Browsing through the wills lodged in the Canterbury Court, which are available on both Ancestry and the UK National Archives site, I stumbled across the 1824 will of a John Williams of Kinsale, Co. Cork, and researched this individual and his family merely because my maternal great-great grandfather, Richard Williams of Eden Quay, Dublin, was known to be the son of a deceased John Williams.  I believe my Richard to be related to the Williams family who established the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company in the 1820s, since he worked for the company and I've discovered no other family for him, but I researched the Cork family of John Williams of Kinsale in order to rule them out following the discovery of the 1824 will.
I also consulted the registers of the Kinsale Parish Church and the Kilbrogan Parish Church in the National Archives in Dublin which established the fact that my Dublin ancestor, Richard Williams of Eden Quay and Dundrum, was not the son of this Kinsale John Williams, nor did I find any plausible link between the two families.  However, since the registers of both Kinsale and Kilbrogan, Bandon,  aren't available online, I thought I'd do a post detailing what I unravelled about this Cork Williams family, in case other researchers out there might find the births/death/marriages useful.

This Cork-based Williams family settled in Bandon, Kinsale and Macroom, Co. Cork, and inter-relate intensively.

The will of John Williams (born circa 1775 - 7th December 1824), pawnbroker of Kinsale, was made 7th December 1824, the day of his death, and proved in London on 30th August 1827 by Richard Williams and Thomas Fuller, pawnbrokers of Bandon.  In the will, John named his brother as Richard Williams (1779 - 1849) of Bandon, and brother-in-law as Thomas Fuller.  His widow was Mary Williams, née Fuller, who carried on in business after his death in Kinsale and who had 8 minor children at the time of her husband's death.  (The Williams intermarried countless times with the Fuller family of Bandon.)
John Williams was buried in Christchurch, Bandon, as was his daughter, 11-year-old Anne Williams who died on 19th October 1830.  (This I discovered on the excellent 'Historic Graves' website.)

Pigots Directory of 1824 noted John Williams, pawnbroker of Kinsale. His wife Mary Williams was noted as a widowed pawnbroker of Kinsale in 1825 - her securities were Richard Williams and Thomas Fuller and Joseph Bennett, all pawnbrokers of Bandon.   Also named in 1825 was George Williams, pawnbroker of Kinsale, whose securities were Richard Williams, Thomas Fuller and John Perrot, Kinsale pawnbrokers.   (This George Williams, if he were the son of John Williams and Mary Fuller, would only be 15 in 1825, and wasn't really old enough to operate as a pawnbroker. Perhaps he was a son of Richard WIlliams of Bandon?)

Six of the eight children of John Williams and Mary Fuller, were baptised in Kinsale Parish Church, viewable in the National Archives, Bishop Street, Dublin:

27th January 1819 - Elliza Williams, daughter of John and Mary Williams.

Group baptism of the children of John and Mary Williams on 11th July 1819:
1) George Williams, aged nine years and nine months. Born circa 1810.
2) Sarah Williams, aged eight years and 3 months. Born  circa 1811.
3) Ann Williams, aged 6 years and 4 months. Born circa 1813.  She died on 10th October 1830 and was buried in Christchurch cemetery, Bandon.
4) Joseph Williams aged four years and four months. Born circa 1815.
5) Dora Williams, aged 7 years and 7 months. Born circa 1812.
6) Eliza Williams, aged six months. Born 1819.  She had already been baptised at the beginning of 1819.

John Williams and Mary Fuller had two more daughters following the 1819 baptisms of the first six, Mary and Martha, whose baptisms I didn't come across in the register.

Mary Williams (1821 - 28th March 1868), the second youngest daughter of the late John Williams Esq., of Kinsale, married Joseph Fuller (5th January 1817 - 25th July 1867) of Castletreasure, Ballineen, Bandon, on 25th August 1846.  Joseph Fuller is believed to be the son of William Fuller and Jane Clarke of Ballineen, Bandon. The couple settled in Ballineen.
A son of Mary Williams and Joseph Fuller was William Fuller who was received into the church in 1850 with sponsors named as George Bennett, John Williams and Jane Wiseman.    A son, Joseph Fuller of Ballineen, died of measles on 5th October 1862;  on 16th February 1859, a second son, George Fuller, also died.   A daughter of Mary Williams and Joseph Fuller was Mary Jane Fuller who was baptised in Ballymoney Parish, Bandon, on 2nd December 1850 - her sponsors were named as Thomas, Martha and Dora Fuller, Martha being Martha Williams, also the daughter of pawnbroker John of Kinsale who had married Thomas Fuller and was the baby's aunt.  A Dora Fuller was also named as a sponsor.   A daughter of Joseph Fuller and Mary Williams was Martha Fuller, born 1857, who married the Louth-born bank manager, James Siggins Kennedy, and who was living in Bantry, Co. Cork in 1901.
Joseph Fuller, husband of Mary Williams, died at Castletreasure, Bandon, on 25th July 1867, with probate granted to gentlemen George Bennett of Hillhouse, Bandon, and George Fuller.

In Cork, Martha Williams , youngest daughter of the late John Williams of Kinsale, married, on 14th August 1849, Thomas Fuller,  a solicitor of Bandon -given the extensive intermarrying between the Williams and Fuller families,  the bride and groom were possibly cousins.  Thomas Fuller, attorney of Bandon, died in 1890 in Myrtle Hill Terrace, Cork City, with probate to widow Martha and to the unmarried Elizabeth Fuller.   Martha, still in Cork in 1901, had been born in 1825 in Kinsale, just before her father's death;  her daughter, Elizabeth Fuller, had been born in Bandon in about 1863.  A daughter of Thomas and Martha Fuller was born in 1856 in Bandon. A son was born in 1858. In Bandon on 31st July 1860, Thomas Fuller and Martha Williams had a son;  a second son was born in Bandon on 18th April 1863.
Mary Williams, the widow of Kinsale pawnbroker John Williams, died in September 1866 at the residence of her son-in-law, solicitor Thomas Fuller of Bandon.

A George Williams, who was possibly the son of Kinsale pawnbroker John Williams and Mary Fuller and who had been baptised in Kinsale Parish Church in 1819, married Jane, who died on 2nd October 1886 in Kinsale, having spent time living in Cork City, and her will was proven by her daughter Annie Williams, the wife of Macroom hotel proprietor Samuel Erberry Williams.

The children of pawnbroker George and Jane Williams were baptised in Kinsale Parish Church....

11th November 1839 - John Henry Williams, son of George and Jane Williams - Scilly, Kinsale   An earlier John Henry Williams had been born in 1820 to a John Williams, and might be an uncle of this child.
18th June 1843 - Jane Williams, daughter of George and Jane Williams.
3rd August 1844 - Mary WIlliams, daughter of George and Jane Williams.
10th January 1849 - Anna Eliza Williams, daughter of George and Jane Williams - Anne Eliza Williams  married Samuel Erbery or Carberry Williams of Macroom, son of Richard Williams,  in Kinsale in 1867.

Although I didn't find his baptism in the register, William Henry Williams, who was a Kinsale pawnbroker, was also the son of George Williams - he married Catherine/Kate Dawson, daughter of George Dawson, boatman of Scilly, Kinsale on 23rd October 1866.

Two of the children of George Williams of Kinsale, ie, Joseph and William Henry, married two of the children of George Dawson of Kinsale, ie, Ellen and Catherine Dawson.....

Joseph Williams, also the son of George Williams, married Ellen Dawson, daughter of George Dawson, in Rincurran, ie, Kinsale, on 21st March 1863.   His wife, Ellen, was a widow by 1877. George Dawson, gentleman, died at Scilly, Kinsale, on 11th February 1873, with probate to George Dawson.    The younger George Dawson died at Scilly, Kinsale, on 25th May 1877, and his will was proved by Mary Dawson, spinster, and the widowed Ellen Williams, née Dawson, who had been married to Joseph Williams, the son of George Williams of Kinsale.
When Joseph Williams of Scilly, Kinsale, died on 2nd November 1884, probate was granted to Mary, wife of merchant William Henry Williams (born circa 1844 in Kinsale) of Kinsale.

William Henry Williams of Kinsale, son of George and Jane Williams, had married Catherine/Kate Dawson, daughter of George Dawson of Kinsale,  but, by the time of the 1901 census, he was married to a second wife, Mary, and was operating in Scilly, Kinsale as a timber merchant.  The 1901 census shows up another son, a younger William Henry Williams who had been born in Kinsale in 1886.

The children of William Henry Williams and first wife, Catherine/Kate Dawson, were born in Kinsale....
Kathleen Williams was born 27th February 1870 in Kinsale to William Henry Williams and to Kate Dawson and was baptised in Kinsale Parish Church on  13th March 1870.
Dawson Williams was born 1865-ish in Kinsale.
Henry Dawson Williams of Kinsale was born on 15th March 1873. A fish agent of Kinsale, he married Annie of Tipperary in Roscrea in 1898, and had a daughter, Ruth Dawson Williams, in 1906.
Eleanor Marian/Mary was born on 21st July 1871 and bapatised in Kinsale on 23rd July and was living in Kinsale with her father and his second wife in 1901.
Georgina Mary was born in Kinsale in 1876 and was also at home in Kinsale in 1901.
William Henry Williams who had been born in Kinsale in 1886.

John Henry Williams:
John Henry Williams - was he an extra son of John Williams and Mary Fuller of Kinsale? His marriage details name him as the son of a John Williams, and he had been born in about 1820.  (Note: there was also a John Williams in Bandon at this time, so John Henry Williams may well be a son of this second John Williams. Alternatively, he may not be related at all...)

John Henry Williams (1818 - 28th May 1879) was a maltster/merchant of Kinsale - on 11th June 1850, John Henry Williams, son of John Williams, married 20-yr-old Anne Eliza Fryer (1830 - 12th February 1876), the daughter of Kinsale spirit merchant Charles George Fryer.  (Charles George Fryer, merchant, died in Kinsale on 13th July 1872, with probate to Henry Charles Fryer of Kinsale and William Francis Fryer MD of Bagenalstown, Carlow. Henry Charles Fryer died in Kinsale in 1892 and his will was proved by Charles George Fryer of Norfolk and by the unmarried Catherine Fryer of Rathmines, Dublin.)
John Henry Williams, merchant, died in Kinsale on 28th May 1879, with probate to his son, Robert Alfred Williams, who follows.

In 1901 in Kinsale was the brewers' agent, the Kinsale-born Church of Ireland Robert Alfred Williams (1856 - 1940) with a wife, Sophia Annie Williams of London.  The later census had a niece with them, Stella Muriel Cardinaux Williams who had been born in Dublin in 1899.  In 1901, Stella Muriel was at home in Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, with her widowed Swiss-born mother, Mathilde, and a Cork-born aunt, the unmarried Mary Williams who had been born in 1862.   NB: Stella Muriel Cardinaux Williams had been born on 24th October 1898 at 87 Grosvenor Square to Alexander Henry Williams, bank official, and to Mathilde Louise Cardinaux.    Alexander Henry Williams, bank official, died in Dublin on 27th November 1898.
Kinsale Baptisms:
23rd March 1851 (born 14th March 1851) - John Charles Williams, son of John Henry and Ann Eliza Williams.  In 1881 in Leatherhead, Surrey, was Kinsale-born John Charles Williams, (born 1851), office clerk, married to Eva of Kennington, London, and two children, Eva and Charles.   In 1911, John Charles Williams, civil servant, was boarding in Islington, a widowed.  John Charles Williams of 53 St.John's Park, Islington,  died 21st April 1913, with probate to his daughter Eva, the wife of Harry William Hook.
3rd July 1852 (born 8th June 1852) - Alexander Henry Williams, son of John Henry and Ann Eliza Williams.  He married Swiss-born to Mathilde Louise Cardinaux, and had Stella Muriel Cardinaux Williams on 24th October 1898 at 87 Grosvenor Square, Dublin,
11th December 1856 - Henry Hardy Williams, son of John Henry and Ann Eliza Williams.
16th July 1862 - Eliza Alice Williams, daughter of John Henry and Anna Eliza Williams.

John Henry Williams died on 28th May 1879, aged 61, and was buried in St. Multose, Kinsale, along with his wife Anna Eliza Williams, who died aged 46 on 12th February 1876, and his son Robert Alfred Williams who died, aged 85, on 15th January 1940.  Robert Alfred married a Sophia Anna who died aged 24 on 2nd October 1895.
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Joseph Williams of Macroom, second son of the late pawnbroker, John Williams of Kinsale, married in Ahinagh near Macroom on 7th March 1850 Frances Fuller, the daughter of George Fuller of Macroom,  and was living in Kinsale when his children were baptised in the Kinsale Parish Church.
Kinsale Baptisms:
13th October 1857 (born 11th October 1857) - Robert Williams, son of Joseph Williams and Frances Fuller.
16th March 1860 - Frances Mary, daughter of Joseph Williams and Frances Fuller. She died, aged 18, in 1878 and was buried in St. Multose Cemetery, Kinsale.
24th October 1861 - Ralph Fuller Williams, son of Joseph Williams and Frances Fuller.   On Griffiths Valuation a Ralph Fuller was noted at North Main Street, Bandon.   A Ralph Fuller was buried, aged 40, in Bandon on 5th January 1851.  He had married Elizabeth Kingston of Bandon and had had Ann Fuller (1819 - 1869) who died in Ohio, and also Thomas Fuller (1811 - 1856) who died in Boston. Perhaps Frances Fuller, who married Joseph Williams in 1850, was also a daughter?

On 25th December 1856, Catherine Williams, daughter of Joseph Williams, was buried in Kinsale.
Frances, wife of Joseph Fuller, died on 20th April 1875 and was buried in St. Multose, Kinsale.
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John Richard Williams (1815 - 1871) was a close relation of the Kinsale/Bandon Williams;  he was possibly the son of Richard Williams, linen merchant of North Main Street, Bandon, since he witnessed the wedding of Richard's daughter, Susanna Williams, or, alternatively, he was the son of John Williams of North Main Street, Bandon, since he also witnessed the wedding of John's daughter, Elizabeth Williams.
John R. Williams, along with George and Joseph Williams, were three of the Kinsale inhabitants who, in 1845, signed a petition calling for the development of the Cork, Bandon and Kinsale Junction railway.
Slater's 1846 Directory noted him as John R. Williams, grocer, 7 Main Street, along with George Williams, pawnbroker and livery stable keeper of 70 Main Street, and Mary Williams, pawnbroker of 16 Guard Well.   The same year a George and J. Williams contributed money to erect a memorial statue to the late Catholic priest Rev. Justin Foley m'Namara, so I presume these last two were Catholic Williams, rather than the Williams whose baptisms I noted in the Protestant Parish register.
John R. Williams  was noted in Kinsale in 1852 on Griffiths Valuation, and his children were baptised there;  his wife was named as Margaret:

Kinsale Parish Baptisms:

27th June 1841 - Richard Williams, son of John Richard Williams and his wife.
11th August 1841 - Edward, son of John Richard and Margaret Williams. (An Edward Williams was buried in Kinsale Parish on 25th December 1856.)
24th April 1844 - John Williams, son of John Richard Williams and Mary/Marg.
July 1848 - Diana Williams, daughter of John Richard and Margaret Williams.
31st August 1851 - Mary-Ann Williams, 3rd daughter of John Richard and Margaret Williams.
6th November 1858 - George William Williams, son of John Richard and Margaret Williams, he was later known by the name of William George Williams.

On 1st July 1851, when Thomas Kingston of North Main Street, Kilbrogan, Bandon, married Elizabeth Williams, the daughter of John Williams,  Main Street shopkeeper,  the witness here was  John R. Williams.

John Richard Williams was  later an auctioneer in Grand Parade, Cork, and died there in November 1871, with probate to son William George Williams of Summerhill, Cork, a commercial traveller who died in November 1873 leaving widow Louisa Williams.  The wills of both John Richard Williams and his son, William George Williams, were proved by jeweller/watchmaker of Cork city, Peter Williams. Peter Williams (1835 - 1875), unmarried jeweller, died on 12th December 1875, with probate to his brother, Samuel Carberry/Erbery Williams, a grocer of Macroom who was later a hotelier of Macroom.

Samuel Erbery/Carberry Williams (1836 - 1897) was married to Annie Eliza Williams, the daughter of George Williams, pawnbroker of Kinsale. They had married in Kinsale on 20th November 1867. Samuel Erbery Williams and Peter Williams were both the children of Richard Williams, linen merchant of Bandon, as was the Susannah Jane Williams who follows...Samuel's middle name of Erbery or Erberry is sometimes spelled as Carberry, and may refer to Abraham Carbury who was a pawnbroker of Main Street, Bandon in 1824.

John Richard Williams was the witness at the wedding of  Susanna Jane Williams when she married James Boyes Henderson of  Tralee, civil engineer, son of James Henderson, manufactuer, on 2nd September 1858 in Kilbrogan Church, Bandon.  The second witness was  Bernard Alcock.   Susannah Williams was noted as the 3rd daughter of Richard Williams, linen manufacturer of North Main Street, Bandon, although another  reference to the wedding names her as the daughter of Richard Williams of Macroom.
James Boyes Henderson died 25th April 1887 in Tralee, leaving his widow Susanna Jane Henderson.  They had six daughters (1901 census) - Diana, Emilie, and Helena C.I., Elizabeth, Carrie F. and Ena.  Daughter Helena Caroline Townshend Henderson was born in Tralee on 5th August 1864;  Emily Frances Walscourt Henderson was born on 18th March 1868;  son Richard William George Henry Henderson was born on 7th November 1869, and married Mary McDermott, the daughter of John McDermott and Mary Quinn, on 13th June 1897 in Manhattan, New York.  Diana Henderson married Maurice J. O'Callaghan of Kerry.  A possible relation of James Boyes Henderson was the William Henderson, vet of Bandon, who died on 29th August 1908 with probate to Richard Christopher Williams JP and hotelier of Macroom and to Thomas Henderson. Richard Christopher Williams was the son of Samuel Erbery Williams who follows....

Samuel Erbery Williams and Annie Eliza Williams:
Samuel Erbery Williams, son of linen merchant Richard Williams of Bandon (as was the unmarried Peter Williams, jeweller/watchmaker and Susannah ), married Annie Eliza Williams, the daughter of pawnbroker George and Jane Williams of Kinsale in 1867.

The children of Samuel Erbery Williams and Annie Eliza Williams were...
Mary Ann WIlliams was born on 25th January 1870 to Samuel Erbery Williams and Annie Eliza Williams in Kinsale.
Jane Elizabeth Williams was born on 3rd December 1870 to Samuel Erbery Williams and Annie Eliza Williams in Macroom.
Richard Christopher/Dick Williams was born 10th July 1872 in Macroom to Samuel Erbery Williams and Annie Eliza Williams.  He would later run Williams Hotel in Macroom; in the 1920s he lived at Coolcour House, Macroom.   The 1921 Street Directory for Macroom shows R.C. Williams of Coolcower House, as a car owner, grocer, flour, meal dealer, insurance agent, tobacconist, JP, landowner and hotelier.   He proved the wills of two farmers of Ballymacorcoran, Macroom, William Goggin who died in 1906 and an earlier Thomas Goggin who died in 1895.
William George Williams was born on 11th December 1873 in Macroom to Samuel Erbery Williams and Annie Eliza.
Georgina Mary Williams was born on 16th August 1876 to Samuel Erbery Williams and Annie Eliza Williams.   (William Henry Williams and Mary WIlliams of Kinsale also  baptised  a daughter as Georgina Mary Williams in the same year in Kinsale.)   A Georgina Mary Williams married John Henry Hamilton in Macroom in 1901.
Kinsale baptism: 8th March 1870 - Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel Erbery Williams of Macroom and of Anne Eliza Williams.
Joanna Mary Williams, born 1887.
Hannah Maria Williams born 1888.
Annie Elizabeth Williams born 1890.
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Richard Christopher Williams, son of Samuel Erbery Williams and Annie Eliza Williams, married Emily Bayley Williams, the daughter of a relation, James Williams.   Children were Samuel Erbery Williams born 1898 and James Valantine Williams born 1899.

James Williams was the son of John Williams of Bandon, and he married, on 29th September 1864 in Ballymodan, Bandon, Mary Anne Turpin, the daughter of George Turpin of Bandon.  James Williams and Mary Anne Turpin settled in Inniscarra, Ballincolllig, where James worked in farming. Their children were:
John Williams, born Bandon on 29th June 1865.
Maria Elizabeth Williams, born 13th October 1866.
Sarah Williams born Inniscarra on 16th January 1868; in 1891 she married William Henderson, vet of Main Street, Bandon, who died on 29th August 1908 with probate to Richard Christopher Williams JP and hotelier of Macroom and to Thomas Henderson.   (The children of William Henderson and Sarah Williams were Agnes Johnstone Henderson born 1893, Mary Adeline Henderson born 1895, John William Henderson born 1898, Emily Scott Henderson born 1899 and Ida Henderson born 1905.)  William Henderson had been born in August 1863 to John Henderson and Agnes Johnstone of Inniscarra, Ballincollig.
A child was born in Bandon (unnamed) to James Williams and Mary Anne Turpin on 3rd March 1870.
Emily Bayley Williams born 11th April 1873, who married Richard Christopher Williams, Macroom hotelier.
Edmond Thomas Williams born at Inniscarra on 28th April 1874.  He might have been named after an earlier Edmond Thomas Williams who had been born in 1840 and who operated as a shopkeeper of Grafton St., Cork.  This earlier Edmond Thomas Williams  died on 16th December 1899 and left a widow Anne Williams.   The younger man in 1911 was unmarried and working as a postmaster.
James Williams born 7th August 1875.
Diana Williams born 18th February 1878.
A son of James Williams and Mary Anne Augusta Turpin was George Turpin Williams, a draper, who died in Auckland, New Zealand, on 18th March 1895.
(George Turpin, shopkeeper of Bandon, who married a daughter of Richard Williams of Macroom, died in Bandon on 27th June 1886 with probate granted to daughter Mary Anne Williams of Inniscarra and to unmarried daughter Georgina Maria Turpin of Bandon. Another daughter was the unmarried Margaret Ann Turpin of Bandon who died there on 27th October 1894.  In the 1870s, George Turpin operated as a watch and clockmaker in Bandon.)
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The Williams and the Fullers were among the original Protestant English settlers of the town of Bandon, ie: Thomas Williams and Edward Fuller. Both families intermarried extensively.

An early Richard Williams and Thomas Fuller were early Treasurers of Cork.

A Thomas Williams married Elizabeth Allshire on 20th October 1753 in Bandon, Cork.

Richard Williams of Bandon:
Richard Williams (1779 - 1829), brother of John Williams (died 1824) of Kinsale, married on 15th January 1799, Mary or Frances Evatt, the daughter of George Evatt of Kilmore and Phoebe Browne of Inchigeela.   (A son of George Evatt and Phoebe Browne was John Hamilton Evatt who married Mary Baxter in London. )

Richard Williams of North Main Street, Bandon, died in 1849 and was buried, aged 70, in Bandon on 4th May 1849.

Linking to Richard Williams and Mary Evatt of Bandon was John Bennett Evett Williams (1830 - 1859) who died in Calcutta on 15th May 1859, Capt 99th Reg, and who was noted as the son of the late John Williams, Bandon, and he left a widow, Hester Williams of 23 Westbourne Square, Middlesex.   In 1851, a John B. Williams of Bandon, an ensign in the army, was lodging in Chatham, Kent.
A daughter of Richard Williams and Frances Evatt was Susan Williams who married Mr. Moore of Bandon - their daughter was Myra Fuller, still living in 1913.

Samuel Erbery Williams and Peter Williams were both the children of Richard Williams, linen merchant of Bandon, as was  Susannah Jane Henderson who was the third daughter of Richard Williams of both Macroom and Bandon...Samuel's middle name of Erbery or Erberry is sometimes spelled as Carberry, and may refer to Abraham Carbery/Carbury who was a pawnbroker of Bandon in 1824.  Another close relative of Richard Williams of Bandon might be John Richard Williams of Kinsale who was closely related to Samuel Erbery Williams and Peter Williams.   Was Richard Williams, linen merchant of North Main Street, Bandon, the same Richard Williams who operated earlier as pawnbroker in the town, or were they father and son?

A widowed Mary Williams died in Bandon on 26th September 1866 and her will was administered by Willliam Kingston, Bandon pawnbroker.

A John Francis Bennett Williams of Cork, aged 6 weeks, and was buried in Bandon on 24th February 1859.

Street Directories, Bandon:
In Pigot's 1824 Directory of Bandon, Richard Williams was a pawnbroker of North Main Street - this was the brother of John Williams, pawnbroker of Kinsale.  A John Williams was a grocer of North Main Street;  Paul Williams was a builder of North Main Street and a 2nd Paul Williams ran The Devonshire Arms also on North Main Street.
In 1845, two of the Bandon Williams signed a petition in favour of the development of the Bandon to Bantry railway - John B. Williams and Richard W. Williams.
In 1847, the directories note Richard Williams, Misses Ann and Rebecca Williams of North Main Street.  John Williams was a salt manufacturer of North Main Street;  there was also a Robert Williams, nail maker, of Shannon Street.
In Bandon in 1856 the Williams listed were Thomas,  Ann and Rebecca of North Main Street.  Diana Williams was a bookseller and milliner/dressmaker of North Main Street (and the name Diana was reused by later generations of this family);   there were no Williams pawnbrokers in the town, but William Kingston was still operating as one.

The death occurred iin July 1859 of Bennett Brett Williams, Captain in the 99th Regiment of Foot, son of the late John Williams of Bandon.

The Thomas Williams of North Main Street, noted in 1856, must be the following...
Thomas Beamish Williams of Bandon and Anne Keays, daughter of James Keays of Springview, married in Glanmire, Cork. in 1844.
Earlier in 1820, Thomas Beamish Williams of Bandon married Mary Field, the second daughter of William Field of Cork.  Were there two Thomas Beamish Williams, or just the one?

Kilbrogan, Bandon, Church of Ireland Baptisms:
18th September 1843 (born 10th September 1843) - Anne Symns Williams, daughter of Thomas Beamish Williams and Anne Williams of North Main Street, Bandon shopkeeper.
28th January 1847 - Mary Field Williams, daughter of Thomas Beamish and Anne Williams.
10th April 1848 - John Williams, son of Thomas Beamish and Anne WIlliams.
25th April 1852 - Richard Williams, son of Thomas Beamish and Anne Williams.
Thomas Beamish Williams of Bandon died at some stage between 1852 and 1858 - on 11th November 1858 his widow, Anne Williams, daughter of James Keays, married in St. Peters, Cork, Geoffrey James Olden, son of Roger Olden.

Kilbrogan, Bandon Burials:
19th June 1847 - Mary Field Williams of North Main Street.
4th May 1849 - Richard Williams, aged 70, of North Main Street. (Born c.1779)
24th February 1859 - John Francis Bennett Williams of Cork, aged 6 weeks.
10th March 1859 - Eliza Williams, widow of North Main Street, aged 60.

Williams of Macroom:
John Williams of Macroom:
In 1826, John Williams Junior, son of John Williams of Macroom, married Mary Bowen White, second daughter of apothecary Nicholas White of Macroom. (In 1886, there was a doctor Nicholas Warburton White, in Macroom.)   In March 1865 in Crookstown, Co. Cork, Nicholas Williams MD, second son of John Williams, Macroom hotel-keeper, died of typhus.  Earlier, in December 1864, Henry Williams, youngest son of John Williams of Macroom, died of gastric fever at the residence of his brother who was named as Dr. Williams of 16 Charlotte Quay, Cork.
Also,  John Williams MD of Macroom died 25th January 1873 - probate to Mary and John Williams, married, both of Macroom.
A John Williams of Macroom died 15th April 1876 - executor was Rev. William Williams of Cockermouth, UK.

Henry Constantine Gilholy, son of Henry Gilholy of Cashel, married Diana Sarah Turpin in 1859 in Ballymodan, Bandon -  Sarah Diana Turpin was the second daughter of George Turpin of Bandon, and was noted as the granddaughter of Richard Williams of Macroom.  A daughter of Richard Williams of Macroom had therefore married George Turpin of Bandon.

The following children were born to a Richard and Mary Williams of Macroom:
Diana Williams, born 3rd September 1815 to Richard and Mary Williams of Macroom - a Diana Williams worked in Bandon in 1856.
Thomas Williams, born 17th May 1818 to Richard and Mary Williams of Macroom. Was this Thomas Beamish Williams of North Main Street, Bandon, noted there in the 1840s?
Mary Williams, born 7th May 1820 to Richard and Mary Williams of Macroom.
Richard Williams, born 21st April 1822 to Richard and Mary Williams of Macroom.
Peter Williams born 29th August 1824 to Richard and Mary Williams of Macroom.
Luranna (probably an error in transcription, more likely Susanna) Williams, born 15th May 1825 to Richard and Mary Williams of Macroom.  If this is Susanna Williams, then she married James Boyes Henderson in Bandon in 1858.  There are two separate marriage records for Susanna Williams and James Boyes Henderson, one giving Susannah's father's residence as Macroom, and the other as Bandon.
William Williams, born 3rd May 1831 to Richard and Mary Williams of Macroom.
Another Peter Williams born 7th August 1833 to Richard and Mary (Ann) Williams of Macroom - this could be the Peter Williams, watchmaker of Cork who was born circa 1835 and who died in 1875.
I found no birth record for a Samuel Erberry/Carberry Williams, son of RIchard Williams of Bandon.
In November 1865 at Macroom at her son's residence, aged 72, Mary Anne, widow of late Richard Williams, died.

Street Directories, Macroom:
Pigot's 1824 Directory noted John Williams of the Kings Arms Hotel, and a shoemaker Peter Williams.  The 1827 Tithe Applotment Books note these two men both living in the townland of Sleaveen West, Macroom.  In 1846, Peter Williams was working as the postmaster in The Square.  Another Peter was noted under 'Nobility Clergy Gentry' with an address in The Grove.  There was also John Williams of The Queens Arms, The Square, and another John Williams who worked as a shoemaker/saddler in The Square.  Finally, also in 1846, was the publican Mary Williams of The Square.  
Later members of the Williams family entered the hotel trade in Macroom, namely Samuel Erbery Williams and his son, Richard Christopher Williams.  Samuel Erbery Williams was the son of Bandon linen merchant Richard Williams, who may well have been associated with Macroom as well.
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Other Records of Interest here:
From Kinsale Parish Register - 10th March 1869 - daughter of John Williams of Inniscann, Co.Cork, (should this be Innishcarra near Ballincollig, I wonder?) and his wife, Mary, daughter of Minchin Esq., of Kinsale.

Other Baptisms, Kinsale Church of Ireland:
9th May 1802 - Mary-Anne Williams, daughter of John and Jane.
26th June 1803 - John Williams, son of John Williams. (No wife named.)  A John Williams, son of John Williams was buried in Kinsale on 12th July 1836.
20th October 1805 - Mary Williams, daughter of John and Jane Williams.
25th February 1810 - Ellen Williams, daughter of John and Jane Williams.
25th April 1817 - Jane Williams, daughter of John (magister?) and Jane (dec'd?)Williams.
26th July 1818 - Catherine, daughter of John and Jane Williams.
Elizabeth Williams, baptised in 1820, by John Williams of the Alms House and Jane his wife.  It's unclear who this particular John Williams of the Kinsale Alms House was.

12th March 1798 - George Williams son of George and Mary (Creagh?) Williams.
21st August 1791 - Hannah Williams, daughter of soldier James Williams of the 46th Regiment and of Catherine Williams.

Kinsale Marriage - 28th September 1853 - Richard Williams to Mary Jane (Demilton?).

Kinsale Burials:
9th April 1807 - John Williams, son of John Williams.
6th December 1810 - Hannah Williams.
27th April 1809 - Sarah Williams, widow.
11th August 1826 - Thomas Williams, son of John Williams.
24th September 1827 - Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Thomas Williams.
12th July 1836 - John Williams, son of George Williams.
25th December 1856 - Edward Williams.
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The 1901 census shows a John Williams, who was a Methodist pawnbroker's assistant in Kinsale, who died on 21st October 1910  (born 1829).  Probate was granted to another pawnbroker, James Gaugh of Kinsale.
In 1901, William Francis Williams was a Kinsale Bank manager (born circa 1855); his wife was Sarah Danckert, sister of Charlotte Danckert.

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....

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

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

Margaret Madine (born 1832 to Robert Madine Senior and Margaret Frew) and John Frew (1830 - 1917):

Margaret Madine, Elizabeth Madine Stewart's older sister, married John Frew, a sailor, in Carnmoney Church of Ireland, north of Belfast city, on July 13th 1859.   John had been born on 15th February 1830 to the coastguard David Frew in Queenstown, Co. Cork.   His mother was most likely Prudence Theresa Frew. A quick search of the 1901 census shows that John Frew was the only Frew to have been born in Cork, which seems to suggest that his family didn't come from there;   a quick scroll through the Irish Registration Index similarily reveals almost no Frews of Co. Cork.  
The witnesses to the wedding of Margaret Madine and John Frew in 1859 were Margaret Madine's two siblings, Robert and Jane Madine...Jane would marry her brother-in-law Robert Stewart the following year and then promptly disappear from the records.

I accessed the naval records for John Frew, who married Margaret Madine, on the UK National Archives Discovery website.  He had been a member of the Irish Coastguard, who had joined up on 14th December 1857, at the age of 27.  The record gave a brief description of him too - he was 5'7", with brown hair, dark eyes and dark complexion. His detailed service records only date from 1st January 1873, when he was on board the Vanguard, stationed at Carrickfergus.  John Frew was the chief boatman of the Belleisle from 2nd July 1878 until 13th April 1880.  From 1th April 1880 until 5th November 1880 he was stationed in Ballymacaw, Dunmore East, in Co. Wexford, and was noted there as Chief Boatman in Charge from 6th November 1880 until 2nd December 1880.  There then followed a stint at Curracloe, Co. Wexford from 3rd December until his retirement on 15th February 1890 when they pensioned him off.  Curracloe in Wexford was where he and Margaret Madine were living in 1901 and 1911.  John Frew also served aboard the Iron Duke and the Topaze.

There were other Curracloe Frews, all of them coastguards, and almost certainly the brothers of John Frew...  David Frew, who had been born in Wexford on 10th October 1834, died in South Dublin/North Wicklow on 20th September 1888.   David had been christened five days later on 15th October 1834 in New Romney, Kent, England, by his parents David Frew and Prudence Theresa Frew.  
David Frew entered the coastguard service on 10th December 1859 as an able seaman who volunteered for ten years' service and who served firstly aboard "The Cambrian".   Earlier he had served aboard "The Ajax" from 15th November 1852 until 19th October 1854.  From October 1854 till September 1859 he served aboard "The Cunard".
David William Frew died on 20th September 1888 in the Rathdown Union Infirmiary in Dublin and his will was proved  by the naval pensioner, James Edward Frew, who had himself been born on 27th April 1845 in Co.Wexford, and was most likely another son of David and Prudence Theresa Frew.  
The English National Archives have plenty of information about James Frew - he entered the service of the coastguard on 15th October 1864 for 10 years' service, and this was extended from 20th March 1875 when he was recorded aboard the "Excellent".   Further records mention his very good conduct.  He was aboard "The Hawke" from 15th October 1864 as Ordinary Seaman until 24th March 1865;  on "The Arethusa" from 25th March 1865 until 28th February 1867, and from 1st March 1867 until 7th January 1869 as an Able Seaman.   From 8th January 1870 till 5th March 1870 he was on "The Excellent", and from 6th March 1870 till 2nd September 1872 he served on "The Fawn", being promoted to Leading Seaman in 1872.   He was to receive his pension on 24th April 1884.
When he proved the will of his brother, David William Frew, in Dublin in 1888, James Frew was living at 36 Glasthule, a suburb of Dunlaoghaire, Co. Dublin.

The UK National Archives also record a Robert Frew who'd been born in Newry, Co. Down, on 9th April 1844 and who entered the coast guard above the "Ajax" aged 18 years on 5th May 1859.  There were no further details about this Robert Frew.

Also, on 15th December 1859 in Co. Wexford, Margaret Anne Frew, the daughter of an older David Frew, married the coastguard, Edward Latto, who had been born in Co. Wexford in 1820. The Latto family later moved to Kent, England. 

The older David Frew had been born in 1796 and his death was registered in the Rathdrum registration district in 1894.
His wife, Prudence Theresa Frew, died in the Rathdown Registration District, ie: South Dublin or North Wicklow, in 1894, and her year of birth was given as 1823.  The date of birth must be erroneous, since she would have been too young to be the mother of either John or David William Frew.


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

• Louisa Ann Frew, born Co. Down in 1862. 
• Unknown Child, born 19th April 1864 in the Whitehouse district of Co. Antrim.
• David Frew, born 9th September 1865;  a David Frew, aged 0, died there the same year.
• Mary Elizabeth,8th September 1866, born in the Whitehouse district of Co. Antrim; she died in April/June 1895 in Co. Wexford.
• Teresa Jane Frew, 9th April 1869 in Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim.  A schoolteacher in 1901 and 1911 in Curracle, Co. Wexford, she was blinded in an accident and lived the final years of her life in the Molyneux Asylum, Leeson St, Dublin where she died unmarried in 1948. She was known as Tess.
• John Frew,  born 18th March 1868 - this son died later the same year.
• A later John Frew was born and died in 1872 in Wexford.  

Margaret and John Frew appear on the 1901 and 1911 Censuses with their unmarried daughter, Teresa, living in Curracloe,  Co. Wexford. John Frew was a retired naval officer, and in 1885 he was noted as the chief boatman of the coastguard in Curracloe, Co. Wexford.  His daughter, Teresa, was a schoolteacher.
The 1911 Census tells us that the couple had had eight children but only two survived - Therea Jane and Louisa Ann.    
Margaret Frew, née Madine, died in Wexford in 1914 followed by John Frew  in 1917.

Louisa Ann Frew, the daughter of Margaret Madine and John Frew,  married Thomas William Prothero in Dunmore East, Waterford, in 1878.  Thomas was also a member of the Coast Guards, like John, James and Thomas Frew.
Thomas William Prothero had been born on 4th Feb.1849 in Walworth, Surrey, but was baptised mcuh later, on March 29th 1863, in St. Mary's, Newington, Walworth.  
His parents were Thomas Dax Prothero (1816 - 1864) and Eliza Ann Eedy (1827 - 1914).  Thomas Dax Prothero was a clerk in the Exchequer's Office, who was in financial difficulties in the late 1850s, and who was declared bankrupt in 1863.  In 1854, his address was Bronti Place, East St., Walworth;  in 1863, he was at Belmont Villas, Lorrimore Square, Newington.
His wife's parents, Bennett Eedy and Ann Susannah Rees, had married in St. Andrew's, Holborn, on 15th August 1824.

The children of Louisa Ann Frew and Thomas William Prothero were:

•  Thomas Frew Prothero, born Dunmore East, Waterford on 23rd November 1880. Thomas joined the Royal Navy; he died in Plymouth in 1949.
•  John Walter Prothero, born Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, on 23rd October 1882.  John Walter married Annie Donnan, the daughter of James and Eliza Donnan,  in 1914 in the Downpatrick/Killyleagh area.  A daughter, Louisa Ann Prothero was registered in this Downpatrick area in June 1915;  John Walter Prothero died in Dublin in 1916. He also entered the Navy as a coastguard, and was present on the UK 1911 at the Royal Navy Barracks in Devon.
•  Ernest Duncan Prothero, born Curracloe, Wexford, on 30th June 1884.  Ernest spent 12 years with the Navy.  He married Helen D. Edmiston on 7th August 1912 in Dundee, Scotland, before emigrating to Toronto, Canada, where he joined Battalion 238 of the Canadian army in June 1916. His address when he joined up was 7 Howie Avenue, Toronto, and he and his wife, Helen, were still living here in 1958.
•  David William Prothero, born Cork 1888.
•  Robert George Prothero, born 5th February 1890 Killard, Co. Down. He joined the Navy also.
•  Henry Arthur Prothero, born Cork 1892.  He married, in 1927, Olive Francis Barton, and had Margaret E.M. Prothero in Dublin in 1932.
•  Charles Frederick Prothero, born Clonakilty, Co. Cork on 30th October 1895. He also joined the Naval service.  He was noted on the 1940 electoral list at 30 Summerhill Parade, Ballybough, Dublin, with his wife Martha Prothero, née Norgrove, born 1910, who was the sister of Louisa's Prothero's husband, Frederick Norgrove.  (See below for notes on the interesting Norgrove family of Dublin.....)   Their children were Mary E. L. Prothero, born 1935, Charles F. Prothero, born 1940, and Thomas Prothero, born 1946.
•  Louisa Prothero, born Dublin 1897. Louisa married, in Dublin in 1927, Frederick A.E. Norgrove, and the couple had Thomas F. Norgrove in North Dublin in 1928, and Lilian D. Norgrove in 1930. They were living at 171 Clontarf Road in 1939/1940.  Frederick Norgrove died on 30th October 1973, and Louisa on 26th January 1988. Both were buried in Redford Cemetery, Greystones, Co. Wicklow.
•  Lilian Prothero (1899 - 1971).  In 1928, she married Albert William Newell (1893 - 1976)  and had John Frederick Newell,  Albert Victor George Newell (1925 -2005), and John Frew Newell (1928 - 2010).

