Francois Plunkett*

Audited 31 Jul 2026 — his first, and the first SAINT-DOMINGUE source on this branch. Junctions #2/#7. Until today, all 28 people in the tree carrying a Saint-Domingue event were sourced ONLY to American records; there was no source row for the indemnity at all. ⭐ THE 1825 INDEMNITY REGISTER (État détaillé, registre V p. 492, Titre 52654; record page read 31 Jul) names him ANCIEN PROPRIÉTAIRE, 'pour moitié', of the SUCRERIE 'DITE ROMAIN', quartier Boucan-Lafrance, paroisse de TORBECK - a sugar plantation valued at 32.000 F. The other half was held by BOYER DE LA GAUTRAYE Marie-Eutrope [1595]. ⭐⭐ AND IT SOURCES THE DESCENT IN ONE CLAUSE: the three claimants - PLUNKET John-Désiré [1588], Achille-Nevison [814] and Marie-Louise [1589] - are certified 'SEULS HÉRITIERS DE LEUR GRAND-PÈRE, ancien propriétaire'. Their grandfather is therefore François, their father Achilles [1586]. ProofFather = 1 was set on all four child links on this evidence. ⛔ PROOFMOTHER WAS DELIBERATELY LEFT UNSET on all four: 'heirs of their grandfather' evidences the PATERNAL line only. The record says nothing whatever about their mother. ⚠️ 'SEULS' means SOLE - so in 1831 Achilles had exactly THREE surviving heirs. The tree gives him FOUR children by [1587] Renée Rose Gentillot; the fourth, [1613] Jeanne Geneviève Eutrope b. 3 Sep 1794 Wilmington DE, carries no death fact. Either she predeceased 1831 or the link is wrong. FLAGGED, NOT CHANGED. ⚠️ DO NOT attach domingino.de #6347 to this man. That entry - 'Plunket, François, Killamod (County Roscommon / Irelande), Sucrerie, Écuyer, Émigr. Jamaica' - describes a 1789 proprietor, whereas this François died in 1771; probably a son or nephew. ⭐ BUT its 'Killamod (County Roscommon)' independently CORROBORATES the family origin: his birthplace in this tree is already 'Killumod, Ireland', and the generations above sit at Knockroe/Cambo Castle, Elm Park in the Parish of Elphin, and Keelogues, all Co. Roscommon. Killamod = Killumod, and the French source supplies the county the tree lacked. See ancestry/plunkett-dunsoghly-junction.md. Memo: ancestry/lefebvre-gentillot-boyer-junction.md ── ADDENDUM 31 Jul 2026 (2): THE IRISH PLACE-STRINGS NOW CARRY THEIR REAL ADDRESS. ⭐ KNOCKROE IS A TOWNLAND INSIDE KILLUMMOD CIVIL PARISH, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon, and "CAMBO" IS CANBO — the townland immediately east of Knockroe. So the tree's four different-looking strings ("Killumod, Ireland", "Killumod County", "Knockroe, Cambo Castle, Roscommon County", "Cambo castle Knockroe") describe ONE address, a townland and the parish containing it. Normalised to "Killummod, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland" and "Knockroe, Killummod, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland". ⛔ "CAMBO CASTLE" WAS DROPPED FROM THE PLACE FIELD BECAUSE IT ASSERTS A TENURE THIS FAMILY DID NOT HAVE. Canbo Castle's descent is documented: MacDermot/O'Farrell → John Crofton 1585 → Josias Lambert 1603 (received as his wife's dowry) → Crofton 1670 → Thomas Farrell 1676 → James Farrell 1681 → French, into the 18th century (National Monuments Service SMR RO010-084001-). And three independent primary land records — the Down Survey, Simington's Books of Survey and Distribution for Co. Roscommon (IMC 1949) and Pender's 1659 census — agree that NO PLUNKETT held Knockroe or Canbo in 1641 or 1670: all seventeen Killummod townlands are Crofton, Lambert, St George or Lloyd. ⚠️ READ THAT NEGATIVE AT ITS TRUE SIZE: it is about PROPRIETORSHIP IN 1641 AND 1670. This tree claims BIRTHS at Knockroe in 1648 and Killummod in 1688 and 1722 — twenty to eighty years later, under Penal Laws that barred Catholics from owning land at all. A Catholic gentry family in 1722 Roscommon would be TENANTS OR MIDDLEMEN BY LEGAL NECESSITY, which is what "Écuyer" with no estate looks like. Proprietorship evidence is weak against residence and silent against tenancy. ⭐ AND ONE INDEPENDENT NON-FAMILY SOURCE STILL PLACES PLUNKETTS HERE: NMS SMR RO010-085001-, the castle site at KNOCKROE — "Knockroe was owned by John Crofton in 1586, but this location is TRADITIONALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE PLUNKETT FAMILY (OS Name Books)." Graded SUGGESTIVE: the Name Books were compiled 1824-41 and the same record documents Crofton tenure — but it is the only Plunkett-Knockroe link that exists, and nobody has read more of that Name Book than the single clause. ⭐ TWO DISPOSSESSED PLUNKETTS SIT NEXT DOOR in 1641: OLIVER PLUNKETT at Macnadille in Killukin parish, SAME BARONY OF BOYLE, 2.6 km from Knockroe (also Lecarrow 2.0 km, Rathardeagher, Runnaroddaun, Scor More) — ⚠ Simington indexes him SEPARATELY from Oliver Plunkett, Baron of Louth, do not merge them — and ROBERT PLUNKETT with three townlands in Aughrim parish 4.4-5.6 km away in 1670, where the 1749 Census of Elphin still finds Rich. Plunkett and James Plunkett, Gent. Same parish, 79 years apart. ❌ CASTLEPLUNKETT IS NOT THIS FAMILY: officially a 17th-century house whose Plunketts were transplanted from Meath in the mid-17th century and lost the land to the Knoxes by the early 1700s; the townland's Irish name is still Lios Lachna, so "Castleplunket" is an English overlay of the 1660s. A post-1660 grantee cannot be the same family as a dispossessed 1641 proprietor. ➡️ THE CHEAPEST DECISIVE DOCUMENT REMAINS ONE PAGE: the KILLUMMOD entry of the CENSUS OF ELPHIN 1749 (manuscript NAI M2464; Legg ed., IMC 2004; transcript on FindMyPast). The census DOES cover Killummod — only eight Roscommon parishes are excluded and it is not one — but the free online transcript carries only six parishes and Killummod is not among them, so every search so far has been a COVERAGE GAP, not an absence. A "Plunkett, Gent., Knockroe" line corroborates this whole branch; a Killummod list without one breaks it. Memo: ancestry/plunkett-dunsoghly-junction.md