General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather was born on September 9th 1798, the third son of the Rev. John Pennefather and Elizabeth Percival. We descend directly from his half-brother, Edward Pennefather, who had been born earlier to the Rev. John Pennefather and his first unnamed wife.  Our Edward Pennefather named his oldest son, our great-great-great grandfather, John Lysaght Pennefather, after his half-brother.
I've already done a brief post about Sir John Lysaght Pennefather's military career, so this post focuses on his family.

The wife of General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather was Katherine Margaret Carr/Margaret Carr (1803 - 1880) , the daughter of John Carr and Susannah Senior of Mountrath, Queen's County.  Margaret had previously been married to William Bartley of Monaghan.
Her father, John Carr, lived in Mountrath, Laois/Queen's County, but I've failed to find out much about him. The Tithe Applotment books of 1829 only show up a Michael Carr and an Edward Carr living in Lower Mountrath in the parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen.  Later, in 1851, Griffiths Valuation showed up Michael Carr leasing three acres from the landowner, Sir Charles H. Coote.   Also in Coote Street, Mountrath town, Dysartbeagh, was a William Senior leasing a house from a James Lawless.  In the same townland of Dysartbeagh, a Rev. James Moreton owned 26 acres.  This Rev. James Moreton or Morton was of the same family of the Mortons of Little Island, Clonmel, Tipperary, who were related to the Carrs.  An 1814 lease noted the names of James Morton, Thomas Morton, George Morton and Charles Henry Coote in relation to property at Little Island, Clonmel and Mountrath.

John and Susannah Carr died young, and their children were taken under the wing of their uncle, a Morton of Little Island, Clonmel, Tipperary.
Richard Carr, Margaret's brother, was sent to London and entered a finance house there.   Margaret's sister, Ellen, who had been born circa 1806 in Ireland, married her first cousin, William Carr, a damask merchant. The son of William and Ellen Carr, Henry Tuckey Carr, was born 20th April 1826, at Gt. George's Street, St. Pancras;  a daughter, Margaret Carr, was born circa 1827.  In 1841, the family were living in Camden Cottages, Kentish Town;  Susan Bartley, aged 15, who was the daughter of Margaret Carr and William Bartley, was visiting them on the night of the census.  By 1851 they were living in New Barn's House, Ely, Cambridgeshire, although William Bartley was away on business, staying in a boarding house in Halifax, Yorkshire.  Their son, Henry Tuckey Carr, a warehouseman, married Hannah Barber Cheetham on September 14th 1864, in St. John's, Manchester. Hannah was the daughter of Joseph Cheetham, also a warehouseman.  Henry and Hannah Carr settled in Hulme, Lancashire.

Margaret Carr's first husband, William Bartley, had been born in about 1799 in Lossit,  Co.Monaghan to the surgeon, George Bartley and his wife, Christina Metge.  George Bartley (1753 - 1800) had been the surgeon of the Monaghan Infirmiary for 50 years.
The children of George and Christina Bartley were Jessie 1785 - 1876 who lived in Dublin, John Metge Bartley 1787 - 1881 who married Jane Cowell, Major General Sir Robert Bartley 1789 - 1843,  George who died in 1861, William who married Margaret Carr, and Christina Bartley.

William Bartley was with the 22nd Regiment of Foot, as was John Lysaght Pennefather.  William Bartley married Katherine Margaret Carr in about 1824, and the couple had two daughters before William died and was buried in 1828 in Jamaica.
Susan Bartley was born in Jamaica in about 1825, while her younger sister, Margaret Ann, was born on April 23rd 1827, and was baptised at home in St. Pancras,  London, on 19th June 1827.  The family were living on Georges Street at the time, the same street where Margaret Bartley's sister, Ellen Carr, was living at this time with her husband William Carr.

At the time of his death in Jamaica in 1828, William Bartley was the paymaster of the 22nd Regiment.  John Lysaght Pennefather escorted his widow and daughter back to London, and the couple were married on December 9th 1830 in St. Pancras Parish Church. The witnesses were Margaret's brother, Richard Carr, her sister, Ellen Carr, and Ellen's husband who was also the sisters' first cousin, William Carr.

Following their marriage, John Lysaght Pennefather adopted his step-daughter, Susan Bartley Pennefather, and contact with the Bartley family was lost.   Margaret accompanied her husband abroad to India, and Susan was sent to boarding school in France, spending holidays at home with her Carr cousins in Camden.

Susan Bartley Pennefather (1825 - 1866) married the Canadian, John Hamilton Gray (1811 - 1887) who was the Premier of Lord Edward Island.  John had been an officer in the British Army for 21 years;  at the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854, his father-in-law, Sir John Lysaght Pennefather, took the recently retired John Hamilton Gray on as a staff assistant. Following the war, he returned to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, where he lived at Inkerman House, which had been named after John Lysaght Pennefather's victory during the Battle of Inkerman.
John Hamilton Gray and Susan Bartley Pennefather had five daughters together following their wedding in India.  Harriet Worrall Gray was born on a troop ship on the Red Sea, Margaret Bartley was born in South Africa, Florence Bartley in England, Mary and Bertha were both born in Prince Edward Island.
Susan Bartley Pennefather died in Charlottetown in 1864.


In 1861, John and Margaret Pennefather were living in Seale, Surrey, where John was the commander of Aldershot Camp.   Their granddaughter, a favourite of Margaret's, was with them on the census.  This was Harriet Worrell Gray, who had been born in 1843 - 'at sea' -  to Susan Bartley Pennefather and John Hamilton Gray.
In 1871, John and Margaret Pennefather were living in the Chelsea Hospital where John was the governor.  Again,  Harriet Worrell Gray, was with them, as was a Canadian-born niece, Caroline Riddell, who had been born circa 1849.  (Another of our elderly relations was living in the Chelsea Hospital in 1871 - Frederick Courtenay of Dublin was the retired father-in-law of our great-great-great grandfather, John Pennefather of Dublin.)
Cousin Caroline Riddell was one of Harriet's bridesmaids when she married Rev. Henry Pelham Stokes, the son of the cleric George Stokes,  on 15th January 1880, at St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens, Chelsea.  Harriet's address at the time was 8 Cranley Place, the home of her grandmother, Margaret Pennefather.  Her father was noted as John Hamilton Gray, C.M.G., Colonel in the 7th Dragoon Guards.  Other bridesmaids were cousins, E.L. Mackay, Florence Moreton and Harriet Hamilton.

Harriet's step-grandfather, General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather died on 9th May 1872 and was buried in Brompton Cemetery.
Her grandmother, Lady Margaret Pennefather, died at Cranley Place, Onslow Square, on 7th February 1880, and her will was proved by Harriet Worrall Stokes, wife of Henry Pelham Stokes.   Harriet died two years after her maternal grandmother on 13th January 1882 at 5 Coleshill Street, Eaton Square, and was buried alongside her grandparents in Brompton Cemetery.  Her husband, Henry Pelham Stokes of Wareham Parish, Dorset, proved her will.

The Ryans of Ballymackeogh were the Tipperary neighbours of our maternal ancestors, the Pennefathers of Newport;  because they intermarried with both the Pennefathers and possibly also the Lysaght family of Mountnorth, I'm doing a post about them.
Although of an ancient Irish family, they were Protestant, which is only of importance in the sense that it makes it easier to distinguish them from other Tipperary Ryan families who were mostly Catholic.

The earliest known member of this Ryan family in Tipperary was William Ryan, whose son, Daniel, married Honor Ewer, the daughter of a Cromwellian soldier, John Ewer, who had been granted land by Charles II in 1666-1667.
 Daniel Ryan died in 1731, leaving the following children:
Anthony, George, Elizabeth Ryan who married Edward Lee of Barna, Tipperary, Anne Ryan who married Edmond Griffin, Mary, and the eldest son, William Ryan.  (Note: Barna is immediately adjacent to Ballymackeogh and Newport, and the Lee family were prominent there.)

On 27th September 1707 in Clare, William Ryan, gentleman, of Ballymackeogh, married Catherine Magie, alias Elmore, and the bondsmen were Daniel Ryan of Ballymackeogh and Francis Ryan of Co. Clare.   It's unclear which William Ryan this was - he was possibly the son and successor of Daniel Ryan who later married, secondly, Elizabeth Newstead.  It's interesting to see the connection with Co. Clare.

In 1725, William Ryan, the son of Daniel Ryan and Honor Ewer, married Elizabeth Newsteed, the daughter of Richard Newstead of Ballybough, Tipperary.  She died in 1765.  Their children were:
Richard, William Ryan who married a Miss Bradsham, George Ryan who married one of the Lysaght family in the 1750's, Anne who married John Ewer, Elizabeth who married Solomon Cambic of Tipperary, and the eldest son, Ewer Ryan.

Ewer Ryan (1730 - 1802), the oldest son of William Ryan and Elizabeth Newstead, married, in 1754, Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard McGrath of Lisduff, Tipperary.  In 1799, Ewer Ryan had a property in French Street, Dublin.   The children of Ewer Ryan and Elizabeth McGrath were George, John, Anthony, Richard, Rickard, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Bridget, and Ewer's successor, William Ryan.

William Ryan and Anne Pennefather of Ballymackeogh:
The Tithe Books of 1832 showed up William Ryan in Ballymackeogh, Kilvellane, Tipperary, along with a Denis Ryan and a Michael Ryan.   (The names 'Denis' and 'Michael' are generally Catholic names, so are probably not related.)

In 1814, Ewer's son and heir, William Ryan, married Anne Pennefather (born September 27th 1791 in Newport - Dec 10th 1863), the daughter of our immediate ancestor, Rev. John Pennefather and Mary Percival.  (We descend via Anne's half-brother, Edward Pennefather.)
The marriage settlement was dated 8th September 1814 and involved four separate parties. The first party was William Ryan, eldest son of Ewer Ryan;   the second party was Henry Lee of Barna,  Rev. William Lee, Kingsmill Pennefather of Lacklands (ie: Newport), and Henry Vansittart of Bisham Abbey, England, all trustees;   the third party was David and Saul Baldwin of Stradbally, Queen's County, William Pennefather of Cork, and Westby Percival of the Royal Navy;   the fourth party comprised Rev. John Pennefather of Lacklands and his daughter Anne Pennefather.    Rev. John Pennefather paid £3000 to William Ryan accordingly.

Anne Ryan, née Pennefather, made her will 4th June 1852 at Lower Mount Street, Dublin, and the executrixes of her will were named as her three unmarried daughters, Clare, Mary Anne and Laura/Louisa Ryan.   The witnesses to her will were the solicitor, Joseph Lysaght Pennefather, who was her brother, and William Ryan.

The children of William Ryan and Anne Pennefather were:
1) William Ryan (born 1st December 1815, died 13th February 1890) of Ballymackeogh who married Jane Grogan (1808 -1895) in 1842. See below.

2) John Ryan, solicitor;  in 1843 John Ryan married his first cousin, Louisa Ricarda Pennefather (born 1821), who was the daughter of Kingsmill Pennefather and Frances Elizabeth Hall. They lived in Dublin at 66 Lower Mount Street or at 56 Lower Mount Street.
Their children were William Ewer Ryan, John Pennefather Ryan (born in Lower Mount Street on 6th March 1847), Frances-Elizabeth Ryan (born at Lower Mount Street on 31st May 1848) and Louisa Mary Ryan.
The oldest son, William Ewer Ryan, was a cleric - in 1891 he was resident as the Vicar of Pilton in  Devon, and was sharing the vicarage with his widowed mother, Louisa Ricarda Ryan, née Pennefather.  Next door to them in Orchard House was Townshend Monckton Hall, a widower who'd been born in Torquay in 1845 to an earlier Vicar of Pilton, Rev. William Craddock Hall who was the first cousin of William Ewer Ryan's mother.
John Pennefather Ryan (1847 - 1927), the son of John Ryan and Louisa Ricarda Pennefather, died in Brisbane, Australia. He had been born and educated in Dublin and attended the Royal College of Surgeons there.  He worked firstly in an English hospital and then as a doctor aboard an emigrant ship to Argentina, before emigrating to Australia in 1874 where he worked as a medical officer. He married Miss Bliss of Gumple in 1877, and left five children, including the solicitor Guy Ryan, Mrs. Llewelyn Stephens, Mrs. A. Henderson and Mrs. R.P. Stumm.

3) George Henry Ryan, a surgeon in the Royal Navy who died without issue.  On 1st January 1855, he was appointed surgeon to the 'Agamemnon'.

4) Robert Percival Ryan.

5) Elizabeth Ryan.

6) Maryanne Ryan.

7) Edward Ryan.

8) Clare Ryan.  She made her will on 18th July 1890. The executor was her nephew, Charles Arthur Ryan;  the beneficiaries were her sisters, Mary Anne and Laura Ryan;  also mentioned was her grandniece and godchild, Anna Alice Drew who was the daughter of her niece, Anna Alicia,  and a second grandniece, Jeanette Louisa Clare Maunsell who was the daughter of her other niece, Jeanette Maunsell.

9) Laura Ryan, born circa 1838. Sometimes noted as Louisa Ryan, she was mentioned in both her mother's and her sister's wills.  In 1901 she was living with her nephew at Ballymackeogh, Charles Arthur Ryan.

William Ryan and Jane Grogan:
William Ryan, the oldest son of William Ryan and Anne Pennefather, was born on 1st December 1815, and married, on the 29th November 1842, Jane Grogan  (1808 -1895).
Jane Grogan of Harcourt Street, Dublin was the second daughter of John Grogan and the sister of Sir Edward Grogan.  The couple were married in the British Embassy in Paris on 24th November 1842, the ceremony being performed by Jane's brother, the Rev. Charles James Grogan of Harcourt Street and of Dunleckney, Carlow.  William Ryan was later nominated as the executor of this brother's 1887 will.

An obituary from the Limerick city archives noted the death in Leeson Street, Dublin, of Sarah, the widow of Anthony Dopping.  Sarah Dopping (1804 - 1870) was Jane Grogan's sister;  Anthony Dopping was of Colemolyn, Co. Meath, and predeceased his wife.

A census fragment for 7th April 1861 survived and noted several members of the family at Ballymackeogh, namely,  Jane Ryan and her three daughters, Anna, Elizabeth and Antoinette, along with an uncle, Anthony Ryan.  It was noted that William Ryan, Charles Ryan and Jeannette Ryan were absent and resident in Kingstown, Dublin.

The children of William Ryan and Jane Grogan were:
1) William Edward Ryan, born 24th March 1851.
2) Charles Arthur Ryan, born 7th November 1853, and died in Dublin in August 1929 - his wife was Mary, the daughter of Captain Henry Ormsby-Rose, who he married on 24th February 1903 in Dublin.
3) Anne Alicia Susanna Ryan.
4) Elizabeth Ryan.
5) Jeannette Ryan.
6) Antoinette Jane Ryan, born circa 1856, she died on 4th June 1903 at 67 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin.  Previously, in 1901, she was living with her older brother, Charles Arthur Ryan, at Ballymackeogh, along with her paternal aunt, Laura Ryan.

Although not closely related to them, the Grogan family of Westmeath, Dublin and Wicklow crossed paths with my own Dublin Courtenay family and with the Ryans of Ballymackeogh, Tipperary, who also intermarried with the Pennefathers of Newport, Tipperary, so I've done a little research into them, using Burke's genealogies available online on Google Books, Ancestry.com and the Irish Genealogy website.

Edward Grogan was the son of Edward Grogan of Ballytrain, Wexford;  he settled in Raheny, Dublin, and married Jane Grierson (28th February 1740/1 - November 22nd 1814), the daughter of George Grierson and Jane Blow, in St. Andrew's, Dublin, on 1st May 1762.  He was a silk mercer.
Their children follow:

1) George Grogan who died in 1763; also Euphemia Grogan who died in 1764.

2)  Janet Catherine Grogan, born 1766, married Sir Jonah Barrington in St. Werbergh's,  Dublin, on 7th June 1789.   See further detail below.

3) John Grogan of 10 Harcourt Street, Dublin, then of Tinakilly Lodge, Wicklow. (1770 - 1830).  A barrister, he married Sarah Medlicott, the daughter of George Dowling Medlicott of Youngstown, Kildare.  John Grogan was buried in the family plot in Raheny.   John Grogan and Sarah Medlicott had:
   
   a)  Sir Edward Grogan, Baronet of Moyvore, Westmeath (5th November 1802 - 1891).  Created a baronet on April 11th 1859, Sir Edward Grogan married Charlotte Katherine McMahon in the British Embassy in Paris on July 27th 1867, the ceremony being performed there by Edward's younger brother, Rev. Charles James Grogan, who was also heir-presumptive to Sir Edward. The bride, Charlotte Catherine,  was the eldest daughter of the baronet, Sir Beresford B. McMahon. Sir Edward Grogan, a fiercesome loyalist opposed to Catholic emancipation,  died at Ballyntyre House, Dundrum, Co. Dublin, in 1891.  He left a son, Sir Edward Ian Beresford Grogan, who had been born on 29th November 1873 at Avoca, Wicklow, and who succeeded his father as baronet on 26th January 1891.  There were also three daughters, Maria Katherine Nina, Sarah Madeleine and Aileen Edward Sybil Theresa.   The son, Sir Edward Ian Beresford Grogan, married Eleanor Flora Bosworth;  he died at Shropham Hall, Norwich, on 11th July 1927.
     b) Rev. Charles James Grogan (1805 - 5th October 1887).
     c)  Rev. John Grogan (1816 - 28th December 1899). He married Elizabeth Bourne, the daughter of the solicitor, Peter Bourne of 20 York Street, in St. Peter's, Dublin, on 2nd October 1850.  At the time of the wedding, Rev. John Grogan was living in Annamoe Glebe, Co. Wicklow.  The witnesses were Edward Grogan, Charles Frizel of Castle Kevin (who was married to Elizabeth Bourne's sister, Jane) and George Gibb.
Elizabeth died at 21 Clyde Road on 24th July 1921. Rev. John Grogan and Elizabeth Bourne  had John Edward Grogan (1852 - 1871); Lizzie Grogan (born in Annamoe on 20th April 1853 - 4th December 1938; she died at 21 Clyde Road); Edward Medlicott Grogan (1856 - 1871);  Ellen Fanny Grogan who married Rev. Arthur Edward Butt and had two daughters, Irene and Olive Butt;  Caroline Jane Grogan who married Arthur Gore Ryder and who was living in Sidmonton Terrace in Bray in 1901;  Alice Grogan, born 1863;  the doctor, Amelia Grogan (1864 - 1930) - Amelia worked in the Mullingar Asylum and died in 1930 at 7 Anson Road, Tufnell Park, Middlesex;  George Meredith Grogan (1867 - 4th July 1942), a military man who married Eva Augusta Elizabeth Ellis, and who lived at Plattenstown, Arklow, Co. Wicklow.  In 1931, George and Eva had a son, Hume Grogan, later Major Hume Grogan of the Irish Guards.
    d) Sarah Grogan (1804 - 1870);  she married Anthony John Dopping of Lowtown House, Westmeath, in St. Peter's, Dublin, on 10th November 1823.  The witnesses were W. J. Moore and Sir Henry Mar.   The Dopping-Hepenstall papers, published online, show two assignments of mortgages on properties in Westmeath, which involved the following parties - Thomas Williams of Dublin, possibly 50 Lower Sackville Street, whose children married into the Killucan DeCourcey family,  Anthony John Dopping of Galtrim, Westmeath, Joseph Henry Moore of Bachelors Walk, this dated 5th May 1825.   The second mortgage document involved Jospeh Henry Moore of Bachelors Walk, Anthony John Dopping, and Edward Grogan of Harcourt Street, this dated 28th June 1828.
     e)  Jane Grogan who married William Ryan of Ballymackeogh.
     f)  Isabel Grogan (1811 - 1869).  She died unmarried.
     g) Suannnah Grogan (1812 - 1871) who married Vincent Scully of Mantle Hill, Tipperary, in 1841.  Both were buried at the Rock of Cashel.  An MP and barrister, Vincent Scully had been born in 1810 to Denys Scully and Catherine Eyre at Mantle Hill, Cashel.
     h) Rev. George William Grogan (1819 - 1926). He married Helen Isabel Hall Graham in 1856.

4)  Colonel George Grogan (1773 - 1846).  He married, first, Dorinda Smith, then Catherine Benson.

5)  Laurence Grogan, born 1775.  He was a captain with the 83rd Regiment and died childless.

6) Rev. William Grogan (1778 - 1854).  He lived at Slaney Park, Baltinglass, Wicklow, and was buried at Raheny.   His son, Edwin Grogan, married Isabella Courtenay in 1861;  his daughter, Elizabeth Jane Grogan, married William Courtenay, the brother of Isabella Courtenay.
   
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/11/the-family-of-edwin-grogan-son-of-rev.html
 
   
7)  Jane Grogan (1780 - 1818) married Henry Blaquiere of Dublin.

8)  James Grogan died in infancy.

Notes on Sir Jonah Barrington and Catherine Grogan, the daughter of Edward Grogan and Jane Grierson:
Jonah Barrington had been born in Knapton House, Abbeyleix, Queen's County in 1757 to John Richard Barrington and Sibella French.   He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, was called to the Irish bar in 1788, and became MP for various constituencies. He became involved in intricate political manoeuvres and was gradually overwhelmed by debts, resulting in his disgrace and dismissal in 1830. After settling in France in 1815, he wrote 'The Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation'  and 'Personal Sketches of his own Time'.  He died in Paris on 8th April 1834.

Their children were:
a) Edward George Barrington (1795 - January 1844). A captain in the 5th Dragoons, he died in Jersey in 1844.  He married in Tuam Cathedral, Galway, Anna Blake, the third daughter of a Netterville-Blake of Berming House, Co. Galway, and grand-niece to Viscount Netterville.   Edward and Anna had a daughter, Catherine Sybella Barrington, who married Lewis Gabriel Sharkey, the son of Patrick Sharkey, on 8th September 1845 in St. George's, Dublin.  The bride's address was Richmond Place, and the witnesses were James Netterville-Blake and John Lynch.  This couple had a daughter, Sarah Jane Sharkey, in Great Brunswick Street on 27th July 1846.    Catherine Sibella Barrington married, secondly on 12 April 1852, William Alexander MacKenna.
b) Jane Catherine Barrington (died 1872).  In 1815, she married Thomas Grenier de Fonblanque, the Consul for Serbia.  Their daughter, Jane Catherine Patricia de Grenier Fonblanque married, as his second wife, Kingsmill Pennefather of Knockinglass, Tipperary, in 1843.  Kingsmill was the second son of Rev. John Pennefather of Newport, Tipperary, whose oldest son, Edward Pennefather, was our immediate maternal ancestor.  The children of Thomas Grenier de Fonblanque and Jane Catherine Barrington were Jane Catherine Patricia de Fonblanque, died 6 May 1886, who married 4 October 1842 at St. Helier Parish, Jersey Bailiwick, Channel Islands, the Duchy of Normandy, Kingsmill Pennefather;  Adelaide Arabella de Fonblanque, born in 1827, died 1 August 1856 at Basedow, the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who married 1 November 1849, Otto Karl von Schlippenbach und Skofde (Count of Schlippenbach and Skofde) (Chamberlain to His Imperial Majesty Wilhelm I., Kaiser of Germany and King of Prussia, etc.);   Caroline de Fonblanque, who married 19 September 1861 at St. Gabriel's Anglican Church, Warwick Square, St. Gabriel's Parish, Pimlico, Westminster City, Middlesex County, England, Richard Croker.  
c)  Sibella Phoebe Barrington (1797 - 1841) who married, in 1815, Captain William Loftus Otway of Nenagh (1792 - 1859);  their son, William Loftus Otway, was born on October 23rd 1819 in Hounslow.  A second son, James Barrington Otway, was baptised in St. Matthew's, Irishtown, Dublin, on 4th October 1829, followed by Francis Thomas Otway on 24th April 1831,  Sybilla Phoebe Otway on 22nd December 1833.  On 16th October 1860, a daughter, Arabella Joanna Otway of 97 Stephen's Green, married the barrister, John Norwood of 11 Nelson Street.   Sibella Phoebe Barrington and Captain William Loftus Otway settled in Sandymount, Dublin, where some of their children died - William Otway, aged 4, died in January 1830;  Sybella Phoebe Otway, aged 5 months, died in January 1834;  William Loftus Otway, aged 21, died in July 1838;  Sybella Otway herself died, aged 44, in January 1841.  They were all buried in St. Matthews.
d) Patricia Barrington, who died in Naples on 23rd November 1843, and who married, in 1822, John Alexander Hunter (1828 - 1886).   They had a son, also John Alexander Hunter (1828 - 1886).   Patricia Barrington Hunter died young at some stage, and, in 1851, the widowed John Alexander Hunter, an ensign in the army, was living in Ham Commons, England, with two daughters, Henrietta Hunter, born circa 1828, and Mary Catherine, born circa 1831.
e)  Arabella Henrietta Barrington (1807 - 1884) who was the co-heir of her father, along with her younger sister, Margaret Barrington.  Arabella married, firstly in Dublin in 1828, Edward Hughes Lee.  She married, secondly, in the Anglican Church, Geneva, on 13th September 1837, Captain Vincent Frederick Kennett, who worked for the East India Company.   They had Patricia Barrington Kennett, born 1841 in Geneva, Isabella Barrington Kennett, born 1844 in Naples, and Vincent Barrington Kennett, born 1845.  In 1851 they were living in Ormsby Lodge, Ham Commons, where Arabella's brother-in-law, John Alexander Hunter also lived; in 1861, the census captured them in Hove, Sussex.  The couple's son, Sir Vincent Hunter Barrington Kennett (1844 - 1903) took the name of Barrington, and was granted the right to bear Barrington arms, as requested by his grandfather, Sir Jonah Barrington.  Sir Vincent Hunter Barrington-Kennett married Alicia Georgette Sandemann in 1878.
f) Margaret Barrington, who married Captain John Worthy of the East India Company on 16th June 1829 in the Chapel of the British Embassy in Paris.   They had Margaret Cassandra Worthy, born 1835 or 1836 in the British East Indies, who married in or about 1862 or 1863, William H. Woodman;  Arabella C. H. Worthy, born in or about 1837 or 1838 in the British East Indies;  Frederick Worthy, born in or about 1839 or 1840 at Chertsey Parish, Surrey County, England;  Elizabeth P. Worthy, born in or about 1843 or 1844 at Surrey County, England.

 

Louisa Willis, the daughter of Thomas Willis and Mary Anne Newcombe of Portarlington,  married George Allen Proctor, gentleman, on 26th May 1825, in St.Peter’s, Dublin, two months after the death of her father, the Portarlington schoolmaster Thomas Willis.

Speculation: there was a George Allen Proctor in the Amicable Society of Printers, who had married Mary Weldon of St. Peter’s Dublin in 1795. This man’s son, Edmund, entered Trinity College in 1823.  Perhaps Louisa Willis was his second, younger wife?

(A second George Allen Proctor was born in Dublin to Thomas and Anne Proctor in 1816 - he would have been 9 years old when Louisa Willis married the other one,  and was, perhaps, the nephew of the older man.   This younger George Allen Proctor entered the church and spent 39 years as rector of Tullamelan, Clonmel, Tipperary;  his obituary was published in the Irish Times of Friday, January 14th 1910.
     "Canon G.A. Proctor.  We regret to announce the death which occurred at Tullamelan Rectory on Sunday of the Rev. George Allen Proctor M.A., Canon of Kilrossanty.  Canon Proctor, who was in his 95th year was ordained in the year 1840.  He was admitted to the United Diocese in 1871 and was instituted Rector of Tullamelan. For the long period of 39 years he discharged the duties of Rector of the parish where he was esteemed by the people of all classes and creeds.  In 1883 he was appointed Prebendary of Kilrossanty and he was also a Rural Dean.")

The older George Allen Proctor, who was the husband of Louisa Willis of Portarlington, died on 10th August 1848 in Delgany, Co. Wicklow, aged 70.  His death was announced in the Freeman's Journal of Saturday, August 19th 1848.    The street directories had earlier noted him as resident in 5 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin, from 1845 till 1848.

George Allen Proctor and Louisa Willis had two children - George Allen Proctor Junior, born in Dublin in about 1832, and Louisa Proctor, born in Dublin in about 1830.   George Allen Proctor Junior entered the church.
In 1861, George Allen Proctor was the curate of Northam and Southton in St. Marys, Southampton, and was living there with his sister, Louisa, and his widowed mother, Louisa Proctor, née Willis.    He was 29; his sister was 31, and both had been born in Dublin.

George married Eliza Vincent Clarke on November 7th 1867 in Micheldever, Southampton. Born in Hampshire in about 1845, Eliza was the daughter of another Irish vicar, Thomas Clarke.  The wedding was witnessed by Louisa Proctor, Agnes M.E. Clinton and Henry P. Clarke.   George's father was noted as George Allen Proctor, gentleman.
Eliza Vincent Clarke's father, Thomas Clarke, had been born in Cork in about 1789, and, in 1851, he was the Vicar of Micheldever, the parish where his daughter later married George Allen Proctor.  His wife, Ann Agnes, had been born in Lambeth, Surrey in about 1808. The children of Thomas Clarke and Ann Agnes were, according to the 1841 and 1851 Micheldever census:

• Susan Clarke, born 1821.
• William Clarke, born 1826.
• George Clarke, born 1832.
• Charles Clarke, born 1833.
• Sarah Clarke, born 1835.
• Agnes G. Clarke, born 1835.
• (Arthur) Francis Clarke, born 1836 - a ship-broker, he married Georgiana Mary Walker in Enfield on 27th April 1858.  They settled in Hamsptead, Middlesex. In 1871 they were visited by an Isabella M. Clarke, who had been born in Cork in 1847, and was most likely a cousin.  The Middlesex-born children of Arthur Francis Clarke and Georgiana Mary Walker were Arthur T. Clarke born 1860, Adelina M. Clarke born 1862, Beatrice G. Clarke born 1863, Alfred O. Clarke born 1865, Gertrude F. Clarke born 1867,  Henry A. Clarke born 1869, Francis G. Clarke born 1870, Mabella E. Clarke born 1872 and Charles L. Clarke born 1874.  By 1881, Arthur Francis Clarke, shipbroker, had died.
• Claudius Clarke, born 1838.
• Henry Clarke, born 1840 - this must be the Henry P. Clarke who witnessed Eliza's wedding to George Allen Proctor.
• Eliza Vincent Clarke, born 1845, who married George Allen Proctor.
• Frances M. Clarke, born 1847.
• Mary S. Clarke, born 1848.

Rev. Thomas Clarke died in Micheldever on 9th January 1870, and his will was proved by two of his sons, Rev. Thomas Grey Clarke of Odiham, and Arthur Francis Clarke of 94 Adelaide Road, St. John's Wood.

Rev. George Allen Proctor, who married Eliza Vincent Clarke,  was the Vicar of Hatherden, Andover, Hampshire in the 1870's - the UK census  the took a snapshotof the family  in 1871 when George Allen Procter was the Vicar of St. James in Southampton.    His unmarried sister, Louisa Procter, was living with the young family at the time of the census.

By 1881, the family were still in Hatherden in 1881.  Their children were:

• George Herbert Proctor, baptised 7th March 1869.
• Annabel Louisa Proctor, christened 14th August 1870 in Hampshire.
• Edmund Willis Procter, born 1872 in Hampshire.
• Ellen E., 1874 in Hampshire.
• Henrietta D., born 1876 in Hampshire.
• Henry V.T., born 1879 in Sussex.
• Ruth, born 1881 in Hampshire.

From 'Crockford's Clerical Directory' of 1882 :  'Proctor, George Allen,  Hatherden Vic., Andover - T.C.D.;  BA 1852, Div. Test (2) 1856,  MA 1858, p 1857 by Bp. of Lich.    V. of Hatherden 1875,  S. Dis. Win. 1875.   Formerly V. of St. James, Southampton 1863 - 71;  Smannell near Andover 1871 - 75.'

George Allen Proctor Junior died on 10th July 1885 at 31 St. Johns Road, Bristol;  his unmarried sister, Louisa Proctor, was present at his death.  Louisa Proctor lived with her brother's family - she died in Scwifat in Syria on 2nd March 1902, and her will was proved in Dublin by her relative, Henry de Laval Willis, who was the son of William Newcombe Willis, who was the son of Thomas Gilbert Willis, who was himself the son of Thomas Willis of Portarlington.   Louisa Procter  was the daughter of Henrietta Louisa Willis who was the daughter of Thomas Willis of Portarlington.

In 1891, the widowed Eliza Vincent Procter was living in Clifton, Bristol at 31 St. John's Road, along with her children, George Herbert Procter, a medical student, Annabel Louisa,  Henrietta Dorothea, Henry Vincent T., and Ruth.

George Herbert Procter and Grace Mabel Staples:
The oldest son of George Allen Procter and Eliza Vincent Clarke, the doctor George Herbert Procter, married Grace Mabel Staples, the daughter of a London doctor, Joseph Henry Prosser Staples, in St. John's, Paddington, on 10th September 1895.  The witnesses were George Herbert's aunt, Louisa Prosser, and his father-in-law Joseph H.P. Staples.  (Joseph Henry Prosser Staples, 1832 - 1895, was himself the son of a London doctor, Joseph Staples.)

A son of George Herbert and Grace Mabel Proctor was George Henry Vincent Procter, who was killed in action during the Great War on 6th September 1917 in either France or Flanders.  His home address at the time of his death was the family home at Kingston Villa, London Road, Southborough, Kent, where his father, George Herbert Proctor, had himself died young on 13th August 1907.   George Henry Vincent Procter had been born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 7th September 1896;   a sister, Mary Frances Adelaide Procter, was born there on 26th November 1898.   Grace Mabel Procter, née Staples, died in Kent in 1910.  Her daughter, Mary Procter, died in Warminster, Wiltshire, in 1939.  

Other children of George Herbert Procter and Eliza Vincent Clarke were Thomas Herbert W. Procter, born 1901, Grace Eleanor May Procter 1905 - 1972, and Frederick John P. Procter who was born in 1908 and who died in infancy.   In 1911, the orphaned Grace E. M. Proctor, aged 5, was living with her widowed aunt, Edith Frances Winckworth, at 25 Gordon Place, Kensington.  Edith was the sister of Grace Mabel Staples - she had been born in Paddington in about 1865 to Joseph Henry Prosser Staples, and had married the solicitor, Douglas Powell Winckworth, in St. John's, Paddington, on 31st July 1901.  He died, however, on 14th September 1904.
Edith F. Winckworth proved the 1917 will of her nephew, George Henry Vincent Proctor.    In her turn, the unmarried Grace Eleanor May Procter proved the will of her aunt when Edith Frances Winckworth died at the same Kensington address on 21st January 1954.