In 1901, Thomas William Prothero and Louisa Ann Frew were living at Quay Road, Kingstown/Dunlaoghaire, Co. Dublin, and were in Howth, Co. Dublin by 1911, where Thomas Prothero was a pensioned chief officer of the Royal Navy, and Harbour Master of Howth.  Thomas died in South Dublin in 1916, and Louisa Ann in North Dublin in 1936.

The Norgrove family:  Two of the Protheros married two of the children of Alfred George Norgrove (1876 - 1937)  and Ellen Maria Carter (1875 - 1934).  Born in Kingstown, Dublin, Alfred George Norgrove, known as George Norgrove, was the son of an English Navy man.  George worked as a gas-fitter and was an active trades unionistist;  following the lock-out of 1913, he became involved in the Irish Citizens Army, helping to asssemble a stockpile of billycan bombs in 1915.  He served as a lieutenant, firstly in the GPO, then in City Hall, during the 1916 Easter Rising.  His wife, Maria, was also active during Easter Week, as were his children.  Frederick, who later married Louisa Prothero, worked as a messenger during the fighting, while two of his daughters, Annie and Emily Norgrove, supplied water to the men fighting on the roof of City Hall.  Following the nationalist surrender, George Norgrove spent time in Frongoch internment camp in Wales, staying faithful to De Valera and joining the anti-Treaty side during the Civil War of 1922.  His son, Robert Norgrove, fought in Barry's Hotel and the Hammam Hotel on O'Connell Street.  George Norgrove died of suspected gas poisoning at work in 1937.  The Irish Citizens Army provided a guard of honour at the funeral.  George Norgrove is buried in Drumcondra Church of Ireland graveyard.
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John Frew, Game Keeper, Killyleagh Castle:
Robert Stewart was the brother of our great-great grandfather, Joseph Stewart.  Robert married, in 1860,  Jane Madine, the sister of our great-great grandmother, Elizabeth Madine.
The witnesses to the marriage of Robert Stewart and Jane Madine were Richard Woofenden and Louisa Matilda Frew.  Matilda was a teacher in the local National School and may well have been a relation of Jane Madine - Jane Madine's mother had been Margaret Frew before her marriage to Robert Madine in 1826.   Matilda Louisa Frew was the daughter of John Frew and Euphemia Thistlethwaite.

John Frew married Euphemia Thistlewaite in Killyleagh parish church on April 29th 1826;  John Frew was noted in the parish register as being a member of the Royal North Down Militia at the time of his marriage to Euphemia.  In 1809, a Captain Frew of the Royal South Down Militia was noted as a subscriber to a book about the American Revolution.

John Frew became the gamekeeper at Killyleagh Castle and, immediately prior to his death in 1892, had appeared in the police census of Killyleagh as a bailiff of 48 Corporation, Killyleagh, living with a granddaughter, Mary Denby. Earlier, in 1870 and 1877, he had been noted as living at 'The Cottage' in Killyleagh.
John Frew died in Killyleagh in January 1892 aged 89;  his wife Euphemia had died aged 80 on 12th January 1888 at The Cottage, Killyleagh.
   
The Children of John Frew and Euphemia Thistlethwaite of Killyleagh:
Matilda Louisa Frew, born circa 1841 to John Frew and Euphemia Thistlethwaite, died in Kew, Victoria, Australia in 1919.
Was living at 12 Valentine Avenue, Kew,  with Euphemia Alice Frew, in 1919.  They were living at  3 Queen Street in 1914 and at 77 Foley Road in 1904.
In 1924, Euphemia Alice Frew (born circa 1842 to John Frew) was living at 12 Valentine Avenue.  She died in 1926...in 1902 she had married a man named Charles Albert Lawson, but had reverted to her original name by 1914.
A Euphemia A. Frew was born in 1877 in Albury, NSW, Australia, to Alexander Frew and Rosanna.  Alexander Frew was the brother of Euphemia Alice and Matilda Louisa, and had been born to John Frew and Euphemia Thistlethwaite in Killyleagh on June 28th 1841.  In Australia he married Rosanna Crisp (1850 - 1938).  A building contractor, he died in Albury in 1900.  He had children - Alexander C. Frew, and Walter L. Frew. 
William Frew was born to John and Euphemia Frew in Killyleagh on August 30th 1842, and died in Albury, New South Wales on 6th November 1923.   William married Ellen Clark, and was a timber merchant in Albury, although he'd served an appprenticeship as an engine fitter.   Their son was named as Denby Pearson Frew. (1878 - 1915)
Elizabeth Frew was born to John and Euphemia Frew in Killyleagh in 1848 and died in Australia.

John Frew, the gamekeeper/bailiff of Killyleagh Castle, was noted on the Killyleagh police census of the early 1890s as sharing a house with his granddaughter, Mary Denby, who was most likely visiting her grandfather.  Her mother was John's daughter, Mary Frew, who married George Walter Denby on May 6th 1857 - the couple had been married in the Killyleagh Church of Ireland by Rev. Dr. Hinks who had earlier married Margaret Frew and Robert Madine (the parents of Jane Madine who married Robert Stewart in 1860).  George Walter Denby's father was James Denby.

George Walter Denby (1829 - 1905) , the husband of Mary Frew of Killyleagh, was a pianoforte maker of Belfast and is easy to trace through the Belfast Street Directories, as is another relation (brother?), John Denby, who was also a piano maker.  George had a brother, William Denby, who was a coachmaker of Belfast, and who named a son after his brother, George Walter Denby.
   The family lived in Joy Street, Belfast:
   1863 - 1864:  John Denby, Piano Maker, 42 Joy Street.
                         Mrs. Denby, Milliner and Straw Bonnet Maker, 42 Joy Street.
   1865 + 1870: George Denby,  Pictureframe Maker, 46 Joy Street.
                         Mrs. Denby,  Milliner and Straw Bonnet Maker, 42 Joy Street.
   1880:  George Denby, Pianoforte Maker,  105 Joy Street.
              Mary Denby,  Milliner, 105 Joy Street.

George's brother, William Denby, who died 11th November 1903 at 11 Cavehill Road, Belfast, left a 7-page will which can be read online on the PRONI website.

Other possible Denby relations may be the following people...
Martha Denby who married Archibald Shaw in St. Anne's, Belfast, on 11th September 1853.
Mary Denby who married William Marshall in Holywood C. of I. on 8th July 1846.
Elizabeth Denby who married Hugh Tuilley in Holywood C. of I. on 7th December 1848.
Patrick Denby wo married Susanna McKendry in Newtownards on 9th October 1890.


George Denby and Mary Frew had several children - Annie Ingles/Ingle Denby, the 5th daughter, was born in Belfast on 6th June 1866 and married John McMullan, the son of a John McMullan of the GNR in Belfast, in the All Saint's Church, Shankill, Belfast, on 17th September 1894.   (Also, a Charles Denby married an Agnes McMullan on 6th November 1885 in St. John's Laganbank Church of Ireland in Knockbreda.)

Martha Denby was born on 29th July 1868 and married James William Linden, a bookkeeper, in Holywood Church of Ireland church on 2nd October 1899 - they were living at 41 Dufferin Avenue, Bangor, Co. Down in 1911 with their two young children, Thomas Wilson Linden and May Linden.

A brother, George Alexander Denby, was born to George and Mary in 1874 but died the following year.

A Euphemia Matilda Denby married Thomas Wilson on 17th August 1889 in Christchurch C. of I, Belfast, and were living in 1901 at 29 Dufferin Avenue, Bangor.

A daughter, Louisa Matilda Denby, married John McKnight in Christchurch Church of Ireland, Belfast, on 11th February 1889 -   they appeared on the 1911 census in Frederick St., Killyleagh, with their four daughters, and a visitor, Hugh McClernon Denby, a coachbuilder of Antrim.  (Hugh McClarnon Denby died at Myra, Downpatrick on 14th March 1948, with probate to the Belfast coachbuilder, William Henry Denby - a William Denby had married Lily McLarnon in Ballymena 3rd Presbyterian Church on 13th October 1857; later, on 9th June 1891, a William Henry Denby married Harriette Skelly in Fortwilliam Park Presbyterian Church.  In 1910 he was a van and wagon maker with an address at 60 Tomb St;  William Denby,  carriage builder, was at 164 Antrim Rd.)

In 1901 and 1911,  George and Mary Denby were living in Holywood, North County Down, along with their unmarried daughter, Alice Georgina Denby, and with a boarder named Edward Jones, who was aged 4 in 1901 and 14 in 1911.  He had been born in Dublin.
     There seems to have been only the one Denby family in Belfast at this time which makes tracing them quite easy - earlier, in 1853, a second Martha Denby married James Crothers in Belfast;  she was possibly a sister of George and William Denby.
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Thomas Frew, Coastguard, born 1821 Killyleagh:
In the same register I noted down the Killyleagh burial, on June 24th 1901, of a Lizzie Frew of Belfast; she was 53 at the time of her death. She'd been born, therefore, in 1848.  She appeared on the 1901 census living with her widowed sister, Mary Kirk, at 13 Essex Street in Belfast; both sisters had been born in England, Lizzie in 1848, and Mary in 1851.  Mary Frew had married James Kirk, a blacksmith, the son of a farmer William Kirk, in Killyleagh parish church on December 23rd 1878. 
The father of Mary Frew and Elizabeth/Lizzie Frew was Thomas Frew, a hotelkeeper of Killyleagh. Thomas Frew witnessed the wedding of Mary Frew and James Kirk.  The Kirk family were living at 2 High St., Killyleagh in the late 1890s.

I found the family of Thomas Frew on the 1851 UK Census, and it confirmed that he, too, was a member of the Coast Guard who had been born in Killyleagh, Co. Down, in about 1820.  His wife was Elizabeth, who'd been born circa 1821 in Davenport, Devon.  There were three daughters - Emily Catherine Frew, born in 1845 in Fishbourne, Elizabeth/Eliza Frew, born in 1847 in Fishbourne, on the Isle of Wight,  and Mary Frew, born in 1849 in Brading, Sandown, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, which was where this family were still living in 1851.
By 1855, Thomas Frew was leasing a house in Fintra Beg, near Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare. I presume there was a coastguard station closeby - Griffiths  Valuation shows up a Customs House in the same townland, just south of the Cliffs of Moher.
Emily Catherine Frew married a William Wilson in 1862 in Co. Clare, and can be seen, widowed, and living with her young family and her elderly, widowed father, Thomas Frew, in Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare, where she was working as the postmistress.

Several of the children of Emily Catherine Frew and William Wilson were born in Co. Clare, and the records for these Irish births appear on the LDS website as follows...
   Robert Wilson, born 5th December 1874 at Cragaknock, Kilrush, Co. Clare.
   John Wilson, born 16th December 1867, at Roadford, Co. Clare.
   George Wilson, born 22nd March 1877, in Co. Clare.
   Mary Wilson, born 9th April 1879, at Corofin, Co. Clare.
   Louisa Wilson, born 5th September 1880 in Co. Clare.

More of their children appear on the 1901 census...
   Emily H. Wilson, born Co. Clare, in about 1872.
   Caroline L. Wilson, born Co. Clare in about 1883.
   

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

James Frew was a coastguard.   Their children emigrated to Australia in 1877.
Their daughter, Mary Frew, was born in 1842 in Dundalk, Co. Louth, and married Oswald McCloskie in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth on 4th November 1861.  Oswald was the son of William McCloskie and Harriet Read;  both William and Oswald McCloskie were gardeners.

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

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

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

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

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

• William Woolsey, baptised 16th November 1814.  He worked in the Admiralty at Somerset House, and never married.
• O'Bryen Woolsey, born circa 1816.  He also worked as a clerk in the Admiralty, Somerset House.  He had a cousin, O'Bryen Bellingham Woolsey, born to Captain John Woolsey and Janet Jameson in Castlebellingham, Louth.    An 1845 Directory notes two O'Brien Woolseys of the Admiralty, Somerset House, one of them 'O'Brien Woolsey, Junr.'   O'Brien Woolsey's will was proved on 18th September 1857 - his address at the time of his death was 4 Marsden Row, Chiswick. The will named an unmarried maternal aunt, Catherine Gibson, and his younger sister Sophia Frances Woolsey.  The executors were named as his uncle, O'Bryan Bellingham Woolsey and his brother-in-law Rev. Henry de Laval Willis.
• Mary Anne Woolsey, later wife of Henry de Laval Willis,  born 4th August 1817, baptised 27th August, St. Pancras.
• Elizabeth Lucy Woolsey, born 26 August 1821 in St. Pancras, London.  On 15th July 1856 in St. Pancras, Middlesex,  Elizabeth Lucy married her first cousin, Theophilus Moon of HM's Customs.  Theophilus' father, also Theophilus Moon, was dead by this time, as was Elizabeth Lucy's father, Thomas Woolsey. The witnesses were Elizabeth's siblings, O'Bryan Bellingham Woolsey and Sophia Frances Woolsey.  (Theophilus Moon Senior had married Isabella Gibson in St Pancras on 29th March 1813. In 1843, a Theophilus Moon was working in the office of the Registrar General of Trading Ships of Britain and Ireland.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Elizabeth Lucy Willis, born 1844,  Ireland - she married  John Woolsey of Castlebellingham and Castle Cosey, Co. Louth.  John Woolsey was her mother's first cousin - his father was Captain John Woolsey, her mother's father was Captain John Woolsey's brother, Thomas Woolsey. Elizabeth Lucy Willis and John Woolsey married in about 1865, but Elizabeth Lucy died on 10th November 1870;  John Woolsey died childless on 25th May 1887.
• Mary Charlotte Deborah, born circa 1845, in Portadown, Ireland. She never married.
• Henry Thomas Gilbert Willis, born St. Mary's, Lancaster, on 2nd May, 1849.   A wool merchant, on 6th July 1886 in the Parish Church, Marylebone, London, he married Ada Susan Robinson, the daughter of John Robinson, a commercial traveller. At the time, both bride and groom were living at 40 Blandford Square.   The witnesses were an M.H. Alcock and one of the Walker family. (Initials illegible.)  In 1891, Henry and Ada Susan were living in Manningham, Yorkshire. Henry Thomas Gilbert Willis died and was buried on 3rd June 1891, aged 42, at Burley, St. Mary's, West Yorkshire;  Henry's widow, Ada, subsequently married Henry's first cousin, Gilbert de Laval Willis, who was the son of the Rev. William Newcombe Willis and Emily Evans.   Ada and Gilbert de Laval Willis settled in Dublin.
• Francis William Willis, born in Bradford, York, England, on 23rd February 1851. Known later as William Francis Willis, he practised as a dentist, and proved the 1906 will of his maternal aunt, Elizabeth Lucy Moon.   William Francis Willis married Clara Thomasine Quinn in August 1877.  She had been born in about 1855 in Camden to Thomas Quinn and Mary Anne Cooke, who had married in St. Pancras on May 13th 1843. (Both their fathers, Thomas Quin Senior and Peter Colloton Cooke, were dead.)    The 1911 Census showed the couple living in Hove, Kent, and mentioned they had one living child.   William Francis Willis died at 27 Worcester Villas, Portsdale, Sussex, on 24th August 1918, and his will was administered by his son, Henry de Laval Willis, a major in the RAF, who had been born in Kensington in 1883.  Henry de Laval Willis appeared with his Jersey-born wife, Nina, lodging in 1911 in Kent - he was then a lieutenant in the Royal Marines Light Infantry and had been born in Kensington in 1883.  His wife, Nina Renouf, had been born in 1890, and the couple had married in 1911 in Kensington.  Henry de Laval Willis died in 1948;  his wife, Nina Willis, died on 3rd August 1920 in Portslade, Brighton.
• Charles Hope Willis, born 1860 in Offerd, Huntingdonshire.  His wife was Lilian Kate Anderson,  born circa 1865 to William and Julia E. Anderson.  The young couple married in Radipole Church, Dorset, on October 31st 1888.  Charles was a Captain and Adjutant in the Royal Marines, living at Walmer, Kent.   There were three witnesses - Julia and William Anderson, and Charles Hope Willis's brother-in-law, Harry Walker.    In 1891, Charles and Lilian were living at 19 Cavendish Road, Portsea, Hampshire, with a one-yr-old son, Charley S. M. Willis, and Charles's sister, Mary C.D. Willis.   By 1900, Charles was away, presumably at sea, and Lilian was living at 9 South Avenue, Rochester, Kent, with her two young sons, Charles, who'd been born in Walmer, and one-yr-old Arthur, who'd been born at Chesnut Road, Kent.   Lilian's parents, William and Julia A. Anderson, were also there. William Anderson had been born in about 1832 in High Wycombe;  his wife, Julia, had been born in about 1839 in Wareham, Dorset.    Lilian Kate Willis died in March 1949 in Bath.

This is another post about Williams families of Dublin as part of my ongoing search for the father of our great-great grandfather, Richard Williams of 17 Eden Quay and Dundrum. John Williams had died by the time of Richard's wedding in 1847, and nothing further is known about him.
In this post, I'm concentrating on Thomas Williams  (1779 - 1858) of Sackville Street who was initially in business with a John Williams.

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

Most of the Williams who contributed in 1827 to the early capital of the fledgling City of Dublin Steam Packet Company were members of the Williams family who founded the company.
The original founder, Charles Wye Williams, paid in £8000, while his brother, Richard Williams of Drumcondra Castle, paid in £8700.  Their father was Thomas Williams of Hampton Lodge, Drumcondra, who paid in £5000.
Thomas William's cousin was a London lawyer, John Jeffery Williams whose three eldest sons moved from Holborn to Dublin in the early 19th century, and these three were also listed as shareholders in 1827 - John Dignam Williams, a merchant of Eustace Street, paid in £300;  his brother, the banker of Dame Street, Thomas Hutchins Williams, paid £4400, and lawyer William Williams of College Green, who was the youngest of the three brothers, paid in £200.  

Their father, John Jeffery Williams, had a second younger family by his second wife, Mary Oliver, one of whom was born in 1812, three years before John Jeffery's premature death, and who was named as Richard - this may or may not be our great-grandfather, who lived at the CDSPCo's Dublin headquarters at 17 Eden Quay, where he worked as the company's bookkeeper.  In 1815, the year of his death, John Jeffery Williams had a son, Henry Jeffery Williams, who also worked as a bookkeeper, but I know little more about this man. Our great-great grandfather, the bookkeeper Richard Williams (1812 - 1885) of Eden Quay, married our great-great grandmother, Geraldine O'Moore Creighton (1811 - 1888), in 1847, and named his deceased father as a gentleman named John Williams, who has so far proved elusive.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/11/john-jeffery-williams-father-of-richard.html

Another of the 1827 shareholders was Thomas Williams of 50 Lower Sackville Street who contributed £200 of capital to the CDSPCo, and who had a circumstantial link to our Richard Williams through his wife.
Our Richard Williams, widower, married spinster Geraldine O'Moore Creighton in the Registrar's Office, Dublin, on 15th June 1847.  He was an officer to a public company, ie, CDSPCo, living at 17 Eden Quay, the son of a deceased gentleman, John Williams.  Geraldine O'Moore Creighton was the daughter of presbyterian minister, Rev. David Hill Creighton, and was living at 5 Harcourt Terrace.  This was the address of her maternal aunt, Louisa Willis (1795 - 1866) , who had married the printer George Allen Proctor  (1778 -1848) in St. Peter's, Dublin, on 26th May 1825.    Geraldine O'Moore Creighton's mother was Louisa Proctor's sister, Eliza Willis, both Louisa and Eliza being the daughters of the Portarlington schoolmaster, Thomas Willis.

Geraldine's father, Rev. David Hill Creighton, was associated with the Scots Church of Mary Street and with the Presbyterian Church in Bray, just south of Dublin.  Both he, and his daughters, also ran a Ladies' Academy in a variety of locations around Dublin, which, following his death in 1866, his three unmarried daughters continued to run in North Great Georges Street.

'Saunders News-Letter' of 2nd March 1835 noted that Mr. Creighton and his daughters were running a Ladies' Academy at 50 Lower Sackville Street, having lately removed from 14 Upper Gardiner Street.   50 Lower Sackville Street was the business premises of Thomas Williams.

Later, the edition of 6th April 1835 advertised the Ladies' Academy at 50 Lower Sackville Street and added that Mr. Creighton had been requested by some ladies to open a summer school in Kingstown, and that enquiries for this could be made to himself, and references could be requested from Mrs. Roe of Sans Souci and Mrs. Ferrier of Willow Park.  Both the Roes and the Ferriers were closely associated with the CDSPCo.

'Saunders News-Letter' of 29th August 1836 once again ran the advertisement for the Ladies' Academy of 50 Lower Sackville Street conducted by Mr. Creighton and his daughters.  Later, on 11th September 1843, the paper noted that Mr. Creighton had moved his establishment to 9 Westland Row with his daughter.

Saunders of 10th April 1837 noted in an advert that Mr. Creighton and Mr. and Mrs. Newcombe were in attendance at the Ladies' Academy in 1, Foster Place, College Green.

James Ferrier 'of Willoe Park' was a proprietor of the CDSPCo at its inception in the 1820's, and was its chairman in 1840.  He was also the treasurer of The Evangelical Society and was involved in fundraising for the 'Free Church of Scotland', the 'Dublin Observer' of 1st March 1834 noting that donations were needed to set up meetingplaces and that subscriptions had already been received from James Ferrier and George Allen Proctor who was Geraldine O'Moore Creighton's uncle and brother-in-law of Rev. David Hill Creighton.

'Saunders News-Letter' of February 1835 reported that a sermon was to be preached on behalf of the schools connected with the Scots Church on Marys Abbey (with an entrance at 132 Capel Street), this being the church associated with David Hill Creighton - in 1829 Rev. Creighton had been instrumental in taking over St. Mary's Abbey, Meetinghouse Lane off Capel Street, Dublin, for the Evangelical Society;  his services were 'gratuitous', and he hoped to pay the £50 rent through donations.

As noted earlier, Rev. Creighton and his daughters ran a Ladies' Academy at 50 Lower Sackville Street in the 1830s.   50 Lower Sackville Street was the address of the woollen merchant, Thomas Williams, who had contributed £200 in capital to the fledgling City of Dublin Steam Packet Company.  Given that one of the daughters of Rev. David HIll Creighton was Geraldine O' Moore Creighton, and given that she would, in 1847, marry Richard Williams of the CDSPCo,  was our Richard Williams related somehow to the merchant Thomas Williams, or were they all merely connected via the Dublin Steam Packet Company or via the Presbyterian Church?

All that is know of the immediate family of our great-great grandfather, Richard Williams, is that he was the son of a John Williams, a gentleman who had died by 1847 when his son married Geraldine O'Moore Creighton in Dublin.

Thomas Williams of 50 Lower Sackville Street began his working life in Dublin alongside a John Williams, and I wondered if this might be the father of our Richard Williams.  This is pure conjecture since I have found no definitive link to prove this, but I'll lay out what I know of Thomas (1779 - 1858) and John Williams (died 1813) here nonetheless.

From 'The Dublin Evening Packet and Correspondent' of 28th February 1828, an advertisement for Thomas Williams of 50 Lower Sackville Street confirmed that Thomas Williams was 'himself a native of Wales'.      He had been born somewhere in Wales in about 1779, since his Mount Jerome headstone notes that he was 79 when he died at Burnett Avenue, Kingstown, on 14th February 1858.

Saunders Newletter of 20th February 1804 ran an advertisement for John and Thomas Williams, Linen Drapery Warehouse of No. 1 Church Lane, College Green. They held patterns for yeomanry uniforms which could be seen at 21 Little Strand Street; they also engaged in piano tuning and had shop, parlours and houses to let in different parts of Dublin.

Saunders Newsletter of 24th November 1804 announced that John and Thomas Williams were moving from Church Lane to Grafton Street on the corner of Nassau Street.
From 1806, John and Thomas Williams were noted in the street directories at 1, Grafton Street. The National Library in Kildare Street holds a publication of 1805 with an advertisement for them - 'The Welch flannel and linen drapery ware-house, John & Thomas Williams, No.1 Grafton-street, opposite Suffolk-street.'

The London and Country Directory' of 1811 has 'Williams, John and Thomas, linen drapers, flannel and blanket merchants, Grafton St.'

By 1811, Williams & Co. were operating at 1 Grafton Street and 30 Lower Sackville Street.  Our Richard Williams was born at this time, in about 1812, although people weren't altogether accurate with their ages in this era.   In 1811, Rev. David Hill Creighton was the assistant secretary of the Hibernian Sunday School Society - subscribers included Rev. Thomas Willis of Portarlington, who was Geraldine O'Moore Creighton's uncle, and John Williams of Grafton Street.
An 1811 Report by the Hibernian Sunday School Society again showed up John Williams of Grafton Street as a subscriber, along with Thomas Willis of Portarlington;  D.H. Creighton was named as the assistant secretary.

The 'Chester Chronicle' of 26th March 1813 noted the death of this John Williams - 'In Dublin, on the 10th inst., Mr. John Williams of Grafton Street in that city. - He was a native of the Isle of Anglesey, and during a residence of twenty years in Dublin, acquired, by his affable, friendly and truly obliging disposition, the warm esteem and affectionate regard of a numerous circle of acquaintances, by whom he is sincerely and deservedly lamented.'
The above obituary notes that John, and presumably his partner (and relative?) Thomas Williams, arrived in Dublin in about 1793.  It was about this time that the sons of lawyer, John Jeffery Williams, arrived in Dublin as merchants.

Following the death of his business partner, Thomas Williams sold off his stock at 1 Grafton Street (Saunders 4th May 1813) and set up in business alone at 30 Sackville Street.  The old business had been named as 'Williams & Co'.  At this stage he turned from the linen/flannel industry, and took up deliveries via the mailboats crossing the Irish sea.

By 1822, he was noted as 'Agent to the London and Holyhead Packet Parcel office'.

A typical advertisement for the business appeared in the Dublin Evening Mail of 27th February 1828.  Thomas Williams would forward, twice daily, goods and parcels by the Holyhead Mail and regularly by the Liverpool, London and Bristol steam packets;  parcels would also be delivered to and from the interior of Ireland by the Mail and Day Coaches. Obviously this business would bring him into daily contact with the Dublin Steam Packet Company.

Thomas Williams of 50 Lower Sackville Street, wrote a letter of complaint to the House of Commons in 1823 to highlight the unfair taxation of certain foreign goods imported from Great Britain into Ireland. (House of Commons Papers, Vol.18).

By 1828, Thomas Williams was operating at 50 Lower Sackville Street, where Rev. David Hill Creighton and his daughters would run their academy in the 1830's.  It was in 1828 that Thomas Williams of 50 Lower Sackville Street paid in £200 to the CDSPCo.

Saunders Newletter noted in 1837 that Thomas Williams of 50 Lower Sackville Street operated a real Welch (sic) handspun flannel warehouse, the flannel being manufactured at Welch Pool, Wales.

The Dublin Morning Register of 11th October 1837 noted Thomas Williams as a contributor to the 'Suppression of Street Begging' organisation, and gave two addresses for him - along with 50 Lower Sackville Street, there was also 127 Lower Baggot Street.

By 1839 Thomas Williams was also the agent for the National Provident Institution, and, as well as being a wholesale flannel and woollen merchant, is noted as a Welsh flannel merchant.

By 1850, Thomas Williams was still working at 50 Lower Sackville Street but was living in the southern suburbs at 3 Belvidere Terrace, Sandymount Strand.

 'Thomas Williams & Co., Parcel Agent to His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, military and general agents per English and Irish railways, daily, and agents to Stanbury & Co, London.'

‘Williams, Thomas & Co., parcel agents to His Excellency Earl de Grey, military and general agents, and flannel and blanket merchants, 50 Sackville Street Lower.’

Thomas Williams, formerly of Sackville Street, late of Burdett-avenue, Kingstown, Dublin, died 14th February 1858 at Burdett-avenue, and his will was proved by his widow Mary Williams of 16 Burdett-avenue.  Thomas Williams was buried in the family plot in Mount Jerome.
His wife, Mary Williams of Corrig Avenue, Kingstown, died 22nd May 1860 at the home of her son in Killucan (Dublin Medical Press of 30th May 1860) and her will was administered by him.  Mary Williams (1793 - 1860) was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery.

Children of Thomas and Mary Williams of Sackville Street:
Thomas Williams' son, the doctor John William Williams, can be seen in the Trinity admission records:
   ‘Williams, John William, Pen. (Luxembourg School) Oct. 18 1830, aged  14; son of Thomas, Mercator; born Dublin, BA Vern 1835, MA Vern, MB Aest 1839.’

It’s very interesting to see from the above that John William Williams was educated at the Luxembourg School - this was also known as the Feinaigle Institute, a liberal school which aimed to develop independent thinking in its young pupils, and which was supported by the CDSPCo Williams family  - the sons of Richard Williams of Drumcondra Castle were educated here, and Richard was on the board of directors of the school.

On Griffiths Valuation of 1854, Thomas William’s son,  Dr. John Williams, was leasing a house and land in Killucan;  the Medical Bibliography of 1877 also shows up Dr. Thomas J. De Courcy Williams of Killucan, who was John William William’s son.   Dr. John William Williams of Killucan died on the 31st dOctober 1889, and his will was administered by his children, John Almericus de Courcy Williams of Killucan, Rev. Sterling William S. de Courcy Williams of Rathconnell Rectory, Killucan, and Thomas John de Courcy Williams of Birmingham.

John William Williams married Emily Letitia de Courcy, the daughter of Rev. Michael de Courcey and Emily Smyth, in 1848 in Drumcree, Westmeath.   Her birth on 18th June 1827 was recorded in the Drumcree Church register.  She was sister to Michael William de Courcy born 29th September 1822, Nevison de Coury born 7th October 1835 and Anne Alice de Courcy born 16th April 1826.
The Honorable Emily Laetitia Williams, née de Courcy, wife of John William Williams of Killucan, died 29th February 1912, and her will was administered by her sons, John Almericus de Courcy Williams and Rev. Sterling William Sinclair de Courcy Williams.

The children of John William Williams, MD, and Emily Letitia de Courcy were all born in the parish of Killucan, West Meath, and were christened by Emily Letitia’s father, Rev. Michael De Courcey:
Anne Jane Georgina Sinclair Williams, born October 23rd 1863.  The Belfast Newsletter of 26th October 1865 noted her death, aged 1 year and 11 months, on 21st October 1865 at Killucan, Westmeath.  She was stated to be the eldest child of John William Williams, Fellow Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland.

Son Thomas John De Courcy Williams, born July 19th 1849, was also a surgeon who worked in Birmingham.  He died at Christchurch, Hampshire in 1898.  The Medical Bibliography of 1877 earlier showed up Dr. Thomas J. De Courcy Williams of Killucan.

Emily Anne de Courcy Williams, born September 5th 1850.  She died unmarried in South Dublin in 1940.

John Almericus De Courcy Williams, born July 11th 1855.  He married, at Ryde on the Isle of Wight, in 1892, Frideswide Catherine Emily Smyth, daughter of Robert Ralph Smyth of Portlick Castle, Westmeath.    From Mount Jerome records online:  'J. A. De.C. WILLIAMS M.D. Killucan who died 21st January 1924, aged 68 years Also FRIDESWIDE his wife  who died August 16th 1948 (1856 - 1924).'

Sterling William Sinclair de Courcey Williams, born October 10th 1858.  A Church of Ireland minister, in 1901 he was living  in Durrow, Tullamore, with his sister, Emily Anne De Courcy Williams.  In 1889, he had been Rector of Rathconnell Rectory, Killucan.

Mary Frances Elizabeth de Courcey Williams - this daughter had been born in Westmeath in 1853.


Esther Eleanor Williams (1821 - 1864), daughter of Thomas and Mary Williams of Sackville Street:
On 26th May 1852, Thomas Williams' eldest daughter, Esther Eleanor Williams, married  Michael William de Courcy/Courcey, the son of the Rev. Michael de Courcy of Kilcumney, Westmeath, in St. Mary’s, Dublin. The witnesses were Esther Eleanor’s father, Thomas Williams,  and her brother, John William Williams.  (Limerick and Clare Examiner of 29th May 1853, and Irish Genealogy website.)   Rev. Michael de Courcy of Kilcumney, Westmeath, performed the ceremony.

From the Drumcree Church register, viewable on microfilm at the National archives in Bishop Street: 'Michael William, born to Michael and Emily de Coursy (sic), on September 29th 1822.'

(Note: Rev. Michael de Courcy married twice, first to Emily Smyth who died on 21st January 1830 at Gleniden, then in Edinburgh on 7th October 1833 to Mary Anne, second daughter of the late Robert Balgrie Esq., of Midgarty, Sutherlandshire. Mary Anne would die on 17th October 1847 in Kilcumney, Westmeath.  Rev. Michael de Courcy died aged 72 in Kilcumney Glebe on 15th May 1860.)

The children of Esther Eleanor Williams and William de Courcy were baptised in the parish of Drumcree/Kilcumney, Co. Westmeath.  Two of the births took place at 50 Lower Sackville Street - Saunders Newsletter of 7th March 1853 noted that the lady of Michael William de Courcy had had a stillborn son at 50 Lower Sackville Street, while the Dublin Evening Mail of 3rd March 1854 noted that she had had a daughter there.  A son was also born on 4th November 1857 in Kingstown, Co. Dublin - this was wrongly printed by the papers of the day, since it was daughter Esther Emily Anne Jane de Courcy who was born here.

I  went through the Kilcumney/Killucan Parish Register in the Archives office on Bishop Street.
Constantine de Courcey was born on May 8th 1855 to William de Courcy Esq. and Esther Eleanor of Kilcumney.

William Nevinson de Courcy was born on August 3rd 1855. (Which doesn't tally with the preceding baby born three months earlier...)

John Sinclair Emile de Courcy was born on November 4th 1857, but the register later records his death -  he was buried on March 26th 1858

Esther Emily Anne Jane de Courcy was born on November 4th 1857.

The online archives of Mount Jerome cemetery confirm that Esther Eleanor, wife of M.W. De Courcy and youngest daughter of Thomas Williams, died aged 43 on 27th December 1864.


Anne Jane Williams, daughter of Thomas and Mary Williams of Sackville Street:
Another daughter of Thomas Williams, of 50 Lower Sackville Street, was Anne Jane Williams (1816 - 1843). She married, on 7th July 1835, Thomas Berry, the son of Sterling Berry and Dorothy Winslow of Eglish Castle, King's County.
Anne Jane Berry died at Rathgar, and her husband went on to marry Sarah Alicia Seymour.  The children of Thomas Berry and Anne Jane Williams were:

Sterling Thomas Berry, 1837 - 1865, who was in the Mercantile Marine service and who died young in Calcutta.
 Mary Frances Berry (1839 - 1907) who married Rev. Thomas Skipton, son of Pitt Skipton of Derry, in 1888. The wedding in Dublin was witnessed by Mary Frances Berry's first cousin,  Mary Frances Eliza de Courcy Williams, the daughter of John William Williams MD and Emily Laetitia de Courcy,  and by Mary Frances' brother, William Winslow Berry.
 John Berry, born 1841.
 William Winslow Berry, born 1842.  He witnessed his sister's wedding in 1888.  He married Zaldah Suzette Fannan, and the couple emigrated to Australia.


Mary Eliza Williams, possible daughter of Thomas and Mary Williams of Sackville Street:
I have isolated Mary Eliza Williams as a possible daughter of Thomas Williams.  'The Oxford Chronicle' of 12th March 1859 noted the marriage in Monkstown Church, Co. Dublin, on 5th March 1859, of Mary Eliza, second daughter of the late Thomas Williams of Dublin and of Connaught Place, Kingstown, to William Vallancy/Vallancey Drury MD of 3 The Crescent, Camden Villas, London.  Another marriage notice in a second paper of the day named Mary Eliza as the second surviving daughter of the late Thomas Williams.   This makes sense - her sister, Anne Jane Berry, had died in 1843, while her sister, Esther Eleanor de Courcy, wouldn't die until 1864.
William Vallancey Drury MD, later an early homeopathy exponent, and son of an army captain, Charles Chastage John Drury, had married Mary Eliza Williams as his second wife - earlier he had married to Maria Isabella Toomy by whom he had a daughter, Susanna Henrietta Drury, at 9 Lower Merrion Street on 6th April 1846.

Some other John Williams of Dublin:
Our great-great grandfather, Richard Williams, who married Geraldine O'Moore Creighton, at 17 Eden Quay in 1847, was the son of a deceased John Williams.  I have found no definite link between our Richard and any other Williams family, other than circumstantial links to the Williams family of the Dublin Steam Packet Company, and to the business premises of the Welsh merchant, Thomas Williams of 50 Lower Sackville Street.

During my search for other John Williams of Dublin, who had died by 1847 when our great-great grandparents married, I came across two other interesting contenders, but have similarly failed to find any plausible link between them and Richard Williams of 17 Eden Quay.

On 8th October 1845, in Howth Church, Elizabeth Georgina Williams of Baldoyle (near Howth), the only daughter of the late John Williams, a merchant, married the Waterford architect, Abraham Denny, then living at Marino Crescent, Clontarf, son of the Waterford merchant, Henry Denny.  This family were the ancestors of the present-day Denny meat company.  The witnesses to the wedding were architect colleagues of Abraham Denny, William Murray, Henry Murray and John Mallet Williamson.  There was also a member of the Williams family, but the signature on the certificate is so illegible that I got nowhere with it...it seems to be something along the lines of M.G. Williams. Given the name of the bride, 'Elizabeth Georgina', this M.G. could stand for George Williams.
Elizabeth Georgina died a few years after this and Abraham remarried.
Elizabeth Georgina's late father was noted as John Williams, formerly of Penrallt, North Wales, and late of this city, ie, Dublin.   Penrallt is in Anglesey, so her father might be the John Williams who was the business partner and possible relation of Thomas Williams of 50 Lower Sackville Street. Or perhaps not!
I know of no relationship between our own Richard Williams of Eden Quay and the Denny family.

Another deceased John Williams was the late John Williams of Dublin whose eldest daughter, Anne Williams, married the Liverpool merchant Thomas Simmons in St. Peter's, Dublin, on 13th May 1841;   the witnesses were Thomas and William Williams.  Thomas Simmons was the son of the Liverpool shipbroker, Gwin Simmons and Mary Lawton or Lawson.   Thomas and Annie Simmons were living at Wavertree, Liverpool, when their daughter, Annie Simmons, was baptised in Holy Trinity Church on 4th October 1842.
Following his father's death in July 1837, Thomas Simmons continued in his father's shipbroking business, operating under the name of Gwin and William Simmons, but he himself died on 13th May 1866 at The Elms, Prince's Park, Liverpool.
On 30th November 1866 at Byculla Church, Bombay, John William Orr married Annie, eldest daughter of Thomas Simmons of Liverpool.
On 12th October 1874 in the Cathedral at Bombay, Charles F. Farran of Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, thhird son of George Farran of Belcamp Park, Co. Dublin, married Ethel Kate, second daughter of the late Thomas Simmons of Liverpool.


