John Purcell Fitzgerald
From Graces Guide
John Purcell Fitzgerald (1775-1852) was a British Member of Parliament.
He had been born John Purcell(1775), and had assumed the name and arms of his wife's family in 1818. He then built Castle Irwell in as a northern family home.
In the late 1820s he commissioned Robert Stephenson (1788-1837), to commence coal-mining on his Lancashire estate, but fraud and flooding made the Pendleton Colliery venture unsuccessful and he was forced to file for bankruptcy.
1858 'On Saturday afternoon, Mr. J. P. Fitzgerald, of Castle Irwell, laid the foundation stone of new bridge across the Irwell, near Douglas Mills. It will be called Waterford Bridge, and will be built entirely at the expense of Mr. Fitzgerald.'[1]. A son of the above?
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- ↑ Bury Times - Saturday 9 October 1858