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This post follows on from the previous one....

Edwin Grogan married Isabella Courtenay, daughter of Robert Courtenay and Eliza Hudson, in Dublin in 1861. The wedding was witnessed by Robert Courtenay and James Vance. Robert Courtenay was the brother of our maternal 5 x great grandfather, Frederick Courtenay of 27 Wellington Street. James Vance was married to Robert Courtenay's daughter, Mary Alicia Courtenay.

Edwin Grogan had been born to Elizabeth Beamish and Rev. William Grogan in Dublin in about 1833.

Rev. William Grogan 1778 - 1858:

Rev. William Grogan was born in 1778 to Edward Grogan and Jane Grierson. Edward was the son of an earlier Edward Grogan of Ballytrain, Wexford.
Rev. William had a brother, John Grogan (1770 - 1832) , who was a barrister of 10 Harcourt Street, Dublin, and who married Sarah Medlicott (who died in 1819). Amongst their children was Sir Edward Grogan M.P., a barrister and MP for Dublin who was created a baronet in 1859. Another son of John Grogan and Sarah Medlicott was Rev. John Grogan who was married to Elizabeth Bourne, and who died in 12 Clyde Road, Dublin in 1899. His widow, Elizabeth, and their unmarried children were living at 21 Clyde Road in 1911 - this property was owned by the children of our great-great grandmother, Isabella Jones, who was related through marriage to the Grogan family. Elizabeth Grogan was still living here in 1922 when she died.

The Rev. William Grogan had been born to Edward and Jane Grogan in 1778. He married his first wife, Ann Saunders, the daughter of Richard Saunders of Newtown Saunders, in 1809. The same year he bought Slaney Park, Baltinglass, from Owen Saunders, whose seat was Newtown Saunders near Baltinglass. William and Ann Grogan had several children before she died young.

A son, Captain William Grogan of Baltinglass, lived from 1812 till 1887 - in the 1870s he was noted as Captain William Grogan of Baltinglass who owned 1,141 acres in neighbouring Westmeath. In 1862, Captain William Grogan of the Wicklow Militia, eldest surviving son of Rev. William Grogan of Slaney Park, married Elizabeth Mary Hackblock, daughter of John Hackblock of Reigate, Surrey.
A daughter, Anna Grogan, married Robert William Graves in 1830. Anna Graves died in 1873.
The second surviving son of Rev. Grogan was, John Grogan, who was Surgeon-Major of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, and who died at the home of his brother-in-law at Brittas Castle, Thurles Tipperary, after a few day's illness in 1866. The brother-in-law was Capt. William Knox of the 13th Dragoons who had married the youngest daughter of Rev. William Grogan, Georgiana Grogan on October 2nd 1838 in Dublin.
John Grogan lived at Rathdangan, Wicklow, and his will was proved by his widow, a Hannah Sophia Godber Grogan of 6 Charlemont Terrace, Cork.
Another son, Edward Grogan, was a lawyer of Lincolns Inn - he died in Panama in 1855 (exact date not noted) but The Limerick Chronicle noted him as the eldest son of Rev. William Grogan of Slaney Park.

Rev. William Grogan lived at Slaney Park,Baltinglass, Wicklow, and had an address in Mountjoy Square, Dublin. He owned extensive properties in Westmeath and Wicklow, approximately 455 acres.
Slaters Directory of 1846 noted Edward and William Grogan at Slaney Park, Carlow. (The property in Baltinglass straddled the Wicklow/Carlow border.)

It's unclear when Anne Saunders died, and when William married Elizabeth Beamish, Edwin Grogan's mother, but the three children of the marriage were born in the 1820s in Ireland.

It seems that Rev. William Grogan and Elizabeth divorced - in 1841, Elizabeth Grogan and her three children, Edwin, Elizabeth Jane and Henry, were living at 9 West Claremont, Edinburgh. The oldest child, Henry Grogan, had been born in Ireland in 1828; Elizabeth/Eliza Grogan, had been born in Ireland in 1830; Edwin Grogan had been born in Ireland in 1833.
A deed of 1853 (Vol, 15; Page 57) details the conveyance of an estate at Clonekilvant, Westmeath, owned by Rev. William Grogan who was selling or leasing it to Robert Courtenay. This property was still owned by Rev. William in 1855, and William's son, Edwin, was living here when he married Robert Courtenay's daughter in 1861. I accessed this deed at closing time in the Registry so only had time to scribble down the parties to the deed which refers to an earlier deed of dated 18th January 1850. The parties involved were:
1) Rev. William Grogan of Slaney Park.
2) Elizabeth Beamish, Edinburgh, Spinster.
3) Henry William Grogan, ensign, 88th Regiment of Infantry, then stationed in Kinsale, ie: in 1850.
4) Edwin Grogan, then resident with the said Elizabeth Beamish of Edinburgh, an infant of the age of 17 years, ie: in 1850.
5) Robert Courtenay, Lower Gardiner Street, Solicitor.
The witnesses at the end of the 1853 agreement were Rev. William Grogan, Robert Courtenay, Robert Courtenay Junior, apprentice, and James Wolfe.

In 1851, they were still at the same address in Edinburgh, and the mother, Elizabeth Grogan, stated that she was the wife of a landed proprietor.

Elizabeth Grogan's ex-husband, Rev. William Grogan, died on 2nd November 1858. At some stage prior to his death in 1858, he married Belinda Saunders, the third daughter of Major Richard Saunders of Newtown Saunders, Wicklow and his wife Ann Parker; Belinda must have been a relative of his first wife, Anne Saunders, possibly a sister. Belinda Grogan, who had been born in 1789, died in Blackrock, South Dublin, in 1869, and was buried in Monkstown.
The brother of Belinda Grogan was Owen Saunders who had sold Slaney Park to William Grogan in 1809. Other properties associated with the Saunders family were Largay, Co. Cavan and Ballinderry, Co. Tipperary.

By 1861 his ex-wife, Elizabeth, and her family had moved to East Villa, Dick Place, Edinburgh and Elizabeth stated that she was now the widow of a landowner.
Her son, Edwin Grogan, joined the Stirlingshire Militia. Records of his service survive - in 1858, Edwin Grogan, gentleman, who was previously a lieutenant in the 6th Regiment of Foot, was appointed lieutenant in the Sterlingshire regiment. On 17th May 1862 he was appointed Captain in the 90th or Sterlingshire Regiment, Highland Borderers, Light Infantry. On 1st February 1873, he was granted the Honorary Rank of Major.

Edwin married Isabella Courtenay, the daughter of Robert Courtenay, solicitor, and Eliza Hudson, in Dublin in 1861. Robert Courtenay was the brother of our 5 x great grandfather, Frederick Courtenay of 27 Wellington Street. A marriage notice in the Limerick Chronicle noted that Isabella Courtenay was of Upper Gloucester Street and that the groom, Edwin Grogan, was of Clonekilvant, Westmeath. A quick browse through Griffiths Valuation for 1855 confirms that Edwin's father, Rev. William Grogan, owned 25 acres of farmland in Clonickilvant. The marriage certificate of 1861 confirmed that Edwin's father was a clerk in holy orders.

Edwin's sister, Elizabeth Jane Grogan, married Isabella Courtenay's brother,the widower William Courtenay of Arklow and Gloucester Street, on 24th March 1863 in Rathfarnham, and their daughter, Mary Isabella Courtenay, would marry Rev. Gerald King Moriarty in 1896 in Co. Louth.
In the Registry of Deeds, Henrietta Street, I came across two deeds pertaining to Elizabeth Jane Grogan, in which her inheritance was settled. Both deeds bore the date March 23rd 1863, the day before her marriage to William Courtenay of Woodmount, Wicklow. (Deeds 1863-12-46 and 1863-12-47). The first of these deeds was the marriage settlement itself - the parties named were William Courtenay of Woodmount, Eliza Jane Grogan of Garville Place, Rathgar, Edwin Grogan, Captain in the Stirling Militia, and Henry Shepard of Oatlands, Wicklow, who was a landowner there and probably a friend of the family. This marriage settlement recited an earlier deed of 19th January 1850, whereby Elizabeth Jane Grogan's father, Rev. William Grogan, promised a sum of £5000, along with land at Friarstown, Wicklow, to his daughter at the time of her marriage, the money and land to be held until then in trust by her brother, Edwin Grogan, and by Henry Shepard of Oatlands. Elizabeth Jane's mother, Elizabeth Beamish, was also named as a party to this agreement.
The second deed ensured the tranferral of this land etc. to Elizabeth Jane Grogan in March 1863, and the parties to this deed were named as Elizabeth Beamish of Garville Place, Elizabeth Jane Grogan, also of Garville Place, William Courtenay of Woodmount, Edwin Grogan, and Henry Shepard of Oatlands.

I have only come across one child of the marriage of Edwin Grogan and Isabella Courtenay - their daughter Isabella Grogan married Robert Courtenay Vance, the son of James Vance and Mary Alicia Courtenay, in Dublin in 1884. Dr. James Vance, apothecary of 10 Suffolk Street, had witnessed Edwin and Isabella's 1861 wedding; Mary Alicia Courtenay seems to be a daughter of Robert Courtenay - I haven't found birth documentation for her, but an 1841 deed of marriage gives her address as Lower Gardiner Street, which is where Robert Courtenay was living at that time.
Our great-great grandmother, Isabella Jones, daughter of Emily Courtenay of Wellington Street, would later buy 55 and 56 Blessington Street from Robert Courtenay Vance.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/p/links-to-courtenay-and-moore-families_28.html

Edwin's wife, Isabella Courtenay, died at some stage and he married subsequently Agnes Emma Warner on 5th April 1873 in Rathmines. Once again he confirms that his father was a clerk in holy orders. Edwin's address was 138 Rathgar Road, and he was a Major in the Sterlingshire Militia. Agnes Emma lived at Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, and was the daughter of a captain in the Indian Navy, Robert Edward Warner. She had been born in Kensington, London, on 21st December 1850 to Robert Edward Warner and Margaret Urquhart. Children of this second marriage were:
Margaret Urquhart Grogan born 1874. Was known as Daisy Grogan in 1901.
Agnes Irene Grogan born in Dublin in 1876. Aka Irene Grogan.
Elizabeth Warner Grogan born Dublin 1878.
Henry William Grogan, born and died in 1880 at Royal Terrace West, Kingstown/DunLaoghaire.
Catherine May Edwin Grogan born 1882, married in 1908, John de Burgh Galwey.
Winifred Grogan/Winnie Grogan, born Kingstown 1883.
By 1901 Edwin had died (I can find no record of his death) and Agnes Emma and her unmarried daughters were living at 23 Royal Terrace West, Kingstown/DunLaoghaire. Agnes Emma, still resident at 23 Royal Terrace, died on 12th September 1911 but at Portland Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow. Her will was administered by her unmarried daughter, Margaret Urquhart Grogan, and by her daughter, Katherine May Edwin Galwey.

This post concerns Mary Oliver, who was the second wife of the lawyer, John Jeffery Williams of Grays Inn, and their daughter, Mary Williams.

Following the death of his first wife, Sarah Dignan, John Jeffery married Mary Oliver of St. Osyth/Alresford in Essex, who lived from 1786 until 18th July 1873. The couple must have married in about 1811, judging by the births of their three children. Richard was born in Holborn on 24th July 1812, Mary was born in September 1813, and Henry Jeffery was born in August 1815, a few months after the death of his own father.
John Jeffery's children by his first marriage to Sarah Dignan had all been born much earlier than this second batch - John Dignan in 1789, Hutchins Thomas in 1890, Sarah in 1794, William in 1795, Harriet No.One in 1796, Harriet No. Two in 1798. There was, therefore, a 14 year gap between Harriet and Richard.

Following their father's death in 1815, at least two, and possibly more, of John Jeffery's older children moved to Dublin. John Dignan and Hutchins Thomas operated there in linen and finance, and Hutchins was known to have had a sister living with him at 39 Dame Street in the 1820's, but which sister? Following the failure of Hutchins' finance company, 'Gibbons and Williams' in 1835, he left Ireland for good and headed with his family, first to New York and then to Simcoe, Ontario. John Dignan seems to have maintained a business presence in Dublin from about 1814 until about 1841, but his Irish-born family were living in London again by 1841. (A possible daughter, Marie Antoinette Williams married Daniel Henry Rucker in Dublin in 1847.) John Dignan died in London in 1858.

Mary Williams (born 1814) , daughter of John Jeffery Williams and Mary Oliver, married Rev. Samuel Farman (1808 - 1878) on 28th April 1835 in the Church of St. John of Jerusalem in South Hackney, London. The wedding was witnessed by Mary's widowed mother, Mary Williams, and by an associate of the Oliver family, William Genery.
Samuel Farman had been ordained as a curate in 1834, and as a priest in 1838. The family, however, spent several of these years living in Istanbul/Constantinople, and the first of the couple's 13 children were born there, Mary in 1836, and the twins, Charles and Emily, in early 1838.
In 1831, Samuel Farman had been appointed by The London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews as assistant to Rev. John Nicolayson, and together the pair travelled widely around the Middle East. The pair were noted in Beirut, Malta, Algiers and Tripoli. Samuel was ordained deacon by Blomfield (I'm unsure who this was) on 12th December 1824, and commenced work in Constantinople in 1835, presumably following his marriage to Mary Williams. He left the city briefly during an outbreak of plague, and, during his absence, embarked upon a Judeo-Spanish translation of the scriptures. Following his return to Constantinople, he settled in the Galata district. He circulated the scriptures in Hebrew, and converted three Jews to Christianity. Rev. Samuel Farman resigned in 1841 and returned to England. This info was found online in 'The History of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews'.

1841 Census:
Six years after their marriage, Mary and Samuel Farman were back in England, living in John St., Hampstead, along with Mary's mother, Mary Williams and the three Farman children - 5-yr-old Mary Farman, and the 18-month-old twins, Charles and Emily.

In 1844, Rev. Samuel Farman, who had attended St. John's College, Cambridge, had become the rector of Layer Marney Church in Essex, following a stint in Peldon. His mother-in-law, Mary Williams, had her origins nearby in Alresford, and Mary's sister, Sarah Oliver (born 1780) had recommended Samuel for the job in Layer Marney. In an 1871 directory for Layer Marney, Mary Williams was noted as the lady of the manor.
Rev. Samuel Farman built the schoolhouse next to the Rectory in 1850, and carried out the restoration of the church in 1870. He published several works over the years - 'Part of the Hebrew and Spanish Scripture', 'Il futuro Destino d'Israele' and 'Constantinople in connection with the present war' (1855).

By 1851, the census shows the family at Layer Marney. Along with Mary, Emily (also called Oratia) and Charles, there was Harriet born 1840 in Sussex, Thomas Frederick born Layer Marney in 1845, Margaret born Layer Marney in 1848, Anna born Layer Marney in 1849, Anna born Layer Marney in 1850, and baby Thomas born 1851. A further son, Samuel, had been born in Constantinople in about 1838, but he was boarding in 1851 at the Collegiate School in Leicester.
Rev. Samuel himself had been born in Ipswich, Suffolk in about 1808. His mother-in-law, Mary Williams, was also there, named as a fund holder who had been born in nearby Alresford, Essex, in about 1786. The family had three servants.

Mary Williams was still with them in Layer Marney in 1861 and was described on the census as a landed proprietor of 452 acres employing 3 boys and 17 labourers. A conveyance of 1859 records the sale to Mrs. Williams under the will of Quintin Dick for £30,448 of Tower Farm, 635 acres and Thorrington Farm, 205 acres. Her will shows that she also had a property in London.
By 1861, Samuel and Mary Farman had had two additional children - Samuel George born in 1853 and who later became the vicar of St. John's in Colchester before converting to Catholicism in 1880, and Susan born 1854.

Mary Williams continued to live with her daughter and son-in-law at Layer Marney until her death on 18th July 1873. Her will was proved by two of her Farman grandchildren, the younger Rev. Samuel Farman on St.Martin's, Colchester, and Edward Farman of 21 Lion Terrace, Portsea.

In the 1980s, Jane Eames of Essex researched the villages of Layer Marney, Birch and Layer Breton, and the research has been published online. She had accessed the will of Mary Williams, widow of John Jeffery Williams. Nearly all of the beneficiaries of her will had to make an annual payment to an Elizabeth Gentry of St. Osyth, Essex, the payments being 'in lieu of and in satisfaction of the annuity whereon the proper duty to Government has been paid which was bequeathed to the said Elizabeth Gentry by the will of my late sister Sarah Oliver . . . . . charged upon and made payable out of the annual proceeds of certain personal estate thereby bequeathed to me.'
Elizabeth Gentry appeared on the 1871 census at nearby St. Osyth working as a housekeeper. The 1835 marriage of Mary's daughter, Mary, to Samuel Farman, had been witnessed by a William Gentry, so there must have been some family connection between the Oliver and Gentry families.
Mary Williams left most of her substantial effects to her grandchildren, including a London property which was left to her oldest granddaughter, Mary, who went on to marry Rev. Thomas Ralph Musselwhite, vicar of West Mersea.

Nothing was left to Mary's son-in-law, Samuel Farman, but Mary Williams left £100
to a son - the researcher doesn't tell us which son and where he was! This I would dearly love to find out - she had two of them, Henry and Richard. Henry married Eliza Richer in 1840, and then promptly disappears from view. Similarly, I can find no sign of Richard anywhere on the various UK censuses. She seems to have had little contact with her two sons. Henry was a bookkeeper; our great-great grandfather, Richard Williams, worked also as a bookkeeper for the Williams family shipping business in Dublin, and was born circa 1812, to a John Williams, as was Mary Williams' son, Richard. Although I've yet to discover any definite link between the two Richards, I suspect that they may well be one and the same man. If Hutchins Thomas Williams had a sister living with him in Dublin in the late 1820's, then it's not beyond the realm of reason that he may have had a younger brother living there also, especially one being trained in as an accountant in a finance business. Richard made his first appearance at the headquarters of the CDSPCo in 1837, two years after Hutchins Thomas left Ireland for New York, but was only taken on as the accountant to the company in 1839. This, for the moment, is only circumstantial, and I would need to source better information to prove this one way or the other.

To return to Mary Williams' 1873 will....the unmarried granddaughter of Mary Williams, Oratia and Susan, both received a legacy payable on their marriage or at their mother's death. The other two married daughters, Margaret, wife of Edward Carnell and Harriet wife of Walter Hammond Thelwall each received £500. The surviving sons, Samuel, Charles, Thomas, and Edward were made the residuary legatees by their grandmother.

The will mentions that Sarah Oliver was the sister of Mary Williams, née Oliver. Another sibling appears to be Thomas Oliver who himself made a will on 2nd November 1869, in which he left shares in a railway company to Rev. Thomas Ralph Musselwhite, who was married to his niece, Mary Farman. Thomas Oliver appeared as an unmarried lodger in Hanover square on the 1871 Census; he had been born in St. Osyth - as had Mary Williams, his sister - in about 1790, and he states that he had been a general in the Bengal Army. Twenty years earlier, the 1851 census shows him as a lodger, once again in Hanover Square, and this time his occupation was 'Colonel: E.I.C. Service' which I presume refers to the East India Company. His will also made mention of an Emily Catherine Oliver. In 1881 this unmarried woman was living with Rev. Thomas Ralph Musselwhite and his wife, Mary Farman, at the West Mersea vicarage - Emily Catherine Oliver had been born in about 1831 in Madras, India, and the 1881 census calls her a 'cousin', presumably a cousin of Mary Farman, rather than Thomas Ralph Musselwhite who had been born in Devizes, Wiltshire, rather than Essex. The LDS birth records for India only show up a Helen Grace Oliver, born 1831 to a Thomas and Lucy Oliver.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/01/the-will-of-sarah-oliver-saint-osyth.html

My grandfather, Bertie Stewart, had an older sister, Helen Louisa Stewart, who married John Thomas Sibbald in Dublin in 1925 - their children, my father's cousins, were Hazel and Les Sibbald. This post, therefore, is about the Sibbald family. I sourced all the info for this on Ancestry.com, the LDS site and free online records for Mount Jerome cemetery.

James and Hannah Sibbald:
James Sibbald was baptised at Fallhills, Carstairs, Lanarkshire on 24th March 1769. He married Hannah Gracie (1773 - 1855) who had been born at Crawfordjohn, and farmed at Knowes Farm, Houston, Lanarkshire, where he died in February 1853. Their children were as follows:

James, who died young, born 30th July 1798.
Janet
Mary 25th July 1800 - 1877.
James, born 14th January 1805.
Margaret 1802 - 1840.
Jean 1806 - 1846.
Thomas 1808 - 1846.
Isabel born 1810.
John 1812 - 1890. Moved to Dublin.
Agnes.

The Scottish census of 1851 shows James Sibbald at Knowes Farm, along with his wife, Hannah, and two of his adult children - Mary and Thomas, who would remain there all their lives. A niece, Hannah, born in nearby Paisley in 1841, was also there. Hannah was the niece of Mary and Thomas, and the grand-niece of James.

John Sibbald:
The son of James and Hannah Sibbald of Knowes Farm, John Sibbald, was born in Houston, Renfrewshire, on 21st July 1812.
His first wife was Janet Frame, born 4th May 1821 to John Frame and Isabel Lindsay at Braidwood, Carluke, Lanarkshire. They married in Paisley on 7th December 1838, and appeared on the 1851 census at 30 Scotland Street, Govan, Glasgow, where John was working as a carrier's porter. The couple had two daughters at this stage, Euphemia and Elizabeth.
At some stage in the next few years, possibly 1856, John and Janet Sibbald moved to Clondalkin, Co. Dublin, where John worked as a land steward at Baldonnell (possibly at the Grierson property, Baldonnell House) and where Janet died on 15th October 1857. They had had 6 children by this stage -

1) Euphemia 1839 - 1915. Euphemia Sibbald never married, and lived with her uncle Thomas Sibbald, and her unmarried aunt, Mary Sibbald, at, the family farm in Houston.
2) Hannah, born 13th June 1841 at Abbey, Paisley; died 1904. Moved home to the family farm with her sister, Euphemia, and younger brother, John, following her mother's death in 1857.
3) Elizabeth, born 1843. (This daughter must have died; she wasn't present in 1851.)
4) James 1854 - 1882. Was buried in Mount Jerome, Dublin.
5) Thomas 1856 - 1921. Had been born in Dublin and later worked as a land steward for the Talbot family of Malahide Castle. He lived at their property, Robbs Wall Castle, and married Matilda Shields of Derry.) Thomas died there on 30th January 1921.
6) John 1857 - 1918. The 1861 Scottish census shows his living, aged 3, with his uncle and aunt, Thomas and Mary Sibbald, at Knowes Farm, along with his older sisters, Euphemia and Hannah. He stayed in Scotland and farmed the family farm at Houston, Renfrewshire. He married Margaret and had Mary, Allan and John.

