Sir John Redmond Freke, 3rd Baronet (died 13 April 1764) was a

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in the

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and a

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in the

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. He was the younger son of Sir Ralph Freke, 1st Baronet, by his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of

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. Elizabeth Meade's mother was Elizabeth Redman, the daughter and co-heir of Colonel Daniel Redman of Ballylinch, County Kilkenny. John Redmond Freke succeeded to the baronetcy bestowed on his father on 10 April 1728, on the death of his elder brother

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, the second baronet.

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(1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 16 He was M.P. for

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(a constituency previously represented by his grandfather

Percy Freke Sir Percy Freke, 2nd Baronet (30 April 1700 – 10 April 1728) of West Bilney, Norfolk and Castle Freke, County Cork, was a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain and a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. His first name was ...

) from 1728 until 1760, and for the city of Cork from 1761 until his death. He was Sheriff of Cork in 1750, and

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in 1753. He married Mary Brodrick, the fourth daughter and co-heir of the Hon.

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, (eldest son of

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) by Anne Hill, the sister of

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, and Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon. She died at Castle Freke,

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, on 20 June 1761, and was buried at

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, County Cork. He died without issue on 13 April 1764, and the baronetcy became extinct. His estate was inherited by his sister Grace, who had married Hon. John Evans, a younger son of

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. Burke, John; Burke, John Bernard (1838
''A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England''
Scott, Webster, and Geary. p. 210

References

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