 
 

The second wife of Rev. John Pennefather was Elizabeth Percival (1765 - 1851) - the couple married on 19th December 1789 in St. John’s,  Newport, Co. Tipperary.  Elizabeth Percival was the daughter of William Percival and Anne Waller of Wilton, Newport, Co. Tipperary.

William Percival was the son of Robert Perceval of Laricor and Knighstsbrook, Co. Meath,  who had married Jane Westby, daughter of Nicholas Westby of High Park, Wicklow, on 13th June 1717.   Nicholas Westby was the Collector of Customs in Ennis, Co. Clare, and married Frances Stepney of Durrow in 1698.  As part of the marriage settlement, he received the estate of High Park in Co. Wicklow.  Nicholas Westby died on 19th October 1716.

William Perceval's brother, Robert Perceval Junior, the eldest son of Robert Perceval and Jane Westby of Laricor and Knightsbrook,Co. Meath, married his cousin, Bridget Mary Warden, who was the widowed daughter of George Westby.

Robert Perceval Junior died in 1756 leaving Robert Perceval who settled at Carrickmakeegan, Leitrim, having married Frances Armstrong in St. Mary's, Dublin, on 3rd March 1775, and Westby Perceval who married Jane Elizabeth Canning in St. Mary's on 14th December 1776.
Robert Perceval and Frances Armstrong of Knightsbrook and Carrickmakeegan had Robert Perceval, Westby Perceval who married Charlotte Wilhelmina Hawkshaw (1792 - 16th September 1856), the daughter of Colonel Thomas Hawkshaw, William Perceval and Anna Maria Perceval who married the widowed Colonel Thomas Hawkshaw of the 22nd Bengal Regiment in October 1807  in Marylebone Church.  Anna Maria Hawkshaw, widow of the late Major-General Hawkshaw, died at Perth, Scotland, on 20th July 1854.
The first wife of Major General Thomas Hawkshaw was Gertruida Christina Van Renen.

A marriage licence was issued in England for Westby Percival and Charlotte Wilhelmina Hawkshaw on 12th January 1813.   From the papers - In March 1813, in Marylebone, W. Perceval of Knightsbrook, Meath, married Charlotte Wilhelmina, eldest daughter of Major General Hawkshaw of the India Company's Service.  
Major General Thomas Hawkshaw died on 30th June 1819 in London.

Westby Perceval of Knightsbrook died in Dublin on 17th March 1850, aged 74, and was buried in Mount Jerome - also buried here were his son, Robert Sommerville Percival and a daughter Gertrude Frances McMullan.

26th November 1857 - in Bathheaston, Lt. C.J. Godby HEICS to Millicent Harriatt, youngest daughter of the late Westby Perceval of Knightsbrook.

On 5th June 1851, Westby Hawkshaw Percival of Knightsbrook, son of Westby Percival and grandson of Maj-Gen Hawkshaw married Sarah Brook Bailley, daughter of John Bailley MD of Brooklands, Essex.

Who was this?  On 17th August 1856, the death occurred in Jamaica of Robert Perceval, eldest son of William Perceval of Knightsbrook, Co. Meath and nephew of the late Major-General Hawkshaw HEICS. ('Evening Freeman', 13th October 1856.)

Another son of Robert Percival and Jane Westby, who had married 13th June 1717, was Major William Perceval of 103rd Foot who married Anne Waller, the daughter of Richard Waller of Newport, Co. Tipperary.  In 1784 William Perceval was living at Wilton, Newport, Tipperary.  A Captain William Perceval of 103rd Foot died aged 38 in Stradbally in 1793 and was buried at the rock of Dunamase.

Major William Perceval of Wilton, Newport, Tipperary, and Anne Waller had:

1) Major Robert Perceval of Curragoa, Jamaica, West Indies, Major in the 18th Regiment of Royal Irish.  He had died by 1837 - he fell off a horse - when his daughter, Emily Perceval, married Thomas Palmer.
Robert Perceval's children were William Perceval, Robert Perceval, John Pennefather Perceval of the 17th Foot, Jane Perceval and Emily Perceval who married Thomas Palmer Junior of Summerhill, Castlebar, Mayo and Molesworth Street, in  St. Peter's, on 18th March 1837.  At the time of this wedding, the  bride was living at 128 Baggot Street which the home of  her uncle and aunt Captain Westby and Margaret Perceval.  The witnesses were the family solicitor John Vincent (who was named by Westby Perceval as a relation) and Richard Lysaght, Westby Perceval's nephew.

Major Robert Perceval of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment of Foot was named in his brother, Captain Westby Perceval's will which named Robert's widow as Antoinette Percival and his  children as John, James, Elizabeth and Emily Percival.   T
he LDS website notes the birth of one of these children in Jamaica - Elizabeth Perceval was christened in Trelawny, Cornwall, Jamaica, to Captain Robert Percival and to Antoinette Chevivia or Cheverer, on 20th June 1812.   A son, who perhaps didn't survive, was named as Robert George Perceval, and who was christened in Kingstown, Jamaica, on 13th July 1813 by Major Robert Perceval and Antoinette Perceval.

On 26th July 1849, son Lt. John Pennefather Perceval of the 17th Foot died aged 29 in Ramsgate from chest disease contracted during nine years' service in India.  Son of the late Major Perceval of the 18th Regiment, and nephew of the late Colonel William Perceval formerly of the 67th Regiment.

2) Captain Westby Perceval, Royal Navy, married Margaret Lysaght, daughter of Limerick solicitor Thomas Lysaght and Catherine Vallancey, in 1817.

Captain Westby Perceval was created a Knight of the Imperial Austrian Order of Leopold. He had been made a lieutenant in 1800 and was promoted to the command of the Paulina on 14th September 1808. He was subsequently posted to the Meditarranean and was conferred with the Austrian order for his service in the Adriatic War in 1813 and 1814.

In 1821, Captain Westby Perceval was living at 41 Molesworth Street before moving permanently to 128 Lower Baggot Street.

On  6th March 1834 at the residence of Captain Westby Percival RN in Baggot Street (128 Baggot Street) the death occurred of Catherine Vallancy Lysaght, daughter of the late Thomas Lysaght of Co. Clare and of Leeson Street, and of his wife Catherine Vallancey, daughter of Colonel Charles Vallancey.  

From 'The Bank of England Wills Extracts', and from the original document lodged in the National Archives UK Discovery collection, the will of Westby Percival of His Majesty's Ship Adair (?) of Woolwich, dated May 1835, with a codicil of 10th June 1835.  The executors were wife Margaret Percival, née Lysaght, his brother William Percival, solicitor John Hare of Fitzwilliam Street,  and relation and solicitor John Vincent of Upper Baggot Street.    Probate was granted on 8th November 1836.

The will mentioned bonds from Rev. J. Penefather, who was married to Westby's sister, Mary Perceval, relation-by-marriage Maj.Gen. Hawkshaw,  the late Thomas Bouchier of 123 Baggot Street, and Westby Perceval, presumably one of Westby's relations rather then himself.

Westby's widow, Margaret Perceval, née Lysaght, was to get the house at 128 Baggot Street and special provision was made to Emily Perceval, the daughter of his brother William Perceval,  clearly a favourite niece.

Legacies were left to his sister Mrs. Jane Bourke, the two unnamed daughters of his late sister Ann Delany  of Limerick, his brother  Lt.Colonel William Percival, his two nieces Charlotte Hunter and Margaret Hunter who had become Margaret Carey by the time of the codicil, to nephew Richard Lysaght Junior son of the late Thomas Lysaght (Thomas Lysaght had a brother Richard, who was uncle of Westby's nephew mentioned in the will), and three nieces, Charlotte, Margaret and Elizabeth Lysaght, daughters of the aforementioned late Thomas Lysaght,  Miss Elizabeth Perceval, John and James Perceval and Emily Perceval, all four the children of his late brother Robert Perceval of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment of Foot whose widow, Antoinette Percival, was also provided for.
A  niece was Alice Perceval, daughter of his brother William Perceval.   Another niece was named as Emma Evans, the daughter of  Thomas and Clare/Clara Evans, Clare Evans, née Pennefather, being the daughter of Westby's sister, Elizabeth Perceval who had married Rev. John Pennefather of the The Glebe, Newport, Tipperary.

'Saunders Newsletter' of 27th August 1817 noted that Westby Perceval, who had recently married Miss Lysaght of Leeson Street, had arrived at his sister-in-law's house, Mrs. Hunter of Charlotte's Quay (Limerick), with his bride.   Mrs. Hunter might have been a sister of Captain Westby Perceval's wife Margaret Lysaght, since her father, Thomas Lysaght, moved from Limerick to Dublin in about 1790.

Westby Percival also left his gold watch to his nephew-in-law Rear-Admiral Henry Vansittart  of Bisham Abbey who had married  his sister's daughter, Mary Charity Pennefather (daughter of Elizabeth Perceval and Rev. John Pennefather of Newport) in 1809.

A small legacy was given to his dear friend Captain Philip Percival of the Grenadier Guards (a relation?) and to his doctor and housemaid;  land in Ballyspellane, and Carrowduff, Co. Clare, was mentioned, and, in relation to this land, William Westby of Merrion Square, Dublin.  William Westby of Merrion Square and Thornhill, Co.Wicklow was the son of William Westby and Mary Jones, this older William Westby being the brother of Jane Perceval who had married Robert Perceval of Knightsbrooke on 13th June 1717.

Westby Perceval of 128 Baggot Street was buried in St. Peter's on 20th November 1835.

Widow Margaret Perceval, née Lysaght, died on 15th March 1862 and her will administered by John Vincent of Charlton, Co. Dublin.   John Vincent of Charlton and of Raglan Road died 22nd May 1869 by suicide when he threw himself under a train, with probate to children  John Albert Vincent and spinster Mary Jane Vincent.  John Albert Vincent was born 4th November 1839 to John and Catherine Vincent of Leeson Street.

3) Lt-Colonel William Perceval CB of the Rifle Brigade, formerly of the 67th Regiment, who died in Brussels in January 1837.  Lt-Col William Percival CB married Charlotte Alice, daughter of William Henry Palmer, Baronet of Castle Lackin, Mayo and of Kenure House, Co.Dublin.
The marriage took place in Bruges, Netherlands (ie: Belgium) on 19th February 1822.  In December 1821 William's brother, Captain Westby Perceval of Molesworth Street, wrote to the Chief Secretary in Dublin Castle on his brother's behalf requesting assistance to procure a certificate of consent for him to marry in the Netherlands.

William Perceval was named in his brother Westby Perceval's 1835 will.  Having joined the 67th Reg in 1795, he was subsequently posted to Jamaica, then served in Spain. He was promoted to rank of Lt-Colonel of the 67th regiment in 1815.

Following his death in January 1837, his widow, Charlotte Alice married in London on 19th July 1838,  Pierce Francis Barron of Sarahville, Co. Waterford.
Pierce F. Barron had earlier, on 18th June 1826, married Anne de Stranker, niece of Countess de Woronzoff.  His daughter by this marriage was Mary, Countess Constabilie. Under a deed of 10th March 1826, James Barron settled Waterford estates upon his son, Pierce F. Barron.

The unmarried Frederica Augusta Perceval, late of Brighton and of Bruges, Brussells, died 3rd August 1875 in Bruges, and probate was granted to her widowed mother, Charlotte Alice Barron of Brighton.  Charlotte Alice Barron failed to administer the will, so administration was subsequently granted to Frederica's sister, Alice Florence Kearney, wife of Robert Cecil Kearney of Ballyvasey, Co. Mayo.

From 'Dublin Evening Post', 22nd December 1855 - Robert Cecil Kearney of Her Majesty's 97th Regiment, third son of the late Robert Kearney, JP of Ballinvilla House, Co. Mayo,  to Alice Florence, eldest daughter of the late Colonel Wm. Percival CB, Rifle Brigade, grand-daughter of the late Sir William Palmer Bart., and niece of Sir Roger Palmer, Bart., Kenure, Co. Dublin.   Alice Florence Perceval had been born in Italy in 1830, and in 1851 had been living with her widowed mother, Charlotte Alice Barron, at 63 Bridge House, Hampton.  In 1855 when she married Robert Cecil Kearney, she was living at Newport, Tipperary.

4) Elizabeth Perceval who married Rev. John Pennefather as his second wife.
    http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/12/rev-john-pennefather-newport.html

5) Jane Perceval married Captain John Robert Bourke of Moatville, Cloneska, Co. Tipperary. They had a daughter, Maria Theresa Bourke who married, in 1832 in Eglish, Co. Tipperary, Edward Burke Roche before emigrating to Australia.  She died in 1893 in Greymouth, New Zealand.  From 'Grey River Argus' of 6th July 1893:  'Maria Theresa, relict of the late Edward Roche of Tourlager (Vauclaus) Co. Limerick, and daughter of the late Captain John Robert Bourke and Jane Percival of Moatville, Co. Tipperary, and second cousin to the late Sir Richard Bourke, Governor General of the colony of New South Wales and first cousin to the late Genreal Sir John Pennefather,  a colonist of 60 years.'

NB: Sir Richard Bourke was of Thornfields, Co. Limerick.

In 1852, as shown on Griffiths Valuation, the widowed Jane Bourke, née Perceval, (or perhaps her daughter) was the owner of approximately 300 acres at Cloneska.   Later on 27th November 1874 the Landed Estates Courts, which dealt with the sale of properties indebted by the famine, put the lands of Moatville up for sale.  The petitioners were named as Falkiner Harding and Clare Evans.  Clare Evans was Clare Pennefather who  had married Thomas Evans and who was the daughter of Rev. John Pennefather and Elizabeth Perceval.  
The owners of Moatville in 1874 were named as the sisters, Antonia Jane Belinda Bourke (born 20th October 1840 on the River Ganges and baptised in Agra, India) and Anna Mary Stuart (born 30th October 1843 in Umballa), wife of the English soldier, Henry Benson Stuart.  Both sisters had  been born to the soldier, Lieutenant Theophilus H.R. Bourke of the 31st regiment (1815 - 1843) who had married Mary Ann Lapeth in Kent on 28th April 1836, and who was most probably the son of Captain John Robert Bourke and of Jane Perceval, being contemporary with Maria Theresa Bourke.

6) Ann Perceval married .....Delany of Limerick.  Daughter Anne Percival Delany of 128 Baggot Street married on 31st July 1835, William Ottiwell of Sinnott Place. Witnesses:  Francis Walker John and Francis Edward Lacy.   Anne Percival Ottiwell of Upper Dorset Street died in July 1836. Her daughter, Anne Catherine Ottiwell, had been born in Dorset Street on 29th June 1836 - she would marry Captain Henry Robe Saunders, son of Robert John Saunders of Woolwich, in St. Peter's on 4th February 1858, the ceremony being performed by the bride's cousin, Rev. William Colles Moore of Carnew, son of Rev. Thomas Ottiwell Moore of Wexford.  Anne Percival Ottiwell's father, William Ottiwell, was living at 37 Rathmines Road at the time of the wedding.   Anne Percival Ottiwell married, secondly, the barrister Campbell Gaussen of Derry, son of David Gaussen, on 10th October 1861.


The Lysaght family of Limerick, Clare and Dublin:
Mary Lysaght, daughter of John Lysaght, 1st Lord Lisle of Mountnorth, and of Catherine Deane, married Kingsmill Pennefather in 1754.  In 1789, their son, Rev. John Pennefather of Newport, Tipperary, married, as his second wife, Elizabeth Percival, the daughter of Captain William Percival of the 103rd Foot and Anne Waller, daughter of Richard Waller of Newport.  

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/04/lysaght-family-of-mountnorth-cork.html

Elizabeth Percival's brother was Captain Westby Percival who also married a member of a Lysaght family, although I have no idea if this Lysaght family was related to the Lysaght family of Mountnorth, Co. Cork.  Captain Westby Perceval's wife was Margaret Lysaght, daughter of the barrister Thomas Lysaght.  The couple married in St. Peter's, Dublin, in August 1817.

Another son of the solicitor Thomas Lysaght was Richard Lysaght who had been admitted to Trinity aged 15 on 10th November 1790 - he had been born in Co. Limerick to the solicitor Thomas Lysaght. In the 1830's, Richard Lysaght was an attorney, firstly at 17 Leeson Street, then at 11 Pembroke Street. Richard Lysaght, late of Limerick,  died on 18th June 1845 in Lower Pembroke Street aged 72. His wife had died there on 9th November 1838.

Earlier, Richard Lysaght had given an affadavit, dated 10th August 1826, to confirm the loss of certain legal papers which had been entrusted to his father Thomas Lysaght by the Butler family, who had employed him as law-agent;  these family papers had been lost when Thomas Lysaght sold up and moved from Limerick to Dublin in about 1790. Richard confirmed in his 1826 affadavit that his brother, Thomas Lysaght Junior, had been in the legal business with his father but both were now dead.

'Saunders Newletter' of 30th October 1821 reported that a bill belonging to the Lysaghts had been lost in the post. Payment was stopped so the bill was now worthless.....'John Balfe's Draft on Messrs.Murphy of Smithfield in favour of James Lysaght for 100l. dated 8th of October....1821...said Bill was enclosed in a letter...to Richard Lysaght Esq.,Ennis...information may be sent to Captain Percival, 14 Molesworth St...'  The daughter of Thomas Lysaght Senior was Margaret Lysaght, wife of Captain Westby Perceval who, in 1821, lived at 41 Molesworth Street.  

(It's unclear who James Lysaght was.  I went through the register of Drumcliffe Church, Ennis, in the National Archives.  The microfilm covered the years 1785 to 1829 and showed up the following Lysaght entries who may or may not be related to the Lysaght family discussed in this post:

9th March 1796 - the baptism of John, son of Mr. James Lysaght and his wife.

23rd February 1799 - the baptism of Catherine, daughter of Francis Lysaght and Charlotte his wife.

1803, date faded - the baptism of James, son of James and Jane Lysaght.

14th May 1808 - the burial of Mrs. Lysaght, wife of Mr. James Lysaght.

29th November 1817 - the marriage of Serjeant Thomas Hodson of the 20th to Margaret Lysaght of Glinfield, spinster. License.  Glinfield was difficult to decipher and might not be accurate.

7th December 1817 - George Inglis, assistant surgeon of 93rd Reg. to Miss Catherine Lysaght of Ennis. License.)

So Thomas Lysaght Senior, solicitor of Limerick, then Leeson St, Dublin, had Richard Lysaght of 17 Leeson St and then Pembroke Street in about 1775 and who might also have operated in Ennis, Margaret who married Captain Westby Perceval in 1817, and Thomas Lysaght Junior who had been in business with his father.

'Saunders Newsletter' of 27th August 1817 noted that Westby Perceval, who had recently married Miss Lysaght of Leeson Street, had arrived at his sister-in-law's house, Mrs. Hunter of Charlotte's Quay (Limerick), with his bride.   Mrs. Hunter might have been another daughter of Thomas Lysaght, solicitor, since I know of no Perceval/Hunter marriages.  She had two known daughters, Margaret and Charlotte Hunter, both named as beneficiaries in their uncle Westby Perceval's will.   A Mrs. Hunter, widow of the excise office Robert Hunter, died in Limerick in June 1824.  ('Waterford Mail', 19th June 1824.)

The son of Thomas Lysaght, Thomas Lysaght Junior, had married Catherine Vallancey, youngest daughter of Colonel Charles Vallancey L.L.D., in October 1799.  The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Kearney of Trinity College, Dublin. ('Saunders Newsletter', 23 October 1799.)

Thomas Lysaght Junior was the register and law agent to the Royal Dublin Society, a job he received through the influence of his father-in-law, Colonel Vallancey, and died of typhus fever in Ennis in 1819.   His widow, Catherine Lysaght, née Vallancey, died in January 1848 at Bayview near Kilrush, Co. Clare.

Edmond Cole Bowen, attorney of Limerick, married Margaret, the second daughter of attorney Thomas Lysaght Junior and Catherine Vallancey in 1828.  In 1828, at the residence of her mother in Georges Square, Kilrush, Co.Clare, Margaret Cole Bowen gave birth to a son.  Margaret Lysaght, second daughter of Thomas Lysaght, married secondly Basil Lukey Davoren of Ennis.

Basil's brother, George Davoren, married Charlotte Lysaght, also a daughter of Thomas Lysaght Junior and Catherine Vallancy.  The children of George and Charlotte Davoren were, amongst others, Catherine Frances Vallancy Davoren and Westby Percival Davoren.
George and Basil Lukey Davoren were the sons of Basil and Anne Davoren of Ennis, Co. Clare.

The eldest daughter of Thomas Lysaght Junior and Catherine Vallancey of Leeson Street was Catherine Vallancy Lysaght who died in Baggot Street in 1834.

The son of Thomas Lysaght Junior and Catherine Vallancey was Major Thomas Vallancey Lysaght. In May 1820, one year after his father had died of typhus in Ennis, Co. Clare, Thomas V. Lysaght applied to enter the British Bengal Army as a cadet.  He was nominated by a director of the East India Company, Edward Parry and recommended by Captain Henry Vansittart of the Royal Navy.  His application papers (viewable via Find My Past - British India Office Births and Baptisms) confirms that he was the son of Thomas Lysaght, lately deceased, a solicitor who resided in Dublin.  Born in St. Peter's parish on 8th March 1804, he had received a classical education at the Feinaigle Institute. His next of kin was his widowed mother Catherine Lysaght.

Edward Parry of Gower Street, who nominated him, wrote a letter on his behalf to the army -'My dear sir, I have prepared Mr Abington the proper officer at the India House who will be ready to receive Mr. Lysaght, get him passed through the forms of the India House and enable him to find a ship to sail in the course of the month....Pray remember me to my daughter, to Mrs. Henry Vansittart and to all our friends at Bisham....'
Edward Parry of the East India Company had married Emilia Vansittart, the daughter of Henry Vansittart and Amelia Morse;  Edward Parry's nephew was the Captain Henry Vansittart who had recommended Thomas Vallancey Lysaght as a cadet in 1820.   The Vansittart family of Bisham were close relations of Rear-Admiral Henry Vansittart who had married Mary Charity Pennefather, daughter of Rev. John Pennefather and Elizabeth Perceval of Newport, Tipperary, in 1809.

Thomas Vallancey Lysaght married his first wife, Fanny Sophia Hamilton in Dacca, Bengal, on 3rd April 1829.  The witnesses were members of the bride's family, Emily Anna Hamilton, Lt-Col. Charles W. Hamilton Charlotte Hamilton.
On 22nd January 1833, Thomas Vallancey Lysaght married, secondly, Maria O' Halloran in Dinapore, India.

Thomas Vallancey Lysaght and Maria O'Halloran had four daughters, all of whom were orphaned by 1849 and in receipt of an army pension accordingly.  They were Fanny Percival Lysaght born 13th March 1834, Maria Vallancey Lysaght born 17th August 1837, Caroline Bayly Lysaght born 20th April 1840 and Margaret Pennifather Lysaght born 19th April 1842.  

Major Thomas Vallancey Lysaght's second wife, Maria O'Halloran was a member of the Limerick O'Halloran family - when Caroline Bayly Lysaght died in Leamington aged 18 in 1858, she was noted as the 3rd daughter of the late Thomas V. Lysaght and granddaughter of the late Major-General Sir Joseph O'Halloran.  Folowing the premature death of the Lysaght girls' parents in India, they had been taken in  by their uncle and aunt in Leamington, Lt. John Nicholas O'Halloran and Elizabeth Pringle.

Our great-great grandmother,  Isabella Anna Pennefather, was the older sister of John Pennefather. This post concerns the family of John Pennefather's wife, Maria Baskin, and of other related families, all of them Methodist.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/john-pennefather-and-emily-courtenay.html

John Pennefather and Maria Emily Baskin married on September 12th 1888 in Dublin.  At the time of the wedding, John was living at 132 North Strand Road and was working as a clerk. Maria Emily Baskin was living at 219 Clonliffe Road - her father was Robert Baskin, a gentleman. The witnesses were her brother - Richard Ringwood Baskin and a Laura Owens.

Maria Emily Baskin had been born May 20th 1861 to Robert Baskin (who had been born in 1828) and Kate Ringwood in Dublin.   Kate Ringwood, was the daughter of a Kilkenny farmer, Richard Ringwood;  Kate Ringwood and Robert Baskin married at Erke, Kilkenny on 22nd October 1856.

Maria Emily Baskin's great-grandparents were Oliver Baskin and Elizabeth Haughton who married in 1795. They settled in the Co. Waterford area where they had son William Haughton Baskin on 19th  May 1798 in Kilmacthomas. Other children born to Oliver Baskin and Elizabeth Haughton were Isabella Baskin, born 1795, Mary Baskin who married Robert Thompson in Dublin in 1822, and Robert Baskin who died at age 12.

(A Serjeant Oliver Baskin who had been born in Inver, Co. Donegal joined the army. Find My Past hold the Kilmainham Pensioners British Army Service Records online, and his file notes that Serjeant Oliver Baskin had been born in Inver in 1758 and had served 15 years in the Donegal Militia, but had been discharged in 1800 due to a longstanding liver complaint. This individual might not be the Oliver Baskin who married Elizabeth Houghton in 1795, or he might be a relation, since the largest cluster of Baskins occurs in Donegal.)

The eldest son of Oliver Baskin and Elizabeth Haughton, William Haughton Baskin (19th May 1798 - 18th November 1877).
On 15th May 1821, William Haughton Baskin of Paradise Row (modern name Wellington Street), son of Oliver Baskin and Elizabeth Haughton, married Maria Deaker (1799 - 25th April 1881) of Abbey Street.  Maria Deaker was daughter of  John Dacre/Deaker 1762-1815, and Lydia Margaret Steele 1770ish-1847.

The children of Lydia Margaret Steele and John D'acre/Deaker of Co. Wexford:

1) Alice D'acre (c.1795 - 21st February 1874) who married, on 11th May 1813, George Hipwell (baptised Offerlane, Queen's County 19th December 1791 - 13th January 1829), son of George Hipwell, of Marymount, Queen's County.
(A second Hipwell family, that of William and Ann Hipwell of Ballinrally, was also recorded in the Offerlane Parish Register.)
Alice and George Hipwell settled in Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford where their children were  baptised in St. Mary's Church.
Their only surviving son, John William Hipwell, married, in March 1838 in St. Mark's, Dublin, Maria Caroline, the eldest daughter of Dublin solicitor John Wiber.  
George Hipwell died in January 1829 and his death was recorded in the St. Mary's register in Newtownbarry, as was the death of a Humphries Hipwell in 1831.  Alica, wife of George Hipwell died in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, aged 79 on 21st February 1874, and her will was granted to her son-in-law, Miles Sterling of Thomastown.
Anne Hipwell, who had been born in Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford, in May 1827 and who had been christened there in St.Mary's by George and Alicia Hipwell of Newtownbarry, married William Hinton of Grosvenor Road, Rathmines , in June 1859 in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.

Margaret Hipwell, eldest daughter of Alicia and George Hipwell of Newtownbarry, married Dr. Miles Sterling of Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, on 30th December 1840.  Miles Sterling also had strong links to the Deaker and Ringwood families - he reappears later in this post.

2) Richard D'acre (11th July 1795 - 27th May 1861.)

3) William D'acre/Deaker (1st September 1797 - 18th August 1880). William Deaker, a baker, was of Abbey Street in the 1830s and 1840s. He married Sarah Sterling in the Meath Diocese in 1830. When he died on 18th August 1880 at Kenilworth Square, his widow was noted as Sarah Deaker.  When she died in 1897 in Rathgar, her will was probated by William Houghton Baskin, of Lurgan, the son of Maria Deaker and William Haughton Baskin Senior .

In 1865, Elizabeth Deaker, daughter of William Deaker of Kenilworth Square, married James William Levis, son of Samuel Levis of Leap, Co. Cork. The witnesses were Miles Sterling and William Deaker.  William Ringwood of Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, son of farmer Richard Ringwood, married Alice Sterling of 77 Kenilworth Square, Rathmines, daughter of surgeon Miles Sterling.  The witnesses were Miles Sterling and Richard Ringwood.

The youngest daughter of William Deaker of Kenilworth Square, Rathmines was Sarah Louisa Deaker who married Thomas Bennett, son of Thomas Bennett of Shannon Vale, Clonakilty, in the Wesleyan Church, Charleston Road, Dublin,  on 18th October 1866. ('Belfast Newsletter', 20th October 1866.)
William Deaker died aged 83 at 77 Kenilworth Square, Rathmines, on 18th August 1880.

4) Maria D'acre/Deaker (20th December 1799 - 25th April 1880) who married, in 1826, William Haughton Baskin (19th May 1798 - 18th November 1877).

5) Robert D'acre/Deaker (16th May 1805 - 12th July 1861).  A merchant of Eden Quay involved in both shipping and the wine business.  His estate was settled in the Court of Chancery - this was announced in the papers of the day, and named his widow as Jane Deaker, who was Robert's second wife. His first wife had been Maria Kent, the youngest daughter of William Kent of Aungier Street, who he'd married on 30th March 1842.  He then married Jane, the daughter of surgeon Thomas Underhill of Tipton, England - she died aged 70 on 3rd July 1887 at Edgbaston Road, Manchester. ('Manchester Times', 9th July 1887.)

Robert Deaker's only surviving daughter, Eliza Anne Deaker, married Thomas Edward Owen, surgeon of Devon, on 20th July 1859 in Coolock where the Deaker family settled.  Thomas Edward Owen was the son of Jeremiah Owen and grandson of Welsh-born Jacob Owen, architect of the Dublin Board of Works.  Jeremiah was one of the 13 surviving children of Jacob Owen of Mountjoy Square;  another was Mary Anne Mew who married, on 29th October 1846 in St. George's, Thomas Underhill, surgeon of Tipton.  Robert Deaker of Eden Quay had married, as his second wife, Jane, the daughter of this same Thomas Underhill.

Robert Deaker's son, William Deaker, married Henrietta Lydia, 3rd surviving daughter of Henry Hill of 5 Ventnor Terrace, Cliftonville, late of 65 Avenur Road, Regent's Park, in Hove, Brighton, on 26th August 1867.  ('Dublin Evening Mail', 28th August 1867.)

Robert Deaker died, aged 56, at his residence in Grosvenor Terrace, Rathgar, on 12th July 1861. ('Cork Examiner'', 16th July 1861.)

6) Lydia Deaker (25th March 1808 - 21st December 1882) who married Dr. William Clendinnen in Co. Wexford in 1826.   William Clendinnen was the son of the Methodist preacher, Rev. John C. Clendinnen, who had been born in Co. Down, where the Clendinnen name proliferates, and who died in Bideford, England, on 6th February 1855.  John was the son of James Clendinnen who had moved from Dunfriesshire, Scotland, to Co. Down in the 1750's.  Rev. John C. Clendinnen had married Mary A. on 4th March 1802, and son William had been born in 1804 or 1805 in Skibbereen or Bandon in Co. Cork.
Rev. John Clendinnen moved to Gorey, Co. Wexford, where Mrs. Clendinnen, wife of Rev. John C. Clendinnen, ran a ladies' academy in the 1830s, buth ultimately they settled in Carlow.

Lydia Clendinnen, née Deaker, died aged 75 at Minvaud House, Hacketstown, in 1882.
A son of Dr. William Clendinnen and Lydia Deajer was John Deaker Clendinnen, who had been born on 24th February 1828, in Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford, and who emigrated to Canada in 1855.

Other children of William Clendinnen and Lydia Deaker were Charlotte Clendinnen who married Abraham Harrison, son of Robert Harrison, in Clonmore, Co. Carlow, on 22nd October 1856, Margaret Alicia Clendinnen who married Samuel Hanna, son of Samuel Hanna, in Carnew on 24th October 1852, John Clendinnen who settled at Yarra Yarra, Australia, and whose daughter, Mary Charlotte, married Charles Stevens Reeves on 28th January 1862.  L
ydia Sophia Clendinnen, daughter of William Clendinnen and Lydia Deaker, married Rev. Francis Bettesworth Mollan, the curate of Fiddown, son of Rev. Robert Mollan of Drumgath, in Dublin on 26th May 1880.
On 26th October 1870 in Clonmore, John Wheeler of Carysfort, Co. Wicklow, married Maryanne, the eldest surviving daughter of Dr. Clendinnen of Clonmore Lodge, Co. Wicklow.
On 29th July 1869 in the Scots Church, Adelaide Road, Dr. J.G. Clendinnen, son of Dr. Clendinnen of Clonmore Lodge, married Lizzie, the daughter of James McEntire of Eary, Co. Tyrone.
Another son of William and Lydia Clendinnen was the doctor William Ellis Clendinnen who had been born in 1839 and who practised, first in Cheswardine, then in Stafford where he was the medical officer for health.  An unpleasant individual, he was accused and acquitted of rape in 1870, but was also known to beat his wife, Sarah, who later left him when she saw sense, as dud his children who later emigrated.

7) Margaret d'Acre/Deaker (15th November 1809 - 30th december 1885) who married William Doyle (6th December 1791 - 17th March 1866) on 9th December 1829.

In 1848, juries were put together to try the republican rebels, William Smith O'Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher.  Two of the jurors in the O'Brien case were John Deaker of 21.5 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, gentleman, and William Deaker, baker of 74 Abbey Street.  Robert Deaker of 21 Eden Quay was named as one of the jurors in the Meagher case.

Online research:  Maria Deaker was daughter of  John Dacre/Deaker 1762-1815, and Lydia Margaret Steele Dacre/Deaker 1770?-1847.  Lydia Margaret Steele was from Kyle, Queen's County - her brother Richard Steele had been born there in about 1773 and emigrated to Grenada in the West Indies.   Francis Biddulph (1770 -1826) of Mount Oliver, Queen's County, married Mary Steele, the daughter of Major Richard Steele of Kyle - Richard S. Biddulph, the second son of the late Francis Biddulph of Mount Oliver, Queen's County, married Catherine Matilda, the daughter of Colonel bates of the 21st Light Dragoons, in Kensington in July 1838.

The Steele family of Kyle, Co. Wexford had links to Richard Ringwood, as well as to the Deaker family - in 1852, the Encumbered Estates Court was selling off land leased by Richard Ringwood in Co. Kilkenny, at Rathpatrick and at Bawn.  The original Rathpatrick lease had been taken out on 3rd March 1819 for 197 acres from the Earl of Courttown by Richard Ringwood, for the three lives of Richard Steele, son of John Steele of Kyle, Samuel Ringwood son of William Ringwood of Granige (or Graigue), and William Little, son of John Little of Balliquiddihy.

On 2nd April 1805, Richard Ringwood took out a further lease from the Earl of Courttown for land in Bawn, Co. Kilkenny - the three lives named in this one were Richard Steele, William Jacob and Thomas Steele of whom only Thomas Steele was still alive, aged about 50, in 1852.  

Notes on the Steele family of Kyle, Queen's County...the following births, deaths etc. have been sourced from the Irish Newspapers archive courtesy of Find My Past, and from the National Archives wills calendars.   

Early Steele marriages:
William Steele of Keile (sic), Queen's County, married Charlotte Fielding in St. Catherine's, Dublin, on 21st July 1722.
Anne Steele of Kyle married Thomas White of Donoughmore, Queen's County, on 17th April 1739.

Major Richard Steele  -  in October 1775 Richard Steele of Kyle, married Miss Philips of Philipsburgh, Queen's County. 
 'Saunders Newsletter', 28th November 1821, announced the upcoming sale of the lands of Ballydowell and Coolishill, Co. Kilkenny, which was to be sold following a decree executed in the court of chancery on 27th May 1818, by way of executing the will of the late Richard Phillips the elder.  The two executors of his will were Richard Steele and James Scott. The plaintiffs in the case were Richard Phillips Junior, son and heir of the deceased.
In 1813 the death occurred of the wife of Richard Steele of Kyle. ('Gentlemans' Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Part 1'.)
The death of Major Richard Steele (1744 - 1835), last Major of the Irish Volunteers of 1782, died at Kyle House, in 1835 aged 91.  ('The Pilot', 12th August 1835.)
The 'Dublin Evening Mail' of 12th March 1845 reported on the case in chancery, whereby the creditors and legatees of the late Richard Steele of Kyle, Queen's County, were named as Richard Steele, John Steele, a second Richard Steele and Jane Steele. 

John Steele of Kyle House, Queen's County:
In 1861 the death occurred of Elizabeth, the widow of John Steele of Kyle Park, and third daughter of the late Hon. Eyre Massey of Queen's County. ('Kings County Chronicle', 3rd April 1861.)  Elizabeth was noted as the aunt of Nicholas Biddulph, who had been born to Mary Steele and Francis Biddulph in about 1803.

The children of John Steele and Elizabeth Massey were Richard William Steele, Hugh Massey Steele, John Steele and William Henry Steele, whose lands of Monanelli or Monelly were put up for sale by the Encumbered Estates Court on 22nd June 1869.   Matilda Frances Steele died 21st February 1859 in Monarelli, with probate granted to her father John Steele of Monarelli.  

The eldest son of John Steele of Kyle House was Richard William Steele who married Hanora Butler, the eldest daughter of Charles Lennon of Tramore, in April 1840. ('Southern Reporter', 28th April 1840.)  Hanora gave birth to a daughter at her father's home in Co. Wexford, in October 1841. 

Hugh Massey Steele, son of John Steele of Kyle House, emigrated to Australia where he married Maria Frost, second eldest daughter of John Frost of Suffolk, England, on 23rd August 1870 in Bowral. The 'Sydney Mail' of 27h August 1870 named Hugh Massey Steele as the 5th eldest son of the late John Steele of Kyle House, and late of Her Majesty's 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars.

There was also a Richard Steele who lived at Ballyredmond or Ballyedmond, Queen's County. I don't know if the Steeles of Ballyedmond were related to the Steeles of Kyle, but note them here nonetheless.  
In October 1848 it was reported that Richard Steele of Ballyedmond had been jailed in Maryborough as an insolvent - Rev. Robert Armstrong of Clonoulty, Tipperary, and William Armstrong of Farney Castle became sureties on his behalf. (A William Armstrong married a Sarah Steele in 1829.)  Earlier, the 'Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail' of 19th April 1834 had announced the marriage in Ardagh Church, Co. Cork, of Richard Steele of Ballyedmond, Captain in the Roya Queen's County Militia, to Eleanor/Ellen, daughter of the late Rev. Anthony Armstrong, Vicar of Emly.   Ellen Steele died in Ballyedmond on 30th January 1866.    In 1844 George Steele, youngest son of Richard Steele of Ballyedmond, died.  On 11th August 1858 the Rev. N. Switzer married Mary, the youngest daughter of the late Captain Steele, J.P. of Ballyedmond.    

Related to the Ballyedmond Steele family were the Steele family of Skeirke Cottage, Borris-in-Ossory, Queen's County.    Annabella, widow of the late Richard Steele of Skeirke, married John Kennedy, son of the late Rev. P. Kennedy of Loughmore, Tipperary, in Holycross Church in April 1853. (From the 'Southern Reporter', 26th April 1853.  William Armstrong of Farney Castle - who had bailed out the insolvent Richard Steele of Balledmond in 1848, died on 22nd December 1872 and the executor of his will was George Vandeleur Steele, who lived at Skeirke Cottage and who sorted out the will of his late brother,  Captain William Armstrong Steele of the 30th Regiment of Foot who had died on 20th August 1874.   George Vandeleur Steele must have been the dependable type - he also stood as executor to his wife, Susan Steele who died at Skeirke Cottage on 25th January 1866, and to Mary Switzer, late of Osier Hill, Taghmon, Co. Wexford, who died in Tramore on 14th August 1882 - Mary Steele, youngest daughter of the late Captain Steele of Ballyedmond, had married a Rev. N. Switzer in 1858.)
Samuel Ringwood took out a lease on Bawn on 3rd March 1819 for the lives of Thomas Little, William Ringwood and Richard Mason, of whom only William Ringwood and Richard Mason were still alive, both aged about 36, in 1852.  In 1852, this land was tenanted by Thomas Ringwood.

