I just thought I'd note down any profiles on here for early Comerfords who are possibly the ancestors of quite a few Comerford descendants today:
Who is one of the Comerfords of Ballybut Castle and Kilkenny City:
http://comerfordfamily.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/4-comerford-of-ballyb...
And I suppose we should also include Baldric le Teuton, who the more... sexed-up genealogies would have as a much earlier ancestor:
* Balderic the Teuton, 1st Lord of Bacqueville
Interestingly, the DNA could throw some light on this (I'm going to start another thread on DNA testing). The possibility that Comerford Y DNA goes back through the Salian Franks might fit with a man going by the name of "le Teuton", but Baldric's sons are also said to be the start of such prestigious families as the Nevilles, Baskervilles and Dandos and I don't know of any evidence to support this. However, it is a testable hypothesis.
This is one of the heads of the Comerord family in Cork:
See:
http://comerfordfamily.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/12-comerford-of-wexfo...
Another Comerford that comes up in an isolated clump adjacent to better known posh families, this from the mid to late 1600s:
Links in The Peerage:
http://www.thepeerage.com/p27380.htm#i273792
Another Butler-adjacent Comerford, although doubt has been cast on his existence:
See:
http://comerfordfamily.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/6-comerford-of-ballym...