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s. of William Tighe of Market Deeping, Lincs., and Mary, da. of Tobias Houghton of Kelthorpe, Rutland. m. Mary, da. of Thomas Rooke of London, 1s. 3da. d. 20 Feb. 1673.NLI, GO MS 67, p. 199.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. regt. of Sir Arthur Culme, parlian. army in Ireland, May 1649.CSP Dom. 1649–50, pp. 165, 535. Col. of ft. Dublin 14 Dec. 1659, 25 Oct. 1660.Cal. Ancient Recs. Dublin IV ed. J. T. Gilbert (Dublin, 1894), 123, 172.

Civic: sheriff, Dublin Oct. 1649–50;Cal. Ancient Recs. Dublin III ed. J. T. Gilbert (Dublin, 1892), 491, 501. auditor, Oct. 1650;Cal. Ancient Recs. Dublin III, 504. alderman, Oct. 1650;Cal. Ancient Recs. Dublin III, 508. mayor, Oct. 1651–2, Oct. 1655–6. Feb. 1653 – Aug. 1655Cal. Ancient Recs. Dublin IV, 9, 10, 80, 82. Mayor of staple,, Feb. 1661-Jan. 1662;Irish Statute Staple Bks. 328–9. treas. Oct. 1653–?Cal. Ancient Recs. Dublin IV, 51.

Irish: commr. assessment, city and co. Dublin 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655; co. Kildare 12 Jan. 1655.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). J.p. Dublin 2 June 1656–?Cal. Ancient Recs. Dublin IV, 95. Commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656;A. and O. poll money, Dublin, co. Kildare 24 Apr. 1660, 1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 620–1, 638–9. Sheriff, co. Kildare 1662.NLI, GO MS 67, p. 199.

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TIGHE, Richard (d. 1673), of St Catherine’s parish, Dublin.

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adventurer estates purchased 1654: 2,800 acres in Westmeath, King’s and Queen’s Cos.K. Bottigheimer, Eng. Money and Irish Land (Oxford, 1971), 211. Lands in Confy, co. Kildare, sold to Colonel Henry Markham* bef. 1660.CSP Ire. 1660-2, pp. 78, 84. After 1660 possessed lands in cos. Carlow, Dublin and Westmeath. Held lease of Oxmantown Green, Feb. 1664-d.Cal. Ancient Recs. Dublin IV, 285-6. In 1670 held land in 10 townlands, Delvin barony, co. Westmeath.Down Survey website.
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