The Apjohns of Pallasgreane

     Anastasia Lysaght was born circa 1652 in Grellagh, Coonagh, County Limerick. She was the daughter of Thomas Lysaght and Ellen Burke. Anastasia Lysaght married Stephen Roche circa 1673. Stephen Roche was a Jacobite and as a result his estate "was entirely forfeited under William III. Complled in consequence to leave the County of Cork, he retired to Kilrush in Clare, and afterwards took up his abode at Pallas, in the County of Limerickk, in the vicinity of his brother-in-law, William Apjohn, esq. He m. Anastasia, elder daughter and co-heir of Thomas Lysaght, esq. (the other co-heir, Catherine, was the wife of Mr. Apjohn) and was s. by his son."¹