Mary Anne Creighton was born circa 1822 in Portarlington to Eliza Willis and Rev. David Hill Creighton who were our maternal great-great-great grandparents.  We descend directly from Mary Anne's sister, Geraldine O'Moore Creighton, who married Richard Williams of 17 Eden Quay.

Mary Anne Creighton married Alexander Farquharson, a merchant of Scotland about whom I've discovered very little so far, and had the following children:

• Eliza Creighton Farquharson, who was born  in Edinburgh on 1st April 1844.   Her birth was announced in the Freeman's Journal - 'Thursday April 4, 1844:  April 1st, at Edinburgh, the lady of Mr. Alexander Farquharson, and daughter of Rev. D.H. Creighton, of a daughter.'
• David Hill Creighton Farquharson was born to the couple in Edinburgh  on 18th December 1846.  This child died young in January 1856.
• Donald Cameron Farquharson who was born in St.Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh on 3rd November 1847 and who died aged 9.  From the Freeman's Journal of Monday, November 8th 1847: 'On the 3rd instant, at 1 John's-place, Edinburgh, the lady of Alexander Farquharson, and daughter of the Rev. D.H. Creighton, of a son.'
•  Helen Seaton Farquharson was born Scotland on October 31st 1849.  The Freeman's Journal of Wednesday, November 7th 1849 announced her birth:  'October 31 at his residence, 1, John's-place, Edinburgh, the lady of Alexander Farquharson, Esq., of a daughter.'

Alexander Farquharson died young in Dublin on 26th September 1851.

Eliza Creighton Farquharson, daughter of Alexander Farquharson and Mary Anne Creighton:
Eliza Creighton Farquharson married a bookseller, Robert Stewart, in North Dublin in 1865. Robert Stewart had been born in St. Faith, London, in about 1840, to a printer, Charles Stewart and his wife Ellen O' Brien, who had married on St. Botolph's on 7th August 1836. Ellen was the daughter of a John O' Brien..

In 1851, the Stewart family were living in Holborn;  a son, Charles Stewart, aged 13, was a publisher's assistant, as was the 11-yr-old Robert.  Other children were John aged 10, Ellen and Anne.
Robert Stewart moved at some unknown stage to Dublin where he lived for a time at 2 Nassau Street before buying the premises of the Dublin Bible Tract Repository at 10 d'Olier Street, which is where he and his wife were living in 1901. The Bible Tract Repository had previously been owned by Henry Bewley, a prominent member of the Bewley Quaker family who had helped to build Merrion Hall, the meeting place of the Plymouth Brethren Baptists in Dublin.  Both  Robert Stewart and his wife were noted as Plymouth Brethren, the same religion as Mary Anne's sister, Geraldine O'Moore Williams.  By 1911 the elderly couple had moved from the city centre out to the southern Dublin suburbs and were living at 105 Strand Road, Sandymount.

Robert Stewart, printer and bookseller, died in late July 1919 at 105 Strand Road - the informant was his grandson, Donald F. Stewart of Oaklands Park.  Eliza Creighton Stewart, née Farquharson, died of pleurisy on 1st September 1927 at her son's house in Oaklands Park.

Her only child, Charles Edward Stewart, had been born on 22nd December 1865 at 14 Chelmsford Road, Ranelagh.   He married Mary Florence Douglas, who had been born on 26th July 1864 to the draper, Jacob Douglas, and to Harriet Eliza Trotter, both of whom were Antrim-born Quakers who had settled in Dublin.  (Other children of this couple were Eva Douglas, born 1852, and Francis Ernest Douglas, born 1866.)    The marriage took place in the Dublin Methodist Church in St. Thomas's Parish on 1st July 1891.  Charles Edward Stewart was living in the family home at 10 D'Olier Street, while Mary Florence's home address was 56 South Richmond Street.  The witnesses were Mary's brother, Francis Ernest Douglas, and Charles' father, Robert Stewart.

In 1901, Charles Edward Stewart and Mary Florence Douglas were living at 129 Haddington Road with their Dublin-born children:

• Douglas Creighton Stewart, born 20th April 1892.
• Eva Stewart Stewart, born 1893. (This isn't a typo - her middle name was, indeed, Stewart.)
• Robert Crawford Stewart, born 1895.

Charles Edward Stewart was a bookseller like his father, Robert, but the younger family were Methodist rather than Plymouth Brethren or Quaker.   By 1911, they had moved to 3 Oaklands Park, Sandymount.  Two of their children had died young, including the above-mentioned Robert Crawford Stewart, but there were now two 6-yr-olds, the twins:

• Donald Farquharson Stewart, born 1904.
• Florence Marguerite Stewart, born 1904.

Mary Florence Stewart, née Douglas, died at 3 Oaklands Park on 5th June 1931 - her husband, Charles E. Stewart, was noted now as a missionary.  He married a second time on 15th August 1934, this time to Edith Maud Phillips of 32 Leeson Park Avenue, the Appian Way, Dublin, the daughter of the late merchant tailor, George Phillips.  Charles gave his profession as missionary to seamen.  The witnesses were Robert Nolan and Kathleen Phillips.
Charles Edward Stewart died, aged 84, in a Dublin nursing home in 1950.  His son, Douglas Creighton Stewart, born 1892, emigrated to San Francisco, California, having spent a number of years working aboard transatlantic ships as a steward or waiter.  In 1927, when he arrived at New York, he was temporarily held by immigration because of some sort of physical deformity.  In 1933, he was working in San Francisco as a janitor, with an address at 286 Second Street;  by 1940, he was living at Mission Street.   He died in San Francisco on 12th May 1964.

Eva Stewart Stewart married Herbert Greenwood Bagster in North Dublin in 1934.  He was the son of a solicitor, Basil Birch Bagster, whose father was the publisher Jonathan Bagster of London.  The Bagsters decended from Samuel Bagster who had published Bagster's Polyglot Bible. Herbert's father,  the solicitor, Basil Birch Bagster, had died young in 1885 in Kidderminster, where he had had his practice, and his widow, Mary Bagster, née Mower, had moved her family to Dublin where she taught music.  When Herbert Greenwood Bagster died on 4th April 1960, he and Eva Stewart Bagster were living at 85 Upper Rathmines Road.

Helen Seaton Farquharson, daughter of Alexander Farquharson and Mary Anne Creighton:
Helen Seaton Farquharson/Farquarson, the daughter of Mary Anne Creighton and Alexander Farquharson,  married Edward Parker Bolton, the son of Edward Bolton, in St.Thomas’s, North Dublin on 11th August 1868. Their children were:

• Albert Edward Bolton, born 10th May 1869 - the family were living at 12 Bloomfield Avenue, Portobello, and Edward Parker Bolton was working as a commercial traveller.
• Alexandrina Mary Elizabeth Bolton, born 10th April 1871 in South Dublin, at 12 Bloomfield Avenue.
• Reginald Arthur Bolton, born 25th November 1872.

Edward Parker Bolton disappeared without a trace - there is no registration record for his death, and I wonder did the couple simply separate at some stage?

On the 1901 Census, the widowed Helen Seaton Bolton and two of her unmarried, adult children were living with Helen’s aunt, Louisa Creighton, at Louisa’s school at 41 North Great George’s Street.   Helen Seaton Bolton, née Farquharson,  was Plymouth Brethren, while her children, Alexandrina and Reginald were Presbyterian, as was Louisa Creighton.   Helen's sister, Eliza Creighton Stewart, née Farquharson, was also Plymouth Brethren, so I wonder was their Scottish-born father, Alexander Farquharson, a member of the Dublin Plymouth Brethren community, and did he influence our great-great grandparents, Richard Williams and Geraldine O'Moore Creighton, to join the congregation?    The daughters of Rev. David Hill Creighton would have been reared as Presbyterian by their father.

Helen Seaton/Seyton Bolton, of 41 North Great Georges Street, sailed aboard the 'Macedonia' from London to Marseilles on 6th July 1928, along with her son, the secretary, Reginald Arthur Bolton, and her daughter, Alexandrina Mary Bolton, a school principle.  Alexandrina Mary was the principle of the school at 41 North Great Georges Street, and must have taken over from her great-aunt, Louisa Creighton, following the elderly woman's death.  Reginald Arthur Bolton was a clerk in a shipping office.  

Helen Seaton Bolton died 14th October 1932 in Greystones, Co. Wicklow.  Her son, Reginald Arthur Bolton of Glenhesk, Greystones, died 21st August 1932 in Merrion Nursing Home.

Albert Edward Bolton, the son of Edward Parker Bolton and Helen Seaton Farquharson, married Winifred Mary/Margaret Rainsbury in the Presbyterian Church, St. Thomas's, Dublin on 25th July 1894.   Albert was an assistant merchant, living at 41 North Great Georges Street. His father, Edward Bolton, was noted as what seems to be (this certificate has woefully faded) an accountant, but no mention is made of whether he is still alive or deceased.  Winifred was living at what seems to be Kilbarron, Charleville Road.  The witnesses were Albert's siblings, Reginald and Alexandrina Mary Elizabeth Bolton.

Winifred M. Rainsbury had been born in Cork to Joseph Rainsbury, a government official in 1894, who had been born in Cork in about 1849, and to Elizabeth Jane Sporle who had been born in England in about 1852.  Joseph Rainsbury was a grocer and wine and spirit dealer - he married Elizabeth Jane Sporle on 27th April 1864.  Elizabeth Jane Sporle was the daughter of Cornelius Sporle, 1810 - 1879, and Mary Anne Rose, 1809 - 1885.  The Rose family were prominent in Ballincollig, Cork.
Cornelius Sporle was the son of Catherine Sporle, 1771 - 1832, who also had John Sporle and Jane Sporle.  Cornelius was jailed in 1828, and was noted as a member of the Royal Artillery in 1834. In 1841 he was living a New Road, Woolwich, England, with his wife, Mary, and two children, Catherine and George, and his Irish-born father-in-law, the tailor William Rose. In 1851 he was working as the chief warder of Portland Prison. In 1850 he was a sergeant.  In 1854, he was the Master of Farringdon Union Workhouse;  his wife, Mary Ann Sporle was the Mistress.   In 1871, he was living at Poplar Villa, Ipswich, Suffolk. He died in White Point, Queenstown, Cork, in June 1879.

The children of Joseph Rainsbury and Elizabeth Jane Sproule were:

• Elizabeth Mary Josephine Rainsbury, born 1865.
• William Cornelius Rainsbury, 1867 - 1951.
• Winifred Margaret/Mary Rainsbury, born 1871;  she married Albert Edward Bolton.
• Lilian Catherine Rainsbury, 1873 - 1922.
• Elizabeth Rainsbury, born 1875.
• Maud Josephine Rainsbury, 1878 - 1880.
• Albert Patrick Rainsbury,  1880 - 1962.
• Margaret Florence Sporle Rainsbury, born 1881.
• George Victor Rainsbury, 1885 - 1958.
• Joseph Cyril Sporle Rainsbury, born 1890.
• Frederick Rainsbury, born 1892.

Some of the above were born at Haulbowline, Cork Harbour.

Albert Edward Bolton and Winifred Mary Rainsbury were living at 26 North Leinter Street, Dublin, in 1901.  He was a tea merchant.  They had moved to 101 Marlborough Road by 1911 and had three children - Helen M. Bolton, born 1896 in Cork,  Reginald R. Bolton, born 1897 in Dublin, and Cecil C. Bolton, born 1902 in Dublin.

Albert Edward Bolton, a widowed company director, with an address at 5 Killiney Road, Dalkey, died in the Adelaide Hospital on 3rd December 1951.  The family are commemorated on a Mount Jerome headstone:
"Redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, in loving memory of Reginald Arthur Bolton, called to higher service 25th August 1932.  Also Helen Seyton Bolton who fell asleep 18th October 1932.  Winifred Mary Bolton entered into rest 10th March 1940...also her husband Albert Edward who died 30th November 1951.'

The daughter of Albert Edward Bolton and Winifred Mary Rainsbury,  Helen Maud/Mary Elizabeth Bolton, married Allen Taylor Jameson, the son of a journalist/printer, James Taylor Jameson, in Rathmines in August 1919.

The Bolton Family of Ballinastraw, Gorey, Co. Wexford, and of Dublin.

Edward Parker Bolton married Helen Seyton/Seaton Farquharson, who was the daughter of Mary Anne Creighton and Alexander Farquharson, in St.Thomas’s, North Dublin on 11th August 1868.   Mary Anne Creighton was the sister of our great-great-grandmother, Geraldine O'Moore Creighton who married Richard Williams.

Edward Parker Bolton was the son of Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe of Dublin. The children of Edward and Helen Seaton Farquharson were:

a) Albert Edward Bolton, born 10th May 1869 - the family were living at 12 Bloomfield Avenue, Portobello, and Edward Parker Bolton was working as a commercial traveller.
b) Alexandrina Mary Elizabeth Bolton, born 10th April 1871 in South Dublin, at 12 Bloomfield Avenue.
c) Reginald Arthur Bolton, born 25th November 1872.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/06/the-children-of-alexander-farquharson.html

Following the birth of Reginald Arthur  Bolton in 1872, I could find no further trace of Edward Parker Bolton.  The list of electors for the city of Dublin election on July 15th 1865, however, had noted Edward P. Bolton as living in the family home at 93 Upper Leeson Street, along with his father, Edward Bolton, and his brother, John Loftus Bolton.  

The Bolton family seat was at Island House, or Kilmuckridge, 10 miles from Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford - they had originated in Beaumaris, Wales.  Island House was also known as Cold Harbour or Ballinastraw.  The first of the Bolton family to come to Ireland was Humphrey Bolton, who had been born in Beaumaris in 1648 and who entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1666.

Edward Bolton and Anne Richards, grandparents of Edward Parker Bolton:
The grandfather of Edward Parker Bolton, who married Helen Seyton Farquharson, was Edward Bolton, who had been born on 16th August 1801 to an older Edward Bolton and to his wife, Anne Richards, both of Wexford.   The 13 children of Edward Bolton and Anne Richards were:

a) Anne Bolton, born 12th November 1794. She died.
b) Richard Bolton, born 23rd January 1795.  A solicitor in Dublin, Richard married, firstly, one of the Richards family on 27th August 1818, and, secondly, her cousin, Miss Richards of Ardamine.  Richard Bolton was made Master Extraordinary in Chancery for Ireland.
c)  Henry Bolton, 25th April 1798 - 1890. A widower, he married, on 18th March 1862, the widowed Olivia Ann Turner Hamilton, the daughter of the solicitor Francis William Hamilton of 35 York Street.  Henry was noted as an esquire of Ballinastraw, Wexford.
d)  Jemima Bolton, 24th August 1798 -  February 1823.
e)  Another Anne Bolton, born 16th July 1800. She also died.
f)  Edward Bolton, born 16th August 1801.  The father of Edward Parker Bolton.
g) Elizabeth Bolton, born 24th February 1803.  She died.
h)  John Bolton, born 10th July 1804.  He moved to Dublin.  His wife was another member of the Richards family, Mary Anne Richards.  They lived at 1 Bolton Terrace, Clarinda Park.  He died at Glennah, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.
i) William Bolton, born 28th February 1806. He lived at Ballinastraw, Wexford, and had a second address at Fitzwilliam Lodge, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.  He married Anna Matilda Barklie of Drummadaragh, Co. Antrim.   William founded the firm of W. Bolton & Co. in 1853.  His son,  also William Bolton, joined the business later.  In 1864, an H.E. Bolton was living at Fitzwilliam Lodge, Blackrock.
j) Francis Bolton, born 3rd June 1807.
k) Anne Bolton, born 22nd June 1808.
l) Solomon Bolton, born 16th March 1812.
m) Elizabeth Bolton, born 18th May 1813.

Edward Bolton, father of Edward Parker Bolton:
Edward Bolton Senior had been born in Wexford on 16th August 1801 to the earlier Edward Bolton and to  Anne Richards.
Along with his brothers, John and William Bolton, he was apprenticed to the Dublin whiskey merchants Messrs. Kinahan, and would settle eventually at 93 Upper Leeson Street.   He married a Mary Navoe (this is an odd name - I wonder is this a mis-spelling of some sort?), by whom he had children.
Edward married, secondly, on 9th September 1853, Jane Burton, the daughter of Wingfield Burton of Wingfield, Wicklow.

Children of Edward Bolton Senior and Mary Navoe:

1) Edward Parker Bolton who married Helen Seyton Farquharson;  I can find no record of his birth, but he was living in the family home in 1865, four years before his marriage to Helen. A nephew of his was named as Cecil Parker Glorney, thus repeating the Parker name in the next generation.

2) Henry Edward Bolton was born circa 1839 to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe.  He worked for the Civil Service and married twice. The first marriage took place on 31st March 1864 in Clonsilla, Co. Dublin.  His bride was Eleanor Glorney, the daughter of Benjamin Glorney.  (Eleanor's brother, George, married Henry's sister, Susan Mary Bolton.)
Henry Edward Bolton died on 15th May 1917 at Sylvan House, Donnybrook, and probate was granted to William Bolton and Robert Arthur Bolton.
Some of the children of Henry Edward Bolton and Eleanor Glorney were all baptised as adults in Sandford Parish, while the family were living at Sylvan House, Belmont Avenue, Donnybrook:
a) Alfred Henry Bolton, born 13th March 1865 in Castleknock, Dublin.
b) Susanna Bolton, born 4th December 1866
c) Henry Edward Bolton Junior, born 23 March 1868, baptised 1890.
d) John Nunn Bolton, born 25th July 1869 in Dundrum and Glencullen, baptised 1890. He died in Warwick, Warwickshire, in January 1909.  A portrait painter, in 1901 he was living in Warwickshire with his young wife, the art teacher Florence Francis.
From 'A Dictionary of Irish Artists', 1913: 'Was born in Dublin on 25th July, 1869, the son of Henry E. Bolton, himself a clever amateur landscape painter. He became a student in the Metropolitan School of Art and in the Royal Hibernian Academy, and won the Taylor Scholarship with his picture of "Old Leinster Market, Dublin," now in the possession of his father. He left Dublin and resided in Warwick for some years, where his landscape and marine subjects, both in oil and water-colour, were much thought of. He also painted portraits and miniatures, and was a frequent exhibitor in Dublin, Birmingham and Manchester. He took an active part with Louis N. Parker in the Warwick Pageant as a designer and organizer; and for a short time before his death was a master in the Leamington School of Art. A clever and promising artist, he was advancing in his art when he died in Warwick on 11th February, 1909. A large picture, "The Lledr Valley," and several water-colours, including a charming drawing of his wife and child, belong to his father, Mr. H. E. Bolton, Sylvan House, Donnybrook, and others are in possession of Mr. Bolton of Fitzwilliam, Blackrock.'
John Nunn Bolton and Florence Francis had four children - John Robert Glorney Bolton, Eileen Mary Bolton, Dorothy Joyce Bolton and Frederick Rothwell Bolton.  This  family were highly accomplished in their respective fields. John Robert Glorney Bolton, born 6th April 1901, was a journalist and writer who married the novelist Sybil Margaret Bolton. He worked for The Yorkshire Post 1923 - 1927, The Times of Inda 1927 - 1930, and wrote 'The Tragedy of Gandhi', having sailed with him from India to London in 1930.  Rev.Frederick Rothwell Bolton, born 29th November 1908, moved to Ireland, becoming the Dean of Leighlin, Tipperary.  Dorothy Joyce Bolton, born 15th November 1903, died 5th March 1981 in Santa Clara, California.  Originally a nursery school teacher, she became an expert on child development, working at Mills College, California. Her sister, Eileen Mary Bolton, was an acommplished botanist, artist and stained glass artist.
e) Herbert Hussey Bolton, born 1871, baptised 1890, and died in Dublin in 1953.    In 1914, aged 40, he joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. At the time he worked in an insurance office and had previously served with the City of Dublin Cadets.  In 1911 he was living with his wife, Jane, in Sandymount and gave his age as 39.
f) Robert Arthur Bolton, born 1875, baptised 1890.
Henry Edward Bolton married, secondly, Lizzie Pauline Crothers, the daughter of Thomas Crothers of Prince William Cottage, Beggars Bush, Dublin, on 9th September 1896.  One of the witnesses to the wedding was William Beckett, who was the grandfather of the playwright Samuel Beckett.  William Beckett had married Fannie Crothers, also the daughter of Thomas Crothers, on 31st March 1869.

3) John Loftus Bolton was born 18th May 1843 in the parish of St. Marks , Dublin, to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe  of 64 Great Brunswick Street, modern name Pearse Street.  Edward Bolton was a clerk at the time of his son's birth.  John Loftus later married Susan Henrietta Blackwell, the daughter of John Blackwell.  He died in 1887 in Massachusetts.

4) William Bolton was born at Upper Leeson Street  to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe (and the family must just have moved to this address) on 14th February 1845.

5) Susan Mary Bolton was born on 18th October 1846 at Summer Villa, Upper Leeson Street to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe. She would marry, on 14th October 1874, George Glorney, a widowed miller, in St. Peter's Church.  The Bolton family address was 93 Upper Leeson Street.  George Glorney was the son of the Quaker merchant, Benjamin Glorney.
 (Before his marriage to Susan Mary Bolton, George Glorney, merchant and son of Benjamin Glorney, had been married to Emilie Terry of Sunbury-on-Thames, but she had died young in 1869 of congestion of the brain - at the time of her death, the young couple were living at Park Place, Conyngham Road, Chapelizod. Before her death, on 7th August 1869, Emilie gave  birth to a daughter, Florence Elizabeth Glorney at Castleknock.)

The children of George Glorney and Susan Mary Bolton were:
a) Frances Glorney, born 21st March 1875 in Blackrock, Dublin.
b) Ethel Mary Glorney, born on 18th February 1876 at Idrone Terrace, Blackrock.  She worked as a governess in England, before emigrating to New York. The Simplex Rubber Company of America paid her passage over in 1916 - her next-of-kin at home was named as her mother, Susan M. Glorney of Ballsbridge. By 1937, Ethel Mary Glorney was living in Manhasset, Long Island, and had become, somehow, extremely wealthy.  The Glorney-Raisbeck Fellowship in the Medical Sciences was established by Miss Glorney in 1961 in honor of her personal physician,the cardiologist Milton J. Raisbeck.   Dr. Raisbeck wrote, "Miss Ethel Glorney was approaching 60 when I first saw her and she died under my care in her eighties some twenty years ago. She originally came from Ireland and had an elder brother then living in Dublin, who has since died. Another brother, younger than Ethel, lived in this country (with Ethel at times) and he was a patient of mine. When he died, she named the Foundation after him:  The Corlette Glorney Foundation, Inc.  Corlette was an Irish squire who lived rather high, - his usual beverage was champagne. During her last ten years or so, Ethel Glorney had an apartment in the Hotel Carlyle (Madison at 76th) and I saw her at least once a week. After each visit I invariably found a little table all set with a split of iced champagne and generous supply of caviar. I was conducting a consultation practice in cardiology, but I did make (selected) house calls! I think that little routine was in memory of Corlette. In her final years, when I refused to take money over the counter which she tried to press upon me, I suggested that I meet with her and her lawyer and work something out: the Foundation was the result. At the conference we decided to make up a small Board of Directors, to consist of her lawyer, my lawyer, and the two men who had been her chief financial advisers.... "
Ethel also established a number of educational scholarships in memory of her late younger brother, Ernest Edward Glorney.
Her obituary from The New York Times:  'Glorney - Ethel Mary, on February 11 1957, devoted sister of Mrs. Emily Constance Clifford, Cecil Parker Glorney, and the late Corlette Glorney.  Service at Carlyle Hotel, 35 East 76th St.'
c) George Corlette Glorney, born 9th October 1878 in Rathmines, Dublin.  A  businessman,  Colette Glorney married Helene Guggenheim, the daughter of Isaac Guggenheim and Carrie Sonneborn of New York.  The couple divorced in Florida in 1943.  Helene married, as her third husband, on September 14th 1944 at Newtown Abbot, Lieutenant-Commander Sir Melville Ward.     Helene's father, Isaac Guggenheim, was prominent in the US mining and smelting industry;  he died in Southampton in 1922 on his way to meet up with a friend, Henry V. Marsh of Warwick Castle.  Corlette and Helene accompanied his body back home to New York aboard the Lusitania.
Corlette and Helene Glorney were wealthy and highly active in the horse racing world and in New York and English society.   I haven't ascertained how the Glorney siblings got their money, but possibly they were involved in mining alongside the Guggenheim family.
 Corlette and Helene Glorney had a daughter, Carol Glorney.
d) Emilie Constance Glorney, born 17th May 1880 in Killiney, Dublin.  She married a man by the name of Clifford.
e)  Cecil Parker Glorney, born in 1881.  From The Irish Times:  'He began his business career at the age of 17, selling timber, and in 1923 founded the successful company C.P. Glorney Ltd., Building Providers. Among other civic activities, he was for many years chairman and later president of the Dublin Shelter for Men, and in 1957 he founded the Glorney Charitable Foundation, an organisation for the alleviation of poverty. He died in Nice on 31st December 1973... he was President of Rathmines C.C. (ie: Chess Club) from 1939 to 1957, and club champion in 1942, 1944 and 1945.'
In 1948 Cecil Parker Glorney, competitive chess player and President of Rathmines Chess Club, created the Glorney Cup.
f) Ernest Edward Glorney, born circa 1887 at 2 Belgrave Park, Rathmines.  At the outset of the First World War he joined the Royal Flying Corps  and died on the 25th of November 1916. He had graduated from Columbia College New York and the Royal School of Mines South Kensington as a mining engineer.  He worked abroad in North and South America and in Nigeria.   Prior to joining up, he was working as the manager of the Renang Mining Company in Siam.  His sister, Ethel, founded a number of educational scholarships in his name.  He is buried in Deangrange Cemetery, South Dublin.

Notes on the Dublin Glorney family:  George and Eleanor Glorney, who married members of the Bolton family, were the children of the Quaker miller, Benjamin Glorney.  In 1787, an earlier Benjamin Glorney was noted as running a tabbynet and poplin shop in Meath Street, Dublin.  He made a will in 1817.  A younger Benjamin Glorney, most likely the son of the older man, married Susannah Corlet or Corlette in Dublin in 1826 - these were the parents of George and Eleanor.  Benjamin ran Mardyke Mills in Chapelizod, Dublin, and he was declared bankrupt, along with a Samuel Glorney, on 13th May 1870.  They were noted as 'starch and blue manufacturers'.   An earlier publication noted them as manufacturers of mustard, mustard oil and cake, blues, ginger and starch.

This post links to my earlier post about the family of Thomas Willis of Portarlington...
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/01/children-of-thomas-willis-schoolmaster.html

George Roger Dartnell operated as a prominent solicitor in Limerick city - he was noted as the secretary of the Freemasons in 1847, with an address at 98 George's Street.  He had been born in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, in 1779, and was christened later on 18th September 1782.  His parents were Edward Dartnell of Rathkeale (1727 - 18th August 1799) and Elizabeth Greatorex, who had married on 14th December 1763.

George married Rose Frewen, the daughter of Thomas Frewen and Mary Taylor, on 30th July 1807, in Limerick Cathedral.

George Dartnell died at 1 Richmond Place, Limerick, on 28th May 1862 - his will was administered by his son-in-law Rev. William Newcombe Willis of Kilpeacon Glebe, and by his son, George Alps Dartnell of Ballyartney, Co. Clare.  George's widow, Rose Dartnell, died later in March 1870 at 3 Wellington Terrace,  the home of their son, George Alps Dartnell.

A sister of George Dartnell, Lucinda Dartnell, died at the home of her nephew, John Fraser of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, on 5th July 1854.   John Fraser's mother was yet another - unnamed - sister of George Dartnell, who had married Captain George Fraser of Mitchelstown, and who herself died there on 22nd July 1851.   Another of the Dartnell sisters, Ellen, was married to Peter Hands of Shannon Bridge - she died there in March 1858.

George also had a brother, John Dartnell of Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, who had married Alice Russell of Limerick city in 1792.  John Dartnell had operated in Limerick as, first, a woollen or linen merchant, and then as an accountant.  John Russell died on 13th December 1820. His son was the watercolour painter, George Russell Dartnell, who had been born on 20th July 1800 in Limerick, and who was also noted as the Deputy Inspector of Hospitals - he subsequently emigrated to Canada and died there on 22nd July 1878.   Another son was Abraham Dartnell.  There was also a son, Edward Russell Dartnell, who settled at Newcastle, immediately adjacent to Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, and whose son, John Loder Dartnell, died aged 22, in  the Guanape Islands, Peru, on 22nd May 1852.  Edward Russell Dartnell was married to a woman named Mary (Loder?) who died at Merville, Clontarf, Co. Dublin, in May 1878.
Yet another son of John Dartnell of Rathkeale was Nelson Dartnell who died in Calcutta, India, in April 1857.   He was the surgeon of the 53rd regiment, and was noted as the brother of Mr. Dartnell of Rathkeale, and of George R. Dartnell, Deputy Inspector of Hospitals.   Nelson Dartnell married in Madras, Caroline Chester, the daughter of the chaplain, Rev. W. Chester, on 7th October 1834.
A daughter of John Dartnell and Alice Russell was possibly Millina Dartnell who married James Fitzgerald of Rathkeale, and who died in Taylor Street, Limerick, in 1832.

The Children of George Dartnell, solicitor of 98 George's St., Limerick:

1)  The eldest son of George Dartnell of 98 George's St., Limerick, was Edward Taylor Dartnell (1807 - 1892), who operated alongside his father as a solicitor in Limerick, before emigrating to St. Mary's, Toronto, in 1850.   Edward Taylor Dartnell was married by Rev. Arthur Guinness in St. Thomas's, Dublin, on 2nd July 1832, to Catherine Coote, the widowed daughter of Gilbert Henry Flemying of Lower Gloucester Street, Dublin.  Edward died in Kingston, Ontario, on 2nd February 1892.
Edward Taylor Dartnell had a daughter, Sarah Jane, who died young in October 1841 in Limerick.
A second daughter of Edward Taylor Dartnell, Kate Rose Dartnell, stayed in Ireland where she married  on 26th August 1862, in St. Stephen's, Dublin, Robert Marony, a lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of Foot,  the son of Burdett Marony of Co. Clare.  Both bride and groom were living at  17 Adelaide Rd., Co. Dublin, and the was H.R. Marindin.   This was Major Henry Richard Marindin who had been married to Kate Rose Dartnell's aunt, Elizabeth Jane Dartnell, who would die five years later in July 1867 in Vevay, Switzerland.    The Limerick Dartnells and the Clare Moronys (various spellings) intermarried extensively....
The son of Edward Taylor Dartnell was the Canadian judge, George Henry Frewen Dartnell....
"Judge George Henry Frewen Dartnell was born on Feb. 13 1834 in the city of Limerick, Ireland.  He was the son of Edward Taylor Dartnell, a prominent Irish solicitor, who came to Canada in 1850 and settled in Toronto.
George Dartnell studied at King's College, London, England and continued his education under the tuition of his father.  He first studied law under Chief Justice Hagarty in Toronto, and with John Hillyard Cameron,  a noted Toronto lawyer.  He was admitted to the Bar in 1857.
In 1858 he formed a partnership at Whitby with H.J. MacDonell and Hector Cameron Q.C. and was appointed Master of Chancery in 1859. In 1873 he became Junior Judge of Ontario County and Senior Judge in 1896.
In his early years, George Dartnell was sub-editor of the Daily Patriot, the first daily paper issued in Toronto, and for 18 years, served on the Whitby School Board.  He was chairman of the Board for 9 years.
Judge Dartnell was very much involved in Masonic activities.  He was a senior deacon of the Grand Lodge of Canada and district grand master and representative in the Grand Lodge of Cuba and Ceylon.
He was also the first Master of a Blue Lodge at Uxbridge.
Judge Dartnell was president of the local St. Patrick's Society, president of the Whitby Cricket Club, and Patron of the Whitby Curling Club.
He was a military man also, having served during the Fenian raids of 1866, and during the "Trent Affair" of 1861, he organized a company of volunteer militia at Whitby,  of which he was appointed Captain.
Judge Dartnell received his first and second class certificates at the Military School at Toronto,  and commanded his company at Niagara Falls during the Fenian raids. Their duty was to stand guard at the suspension bridge linking Canada with the United States, across the Niagara River. 
He rose to the rank of Major and later Lieutenant Colonel,  and acted as a musketry instructor for militia training camps at Niagara.
Judge Dartnell was married twice,  first to Louisa Hawke, and second, in 1873, to Caroline Gross.
In politics, he was a Conservative, and in religion, a member of the Church of England.
Judge Dartnell died on Feb. 2nd, 1899....During his term of office, he was recognized by his contemporaries as "one of the ablest, fairest and most judicious judges in Ontario." '   (From the Whitby Free Press of 1976.)

2)  The 2nd daughter of George Dartnell of George's St, was Anna-Maria Dartnell (10th June 1809 - 7th November 1889) who married Thomas Morony.

3)  Another daughter of George Dartnell was Rose Dartnell (1810 - 1863), who had been named after her mother, and who married, as his first wife, Charles John Whyte of Loughbrickland, Co. Down.

4) George Alps Dartnell, a son, who lived at Ballyartney, Co Clare in 1862, and who had an address at The Retreat, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, in 1880.   His wife's name was Charlotte.

5)  A daughter, Elizabeth Jane Dartnell (1814 - 17th July 1867), married Major Henry Richard Marindin in Limerick on 27th October 1836 - she died in Vevay,  Switzerland, in July 1867. He died at the Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris, on 26th December 1877, and one of the beneficiaries of his will was the unmarried  Rose Caroline Dartnell.

6) Emily Dartnell (1816 - 1816).

7) Emily Jane Dartnell (24th May 1818 - 28th Feb. 1889) who married our ancestor, Rev. William Newcombe Willis.

8) An unmarried daughter of George Dartnell,  Dorothea Susannah Dartnell, died in Limerick in 1892.   She had been born in Limerick in 1820.
9)  Yet another daughter of George Dartnell, Eleanor Lucinda Dartnell(1821 or 1822 - 5th August 1911) married Robert Burdett Morony of Miltown House, Co. Clare, on 11th June 1847.

10) Thomas William Dartnell (before 1825 - 12th May 1862).

11)  Rev. Richard Waller Dartnell (July 1825 - 19th February 1893).

12)  Caroline Otway Dartnell (12th November 1827 - circa 1832).

I recently came across the accounts book which had been kept by Rev. John Grogan, Vicar of Balrothery and of Clyde Road, Dublin (2nd September 1816 - 28th December 1899).  He kept an assiduous record of his spending from January 1st 1864 until his death in 1889 at 12 Clyde Road -  I thought it was an interesting record of late Victorian family life so I went through it with a fine tooth comb, taking notes of whatever caught my eye.  I also came across a used chequebook, dated 1913/1914, which had been owned by Rev. John's widow, Lizzie Grogan,  and which details payments made by her to other member of the families mentioned below.