Following the premature death of his first wife in Dublin in 1857, John Sibbald of Clondalkin, married a second time, this time to Hannah Roberts. She had been born in Bangor, Wales in about 1835. The couple married in Bangor, Wales, on 23rd September 1859, but their children were born in Dublin:

1) Eleanor

2) Helen

3) Robert 1860 - 1883, was buried in Mount Jerome.

4) Mary, born 3th June 1864 at Clondalkin. A Mary Sibbald married Joseph Kyle of Tyrone in Rathdown (ie: South Dublin/North Wicklow) in 1893. He was a coachman.

5) Richard 1866, married Elizabeth Richardson. Land steward.

6) Samuel 1868 - 1941. Also a land steward. Married Annie Harrison of Armagh in Rathdown in 1906. He may have had an earlier marriage to Sarah Ann Rogers, since there was a marriage registered in 1902 in Rathdown for this couple. Samuel, and his wife, Annie, lived at Kilbogget near Killiney, Co. Dublin.

7) Janet, born 1870. She married, in North Dublin in 1894, a Kildare builder, John Eacret.

8) Margaret, born 1872. Margaret Sibbald married a Kilkenny RIC man, Samuel Treacy, in Rathdown in 1895.

Following the death of his brother, Thomas Sibbald, at Knowe Farm on 20th January 1871, John Sibbald settled his late father's estate by selling his entitlement to the family farm to his sister, Mary Sibbald, for £200.

'To Miss Mary Sibbald residing at Know in the United Parishes of Houston and Killillan,
I, John Sibbald, Land Steward of Baldonnel, Clondalking, County Dublin, Ireland, do hereby offer to accept of payment from you, of the sum of two hundred pounds sterling in full of all I can ask or claim out of the estates of my father the late James Sibbald and of my brother, the late Thomas Sibbald, farmers at Knows with both of which estates you have intromitted and the said sum being also in full satisfaction of me of all right title and claim, if any, which I have in and to the lease of the farm of Knows held by the said thomas Sibbald my brother at the time of his death on the 20th of January last, which in so far as i have right or claim thereto in any way, I give up to you in order that you may possess said farm to the end of said lease and upon your acceptance of this offer and payment to me of the foresaid sum, I will grant in your favour all requisite discharges of my shares in the foresaid estates if (sic) the said James Sibbald and Thomas Sibbald and will also execute any deeds or writings necessary to be granted by me in your favour, or otherwise for enabling you to possess said farm under the foresaid lease which was held by the said Thomas Sibbald. In witness whereof I subscribe this offer the seventh day of February eighteen hundred and seventy one before these witnesses, Andrew Fleming Farmer Fulwood, and John Young, Farmer at Ibester (?) Fulwood, both in the parish of Houston,
John Sibbald.'

John Sibbald, land steward, died in Dublin in 1890, and was buried in Mount Jerome cemetery; his wife, Hannah Roberts, had died earlier in 1887:
'In Loving Memory of John Sibbald, Kilbogget, Co. Dublin, died October 17th 1890 aged 78. And Hannah his wife died April 5th 1887 aged 52. James Sibbald died April 13th 1882 aged 28 years. Robert Sibbald died August 17th 1883 aged 23 years. Matilda Shields Sibbald died 13th June 1918 aged 58 years, dearly beloved wife of Thomas Sibbald. Also the above-named Thomas Sibbald who died 30th January 1921 aged 64.'

Richard Sibbald (1866 - 1910) and Elizabeth Richardson:
Richard had been born in Clondalkin, Dublin to John and Hannah Sibbald on 19th August 1866, and married Elizabeth Richardson in 1891 in North Dublin.
The family lived in St. Doolagh's, Coolock, North Dublin; Richard was a land steward, in common with the rest of his family. They had three children before Richard died young in 1910:

John Thomas Sibbald, who married Helen Louisa Stewart in 1925, born 1893.

Mary Sibbald born 1897.

Eveleen Sibbald born 1899.

Mount Jerome headstone: 'In Loving Memory of John Thomas Sibbald called to higher service 29th April 1948. Also his beloved wife Louisa Helen who fell asleep 8th March 1977...'

I accessed the following deed in the Registry of Deeds, Henrietta Street, Dublin. It gives a marriage date for Madeleine/Magdallen Crommelin and Francis Hutcheson of November 1728.
This deed mentions two members of the Lavalade family, the Rev. Charles Lavalade of the French Church in Lisburn, and one of his five sisters, Magdalen Lavalade who married Alexander Crommelin.
Also mentioned is James Crommelin but it's unclear where he fits into the Crommelin family.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/02/notes-on-alexander-crommelin-and.html

22nd November 1737: Deed 88-230-623584

'A memorial of marriage articles bearing date the first of November 1728 made between Alexander Crommelin of Lisburn gent of the one part and the Rev. Francis Hutcheson of Ballymentisland (this was indecipherable) county Antrim, clerk of the other part.
By which said Articles after the severall (sic) sums therein mentioned should be paid by the said Alexander Crommelin, his execs or adms., into the hands of Charles Lavallade of Lisburn in the county of Antrim, clerk, and Robert Smith of the same town and county, gent......to be by them laid out for the Uses Intents and Purposes in the said Articles mentioned and the said Francis Hutcheson did covenant with the said Alexander Crommelin for the consideration therein mentioned and of the Portion to be paid by the said Alexander with Magdallen his daughter, now wife of the said Francis Hutcheson....
.....that if the said Magdallen Hutcheson alias Crommelin, should survive Francis Hutcheson, the said Magdallen should be entitled unto and should enjoy a moiety or half share of all such real or personal estate whereof the said Francis dye possessed of, the same be in lieu of jointure or dower which said Articles are witnessed by James Crommelin and Ralph Smith, Gent, and Thomas Walsh, Merchant, and David McClune, Yeoman, all of Lisburn....
...and this Memorial was signed and sealed by Magdallen Crommelin, widdow, and one of the execs of the said Alexander Crommelin and witnessed by the said Ralph Smith and Patrick Smith of Lisburn aforesaid Gent. Magdalen Crommelin (seal) - Signed - sealed in presence of Ralph Smith - Patrick Smith - the above named Ralph Smith maketh oath that he saw the articles whereof the above writing is a memorial duly executed by the parties hereto and also saw the above named Magdelan Crommelin, widdow. sign and seal the said Memorial and Deponent is a subscribing witness to this Article and Memorial - Ralph Smith - Lisburn.
(Dated here in Latin 22nd November 1737.)

The following is the 1849 will of Sarah Oliver of Essex, who was the sister of Mary Williams, née Oliver, who was the second wife of John Jeffery Williams. I believe that our great-great grandfather, Richard Williams of Eden Quay and Dundrum, was the son of John Jeffery and Mary Williams, therefore Sarah Oliver would be a relation of ours.

I bought the will from the UK National Archives Discovery website for a small cost of £3.39 sterling. This website is useful if you have ancestors of English origin; there also seems to be quite a few Irish wills available, as well as plenty of Huguenot material. Once paid for, you can download the relevant document immediately which is very satisfying, but only if you get the correct ancestor and not someone with a similar name!

'This is the last will and testament of me, Sarah Oliver of Saint Osyth in the county of Essex, spinster...I give and bequeath unto the Reverend Samuel Farman, late of Peldon, Essex, but now of Layer Marney, Essex, aforesaid, one of my executors is hereinafter appointed the sum of fifty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain for his own use and benefit, provided he proves and acts in the execution of this my will...

...I give and bequeath unto my sister Mary Williams, also of Layer Marney, widow, my executrix, hereinafter named, the sum of two thousand pounds, three per cent consolidated bank annuities for her own sole and absolute use... and I hereby direct that the said Mary Williams will, out of the dividends, interest and profits of the said sum of two thousand pounds three per cent consolidated bank annuities, allow unto Elizabeth Gentry of Saint Osyth aforesaid spinster the yearly sum of forty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain during the term of her natural life, said annuity to commence on the day of my decease and to be payable half-yearly, and the first half-yearly payment to be made six months after my decease...

...I give and bequeath unto my brother, Colonel Thomas Oliver of No. 43 Duke St., Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, and one of my executors...the sum of one thousand pounds three per cent consolidated bank annuities...for his own absolute use and benefit...

...And as to all the rest and residue and remainder of my estate and effects...I give, devise and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my said sister, the said Mary Williams...'

The will was dated 17th May 1849, and was proved on 3rd September 1855
by Mary Williams, Rev. Samuel Farman and Thomas Oliver in London, following Sarah's death.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/11/mary-williams-second-wife-of-john.html

Research commissioned by the family of Hutchins Thomas Williams in the late nineteenth century, and carried out by the noted English genealogist, Charles Worthy, revealed that Thomas Williams of the Bank of Ireland, and his wife, Mary Anne Quine, had three sons - Richard Williams of Drumcondra Castle and 38 Dame St, Charles Wye Williams who founded the Dublin Steam Packet Company, and a third son who didn't survive childhood, Walker Williams.
The name 'Walker' stirred my interest, since children carrying family names like this have generally been named after someone with associations to the parents, therefore Thomas Williams must have had some sort of a relationship with a family named 'Walker', either through marriage or through business.

I came upon the name of Thomas Walker and decided to do a post about this individual, seeing as he seems to be the most likely candidate; it's important to note that I have no proof whatsoever for this - I'm merely collating the facts about the man here, and, as usual, I'll add information to this as I find it.

From 'Notes and Queries - A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, Feb. 2nd 1858':
'£10,000 Reward For A Will. "Whereas the late Thomas Walker, Esq., of Belgriffin Park, in the county of Dublin, but formerly of Dame Street, died on the 26th day of March 1817, and having during his illness declared...that he had made his will...And whereas there is reason to believe that...a considerable sum of money has been bequeathed to charitable purposes, and that said will, with other testamentary papers, were deposited with some person who, from the importance of the trust, have withheld same, for the purpose of receiving such liberal remuneration...(the testator dying worth upwards of 250,000l.)....
....Notice is hereby given, that any person or persons with whom said will and testamentary papers may have been deposited, and who will make a communication,...so that said will may be brought forward, such person or persons will become entitled to the reward of 10,000l., which such sum shall be deposited in the hands of any three respectable persons (the Secretary of the Bank of Ireland being one) ...to be held in trust and paid over the moment said will is proved...
....Communications to be made...to any three of the following persons: - The Right Hon. John Radcliffe, or his register, John Hawkins, Esq.; Thomas Williams, Esq., Bank of Ireland; Thomas Kemmis, Esq., Law Agent to Commissioners of First Fruits, Kildare Street; Wm. James McCausland, Esq., Secretary to Comissioners of Charitable Donations, 88, Merrion Street, Dublin; or if the said will and papers are in the possession of any person or persons in Great Britain, information may be made to the Right Hon. Sir John Nichols, the Right Hon. Sir Wm. Scott, or their Register, Charles Moore, Esq. Prerogative Office, London.
"Further Reward of £1000 More....And whereas it appears by the testamentary paper...(which had been lodged in the Prerogative Court, and which instructions have been proved by several of the most respectable witnesses to be the handwriting of the deceased), that he has bequeathed a sum of money to my family, I do hereby offer a reward of one thousand pounds...which sum shall be paid to the person who shall deliver said will to any of the above named, or to any person who will give such information as to secure its production, on application to George Webb, Stock Broker, London; or at my office, 17 Dame Street, Dublin. Robert Webb."
....To the above the following...may be appended. It appeared in the Chester journals of 1819:
"Extraordinary Discovery of a Will. About four years ago, a man possessed of very considerable property, died, bequeathing his effects to his daughter, in excluson to his son and wife; his will, it seems, fell into the hands of his wife, with whom the son was a favourite, and to prevent its being carried into effect, she buried it ...in the coffin with the husbnd. A few weeks ago, being on her death-bed, she confessed the particulars to a friend, enjoining her not to disclose the fact till after her death; the widow is now dead, and application is making at Doctors' Commons to take up the coffin of the deceased man." '

Thomas Walker was a prominent businessman, with involvement in the Lottery and the publisher of 'Walkers Hibernian Magazine'; he had his offices at Cicero's Head, 79 Dame Street. On March 28th 1788, a list of shareholders of the Bank of Ireland showed that he was the major investor, holding £21,800 worth of stock, outdoing even the Latouche and Guinness families. This major involement with the Bank of Ireland, would have, of course, brought him into close contact with its Secretary, Thomas Williams, whose son, Richard Williams, was notary to the bank from his offices at 38 Dame Street. It is believed that he had two sons, Joseph and Henry Walker, who were also associated with 79 Dame Street.

Notes on the Webb family, who believed that Thomas Walker had left them money:
Robert Webb of 17 Dame Street ran one of many lotteries in existence in Dublin at that time, and was also a member of the Dublin Stock Exchange. He had been born to George Webb (of Cambridge and, then, Maryborough, Queen's County) and Jane Boards in 1765; he married Sarah Yarner Hill of Bray, Co. Wicklow, and died in 1823.
His son, George Webb, was noted in an 1814 London Directory as 'Stockbroker, State Lottery and Irish Money Exchange Office' at 17 Ludgate Street, London. George Webb was married to Isabella Bish, the sister of the MP Thomas Bish. She died in Charing Cross at the home of the Bish Family in 1813, following an accident when the Oxford stage coach overturned near Stoken Church.
George's uncle, Thomas Webb, (brother of Robert Webb of Dame Street), had been born in 1757 and married Abigail Manders, the daughter of Robert Manders of Borris-in-Ossory, Queen's County. A son was Isaac Manders Webb. (Members of the Manders family worked for the Dublin Steam Packet Company; is this the same Manders family, I wonder?)
Another of Robert Webb's brothers was Arthur Webb (1763 - 1790) who was killed by a Robert Jones during a duel in Calcutta, whilst abroad on the services of the East India Company. He was married to Mary Lloyd, who was a granddaughter of Miss Plunkett who was a niece of Judge William Whitshed. William Whitshed was married to a member of the family of Mark Quin, Mayor of Dublin. The wife of Thomas Williams of the Bank of Ireland was also married to a member of this family, his wife being Mary Anne Quine, although this is probably pure coincidence.

Was Mary Anne Quin, who married Thomas Williams of the Bank of Ireland, the granddaughter of Rev.Charles Wye, the cleric who married the couple in St. Thomas's on 26th March 1777? Rev. Charles Wye was not associated with this church in any way, and appears to have been specially requested by the couple to perform the ceremony. It is worth noting that they christened their son as Charles Wye Williams in honour, perhaps, of this man in 1779.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/thomas-williams-first-secretary-to-bank.html

Rev. Charles Wye had his origins in Dunleer, Co. Louth, his father, Mossom Wye, having been the rector of Kilsaran Parish, Louth. In 1715, Jane/Jenny Bellingham, the daughter of Colonel Thomas Bellingham of Castlebellingham, Louth, married Francis Quin, a wealthy bricklayer/mason who was of the Dublin family of an early Lord Mayor, Mark Quin from whom Mary Anne was supposedly descended. Francis Quin and Jane Bellingham had a son, Thomas Quin, who settled at Castlebellingham.

In December 1849, this Thomas Quin of Castlebellingham sold 34 acres of land near Castlebellingham in Kilsaran Parish for £350 to Alan Bellingham of Drogheda town. (Deed 138-285-93198). Alan Bellingham was the son of Henry Bellingham, and the grandson of Colonel Thomas Bellingham. Thomas Quin and Alan Bellingham were, therefore, first cousins.
I can find no further information on Thomas Quin of Castlebellingham, Louth, other than the fact that he proved the will of one of his Bellingham aunts there, but it is known that Mary Wye, the daughter of Rev. Charles Wye, married a man by the name of Quin. I wonder, therefore, were the parents of Mary Anne Quin, who married Thomas Williams in Dublin in 1777, Thomas Quin and Mary Wye, and did the bride and groom ask Mary Anne's elderly grandfather, Charles Wye, to perform the ceremony on the day? The following two deeds, sourced recently in the Registry of Deeds on Henrietta Street, are what piqued my interest....

Deed 46-249-28525: In April 1725, Francis Quin, bricklayer, transferred a large plot of land near Sherriff Street, Dublin, to Thomas Quin, Apothecary. The land in question was described as lying 'between Mabbotts' Mills and the Shades of Clontarf on the North side of the River Anna Liffey', and was further described as being edged by Mayor Street. (This plot had been granted earlier to Francis Quin by the Lord Mayor, Sherriffs and Citizens of Dublin.) There were several Thomas Quin, Apothecaries, all of them members of the same family which descended from the Mayor, Mark Quin, and related, therefore, to Mary Anne Quin, but it's impossible to know which one is referred to in this 1725 deed. It's definitely NOT the son of Francis Quin, bricklayer; it may possibly be Francis Quin's nephew, the son of his (possible) brother, Thomas Quin, bricklayer, of Castleknock, who was married to Ellen/Ellinor, and whose will had been proved in 1685 - Thomas and Ellinor had 5 children, Thomas, Margaret, Rose (who married a Smyth), Mary and Elizabeth.

Whoever Thomas Quin, Apothecary was, it seems that this exact plot of land was later in the possession of Thomas Williams' and Mary Anne's eldest son, Richard Williams of 38 Dame St and Drumcondra Castle in 1837 - I sourced a 2nd deed (1837-18-24), dated 11th October 1837, which detailed the selling of this plot to the directors of the British and Irish Steam Packet Company, James Ferrier, John McDonnell and William Willans. The owner was Richard Williams of Dame Street, and the plot was described as being between Mabbotts' Mills and the Shades of Clontarf on the North side of the River Anna Liffey, and as being next to Mayor Street. It seems to me that this plot had been passed onto Mary Anne Williams, née Quin, at some stage, and then onto her son, Richard of 38 Dame Street.
The Quins are endlessly confusing. I sourced other deeds which may be helpful....

Deed 21-204-11252. Dated 30th and 31st of May, 1718. The parties involved were Thomas Quin, Alderman; Francis Quin, bricklayer; Thomas Brownrigg, Dublin gentleman; Mary Whitshed, Dublin widow, sister and sole heir to John Quin of Dublin; Thomas Quin, Junior, Apothecary.
Mary Whitshed was the daughter of Mark Quin, Lord Mayor, while John Quin was his son. Thomas Quin, Alderman, may be Thomas Quin, Alderman and apothecary of Skinner Row who married Elizabeth Browning/Brownrigg in May 1715 - they had a Francis in 1725, John in 1720 and Henry (later Dr. Henry Quin) in 1718. Thomas Quin, Junior, apothecary, was obviously the son of an earlier Thomas Quin.
The deed concerned the sale of a property named the Bull Inn, and 10 small brickhouses in Bull Alley and Patrick St, which had once been owned by John Quin, and which was being sold by Thomas Quin, Alderman, Francis Quin and Thomas Brownrigg, to Mary Whitshed, with the permission of Thomas Quin, Junior, Apothecary, for £436. Among the witnesses to the agreement was Richard Whitshed, who, I believe, was the son of Mary Whitshed, née Quin.

Deed 32-159-19284: Dated 17th October 1721. Concerned a newly-built house in Church Street, close to St. Michan's Church which Francis Quin had close involvement with. The house was being transferred to a John Williams, no relation of Thomas Williams of the Bank etc., on the occasion of the marriage of Francis Quin's niece, Margaret Doyle, the daughter of Hugh Doyle of Killcandra, Co. Meath, to Richard Codd, the son of George Codd of Killiskillen, Co. Meath, Gentleman. Obviously Francis Quin's sister had married Hugh Doyle of Meath.

I need better Quin information....

In 1868 Sir Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Lord Ardilaun, was elected as the Conservative MP for Dublin; his election was voided, however, when it was discovered that his electoral agent had used bribery to ensure the candidate's success - the subsequent Commission of Inquiry, which took place in 1869, came to the conclusion that Guinness was unaware of the corruption and he was eventually returned to office in 1874.
The bribery itself consisted of Conservative canvassers offering cash or work to the Freemen electors of the Dorset Street area of Dublin - those who voted for Guinness, or who persuaded other to do likewise, were issued with a railway ticket which could be exchanged later for cash.
Local Freemen, resident in the Dorset Street area, were called before the Commission to give evidence, amongst whom were several of our ancestors, namely William Yorke and his wife, Eliza Courtenay/Courtney, their son Henry Yorke, Herbert Moore who was married to Mary Courtenay, and the elderly Francis Courtenay, who gave invaluable information about his older brother, our immediate ancestor, Frederick Courtenay.

The commission found that John Pennefather, our great-great-great grandfather, who was married to Emily Courtenay, and who had been admitted to the Freemen in 1810, had offered his services gratuitously on behalf of the Conservative candidates in the 1868 election. John Pennefather died on 29th March 1869, so couldn't be called to give evidence at the commission.
None of the following people, all called to give evidence to the commission, were found guilty of any illicit practice in regards to the election, although William Yorke comes across as slightly suspect! Francis Courtenay's name was spelt as 'Courtney' but I'm using the spelling the family finally settled on, ie, 'Courtenay'; likewise, the commission report spelt William's family name as 'York', whereas the correct spelling was 'Yorke' which I use here.

Francis Courtenay, 27 Wellington Street:
Francis Courtenay was admitted to the Freemen of Dublin in 1845 by birth - his father, Thomas Courtney, had been admitted in 1789. Francis Courtenay, who had been born in Dublin in about 1794, and who served with the 85th Regiment of Foot from Ist January 1817 until 31st December 1839.
Francis Courtenay of 27 Wellington Street was called to give evidence. He was infirm and almost deaf. He had voted for Guinness and Plunkett at the last election. This time Pim had canvassed him, not personally, but by sending him his card. Francis confirmed that he lived in the house of William Yorke, ie, 27 Wellington Street. Francis walked down to the voting station, using an umbrella as a walking stick. He didn't see William Yorke on the way. Feeling ill, he voted and returned home to bed. (William Yorke was married to Francis's niece, Eliza Courtenay.)
Herbert Moore, was mentioned... did Francis Courtenay know of the house in which Herbert lived? He did. It was the house beside the Temperance Hall. (The Temperance Hall on Halston Street was the location of one of the local polling booths.)
Francis, on arrival at the station, was asked by a young man who he wished to vote for; Francis told him Guinness and Plunkett, so the young man showed him to what Francis presumed was the correct booth. Francis didn't recognise the young man; the young man didn't show him any railway ticket.
Francis had been living in William Yorke's house since 1843. At that time, Yorke had been a member of the police force. Mentioned that, early on in his career, Yorke had been 'confined' following a minor argument with a colleague.
Yorke's son was employed at the committee rooms on Dorset Street. There was a suspicion, according to William Yorke, that Francis would not go down to vote unless he was paid £5 to do so; Francis denied this.
Stated that he didn't speak too much to York, despite sharing a house wih him.
Francis had left his job for good in 1851 - he had been a staff officer's clerk and was now in receipt of a pension. He did not receive any money at this election, nor at the last. He didn't know if William Yorke had received anything, since Yorke was so reserved that he would not even tell his own wife if he had.
Francis was currently confined to bed, suffering from debility and weakness. He had been discharged from the army for the same reason. Every Sunday he would walk to Christchurch Cathedral for the 10 o'clock service.
His brother, Frederick Courtenay, had not been in Ireland for a long time - Frederick was also a Freeman; he had had a job as a librarian of the Royal Barracks.

