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b. c. 1621, 2nd s. of Rev. Richard Sankey of Balderton Hall, Myddle, Salop, and Anne, da. of Hilary Smolt of Burford Castle, Dors.J.E. Auden, ‘Sir Jerome Zankey’, Trans. Salop Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. i. 172-3. educ. Trinity, Camb. Michaelmas 1637; Clare, 4 July 1640; BA 1641; MA 1644;Al. Cant. DCL May 1649;Reg. Visitors Univ. Oxford, 173, 227. DCL (h.c.), Trin. Coll. Dublin Aug. 1655.Merc. Politicus, no. 272 (23-9 Aug. 1655), 5578. m. bef. Sept. 1655, s.p.Henry Cromwell Corresp. 63, 67, 69; Auden, ‘Zankey’, 177. Kntd. 16 Nov. 1658.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 224. d. 1686.Auden, ‘Zankey’, 177.
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Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of Sir William Brereton* by Apr. 1643; maj. by Apr. 1645-Feb. 1648;Brereton Letter Bks. i. 324; SP28/51, f. 118. maj. of horse, regt. of Oliver Cromwell*, army in Ireland, June-c.Nov. 1649;SP28/61, ff. 442, 444; SP28/64, f. 13. col. Dec. 1649–60.HMC 7th Rep. 74; SP28/65, f. 6. Gov. Clonmel, co. Tipperary 1651-bef. Feb. 1657.Ire. under the Commonwealth, i. 100; Chatsworth, CM/29, unfol.: 27 Sept. 1656; Bodl. Carte 64, f. 460v. Cdr. Irish brigade, Aug.-Dec. 1659.Clarke Pprs. iv. 45.

Academic: fell. All Souls Coll. Oxf. by July 1648–1653; sub-warden, 29 Mar. 1649. Proctor, Oxf. Univ. Apr. 1649.Reg. of Visitors of Oxford, 1647–58 ed. M. Burrows (Camden Soc. n.s. xxix), 173, 227.

Irish: trustee, maintenance of Trin. Coll. and free sch. Dublin 8 Mar. 1650;A. and O. new coll. in Dublin, c. 1657 – 60; Erasmus Smith’s charity, Dec. 1657–d.Barnard, Cromwellian Ireland, 192n, 210. Commr. Kilkenny articles, 12 May 1652;TCD, MS 844, ff. 118–123. high ct. of justice, Dublin 30 Dec. 1652.TCD, MS 844, f. 136. Member, cttee. to settle Irish lands, 4 Jan. 1653; plague and poor relief, Dublin 7 June 1653. Commr. Ulster transplantation, July 1653. Asst. to parlty. commrs. Aug. 1653.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 309, 344, 360, 369. J.p. co. Dublin 15 Sept. 1653–?TCD, MS 844, f. 139v. Commr. assessment, co. and city of Dublin, cos. Kilkenny, Tipperary 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). Member, ct. martial for transplantation, 19 Mar. 1655.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 490. Agent for army in land settlement, July 1655–9.Down Survey ed. T.A. Larcom (Dublin, 1851), 76. Commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Auditor, land settlement, Dec. 1658.Down Survey ed. Larcom, 265–7.

Local: commr. assessment, Westminster, Staffs., Surr. 9 June 1657.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1655); A. and O.

Civic: burgess, Trim, co. Meath bef. Jan. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 149n.

Parlimentarian
SANKEY, Jerome (c.1621-86), of Coolmore, co. Tipperary.
: co. Tipperary.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SANKEY, Jerome (c.1621-86), of Coolmore, co. Tipperary.

Will
d. intestate (admon. 4 Feb. 1687).Auden, ‘Zankey’, 178.
Estates
lease of Camyse, Middlethird barony, co. Tipperary, 22 Mar. 1652; £200 p.a. in Irish land, awarded Oct. 1652;Eg. 1762, ff. 34v-5r, 58; CJ vii. 117b-8a, 194b. granted c.900 acres in the barony of Iffa and Offa, co. Tipperary, mid-1650s.J.P. Prendergast, Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland (1865), 202-3; cf. Bottigheimer, English Money and Irish Land (Oxford, 1971), 209. In 1670 held land in Kilkenny Liberties and in 71 townlands in and around Tralee, Trughnackny barony, co. Kerry.Down Survey website.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Little Gaberagh, St Michan’s par., Dublin 1659.Irish Census, 1659, 373.
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