 I am vaguely related to the Grogans, since they intermarried with both my Courtenay,  Pennefather and Ryan ancestors.  Rev. John Grogan's sister, Jane Grogan, married William Ryan of Ballymackeogh, Co. Tipperary, whose mother was Anne Pennefather, the daughter of our immediate ancestor Rev. John Pennefather of Newport, Co. Tipperary.  Edwin Grogan married one of our Dublin Courtenay family  - Edwin Grogan was the son of Rev. William Grogan of Slaney Park, who was the uncle of Rev. John Grogan of Balrothery.

The children of Rev. John Grogan and Elizabeth/Lizzie Bourne were:

1) John Edward Grogan, born 7th February 1852, died 8th October 1871.

2)  Lizzie/Elsie Grogan, born on 13th March 1853 - 4th December 1938; she died at 21 Clyde Road.

3) Edward Medlicott Grogan, born 6th April 1856  and died on 20th April 1871.

4) Ellen Fanny Grogan, born 19th June 1857, who married Rev. Arthur Edward Butt and had two daughters, Irene and Olive Butt.  Ellen Frances Grogan was never mentioned in her fathers' account book, but she was staying with her widowed mother at Clyde Road in 1901, along with her two twin daughters, Irene and Olive Butt, who had been born in England in about 1896.  A third daughter, Agatha Ryder Butt, was born and died on 12th April 1893 in Lukkur, Bombay;  she was buried the same day at Sukkur-Scinde, Bombay.  The husband of Ellen Frances Grogan,  Rev. Arthur Edward Butt, died 30th October 1895.   Throughout 1913/1914, Lizzie Grogan sent cheques to both Eileen Butt and Ellen Butt, one of which was for the twins.  An Olive Meredyth Butt married in Dublin in 1919.

5)  Caroline Jane Grogan, born 9th December 1858 in Kingstown, Co. Dublin, and baptised in Monkstown, Co. Dublin.  She married Arthur Gore Ryder, the son of Rev. Arthur Gore  Ryder of Christchurch, on 18th December 1888.   This daughter was rarely mentioned in her father's accounts book, other than vague references to the Ryders;  she was, however, buried alongside her family in Mount Jerome cemetery when she died on 16th July 1935.     The Ryder/de Rythre family lived for generations at Riverstown House, Co. Kildare.   The elder Arthur Gore Ryder was married to Nina Gertrude McMahon and had, along with Arthur Gore Ryder, a daughter, Nina Beryl Ryder, born in Dublin on 30th November 1874, and another son, Ralph St. George Gore Ryder, born in Dublin on 15th April 1879.  There was also the fabulously-named Beresford Burton McMahon Ryder, born in Dublin on 27th May 1877.   In 1903, the younger Arthur Gore Ryder who married Caroline Jane Grogan, proved the will of the elderly spinster, Frances Anne Ryder of Riverstown House.  She had earlier been the primary beneficiary of the will of Robert Browne of Riverstown House who died there on 9th January 1879.    Caroline Jane's husband, Arthur Gore Ryder, died on 17th February 1906; he was late of both 3 Sidmonton Terrace, Bray, Co. Wicklow, and of Riverstown House, Monasterevan, Co. Kildare.    They were both living at Sidmonton Terrace in 1901 - Arthur was a civil engineer, deriving income from landed property.  He had been born in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan - his clerical father had been running a school there at the time.   Caroline Jane had been born in Kingstown, Co. Dublin.   Later, in 1913/1914, her mother would send her money, but the address was not included in the chequebook stubs.

6)   Alice Grogan, born 1st April 1863.

7)  Dr. Amelia Gertrude Grogan, born 9th October 1864 and died  1930 at 7 Anson Road, Tufnell Park, Middlesex.

8) George Meredith Grogan, born 29th August 1867  and died 4th July 1942 at Plattenstown, Co. Wicklow.

Rev. John Grogan was married to Elizabeth Bourne who he called Lizzie;  an entire section of the accounts book was devoted to Lizzie's allowance which, in 1864, totalled £130.  She divided her time between Dublin, probably at the Bourne family home in 30 York Street, and The Glebe House in Balrothery, North Co. Dublin.  
A typical entry for his wife, Lizzie,  was a list written in 1865.   £12 was spent on Lizzie's teeth and on 'mourning' (ie:  a wardrobe of black clothing).   £24 was allocated to Lizzie at York Street and at Harrogate.  He gave his wife £14 to purchase a stitching machine, and money for a trip to London.  The childrens' boots cost £2. 15. 0d.
The entry for May 2nd 1870 mentioned another mourning allowance;  this was repeated on 28th April 1871 when £10 was allocated for mourning for the couple's oldest son, John Edward Grogan.  On 12th October 1871, she bought an astrachan coat and muff for £6.
On December 2nd 1873, £10 was allocated 'for going out of mourning'.  Lizzie had to re-invest in mourning clothes again on September 4th and 15th 1874.
In 1880, £5 was paid for a dress for their youngest daughter, Elsie Grogan (aka Lizzie Grogan), to attend the wedding of Anna Ryan of Ballymackeogh.  A further £5 was spent the following year in 1881 for Elsie's fare to this wedding.  I believe Anna Ryan was the daughter of Jane Grogan and William Ryan of Ballymackeogh.  William Ryan was the daughter of William Ryan and Anne Pennefather whose half-brother, Edward Pennefather, was our immediate ancestor.
£10 was paid on October 18th 1882 for clothes when Lizzie's mother, Mrs. Bourne, died.   On December 14th 1887,  Lizzie needed a further £20 for mourning for her brother-in-law,  Rev. Charles James Grogan, Vicar of Dunleckney.  On February 19th, £12 was needed for the 'childrens' mourning for poor William Ryan'.
(Notes on Rev. Charles James Grogan:  This was the brother of Rev. John Grogan.  The Vicar of Dunleckney, he died unmarried on 5th October 1887.  He celebrated the wedding of his sister, Jane, to William Ryan, when they married in Paris.  The executors of his will were his brother, Rev. John Grogan, and his brother-in-law, William Ryan.  He named his heirs as his nieces, Maria, Nina, Sarah and Aileen, who were the daughters of Sir Edward Grogan, his brother.   Other beneficiaries were Charles Ryan , Anna Antoinette Ryan, and Jeanette Ryan, all three the children of his sister, Jane.  Also the children of his niece, Antoinette Darcy of Hyde Park, Co. Westmeath, who was the daughter of Charles James Grogan's sister, Sarah Grogan.  Sarah Grogan had married Anthony John Dopping.  Antoinette Dopping was married to George James Darcy.  Another beneficiary of Rev. Charles James Grogan was his nephew, Edward Grogan.)

In 1890 £5 was paid for Ryder's trip to Scotland.  (Daughter, Caroline Jane, was married to Arthur Gore Ryder.)

Finally, in 1891,  Rev. John Grogan noted that his wife, Lizzie, was now in receipt of Gibb's lecagy so she no longer needed to be paid an allowance by her husband.   A note the following year read 'I now save Lizzie allowance annually £80 by her not calling on me for it most kindly.'      Gibbs legacy amounted to £315 per annum.   She was most likely left this money by Fanny Gibbs who died at the Gibbs' family home of 119 Stephens Green, Dublin, on 28th January 1892.  A spinster, she was most likely an aunt of Lizzie's, Lizzie being the granddaughter of George Gibbs.
(Notes on the Bourne family:   Lizzie Grogan's father was the solicitor, Peter Bourne of 30 York Street;  her mother was Ellen Gibbs, the daughter of the lawyer and Deputy Clerk of the Crown, George Gibbs of 35 York Street and of his wife Ellen Carmichael.   George Gibbs was noted in 1842 as Deputy Clerk of the Crown for Kildare, Westmeath, Kings and Queens County and Carlow, but was resident at York Street. George Gibbs married Jane Carmichael on 22nd December 1798.
 Lizzie's father, Peter Bourne of 30 York Street, died on 7th October 1844, while her mother, Ellen Bourne,  née Gibbs, died on 18th September 1882 - Rev. John Grogan mentioned the death of Mrs. Bourne, his mother-in-law, in his accounts book, since he had to pay for mourning clothes for the family.  The Bournes were generally noted as being of Taney Hill, Dundrum.  
Peter Bourne's father was Walter Bourne of Harcourt Street and of Taney Hill, who had been born in 1766 and who married Eliza Peter, the daughter of Walter Peter, an attorney of Edgecourt, on 5th June 1788.  Walter Peter had married another member of the Bourne family, Frances Bourne of St. Patrick's Close, Dublin.
The children of Peter Bourne and Ellen Gibbs of 30 York Street were:
a)  Walter Bourne of Monkstown, Co. Dublin, born circa 1826.  A civil engineer, he married Anne Ryder in December 1853 - she was the daughter of the Venerable William Ryder.  Rev. John Grogan mentioned the Ryder family frequently in his account book, his daughter, Caroline Jane Grogan having married a younger member of the same family.
b)   Jane Bourne who married, in 1849, Dr. Charles Frizell of Castle Kevin, Annamoe/Laragh, Co. Wicklow.  The Grogan family maintained close contact with the Frizell family also.  Dr. Charles Frizell was apparently forced by hostile neighbours to leave Castle Kevin. He died on 20th March 1866 and his will noted that he'd been living at both Leeson Street and Warrington Place in Dublin.  His will was proved by his son, Charles Frizell, who was still resident in 1866 at Castle Kevin.  This younger man died at Dunluce Rectory, Co. Antrim on 28th June 1892, and the primary beneficiary of his will  Rev. Charles William Frizell who was also mentioned in the earlier will of Elizabeth Bourne who died at Mespil Road, Dublin, on 15th September 1876.   Charles William Frizell had been born in about 1850 in Dublin to Jane Bourne and to Charles Frizell of Castle Kevin, Annamoe, Co. Wicklow.  
c) Elizabeth/Lizzie who married Rev. John Grogan on 2nd October 1850.  She died at 21 Clyde Road on 24th July 1921.)

From 1893, Rev. John Grogan's accounts detail the pocket money paid to his three unmarried daughters, Elsie/Lizzie, Alice and Gertrude (Amelia Gertrude).   They each received approximately £28 per annum.  In February 1894, Alice was in Bournemouth.  Elsie and Alice visited Cannes in January, February and March 1897.

The next portion of the accounts book dealt primarily with the education of the eldest son of Rev. John Grogan and Lizzie Bourne,  John Edward Grogan,  known to the family as Johnnie.   Rev . John paid much attention to this firstborn son.   Johnnie Grogan was sent away to his first school - Dr. Rice's - on 16th March 1863, which was to cost £12. 12s. 0d. per annum, but the boy was sent home again three weeks later when he came down with whooping cough.   On 29th August 1863,  he was sent to Dr. John A. Wall of Arlington House, Portarlington, Queens County.   Tuition was billed at £47. 5s. 0d. with medicine costing £1. 1s. 0d, and washing costing £0. 6s. 2d.
'John was taken away after Christmas Vacation 1865 from Portarlington School - he was there 2.5 years.'    Following this, he was sent on to Dungannon School, Co. Tyrone in February  1866 under the headmaster Rev. F. H. Ringwood.
February 8th 1869 - 'Informed Mr. Ringwood he would be taken away next June to begin his medical studies in Autumn 1869.   He left Dungannon School in June 1869 (aged 17.5 years).'
Johnnie Grogan's medical tuition began November 1st 1869.  He was to board, lodge and study with Dr. Morgan at 23 Stephens Green, Dublin, for a session of eight months at £100 a session.    expenses in December 1869 were - a surgical book for 11s. 6d.,  dancing at £2. 11s. 6d;  mourning in April 1870, plus a velocipede costing £6.10s.   £2 was needed for rail fare to Janes (?) on 11th July 1870.   Tailoring in February 1870 cost £9. 15s.
'My poor dear child, John Edward, left us for God on 8th October (Sunday) 1871.  May God's Will be done - Amen.  (He died at 3 minutes past 2o'clock on Sunday morning October 8th 1871.)  We were sad and bowed down by the sudden and unexpected death of poor dear Edward M., but this new addition....of our trial has inflicted inexpressible pain upon us all - My poor dear boys - "They were lovely and pleasant in lives, and in their death they were not divided." '
The Rev. John was referring in the previous quote to the earlier death of his younger son, Edward Medlicott Grogan.
Meticulous as ever, he even noted the 'sickness cost' of John Edward's death:
Servants - Butler £3.0.0.
Housemaid (at Dr. Morgan's) - £2.0.0.
Cook - £1.0.0.
At York St:  Bessy £1.0.0.
                     Eliza £0.10.0.
At Stephen's Green:  Maria £1.0.0.
                                      Maid £0.7.6.
Harcourt Street:   0.12.0.
Rail Fare - Ryan £2 + Frizell £1.
3 Nurses paid £4 and £5.
Rev Lucas - £14.
Wine £5;  Brandy £2;  Beef Tea £4;  Laundress £1;  Champagne and Cakes £2.
Housekeeping at York Street £8.
Extra Rail Expenses up and down £2.
Nicholls' Bill £25. 6s. 6d.
Extra Carriage (Medical Students)  £1.
Welsh trip to console the family £27.

Edward Medlicott Grogan's Education:
Edward Medlicott Grogan was sent to Kingstown School, run by Rev. William C. Stacpoole, on 5th February .   However, on 6th May 1868...'Edward dropped this quarter from being ill of Rheumatism - he came back ill from school on 17th April 1868 to York Street.'  Although he went back to Kingstown School in late August...'Edward had a sharp of Rheumatism, and in bed till the 13th of January 1869.'    He returned a second time on 1st April 1869 when he had recovered.
Rev. William C. Stacpoole died on 24th December 1870 and was succeeded by Rev. John W. Chambers.
'Edward Medlicott came home from school on 6th April 1871, his birth day - last time!'
'Dr. Morgan came down to see my poor Edward on 20th April 1871 at Balrothery....My dear child Edward Medlicott died on 20th April 1871 (Thursday) to the great grief of all the family especially to his parents - May God's will be done, Amen, tho' it is a heavy blow...He died about 20 or 15 to 8 o'clock P.M. Thursday April 20th 1871.  Dr. Morgan and I came down from Dublin by the mail and called for Dr. McEvoy en route - We could not arrive therefore at Glebe before about 20 or 15 to 9 o'clock (P.M.) for the train is only due 8.18 P.M. at Balrothery....'

The costs of Edward Medlicott Grogan's sickness (and death) were also noted:
Dr. Morgan £5.
Dr. McEvoy £6.
Gifts and Travelling - Ryan £5.
Gifts and Travelling - Frizell £10.
Church £3.
Digges Funeral Bill £34.
Mourning Johnnie £10.
Mourning Liz and Children £20.
Gifts to Children £4. 18. 0.
Porter for men at funeral £0. 19s.
Gifts to servants at Glebe, Balrothery £2. 12. 0.

George Meridyth (Merry) Grogan's Schooling:
Rev. John Grogan's third son, Merry Grogan known formally as George Meredyth Grogan (29th August 1887 - 4th July 1942) was sent to Miss Farrants at Belgrave Villa, Belgrave Square, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, on 14th February 1879.  The following year's school expenses included £1.5.0 for  a laundress, and 2s. 6d. for a seat in church.
Merry left Miss Farrants at summer vacation 26th June 1880, and was sent on to the Royal School in Armagh under the headmaster Rev. William Moore Morgan, before being sent to Birkenhead School, Shrewsbury Road, near Liverpool, on 30th April 1884.  While there,  he engaged in dancing lessons, cricket and football.   Merry left Birkenhead on 19th February 1886, and did his Preliminary Examination in Dublin on 23rd and 24th of February 1886, although his father didn't note where.

Notes:  George Meredyth Grogan, retired Lt. Col. H.M.A., of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, who had served in both the Boer and the First Workd War, died at Plattenstown, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, on 4th July 1942;  his widow was Eva Augusta Ellis, known as Augusta, who he had married in Wicklow on 9th February 1929.  She had been born on 25th April 1899 in Lisburn, Co. Antrim, to the Wexford-born land agent, Ernest Francis Leslie Ellis, and his wife, Harriett Eva Ellis.   The Ellis family were buried in Inch Church, Co. Wexford. The pulpit commemorates Eva Ellis's grandparents - Augusta Catherine Ellis, widow of Thomas Cupples Ellis of St. Austin's, died 1st November 1899; the memorial was erected by her children,  Ernest, Emily and Violet.  Thomas Cupples Ellis was born  13th February 1829 and died on 20th August 1885.  George Meredyth Grogan was buried there by his widow, Augusta, in 1942, as were her parents, Ernest Francis Leslie Ellis who was born 22nd October 1867 and who died 12th February 1947, and Harriett Eva Ellis, who was born 31st October 1855 and who died 28th July 1948.  George Meredyth Grogan's wife remarried following his death; her second husband was Arthur Donel McMurrough, The O'Morchoe, who died 29th August 1966.  His two daughters were Patricia and Anne.  Arthur Donel McMurrough's first wife was Isabel Hester McMurrough who died on 12th April 1947.  His second wife, Eva August Ellis, died 12th April 1974.
 In 1931, George Meredyth Grogan and Eva Ellis had a son, Hume Grogan, later Major Hume Grogan of the Irish Guards.

The Girls,  Alice, Gertrude and Elsie:
Alice and Gertrude Grogan went to Alstone Court School in Cheltenham, England under the Misses Robinson on 20th January 1880.   Along with their lessons, their father paid 2s. for cab hire, 5s. 6d. for concert tickets, 6s. for house shoes, and £1. 1. 0. for meat for breakfast for the two girls.   Alice took violin lessons, the violin and strings costing £2.
In 1889, there was a list of the girls' trips -  On May 10th,  Elsie went to N. Revell,  and Eileen (who was Eileen?) went to Bray.   In July,  Gerty went to N. Revell, Alice went to Maunsell and Elsie went to Scotland.  

(Notes on these Revells:  On 1st June 1886, Ellen Jane Bourne, the daughter of Walter Bourne, civil engineer, married John Anthony Revell, the son of John Revell of Newcastle House, Newtown Mountkennedy, Co. Wicklow.  One of the witnesses was Charles Frizell of Castle Kevin.   Walter Bourne was Rev. John Grogan's brother-in-law,  as was Charles Frizell who was married to Jane Bourne.  Walter Bourne, Jane Frizell and Lizzie Grogan were all siblings.   Later in 1914,  Ellen Jane Revell was noted as the next-of-kin of George Gibbs Revell.  In 1913/1914, Lizzie Grogan wrote several cheques for E. J. Revell.  John Anthony Revell died on 27th February 1895 at Newcastle House, and his will was granted to the unmarried Henrietta Mary Anne Revell of 65 Northumberland Road, Dublin.  She died in 1911 and her executors were her unmarried Margaret and Isabella Revell.  There was also a fourth sister Frances Revell, and all four were living together in Morehampton Road in 1901.) 

In 1890 they had more trips - Elsie and Alice went to the Revells in Scotland;  Alice also went to Howth, Circus and Clonmel;   Merry and Gerty visited Dunluce, Co. Antrim, while Rev. John Grogan also paid for the Ryders' trip to Scotland.

Gertrude/Gerty fulfilled her father's desire to have a doctor in the family, and, in 1889, she attended the College of Surgeons.  She also studied the same year at the City of Dublin .  Her father bought her a stethoscope in 1889, and gave his daughter £3 on 11th October 1889 as a prize for passing her exams.  On 14th November 1889 he also paid £10 for a microscope for his daughter.    Her tuition at the College of Surgeons continued the following year, and the proud father gave his daughter a further gift of £3 for getting her A.B. degree.    In 1894 he made a note that Gertrude was now studying at the Rotunda;  by 1895 she was at the Adelaide Hospital, and he rewarded her with a further £5 on 14th October 1895 for passing another set of exams.   (Note: Amelia Gertrude Grogan was the principal doctor in charge of the womens' wing of the Mullingar Lunatic Asylum in 1900, and subsequently moved to England where she worked as a medical officer in a womens' hospital in Brighton. )

In 1891, he noted Alice's violin tuition.  A gift was sent to Eileen for keeping Alice during a visit there.  Alice also went this year on a visit to Seaton.
In 1891, the youngest daughter, Elsie/Lizzie Grogan, did music lessons.  Her father noted her birthday as March 13th. (She was born March 13th 1853 and died at 21 Clyde Road on 4th December 1938). Elsie took a trip to Scotland and to what looks like 'Tankerville'.  On 19th September 1891, Lizzie took a trip to visit Rev. Chas. N. Frizell at  Rectory, Bushmills, Co. Antrim.

(Note:  Rev. Charles N. Frizell was actually Charles WILLIAM Frizell of Dunluce.  Charles William Frizell had been born in about 1850 in Dublin to Jane Bourne and to Charles Frizell of Castle Kevin, Annamoe, Co. Wicklow.  Jane Bourne was the sister of Elizabeth Bourne who was married to Rev. John Grogan.)

Other information gleaned from Rev. John Grogan's accounts book:  He noted that he left Balrothery Parish on 5th August 1887 and resigned his post there on 16th June 1889.   In the section of the book devoted to his own life insurance, he noted his own birth day as 28th June 1816.

There was a section devoted to 'George William Grogan's Marriage Trust Money', which was begun on October 15th 1856 when Rev. John Grogan was living at home at Harcourt Street.  Rev. George William Grogan was Rev. John Grogan's brother, born in Dublin on 20th March 1819.  He married an Englishwoman, Helen Isabel Maria Hall, the daughter of Rev. William Hall of Great Bromley, Essex. The marriage occurred on the day that Rev. John started his marriage trust fund,  so presumably the fund was started to put aside money for Rev. George William's children.  Rev. John Grogan resigned as trustee in 1876.

Much of the book dealt with the boring finances associated with Balrothery Parish;  there also a section dealing with fire insurance paid on a property in Vesey Place, Kingstown.

A section of the book was devoted to the sale of two carriages, a phaeton and a brougham, on July 18th 1888.  They had been kept in a coach house on Raglan Road which runs adjacent to Clyde Road.

He detailed the rent paid on the family's home, 12 Clyde Road, which they took on 20th May 1887, at a rent of £100 per annum.  The landlord was the builder, Edward Kennedy of 6 Percy Place, Dublin, who would later die on 28th June 1890.  His daughters inherited the house - Julia Kennedy was the mother superior of Presentation Convent, St. Joseph's, Lucan, while her older sister was the unmarried Mary Kennedy of 9 Percy Place.  When Julia Kennedy died on 15th November 1906, her executors were Christopher and Margaret Rock of 53 Northumberland Road.
Later, Lizzie Grogan moved to 17 Clyde Road, then 21 Clyde Road, and her chequebook showed her paying the rent for No. 21 to a Marion C. Wallace, but no address was provided for this landlady.

A section of the accounts book dealth with an annuity paid at £1 a week from 5th August 1887 to a Mrs. Margaret Nixon of Balrothery village.  Rev. John's notes are intriguing: 'This discontinued as long as George Nixon is not in constant work but lives at the family's expense generally.  It is not just I should contribute to his support after his conduct in attempting to refuse to surrender the old castle premises to the Rev. Mr. Lombard the Rector so I discontinued April 6th 1888 the Annuity...'  On October 13th 1890 George Nixon died, so payment resumed again.  Margaret Nixon died on 10th January 1890 and the account was closed forever.   Rev. John Grogan gave a further £1 to Maria Nixon to cover the funeral expenses.  The 1901 census reveals Maria Nixon working as a house maid for the Grogan family in 17 Clyde Road.

Rev. John Grogan also devoted a portion of his accounts book to money which his brother, Sir Edward Grogan, had transferred to him to manage while he was abroad.

This post expands on my earlier post about the Grattan family of Drummin, Kildare.  Rev. William Willis, the son of our ancestor, Thomas Willis of Portarlington, married Frances Willis, the daughter of Richard Grattan and Elizabeth Biddulph of Drummin, Co. Kildare.   I will add to it as I discover more....

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/03/dr-richard-grattan-drummin-house.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/01/children-of-thomas-willis-schoolmaster.html

In 1788, Richard Grattan the Elder married Elizabeth Biddulph, the eldest daughter of Francis Biddulph of Vicarstown, Queen's County, and of Eliza Harrison.  

(The Biddulphs....
In 1694, Nicholas Biddulph leased Rathrobin from Lord Shelbourne.

Nicholas was the third son of Francis Byddolph of Kilpatrick, Wexford who died in 1673, and of an Alice. His older brothers were Thomas of Wexford and Richard of Kilpatrick.

Nicholas Biddulph,who died on 5 March 1702, married Charity and had four children - John, Alice, Jane and Francis.

The eldest son of Nicholas and Charity, John Biddulph, lived in Stradbally, Co. Laois, and died around 1740, having had five children, Richard, John, Alice, Francis and Nicholas.

Francis Biddulph (born 1727 - 1806) lived at Vicarstown and married Eliza Harrison. They had eight children, one of whom was Elizabeth Biddulph who married Richard Grattan of Drummin. They also had  Patience Biddulph who married Henry T. Warner, and Francis Harrison Biddulph who married Mary Marsh. Also Mary Anne Biddulph who married William Scott and Frances Margaret Sarah Biddulph.

Francis Harrison Biddulph, the brother of Elizabeth Biddulph who married Richard Grattan the Elder of Drummin House, (1774 – 1827) lived at Vicarstown - He married Mary Marsh and had 14 children, one of whom was Francis Marsh Biddulph (1802 – 1868)who lived at Rathrobin and who married Lucy Bickerstaffe. Their son was Middleton Westen Biddulph (1849 – 1926) who lived at Rathrobin and who married Vera Flower.)


The Children of Richard Grattan, JP, Drummin House, and Elizabeth Biddulph...

1)  A son, born circa 1788 or 1789, died young.

2) Richard Grattan MD, of Drummin House, born 23rd January 1790.  See above link...

3) John Grattan, apothecary of Cornmarket, Belfast, born circa 1801 in the Dublin region, registered with the Dublin Hall of Apothecaries in 1823, and died 24th April 1871 in Belfast.   He married Harriet Shaw. His will named his unmarried daughters, Anne Jane Grattan and Mary Shawe Grattan.  His  executors were to be his 'friend', Rev. John Thomas Willis, of Forest Hill, his daughter, Anne Jane, and a James White, flour miller of Muckamore.   His son-in-law was Richard Ward Pring who was in business with him as 'Grattan & Co', and who was married to  Eliza Grattan - Eliza's children were also mentioned, but not named.   John Grattan's sister was named as Ellen Grattan.   A niece was Mistress Anne Jane Lester, and a cousin was Miss Mary Anne Scott.   A John Grattan was also frequently mentioned.  The codicil mentioned a newly-built house in Fortwilliam Park.
John Grattan's daughter, Eliza Grattan, married Richard Ward Pring, the son of Elijah Pring of Dublin, in Belfast on 13th October 1852.   (A second son of Elijah Pring was Edward John Locke Pring, who married in Donnybrook, Dublin, on 18th October 1856, Emma Fanny Hayes, the daughter of William Hayes.  A daughter was Charlotte Elizabeth Pring who married in Donnybrook, on 20th November 1862,  John Johnson, son of an older John Johnson.)
The will of John Grattan's daughter, Mary Shawe Grattan, of Coolgreaney, Fortwilliam Park, Belfast who had been born in 1835 and who died on 1st December 1893.  One of her executors was named as Charlotte de Castro Willis of Coolgreaney, Fortwilliam Park.  Charlotte de Castro Willis was one of the primary beneficiaries. Charlotte de Castro Willis was the daughter of Rev. John Thomas Willis, who was the son of Thomas Gilbert Willis and Deborah Charlotte Newcombe.
The will of John Grattan's other daughter, Anne Jane Grattan of Coolgreaney, Fortwilliam Park, who died 24th November 1898:   Once again Charlotte de Castro Willis was executrix and beneficiary.  Also named was a cousin, Elizabeth McCaw of Lurgan;    also named was Anna Grattan, the wife of Nicholas Grattan of Cork, who was the brother of John Grattan, apothecary.

4) Frances Grattan, born circa 1805, married  Rev. William Willis.  See above Willis post...

5) Nicholas Grattan, dentist of Killeagh, Co. Cork, born 23rd March 1808, died in Cork in 1869.  He lived at Sunday's Well Road, Cork in 1863.  He married, in February 1838, Mary Anne Peet.

Children of Nicholas Grattan and Mary Anne Peet were:
a) Nicholas Grattan, b. June 14, 1839, Killeagh, Ireland, d. August 23, 1896, Cork, Ireland.   An orthopaedic Surgeon, his  first wife Hamina Lowe, died on 18th October 1878. A second wife was Anna.
Nicholas Grattan Junior and Hamina Lowe had Charlotte Hamina in 1867 in Cork; Mary Elizabeth, born in Cork in 1869,  and Marcella born in 1871.
b) Mary Grattan, b. April 16, 1841, Killeagh, Ireland, d. date unknown.
c) Catherine Hamilton Grattan, b. 1847, Cork, Ireland, d. January 1936, Chicago. Catherine Hamilton Grattan must have been named after her paternal aunt....


6) Catherine Grattan, who married a Colonel Hamilton of Toronto.

7) Ellen Grattan, named in her brother's will. (ie: John Grattan, apothecary of Belfast.)

8)  Thomas Grattan, born 1810.  He was a dentist who died in Belfast on 21st February 1879:  the executors were Richard Ward Pring and Joseph Richardson Turtle Mulholland, spinning-mill manager. Beneficiaries - his daughter-in-law who was the widow of his late son, Edward Shaw Grattan;  a son, John (Smith) Grattan.    Thomas Grattan had operated as a surgeon-dentist at College Square, Belfast - he had been working in the Coombe Hospital in Dublin in 1832.
His son, the surgeon Edward Shaw Grattan (1840 - 1874 - he died in Bangor, Co. Down, and was buried in Rice Lane graveyard, Liverpool on 11th July 1874) appeared in the UK Medical Directory of 1863, with an address at Burrough Gaol, Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in England.   He was married to Mary, and their daughter, Harriet Emily Grattan, was baptised in St. Mary's, Walton on 1st July 1868.  Harriet Emily Grattan later trained as a nurse and worked at Lambeth Infirmiary, London.
His brother, John Smith Grattan (1834 - 1880, died in West Derby), was noted in the earlier 1858 edition of the Medical Register as a doctor of midwivery with a similar address at Walton-on-the-Hill in Liverpool.  He was married to Evelina, and their son, Thomas Carter Grattan, was baptised in St. Mary's on 11th September 1869.  On the same day,  another member of the same Grattan family was baptised there, Alfred Grattan, the son of another surgeon, Edwin Thomas Grattan and Mary. A Thomas Carter officiated at all the above christenings, and must have been close to the family, since John Smith Grattan named a son after him.


Notes On Rev. John Thomas Willis:

Rev John Thomas Willis (1819 - 1902), the son of Rev. Thomas Gilbert Willis and Deborah Charlotte Willis, and nephew of Rev. William Willis who married Frances Grattan, the daughter of Richard Grattan and Elizabeth Biddulph.  (Rev. Thomas Gilbert Willis and Rev. William Willis were half-brothers, both being the sons of Thomas Willis of Portarlington.)
Rev. John Thomas Willis was Rector of St. Mary Belize 1861 to 1862; Chaplain of Kingston Convict Prison 1862 to 1863; Rector of Bepton Sussex England 1863 to 1867; Victor of Rhosmarket 1875 to 1875.

Rev. John Thomas Willis, youngest son of the late Thomas G. Willis. LL.D., married at Islington on 25th April 1861, Mary Ransford, only daughter of the late Samuel de Castro, Esq., of Bill Hill, Berkshire.  His brother, Henry de Laval Willis, officiated at the London ceremony.
They had four daughters -
a) Mary F. Willis, born 1862 in Honduras.
b) Charlotte Newcombe de Castro Saddler Willis, baptised 12th June 1863 in Bepton, Surrey. She died on 20th July 1923 and her will gave her two addresses as Brookhill House Cliftonville Belfast and of 11 Duke Street Bath.  She lived in Belfast later with her two relations, Anne Jane and Mary Shawe Grattan, the daughters of John Grattan and Harriet Shaw. John Grattan was the brother of Frances Grattan who married Rev. William Willis.
c) Madeline Louise de Laval Willis, born 1868 in Kent, but died in 1871 and was buried on 5th October 1871 at Norwood Cemetery, Lambeth, London. The family's address at the time of Madeline's death was noted as 3 Plymouth Terrace, Devonshire Road, Forest Hill.
d) Rebecca Gertrude de Castro Willis, baptised 18th November 1870 in Forest Hill, England.

Notes on the Pring Family:
Richard Ward Pring, son of Elijah Pring, glass manufacturer or apothecary (?) of Westmoreland St., and of Seafort, Williamstown, Dublin. There was also an Elijah James Pring at this address - MCS (Royal College of Surgeons) 1830 and LSA (License Appthecarys' Hall)  Ireland 1848.   An Elijah Pring of Westmoreland Street founded the Ringsend Bottle Factory.  In 1858, Elijah James Pring lived at Maryvilla, Ballsbridge.   Richard Ward Pring was licenced by the Apothecarys' Hall in 1858.
1832:  Ward, Pring & Co, New Medical Hall, 30 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. (Richard Ward)
Richard Ward Pring married twice, first to Eliza Grattan,the daughter of John Grattan of Belfast, and secondly to Adelaide Eugenie Strong.  They lived at Firmount, Belfast.  He died on 10th November 1891.  His first wife, Eliza Pring, née Grattan, died at Firmount, Fortwilliam Park, Belfast, on 11th May 1888. Her will was witnessed by Charlotte (de Castro) Willis, and by her own sister, Anne Jane Grattan.
The best friend of Richard Ward Pring, apothecary, was Henry Kirke White of Killiney, one of the beneficiaries of his will.  Richard Ward Pring administered the 1869 will of the Offaly-born spinster (of Elizabeth Locke who died in Wexford.   Richard's brother was Edward John Locke Pring, which seems to suggest that the Prings were somehow related to the Locke family - possibly Elijah Pring had married a member of this family.

Business associate of John Grattan of Belfast, Richard Ward Pring proved many of the Grattan wills, including that of Frances Willis,  née Grattan, who had married Rev. William Willis.

Kids of Richard Ward Pring and Eliza Grattan:
1) Arthur Henry Pring was the eldest son - lived abroad 'because of his health.'  Arthur seems to have settled in England, and married Lucy Jane Barnsly Reid.  A son, John Grattan Pring, was born in Belfast on 7 March 1881.   In 1911, one-year-old Aileen Lucy Grattan Pring, who had been born in Budleigh, Bristol, was a boarder in Paignton, Devon, along with what seems to be her parents, John Gratton Pring, and Jessie Elizabeth Pring (née Baker) of Plymouth. John Grattan Pring died at 5 East Terrace, Budleigh, Salterton, Devon, on 21st September 1952, with administration of his will to Aileen Lucy Grattan Pring and to Moya Nora Grattan Pring.