Mary Moore, née Courtenay, Halston Street:
Evidence of Mary Moore, née Courtenay (her sister, Emily Courtenay was married to John Pennefather; these were our great-great-great grandparents.):
On 27th July 1878, Mary and Herbert Moore had moved from 27 Wellington St to Halston St. George Arthur Thompson had been lodging with them, on and off, in both houses. He owed them 14s. in rent which he paid off on the day of the election, telling Mary that he had received £5 on that particular day - she didn't know where the money had come from. She testified that she lived next door to the Temperance Hall (where the voting booth was) on Halston Street, and that there had been crowds of unruly people outside the Hall on the evening of the election; even the police were unruly.
Mary testified she knew George Hall who worked for the railway. (George Hall was her brother-in-law, married to Mary's sister Adelaide Anne Courtenay.)

Evidence of Mary's husband, Herbert Moore:
He lived in Halston Street, and had come to Dublin from Cork. He worked firstly, for seven and a half years, as a policeman with the Dublin police, then spent about nine years working for the penal service/prisons. Following his time with the prison service, he worked as a carpenter at Broadstone Station, repairing waggons there for about three years. He had had no formal training in carpentry, but had a talent for it. After this, he worked for a few years as a carpenter at Todd, Burns & Co. in Mary St. He had spent the previous four and a half years at Guinness's, working as a gate-keeper.
His wife, Mary, had taken the decision to move to Halston St. a few weeks before the election - Herbert left these matters to his wife; he was always home too late from work in the evenings to be bothered with such matters.
He had been on the election committee for Sir Arthur Guinness, and had visited the committee rooms accordingly on Dorset St a number of times. On the day of the election, Herbert was the 'personating agent' in Capel St. and spent the entire day of the election at the polling booth there. Herbert testified that the only man he knew who worked for the railways was his friend George Hall, who would also go to the committee rooms on Dorset St.

George Hall, husband of Adelaide Anne Courtenay:
Evidence of George Hall, who had married Adelaide Anne Courtenay in 1851. Adelaide Ann was the sister of Mary Moore and Emily Pennefather; their father was Frederick Courtenay, and their uncle was Francis Courtenay.
George said he was one of the senior clerks with the Midland Railway Company. The commission was primarily interested in a few of his colleagues, not him. George Hall was a Freeman himself, and had worked on the committee on behalf of Guinness. George Hall lived in Little Mounjoy Street/Middle Mountjoy Street, and was a member of the local Orange Lodge.


William Yorke was married to Eliza Courtenay:
William Yorke testified that he lived at 27 Wellington Street, worked as a painter, and had been a Freeman for the past 6 or 7 years. He had previously worked as a ship-joiner at Walpole, Webb and Bewley's ship-builders at the North Wall.
Said that he and his daughter, Eliza Yorke aged 16, had a small shop at 125 Dorset Street and a second one at 47 Phibsborough Road which was run by a younger daughter, aged 14. Both shops were chandlers, selling soap, tobacco and other things. He had taken both shops on recently, because of his ill health, and to give both of his daughters something to do during the day. He would accompany them both home to Wellington Street in the evenings. He also had two sons, both coach-painters, one 24 and the other 21. The younger one still lived at home; the older one worked 'across the water' (ie, south of the Liffey).
William Yorke's father had died in about 1840. His son, Henry Yorke, had been employed in the election committee rooms at Dorset Street for a week during the election, and was paid £1.
William's brother-in-law, the railway clerk, George Hall who was married to Adelaide Anne Courtenay, had lodged in apartments in 27 Wellington Street with them about 14 or 15 years ago.
In 1865, William Yorke had worked as a painter, for the Midland Great Western Railway Company, painting the rolling stock there.
William had taken out his freedom of Dublin in 1865 by virtue of marriage to Eliza Courtenay - her father, he testified, was Frederick Courtenay, currently a pensioner in the Chelsea Hospital in England. Frederick had been in England for the previous 12 to 15 years. In 1869 he was believed by William Yorke to be about 80 or 87 year of age, born between 1782 and 1789. The committee at this stage of the examination confused Frederick with his brother, Francis Courtney/Courtenay (the report uses both spellings of the name). William confirmed that Frederick's younger brother, Francis, a freeman, lived with him at 27 Wellington Street, and that Francis was unwell, spending much of the time in bed.
Canvassers came to his house and offered him a week's work for £1 4s., as well as transport - a car - to take him to the polling booth. He declined this offer since he was already working. A William J. Campbell then testified that, on the day of the election, he had offered to get William Yorke £5 if he voted, and Yorke had promised to give him £1 of it, if this actually came about. Campbell then saw Yorke talking in Halston Street to a young man with a glass eye who gave a ticket to Yorke. Yorke later gave Campbell his £1. Yorke vigorously denied this, saying he never carried money on him, but always passed it on immediately to his wife, Eliza. She had paid the rent sometime after the election, when she sold four pigs that she kept in the large yard of their house - 'There is a very extensive yard on the premises,' he said, 'and my wife manages to have these to meet this - like every other Irishman - a pig to meet the rent.'

Eliza Yorke, néé Eliza Courtenay, was married to William Yorke, and was the sister of Adelaide Anne Hall, Emily Pennefather, and Mary Moore:
Eliza Yorke came to Halston Street on the day of the election to see her sister, Mary Moore. She had been at Mary's house a few minutes when she noticed her brother-in-law, John Pennefather, who was married to another Courtenay sister, Emily, passing the door. Said Pennefather was also a Freeman but had died since then. Shortly afterwards her husband, William Yorke, arrived, and they went home to Wellington Street where he spent some time in the garden. She stated that at the time of the election he worked at Walpole, Webb and Bewley's ship-yard on the North Wall, and was about to become ill at that time; because of the cold weather he had decided also to start growing a beard.
Canvassers from both sides had called to the house to solicit a vote from her husband. One of them had made offer of a job to him, but she wasn't sure who it was who made the offer.
Rent and taxes on their house - 27 Wellington Street - amounted to £20 a year. There was currently no direct owner of the property, as such, it being held under the courts due to the case of Gardner against Blessington which was currently in progress. Eliza Yorke kept pigs in the yard which she sold on to make the rent money.
Eliza had heard nothing about a man offering railway tickets to people prior to the election; her husband, William, had never been in receipt of either a ticket or a £5 note.

Henry Yorke, son of William Yorke and Eliza Courtenay:
Not a freeman, Henry was employed as a clerk/tallyman for the day of the election at the Dorset Street committee rooms, marking off the names of those who had voted. He worked there for the one day and was paid a sovereign, not a £1 as his father had asserted to the commission.
Henry Yorke had been in Newry for several months, May till October 1868, working as a coachmaker for a Mr.Lawson there.

I thought it might be helpful to list the offspring of our maternal great-great grandparents, Charles Jones Junior and Isabella Anna Pennefather....

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/jones-family-of-dublin.html

On the 1st of June 1865, Charles Jones Junior married his second wife, Isabella Anna Pennefather, daughter of John Lysaght Pennefather and Emily Courtenay.
The marriage took place in St. Thomas Church of Cathal Brugha Street. Charles Jones Junior was living at 2 Lower Pembroke Street off Baggot Street and Isabella Pennefather was living at home with her family at 31 Seville Place close to Connolly Station.
Isabella was only 17 years old at the time of the marriage and was described as a fiery redhead. It was maintained in the family that her father, John Lysaght Pennefather, had chosen her husband for her. The witnesses were her aunt, Maria Pennefather Bonis (her father's sister), and John Lysaght Pennefather who was either her brother or her father. (Same name.)

Charles Jones Junior operated as a painter/decorator at 2 Lower Pembroke Street and was noted at this address in 1866. The family, however, lived at Foster Terrace, Royal Canal.
Charles and Isabella Jones spent the early years of their marriage living at 1 Foster Terrace, Royal Canal, which is around the corner from Wellington Street where Isabella had been born in 1848. It was at this address that several of their children were born:

1) Frederick Lysaght Jones, 19th Sept 1866. (Although christened 'Frederick', he was later known as William Lysaght Jones. William emigrated to the US in 1892 where, on 17th April 1897, he married Emmie Celeste Parcells in Manhattan. Emmie Celeste had been born to Elisha W. Parcells and Fannie Holland on 5th July 1873 in Manhattan.
On the 1880 US Census, it was noted that Elisha W. Parcells had been born in 1835 in New Jersey - he was a harness salesman, and had two children - Emma and Harry who had been born in 1870. Elisha Parcells appeared earlier, aged 29, on the 1860 Census in Essex, New Jersey, and again on the 1850 Census for the West Ward, Essex, New Jersey. This return gave the details for his parents and siblings - his parents were Joseph Parcels, born 1805, and Ann Parcels, born 1804. His siblings were Abigail, born 1832, James born 1836, Josephine born 1838, Mary born 1840 and Frances born 1845.

William Lysaght Jones and his wife, Emmie, seem to have had only the one daughter, Celeste Aida Jones, born to the couple on 11th August 1903. In 1910, the family were resident in Queens. In 1920 they had moved to Morris, New Jersey; in 1930 they were in Mountain Lakes, Morris, New Jersey.

Celeste, who was known to our elderly relations as 'American Celeste', came back to Dublin regularly - our maternal greataunt, Ebbie Dickson, went to visit her in the States once; she was friendly with the Mottershed family. In 1905, the passenger list for the 'Baltic' recorded the family travelling from Liverpool to New York City - they gave their destination as 241 West 135th Street, New York City. Later in 1928, the passenger list for the 'Adriatic', sailing from Cork to NYC, recorded Celeste Jones, born 11th August 1903, aboard the ship.

Celeste Aida Jones, known to everyone as ‘American Celeste’. She would go back and forth from Dublin to New Jersey in later life, and would stay with the family of her cousin, Percy Mottershed
Celeste Aida Jones died on 7th March 1978.

2) Adelaide Victoria Jones, aka Aunt Ada, born 10th Sept. 1868, died January 1959. Adelaide married Charles Robert Dunbar.
Charlie Dunbar worked in an insurance company in 1901, but by the time of the 1911 census he was living on ‘independent means’. Robert James Mottershed, who lived with the couple, died in 1929, and the childless Dunbars took his son, Percy, under their wing. Aunt Ada and Charlie Dunbar, in common with much of this family, engaged in property development. Apparently they would live in a house, do it up, then move quickly to the next one - this was at the prompting of the childless Aunt Ada who had clearly been badly bitten by the property bug. Charlie Dunbar was not so enthusiastic, and eventually in their later years, he could take the constant moving no longer, and the couple separated. (In 1901 they had all been living at 289.1 Gilford Road in Donnybrook; in 1911 they were at 10 Elton Park, Kingstown/DunLaoghaire.) Despite the separation, she organised an affectionate headstone for him in Mount Jerome:
'In loving memory of my dear husband, Charles Robert Dunbar, who departed this life 9th December 1938. I thank God upon every remembrance of you.'
Will of Charles Robert Dunbar: 'Charles Robert Dunbar of Menloe, Alma-road, Monkstown, county Dublin, died 9th December 1938. Administration London 20 January to Adelaide Victoria Dunbar. Effects £3305 in England.'

The Irish Times published an obituary Adelaide Victoria Jones' husband, Charles Robert Dunbar, on December 17th 1938:
'Mr Charles Robert Dunbar who died December 9th at his residence, Menlo, Alma Road, Monkstown, was a native of Galway who settled in Dublin over fifty years ago and held a position on the clerical staff of Messrs. Todd, Burns & Co. Afterwards he was connected with the insurance business for several years, holding important positions. He was also a member of the Masonic Order to the funds of which he contributed liberally. In later years Mr. Dunbar entered into the building trade, and became a large holder of business properties in Dublin City and of private house properties in the suburbs. While residing in the Pembroke district, he was a prominent member of the Pembroke Urban District Council.'
3) Henry Arthur Jones, 19th Sept 1870. This child died when very young.
By 1872, the family had moved down the road to 9 Middle Mountjoy Street where the following births occur:

4) Robert Oscar Jones, born 11th Nov.1872, died 26th December 1974. On 3rd Feb 1897, Robert Oscar Jones married Adelina Maude Pelissier (died 13th October 1935), the daughter of Edward Pelissier of 58 Blessington Street. Witnesses: Edward Pelissier and Meta Alexandra Reid.
Their children were: Ruby Jones who married Evan Felton; Lilian Jones who married Morgan North; Charlie Jones; Greta Jones.

In 1901, Robert Oscar and Aida Jones were living at 34 Howth Road. His widowed mother and her family were on the same street at No. 14. Robert Oscar was working in the family business and gave his profession as a Master Decorator, House Painter and Decorator. The couple had a 2-year-old daughter, Ruby. By 1911 they had moved to 7, St.Alban’s Terrace in Glasnevin and Robert Oscar had morphed into a builder and contractor, presumably in property development too.

Robert Oscar Jones would die in December 1974. He appeared on the Dublin Electoral List for 1939/1940, working at 37a York Street, with a home address at Fortfield Lodge, Templeogue. A Charles A.Jones also appeared on the list, working nearby at 136 Stephen’s Green, and with a home address at Belgard, Balally Hill, Sandyford. Was this Robert Oscar’s son, Charles Oscar Jones, I wonder? The family business, known as ‘R.O.Jones & Sons Ltd.’ was known to be at 138 Stephens Green, but it might have moved two doors down by 1939. Although his mother’s family was Church of Ireland, Robert Oscar Jones was a member of the Plymouth Brethren baptists.

5) Isabella Alexandrina Jones, (aka Bella),born 18th June 1875, died 27th July 1900.
On 21st April 1897, Isabella Alexandra Jones of 56 Blessington Street, married Robert James Mottershed, 16 Blessington Street, an engineer of Liverpool. The witnesses were our great-grandmother, Tennie/Emily Eveleen Jones and Percy A. Hay of 49 Belgrave Square. Percy's father, David Alexander Hay, earlier witnessed the marriage of Isabella Pennefather Jones' uncle, William Westby Pennefather, to Emma Hay in 1856.
Robert James Mottershed was worked with the railway, and was a close colleague of Percy A. Hay.

Isabella and Robert Mottershed would remain living at 16 Blessington Street where their son, Percival Charles Mottershed, would be born in 1898. Isabella Mottershed would die mid-1900, followed in 1929 by her husband Robert James Mottershed, an accountant with the railway. On both the 1901 and 1911 Census, Robert and his son Percy were either living or visiting with Charles Robert and Adelaide V. Dunbar who would later take the orphaned Percy Mottershed under their wing.
Percy Mottershed, the son of Isabella Alexandra Jones and Robert James Mottershed, married, on November 10th 1928, in St. Matthias' Church, Nellie Farrell. Percy's address at the time was given as Hatherton, Milltown. Nellie was the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.J. Farrell of Claremount Road, Sandymount, and previously of Mullingar, Westmeath.
In 1841, Percy Mottershed, of 15 Trees Road, Mount Merrion, Dublin, made a donation to the Northern Refugee Fund, which was to help residents of Belfast following the German Blitz of the city earlier that same year.

6) Emily Eveline Jones, aka Tennie, our great-grandmother, 30th Dec. 1876, died 7th March 1946. Our maternal great grandparents: on the 18th August 1897 in St Mary Church/the Black Church, Emily Eveleen Jones/Tennie married Joseph Edwards Dickson, a coal merchant of 15 Northumberland Road. He had been born to Henry Dickson a farmer of Benburb, Dungannon, County Tyrone. Emily was living at the family home in 56 Blessington Street and her father was noted on the certificate as Charles Jones, Decorator; there was no indication that he had died four years earlier however.
The witnesses were Tennie's brother, Robert Oscar Jones, and a William James Hardy who seems to have been a friend of Joseph Dickson from the Dungannon area.
Tennie, our great grandmother, was widowed in 1905 when her husband, Joseph Edwards Dickson, died - Tennie moved into her mother’s home in Howth along with her young family, and mother and daughter lived together until Isabella Jones’ death on May 31st 1942.

The children of Emily Eveline Jones and Joseph Edward Dickson are here:
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/joseph-edwards-dickson-of-tyrone-and.html

7) Anna Marie Antoinette Jones , born 1st Oct 1878, died 6th January 1944. She married twice - firstly to Thomas Herbert Smith (21st March 1874 - 21st November 1920)) and secondly to William George Meaney, who died 20th May 1853.

In 1901 Anna Marie was living at home with her widowed mother, Isabella Jones, at 14 Howth Road, but, in 1908, she married a man who had recently returned from working in Australia, Thomas Smith. By 1911, the young couple were living at 4 Drumcondra Park.
Thomas was working as a manager in the Jones family decorating business, and was also buying and renovating property.

Mount Jerome headstone: 'In loving memory of Marie, beloved wife of W.G. Meaney, died 6th January 1944. Also William George Meaney called home 20th May 1953, and his son Frederick William, beloved husband of Edith Meaney called home 26th June 1956 aged 46.'

By her first marriage to Thomas Herbert Smith she had three children:
a) Percival William Webster Smith (11th April 1910 - 22nd June 1984) who married Eileen Evelyn Kerr.
b) Celeste Evelyn Antoinette Smith, born 14th October 1914.
c) Cecil Herbert Smith (25th March 1917 - 24th December 1990), who married Gwen Bowlby.
Thomas Herbert Smith died in tragic circumstances on 21st November 1920 at 117 Haddington Road. Anna Marie remarried. Her second husband, William George Meaney, had three children of his own:
d) Elsie Meaney, born 11th August 1908.
e) Frederick William Meaney, 6th April 1910 - 26th June 1956.
f) Maureen Meaney, 3rd November 1913 - 4th December 1993.

8) Percival Albert Jones, 22nd March 1881, died 7th May 1956.
Isabella's youngest son, Percival Albert Jones, married Emily Mabel Lloyd in the Plymouth Brethren church, Merrion Hall, on 4th September 1907. Percival, aka Percy, was living at the family home of 'Belmont', Nashville Road, Howth, and was a master contractor, working in the family business. His father, Charles Jones, was, of course, dead. Emily Mabel's father was William J. Lloyd, an official with the Bank of Ireland, who lived at Lambert Lodge, Sandymount Avenue. The witnesses were Frederick G. Chipperfield and Lily Lloyd.

Emily Mabel Lloyd had been born to the bank clerk, William Lloyd, and Annie Buckley at Castle Street, Dalkey, South Dublin, on 24th July 1885; she would died on 26th August 1851. Her father, William Lloyd, was a prominent member of the Plymouth Brethren congregation at Merrion Hall.

From The Irish Times : 'Jones and Lloyd - September 4th 1907, at Merrion Hall, Dublin, Percival Albert, son of the late Charles Jones and Mrs. Jones of Ashbourne, Howth, to Emilie Mabel, younger daughter of William J. Lloyd of 2 Lambert Terrace, Sandymount Avenue, Co. Dublin,'

From Mount Jerome Cemetery: 'In memory of Emily Mabel, wife of Percy A. Jones, August 29th 1951; and Percy A. Jones, died May 7th 1956.'

The children of Percival Albert Jones and Emily Mabel Lloyd were:
a) Doris Mabel Jones (1st June 1908 - 14th April 1996), married Cyril Chipperfield (10th December 1911 - 1986). Their two children were Stuart Frederick Chipperfield (10.5.1945) who married Sharon Andrews; and Trevor Cyril Chipperfield (7th May 1946) married Julia Szapo.
b) Norman Ernest Lindley (24th December 1910 - 18th January 1975) who married Doris Alison Lewis (born 14th September 1911). Their children were Nigel Lindley Jones (10.4.1940) who married Rosaleen Ethel Good; Adrian Lindley Jones (22.2.1944) who married Melanie Eve Williamson; Hilary Doris Jones (29.6.1948) who married David Spurgeon.
c) Eleanor Enid Jones (born 3.8.1913) who married Walter James Prescott (born 29.8.1912). Their children were Meriel Law Prescott (29.9.1940) who married Derek B.Symons; Timothy Walter Law Prescott (21.2.1945) who married Ann Sharp; Gail Law Prescott (15.1.1947) who married Lawrence Dick; Sallie Law Prescott (14.3.1950) who married Michael Coley.

Francis Courtney/Courtenay was the son of Thomas Courtney, shearman of Dublin, and brother to Frederick and Robert Courtenay. He served in the army from 1817 till 1839 when he retired as an invalid, and returned to Dublin. This post details his military record.

Sergeant Francis Courtney, Clerk, Service Number 346.
Francis Courtney was born in St. Luke's Parish, Dublin 1793. St. Luke's Church is located in the Liberties/Coombe area of Dublin; this was the area where Dublin's woollen industry was located. Francis Courtney was the son of Thomas Courtney, shearman.

He enlisted in the 85th Regiment of Foot in Dublin on 10th September 1817, aged 24. He was discharged on 31st May 1839. He was described in 1817 as 5'9" , with a fresh complexion, brown eyes and black hair, and had enlisted himself for the bounty of three pounds.

He was promoted to the rank of corporal on 25th April 1818, but was 'reduced' to private on 12th August 1820 at his own request. Francis was promoted to corporal again on 20th October 1823, but once again, at his own request, was reduced to the rank of private on 15th February 1824. This pattern continued throughout his service - he was once again promoted to corporal on 14th June 1828, then promoted further to serjeant on 26th April 1829. Once again, on 2nd June 1831, Francis was reduced to the rank of private, this time due to hospitalisation, before, finally being promoted to regiment clerk on 15th September 1833; he left the army on 31st May 1839.

From 11th July 1821 until 17th November 1831, Francis Courtney served in Malta and Gibraltar.
In June 1821, three units of the 85th Regiment marched from Brighton to Portsmouth where they embarked for Gibraltar; on 11th July, the Head Quarters and seven companies of the regiment arrived arrived at Malta; the barracks were located at Floriana. The regiment stayed in Malta until October 1831.

