Biography

Sir John Hurley was a grandson of Sir Maurice Hurley of Knocklong, eldest son of Sir Thomas and Joanna. His father, Sir William, was an M.P. for Kilmallock in 1689 and married Mary Blount.

Of him, a family website states:
He appears to be the John Hurley who was a recruiter for the Irish Brigades in the early 18th century (p.204) but is confused in the sources with his cousion, Colonel John Hurley

Colonel John Hurley

Colonel John Hurley, Jacobite soldier and Rapparee, fl. December 1694.-Biography:Colonel Hurley was a son of John Hurley, and a grandson of another John Hurley, a younger son of Sir Thomas Hurley of Knocklong, County Limerick, and Joanna, daudaughter of John Brown, of Mount Brown, County Limerick...

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He was a cousion of Luis Roberto de Lacy

Luis Roberto de Lacy

Luis Roberto de Lacy was a Spanish hero, "a heroic martyr in his country's cause", a famous Brigadier General of the Spanish Army who fought for Spain in the Peninsular War. He came from an Irish family that had already seen two generations serving in the Spanish army. His grandfather Patrick de...

 (1772-1817), Brigadier General of the Spanish Army who fought for Spain in the Peninsular War

Peninsular War

The Peninsular War was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French and Spanish armies crossed Spain and invaded Portugal in 1807. Then, in 1808, France turned on its...

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Family tree

Teige Ó hUirthile, lord of Knocklong, County Limerick and Chief of the Name
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Dermod Tomás Ó hUirthile, fl. 1585.
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| Randal Maurice Ó hUirthile of Knocklong, fl. 1601-34.
| =Racia Thornton (dsp) =Gráinne Ní hÓgáin
John, 18th Baron Kingsale

Baron Kingsale

The Barony of Kingsale is one of the most ancient peerage titles in Britain or Ireland. The Barony, in the Peerage of Ireland, dates to the thirteenth century, perhaps being created circa 1223, though other sources give different dates. The first creation was by writ. The title was officially...

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Sir Thomas O'Hurley
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Sir Maurice, died c. 1683. John Catherine Anne Grace Elinora
=? =? =Peirce, Lord Dunboyne =Daniel Ó Maoilriain

Ó Maoilriain

Ó Maoilriain, Gaelic-Irish surname, anglicised as Mulryan or Ryan.-Overview:This family claim descent from one Maoil Riagháin, who was named in honour of a Saint Riagháin....

  =Walter Bourke =David Barry
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Sir William, fl. 1689. John
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Sir John Hurley', fl. 1714. Colonel John Hurley, fl. 1694.

See also

• Diarmaid Ó hUrthuile, Archbishop of Cashel
  Archbishop of Cashel
  The Archbishop of Cashel is an archiepiscopal title which takes its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. The title is still in use in the Roman Catholic Church, but in the Church of Ireland it was downgraded to a bishopric in 1838....
  
  , c. 1530 – 21 June 1584.
• Colonel John Hurley
  Colonel John Hurley
  Colonel John Hurley, Jacobite soldier and Rapparee, fl. December 1694.-Biography:Colonel Hurley was a son of John Hurley, and a grandson of another John Hurley, a younger son of Sir Thomas Hurley of Knocklong, County Limerick, and Joanna, daudaughter of John Brown, of Mount Brown, County Limerick...
  
  , raparee, fl. 1694.