2) Rev. Richard Henry Pring (born circa 1860)  who married Ellen Marguerite of Croyden, Surrey, and who had two children - Noel Grattan Pring, born 30th December 1896 at Marto, Cheshire, wheren Rev. Richard Henry Pring was clergyman, and Nora Grattan Pring, born Oct 1899 in Marton, Cheshire (This from the UK 1901 Census. ) Son, Noel Grattan Pring, died on 15th October 1948 at Peshawar, India.  He was married to Ida Margaret.
         
3) Henry Grattan Pring died at Slieve-na-Failte, Whiteabbey, Co. Antrim on 5th October 1942.  He married Eliza Barbour Gordon in Belfast in 1894. In 1906 he proved the will of his sister, Harriet Grattan Pring Macmaster of Skerries, Co. Dublin. He worked as a merchant in aerated water, which had been originally manufactuered by Grattan & Co, the firm founded by his grandfather, John Grattan, and taken over by his father, Richard Ward Pring. Henry Grattan Pring had a large family in Whitehouse, Co. Antrim, and they appeared on both the 1901 and 1911 census - Elizabeth Violet Beatrice Pring, born Antrim in about 1896; Vera Pring, born circa 1897; Hilda Pring, born circa 1898; Moya Pring, born circa 1900; Ellen Pring, born circa 1903; Richard Gordon Pring, born circa 1909.
         
4)Elizabeth Frances Pring.
         
5) Harriet Grattan MacMaster. Harriet Grattan Pring was married to Charles Macmaster;  a son, Richard Ward Pring Macmaster was born at Moyne Road, Rathmines, Co. Dublin, on 14th November 1886. There were also two daughters - Lizzie Macmaster, born circa 1885 and Edith Macmaster, born circa 1888. Richard Ward Pring Macmaster died on 3rd July 1956 at 63 Church Street, Skerries, Co. Dublin - he had married Emma Caroline Fennell in Dublin in 1938.   Harriet Grattan Pring Macmaster died at Holpatrick Villa, Skerries, on 27th April 1906, with probate of her will to her merchant brother, Henry G. Pring, and to Elizabeth F. Mill. According to the two Irish censuses, Charles Macmaster had been born in either Meath or Louth in about 1856.

William A. Stewart  (1826 - 3rd December 1881)  and Margaret Burke:

William A. Stewart was born in 1826 to the farmer Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy, Comber, Co. Down. His mother may have been Ann Stewart.  His known brothers were our great-great grandfather, Joseph Stewart of Dublin, John Stewart of Crossnacreevy and Robert Stewart.  He also had a sister, Mary Stewart.
One of the most prominent farming families in this Moneyreagh 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 and William A. Stewart of Crossnacreevy;  William was only 18 when he subscribed to his neighbour's book.

William A. Stewart married Margaret Burke in Downpatrick Registry Office on 27th December 1851. William, the son of the farmer, Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy, 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 and Agnes Crothers.

It seems that the family of Margaret Burke had their origins in Leveroge, Drumbo, Co. Down,  south of Lisburn,  since a known cousin was Hugh Geddes Burke who originated there.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/04/hugh-burke-cousin-of-jane-orr-nee.html

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 in the published directories 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.  In 1881 the family were still living here at 50 New Lodge Road, and kept lodgers.
On 9th February 1868 William's younger brother, Joseph Stewart, was living at 88 Ann Street when his wife, Elizabeth Madine gave birth to a second stillborn child who they named Joseph.
William gave up his stabling yard in about 1868, according to evidence given to his 1881 inquest by his daughter Margaret Stewart and was subsequently unemployed, although the street directories note him as a spirit dealer of 92 Ann Street in the 1870's.
( In the 1884 street directory, a publican named Ellen Stewart was listed at 92 Ann Street - perhaps  this was one of the daughters of William and Margaret Stewart, or some other member of the same Stewart family?  She disappears after this - she either married and changed her name, emigrated, or died. This, however, is mostly likely a red herring.)

The Children of William A. Stewart and Margaret Burke:
The children of William and Margaret were born prior to official registration, but Jane Stewart was born circa 1855 in Belfast, and her sister, Margaret was born circa 1859.  There was also  a sister, Agnes Stewart,  who witnessed Jane's wedding to James M. Orr.   Jane Stewart was working as a machinist prior to her 1875 marriage to James Orr.   Margaret was working locally in York Street Mill in 1881, while daughter Agnes, in 1881, was working for the Belfast linen company, Betzolds of Fountain Street.   There was also a fourth, unnamed, daughter who was living at home in 50 New Lodge Road in 1881 when her father killed himself.

On 26th October 1871 in York Street Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church in Belfast city centre, William A. Stewart's brother, John Stewart of Crossnacreevy, married his second wife, Elizabeth McGowan.  Elizabeth was the daughter of John McGowan, a labourer of Ballystockart, Comber, Co. Down.  William A. Stewart was one of the witnesses at the wedding.   The brothers' sister, Mary Stewart, had earlier married Hugh Morrow in the same York Street church  on 13th Sept. 1865.   (Another brother was Robert Stewart who married  Jane 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.  Jane was the youngest sister of Elizabeth Madine who was married to another of the Stewart brothers, Joseph Stewart from whom we directly descend.)

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.'

Belfast Newsletter, 5th December 1881:

'EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE IN BELFAST
The Inquest.  
On  Saturday morning, the body of a man, William Stewart, aged 55, residing at 50, New Lordge Road, was discovered in the yard.  The breast was resting on the ledge of the ashpit, whic h is almost four feet in height.  The head was hanging over in the ashes,  the hands were outstretched in front, and a small hatchet was lying between the hands in the ashes.   The scalp was removed for nearly five inches,  and in the centre of the wound there was a hole in the skull.   Dr. Dill, coroner for the borough, and a jury,  held an inquest on the body, at half-past five o'clock, in Mr. Crawford's public-house, New Lodge Road.  Sub-Inspector Singleton was present.  Head-Constable Howe had charge of the case.
Margaret Stewart, daughter of the deceased, was the first witness examined.  She deposed that her father had kept a yard for stabling, but had given it up about thirteen years, and was not able to get another.  He had since only been able to do household work for the family.  He had been in good health until within the last two months.  Since then he took something on the back of his neck like a carbuncle,  but it was nearly well.  Witness last saw him alive that morning at her bedside. He came to waken her.  That was about twenty minutes past six.  He was in the habit of wakening her to let her out for her work in York Street mill.  She dressed and came downstairs,  and found the deceased sitting on his own beside.  He was sitting with his hands closed, and witness desired him to go to bed.    He had then his trousers and his shirt on him.  He did not reply, and witness afterwards went out, her mother telling her that she would make him get in.   She was afterwards sent for,  and heard that he was dead.  It was about twenty-five minutes past six when she left the house, andthe  message came before breakfast time.    She came home and found him lying dead on the kitchen floor, with blood about his head.  Some time before he took the carbuncle - two or three months - he sometimes talked foolishly,  and appeared a little weak in the mind.  She did not know what made his mind weak.  She had heard him say that he was in the way instead of working, and she believed he felt that he was a burden to his family.  He and his family always agreed perfectly.  There were in the house, besides the deceased, three daughters and their mother.   When she left the house to go to work,  her two sisters and their mother were in the house in bed in separate rooms.   Her mother was lying in the bed which her father had been sitting on.  
To Head-Constable Howe - A man, his wife, and a baby, named Hyndman, had the front room of the house to themselves. They were also in the house when she left it. 
A Juror - Had your father the full use of his legs and arms?  No, he was lame of one knee, and had been lame for as long as I remember.    Could he go about without crutches?  He generally carried a stick,  but could go a short distance without a stick.  When he was going out, however,  he generally took a stick.  Was it true that he was going to the workhouse yesterday or today?  He was not going to the workhouse;  Mother was going to get him into the Royal Hospital;  but I don't think he knew that himself. 
Dr. Charles Wadworth deposed that Wm. Stewart, the deceased,  had been occasionally attended by him for about six weeks.  He had first been called to see him about a carbuncle on the back of his neck.  Witness looked upon him as a debilitated, weak old man.  He also appeared rather simple in mind.  Witness was called on that morning, and was at the house about nine o'clock.  The deceased was then lying dead in the kitchen. Witness discovered a very extensive scalp wound on the top and centre or crown of  the head, extending from the forehead backwards.  The wound was about five inches in length.  The scalp wound went down to the bone, exposing it.  About the centre of the wound there was a fracture of the skull, extending into the brain.   The brain was injured underneath. The edges of the wound were ragged;  it was not a clean cut. The brain was to be seen,  and a small portion had protruded.  The wound was nearly a n inch deep into the brain, and must have been produced by some sharp and moderately-heavy instrument,  but it was not done with one stroke.  That was the only wound he saw.  The deceased died from the effects of that injury.  The injury must have been an ante-mortem one. 
The Coroner -  Was that  a self-inflicted wound?  Oh, yes: I believe it is possible.
Was it not rather in a peculiar position for a self-inflicted wound?  It was most peculiar. 
It was in a position you never saw before?  I never saw the same before. I can understand how much easier it would have been for another person to have inflicted the wound than for any person to have inflicted it on themselves.  There would be no difficulty about the hatchet produced inflicting the wound. 
Is that weapon the most likely to have been used?  It is the only weapon that I have been shown.
In his own hand was it possible to be  done?   Oh, I think so, with the force that could have been used. To produce the injury as I saw it,  it must have taken more than one blow. The reason I say that is, that the skin wound is twice as long as the edge of the hatchet, and that the edges of the wound are ragged. 
And then, doctor, do you think that he would have been able to do more than one stroke?   Well, at first, knowing that he was an old man, I was rather astonished that he could have been able to inflict the wounds. 
A Juror - Could he have inflicted a second wound on himself?   He could if the first blow had only caused a scalp wound,  and had not produced concussion of the brain;  but if the first blow had fractured the skull it would have been impossible for him to give himself a second blow.  Although he was feeble of limb, he had great power of arm;  but it must have required a great determination for one to inflict the wound on himself. 
The Coroner - It certainly required great bravery. 
A Juror  - Didn't  it surprise you when you heard that he had done it on himself?   Well, I must say it did. 
To the Coroner - I heard that he was accustomed to work a mangle, and that probably kept his arms active and strong. 
The Coroner - Did you see anything peculiar in the temper or disposition of the family  towards him?   They were all crying.
Were those tears crocodile?  Well, Doctor, I can't say that. 
Well, you can form an opinion?   I may say that during the time  I have visited him, the family appeared attentive, and gave me no reason to think that there was anything wrong. 
You didn't see anything that led you to believe they were tired of him?  No, they were exceedingly attentive to him,  and seemed to want to ge the carbuncle cured. 
A Juror - Do you know he was a member of any burial society?  Well, I heard incidentally that he was, but that he would only get £5 or £6. 
The Coroner - That would only bury him.  You have no grounds to suspect that the wound was inflicted by any person other than himself?   Well, I don't think so.  I find that the hatchet fits the wound in the skull.
To A Juror - If he had been struck from behind, the shape of the wound would have been reversed.  The blow was inflicted from before.  It appears to me  most astonishing that he could have done it. 
The Coroner - Still you don't retract from your statement that it must have been inflicted by himself?  I did not state that he must have done so.  I said it was possible for him to have done it himself. 
Well, you say it was likely to have been done by himself?
Witness - All I can say in reference to it is that it is most astonishing to me how he had strength to persist in doing it if he did do it. 
Agnes Stewart, daughter of the deceased, deposed that she got up to go to work at eight o'clock that morning to go to her work in Betzold's in Fountain Street.  When she came downstairs, she saw the coalhole door and the yard door open.  She then went into the yard, and there she discovered her father lying with his head over the breast of the ashpit.  She went up to him and raised his head, and saw that he was dead.  Blood was on the flags of the yard.  She then ran into the house and awakened her mother,  who was in bed sleeping.  She then ran and told Hyndman, the lodger.  When she came back her mother had got the length of the yard door,  and her mother and Hyndman then carried her father in and put him on the kitchen floor. 
To Mr. Singleton - The body was warm then.  
To The Coroner - When they were carrying him in witness saw the wound on his head. She afterwards saw the hatchet lying in the ashpit, where they raised him.
To Mr. Singleton - The hatchet is usually kept in the coalhole. 
To the Coroner - She never heard of any dispute in the house between the members of the family or the lodgers. 
To Mr. Singleton - The head was lying with the wounded part down at the ashes. He was still on his feet and the hands were outstretched in front.  They had him insured in a burial society for nearly nine years.  She though 1d a week was what was paid.  They were to get £6 10s, she thought, but she had since been told that owing to the way in which he died they would not get anything. They thought his foolish talk came from the pain he was suffering from the carbuncle. 
To the Coroner - She asked Mr. Dunlop to send for the police. 
To Mr. Singleton - The lodgers were asleep.  The deceased constantly boasted of his strength of arms.
Constable Drought deposed that Dr. Dunlop was driving along North Queen Street , and told him that a man had been found dead in the New Lodge Road. Witness went to the place, and on entering found three women and a man.  They were all bewailing what had happened.  He saw the dead man in the kitchen.  He examined the ashpit, and found a pool of blood on the edge. There was more blood in the ashpit.  The hatchet (produced) he found on the ashes in the ashpit.  It was covered with blood.  He examined the yard, but found no marks of a struggle. 
To Mr. Singleton - He examined the inmates of the house,  but found no blood about them. They all had white aprons on. 
Mrs. Stewart deposed that sometimes her husband would have gone about wringing his hands.  Sometimes he would sit for a while before the fire and get up saying "What's this?".
The Coroner, in summing , said the case was one of the most extraordinary he had known, yet they had only evidence to suppose that suicide had been committed.
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased had committed suicide by striking himself on the head with a hatchet while in an unsound state of mind.'

Following her husband's death,  Margaret Stewart, née Burke, moved from 50 New Lodge Road and was noted at Limestone Street in October 1884.   Her two daughters, Jane Orr and Margaret Stewart, emigrated to Philadelphia shortly after this, along with Jane's husband, James M. Orr.    They kept in contact with their cousins, the four daughters of Joseph Stewart and Elizabeth Madine, who had settled in Dublin in the 1880's.

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

This is one of those rambling posts about families I'm only vaguely related to.  I used online records, primarily the Irish Census and the Wills Calendars, freely available on the National Archives site, as well as the church records, freely available on the Irish Genealogy site, the LDS site, and much googling.  It starts with the family of Frederick and Mary Courtenay of 27 Wellington Street....
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/10/the-children-of-frederick-and-mary.html

Adelaide Anne Courtenay, baptised 10th August 1831, born at 47 Moore Street, was the daughter of Frederick and Mary Courtenay.   Adelaide Anne Courtenay married a commercial clerk, George Hall, who was the son of Andrew Hall, on 12th October 1851.
George Hall had been born to Andrew Hall in Bray, Co.Wicklow.

Albert Andrew Hall, born 11th January 1872 to George Hall and Adelaide Anne Courtenay;  when Albert Andrew Hall  married Eveline Beatrice Forster in 1901, he was noted as the secretary of a limited company - the couple were living at 29 Corrig Avenue, Dunlaoghaire, then called Kingstown, in 1911.

Eveline Beatrice Forster had been born on 15th July 1871 in Donnybrook, Dublin, to Ralph Moore Forster (1817  - 12th April 1877)  and to Emma Matilda Supple.  Eveline's parents had married in St. Mary's on 9th September 1861 - their fathers were Thomas Forster and Frederick Austin Supple.

The Forster Family of Broomhill, Ballinagh, Co. Cavan:

Ralph Moore Forster of Broomhill, Cavan (1817 - 12th April 1877), a clerk in the Record Office, and Emma Matilda Supple had the following recorded children:

1) Thomas Frederick Forster was born in 1864,  and married in St. Mary's, Dublin, on 24 February 1892, Mary Anne Spotten/Spotton, the daughter of James Spotten of Ballinagh, Co. Cavan.     Witnesses: J.W. Jolley and Jane L. Jolley. Thomas Frederick farmed at Broomhill,  Ballinagh, Co. Cavan.   According to the census, the children of this couple were:
   a) Jennie Loftus Forster, born Cavan 1893.
   b) Violet Marrian Forster, born Cavan 1894.
   c) William Frederick Augustus Forster, born Cavan 1896.  He was named after his paternal  great-uncle,  William Frederick Augustus Forster of Broomhill, Co. Cavan, who died on 25th August 1881 - his widow was Emma Forster of Ellen Lodge, Dalkey, Co. Dublin.   He had been born in 1815 and was contemporary with Ralph Moore Forster who had been born in 1817 in the same place.
  d) Rebecca Matilda Forster, born Cavan 1899.
NB:  Thomas Frederick Forster of Broomhill proved the will of another member of the Forster family, namely Mary Forster of Crosshue, Co. Wexford, who died on 7th May 1876 when Thomas Frederick was only 12. She was the wife of Thomas Forster of Crosshue, Co. Wexford, who died there on 16th March 1886, and his will named his nephew as Thomas Frederick Forster of Broomhill.   Mary had been born in 1819, her husband, Thomas Forster in 1812, which makes him contemporary with Ralph Moore Forster and William Frederick Augustus Forster, all three possibly brothers.

2) Ralph Moore Forster, born Dublin, circa 1864.  He married Eliza Jane Spotton/Spotten who was the sister of his sister-in-law, Mary Anne Spotten.  Ralph Moore Forster was the executor of his father-in-law's will when James Spotton died in February 1910 at Blacklion, Co. Cavan.    The children of Ralph Moore Forster and Eliza Jane Spotton were:
    a) Rebecca Matilda Forster, born circa 1901 in Cavan.  She shared a name with her cousin.
    b) Anna Richardson Forster, born Cavan 1903.
    c) Frederick Frood Forster, born Cavan 1906.

3) Emily Maude Forster, born in Dublin in 1869.  She married, in St. Thomas's, Dublin, on 16 February 1892,  John George Foster (NOT Forster), who also originated in Ballinagh, Co. Cavan, and who was the son of a farmer John Foster. The Forsters and Fosters of Ballinagh may well be the same family with different spellings.  The witnesses were Emily's brother, Thomas Frederick Forster, and Jane F. Jolley.   The couple settled and farmed at Corduff, Ballintemple, Cavan and had numerous children, of whom seven were still alive in 1911:
    a) John F. B.G. Foster, born Cavan 1892.
    b) Ralph Moore Foster, born Cavan 1894.
    c)  William Graham Foster, born Cavan 1896.
    d) Supple George Foster, born Cavan 1899.
    e) James White Foster, born Cavan 1900.
    f) Eliza Jane Foster, born Cavan 1906.
     g) Thomas Henry Foster, born Cavan 1908.

4) Eveline Beatrice Forster born 15 July 1871 51 Grand Canal Street, Dublin. She married Albert Andrew Hall in 1901.

Ralph Moore Forster of Broomhill, Co. Cavan, died in Dublin at 86 Haddington Road on 12th April 1877; when his widow, Emma Matilda Forster, née Supple,  proved his will, she was living at 14 Richmond Avenue, Fairview, Co. Dublin.

The Supple Family of Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath:
To return to Eveline Beatrice Forster who married Albert Andrew Hall in 1901, she was the daughter of Ralph Moore Forster of Broomhill, Cavan, and of Emma Matilda Supple of Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath.

Emma Matilda Supple was the daughter of Frederick Austin Supple (1843 - 25th January 1863) and Anna Maria (possibly Nickson/Nixon) of Dunshaughlin.

Frederick Augustus Supple, was born to a Frederick and Maria Anna Supple at Wynnefield Place, Rathmines, Co. Dublin on 23 August 1843.  This may well be Frederick Austin Supple himself, since his registration of death notes his year of birth as 1843.

The older Frederick Supple was earlier noted in 1827 at Dunshaughlin, Rathreegan, Gathanisca, in Meath. A headstone in Dunshaughlin commemorates the early members of the Supple family, and was erected by W.R. Supple in memory of his brother, David Wilson Supple and other members of his family 1698 - 1876.   They were noted on the tombstone as follows:
Patrick Supple 1779.
John Supple 1807.
Anne Supple 1821.
Walter William Supple 1825.
David Supple, Major 17th Light Dragoons 1829.
Caroline Supple 1834.
Patrick Supple was noted as J.P. of Dunshaughlin - his death was announced in The Gentlemans Magazine of 1779.  Griffiths Valuations noted both Frederick A. Supple and David W. Supple in Main Street, Dunshaughlin.

On 1st Aug 1855, in Clonturk, North Co. Dublin,  Anna Maria Supple, the daughter of Frederick Supple, married William Richardson, son of William Richardson.  Anna Maria Richardson was therefore the sister of Frederick Austin Supple.   Frederick Austin Supple of Dunshaughlin died at Glasnevin, Dublin, on 25th January 1863, and his will was proved by William Richardson,  Proctor of the Admiralty, resident in Belgium, and by Thomas Nicholson Frood of 41 Bushfield Avenue, Dublin.   The daughter of Frederick Austin Supple, Jane Nickson Supple, married on 6th June 1857, Thomas Nicholson Frood, the son of Thomas Nicholson Frood.

David Wilson Supple (1805 - 1876) of Dunshaughlin Castle died on 8th June 1876, and his will was proved by his brother William Rathborne Supple Senior of Juneville, Dunleer, Co Louth.  (Given the dates,  David Wilson Supple and William Rathborne Supple, were possibly the brothers of Frederick Supple Senior, and the uncles of Frederick Austin Supple.) In his turn, William Rathborne Supple Senior died on 6th March 1895 and his own will was proved by his son, Rev. William Rathborne Supple of 8 Clyde Road, who was the curate of St. Bartholomew's, Clyde Road.

In 1901, Rev. William Rathborne Supple was living at 21 Clyde Road, which was later occupied by Rev. John Grogan and his family, who also had links to the Courtenay family.  This was probably pure coincidence.   Rev. William Rathborne Supple (Junior) married Elizabeth Mary Garner, the daughter of Samuel Hartwell Garner MD who died in Segowlie, India on 23rd July 1857. At this time, Rev. William Rathborne Supple was stationed in Gorey, Co. Wexford.  Children of Rev. William R. Supple and Elizabeth Mary Garner were St. George Rathborne Supple who was born on 30th July 1873 in Limerick, and William Hamilton Supple who was born on 23rd March 1878 at Coleman, or Arthurstown, Co. Wexford. A daughter, Eileen Supple, was born circa 1882 in Arthurstown, Wexford.  Both Eileen and William Hamilton Supple were living abroad in 1911 - Eileen was in Ealing and William was in India with the army.  William Hamilton Supple (28 March 1878-1972, died in Hampshire, UK) gradulated from Dublin University and was commissioned in 1900 as a Second Lieutenant fighting with the Dublin Fusiliers in the South African Boer war. Second Lieutenant in 1901 and Captain in 1908. Seconded to Liberia and serviced in the Frontier Field Force after WWI. Served with the Fusiliers through WWI with final promoton to Lt. Colonel, attached to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps for a time and retired when the Fusiliers were disbanded in 1922, following the separation of Ireland from Great Britain.

The wills calendars, online via the National Archives site, provide invaluable information...Dr. Robert Harrison Supple died at 14 Fair Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth, on 1st September 1903, with administration to Rev. William Rathborne Supple and Irene Constance Mabel Supple.   Robert Harrison Supple was born in Co. Louth, most likely to William Rathborne Supple Senior of Dunleer, Co. Louth.  Robert married Elizabeth Johnston. Their children were Mary Frances Supple, born Louth 17th January 1870, William Robert Supple born Louth 1st May 1871, Irene Supple, born 1875, Margaret born Louth 3rd January 1878.

The Frood Family:
The daughter of Frederick Austin Supple, Jane Nickson Supple, married on 6th June 1857, Thomas Nicholson Frood (1835 - 1915) the son of Thomas Ellis Frood and Elizabeth Frood of Fortview, Clontarf, North Co. Dublin.

The children of Thomas Ellis Frood and Elizabeth Frood were:
a)  Thomas Nicholson Frood born Co. Cavan in 1835, died 1915, who married Jane Nickson Supple in 1857.
b) Twins James Wallace Frood and Angelina Frood, born Clontarf , 4 July 1841.
c) William Gore or Gore William Frood, born 8 March 1844 in Clontarf.

Thomas Ellis Frood died on 13th September 1868 at Richardson Street, London;  his sons, Thomas Nicholson Frood and Gore William Frood, were the executors of his will.

The children of Thomas Nicholson Frood, wine merchant, and Jane Nickson Supple were all born at 41 Bushfield Avenue, Donnybrook, Dublin:
a) Eveline Maude, born 1864, died 18 months later on  4th March 1866.
b) Caroline Frances Frood, born circa 1871, Dublin.
c) Gore William Frood, named after an uncle, born 1874.
d) Rosanna Hassard Frood, 1876.
e) Eveline Beatrice Frood, 1877. She would marry, on 16 May 1899, Kevin McNally MD, son of Lawrence McNally - the witnesses were her first cousin Eveline Beatrice Forster and Albert Andrew Hall, who would themselves marry in 1901.
f) James Arthur Supple Frood, 25 January 1881.
g) Helen Gillespie Frood, 1885 at 43 Marlborough Road.
h) Harriet Helena Frood, who married William de la Ware Hemsworth, a clerk in the Bank of Ireland, and son of William Garrett Hemsworth of 25 Kenilworth Rd.,  on 3 January 1887. The witnesses were J. M. Frood and M.G.L. Hemsworth.

Thomas Nicholson Frood and Jane Nickson Frood were living in Henrietta Terrace, Dalkey, in both 1901 and 1911.   Thomas died on 13 January 1915, with probate to his son-in-law, William de la Ware Hemsworth, and to Henry G. Owens.  His wife, Jane Nickson Frood, died on 19th Oct. 1922 aged 85.  They were buried in Mount Jerome.

Of interest:  On 17 August 1850 in Clontarf, Lucinda Sarah Frood, the daughter of Major James Nicholson Frood, married William Fenton, the son of Richard Fenton of Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow.   The witnesses were W.T. Frood and William Courtenay.   William Courtenay was a member of the same Courtenay family as Andrew Albert Hall, and had links to the Fenton family.

Throughout the 1830s, mention was made of Major James N. Frood at Dundalk, Co. Louth - his grandson married in New Zealand.  This was also James N. Frood, LRCSI, who married on 10th September 1878 in Waipukurau, New Zealand, Mary Catherine Isabella Campbell, the daughter of J.H. Campbell of Waiapu.   His grandfather may be the Mr. James N. Frood aged 34 years, a passenger on the 'Prince Rupert' who drowned helping the stricken 'Bucephalus' which sank en route to New Zealand on the 4th /5th September 1841.
Major James Nicholson Frood had married, in 1818, Sarah Stewart of Ballydrain, Co. Down - a daughter, who remained in Ireland, was Harriette Louisa Frood (1825 - 1912) who died in the Marlborough Home, Rathmines, Dublin, on 9th May 1912 with probate to a married woman, Lucinda H. Drury.   In 1901,  Harriette Louisa Frood appeared on the census alongside her niece, Lucy N. Fenton of Wicklow.
Given the re-use of the name 'Nicholson' here, I suppose this last Frood family must be related to the previous one...

Notes on the family of Dr. Kevin McNally who married  Eveline Beatrice Frood on 16 May 1899:

The first members of this family that I managed to source on www.irishgenealogy.ie were Kevin's grandparents,  Laurence McNally and Mary Dillon, who married in St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Dublin, on 22nd February 1808, the witnesses being John and Alice Dillon.   The name 'Dillon' would reverberate through the following generations, helping to identify them.
On 3rd June 1823, Laurence and Mary McNally witnessed the wedding of Francis Dillon and Anne Lawlor in St. Andrew's.

Laurence McNally (the father of Dr. Kevin McNally) was born to Laurence McNally and Mary Dillon  in 1819, and was baptised the same year in St. Andrew's.  The first child must have died since a second Laurence McNally was baptised in the same church by the same couple later in 1828.  Other children baptised by Laurence and Mary McNally in St. Andrew's were John in 1810, Catherine in 1814, Bartholomew in 1817, Jacob in 1820,  Agnetm (?)  in 1828, Francis in 1828 and Alice in 1828, the last three were born elsewhere and baptised later on the same day, I presume....

The son of Laurence McNally and Mary Dillon, Laurence McNally Junior,  married Mary Maguire in the Pro-Cathedral, Marloborough Street, on 25th April 1868.  Both were resident at the McNally family home, 77 Lower Gardiner Street, and the witnesses were William Purcell, Bernard Rispin and Anna Maguire. Mary was the daughter of Thomas and Catherine Maguire.

Laurence McNally and Mary Maguire settled at 11 Richmond Place where their children were born:

a) Mary Catherine McNally was born 31st May 1869;  the baptism occurred in St. Agathas;  the sponsors were Catherine McNally and Robert Spence.

b) Evelina Maude Patricia McNally was born 25th March 1873; sponsors were Cornelius Joseph Maguire and Mary Theresa Dunne.

c) Florence Emily McNally, born 10th May 1875;  baptism sponsor was Thomas McNally.

d) Christina Mary Adelaide McNally, born 10th May 1876;  sponsor was Stanislaus Maguire.

e) Kevin, born 15th May 1877, and was baptised as Frederick Charles Kevin Dillon McNally in St. Agatha's. The sponsors were Bernard Rispin and Catherine McNally.  He would later marry Eveline Beatrice Frood.

Another family related to the above McNallys was the family of Thomas McNally and Catherine Maguire.  When their daughter, Mary Augusta McNally was born on 7th January 1873, they were living at 77 Lower Gardiner Street, the home of Laurence McNally when he married Maria Maguire.  Thomas was most likely Laurence's brother therefore.   The children of Thomas and Catherine McNally were:

Kathleen  Mary Baptiste McNally, born 27th December 1869, sponsors were Laurence McNally, Emily Maguire and William Purcell.
 Mary Augusta McNally,  born on 7th January 1873, sponsors were Stanislaus Maguire, Mary McNally and William Purcell.
Eugenia Mary Clothide McNally, norn 25th March 1874.
Thomas Laurence Mario Dillon McNally, born 14th February 1875. (Later a dentist....)
Irene Annie Henrietta Maria McNally, born 12th April 1878.

We descend directly on my mother's side from  Margaret Boyle and Joseph Deane of Crumlin who married in 1715.  Margaret Boyle was the daughter of the Honorable Henry Boyle and Mary O'Brien.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/11/deane-family-of-crumlin.html

The following post is merely a potted early history of the well-documented and extensive  Boyle family, and serves as a useful illustration of the Protestant planatation of Catholic Ireland, and how this Ascendancy family arrived and settled here.
I sourced much of it from  'Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious Family of the Boyles' written by E. Budgell in 1737.

Richard Boyle, the Great Earl of Cork (1566 - 1643)...
The first of this family to be made a peer was Richard Boyle, (the youngest son of Roger Boyle of Kent and of Joan Naylor, both of whom were buried in Preston, Kent), who was known as the Great Earl of Cork.  He was born on 3rd October 1566 in Canterbury, Kent, and would become Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, Viscount of Dungarvan, and Earl of Cork.

Trained as a lawyer, Richard arrived in Dublin on 23rd June 1588 with £27 and 3 shillings to his name.  He married the daughter of William Apsley of Limerick, which brought him £500 per annum, although she died young in childbirth not long after. Richard bought land in Munster but, being wrongly accused by the Treasurer of Ireland, Sir Henry Wallop, of being in league with Catholic Spain, and his land having been laid waste during the Munster rebellion (1579–1583), he sailed from Dingle town to Bristol and from there to London, where Wallop's false evidence caused him to be jailed.  Richard, however, managed to wrangle an audience with Queen Elizabeth;  he talked his way out of jail, and was duly appointed  Clerk of the Council in Munster.
Buying Sir Walter Raleigh's ship 'The Pilgrim', he sailed back to Munster where he participated in the Battle of Kinsale (1601) when the invading Catholic Spanish were defeated by the Protestant forces.   Henry Boyle personally conveyed the news of the victory to Queen Elizabeth in London.  Shortly afterwards in about 1603, he purchased Sir Walter Raleigh's vast estates in Munster.

On  25 July 1603, Richard Boyle married his second wife, Catherine Fenton, the daughter of Sir Geoffery Fenton, the principle Secretary of State in Ireland.  She had first been promised to him when she was just two years old.
On 12th March 1606, Richard was sworn a Privy Counsellor to James I.
In 1616 he was created Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, then Lord Viscount Dungarvan and Earl of Cork in 1620.  On 26th October 1629, he was created Lord Justice for the Government of Ireland along with his son-in-law Lord Viscount Loftus.  In 1631 he was appointed Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.
Richard Boyle died in Youghal in 1643.

The children of Richard Boyle and Catherine Fenton were:
1) Roger, who died aged nine at school in England on 10th October 1615 and was buried in Deptford, England.

2) Richard, who succeeded his father as 2nd Earl, born in Youghal on 20th October 1612, knighted as Viscount Dungarvan in Youghal on 13th August 1624.  He married Elizabeth Clifford , the daughter of the Earl of Cumberland, and died aged 86 on 15th January 1697.  Both his sons, Richard and Charles Boyle, predeceased him, so the succession passed to his grandson, the son of Charles by a daughter of William, Duke of Somerset.  A descendant of this line, Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle, married William Cavendish, the Duke of Devonshire, whose son, William would marry Georgiana Spencer, the reknowned Duchess of Devonshire.

3) Lewis who became Baron of Bandon and Viscount Kinelmeaky. Born 23rd March 1619. He married Elizabeth Fielding, the daughter of Sir William Fielding of Newenham Padox. Lewis, who supported the royal cause during the English Civil War, died at the Battle of Liscarrol on 3rd September 1642.  In recogition of her husband's support, Charles II bestowed a peerage on Lewis's widow in 1660 when she was created the Countess of Guildford.

4) Roger, the Baron of Broghill and Earl of Orrery. (See Below...)

5) Francis,  Lord Shannon, who was married at the London court to Elizabeth Killegrewe, with the support of the royal family.

6) Robert Boyle, born in Lismore, Waterford, on 25th January 1626, Robert Boyle remained a bachelor all his life.  Reknowned as a theologist and philosopher and the founder of modern chemistry, he lived with his sister Lady Ranelagh in Pall Mall, London.

7) Margaret Boyle, born in Channel Row, Westminster, England on 30th April 1629 when her father was 64 years old.

8) Lady Alice who married the Earl of Barrimore.

9) Sarah who married Lord Digby.

10) Lettice who married Lord Goring.

11) Mary who married the Earl of Warwick, ie: Charles Rich, son of Robert Rich of Leeze.

12)Joan who married the Earl of Kildare.

13) Dorothy who married Lord Loftus.