Between 1831 and 1836, the regiment moved around England and Ireland - Dudley, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Stourbridge, Haydock Lodge in Lancashire; in 1833, some of the company sailed from Liverpool to Dublin, and then onto Limerick, Killaloe, Tipperary, Newcastle, before heading to Galway and being dispatched on to Castlebar, Loughrea, Oughterard and Westport. In 1836, his company embarked from Cork to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

From 8th August 1836 until 31st May 1839, Francis Courtney served in Upper Canada, North America. On 8th August, the 1st Division of the 85th Regiment arrived in Halifax, and set off on first on foot and then aboard the steamer the 'Gazelle' for St. John's, New Brunswick, in consequence of the rebellion in Lower Canada. The regiment received orders to prepare to move to the assistance of the troops stationed in that province. The men were issued with two pairs of mocassins each, two blankets, warm mitts, kettles, snow shoes and felling axes. The 1st Division headed to Quebec on 16th November 1837. The regiment proceeded in sleighs on the ice, on the rivers, and in carioles on the snow through the woods, and after a most severe and harrowing journey of 450 miles through the country, arrived at Quebec...in January 1838.
They next took the following route to Upper Canada - Sorel to Montreal, then, since the rebels had assembled on the frontiers, the regiment moved on to St. John's, Lower Canada. On 9th June 1838, the company proceed via canal to Kingstown, Upper Canada. From there, they proceed to London, Upper Canada, from where the company's right wing proceeded to barracks in St. Thomas. This was where Francis Courtney was discharged because of ill health in May 1839.

'2nd Disability or Cause of Discharge - According to the surgeon's report...it appears that this is a case of debility contracted in the service without being attributable to vice or intemperance.'
'Character - that his general conduct has been good.'
Attached - 'I hereby certify that Serjeant Francis Courtney, 85th Regiment, is wholly unfit for further service, from long service and constitutional debility. He has been lately some time in hospital with ulceration of the hip. His conduct while under treatment ahs been uniformly good, and I do not consider that his complaints have been aggravated by...his conduct....' (This was dated May 3rd 1839, St. Thomas N.C. and signed by George Griffiths, Super, 85th Regiment Light Infantry.)

Upon his return home to Dublin, Francis moved in with his niece, Eliza Courtenay, and her husband, William Yorke, who were living at 27 Wellington Street.
Francis Courtney of Wellington Street was admitted to the Freemen of Dublin on 14th February 1845 by birth, being the son of Thomas Courtney, shearman.
On the Dublin Electoral Roll for 1865, a Francis Courtenay is named as the householder for 27 Wellington Street.
He took part in the 1869 Commission of Inquiry into electoral malpractice in the Dublin elections of 1868.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/02/commission-of-inquiry-1869.html

This post explores the links between the Bellinghams of Castlebellingham, the Quins of Dublin, the Wyes of Dunleer and the Palmer family of Dublin. It's a work in progress....

Thomas Williams, father of Charles Wye Williams and Richard Williams of Drumcondra Castle, married Mary Ann Quin/Quine in St. Thomas's, Dublin, in 1777.
The ceremony was performed by a Rev. Wye, who I believe to be Charles Wye of Co. Louth. The records of St.Thomas's reveal that no rector by the name of 'Wye' worked there at any time during its history, therefore he must surely have been specially requested by the bride and groom. I've discovered no other clergymen by this name, other than Rev. Charles Wye and several members of the same family. Rev. Wye also married an Arthur Ormsby and Ann Ashe on the same day, but I've yet to discover who they were.
It appears that Charles Wye Williams, the second son of Thomas and Mary Ann, was named after Rev. Charles Wye, who I believe was Mary Anne Quin's maternal grandfather, and that her parents were Thomas Quin, of Castlebellingham, and Mary Wye.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/01/mary-anne-quin-wife-of-thomas-williams.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/11/collection-of-quins.html

Notes on the Wye Family:
The grandfather of Charles Wye was Gilbert Wye of Co. Antrim. (He also owned property in Killiney, Co. Dublin.) Gilbert Wye was a burgess of Belfast and steward to the Earl of Donegall.
His son, Rev. Mossom Wye, was born in Co. Antrim in 1662, and was the rector of Kilsaran 1689 - 1703 (Kilsaran being the parish closest to Castlebellingham, Louth), then the rector of Dunleer, a small town about four or five miles south of Castlebellingham.

Charles Wye (1694 - 1784)
The son of Mossom Wye was the Rev. Charles Wye, born in Dunleer, Co. Louth, in 1694, and who was educated in Donegal by Mr. Cambell. He entered T.C.D. as a Pensioner at the age of 16 on March 28, 1709, and became a Scholar in 1712. He was for some time previous to 1728 his father's Curate in Dunleer. He was collated to the Rectory of Darver on Mar. 12, 1734, which he held with Dromiskin, Louth, until Sep., 1752, when he exchanged with Rev. Joseph Pratt, A.M., for the R. of Ballymoney, Co. Cork and Kilmeen, (Ross), with which he held the Curacy of Kinneigh.
A deed exists which mentions a Charles Wye, gentleman, at Plunketts Land, Dunleer, in 1722. A deed of 1716, involving Dunleer, mentioned Charles Wye, Fielding Wye, William Wye and Rev. Mossom Wye.
The will of Rev. Charles Wye, dated 11 April, 1765, was proved in Cork 16 Aug., 1784. He mentions in it his son Francis Wye, and two daughters — Mary, wife of Quin, and Elizabeth.

The will of Francis Wye, of Castlebellingham, was proved also in 1785; he states that Sir Michael Cromie, Bart., Right Hon. Luke Gardiner, Esq., and John William Foster of Rosey Park were indebted to him by a bond in 1782 for £2,600, which he now bequeaths to his wife, Lucretia, along with land in Derrigra/Ballyhanum, Curracrowley in Cork, and Spaw in Louth, during the life of Henry Hughes, gentleman. He also bequeaths his wife his interest in a house and garden in Castlebellingham. The witnesses were Peter Prole, George Bower and Henry Hughes.
According to a deed of 1785 (369-25-246076), Francis Wye's widow, Lucretia, sold on her inherited lands, plus house in Castlebellingham, to a Henry Kelly, prior to her marriage to Charles Henry Sallery of County Meath.

In 1784, Robert White of Williamstown, Kilsaran, married Mrs. Wye (widow) of Castlebellingham, but it's unclear whose widow this was.

Francis Wye's sister, Mary Wye, married a man by the name of Quin, who I believe to be Thomas Quin, the son of Francis Quin, bricklayer of Dublin. Thomas Quin settled in Castlebellingham....

Deed 124-153-84082: Dated 20th and 21st August 1746. A deed of lease and release, between Thomas Quin of Castlebellingham, Rev. Charles Wye of Dromlisk, Co.Louth, Thomas Quin, apothecary of Dublin and Mary Wye, spinster, the second daughter of Rev. Charles Wye. Thomas Quin of Castlebellingham was the son of Francis Quin, bricklayer, while Thomas Quin, apothecary was Francis' nephew.
Whereby Thomas Quin of Castlebellingham, for the consideration of Charles Wye of the parish of Kilsaran (ie: Castlebellingham), and for the consideration of Thomas Quin of Dublin, his heirs and assigns, 34 acres of land near Castlebellingham and a house in Castlebellingham owned by Thomas Quin - these properties were being conveyed to Charles Wye and Thomas Quin of Dublin, for the lives of Thomas Quin of Castlebellingham, Robert Sibthorpe, eldest son of Stephen Sibthorpe of Dunany, Louth, and Henry Hughes, eldest son of John Hughes of Castlebellingham.
Also, Thomas Quin of Castlebellingham demised to Charles Wye and to Thomas Quin of Dublin a plot of land in Bow Lane, Dublin, so that a house may be built there. The witnesses were Samuel Boyd and William Spring of Dublin.
Was the above deed the precursor to a marriage settlement between Mary Wye and Thomas Quin of Castlebellingham? She wasn't marrying Thomas Quin, apothecary, since he was married to Isabella Brownrigg of Annagh, Wexford.

Francis Quin of Dublin:
In either 1692 or 1715 (two different records record two different dates for the same couple, ie: www.irishgenealogy.ie and 'Diary of Thomas Bellingham'), Francis Quin, a wealthy merchant of Dublin, married, in St. Bride's, Dublin, Jane Bellingham, the daughter of Sir Thomas Bellingham of Castlebellingham. They had a son, Thomas Quin, who was noted as a churchwarden in Kilsaran Parish in 1748. Thomas Quin also proved the will of his aunt, the unmarried Anne Bellingham, in 1758. It seems that Thomas Quin had a son, Thomas, since Anne's sister, when she died in 1770, mentioned her grandnephew, Thomas Quin, who was only a child, not yet fourteen.
I doubt the family of Thomas Quin stayed in Castlebellingham, since the Kilsaran church records show little sign of the Quins - on February 27th 1831 Catherine Quin, the daughter of John and Mary Quin, was baptised. A Quin was buried there on October 6th 1840. In 1889 and 1890, a Richard Quin was churchwarden along with Major General Woolsey D.L.
Perhaps they headed back to Dublin? A Thomas Quin was born in 1760 to Thomas and Mary Quin of Fleet Street.

The Bellinghams:
It seems that the Bellingham family, who had come from Levens in England, settled first in the same Liberties area of Dublin as the Quin family.
Two years before Mark Quine became the third Lord Mayor of Dublin, Daniel Bellingham, a member of the goldsmiths guild, became the first Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1665 to 1666. The Great Mace of Dublin, a ceremonial item, was made in his workshop in 1665 and was subsequently purchased from him by the City Assembly. Daniel Bellingham was the granduncle of Jane Bellingham who married Francis Quin 30 years later. Daniel Bellingham, the first of the Bellingham baronets, died in 1672 and was buried in St.Werberghs, as was his unmarried son, Sir Richard Bellingham, who died in 1699.
The Bellingham baronetcy passed then to Daniel's brother, Henry, who had married a County Louth woman, Lucy Sibthorpe, and, soon after, he acquired the estates of Castlebellingham.
Henry became the High Sheriff of Kildare in 1654 following a stint in the military. It was about this time that he bought Gernonstown, later renamed Castlebellingham, from an ex-soldier, John Perryn, who is believed to have been granted the land following its confiscation after the 1641 rebellion, the original owners being the Gernons. Another document lists land in Kilsaran parish which had been granted to Henry Bellingham for his services in the war, namely 619 acres in Gernonstown, 183 acres in Milestone (later the property of the Woolseys), 80 acres in Williamstown, 108 acres in Lynne and 86 acres in Adamstown. This was confirmed in 1666.

Henry Bellingham's will in 1676 mentioned his sisters, Lady Jane Gilbert and Anne Bickerton, widow.

His son, Colonel Thomas Bellingham was the executor of his will and his successor to his estates.
Colonel Thomas Bellingham was the father of Jane/Jenny Bellingham who would marry Francis Quin in Dublin in 1692. The diary of Col. Thomas Bellingham has been published online - there are two references to his daughter, Jane, who he refers to as Jenny. On June 28th 1690, he finds little Jenny very well; on July 23rd 1690, he received a letter from her. He had other children - Abigail, who died unmarried in 1770, Anne who died unmarried in 1759, and Henry Bellingham who married Mary Moore.
Colonel Thomas Bellingham' s will was proved in 1722 - he left £500 to his daughter Anne Bellingham should she ever marry, and £500 to her unmarried sister, Abigail, who had been named after her mother, Abigail Handcock, who was, apparently, not a great beauty. Jane/Jenny, having been provided for when she married Francis Quin, was not mentioned in her father's will, whose executors were his son, Henry Bellingham, and his 'beloved kinsman' Robert Sibthorpe of Dunany. The will of Thomas' daughter, the unmarried Anne Bellingham, was later sworn to by her nephew, Thomas Quin, when she died in 1758 (see below).

The will of Anne Bellingham, 1758: the unmarried Anne Bellingham left 'my five Guinea Piece of Gold and the ring of Queen Mary's hair' to her sister-in-law who Anne named in the will as her 'sister Bellingham'. This was Mary Moore, the wife of her brother, Henry Bellingham. Anne also left bequests to her nephews Henry and Alan Bellingham (the two sons of her brother, Henry), to her nieces Eliza Fortescue, Mary Coddington, Margaret Bickerton, Anne Bellingham and Jane Bellingham (these were the daughters of her brother Alan Bellingham).
A further bequest was left to her nephew, Thomas Quin (son of her sister Jane), and to her grandniece, Abigail Aston, and a final one to her sister, Abigail Bellingham. In 1770, Anne's sister, Abigail Bellingham, made her own will, in which she mentioned a grand-nephew, Thomas Quin, who she desired to be put to some trade or business when he reached the age of 14 - this child was, therefore, the son of Thomas Quin and his wife who I believe was Mary Wye, the daughter of Rev. Charles Wye.

Rev. Charles Wye married Mary Anne Quin and Thomas Williams of the Bank of Ireland in St. Thomas's in 1777. The eldest son of Mary Anne and Thomas was Richard Williams, of Drumcondra Castle, who would marry Anne Palmer.

The parents of Anne Palmer who married Richard Williams were George Palmer, the governor of the Bank of Ireland, and Anne Bickarton, the only daughter and heir of Daniel Bickerton of Milestone, Castlebellingham. Daniel Bickerton was the son of Robert Bickerton of Chatilly, Armagh, and of Anne Bellingham. This Anne Bellingham was the daughter of Henry Bellingham and Lucy Sibthorpe, and the sister of Colonel Thomas Bellingham.

The following families also interlink with the Bellinghams....

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/05/woolsey-family-of-castlebellingham.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/08/richard-williams-and-geraldine-omoore.html

The Connors/Conners were an ancient Munster family, who intermarried with various branches of my mother's family. Actually, we probably would have died out years ago without their genetic contribution....

The earliest documented member of the family was Cornelius O'Connor whose father was murdered by soldiers of Cromwell's army. His widowed mother settled with the infant Cornelius at Gallow's Hill Street in Bandon, Co. Cork, where she took the politically-motivated decision to drop the Irish 'O' from the name, hoping that this would make them more acceptable to the predominantly Protestant inhabitants of the area.

Cornelius had a son, Daniel Connor, a wealthy merchant of Bandon Bridge, who, in 1698, bought the confiscated estates of Justin McCarthy, and, in 1702, bought the confiscated estates of Donough McCarthy, Earl of Clancarty.

The children of Daniel Connor, merchant of Bandon, were:

Daniel Connor who died in 1737.
George Connor, who married Elizabeth Southwell, and who settled at Ballybricken, Monkstown, Co. Cork - these were the parents of Mary Anne Connor who married, in 1778, John Lysaght, 2nd Lord Lisle. ( John Lysaght was the brother of Mary Lysaght who married Kingsmill Pennefather - these were our maternal 6 x great-grandparents.) A son of George Connor and Elizabeth Southwell, Daniel Connor of Ballybricken, married Mary Pennefather, the daughter of Mary Lysaght and Kingsmill Pennefather.
Jane who married Mr. Lapp, merchant of Cork.
Mary who married Mr. Thomas of Carlow.
Hannah who married Mr. Delahoyde.
Elizabeth who married Richard Gumbleton, Esq., of Castlerichard, Waterford. (The same Richard Gumbleton of Castlerichard featured in deed 548-195-362169, of 1802, which dealt with the administration of the will of Rt. Hon. Joseph Lysaght of Cork - he died in Buxton Wells on August 8th 1799; he had named as his executor, his nephew, Rev. John Pennefather of Newpark, who was the son of Kingsmill Pennefather and Mary Lysaght. Also named in this deed were William Gumbleton, Richard Edward Gumbleton, Richard Boyle who was the Earl of Shannon and his daughter, Juliana the Countess of Carrick and her husband, Somerset.) The children of Elizabeth Connor and Richard Gumbleton were - Richard Gumbleton of Castlerichard, William Gumbleton of Fort William, Robert Warren Gumbleton, George Gumbleton of Marston, Henry Gumbleton of Curriglass House, Jane Daunt, Mary Peard, Ann Rashleigh, Eliza Walton and Catherine Gumbleton.
William Connor who was MP for Bandon in 1765, and who married, in 1721, Anne Bernard, the daughter of Roger Bernard. William Connor founded Connorville in 1727.

The children of William Connor and Anne Bernard: Daniel, born 1723; Arthur born 1724; Cornelius born 1727; Roger born 1728 who married Anne Bernard; William born 1731.

Children of Roger Connor and Anne Longfield:
The Longfield family of Longueville family recur in this genealogy - Anne Longfield was the daughter of Robert Longfield and Margaret Geering; her brother was Richard, Baron Longueville of Longueville, Co.Cork. Anne's aunt, Mary Longfield, the wife of William Longfield, was accidentally buried alive; her butler decided to break into the Longfield family vault in St.Peter's, Cork, to steal her ring but, the moment he cut into her finger, she awoke, frightening the thief off. She then walked home to her home in Patrick Street and lived for many years afterwards.
Another member of the Longfield family, the Rev. Mountiford Longfield, Vicar of Desertserges, Cork, married, firstly, Grace Lysaght, the daughter of William Lysaght of Fort William who was a relation of the Lysaghts of Mountnorth; he married, secondly, Mary Anne Conner, the daughter of Colonel William Conner.

Roger Connor and Anne Longfield had, amongst others, Robert Connor of Fortrobert, a demesne adjacent to Connorville, both near Dunmanway, Cork. Robert Connor was a fierce Orangeman, loyal to the crown, who commanded his own corps of militia; he threatened to invade France and bring Napoleon back to Ireland to be displayed in a cage. Not surprisingly, Robert Connor was popular with the Ascendancy administration in Dublin Castle. Robert even attempted unsuccessfully to have his own brother, Roger, arrested on charges of treason.
His brother, Roger O'Connor, was born on 8th March 1763, and entered Trinity in 1777. His wife, who he eloped with on the day that he met her, was Louisa Anna Strachan, the eldest daughter of Colonel Strachan of the 32nd Regiment of Foot. Both Roger, and his brother, Arthur O'Connor, assumed the earlier spelling of the family name, both men being ardent nationalists. Strongly influenced by the French revolution, Roger O'Connor bought Dangan Castle in Meath with the intention of entertaining Napoleon there, following the expected French invasion of Ireland; this never happened and the castle subsequently burnt down which netted Roger £7000 in insurance. Following the loss of Dangan Castle, Roger's three sons, Arthur, Feargus and Roger, went to live with their Orange uncle Robert at Fortrobert, where they were later married to Robert's daughters.

Of the three sons of Roger O'Connor, the nationalist Feargus O'Connor was the most prominent. He was educated by another of our maternal ancestors, our 4 x greatgrandfather, Thomas Willis, who ran a prominent school in Portarlington, and one of whose daughters - possibly Eliza Willis - Feargus attempted unsuccessfully to elope with. One of Feargus's schoolfriends was the nationalist doctor, Richard Grattan of Drummin, whose daughter, Frances Grattan, married William Willis, the son of the schoolmaster, Thomas Willis of Portarlington, in 1826.
At the height of the Tithe Wars in 1832, Feargus O'Connor was elected for Cork, carried into office by a wave of anti-union sentiment. A fabulous orator, he gained the support of the Catholic population but eventually lost it when he attempted to usurp O'Connell as the head of the Irish nationalists. Falling out of favour at home, he moved to England and involved himself in the Chartist movement there, founding their newspaper ' The Northern Star' ; Feargus O'Connor died insane in Dr. Tuke's Asylum near Chiswick in 1855. His ghost is said to haunt the woods around his old estate of Fortrobert near Dunmanway, Cork.

Feargus O'Connor's sister, Margaret Matilda O'Connor, married a baronet of Cork, Richard Emanuel Moore of Rosscarbery, whose brother, Herbert Gilman Moore, had married Mary Courtenay, the sister of our maternal 3 x greatgrandmother Emily Pennefather, née Moore in Dublin in 1851. Richard Emanuel Moore had earlier been married to another of the O'Connor family, Mary Anne O'Connor who was the daughter of an Arthur Ryan O'Connor of Kilgobbin. (I'm unsure who this Arthur Ryan O'Connor was.)

Another son of Roger O'Connor and Anne Longfield of Connorville was Arthur O'Connor, later General Arthur O'Connor (1763 - 1852), a prominent member of the United Irishmen, who was sent into exile in France due to his involvement in the 1798 rebellion. A close association of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, he had tried to bring about a French invasion of England, which had led to his arrest and 18-month imprisonment in Fort George, Scotland. Arthur, being forbidden to set foot in Cork again, sold Connorville to his brother, Roger, and entrusted his property to his nephew, Feargus O'Connor, who subsequently embezzled much of it. Arthur settled in Paris where, in 1809, the First Consul gave him the rank of Lieutenant-General, then General of Division. He lived at the Rue de Tournon for 16 years, but bought the Chateau de Bignon near Nemours where he died in 1852.
In 1807 Arthur married Alexandrine Louise Sophie de Caritat de Concordat, known as the simpler Eliza, who was the daughter of Sophie de Grouchy and the philosopher, Nicholas de Condorcet. The Condorcets kept a salon which attracted the leading lights of the enlightenment, but, thanks to his opposition to the Jacobin administration, Nicholas de Condorcet lost his life during the Reign of Terror when Eliza was only five years old. His wife, Sophie, reknowned as an early feminist, managed to survive the revolutionary era and became a celebrated translator of enlightenment literature, as well as the custodian and publisher of her late husband's writing. Arthur O'Connor and Sophie's daughter, Eliza, would take over this work following Sophie's death in 1822.

Connorville, the house built by William Connor in 1727, was later bought by James Lysaght Esq., and sold on again by him in 1858. James Lysaght may have been a relation of John Lysaght, 2nd Lord Lisle, whose wife was Mary Connor, the daughter of George Connor of Ballybricken, but this is, as yet, unclear.

The Pennefather/Connor Connection:
Our maternal 6 x greatgrandparents were Kingsmill Pennefather and Mary Lysaght, the daughter of John Lysaght, 1st Lord Lisle of Mountnorth, Cork. They married on 26th June 1754.

The daughter of Kingsmill Pennefather and Mary Lysaght, Mary Pennefather, married Daniel Connor the son of George Connor of Ballybricken. (George Connor of Ballybricken was the brother of William Connor who founded Connorville in 1727.)

Mary Pennefather and Daniel Connor had Daniel Connor, J.P. of Ballybricken who married Anna Pennefather, the daughter of William Pennefather and Frances Nisbett.

Daniel Connor and Anna Pennefather had Captain Richard Connor (1781-1862) who married Elizabeth Perrot, the daughter of Samuel Perrot of Cleve Hill. This particular Daniel Connor of Ballybricken, ie who married Anna Pennefather) was the brother of Catherine Connor who married Captain Frederick Maitland of the Bellepheron who was present when Napoleon surrendered. Catherine and Daniel's brother, Lieutenant William H. Connor was also aboard the Bellepheron - Lieutenant William H. Connor married Jane Cassandra Eustace, daughter of Rev. Charles Eustace of Robertstown, Kildare, and had two children, William Connor and Cassandra Connor.

