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Hester Moore, Lady Charleville

d. 1789

Heiress. Daughter of James Coghill (d. 1734), registrar of the Prerogative Court in Ireland, and his wife Anne Pearson of Rathmore, county Meath. Married Charles Moore, second baron Tullamore, in Dublin in 1737; he was created earl of Charleville in 1758 and died childless in 1764. Married secondly in Dublin Major John Mayne of Iver, Buckinghamshire, who took the name Coghill, in 1765; he died childless in 1785.

Sources

Brigg ed. 1902–10, 2: 237, 239

Complete peerage

Langman ed. 1915 pp. 16, 28

Bibliography

Complete peerage: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. By George Edward Cokayne. Revised edition. Edited by Vicary Gibbs, et al. 13 vols. in 14. London: St Catherine Press. 1910–59.

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