Thomas Ringwood was one of the three lives named in the lease, dated 20th October 1847, for land in Yoletown, (near Rosslare), Co. Wexford, which was, at the time of its sale in June 1879, tenanted by the representative of Catherine Higginson. The other two lives named were John Sealy and William Tanner, of whom only William Tanner was still alive in 1879.
Another  Yoletown lease was dated 2nd April 1810 from William Hobbs to William Tanner for the three lives of Samuel Higginson, John Barrington and William Barrington;  only the Barringtons were still alive in 1879 at the time of the sale of the property.  (Landed Estates records courtesy of Find My Past. )

Richard Ringwood had married into the Higginson family of Yoletown, but would settle and farm in the townlands of Eirke, Johnstown, Rathpatrick, and Bawn, in the parish of Galmoy, Co. Kilkenny.

Richard Ringwood (1799 - 1881) of Co. Kilkenny married Susan, eldest daughter of Richard Higginson of Yeoultown/Yoletown, Co. Wexford, in Kilsceran Church in April 1828.  A Richard Higginson had married a Catherine Barrington in 1804 - this from the Marriage Licence Bonds of Ossory, and would tally with the above Yoletown lease of 1810 which named both the Higginsons and the Barringtons.  Richard Higginson of Yoletown, Co. Wexford, died in April 1836.

Richard Ringwood of Farrenmurry died on 22nd March 1881, with probate granted to William Ringwood of Tullavolta, Johnstown, and to Henry Ringwood of Medop Hall, Ferns, Wexford.

Ringwood wills indexed in the Public Records Office:
Henry Ringwood of Castle Pierse, Co. Kilkenny - 1838.
Mary Ringwood of Graigue, Queen's County - 1842.
Richard Ringwood of Graigue, Queen's County - 1848.
Samuel Ringwood Graigue, Queen's County  - 1816.
Samuel Ringwood of Castle Pierse - 1829.
Thomas Ringwood of Tillavalty, Co. Kilkenny - 1826.

The Children of Richard Ringwood and Susan Higginson of Tillavolty or Farrenmurry, Johnstown were:

1) Kate Ringwood, who married Robert Baskin at Erke, Kilkenny on 22nd October 1856 - their daughter, Maria Emily Baskin, married our John Pennefather on September 12th 1888.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/john-pennefather-and-emily-courtenay.html

2) The eldest son of Richard and Susan Ringwood was Thomas Ringwood of Castle Pierce, Johnstown, Kilkenny. He married in Dublin, on 11th December 1866, Mary Elizabeth Christianna Perry (1842 - 1920), the only child of William C. Perry of Rathdowney, Queen's County.

Elizabeth Christiana Ringwood, widow, late of 87 Upper Georges Street, Kingstown, Co. Dublin, died in 1920, and her will was granted to Rev. James MacManaway.  His brother was Terence McManaway who married Susan Adelaide Ringwood, the daughter of William Ringwood, the brother of Thomas Ringwood.
Rev. James Macmanaway and Terence McManaway were both the sons of John MacManaway and Jane Augusta Clarke of Coolougher, Co. Roscommon.
Rev. James MacManaway married the daughter of Thomas Ringwood and Lizzie Perry, Sarah Thompson Ringwood, in London in 1891;  another researcher online has noted the marriage as occurring in Castle Pierce, Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, on 8th April 1891.    Sarah Thompson Ringwood had been born to Thomas Ringwood and Lizzie Perry on 25th July 1864.   Rev. James MacManaway and Sarah Thompson Ringwood had four children together, including Richard Thomas Ringwood MacManaway, who died at his father's residence - Aghavea House, Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh, in 1945, leaving a widow, Norah Kathleen, and a son, Major Robert Bruce MacManaway.   Sarah Thompson MacManaway died in 1920 and Rev. James MacManaway married, secondly, Mary Richardson.

Another son of Rev. James and Sarah Thompson MacManaway  was Rev. James Godfrey MacManaway, MP for Derry.   Rev. James MacManaway died at Aghavea House two years after his son in 1847 aged 85.

Thomas Ringwood and Lizzie Perry also had Richard Thomas Ringwood in about 1863 who married Charlotte Warren in Gorey in 1879, and also Susan L. Ringwood in about 1865.

Thomas Ringwood of Castlepierce, Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, died on 17th September 1877. His will was granted to his brother William Ringwood of Johnstown and to Henry George Perry.

3) Richard Ringwood, born 1846, barrister-at-law, of the Middle Temple, London.  Called to the English bar in 1873, he married Emma Louisa Shapleigh, youngest daughter of Henry Shapleigh of Tiverton, on 23rd October 1866.  In 1901, the childless couple were living in Hornsey, Middlesex.

4) Mary Anne Ringwood married John Stacey Palmer (1830 - 1879), the proprietor of the 'Waterford Mirror and Tramore Visitor', on 13th February 1866.   John Stacey Palmer, journalist, died at his UK residence in Little Britain Street, London, after a long illness in July 1879.

5) A Susan Ringwood, daughter of farmer Richard Ringwood, 14 North Richmond Street, married William Nathaniel Webster, son of farmer William Webster of Ballyhast, Gorey, Co. Wexford,  in Dublin on 31st August 1870.  Witnesses were Richard and William Ringwood.

6) William Ringwood of Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, third son of farmer Richard Ringwood of Tillavolty, married Alice Sterling of 77 Kenilworth Square, Rathmines, daughter of surgeon Miles Sterling in Rathmines on 30th September 1868.  The witnesses were Miles Sterling and Richard Ringwood.
The children of William Ringwood and Alice Sterling were (possibly) Thomas Sterling Ringwood born 1873 in Kilkenny, Alfred George Ringwood born 1st August 1875 and who married Lilias Burland in 1908, Susan Adelaide Ringwood born 1877 and who married Terence M'Manaway in 1904, Jane E. Ringwood born 1881 and James H. Ringwood born 1882, Margaret Ringwood who married Francis Henry Symes of Ballyhast, the son of the late Francis Henry Symes of Hillbrook, Co. Wicklow, on 5th November 1895.

William Ringwood farmed at Tillavolty, Kilkenny, and was living there in 1901;  his wife, Alice, died at some stage after 1901, and he married, secondly, a woman named Mary Jane;  this couple were living in Donaghmore, Queen's County, in 1911.

7) Henry Ringwood of Medophall, Ferns, Co. Wexford, born circa 1835 in Co. Kilkenny.   He was one of the executors of his father's will.  Henry died on 27th January 1915 with probate granted to Richard T. Ringwood.   On 24th January 1862, in the Scots Church on Adelaide Street, Dublin, Henry Ringwood of Medop Hall, Comalin, married Susan Anne, the youngest daughter of William M'Culloch of Carlanstown, Castlepollard.


Notes on the Sterling family of Kyle:
The Sterling family relate to both the Deaker and Ringwood families.
William Deaker married Sarah Sterling in the Meath Diocese in 1830.  In 1865, Elizabeth Deaker, daughter of William Deaker of Kenilworth Square, married James William Levis, son of Samuel Levis of Leap, Co. Cork. The witnesses were Miles Sterling MD and William Deaker.
William Ringwood of Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, son of farmer Richard Ringwood, married Alice Sterling of 77 Kenilworth Square, Rathmines, daughter of surgeon Miles Sterling.  The witnesses were Miles Sterling and Richard Ringwood.

Miles Sterling M.D.  lived at Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, 22 kilometers north of Kyle.  In December 1840, Miles Sterling M.D. married Margaret, the eldest daughter of George Hipwell of Newtownbarry.  He would die insane at his son's house in Castlecomer on 22nd July 1889 and probate was granted to son James Sterling and to William Ringwood.
Amongst his children were Margaret Maria who married, on 19th August 1880, Albert E. Chamney, and James Sterling who married Sarah, the daughter of J. Warren of Leskinfere, Co. Wexford, on 22nd October 1868.
The youngest son of Miles Sterling was Henry Miles Sterling, who accidentally poisoned himself with strychnine, which he'd been using to deaden the pain of neuralgia, in Grafton Street, Dublin, on 7th June 1886.  Henry had been working in an insurance company in San Francisco and had returned home briefly for a visit.
The youngest daughter of Miles Sterling was Annie Elizabeth who married on 20th December 1894 Christopher Somer Spear, Junior, the only son of Christopher Somer Spear of Springfield House, Glenageary, Co. Dublin.

The Children of William Haughton Baskin (Senior)  and Maria Deaker of of 7 North Richmond Street, near Mountjoy Square, were:

a) Robert Baskin, flour merchant of Abbey Street, born 1828,  who married Kate Ringwoodat Erke, Kilkenny on 22nd October 1856 - their daughter, Maria Emily Baskin, married our John Pennefather on September 12th 1888.
Robert Baskin's mother, Maria Baskin, organised a plaque in Ballycarney Church, Co. Wexford, as a memorial of her affection to him, on 31st December 1850.

b) William Houghton Baskin (Junior)  1831-1907. Noted in 1879 as a clerk in the Bank of Ireland and living at the Baskin family home of 7 North Richmond Street.  On 16th February 1871 he married Anne Alicia Knaggs, daughter of James Knaggs, of 3 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines - the witnesses were Stewart Baskin and James B. Baskin, the groom's brothers.  He was later the secretary of Ball's Bank on Henry Street.  In 1901 William H. Baskin and his family were living in Cornakinnegar, Co. Armagh. Children were  Alice Annie Houghton Baskin born in Dublin in 1880 and Roberts Dacre Baskin born in Dublin in 1882.

c) Stewart Baskin 1838 -82; a leading member of the Dublin Methodist community and chief accountant at Guinness's, he married Antrim-born Lucinda Hessie Johnson, whose sister was Mrs. Johnson, a native of Glenavy, Co. Antrim, and niece of the late Mayor of Belfast,  Mayor Philip Johnson.       Stewart Baskin and his brother, William Haughton Baskin, were noted as the nephews of Robert Thompson of Eccles Street who died in 1871.  On 22nd December 1822 in Dublin, Mary Baskin, daughter of Oliver Baskin and Elizabeth Haughton,  had married Robert Thompson;  the witnesses were her brother, William Haughton Baskin, and James Edmiston.
A probable son of Stewart Baskin and Lucinda Hessie Johnson was the Henry Thompson Baskin (1879 - 1900) of 16 Upper Leeson Street who died on 12th January 1900 in Colorado - his will was granted to the widow of Stewart Baskin, Lucinda Hessie Baskin.  Other children were William Haughton Baskin born 1877,  Mary Eliza Baskin born 1875 and Stewart Lucie Baskin born 1882.

d) Rev. Charles Baskin 1840-1901. A Methodist minister, he was stationed at various places throughout his career - Ballymena, Newry, Armagh, Portadown, Castlederg, Sligo and Downpatrick.
On 27th October 1868 in Sligo, Rev. Charles Baskin of Gilford, Co. Down, married Rebecca, youngest daughter of Joseph Lockeed or Lougheed of Ballymote, Sligo.    The couple were married by Charles Baskin's brother-in-law, Rev. William Nicholas, who was married to Charles' sister, Eliza Baskin who follows.
The children  of Rev. Charles and Rebecca Baskin were Mary Barret Baskin, Charles P. Baskin, Lockeed Baskin and William Houghton Carson Baskin. (A William Baskin married Margaret Carson in Raphoe, Co. Donegal, in 1830 but this might be coincidence.)
Rev. Charles Baskin died in Belfast in 1901.

e) Eliza Baskin 1844 who married Rev. William Nicholas on 7th June 1866 in the Wesleyan Chapel of Lower Abbey Street.   Eliza Baskin was the only daughter of William H. Baskin of 7 North Richmond Street, near Mountjoy Square.   Rev. Nicholas was the president of the Belfast Methodist College.   In June 1894 in Charleston Methodist Church, Dublin, the daughter of Eliza and Rev. William Nicholas, Susanna Nicholas married Thomas, son of Mathew Griffin of Clonskeagh.  The bride's uncle, Rev. Charles Baskin, assisted.
Rev. William Nicholas, who had been born in Co. Wexford in 1838,  died in Portrush in September 1912, following a long career as a Methodist minister, during which time he had been stationed in Portadown, Abbey Street in Dublin (the Baskins' place of worship), Skibbereen, Lurgan, Drogheda, Cork, Belfast and Dublin.  His home address had been Dacre, Ravenhill Park, Belfast, and he was survived by his widow, Eliza, two sons and four daughters.    William Haughton Nicholas born 16th September 1868, Maria born 16th June 1867 in Lurgan, Elesia, Kathleen, Harriet, and Robert born in Cork on 3rd February 1880.   The couple also had Eliza Baskin Nicholas (was this Elesia?) on 7th February 1875 and Stewart Baskin Nicholas born 15th May 1870 in Portadown.

f) James Benjamin Gillman Baskin (1847 - 1914).

The children of Robert Baskin and Kate Ringwood were:
 a) Richard Ringwood Baskin born 16th September 1864 who married Ann Jane Byron in Dublin in 1890   -  an Edward Ringwood Baskin lived in February 1892 at 2 Victoria Terrace, Philipsburgh Avenue, where his wife gave birth to a son. I think this was actually a newspaper typo for Richard Ringwood Baskin.

b) Robert Dacre Baskin born 1872.

c) Maria Emily Baskin, born 1861, who married our John Pennefather Junior in 1888.

d)Elizabeth Charlotte Baskin born 1879 who married Hewson Deverell in North Dublin in 1907.  Hewson Deverell, hardware merchant, was a Plymouth Brethren member, living in 1901 in Blackrock.  He was the son of Hannah Deverell and Anthony Deverell, merchant of 50 Henry Street and of 24 Rutland Square, who died on 11th November 1891 with probate to Hewson and Anthony Deverell.
A daughter of Anthony and Hannah Deverell of 24 Rutland Square was Hannah Amy Deverell who married George Lennox Bigger, eldest son of Lennox James Bigger, on 4th February 1890 - the ceremony was performed by the registrar.

e)  William Houghton Baskin  (Junior) was the Chief Cashier of the Bank of Ireland.  William Houghton Baskin married Mary Louisa Scott, of Belfast, whose father was William M. Scott, a merchant. They married on November 10th,1880 in Co. Antrim, Belfast. Their marriage was officiated over by his uncle, the minister, Charles Baskin and one of the witnesses was cousin Annie Baskin.   Living in College Green, Dublin, in 1911, children were Robert S. Baskin born 1884 in Dublin,  and Margaret J. Baskin born in Dublin in 1890.

f)  Susan Annie Baskin, born in Dublin in 1869,  who married the shopkeeper/draper Francis Hawksby of 28 Upper Sackville Street in 1881.  He died young on 20th May 1893.  The couple's one surviving daughter was Kate Ringwood Hawskby, born in 1887, who worked as a draper like her widowed mother.  Both were Methodist and were living together in Glasnevin in 1911.  They were included in the Baskin family memorial plaques in Ballycarney Church, Wexford - Mrs. Hawksby and her daughter, and also Mrs. Hawskby's sister, Miss Baskin, presented the memorial on 12th January 1937 to a K.L. Purser.   Included on the same plaque was the message that it had been presented to Ballycarney Church on 18th May 1937 by H.L. Purser of Aughmacart, Rathdrummy, Queen's County.
Also on this plaque was a presentation to Richard Ringwood Baskin with best wishes from his father, Robert Baskin, dated 21st May 1892, and also an earlier presentation from Maria Baskin, née Deaker, to her son, Robert Baskin, dated 31st December 1850.

g) Kate Baskin, born 1875, probably the unmarried sister mentioned, but not named, in the Baskin plaque in Ballycarney Church, Co. Wexford, as the sister of Susan Annie Hawskby, in 1937.

In 1837, a Robert Baskin was named as a Methodist preacher on the Dundalk and Castleblaney circuit.  Several members of the Dublin Baskin family made contributions to the Jubilee Fund of the Wesleyan Missionary Society in 1869 - they were noted as members of the 2nd Dublin Circuit of the Methodist church and were named as Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Baskin (sen.), Mr and Mrs. R. Baskin and children, Mr. W.H. Baskin and Miss Baskin, Mr. Stewart Baskin, Mr. Charles Baskin and Mr. J.B.G Baskin.

I have done extensive research into the Jones family of Dublin, from whom I descend - the earliest member of our Jones family which I could isolate was Patrick Jones Senior, floorcloth painter of 46 Henry Street.
Patrick's eldest son and heir was Patrick Jones Junior, who married in 1818, as his second wife, a Mary Wilton of Mullingar.   This post, therefore, is a brief foray into the Wiltons of Co. Westmeath, and collates what little information I could gather on the family of Mary Wilton.
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Deed 732-286-499421, registered 3rd October 1818 - dated 29th August 1818, recorded the marriage settlement of Patrick Jones of Bishop Street,  house painter, and Mary Wilton, spinster of Mullingar. Also named were William Blackhall, woollen draper, and Mary's brother, Henry Wilton of Mullingar.
(The 'Treble Almanack' of 1818 noted William Blackhall, woollen-draper, at 22 Parliament Street, Dublin.)

The deed ran as follows: reciting that by indented deed of release, dated 1st June 1778, Redman/Redmond Nowlan did demise to Thomas Gorman Jr. ground and ale house in Big Booters Lane, now Bishop Street, at a rent of £32 per annum - these premises then became vested in the said Patrick Jones, and the estate of Redmand Nowlan became vested in James Corballis, timber merchant.
An annuity of £91 per annum was granted to Mary Wilton out of the lands of Scurlockstown, Co. Westmeath (for three lives - Alex Murray, Mary Wilton and Henry Wilton);  Alex Murray, in order to more effectually secure the payment of said annuity, did grant to Mary's brother, Henry Wilton of Mullingar, the lands of Scurlockstown for 300 years upon the marriage of Patarick Jones and Mary Wilton;  also, at the time of the 1818 marriage, the house in Bishop Street was to be assigned to William Blackhall and Henry Wilton, so that provision might be made for Mary Wilton should her husband, Patrick Jones, die or become bankrupt, or to provide for any children resulting from the marriage.   If Patrick Jones was to die, the trustees could sell the house in Bishop Street;  if Mary died, then the proceeds of the house could go to her children.
Patrick Jones the Elder, father of Patrick Jones Junior, held, at the time of his death, a house in Henry Street.  Patrick Jones Senior died intestate - his son, Patrick, as his eldest son and heir-at-law, obtained the legal right of administration of his father's property and granted and recited said premises in mortgage to Thomas Smart, carpenter on 12th May 1812.
Also mentioned in this deed of 1818 was the earlier marriage settlement of 30th November 1811 whereby Patrick Jones married spinster Mary Anne Stockdale - two daughters had resulted from this marriage, namely Hannah and Ellen Jones.  Following the early death of Mary Anne Jones, née Stockdale, John and Roger Stockdale had gained judgement against Patrick Jones in His Majesty's Court of the King's Bench in Ireland.
The witnesses to the 1818 deed of marriage was John Shaw, apothecary of Dublin, Michael Walker of Clonegar, Co. Meath, Patrick Jones, Mary Wilton, William Blackhall and Henry Wilton of Mullingar.
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William Blackhall, either one of Mary Wilton's trustees in 1818 or a relation of his, was implicated in other Wilton deeds.  Deed 541-407-357750, dated 14th January 1802, had been drawn up between John Wilton of Mullingar, John Rorke of Dublin,  William Blackhall of Stonehall and James Ryan of Co. Kildare. John Wilton granted his land in Ballynakill, Co. Meath to James Ryan.  John Wilton was entitled to the lands of Springfield and Cooksborough in Co. Westmeath, and to a house in Mullingar. The trustees were here named as John Rorke and William Blackhall.

Yet another deed  (398-70-262355) of 3rd November 1787 named both John Wilton Senior of Marktown (or perhaps Martinstown) and John Wilton Junior of Stonehall, both of Co. Westmeath, farmers, and also William Blackhall Senior and William Blackhall Junior of Martinstown, Co.Westmeath, farmers.  The Wiltons here leased land in Stonehall to William Blackhall Jr.

The 'Freeman's Journal' of 4th July 1877 reported from the Record Court in Dublin on a law case, Blackhall v. Gibson, which was an action of ejectment for non-payment of rent of the lands of Blackmills, Co. Westmeath.  The plaintiff claimed under a devise in the will of Henry Wilton, late of Mullingar, who died in 1810.  Blackhall stated that the three children of an older brother of his, and also the childrens' mother, had emigrated to the US in 1835 and that he had only ever had one letter from them. The court found in his favour.  This case was immediately followed by a second, also Blackhall v. Gibson, and again an ejectment for non-payment of rent on lands of Stonehall, and was brought for the purpose of establishing title of the plaintiff who claimed as heir-at -law of his grandfather, William Blackhall of Clongriffin/Clongriffen, Co. Meath who had died there in 1820.
The 'Westmeath Journal' of 15th March 1827 noted that the demesne of Cookesborough in possession of Mr. J. Wilton and his undertenants was to be let.
Stonehall is in Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath, 17 kms north of Mullingar town;  other townlands named in these Wilton deeds cluster in this same area, namely, Martinstown, Ballynakill, Springfield and Cookborough.

A John Wilton was running a coach service in Mullingar in the 1780s - he advertised this extensively in the papers of the day.  'Saunders Newsletter' of 2nd December 1806 reported that Mr. John Wilton of Mullingar was running coaches everyday between Thomastown and Mullingar, and then on to Longford, and could therefore meet passenger off the Royal Canal which had recently opened  at Thomastown and which now linked this area to Dublin.

Henry Wilton
As noted in the 1818 marriage settlement of Patrick Jones and Mary Wilton, Henry Wilton of Mullingar was named as the brother of Mary Wilton.  Their parents were not mentioned.

A deed (1840-23-244) of 25th November 1840 drawn up between Henry Wilton and Laurence Middleton of Mullingar, noted that Henry was leasing a house and 11 acres in Mullingar to Laurence Middleton for the lives of Andrew Dudgeon, his wife Elizabeth Dudgeon, née Wilton, and Alexander Dudgeon, the 4th son of Ralph Dudgeon of Clones, Co. Monaghan.

'Saunders Newsletter' of 19th February 1817 noted the death on 15th February 1817 in Blessington Street, Dublin, of Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Dudgeon and daughter of Mr. Wilton, late of Mullingar.

'Saunders Newsletter',  4th October 1817, the year before Mary Wilton married the short-lived Patrick Jones of Bishop Street,  ran an advertisement for the letting of 'Wilton's Inn' of Mullingar on the Royal Canal, 60 miles from Dublin.  The future tenant could also lease 50 acres of land adjoining the town.  Application was to be made to either Andrew Dudgeon, solicitor of 22 Blessington Street, Dublin, or to Henry Wilton on the premises.

The 'Westmeath Journal' of 18th March 1824 was advertising the Westmeath Steeplechase, one of whose organisers was Henry Wilton of Mullingar.   He was named as a church warden of Mullingar Parish Church by the 'Westmeath Journal' of 14th July 1825.

The 'Roscommon and Leitrim Gazette' reported on 26th June 1824 that, in Mullingar on 17th June, the house, barn, stables and car-house, half a mile from Mullingar, the property of Henry Wilton of Monte Video, had been maliciously burnt.   Later, on 26th February 1829, the 'Westmeath Journal' reported that Henry Wilton was leasing out his house, Monte Video, five minute's walk from Mullingar.

The Landed Estates Court Rentals put up for sale, on 3rd June 1858, 6 Main Street, Mullingar.  The original lease had been signed on 16th December 1833 from Rt. Hon. Viscount Forbes to Henry Wilton for three lives - namely, Henry Wilton himself, Edward Maxton and William Malcolm Maxton.  Now, in 1858, only two of these were still alive, Henry Wilton, aged about 70 and Edward Maxton now about 35.   Henry Wilton, therefore, had been born in about 1788.

Henry Wilton lived for a time at Monte Video Cottage in Mullingar.

The unmarried Henry Wilton (1788 - 1860) of Montevideo Cottage, Mullingar, and of The Retreat, Finglas Road, Dublin, died on 25th October 1860 - his will was granted to his spinster sister, Ann Wilton of 68 Aungier Street, who died at 2 Peter Place on 23rd September 1866. The 'Clare Journal' also reported Henry Wilton's death, and noted that he had died at Bell View in Finglas.

Henry Wilton of Monte Video had links to the lands of Clonmoyle and Tullanisky, south of Mullingar - the 'Westmeath Journal' of 18th March 1824 advertised the letting of Mr. Wilton's lands of Clonmoyle and Tullimsky (sic), which comprised 254 acres and which was situated 1 mile from Mullingar.  Proposals were to be received by both Henry Wilton of Monte Video and by John Wilton of 3, College Green, Dublin.

These lands of Clonmoyle and Tullanisky were associated with another cluster of Wiltons, who seem to be related.  The first of this second Wilton family, that I can isolate,  was John Wilton of Rathcarn or Rathcane, Co. Westmeath, who had business links with the Williams family of Dublin who were prominent in the glassmaking industry.

John Wilton of Rathcarn/Rathcane, Co. Westmeath:
Deed 324-2-211172, dated 28th February 1777, concerned the sale of land, ie, Clonmoyle and Tullanisky, plus land of Stonestown, all in Fortullagh, Co. Westmeath.  John Wilton of Rathcarn, Co. Westmeath sold a moiety of his share of land, ie, 371 acres, for £500 to John Alderton of Dublin.

These lands of Clonmoyle and Tullanisky were mentioned in the 1783 will of this same John Wilton, which was lodged in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.  John Wilton was late of Rathcarn/Rathcam, Co. Westmeath, and of Potter's Alley, Dublin.   In his will, which he drew up on 11th March 1783, he named three sons, Thomas Wilton, John Wilton and George Wilton, and also three daughters, Elizabeth Wilton, Rose Wilton and Mary Wilton.  The mother of all six of his children was Mary Neary or Nairy, who had lived with John Wilton for the past 30 years;  he was now adopting the six children, and the will made ample provision for both them and his partner.
To his second son, and obvious favourite, John, he left his share of the lands of Clonmoyle and Tullaniksy which were currently tenanted by a John Jones. Should son John not have any children to inherit this property, then the land was to pass to eldest son Thomas.  Should he have no issue, then it was to go to third son George, and should he die childless, the land was to be sold and the proceeds to be divided between the three daughters and their mother.
His lands of Gortumblo/Gortunloe and Redmondstown, Co. Westmeath, were to be sold by Patrick Mullingan, Dublin attorney, and by William Williams, his business partner, and the said proceeds were to go to Bridget Neary, and, after her death, to his children.  Other land mentioned in the will was land in White Cliff, Hull, Yorkshire, and in Baldonnell, Co. Dublin.
John Wilton also alluded to his co-partnership with Dublin glassmaker, William Williams of The Strand, who was to ensure that his family be supported in a frugal manner after his death and that they should all live together.  He left his house in Potters Alley to Bridget, including his furniture and plate in England, Ireland and France.
A brother was named as Henry Wilton (not the Henry Wilton who was the brother of Mary Wilton, wife of Patrick Jones, but an earlier Henry Wilton), to whom he only left £10, given that this Henry was aged and childless, and that he had already benefitted from a bequest of land from a brother, Walter Wilton, and that he, John, had already assisted Henry in expanding his property.  John Wilton claimed that his brother, Henry, already lived in a state of opulence, and that he, John, wished to provide mostly for his own partner and children  who would have no other means of income.  John also left £10 to his sister Rose Wilton.
John Wilton Sr. of both Rathcarn, Co. Westmeath, and of Dublin, died on 31st January 1786 as confirmed by later deeds drawn up by his grandson in 1832.  His will was finally proved in London on 1st December 1794.
John Wilton of Rathcarn, Co. Westmeath, was the son of Hugh Wilton and Elizabeth Wakely.

John, Henry, Walter and Rose Wilton, had all been born  to Hugh and Elizabeth in Dublin the 1720s.   I wonder was the elderly, opulent Henry Wilton, who was aged and childless in 1783, the same Henry Wilton who died in Westmeath in 1810 and who named William Blackhall under a devise in his will?
The children of Hugh Wilton and Elizabeth Wakely, who had married in 1716, were baptised as follows in St. Mary's, Dublin, although son John Wilton must have been christened elsewhere:

• Henry Wilton, 5th August 1718.
• Kathrin Wilton, 17th October 1720.
• Rose Wilton, 18th April 1722.
• Elinor Wilton, 17th July 1723.
• Mary Wilton, 12th November 1724.
• Walter Wilton, 16th April 1727 - a Walter Winton died in Cashel, Tipperary, in 1763.
• Thomas Wilton, 4th July 1729.
• Robert Wilton, 3rd March 1730.

Other Westmeath Wiltons were  John Wilton of Stonehall who died there in 1757 and John Wilton of Stonehall who died in 1792.  I came across a marriage in the 'Marriage Licence Bonds, Diocese of Meath', dated 1787, between a John Wilton and a Bridget Tremble.

The Trinity Records ('Alumni Dublinenses', 1924 edition) name a few Wiltons who all seem to fit into the above family:
Hugh Wilton (father of John, Henry, Walter and Rose?) was admitted to Trinity on 5th October 1711 aged 19, and was named as the son of the nobleman Henry Wilton of Gaulstown, Co. Meath.
John Wilton was admitted to Trinity aged 17 on 6th May 1735, the son of Hugh Wilton, nobleman.  A Hugh Wilton of Rathcane, Co. Westmeath, died there in 1752.
Rose Wilton, a spinster, died in Dublin in 1798, and was probably the sister of John Wilton who made his will on 11th March 1783.

The children of John Wilton and Bridget Neary/Mary were mentioned in deed 528-3-344334, whose date I neglected to transcribe in the Registry of Deeds.  This was a deed of assignment between Thomas Wilton of Dublin, Benedict Hamilton of Harcourt Street, Elizabeth Hamilton, otherwise Wilton, his wife, and widow Rose O'Hegarty, otherwise Wilton, and John Wilton of Dublin.  The deed concerned the lands of Baldonnell, Co. Dublin, which had been named in John Wilton's will of 1783, and which, according to this deed, had been firstly owned by John Preston, and then by John Wilton of Dublin who passed it on to his above-named children.

Three later deeds, drawn up at the same time, late April 1832, continued the story. (Deeds 883-163-5855164, 883-164-588165, and 883-166-585166.)  John Wilton of Rathcarn, Co. Westmeath, then of Dublin, made his will in March 1783.  He left his lands of Clonmoyle and Tullanisky to his second son, John Wilton, so that the profits of this land should stand as a provision for the younger children of John Wilton Jr.
John Wilton Jr. died intestate on 30th July 1830, leaving one son, John Lucas Wilton, Lieutenant in the 70th Regiment, and also four daughters, namely, Amelia, wife of William Henderson, Maria Olivia, Hariet, wife of Robert Power of Bloomfield, Co. Kildare, and Louisa Wilton of Carnarvon, North Wales.   These deeds confirmed that John Wilton Sr. of both Rathcarn, Co. Westmeath, and of Dublin, had died on 31st January 1786.

Captain John Lucas Wilton (1802 - 1867) married Elizabeth Frances Carr in 1834. He died in South Stoneham, Hampshire, in 1867.  Elizabeth Frances Wilton died in Richmond, Surrey, in 1864. They had three daughters, Charlotte Wilton, born in Gibraltar in 1839, Georgina Wilton born in Co. Wexford in 1841 and Louisa Wilton born in Co. Wexford in about 1848.  The UK census reveals the family living in Stockport, Cheshire in 1851.      In 1871 the three unmarried Wilton sisters were living together at 19 Ledbury Road, Paddington, London.

Adelaide Anne Courtenay, baptised 10th August 1831, born at 47 Moore Street, was the daughter of Frederick and Mary Courtenay.  

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Adelaide Anne Courtenay married a commercial clerk, George Hall, who was the son of Andrew Hall, on 12th October 1851.  John Pennefather and Henry Reynolds witnessed the marriage in the Black Church.  Adelaide Anne's sister, Mary Courtenay, married Herbert Gilman Moore in the same church on the same day.

George Hall had been born to policeman Andrew Hall in Bray, Co.Wicklow in about 1830.   The only record I can uncover for an Andrew Hall is the Wicklow-born Andrew Hall who enlisted in the Royal Irish Constabulary aged 19 in 1824.   Andrew Hall of the R.I.C. was later stationed in Moynalty, Co. Meath with his wife, Mary, living in Westland Cottage, where the couple had a son, Andrew Hall Jr., on 8th July 1842.

Constable Andrew Hall was stationed in Moynalty, Meath - he featured from 1839 till 1859 in the Irish Petty Sessions Court Registers.  He might be the Andrew Hall  (1805 - 1868) who died aged 63 in 1868 and whose death was registered in the Kells Civil Registration district.
Mary, widow of the late Andrew Hall of Moynalty, Co. Meath, died aged 65 at 52 Bolton Street, Dublin, on 10th February 1870 - this from both the 'Freeman's Journal' and the 'Dundalk Democrat and People's Journal' of 12th February 1870.

The known children of Andrew and Mary Hall of Moynalty, Co. Meath:

• George Hall who had been born in Co. Wicklow in about 1830 and who married Adelaide Anne Courtenay in 1851 in Dublin.
• William Hall, who had been born in Wicklow on 6th June 1836 and who was baptised in Moynalty, Co. Meath;  he married Emmaletta White in 1871.
• Andrew Hall, born at Westland Cottage on 8th July 1842; his wife was Eva Boyd.
• John Hall, gardener, 

George Hall, son of policeman Andrew Hall:

a) Emily Amelia Hall born 26th June 1852 at 31 Wellington Street.  She died aged 73 at 16 Cabra Road on 3rd May 1929.

b) Evelina Anne Hall (possibly known as Mary later) born 5th January 1857 at 6 Middle Mountjoy Street, the family's permanent address from this point.  Mary Elizabeth Hall died  at 16 Cabra Road on 6th April 1924;   sister Emily Hall was there when she died.

c) Georgina Hall born 29th February 1860 - from about 1911 she lived with her sisters at 16 Cabra Road, where she died aged 70 on 22nd December 1931.  Her sister, Adelaide A. Hall was there.
d) Adelaide Anne Hall, born 9th September 1862; she died aged 80 at 16 Cabra Road on 1st February 1943.   J.R. Lunny of 43 Connaught Street,  a friend of the deceased, was present.

e) Matilda Hall born 7th July 1865. The widowed Matilda Ussher died at 16 Cabra Road, aged 79, on 24th December 1943. Her cousin, E. E. Hall was there when she died.  Edith Evelyn Hall (7th September 1888 - 12th June 1959) was the daughter of  William Hall and Emmaletta White.

f) Frederick William Hall born 24th September 1867 - a coal merchant, he was living at 50 Mountjoy Street when he died on 18th January 1897.  By the time of Frederick William Hall's birth, his father, George Hall, who had earlier been a commercial clerk, was listed as a railway clerk.

g) Albert Andrew Hall born 11th January 1872. 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.  He would later work as secretary of the Irish Times.

In March 1898, Mr. George Hall of 50 Mountjoy Street was nominated as a Loyalist candidate in the City Elections.  He stood for the Finglas Ward, having been nominated by John Byrne of 13 Conyngham Road, and in April 1898, both George Hall and Edward Carolan withdrew from the race.

Adelaide Anne Hall, née Courtenay, mother of the above children and wife of George Hall, died 24th February 1891 whilst being conveyed to the Mater Hospital. She was 59 and had been suffering from disease of the heart and brain.

By the time of the 1901 census, trhe widowed George Hall was a coal merchant.

Daughter Matilda Hall, of 6 Middle Mountjoy St., married William Egan  of 21 Glengariffe Parade, South Circular Road,  the son of  Joseph Ussher,  on 9th April 1890.   The witnesses to the wedding were Emilie Lunny and Robert Mottershed - Robert Mottershed was married to Isabella Alexandra Jones, the daughter of  Isabella Anne (Pennefather) Jones, who was the niece of Adelaide Anne Courtney.  William Egan Ussher died almost immediately and his death was registered in the north Dublin district in 1890.

In 1901, the widowed Matilda Hall Usher/Ussher was living at 50 Mountjoy Street with her widowed father, George Hall, coal merchant, and with two of her unmarried sisters, Georgina aged 38 and Emily aged 44.  

The aunt of George Hall, Anne J. Brown, aged 83,  (born 1818) was living with the family at 50 Mountjoy Street in 1901 and would die there, aged 91 on 3rd November 1904 - her grandniece, Emily Hall, was in attendance.

 In 1901 Albert Andrew Hall, was living at 9 Sydney Avenue, Blackrock: he was an accountant, unmarried and living with two of his single sisters, the telegraphist, Adelaide, and Mary Hall.  
Frederick William Hall, the coal merchant son of George and Adelaide Anne Hall, died at 50 Middle Mountjoy Street on 18th January 1897, and probate was granted to his father, George Hall of 50 Middle Mountjoy St.
By 1911, Matilda Usher was living at 16 Cabra Road, Glasnevin with her sisters, Emily, Mary and Adelaide Hall.

Their brother, Albert Andrew Hall, married Eveline Beatrice Forster in Christ Church, Kingstown, on 9th July 1901.  He was living at Alfred Ville, 9 Sidney Avenue, Blackrock, while Eveline, the daughter of Ralph Moore Forster, was at 13 Burdett Avenue, Sandycove. The wedding was witnessed by Albert's cousin, Ada Hall,  and Henry George Owens.
Albert Andrew Hall became the secretary of The Irish Times - 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 Emma Matilda Supple.  Eveline's parents had married in St. Mary's on 9th September 1861 - their fathers were Rev. Thomas Forster and Frederick Austin Supple.
Albert Andrew Hall, the son of George Hall and Adelaide Anne Courtenay, died on 28th July 1935;  he had been living in Dunlaoghaire/Kingstown at 6 Clarinda Park East, but died in Hastings at the Alexandra Hotel.  Probate of his will was granted to James Gilbert Millard, stockbroker, and to Albert Ernest Prentice, solicitor.  His widow, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, died on 24th March 1948 at 15 Rosmeen Park, Dunlaoghaire;  Evelyn McNally of 14 Corrig Avenue was present.

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William Hall, son of policeman Andrew Hall:

The brother of George Hall of Middle Mountjoy Street was William Hall of the Inland Revenue, who had also been born in Wicklow in about 1837, and who married Emmaletta White in Clogheen in 1871.
The British Civil Service Proof of Age Archives, viewable on Find My Past,  record the fact that, in 1855, William Hall produced proof that he had been born on 6th June 1836 to policeman Andrew Hall and his wife, Mary, and had been baptised in Moynalty Church 10 days later.

Emma/Emmaletta White was the daughter of schoolteacher James White of Knocklofty. She married William Hall in Tullamellan Parish Church in Clogheen, Co. Tipperary, on 11th July 1871.  William Hall was already living in Palmerston Place, Dublin, and was working as an Inland Revenue officer. His father Andrew Hall had died by this stage; James and George White were the witnesses at the 1871 wedding.

Emma's sister, Anna Delia White of 23 Serpentine Avenue, Sandymount, Co. Dublin, married a ladies' tailor, George Powell Mumford of 19 Northumberland Road, the second son of the tailor George Mumford of Weymouth, England. The wedding took place in St. Mary's, Donnybrook, Co. Dublin, on 17th December 1890 and was witnessed by Richard T. Martin (or Richard S. Martin) and Selina White (1859 - 1894), who might be another of Emma Hall's sisters.   She died of cancer aged only 35 on 9th June 1894, a draper's assistant of Lower Leeson Street; George Powell Mumford of Brighton Ville, Sydney Parade, was the informant, and 'caused her body to be buried'.

James White (1807 - 1877) of 3 Anne Street, Clonmel, died aged 70 on 4th June 1877, and his will was administered by son Horatio George White of 35 College Green, Dublin.   A Horatia George White died aged 29 in South Dublin in 1881 and this was probably a typo for Horatio George White.

William Hall and Emmaletta White had nine children but only four had survived by the time of the 1911 census.  Most of the children had been born in Palmerston Place, which runs from Middle Mountjoy Street where George Hall and Adelaide Anne Courtenay were living at the same time.

W. Hall of 5 Palmerston Place won a pair of lustres in a raffle at Edwards Concert Hall in Dublin in 1874 ('Freeman's Journal', 26th Feb 1874).