Captain Richard Connor and Elizabeth Perrot had Daniel Connor (1835 - 1899) who married Emily, the daughter of Henry Steigen Bergen of Hyde Park, London; they also had Dr. William Connor who married Emily Lawrence Dundas, Colonel George Connor of the 28th Regiment and Elizabeth Mary Connor who married Samuel Willy Perrot in 1870. Dr William Connor, born March 25th 1845, practiced medicine in England before returning home to Cork in 1890, where he lived at Cooleen, Rushbrooke, with his wife, Ellen Laurence Dundas, the daughter of William Colbourne of Cork.

The children of Daniel Connor and Emily Bergen were Major Richard Connor of Ballybricken (1868-1915), the lawyer Daniel Henry Connor (1867-1941), Samuel Connor (1872-1934), Kathleen Louise Connor (born 1877), Henry Connor (1872-1942) and Emily Connor (1870-1937).

The son of Kingsmill Pennefather and Mary Lysaght, was Richard Pennefather, whose son, Mathew Pennefather of New Park, Tipperary (1784 - 1858) married Anna Connor, the 4th daughter of Daniel Connor of Ballybricken. The children of Mathew Pennefather and Anna Connor were named Daniel Francis Pennefather, Richard Pennefather, Mary Lavina Pennefather and Anna Pennefather.

John Anderson was the son of William Anderson (1804 - 1892) and Sarah Fay (1804 - 1887) of Kells, Co. Antrim. I've already done an earlier post on the Anderson family of Kells/Connor, Co. Antrim, but this post details them further.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/08/anderson-family-of-county-antrim.html

William Anderson, and his son John Anderson, were teachers and worked in a variety of schools south of Kells and Connor. I found reference to them in several records. From an 1851 report on National Schools, I discovered that William Anderson was the principal and sole teacher of Tildarg National School in Ballyeaston Parish. This school joined the National School system on 22nd August 1833, and William Anderson was being paid £16. 13s a year.
Also in 1851 John Anderson, his son, was the principal and only teacher of Ballybracken National School in the same rural area. The school joined the system on 4th November 1841, and in 1853 John Anderson was being paid an annual salary of £4 11s 8d. In 1850 Ballybracken School had 52 pupils.
Tildarg, Ballybracken and Drumadarragh are adjacent townlands, situated between Kells and Ballyclare in Co. Antrim.
In 1862 William Anderson was leasing a house and garden from William Todd in Drumadarragh. The Tithe Applotment Books of the 1830's don't show William Anderson; William Todd was there, however, leasing 26 acres.
Six years earlier, his son, John Anderson, married Jane Wilson Blain on 24th October 1856. From the certificate we learn that John, a teacher, was born in 1835, and was living in Drumadarragh, Kilbride, Co. Antrim presumably still at home with his parents. Closeby, as can be seen from Griffiths Valuation, was a school in Ballybracken townland where John Anderson was the principle and only teacher. On the marriage certificate we see that Jane Wilson Blair lived here in Ballybracken. She had been born in 1837 to William Blair, a weaver of Ballybracken, and to his wife Shusoneah Susan Willson. The witnesses to the marriage were J.S. Rainey and Samuel Ferguson.

The children of John Anderson and Jane Wilson Blain were:
⦁William John Anderson, baptised in Connor Presbyterian Church, Kells, on 28th March 1858. (he would later marry Agnes Keating in Belfast; they were the grandparents of our grandmother, Agnes Keating Wilson, who married our Dublin-born grandfather Bertie Stewart.)
⦁James Anderson, born 11th July 1860, and baptised in Connor Presbyterian Church on 7th October 1860.
⦁Sarah Agnes Anderson born 22nd December 1862, christened in Finvoy, Ballymoney, on 13th January 1863. She married James Barbour of Drumachose, Derry, and died in Manitoba on 28th February 1948.
⦁A daughter, Susan, was born to the couple on March 18th 1865 in the Templepatrick Registration District and was baptised in Ballylinny Presbyterian Church on 18th May 1865 - Ballylinny is in Newtownabbey south of Kells and close to Belfast. This child died of scrofula at the age of seven on 31st July 1872; her father, John, was present when she died at home at 59 Hardinge Street in the centre of Belfast.
⦁A third daughter, Ellen, was born July 2nd 1867 in Belfast - she possibly died in 1875, aged 8 and the death was registered in Belfast. Ellen had been named after her father's sister, Ellen Anderson Blair.

On a government sessions report into Irish schools, I came across a reference to John Anderson, a teacher of Carnmoney No.2 Boys' School in 1865. Carnmoney is in Newtownabbey where his daughter, Susan, had been baptised in 1865.

The Wilson family of Jane Wilson Blain, wife of John Anderson, teacher:
John Anderson's first wife, Jane Wilson Blain, had been born to Shusonneah Susan Willson (1800 - November 1873) and William Blain (1789 - 11th August 1882). Their children were christened in Connor Presbyterian Church:
⦁Hugh Blain, 29th April 1822 - 24th December 1876, married Eliza Service, the daughter of Thomas Service on 4th July 1861 in Ballyeaston. On 23 Aug 1865 they had a daughter, Elizabeth Blain, born in the Doagh region.
⦁Andrew Blain, 2nd February 1824 - 15th May 1887, married Margaret Gordon in Ballyeaston on 23rd December 1853. Margaret's father was Robert Gordon. Andrew Blain was appointed the executor of the will of Elizabeth Gordon of Ballyrobert, Templepatrick, when she died in 1875. Andrew Blain at that time lived in Ballywalter, Ballylinney, just south of Templepatrick and close to Ballyrobert. Elizabeth Gordon named her two sons as Robert and James Gordon, and her daughter as Annabella Gordon. The son of Andrew Blain and Margaret Gordon was Robert Andrew Gordon Blain (1854 - 1841) who married Isabella Stewart (1860 - 1930) the daughter of Alexander Stewart. Robert Gordon Blain and Isabella moved to England, and he was recorded aboard the 'Alaunia', arriving at Quebec on 28th August 1925; he gave his place of birth as Ballybracken, next to Drumadarragh. HIs wife, née Isabella Stewart, had been born in Drumballyroney, Co. Down.

⦁Eliza Blain, 2nd February 1827 - 24th February 1910, married James Rainey of Umry, Clonkeen, Co. Antrim.
⦁James Wilson Blain, born 21st December 1829. He married, in 1874, Eliza Gleghorn. She may have been a member of the Gleghorn family of Potters Walls, just north of Antrim town, and 10 miles west of Drumadarragh/Ballybracken. In 1872, a James Gleghorn of Potters Wall made his will and named a daughter as Eliza.
⦁William John Blain, born 29th July 1833, possibly married Jennet Jones in Templepatrick on 16th January 1857.
⦁Twins Jane Willson Blain and Shusonneah Blain, born 14th February 1835.

Shusonneah Susan Wilson's brother, James Wilson, lived in Ballybracken next to Drumadarragh. James died on 1st April 1869 leaving a will:
'...I allow the sixty five pounds twelve shillings I owe Hugh Blane on foot of an I.O.U....to be paid out of my property...I allow my sister, Elizabeth Rennie (ie: Rainey), the sum of ten pounds...and if any of it is unpaid at the time of her death, the remainder is to go to her son James...
...I allow my niece, Jane Wilson Anderson, the sum of fifteen pounds...and if she should die before it is all paid, the remainder is to go to her son James..
...I will and bequeath to Hugh Blane all my property...I nominate and appoint the said Hugh Blane, my nephew, and his brother, Andrew Blane of Ballywalter (ie: Ballylinney), executors...'

James Wilson's above will was witnessed by Ephraim Wilson and Archibald Wilson of Maxwells Wall, Antrim. This Archibald Wilson also held land in Carncome, which immediately adjoins Maxwells Wall, both townlands being midway between Kells and Ballybracken/Drumadarragh. Griffiths Valuation of 1862 shows a strong cluster of Wilsons farming here, and this is possibly the origin of the Wilson family of Shusonneah Wilson. The other Wilson farming there in 1862 were Speir Wilson, John Wilson, Hugh Wilson, John Wilson (distinguished from the other John Wilson by the word 'Big' after his name), James Wilson (distinguished from the other James by the word 'Ross', possibly his mother's fmaily name), and James Wilson.
As can be seen from James Wilson's 1869 will, his sister, Elizabeth Wilson, married a Rennie or Rainey.

The Todd Family of Drumadarragh:
Jane Wilson Blane, who married the schoolmaster, John Anderson, died in about 1870, and John remarried. His second wife was Eliza Todd, the daughter of William Todd of Drumadarragh. In 1862, Griffiths shows this farmer leasing 66 acres, in Waterheadstown, Drumadarragh, and subletting a house to John Anderson's father, the schoolmaster William Anderson.

William Todd died on 13th February 1877, leaving a will:
'...I leave to my wife, Margaret, ten pounds a year for her maintenance while she lives out of the interest of my money and a free residence on my farm...
..., I leave all my interest in my said lands, with all stock and crop, which may be thereon, and any farming implements and household furniture to Robert Todd and William Todd, sons of my late son Robert, in equal shares...
...It is also my will that my daughter-in-law, Sarah, widow of my late son Robert, shall be entitled to reside in the dwellinghouse on my farm and be suitably supported out of the profits of my lands, provided, and so long as, she remains unmarried and attends to the welfare of my said grandchildren and the management of my farm and, otherwise, in all respects, conducts herself to the satisfaction of my executors.
I leave to the daughters of my late son, Robert, the following legacies, namely to Margaret, one hundred pounds, to Annie, one hundred pounds, and to Sarah Jane, one hundred pounds...
...I leave to my son, William, twenty pounds, to my daughter, Margaret McCauley, otherwise Todd, twenty pounds, and to my daughter, Eliza Anderson, otherwise Todd, twenty pounds, which three legacies shall be payable at the end of one year from the time of my decease....'

Amongst the executors and witnesses of William Todd's will was Robert Blair, who was related to John Blair who married John Anderson's sister, Ellen Anderson in 1856. Before moving on from the Todd family of Drumadarragh, I'll mention two other wills. James Todd of Drummadarragh died on 15th March 1885, leaving a will, in which he names his wife as Sarah Todd, and a sister as Agnes Todd. Also mentioned was his son James Todd, who was to inherit the farm in Drumadarragh, his son Hugh Todd of Adelaide Street in Belfast, a grandson James McCrorey, a daughter Sarah who was married to W.J. Rainey of Belfast, a daughter Mary McCammond, and a granddaughter Ellen McCammond.

On 10th September 1894, the younger James Todd died and also left a will which stated that his sister, Ellen McCammond, was living with him. Her son was named as James McCrorey. He also mentioned his aunt, Agnes Todd, and his sister Sarah Wilson Rainey, who had earlier been mentioned in the will of her father in 1885. This Sarah Todd had married James Wilson Rainey (1850 - 1921), the son of a Rainey and a Wilson.

The Blair Family of Drumadarragh:
Eleanor/Ellen Anderson was the sister of the teacher, John Anderson, and the daughter of William Anderson and Sarah Fay. Born circa 1830, she married John Blair, the son of Andrew Blair of Drumadarragh, on 10th July 1856.
Ellen Anderson and John Blair, a gardener, lived at 1 Newington Avenue in Belfast.

Griffiths Valuation of 1862 shows up two Andrew Blairs in Drumadarragh, one leasing 19 acres and the second leasing 41 acres; John Blair was present too, leasing a house only, as was Hugh Kernohan - a James Kernohan family married Janet Blair, the daughter of Andrew Blair.
There was also a major clustering of Blairs in the Ballycor area of Ballyclare, three miles east of Drumadarragh, and these may well be related.
Andrew Blair the Elder of Drumadarragh made his will on 7th May 1884. He appointed as his executors Thomas Cunningham, a teacher of Drumadarragh, and his son Robert Blair of Drumadarragh. He left his farm, which he held under Colonel Langtry, to his son Robert who was living with him. A Samuel Blair was one of the witnesses, along with the teacher, Thomas Cunningham. Probate was granted 1st August 1884.

The son of the above Andrew Blair, Robert Blair of Drumadarragh, died on 12th February 1900; he left a will in which he bequeathed his family lands of about 50 acres in Drumadarragh to his trustees; they were to let out the farm and sell off the stock, crop etc., and, after paying outstanding debts, etc., they were to give £5 to his nephew, Andrew Kernaghan. They were to pay the balance to Robert's unmarried daughter, Jane Blair, who, should she marry with the consent of the trustees, was to get the farm. If she was to die without heirs, then the farm should pass to his nephew Andrew Kernaghan.

Andrew Kernaghan/Kernohan had been born in Co. Antrim in 1871 to James Kernohan and Janet Blair, the daughter of Andrew Blair. A Hugh Carnaghan was born in Belfast in 1873 to James Carnaghan and Jenette Blair, probably the same couple.

Janet Blair was the sister of the above Robert Blair, and of John Blair, gardener of Newington Avenue and of Andrew Blair, shoemaker, who died on 16th April 1897 died at the home of his brother, the gardener, John Blair of 1 Newington Avenue, Belfast.
Jane Blair of Drumadarragh died on 1st February 1897, and left a will in which she mentioned her sister, Jennie, the wife of James Kernaghan/Carnaghan/Kernohan, and her nephews William and Robert Kernaghan. She also named her brother, John Blair, who was named as one of the executors, and a cousin, Agnes Hill, the widow of the shoemaker, Alexander Hill, whose daughter was Jennie Fulton; another cousin was named as Margaret Todd, spinster. The witnesses were Samuel Blair and Andrew Kernaghan.

John Blair, gardener of 1 Newington Avenue and husband of Ellen Anderson, died 27th November 1901, and left everything to his two daughters, Jane and Sarah Ellen Blair. His will was executed by his brother-in-law, the auctioneer Joseph Anderson of 30 Vicinage Park, who was another son of William Anderson and Sarah Fay of Drumadarragh. Joseph Anderson also proved the will of John and Ellen Blair's daughter, Jane, who died at 1 Newington Avenue on 17th May 1907. She left her trinkets, gold watch and wearing apparel to her sister, Sarah Ellen, her Irish crochet collar to a Mrs. Broomfield of 9 Carlingford Terrace, Drumcondra, Dublin, her India gold embroidered cosy to a Mrs. Jane Roberts of 308 Springfield Road, and her furniture to her mother Ellen Blair, along with a £16 annuity.

Blains of Ballybracken:
John Anderson's first wife, Jane Wilson Blain, had been born to the Ballybracken weaver, William Blain and his wife Shusonneah Susan Wilson, and I wonder were the Blairs of Drumadarragh related to the family of William Blain? The spelling of family names at this time was not an exact science, so Blain could well be a variation of Blair.
A Hugh Blaine of Ballybracken died on 23rd April 1902, leaving everything to his wife, Elizabeth Blaine.
Both families married members of the Rainey family in this same area south of Kells, so I'll document what is known so far.
Elizabeth Wilson, the sister of Shusonneah Susan Wilson and James Wilson, married a Rainey and had a son, James Rainey.
Eliza Blain, the daughter of William Blain and Shusonneah Wilson, and sister of Jane Wilson Anderson, née Blain, married James Rennie/Rainey, the son of John Rainey, on 28th September 1852 in Kirkinriola, Antrim. James Rainey and Eliza Blain subsequently settled in the townland of Clonkeen in Drummaul, just outside Randalstown and also south of Kells. He appeared on Griffiths Valuation of 1862 leasing 19 acres in conjunction with a James Smith; also present in the same townland was William Rainey Senior and William Rainey Junior.
James Rainey witnessed the wedding of his nephew, William John Anderson, the son of the teacher John Anderson, to Agnes Keating in Belfast in 1877. A J.S. Rainey, possibly the same individual, also witnessed the wedding of William John's father, John Anderson, to Susan Wilson Blain in 1856.

The will of James Rainey, farmer of Half Umry and husband of Eliza Blain, left a will, dated 3rd Feb. 1892, which was witnessed by William Beattie and James Young:
'This is the last will of me, James Rainey, of Half Umry in the Parish and County of Antrim, farmer. I leave unto my wife, Eliza Rainey, an annuity of twenty pounds to be paid in equal parts of...my farms in Half Umry and Clonkeen in the parish of Drummaul by by two sons to whom I bequeath said farms, my farm in Half Urmy I leave to my son David and that in Clonkeen to my son John aforesaid...and also the sum of one hundred pounds sterling to each of his sisters, Jane, Maggie and Susan, such legacies to be payable if demanded two years after my decease...I nominate and appoint my wife, Eliza Rainey, and my son David Rainey executors of this my last will...'

Clonkeen is located immediately next to Gillistown, Randalstown, where there was a neighbouring settlement of Raineys. William Rainey of Gillistown died on 1st August 1875, mentioning a wife, Mary, daughters, Sarah and Margaret, a son, Hugh Rainey; he named, as his executor, William Rainey of Clonkeen, which seems to suggest a family relationship between the two families. Also, in 1907, Sarah Rainey of Clonkeen made her will, in which she mentioned her niece, Sarah Thompson of Gillistown.

John Anderson, schoolmaster, and Eliza Todd married in Belfast in 1872, but, shortly afterwards, they moved to Limavady, Co. Derry, where their four children were born:
A female, unnamed, born 18th January 1873.
Joseph Anderson, born 7th August 1874 at Ballarena, Derry.
Margaret Anderson born 7th April 1879 at Aughanlis, Derry. She died in Belfast in 1941.
Elizabeth (Todd?) Anderson born 1st March 1881 at Aughanloo, Derry.
All the above places are situated on the outskirts of Limavady, and close to Drumachose - Sarah Agnes Anderson, the daughter of John Anderson and Jane Wilson Blain, married James Barbour of Drumachose.
Eliza Todd, John Anderson's second wife, died on 31st March 1886, and John married a third time, to Margaret Mcmanus, in 1892. Margaret, his thrid wife, had died by the time of the 1901 census.
John Anderson died on 8th February 1903 at Aughansillagh, Derry, and the will was proved by his brother, Joseph Anderson, an auctioneer of Belfast. This was the same Joseph Anderson who had erected the headstone to their parents, William Anderson and Sarah Fay, in St. Saviour's Churchyard in Connor in 1892.

Wilson Records from the Register of Donaghcloney 1st Presbyterian:

A David Wilson Junior gave a subscription to build a meeting house in Donacloney in 1796.

Wilson Baptisms:
August 3rd 1800 - George Wilson, son of Henry Wilson.

May 28th 1802 - Margaret Wilson, daughter of David Wilson.
August 24th 1806 - Jane Wilson, daughter of David Wilson.

May 26th 1806 - Anne Wilson, daughter of James Wilson.
December 3rd 1820 - Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of James Wilson.

September 10th 1815 - William Wilson, son of Joseph Wilson.
April 25th 1818 - Mary Jane, daughter of Joseph Wilson.
December 3rd 1820 - Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Wilson.

September 7th 1817 - Joseph Wilson, son of Thomas Wilson.
June 25th 1819 or 1820 - John Wilson, son of Thomas Wilson.
May 25th 1823 - William Wilson, son of Thomas Wilson.
April 17th 1825 - Henry, son of Thomas Wilson.
September 30th 1827 - Mary Wilson, daughter of Thomas Wilson, of Annadry/possibly Lenaderg (this was scrawled).
August 8th 1832 - Isabella Wilson, son of Thomas Wilson of Lenadry (?).
December 13th 1837 - Margaret Wilson, daughter of Thomas Wilson of Lenadry.

September 30th 1827 - Mary Ann, daughter of Reid Wilson of Ballygunaghan.
August 15th 1830 - Sarah Wilson, daughter of Reid Wilson of Ballygunaghan.
March 31st 1833 - William Wilson, son of Reid Wilson of Ballygunaghan.
June 11th 1837 - John Wilson, son of Reid Wilson of Ballygunaghan.
September 8th 1839 - Joseph Wilson, son of Reid Wilson of Ballygunaghan.
July 5th 1836 - Edward Wilson, son of Reid Wilson and Agnes Levalet/Lavalade of Ballygunaghan.

April 15th 1826 - William Wilson, son of George Wilson of Ballylough. (NB: Ballylough is immediately south of Donaghcloney/Blackskull.)
August 16th 1829 - Margaret Wilson, daughter of George Wilson of Ballylough.
May 27th 1832 - Robert Wilson, son of George Wilson of Ballylough.

November 14th 1830 - Sarah Jane Wilson, daughter of James Wilson of Drumnascamph. (Drumnascamph is next to Ballylough, immediately south of Donaghcloney.)
December 20th 1832 - David Wilson, son of James Wilson of Drumnascamph.

April 27th 1834 - George Wilson, son of George Wilson of Corbit.

March 26th 1837 - Agnes Wilson, daughter of Samuel Wilson of Ballykill.
December 16th 1838 - Mary Wilson, daughter of Samuel Wilson of Ballykilly.
October 3rd 1841 - Henry Wilson, son of Samuel Wilson of Ballykilly.

August 25th 1844 - Robert Wilson, son of Benjamin Wilson and Agnes Humphries of Ballynabragget. (Ballynabragget runs south from Donaghcloney towards the townlands of Gilford.)

December 10th 1868 - James Wilson, son of George Wilson and Sarah Jane Whiteside of Ballymaghan.

May 24th 1869 - Henry Wilson, son of William J. Wilson and Jane Craig of Clogher.
September 26th 1870 - Alice Wilson, daughter of William J. Wilson and Jane Craig of Clogher.
January 8th 1872 - William, son of William J. Wilson and Jane Craig of Clogher.
July 12th 1874 - James Wilson, son of William J. Wilson and Jane Craig.
September 10th 1876 - Samuel Wilson, son of William J. Wilson and Jane Craig.
October 12th 1879 - Margaret Jane, daughter of William J. Wilson and Jane Craig.
November 14th 1881 - Alice Wilson, daughter of William J. Wilson and Jane Craig.
May 14th 1883 - Mary Ann Wilson, daughter of William J. Wilson and Jane Craig of Clogher.
August 26th 1885 - George to William J. Wilson and Jane Craig.
April 4th 1887 - Emma to William J. Wilson and Jane Craig.
January 13th 1889 - Rachel Wilson to William J. Wilson and Jane Craig .
August 1st 1891 - Charles Wilson to William J. Wilson and Jane Craig.

May 22nd 1881 - Eleanor Wilson, daughter of John Wilson and Mary Ann McMullan of Ballynabragget.

Some Marriages in Donaghcloney 1st Presbyterian:
24th April 1850 - Sarah Wilson, 19, of Ballygunaghan, daughter of Reid Wilson, married William John Moore, son of the weaver, William Moore, of Kilsorrell. Witnesses - John Browne and Nicholas Boyle.

22nd October 1869 - John Wilson of Lenaderg, son of a thatcher, Samuel Wilson, married Mary Ann McMullan of Ballynabragget, whose father was a labourer, Thomas McMullan.
June 28th 1883 - Thomas Wilson, widower of Ballydugan, a farmer, the son of David Wilson, married Hannah Chambers, the daughter of a farmer, Joseph Chambers.

