Reply. Try doing what I did which was to Google it, and you will find a page at genuki. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/History/Barons/barons1.html There is no Lord Appleby of the Irish Peerage. However for the benefit of those who know nothing about the British Peerage one or two points. First of all they are not a S-I topic. Generally as I never tire of reminding you we are the spearman and the chorus. The number of members of the peerage who are us are very limited. Secondly they can seem complicated and I suggest that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peerage gives an idea of how it works. Finally there is no body of people who have had as much genealogical research carried out on them. One you master the tools they are dead easy to work with I'm sorry that the early 18th Century Margaret Clifford, daughter of Lord Appleby married to Thomas Coke earl of Leicester, who was admitted 13 August 1734 to the titles of baroness Clifford, Westmorland and Veici. Upon her death 28 February 1775, the honours descended to the family of Southwel. So it seems as if your story is not confirmed. However very often these stories have a kernel of truth, the only thing is to get at it. I can't find any Appleby or Southwel in my 1975 copy of Burk's Peerage. You might get something in Burke's Extinct and dormant titles, http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=48498 An Irish Lord is the same as any British lord provided the title survived. Where it is difficult are the extinct titles especially the ones who lost them by attainder and the like. Edward > -----Original Message----- > From: scotch-irish-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:scotch-irish-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of JsMuns@aol.com > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 6:41 PM > To: SCOTCH-IRISH@rootsweb.com > Subject: [S-I] Lord Appleby > > Does anyone know how to search Irish "Lords". My family's > oral history states that we are descendants of Lord Appleby > of Ireland. The story goes that his daughter Margaret > married John McMullen and so was disinherited by her father, > so they emigrated to American (this would probably be in the mid > 1700s) > Jane Munson > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message