The daughter of William Hall and Emmaletta White, Ethel Evelyn Hall, was the E.E.Hall, cousin, who was present at the death of George Hall's daughter, Matilda Ussher, in 1948.

The children of William Hall and Emmaletta White were:

Ethel Evelyn Hall, born 7th September 1888; matron of the Dublin Masonic Girls' School, she would die in Enniskillen on 12th June 1959.

Herbert John Hall was born at 5 Palmerston Place on 20th October 1884.  A shop assistant, he died young at 62 Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, on 8th May 1913.

Henry Hall was born on 10th May 1872, but died of TB/phthisis at 10 St. Alphonsus Road on 21st April 1893.

William James Hall was born 6th December 1875 at 5 Palmerston Place.

Alfred William Hall was born on 28th October 1880.

Horatio Andrew Hall was born on 18th November 1878 but died in 1883.

Eleanor Mary Hall was born on 28th November 1874.

Perceval George Hall was born on 28th January 1883 at 5 Palmerston Place, Dublin.  He married Bessie Keith in Belfast, the daughter of James Keith,  in 1912.  'The Northern Whig' of 20th May 1925 reported in his death the previous day.  Mr Percy G. Hall, well-known in business, sporting and church circles, had died at home at 2 Hampden Villas, Cyprus Park.  He worked most of his adult life in the business of Robert Johnson, saddler and ironmonger.  Percy left a son and two daughters, and a sister, Ethel Hall, matron of the Masonic School in Dublin.  Percy had been an enthusiastic cyclist, a member of the Strandtown Bowling Club, a Unionist and a Past master of Masonic Lodge 372, as well as being on the vestry of St. Donard's Church.  His widow, Bessie Hall of 17 Ardgreenan Gardens, died on 19th November  1952 at 90 Belmont, Church Road, with probate of her will granted to her only son William Gordon Hall, factory manager.   He also proved the will of his sister, Ethel Evelyn Hall of 84 Derrychara Drive, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, who died at 8 Castlehill Drive in Belfast on 12th June 1958.   Earlier, William Gordon Hall, only son of the late Percival George Hall of Belfast, was selected to attend the Masonic Boys' School in Clonskeagh, Dublin, his late father having been a member of Masonic Lodge 372 in Belfast.

In 1901 William and  Emma Hall, and their children, Perceval George, Herbert John and Ethel Evelyn Hall were at 66 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast; by 1911, William, Emma and Ethel Hall were at 62 Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, Dublin.

William Hall, retired inland revenue officer, died aged 75 of influenza at Hampden Villa, Bloomfield, Belfast, on 28th November 1918;  son Percy G. Hall was present.  His widow, Emma Hall of 79 Booterstown Avenue, Dublin, died in Sir Patrick Dunn's Hospital on 27th May 1921.

Andrew Hall, son of policeman Andrew Hall:

Constable Andrew Hall was stationed in Moynalty, Meath - he featured from 1839 till 1859 in the Irish Petty Sessions Court Registers.  The 'Dublin Evening Mail' of 10th October 1868 published the list of successful candidates who had sat the civil service exams, one of them being Mr. Hall of Moynalty, who had been accepted into the Inland Revenue;  this was Andrew Hall Jr.

Andrew Hall Jr., who had been born in  Moynalty, Co. Meath, to Andrew and Mary Hall on 8th July 1842, applied to the civil service in 1867 and his father, Andrew Hall, provided the proof of baptism.

'The Waterford Mirror and Tramore Visitor' of 4th September 1872 noted the marriage in Ballinakill Church of Andrew Hall, HM Inland Revenue, Carrick-on-Suir, to Eva Boyd, daughter of the late Richard Boyd, Collector HM Revenue of Wicklow.    Eva Boyd's parents, Richard Walsingham Boyd of the Customs, New Ross, Co. Wexford, married Susan, eldest daughter of John Hodges of Waterford, on 5th June 1846 in Waterford. (' Freemans Journal, 9th Jan 1846.)

In 1860, Richard Walsingham Boyd and his wife, Susan, née Hodges, were living in Scotland at Bexley terrace, Pulteneytown, Wick, Caithness.  His place of birth wasn't given, but Susan had been born in 1826 in Waterford. Their children were John Walsingham Boyd, born 1848 in the Isle of Man, Anna Eva Boyd who later married Andrew Hall born in Co. Down in about 1852, twins Lindsay Fillars Boyd and James Alexander Boyd, both born in 1852 in Waterford, James Alexander Boyd born 1854, Julia Eliza Boyd born 1856 in Cork, and Martha Emma Boyd born 1858 in Wick, Scotland.
Richard Walsingham Boyd, Collector of Customs, died aged only 45 in Wick, Caithness, on 4th January 1866. ('John O' Groats Journal', 11th January 1866.)  On 21st March 1910, at her residence,  Grange, John's Hill, Waterford, the death occurred of Susan Boyd, widow of the late Richard Walsingham Boyd, Collector HM Customs of Caithness, Scotland, brother of the late Thomas Boyd of Chilcomb Park, Kilkenny.  

On 8th August 1881 in Shanbaugh near New Ross, Co. Wexford, the son of Thomas Boyd of Chilcomb, 20-yr-old Charles Daniel Boyd, was shot and killed by agrarian protesters Walter and John Phelan.  The 'Aberdeen Journal' of 16th June 1883 reported that Thomas Boyd of Chilcomb, Kilkenny, was awarded £1000 for the agrarian murder of his son, Charles Daniel and £250 for himself for injuries sustained on the same day.  £50 compensation was also paid to John Thomas Evans Boyd for injuries same day. Solicitor Arthur Gladwell Boyd, cousin of Charles Daniel Boyd, had also been present during the attack in Shanbough.  Arthur Gladwell Boyd was the son of Arthur J Boyd, a solicitor of Parade House, Kilkenny.   On Oct 15th 1885 in St. George's, Dublin, solicitor John Thomas Evans Boyd, son of solicitor Thomas Boyd of Chilcomb, New Ross, Co. Wexford, married Emily Martha Crawford of 5 Rutland Square, Dublin and of 14 Mark Street, Portrush, the younger daughter of the late Isaac Crawford of Troy, Londonderry and Portrush, Co. Antrim; the witnesses were Henry J. Litton Cary and George B. Crawford MD.

On 30th April 1887 in St. Anne's, Dublin, Henry John Litton Carey, District Inspector, R.I.C, of Killenaule, Co. Tipperary, son of the policeman, Henry G. Carey of County Dublin, married Katherine Frances Jane of 29 Kildare Street, Dublin, daughter of Thomas Boyd of Clonmel and Chilcomb; the witnesses were John Thomas Evans Boyd and Fannie Boyd.

Andrew J. Hall of the Inland Revenue, son of policeman Andrew Hall,  was living at 104 Leinster Rd, Rathmines in 1904.  In 1901, the family were there:

Andrew Hall, inland revenue office, born Meath;  wife, Eva, born Down, 1852, she died aged 73 at 26 Longford Terrace, Monkstown, on 25th September 1922.
Maud Mary Hall, born Tipperary circa 1874
Ada Emily Hall born Tipp circa 1877;  she married Albert John Harris, of Longford Avenue, son of Alexander Harris, excise supervisor, on 22nd October 1902 in Holy Trinity, Rathmines. This was witnessed by Andrew and Charles W. Hall.
Charles Walsingham Boyd  Hall, born at Hill Terrace, Bandon, on 18th December 1881.
Kathleen Hall, born 25th April 1884 at Hill Terrace, Bandon, Co. Cork - she died unmarried on 7th February 1936 in the Mater Hospital and gave her address as 16 Cabra Road, the address of her cousins, the daughters of George Hall and Adelaide Anne Courtenay.
Bertha Agnes Ruth Hall, born 12th May 1885 at 55 Raymond Street, Dublin.
Arthur William Hall (named at his baptism as Andrew William Arthur Hall) was born at 104 Leinster Road on 31st August 1889.  He died, aged 27, a commercial clerk, of Longford Terrace, of flu, and his father was present.

Eva Hall, née Boyd, died at Longford Terrace, Rathmines, on 25th September 1922.
Andrew Hall, retired inland revenue officer, died aged 85 at 9 Clarinda Park, Dunlaoghaire, on 26th March 1928;  M. Hall was present.

John Hall, gardener, son of policeman Andrew Hall:

In December 1873, William Hall, Inland Revenue officer of 5 Palmerston Place, Dublin,  swore on behalf on his nephew, William Andrew Hall, that his nephew had been born on 4th September 1858 to brother John Hall and his wife Elizabeth Hall in Kilmer, near Ballirig or Ballivor, Co. Meath.
William Hall also testified that John Hall, father of the applicant William Andrew Hall, had died in about 1867 or 1868.  The local clergyman of Killochonnigan Church, Ballivor, also confirmed that he had indeed baptised the boy who had lived at Ballivor, near Kells, Co. Meath and that the boy's father,  John Hall, had been a gardener.  William Andrew Hall, son of John and Elizabeth, and nephew of William Hall, was applying in 1873 to join the Post Office.

The Lunny Family:
The Lunny family seem to have been friendly with the family of George Hall of 50 Middle Mountjoy Street.  I'm not sure if there was some some of family link, but I'll include them here nonetheless. When George's daughter, Matilda, married William Egan Ussher on 9th April 1890, one of the witnesses was Emilie/Emily Lunny, the daughter of John Lunny and Eliza Scovelle.   Her brother, John Robert Lunny, was present at 16 Cabra Road when Adelaide Ann Hall, daughter of George Hall and Adelaide Anne Courtenay, died in 1943.

John Lunny, housekeeper at the Registry of Deeds, with an address at 5 Henrietta Street, son of the merchant James Lunny, married Eliza Schovell, daughter of a gardener, John Schovell of Manor House, Dundrum. The couple married in St. Michan's on 16th May 1861- one of the witnesses was a John Stephens, while the second one was more or less illegible.  

John Lunny applied to join the  Registry Office as part of the British Civil Service, and the details are published online via Find My Past -  he gave his address as at the rere of Charlemont House, 22 Rutland Square and stated he had been born in Ballibay, Monaghan on 1st May 1822 to James Lunny, farmer of Ballybay and had been schooled in Mullaghglass.  His most recent job had been with Thomas Drury, warehouseman, Merchants Quay.  He had left to work for the 1851 census, had been with register Office since;  in 1878, when he made the latest application, he must have been interested in a different position in the Registry Office.

Emily Jane Lunny was born to John Lunny and Eliza Schovell at 5 Henrietta Street on 26th December 1894;  her brother,  John Robert Lunny was born on 24th April 1868.  Sisters were Frances or Fanny Lunny and Caroline Louisa Lunny.
Caroline Louisa Lunny  married William John Strickland  on 2nd December 1892, while Fanny married William Norton.  Emily Lunny married David Orr on 26th December 1894.  Her brother, John Robert Lunny, died on 10th May 1954 at 43 Connaught Street;  a druggist, he had never married.  Edith C. Strickland was present.

William John Anderson married Agnes Keating in Belfast city in 1877.  They were the grandparents of my paternal grandmother, Agnes Keating Wilson/aka Nessie.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/08/william-john-anderson-and-agnes-keating.html

The earliest identifiable member of the Keating family, who cluster in the Ballyhay townland immediately west of Donaghadee town, is Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870), Agnes Keating's grandfather, who was born in 1799 and who farmed in the Donaghadee townland of Ballyhay  - he is commemorated by a headstone in Donaghadee Church of Ireland churchyard. Some of the inscription is illegible:
 
  'Erected by Agnes, Susanna and Thomas Keating of Ballyhay in memory of their father Samuel Keating who died 5th Novr. 1870 aged 71 years.  Also their brother William Keating who died 2(1)st Dec (18)60 aged 31 years. Also their mother Margaret (Keating) who died....Also (Susanna) who died...'

So Agnes Keating's grandparents were Samuel and Margaret Keating of Ballyhay, Donaghadee. There was a second Keating family  and both seem to be interlinked - one had its origins in our Samuel Keating and the other in William Keating.  The two men were contemporary and were most likely brothers,  both having had very strong links with the Ballyhay townland just outside of Donaghadee.

A lease dated 29th April 1823 for Killaughey, Donaghadee, the townland which immediately adjoins Ballyhay, was made between Sir James Bristow and a John Keating, and was for the three lives of John Keating, Eliza Keating and Susanna Keating.

The Tithe Applotment Books for the area were drawn up in 1834, and reveal Samuel Keating (senior) farming 3 acres in Ballyhay.

The known children of farmer Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870), and wife Margaret of Ballyhay were:

1) Agnes Keating, born 1824, and mentioned above on the headstone.

2) Susanna Keating, born in the 1820s and mentioned on the headstone.

3) Thomas, born 1820s and mentioned on the headstone. He was possibly the Thomas Keating,  grocer, who was living at 1 and 3 Third Street, Belfast in the 1870s - on 1st February 1878, his niece, Margaret Jane McCully was born at his house, 3 Third Street, to shoemaker, George McCully and Margaret Keating.

4) William born 1829, died 1860, as named on the family headstone.

5) Samuel Keating Jr (Agnes Keating's father), born circa 1833 - 26th February 1895.

6) John Keating (1837 - 4th February 1912) who married twice, first to a possible cousin, Anne Jane Keating, then to Anne Jane Reid.

7) Margaret Keating, born circa 1839 - she married shoemaker, George McCully on  May 8th 1866.

John Keating, son of farmer Samuel Keating and Margaret of Ballyhay:
I believe that Agnes Keating's uncle John Keating - the brother of the baker, Samuel Keating, married his cousin, Ann Jane Keating, the daughter of farmer William Keating in Newtownards on November 5th 1859.
Their children include:

a) Samuel Keating,  born in Ballyhay on 1st April 1864; in 1864, John Keating was working as a farmer in Ballyhay.  In Ballycopeland in 1884, a Samuel Keating, labourer/carter of Ballyhay, son of labourer John Keating, married Mary Kerr of Ballyhay, daughter of carpenter William Kerr.  A son, Victor, was born to the couple in Killaughy Street, Donaghadee, on 14th July 1899; a son Samuel Keating was born at Drumawhey on 1st December 1888.

b) Susanna Keating born in Ballyhay on 2nd January 1867.

c) Eliza Letitia Keating, born 8th Jan 1868 in Ballyhay.

d) Margaret born in Ballyhay on 28th July 1870 - I believe this was the Maggie Keating, daughter of shopman, John Keating, who married William McClelland of Cottown, Bangor, son of James McClelland, on 10th July 1891 in Ballygrainy, Bangor; the witnesses were William St. George Keating, nephew of Anne Jane and John Keating, and a Maggie Cooper.

e) John born in Ballyhay on 8th February 1873.

f) William Thomas Keating  -  on 10th September 1890 in Ballycopeland, Donaghadee, William Thomas Keating, son of carman John Keating of Ballyhay, married Jane Strain of Ballyhay, daughter of farmer Alexander Strain of Ballyhay. The witnesses were James Strain and Agnes Crothers.
William Thomas Keating and Jane Strain settled in Cottown, Bangor, Co. Down.
The 1901 shows up their children - William born circa 1891, John Alexander born on 16th July 1895 at Herdstown, Eveline born 9th June 1897 in Herdstown, Maggie Jane born circa 1896, Agnes Hood Keating born circa 1900.  Only four of the children survived, according to the later census.
The youngest, Agnes Hood Keating, died aged only one year, of laryngitis on 2nd February 1902, while son James Keating died aged 16 of TB in Newtownards Workhouse on 11th June 1909. William Thomas Keating's wife, Jane Strain, died of TB in William Street, Newtownards, on 8th May 1904.
On 24th September 1917 in Ballygrainy Church, daughter Eveline Keating married the carpenter John McMahon, son of John McMahon of Cottown. The witnesses were an Alexander Moore and Fanny Keating, who was possibly Eveline's sister Agnes.
Margaret Jane Keating, daughter of William Thomas Keating, married, in Ballygrainy on 14th July 1920, David Harry McKee of Cottown, the son of James McKee - this was witnessed by John McIlwaine and by Letitia Jane Keating, who had been born to Elizabeth Keating of Ballyhay on 14th September 1891.

Carman John Keating spent time in Belfast city working as a breadserver like his brother Samuel - he appears in the Street Directory for 1892 at 13 Caroline Terrace and also in 1895 and 1896 as a breadserver in Harper Street, but by 1901 has moved to 16 Georges Street in Newtownards, where both John and his second wife, Annie J. Keating, were working as cardrivers, an early form of taxi-driver.
Wife Anne Jane Keating, (daughter of William Keating of Ballyhay?), died in Belfast in 1881, aged 42.
In Newtownards on 14th March 1882, John Keating, widowed breadserver of Belfast, son of farmer Samuel Keating of Ballyhay, married the widowed Ann Jane McDonald, shopkeeper of Newtownards, daughter of farmer Alexander Reid.  Witnesses were James Skilling and Jane Filson.

(Ann Jane McDonald's daughter, Eliza Jane McDonald, was married to John Keating's nephew, John George McCully, the son of Margaret Keating and George McCully.)
According to the 1911 census, John Keating and Anne Jane Reid McDonald had no children together.

In 1901, John Keating and second wife, Anne Jane McDonald, were living in Newtownards along with two of Anne Jane's daughters by the late Robert McDonald, and also one of her young grandchildren. Mary McDonald, aged 20, was there, as was Eliza Jane McCully, aged 30. This was the wife of John George McCully, John George being the son of Margaret Keating and George McCully, Margaret Keating being the brother of carman John Keating who was now married to Anne Jane Reid-McDonald-Keating!
Also present in the house in Newtownards in 1901, was John Heron, the 3-yr-old grandson of Anne Jane.  His mother was Charlotte Anna McDonald, who had married James Heron, watchmaker, the son of Alexander Heron, widower and watchmaker of Newtownards, on 4th March 1897.  The witnesses were Samuel Heron and Mary McDonald.
In 1901,  this Heron family were living at 9 North Street, Newtownards. Alexander was a dealer; by 1911 he was a fruit merchant.  By 1911 they were living in Conway Square, Newtownards, and they had five children, including John who had spent the night of the 1901 Census with his grandmother, Annie Jane, and her husband, John Keating.

Carman John Keating of Wallace's Street, Newtownards,  died aged 70 on 6th February 1912; wife Anne Jane Keating, née Reid,  was there.

Margaret Keating, daughter of Samuel and Margaret Keating of Ballyhay, and George McCully:
Margaret Keating, the daughter of farmer Samuel Keating and Margaret,  had married George McCully , the son of farmer Robert McCully, on May 8th 1866.
In 1901 the McCully family were living just around the corner from her niece, Agnes Keating Anderson, at 21 My Ladys Road, along with Margaret's unmarried sister Agnes.  This older Agnes Keating was one of the three siblings who had erected the headstone for their parents, Samuel and Margaret Keating, in Donaghadee Churchyard.

George McCully and Margaret Keating also had two sons, Thomas McCully, born 18th November 1867 in Ballyhay, and Jean George (Jack) McCully, born as John George McCully in Killaughy Street, Donaghadee on 18th December 1869, and who left Ireland for California at some stage.

George McCully and Margaret Keating also had a daughter, Margaret Jane, who had been born on 1st February  1878 at 3 Third Street, possibly the home of the baby's maternal uncle, the grocer Thomas Keating who appeared at this address in the Belfast street directories of the 1870s. Margaret Jane McCully later married the widowed clerk, William Boyd, son of farmer Samuel Boyd, on 4th July 1900 by special licence at home in 10 Mersey Street;  the ceremony was performed by James McConnell of Megain Memorial Church, and was witnessed by our Agnes Keating, the bride's cousin, and by an Ellen Bowman. William Boyd had been born in about 1863 in Ballykeel, Co. Down.  

In 1911 William and Margaret Jane Boyd were living at 4 Batley St., Belfast, and William Boyd was working as a timekeeper's clerk. They would have nine children one of whom, Anne Boyd, married an Englishman by the name of Dixon, and their daughter is Cynthia Lapaque who kindly passed me on a precious family photo showing (standing in the centre)  Margaret Jane Boyd, née McCully, her mother, Margaret McCully née Keating, and one of her aunts, either Susanna/Sassie Keating or perhaps Agnes Keating.

Margaret Jane McCully flanked by her mother and her aunt

The second son of George McCully and Margaret Keating, John George McCully, a shoemaker of Newtownards, married Eliza Jane McDonald on 21st May 1889 in Newtownards 1st Presbyterian Church.  The witnesses were his brother, Thomas McCully, and her sister, Essie/Esther McDonald.
Eliza Jane McDonald, who married John George McCully in 1889, was the daughter of a sailor, Robert McDonald, and of Anne Jane Reid who came from the Ards Peninsula.  Their children were Esther McDonald, born Greyabbey, 14th October 1867,  Eliza McDonald, born 11th April 1869, later the wife of John George McCully,  Robert McDonald, born Greyabbey, 8th March 1871, Charlotte Anna McDonald, born 13th May 1873, and Mary McDonald, born Little Francis St., Newtownards, 16th November 1876.
The girls’ father, the sailor Robert McDonald, died young, and their widowed mother, Anne Jane Reid, remarried to John Keating, who was the son of farmer Samuel Keating and Margaret of Ballyhay - John Keating has already been discussed above.

Margaret McCully, neé Keating, died aged 68 on 11th September 1907 at 4 Castlereagh Street.

George McCully was buried in the City Cemetery - he died, aged 72, at 17 Cumberland Street, on 21st June 1927.   Also in the same plot was his daughter, Margaret Jane Boyd, who died aged 77 at 24 Sydenham Drive.
Curiously, in the same plot, were three members of an Anderson family, but I'm not sure if they were of the same family as William John Anderson who had married Agnes Keating, the niece of Margaret McCully. The three Andersons buried in the McCully plot were Agnes Anderson who died aged 49 on 13th June 1892 at 13 Little Georges Street;   Eliza Anderson who died aged 65 on 26th July 1888 at 19 Little Grosvenor Street;   Ellen Anderson who died aged 53 on 16th December 1901 at Beerbridge Road.
A Robert John McCully was possibly the brother of shoemaker George McCully, both being the sons of farmer Robert McCully.  Robert John McCully,who farmed at Loughriescouse, Newtownards, in the 1860s, was married to a Susan Anderson, and I wonder was this relationship explain the presence of Andersons in the McCully plot in Belfast city cemetery?
Griffiths Valuation of 1864 shows up a Robert McCully in Ballyhay, near Donaghadee, the same townland where the Keating family had their origins. The following is the will of a Robert McCully, of Newtownards, possible father of George McCully, who died 20th December 1895, and whose son, Robert J.McCully of Ballyhay, was the executor:
 
 '...I leave to my son, Robert John McCully, the money that is indebted to me...with this understanding that he is to give my sons, George and William James, £5 each three years after my decease...to my son, Robert John, I also leave the potatoes belonging to me, at present stored in Ballyhay.  To my daughter, Margaret, I leave the sum of £20, to my daughter, Agnes and Isabella, £20 each, and my daughter Eliza Jane £4.  I leave to the before named Margaret all my furniture and household effects...'

Samuel Keating, baker, son of farmer Samuel Keating and Margaret of Ballyhay:
Samuel and Margaret's son, Samuel Keating Junior, married  Agnes Jamieson (various spellings) of Newtownards in Carrowdore Presbyterian Church on June 26th 1856.  Agnes' parents were Robert and Elizabeth Jamieson of Ballyhay.
Samuel Keating was farming in Ballyhay at the time of the wedding, and the witnesses were James Jameson and William Keating, possible brothers of the bride and groom.

There is mention of a Jamieson family living in the Killaughey area of Donaghadee in the early 1600s so the family must have originated in Ayrshire, Scotland, and were among the original wave of settlers who made the move to Ireland with the adventurers Hamilton and Montgomery.
T
he 1834 Tithe Books show a cluster of Jamesons farming in Killaughey - Samuel Jameson, 10 acres; John Jameson, 9 acres;  D. Jameson, 7 acres;  James Jameson,  10 acres.   There were another two in Ballyvester townland - J. Jameson Junior, 1 acres, and his father James Jameson who was farming less than an acre.
On Griffiths Valuation of 1863 we find Robert Jamison leasing 18 acres from Louisa Webb in the Ballyhay district of Donaghadee. William Keating is leasing eight acres from the same Louisa Webb in the same townland.
Samuel Keating (the elder one, I'm presuming) is leasing fourteen acres of land plus a house and outbuildings from Daniel Delacherois, and is sharing an acres of turbary, or bog, with Ann Gilmore, leased from the same landlady Louisa Webb.  Ann Gilmore is leasing a house three doors down from Robert Jamison.
Samuel Keating Junior is leasing a house in Newtownards which is about ten miles south of Donaghadee.

Samuel Keating Junior and Agnes/Nancy Jamieson had several children while they were living in Newtownards.

a) Agnes Keating, who would marry William John Anderson in Belfast in 1877, from whom we descend directly, was born circa 1858, but civil registration didn't begin till 1864.  They stayed in Belfast.

b)  William Robert Keating, born 14th December 1862; he married Martha Nagel in Chicago.

c)  Margaret Jane born 29th March 1865 in Movilla Street, Newtownards, to cardriver Samuel Keating and to Agnes Jamison. She later married Robert McWilliams.

d) Samuel born 1866 in Newtownards; he married Sarah Agnew, and stayed in Belfast.

e) James born 8th May 1867 in Donaghadee.

f)  Thomas born 26th September 1869 in South Street, Newtownards to the baker Samuel Keating and Agnes Jamison; he married Hattie Irvine in Chicago.

g) Jessie Jamieson Keating born circa 1870. He was also known as John Jamieson Keating; he married Elizabeth Schmidt in Chicago.   I found reference to another unnamed son, born on 28th May 1872 in Belfast Registration District No. 1, which is the dockland area of central Belfast. This could be the youngest son, Jessie/John Jamieson Keating.

In 1870, the street directories note Samuel Keating at South St, Newtownards - he was listed under the heading of 'Bakers & Flour Dealers'.

The next reference to Samuel Keating Junior is on his daughter's marriage certificate (Agnes Keating) in 1877 when he gives his occupation as a driver.  He can be traced in the Belfast Street Directories as a bread server which was the Victorian term for a delivery man for a bakery.  Later, his sons in Chicago stated that their father, Samuel Keating, had been a baker and this too is confirmed in the Street Directory for 1880 when the entry for Samuel Keating gives his address as the bakery of 27 - 29 Carlow Street which is between the Shankill Road and the Falls Road of central Belfast.

The 'Belfast Weekly News', 25th January 1873, noted the death in the General Hospital, Belfast, of Agnes, née Jamison, wife of Samuel Keating, late of Ballyhay, Co. Down.

Samuel Keating and three of his sons emigrated to Chicago in about 1884. He applied to the Cook County Court for naturalisation on 30th April 1890, and this was witnessed by his son, William Robert Keating.

The Chicago Street Directories record Samuel Keating, labourer, at 3601 Laurel Street in 1888, 1889 and 1890.  Son William Robert Keating was at 3819 Halsted Street in 1890, while a Thomas Keating, possibly another of the sons, was recorded in 1889 at the rear of 3729 Laurel Street.

The Chicago Voters Lists also record Samuel Keating of Ireland at 3601 Laurel Street in 1892 - it was noted that he had been in Chicago for the previous 8 years. William Robert Keating of Ireland was noted at Taylor Street, having lived in Chicago for 9 years.  Thomas Keating was at 3601 Laurel Street and had also been there 9 years.

Born 1833 in Ireland, Samuel Keating died aged 62 on 26th February 1895; at the time of his death he was working as a carpenter.

The Belfast Newsletter of 20th March 1895 recorded Samuel Keating's death there -
   "Keating - Feb 26 1895 at his residence, Laurel Street, Chicago, US America, Sam'l Keating of Ballyhay, County Down, late of Belfast, aged 62."

Margaret Jane Keating, daughter of Samuel Keating, baker, and Agnes Jamieson:
Agnes Keating's sister, Margaret Jane Keating, who had been born to Samuel Keating and Nancy Jamison on 29th March 1865 in Movilla Street, Newtownards, married Robert McWilliams in Westbourne Presbyterian Church in South Belfast on 8th June 1887.  Robert McWilliams, a pawnbroker, was the son of a land steward, also Robert McWilliams. The wedding witnesses were Martha McWilliams and W.J. Leeds.

 By the time of the 1901 Census the couple were living off the Woodstock Road - on My Lady's Road where my father, Paul Cuthbert Stewart (great-grandson of Agnes Keating and pawnbroker William John Anderson) was later born in 1935 - with their eight children, one of whom had been tellingly named William John Anderson McWilliams in honour of the baby's uncle, the pawnbroker William John Anderson.   Margaret Jane's husband, Robert, was also working as a pawnbroker's assistant.  My Lady's Road is immediately adjacent to Jocelyn Street where Sarah Agnew Keating was living with her children - she was the widow of Samuel Keating, the son of baker Samuel Keating and Agnes Jamieson.

The children of pawnbroker Robert McWilliams and Margaret Jane Keating were born as follows:

1) Florence Eveline McWilliams, born at 11 Madrid Street on 7th June 1888.

2) Ethel May McWilliams, born at 5 Harper Street on 5th July 1889.

3) Robert Jamieson McWilliams at 39 Beechfield Street on 24th December 1890.

4) Lizzie McBride McWilliams at 34 Beechfield Street on 3rd March 1892.

5) Maggie McWilliams at 57 Altear Street on 15th February 1893.

6) Samuel McWilliams at 2 Laburnum Terrace on 30th November 1894.

7) William John Anderson McWilliams at 5 Brook Terrace on 6th December 1896.

8) Norman McWilliams at 140 Templemore Avenue on 6th April 1899.

9) Veronica McWilliams born at 5 Mafeking Terrace, My Lady's Road, 17th August 1901.

Robert McWilliams, pawnbroker,  died of typhoid fever at 5 Mafeking Terrace, My Lady's Road,  on 7th October 1901 aged only 36 - the informant was his brother-in-law, pawnbroker William John Anderson of 412 Woodstock Road.
The widowed Margaret Jane McWilliams, née Keating, moved her family to Chicago in 1902.  Her father, the widowed baker Samuel Keating, along with three of his sons, had already moved there in about 1884.

The widowed Margaret McWilliams, née Keating, married Edward Mueller in Cook County, Illinois, on 1st March 1905.  The LDS has the Chicago 1910 census details for the family - Edward Mueller, had been born in Germany in about 1857 and had emigrated to the States in 1892.

The following stepchildren of Edward Mueller, the head of the household, are all named on the return as ‘Mulree’ although they correspond to the McWilliams children of My Lady’s Road, so I believe this to be an error. Perhaps a neighbour filled the form out for them and was unsure of the correct family name - Florence Mulree, born 1889 in Ireland, Ethel Mulree, born 1890 in Ireland,  Robert Mulree, born 1891 in Ireland (Robert Jamieson McWilliams was naturalised in the US in 1928),  Lizzie Mulree, born 1892 in Ireland,  Maggie Mulree, born 1893 in Ireland, and Samuel Mulree, born 1895 in Ireland.
The following stepchildren go correctly under the name of McWilliams and correspond to the earlier 1901 Irish Census - William McWilliams, born circa 1897 in Ireland William John Anderson McWilliams was naturalised in the US in 1928), Norman McWilliams, born circa 1900 in Ireland,  Veronica McWilliams, born circa 1902.   There was also a Louis or Louisa Mueller, aged 4, a daughter who must have been born to Edward Mueller and Margaret Jane Keating McWilliams, and a 2-yr-old Edward Mueller, although the return states that both his parents had been born in Germany. I think this census return may have been carelessly filled out since his mother, Margaret Keating, had been born in Ireland.
Finally, a step-granddaughter, Agnes Mulree, aged 1 year and 1 month, born to Irish parents in Illinois...see below.

The daughter of Robert McWilliams and Margaret Keating, Florence Eveline McWilliams, had married William Mulree in Chicago on 29th April 1908.
William Mulree had been born on 21st December 1880 to James Mulree and Agnes Murland in Kirkcubbin on the Ards Peninsula.  He emigrated to the US on board the ‘Majestic’, arriving in New York on 11th May 1905.  He died in Cook County, Illinois, in January 1968.  The Mulree family of Kirkcubbin were living in St. Leonard Street in Belfast in 1901 - another of the family was William Mulree’s younger brother, James, who also emigrated to Chicago, and who died there in August 1917;  he had been a labourer in a packing house.

William Mulree, who married Florence Eveline/Evelyn McWilliams, was a bricklayer.  Their children were all born in Chicago - Agnes Louise Mulree, born 20th April 1909, Margaret Lenore Mulree, born 5th February 1911,  Ethel Mae Mulree, born 3rd August 1912, the twin of William Robert James Mulree, also born 3rd August 1912, but who died a year later at 6642, So. Paulina Street, Ward 29, Chicago. He was buried in Mt.Hope Cemetery.  There was also Florence Elizabeth Mulree, born 29th August 1913, and William Mulree, born 6th August 1916.

The 1920 Census follows the Mueller family, still in Chicago. By now, Edward Mueller had also died and Margaret, née Keating, is once again widowed. Her children have reverted to their correct name of McWilliams -  Ethel McWilliams,  Margaret McWilliams, Norman McWilliams,  William McWilliams, Veronica McWilliams,  Louise Miller (or Mueller), and Edward Miller.
Who was missing?  Florence Eveline had, of course, married William Mulree.  Her sister, Elizabeth, named as Lizzie McBride McWilliams in 1901, died in Chicago on 28th September 1912. She had been born on 3rd March 1892 to Robert McWilliams and his wife, named only as ‘Keating’,in Ireland, and had been working as a clerk; her address at the time of her death was 6627 Hermitage Avenue.  She was 20 years, 6 months and 25 days old when she died.  She was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

But where sons Robert and Samuel McWilliams?  There was an Irish-born Samuel McWilliams working in California at this time, but, once again, there’s not enough information at the moment  to definitively confirm this is the correct man.

Samuel Keating, son of baker Samuel Keating and Agnes Jamieson:
Samuel Keating, the son of Samuel Keating and Nancy Jamison, remained in Belfast when his widowed father and four siblings emigrated to Chicago.

This younger Samuel Keating (ie: Samuel Keating number 3!) who was Agnes Keating's younger brother, married Sarah Agnew in Holywood, Co.Down on 28th December 1885 and gave his profession as a breadserver like his father.  Sarah's father was a gardener of Bangor, Alexander Agnew - Sarah had been born circa 1858 in Co. Down. The witnesses to this wedding were Samuel's sister, Agnes Keating, and her husband William John Anderson, the grandparents of my paternal grandmother, Agnes Keating Wilson.

The Street Directories of 1890 shows up Samuel Keating, breadserver/baker of Memel Street.  He died young at 13 Harper Street on 29th December 1899;  the informant was his brother-in-law, pawnbroker William John Anderson of 122 Albertbridge Road.

By the time of the 1901 Census, the widowed Sarah Keating, nee Agnew, was living with her five children in 42 Jocelyn Street, adjacent to the Woodstock Road.  Her son, William, aged 16, is working as a pawnbroker's assistant while his younger brother, Samuel (Samuel Keating Number 4!) aged 14, is working as an apprentice pawnbroker.  Given the incredibly sociable nature of these Belfast families, I'm quite certain that the enterprising pawnbroker William John Anderson had provided work for his nephews in one of his establishments.

The children of Samuel Keating and Agnes Agnew were:

a) William Robert Keating, born at 3 Cross Street on 27th November 1884.

b) Samuel Keating, born at 14 Memel Street on 14th November 1886.

c) Walter Keating, born at 14 Memel Street on 16th May 1889 - on 24th January 1913 in St. Anne's, Belfast, Walter Keating, salesman of 85 Euston Street, married Sarah Agnes Hughes of 21 Carlisle Street, the daughter of farmer Charles Hughes. The witnesses here were Robert Gamble and Elizabeth Rea.

d) Evelyn Keating, born at Harper Street on 18th July 1891 - on 6th June 1921 in Fisherwick Presbyterian Church,  Evelyn Keating, blousecutter of 85 Euston Street, married journalist James Stuart Blacke of 50 Ava Road, son of commission agent Joseph Blacke. The witnesses were William and Jane Blackwood.

e) Sarah Keating, born at 13 Harper Street on 26th May 1897.

Sarah Agnew's parents were Alexander Agnew, a retired gardener who had been born in 1834 in Strandtown, Holywood, Co. Down, and Maria Magee/McKee.  (Griffiths Valuation of 1863 shows up both an Alexander Agnew and a Grace Agnew in Knocknagoney, Holywood, as well as Hugh, Charles, James and Robert Agnew in Strandtown, Holywood.)  In 1911 Alexander Agnew was living in Belfast at Colchester Street, along with his second wife, Jane McCracken, aged 70, and his sister-in-law, Margaret McKee, a widow of 71.
Alexander Agnew, gardener of Holywood, Co. Down, married his first wife, Maria Magee/McKee, before 1858 when their daughter, Sarah Agnew, was born.  They had a further two children, both of them born in Holywood, Co. Down - Thomas Agnew was born there on 10th June 1864, while Eliza Agnew was born there on 18th May 1866.
The death of a Maria Agnew, who had been born in 1833, was registered in Belfast in 1870, and may possibly be the mother of Sarah, Thomas and Eliza Agnew.
According to the 1911 census, their father, the gardener Alexander Agnew, married his second wife, Jane McCracken, in about 1874. They had two children,one of whom was Margaret Agnew who had been born in Strandtown on 16th June 1876.

Thomas Keating, son of baker Samuel Keating and Agnes Jamieson:

Thomas Keating, a clerk, born 26th September 1869 to Samuel Keating and Nancy/Agnes Jamieson, died on 1st March 1941 and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Cook, Illinois.  He had emigrated to Chicago along with his father and brothers in about 1884 and had married Hattie Irvine on May 8th 1895 in Cook County, Illinois.  
The couple seem to have divorced shortly afterwards, but were living together still in Chicago in 1900.  Thomas was a factory worker and the couple had had two children, Maud Keating in 1896 and Thomas Junior in 1899. Only Maud survived childhood.

Hattie Irvine, who had been born to the Belfast-born John Irvine and Missouri-born Los Angelos Welch in Streator, Illinois on 25th November 1876, remarried before the 1910 census.  Her second husband was Axel Patrick Johnson of Sweden, and the couple would go on to have a daughter, Gladys Ely Elizabeth Johnson, in 1908.

William Robert Keating, son of baker Samuel Keating and Agnes Jamieson:
A second brother, William Robert Keating, who was born on 14th December 1862 in Belfast to the baker, Samuel Keating, and his wife, Nancy Jamieson, died on 14th April 1925 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
He worked as a baker in the county hospital. His wife, who he married in Chicago on 16th April 1890, was Martha M. Nagel who had been born in Pammern, Germany. Their children were all born in Illinois:

Samuel H. Keating  born August 189?.
William R. T. Keating born April 1893.
Stella E., born 1896.
Arthur J. Keating born August 1898 - he died in Chicago, aged 26, on 15th March 1925.
George F. Keating, born 10th May 1901 in Chicago, and died 6th December 1961 n Los Angeles.
Martha Agnes, born 29th August 1904 in Chicago.
Edward Keating born 17th February 1908.

Jessie/John Jamieson Keating, son of baker Samuel Keating and Agnes Keating:
Jessie/John Jamieson Keating, the third brother, who had been born to Samuel Keating and Agnes Jamieson in Belfast on 28th May 1872, was married to Elizabeth Schmidt and also spent his adult life in Chicago, dying there on 7th March 1949 at age 79.  He worked as the treasurer of an association in 1910 and as restaurant proprietor in 1930.

