Barton Family History
Barton, Folliott Warren
1798 - 1870 (72 years)-
Name Barton, Folliott Warren Born 15 Sep 1798 Gender Male Mentioned - In 1845 just before famine struck Ireland there was a great deal of unrest in the countryside. Such was the unrest of the time that a notice of a reward of £1000 was printed in the Ballyshannon Herald for information received in regard to Ribbonmen or Molly Maguires in the local countryside. In a celebrated murder attempt of the day Folliott W Barton J.P. one of the Bartons of Clonelly was the intended victim of an attack and the entire weight of the law of the country descended on the locality in an effort to suppress what was considered the beginning of an uprising. As the newspaper reports the events Mr F.W. Barton had been on his way home to Clonelly near Pettigo when he had been shot. He had been on horseback coming from his relatives house at the Waterfoot. An immediate reward was posted for the capture of the assassin. In the same newspaper edition of November 1845 it states that a great rot has set in among the potatoes and that the crop failure earlier reported from England now seemed to be in Ireland.
On January 9th of 1846 the Ballyshannon Herald reports that two brothers by the name of Fitzpatrick were now lodged in Enniskillen Jail on suspicion of the attempted assassination. One of them James Fitzpatrick was in fact now dead and the other still protesting their innocence. They just happened to be passing along the road at the time and the newspaper comments in their defence that they had always been thought to have been loyal Protestants. In those days just to be put in jail could easily be a death sentence.
_UID 8DCE1D9A5AF99945A8288E12440EC038FD94 Died 28 Sep 1870 Ireland 
Person ID I0445 Barton Family Tree Last Modified 17 Jul 2010
Father Barton, William, b. 20 Aug 1758, d. 18 May 1835 (Age 76 years) Mother Warren, Anne Issabella, d. Yes, date unknown Married 6 Jul 1796 Family ID F0094 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Montague, Ellen, d. Yes, date unknown Married Type: Y Children 1. Barton, Edward, b. 17 Aug 1848, Ireland , d. 10 Apr 1885, St Thomas Home, London, England (Age 36 years)Last Modified 17 Jul 2010 Family ID F0163 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 ?, d. Yes, date unknown Married Type: Y Children 1. Barton, Thomas, b. 1837, Clonelly, Fermanagh, Ireland , d. 1 Jan 1898, Clonelly, Murga, , New South Wales, Australia (Age 61 years)Last Modified 17 Jul 2010 Family ID F0171 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- In 1845 just before famine struck Ireland there was a great deal of unrest in the countryside. Such was the unrest of the time that a notice of a reward of £1000 was printed in the Ballyshannon Herald for information received in regard to Ribbonmen or Molly Maguires in the local countryside. In a celebrated murder attempt of the day Folliott W Barton J.P. one of the Bartons of Clonelly was the intended victim of an attack and the entire weight of the law of the country descended on the locality in an effort to suppress what was considered the beginning of an uprising. As the newspaper reports the events Mr F.W. Barton had been on his way home to Clonelly near Pettigo when he had been shot. He had been on horseback coming from his relatives house at the Waterfoot. An immediate reward was posted for the capture of the assassin. In the same newspaper edition of November 1845 it states that a great rot has set in among the potatoes and that the crop failure earlier reported from England now seemed to be in Ireland.
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Died - 28 Sep 1870 - Ireland 
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