14) Katherine (1615-91) who married Lord Ranelagh, becoming Katherine Jones.  She lived in Pall Mall, London, and would later separate from her husband.  A leading intellectual of her time, she was a member of the Hartlib Circle whose interests included educational reform, medicine, agriculture and chemistry.

Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, Earl of Orrery, son of Richard Boyle and Catherine Fenton:
Born 26th April 1621, he married Margaret Howard, sister to the Earl of Suffolk.  Having travelled the continent as a young man, Roger returned to Ireland in 1641, a year of Catholic rebellion in Ireland where he summoned up a body of 500 men to fight the Royalist cause. However, following the execution of Charles I, Roger retired to his English seat at Marston;  although wishing to see the restoration of the King, he fought alongside Cromwell in Ireland, despite the suspicion that he was a Royalist at heart.  Following his return home to Munster, he finally nailed his true colours to the mast and sent his brother, the Earl of Shannon, to invite Charles II to Munster, a wise move which, following the restoration of the King,  led to Roger Boyle being created the Earl of Orrery.  Roger drew up the Act of Settlement which restored land to some Catholics, and which doled out much more of it to the Protestant population.
Sick and suffering from gout, Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, Earl of Orrery, died on 16th October 1679.

The children of Roger Boyle and Margaret Howard were:
1) Roger Boyle, his successor, the 2nd Earl of Orrery. A son, Charles, was born in 1676, and married Mary, the daughter of Richard, the Earl of Dorset. His son, Lionel Boyle, succeeded him, dying on 23rd August 1703.

2) Henry, Lieutenant-Colonel in Schomberg's Regiment, who died in Flanders in 1691 or 1693.  Living in Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, his house was besieged by the Catholic General McCarthy in 1688, following which Henry and his family fled first to Cork city, then to London in Mary 1689.  He was at this point appointed to the Protestant Schomberg's regiment, subsequently fighting at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 when the Protestant forces of William of Orange defeated the Catholic cause of James II.     Henry married Mary O'Brien, the daughter of Lord Inchiquin, Murrough O'Brien.

The daughter of the Honorable Henry Boyle and Mary O'Brien was Margaret Boyle who married Joseph Deane of Crumlin in 1715, from whom we directly descend.   A son of Henry Boyle and Mary O'Brien was Henry Boyle  (1648–1693), Speaker of the House of Commons, who was created Earl of Shannon.  His wives were Catherine Coote, the daughter of Chidley Coote of Killester, Dublin, who died childless, and Henrietta Boyle, the daughter of Charles Boyle, Earl of Cork; the second marriage occurred in September 1726.   Henry, Earl of Shannon died on 28th December 1764, and was succeeded by his son Richard Boyle.   His daughter was Juliana Boyle who married Somerset, Earl of Carrick in 1748.  This couple settled at Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, and I came across mention of them in a deed in the Registry of Deeds, ie: 548-195-362169.  This was one of those long and rambling, indecipherable documents which I was too lazy to transcribe - I merely noted the main points.  It was dated 25th February 1802 and named our maternal 5 x grandfather, Rev. John Pennefather of Newport as the executor of his maternal uncle's will, the Honorable Joseph Lyaght of the City of Cork.  This deed recited an earlier will, dated January 1773, whereby the Right Honorable Henry, late earl of Shannon, bequeathed £5000 to Richard, the present Earl of Shannon for the the use of Juliana, Countess of Carrick, Henry's daughter, and her husband Somerset, Earl of Carrick.

The Obituary of Richard, Earl of Shannon, the son of Henry, Earl of Shannon and of Henrietta Boyle, appeared in 'The Gentleman's Magazine' of 1807:

'At his seat at Castle Martyr, co. Cork, at the advanced age of 80, Richard Boyle, Earl of Shannon, Viscount Boyle, Baron of Castle Martyr, Knight of St. Patrick, Governor and Custos-Rotulorum of the County of York,  a Privy Counsellor in England and Ireland, and a Peer of England by the title of Baron Carleton of Carleton in Yorkshire.  
This distinguished nobleman (whose Parliamentary influence in the sister kingdom, previous to the Union,  was so unbounded, that no Vice-Regent felt easy on his throne, until he secured his Lordship's friendship) was born Jan. 30th 1727,  and sat first in Parliament in 1749, for the borough of Dungarvon.  In 1761, he was elected member for the county;  which situation he continued to fill until 1763,  when he succeeded his father, Earl Henry, in the peerage.   In 1766 his Lordship was appointed Master-general of the Ordnance, and sworn of his Majesty's Privy Council.    In December 1781,  he was appointed a Lord of the Treasury,  and on the first institution of the order of  St. Patrick,  nominated an original Knight Companion.   In September, 1787, created (at the King's influence, without any solicitation from his Lordship)  a Peer of Great Britain,  by the title of Baron Carleton, in Yorkshire, which honour had become extinct in another branch of the  Boyle family, by the decease, without issue,  of Henry Boyle, Lord Carleton, in 1724, who was principal Secretary of State to Queen Anne in 1707.  
The Earl of Shannon married,  Dec. 15, 1763, Catherine Ponsonby, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. John Ponsonby (Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland, and brother of the second Earl of Bessborough),  by the Lady Cavendish, daughter of the third Duke of Devonshire, by whom he has left issue, one son, Henry, Viscount Boyle, representative for the county of Cork, born August 8 , 1771, married, June 1795, to Sarah, fourth daughter of John Hyde, esq., by whom he has issue, three daughters;    and Catherine Henrietta, born Jan., 12, 1768, married, Feb., 12. 1784, to Francis, Earl of Bandon.  
The late Earl of Shannon was the eldest son of Henry Boyle, the first Earl, and many years Speaker of the House of Commons, by Lady Henrietta,  daughter of Charles Boyle, third Earl of Cork;  which Henry Earl of Shannon was son of the Honorable Henry Boyle of Castle Martyr  (by Lady Mary O'Brien, daughter of Murrough Earl of Inchiquin),   younger son of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, and grandson of Richard Boyle,  Earl of Cork.  The title of Viscount Shannon (revived in the late Earl's father)  was first conferred in 1660 by Charles II on the  Hon. Francis Boyle, sixth son of the first Earl of Cork, for his services in the Civil Wars;  but the title became extinct in 1740,  on the death of Francis, Viscount Shannon without male issue.'



3) Lady Elizabeth Boyle who married Foliot Wingfield, Viscount Powerscourt.

4) Lady Margaret Boyle, who married William O' Brien, Earl of Inchiquin.

5)  Catherine Boyle, who married William Brett of Somerset.

6) Barabara Boyle who married Arthur Chichester, Earl of Donegal.

This is a continuation of an earlier post about the Willis/Laval families of Portarlington, and explores the line of descent of Marie Louise Charlotte de Laval and Gilbert Tarleton.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/01/portarlington-laval-willis-connection.html

The Vicomte David d’Ully de Laval's stepdaughter, Marie Louise Charlotte (de Cobreville)de Laval , following the family’s return from France to Portarlington in 1751, would marry Gilbert Tarleton of Portarlington.

Gilbert Tarleton was the direct descendant of Gilbert Tarleton who had been born in Hazelwood, Lancashire, in about 1580, and who died in 1656 in Geashill, Killeigh, King's County - his grandson Gilbert Tarleton married Elizabeth Warren and would die in Portarlington in 1740.   Their son, Edward Tarleton (1708 - 1740) married Anne Tarleton, and their son was the Gilbert Tarleton of Portarlington who married Marie Louise Charlotte de Laval in the early 1760s.
The Killeigh and Portarlington Tarletons were related to the prominent Tarleton family of Liverpool.
(The register of the French Church in Portarlington also records the death in Dublin of another elderly Tarleton family member, Elizabeth Tarleton, aged 68 on 15th January 1797.)
On 20th February 1764, the Register of the French Church recorded the baptism of Edouard Tarleton, son of Gilbert and Marie Tarleton.  David de Laval, the child’s grandfather, was recorded as the godfather. Also present at the baptism was a second Gilbert Tarleton, noted as the uncle of the baby's father.  A Miss Anne Tarleton was also there.

On August 1767, the couple had another son, David Tarleton. Present at the baptism were Samuel Beauchamp, merchant of Portarlington whose daughter, Martha, was the second wife of Thomas Willis, and Miss Francoise de Laval, aka Frances or Fanny, the daughter of David Daniel de Laval.

Yet another son was Henry Tarleton who was of the military and who died in action.

A daughter of Gilbert Tarleton and Marie Louise de Laval was Henriette Tarleton who married Abel Castelfranc, a lieutenant-colonel in the English army.  He was a member of a noble family of Castelfranc, near La Rochelle, whose surname was De Nautonnier, and who had fled to England at the time of the Revocation.  The head of the family at the time of their flight from Catholic France was a cleric of La Rochelle, married to Marguerite Chamier. They had three sons and six daughters, three of whom, following a spell in captivity in France, had been released and settled temporarily in Geneva. The other six children had been en-route to a penal settlement when their ship had been captured by the English who brought the Castelfrancs to London.   One of the daughters married a Mr. Testas, another a M. Boudet.  Three of the sons entered the English army - two died in action, while the third later settled in Portarlington. The son who settled in Portarlington on a half-pension from the army of William of Orange was Gideon/Gedeon Castelfranc, who had married Marie Pin and who died in Portarlington on 11th July 1749. This was an ancestor of Abel Castelfranc who married Henriette Tarleton, the  daughter of Gilbert Tarleton and Marie Louise de Laval.  The second son of Gedeon Castelblanc was Josias Castelblanc who was pensioned in Ireland in 1692 and who died in Portarlington in 1695.  The third son of Gedeon was Abel Castelblanc who had been born in 1675 and who married Suzanne le Blanc;  this earlier Abel Castelblanc died in 1744.    The Abel Castelfranc who married Henriette Tarleton would have been contemporary with his wife and therefore would have been born in the 1750s or 1760s.

Gilbert Tarleton, born 1732, died in Portarlington aged 78 on 15th April 1810.  His wife, Marie Louise de Laval ,the daughter of Marguerite-Madeleine de Paravicini and the adopted daughter of David Robert d'Ully de Laval, died on 4th February 1814.
Baptised in Portarlington on 20th Feb. 1764, he was noted in the 1801 edition of  Wilson's Dublin as a tea merchant of  88 Great Britain Street.  A son, born circa 1804, was Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton of Monaghan.  A daughter was Mary Tarleton, who died aged 73 on 13th November 1868 (ie, she'd been born to Edward Tarleton in about 1795) - Mary Tarleton died at the residence of her nephew, Frederick Falkiner Tarleton, who lived at 3 Lower Pembroke Street.      A third son of Edward Tarleton, tea merchant, was Edward de Laval Tarleton, born circa 1809, a doctor of Bath, who died aged 40 in Eccles Street in Dublin on 10th September 1849, and who had settled in Pulteney Street, Bath, where he had, in May 1846, married Ann, the daughter of John Merryweather of Lindum Terrace, Lincoln.   Ann, his widow, would later die at Pulteney Street, Bath, aged 69, on 2nd March 1869.

The grandson of Marie and Gilbert Tarleton of Portarlington, and son of Edward Tarleton, was the Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton, Rector of Tyholland, Co. Monaghan, who was the representative of the Vicomte de Laval - in 1845 a Caroline Tarleton married an Edward Rotheram, which may be the origin of Rev. John's middle name.
Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton was educated by a Mr. Fea, and entered Trinity College, Dublin,  on Nov. 6, 1815 aged 14.
Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton was married to Judith Catherine Falkiner who had died in Monaghan on 24th July 1868.  She had been born in 1798 to Frederick Falkiner (1760 - 1839ish) and to Louisa Fraser (1761 - 1817) in Congor House, Tipperary.

The Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton died at Tyholland Glebe, Monaghan, on 21st February 1885 - his will was proved by his eldest son, Frederick Falkiner Tarleton of 3 Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin.

The children of Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton and Judith Catherine Falkiner were:
1) Frederick Falkiner Tarleton, born circa 1822.  Lived at 3 Lower Pembroke Street. .   A barrister, Frederick Falkiner Tarleton would die at Pembroke Street on 30th June 1899, leaving a widow, Caroline C. Tarleton.  This couple had married on 7th August 1860 - she was the widowed Catherine Campbell, daughter of Irwin W. Paterson of Kilrush, Co. Clare.  Three of their children were baptised in Tyholland Church, Monaghan - John Gilbert M'Ivor Tarleton on 2nd February 1862, Judith Amelia Tarleton on 5th March 1865, and Agnes Louisa Tarleton on 19th March 1870.         Judith Amelia Tarleton, known as Aimée Tarleton, married the doctor Alfred Ernest Taylor, son of Nathaniel Sneyd Taylor, on 27 July 1895; in 1901 she was living with her widowed mother, Caroline C. Tarleton, in Dunlaoghaire, Dublin, and with her children, Noel E.F. Taylor and Aimee C.V.F. Taylor.    The unmarried daughter of Caroline Paterson and Frederick Falkiner Tarleton, Agnes Louisa Tarleton, was also living with them.

2) Francis Alexander Tarleton, born circa 1830, solicitor, called to the bar in 1868, although other records note him as a senior fellow of TCD, Dublin, and a professor of natural philosophy.   He published several treatises on thermodynamics and maths.
On 9th July 1868, Francis Alexander Tarleton of TCD married Gertrude Albinia Fleury of 24 Upper Leeson St, the daughter of Charles Marlay Fleury - the witnesses were Robert George Flakiner and Annie Fleury who was the bride's sister.   Gertrude Albinia Tarleton died on 2nd December 1912 at 66 Upper Pembroke Street - she had previously lived at 24 Upper Leeson Street, and her will was proved by her husband Francis Alexander Tarleton.  
 In 1879 when he proved the will of an Eliza Tracy, late of 73 Bushfield Avenue, but who died at 3 Lower Pembroke Street, Francis Alexander Tarleton was living at 24 Upper Leeson Street. He also proved the will, along with Arthur Fleury, of the widowed Catherine Fleury in 1873.    Francis Alexander Tarleton of 24 Upper Leeson Street died in July 1920 and his own will was administered by Emma Catherine Fleury.

3) Rev. John Tenison Tarleton, born circa 1830.  Was minister at Kilmore, Co. Monaghan, then at St. Thomas's, Old Charleton, Kent, UK, where he died on 18th September 1910. His widow was Margaret E.T. Tarleton.

4) Edward de Laval Tarleton, born circa 1832. Of the Royal Artillery.  Captain Edward de Laval Tarleton died on 25th December 1899 at Gourlencour, Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey - Gourlencour was the name of the Laval family estate in Picardie, France.  Edward had been named after a possible uncle, also Edward de Laval Tarleton, a doctor of Bath, England, who died on 10th September 1849 in Eccles Street, Dublin.  In 1848, he had been noted at 19 Great Pulteney St. in Bath.

5) Eliza Louisa Tarleton, born circa 1834 in Tyrone, who died unmarried on 11th July 1908 at 52 Wellington Road, Dublin.  In 1901 she had been living with her brother, Francis Alexander Tarleton at 24 Upper Leeson Street.

In 1788, Richard Grattan the Elder, of Drummin, Kildare,  married Elizabeth Biddulph, the eldest daughter of Francis Biddulph of Vicarstown, Queen's County, and of Eliza Harrison.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/03/dr-richard-grattan-drummin-house.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/09/notes-on-family-of-frances-grattan-of.html


The Ancestry of Elizabeth Biddulph:
The Biddulph family had their orgins in Biddulph, Staffordshire. In the 1640's, at the time of the English Civil War, they supported the monarchy, and, following Cromwell's downfall in 1664, the first of the family to come to Ireland, Francis Biddulph, settled at Wexford where it is believed he had been granted land by Charles II as a mark of loyalty to the Crown.

Francis Biddulph of Kilpatrick, Co. Wexford, married  Alice and died in 1673;  these were the parents of Nicholas Biddulph of Rathrobin, who died on 5 March 1702, having married Charity and having had four children - John, Alice, Jane and Francis.  Charity Biddulph, widow of Nicholas Biddulph of Rathrobin, married, secondly, John Newcombe of Aghanvilla, King's Co.

The sons of Nicholas and Charity Biddulph of Rathrobin were Francis Biddulph of Rathrobin and Fortal,  and John Biddulph who lived in Stradbally, Co. Laois, and who died around 1740.  The oldest son Francis renewed the perpetual lease with Lord Shelbourne in 1722. He had one son, Nicholas, by his wife Mary Jackson. This son, Nicholas Biddulph of Fortal and Rath-Robin, became High Sherriff of Kings County in 1741. He had two daughters, Sarah and Margaret. On Nicholas Biddulph’s death in 1762, the estates devolved to his two daughters – Sarah Nesbitt, and Margaret, Mrs Bernard. Sarah died in 1772, and the final surviving daughter of Nicholas Biddulph, Mrs Bernard of Castle Bernard, died without issue in 1811, leaving Rathrobin to her cousin Lady Margaret Waller.

John Biddulph of Stradbally, the second son of Nicholas and Charity Biddulph of Rathrobin,  had Nicholas of Glenkeen, Borrisoleigh, Tipperary;  the grandson of this Nicholas Biddulph of Glenkeen was Nicholas Biddulph of Congor, Tipperary, and of Fortal, King's County.  Nicholas of Congor and Fortal was born in 1803 and married twice, first to Catherine Lucas of Rathkeney, Cavan, and then to Isabella Digges La Touche, the daughter of James Digges La Touche of Sans Souci, Dublin.    Nicholas received Fortal following a legal case concerning the inheritance of the Biddulph family estates taken by his cousin, Francis Harrison Biddulph, the son of Francis Biddulph and Eliza Harrison, who, accordingly, received Rathrobin.

The second son of John Biddulph of Stradbally,  was Francis Biddulph (born 1727 - 1806), who lived at Vicarstown and who married Eliza Harrison.  (I've been unable to ascertain the parentage of Eliza Harrison, although her son, Francis Harrison Biddulph would later marry Mary Marsh whose family had earlier intermarried with a Harrison family of Lisburn, including a Francis Harrison.)

During the uprising of 1798, The Edinburgh Magazine reported that the house of Francis Biddulph of Vicarstown was attacked by rebels;  the family retreated upstairs, and Mr.  Biddulph managed to keep them at bay, although a maid servant was wounded, and all the windows and furniture were damaged.

Francis Biddulph and Eliza Harrison had eight children:
1) Francis Harrison Biddulph who married Mary Marsh. See below.

2) Nicholas John, born 23rd August 1778, died 1779.

3) Eliza, born 26th June 1766, married Richard Grattan JP of Drummin, Kildare, on 20th February 1788.

4) Mary Anne, born 9th July 1769, married William Scott of Graiguenaskerry, Queen's Co.

5) Patience, March 1771 - June 1772.

6)  Frances Margaret Sarah, June 1772 - 1775.

7) Patience Biddulph, born October 1773, married in 1801, Henry T. Warner of Warner Castle, Meath and of Merrion Square, Dublin.   Patience Warner, née Biddulph, died aged 88 at Mount Merrion Avenue, Dublin, on 31st March 1859.
A daughter of Patience Biddulph and Henry Warner was  Eliza Warner who married Rev. Edward Nangle, the son of Walter Nangle of Meath;  Edward Nangle spearheaded the Achill Mission in Co. Mayo, the primary goal of this being the conversion of Catholics to Protestantism.   Edward Nangle and Eliza Warner had two sons, William Nangle and Henry-Beresford Nangle, and three daughters, Frances-Patience Nangle, Henrietta-Catherine Nangle and Matilda Nangle.
On 1st December 1890, a Patience Grace Warner of 5 York Terrace, Cork, died at Achill, Mayo, and her will was proved by a Walter Nangle of 24 Rathgar Road, Dublin, who was the guardian of the universal legatee, the legatee (not named) being a lunatic.
Poet and novelist , Biddulph Warner,  was the son  of Patience Biddulph and Henry T. Warner of Marvelstown, Meath;  there was also a Henry Biddulph Warner of Marvelstown, who was most likely another son of Patience Biddulph and Henry T. Warner.
On 10th September 1859 in St. Anne's, Dublin, Harriet Amelia Warner, the eldest daughter of Biddulph Warner JP of Marvelstown, married Joseph Kirkwood, JP of Killala, Co. Mayo;  the officiating clergyman was Rev. J.C. Scott;  a witness was a possible sister, Henrietta Maria Warner.   Widowed, Harriet Amelia, later married a second time on 22nd August 1874, to Major-General Charles Dawson.
Biddulph Warner of Merrion Square and Marvelston,  son of Patience and Henry T. Warner, must have been twice married, since he was known  to have a stepdaughter, Agnes Blandford,  daughter of Charles Blandford/Blanford.
A daughter of Henry Warner of Merrion Square was Matilda Warner who married an Atkinson, son of William Atkinson of Forgney House, Longford  in July 1836.  The marriage took place in Castlebar, Mayo - a Matilda Atkinson died in Ballina, Mayo, on 12th May 1876 with probate to a Harriet Scott of Ballina.   This will was administered again later, this time they gave an extra address for Matilda Atkinson, Peafield Terrace, Mount Merrion, and the will was administered by a doctor, Thomas H. Scott of Ballina who was the representative of his wife, Harriet Scott.
On 10th April 1832, at Edgbaston, Warwickshire, Henry Biddulph Warner married Amelia, 4th daughter of Dr. Solomon of Liverpool.   Amelia was most likely Jewish, and was buried in Mount Jerome, Dublin, when she died 21st December 1847 - "To the memory of Amelia, wife of Henry Biddulph Warner Esq., of Dawson Court, County Meath, by birth and by faith, a daughter of faithful Abraham..."    Henry Biddulph Warner may have married a second time to a member of the Lee family, since the name was given to some of his children...
On 23rd March 1865, Biddulph Lee Warner of the 91st Fusiliers, son of Henry Biddulph Warner of Marvelstown, Westmeath, married Harriette-Isabella Hamilton.  They had Ernest Henry Lee Warner at Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, on 10th May 1869.
In May 1867 in Salcombe, South Devon, Alice Lee Warner, the youngest daughter of Henry Biddulph Warner of Marvelstown, married  Arthur Charles Newman, the son of Rev. W.A.Newman, the late Dean of Cape Town.
In 1869 at Sidmouth, Francis Biddulph Warner,  died aged 19, youngest son of the late Henry Biddulph Warner of Marvelstown.

8)  Harriett, born 1781, married on 26th January 1799, Rev. Richard Clarke.  Richard Clarke had been born to William Clarke in Queen's County in 1777; he entered TCD aged 17 on 6th October 1794, and completed his BA there in 1800.  For many years he was the minister of St. Michael's in Portarlington, and was also the sovereign of the town for twenty years. he died there on 3rd November 1838.
His widow, Harrietta, died later on 20th October 1850 in Portarlington.  The children of Rev. Richard Clarke and Harrietta Biddulph were:
a) Elizabeth Clarke, born circa 1800.
b) Mary Clarke,
c) Frances Clarke.
d) Rev. Richard Clarke of Geashill, King's County.  He was baptised in Lea, Portarlington, on 12th December 1807, and entered TCD, aged 17, on 1st November 1824.  He obtained a BA in 1829, and an MA in 1832.  He served parishes in Kildare, Lea, but primarily in Geashill.  He died on 16th July 1866 in Geashill, with probate of his will to his brother, Jonathan Clarke of Pembroke Street, Dublin, and to Mary Clarke, widow of Eglinton Park, Kingstown.
 The papers recorded the births of some of his children - on 5th March 1849, a daughter was born in Geashill;  on 5th February 1855, a son.   On 19th May 1859 at 1, Ormond Terrace, Rathmines,  the wife of Rev. Richard Clarke of Geashill, gave birth to another son.
An older son, also Rev. Richard Clarke, married in October 1868, Helen Scott, the youngest daughter of the late John Scott.
e) Dr. Francis Clarke was born in Portarlington in about 1808 and died in October 1877.  He was the medical superintendant at Blackwatertown, Co. Armagh, and was noted there in 1843.  He seems to have had contact with Thomas Grattan, a cousin, who was at that time a surgeon-dentist also in Armagh.     In May 1839, Francis Clarke of Blackwatertown, Armagh, was married by Rev. Richard Clarke of Moniver, to Rebecca, the daughter of Jonathan David Clarke of Merrion Square and of La Bergerie, Portarlington.      (Note: this older Jonathan David Clarke lived at this time in La Bergerie, Portarlington, and also in Merrion Square, Dublin;  he may be another member of this family, possibly the brother of Rev. Richard Clarke of St. Michael's, Portarlington.)
 Francis Clarke MD married a second time in Dublin on 11th April 1860, this time to Jane Crozier Magee, the daughter of Charles Magee - in 1860, Francis Clarke was living at Sydney Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.  The witness was Jonathan Clarke.   When Francis Clarke died on 4th October 1877 at 3, Ormond Road, Dublin, (late of Avon Cottage, Armagh),  his widow was named as Jane Crozier Clarke of Ormond Road.   She died on 3rd May 1907 at 13 Appian Way, Dublin, with probate to the spinster, Margaret J. Clarke, and to the Venerable Francis Edward Clarke, Archdeacon of Elphin, Co. Roscommon.   Rev. Francis Edward Clarke died on 9th March 1910 at Boyle, Co. Roscommon.     He had been born in Armagh.
f) A solicitor, Jonathan Clarke,  was born 1816 and attended Kings Inns; he died on 28th July 1887 with probate to his widow Emily Clarke.    This was probably Emily Minchin, the daughter of Henry Minchin of Holywell House, Hampshire, who married Jonathan Clarke of Portarlington on 13th July 1843 in St. Anne's
Jonathan Clarke and Emily Minchin had two children at 13  Pembroke Street, Dublin - Henry Jonathan Clarke, born 22nd December 1843 and Mary Emily Clarke/Minnie Emily on 13th February 1847.     When Jonathan Clarke died in 1877, his primary beneficiaries were his widow, Emily, and his unmarried daughter, Minnie Emily, who were both living at 30 Clarinda Park, Kingstown.
g)  Edward John Clarke.
h) Patience Clarke who died in 1860 in Lea, Portarlington.

Francis Harrison Biddulph, son of Francis Biddulph and Eliza Harrison:
Francis Harrison Biddulph, for many years the Registrar of the Court of Exchequer,  the son of Francis Biddulph and Eliza Harrison, was born on 26th December 1774 and married in 1797 Mary Marsh, the daughter of the barrister Francis Marsh and descendant of Jeremy Taylor, the Bishop of Down and Connor.  Mary Marsh's parents married in Dublin on 9th September 1775, her mother being Anne Vero, the heiress of Neptune Vero of Georges Lane, Dublin.   Along with Mary Marsh who married Francis Harrison Biddulph,  Francis Marsh and Anne Vero had two sons, Digby Marsh and Rev. Francis Marsh of Ballintober, Queen's Co., whose son, another Francis Marsh, settled at Springmount, Queen's County.

(Notes on the Marsh Family: 
Rev. Jeremy Taylor ( 1613-1667), at one time Chaplain in ordinary to Charles I, then Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland, had three daughters:  Phoebe who died unmarried;  Joanna Taylor who married Edward Harrison of Maralave, Co. Antrim;  Mary Taylor who married Rev. Dr. Francis Marsh (1625-1734) who was Archbishop of Dublin,  and Dean of Down.   

Dr Francis Marsh and Mary Taylor had two sons, Francis Marsh and Rev. Jeremy Marsh of Kilmore, who married, as his second wife, Elizabeth daughter of Simon Digby of Obertstown, Kildare, Lord Bishop of Elphin.

The son and heir of Rev. Francis Marsh of Kilmore and of Elizabeth Digby was Rev. Jeremy Marsh of Athenry, Galway, who married, Jane French, the daughter of Patrick French of Monivea, Galway - Rev. Francis Marsh of Athenry died at Camira, Queen's County in 1790.   

The children of Rev. Jeremy Marsh of Athenry, Galway:
1) Francis Marsh, barrister ...see below.
2) Rev.  Henry Marsh of Killyman, Galway, who married Sophia, daughter of William Woolsey, Rector of Tullycorbet, Monaghan.
3) Rev. Digby Marsh of Trinity College, Dublin. Died 3rd November 1791.
4) Rev. Jeremy/Jeremiah Marsh of Rosenallis, or Mountmellick, Queen's County - he married, in August 1788, Rachel Montgomery, whose father, Colonel Montgomery of Dublin, was murdered during the 1798 rebellion.  Rachel died in 1837.  Their sons were Sir Henry Marsh MD,  Digby Marsh of Trinity College, and Jeremy Marsh the father of Rear Admiral Digby Marsh of the Royal Navy.       In 1794 he was living at Camira Glebe, Rosenallis,  Queen's County, which is where his father, Rev. Jeremy Marsh, had died in 1790.

The eldest son of Rev. Francis Marsh of Stradbally,  and Jane Franch of Athenry, Galway, was Francis Marsh, barrister-at-law, who married Anne Vero, daughter of Neptune Vero of Gt. George Street, in 1775, and who was the father of Mary Marsh, the wife of Francis Harrison Biddulph.  Anne Vero's sister, Eliza Vero, married a Norcutt Pidder on 9th September 1775, the same day as Anne Vero married Francis Marsh.

The children of Francis Marsh, barrister-at-law, The Abbey, Stradbally, Queen's County, and Anne Vero:
1) Rev.Jeremy Marsh of Ballintobber, Queen's County, who married Sarah, daughter of Richard Connell in 1815.  His son was Francis Marsh of Springmount, Mountrath, Queen's, who married Anna Maria Maxwell.
2) Digby Marsh who married Elizabeth Garstin of Braganstown, Louth.
3) Mary Marsh who married Francis Harrison Bidduulph.
4) Jane Marsh who married William Walker of Dublin - their daughter, Frances Walker married, firstly, Hugh O'Reilly of Meath, then Rev. William Maziere Brady.
5) Elizabeth Marsh who married Pierce Moore.
6) Anne Marsh, who married William Marsh.
7) Sarah, wife of John North.
8) Frances Marsh, wife of James Geraghty.)

Francis Harrsison Biddulph and Mary Marsh settled at Vicarstown, where Francis died in July 1827;  his widow, Mary Marsh, died later on 9th August 1861 at 3 Kingstown Parade,  Kingstown, Co. Dublin.  Her will was proved by three of her unmarried daughters who had been living with her in Kingstown, Elizabeth, Mary and Caroline Biddulph.

From 1805 Francis Harrison Biddulph worked, as already mentioned, as Register of the Court of Exchequer in Dublin, which was notorious for its inefficiency and slowness.   His duties were to be:   “...to attend the sitting of the Court of Exchequer; to take down notes of the decrees, rules and orders, in Equity causes pronounced by the said Court, which he does in a rough book kept by him for that purpose; to see that such rules, orders and decrees, as are made and pronounced, are properly posted from such rough book, in the rule books and books of hearings, which books are kept as records of the office; (these rules and decrees he compares); to receive and file notices, and list of Equity motions; to peruse and examine all drafts of decrees, to see that they contain the proper recitals; to amend such drafts, conformable to the notes of hearings, and to the decrees pronounced by the Court previous to such decrees being signed and settled by the Chief Remembrance;r and to inrol all final decrees.”
His emoluments arise from fees and a salary of 100₤ paid by the Chief Remembrancer. Of the amount of the fees Mr Biddulph has not enabled us to speak with any certainty; he states, that he has kept no regular account of them; but he estimates, rather vaguely, the amount of his net annual emoluments, at from 900 to 1,000₤ per annum after deducting from his receipts 160₤ a year for bursements .
Mr Biddulph appears from his return to execute a great part of the duties in person and for this purpose to give his attendance constantly during the sitting of the Court. He is assisted by a clerk of his own nomination to whom he allows a salary the amount of which is differently stated by him and by the clerk the former representing it to be 100₤ and the latter only 60₤ per annum...' (From an 1818 Government Report of the Commissioners.)

Francis Harrison Biddulph is chiefly remembered for the 18-year lawsuit he waged against his cousin for the control of Rathrobin in Tullamore. He finally got possession of this home and estate in 1824, but Francis doesn’t ever appear to have lived there. After his death in 1827 the family appear to have left Vicarstown. He and his father were buried in Curaclone graveyard near Vicarstown.

The children of Francis Harrison Biddulph and Mary Marsh were....

1)   Anne Biddulph, born 15th September 1798, married Captain Simon Biddulph, the son of Sir Theophilus Biddulph and Hannah Prestridge.  This was an English branch of the Biddulph family whose seat was in Westcombe Kent.  Captain Simon Biddulph died on 25th April 1823, leaving one daughter.

2) Elizabeth, born 10th November 1799 ; died 10th June 1893.

3) Mary, born 10th March 1801; died 10th September 1801.

4) Francis Wellesley Marsh Biddulph, born April 1802.  See below.

5) Mary, born 16th September 1803; died 2nd April 1863.

6) Frances.

7) Nicholas Biddulph, born 20th December 1805, married Miss Steele, died in 1900.

8) William, born 1st March 1809, died young.

9) Harriett, born 8th November 1810;  she went to the U.S.

10) Sarah Nesbitt Biddulph, born 11th December 1814;  she went to Australia - her descendants are currently researching the Biddulphs.   At the height of the Yackandandah goldrush, she married William Day, a New York miner, the son of Landon Day and Hannah Thorpe, on 10 Feb 1856 in - a son, William Day, was born in Yackandandah in 1857,  followed by a daughter, Sarah, in 1858 who would later marry Francis Davidson.

11) Charlotte, born 9th December 1815.

12) Patience, born March 1817.

13) Caroline, born 16th May 1819; died 28th May 1874 in Upper Georges St., Kingstown.

The eldest son of Francis Harrison Biddulph, Francis Wellesley Marsh Biddulph of Rathrobin Castle, Tullamore, (Rathrobin was the ancient seat of the Molloy family; the Biddulph's house was built in 1694) born in April 1802, married in Liverpool in 1845, Lucy Bickerstaffe, the second daughter of the late Robert Bickerstaffe of Preston, Lancashire.   He died on 28th March 1868,  widow Lucy on 29th August 1896 - her will noted her two addresses as Rathrobin, Tullamore, and Clare House, Tiverton, Devon.

"A Tiverton Will Suit - In the Probate Division yesterday, the President gave judgement in the case of Cadell and another versus Willcocks and others.  The suit had reference to the testamentary depositions of the late Lucy Biddulph of Clare House, Tiverton, who died on the 29th August 1896.  The plaintiffs claimed probate of three wills, dated 26th of April 1890, 5th of July 1894 and 5th of September 1895.  The defendants in the suit were Anne Adela Waller Willcocks (widow of Dublin),  Middleton Biddulph (of Annaghmore, Tullamore, King's County),  Assheton Biddulph (of Moneygayneen, King's County) and Lucy Biddulph Colclough, who pleaded that the will of 1890 was revoked by the will of 1894, and that was revoked by the will of 1895.  His Lordship came to the conclusion that only the will of 1894 was revoked and he accordingly pronounced for the other two wills."  (From 'The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette' of 8th December 1897.)

