My Miller and Mather ancestors, their friends, neighbours and associates.
1774 - 1827 (53 years)| 1. | Jacob Poole was born on 11 Feb 1774 in Growtown, County Wexford, Ireland; died on 20 Nov 1827 in Janeville, County Wexford, Ireland; was buried on 22 Nov 1827 in Taghmon Parish, Forest, Growtown, Wexford, Ireland. Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: POOLE, JACOB (1774? 1827), antiquary, son of Joseph Poole and his wife Sarah, daughter of Jacob Martin of Aghfad, co. Wexford, was born at Growtown, co. Wexford, 11 Feb. 1774. His parents were members of the Society of Friends, and he was seventh in descent from Thomas and Catherine Poole of Dortrope, Northamptonshire. Their son, Richard Poole, came to Ireland with the parliamentary army in 1649, turned quaker, was imprisoned for his religion at Wexford and Waterford, and died in Wexford gaol, to which he was committed for refusing to pay tithe in 1665. Jacob succeeded to the family estate of Growtown, in the parish of Taghmon, in 1800, and farmed his own land. He studied the customs and language of the baronies of Bargy and Forth, on the edge of the former of which his estate lay. The inhabitants used to speak an old English dialect, dating from the earliest invasion of the country, and he collected the words and phrases of this expiring language from his tenants and labourers. This collection was edited by the Rev. William Barnes from the original manuscript, and published in 1867 as 'A Glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy.' The glossary contains about fifteen hundred words, noted with great fidelity. The dialect is now extinct, and this glossary, with a few words in Holinshed and some fragments of verse, is its sole authentic memorial. Poole completed the glossary and a further vocabulary or gazetteer of the local proper names in the last five years of his life. He died 20 Nov. 1827, and was buried in the graveyard of the Society of Friends at Forest, co. Wexford. He married, 13 May 1813, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Deborah Sparrow of Holmstown, co. Wexford, and had three sons and three daughters. A poem in memory of Poole, called 'The Mountain of Forth,' by Richard Davis Webb, who had known and admired him, was published in 1867, and it was owing to Mr. Webb's exertions that the glossary was published. Jacob married Mary Sparrow on 13 May 1813 in Taghmon Parish, Forest, Growtown, Wexford, Ireland. Mary (daughter of Thomas Sparrow and Deborah) was born in 1782; died on 9 Mar 1872 in Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland; was buried on 12 Mar 1872 in Taghmon Parish, Forest, Growtown, Wexford, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 2. | Sarah Poole  (1.Jacob1) was born on 3 Mar 1814 in Growtown, County Wexford, Ireland; and died. Other Events and Attributes:
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| 3. | Jacob Poole (1.Jacob1) was born about 1826 in CountyWexford, Ireland; died on 15 Jun 1862 in Ballybeg Townland, Ferns Parish, Gorey, Wexford, Ireland; was buried on 17 Jun 1862 in Taghmon Parish, Forest, Growtown, Wexford, Ireland. Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: Land & Property: Family/Spouse: Hannah Catherine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 4. | Deborah Poole (1.Jacob1) was born in 1815; and died. Other Events and Attributes:
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| 5. | Eliza Poole (1.Jacob1) was born in 1818; and died. Other Events and Attributes:
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| 6. | Joseph Poole (1.Jacob1) was born in 1822; and died. Other Events and Attributes:
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| 7. | Thomas Poole (1.Jacob1) was born in 1824; and died. Other Events and Attributes:
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| 8. | Joseph Poole (3.Jacob2, 1.Jacob1) was born in 1859 in County Wexford, Ireland; and died. Other Events and Attributes:
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| 9. | Benjamin Poole (3.Jacob2, 1.Jacob1) was born in 1861 in County Wexford, Ireland; and died. Other Events and Attributes:
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