- "Vinny" was maybe the family name for Alvina....
- Sparling: It began as a medieval nickname. People used it for someone who was small, lively, cheerful, or quick, much like a little bird. [1, 2]
- Linguistic Roots: It comes from Middle High German words related to the sparrow, evolving over time with the umlauted "ü" (spür or sper elements)
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