 Francis Wellesley Marsh Biddulph and  Lucy Bickerstaffe had:

1) Annie Adela Waller Biddulph, born 25th March 1847 and married, in 1866 in Killoughey, Captain John Willcocks Junior of St. Lawrence, Chapelizod, Dublin, the son of John Willcocks, the late resident magistrate of King's County.   The ceremony was carried out by the groom's uncle, Rev. William Willcocks.  A daughter, Lucy Annie Willcocks was born on 22nd February 1868 in Tullamore, King's County and married Lionel Lockington Harty in Dublin in 1894.  Marion was born 1 Aug 1869 (she married Frederick Francis Ledwich in 1891) and Wilmot Willcocks  was born in Tullamore, on 12th November 1870  she married Stafford Cox in 1897.   A son was born in Chapelizod in April 1872.  Florence Cawlinn Willcocks was born in Dublin on 1877 and married Benjamin Tilly in Dublin in 1897.
Captain John Willcocks Junior proved the 1871 will of his uncle, Rev. William Willcocks of St. Laurence, Chapelizod.
John Willcocks, late of the 3rd Middlesex Militia, died at St. Lawrence, Chapelizod, aged 50, on 31st May 1882.   His widow, Annie Biddulph, later married John Ousely Bonsall Murphy, in Dublin in 1898.

2)Francis Biddulph, born 14th August, died 31st August 1848.

3) Colonel Middleton Westenra Biddulph of Rathrobin.  (The name 'Westenra' entered the family via the Warner family.)  He married Vera Josephine Flower. He died in 1926.

4) Assheton Biddulph of Moneyguyneen, King's County, born 12th October 1850. He married in Warwick, on 17th June 1880, Florence Caroline Cunningham Boothby, the daughter of Rev. Cunningham Boothby of Holwell, Oxfordshire.  (She was called Hannah Catherine on the 1901 census.)
Assheton Biddulph, a keen foxhunter, was master of the King's County Hunt.
Assheton Biddulph died 17th January 1916 with probate of his will granted to his brother, the retired Colonel Middleton W. Biddulph and to a member of the Boothby family, Colonel George M. Boothby.
He had a son, Lieutenant /Bertie Assheton Biddulph, who died young in Aldershot in 1917. Daughters were Norah Beatrice, Eithne Patricia,  Kathleen Jane (1880 - 1968), Irene, born circa 1882.

Assheton disapproved of the marriage of his daughter Kathleen to Arthur Magan. He decided to cut her off from any inheritance she might get. Asheton’s brother Lt-Colnel Middleton Westenra Biddulph took pity of Kathleen’s son William Magan, naming him as the heir to Rathrobin. Unfortunately, the IRA burned Rathrobin down before he came into his inheritance

5) Franc/Frank  Digby Biddulph Colclough, born 22nd April 1853.  (The Digby name entered the Biddulph family via Franc's grandmother, Mary Marsh.) Franc married, in September 1885, Louisa Colclough, the wealthy daughter of John Thomas Rossborough Colclough, and heiress of Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford, at which point Franc assumed the additional name of Colclough.   There were rumours he had already been bigamously married in London, however, and, following his marriage to  Louisa Colclough at midnight in the ruined Abbey of Tintern, two more ceremonies took place in Dublin in order to reassure Louisa.

son, Caesar Franc Bickerstaff Plantagenet was born on 15 September 1886, and died in infancy; a daughter, Lucy Wilmot Maria Susannah Biddulph/ aka May, was born in 1890.  Following May's birth in 1890, her mother,  Louisa, suffered a breakdown and was kept confined in a tower by her husband at Tintern for five years;  a stout woman, he put her on a strict diet - on 13 July 1895, the day of her husband's death, she was released whereupon proceeded to consume a pound of butter neat. She had the impressive name of Louisa Maria Susanna Colclough Rossborough Biddulph Colclough.  When she died on 29th January 1912, her will was proved by Colonel Middleton Biddulph, her brother-in-law.
Their daughter, Lucy Marie Biddulph Colclough/May, lived at Tintern Abbey on the Hook Head peninsula until 1959, when she moved out, eventually bequeathing the Abbey to the state in 1963.

6) Gertrude Louisa Biddulph, born 22nd September 1856;  she married twice, first to George Carpenter Anderson, then, in Jan 1893, to Dr. Nevil Pottow Cadell of Farringdon, Berkshire.

This post concerns the family of Mary Anne Newcombe, daughter of Benjamin Newcombe and of his first wife, Martha/Marthe Beauchamp.  Mary Anne Newcombe was the third wife of our immediate maternal ancestor, the Portarlington schoolmaster Thomas Willis.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/01/children-of-thomas-willis-schoolmaster.html

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The Newcombe family originated in the Geashill area of King's County/Offaly close to Portarlington. The baronies of Geashill and Upper Philipstown are 3.5 miles northwest of Portarlington, and includes the parish of Killeigh.  The chief residences there (in 1847 ) were Cloneygowan, Woodfield, Bloomville, Aghanvilla, Retreat and Finter.   Cloneygowan, Bloomville and Aghanvilla were associated with the Newcombe family; Portarlington with the Willis/Laval famillies;  Killeigh with the Tarleton family.

The first of this Newcombe family to settle in the Irish midlands was John Newcombe who received land at Cloneygowan, Portarlington, in 1693; his wife was Catherine - a daughter, Catherine Newcombe (1693 - 1763), is believed to have married William Henry Odlum of Cloneygowan, naming a son Newcombe Odlum in 1745, thus beginning a tradition of Newcombe/Odlum marriages in the area.



The son of John and Catherine Newcombe was Mary Anne Newcombe's grandfather, William Newcombe (Senior) who had been born in Ballychristal near Aughnavilla. He died in Nov. 1763, and had married another member of the Odlum family, Elizabeth Odlum.  Some of their  children were:

1) Arthur Newcombe was born to William Newcombe and Elizabeth Odlum about 1730. He married Mary Duplex in 1758 in St. Peter's, Dublin.   Mary Duplex was the daughter of George Dupleacks and Alicia French; she had been born in September 1734 and died in 1789.

Arthur Newcombe and Mary Duplex had the following children:

a) William Newcombe was born to Arthur Newcombe and Mary Duplex   in 1759. A builder, he married Marianne Atkinson, daughter of Thomas Atkinson and Letitia Knox. He died in May 1835 in Cloneygowan, Tullamore.  His wife Marianne died in 1843 in Clonegowan House, Portarlington.   They had Letitia Abigail Newcombe in about 1780 ; George Newcombe was born in 1800 and married Isabella Susanna Carey on 28 Feb 1818 in St. Peter and Kevin, Dublin; Thomas Newcombe; Rebecca Newcombe, born about 1790 - she married Samuel Ridgeway on 15th April 1820 in St. Peter and Kevin and died in 1861;  Marianne Newcombe;  Richard Newcombe was born about 1765 in Ballychristal and died in 1818 in Portarlington - his wife may have been Marianne Disney, daughter of W. Disney of Offaly.  A possible son of this Richard was the Richard Newcombe of Ballychristal who married Mary Anne North On 28th May  1831 - the Tithe Applotments of the 1830s note Richard Newcombe at Ballycristal, Geashill. The only son of Richard Newcombe of Ballycristal, Geashill, was the engineer William James Newcombe, who married in Bray, Co. Wicklow, on 21st October 1868, Mary Evelina North, the daughter of Thomas North Esq.  They had a son, Thomas William Newcombe, at 54 Blessington Street, Dublin,  on 16th January 1870.    Another son was James Haddington Newcombe, born at 54 Blessington Street, on 28th April 1871.
George Newcombe, a son of William Newcombe and Marianne Atkinson, was born in 1800, and married Isabella Susanna Carey on 28 Feb 1818 in St. Peter and Kevin, Dublin. He died in 1897 in Clonegowan, Tullamore.  Their children were William John Newcombe who married Elizabeth Maria Newcombe on 11 Apr 1856 and who died in 1860 of typhoid;  Susannah Newcombe was born about 1826 and married Henry Clarke on 17 Jul 1856 in St. Peter and Kevin's, Dublin -she died in 1873;  George Newcombe was born in 1828. He died on 02 Jul 1855 in Cloneygowan and this may have been the doctor, George Newcombe, mentioned as resident in Portarlington in the 1840s;  Marianna Elizabeth Newcombe was born in 1822 in Peters Place Dublin and died after 1911; Elizabeth Letitia Angeline Newcombe was born on 5th Mar 1827 in Cloneygowan House and died in 1853 in Cincinnati, Ohio, having married Thomas Shaw Odlum in Ireland. 

b) George Newcombe, the son of Arthur Newcombe and Mary Duplex,was born 10 May 1762 in Killucan, Westmeath.   

c) Arthur Newcombe was born in 1764 to Arthur Newcombe and Mary Duplex . He received a game license for Heathstown, Westmeath in 1809; his wife was possibly Anne Kelly. They married in 1804.  The Protestant Kelly family featured heavily in deeds relating to the Willis/Laval families of Portarlington - they lived in both Portarlington and Dublin.

d) Mary Newcombe was born to Arthur Newcombe and Mary Duplex in 1771. She married James Atkinson on 01 Feb 1790 in St. Peter's, Dublin. 

2)  Margaret Newcombe was born born to William Newcombe and Elizabeth Odlum  about 1730.  She married the Portarlington merchant Edward Geoghegan and had:   Margaret Geoghegan in 1754;  William Newcombe Geoghegan - A  broker, he was declared bankrupt in Chester in 1793, but reappeared back in business in Liverpool the following year - a freeman of Portarlington, he was admitted onto the corporation of the town on 26th June 1820;  Elizabeth Geoghegan;   Mary Geoghegan was born in 1753.      A possible brother of the merchant Edward Geoghegan was Gerald Geoghegan of Dublin.  Edward Geoghegan was mentioned time and again in deeds involving the Laval and Willis families of Portarlington.

3) John Newcombe was born born to William Newcombe and Elizabeth Odlum on 28 Jun 1736. He married Mary Odlum in 1765.

4) William Newcombe born to William Newcombe and Elizabeth Odlum.

5)  Mary Anne Newcombe's father, Benjamin Newcombe, was born to William Newcombe and Elizabeth Odlum.  He died before 1798.   He bore the middle name 'Hall', and several deeds mention members of the Hall family.  Some records denote him as a clergyman, but I haven't found any evidence of this myself. He married twice, first to Marie Beauchamp, and then to Francoise d'Ully de Laval, the daughter of David de Laval of Picardie and Portarlington.

Deed 513-334303-47, dated 14th March 1790, between Richard Clarke of Portarlington and Thomas Willis, whereby Richard Clarke was passing on a house to Thomas Willis for the lives of Mrs. Louise Hall, otherwise Beauchamp, who was the wife of Major Hall,  Mary Anne Newcombe who was the  wife of the Portarlington schoolmaster Thomas Willis, and Miss Harriot Newcombe, the daughter of Benjamin Newcombe.    The witnesses were Gerald Geoghegan of Dublin, Edward Geoghegan and Richard Clarke of Portarlington.

Deed 265-288-175141, dated 29th March 1769, between Henrietta de Laval of Portarlington and William Burrell, also of Portarlington, was signed in front of Edward Geoghegan, merchant of Portarlington, and Theophilus Beauchant, son of Samuel Beauchant.

A Deed of 1798 includes Benjamin Newcombe, deceased, Benjamin's daughter Hariot Newcombe, his daughter Mary Anne Willis, married to Thomas Willis, Richard Clark, Ed Geoghegan, Gerald Geoghegan, Mary Geoghegan, Major Hall and wife Louise Hall, née Beauchant/Beauchamp.

Rev. Benjamin Newcombe married, firstly Marie Beauchant, (probably the daughter of Samuel and Marianne Beauchamp, who had been born in Portarlington on 11th April 1743). Given that two of Benjamin Newcombe's daughters - Mary Anne and Deborah Charlotte - were supposedly step-sisters, then the eldest child, Mary Anne Newcombe, was possibly the daughter of Benjamin Newcombe and Marie Beauchant.
Benjamin married, secondly, her friend Francoise d'Ully de Laval (1740 - 11th July 1780), the granddaughter of the Vicomte David d'Ully de Laval of Portarlington and Goudelencour, Picardie.

The children of Benjamin Hall Newcombe were:

a) Mary Anne Newcombe (born circa 1763, died 20th June 1804) who married the schoolmaster Thomas Willis (1748 - March 18th 1825) of Portarlington as his third wife on 14th 1795.  She was perhaps the daughter of the first wife Marie Beauchant.

b)  Deborah Charlotte Newcombe  (born 1778; died  24th September 1857) who married in 1808 Thomas Gilbert Willis  (May 21st 1785; he died January 11th 1837), the son of the schoolmaster Thomas Willis of Portarlington.   Deborah Charlotte Newcombe was supposedly the half-sister of her older sibling Mary Anne Newcombe.

c)  Henrietta Newcombe was born in 1777.

d) Hariot Newcombe.

Other Newcombes of Geashill:
William Newcombe, who died prior to 1805, of Ballycristal, was married to Elizabeth Newcombe - his son and heir was James Newcombe of Ballymoney, King's County.  (Yet another Odlum/Newcombe alliance -  Elizabeth Odlum was born about 1760 and married a James Newcombe on 25th November 1757  in Abbeyleix, Queen's County.)
In 1811, a William and Arthur Newcombe were noted at Bloomfield House, Geashill. The schoolmasters of Abbeyleix School in 1827 were William Newcombe and Daniel Newcombe.

Newcombe/Ridgeway:
William Newcombe, along with an indecipherable member of the neighbouring Odlum (Rookcrew?) family, witnessed the King's County wedding, on 15th April 1820, of Rebecca Newcombe, the daughter of William Newcombe and Marianne Atkinson, of St. Peters, Dublin, to Samuel Ridgeway of Kilmurry, King's County.  Samuel Ridgeway was the son of John Ridgeway and Mary Odlum who had married on 2nd Feb 1768 in Geashill.

Samuel Ridgeway and Rebecca Newcombe had  Thomas Newcombe Ridgeway was born in 1821 in Clonegowan House who married Elizabeth Mary Ridgeway on 30 Nov 1848 in Ballycommon, Kings County and who died in 1878;   Marianne Ridgeway, born on 06 Jul 1823, died in 1906; William John Ridgeway, born about 1829, died in Apr 1846.

Another member of this family was Samuel Ridgeway's nephew,  Rev. John Henry Ridgeway, son of John Ridgeway and Charlotte Clarke of Ballydermott House, King's County. Rev. John Henry Ridgeway's son would later be knighted as Sir William Ridgeway, the Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge.  This Professor William Ridgeway would later prove the will of Rev. John Dickson Eccles Newcombe in 1907, who was the grandson of William Newcombe, merchant of Athy and Dublin.

Thomas Newcombe Ridgeway, son of Samuel Ridgeway and Rebecca Newcombe, died at Aghanvilla, Geashill, King's County, on 3rd March 1879; his widow was Elizabeth Mary Ridgeway.  His daughter was Rebecca Jane Ridgeway who married the chemist, William Porter, in Dublin in 1893.


Rev. Arthur Newcombe and Catherine Wingfield:
Note:  although Arthur Newcombe was also of the Geashill Newcombes, it's unclear to me which William Newcombe was his father.  His father, William, was married to Elizabeth Bradell of Carlow.

12th July 1833:  Rev. Arthur Newcombe (born circa 1787) of Abbeyleix, Queen's County, the son of William Newcombe (son of Arthur) and Elizabeth Bradell, married Catherine Wingfield (Powerscourt);  witnesses were  William Newcombe and William Odlum.  Their daughter, Isabella, born 1836, married General John Christopher Guise on 18th September 1861 in Abbeyleix, Queen's County.    A son, William Wingfield Newcombe, was born 13th June 1834 at Abbeyleix, and was baptised in St Peter's, Dublin.  He died in Co. Carlow on 27th April 1857, a bachelor, with probate to his sister, Isabella Newcombe of Glenbawn, Queen's County, his only next-of-kin.

Rev. Arthur's sister was Joyce Newcombe, born about 1788, who married Peter Vickers in 1805.

Rev. Arthur Newcombe's brother was William Newcombe who married Elizabeth Letitia Sarah Eccles, the daughter of Daniel Eccles and Anne Dickson, on 23rd October 1813. She was the sister of John Dickson Eccles of Fintona, Co. Tyrone.  She died at Rockfort on 27th October 1833.  Given his later use of the name 'Bradell', this was most likely the William Newcombe who follows, who had business dealings in both Dublin and Athy, Co. Kildare.

The children of William Newcombe and Elizabeth Letitia Sarah Eccles were  William John Newcombe, who was born in Leitrim in 1814, and who married Mary Belinda Dickson on 1st Jun 1848 in St. Peter's, Dublin. He died in Woodville, Leitrim ;  Daniel Eccles Newcombe was born to William and Elizabeth Letitia in 1818 in Dublin. He died in 1853;  Benjamin Arthur Bradell Newcombe was born to William and Letitia in 1825 in Dublin - he married Elizabeth Maria Frances Wilhelmina Eccles in 1852 and died in 1864.   Another daughter of William and Letitia was Elizabeth Maria Newcombe who married William John Newcombe on 11 Apr 1856 in Booterstown, Dublin and who died in 1896.

On 28th October 1852, Rev. Benjamin Arthur Braddle Newcombe, the son of William Newcombe, merchant of Barrowford, Co. Kildare, married Elizabeth Maria Frances Wilhelmina, the daughter of John Dickson Eccles of Fintona, Co. Tyrone.  They were therefore cousins. She would die on 27th September 1883.  Her brother was named as Robert D. Eccles.   Rev. Arthur Braddle Newcombe died in Tyrone on 4th June 1864.

Slaters Directory of 1846 notes Daniel Eccles Newcombe, barrister, and also William Newcombe, wine and tea merchant of W. Newcombe & Son,  and also William Newcombe Junior, all at 104 Baggot Street, Dublin.    A second address for the above merchant was Barrowford, Athy, Co. Kildare.

The younger William Newcombe of 104 Baggot Street married, on  1st June 1848, Mary Belinda Dickson, the daughter of the Baggot St. barrister, John Dickson.   William Newcombe, son of the late William Newcombe of Dublin, died at Bray, Co. Wicklow, on 26th October 1854....on 12th May 1854, the elder William Newcombe of Barrowford, Athy, Co. Kildare, had died at 5 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin.

A son of Rev. Benjamin Arthur Newcombe was Rev. George Newcombe who married Alice Ruckley, the daughter of Joseph Ruckley, on 27th January 1847;  Rev. George Newcombe lived at 22 Lower Rutland Street, Dublin. This might be a typo - the correct address may have been 22 Upper Rutland Street because he was noted at this address in 1847.
...a Letitia Newcombe died aged 50 on 15 June 1872 at Upper Rutland Street;   a Frederick Newcombe died at 33 Upper Rutland Street on 15 September 1877, aged 5; a Frances Newcombe died at 32 Upper Rutland Street, aged 50, on  28 May 1879.
....at 22 Upper Rutland Street lived the wine merchant Thomas Arthur Newcombe and his wife, Dorinda Maria, who, on  25th August 1860, had a daughter Anne Letitia Newcombe. On 12th August 1862 a second daughter was born - Frances Catherine Mary Newcombe.  This family moved north to Clontarf, Co. Dublin, where daughter Elizabeth Dorinda Newcombe was born on 21st November 1864.

The son of Rev. Benjamin Arthur Newcombe of Donaghmore, Tyrone, was Arthur Braddle Newcombe, who died at Valetta Lodge, Kingstown, Co. Dublin, on  15th August 1864, with probate of his will to his brother,  Rev. John Dickson Eccles Newcombe of Navan, Co. Meath.  Another brother was Charles Thomas Newcombe who died on 1st December 1891 at Peafield Terrace, Blackrock, Co. Dublin - his brother Rev. John Dickson Eccles Newcombe administered the will;  in 1891 he was living in Edenderry, Queen's County.

Possible daughters of Charles Thomas Newcombe, who died at Peafield Terrace, Blackrock,  were Hessie Catherine Newcombe of 12 Peafield Terrace, Blackrock, who died in China, on 1st August 1895,  Jemima Newcombe, who administered her will, and Ethel Lucy Newcombe who also died at Peafield Terrace on 11th April 1897 and whose will was granted to Rev. John Dickson Eccles Newcombe.   Jemima Newcombe was also mentioned in the will of the unmarried Anna Maude Frances Newcombe, late of China, who died at the Vicarage, Edenderry, on 12th December 1910.   Jemima, along with Janie Newcombe, also proved the will of Benjamina Eliza Newcombe of Leeson Park who died 22nd July 1915 in China.
Hessie Newcombe was an Anglican missionary in China, along with four of her sisters, and was murdered there on 1st August 1895 during the Kucheng Massacre, a precursor to the Boxer Rebellion.  She had been in charge of the Kucheng Girls' Boarding School;  her sister founded the 'Hessie Newcombe Memorial School for Girls' in her memory in Shanyang in 1895.

Jemima also proved the will of Hester Frances Dickson of Hollybrook, Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, who died there on 19th January 1918.

Rev. John Dickson Eccles Newcombe died on 1st May 1907 in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow;   his will was granted to Rev. Robert L.D. Eccles and Professor William Ridgeway.   This was Sir William Ridgeway who had been born to Rev. John Henry Ridgeway and to Marianne Ridgeway in Ballydermot, King's County in 1858 and taught Greek in Queen's College, Cork, before taking up the post of Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge - he was granted the will of Marianne Ridgeway who died at 32 Corrig Avenue, Kingstown on 14th January 1906.
Elizabeth Frances Newcombe, widow of Rev. Benjamin Arthur Braddell Newcombe, also died at Valetta Lodge, Kingstown, on 2nd February 1865, the executrix of her will being a second widow, Elizabeth Newcombe.

I've decided to do a post about the Gales of Ashfield/Valleyfield on the Carlow/Laois border, simply because of a suspected early family link to these people.  Our paternal great-grandmother was Rebecca Cuthbert, whose aunt, Maria Cuthbert/Culbert, married John Thomas Gale, the son of William Gale, both of these Gale family members being of Laois/Carlow.
John Thomas Gale and Maria Cuthbert/Culbert settled in Limerick city, and a current descendant of this line recently emailed me to let me know that they were told in the 1950s of a connection between their family and the Parnell family, although they are unclear about the exact link.  Since my own family in Dublin had also been told in the 1940s about this supposed link to the Parnell family, then taking a closer look at the Ashfield Gales might be interesting.
I've done, therefore, a potted history of the Gales, which follows, much of this research having been done by American descendants of the Gale/Kearney families.   I've been particularly interested in the children of Anthony Gale and Anne Delany of Ashfield, especially two of his sons, Captains Thomas and William Gale, who both settled at Valleyfield, the property immediately next to Ashfield Hall.

Having just spent a day in the Registry of Deeds in Dublin, it seems more and more likely that William Gale, the father of John Thomas Gale, was indeed the son of the blind Captain William Gale of Valleyfield, since Eliza Gale, the widow of the younger William Gale, was noted as the widow of William Gale of Valleyfield
when she died in Westland St., Limerick, on 25th September 1875.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/09/maria-culbert-and-john-thomas-gale.html

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There is some connection between the Parnell family of Rathleague and the Delany/Gale family of Ashfield, Ballyroan, which accounts for the use of the Parnell name in later Gale generations. The abstract of a deed of 27th October 1784 states that the terms of the deed was for the three lives of Thomas Gale, Sir John Parnell (son of an older John Parnell) and Frances Delany, now Frances Moffitt.
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The first of the English Gale family to settle in Queen's County/Carlow was Anthony Gale who was married to a Miss Wandesford.  Anthony Gale was a member of Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads during the Irish Rebellion in 1649 - 1652. Cromwell confiscated large tracts of land owned by Irish Catholics and awarded it to his supporters and soldiers, including Anthony Gale. The tracts were in Westmeath and Queen's Counties, the latter of which was the former Crotteneagle estate that later became known as Ashfield. Anthony first appeared in Ireland on the 1659 Census as a land holder in Crottentegle. He claimed his land "in right of an Adventurer as well as in right of a Soldier."

The son of Anthony Gale was Samuel Gale of Ashfield Hall, who married Alicia or Ellis Grace, the daughter of Oliver Grace of Shanganagh, later named Gracefield, an MP and Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer of Ireland.    Samuel and Alicia Grace Gale resided at Ashfield Hall but almost lost the estate as a consequence of Samuel's support of Catholic James II against the Jacobites during the Williamite War in Ireland. However, the Jacobites were defeated in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and Samuel retained the property, later inherited by his son Anthony.

Anthony Gale, the son of Samuel Gale and Alicia Grace, married Mary Vicars of Levally, daughter of William Vicars/Vigors, in 1732, these being the immediate ancestors of Peter Gale, the last of the Gales to inhabit Ashfield Hall in the 1850s.   The second wife of Anthony Gale was Margaret Tench Driscoll.   Peter Gale (1736 - Living 1780) was born to Anthony and Mary Vicars Gale of Ashfield Hall. He graduated from Trinity College and in 1758 married Mary Catherine Browne, the daughter of William Browne of Browne's Hill, Carlow. He inherited Ashfield Hall and was succeeded by his son Samuel Gale who married Susanna Brush, daughter of James Brush of Dublin, in Dunleckney, Carlow, on 9th January 1803.   A James Brush, 1774-1812 , jeweller, watchmaker,  and Madeira wine merchant, of  7, St. Andrew St., Dublin, was noted as the Treasurer of the Masonic Female Orphan School in the 1790s - he was possibly the son of James Brush of Co. Down, with a brother, George Brush who served his apprenticeship with the Dublin Goldsmith Robert Calderwood.   Samuel Gale and Susanna Brush were the parents of Peter Gale (1803 - 1857) of Ashfield Hall, Laois, who married Anna Maria Harriet Lynch, the daughter of Captain Fleeson of the 6th Dragoon Guards and widow of Patrick Lynch of Ballycurrin Castle, Rocklands, Mayo - the wedding took place in St. George's, Hanover Square, London,  on 20th June 1837.   The marriage settlement was marked with deed 1837-14-19 which named Anna Maria Harriett Lynch of Talbot Street, Dublin,  William Raymond Fitzmaurice of Carlow, John Fleeson of Cork City and Samuel Ryan of Great Britain Street, Dublin.This Peter Gale was the last of the Gale family to live at Ashfield in Laois. He also owned property in Carlow, but was forced by debt to sell up in the 1850's - an article dated 11/13/1851 in The Morning Chronicle at Dublin noted that Ashfield Hall, the estate of Peter Gale, had been divided into 12 lots and sold. Peter Gale died 28th September 1857 at age 54 and was buried in Monkstown Parish,  Cork.

Another son of Samuel Gale and Alicia/Ellis Grace was Thomas Gale, whose wife was named Mabel and who lived at Sampson's Court, Queen's County, but who was also associated with the property named Bellbrook, which had previously been named Barnadunty.

Deed 605-751-413029, dated 27th February 1808, which detailed the marriage settlement made between the families of Anthony Gale and Eleanor Aldis or Oldis.  The parties to the deed were Thomas Gale of Bellbrook;  Francis Oldis of Mount Trafalgar, Kilkenny, who was the father of the bride;  Henry Ellis of Rockbrook, Kilkenny;  Lieutenant Anthony Gale of the 17th Regiment, 2nd son of the said Thomas Gale of Bellbrook;  Elinor Aldis, 2nd daughter of Francis Aldis.

 The sister of Captain Anthony Gale was known to be Charlotte Gale (1828 - 1849) who died in Killabin, Queen's, both being the children of Thomas Gale of Sampson's Court and of Bellbrook.

In October 1849, Charlotte Amelia, eldest surviving daughter of the late Captain Anthony Gale of 17th Regiment died in Carlow, of a rapid consuption.
The eldest son of Captain Thomas Gale of the 17th Regiment was Thomas Francis Gale (1810 - 1857) of Barrow View, Carlow, who married Emily/Amelia McKay on 21st May 1832.  In the 1850s, Thomas Francis Gale was leasing land (206 acres) in Moyadd, Queen's County, from Peter Gale of Ashfield Hall.
The daughter of Thomas Francis Gale, Emily Gale, was born 22nd June 1833 at 3 Warrington Place, Dublin.  A son, Robert Gale, was born at 7 Warrington Place on 28nd February 1836.
 In 1847, Thomas Francis Gale was noted at 8 Warrington Place, Dublin;  at 10 Warrington Place was Mrs. Captain Gale, presumably the widow of Captain Anthony Gale of the 17th, and mother of Thomas Francis Gale.
Thomas Francis Gale's second wife was Anna Fuller, only daughter of Adam Fuller, Esq. of Woodfield, Kings Co, on 8th June 1841 -  she died June 14th 1854  at Barrow View House.  The son of Thomas Francis Gale and Anna Fuller was Robert Peter Gale, born circa 1848 - on 20th June 1843,  Robert Peter Gale was presented with a mug by Peter Gale, Esq. of Ashfield Hall.

Deed 1857-27-245 names Robert Peter Gale of Barrow View House, Graigue, Queen's County, and Emily Harriet Gale, spinster of the same place, wrangling about money with James Palmer of the Carlow Bank.

Thomas Francis' daughter, Emily Gale, married George Perceval Wilson, hotelier, son of George Wilson, in Dublin on 19th Oct 1857.  George Perceval Wilson had been born to George and Margaret Wilson of Killeshin, Queen's County, on 11 December 1832.  The numerous children of George Perceval Wilson and Emily Gale were  Emily Frances Wilson, 22 July 1858, at Somerton House, Killeshin;Isabella Oliva Wilson, 11 March 1854, at at Somerton House, Killeshin; Alice Harriette Gale VICARS Wilson born 22 June 1861 at Barrow View, Carlow;  Georgiana Mary Wilson  at Barrow View, on 1 May 1863;  Sophia FLEESON Wilson at Barrow View on 10 December 1865 ;George Gale Wilson born Barrow View, Carlow, 29 Apr 1864; Anna Maria Wilson on 1 April 1867 at Greenhill, Killeshin;  Richard Francis Wilson at Greenhill Cottage, Killeshin, born 5th Jan 1870;   Josephine Charlotte Wilson at Greenhill Cottage on 3 August 1873.
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 Thomas Gale ( 1710-15 - 1780) of Sampson's Court, Queen's County, who married Mabel, had the Thomas Gale of Sampson's Court/Belbrook mentioned above.

Thomas and Mabel also had Anthony Gale who married Anne Delany, and whose American descendants have extensively published their research into this branch of the Gales online.

Anthony Gale and Anne Delany:
Anthony Gale , born circa 1761 although the exact date is unclear, the son of Thomas and Mabel Gale of Sampson's Court, Queen's County, married Anne Delany, the daughter of Malachi Delany.

(A John Gale was named in his Anthony's marriage settlement to Anne Delany.  This John Gale of Ashfield Hall was named in deed 271-281-179721, registered 19th February 1770, whereby John Gale of Ashfield demised a house on the west side of Merrion Square, Dublin, to Robert Fitzgerald of Dublin, the house being next door to another also owned by the same John Gale.   A later deed of 11th December 1787, (392-547-259935), seems to mention the same property on the west side of Merrion Square, this time being made over by a Grantham Gale, hosier of Dublin, and by Samuel Gale of Naas, Kildare, to Joseph Hone of Dublin.)

The children of Anthony Gale, who died insane,  and Anne Delany were:
1) Lt. Col./Commandant Anthony Gale of the US., 4th Commandant of the US Marine Corps. Born 17th September 1782, he emigrated to Philadelphia in 1793.  He joined the Marines and married, in 1801, Catherine Swope, daughter of Rev. Benedict Swope.   At the end of 21 years of service, Anthony Gale was promoted to Lieut. Col. Commandant on 3rd March 1819.  He was, however, given to heavy drinking and psychiatric instability, and was accordingly removed from office in 1820.  It is worth noting that his own father had died insane.
A daughter was Emily Gale, who married, on 30th June 1830, William S. Campbell in Kentucky where the elderly Anthony Gale had settled.
A son of was named as Washington Gale; a second son was William A. Gale.

2) Parnell Gale, born 1772 to Anthony Gale and Anne Delany, who was the correct age to be the Parnell Gale who was the Mayor of Galway in 1817.

3) Captain William Gale of Valleyfield, Ballyroan, the son of Anthony Gale and Anne Delany.   I accessed his military discharge papers on the Find My Past site.     Born circa 1778 in Ballinakill, Queen's County, he was discharged on 18th May 1802, aged 24:
  'His Majesty's 13th Regiment of Lt.Dragoons whereof General Fras. Craig is Colonel.   
      These are to certify that the bearer hereof, William Gale, Serjeant in Capt.Bennett's Troop of the aforesaid regiment, born in the Parish of Ballinakil (sic) in the County of the Queen - aged 24 years - and by Trade a farmer - hath served honestly and faithfully in the said Regiment two years and a half;  having borne a commission of Ensign one year and a half in the Wallace Fencible Infantry - but by reason of a violent inflammatory terminating nearly with a loss of vision, occurring during a march from Norwich to Colchester - is hereby discharged and humbly recommended as a proper object of His Majesty's Royal Bounty of CHELSEA HOSPITAL....' (Ipswich Barracks, 18th May 1802.)

It seems that William Gale's son was the teacher and scripture reader, William Gale of Carlow, who married Eliza Baldwin in 1832, and whose son was the John Thomas Gale who married Maria Culbert in 1861.
Eliza Gale, née Baldwin, when she died, aged 68, in Limerick on 25th September 1875, was noted as the widow of William Gale of Valleyfield, Ballyroan, Laois.

A son of Captain William Gale of Valleyfield was Parnell Gale of Cork from whom the Cork Gales descend. Parnell Gale's son was the Under Sheriff of Cork, John Gale of Hollymount, Cork who had been born July 5th, 1854.  John Gale married, on August 22nd, 1876, Mary Diana, daughter of the late Thomas Atkins, of Cork;  John died on 3nd October 1916 with probate of his will to his son, the solicitor,  Parnell Gale, who had been born in 1868.   Another brother was Berkeley Gale, who had been born on 11th March 1851 in Cork.
(A Parnell Gale was buried in Deansgrange Cemetery: 'PARNELL GALE, died 19th May 1948 and his wife, EVELYN, died 26th March 1972.')

Another son of Captain William Gale of Valleyfield was  Samuel P. Gale of Cork, then of the USA, who married a cousin, Mary Burchell.

A daughter of Captain William Gale was Grace Gale, born 1824, who married William Thompson, son of Robert Thompson, in Durrow, Queen's County, on 12th September 1849. A possible child of this marriage was a William Gale Thompson.