15th July 1903 - Rachel Wilson, daughter of William Wilson of Bleary, a farmer, married Robert Adamson of Ballydugan, the son of George Adamson. Witnesses - John Wilson and Florella Wilson. Ballydougan is a townland immediately south of Donaghcloney.

March 24th 1845 - Samuel Finlay married Mary Anne Wilson. Witnesses - John McDowell and Reid Wilson.

Burials:
5th September 1921 - W. J. Wilson of 30 Chatee St., Belfast.
15th August 1928 - Samuel Wilson of Ballynabragget.

Wilson Records from the Dromore Church of Ireland Register:
Baptisms...
31st January 1847 - James Wilson, son of a bleacher, Joseph Wilson, and Mary, of Church St., Dromore.
13th May 1849 - Amelia Frances, daughter of Joseph and Mary Wilson.
July 10th 1858 - Matilda Wilson, daughter of Joseph Wilson and Mary Loughlin.

Wilson Records from the Donacloney Church of Ireland Register:
December 4th 1774 - Ann Wilson, daughter of Thomas and Catherine Wilson of Bleery. (Bleery is a townland immediately south of Donaghcloney.)
May 19th 1780 - Henry Wilson, son of Mathew Wilson of Donaghcloney.
20th October 1782 - James Wilson, son of Matthew and Eliza Wilson of Anaghnoon. (Annaghanoon is just south of Donaghcloney.)
17th June 1786 - Anne Wilson, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Wilson of Anaghanoon.
17th October 1788 - Mary Wilson, daughter of Matthew Wilson.

20th October 1786 - Jane Wilson, daughter of David and Margaret Wilson.

10th February 1787 - Sarah Wilson, daughter of James Wilson.
September 12th 1789 - James Wilson, son of James and Susannah Wilson.

18th May 1788 - George, son of Henry Wilson.
1791 (full date illegible) - Margaret, daughter of Joseph and Mary Wilson.
24th June 1803 - Hugh Wilson, son of Hugh and Ann Wilson of Bleary.
April 6th 1804 - Nancy Wilson, daughter of James and Rachel Wilson of Banoge. (Banoge is north of Donaghcloney town.)
March 27th 1810 - Jane Wilson, daughter of George and Ann Wilson of Donacloney.
22nd August 1814 - James Wilson, son of James and Catherine Wilson of Annaghmakeonan.
August 1816 to 1825 (illegible and faded) - Agnes Wilson, daughter of Robert and Margaret Wilson of Ballynabragget.
1825 - Henry Wilson, son of George and Elizabeth Wilson of Annaghmakeonan.
18th March 1827 - Sarah Wilson, daughter of William and Ann Wilson of Clare. (Clare is a townland immediately south of Donaghcloney.)
1835 - John Wilson, son of Samuel and Mary Anne Wilson of Banoge.

Marriage - April 3rd 1820. Samuel Wilson of Killade and Mary Wright of Donacloney parish.
Marriage - 10th December 1835. John Wilson and Isabella Reilly. Witness - William Wilson.

Burial - January 19th 1782. Thomas Wilson, parish of Sego.

This post collates the records I've come across for the Lavalade family of Donaghcloney. It's most likely that this family is somehow related to the family of Rev. Charles Lavalade of Lisburn, fifteen miles or so north of Donaghcloney, but I've not come across any evidence of this connection as yet.
It is believed that a linen industry was founded in the Donaghcloney area by the Waring family, and this may explain the existence of Huguenot names in this area; alternatively, it is known that many of the French families, who settled in Lisburn in about 1700, had migrated south to the Dromore area in 1707 following a devastating fire in the town of Lisburn.

The first record of our own Lavalade family is a record in the Registry of Deeds which details the sale, in 1770, by Peter Lavalade of a house in Dromore town; the document linked Peter Lavalade to Donaghcloney.
I also accessed the register, in the Proni office in Belfast, of the Donaghcloney Church of Ireland which showed up a cluster of baptisms in the Donaghcloney area from 1784 until 1829. As in all the records I've come across, the spelling of the name was freely interpreted, and seems to have been written phonetically. The same spelling rules applied to the Esdale family who also lived in this area; the Wilson name was occasionally spelt as 'Willson'.

The Freeholders' Records on the Proni website record Peter Lovedale, aka Lavalade, farming in Lurgantamary in July 1781, with an added note that his wife was a 'Papist'.
Peter Lavalade was recorded as a freeholder in 1791 in the Donaghcloney townland of Lurgantamary/Lurgantamry.
Peter Lavalade was noted in 1791 as a farmer of Lurgantamry townland in Donaghcloney, ten kilometers west of Dromore. Peter Lavalade married Catherine Durry in 1793 in the same area. Catherine was either his second wife, or there were two Peter Lavalades, possibly a father and son - earlier, as already noted above, a Peter Lavalade had been married to a 'Papist' in 1781.
A Peter Lavalade made his will in 1805.

On 28th January 1801, Agnes Lavelet was baptised in Donaghcloney parish church; she was the daughter of Peter and Mary Lavelet of Donacloney. This was most likely our immediate ancestor who married Reid Wilson of Ballygunaghan, although there may well have been two Agnes Lavalades. (There seems to be a cluster of related Peter Lavalades here.)

Ballygunaghan, Lurgantamry and Monree are adjacent townlands in the parish of Donaghcloney and about five miles away from the town of Dromore. The Lavalade family was concentrated here; before Reid Wilson married Agnes Lavalade/Lavelet, there were few Wilsons farming in this area - they possibly originated in the townlands immediately south of Ballygunaghan, and migrated north to the Ballygunaghan area following Reid Wilson's marriage to Agnes Lavalade in about 1826. (Their first child, Mary Anne Wilson, was born in Ballygunaghan in 1827.)

The Donaghcloney Church of Ireland register, which I consulted, shows up the baptism, on December 6th 1784, of Henry Levalet, the son of Edward Levalet of Ballygunaghan.
A Mary Lavelet, daughter of John Lavelet and Elizabeth Stephenson, was christened on 18th July 1790 in Dromore Parish.
The Donaghcloney church register (C. of I.) records the baptism in 1791, of Margaret Levalet, the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Levallet.
A later Mary Lavelett, daughter of Richard Lavelett and Mary Beard, was christened in Dromore Parish on 19th June 1797.
Peter, son of John and Mary Levellet of Lurgantamary was baptised on 1st March 1801.
A Richard Lavalade married Isabella Ezdal in 1808 - this is recorded in the book 'Marriage Licence Bonds - Down, Connor, Dromore 1721 - 1845.' The Esdaile/Esdale family were associated with the Donaghcloney townland of Monree/Munree, where Edward Lavalade was farming in the 1830s. The PRONI website shows up two members of this Esdaile/Easdell family farming in Monree - their searchable records for freeholders indicates that John and William Esdaile were farming in the same townland as Edward Lavalade, but earlier, in the 1780s. They were noted together in 1785; by 1790, only William Easdell was mentioned. The name - of Huguenot origin - has no definitive spelling, which makes tracking this family difficult.

Esdales from the Donaghcloney C. of I. records:
John Esdale of Donaghcloney married Hannah Dick in 1767.
Samuel, son of David and Isabella Eastdale of Munree, was baptised in Donaghcloney on 12th May 1827.
Elizabeth, daughter of Sarah Estdale and James Wright, was baptised in Donaghcloney in 1830.
A Sarah Esdall married Henry Thompson here on 10th May 1831.

On January 15th 1809, the baptism took place of Jane, the daughter of Richard Lavalade and his wife, named only as Bell, of Lurgantamary.
The burial took place, on July 12th 1829, in Doncloney Parish Church, of ......Lavalade of Munree. The first name of this individual had faded.
In 1834, an Edward Lavalade was farming 7 acres of land in the Donaghcloney townland of Monree, which is wedged directly inbetween the townlands of Lurgantamry where Peter Lavalade had been noted as farming in the 1790s and where a Peter Lavalade made his will in 1805, and Ballygunaghan where Reid Wilson married Agnes Levelet/Lavalade in the 1820s/1830s. The same Tithe Book of 1834 shows Reid Wilson already in Ballygunaghan, farming 4 acres of land.
Edward Lavalade was a member of the Masonic Lodge 777 between 1793 and 1822.

This post is merely a collation of information on the Jamieson/Jamison/Jameson families of rural Donaghadee. We descend from a Robert Jamieson of Ballyhay, Donaghadee, but it's unclear whether all these different people are related. I presume that there is some sort of family relationship between the Killaughey and Ballyhay Jamiesons, given that both townlands are so close to each other. For the moment, the following is all I have, but this information may be of some use to other researchers....

Records of Ballyhay/Killaughey Jamiesons/Jamisons/Jamesons

Griffiths Valuation, 1863 - John, Joseph, Samuel and David Jamison were farming in Killaughey, Donaghadee, Co. Down.

Robert Jamison was farming in 1863 in Ballyhay, which is immediately adjacent to Killaughey/Killaghey.

He was leasing 18 acres from Louisa Webb; William Keating, a member of our Keating family, was leasing eight acres from the same Louisa Webb in the same townland.

Samuel Keating was leasing fourteen acres of land plus a house and outbuildings from Daniel Delacherois, and is sharing an acres of turbary, or bog, with Ann Gilmore, leased from the same landlady Louisa Webb.

From Donaghadee 1st Presbyterian Church register:

Baptism, May 25th 1802 - Gian (?) Jameson, daughter of David Jameson of Killaughey.

Baptism, 1813 - Eliza Jane Jamieson, daughter of Hugh Jamieson, tailor of Ballyhay.

Baptism, 21st July 1814 - Robert Jamieson, son of Hugh Jamieson. Our ancestors were William John Anderson and Agnes Keating who married in 1877 and who lived at the Woodstock Road, East Belfast - Agnes was the daughter of Samuel Keating and Agnes Jamieson who had married in Carrowdore Church in 1856. Agnes Jamieson was the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Jamieson - both Robert Jamieson and Samuel Keating originated in Ballyhay, Donaghadee, and can be seen on Griffiths Valuation.

The above Robert Jamieson, who was baptised in Ballyhay in 1814, seems to be the grandfather of our Agnes Anderson of the Woodstock Road; in 1901, the census shows that a visitor was also present in the Anderson household on the Woodstock Road, East Belfast - the 80-yr-old Elizabeth Jamieson, and I wonder was she Agnes Anderson's great-aunt, Eliza Jane Jamieson, who was baptised in Ballyhay in 1813, and who was the unmarried sister of Agnes Anderson's paternal grandfather, Robert Jamieson of Ballyhay? A suitable Belfast registration of death exists for an Elizabeth Jamieson - 1816 to 1901.

Baptism, 14th November 1825 - John Jamieson, son of John Jamieson and Catherine McKenny of Donaghadee.

Baptism, 13th March 1826 - James, son of Charles Murdoch and Nancy Jamieson of Donaghadee.

Baptism, 30 December 1828 - Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Murdoch and Nancy Jamieson.

Baptism, 7th June 1832 - Catherine, daughter of John Jamieson and Catherine McKenny.

Baptism, 29th July 1834 - Charles, son of Charles Murdoch and Nancy Jamieson.

Baptism, 17th January 1835 - Elizabeth, daughter of John Jamieson and Catherine McKenny of Donaghadee.

19th June 1835 - Mary, daughter of Joseph Jamieson and Eliza Adams of Killaughey.

27th October 1839 - Alexa or Alice (indistinct), daughter of Joseph Jamieson and Eliza Adams of Killaughey.

7th March 1843 - William, son of Joseph Jamieson and Eliza Adams of Killaughey.

31st October 1846 - Joseph, son of Joseph Jamieson and Eliza Adams of Killaughey.

June 1851 - William John, son of Joseph Angus and Jane Jamieson.

21st June 1853 - David, son of Joseph Angus and Jane Jamieson.

20th July 1853 - Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Jamieson and Eliza Adams.

30th March 1854 - Jane, daughter of Joseph Jamieson and Eliza Adams.

27th February 1855 - Mary Jane, daughter of James Angus and Jane Jamieson of Craigboy.

28th April 1857 - Charlotte, daughter of Joseph Jamieson and Eliza Adams.

Some Marriages:

Marriage, May 28th 1815 - James Jamison of Killaughey to Ann Johnston of Donaghadee.

Marriage, 15th July 1825 - Charles Murdoch and Nancy Jamieson, both of Donaghadee.

Marriage, 23rd January 1835 - Joseph Jamieson and Eliza Adams, both of Killaughey.

Marriage, August 18th 1874 - William Jamieson, cabinet-maker, living in Newtownards, married Orcilla Eadie, daughter of Gilbert Eadie, a farmer. Orcilla Jamieson made her will in Ballymacarrett in 1892. Orcilla/Urcilla and William Jamison had kids - Mary Ann, born 26th May 1875, and Robert James born 31st January 1881. I'm sure there were others....

Wills/Proni Online Records:

1) Eliza Jamison, Killaughey, widow of Joseph Jamison, died 7th October 1896 - granted to Robert Jamison of Killaughey, her son, and to Mary Jane, her daughter. Another daughter was mentioned, Charlotte. Witness - David Jamison. Her husband, Joseph, died 29th December 1884. Daughter, Miss Charlotte Jamison, died later on 14th August 1942.

NB: Joseph Jamison married Eliza Adams. Baptisms of some of their children above in the church records.

2) Robert James Jamieson, Killaughey, son of Samuel Jamieson, still living. Robert James Jamieson died 3rd July 1890. Wife - Eliza Jane. Brother-in-law - William George Cowan.

NB: A Robert Jamison married a Catherine Jane Cowan. They had a son, Alexander, on 8th March 1881.

3) Robert Jamison, Killaghey, died 1st May 1905, granted to spinster Jane Jamison.

Ballyhay 1901 (we are most likely related to the Ballyhay Jamiesons) -

James Jamison, 65, and his wife, Jane, 56. Two daughters - Madalene,18, and Lydia, 15, plus a granddaughter, Minnie Mairs, aged 2.

Minnie was Mary Susan Mairs, born to James Mairs and Margaret Agnes Jamieson. They lived at Matchet Street, Belfast. Other children were Amelia Veronica Mairs, Robert Henry and Jane Elizabeth. James Mairs was a commission agent.

Also in Ballyhay, 1901, was James Jamieson, aged 26, and his wife, Martha, 27, and son, Ernest, aged 1.

By 1911, both the above families were living together in the same household in Ballyhay -

James, 75, and wife Jane, aged 67. Son James and his wife Martha. Grandsons Henry, aged 9 and another Minnie, aged 6, also a grandson, George McCullagh. An unmarried daughter Lydia, aged 24.

This post collates whatever information I manage to gather about the Frew family of Killyleagh who my Stewarts seemed to be related to via a number of people. Most of the Frews of Killyleagh, who intersect with our Stewarts/Madines, were members of the Coast Guard, and I wonder were they all therefore closely related.....

Elizabeth Madine was the wife of Joseph Stewart, ironmonger of County Down and Dublin. They were our paternal great-great grandparents - ElIzabeth was the daughter of Robert Madine, butcher of Killyleagh, and of Margaret Frew, also from Killyleagh. There is a registration of death for a Margaret Madine - 1815 - 1875, although this would have meant she was only 13 when she married in 1828. They might not have known her correct date of birth when they registered her death, however.
I wonder was our Margaret Madine, née Frew, a sister of John, Thomas and James Frew of Killyleagh. Just a possibility at the moment, but the facts about all these people follow....

Margaret Madine (born 1832 to Robert Madine Senior and Margaret Frew) and John Frew:
Margaret Madine, Elizabeth Madine Stewart's older sister, married John Frew, a sailor, in Carnmoney Church of Ireland, north of Belfast city, on July 13th 1859. John had been born on 15th February 1830 to Daniel Frew in Queenstown, Co. Cork. A quick search of the 1901 census shows that John Frew was the only Frew to have been born in Cork, which seems to suggest that his family didn't come from there; a quick scroll through the Irish Registration Index similarily reveals almost no Frews of Co. Cork.
Daniel Frew may have been a naval man like his son, and have been temporarily stationed there.

I accessed the naval records for John Frew on the UK National Archives Discovery website. He had been a member of the Irish Coastguard, who had joined up on 14th December 1857, at the age of 27. The record gave a brief description of him too - he was 5'7", with brown hair, dark eyes and dark complexion. His detailed service records only date from 1st January 1873, when he was on board the Vanguard, stationed at Carrickfergus. He was known to have been a member of the Vanguard crew when it sank off the Wicklow coast while on a Coastguard training exercise. No lives were lost. John Frew was the chief boatman of the Belleisle from 2nd July 1878 until 13th April 1880. From 1th April 1880 until 5th November 1880 he was stationed in Ballymacaw, Dunmore East, in Co. Wexford, and was noted there as Chief Boatman in Charge from 6th November 1880 until 2nd December 1880. There then followed a stint at Curracloe, Co. Wexford from 3rd December until his retirement on 15th February 1890 when they pensioned him off. Curracloe in Wexford was where he and Margaret Madine were living in 1901 and 1911. John Frew also served aboard the Iron Duke and the Topaze.

John Frew and Margaret Madine had children in Co. Antrim, presumably while he was stationed at Carrickfergus although Louisa Ann was born in Down:

Louisa Ann Frew, born Co. Down in 1862.
David Frew, born 9th April 1865; a David Frew, aged 0, died there the same year.
Mary Elizabeth, 1866, born in the Whitehouse district of Co. Antrim.
Teresa Jane Frew, 9th April 1869.
John Frew, born 18th March 1868 - this son died later the same year.

Margaret and John Frew appear on the 1901 and 1911 Censuses with their unmarried daughter, Teresa, living in Curracloe, Co. Wexford. John Frew was a retired naval officer, although in 1885 he was noted as the chief boatman of the coastguard in Curracloe, Co. Wexford. His daughter, Teresa, was a schoolteacher.
The 1911 Census tells us that the couple had had eight children but only two survived - Therea Jane and Louisa Ann. Thomas William Prothero, born 4 Feb 1849 in Surrey, England, married Louisa Ann Frew, the daughter of John Frew and Margaret Madine. Thomas was also a member of the Coast Guards, like John, James and Thomas Frew.
Thomas Dax Prothero, Susan Elizabeth Eedy were the parents of Thomas William Prothero.
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John Frew, Game Keeper, Killyleagh Castle:
Robert Stewart was the brother of our great-great grandfather, Joseph Stewart. Robert married, in 1860, Jane Madine, the sister of our great-great grandmother, Elizabeth Madine.
The witnesses to the marriage of Robert Stewart and Jane Madine were Richard Woofenden and Louisa Matilda Frew. Matilda was a teacher in the local National School and may well have been a relation of Jane Madine - Jane Madine's mother had been Margaret Frew before her marriage to Robert Madine in 1826. Matilda Louisa Frew was the daughter of John Frew and Euphemia Thistlethwaite.

John Frew married Euphemia Thistlewaite in Killyleagh parish church on April 29th 1826; John Frew was noted in the parish register as being a member of the Royal North Down Militia at the time of his marriage to Euphemia.

John Frew became the gamekeeper at Killyleagh Castle and, immediately prior to his death in 1892, had appeared in the police census of Killyleagh as a bailiff of 48 Corporation, Killyleagh, living with a granddaughter, Mary Denby. Earlier, in 1870 and 1877, he had been noted as living at 'The Cottage' in Killyleagh.
John Frew died in Killyleagh in January 1892 aged 89; his wife Euphemia had died aged 81 in 1888.

The Children of John Frew and Euphemia Thistlethwaite of Killyleagh:
Matilda Louisa Frew, born circa 1841 to John Frew and Euphemia Thistlethwaite, died in Kew, Victoria, Australia in 1919.
Was living at 12 Valentine Avenue, Kew, with Euphemia Alice Frew, in 1919. They were living at 3 Queen Street in 1914 and at 77 Foley Road in 1904.
In 1924, Euphemia Alice Frew (born circ a 1842 to John Frew) was living at 12 Valentine Avenue. She died in 1926...in 1902 she had married a man named Charles Albert Lawson, but had reverted to her original name by 1914.
A Euphemia A. Frew was born in 1877 in Albury, NSW, Australia, to Alexander Frew and Rosanna. Alexander Frew was the brother of Euphemia Alice and Matilda Louisa, and had been born to John Frew and Euphemia Thistlethwaite in Killyleagh on June 28th 1841. In Australia he married Rosanna Crisp (1850 - 1938). A building contractor, he died in Albury in 1900. He had children - Alexander C. Frew, and Walter L. Frew.
William Frew was born to John and Euphemia Frew in Killyleagh on August 30th 1842, and died in Albury, New South Wales on 6th November 1923. William married Ellen Clark, and was a timber merchant in Albury, although he'd served an appprenticeship as an engine fitter. Their son was named as Denby Pearson Frew. (1878 - 1915)
Elizabeth Frew was born to John and Euphemia Frew in Killyleagh in 1848 and died in Australia.
John Frew, the gamekeeper/bailiff of Killyleagh Castle, was noted on the Killyleagh police census of the early 1890s as sharing a house with his granddaughter, Mary Denby, who was most likely visiting her grandfather. Her mother was John's daughter, Mary Frew, who married George Walter Denby on May 6th 1857 - the couple had been married in the Killyleagh Church of Ireland by Rev. Dr. Hinks who had earlier married Margaret Frew and Robert Madine (the parents of Jane Madine who married Robert Stewart in 1860). George Walter Denby's father was James Denby.
George Walter Denby (1829 - 1905) , the husband of Mary Frew of Killyleagh, was a pianoforte maker of Belfast and is easy to trace through the Belfast Street Directories, as is another relation (brother?), John Denby, who was also a piano maker. George had a brother, William Denby, who was a coachmaker of Belfast, and who named a son after his brother, George Walter Denby.
The family lived in Joy Street, Belfast:
1863 - 1864: John Denby, Piano Maker, 42 Joy Street.
Mrs. Denby, Milliner and Straw Bonnet Maker, 42 Joy Street.
1865 + 1870: George Denby, Pictureframe Maker, 46 Joy Street.
Mrs. Denby, Milliner and Straw Bonnet Maker, 42 Joy Street.
1880: George Denby, Pianoforte Maker, 105 Joy Street.
Mary Denby, Milliner, 105 Joy Street.
George's brother, William Denby, who died 11th November 1903 at 11 Cavehill Road, Belfast, left a 7-page will which can be read online on the PRONI website.
George Denby and Mary Frew had several children - Ann Ingles/Ingle Denby was born in Belfast in 1866 and married in 1894 - the LDS index gives a match with a Samuel Amos; Samuel may have died in 1904.
Martha Denby was born in 1868 and married in Belfast in 1899 - the Irish Registration Index on the LDS site wrongly links Martha to a Frank Augustus D. Stevens, who was definitely not her husband - I would need to go through the Index books in the Public Records Office in Dublin to find her correct husband.
A brother, George Alexander Denby, was born to George and Mary in 1874 but died the following year.
A daughter, Louisa Matilda Denby, married John McKnight in Belfast in 1889 - they appeared on the 1911 census in Frederick St., Killyleagh, with their four daughters, and a visitor, Hugh McClernon Denby, a coachbuilder of Antrim. (Hugh McClarnon Denby died at Myra, Downpatrick on 14th March 1948, with probate to the Belfast coachbuilder, William Henry Denby. In 1910 he was a van and wagon maker with an address at 60 Tomb St; William Denby, carriage builder, was at 164 Antrim Rd.)
In 1901 and 1911, George and Mary Denby were living in Holywood, North County Down, along with their unmarried daughter, Alice Georgina Denby, and with a boarder named Edward Jones, who was aged 4 in 1901 and 14 in 1911. He had been born in Dublin.
There seems to have been only the one Denby family in Belfast at this time which makes tracing them quite easy - earlier, in 1853, a second Martha Denby married James Crothers in Belfast; she was possibly a sister of George and William Denby.
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Thomas Frew, Coastguard, born 1821 Killyleagh:
In the same register I noted down the Killyleagh burial, on June 24th 1901, of a Lizzie Frew of Belfast; she was 53 at the time of her death. She'd been born, therefore, in 1848. She appeared on the 1901 census living with her widowed sister, Mary Kirk, at 13 Essex Street in Belfast; both sisters had been born in England, Lizzie in 1848, and Mary in 1851. Mary Frew had married James Kirk, a blacksmith, the son of a farmer William Kirk, in Killyleagh parish church on December 23rd 1878.
The father of Mary Frew and Elizabeth/Lizzie Frew was Thomas Frew, a hotelkeeper of Killyleagh. William Frew witnessed the wedding of Mary Frew and James Kirk. The Kirk family were living at 2 High St., Killyleagh in the late 1890s.
I found the family of Thomas Frew on the 1851 UK Census, and it confirmed that he, too, was a member of the Coast Guard who had been born in Killyleagh, Co. Down, in about 1820. His wife was Elizabeth, who'd been born circa 1821 in Davenport, Devon. There were three daughters - Emily Catherine Frew, born in 1845 in Fishbourne, Elizabeth/Eliza Frew, born in 1847 in Fishbourne, on the Isle of Wight, and Mary Frew, born in 1849 in Brading, Sandown, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, which was where this family were still living in 1851.
By 1855, Thomas Frew was leasing a house in Fintra Beg, near Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare. I presume there was a coastguard station closeby - Griffiths Valuation shows up a Customs House in the same townland, just south of the Cliffs of Moher.
Emily Catherine Frew married a William Wilson in 1862 in Co. Clare, and can be seen, widowed, and living with her young family and her elderly, widowed father, Thomas Frew, in Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare, where she was working as the postmistress.