The children of James Jamieson Keating and Elizabeth Schmidt were:

a) Frederick Sturgeon Keating, born in Chicago on 9th May 1893. He worked as an accountant and statistician, and married the English woman Florence - they had two sons, Robert Warren Keating in 1920 and Kenneth Keating in 1923.  Kenneth kindly contacted me with further details of his family.  His brother, Robert Warren Keating graduated as a chemical engineer from MIT in 1941 and spent the war years managing an industrial site which was a vital part of the war effort;  he died in 2010 in Tajunga, California.  Kenneth served with the US Navy from 1942 till 1946, and married Charlotte Adele Matthews in 1947; he graduated from Stanford in 1955 and worked, firstly, for Motorola in Phoenix, then as a professor in the College of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson, where he still lives.

b) William S. Keating.

c) James Alfred Keating (4th December 1897 - 2nd October 1976). He married Ruth Zimmermann and worked as a investment banker, at one time with Harris Bank of W. Monroe Street, Chicago.  His draft registration papers for the First World War make mention of the fact that James Alfred Keating had already served for three years as a sergeant in the infantry.  His nephew, Kenneth Keating has confirmed to me that James Alfred had volunteered to join up before America had entered, and went into US Army Air Service, where he could be attached as a volunteer to the RAF, and where he learned to fly Airco DH.9 bombers.  He received his commission with the RAF in February 1918 and was attached to the 49th Squadron in June. Designated as an American air ace, he scored his first victory during a raid on Bettencourt, and scored a further four during a raid on the bridge at Falvy; he received the US Distinguished Service Cross and the UK Distinguished Flying Cross as a recognition of the role he played.
He had a daughter, Corinne Keating, in about 1929 in Chicago.    James Alfred Keating died on 2nd October 1976 in Fort Lauderdale.

d) George Dewey Keating, born 8th May 1898. A car salesman, in 1920 he married Indiana-born Betty/Elizabeth Jane Van Briggle,  and moved to Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, where they had George B. Keating in 1925 and Nancy J. Keating in 1929.  By 1940, George Dewey Keating was the manager of a music store in Madison, Dane, and had had another daughter, Sharon Keating in 1933.
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But to return to Ballyhay, Donaghdee, Co. Down. Another Keating family of Ballyhay, Donaghadee, descended from William Keating the brother - I believe - of Agnes Keating's grandfather, farmer Samuel Keating of Ballyhay.

William Keating (1801 - 1885) , farmer of Ballyhay, died in Ballyhay on 26 July 1885, aged 84 with his will administered by Samuel Buchanan Keating, a child of Ballyhay.  A fellow researcher on the internet confirms that William Keating had married a Mary Buchanan.  They had at least two children in Armagh - James Alfred Keating and Samuel Keating - before settling in Ballyhay where they had further children.

I believe that one of their daughters was Anne Jane Keating, the first wife of carman John Keating, John Keating being the son of farmer Samuel and Margaret Keating of Ballyhay.  John and Anne Jane Keating were discussed above. If Samuel and William Keating were indeed brothers, then Anne Jane Keating and John Keating were first cousins.

The son of William Keating and Mary Buchanan, James Alfred Keating, had been born in Armagh on 9th August 1826.  (John Jamieson Keating,  the grandson of farmer Samuel Keating of Ballyhay, also named a child as James Alfred Keating on 4th December 1897 in Chicago.)  
James Alfred Keating married Eliza Gordon on 12th March 1859 in Donaghadee.  Amongst their seven children were William Robert Keating, born 9th March 1864,  John Keating born 1st January 1866 in Ballyhay, a second John Keating born 7th November 1871 Ballyhay, Margaret Gordon Keating born Ballyhay 6th July 1867 and Susannah Keating born 17th June 1873.  The family of James Alfred Keating and Eliza Gordon emigrated in about June 1873 to Blythe, Ontario, but, in 1879, they headed to Adair County, Iowa;  they would have thirteen children in total.

(Eliza Gordon, who had married James Alfred Keating in 1859, was the daughter of Robert Gordon of Ballyhay, 1797 - 18th February 1892,  and of Elizabeth Moorehead.  They baptised six children in the First Presbyterian Church of Donaghadee - Eliza who married James Alfred Keating was born 13th Aug 1834, Robert Gordon was born 14th September 1836, William Gordon was born 1st May 1838, James Gordon was born in 1840, Jane Gordon was born on 3rd January 1842, and Margaret was born on 3 Jan 1844. 
Daughter Jane Gordon married James Jamison on 25 Nov 1864, and this might be a member of the Jamieson family of Agnes Jamieson who married the baker Samuel Keating from whom I descend.)

Another son of William Keating and Mary Buchanan was the carpenter Samuel (Buchanan?) Keating, who had been born in Armagh, (1834 - 1902) and who had died aged 68 in Ballyhay on 2nd March 1902; brother John Bleany Keating was present.    The Keating brothers were living together in Ballyhay in 1901, along with sisters, Elizabeth Letitia Keating, Susanna Matilda Keating,  Eliza Letitia's son, Robert Henry, niece  Eliza Keating, nephew William George Keating (son of Susannah Matilda), nephew Robert H. McKee, and grandniece Jane Keating.  In 1911 they were joined by nephew Ernest Keating and John Keating.

The unmarried daughters of William Keating and Mary Buchanan all gave birth to children in Ballyhay, which must have been quite the scandal in that era.    Susannah Matilda Keating had William George Keating on 29th November 1870 - Anne Jane Keating was present, presumably the sister of Susannah Matilda and wife of carman John Keating.  
Eliza Jane Keating was born to Margaret Keating on 7th July 1874  in Killaughy  - Eliza McKeown was present.
Mary Keating was born in Ballyhay on 14th January 1877 to Susannah Matilda Keating - Anne Jane Keating was present again.
Robert Henry Keating was born in Ballyhay on 9th August 1878 to Eliza Laetitia Keating - sister Susannah Keating present.
On 18th August 1880, another James Alfred Keating was born at Ballyhay to Eliza Keating;  Susanna Matilda Keating was again present at the birth.
Later, a Letitia Jane Keating was born to Elizabeth Keating in Ballyhay on 14th September 1891 - this was possibly the Letitia Jane Keating who witnessed the 1920 marriage in Ballygrainy of Margaret Jane Keating, the granddaughter of carman John Keating and Anne Jane Keating.

The 'Belfast Newsletter' of 20th July 1888 reported that William St.George Keating (1846 - 1910), John B. Keating, William Thomas Keating and Samuel B. Keating, farmers of Ballyhay, had stolen four cows from the bailiff who had previously seized them. I'm sure it was a terrible misunderstanding....I believe that William Thomas Keating was the son of carman John Keating and Anne Jane Keating, and the cousin of the other three mentioned here.

In Newtownards Church on 3rd December 1884, the farmer (later a gardener) William St. George Keating of Ballyhay, son of William Keating, farmer, (and of Mary Buchanan?), married Anna Bella Kerr of Newtownards, daughter of farmer William Kerr. The witnesses were Ellen Keating and William Savage.
Gardener William St. George Keating (1846 - 1910),  and Anna Bella Kerr had James Alfred Keating on 4th May 1891 in Ballyhay;  he died 5th March 1895 at 34.2 Lilliput Street, aged 3.  They also had William St. George Keating Jr. on 25th March 1885.  
Soldier Ernest Keating, son of late gardener William Keating of Ballyhay, married in Helen's Bay, Bangor, Helen Lightbody, daughter of Hugh Lightbody of Portavo. Witnesses: James Lightbody and Alice Woods.  The wedding took place on 8th December 1917.

Anna Bella Keating (1865 - 1902), née Kerr, wife of gardener William Keating of Ballyhay, died aged 37 on 15th June 1902; husband William Keating was present.  William St. George Keating died aged 64 in Ballyhay, a widowed Loft Man, on 23rd April 1910; nephew William Keating was present.

Elizabeth Keating, daughter of gardener William (St. George) Keating, died aged 14 of lung disease in Ballyhay on 23rd August 1903; grandfather William Kerr was present at her death.

John Bleany Keating, son of William Keating and Mary Buchanan, of Ballyhay county Down farmer died 13 March 1928 Probate Belfast 13 September to his nephew Robert Henry McKee, farmer.

Because a recent Ancestry DNA test has revealed me to be somehow related to the family of Matthew McCullough who died in Moneyreagh, Co. Down, on 28th April 1874, and because my Stewart ancestors originated in Crossnacreevy, Moneyreagh, I've done a random post about a variety of Moneyreagh McCulloughs.

The family of Matthew McCullough seems to be linked to the family of a neighbouring Stewart family - the Stewarts of Gransha - who I have long suspected to be related to my own Crossnacreevy Stewarts.   I haven't yet uncovered a definite Stewart/McCullough marriage, nor have I found any proof that the Gransha and Crossnacreevy Stewarts are related, but the following information might be useful as a jumping off point for further research into all these neighbouring Moneyreagh families.
For the research in this post, I primarily used the collection of Irish wills available on the Proni website, along with the free online Civil registration records, and the Find My Past Irish newspaper collections.

The Public Records of Northern Ireland Freeholders records show McCulloghs farming in Moneyrea as early as the 1780's, namely Alexander, Hugh, Mathew, John and James McCullogh.

The Belfast Newsletter noted the death, on the 9th April 1829 at Moneyrea aged 40, of Rev. William Dunwoody McCullough. He was the son of Jane or Janet Dunwody or Dinwoody and of  John McCullough, the son of James McCullough of Moneyrea.  Janet Dunwoody and John McCullough had William Dunwoody McCullough, James McCullough, Mary who married William McIvoid of Gilnahirk, Grace who married James McCune or McEwen of Killinchy in the Woods, Ann who married Thomas Graham and John McCullough.

In February 1815 in Moneyreagh, a James McCullough  signed a lease for the lives of two James McCulloughs and an Alexander.   Samuel McCullough signed one for the lives of Samuel, Jane and Hugh McCullough, while  Alexander McCullough took out a lease for the lives of Alexander, Alexander and Matthew.
Also in February 1815, a Mathew McCullough signed a lease in Moneyreagh for the lives of Matthew McCullough, William Stewart and Thomas Orr.  Generally the three lives named in a lease would tend to be relatives, although this wasn't always the case.

The Proni website also records the fact that three early Matthew McCulloughs made out wills in Moneyreagh in 1800, 1819 and 1841.    A  Matthew Mc Cullough senior of Moneyrea was born about 1769 and died 30th October 1840.

Alexander McCullough Senior,  married Margaret Orr in Granshaw, and was known to be the father of:

⦁John McCullough, born 1777.

⦁William McCullough born 1780.

⦁Alexander Junior born 1792.   Alexander McCullough Junior, born 1792, was the father of John McCullough born about 1818.    John McCullough, son of Alexander McCullough Junior, married Margaret Orr on 15th August 1855, and had a son, John McCullough, who married Sarah Jane Parry in Queensland, Australia - he died on 6th January 1935 in Paddington, Queensland.

⦁Matthew McCullough (1798 - 1874) with whom I share DNA.

A carter of Moneyrea, Matthew, son of Alexander McCullough and Margaret Orr,  died there on 28 April 1874.   He was possibly the Matthew McCullough who married Sarah Alexander, the third daughter of John Alexander of Monlough - this couple were married in Moneyreagh on 3rd March 1825 by Rev. Fletcher Blakely, the Unitarian minister.  (A John M. Alexander of Monlough, Moneyrea, made a will in 1860, in which he named his daughters as Ann Jane Sloan, Margaret Jackson and Sarah McCullough;  a son was Thomas Alexander, now in America. )

The executors of the 1874 will of Matthew McCullough of Moneyrea were his son Matthew McCullough  of Nelson Street, Belfast, and David McCullough, son of John McCullough of Lisburn.

(David McCullough might be the David McCullough who had been born in 1835 and who died at Moneyrea aged 76, a married man, on 3rd May 1911;  Hans Moore was present.  The son of hosier John McCullough of Moneyreagh, he had married Margaret Orr, daughter of Gawn Orr of Gransha, in Belfast on 14th August 1886.  The wedding witnesses in 1886 were Hugh and Jane Orr.   Margaret Orr, the daughter of Gawn Orr, had a sister, Jane Orr, who died unmarried in Moneyrea on 2 Feb 1900, and a brother also Gawn Orr.  Cousins were the siblings Adam McKitterick and Jane Evans of Berlin, Wisconsin. Hans Moore, son of Robert Moore of Ballyalolly, Comber, farmer, married Margaret Anna McCullough of 55 Woodstock Road, daughter of Hugh McCullough, in Belfast on 19th January 1899.  Witnesses were Robert Thompson and Mary Jane Hughes. When the older Gawn or Gawin Orr died in Ballyalolly 1 Feb 1886 the witnesses to his will were David and Samuel McCullough.)

The son of Matthew McCullough (1798 - 1874),  Matthew McCullough of Nelson Street, was to inherit the family farm, and was to let his mother live there.  Son William Walter McCullough was to get £3 should he come and claim it.  Small legacies were also to go to son John McCullough (who married Mary Fitchie in 1865) and to daughters Mary, Sarah, Margaret, Jane, Susanna, Isabella.   Hugh and Samuel McCullough were witnesses to the will.

The son of Matthew McCullough and Margaret Orr was John McCullough who married Martha Fitchie, the daughter of John Fitchie of Ballycreely, Moneyreagh, in Moneyrea Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church on 4th February 1865. Their children were Elizabeth McCullough, Hugh McCullough, John McCullough, Matthew McCullough, Agnes McCullough, William Walter McCullough, Margaret Buhr, William McCullough, Thomas McCullough and James McCullough.

On 10th November 1866, Isabella, the daughter of Mathew McCullough and Margaret Orr,  married Robert McTear /Matier/Mateer, son of John McTier.  In 1893, according to the will of my ancestor, John Stewart of Crossnacreevy, Robert Matier was a tenant in the house of Robert John Stewart in Crossnacreevy.   Lizzie Matier, also the daughter of Robert Matier of Crossnacreevy,  was the witness at the wedding on 25th December 1896, of Annie Stewart, daughter of John Stewart of Crossnacreevy, when she married John McKnight.  The second witness was Annie's brother, Robert John Stewart.  In 1896 Lizzie Matier and Robert John Stewart had also acted as witnesses at the wedding of another of the Matier daughters, Mary Matier, when she married John Alexander Kennedy of Crossnacreevy.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/john-stewart-1839-1892.html

The son of Matthew McCullough (1798 - 1874),  Matthew McCullough Junior, had been born circa 1848, and married Margaret McLenaghan.  This couple were married on 11th July 1868 in in York Street Non-Subscribing Church, Belfast, by the Rev. John Jellie who was the ex-minister of the Moneyreagh unitarian church, and who seems to have been favoured by many of the Moneyreagh congregation when they settled in Belfast, including many of my own Stewart ancestors.
Matthew McCullough Junior died  17th  August 1914 in 7 Fleet Street, Belfast - daughter-in-law Agnes McCullough was present when he died there of cancer.

Matthew McCullough Junior and Margaret McLenaghan had:

• Thomas Girvin McCullough (16 Jul 1869 - 02 Jul 1942). Thomas Girvin McCullough was born in 1 Tennants Court, Belfast; Anne Jane McLenaghan, the sister of Margaret McClenaghan McCullough, was present for the birth on 18th January 1879.  She would die aged 69 at 7 Fleet Street, on 11th January 1915 - her niece, Maggie McCullough, was present.  On 25th March 1889, Thomas Girvan McCullough, son of Matthew, married Agnes Boyd, the daughter of Belfast sailor, William John Boyd - this was witnessed by Matthew and Louisa McCullough.
• Matthew McCullough who was born  on 3rd Mar 1871 at 1 Tennants Court; later a  fireman of Trafalgar Street, Belfast, he married Louisa Johnston, daughter of Edward Johnston of Belfast, on 25th December 1888.  The witnesses were Alyard Frome and Sarah Thompson.
• Eleanor Been Moncrieff McCullough was born on 31 Mar 1873 at 8 Nelson Street; aunt Ann Jane McClenaghan was present.  Eleanor McCullough married Robert Dodds, son of David Dodds of Belfast on 4th April 1890;  Thomas and Agnes McCullough acted as witnesses.  A son was Matthew McCullough Dodds, born at 7 Trafalgar Street on 16th September 1896.  Also, David, Robert and Alfred, Thomas, Sarah, William, Kathleen.  The widowed Ellen Dodds was living at Cattog, Comber, 1911. 
• Ann Jane McCullough, born 1st July 1876.
• Margaret McCullough, born 18th January 1879.  
• William Walter McCullough (15th May 1887 - 1st July 1916).  William Walter McCullough married Frances Kelso, the daughter of George Kelso, in the Church of Ireland parish of Holy Trinity, Belfast, on 15th September 1913.  
• Catherine C. McCullough, born 1890. Catherine McCullough, daughter of Matthew McCullough of 15 Fleet Street, Belfast, married George Moody of Trillick Street, son of William Robert Moody, in St. Anne's, Belfast, on 29th March 1910 - James Robinson and Maggie McCullough were the witnesses. 

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A second early Matthew McCullough of Moneyrea had the following children:

1) Samuel McCullough (1822 - 1899), son of another Matthew McCullough, had been born circa 1822 in Moneyreagh and married Margaret Connory on 15th November 1850 in Moneyrea Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church.  Rev. Fletcher Blakeley carried out the  ceremony which was witnessed by Robert Connery and James McCullough.     (Margaret Connery's brother might have been the John Connery who married Margaret Jane Rea, daughter of John Rea of Ballykeel, in Moneyrea, on 16th July 1861.)
Samuel McCullough and Margaret Connory had David McCullough, who was born on 1st September 1851 and who emigrated to New Zealand where he died, Isabella McCullough, born 30th October 1854, who married Robert Magill, and Elizabeth McCullough, who was born 4th April 1861 and who married Moore Fisher;  she died on 8th February 1924.
Elizabeth Fisher, née McCullough, of Ballymaleddy, Comber, had James Fisher, born 19th January 1884 who married Elizabeth McCalmont and who died at the Somme, Margaret Fisher, born 7th January 1886, who married James Johnston and who died 26th December 1933;  John Fisher born 16th June 1887 and who died of cancer, unmarried, on 30th January 1919.

When Samuel McCullough, son of Matthew, died in Moneyreagh on 25th August 1899, the executors of his will were David T. Stewart, son of William Stewart and and Mary Abernethy of Moneyreagh, and Samuel Abernethy of Moneyrea.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/08/stewarts-of-gransha-comber-co-down.html
Samuel McCullough left his farm to son David, should he return from New Zealand - he never did.  If not, grandson James Fisher was to inherit it.  Daughters were named as Isabella Magill and Lizzie Fisher.   Granddaughters were Maggie Magill and Maggie Fisher.  The witnesses were David and Margaret (Orr) McCullough.

2) Matthew McCullough, son of Matthew McCullough (1823 - 20 Dec 1890 ).  Matthew McCullough died of heart disease at Moneyreagh - David McCullough was the informant of death and had 'helped to find the body'.

3) Margaret McCullough, daughter of Matthew McCullough,  who married John Thompson of Mealough on the 21st Feb 1840 in Moneyrea. On 9th April 1882 in 30 Thompson Street, Belfast, Matthew Thompson, 2nd son of John Thompson, died aged 32 and was buried in Moneyrea.  A daughter was Annie Thompson.

4) Jane McCullough, daughter of Matthew McCullough,  who married a Johnson or Johnston.

5) Rachel mcCullough, daughter of Matthew McCullough, who married Henry Abernethy - Rachel McCullough, daughter of Matthew McCullough, married Henry Abernathy, son of Robert Abernathy in Comber on 4th September 1858.  Rachel Abernathy died in Ballycreely on 1st October 1882; the widowed Henry Abernathy died aged 84 in Ballycreely, Comber, on 5th July 1918;  his nephew S. Abernathy was present at his death.

6 ) Nancy/Agnes McCullough, daughter of Matthew McCullough, who married John Smythe or Smyth, in Moneyrea on 26th February 1853,  and who died in Moneyrea on 3rd December 1898.  John Smyth of Moneyrea died 13th March 1887; Nancy Smythe of Moneyreagh died a widow on  3rd December 1898 having made a will, whose executor was James McCullough of Granshaw, who follows later in this post. Legacies were left to Nancy's grandnephew James Fisher, grandniece Maggie Magill,  grandnephews John Joseph and William Thompson, niece Annie Thompson, nieces Isabella Magill and Lizzie Fisher.  Samuel and David McCullough were the witnesses to the will.

7) Elizabeth McCullough, daughter of Matthew McCullough,  who married Robert Somersides of Crossnacreevy on 12th November 1838.  Elizabeth must have died young since the same Robert later married Catherine Smith.   Robert Somerside of Crossnacreevy left a will in which he named his wife as Catherine née Smith, (Catherine Smith, daughter of Robert Smith, married Robert Somerside on 3rd June 1850) his son as Mathew Sumerside, and three daughters as Mary Smith, Jane and Elizabeth Eleanor Sumerside.  Executors were Matthew McCullough of Moneyrea and Robert Smith Junior of Crossnacreevy.  Robert Somerside died 7th August 1880.

There is a Stewart/Sommerside connection here:
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/04/the-descendantsfamily-of-joseph-and-ann.html

8) Hugh McCullough, son of Matthew McCullough,  (1810 - 1878) of Moneyrea was farming there in 1863 -  he died on 29th January 1878, leaving  a will whose executors were named as Hugh's brother, Matthew McCullough, his brother-in-law John Smythe, David McCullough of Moneyrea and James Orr McGowan Junior of Ballykeel.  Hugh was survivied by an unnamed wife and young son.  This will was witnessed by Gawn Orr and David McCullough.
Griffiths of 1863 shows up two Hugh McCulloughs in Moneyrea, one the son of Samuel, the other the son of Matthew.  Hugh McCullough, son of Matthew, was leasing a house to William Stewart, son of Joseph Stewart of Gransha and grandson of Francis Stewart and Martha Patterson of Gransha.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/08/stewarts-of-gransha-comber-co-down.html

9) Mary McCullough of Moneyreagh, daughter of Matthew McCullough, died unmarried on 30 March 1879 and named in her will her sisters, Jane Johnson, Margaret Thompson, Rachel Abernethy and Nancy Smith, all of them the daughters of Matthew McCullough.  Her niece was Elizabeth McCullough. Her brothers were Samuel and Matthew McCullough.
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The McCullochs/McCulloughs of Gransha:

The children of Francis Stewart of Gransha sold land to Rev. James McCulloch....
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/08/stewarts-of-gransha-comber-co-down.html

 Rev. James McCulloch of Gransha, Comber, made a will and died on 16th November 1865. In his will he named his grandchildren as Jane, Mary, Margaret, Lizzie,  Isabella, James, Matilda, all being the children of James's son John McCulloch. He named two farms, one held since 1806 included a windmill, house and outbuildings. The second he bought from the heirs of Francis Stewart in 1835, this sale having been witnessed by William Patterson and by James's own son John Mc Culloch.   The first farm seems to hve been called by the name of Porters or Pettigrew's Mill in Ballyalloly.

Rev. James McCulloch died 16th November 1865 and his will was proved by, amongst others, Rev. Isaac Vance of Gransha.

A John McCulloch died in Gransha on 08-Sep1875, his wife wrote a mourning card which survives.
Another John McCullough (1824 - 1894) farmed at Gransha and was the son of the Rev. James McCulloch.
He had a son, James McCulloch JP of Granshaw who married Mary Leathem Orr,  the daughter of William Orr of Ballybeen; the witnesses to the wedding in Gilnahirk, Knockbreda, on 13th January 1897 were James and Minnie Busby.

On 29th June 1864 in the Presbyterian Church in Granshaw, by the Rev. Isaac Vance and assisted by the Rev. James M'Collough, the grandfather of the bride, Mary, second daughter of Mr. John M'Collough of Granshaw, married  Mr. David M'Alpin of Mountalexander, Comber.   Jane McCulloch, aged 11, eldest daughter of David McAlpine, died in March 1877 and was buried in Granshaw. Another daughter, Marion McAlpine, married Comber surgeon James Simpson Steele, son of James Steele, on 15th September 1898;  the wedding took place in the bride's family home in Mountalexander and was witnessed by Samuel Wallace and Lizzie McAlpine.

On 22 December 1896 in Granshaw Church, Matilda McCulloch, daughter of John McCulloch and granddaughter of the late Rev. James McCulloch, married William Boyd of Ballywilliam, son of Robert Boyd. The witnesses were Richard Baxter and Marion McAlpine.

John McCulloch died in Gransha aged 74 on 28th March 1894. Son James McCulloch JP was there.
Jane, the eldest daughter of John McCulloch of Gransha, Comber, had married John Busby of Belfast in 1868.  Notes on the Busby family follow....

James McCulloch JP, son of John of Gransha, married Mary Leathem Orr, daughter of William Orr of Ballybeen, Comber, in Gilnahirk on 13th January 1897;  witnesses were James M. Busby and Minnie Busby.

John McCulloch, Rifleman, No. 1378, of the 8th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, was killed in action on Sunday 2nd July 1916 aged only 18. He had been born on 30th October 1897 in Comber and was the only child of James McCulloch JP and Mary Leathem Orr. John McCulloch’s mother, Mary, died on 31st March 1925, aged 66, and his father, James McCulloch JP, died on 17th February 1928 aged 76.

John McCulloch of Gransha, son of Rev. James McCulloch, and Rev. James Vance, were also the executors of the 1870 will of the following James McCullough.....

James McCullough of Moneyreagh, who died there on 16th Feb 1870,  named his brothers as John, Hugh, and Samuel McCullough.  James left other legacies to James McCulloch Beattie son of Samuel.  (Samuel Beattie was a farmer of Crossnacreevy....James McCullough Beattie had a wife, Sarah Glover, who died 27 Jul 1915 in Gransha. Their son was William James Beattie - 12th Feb 1874 - of Moneyrea, who married Margaret McKibbin daughter of William McKibbin. )

James McCullough of Moneyrea, according to his 1870 will, also had a brother, Hugh (dead by 1870) who had two sons, Hugh and James.  The younger Hugh also had a daughter, Mary Anne McCullough, wife of the hosier William Pyper, and a daughter, Margaret McCullough.
The widowed MaryAnne Pyper, aged 84, was living in Newtownards in 1901 with her children - the widowed Agnes Hutchinson, the widowed Mary Reid, Eleanor Pyper and nephew James Gibson, aged 74.    Mary Ann Pyper, née McCullough, died aged 78, on 15th October 1901, the widow of a hosier, in Greenwell Street, Newtownards, and her grandson William Reid (son of the late weaver Robert Reid) was present.
The widowed Agnes Hutchinson, daughter of late hosier William Pyper, married the widowed George Apperson, son of late Francis Apperson, in Newtownards on 25th November 1905...witnesses were William and Ellen J. Reid.

James McCullough, who died in Moneyreagh in 1870, also left small legacies to the unnamed children of his deceased sister Jane, and to the unnamed children of his deceased sister Elizabeth.

He also named a nephew as John Stewart McCullough the son of his brother Samuel McCullough who was still alive at the time of the will which was originally written in 1867.
The executors of James McCullough's will when he died in 1870 were  Rev. Isaac Vance of Gransha and John McCulloch of Gransha, son of late Rev. James McCulloch. The witnesses were James and Matthew McCullough, who states that he is over 30 years old, ie, born prior to 1840.

Samuel McCullough, father of John Stewart McCullough and brother of James McCullough of Moneyrea,  died aged 84 in 1875 in Ballyknockan, Saintfield, and his will was administered by his surviving son, Samuel McCullough.   In his 1875 will, Samuel McCullough names his daughter as Mary McDowell of Pittsburg,  his son as Samuel McCullough, and two grandsons as Samuel and John Stewart McCullough.
John Stewart McCullough, son of Samuel McCullough of Lisburn, and nephew of James McCullough of Moneyrea who made his will in 1870, married Eliza Patterson, daughter of Hamilton Patterson of Killynure near Carryduff, 16 Dec 1857 in Knockbreda.  (The third daughter of Hamilton Patterson of Killynure was Isabella Patterson who married Henry White of Cairns Hill, Ballylenaghan,  in Dr. Cooke's Church in Belfast on 26th October 1859. Alice Patterson, youngest daughter of Hamilton Patterson, married John Patterson of Monlough on 10th June 1869.)

John Stewart McCullough and Eliza Patterson had a son, John Stewart McCullough Junior in Clontonacally on 22nd May 1867;  they also had Samuel McCullough in Clontonacally on 6 Feb 1864, and James Rae Patterson Mccullough on 16 Aug 1865.  James Rae Patterson McCullough married Rebecca Jane Howe on May 26, 1890, in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand and had one child, Laura, during their marriage. James died on May 23, 1938, in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand, at the age of 72, and was buried in Bromley, Canterbury, New Zealand.

A John Stewart McCullough died in Clontonacally 21 Feb 1868 aged 43, although this is problematical, since John Stewart McCullough, son of Samuel of Lisburn, died young on April 18th, 1870, in Lisburn.  The widowed Eliza, née Patterson, married Thomas Walker CAMLIN and they had one daughter together, Agnes Arnold Camlin, on 14th June 1874 in Belfast.  Eliza Camlin, widow of John Stewart McCullough and wife of Thomas Walker Camlin, died on October 18, 1877, in Belfast, Antrim, at the age of 41.

Another son of farmer John Stewart McCullough and Eliza Patterson was Samuel McCullough. He married, in in Knockbreda on 11th December 1889, Annie White of Ballymaconaghy, Castlereagh, the daughter of farmer and pawnbroker Henry White.   The witnesses were the  groom's brother, John Stewart McCullough, and Mary L. Busby.  This was probably Mary Louisa Busby, the daughter of linen draper Gawn Busby of Belfast. The bride's brother, pawnbroker Edmund White, married on the same day, same place,  Maggie Busby of Braniel, daughter of farmer James Busby, the witnesses being Rebecca Busby and Hugh Perry.

Administration of the estate of Samuel M'Cullough (son of Samuel McCullough) late of Saintfield, County Down, who died 24 March 1902, was granted at Belfast to Samuel M'Cullough, pawnbroker, the son of John Stewart McCullough..
Samuel McCullough, the son of John Stewart McCullough and Eliza Patterson, was a pawnbroker in Belfast;  his son, John Stewart McCullough, was born in South Parade on 10th October 1891. An electrician, son John Stewart McCullough, died in South Parade in 1921.  Henry was born 30th August 1890.  Lilian McCullough was born at 6 South Parade on 18th November 1895.  Pawnbroker Samuel McCullough died at South Parade 9th May 1919 aged 55; son John Stewart McCullough was there.

(A Samuel McCullough had died aged 76 in Moneyrea on 25th Aug 1888 and his will named his nephew as Samuel McCullough of Lisburn who had a daughter named Lizzie.  Another nephew of the testator was David McCullough who was to inherit his land.)

As previously noted, James McCullough who died in 1870, had left a legacy to a James McCulloch Beattie who was the son of  Samuel Beattie, a farmer of Crossnacreevy.  James Beattie also links to the following McCulloughs, being one of the executors of the 1901 will of James McCullough junior, son of the James McCullough senior who follows....

James McCullough Senior, was farming 11 acres in Moneyreagh in 1863 and was also leasing houses to Hugh McCullough and to Margaret McCullough;  he died on 18th July 1878.  His daughter was Jane, who had married John Smiley, son of Robert Smiley, on  4th Sep 1852. A second daughter of James McCullough senior was Eliza Nancy McCullough.  His sons were James and Thomas who follow.
The 1878 will of James McCullough senior was witnessed by Alexander and Matthew McCullough.   Daughter Eliza Nancy died unmarried on 8th February 1899 and her will was granted at Belfast to Robert Smiley Road Contractor, the son of Andrew Smiley, of Crossnacreevy,  who had married Jane Simpson in 1894.

James McCullough of Moneyrea, the son of the previous James McCullough senior, hung himself at Moneyreagh on 8th August 1901 - the executors of his will were Matthew McCullough of Belfast, David McCullough of Moneyrea and James (McCullough) Beattie of Moneyrea.  His sister was Jane Smiley and his will named his late nephew as Thomas McCullough Smiley who had died and left surviving children.  David and Margaret McCullough were the witnesses.  James McCullough Beattie, late of Moneyrea, died in Downpatrick on 8th June 1922 and was buried in the family plot in Granshaw Burying Ground.

Thomas McCullough of Moneyrea, son of James McCullough senior, died of dropsy on 15th September 1897.   His brother was James McCullough and his nephew was Thomas McCullough Smilie.  His sister was Eliza Nancy McCullough.   James Beattie and Alexander McCullough, both of Moneyrea, were the executors and the witnesses were Alexander and David McCullough.

The will of James McCullough senior, who had died in 1878, had been witnessed by Alexander and Matthew McCullough;  the 1901 will of James's son, James junior, had been granted to Matthew McCullough of Belfast.   Alexander and Matthew McCullough seem to form part of the following Moneyreagh family.....
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...another Matthew McCullough of Gransha, Moneyreagh died on 14th March 1874 . Matthew's only daughter was Jane. On 1st February 1866 in Carryduff Presbyterian Church,  Mr. John Patterson of Killynure had married Jane, the only daughter of Matthew McCullough of Moneyrea.  Their son, Matthew WIlliam Patterson, had been born 14 Aug 1868 to John Patterson and Jane McCullough.
Matthew McCullough of Gransha, who died there in 1874, also had two sons, Joseph John and James McCullough.  An Alexander McCullough, possibly his brother, was the witness to the will.   A second grandson of Matthew McCullough was Matthew McCullough.

Joseph John, son of Matthew McCullough of Gransha, Moneyreagh, married another member of the Killynure Patterson family, Jane C. Patterson, daughter of Adam Patterson of Killynure, Mealough, in Drumbo on 30th December 1859, and settled as a farmer in Mealough.
Joseph John McCullough and Jane C. Patterson had David McCullough on 14th May 1866, Lizzie on 1st May 1868, Adam McCullough in the Comber area on 9th September 1873.  Joseph John died on 31st December 1897, leaving a will in which he named his children as William McCullough, who had returned from Australia, Adam (born 17th May 1870 ) and James who inherited the two farms in Mealough, youngest son John McCullough, Eleanor McCullough, Lizzie McCready (born 1st May 1868 in Monlough), Matthew McCullough (born 15th May 1860) in Australia, David Patterson McCullough in America and daughter Sarah (born 2nd May 1864) also in Australia.

The executors of Joseph John McCullough's will were his son, William, and Matthew McCullough of 21 Willowfield Street, Belfast.   Matthew McCullough (1838- 1909) of 21 Willowfield Street was the son of Alexander McCullough of Moneyrea, who also had Alexander McCullough (1835 - 1898) and bootmaker William McCullough of the Woodsstock Road.
Alexander McCullough, a bachelor of Moneyrea and son of Alexander McCullough, hung himself on 23rd April 1898, aged 63. His brother administered his estate - William M'Cullough, bootmaker of 77 Woodstock-Road Belfast.
William McCullough of 77 Woodstock Road was also present for the death of another of his brothers, the joiner Matthew McCullough, who died aged 71 at Willowfield Street, Belfast, on 10th May 1909. William McCullough married Sarah Jane Browne and had Isabella and Sarah Jane in Belfast, and Samuel McCullough on 26th May 1875.

Joiner Matthew McCullough's wife was Letitia Jane McCullough, daughter of farmer Hugh McCullough - this couple married late on 23rd May 1893 in Mountpottinger - the witnesses were George Andrews and Margaret Anna McCullough.
Letitia Jane, widow of carpenter Matthew, died aged 70, the widow of a cooper, in 17 Madrid Street on 27th January 1921;  Wm. W. Nelson of Ravenhill Avenue was present.  William Nelson, son of William Nelson, had married Isabella McCullough, daughter of bootmaker William and Letitia McCullough of Woodstock Road, on 15th September 1903.
In 1911 in Moneyreagh was James McCullough, aged 31, and his wife, Sarah Munn.  They had been married by Richard Lyttle in Moneyrea Unitarian Church on 1st September 1904. Their witnesses were Letitia Jane McCullough and Thomas Munn.   James was the son of Hugh McCullough, while Sarah was the daughter of Isaac Munn of Moneyreagh.

THE BUSBY FAMILY OF LISNAHARRAGH, BRANIEL, CASTLREAGH AND BELFAST:

This family intermarried with both the McCullochs of Gransha and with the relatives of the Stewarts of Gransha.

The only daughter of John Busby, publican, of Ritchie's Dock, Belfast, married Captain John Pascoe on 21st December 1841.  Widowed, he would later marry Rebecca Busby, the daughter of Hugh and Sarah Busby of Lisnaharragh, Castlereagh.

In March 1865, a John  Busby died at Braniel.

A draper, Gawn Busby of Belfast, son of John Busby,  married Esther Whyte, only daughter of John Whyte of Cairn's Hill, Newtownbreda, on 19 Oct 1863 in Knockbreda.  A daughter was Mary Louisa Busby.  They also had Esther White Busby and George Orr Busby (1878 - 4th March 1938)  
Gawn Orr Busby was the executor of his brother-in-law's will when he - James White, pawnbroker of the Shankill Road -  died on 14th June 1878.   James White named his brothers as William White of the Newtownards Road and Henry White of Ballymaconaghy and a nephew as William White.  A cousin was James Carse and another was Eliza Carson of Mealough;  James White was a witness.

On May 7th 1868, in Granshaw by Rev. Isaac Vance, John Busby of Belfast married Jane, eldest daughter of John McCulloch of Granshaw, as already noted earlier in this post. Son John Busby was born at 36 Melrose Terrace, Belfast, on 10th May 1879.   On 13th November 1870 in Athol Street a daughter, Mary, was born.  Father John Busby was a draper, in common with Gawn Busby, but was later a bookkeeper.  James McCulloch Busby was born 16th April 1869 at Athol Street.

On 7th June 1905 in Belfast, James McCulloch Busby, son of John Busby and Jane McCulloch, married Marianne Halliday Fulton daughter of Dr. Thomas Fulton.  Wits - H.M. Glass and Norah Fulton.   Norah was born 1885 in Saintfield to Thomas Fulton and Marion Hamilton Thompson.

On 24th April 1860 in Dundonald, James Busby of Castlereagh married Agnes, eldest daughter of John Morrow of Ballyhanwood, Gilnahirk.  A brief genealogy of the Ballyhanwood Morrow family follows later in this post.

Hugh Busby of Lisnaharragh, the husband of Sarah, died on 2nd April 1869 aged 77. He named his children as son Hugh Busby and his daughters as Elizabeth or Lizzie Busby, Rebecca Pascoe (she had married Captain John Pascoe, master mariner and publican, in Belfast on 26th February 1863), Deborah Jane McDowell (she had married Thomas McDowell, son of Thomas McDowell, in Belfast on 29th August 1885 and she died at 3 Lower Frank Street, Castlereagh, on 15th July 1897), Anne McDowell (who married Stewart McDowell, son of Robert McDowell of Ballyhanwood and of Mary Stewart of Gransha), Dorothea Hunter (wife of James S. Hunter).   A nephew was James Busby.
The son of Hugh and Sarah Busby of Lisnaharragh was Hugh Busby who married Lizzie, the only daughter of the late Isaac Kirker of Killead on 4th November 1875.  Hugh died in Bangor on 25th December 1906;  a nephew, Isaac Kirker, was present.

On 24th April 1860 in Dundonald, the (possible) nephew of Hugh and Sarah Busby of Lisnaharragh, James Busby of Braniel, son of John Busby, married Agnes Morrow, the daughter of John Morrow of Gilnahirk.

Hugh Busby of Braniel (son of John Busby) married to Eliza White.  Eliza was the daughter of   William White and the couple married in Knockbreda on 13 Feb 1862.   Two sons were John and William Busby.  Daughter was Agnes Busby, and another was Rebecca Busby who married James McDowell, the son of John McDowell of Ballyhanwood, and grandson of Mary Stewart and Robert McDowell.  Rebecca McDowell of 25 Canning Street was present when her father, Hugh Busby, died aged 73 at 105 Madrid Street on 19th March 1893.
Hugh had made a will before he died in 1893, in which he named his two daughters as Agnes Busby and Rebecca McDowell, and a brother as John Busby. The executor of the will was William Robert White of Crossnacreevy, son of Samuel White and Martha Jane White and brother of James White, all probable relations of Hugh Busby's wife, Eliza White.    (13th January 1864, Robert Smyth of Castlereagh to Jane, youngest daughter of the late William White of Crossnacreevy.)