A daughter of Captain Gale of Valleyfield was married in Kingston, Ontario, on Aug 15, 1843 by Rev. John Machar -  Jane Ann Gale, youngest daughter of the late Capt. Gale of Valleyfield, Queens County, married Andrew Drummond,  eldest son of the late Robert Drummond.   Andrew Drummond worked for the Commercial Bank in Toronto.  Jane Ann Drummond died in Toronto in 1850.

4) John Gale, born to Anthony Gale and Anne Delany.

5) Jane Gale, born to Anthony Gale and Anne Delany  - She married Patrick Glascott and had two daughters,  Mary Glascott in 1796, and  Frances Glascott in 1797.

6) Frances Gale, born to Anthony Gale and Anne Delany, who married John Kearney in 1800 - their children were  Frances Kearney, born 1809, John Kearney, born 1811,  Jane Kearney born 1813 and John Kearney, born 1822.  The Kearney's emigrated to the US.

7) Malachi Gale, son of Anthony Gale and Anne Delany.   Malachy Gale married Catherine Holland and his children were baptised in the Catholic Ballinakill Church - 1801 Anthony Gale;  1802 Hellen Gale;  1804 Margaret Gale; 1806 Catherine Gale; 1808 Parnell Gale;  1811 Malachi Gale.  This family  also emigrated to USA - aboard the 'Catherine', leaving Dublin on 14 July 1817 and arriving in Philadelphia on 24 September 1817.

8) Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield.   Both Captain Thomas Gale and his older brother, Captain William Gale, were noted as being of Valleyfield.  

The military records for Captain Thomas Gale are available to download free of charge on the UK National Archives Discovery site.    
Born circa 1777, he had joined the 87th Regiment as an ensign, aged 30, in November 1807. He also served in the 12th Foot, and went on half pay in 1817.  In 1818, it was noted that he had lived for the previous five years in France, and also occasionally in Ireland.

 Helpfully, the record lists some of his children, two of whom had been born to his first, unknown, wife - Frances Gale, born 2nd September 1800, and Margaret Gale, born 5th November 1802.  Daughter Frances Gale married William W. Fitzgerald of Ballyroan, Queen's County, on 30th October 1828.  The Dublin Evening Mail confirmed that Frances was the eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield.

Thomas Gale also had three children by his 2nd wife, Harriet Thomas, who he married in Dublin on 8th February 1808.   James Gale was born on 5th November 1810,  Harriet Gale in 1817 (this was nigh-on illegible), and Eliza Gale on 19th January 1820.

Although not mentioned in the miltary records of his father, possibly because he was no longer living at home when the record was compiled, the eldest son of Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield was Sharp Thomas Gale, later known as the simpler Sharp Gale, who was born in about 1796  and who emigrated to the US with other Gales. His obituary was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 21 February 1876:
 “On the 15th inst., at the advanced age of 80 years, Thomas Sharp Gale, eldest son of the late Thomas Gale, of Valleyfield, Queen’s County Ireland. He was a nephew of the late Colonel Gale, United States Marine Corps, and cousin of the late Sharp Delany, first collector of the Port of Philadelphia under George Washington.'
Sharp Delany, 1739-1799, after whom Thomas Sharp Gale was named, was the son of Daniel Delany of Ballyfin, Queen’s County, and of Rachel Sharp, granddaughter of noted Dublin Quaker Anthony Sharp who also owned land called Roundwood near Mountmellick, Queen's Country.  Anthony Sharp bought property in Philadelphia - Thomas Sharp Gale's cousin, Sharp Delany, was buried in St. Peter's, Philadelphia, when he died there, aged 60, on 13th May 1799.    Also in the St. Peter's records were recorded the following deaths who may, or may not, be related:
 Rachel, daughter of Sharp and Margaret Delany, who died 11th December 1767, also a second Rachel, daughter of Sharp Delany, who died 6th September, 1781.    Dorothy Delany, daughter of Sharp Delany, who died 15th october 1788.  Sharp, son of Sharp Delany, who died 31st July 1784.  Frances Baldwin, daughter of Sharp, who died 5th July 1800.  Thomas Delany who died 6th June 1806.   Margaret Delany who died 20th May 1813. Ann Delany who died 6th September 1832 aged 56.  Mary Delany who died 20th January 1846 aged 60.

Sharp Gale, the son of Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield, as noted in deed 1861-27-4, had power of attorney over Anthony Gale, presumably his uncle, Commandant Anthony Gale, who had also settled in Philadelphia and who struggled like his father with psychiatric issues.  The 1861 deed was a land deal involving the Perrys, namely William Perry of Ballinagore, Westmeath, and Henry Robert Perry of Clara, King's/Offaly, who were both the executors of the will of the late Robert Perry of Rathdowney.   The Perrys had been sold a share in property from Sharp Gale which had formerly been held by the late Anthony Gale of Sampson's Court, and which was afterwards held by Thomas Gale of Sampson's Court and by Thomas Gale of Barnadunty.
Another deed, 1868-9-232, named land previously owned by an Eliza Gale - ie: Woodpark, Rathdowney - but which was now owned by Robert Perry.  The deed states that an Eleanor Gale married Robert Perry, and names the couple's children as Ellen Perry of Belmont, Anne Gale Perry of Belmont, Mary Walpole Perry of Belmont, Arthur Perry of Burgh Quay, James Perry of Belmont, King's Co., John Miller Perry of Rathdowney, Thomas Perry of Belmont, Henry Robert Perry of Belmont, and Robinson Gale Perry of belmont.

A second son of Captain Thomas Gale was Anthony Gale who is referred to as the eldest son of Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield - he was known to be the  heir to Peter Gale.  At some stage this Anthony Gale was thought to have left for America.

From The Freeman's Journal of 1841: 'In this city, David Armstrong Esq., of Baggot Street, to Harriet Maria, fourth daughter of the late Captain Gale of Valleyfield in the Queen's County.'   (In the miltary records, she appeared as third on the list, so perhaps there was an extra older daughter floating about, or perhaps she was the daughter of Captain William Gale of Valleyfield, rather than the daughter of Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield.)
David and Harriet Maria Gale had emigrated to Canada before living in Chelsea, Massachusetts, where their eldest son Robert Gale Armstrong, died 8th March 1863, aged 19.  They also had a son called Francis (named after his grandfather) -both were born in Canada. The 1850 USA census shows the family living in Ward 10 in Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Mass. with three sons - Robert, Francis and Samuel.  By 1855, they've moved to Dorchester, Norfolk, Massachusetts.

David Armstrong, born circa 1825, was the son of the Longford builder, Francis Armstrong of Baggot Street and of Catherine Williams.
David's father, Francis Armstrong, builder of 55 Lower Baggot St. married, as his second wife, in 1860, Julia Ann Hornidge, daughter of Peter Hornidge.  In the same year at 55 Baggot Street, Matilda Armstrong, daughter of Francis Armstrong, married John Croker Walsh of Waterford.  Another daughter of this builder, Francis Armstrong, was Frances Elizabeth Armstrong, who married in 1857 William Whitsitt - the witnesses were other Armstrongs, David W. Armstrong and Robert W. Armstrong.

The second witness was another son of the Dublin builder, Francis Armstrong - Robert Williams Armstrong, an architect, who married Anne Langley Nairn in 1848.   Robert Williams Armstrong was later a founding partner in the Belleek Pottery, Co. Fermanagh. Robert Williams Armstrong was born in 1824 to Francis Armstrong and Catherine Williams; his obituary in the Irish Times of 29th January 1884 is as follows:

“Death of Mr R.W.Armstrong. Architect. We much regret to report the death of the above-named gentleman, at Belleek, on Sunday last. For the promoters of home industries it will be interesting to know that to Mr Armstrong was due the success of the Belleek pottery now in vogue for about a quarter of a century in Fermanagh. The deceased gentleman was of Irish birth but went to London to practise his profession as architect. From the midst of a most promising career, he was induced by Mr Bloomfield, the landlord of Belleek, to come to this country to construct the pottery, and to add his artistic talents to the factory. Up to almost his last days, he was still engaged in his scientific researches. Dying at the comparatively early age of 59, he is much regretted by the neighbourhood at large.” 

To return to Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield- although his first wife is unknown,  his second is well documented - Harriet Thomas, who he married in Dublin on 8th February 1808.

From the Gentleman's Magazine of 1808:  'At Dublin, Thomas Gale. Esq., Captain of the 87th Regiment to Miss Thomas, daughter of the LATE Rev. Henry Thomas.'

I transcribed the following marriage settlement off the internet:
'Gale to Parnell and another.
 To the Registrar Appointed by Act of Parliament for registering Deeds, Wills, etc.  A Memorial of a Deed of Settlement dated the fifth day of February 1808 and made Between Thomas Gale, Esq., Ensign in his Majesty’s 87th Regiment of Foot of the first part, Harriot Thomas, Spinster daughter of the Reverend Henry Thomas,  deceased, a minor under the age of 21 years And Robert Cooke of Robamis(?) in the Queens County, Esq., Guardian of the said Harriot Thomas of the Second part, Mathew Dillon Thomas of the City of Dublin, Esq., the only son and heir at law of the said Henry Thomas, Brother to the said Harriot of the third part And the said Robert Cooke and Parnell Gale of Birr in the Kings County, Esq., of the fourth part. Whereby after reciting among other things that a marriage was their (sic) intended to be Shortly had & Solemnized between the said Thomas Gale and Harriot Thomas. He the said Thomas Gale for the consideration therein mentioned did give, grant, sell, assign, release and confirm unto the said Robert Cooke and Parnell Gale All that and those the undivided moiety of the Town and Lands of Sampsons Court and Knockardegier with their and Every of their rights, members and appurtenances situate in the Queens County in as full a manner as the said Thomas Gale was entitled to the same by virtue of the Settlement recited upon the intermarriage of his father Anthony Gale with Miss Anne Delany. Also all those several pieces or parcells  of Arable meadow & pasture Land with the Cabbins and Gardens thereon thereto belonging being part of the Lands Commonly Called and known by the name of Raggetstown as then called Valley Field situate near the town of Ballynakill and Containing of by Admeasurement (sic) 52 acres, 3 rods and 31 perches in as full a manner as the said Garden(?) & Meadow(?) Lands were demised by the Earl of Stanhope to the Said Thomas Gale. Also all that and those the several tracts of the Lands of Dearyfera(?) late in the possession of the Honorable Francis Hugh Massey both parts Containing 74 Acres or thereabouts in as full a manner as said Lands of Derryfery(?) has been demised or assigned by the said Thomas Hugh Massey to the said Thomas Gale also all that the lands of Clonohill now in the possession of Robert Stubber and Robert White, Esqs., in as full a manner as the said Thomas Gale is entitled to the same under the Right Honorable Lord Devesie(?) and situate in the Queens County aforesaid to Hold unto the said Robert Cooke and Parnell Gale or the survivor of these & the heirs, Executors, administrators & assigns of the survivors for and during the natural lives and life & other terms ? mentioned and contained in the ? ? or other Instruments under which the said Thomas Gale held the same And all such other life or lives or other terms as may thereafter be acquired therein Contained and the said deed of Settlement Contains other Clauses and Covenants. And the said Deed as ? Excon(?) thereof by the said Thomas Gale, Harriot Thomas and Mathew Dillon Thomas and this Memorial are (sic) witnessed by Thomas Shea of the City of Dublin, Gentleman & by James Whelan of said City ? ?. 
 Thomas Gale (seal)  - 12th day of February 1808. '

The Family of Harriet Thomas, second wife of Capt. Thomas Gale:
Harriet Thomas's  grandfather was Mathew Dillon of Leighlin Bridge, Co. Carlow, who married in Feb. 1758, her grandmother,  Hellen Cook of Rossena, Queen's Co.  Mathew Dillon died in March 1784, having had one child Elizabeth Dillon of Kilkenny City who married, on 21 July 1784,  the Rev. Henry Thomas of Leighlin Bridge, Carlow.  Elizabeth Dillon Thomas made her will in Dec. 1798, and was buried with her husband in a vault in St. Thomas's Church, Dublin.

The Dillons had settled in Leighlin, Co. Carlow, where a relative was noted as Francis Dillon in the first hald of the 19th century - a Francis Dillon died in April 1863 at Garryhill, Carlow, aged 102.  He was the friend and relation of James Dillon, pawnbroker of Dublin, who died after making a will in 1819.  The will stipulated that his trustees invest his money, the proceeds of which was to be divided equally between his two sons, James Dillon Junior, who left for South America where he died, childless, and Thomas St. John Dillon, and to provide a yearly stipend for his widow, Catherine Dillon, who died shortly after her husband. The will stipulated that Thomas, the second son, would only benefit from his father's will if he broke off all contact with the woman he'd been living with, Anne Robinson, who his father highly disapproved of. This Thomas agreed to do in writing - '...from this moment to the end of my existence, I will have no kind of communication with her...'
The will of James Dillon also stipulated that, if his sons were to die without issue, then the proceeds of his invested money were to go to his friend and relation, Francis Dillon of Carlow, and, when Francis Dillon, died, to go to Matthew Dillon Thomas, the son of his relation Elizabeth Dillon, otherwise Thomas. (ie: the wife of Rev. Henry Thomas, and mother of Harriet Thomas.)  The trustees were also directed to divert some of the money to be donated to Carlow Infirmiary in order that a home be founded for infirm and reduced old men without regard to religious distinctions.
In 1821, Thomas St. John Dillon married Anne Robinson, who used an assumed name, claiming to be Mary Anne Madden, the only daughter of Andrew Madden of Dunleary.  The trustees paid up accordingly. Thomas died in 1823, leaving everything to his widow, A. H. Dillon, who was proved to be Anne Hemsworth Robinson.  She in her turn died in August 1825 and left all she had to John Robinson, a minor. The judge eventually found against John Robinson, agreeing with Francis Dillon and Matthew Dillon Thomas that Anne's husband, Thomas St. John Dillon, had indeed forfeited his claim to his father's money when he'd married Anne Robinson in 1821.

Harriet Thomas' grandmother, Hellen Cook of Rossena, Queen's Co., the wife of Matthew Dillon of Leighlin, was related to Robert Cooke, named as Harriet's guardian at the time of her marriage to Captain Thomas Gale in 1808.   Rossena, seat of the Cook/Cooke family, is only about three miles east of Ashfield, seat of the Ashfield Gales.

In 1700, Rossena was the estate of William Cooke of Painestown, Carlow, and had been owned by the Cooke family for five generations prior to 1700.  In 1710, George Cooke was leasing Rossena from William Cooke;  in 1747, George Cooke, son of George, was leasing it from William Cooke's son, Thomas Cooke;  in 1757, William Cooke, son of George, was leasing it from the same Thomas Cooke;  in 1791, Robert Cooke, guardian of Harriet Thomas in 1808, was leasing Rossena from Valentine Brown, 1st Earl of Kenmare, who was the grandson of Thomas Cooke - Thomas Cooke had died leaving one daughter, Anne Cooke, who had married Thomas Brown, the father of the 1st Earl of Kenmare, who thereby inherited Rossena.    Robert Cooke of Rossena died in 1818.
The daughter of William Cooke, tenant of Rossena in 1757, was Helen Cooke, who married John Bagot of Castle Bagot, Dublin - their daughter was Mrs. Sheffield Grace.  This was the same Grace family as the family of Alicia or Ellis Grace who had married Samuel Gale of Ashfield Hall.
A John Cooke of Rossena was a solicitor of Harcourt Street, Dublin in 1870.

Harriet Thomas' parents,  the Rev. Henry Thomas and Elizabeth Dillon had one son Mathew Dillon Thomas, and three daughters—Harriet, Hellen and Mary Dillon.

The son, Matthew D. Thomas, held land in Moone, Kildare, and also in Huntingtown, Kilkenny, and a corn store on Cornwall Quay, Carlow Town, as well as land in Killeen, Clonagh, and Coolanagh, Kilabban Parish, Queen's County.
In 1811, Matthew Dillon Thomas married, firstly, Miss Warren, the daughter of the late James Warren of Killeen, Queen's County.  He married secondly, on 12 June 1844, Mary Deering who died 12 April 1867. Her will was proved in 1867 by her son Henry Deering Thomas of Moone.  Matthew Dillon Thomas's will was dated 10 July 1851 and proved 25 Jan. 1856.  They had one son Henry Deering Thomas, and one daughter Emma Josephine Thomas. Henry Deering Thomas of  Moone, Kildare, retired major, died 1899, with probate to spinster, Emma Josephine Thomas of Kingstown who had been born in Queen's County in about 1855.
When Harriet Thomas' brother, Mathew Dillon Thomas of Killeshin, Carlow/Queens married Mary Deering of Mount Street, Dublin, in 1844, the witnesses were William Robert Rogers and Mary's brother, John Armstrong Deering.    Both Mary and John Armstrong Deering were the children of the barrister, John Deering of Monuntjoy Square and Harriot Armstrong who had married in Dublin in 1805.  Mary Deering was born to John and Harriot Deering in 1811. Lucius Henry Deering in 1818,  Emma in 1819.   Mary Thomas, née Deering, died on 12th April 1868 in Moone, Kildare.

Mary's father, John Deering, in the 1830s, had two addresses - 6 Mountjoy Square and also Derrybrusk, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh.

In 1838, John Armstrong Deering was a witness, as was John Deering, as was Henry Ryan, at the wedding of Edward Ryan of 48 North Great Georges Street and of Margaret Deering.
Also in 1838, John Armstrong Deering was witness, with Henry Ryan, Thomas H. Porter and Richard Bourne,  at the wedding of Thomas Nolan, of Chester but now of 48 North Great Georges Street, and of Ann Ryan of same address.

John Armstrong Deering, eldest son of John Deering and Harriet Armstrong, entered TCD, July 3, 1826, aged 17;  he died in February 1850, aged 39, in Leeson Street, Dublin.

William Watkins Deering, also a son of John Deering, entered TCD  July 4, 1831, aged 17. A clergyman, in 1869 he sold the family property in Fermanagh in the landed estates court. Elizabeth Adams (c.1823-88), m. 1841 Rev. William Watkins Deering (d. 1870) and had issue 4 sons and 4 daughters;  one of the sons was Charles Lucius Henry Deering who married, in 1877 Anna Louisa Soden Cullen, the witnesses being Henry Augustus Dillon and Charles Henry Dillon.    (The witnesses are interesting, but I'm unsure about a family link or not - although 'Dillon' is a family name here, thanks to Matthew Dillon of Leighlin Bridge, Carlow;  the Henry Augustus Dillon, who acted as witnessin 1877 at the Deering/Cullen wedding, was the 13th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen, Co. Sligo. )

'DEERING and CULLEN - Feb. 26th, at St. Mary's Church, Dublin, by the Rev. B. W. ADAMS, D.D., cousin to the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev. T. R. S. COLLINS, Charles L. H. Deering, Esq., Captain Royal Dublin Militia, and the late 28th Regiment, eldest son of the late Rev. W. W. Deering, M.A., and grandson of the late Charles S. Adams, J.P., of Shinan House, Shercock, to Anna Louise SODEN, youngest daughter of the late Francis Nesbitt Cullen, Esq., J.P., of Corry Lodge, co. Leitrim.'

Another son of John Deering and Harriet Armstrong was Colonel Rupert Barber Deering of the 99th Regiment;  there was also a William H. Deering in 1841 at Derrybrusk - he died on 30 November 1967, with probate to Herbert Deering, farmer.
Lucius Henry Deering, son of John Deering and Harriet Armstrong,  married Caroline Gildea, daughter of Anthony Gildea of Pembroke Place in 1845.  A son, John Deering, was born in 1845 at 19 Lower Pembroke Street.  A son, Lucius Henry Deering, was born at 48 Lower Leeson Street, in 1848.   A descendant was named William Watkins Deering....Lucius proved the will of a possible relation, the unmarried Bridget Amstrong who died in 1883 at Thomastown Glebe, Rathangan, Kildare, and who had lived at 4 Goldsmith Terrace, Bray.

Emma Deering, the daughter of John Deering and Harriet Armstrong, married Joseph North of York Street, son of Roger North, in 1845 - wits were Susan H. Deering and Roger North.

Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield had died by 1834, as cited in deed 1834-8-216 which named Harriet Gale as the widow of Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield.
The children of Captain Thomas Gale and his second wife, Harriet Thomas, were named in deed 1838-23-217.   They were James Gale, Harriet Gale and Elizabeth Gale, all of Athy, Co. Kildare.

9)  Ryan Gale - a half-brother born to Anne Delany and a 2nd husband following death of Anthony Gale.

I'm indebted to Lee-Anne Taylor of Queensland who shared her incredible research into our common ancestry with me - without her invaluable and detailed input, I would never have found out anything about the following White family of Dublin.

My 4 x great-grandparents on the maternal side were Edward Pennefather and Eliza White, daughter of George and Ann White of Dublin.

George White had been born in King's County/Offaly in about 1745 to William and Ann White.  (William and Ann White also had at least two other chldren - two daughters, who were still alive in 1817.)

George married Ann White (circa 1755 - before April 1824), the daughter of Edward and Anne White in St. Andrew's, Dublin on 8th March 1778.  George worked as a dentist, and was noted at Woodbine Cottage in Harold's Cross, Co. Dublin, from 1807 till 1817.
Between 1780 and 1794 eight known children were born to George and Ann White, but only five were known to have survived:

• Japhet White, born 1780 - an attorney, Japhet White lived at 80 Camden Street.
• Mary Ann, born 1783; in 1800 she married John Burnell.
• Elinor, born 1785.
• Anna Maria/Maria, born 1789, who married Anthony O'Reilly.
• Elizabeth White, born 1794.  Elizabeth/Eliza White would marry, in 1821,  Edward Pennefather, the son of Rev. John Pennefather of Newport, Tipperary.

Arrest and Transportation:
George White, dentist, was arrested in Dublin on 16th September 1816, charged with having in his possession, feloniously and with intent to defraud the King,  a forged government die of the type used in the Stamp Office in Dublin.   He was not authorized to use such a document.
George was imprisoned in Dublin's Newgate Prison for 10 months before the case went to trial on 28th June 1817 in Green Street, Dublin.    There were three petitions for leniency on his behalf - from the jurors, dated 1st July 1817;  a second, on 31st July 1817, from Aldermen, Sheriffs and Citizens of Dublin;  and a third, on 18th August 1817, from George's wife, Anna White, asking for her husband's sentence to be mitigated 'so that her husband in the decline of years and their old age may be restored to Petitioner and their afflicted and suffering family...we the undersigned children, grandchildren and relatives of George White...Mary Anne White, Eleanor White, Anna Maria White, Eliza White, Eleven grandchildren and two aged helpless sisters.' (Ref: PPC 4097, National Archives of Dublin).
On 23rd August 1817, the petitions were refused, the judge feeling that George White was not deserving of mercy.
In 1817 there was also a petition by the creditors of George White:   'That said George White was before and after his committal to prison seized and possessed as well in his own right as in that of his wife of a considerable Estate and property consisting of Freehold and Chattel Interests in Lands and Houses situate in the City and Country of Dublin and elsewhere.
When George was committed to Newgate Gaol on the 16 th September 1816 and did after wards in contemplation of his approaching trial, convey the whole of such estate and property to Thomas Adams of the City of Dublin, a Pawn Broker.
Deed was purely voluntary, without valuable consideration for the purpose of making transaction colorable; ante dated to 2nd July previous to such committal, but registered 25th October following............... His Estate and property have been taken out of usual administration of the Law, so far as respects his creditors. 
Thomas Adam's is the acting partner of George White in the business of Prawn Broking. George White put Two thousand pounds and upwards into the business and the conveyance of George White's property was made to Thomas Adams in Trust for George White, and calculated to defraud his creditors and the Crown of his Estate in case it should insist upon forfeiture. '(source OP/417/17 National Archives Ireland)
After George White's arrest he was granted land in Cullin, called Sleighower. Situated between Harold's Cross and Rathmines Road, containing 8a 29p and a field called Barbers Land at upper end of Hen & Chicken Lane to Thomas Adams on the 2nd July 1816 (pre dated before his arrest) Thomas Adams granted the land to son-in-law Anthony O'Reilly on 10th November 1817, after George was transported to New South Wales.

Following his transportation, his wife, Ann White, the daughter of William and Ann White, entered a Dublin convent, and died at some stage before 1824.

On 25 October 1817, 62-year-old George White left Dublin and was subsequently transported from Cork to Sydney aboard the Guildford, leaving Cork on the 14th November 1817.   The journey took 138 days, arriving in Australia on 1st April 1818.   The records describe him as having a ruddy complexion, silvery hair, hazel eyes.
Almost immediately, George White went into practice as a surgeon/dentist, first at Phillip Street, then at Castlereagh Street - in 1820 he was banned from practicing as a surgeon, not being qualified, but continued to practice as a dentist.
He also met and illegally 'married' , or perhaps co-habited with, a young Dublin convict, 24 -yr-old Judith Byrne (1795 - 1832) who had arrived aboard the 'Canada' on 5th August 1817.    Judith Burn/Byrne was the Dublin-born daughter of Laurence and Margaret Byrne.  In 1815 she was tried and convicted of forging notes.  Aged 20, she was given 14 years' transportation, leaving Cork on 21st Match 1817 aboard the 'Canada', and arriving in New South Wales on 5th August 1817.  
Two sons were born to the dentist George White and Judith Bryne  - Joseph George White, born 4th June 1819, baptised 2nd August 1833, and George White, born 5 June 1821 and  baptised later on 9 may 1832.   Son Joseph George White died on 12th April 1902  in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, having married the Scottish-born Jean Jane Mather, daughter of John Mather and Dolina Dingwall on 1st Feb 1856.   His younger brother, George White,  died on 09 May 1832 of lockjaw.
By 1828, Judith Byrne had taken up with the Dublin-born apothecary George Murphy by whom she had two daughters, Margaret and Ellen.   George White was, in 1828, working for his son, Japhet White, in Bathurst, and had his two sons, Joseph and George, living with him.   George White, dentist, was noted at Princess Street, Sidney,  from 1832 till 1836.

The Children of George White and Ann White of Dublin:
1) George White's eldest son, Japhet White, was born in 1780 in Dublin, and died on 8th January 1866 in Carcoar, New South Wales. Japhet White had practiced as an attorney at 60 Camden Street, but, caught up in his father's forgery scam, was also transported, arriving in Australia in 1816.  He had married Mary Law in Dublin (born 1783).  

'An account of The Arrest of Japhet White in Ireland for Forged Stamps.
Mr. Burrowes, solicitor to the Stamp office, since his appointment to that situation, has been indefatigable in his endeavor's to procure such information as would lead to the detection and apprehension of the persons who have so long inundated this city, and indeed all Ireland, with forged stamps, robbing the revenue of upwards of one hundred thousand pounds annually, and thereby obliging the legislature to make up the deficiency in the revenue by taxing many necessary articles of life. Mr. Burrowes having obtained satisfactory information concerning this nefarious traffic, communicated with the magistrates of the head office on the best mode of apprehending all the parties at the same moment, so that the apprehension of one should not give warning to the rest. The whole of this very important business was entrusted to Mr. Farrell, chief constable of the police, and we shall now relate how effectually he executed it. On Friday morning, at the hour of eleven o'clock, seven parties of peace officers were assembled at the head office, where each received their route from Mr. Farrell, and which was so secretly managed, that no one man knew what was to be done by any of the other parties. Everything being thus arranged, each party went to their destined point. Mr. Farrell proceeded to Portobello with a party of nine men, who were posted in the neighborhood of Camden-street, Charlemont- street, and Portobello; it being known that the person they were looking after, against whom there were informations that he a few days since rescued himself from an arrest of a civil nature, did not reside at his house, they watched for some time. After a lapse of two hours and a half, he was perceived advancing in the direction of Old Portobello, and was instantly arrested by Mr Farrell himself, who asked him, was not his name Japhet White, and produced the warrant for his apprehension ; he then brought him into Mr. McGowan’s public house, and having got a private room, proceeded to search him, when, in. one of his boots, was found n forged die for a twenty pound stamp, and in the other, a similar one for fifty pounds. Mr. Farrell having further business in this neighborhood, dispatched hint with a party in a coach to the head office, and sent another party, headed by peace officer Riley, to search Mr. White's house, No. 60, Camden street; here were found some stamps, paper, and parchment, in preparation for stamping, also the blue and silver letters with the G. K. which are affixed to many descriptions of law stamps, with a frame and fly, for the purpose of striking the impression; they were all conveyed to the head office, and he was fully committed to Newgate to abide his trial.'

Japhet White, the eldest son of George and Ann White, was arrested November 1815 for processing 20 pound & 50 pound stamp die and forged stamps & paper. He was arrested by Chief Constable Farrell and committed for trial to Newgate Dublin. White's residential address was 60 Camden Street Dublin. His occupation in Ireland was a solicitor/attorney.
The 11 that were arrested that day were Japhet White, Solicitor John Fogarty Jnr, Attorney, John Fogarty Snr, Patrick Garrigan, a clerk for a Solicitor, John Reed, Charles Reed, Samuel Clayton an engraver, Edward Emerson a licensed distributor of stamps. Catherine Whelan, Patrick Ne--, and Her-- Clark who was a letter carrier to the General Post Office.

Japhet White was subsequently transported  for 7 years in December along with 27 others.  He departed from London aboard the "Surrey" on 14th July 1816 and arrived in Sydney on 20th December 1816.  Along with an assortment of passengers, the ship carried 150 male convicts;  Japhet's wife, Marie White, and their two children, accompanied him to Australia - this was permitted on condition that he tell nobody how they had forged the coin of the realm.
Japhet White and his family would eventually settle in Bathurst and become a repected member of the farming community, having been granted permission to purchase 100 acres of land there on 8th July 1825.  He died of old age in Bathurst in 1866.
Japhet and his wife, Mary Law, had four children together.   George Japhet White, born 1806 in Ireland, married Cahterine Halloran in 1834 in Bathurst, NSW;  George japhet White ran a lodging house in Castlereagh Street, Sydney.  He died of injuries following a horse kick in 1845 in Carcoar.      Japhet and Mary's second son, Edward White, was born in Ireland in 1808.   Their daughter, Mary E. White, was born in 1816 in Australia and died in Kings Plains, NSW, in 1858.    Daughter, Elizabeth Jane White, was born in Sydney on 23rd January 1818 and died in Tambaroora, NSW, on 28th April 1869, having married James Gain of Portsea, England, on 22nd February 1842 in Sydney.

2)  Mary Ann Burnell had been born to George and Ann White in 1783 in Eustace Street, Dublin, Ireland, and died on 26th Mar 1835 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.  She married John Burnell on 30th December 1800 in St. Brigid's, Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. He was born in 1775 in Dublin, and died there in about 1823.
On 1st May 1826, George White put in a petition on behalf of his widowed daughter, Mary Ann Burnell, to be taken from Dublin to Sydney to join her father there, her mother Ann White having recently died in Ireland:  'The petition of George White most Humbly sheweth that your Excell's Petitioner arrived in the colony, by ship Guilford in 1818, a prisoner for Life. That your Excellency's petitioner's wife, the companion of a 40 years pure and uninterrupted feloicity, had lately been consigned to the grave in the land of her nativity leaving unprovided for his daughter a widow with three grieving children whom your petitioner (being by the profits of his profession as a Dentist, enabled to support them without expence to Govenment) is most anxious should be permitted to join him here. May it therefore please your Excellency to give order whereby this most ardent, and he trusts he may add, praiseworthy wish of a fond parent in the evening of life may be gratified and he and they shall, as in duty bound, ever pray. George White Sydney Castlereagh Street.' (source 1824-1827 Petitions from Convicts AO 4/1112).

 Letter from George White to his daughter Mary Ann Burnell in Dublin, Ireland 1824:
'Dear daughter Mary Anne, I was sad to here of the death of your husband John Burnell, coming so close on that of your Mother. It is a shame that you are left in such difficult circumstance, I wonder what your have done with your dowry. I would have thought that Mr. John Burnell would have provided for you and the children, or at least his family should, if not for your sake, for their grandchildren. I have many grandchildren, what with your brothers and sisters producing so many, I am at a loss to be able to provide any more substance for them or you.
As you know I was sent out to this penal colony for life, through no fault of my own doing. However, I am making the most of it, but in my enfeeble years I cannot afford to support you and your children as well as my new family here.
The only thing I can do for you is petition Governor Brisbane to endorse your entry into this Convict Country; it is lawless and too rough for your sensibilities. If endorsed the Government will pay for your passage. I have included a draft on the Bank of Ireland of 10 pounds to help you defray the cost of travelling. Use it wisely. When you get here marry off the girls as quickly as possible and put the boy into a trade. The best you can do for them here, although the society I now live in is not the most suitable for a sensitive female such as you.
You must be aware it is difficult for me to do any more for you than what I provided for in your marriage.
I will let you know if the Governor will agree to my request, he is not so kind a man as Macquarie.
It would be best if the girls marry and the boy has a trade.
As for yourself! Have you considered joining the convent as your Mother did?
Oh well if you must come then come.
Your ever loving father
George White
Surgeon
Sydney Town.'

Mary Ann Burnell subsequently arrived in Sydney in 1828 with her three children - the 1828 census showed them lodging in her father's house at Castlereagh Street.   Her three children were noted as Catherine Burnell aged 23, Ann Burnell aged 20, and George Burnell aged 7.    Daughter Catherine Burnell had been born at Eustace Street, Dublin, in 1803, and died a widow in Sydney on 11th November 1886.  Catherine Burnell had married Daniel Harmer (1796 - 18680 on 11th March 1833, the Norfolk-born son of John Harmer.  

Both Mary Ann Burnell and her daughter,  Ann Daniels, would die within 6 years of their arrival in New South Wales.   Daughter Mary Ann had been born on 24th September 1810 in Dublin;  she married Charles Daniels, son of John Daniels and Isabella Parry, on 18th February 1829, in Sydney, but died of consumption in 1836.  Her husband, Charles Daniels had been born in Surrey, UK, on 18th May 1879, but also died young in New South Wales, in December 1834.     Mary Ann White and John Burnell also had George Burnell in 1821 in Dublin - he would die in 1858 in Sydney, having married Sarah Jane Addy, (born 1826 in New South Wales) the daughter of Luke Addy and Johanna Roach, on 12th December 1853 in Sydney.

Lee-Anne Taylor, who generously provided me with this genealogical goldmine, descends directly from Mary Ann Burnell.

3) Eleanor White was born to George and Ann White in 1785 in Dublin, Ireland and married Henry Dawson in 1804 in Ireland.  They were known to have had a child.

4) Emily White  was born to George and Ann White in 1786 in Ireland and died before 1798 in Dublin.

5) Joseph White was born to George and Ann White in 1788 in Dublin, Ireland and died before 1798 in Dublin.

6) Anna Maria/Maria White was born to George and Ann White in 1789 in Dublin, Ireland and died on 20th May 1880 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia after a short painful illness. She married Anthony O'Reilly on 24 Aug 1814 in Leixlip, Co. Kildare.  He was born in 1788 in Dublin, Ireland and died on 8th Jan 1840 at Bridge Street, Sydney, New South Wales.

