Colonel Thomas Prior; wife unidentified

Colonel Thomas Prior, the elder son of Thomas and Elizabeth Prior, inherited his father’s Irish estates. He raised a militia corps, commanding them as Colonel, before being killed by rebels in 1700. Were these unnamed rebels anything to do with the dispossessed Cashin and Fitzpatrick families?

Thomas Prior had four sons and four daughters, including Richard, Thomas and Mary.\\The name of his wife is as yet unidentified - will it be discovered by you?

Sources: John & John B. Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland: M to Z,London: Henry Colburn Publisher, 1846, p.1075; Family Bible, Burkes Landed? Gentry, Clarke.