Hugh Busby and Eliza White had two daughters, Agnes Busby who was born in Braniel on 3rd August 1871 and Rebecca.
27th November 1866 in Pres Church, York Street, James S. Hunter of Ardmore,  Killead to Dorothea Busby of Lisnaharragh.


THE MORROW FAMILY OF BALLYHANWOOD, GILNAHIRK:

Adam Morrow of Ballymaglaff died on 25th October 1864, leaving a will.  His wife Agnes Morrow died aged 64 on 20th September 1859.  Their children, as named in Adam Morrow's will, were John Morrow, who had a daughter Agnes, William who had a daughter Agnes, James who had a daughter Agnes, Adam, Elizabeth Little, Agnes wife of Hugh Hill and Mary wife of John Young who died at Ballykeel in 1879.

A James Morrow of Ballyhanwood died 14th May 1896.  His daughter, Agnes, married John J. Chancellor of Ballymaglaff in Granshaw Presbyterian Church on 16th February 1877.   Another daughter, Bella Morrow, married Andrew Anderson of Crossnacreevy.

Adam Morrow's son, William Morrow of Ballyhanwood, died 17th July 1883 and named his wife in his will as Jane.  His son-in-law was James Morrow;  his cousin was William Morrow of Tullycarnet. A son was William Robert Morrow, as were Adam and John.  Daughters were Agnes and Sarah, and his brother-in-law was John Young of Gransha, then Ballykeel.

A William Morrow of Ballybeen died 12th September 1859.  His wife was Isabella.  He mentions a house currently occupied by Robert Warden.  His daughter was Ellenor McDowell (who had married John McDowell, son of Mary Stewart and Robert McDowell of Ballyhanwood).  William's grandson was James McHarg or Meharg (William's daughter Isabella Morrow had married Samuel Meharg, son of James Meharg, in Knockbreda on 13 Mar 1855) His sons were William and Hugh and his brother was Thomas Morrow of Ballyhanwood.  (William  Morrow of Ballybeen had married Isabella Loughlin and had James Morrow in September 1840.)

An Agnes Morrow of Ballyhanwood, eldest surviving daughter of William Morrow, married James Morrow of Belfast, in Gilnahirk on 29th May 1877.
Adam Morrow, son of William of Ballyhanwood, married Minnie or Mary Ann Stewart, the eldest daughter of William Stewart of Tullycarnett, Knock, on 30th November 1892. Adam Morrow had been born 26th September 1864 in Ballyhanwood, Ballymaglaff, to William Morrow and Jane Herron. They also had John Morrow on 9 November 1868.  A Robert Herron died in Ballyhanwood in 1879.
William's son, William Morrow, settled in Ballymaglaff and married Eliza Anne Warden.  His sisters were Agnes Kennedy and Ellin McDowell, wife of John McDowell of Ballyhanwood.  He had a brother, Hugh Morrow, and a nephew James Mcharg.  Sons were named as William,  Thomas, Edward, James and Samuel.

William Morrow, who died in Ballybeen in 1859, was the brother of Thomas Morrow of Ballyhanwood who married Jane or Jenny Warden and was the father of William Morrow.  Thomas died aged 101 on 28th February 1916; son William was present. Thomas and Jane Morrow had Mary in 1840, Hugh in 1841;  both were baptised in Dundonald Church.  Also William and Richard and Agnes Jane.  Jennie Morrow died aged 82 on 12th June 1901 at Ballyhanwood.    John Warden of Ballyblack died in 1860 leaving a will in which he named his daughter as Jane Morrow; another was Mary Stewart whose daughter, Mary Stewart, was living with Thomas Morrow in Ballyhanwood in 1911.  Executors were Thomas Morrow of Ballyhanwood and John Stewart of Cardy, Greyabbey
Thomas Morrow's son, Richard Thomas Morrow, married Mary Jane McDowell, the daughter of Stewart McDowell and granddaughter of Robert McDowell and Mary Stewart.

A John Morrow of Ballyhanwood, who had married Mary Morrow, had Adam Morrow in Ballymaglaff on 3rd September 1865, Richard Thomas Morrow on 29th May 1872 and a secomd Richard Thomas Morrow on 19th March 1875.

My father, Paul Cuthbert Stewart, descends from a family who farmed in the townland of Crossnacreevy in Comber, Co. Down....

The Hearts of Steel Memorials:
The Stewarts of Moneyreagh first appear in the Hearts of Steel Memorials of 1771 - 1772. The Hearts of Steel was a Protestant Agrarian protest movement set up to fight against the re-letting of farms in Antrim; the agrarian unrest later spread to other counties.  Those who abhorred the subsequent violence signed lists of protest known as the Memorials, which were published in the Belfast Telegraph.  Although I have no idea if my own Stewart family descend from any of them, these were the Stewarts of Moneyreagh who signed the petition:

Neven Stewart
John Stewart x 4
Simon Stewart
Alex. Stewart x 2
Arch. Stewart
Sam. Stewart
And. Stewart

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

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

Headstone, Moneyreagh Graveyard

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

(I scoured the graveyard in Moneyreagh for the previous headstone, but failed to find it - it might have been one of the toppled headstones, or the inscription might merely have become completely eroded by the weather.)

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

Joseph and Ann Stewart, our great-great-great grandparents:
 The Public Records Office in Belfast holds the surviving census abstracts for 1821 (T3707/1/35 and 36), and these include the Stewarts of Crossnacreevy as follows:

• William Stewart, aged in his 50s, a single farmer of 12 acres, was living with his unmarried sisters, Ann aged 48, and Eliza and Ellenor aged 40.   A William Stewart of Crossnacreevy died aged 89 on 5th November 1851. ('Belfast Newsletter', 7th November 1851.)
• Robert Stewart, aged 59, was farming 15 acres,and was married to 40-year-old Agnes.  They had two sons, 11-year-old James Stewart, and 8-year-old Francis Stewart. 
• Joseph and Ann Stewart. In 1821 Joseph Stewart was an innkeeper and a farmer of 5 acres.  Both Joseph and his first wife, Ann, were 26, and had a one-year-old son William Stewart.

Our great-great-great grandparents on our mother’s side were John Pennefather and Emily Courtenay who married in St. Mary’s, Dublin, on January 2nd 1848. John and Emily had a daughter,  Isabella Anna Pennefather (aka Mama) who married Charles Jones, decorator;  their daughter, Tennie, married Joseph Edwards Dickson and was the mother of our maternal grandmother, Vera Williams, née Dickson.

Emily Courtenay, who married John Pennefather in Dublin in 1848, was the daughter of Frederick Hall Courtenay and Mary Tutty of 27 Wellington Street.

The Courtenay Pedigree:
Eleanor Courtenay, who is a direct descendant of Frederick Hall Courtenay's brother, Robert Courtenay, has recently shared with me a family tree which her family had commissioned in 1917 before the destruction of the Four Courts and its invaluable records in 1922.

This invaluable document traces the ancestry of our Courtenay family back to Ballyedmond, north of Midleton, Co. Cork, who claim a common ancestry with the Earls of Devon and Powderham Castle. 

The family tree commences with James Downing who had been born in Co. Cork in 1660 and who married Mary Cowig.
Their daughter, Aphra Downing (1688 - 1710) married  George Courtenay of Ballytrasnagh, son of Thomas Courtenay, on 29th August 1688.

George Courtenay and Aphra Downing had four sons, two unnamed as well as John and Thomas, and a daughter Catherine Ambrose.

In 1730 the son of George Courtenay and Aphra Downing, John Courtenay, married Mary Browne of Ballyedmond, and had the following known children:

1) George Courtenay of Midleton, Co. Cork, who in 1757 married Anne Ashe the daughter of Leonard Ashe of Drishane, Co. Cork.   His son was Robert Courtenay who married Catherine Nash of Ballyheen, Co. Cork - she died in 1790.   From Robert Courtenay and Catherine Nash we have George Courtenay of Ballyedmond (1795 - 1837) who married Caroline A.S. Barry, the daughter of J. H.S.Barry of Foaty Island and of Marbery Hall, Chester,  John Courtenay of Ballymagooly (1798 - 1861), Anne Courtenay who married Simon Dring of Rockgrove in 1811, Eliza Mary Courtenay who married J.S. Barry in 1814 and who died in 1828, and Cartherine Courtenay who died unmarried in 1813.

2) Alicia Courtenay (1730 - 26th May 1806) who married William Ferrell.

3) Our immediate maternal ancestor, Thomas Courtenay (1732 - 1797), a clothier of Chamber Street, Dublin, who married Eliza Hall (1726 - 1806), the daughter of William Hall of Co. Wicklow.   Their marriage took place on 18th November 1770.   Both Eleanor, who shared her family tree with me, and I descend directly from Thomas Courtenay and Eliza Hall.


The Keeper of the Public Records shows up  Thomas Courtenay/Courtnay, a clothier of 16 Chamber Street in The Coombe, Dublin, who made his will in 1797, but appeared at the same address eligible to vote in 1801, and was in the Dublin almanacks at Chambre Street from 1785.

Thomas Courtenay, clothier of Chamber Street, married Elizabeth Hall of St, Nicholas Without on 18th November 1770.

'Saunders Newletter' of 26th November 1785 reported that the members of the Free Annuity Company were to meet at the Weaver's Hall in the Coombe to pay their half-yearly subscriptions.  Anybody wishing to become a member of this company should apply to Mr. Thomas Courtenay, President, Chamber Street.

The children of Thomas Courtenay, clothier, and Eliza Hall, as identified by the commissioned genealogy, were:

1) William Courtney of Chamber Street, son of Thos.and Elizabeth, was baptised on 20th February 1774 in St. Catherine's.  Griffiths Valuation later showed up, in the 1850s, a William Courtney of Chamber Street.  Eleanor Courtenay's commissioned genealogy records that he married a Miss Tuke of Co. Wicklow.

2) Thomas Courtney, of Chamber Street, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, was baptised on 31st May 1776.   There is no further known information about this son.

3) Frederick Hall Courtenay, our immediate ancestor (1794 - 1875), was of the 3rd Buffs and 15th Hussars.  He married Mary Tutty of Carnew, Co. Wicklow.

4)  Francis Courtenay, who never married.

5) Anne Courtenay.

6) Robert Courtenay (1791 - 17th January 1862), a solicitor of Gloucestor Street, and immediate ancestor of Eleanor Courtenay.

The Irish Genealogy website also records the baptism in St. Catherine's of a possible two further children:
Henry Courtney, of Chamber Street, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, was baptised on 23rd February 1783.

Ann Courtney, of Chamber Street, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, was baptised on 8th February 1785.)

From the Freeman of Dublin Rolls:

Thomas Courtney, Shearman, was admitted in 1789.

Francis Courtenay,  Wellington Street, brother of Frederick and Robert,was admitted to the Freemen on 14th February 1845. He was admitted by birth, being the son of the above Thomas Courtenay who had been admitted as a Sheerman in 1789.

Robert Courtenay Junior, of 22 Ranelagh Road, a solicitor, was admitted to the Freemen on 22nd May 1857.  He was admitted by birth, being the grandson of the same Thomas Courtenay who had been admitted in 1789.  Obviously, the father of Robert Courtenay Junior was Robert Courtenay Senior, who was the son of Thomas Courtenay, Sheerman, and the brother of Frederick and Francis.

Thomas Frederick Courtenay, a yeoman of the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham, was admitted on 16th July 1863 - he was the grandson of Thomas Courtney, shearman. On the City of Dublin Electoral List for 1865, Thomas F. Courtenay was still living at the Royal Hospital.  Thomas Courtenay was the son of Frederick Courtenay and Mary Tutty of 27 Wellington St..

Thomas Courtenay of Alma Cottage, Georges Place, Blackrock, admitted in 1846, by service to Thomas Courtenay who had been admitted in 1789, but I haven't tracked this individual down yet.

Frederick Courtenay and Mary Tutty:

Frederick Courtenay (1791 - 1875)  was born in St. Luke's, Dublin, in about 1791 to Thomas Courtenay, who had been admitted to the Freemen of Dublin as a shearman in 1789.   

Frederick Courtenay was admitted to the Freemen of Dublin by birth in Midsummer 1839.

A labourer, Frederick Courtenay joined the 15th Regiment of Dragoons in Dublin on 2nd February 1820, and served in Canada as did his brother Francis Courtenay/Courtney.   Aged 29 when he joined the army in 1820, he served 14 years 5 months - for some of this, he must have been stationed in Dublin where some of his children were born.  His service record states that he was wounded at Victoria.

Upon his return to Ireland, Frederick worked as a clerk to a veterinary surgeon, then as a vet, but later he worked as the librarian in the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, where his son, Thomas Courtenay was later a yeoman. 

The Dublin Census of 1851 recorded Fred. Courtney at the Linenhall Barracks in the parish of St. Michan's.

The 'Tipperary Free Press' of 11th December 1852 reported that Frederick Courtney (sic), a pensioner librarian at the Linen Hall Barracks, had absconded having taken with him, or having earlier removed, books to the value of £22.

 'The Advocate' of 2nd February 1853 reported that out-pensioner, Daniell Ball of Chelsea Hospital, had been appointed librarian at the Linen Hall Barracks in Dublin, in the room of Frederick Courtenay who had lately absconded and who was a defaulter to the extent of about 30l. for books lost of made away with.

The 1869 Commission of Inquiry into corrupt electoral practices in 1869 called in many of the inhabitants of the Dorset Street area, including Francis Courtney of 27 Wellington Street, who confirmed that his brother, Frederick Courtney/Courtenay, was a pensioner currently living in England. 

Frederick  moved to England where he lived in the Chelsea Hospital as a Chelsea pensioner - the UK census notes him there in 1871;  he was a widower, his wife, Mary Courtenay, having died at some stage previous to 1871.  The governor of the Chelsea Hospital in 1871 was General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather, the uncle of Frederick's son-in-law, John (Lysaght) Pennefather, who had married Frederick's daughter, Emily Courtenay, in 1848.  John (Lysaght) Pennefather was the son of Edward Pennefather, who was the half-brother of Sir John Lysaght Pennefather of the Chelsea Hospital.

Frederick Courtenay died in Chelsea in the first quarter of 1875.

Frederick Hall Courtenay was married to Mary Tutty. I discovered her family name in the parish register of St. James' Catholic Church. when their son, Thomas Courtney/Courtenay married Mary Browne on 5th June 1859.  This register has her name spelt as 'Tuty' whereas Eleanor Courtenay's genealogy has her named as 'Tutty' of Carnew, Co. Wicklow. 

(The 'Freeman's Journal' of 8th January 1880 carried the interesting obituary of 90-year-old Mrs. Margaret Holohan, who died at 52 James Street and who was named as the daughter of John Tutty of Kilpipe, Co. Wicklow, who was one of 25 United Irishmen shot at Carnew on 25th May 1798. Either he or his daughter were buried at Kilcashel, Wingfield, Co. Wicklow.)

The Children of Frederick Hall Courtenay and Mary Tutty:

1) Thomas Courtenay of The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, born 26th March 1824 in St. Andrew's Parish. 
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/10/thomas-courtenay-and-mary-brown-royal.html

2) Emily Courtenay, who married John Pennefather, baptised 27th February 1828, lived at 45 Moore Street, and from whom I directly descend.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/john-pennefather-and-emily-courtenay.html

3) William Courtenay, baptised 20th March 1829, born at 157 Gt.Britain St. He was noted in the Courtenay family tree as being of the 60th Rifles.

4) Eliza Courtenay who was living at 27 Wellington Street when she married.

5) Adelaide Anne Courtenay, baptised 10th August 1831, born at 47 Moore Street.

6) Mary Courtenay, baptised 12th May 1830, lived at 47 Moore Street.

7) Sabina Jane Courtenay, born circa 1840.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/10/the-children-of-frederick-and-mary.html


 In 1868 and 1873,  the street directories mention a Mrs.Courtney at 31 Lower Dorset Street, which was where Emily Courtenay and her husband, John Pennefather, were resident at the time.   A Mary Courtenay was a witness at the wedding of her granddaughter, Eliza Pennefather, in 1880 - Eliza's address was given as Wellington Street again;  the Mary concerned may well be her aunt, Mary Moore, née Courtenay. 


Frederick Courtenay worked as a clerk to a vet, but later became a veterinary surgeon; when his son, William Courtenay, was born on 20th March 1829, the Courtenay family had been living at 157 Great Britain Street, the home of Richard Johnston the vet.  Later the Courtenay family moved to 47 Moore Street, before ending up at 27 Wellington Street - the vet, Richard Johnston, owned several houses on this street. 

Francis Courtenay/Courtney:
Francis Courtenay was the son of Thomas Courtney, shearman of Chamber Street. There are no records of a marriage, nor of children for Francis;  he was in the army, and spent his entire life in Dublin, much of it at 27 Wellington Street, where his niece, Eliza Yorke, ran a boarding house taking in lodgers.  The English National Archives hold papers relating to a Francis Courtney, who had been born in Dublin in about 1794, and who served with the 85th Regiment of Foot from Ist January 1817 until 31st December 1839.  Francis was called to give evidence to the 1869 Commission of Inquiry into electoral malpractice in the 1868 Dublin elections.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/02/commission-of-inquiry-1869.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/02/military-record-of-francis-courtney.html

27 Wellington Street: 
The Dublin street directory for 1841 shows no members of our Courtenay family at Wellington Street/Paradise Row.

In the 1845 and 1846 Street Directory, Eliza Courtenay lived at 27 Wellington Street. This was, as shown by the 1869 Commission of Enquiry, Eliza Yorke, née Courtenay, the daughter of Frederick Hall Courtenay and Mary Tutty.

In 1847 she was Mrs. Eliza Courtney of 27 Wellington Street, although a publication of 1847, 'Private Laws, Part 1', noted Eliza Courtenay at Paradise Row.  It may have taken a few years for the new street name to catch on.

In 1848, John Pennefather and Emily Courtenay were both living here when they married, and their children were all subsequently born at this address.

On Griffiths Valuation of 1854 Eliza Courtenay (ie, Yorke) was still living at 27 Wellington Street.

On the Dublin Electoral Roll for 1865, her uncle, Francis Courtenay, is named as the householder for 27 Wellington Street. Francis was Frederick Courtenay's younger brother.

In 1870, Eliza Courtenay/Yorke had reappeared in the Street Directories, running a lodging house at 27 Wellington Street. (Although spelt as Courtney this time - she had previously been noted there in 1852 and 1856, also 1863 and 1868.)

Frederick and Mary Courtenay's granddaughter, Eliza Pennefather (the daughter of John and Emily Pennefather) was living at No. 3(?) Wellington Street in 1880 when she married James Patrick Dowling. 

I've done a separate post on the children of Frederick and Mary Courtenay:

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/10/the-children-of-frederick-and-mary.html



Robert Courtenay Senior and Robert Courtenay Junior, solicitors:

Robert Courtenay Senior was the son of Thomas Courtenay, Shearman, and brother of Frederick and Francis Courtenay.

The records of the Keeper of the Public Records shows up marriages for both Robert Courtenay Senior (the son of Thomas Courtenay, Shearman) and for his son Robert Courtenay Junior:

Robert Courtenay Senior married Eliza/Elizabeth Hudson in 1818.

Robert Courtenay Junior married Mary Henrietta Manifold on 27th March 1854.

In 1858, the father and son were working together in the law firm of Wolfe, Courtenay and Burke, at 28 North Gloucester Street. The partners were as follows:

William Courtenay
Robert Courtenay (Senior)
Robert John Courtenay (Junior)  of 22 Ranelagh Road.
John Wolfe
James Burke
William S. Burke, also of Rochford, Nenagh, Tipperary.


Robert Courtenay Senior and Elizabeth Hudson:

Robert Courtenay of 10 Camden Street, the brother of Frederick and Francis Courtenay,  married Eliza/Elizabeth Hudson in Donaghmore, Co. Wicklow, on 5th October 1818,  Eliza being the daughter of Matthew Hudson and Mary Fenton.

Robert Courtenay Senior operated as a solicitor at 40 Bishop Street in 1824;  in 1835 he was noted at 81 Lower Gardiner Street.   By 1846,  Robert Courtenay of the law firm, Wolfe, Courtenay and Burke, was living at 77, Lower Gardiner Street.  He was living at 23 Upper Gloucester Street by 1858.

In both the 1835 and 1845 Almanac,  Robert Courtenay Esq., of 81 Lower Gardiner Street and of Wicklow, was the Sub-Sheriff of Wicklow. The Returning Officer was James Bourke of 81 Lower Gardiner Street - this was one of Robert Courtenay’s business partners.

There was also Robert Hudson esq., of Seabank, Arklow, noted as a coroner for Wicklow, as was Abraham Tate esq., of Ballintaggart, Rathdrum, and Robert Courtenay Senior was married to an Elizabeth Hudson, while his son, Richard Hudson Courtenay, was married to a Mary Lawrence who was the widow of a member of the Tate family. 

The Hudson family originated in Killiniskeyduff, near Arklow in Co. Wicklow, and the Courtenay links to Wicklow seemed to begin when Robert Courtenay married Elizabeth Hudson in 1818, although Robert Courtenay's mother was Eliza Hall, the daughter of William Hall of Wicklow.

Griffiths Valuation of 1854 records that Robert Courtenay was leasing 174 acres from The Earl of Wicklow in Killiniskeyduff.   The land records of the Earls of Wicklow record the Hudsons, the Fentons and the Manifolds in the area from the late 17th century.  The Courtenay family only arrived once Robert Courtenay married Eliza Hudson in 1818.

The Hudson Family of Wicklow:
(Family notes kindly passed on to me by Kathleen Cook of Montana, who descends directly from Mary Hudson, sister of Robert Courtenay's wife Eliza Hudson.)

Eliza Hudson was the daughter of Matthew Hudson (born circa 1744 in Wicklow; died March 1810 in Arklow; buried Kilbride Churchyard) and Mary Fenton (born circa 1745; died before 15th May 1810), who had married on 15th February 1765.    The children of Matthew Hudson and Mary Fenton were:
1) Robert/Bob Hudson (1756 - 1831) who married Nancy Anne (1779 - circa 1810). A record exists of Robert Hudson marrying Mary Manifold in 1775, so perhaps Nancy Anne was his second wife.  Robert Courtenay and Eliza Hudson's son, Robert Junior, married Mary Henrietta Manifold, the daughter of John Manifold, Barrack Master of the Royal Barracks, who would be buried in Kilbride cemetery.  A Benjamin Manifold of Kilbride made a will in 1756;  a later Benjamin Manifold made a will in Wicklow in 1799 - both were leasing land from the Earls of Wicklow.

2) Sarah Hudson who married in Arklow, on 6th May 1788,  Captain James Morton (1758 - 1833), son of Francis Morton and father of Francis Morton of Woodmount who was father of both Dr. George Morton of Toronto and of Dr. Edward Morton of Barrie.

3) Richard/Dick Hudson who was the ordinance storekeeper on the island of either Domenica or Martinique, and who was subsequently posted in Barbados and noted there in 1805.

4) Matthew/Matt Hudson (circa 1775 - 23rd or 25th May 1837), who was lodging at 81 Capel Street in 1805, and who had  moved by 1807 to Seabank near Arklow, Co. Wicklow, before settling in Killiniskeyduff.  It's believed he never married.  He owned 52 acres in Johnstown and Ballyrichard.

5) Mary Hudson, from whom Kathleen Cook directly descends, (circa 1778 or 1789 - 1st March 1858)  and who married on 26th January 1803, Captain Thomas Jones.

6) Michael/Mick Hudson (1782 - 7th May 1860) who was buried in Old Kilbride on 10th May 1860. He was land agent to Lord Wicklow of Shelton Abbey and was known to have served with the militia following the 1798 rebellion.  He moved to Woodmount, (near Kilbride) a large house built around 1790.  A Justice of the Peace, he married his cousin Isabella Fenton (1773 - 13th March 1863), the daughter of Michael Fenton of Ballinclea.  Michael Hudson of Killiniskeyduff was known to be the nephew of Michael Fenton of Ballinclea, Wicklow, Michael Fenton being the brother of Mary Fenton.  Michael Fenton lived from 1782 till 7th May 1860.

7) Eliza Hudson (1790 or 1797 - 25th September 1860)  who married the solicitor Robert Courtenay.


Robert Courtenay, solicitor, husband of Eliza Hudson, died of bronchitis on 17th January 1862, at Upper Gloucester Street.

Headstone from Mount Jerome, Dublin:

‘Frances Elizabeth, wife of William Courtenay, who departed this life February 26th 1849, aged 23 years....

    ‘Also in memory of Eliza Courtenay, née Hudson, wife of Robert Courtenay of the City of Dublin and of Killiniskeyduff in the county of Wicklow, solicitor - she departed this life 25th September 1860 aged 70 years, and in memory of the said Robert Courtenay who died 17th January 1862.  The remains of said Eliza and Robert, parents of the above named William Courtenay lie in their grave adjoining this in the south.’

Eliza Courtenay, née Hudson, died on 25th September 1860 at Upper Gloucester Street, and her will was administered by her son, Robert Courtenay of York Street.

The children of Robert Courtenay Senior and Elizabeth Hudson were:

1) Mary Alicia Courtenay.  Although I haven't found any details of her birth, it seems most likely that she was the oldest child of Robert and Elizabeth Courtenay.

 An 1841 deed of marriage (1841-17-173) was drawn up on 1st August 1840 for Mary Alicia Courtenay and James Vance. This deed gave her address as Lower Gardiner Street, which was the home of Robert and Elizabeth Courtenay.  James Vance, apothecary, lived at Suffolk Street.  The Registry was closing as I came across this deed, so I'll have to return for better details - all I got were the names of the bride and groom with their addresses, and something about property on Dorset Street, which was to be held in trust by Richard Ephraim Vance and by Mary Alicia's brother, William Courtenay.  This deed was witnessed by James Burke who was a solicitor working alongside Mary Alicia's father.  Interestingly, the wedding itself took place a year after this deed was registered, which suggests that the house on Dorset Street was to be held in trust for the bride and handed over at the time of her marriage, which was the ususal way of doing things at the time.

 James Vance and Mary Alicia Courtenay (named as Courtney in the St. Thomas register) married on August 24th 1841, and this was witnessed by William Shaw Vance and by Joshua Pasley.  It's unclear who exactly this Joshua Pasley was, but Mary Alicia's younger brother, Joshua Pasley Courtenay, was named after him.

A private contribution to the LDS website states that Mary Alicia Courtenay had been born to a solicitor, Robert or Thomas Courtenay, in 1809 in Mallow, Cork, and to his wife Sarah.  This is unproven, but could perhaps refer to an earlier marriage for Robert Courtenay.

James Vance, apothecary, died at 10 Suffolk Street, in January 1875, and his house, which included a shop and consulting rooms, was put up for auction by the auctioneers, Arthur Jones & Sons of 135 Stephen's Green, upon the instructions of his executors.

James Vance and Mary Alicia Courtenay had two sons that I know of - Robert Courtenay Vance, born circa 1849, who, in 1884, married his first cousin, Isabella Grogan, the daughter of Edwin Grogan and Isabella Courtenay.

The second son of James and Mary Alicia was Dr. James Vance of Rathdrum, Wicklow, who was married to Caroline Frances Martin.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/11/more-courtenay-marriages.html


2)  Isabella Courtenay.  On 4th June 1861, Isabella Courtenay, the daughter of Robert Courtenay, the solicitor, was living at 23 Upper Gloucester Street when she married, in St. Thomas's, Edwin Grogan of the Stirling Militia, whose father was the cleric Rev.William Grogan of Slaney Park, Wicklow.

Edwin had been born in Dublin in 1833 to William and Elizabeth Grogan.  He joined the Stirling Militia and he appeared on the Scottish censuses for 1841, 1851 and 1861 in Edinburgh, Scotland, along with his widowed mother, and his brother and sister.   His mother, Elizabeth, had been born in Dublin in 1802, and she called herself 'the widow of a landowner'.   Edwin's older sister was Elizabeth Jane Grogan who had been born in Dublin in 1830;  his younger brother was Henry Grogan who had been born in Ireland in 1828 and who may have later joined the army also.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/11/the-family-of-edwin-grogan-son-of-rev.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/05/the-grogan-family-of-dublin-westmeath.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/08/rev-john-grogan-and-lizzie-bourne.html


It appears that Edwin Grogan and Isabella Courtenay had a daughter, Isabella Grogan, who was born in Dublin in about 1862.  She married her first cousin, Robert Courtenay Vance, a solicitor of Dublin, in Rathdown in 1884, and was living at 19 Anglesea Road, Donnybrook, in 1901.  He was the son of James Vance and Mary Alicia Courtenay. Visiting the couple on the night of the census was Isabella's cousin, Mary Isabella Moriarty, the daughter of William Courtenay and Elizabeth Jane Grogan.

Isabella Courtenay, who married Edwin Grogan in 1861, died young, and Edwin Grogan married Agnes Emma Warner in 1873.  Agnes Emma Grogan of 23 Royal Terrace, Kingstown, died at Portland Road, Bray, on 12th September 1911, and probate was granted to her daughters, Mary Urquhart Grogan and Katherine Mary Edwin Galway, the wife of John de Burgh Galway.

3) George Frederick Courtenay was born to Robert and Elizabeth Courtenay at 37 Bishop Street on 28th July 1834 - he later married Charlotte Jane Head  in St. Peter’s, Dublin, on 26th November 1864.  He may have been named ‘Frederick’ after Frederick Courtenay, his uncle, of 27 Wellington Street. 

Charlotte Jane Head’s brother was Samuel J. Head, who died aged 43 on 13th April 1860 - they were the children of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Aldborough Head of Derry Castle, Tipperary, and of  Harriet Judith de la Cherois-Crommelin of Carrowdore who died aged 81 on 7th September 1862. 

George Frederick Courtenay applied to join the British Civil Service in 1861, and declared that he had been born on 28th July 1834 to Robert and Elizabeth Courtenay of 27 Bishop Street, and that he had been baptised in St. Peter's, Dublin, on 4th July 1834.

In 1901, George Frederick Courtenay was living at Cavetown, Croghan, Co. Roscommon, but, although he was married, his wife was away on the night of the census.  Charlotte Courtenay, née Head, born in about 1823 in Scotland, was lodging in a house on Baggot Street, along with Harriet Head, who was single and who had been born in Dublin in about 1851. Both women earned money from house property. Harriet was Charlotte Jane's cousin.

Charlotte Jane Courtenay died on 2nd December 1905.

The Rev. George Frederick Courtenay died at 122 Pembroke Road on 26th August 1924; the will was administered by George Duggan and Albert Damer Cooper.

Obituary of Rev. George Frederick Courtenay, from the Irish Times, August 24th 1924:

   'We regret to announce the death of the Rev. George Frederick Courtenay, MA, formerly of 122 Pembroke Rd., Dublin, who had reached his 90th year.

    'Mr. Courtenay was one of the oldest clergy of the Church of Ireland.  He took his B.A. degree in Trinity College and the Divinity Testimoniam in 1860, and received Deacon's Orders from the Bishop of Down in 1862.  He was curate of Kilbroney, Co. Down, and subsequently of Aghaderg, for the next four years, when he was transferred to St. James's Parish, Dublin.  Having served in Cloughjordan in 1867, he became Rector of Quin, Killaloe, and was Rector of Roscommon from 1878 - 1882.  He was vicar of Broomfield, Somersetshire, and other English parishes, but in 1898, he returned to the Church of Ireland, and for four years was Rector of Croghan, Co. Roscommon.   In 1902, Mr. Courtenay retired from the active duty of the ministry, but for a time he did occasional duty on Sundays in the Dublin Diocese.  This he was obliged to give up, as he became almost completely deaf.  Mr. Courtenay has been a member of the University Club for half a century.  Notwithstanding his great age, he was able to move about until quite recently.'

In his will, Rev. George Frederick Courtenay left £100 to the Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge, £100 to the Irish Auxiliary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and £100 to the Irish branch of the Church Missionary Society.

4)  William Courtenay, born to Thomas Courtenay and Eliza Hudson in 1823. The 1850 Street Directory names William Courtney of 23 North Gloucester Street Upper, and this was the son of Robert Senior and his wife Elizabeth Hudson.

The 1862 Street Directory records the premises of 'Courtenay and Burke' at 23 Upper Gloucester Street, with the residents there as follows:

Robert Courtenay
James Burke, solicitor.
William Courtenay and also of Woodmount, Arklow.
Thomas Burke, solicitor.
Rev. Geo. F. Courtenay, MA BA FTCD
Robert Courtenay, Junior, solicitor, and also at 22 Ranelagh Rd.

William Courtenay married three times, to Frances Elizabeth Wolfe, Olivia Daly and Elizabeth Jane Grogan.
William's first wife was Frances Elizabeth Wolfe, who he married in Nenagh Church on 12th January 1848, and who had been born in Rockfort, Tipperary, in about 1826.  She was the eldest daughter of John Wolfe of Rockfort, while William Courtenay was named in the 'Tipperary Vindicator' of 19th January 1848 as the eldest son of Thomas Courteney of Lower Gardiner Street.  Presumably John Wolfe of Rochfort was the lawyer in business with William and his father in Dublin.

A headstone from Mount Jerome, Dublin, confirms that Robert and Eliza Courtenay had a son named William, and that he had a first wife named Frances Elizabeth:

‘Frances Elizabeth, wife of William Courtenay, who departed this life February 26th 1849, aged 23 years....

   ‘Also in memory of Eliza Courtenay, née Hudson, wife of Robert Courtenay of the City of Dublin and of Killiniskeyduff in the county of Wicklow, solicitor - she departed this life 25th September 1860 aged 70 years, and in memory of the said Robert Courtenay who died 17th January 1862.  The remains of said Eliza and Robert, parents of the above named William Courtenay lie in their grave adjoining this in the south.’

The name 'Woodmount' recurs on a headstone in the Old Kilbride churchyard in Kilbride, Wicklow, near Avoca:   'In memory of Olivia, wife of William Courtenay of Woodmount, who died November 11th 1860 aged 26 years.  Also their child, Robert Daly, who died September 4th 1860 aged 3 years.'

And the neighbouring grave: 'In memory of Alithea Maria Daly, daughter of the late Arthur Daly Esq., and of Henrietta his wife, departed this life 17th December 1853.  Also in memory of Anne, wife of the Rev. William Daly AM, late Vicar of this parish, departed this life 22nd August 1871 aged 78.  Also in memory of Rev. William Daly AM above named, who departed this life 9th January 188(7?).'

William Courtenay (1823 - 1897) married Olivia Daly in Wicklow in 1859;  the Limerick Chronicle published her death notice on 21st November 1860 - 'At Woodmount, Olivia, wife of William Courtenay, Esq.'

William Courtenay married, thirdly,  Elizabeth Jane Grogan who was the sister of Edwin Grogan who had married William’s sister Isabella Courtenay.  The marriage occurred in Rathfarnham, south Dublin, on 24th March 1863. 

William Courtenay and Elizabeth Jane Grogan had three children in Woodmount, Avoca, Wicklow - Elizabeth, born  6th August 1865,  Michael Hudson Courtenay, born 3rd April 1867, and Mary Isabella, born 31st March 1869.  William Courtenay also had a son, known as William Courtenay Junior, but it's unclear to me which of the three wives was the mother of the younger William Courtenay.
 Mary Isabella Courtenay, daughter of gentleman William Courtenay, now of Rathcoole House, Dunleer, Co. Louth, married Rev. Gerald King Moriarty of Kilcronaghan Rectory, Tobermore, Co. Derry, son of Rev. Matthew Trant Moriarty, on 9th April 1896;  this was witnessed by George G. Moriarty and William Courtenay Junior, the son of the widowed William Courtenay.

The Moriartys were living at The Glebe, Egrenagh, Tyrone, in 1901 and 1911, and this was the address given on the will of Mary Isabella's older brother, Michael Hudson Courtenay, in 1916.  It seems that Mary Isabella's mother, the widowed Elizabeth Jane Courtenay, came to live with her in the Rectory at Egrenagh, since this was where her mother was living when she died on 2nd November 1901 - her will was administered by her son, Michael Hudson Courtenay, Captain, RA.

Rev. Gerald Ivor King Moriarty died at Edenderry Lodge, Omagh, Tyrone, on 13th November 1927; he was survived by his widow, Mary Isabella Moriarty, née Courtenay.

The son of William Courtenay and Elizabeth Jane Grogan, Michael Hudson Courtenay, died, aged 48, from wounds received at the Siege of Kut in Iraq, on 4th January 1916. (He had been born to William Courtenay and Elizabeth Jane Grogan on 3rd April 1867 at Newbridge, Co. Wicklow.) He had been a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Garrison Artillery, 1st Heavy Brigade. Major Michael Hudson Courtenay appeared on the 1911 UK census stationed in India with Unit 72, Heavy Battery, address not given. 

He had been born at Woodmount, Arklow and was married to Laura Courtenay, with an address in 1916 at 19 Craigerne Road, Blackheath.  Michael Hudson Courtenay is buried in Grave K15, Kut War Cemetery, Iraq.

From the Index of Wills - 'Courtenay, Michael Hudson, of Ergenagh, Omagh Tyrone, lieutenant colonel R.A. died 4th January 1916 in Mesopotamia Asiatic Turkey, Probate Dublin to Laura Courtenay widow.'

His widow was Laura Fennell, the India-born daughter of an Alza Fennell;  she and Michael Hudson Courtenay had married in Mysore, Madras, on 27th October 1891.  A child,  Gladys Courtenay, was born the following year on 24th October 1892, at Neemuch, Bengal. 

The widowed Laura Courtenay, late of both 11 St. John's Road and of 16 Hawkeswood Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, died on 27th February 1943.

On 7th October 1870, William Courtenay of Woodmount retired from the Agency of the Wicklow Estate, which terminated upon the death of Lord Wicklow.  William was presented with a large and highly embossed tea urn, which bore the inscription 'Presented by the Tenantry of the Earl of Wicklow's estates in the county of Wicklow to William Courtenay Esq., J.P., as a totem of their esteem on his retirement from the Agency.' 

It was at this point that he may have moved to Crosthwaite Park, Kingstown, Co. Dublin, and then to  Rathcoole, Dunleer, where he died aged 74 on 7th December 1897.  His will was administered by Robert Courtenay Vance and by William's brother, Rev. George Frederick Courtenay. The death, when registered, showed that he had been born in 1823.

William Courtenay's eldest son, the solicitor William Courtenay Junior, who had studied in TCD, was sworn in as a solicitor in February 1889, having served his apprenticeship with Robert Courtenay Vance.   

William Courtenay Junior of 8 Crosthwaite Park, Kingstown, Co. Dublin, had, on 11th September 1890, maried Annie Rebecca Bayly, daughter of William Cole Bayly JP of Ardristan, Co. Carlow. The fathers witnessed the wedding - William Courtenay and William Cole Bayly.

William Courtenay Junior and Annie Rebecca Bayly had a daughter, Annie Rebecca Courtenay, on 16th November 1892.   The baby's mother, Annie Rebecca, died a year later on 31st December 1893, five weeks after giving birth to another child.

On 9th July 1896 in St. Peter's, Dublin, the widowed William Courtenay Junior of Rathcoole, Co. Louth, married Louisa Catherine Henry of 6 Hume Street, Dublin, the widowed daughter of John Henry;  this was witnessed by Joseph F. W. Henry and Thomas B. Middleton.  William Courtenay Junior and his second wife, Louisa, had a daughter, Eva Courtenay, in Rathescar, Co. Louth, on 20th November 1898.

'The Dublin Daily Express' of 13th April 1898 announced that anyone with claims on the assets of the late William Courtenay (senior) of Rathcoole  was to write to either one of his executors, Robert Courtenay Vance, late of 113 St. Stephen's Green and now of Hume Street, or Rev. George Frederick Courtenay of 29 Wretham Road, Birmingham.

5) Richard Hudson Courtenay.  (1824 - 1865) Another son of Robert Courtenay and Elizabeth Hudson was Richard Hudson Courtenay (who had a nephew, a clergyman, of the same name) who died at Baltinglass, Wicklow in 1865, aged about 37.

Richard Hudson Courtenay married three times, the wives being Sarah Carolin in July 1843, Susan Hoysted in 1848 and finally Mary Tate, née Lawrence, in 1855.

