Sir Hugh Culme

Biography

https://www.dib.ie/biography/culme-sir-hugh-a2286

Culme, Sir Hugh (d. 1630), army officer, was a younger son of Hugh Culme of Canonleigh, Devon, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Richard Fortescue of Filleigh, Devon; he had at least three brothers including Benjamin Culme, dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. A relative of Lord Deputy Chichester (qv), and of Faithful Fortescue (qv), he appears to have to gone to Ireland as a soldier by 1606. From 12 April 1606 to 9 December 1619 he held the office of saymaster for the testing of leather. By 1608 he was stationed at Cloughoughter castle, Co. Cavan, where he was appointed constable. He was granted a lease of Cloughoughter and surrounding lands on 8 February 1620, granted outright in December 1624; though its ward was discharged, the castle was intended for the detention of catholic priests.

Culme was knighted on 4 October 1623. He married Mary Emerson of Derbyshire; the couple had at least four sons and three daughters. He died 19 June 1630 at Cloughoughter. His widow may have been the ‘Dame Mary Culme’, wife and later widow of General Michael Jones (qv).

References

• -https://www.dib.ie/biography/culme-sir-hugh-a2286
• -https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Culme-4
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dermod-1 cites

1. The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland 1652-1660, 2009, by John P Prendergast, page 384, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PXWo7Ic0SLIC&pg=PA458
2. Trevelyan Papers, 1857, by John Payne Collier, page 420, https://archive.org/details/trevelyanpapers03trevgoog/page/n420
3. Sir Hugh Culme, knight, who died in 1630, having married first Mary Emerson ; and secondly Dermod, who survived him, and married Colonel Jones
4. "Michael Jones: Governor of Dublin" in Dublin Historical Record, December 1970, by Alma Brooke-Tyrrell, volume 24, number 1, pages 159-172, https://www.jstor.org/stable/30103903
5. Somewhere about [6 February 1646] he also got married. The lady was Dame Mary Culme and it was a very happy, if short-lived marriage. "My beloved lady", he called her in his will.
6. Journals of the House of Commons, 1650, volume 6, page 431, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e0hIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA431
7. 25 June 1650 | The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland reports from the Council of State The humble Petition of Dame Mary Culme late Wife of Lieutenant General Michael Jones and Executrix of his last Will and Testament | Which was this Day read. Resolved That so much Lands of the Irish Rebels, Ireland, as are of the clear yearly Value of Two Pounds be settled on Doctor Henry Jones and his Heirs : And that the Committee to whom the Act for Lands of Five hundred Pounds per Annum on General Jones, and his Heirs, do consider what are fit to be settled ; and present an Act to the House for that Purpose | Resolved, That it be referred to the Committee of Army to consider how Two hundred Pounds may be advanced to be paid to the Lady Culme upon Account towards her present Subsistence ; and report it to House.