Fitzpatrick and Howe ancestors

Extract from Fitzpatrick family tree, Shearman, 1878, p.402.

Little was known about George Goodfellow's Fitzpatrick and Howe ancestors until the discovery of a Fitzpatrick family tree and Jane (Howe) Fitzpatrick's residences in the England Census 1841 - 1901.

This family tree came from a connection with Matthew Fitzpatrick's family in New South Wales.

It contains the correct information that Grace [Fitzpatrick], a daughter of John Fitzpatrick and Jane Howe, married [Henry] Goodfellow.  

Further searching for John E. FitzPatrick 14th Hussars, found its source in a long journal article devoted to the ancient Earls of Ossory in Ireland. This Fitzpatrick family tree is between unrelated pages of text.  

Fitzpatricks of Ballogh link to the Fitzpatricks of Ballyboodan through the father of 2. Joseph Fitzpatrick, who was 1. John Fitzpatrick, son of Thady Fitzpatrick (d.1674).  

Shearman, J. F. “Loca Patriciana: Part XII. The Early Kings of Ossory: The Seven Kings of Cashel Usurpers in Ossory: The Kings of the Silmaelodra-Of the Clan Maelaithgen - Maelduin Mac Cumiscagh-Cearbhall Mac Dungal: The Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ossory, &c., &c. Martin the Elder, a Patrician Missionary in Ossory: His Churches.” The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, vol. 4, no. 33/34, 1878, pp. 336–408. JSTOR, Accessed 16 Nov. 2023.

Early Kings of Ossory

Matthew Fitzpatrick, younger brother of John, was a Captain in the 39th Regiment which served in New South Wales between 1825 and 1832.  The Fitzpatricks in Australia since the mid-1800s trace their ancestry to the Fitzpatricks of Ballagh from the mid-1700s and back to the Baron of Upper Ossory.  The Fitzpatrick Society  website has comprehensive research about the family history.

Jane (Howe) Fitzpatrick's birthplace in Clerkenwell London was in the 1851 and 1861 Census.  If Jane was 50 in 1841 and 60 in 1851, she was born in about 1791, rather than 1795.