Of Interest here: an Armina Eakin died in Killyleagh on 14th November 1886 - probate was granted to her brother, Thomas Frew, a storekeeper of Downpatrick. The name 'Armina' is significant here, since Mary Frew and James Kirk named a daughter as Armina Frew Kirk in 1881.
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I also noted the burial in Killyleagh, on 25th September 1907, of Sarah Jane Frew, aged 77. (ie: 1830 - 1907.)
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James Frew of Downpatrick/Killyleagh registration area. 1804 - Dec. 1882, Downpatrick. He married Ann Madine, the daughter of Edward Madine of Downpatrick.
(There were other children of Edward and Anne Madine, whose baptisms I recorded in the Downpatrick Parish Register:
Baptism, 19th September 1802 - James Madine, born to Edward and Anne.
Baptism, 11th February 1805 - Edward Madine, born to Edward and Anne.
Baptism, 11th July 1807 - Jane Madine, born to Edward and Anne.)
She was born in June 1811, and died in the Downpatrick area in June 1895. The couple married in about 1829.

James Frew was a coastguard. Their children emigrated to Australia in 1877.
Their daughter, Mary Frew, was born in 1842 in Dundalk, Co. Louth, and married Oswald McCloskie in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth on 4th November 1861. Oswald was the son of William McCloskie and Harriet Read; both William and Oswald McCloskie were gardeners.
William James McCloskie, born Rathcoole, Dublin in 1861, died Australia 1952.
Harriet Matilda McCloskie, born 5th April 1864, in Stradbally, Laois. Died 10th March 1954, Australia.
Douglas McGregor McCloskie, born 1st August 1865, Rathcoole, died 1871, Dunshaughlin, Meath.
Matilda Luisa/Louisa McCloskie, 16 Jan 1869 - born Co. Meath. (Was she named after Matilda Louisa Frew, born in Killyleagh to John Frew and Euphemia Thistlethwaite?)
Mary Mc Closkie - Meath, 17 Jun 1870
Madora Florence Eleanor Mccloskie - 19 May 1872, Meath
Maria Mc Closkie - 16 Nov 1875, Meath.
Lillium Viola Mccloskie - Killeen, Meath, 10 Apr 1867
Oswald William McCloskie, 24th March 1874, Killeen, Meath, died 2nd Feb. 1930 in Australia.
Ann Jane McCloskie, 18th August 1878, in Brisbane, Australia. Died there in 1962.
Laura Lizetta McCloskie, born Australia 30th September 1880, died 26th June 1927.
Fanny McCloskie, born 1883 - 1884.
Essie Anna McCloskie, 1885 - 1953.

This post expands on a few Willis/Woolsey connections, primarily through the marriage of Rev. Henry de Laval Willis and Mary Anne Woolsey in 1841....

Captain John Woolsey was the High Sheriff of Louth in 1826, and was the founder of the brewery in Castlebellingham which employed about 70 people there. He was an early shareholder in the Dublin Steam Packet Company which had been co-founded by Richard and Charles Wye Williams. He married Janet Jameson, whose father, John, had founded the Jameson Distillery in Dublin.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/05/woolsey-family-of-castlebellingham.html

The children of Captain John Woolsey (son of Rev. William Woolsey and Mary Anne Bellingham) and Janet Jameson were:
a) Mary Anne Woolsey (1813 - 1881) who married Major John Simmons Smith in 1836.
b) John Woolsey (1815 - 1819).
c) Margaret Woolsey (1816 - 1877), married to Rev. Charles Thornhill.
d) William Woolsey (1818 - 1887) married twice, first to Frances Rose Vesey, then to Mary Elizabeth Heath Jary. He ran the brewery with his younger brother John.
e) Helen Jameson Woolsey (1819 - 1908).
f) Robert Jameson Woolsey (1821 - 1838).
g) Frances Hester Bellingham Woolsey (16th August 1823 - 28th September 1838).
h) Major General O'Brien Bellingham Woolsey (1827 - 1910). He married Anna, the daughter of Sir john Walsham of Knill Court, Hereford, in Dinnington, Northumberland, on April12th 1855. In 1841 he was visiting the family of Robert Jameson of Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland; here are the details of the census, with notes...
Head of household: Robert Jameson, born Alloa, 1772.
Wife of above: Helen Jameson, born Alloa, 1776.
Rev. William Jameson, born Ireland in about 1811. This was the grandson of John Jameson and Isabella Stein; John Jameson was the founder of Dublin's Jameson Distillery. Rev. William Jameson married the daughter of Arthur Guinness, Elizabeth. He died on 20th November 1886 and was noted as being formerly of Biarritz, France, of Hollybrook, Drumcondra and of Roebuck Grove, Donnybrook.
George Jameson, born Ireland in 1826; brother of Rev. William Jameson.
Mrs. Janet Woolsey - O'Brien Bellingham Woolsey's mother, who had been born in Alloa in 1791, and who had married John Woolsey of Castlebellingham in 1812.
Helen Jameson Woolsey, born 1821 in Castlebellingham, Ireland, to John and Janet Woolsey; she later married Rev. William Thornhill, rector of Offord Darcey; she died in Eastgate, Castlebellingham, on 10th May 1898. Amongst her children were William Blundell Thornhill born 1858, Eveline Maude Thornhill born 1861, and John Thornhill born 1863.
O'Brien Woolsey, son of John and Janet Woolsey, born Ireland 1828.
John Woolsey, born Ireland 1830, see below.
i) John Woolsey (1830 - 1887). He ran the family brewing business along with his older brother, William, and married his cousin, Elizabeth Lucy Willis. They lived at Castle Cosey, Castlebellingham.
'In memory of William Woolsey of Milestone, died 11th May 1887, aged 68 years, and his brother, John Woolsey, of Castle Cosey, Castlebellingham, who died 23rd May 1887 aged 56 years. This tablet has been erected in loving remembrance by their employees.'

Thomas Woolsey (b. 1784 to Rev. William Woolsey and Mary Anne Bellingham in Louth, died Sep 1834) married Elizabeth Gibson, the daughter of William Gibson, on 2nd August 1813 in St. James's, Clerkenwell, Middlesex. The witnesses were W. Gibson and Mary Anne Gibson. The children of Thomas Woolsey and Elizabeth Gibson were all born in London, where Thomas was working in the Admiralty, and baptised in the Old Church, St. Pancras -

William Woolsey, baptised 16th November 1814. He worked in the Admiralty at Somerset House, and never married.
O'Bryen Woolsey, born circa 1816. He also worked as a clerk in the Admiralty, Somerset House. He had a cousin, O'Bryen Bellingham Woolsey, born to Captain John Woolsey and Janet Jameson in Castlebellingham, Louth. An 1845 Directory notes two O'Brien Woolseys of the Admiralty, Somerset House, one of them 'O'Brien Woolsey, Junr.'
Mary Anne Woolsey, later wife of Henry de Laval Willis, born 4th August 1817, baptised 27th August, St. Pancras.
Elizabeth Lucy Woolsey, born 26 August 1821 in St. Pancras, London. On 15th July 1856 in St. Pancras, Middlesex, Elizabeth Lucy married Theophilus Moon of HM's Customs. Theophilus' father, also Theophilus Moon, was dead by this time, as was Elizabeth Lucy's father, Thomas Woolsey. The witnesses were Elizabeth's siblings, O'Bryan Bellingham Woolsey and Sophia Frances Woolsey. (Theophilus Moon Senior had married Isabella Gibson in St Pancras on 29th March 1813. In 1843, a Theophilus Moon was working in the office of the Registrar General of Trading Ships of Britain and Ireland.)

In 1861, Elizabeth and Theophilus Moon were visiting Theophilus's brother, Arthur Moon, who worked for the Inland Revenue, and his sister, Isabella Moon, in Hampstead.
In 1881 the couple were living at 25 Adelaide Road, Hampstead, with a visitor, a member of the Willis family - a D. Mary Willis, who had been born in 1861 in Ireland. By 1891, Theophilus was dead, and Elizabeth Lucy Moon was living at 83 Portsdown Road, Paddington, with her sister-in-law, Isabella Moon, who had been born in Pentonville in about 1819.
Elizabeth Lucy Moon died on 11th February 1906 at 51 Carlton Mansions, Maida Vale; probate was granted to her nephew, the dentist, William Willis, and to her nephew, the solicitor William Robert Moon. William Robert Moon had been born in Paddington in 1869 to William and Sarah Augusta Moon.

Thomas Frederic Woolsey, born 2nd Dec 1823, baptised 31st December 1823.
Sophia Frances Woolsey, born 21st Feb.1828.

Rev. Henry de Laval Willis and Mary Anne Woolsey:
Rev. Henry de Laval Willis had been born in 1814 to Thomas Gilbert Willis and Deborah Charlotte Newcombe of Portarlington, Co. Laois.
Henry de Laval Willis was the cousin of our great-great grandmother, Geraldine O'Moore Creighton, who married our great-great grandfather, Richard Williams of Eden Quay in 1846. Geraldine's mother was Eliza Willis, the sister of Henry's father, Thomas Gilbert Willis.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/01/children-of-thomas-willis-schoolmaster.html

On 16th Oct 1841, in Kilsaran, Co. Louth, Henry de Laval Willis married Mary Anne Woolsey of Castlebellingham, Louth. Mary Anne's father was Thomas Woolsey of Castlebellingham. (see above.)

Henry was educated in Trinity College, Dublin, taking a B.A. in 1837, and a D.D. in 1855. He was noted as the perpetual curate of Portadown parish in 1845 and was appointed to the incumbency of St. John's, Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1850, dying at Crockenhill Parsonage, Kent, on March 31st 1867.
In 1851 the Rev. Henry de Laval Willis and his family were living at 2 Bellevue Avenue, Mannington, Yorkshire. By 1861 they were resident at Little Horton Lane, Bradford. Their married daughter, Hester Frances Bellingham, was living here with them when she had her first child, Alice Mary Walker, in 1864.

Rev. Henry de Laval Willis died in 1867, and the widowed Mary Anne Willis moved to Shipton, Christchurch, Yorkshire, where the census captured her with two of her children, Henry Thomas Gilbert, a manufacturer/wool merchant, and Mary D.C. Willis. Also present in the household was Mary Anne's eight-year-old grandchild, Alice Mary Walker. In 1891, the widowed Mary Anne Willis was living in Chlesea with her grandson, Henry de Laval Walker, and his wife Edith.

The children of Rev. Henry de Laval Willis and Mary Anne Woolsey were:

Frances Hester Bellingham Willis, born Limerick, 17th November 1842; baptised there on 17th December 1842 in St. Michael's, Limerick. Frances was named after her mother's first cousin, Frances Hester Bellingham Woolsey, the daughter of Rev. William Woolsey and Mary Anne Bellingham of Castlebellingham, Louth.

The younger Frances would later marry, on October 16th 1861, John Walker, the second son of William Walker and Keziah Wesley Stamp, of Bolling Hall, Yorkshire.
In 1871, Frances, who called herself Hester F.B. Walker, was visiting her brother-in-law, Arthur Walker, the Vicar of Easton, Somerset.
Hester and John Walker had two children. Alice Mary Frances Bellingham Walker was born in Kilburn, Middlesex, on 28th October 1864, and baptised by Hester's father, Henry de Laval Willis, in St. John's, Bradford, on 25th December 1864. In 1893 Alice married George Williamson Walker, a solicitor/assistant commissioner in the Charity Commission, who had been born in about 1863 in Greenock, Scotland, to George Wallace and Mary C. Williamson. The couple had three children - Hester M.C. Wallace in 1895, James Stuart Wallace on 6th July 1899, and George H.D. Wallace in 1900. Alice Mary Frances Wallace died on 1st June 1924 at 6, Scarth Road, Barnes Common, Surrey; following her death, her husband lived for a time in Egypt, but died on 28th November 1952 at Waterfall Cottage, Kearsney, Dover.
A son, Henry de Laval Walker, was born on 15th April 1867 to John Walker and Hester Frances Bellingham Willis and was baptised by his grandfather, Henry de Laval Willis, in St. John's on 25th May 1867. Henry de Laval Walker worked later as a marine insurance clerk in London, and, in 1890, married Edith Lucy Verity, the daughter of Major Charles Felix Verity and Elizabeth Ann Godwin of Fulham.
In 1891 the young couple were living in Chelsea - staying with them was Henry's widowed grandmother, Mary Anne Willis, née Woolsey, aged 71. I see from the internet that Henry de Laval Walker was the founding editor of 'The Genealogical Quarterly'.
They were living in Willesden, London, in 1922, where Edith Lucy died the same year; Henry de Laval Walker died in Lewisham in 1938.

Elizabeth Lucy Willis, born 1844, Ireland - she married John Woolsey of Castlebellingham and Castle Cosey, Co. Louth. John Woolsey was her mother's first cousin - his father was Captain John Woolsey, her mother's father was Captain John Woolsey's brother, Thomas Woolsey. Elizabeth Lucy Willis and John Woolsey married in about 1865, but Elizabeth Lucy died on 10th November 1870; John Woolsey died childless on 25th May 1887.
Mary Charlotte Deborah, born circa 1845, in Portadown, Ireland. She never married.
Henry Thomas Gilbert Willis, born St. Mary's, Lancaster, on 2nd May, 1849. A wool merchant, on 6th July 1886 in the Parish Church, Marylebone, London, he married Ada Susan Robinson, the daughter of John Robinson, a commercial traveller. At the time, both bride and groom were living at 40 Blandford Square. The witnesses were an M.H. Alcock and one of the Walker family. (Initials illegible.) In 1891, Henry and Ada Susan were living in Manningham, Yorkshire. Henry Thomas Gilbert Willis died and was buried on 3rd June 1891, aged 42, at Burley, St. Mary's, West Yorkshire; Henry's widow, Ada, subsequently married Henry's first cousin, Gilbert de Laval Willis, who was the son of the Rev. William Newcombe Willis and Emily Evans. Ada and Gilbert de Laval Willis settled in Dublin.
Francis William Willis, born in Bradford, York, England, on 23rd February 1851. Known later as William Francis Willis, he practised as a dentist, and proved the 1906 will of his maternal aunt, Elizabeth Lucy Moon. William Francis Willis married Clara Thomasine Quinn in August 1877. She had been born in about 1855 in Camden to Thomas Quinn and Mary Anne Cooke, who had married in St. Pancras on May 13th 1843. (Both their fathers, Thomas Quin Senior and Peter Colloton Cooke, were dead.) The 1911 Census showed the couple living in Hove, Kent, and mentioned they had one living child. William Francis Willis died at 27 Worcester Villas, Portsdale, Sussex, on 24th August 1918, and his will was administered by a Henry de Laval Willis, a major in the RAF. I can find no reference to his birth, but this was most likely William and Clara's only son, who had been named after his paternal grandfather. He appeared with his Jersey-born wife, Nina, lodging in 1911 in Kent - he was then a lieutenant in the Royal Marines Light Infantry and had been born in Kensington in 1883. His wife, Nina, had been born in 1890. This Henry de Laval Willis died in Surrey in 1948.
Charles Hope Willis, born 1860 in Offerd, Huntingdonshire. His wife was Lilian Kate Anderson, born circa 1865 to William and Julia E. Anderson. The young couple married in Radipole Church, Dorset, on October 31st 1888. Charles was a Captain and Adjutant in the Royal Marines, living at Walmer, Kent. There were three witnesses - Julia and William Anderson, and Charles Hope Willis's brother-in-law, Harry Walker. In 1891, Charles and Lilian were living at 19 Cavendish Road, Portsea, Hampshire, with a one-yr-old son, Charley S. M. Willis, and Charles's sister, Mary C.D. Willis. By 1900, Charles was away, presumably at sea, and Lilian was living at 9 South Avenue, Rochester, Kent, with her two young sons, Charles, who'd been born in Walmer, and one-yr-old Arthur, who'd been born at Chesnut Road, Kent. Lilian's parents, William and Julia A. Anderson, were also there. William Anderson had been born in about 1832 in High Wycombe; his wife, Julia, had been born in about 1839 in Wareham, Dorset. Lilian Kate Willis died in March 1949 in Bath.

William Stewart, the brother of Joseph Stewart who was our great-great grandfather, married Margaret Burke in Downpatrick Registry Office in 1851. William and Margaret Stewart's daughter, Jane Stewart, married the watchmaker James Malcom Orr in Belfast in 1875.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/08/james-m-orr-watchmaker-and-jane-stewart.html

Jane Orr, née Stewart, was known to have a cousin named Hugh Burke.

Hugh Burke was actually Hugh Geddes Burke, born 12th July 1862 in Belfast.

He emigrated to the US/Canada aboard the 'Niagara', and arrived at Niagara Falls, New York, on 18th July 1882. However, he must have returned to Ireland at some stage since, in the latter half of 1885, he married his first wife, Agnes Girvan, in Lisburn.

The 1891 Canadian Census shows the family living in Hamilton, Ontario - Hugh Burke, aged 32, was Presbyterian and the manager of a mill. His wife was Agnes, who had been born in Ireland in about 1865; she gave her religion as Church of England. They had three children - Athel Burke, born in Ireland in about 1887, William J. Burke, born in Ireland in about 1889/1890, and five-month-old Olive Irene who, according to this census return, had been born in Ireland. However, a record of her birth exists in the Canadian records, which states that she had been born on 7th December 1890 in Hamilton, Wentworth, to Hugh Burke and Agnes Girvan. None of these children survived, and neither did their mother. Agnes Burke died on 13th June 1897, st 33 Reginald Street, Wentworth, Ontario, of pulmonary consumption. She had been a box-maker, and was noted here as a Presbyterian.

The family must have been coming and going between North America and Ireland at this time.
From the Pennsylvania Immigration Records, Board of Special Inquiry', dated December 8th 1900: 'State: Hugh is 7 years and Olive is 9 years old. Their father is Hugh G. Burke and is in Virginia, near Norfolk, working in a saw-mill. Their mother is dead, and they were born in Hamilton, Canada, then went to live with their grandmother in England, who is now dead and they are on their way to their father. Are to be met here by their uncle, James Orr. Jas. Orr calls and states: resides at 2057 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, is an uncle of avove-named children. Is in the United States 16 years and is an American citizen. Is in business at the above address. Says the father of the children wrote him that he should meet them on arrival and send them to him. Passed by Assistant Inspector Ehilick.'
The corresponding passenger list shows the two young children travelling unaccompanied aboard the 'SS Pennland' from Liverpool to Philadelphia in December 1900. The manifest states that they had been born in Canada, but that their last place of residence was Belfast, not England. Their final destination was their father in Norfolk, Virginia, via their Uncle James Orr at Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia. James Orr was actually married to their father's first cousin, Jane Stewart Orr, but maybe it was just easier to describe him as an uncle.

Hugh Burke moved himself and his family to Knoxville, Tennessee on 1st October 1896, according to his application for citizenship later; however, in 1900 he was living at Norfolk, Virginia, according to the ship's manifest of the 'SS Pennland'.

In about 1898 he married his second wife, Susan Gray, who had been born in Ireland in about 1866, and who had emigrated to the US in 1879.
By 1910 he was living at 913 North Fifth Avenue, Knoxville, with his wife, Susan Gray Burke, and his three children - Olive Irene, Hugh, and Virginia M. Burke.
By 1912, he'd moved to his permanent address of 1338 North Broadway, Knoxville, Tennessee, where he applied for citizenship - this application was witnessed by his boss, George B. Townsend, the director of the Holston Box and Lumber Company.

His three surviving children in 1912 were named as:
Olive Irene Burke, born December 10th 1892 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Hugh Burke, born 17th December 1894 in Hamilton, Ontarioa.
Marian Virginia/aka Viginia M. Burke, born 31st July 1900 in Norfolk, Virginia.

The 1920 Census reveals Olive's husband living with the family at North Broadway, James P. Mitchell, a salesman for a drugs company who'd been born in Tennessee in 1892. Virginia was missing. James died at some stage before the next census in 1930.