Anna Maria White's husband, Anthony O'Reilly,  was also involved in the forgery scam which lead to the transportation of her older brother and father, and was likewise deported for life because of his role in it. He, however, was given special treatment when he went to trial on 8th September 1824, having  turned Kings Evidence and pleading  guilty to forging dies, telling all he knew of the scam.
He was transported to Australia, arriving in 1825 aboard the 'Mariner', accompanied by his wife, Maria, and two children.   Having turned King's Evidence, Anthony was settled with a sum of fifty pounds upon his arrival in NSW, on condition he never reveal how he made the dies to make the forgeries.  He later was paid a further 100 pounds by Gov. Darling and was never restricted by the laws governing a convict within Australia.   He operated as a merchant in Sydney.

Anthony O'Reilly, merchant, and Anna Maria White had a son, Richard Oswald O'Reilly, on 9th February 1816, in Dublin - he would marry, on 27th February 1840 in NSW, Amelia Cummins;  Richard Oswald O'Reilly died on 16th September 1895 in St. Peters, NSW.      Anthony and Anna Maria also had Elizabeth O'Reilly in 1817 in Dublin, who married Charles Edwards on 9th March 1837 in Sydney, and who died in Calcutta, India, on 18th January 1874.   (From "The Sydney Gazette" of 16th March 1837: 'On Thursday the 9th instant, at St. James' Church, by Special License, by the Rev. K. Cartwright, Captain Charles Edwards, of the Donna Carmilita. to Eliza, only daughter of Anthony O'Reilly, Esq.,of Bridge-street. Sydney.')

Both Anna Maria White and Anthony O'Reilly were  buried  at Sydney Burial Ground, but then moved to Botany Cemetery which was subsequently demolished in 1973. On 20th Nov. 1994, a new headstone was placed at the Pioneer Memorial Park in memory of Anthony and Anna Maria O'Reilly by their descendants. It reads the same as the original -  'Sacred to the memory of Anthony O'Reilly who departed this life on 8 January 1840. Aged 50 years. Also of Anna Maria O'Reilly relict of the above who died 20 May 1880. Aged 92 years.'

7)  George White was born to George and Ann White in 1790 in Dublin, and died there before 1798.

8) Elizabeth White was born to George and Ann White  in 1794 in Dublin, Ireland and  died on 1st January 1864 at 15 Fairview Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin. She married Edward Pennefather, son of Rev. John Pennefather of Newport, Tipperary,  on 5th June Jun 1821 in Dublin - we descend directly from Elizabeth White and Edward Pennefather.  

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The only information given in the marriage register of St. Peter's about Eliza White's family was that she was living in 'this parish' ie: the parish of St. Peter's,  whose church was in Aungier Street near Stephen's Green. Before his deportation,  her father, George White, was noted in Woodbine Cottage, Harold's Cross, from 1807 till 1817, this being two or three miles south of St. Peter's Church.    Ann's paternal grandfather, Edward White, would die in Mount Pleasant, Rathmines, Co. Dublin, in about 1823, this also being in the same area south of Stephen's Green.

George White, dentist, married Ann White, the daughter of Edward and Ann White, White in St. Andrew's, Dublin on 8th March 1778.     Prior to his transportation to New South Wales, George White lived at Woodbine Cottage, Harold's Cross, Co. Dublin.    After George White's arrest he was granted land in Cullin, (ie: Cullenswood, Rathmines?) called Sleighower. Situated between Harold's Cross and Rathmines Road, containing 8a 29p and a field called Barbers Land at upper end of Hen & Chicken Lane to Thomas Adams on the 2nd July 1816 (pre dated before his arrest) Thomas Adams granted the land to son-in-law Anthony O'Reilly on 10th November 1817, after George was transported to New South Wales.

The father of Eliza White who married Edward Pennefather in 1821, Edward White, had been born in about 1730 in Ireland and would die in about 1823 in Mount Pleasant, Co. Dublin.    Mount Pleasant is in Rathmines, which is about 2.5 kilometers from Harold's Cross where Edward White's daughter and son-in-law (George and Ann White) were living in the 1820s, as was Anthony O'Reilly, married to Edward White's granddaughter, Anna Maria White.
The Mount Pleasant area of Rathmines/Ranelagh, is also next to Cullenswood Avenue, off which is Wellington Park.   One of the children of Edward Pennefather and Eliza White (daughter of George White, dentist) was Joseph Lysaght Pennefather who was born in 1834 at Wellington, near Crumlin.

Before Edward White's death in about 1823 in Mount Pleasant, Cullenswood,  Rathmines, he made the following deed of agreement:
'A Memorial of an indented Deed of Agreement bearing date the Seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four made Between Anthony O 'Reilly of Tivoli in the County of Dublin Esquire and Maria O 'Reilly other wise White his wife of the one part and Richard Ledwith of the City of Dublin Gentleman of the other part After reciting that Edward White of Mount Pleasant in the County of Dublin but formerly of Townes's Street in the City of Dublin Up holder by his last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the Eleventh day of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight bequeathed unto certainTrustees here in and in the said Deed mentioned upon Trust to permit his Daughter Anne White to receive for her own benefit the whole of the rents and profits of his houses and premises in Townes's Street and North Earl Street in the City of Dublin for the term of her natural life and after the decease of the said Anne White the said Testator bequeathed all his Estate and interest in the said houses grounds and premises in Townes's Street and North Earl Street unto his grandson Japhet White and his granddaughter Mary Anne White (now Mary Anne Bumell) Elinor White (now Elinor Dawson) Maria White (wife of the said Anthony O 'Reilly and party to the said Deed of which this a Memorial) and Elizabeth White (now Elizabeth Pennefather) to be equally divided between them...
And reciting that the said Edward White died and that the said Anne White his daughter survived him but was dead at the time of the Execution of the said Deed Witnessed that the said grandchildren of the said Edward White mentioned in his Will were still living the said Deed Witnessed that the said Anthony O 'Reilly and Maria O 'Reilly for the consideration there in mentioned did grant bargain sell assign transfer and make over unto the said Richard Ledwith All that and those one undivided fifth part share or proportion of the dwelling house messuage or tenement with the appurtanancets here unto belonging situate on the west side of Townes's Street in the City of Dublin formerly in the possession of the said Edward White and now in the occupation of George Browne and known by number three in the said street and also one undivided fifth part of the dwelling house messuage or tenement With the appurtanenances here unto belonging situate on the south side of North Earl Street in the said City of Dublin now in the occupation of James Menzies Esquire and known as number seven in the said street and also one undivided fifth part of a lot of ground or premises next adjoining the said last mentioned dwelling house situate in North Earl Street afore said on which the house number six in the said street is erected and now in the occupation of John Yelverton To Hold the Deed thereby granted and assigned premises unto the said Richard Ledwith his Executors Administrator and Assigns and during the respective terms for years yet to come and unexpired for which the same are respective... subject to the payment of a proportion apart of the rents reserved by the original Leases of the said premises which said Deed and this Memorial are witnessed by William Armstrong of Upper Dominick Street in the City of Dublin Gentleman and Thomas P Morron of Talbot Street in the said City Esquire.
The above named Thomas P Morron Maketh Oath and saith that he saw the Deed of which the above writing is a Memorial duely excuted by the said Anthony O 'Reilly and Maria O 'Reilly and Richard Ledwith and this Deponent saw the said Memorial duly executed by the said Anthony O'Reilly and Maria O 'Reilly Saith that the name Thomas P. Morron subscribed as a witness to the said Deed and Memoriails this Deponents proper name and handwriting And Saith he delivered the said Deed and Memorial to Oliver Moore Esquire Registers Deputy in the Registers Office on the Inns Quay in the City of Dublin at or near half past the hour of three in the afternoon of the seventh day of April Instant. Sworn before me this Seventh day of April 1824.'

"Return of All Arrears due by late Deputy Postmasters in Ireland" show that, on 20th May 1820, an M. White, deputy of Tipperary, was in arrears of £199  - Anthony O'Reilly of Harold's Cross and Richard Ledwith of 22 Stafford St., Dublin, had stood as surety (or guarantor) on his behalf.

Our paternal great-great grandparents were Henry Thomas Culbert (1848 - 1903) and Anne Allen (1848 - 1911) of Galbally, who married in Galbally, Limerick on 3rd October 1869. Anne Allen was the daughter of Robert Allen and Sarah McClure of Park, Galbally, Limerick.

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Anne Allen's sister was Amelia/Amy Allen, born in Galbally, Limerick, circa 1844, who married John Chamberlain in Galbally in 1872.

John Chamberlain was the son of John Chamberlain Senior and of Margaret Drew who were recorded as marrying in St. John's Parish, Limerick City on 5th February 1812.

Son John Chamberlain, a farmer who settled Rahard and Garryheakin on the Limerick/Tipperary border, married, firstly, Mary Keaty (1833 - 1870), the daughter of a neighbour, Michael Keaty, in Cullen Parish, Co. Tipperary, on 10th June 1856.  The witnesses were Michael Keaty and Joseph Reynolds.
Mary's father, Michael Keaty, was farming at Dromlara, Pallas Grean, Limerick, 6 kms north of Rahard, in 1851.  Estate sales files for 1868 show John Chamberlain and Michael Keaty both holding 30 acres on lease at Rahard and Garryheakin, which would have been alongside each other.

John Chamberlain Junior and Mary Keaty had, amongst other undiscovered children:

1) Richard Chamberlain, who was mentioned in the landed estates records for his father's lease of 1868 in Rahard, and who was named as the eldest son. There are no further known records of this individual.
Also named in this lease was a Henry Wheeler, son of Robert Wheeler of Pallasbeg - this Henry Wheeler was almost certainly the land agent who was later fatally shot aged 34 in mid December 1881.
There must have been some link between the Chamberlain/Wheeler families, since the widowed Margaret Chamberlain, née Drew, died on 27th September 1871 at Killuragh, Murroe, East Limerick, aged 78 - Killuragh was the home of the Wheeler family, and the informant for Margaret's death was Anthony Wheeler of the same address.   The murdered Henry Wheeler had a sister, Frances Wheeler, who died in 1883 and who was buried next to her brother in Tower Hill R.C. Cemetery, Cappamore, Limerick. They were the children of Henry Wheeler and his wife, Frances, who died, aged 83 on 29th January 1859 at the home of her son in Killuragh, R. Wheeler.

2) Michael Chamberlain, born 26th May 1865 at Grean, Limerick.  He was mentioned in the Rahard lease of 1868 as John Chamberlain's second son.  Michael went with his father and his second wife, Amelia Allen,  to Cairns, Queensland.

3) Catherine Chamberlain born 8th May 1870 at Grean.  Known as Katie, she went with her father and his second wife, Amelia, to Cairns, Queensland.

4) Margaret Chamberlain born 26th May 1867.  She accompanied her two sisters, Mary Ann and Susan, to Thomaston, Connecticut in the 1870s or 1880s where she married Patrick H. Houlihan (born 1861 in Laois);  when she died in 1945, her obituary of 11th September, confirmed her sister as Mrs. Mary Strahan of Thomaston, Connecticut.  Her death certificate, however, names her mother as a Mary Bourke and her father as Chamberlain.    Neither of the three sisters, Margaret, Mary Ann or Susan, were consistent with the details provided for the various US censuses, nor was the information provided at their deaths highly accurate.   Modern descendants of the three sisters have proved the close family relationship between them with DNA testing.

5) Mary Ann Chamberlain was born circa 1866 in Tipperary as confirmed by her death cert of 15th October 1947.  In 1947, her mother was incorrectly named as Mary Cody (ie: Mary Keaty?) while her father was erroneously named as Richard Chamberlain rather than John.   She married, on 13th May 1889 in Thomaston, Connecticut, John Strahan (1855 -1921) of Clondelara, King's County, Ireland.

6) John Chamberlain and Mary Keaty were most likely also the parents of Susan Chamberlain, born circa 1861, who emigrated to the US in 1881 and who married John Fitzgerald in Thomaston, Connecticut in 1883.

John Fitzgerald had been born in February 1860 in Kildromin, Kilteely, Limerick, to John Fitzgerald of Kilteely and Margaret McGrath of Ballynaclogh, Pallasgreen, Limerick.

The 1900 census highlights Susan Chamberlain and John Fitzgerald married and living in Thomaston, Connecticut - she gave her date of birth as May 1861.   Susan died in Thomaston on 24th September 1904, and her death cert listed her father as John Chamberlain but lists her mother erroneously as Catherine Keating, rather than Mary Keaty.

Amelia Allen, second wife of John Chamberlain of Rahard/Garryheakin, Limerick:

John's first wife, Mary Keaty, died aged 34 in 1870.

He married, secondly, Amelia Allen of Galbally in Galbally Church of Ireland church on 30th Jan 1872.  Amelia's father's name was given as Robert Allen, farmer of Galbally.  Born in 1844, Amelia Allen was the older sister of our great-great grandmother, Anne Allen, who had been born to Robert Allen and Sarah McClure in Limerick in 1848.  William Allen was recorded as a witness to Amelia's 1872 wedding - he may possibly have been the father of Edmund Allen of Park, Galbally, but I can find no further significant mention of William Allen.

The mother of Amelia and Anne Allen, Sarah McClure of Park, Galbally, might be a relative of the Edward and Edmund McClure of Lattin, Tipperary, who were farming there in the 1820s.  There were no other McClures mentioned in this Limerick/Tipperary area in either the Tithe records nor Griffiths Valuation of the 1850s.  Edmund Allen, son of William Allen of Park, Galbally, who was murdered in Shronell near Lattin in 1886, was known to have relations in this area.  This, however, is conjecture at the moment.

The children of Amelia Allen and John Chamberlain were recorded as follows:

1) Sara/Sarah Chamberlain born 9th December 1872 to John Chamberlain and ANN Allen.

2)Robert Chamberlain born 13th January 1875 to John Chamberlain and Ann Allen.

3)Henry Chamberlain born 16th April 1876 to John Chamberlain and Ellen Allen.

4) Eliza Chamberlain born 1st April 1877 to John Chamberlain and EMMA Allen.

5)May/Mary Chamberlain born 1st april 1879 to John and MAY Allen.

6) Ann Chamberlain born 1st December 1880 at Rahard to John and Emma Allen. She was probably the Alice who follows.

7) Alice born 1880 in Ireland. Was this the child who had been baptised as Ann Chamberlain in 1880?

8) Annie born 1882 in Ireland.

9) Anne Jane Chamberlain born in Queensland on 8th October 1886.

Emigration:
The Chamberlain family fell victim to the agrarian unrest which was rife in Ireland in the 1880s, as did Edmund Allen who was murdered over a land dispute in Shronell,Tipperary, in 1886, and a close friend or relative of the Chamberlain family, Henry Wheeler, a land agent who was also murdered in 1881.
'The Aberdeen Weekly Journal' of 10th December 1881 reported that a Chamberlain of Rahard was burnt out by a gang wielding lit rushes;  while attempting to rescue his family from the burning house, the hostile gang fired on him 100 times.   A number of arrests were subsequently made.

The Chamberlains and the Allens joined the mass exodus leaving Ireland at this time.  My own immediate ancestors, Anne Allen and Henry Culbert/Cuthbert, settled in Drumcondra, Dublin;  the witnesses to both Anne and Amelia Allen's weddings, Richard Allen and William Allen, simply disappear from the records and neither appear on the 1901 census;   Sarah Allen, née McClure, the mother of Anne and Amelia Allen, similarly disappears from view - I can find no registration for her death, although she was present at the death of her husband, Robert Allen, in Galbally, Limerick, on 28th December 1875.

Three of the daughters of John Chamberlain and first wife, Mary Keaty, chose to settle in Connecticut - Mary Chamberlain, Margaret and Susan.    Michael and Catherine/Katie accompanied their father and his second wife, Amelia/Amy Allen, to Queensland.

The Chamberlain family left London aboard the 'Indus' and arrived in Brisbane on 22nd August 1884. The passenger list for the 'Indis' records the family as follows:

• John Chamberlain born circa 1834.
• Amy Chamberlain born circa 1844.
• Michael Chamberlain born 1865.
• Catherine/Katie born 1870.
• Sarah born 1872.
• Robert born 1875.
• Henry/Henry George born 1876.
• Eliza born 1877.
• Alice born 1880.
• Annie born 1882. 

(On the same voyage was an Allen family - John born 1850, T. George Allen born 1857, Elizabeth Allen born 1859, and Alfred Allen born 1863, but these are probably an unrelated English family.)

Four of the Chamberlain children died shortly after their arrival in Queensland:

1) Named after his maternal grandfather, Robert Allen Chamberlain died aged 9 on 15th September 1884 in Queensland, the son of John Chamberlain and Amelia Allen.

2) Anne Chamberlain died five days later, aged only 2, on 20th September 1884, the daughter of John Chamberlain and Amelia Atten. (This was transcribed wrong in the Australian Deaths Index.)

3) Eliza Chamberlain died aged 9 on 6th April 1887, the daughter of John Chamberlain and Amy Allen.

4) Catherine/Katie Chamberlain, the daughter of John Chamberlain and Mary Keaty (wrongly transcribed as Kerty), died on 22nd March 1889 aged 19.

John and Amelia Chamberlain had a final daughter on 8th October 1886 when Anne Jane Chamberlain was born in Queensland.

The children who survived in Queensland were Michael Chamberlain, the son of first wife Mary Keaty,  Sarah Chamberlain, Henry George Chamberlain, Alice Chamberlain, and Australian-born Anne Jane Chamberlain.

The electoral rolls showed up John Chamberlain, farmer, at Nelson, Herbert, Cairns, Queenland, in both 1903 and 1905.  Also in the household were wife Amy and daughter Sarah Chamberlain.
However, the above roll must have been published months after the info was collected, since John Chamberlain died in Queensland on 8th October 1904;  his parents were noted as John Chamberlain and Margaret DREW.

In 1908,  the widowed Amy Chamberlain was in Nelson, with three of the children - Alice who was working in a railway hotel in Cairns, labourer Henry George Chamberlain, and Sarah Chamberlain who did 'home duties'.
In 1913 in Nelson,  Amy Chamberlain, née Allen,  was living with Henry George Chamberlain, her son.    In 1919,  the widowed Amelia/Amy Chamberlain was living in Sheridan Street, Herbert, Cairns.
Amelia Chamberlain died in Queensland on 1st August 1922.  Her parents were named as Robert Allen and Sarah McClure.

Son of John Chamberlain and Amy Allen, Henry George Chamberlain,  was noted from 1908 till 1949 in Cairns;  in 1925 he was in Gordonvale, Herbert, Cairns, and in Douglas, Herbert, Cairns, in 1930.   By 1949, he was married to an Eva Chamberlain and they were living in Leichhardt, Cairns.
Henry George Chamberlain died on 10th January 1953 in Queensland, the son of John Chamberlain and Amelia Allen.

I can find no further info on Michael Chamberlain, son of John Chamberlain and Mary Keaty, although the electoral rolls show up a labourer by this name in Cairns.  This may well be the correct individual, but there isn't enough evidence to prove this conclusively.  It might be relevant, however, that sister, Annie Jane Sommerville, was buried in Martyn Street Cemetery, Cairns, in 1940, and that a Michael Chamberlain, aged 75, was also buried there on 27th May 1950.

Daughter, Alice Chamberlain, married Horace Oliver Alfred Bickmore, in Queensland, on 5th September 1908, and settled in Herbert, Cairns. He was a clerk, working later in insurance. They had a son, Oliver James Bickmore, on 30th May 1909, and the electoral rolls show up a possible daughter, Eliza Maybell Bickmore.  Later, the electoral rolls show up another daughter, Alice Amelia Bickmore.  In 1958, the electoral rolls show the two girls living with their mother at 161 Mitchell Street, Townsville;  the two daughters were still living here in 1980.
Oliver James Bickmore died in Queensland 10 Jun 1955.

The youngest daughter of John Chamberlain and Amelia/Amy Allen, Annie Jane Chamberlain, who had been born to John and Amy  in 1886 in Queensland, married on 20th August 1910, George Alexander Cartwright Sommerville, an engine driver.  He had been born 2nd June 1879 in Queensland to John Sommerville and Margaret Weir, and would later die on 25th September 1959.
 In 1919 the Sommervilles were living in Sheridan Street, Herbert, Cairns, where Annie Jane's widowed mother, Amelia Chamberlain, was also living, possibly in the same house although the electoral roll doesn't give the house numbers in 1919.
Annie Jane Sommerville, née Chamberlain, died 21st March 1940 and is buried in Martyn Street Cemetery in Cairns.
In 1954,  George Alexander Cartwright Sommerville was still at Sheridan Street, (Number 223), and was still an engine driver.   Annie Jane is no longer present - but there are two other members of the family were there,  Edna May Sommerville and George Thomas Sommerville, a clerk.
In 1977, George Thomas Sommerville and Edna May Sommerville were living at 24 Mona St., Cairns.

Many thanks to Bosco Ryan, Sheila Sullivan and Lisa Curtin for their invaluable help in unravelling another layer of the elusive Allen line.

This post follows on from earlier posts I've done on the Grattan family of Kildare and Offaly, and their links to Hon. Henry Grattan.  I've taken  genealogical notes taken from, amongst others, The Peerage online website, and also from family notices posted in newspapers over the centuries, which help to c larify the various families and relationships.
(I personally link vaguely to the family of Richard Grattan JP of Drummin, Kildare/Offaly, who was married to Elizabeth Biddulph, and whose daughter, Frances Grattan, married Rev. William Willis.  I descend directly from William Willis's sister, Eliza Willis....)

According to 'University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Vol. 42', in the reign of Queen Anne, six Grattan brothers settled in Dublin and neighbouring counties;  these were friends with of Jonathan Swift, the Dean of St. Patricks.  From these six men, the Irish Grattans descend.   And there are a lot of them.....

The Grattans of Clonmeen, Carbery, Kildare:
A  Symon/Simon Grattan of Rinaghan, Carbery, Kildare, died there in 1697.  He also owned or leased property in James St, Dublin, but I can find no further reference to Simon Grattan.  His son was possibly John Grattan of Clonmeen, Carbery.   A John Grattan of Clonmeen died in 1741;  a second John Grattan of Clonmeen died there in 1754.

John Grattan was married to Martha Mason;  one of their daughters, Anne Grattan, who died on August 6th 1748, married the wealthy merchant, William Lunell of Dublin, while a second daughter, Mary Grattan, married William Whitmore and had a daughter, Olivia Whitmore, who married Arthur Guinness of Beaumont.  John Grattan and Martha Mason of Clonmeen also had a son, Rev. William Grattan, who might be the Rev. William Grattan of Carbery who married  Catherine, the daughter of  Counsellor Sherlock, and who was recorded as dying at Sherlockstown, Kildare, in July 1761.
(However, a Rev. William Grattan, who died at Sherlockstown, was also noted as being of Drummin, which would mean he was of the family of James Grattan MD and Elizabeth Tyrell, discussed further in this post....perhaps Clonmeen and Drummin are basically the same family and the same place, but I really don't know...)

Deed 132-331-89496, dated  February 1745, details an arrangement between John Grattan of Clonmeen, Kildare, and his son and heir, Rev. William Grattan, whereby it was agreed that, during his life, John Grattan should hold land known as Demesne - still called that today - and that he would pay £6 8s. 6d. per annum to the heirs and assigns of Robert Grattan.  His son and heir, Rev. William Grattan was to get half of Clonmeen, somewhere indecipherable such as Derenany as well as a windmill in the same townland, Ballyshannon, Knockballyboy, Phillipstown and Killaderry.  Most of these places are close to Carbery, Drummin/Drummond and Edenderry.   Clonmeen was two miles north of Edenderry.

Historian Turtle Bunbury confirms that John Grattan, who married Martha Mason, and who lived at Clonmeen, Edenderry, Kildare,  was indeed a cousin of Hon. Henry Grattan, although the term 'cousin' can refer simply to a family link and should not be taken literally.

Hon. Henry  Grattan was the son of James Grattan, Recorder of Dublin, who was the son of Henry Grattan and Bridget Flemyng of Garrycross, Co. Cavan;   the great-grandparents of Hon. Henry Grattan were Rev. Patrick Grattan and Grisel Brereton, who follow....

The descendants of Rev. Patrick Grattan and Grisel Brereton:
The Rev. Patrick Grattan was appointed to Cappagh Rectory, Co. Derry, on 27th November 1671. He died in 1703 having married Grisel Brereton in 1669, the daughter of his predecessor.  His estate was in Belcamp, Santry, Co. Dublin.  His family were on close personal terms with  Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

A son of Rev. Patrick Grattan of Belcamp, Santry, and of Grisel Brereton was Rev. William Grattan of Fermanagh (1672 - 1719), who married Sophia Gore, daughter of Sir William Gore, baronet.   A daughter of Rev. William Grattan was Elizabeth Gore Grattan, born circa 1716 at Cappagh, Tipperary, who married Skeffington Bristow, and who died in 1792 in Antrim.   Rev. William Grattan succeeded his father at Cappagh Parish, Co. Derry, on 24th August 1703.  

Another son of Rev. Patrick Grattan was Henry Grattan of Garrycross, Co. Cavan, who married Bridget Flemyng.  He was noted as High Sheriff of Cavan in 1710.
Henry Grattan and Bridget Flemyng's son was James Grattan, Recorder of Dublin who married Mary Marlay, daughter of Thomas Marlay, chief justice of Ireland.   The Marlay estates were situated at Celbridge Abbey, Kildare;  Celbridge Abbey passed therefore into the Grattan family.
James Grattan and Mary Marlay were the parents of the Hon. Henry Grattan of Grattan's Parliament.   As well as Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, James Grattan and Mary Marlay had a daughter, Catherine Grattan.

Another son of Rev. Patrick Grattan was Rev. Robert/Robin Grattan of St. Audeon's Church, Dublin (1678 - 1741), executor of Jonathan Swift's will, as was his brother, Rev. John/Jack Grattan of St. Audeon's, Clonmenthan, and St. Nicholas Within (1680 -1754).

Another son of Rev. Patrick Grattan was Charles/Charlie Grattan, (1688 - 1747), master of Portora School, Enniskillen.  He married Mary Copeland.  Their son was Rev. William Grattan of Sylvan Park, , and of Swanlinbar, Cavan, who was married to Elizabeth Foster.  The son of Rev. William Grattan  of Sylvan Park was Rev. William Copeland Grattan (1784 - 1844) who married Anna Selina Nixon and had two sons, Copeland Grattan of Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, who died there in 1850, and also Humphrey Grattan who emigrated to Australia and married Sophia Beggs of Dublin.  
A daughter of Rev. William Grattan and Elizabeth Foster of Sylvan Park, Meath, was Emily Eleanor Grattan, who married in Crossakiel Church, Co. Meath, on 12th July 1853, Edward Hudson of Loughbrickland, Co. Down, and of Gardiner's Place, Dublin. In 1853, the estate of Edward Hudson was being sold in Cavan - he was named as trustee of the estate of the late Rev. William Grattan.

Rev. Patrick Grattan and Grisel Brereton also had Sir Richard Grattan, alderman and Sheriff of Dublin, who died in 1736.

But to return to James Grattan MD, son of Rev. Patrick Grattan and Grisel Brereton....

1) James Grattan, MD (1673 - 1747), son of Rev. Patrick Grattan: he trained in medicine in Holland and who was three times the President of the Royal College of Physicians.  James Grattan MD married Elizabeth Tyrrell, most likely a member of the Tyrrell family of Castle Grange, Kildare, whose family intermarried with the Grattans of Edenderry

A son of Dr. James Grattan and Elizabeth Tyrell was Rev. William Grattan of Edenderry. The Hibernian Journal of 3rd October 1781, notes that the widow of Rev. William Grattan of Drummin, Kildare, died at this time.
A Rev. William Grattan married Catherine, daughter of Counsellor Sherlock of Sherlockstown, and Rev. William Grattan of Drummin is noted as having died at Sherlockstown in 1761;   later, Richard Sherlock of Dublin made his will in the 1790s in which he left his property to his wife, Ann, and also to his two nephews, Richard Grattan and Rev. William Grattan...

Given that Rev. William Grattan was linked to Drummin, I would hasard a guess that Richard Grattan JP who married Elizabeth Biddulph in 1788, and who lived at Drummin, descends from this man.  Rev. William Grattan, the father of  Richard Grattan, took out a lease on approximately 580 acres of land at Drummond, Kildare, in 1746. This lease was renewed by his grandson, Richard Grattan MD, in 1840 for the lives of himself and his two sons, Richard and William Grattan.  Also mentioned in the lease was the name Nicholas Biddulph.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/03/dr-richard-grattan-drummin-house.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/09/notes-on-family-of-frances-grattan-of.html

A son of Dr. James Grattan and Elizabeth Tyrrell was Thomas Grattan of Rathvilla.  The Hibernian Journal of 22nd March 1776 noted that Thomas Grattan of Rathvilla, King's County, married Miss Field of Rathangan, Co. Kildare. A Thomas Grattan was paying tithes on a property in Rathvilla in the 1830s, although given the date, this must have been a grandson of the original Thomas Grattan.  Thomas Grattan of Rathvilla married Isabella Field, who, following his death in 1854, emigrated to Australia with her children.   A notice in 'The Argus' of Melbourne noted on 16th February 1881, that Isabella, widow of Thomas Grattan, late of Rathvilla, King's County, died aged 63 at Glasgow cottage,Chapel-street, South Yarra.

A son of Dr. James Grattan and Elizabeth Tyrrell was Francis Grattan (1759-1801) who married  Rosanna Odlum, the daughter of Henry Odlum and Elizabeth Paine in 1791.

A son of Dr. James Grattan and Elizabeth Tyrell was  Joseph Grattan who died young, and Richard Grattan, who was born and died in 1754.

John Grattan MD (1713 - 1787) and Hannah Colley:
This brings us to the son of James Grattan and Elizabeth Tyrell who was John Grattan MD (1713 - 1787) of Edenderry, Offaly/Kildare.
Dr. John Grattan of Edenderry was married to Hannah Colley whose family estate was at Castle Carbery, Kildare.
Their son was  Captain William Grattan (1744 - 1798) of Edenderry  who had studied medicine in Dublin inder Mr. Cleghorn before being appointed to the post of assistant surgeon with the 64th Regiment in the US and in the Napoleonic wars.  Following 18 years of military service, he returned home to Edenderry, to his elderly parents, 3 brothers and 2 sisters,  and married, in 1792, Jane Gifford, the daughter of Sir Duke Gifford of Meath.  He subsequently settled in Rathangan, Co. Kildare, and died suddenly in Wexford at the height of the 1798 rebellion, having joined up again with the military.

A daughter of John Grattan MD and Hannah Colley was Elizabeth Grattan (1746 - 1808).

A son of John Grattan MD and Hannah Colley was Thomas Grattan MD (1749 - 1801) who had two wives - Ann Sullivan and then Frances Muloch.   A son of Thomas Grattan and Ann Sullivan was John Grattan MD of Edenderry (1788 - 15th January 1836) who married Margaret Alicia Shawe, the daughter of Edmund Shawe of Coolair, Kildare, who were themselves  the parents of Thomas Grattan, apothecary of Belfast (1810 - 1879).  Another son of John Grattan MD of Edenderry and Margaret Alicia Shawe was the dentist William Grattan who died in December 1847.  On 12th February 1850 in Belfast, Richard Evans son of William Evans, married Eliza Shawe Grattan, second daughter of the late Dr Grattan, ie, the daughter of John Grattan of Edenderry and of Margaret Alicia Shawe.
(The Public Record Office in Belfast holds the surgeons' and apothecaries' certificates of members of the Grattan family of Edenderry, King's County, 1799-1840, along with rent receipts for Thomas Grattan's premises as a surgeon dentist in College Square, Belfast, 1869-1877, and an emigrant letter from A. Tyrell in Weston, Ontario, 1850, who was related to the Tyrrell family of Elizabeth Tyrrell of Kildare, wife of Dr. James Grattan MD of Edenderry.  William Tyrrell emigrated to Weston, Ontario, and was the father of engineers, Henry Grattan Tyrrell and James Williams Tyrrell.)

Another son of Dr. John Grattan and Hannah Colley of Edenderry was the attorney and solicitor Colley Grattan (1754 - 1815) of Clayton Lodge, Castle Carbery, (which was burned out in 1798) married to Elizabeth Warren,  and these two were the parents of the writer, Thomas Colley Grattan (1791 - 1864) , the cousin of Dr. Richard Grattan of Drummin, Co. Kildare.  Thomas Colley Grattan had a daughter who was married to the Belgian Secretary of Legation in Turin, and two sons, Edmund Grattan, H.M. Consul in Anterp, and Colonel Grattan of the Royal Corps of Engineers.  

Another son of the solicitor Colley Grattan and Elizabeth Warren was William Grattan of the Connaught Rangers who married Jane Menzies and who died in 1858. The daughter of William Grattan and Janes Menzies was Harriet Grattan who married Neptune Blood Gallwey, the son of Major Gallwey of the 16th regiment, on 10th November 1857 in St. Peter's.  You just know Neptune Blood Gallwey had a walrus moustache.
A Colley Grattan (1817 - 1847), surgeon, died aged 30 in Dublin in 1847 and must have been another member of this strain of the family.

Other Grattans of Edenderry:
The descendants of James Grattan MD and Elizabeth Tyrrell settled at Edenderry which straddles the border of Kildare and King's County/Offaly.    The following Grattans were associated with Edenderry, but I can't decipher which strain of Grattan they link correctly to.

The widow of a Rev. William Grattan of Edenderry, Elizabeth Grattan (1765-1837), died aged 72 in Dublin in 1837.   It's as yet unclear which Rev. William Grattan this was.  There are a lot of them.

On 3rd February 1864 in Edenderry, Dr. Mathew Henry Grattan of Chipping Ongar, Essex, son of the late Dr. William Grattan of Edenderry, married Lizzie, daughter of John J. Hipwell of Edenderry.   Dr. Mathew Henry Grattan of Edenderry graduated from the College of Physicians in Ireland in 1863.
On 16th February 1848 in Edenderry, William Watson of Ballinrath, King's County, married Marianne Grattan, second daughter of William Grattan Esq. of Edenderry.

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.

On 26th June 1856, our paternal great-great-great grandparents married in Carrowdore Presbyterian Church, Donaghadee, Co. Down.  They were Samuel Keating, a farmer of Ballyhay, who was the son of an earlier Samuel Keating.  The bride was Agnes Jameson, the daughter of Robert Jameson, a farmer of Ballyhay.  The witnesses were James Jameson and William Keating.  (Samuel Keating and Agnes/Nancy Jameson were the people from whom our paternal grandmother, Nessie Wilson, descended directly...)

 For the moment, the following is all I have on the Jamieson family of Ballyhay/Killaughey,  but this information may be of some use to other researchers....