{"id":365,"date":"2009-03-02T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanningfamilyhistory.com\/fanning-darmody-hayescormack-petition-1858"},"modified":"2023-05-26T05:43:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T05:43:12","slug":"fanning-darmody-tipperary-petition-1858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/02\/fanning-darmody-tipperary-petition-1858\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanning and Darmody the Cormack Petition 1858 Co Tipperary Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brothers, Daniel and William Cormack, from\u00a0<span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Loughmore<\/span> Co Tipperary were publicly hanged outside\u00a0<span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Nenagh<\/span> Gaol on May 11, 1858 after being found guilty of the murder of John Ellis, a land agent in\u00a0<span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Loughmore<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel and William always maintained that they had played no part in the crime, and they were supported by some 2,357 people who signed a petition protesting the brothers&#8217; innocence. The commonly held view at the time was that a local landlord had shot Ellis in a crime of passion involving Ellis&#8217; sister, and that the Cormack brothers had been framed for murder.<\/p>\n<p>Motivated by growing unease at the convictions and executions, a petition was organized for presentation to Parliament that requested the setting up of an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the conviction of the Cormack Brothers and into the administration of criminal justice in Ireland generally.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew\u00a0Darmody\u00a0Hollyford,\u00a0Darby\u00a0Darmody Hollyford,\u00a0George\u00a0Darmody\u00a0Moyne,<br \/>\nJohn\u00a0Darmody\u00a0Holycross,\u00a0John\u00a0Darmody Clerihan, Owen Darmody Hollyford, Thomas\u00a0Darmody\u00a0Hollyford,\u00a0Tobias\u00a0Darmody Hollyford,\u00a0Jeremiah\u00a0Darmody signed the petition.<\/p>\n<p>Fannings\u00a0who signed this petition were Daniel Fanning\u00a0Thurles,\u00a0Jeffry Fanning\u00a0Thurles,\u00a0William Fanning\u00a0Thurles,\u00a0Edward Fanning\u00a0Drom,\u00a0John Fanning\u00a0Drom,\u00a0Thomas Fanning\u00a0Drom,\u00a0Edward (Edmond) Fanning Two-Mile-Borris,\u00a0Edmond Fanning Two-Mile-Borris,\u00a0John Fanning New Birmingham,\u00a0Joseph Fanning\u00a0Moycarkey,\u00a0William Fanning\u00a0Moyne,\u00a0William Fanning\u00a0Roscrea,\u00a0John Fanning\u00a0Borrisoleigh.<\/p>\n<p>The complete <a title=\"Ireland Gen Web\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irelandgenweb.com\/~irltip\/records.htm#cormack\">Cormack Petition<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<p>In 1910 Daniel and William&#8217;s remains were removed from\u00a0<span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Nenagh<\/span> Gaol and brought home to\u00a0<span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Loughmore<\/span> in a major ceremony, with two hearses drawn by plumed horses and followed by huge crowds. After the procession arrived in the village, the Cormack brothers were buried in a large mausoleum in the local churchyard, where people still go to see the original oak coffins and the inscription proclaiming the brothers&#8217; innocence.<\/p>\n<p>Source for this list was from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.censusfinder.com\/irish-census-records5.htm\">http:\/\/www.censusfinder.com\/irish-census-records5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of Co Tipperary Fanning and Darmody signatories to the Cormack Petition 1858.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[207,223,283,539,565],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darmody","category-fanningfannin-2","tag-cormack","tag-darmody","tag-fanning","tag-petitions","tag-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}