In June 1917, Hugh's son, named as Hugh Courtney Burke, a bookkeeper at the Holston Box Company, was drafted into the army in Knoxville. He survived, and went back to the Holston Box and Lumber Company, working alongside his father. The two lived together at 1338 North Broadway. The son, Hugh C. Burke, died in May 1978 at 37919 Knoxville.
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On Aprill 9th 1932, the above Hugh Burke departed Glasgow aboard the 'Anchor', heading for New York. He was a manufacturer aged 69, and his last address in the UK was given as 56, Rainey Street, which was the home of William John Burke and his family; William John was a close relation of Hugh Burke, although it's unclear as yet exactly how they relate accurately. I'm guessing that William John was Hugh's nephew, being the son of Hugh's brother, James Burke. Margaret Burke who married William Stewart in 1851 was most likely the sister of James and Hugh Burke, but I need to access the marriage details of Hugh Burke and Agnes Girvan in the Public Records Office in Dublin in order to clarify who Hugh Burke's father was.

William John Burke had been born in Co. Down in 1863 to James Burke and Eliza Stewart. James Burke was the son of John Burke, as was Margaret Stewart, née Burke, and possibly Hugh of Knoxville. James married Eliza Stewart in Ballycairn Presbyterian Church in Drumbo, Co. Down, on 19th January 1861 - James was a 27-yr-old weaver living at Leaverlogue, while Eliza Stewart, the daughter of a shoemaker named William Stewart, lived at Tullycarn, Lessan, which I presume is Ballylessan, Drumbo. Were William and Eliza related to William Stewart, son of Joseph Stewart, who married Margaret Burke in 1851? The witnesses to the wedding of James Burke and Eliza Stewart were Hugh Willis and John Russell.

The children of James Burke and Eliza Stewart were:

William John Burke (of 56 Rainey Street later), born 1863.
Mary Margaret Burke, 1864 - 1940, who married James McDowell in Drumbo Presbyterian Church on 13th November 1885; the witnesses were William John Burke and his soon-to-be wife, Emily Canning.
Sarah Jane, born 1866.
Eliza Jane, born 1870.
Sara Annie, born 1877.
Emily Cannon/Canning Burke, born 1883.

The oldest son of James Burke and Eliza Stewart, William John Burke, married the Scottish-born Emily Canning, the daughter of a tailor, Alexander Canning, in Drumbo Presbyterian Church on 3rd May 1885; the witnesses were James McAvoy and Margaret Crothers. (Of interest - the 1851 wedding of William Stewart and Margaret Burke in Downpatrick in 1851 was an Agnes Crothers. This may just be coincidence....)

William John Burke was a carpenter/packing case maker, just as Hugh G. Burke's first wife, Agnes Girvan, had been earlier.
In 1901 he was living at 56 Rainey Street, Belfast, with his Scottish-born wife, Emily Canning.
Their children were:

James born 1890; he married Jane Ellen McCarthy on 4th February 1890 in St. Anne's Church of Ireland, Shankill, Belfast; James died 4th November 1965. Jane Ellen had been born on 21st June 1893 in Co. Down to Moses McCarthy and Margaret Brown.)
Elizabeth born 1893 but who died before 1911.
Jane born 1894.
Ellen born 1897 but who died in 1906.
Hugh Geddis Burke born 1900 - this last child was clearly named after Hugh Geddis Burke of Knoxville.
William John Burke Junior, born 1902.

Street Directories:
1892: William JAMES Burke, carpenter, 56 Rainey Street. (Typo?)
1900: William J. Burke, carpenter, 56 Rainey St.

Many thanks to the Orr family, especially Astrid Booth, the granddaughter of William Stewart Orr, for sending me the photographs of their Orr/Stewart/Burke ancestors.

This post is the beginnings of the family tree of the descendants of Joseph and Ann Stewart of Crossnacreevy, Moneyreagh, Co. Down. I'll add more to it later....
More details here though: http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/p/index-to-stewartmadine-family-posts.html

The Hearts of Steel Memorials:
The Stewarts of Moneyreagh first appear in the Hearts of Steel Memorials of 1771 - 1772. The Hearts of Steel was a Protestant Agrarian protest movement set up to fight against the re-letting of farms in Antrim; the agrarian unrest later spread to other counties. Those who abhorred the subsequent violence signed lists of protest known as the Memorials, which were published in the Belfast Telegraph. These were the Stewarts who signed the petition:
Neven Stewart
John Stewart x 4
Simon Stewart
Alex. Stewart x 2
Arch. Stewart
Sam. Stewart
And. Stewart

Freeholders' Records:
The 40-shilling freeholders either owned or leased land worth more than 40 shillings; this entitled them to vote. They held the lease for either the length of their own life or for the length of three other lives which are named in the lease. I accessed these records for free on the PRONI website.
1769: James Stewart, John Stewart,William Stewart, all of Crossnacreevy. All three of these men appear on headstones in the Moneyreagh graveyard.
In the same Freeholders lists, we find the name Robert Stewart of Crossnacreevy mentioned in 1813, 1814 and 1824.

From Moneyreagh Graveyard:
'Here lieth the body of John Stewart of Crossnacreevy who departed this life 27th of August 1795 aged 72 years. Here resteth the remains of the late William Stewart of Crossnacreevy who departed this life the 19th of June 1813 aged 83 years. Also the remains of his wife Elizabeth Stewart alias ALLEN who departed this life the 17th of February 1814 in the 73rd year of her age. Here lieth the body of Ann Hill alias Stewart who departed this life the 27th of June.'

'Underneath is interred the remains of the late James Stewart of Crossnacreevy who departed this life the 7th day of May MDCCCIII, aged 83 years. Also his wife Margaret Anderson who died April 3rd aged 87 years (undated).'

Dates for the above Stewarts:
John Stewart (1723 - 1795)
William Stewart (1730 - 1813) + his wife, Elizabeth Allen (1741 - 1814).
Ann Stewart, née Hill (age unknown.)
James Stewart (1720 - 1803) and his wife, Margaret Anderson (age unknown.)

Joseph and Ann Stewart, our great-great-great grandparents:
The online searchable catalogue for PRONI in Belfast notes the existence of a document about several Stewarts in Crossnacreevy, dated 1821. The document title mentions the following residents of Crossnacreevy:

William and Ann Stewart.
Robert and Agnes Stewart.
Joseph and Ann Stewart. (These were are immediate ancestors.)

The Tithe Applotment Books for The Parish of Comber, 1835:
Lisleen - Samuel Stewart, 11 acres
Ballymaglaff - Alexander Stewart, 18 acres
Moneyreagh - No Stewarts
Ballykeel - Joseph Stewart and William Madole (McDowell) together, 31 acres
Gransha - Joseph Stewart 14 + 6 + 15 acres
Francis Stewart, 7 acres
Clontonakelly - Andrew Stewart, 22 acres
The Misses Stewart - 33 acres
Crossnacreevy - Joseph Stewart, 6 acres
William Stewart, 15 acres
Robert Stewart, 23 acres

Joseph and Ann Stewart were our great-great-great grandparents. They were already married by 1821.
The 1821 Census noted a Joseph Stewart of Comber, aged 26, and also a second Joseph Stewart (we know there were two of them, one in Crossnacreevy, the other next door in Gransha, both probably related) of Newtownards whose age wasn't recorded.

Our great-great-great grandfather, Joseph Stewart, was also recorded in the Tithe Books for 1835, farming alongside William and Robert Stewart in Crossnacreevy. According to his death registration document, he lived from 1793 until April 10th 1876, dying in Crossnacreevy with his son John Stewart present at his death. His wife was still alive at this point.

Griffiths Valuation of 1863 showed Joseph Stewart leasing a house, shop, outhouses and 7 acres of land in Crossnacreevy, Moneyreagh. Closeby his property William McDowell, who had been farming in partnership with him in 1835, was leasing 8 acres. Both men can both be found in the neighbouring townland of Ballykeel - Joseph was leasing 16 acres of land but no house which seems to suggest that this is the same Joseph Stewart of neighbouring Crossnacreevy. William McDowell was here again in Ballykeel, leasing a caretaker's house and 16 acres of land.
A Francis Stewart of Crossnacreevy was leasing 27 acres, a house and outbuildings, and subletting two houses to James Floyd and William Anderson - Francis was most likely a relation of Joseph Stewart, but I can find little information about him.

The known children of Joseph and Ann Stewart of Crossnacreevy, Moneyreagh, Co. Down, were:

William A. Stewart (1826 - 1881) - The middle name is unknown, and is most likely the family name of his mother's family, possibly Anderson, Abernethy or Allen, but I'm just guessing.
Joseph Stewart, our great-great grandfather (1841 - 1908).
John Stewart (1839 - 1892).
Robert Stewart (born circa 1840, death unknown.)
Mary Stewart

Our great-great grandparents, Joseph Stewart (1841 - 1908) and Elizabeth Madine (March 3rd 1835 - 1901):
Joseph Stewart was born in about 1841 to Joseph and Ann Stewart of Crossnacreevy.

At some stage in the 1850s, Joseph Stewart Junior moved north to live and work in Belfast city, where he married Elizabeth Madine in St. Anne's Church of Ireland church, Shankill, Belfast, on 14th May 1859. This church was just south of Donegall Square and was demolished in 1903 to make way for Belfast Cathedral. Joseph seems to have converted to the Church of Ireland upon his marriage to Elizabeth, since the Stewart family seems to have been Unitarian/Prebyterian, while the Madines of Downpatrick/Killyleagh were primarily Church of Ireland.
Joseph gave his profession as a writing clerk, but would later work primarily as an ironmonger. Although she was born in 1835, Elizabeth Madine gave her birth year as 1838 - presumably she was embarrassed by the age difference. Her father was Robert Madine, a butcher of Killyleagh. The witnesses to the marriage were Elizabeth's siblings, John and Margaret Madine.

The children of Joseph Stewart and Elizabeth Madine were:

Emily Jane Stewart, born circa 1862, died unmarried in 1924 in Dublin.
Louisa Helen Stewart, born circa 1863/1864 in Killyleagh, Co. Down, died unmarried in 1951 in Dublin.
Mary Ann Stewart born 12th February 1865 - this child died in infancy.
Robert Stewart (our great-grandfather), born 26th May 1866 at 11 Arnon Street, Shankill, Belfast. The previous year, Joseph Stewart's sister, Mary Stewart, married Hugh Morrow in York Street Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church closeby, and Joseph acted as witness. Robert Stewart, the eldest son of Joseph Stewart and Elizabeth Madine, married Rebecca Cuthbert on 18th August 1896 in the Church of Ireland church of St. George on Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin. Their first child, Louisa Helen, named after Robert's sister, was born 15th March 1899, and married John Thomas Sibbald in Dublin in 1925 - their children were Hazel Sibbald and Leslie Sibbald. Robert and Rebecca Stewart had a daughter, Vera Maud Stewart, in 1906; Vera Maud Stewart married the tenor, Robert Irwin 1905 - 1983. Robert and Rebecca Stewart also had a son, Cuthbert/Bertie Stewart, our paternal grandfather, in Dublin in 1909; he died in Galway in 1976; he was married to our grandmother, Agnes/Nessie Keating Wilson of Belfast, 23rd November 1905 - 26th March 1965. The two sons of Bertie and Nessie Stewart were our father, Paul Stewart, born 18th June 1935, and Anthony Stewart, born 19th March 1937.
Joseph Stewart, born 9th February 1868 at 88 Ann Street - this child died; the brother of Joseph Stewart, William A. Stewart, ran a hostelry at this time at 92 Ann Street.
Mary Elizabeth Stewart was born on 26th August 1870 in Killyleagh where her father, Joseph Stewart, was working as a shop assitant; his brother, Robert Stewart, had married Joseph's sister-in-law, Jane Madine, and may have been working in Killyleagh also at this time. Mary Elizabeth Stewart died unmarried in 1945 in Dublin.
John Stewart was born on 12th April 1872 at 8 Roundhill Street, East Belfast, where Joseph Stewart was working as an inspector of building works. (An Agnes Stewart, 1844 - 1889, died at this address, 8 Roundhill St., on 27th November 1889, aged 45; she may be a relation.) John Stewart (12th April 1872 - Feb. 27 1954)married Mabel McKenzie (21st January 1878 - March 6 1946) on August 2nd 1905 in Monkstown Church. The couple had Eileen Gladys Stewart on Sept. 17th 1906; Norman Hampton Stewart, was born 26th June 1916; Donald MacKenzie Stewart was born in Rathdown, Dublin, in the latter part of 1912. Norman Stewart (26th June 1916 - June 7th 2001) married, firstly, Olive May Siggins of Sligo on May 9th 1942, and, secondly, Margaret Glynne Bowen (9th March 1921 - 23rd November 2008).
Catherine Stewart was born on 13th March 1874 in Downpatrick, Co. Down, just south of Killyleagh; Joseph was working as an ironmonger's assistant. Catherine Stewart died unmarried in 1957 in Dublin.
Joseph Stewart (22nd December 1876 in Saul Street, Downpatrick - 1956). Joseph Stewart married Sarah Kate Barton ( 9th August 1878 -February 9th 1974) in Inishtioge, Co. Kilkenny, on August 5th 1903. They had Lilian Kathleen Emily Stewart in Dublin on May 13th 1906 - she married John Frederick Leahy in Dublin on Sept. 9th 1930. A second daughter was Joyce Audrey Wheeler Stewart, born August 18th 1919; she married Ernest Walter Hall on 25th January 1940.

Joseph Stewart, ironmonger, may have been in London for the night of the UK 1881 Census - a Joseph Stewart, ironmonger's assistant, was lodging in Hanover Square; he was Irish-born, married, and gave a date of birth of 1841.

Joseph and Elizabeth moved south to Dublin; they appear in the Dublin street directories for the first time in 1887 living at 22 Fontenoy Street in Phibsboro, North Dublin. Living next door was a Thomas Stewart, but I doubt he was related - this Thomas Stewart only appears in the directories in 1887.
Joseph Stewart, ironmonger, stayed at 22 Fontenoy Street for two years before taking up permanent residence down the road at 18 Goldsmith Street. He would live there until his death in 1908. At the time of his death, he was working as a commercial traveller.

Joseph Stewart died in North Dublin in 1908, his wife Elizabeth in 1901.

William A. Stewart (1826 - 1881), son of Joseph and Ann Stewart of Crossnacreevy:
One of the most prominent farming families in the Moneyreagh/Crossnacreevy area were the Huddlestons. In 1844 Robert Huddleston, a poet, published a volume of his works, 'A Collection of Poems and Songs on Rural Subjects.' Included at the end of the collection was a list of subscribers, and these include Joseph Stewart of Gransha, a neighbour of our ancestor, Joseph Stewart, and William A. Stewart of Crossnacreevy.

William A. Stewart married Margaret Burke in Downpatrick Registry Office on 27th December 1851. William, the son of the farmer, Joseph Stewart, was a hosteler living at 29 Prince's Street, Belfast, while Margaret was the daughter of a labourer, John Burke, with an address at the time of her marriage in Downpatrick. The witnesses were William Lascelles, a merchant of Downpatrick, and Agnes Crothers.

William Stewart can be traced through the Belfast street directories. Up until 1865 he was at 29 Prince's Street - 'William A. Stewart - eating-house and stabling yard.' In 1870 and 1877 he was noted as a spirit-dealer of 92 Ann Street (Ann St and Prince's St. intersect each other) and, finally, in 1880 he made his last appearance as William A. Stewart at 50 New Lodge Road, which is where his daughter, Jane, was living when she married James M. Orr in 1875; Ann Street must have been the business address, while New Lodge Road was the family home.
In the 1884 street directory, a publican named Ellen Stewart was listed at 92 Ann Street, so I presume this was one of his daughters or some other member of the same Stewart family; she disappears after this - she either married and changed her name, emigrated, or died.

On 26th October 1871, William A. Stewart witnessed the second wedding of his brother, John Stewart of Crossnacreevy, when John married Elizabeth McGowan of Ballystockart in York Street Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church, the same church where the brothers' sister, Mary Stewart, had married Hugh Morrow in 1865.

The children of William and Margaret were born prior to official registration, but Jane was born circa 1855 in Belfast, and her sister, Margaret was born circa 1859. There was also a possible sister, Agnes Stewart, who witnessed Jane's wedding to James M. Orr, and also a Joseph Stewart, born in 1877. William's daughter, Jane Stewart, married the Ballymena watchmaker, James Malcolm Orr, and emigrated to Philadelphia - Jane Orr would later be visited by the four daughters of Joseph Stewart and Elizabeth Madine in 1914.

William A. Stewart died under tragic circumstances on 3rd December 1881 at 50 New Lodge Road; the newspapers recorded that he died from a head wound inflicted with a hammer. An inquest concluded that he'd committed suicide by fracturing his skull while in a state of unsound mind.
From 'The Belfast Telegraph' of Dec.5th 1881: 'An inquest was held on Saturday on the body of Wm. Stewart, who was found dead with his head broken, in the yard of his house in New Lodge Road that morning. Evidence was given that, for the past two months, the deceased talked foolishly. The Coroner described the case as a most extraordinary one. The jury returned a verdict of suicide, while in an unsound state of mind.'
The widowed Margaret Stewart, née Burke, may be the Margaret Stewart, aged 65, who appears on the 1901 census at 30 Pernan/Pernau Street in Shankill, Belfast, living with her 24-yr-old son, Joseph Stewart, and his wife Maria.

John Stewart (1839 - 1892), son of Joseph and Ann Stewart of Crossnacreevy:
John Stewart was a farmer, who spent his life in Crossnacreevy, Moneyreagh. He married Mary Mills in Gilnahirk Presbyterian Church, Dundonald, north of Crossnacreevy on July 9th 1859. Mary Mills was the daughter of a farmer, Robert Mills, who lived in Lisleen townland adjacent to Crossnacreevy. The witnesses were a friend, Jane Shannon, and Robert Mills who was either Mary's father or her brother.

The couple had a daughter, Esther Jane Stewart, in 1861. She married James Vincent, an engineer of Belfast in Gilnahirk Presbyterian Church on September 24th 1881. She gave her residence as Mountpottinger in south Belfast. Esther Jane Stewart Vincent died in Jan - March 1897. Esther Jane Stewart and James Vincent had two children - Charles Vincent was born in Belfast in about 1882, and Henry/Harry Vincent in about 1895. Following Esther Jane's death, James Vincent married a woman named Margaret J.

A daughter, Elizabeth Stewart, was born in 1864 to John Stewart and Mary Mills, but neither Elizabeth or her mother, Mary, appear in any records after this.

John Stewart later remarried. His second wife was Eliza Magowan or Elizabeth McGowan. The couple married on 26th October 1871 in York Street Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church in Belfast city centre; Elizabeth was the daughter of John McGowan, a labourer of Ballystockart, Comber, Co. Down. The witnesses were John Stewart's older brother, William A. Stewart, and a Martha Cummings.

The births of three of their children are recorded:
Their first child was born on April 1st 1871. Although he was christened Robert Samuel Stewart, on the census and in his father's will, he is referred to as Robert John Stewart. Robert John Stewart took over the Crossnacreevy farm following his father's death; I doubt he ever married.
A daughter, Mariah Lamont Stewart, was born to the couple on Dec. 6th 1873.
A daughter, Mary Annie Stewart - later known simply as Annie - was born in Crossncreevy on June 4th 1880.

Mary Stewart, daughter of Joseph and Ann Stewart of Crossnacreevy:
Mary Stewart, the daughter of Joseph and Ann Stewart of Crossnacreevy, married Hugh Morrow, a labourer, the son of a sailor John Morrow, deceased, on 13th Sept. 1865 in York Street Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church (Unitarian) in the centre of Belfast. The marriage certificate states that both bride and groom were resident in Crossnacreevy at the time of the wedding.

The witnesses to the wedding were Joseph Stewart and Margaret McCullough. This Joseph was either her father or her brother: Joseph Stewart, Mary's brother, and his wife, Elizabeth Madine, were living at the time around the corner from York Street Church at 11 Arnon Street, but their father, also Joseph, may well have travelled north into the city for the wedding.

Mary Stewart and Hugh Morrow had two recorded sons: Joseph John Morrow was born on 25th Oct. 1866 in Lisleen, one of the Moneyreagh townlands adjacent to Crossnacreevy.
Their second son, Hugh, was born 20th Feb. 1868 in Comber but the registration doesn't mention the exact place of birth.

The records for the family are few and far between, and I can find nothing further on Hugh and Mary, but both of their sons crop up on the census for both 1901 and 1911.
Hugh Morrow Junior and his wife, Agnes, are living on Dufferin Avenue in nearby Bangor and Hugh gives his profession as 'Factory Establishment.' Hugh Morrow and Agnes (possibly née Harvey) had a daughter, Alice Morrow, born circa 1897. The second son of Hugh Morrow and Mary Stewart, Joseph John Morrow, a postman, married Minnie J. Allen of Tyrone in 1891 but had no children.

Robert Stewart, son of Joseph and Ann Stewart of Crossnacreevy:
Robert Stewart, the brother of Joseph Stewart, married his sister-in-law, Jane Madine, the younger sister of Elizabeth Madine, in Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church on July 9th 1860. Both bride and groom were living in the Madine's hometown of Killyleagh at the time of the marriage and Robert Stewart gave his profession as a mechanic.
There are two Killyleagh Street Directories - for 1877 and for 1880 - and a Robert Stewart appears in both of them as a grocer/engineer on Front Street, the same street where Robert's father-in-law, Robert Madine, worked as a butcher. Same guy?
The Griffiths Valuation revision books for Killyleagh 1879 - 1884 show Robert Stewart of 41 Front Street crossed out and replaced by Thomas Calvert; the only death registration in this era for a Killyleagh Robert Stewart is for a much older man - our Robert Stewart may well have emigrated, or may have been working or farming elsewhere.
There was also a Robert Stewart mentioned in the lists of Past Masters for the Killyeagh Masonic Lodge. In 1873 he appears alongside another Killyleagh mechanic, Arthur Gordon of Back Street. In 1874, Robert Stewart appears beside John Davidson who was a teacher in the Killyleagh Second Presbyterian school.
Following this, there are no further records relating to Robert or Jane Stewart. Nor could I find any records relating to children born to the couple.

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Mary Anne Quin, wife of Thomas Williams

Commission of Inquiry 1869

The Children of Charles Jones Junior and Isabella Anna Pennefather

Military Record of Francis Courtney, born Dublin 1793

Links between the Williams, Bellinghams, Wyes, Quins and Palmers

The Connor/O'Connor Family of Ballybricken and Connorville

John Anderson, schoolteacher of Drumadarragh, Antrim

Wilson Church Records - Donaghcloney, Co. Down

Lavalade Records in Donaghcloney Parish

Jamiesons of Donaghadee, Co. Down

The Frew Family of Killyleagh, Co. Down

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Hugh Burke, cousin of Jane Orr, née Stewart

The Descendants/Family of Joseph and Ann Stewart of Crossnacreevy, Moneyreagh