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Anthony
Marmion, United Irishman leader of the main Marmion family branch – executed for rebellion 1798; statue of 'Maid of Erin' in Dundalk town square is dedicated to him and a fellow rebel, John Hoey. Anthony's sister Anne was the mother of the P.J. Carroll who started the famous tobacco company
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Michael (Miguel) Marmion (1726–1818), a 'Wild Geese' who left Dundalk 1736; graduate of Spanish Military Academy 1758, served 46 years active duty including being Chief Engineer of Venezuela and Governor of Guyana in South America. Was preceded in Spanish service by Captain Dominic Marmion
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Marmion in Ireland arrived with the Anglo-Normans in the first invasions of 1169–71. The progenitor was Sir Robert Marmion of 'Fidun' where he built a castle (modern Fathom, County Armagh – a strategic defensive area for the Norman-Irish). He was the younger son of Sir Richard Marmion of
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William Marmion of Scrivelsby, a grandson of the Robert above and son of Robert-the-Younger – called "the Perfect Knight" (d. 1276). His wife was a grandchild of King John of England, and his son Sir John came to possess the Barony of Winteringham in Lincolnshire as a Baron by summons in 1294,
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Historically, the heaviest concentration of the name is indeed found in County Louth, in
Carlingford and Dundalk; and then later in Lecale Barony of County Down and County Meath from the 150s, with a smaller branch in County Cork from the 17th century. The Marmions still remain numerous in Louth.
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Columba Marmion, Irish Benedictine monk (1858–1923) and famous author of numerous works, of the County Meath branch; beatified as 'Blessed Columba Marmion' by the Pope, Rome 2000. Other early Marmions in religion in Ireland were Bishop Philip Marmion of Ardfert in County Kerry, c. 1257–64, Dom
238:'The Marmion Family of Carlingford to 1660', in Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, number 2, 1998, 249–60 and 'Bishop John Marmion of Down: Raking the Ashes', in Lecale Review, Journal of (County) Down History, number 5, 2007, 69–7
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Shackerley Marmion, a relatively famous dramatist (1603–1639), with plays performed at the Court of King Charles I and whose works have been republished even into the 20th century.
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