Sarah Carolin, his first wife, was the daughter of the carpenter/builder of Dublin, Edward Carolin Junior and of Susanna Orson.  The Carolin family had addresses in Talbot Street and in Clontarf. It's unclear when Sarah died, but Richard Hudson Courtenay remarried in 1848, five years after his marriage to Sarah Carolin.   He married Susan Hoysted in 1848, but she died in 1855....

From Mount Jerome:  ‘To the memory of Susan, wife of Richard Hudson Courtenay who departed this life May 24th 1855 aged 24 years. This Tablet is erected by her beloved brother Thomas Norton Hoysted, Her Majesty’s 77th Regiment.’  The Limerick Chronicle noted that Susan, wife of Richard Hudson Courtenay, died at Leinster Square, Rathmines.

Susan Hoysted, the second wife of Richard Hudson Courtenay, had been born in about 1831 in Kildare to John Hoysted (1887 - 1848)  and Charlotte Gatchell of Walterstown, Kildare. 
In 1851,  Susan and her husband, Richard Hudson Courtenay, were living in Islington with the Hoysted family.  Richard Hudson Courtenay was a general practitioner, and licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland.   His son, John Hoysted Courtenay, was only 2 years old.   Also resident was Richard's younger brother, Joshua Pasley Courtenay, a 16-year-old medical student.   Susan's mother was the Kildare-born widowed Charlotte Hoysted;  Susan's siblings were the medical students (at Kings College, London), Isaac and Thomas Norton Hoysted.  Her younger siblings were Charlotte 16, James J. 14, Mary Ann 12, Charles 10, Caroline 7 and John aged 3.

Richard Hudson Courtenay was a doctor who had carried out his medical training in Richmond Hospital, Dublin.  He was, later, the surgeon accoucheur at the Islington Lying-in Hospital, and had been the Inspector of Hospitals for the Central Board of Health for Ireland.

The UK Medical Register noted Richard Hudson Courtenay as a member of the Donegal Militia in 1859. He had graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1845, and had received his widwifery licence in 1861.  He had also received a degree from the University of London in 1851.

By 1863, his address was Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow.

The three known children of Richard Hudson Courtenay and his second wife, Susan Hoysted, were John Hoysted Courtenay, Robert Courtenay, and a daughter with the improbable name of Maria Beatrice Victoria Emily Guy Courtenay, who was born to Richard Hudson Courtenay in Dover, England - she was living at  2 Emerald Terrace, Grand Canal St., Dublin, when she married, on 4th February 1875, John Miles of 5 Emerald Terrace, the son of the Rev. Thomas Miles.  The marriage certificate confirms the fact that her father was a doctor, but makes no mention of the fact that he’s been dead for 10 years (Richard Hudson Courtenay died in 1865 in Wicklow.)

This daughter,  known simply as Beatrice, married again later on 22nd January 1884, this time to a flour miller/merchant, Samuel Mason Kent, and the family settled in Leinster House, Wicklow town. They had  8 children, one of whom was Mason Samuel Kent, who'd been born at 2 Orwell Rd, Rathgar, on 19th January 1887.  He was educated at the Wicklow Academy, and worked as a civil servant in the registry of Deeds, before joining the army in 1914.  His next of kin at the time was his mother, who was living then at 64 Hollybank Road, Drumcondra. He was invalided home to Dublin several times - in 1919 he returned home suffering from malaria, and returned to his wife, Mrs. M. Kent at 12 Westfield Terrace, Blackrock.  When he was discharged in 1919, his home address was given as 12 Upper Mount Street, Dublin.

Other children were John Mason Kent, born 1892, and Richard Courtenay Kent born 1893.

 A headstone in Co. Wicklow commemorates the family - Samuel Mason Kent died March 11th 1908, aged 51;  his wife, Beatrice Mary Victoria Kent died April 16th 1952, aged 93;   a daughter, Undine Bischoff died in 1981 in Santiago, Chile.

The son of Richard Hudson Courtenay and of his second wife, Susan Hoysted, was the doctor, John Hoysted Courtenay, who had been born at Shrewsbury Street, Islington, on October 22nd 1849.   He operated as a midwife, like his father, and the medical register noted him at 28 Cullenswood Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin, in 1874.  John Hoysted Courtenay emigrated to Queensland, Australia, with his wife, Mary Jane Grime, but had also been stationed earlier in Jamaica.

The second son of Richard Hudson Courtenay and Susan Hoysted was Robert Courtenay who had been born to the couple in 1851.   He went to Trinity college Dublin, got a first class honours in Maths, before taking the Indian Civil Service Exam and emigrating to Bombay.  Robert Courtenay married A. Holman and had seven children.  His wife died in childbirth, and he himself died in 1912 and was buried in the Isle of Man.  Robert's son, Reginald Herbert Courtenay, went to Cambridge and also joined the Indian Civil Service as a judge, but returned to England in the 1920s.

The wedding between Richard Hudson Courtenay and his third wife, Mary Tate, née Lawrence,  was witnessed in 1855 by  Joshua Pasley Courtenay who had been born in Dublin in about 1836 - this was Richard Hudson Courtenay's brother.  Mary Tate was the widow of a Wicklow magistrate, John Tate (1809 - 1854) who had lived at Coolballintaggart, Wicklow.

In August 1861, the wife of a Dr. R.D. Courtenay of Ballinteggart, Co. Wicklow, gave birth to a daughter at Baltinglass.   Was this a typo for Richard Hudson Courtenay?  If so, then the mother of the baby was his third wife, Mary Lawrence.

In the year of Richard Hudson Courtenay’s death, 1865, his third wife, Mary Courtenay, née Lawrence, signed a lease for No. 7, Upper Gloucester Street, but only until 1871.  The couple owned almost 3000 acres of land in Coolballintaggart near Rathdrum in Co. Wicklow, but most of this was put up for sale in 1880 - the tenant of the land, Edward Hunter, had taken out the lease in 1862 from Mrs. Mary Courtenay, Richard Hudson Courtenay and William Courtenay, Richard's brother.  The Courtenays operated a firm of solicitors at 23 Upper Gloucester Street.

The Calendar of Wills records the death of  an earlier Mary Courtenay of Upper Gloucester Street  - the will was proved  (Admon. Principal Registry in 1862) by Robert Courtenay of Upper Gloucester Street and by Roland Hudson Courtenay of Baltinglass.

Several of the daughters of the late John Tate and Mary Lawrence married at 7 Upper Gloucester Street. In 1872, Margaret Isabel Tate married Joseph Smyth Wilson, and this was witnessed by Robert Courtenay, the brother of the late Richard Hudson Courtenay.

In 1867, Annie Tate married Thomas M. Hine of Kingstown, and the marriage was once again witnessed by Robert Courtenay.  Martha C. Tate married at 7 Upper Gloucester Street, in 1868, Charles J.S.Cahill

(The above Roland Hudson Courtenay of Baltinglass, Wicklow, may be either a brother or a son of Richard Hudson Courtenay  - he made a will on 14th September 1865 at Baltinglass.)

Richard Hudson Courtenay died in Baltinglass, Wicklow, in 1865.  The Irish Times of  22nd August 1865 reported on the funeral, noting, amongst the mourners, Robert Courtenay of Dublin, D. Hudson, and loads of Fentons.

A son of Richard Hudson Courtenay and of Mary Lawrence,  Anthony Lawrence Courtenay (named after Mary Lawrence's father), was born in England on 3rd October 1859.    Anthony emigrated aboard the 'Alaska' in 1882, and,on 4th March 1885 in Chicago, he married Anna Carr Locke who had been born in Limerick, Ireland on 7th April 1856, to a Scotsman, Robert Locke of Paisley, and to Ann Carr of Limerick.  The 1900 US census captured the couple living on Indiana Avanue, Chicago, where they would spend their lives together.  With them were their children,  Gordon Trevor Courtenay, who had been born in Illinois in February 1887, and Mary Ethel Courtenay who had been born there in April 1888.  Anna's sister, Margaret/Madge Locke was also living with them.

By 1910, a second Locke sister had joined them in Indiana Avenue,  Nellie Locke, a private nurse. Anna C. Courtenay was now working as a private secretary in an office, and her husband, Anthony Lawrence Courtenay, was a carpet salesman.

Their son, Gordon Trevor Courtenay, studied medicine at the Northwestern University and practised as a GP in Chicago, then San Diego.  He married Margery Peck, on 30th November 1909.  Gordon enlisted in the US Navy at the outset of the First World War, rising to the rank of Lieutenant in the Medical Corps, but he died of influenza on 22nd September 1918 in Willard Park Naval Hospital in New York.  His widow, Margaret Courtenay, was living then at 4027 Ibis St., San Diego.

Anthony Lawrence Courtenay died in Chicago on 4th September 1922.   Their daughter, Mary Courtenay, who had been born on 17th January 1888, never married, and died in Chicago in 1966. She had been a teacher in a public school.  In 1910 she had been a student at Chicago University and had been elected president of the Travel Club there.

 His wife, Anna C. Courtenay, died on 22nd February 1931.

(Another possible daughter of Richard Hudson Courtenay was Isabella Hudson Courtenay who made a will at 28 Cullenswood Avenue, Ranelagh, on 9th February 1872, but who married, on 1st August 1878, in Bangalore, Madras, India.  She was noted as the daughter of R.H.Courtenay but this might not be Richard Hudson Courtenay.   Her groom was Alfred Hastings Streeten, the son of Rev. Edmund Crane Streeten.  Isabella Hudson Streeten died in 1891 at Barton Regis, Gloucestershire.)

6)  A son, Matthew Courtenay, died on 20th April 1847, and was noted as the fourth son of Robert Courtenay, solicitor of Lower Gardiner Street.

7)  Joshua Pasley Courtenay (1836 - 1900). Joshua Pasley Courtenay, it seems, had been named after Joshua Pasley who was a witness at his sister's wedding in 1841.  Joshua Parley may have been a relation of Joshua Pasley who had been involved with the foundation of the Stove Tenter House in the Liberties, along with his philanthropist cousin, Thomas Pleasants. 

In 1859 the UK Medical Register recorded Joshua Pasley Courtenay at Dunkineely, Co. Donegal. He had graduated from the College of Surgeons in Dublin in 1856.  He was still registered there in 1863. 
I tracked Joshua Pasley Courtenay through the UK Censuses. In 1871,  he was an assistant surgeon with the  Navy, and was living at Walmer, Sandwich, Kent. His wife, who he'd married in Islington in 1853, was Ellen M. Rogerson,  the daughter of the Dublin merchant William Bell Rogerson and Ann Jane McGill.

The children of Joshua Pasley Courtenay and Ellen Rogerson were Mary A. Courtenay who had been born 13 years previously in Co. Donegal,  George James Vance Courtenay, aged 10, born Dublin, and the 9-month-old Ellen Maud Catherine Courtenay who'd been born in Walmer.  A son, William Bell Courtenay, would later marry, in St. George the Martyr on 30th July 1883, Phillis Morris, the daughter of a tailor, Thomas Morris of Trinity Street. William Bell Courtenay had been educated at the District Royal Naval School in Deptford, London and would remain in both Plumstead and the civil service.   George James Vance Courtenay, who had been born in Dublin in 1861, married on 8th August 1886, Louisa Maude Ellis.

In 1877, Joshua Pasley Courtenay was the staff surgeon of the 'HMS Nereus'.

In 1881, Joshua Pasley Courtenay was the staff surgeon on board what seems to be the 'Cwacoa'.  In 1881, Joshua's son, George J.V. Courtenay,  was living at 20 Hanover Road in Plumstead, along with his older brother, William B. Courtenay, who was a clerk with the inland revenue.

Joshua's wife, Ellen, was living in 1881 at 11 Cornwall Road, Paddington, with their daughter, Ellen M.K., and with four lodgers.

In 1891 Joshua was living at 54 Chepstow Villas in Kensington;  he was 'Fleet Surgeon - R.N. Retired';  his wife, Ellen, was 61 and had been born in Dublin also. Only daughter Ellen M.K., aged 20, was still living at home with her parents.

Joshua's son, George J.V. Courtenay, was a bank clerk living in Plumstead, London, in 1891, along with his English wife, Laura, and their one-year-old daughter Laetitia.  George J.V.Courtenay died in Ryedale, Yorkshire in 1950.

His father, Joshua Pasley Courtenay, was buried at Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 12th April 1900.

8) Robert Courtenay Junior,  the son of Robert Courtenay Senior and Eliza Hudson.  The solicitor, Robert Courtenay Junior,  married Mary Henrietta Manifold in St.Peter’s, Dublin, on 27th March 1854.  Their fathers were named as Robert Courtenay Senior and the late John Manifold, barrackmaster of Ballymoney, Co. Wicklow.

It appears that Robert and Mary Henrietta lived at the Manifold's Dublin home in 22 Ranelagh Road for the first few years of the marriage.  Mary Henrietta’s sister, Emily Harriette Manifold, married Richard Goodisson at this address in 1857.

The father, John Manifold was the barrack master of the royal barracks (modern name Collins Barracks) for forty years, yet another military connection.  The witnesses were A.B. Manifold and Michael Fenton Manifold.  Michael Fenton Manifold, assistant surgeon to the forces, was the brother of Mary Henrietta Manifold. A. B. Manifold was Abraham Brass Manifold, a sub-sheriff of Co. Wicklow.  There is a record of a John Manifold who was born to an Abraham Manifold in Capel Street, Dublin, in the 1770s, and this may well be Mary Henrietta Manifold's father and grandfather, although the Manifold family seems to have originated near Arklow, Wicklow. 

Two siblings from the same Dublin/Wicklow Manifold family were buried alongside each other in Harold's Cross Churchyard, Co. Dublin - Mary Clarke Manifold died 20th February 1864 aged 12 years, 6 months and 27 days, while her brother, Richard Fenton Manifold, died at Morar Gwalior, India, on 21st July 1865 aged 3 years.

From The Limerick Chronicle, 6th July 1844:  'At St. Mary's Church, Richard, eldest son of John Manifold, Esq., Barrackmaster, Royal barracks, to Mary, daughter of Michael Griffin of Elmpark, county Roscommon, Esq.'

Three years later in 1860, a third Manifold sister, Lydia Isabella, also married at 22 Ranelagh Rd, this time to Frederick Louis Weber.

Henrietta's sister, the unmarried Hester Jane Manifold, died on 11th March 1883 at 10 Clarinda Park, Kingstown, Co. Dublin;  her will was granted to her sister, Henrietta, and to her brother-in-law, Robert Courtenay, solicitor of 37 York Street.

Robert Courtenay, solicitor, died at Drumcondra Hospital, Whitworth Road, Dublin, on 1st February 1898, and his will was administered by his son, Rev. Richard Hudson Courtenay of Liverpool.

The children of Robert Courtenay Junior and Mary Henrietta Manifold were:

a)  A Robert Courtenay, when he applied to enter the British Civil Service in April 1875, declared that he had been born to the solicitor Robert Courtenay and his wife, Mary Henrietta of 37 Bishop Street, at 23 Gloucester Street, on 24th November 1854, and that he had been baptised in St.Thomas's, Dublin, on 26th November 1854.  His parents had married on 27th March 1854 in St. Peter's.

b) Mary Leonard Courtenay, b. 18 Sept. 1857, 22 Ranelagh Road. Mary Leonard Courtenay married Louis Tarleton Young, son of James Young, in Lahore, Bengal, on 10th May 1890.  In 1881, Louis was working at Simpson’s Hospital, Britain St., Dublin; in the same year he won the Medical Travelling Prize at the School of Physic. Louis Tarleton Young was Surgeon-Major in the Indian army and was the author of ‘The Carlsbad Treatment for Tropical and Digestive Ailments, and How to Carry it out Anywhere’,  which probably came in useful in Lahore.

His parents were Dorinda Sophia Tarleton, the daughter of Captain Tarleton of Rathmines - she married, on 23rd February 1855 in Edenderry Presbyterian Church, Co. Tyrone, James Young, who was the master of the Omagh Workhouse.  Their son, Louis Tarleton Young, was born in 1859;  they also had two daughters, Georgina Tarleton, born 18th May 1865 in Omagh - she was later the headmistress of Huyton College, Liverpool, and Edgebaston High School, and died in 1949.  Her sister was Henrietta Young, who had been born in Dublin on 7th December 1870.

Louis Tarleton Young died in Anacapri, Capri, on 30th April 1904.

c) John Manifold Courtenay, born July 22nd 1859 at 22 Ranelagh Road. He was educated at Rathmines School, High School and Trinity College, Dublin, and  became the vicar of Holy Trinity in St. Helens, Lancashire.  He married Ida Louise Urmson, daughter of Samuel Urmson, at Christchurch, New Malden.  A son, also Rev. John Manifold Courtenay, married Alethea Katherine Barran - this second John Manifold Courtenay died in England in 1988.  John Manifold Courtenay and Ida Louise also had two daughters - Marjorie Henrietta Courtenay and Helen Courtenay.

John Manifold Courtenay, of the Vicarage, Warrington Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, died on June 7th 1919, sadly, in the Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital, Cheadle, Cheshire.

d) George Frederick Courtenay, born 37 York St., 14th May 1865 and was named after his uncle, the Rev. George Frederick Courtenay. In 1901, George Fred Courtenay, also a clergyman, was lodging in a house at Gateshead, Durham.  He married the schoolmistress Edith Knott, the daughter of Henry and Jane Knott of Durham, in 1910 - she had been born in about 1870 in Thornely-on-Tees, Yorkshire; her siblings were Arthur, Lilian, Jane, Bertha and Margaret.  In 1911 the couple were living in Sunderland.
George Frederick Courtenay died at 5 Pembroke Road, Bournemouth, on 8th April 1948, and was survived by his widow, Edith.

e) Harry Courtenay, born 9th July 1867, at 37 York Street. Harry died of TB on 13th February 1889 aged 20 at the family home of 26 Castlewood Avenue, Rathmines. His father, Robert Courtenay, registered the death,

f) Richard Hudson Courtenay, born 15th June 1869, at 37 York Street. He became the Chaplain of St. John’s Anglican Church, Rangoon, Burma from 1900 till 1923, and of the  Anglican Chaplaincy in Basle, Switzerland, from 1923 until 1945, and died in Les Planches, Switzerland, on July 19th 1945.

Richard had married a woman of the name of 'Riley' in London, but the couple had separated in about 1900 - this was, presumably, his reason for heading abroad, and he led a lonely life afterwards. In 1898 when his father, Robert Courtenay died, Rev. Richard Hudson Courtenay was living in Liverpool.

g) There was also Eleanor Henrietta Courtenay born to Robert Courtenay Junior and Henrietta Manifold on 17th December 1871.

I have shared both my own DNA and that of my father to a number of the online sites.  The results frequently throw up new family links which I would never have come across by traditional research methods.
Both my father, Paul Stewart,and I share a remarkably high level of genetic material with a James McCartney who has also shared his DNA and his family tree to Ancestry.com.  He shares 184cms across 5 segments with my father, and 123cms across 6 segments with me.  This indicates a very close family relationship.   His family tree shows him to be a descendant of a Stewart mcCartney.  Although his online tree makes no mention of a Stewart marriage, the use of the name here reflects the common Scots-Irish practise of naming children after earlier members of the family, so I suspected there must have been a Stewart/McCartney marriage at some stage.

I did a little hunting through the earlier Irish marriage indexes for a McCartney-Stewart marriage in the Belfast area and discovered that a James McCartney married a Lucinda Stewart in Newtownards in 1852.   Since the Irish government website hasn't yet digitised the earliest registered marriages, I took a trip to the GRO offices in Werburgh Street and bought a copy of this particular marriage.   Bingo!

On 22nd May 1852 in Newtownards Registrar's Office, Lucinda Stewart, the daughter of Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy, married James McArtney or McCartney, the son of labourer Cornelius McCartney.   Both bride and groom gave their address as Crossnacreevy, Comber, Co. Down.    The witnesses were named as Charles McCartney and Margaret Stewart.   
This means that both my father and I and the James McCartney who shared his DNA on Ancestry all descend directly from Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy, and this explains why we all share so much DNA.

https://alison-stewart.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-stewart-family-of-crossnacreevy.html

(The Margaret Stewart, who witnessed the wedding in 1852 of Lucinda Stewart and James McCartney,  might be Lucinda's sister, or more likely her sister-in-law, Margaret Burke, who had married Lucinda's brother, William A. Stewart, in Downpatrick the previous year. )

Lucinda Stewart and James McCartney settled in Belfast where James McCartney worked as a porter and where their children were born:
The LDS site records the birth of a Charles McCartney to James McCartney and Lucinda Stewart in Belfast on 31st March 1865, while John McCartney was born  on 9th July 1870 at 10 Norton Street.
 Lucinda McCartney was born at 12 Norton Street on the 10th August 1867 - daughter Lucinda McCartney died young aged only 14 on 7th June 1882 at 12 Norton Street;  she died of TB.  Her mother, Lucinda, signed the death registration with her mark, and it was noted that the girl's father had predeceased her. 
Another daughter, Agnes Jane McCartney, died  of heart disease aged only 35 at 12 Norton Street in May 1890.
Robert James McCartney, a 21-year-old printer who died of TB at Norton Street in May 1884

On 27th December 1896 Lucinda McCartney, née Stewart, the widow of James McCartney, died aged 61 at 6 Kathleen Street, the residence of her son John McCartney.  She died of TB like her daughter before her.

On 16th April 1895, John McCartney, son of James mcCartney and Lucinda Stewart, married Elizabeth Carberry, the daughter of Hugh Carberry and Jane Lavery of 93 Mountpottinger Road.  The wedding was witnessed by David and Lizzie Ravey,  possible neighbours of the groom since both the Raveys and John McCartneys were both living on Kathleen Street at the time.   
Elizabeth Carberry had been born in 1872 to Hugh Carberry and Jane Lavery of 50 Claremont Lane.  An older sister was Rose Ann Carberry who had been born in 1870 and who would marry John Martin in 1893.

The McCartney family were buried together in grave C588 in Belfast City Cemetery, along with a James May who had died at 3 Lyle Street aged 26 in 1872.    Lucinda McCartney, née Stewart, was buried there in 1896, next to her daughter Agnes Jane McCartney who died  of heart disease aged only 35 at 12 Norton Street in May 1890, and her son, Robert James McCartney, a 21-year-old printer who died of TB at Norton Street in May 1884.  Lucinda's granddaughter, also named Lucinda, was also buried there when she died of pneumonia aged only 4 months at 6 Kathleen Street on 25th January 1897.
Baby Lucinda McCartney had been born to the ship painter John McCartney and Elizabeth Carberry at their home, 6 Kathleen Street, on 14th September 1896.   Son Stewart McCartney was born at 19 Vicarage Street on 3rd December 1901.

The 1901 census captured the young family living at 19 Vicarage Street - John and Elizabeth McCartney, both aged 30 and Methodist, along with their three-year-old daughter Elizabeth who had been born in 1897 at 6 Newcastle Street.  John didn't have long to live however - John McCartney, the son of James McCartney and Lucinda Stewart, died of TB aged only 30 on 17th July 1902 at 57 Vicarage Street.   

John's widow,  Elizabeth McCartney, née Carberry, married again 5 months later.  In December 1902 she married a rivetter Andrew Creelman, son of Alexander Creelman;  this was witnessed by James and Annie Thom.    In 1911 the Elizabeth and Andrew Creelman  were living at 49 Lendrick Street along with Elizabeth's two children, Elizabeth and Stewart McCartney.
Andrew Creelman and Elizabeth née Carberry were buried together in B136 in Dundonald Cemtery.  Andrew Creelman of 12 Lendrick Street died aged 54 on 7th October 1927 while his wife, Elizabeth of 12 Lendrick Street died aged 64 on 1st January 1937.   Also buried there was Elizabeth Finlay and her husband James Finlay. 
Elizabeth was the daughter of John McCartney and Elizabeth Carberry - she married James Finlay, the son of the late Joseph Finlay, in Dundela, Holywood, Co. Down, on 8th June 1921.  The witnesses were John McKernon and Jennie Freeman.    Elizabeth Finlay died at 21 Lendrick Street aged 62 on 11th February 1960 while her widower, James Finlay, died there aged 82 on 16th November 1971.
Stewart McCartney, the son of John McCartney and Elizabeth Carberry, married Violet Bell Mitchell, the daughter of George Andrew Mitchell and Mary Ann Reid, on the 12th October 1909.   On 20th November 1944 at 20 Montrose Street, this couple miscarried a baby girl who was buried in the City Cemetery on the same day.    A rivetter, Stewart McCartney moved to the UK where the 1939 census captured him living at 142 Bootle Road, Lancashire. 
Stewart McCartney and Violet Bell Mitchell had a son, James Finlay McCartney, in Belfast on 8th July 1937, who married Agnes Marie Smyth and had James McCartney who shares 184 cms of DNA with me and who is my fourth cousin, both being descendants of Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy.
Stewart McCartney died in Manchester on 7th April 1976.

Thanks to my DNA - and also my father's - being shared publicly on both Ancestry, Family Tree DNA and MyHeritage UK,  I recently came across another relation - James McCartney who descends like we do from Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy, Co. Down.   My father and I descend directly from Joseph's son, also Joseph Stewart, while James McCartney descends directly from Joseph Stewart's daughter Lucinda Stewart.

https://alison-stewart.blogspot.com/2019/03/lucinda-stewart-and-james-mcgowan.html

https://alison-stewart.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-stewart-family-of-crossnacreevy.html


Both James McCartney and I share DNA relatives who have also shared their DNA on Ancestry.  Our results show that we both share genetic material with a Thomas Cashion and a Linda Walker.
Both Thomas Cashion and Linda Walker descend, according to their respective family trees, from Thomas Walker of Belfast, the son of William Walker of Magheragall near Lisburn, Co. Antrim.  Thomas Walker was the husband of Margery A. Stewart, which begs the question if she was a member of my own Stewart family of Crossnacreevy?

Some geneous soul has gone to the trouble of publishing the registers of Rosemary Street Presbyterian Church online, and these show up the marriage on 25th January 1831 of Thomas Walker, son of William Walker of Magheragall, to Margery A. Stewart, the daughter of James Stewart of Edenderry.

The same online marriage records for Rosemary Street reveal more of James Stewart's children.    On 2nd October 1821, farmer John Stewart, son of James Stewart of Edenderry, married Agnes Wright, the daughter of William Wright of Shankill.   They baptised a son, James Stewart, in Rosemary Street on 21st May 1825.  William Stewart was baptised there on 1st February 1827 and John Stewart on 15th March 1829.

On 10th January 1822,  Simon Clark, the son of Arthur Clark, married Lucy or Lucinda Stewart, also the daughter of James Stewart of Edenderry.   The name 'Lucinda' is not common in Ireland, and makes me wonder if the Lucinda Stewart, daughter of Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy, who married James McCartney and who I am definitely related to, might have been named after this earlier Lucinda Stewart?   
Simon Clark and Lucinda Stewart baptised a daughter, Margaret Clark, in Rosemary Street, on 1st February 1826 - the date might be the date of birth rather than the baptism.    A Margaret Clark, daughter of Simon, married Robert McCrea, son of Robert McCrea, in Belfast on 27th August 1869.  Earlier on 17th November 1866, Jane Clark, daughter of Simon, married Thomas Dwatt or Dwallt.   A Simon  Clarke lived at Ballymagarry near the Ardoyne - William Hugh Lynn, son of Robert Lynn, married Louisa Ellen Clark, youngest daughter of Simon Clark of Ballymagarry on 28th March 1866.  An Arthur Clark died in Ballymagarry in 1907 - Simon Clarke's father had been named as Arthur Clark also.

On 25th December 1830, William Martin, son of Thomas Martin, married Anne Jane Stewart, daughter of the late James Stewart of Edenderry.   This family emigrated to Iowa.  Their son, who had been baptised in Rosemary Street as James Martin, on 15th November 1835, was later know as John C. Martin - he married Jane Brownlee of Ballymena, Co. Antrim, and both of them died in  Iowa, leaving a son, Albert Clarence Martin who had been born in 1879.     William Martin and Anne Jane Stewart also baptised a son, Thomas Martin, in Rosemary Street on 15th February 1835.

On 8th February 1825, also in Rosemary Street, linen merchant David Herd or Hurd, the son of William Hurd of Old Park, married Nancy Stewart, the daughter of the late James Stewart of Edenderry.   
My father's DNA matches that of Isobel Houston who has shared her genetic material and her family tree publicly on Family Tree DNA.  She confirms that she is a direct descendant of David Herd and Agnes Stewart of Belfast.   Their daughter, according to her family tree, was Agnes Hurd who was Irish-born but who died on 14th January 1867 in Partick, Lanark, Scotland.   Agnes married twice, first to a member of the Gilliland family and then to the Irish-born William Galbraith.     Agnes and William married in Tradeston on 22nd February 1856, and the LDS records the birth of some of their children - Agnes Galbraith was born there on 22nd November 1857, David Galbraith on 10th December 1859, and Jane Galbraith on 4th October 1862.
A son, James Hurd, was born to the grocer, David Hurd and his wife, Nancy Stewart, in Belfast on 3rd March 1826.
The Herd family lived at Scotch View, Old Park, an area of west Belfast near Ballysillan.  William Hurd or Herd of Old Park, the father of David Herd, gets no mention in the Irish newspapers (courtesy of Find My Past) but the later Herd family of Scotch View is frequently mentioned.   

Where was Edenderry, the home of James Stewart?   I used the maps on Griffiths Valuation to isolate an Edenderry close to Old Park, Belfast.   The two places are about a mile apart.  At the junction of the modern Ardoyne and Crumlin Road, and immediately south of Ballysillan and Ligoniel,  the old maps show up Edenderry Turnpike, Edenderry Lodge and Edenderry Cottage.  This area in the 1850s was a hotbed of mills, presumably all forming part of the thriving linen industry of the time.

• John Anderson, schoolmaster (born circa 1828 to 1835 - 1903) from whom we directly descend.
• Belfast auctioneer Joseph Anderson (born circa 1850, died Bangor 1920). When Joseph Anderson married Ellen Campbell in 1873, the paper named him as the 8th son of William Anderson of Portglenone.
• Ellen/Eleanor Anderson, born circa 1826, who married John Blair. 
• Mary Ann Anderson (1845 - 1936) who married Samuel Todd.
• Possibly Alexander Anderson, who witnessed the wedding of Eleanor Anderson and John Blair.  I have no further information on him. This might be the son who was believed to have settled in Pittsburg.
• Possibly Sarah Anderson, who witnessed the wedding of Eleanor Anderson and John Blair, although this may well be the bride's mother, Sarah Anderson, née Fay.  If this is another daughter of William Anderson and Sarah Fay, then I have no further information on her.

• ·         Isabella
• ·         Margaret
• ·         Jane
• ·         Sarah who married William Anderson, our immediate ancestors
• ·         James Fay born circa 1811
• ·         Esther born circa 1811
• ·         Joseph born 25th December 1812
• ·         The schoolteacher Christopher Fay born circa 1815
• ·         Mary born 1832.

 

James Cornwall (1826 - 1888) and Agnes Stewart (1827 - 1911)

I descend from Joseph Stewart (1844 – 1908) and Elizabeth Madine (1835 – 1901).  Joseph Stewart was the son of an older Joseph Stewart who farmed in Crossnacreevy, Moneyreagh, Co. Down, just south of Belfast.

https://alison-stewart.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-stewart-family-of-crossnacreevy.html

Joseph Stewart Junior’s sister was Agnes Stewart (1827 – 1911) who married James Cornwall in 1847 in Belfast, and whose descendant, James Cornwall May, provided invaluable information for this post.   James also kindly donated the photos of James Cornwall and Agnes Stewart.

James Cornwall (1826 - 1888), a servant and son of John Cornwall and Anne O'Neill, married Agnes Stewart (1827 - 1911) in the Belfast Registry Office on 15^th October 1847.  Both bride and groom were living in the Dundonald townland of Ballymiscaw at the time of the marriage and the wedding witnesses were the groom’s brother, Patrick Cornwall, and the bride’s sister Lucinda Stewart.

Lucinda Stewart, who witnessed her sister's marriage in 1847, was also the daughter of farmer Joseph Stewart – she would later marry James McCartney in 1852. 

https://alison-stewart.blogspot.com/2019/03/lucinda-stewart-and-james-mcgowan.html

I have shared both my own DNA and that of my father to a number of the online sites.  The results frequently throw up new family links which I would never have come across by traditional research methods.
Both my father, Paul Stewart, and I share a remarkably high level of genetic material with a James McCartney who has also shared his DNA and his family tree to Ancestry.com.  He shares 184cms across 5 segments with my father, and 123cms across 6 segments with me.  This indicates a very close family relationship.   

His family tree shows him to be a descendant of a Stewart McCartney.  Although his online tree makes no mention of a Stewart marriage, the use of the name here reflects the common Scots-Irish practise of naming children after earlier members of the family, so I suspected there must have been a Stewart/McCartney marriage at some stage.

I did a little hunting through the earlier Irish marriage indexes for a McCartney-Stewart marriage in the Belfast area and discovered that a James McCartney married a Lucinda Stewart in Newtownards in 1852.   

On 22nd May 1852 in Newtownards Registrar's Office, Lucinda Stewart, the daughter of my immediate paternal ancestor, Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy, married James McArtney or McCartney, the son of labourer Cornelius McCartney.   Both bride and groom gave their address as Crossnacreevy, Comber, Co. Down.    The witnesses were named as Charles McCartney and Margaret Stewart. 

This means that both my father and I and the James McCartney who shared his DNA on Ancestry all descend directly from Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy, and this explains why we all share so much DNA.

https://alison-stewart.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-stewart-family-of-crossnacreevy.html

The Margaret Stewart, who witnessed the wedding in 1852 of Lucinda Stewart and James McCartney,  might be an unknown Stewart sister of Lucinda, or more likely her sister-in-law, Margaret Burke, who had married Lucinda's brother, William A. Stewart, in Downpatrick the previous year.  

Margaret Stewart - most likely the wife of William A.Stewart - photo courtesy of James May

The records of the Moneyrea Masonic Lodge near the Stewarts' homeplace of Crossnacreevy, show that a Charles McCartney joined the lodge on the same day - 15th February 1855 - as a William Stewart, and I wonder was this the same Charles McCartney who witnessed the marriage of Lucinda Stewart and James McCartney in 1852?

(I wonder was Charles McCartney the brother of James McCartney who married Lucinda/Lucy McCartney in 1852?  I can find little clues about this man but a Charles McCartney, who worked as a porter as did James McCartney, died aged 45 on 16th May 1871 at 16 Reilly's Place or Riley's place.  His widow, Mary, died there aged 50 on 8th April 1877 - this couple had a daughter, Mary, who married linen lapper John Hall in 1877. I've been unable to find any marriage record for Charles McCartney and his wife Mary which would have helped in isolating the McCartney origins.)

Lucinda Stewart, according the marriage details, had been born circa 1830 (in Crossnacreevy, Co. Down) and James McCartney in 1828.   I can find no further information about Cornelius McCartney, the father of James and I wonder was his name wrongly transcribed by the registry office in 1852? 

Lucinda/Lucy Stewart and James McCartney settled in Belfast where James McCartney worked as a porter and where their children were born:

 1) Agnes Jane McCartney was born to Lucy and James McCartney in about 1850 - a weaver, she died  of heart disease aged only 35 at 12 Norton Street in May 1890.  According to her registration of death, she had been born 2 years before her parents' 1852 marriage;  alternatively, they got her age incorrect when registering her death.

2) Mary/Minnie McCartney was born in about 1856.  On 4th August 1877 in Duncairn, Belfast, she married a printer, James Parkhill, the son of a baker Robert Parkhill.  The wedding was witnessed by Agnes Parkhill and John O'Neill.  Mary died shortly afterwards of bronchitis at her mother's home in 12 Norton Street on 19th July 1878.  She was only 22 years old and her death was registered by her widowed mother Lucinda McCartney.

3) William Joseph McCartney was born about 1861.  A watchmaker's apprentice, he died of tuberculosis aged only 18 at 12 Norton Street on 3rd February 1879 and was noted in the papers as the eldest son of the late James McCartney. Once again, William Joseph's widowed mother, Lucinda McCartney, had to register the death of another of her family.

4) Robert James McCartney was born in about 1863 before official registration began. He died aged 21 of TB at Norton Street in May 1884.  He had been working as a printer at the time of his premature death.

5) The LDS site records the birth of a Charles McCartney to James McCartney and Lucinda Stewart in Belfast on 31st March 1865 but I can't find any official record of his birth in the Irish records.

6) John McCartney was born  on 9th July 1870 at 10 Norton Street. He died of TB aged only 30 on 17th July 1902 at 57 Vicarage Street. 

5) Lucinda McCartney was born at 12 Norton Street on the 10th August 1867 - daughter Lucinda McCartney died young aged only 14 on 7th June 1882 at 12 Norton Street;  she died of TB.  Her mother, Lucinda, signed the death registration with her mark, and it was noted that the girl's father had predeceased her.

Lucy McCartney, née Stewart, wearing a mourning locket, taken circa 1883.Photo courtesy of James May.

James McCartney, the husband of Lucinda McCartney, died aged 49 of pthisis (TB) at 12 Norton Street on 1st April 1872.  

On 27th December 1896,  Lucinda McCartney, née Stewart, the widow of James McCartney, died aged 61 at 6 Kathleen Street, the residence of her son John McCartney.  She died of TB like her daughter before her.

On 16th April 1895, John McCartney, the surviving son of James McCartney and Lucinda Stewart, married Elizabeth Carberry, the daughter of Hugh Carberry and Jane Lavery of 93 Mountpottinger Road.  The wedding was witnessed by David and Lizzie Ravey,  possible neighbours of the groom since both the Raveys and John McCartneys were both living on Kathleen Street at the time. 
Elizabeth Carberry had been born in 1872 to Hugh Carberry and Jane Lavery of 50 Claremont Lane.  An older sister was Rose Ann Carberry who had been born in 1870 and who would marry John Martin in 1893.

The McCartney family were buried together in grave C588 in Belfast City Cemetery, along with James May who had died at 3 Lyle Street aged 26 in 1872 - James May was married to Lucinda Stewart's niece, Mary Ellen Cornwall, who was the daughter of James Cornwall and Lucinda's sister Agnes Cornwall.

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Lucinda McCartney, née Stewart, was buried in the McCartney family plot in 1896, next to her daughter Agnes Jane McCartney who died  of heart disease aged only 35 at 12 Norton Street in May 1890, and her son, Robert James McCartney, a 21-year-old printer who died of TB at Norton Street in May 1884.  

Lucinda's granddaughter, also named Lucinda, was also buried there when she died of pneumonia aged only 4 months at 6 Kathleen Street on 25th January 1897.
Baby Lucinda McCartney had been born to the ship painter John McCartney and Elizabeth Carberry at their home, 6 Kathleen Street, on 14th September 1896.   Son Stewart McCartney was born to John McCartney and Elizabeth Carbery at 19 Vicarage Street on 3rd December 1901.

The 1901 census captured the young family living at 19 Vicarage Street - John and Elizabeth McCartney, both aged 30 and Methodist, along with their three-year-old daughter Elizabeth who had been born in 1897 at 6 Newcastle Street.  John didn't have long to live however - John McCartney, the son of James McCartney and Lucinda Stewart, died of TB aged only 30 on 17th July 1902 at 57 Vicarage Street. 

John's widow,  Elizabeth McCartney, née Carberry, married again 5 months later.  In December 1902 she married a rivetter Andrew Creelman, son of Alexander Creelman;  this was witnessed by James and Annie Thom.    In 1911 the Elizabeth and Andrew Creelman  were living at 49 Lendrick Street along with Elizabeth's two children, Elizabeth and Stewart McCartney.
Andrew Creelman and Elizabeth née Carberry were buried together in B136 in Dundonald Cemtery.  Andrew Creelman of 12 Lendrick Street died aged 54 on 7th October 1927 while his wife, Elizabeth of 12 Lendrick Street died aged 64 on 1st January 1937.   Also buried there was Elizabeth Finlay and her husband James Finlay. 

Elizabeth Finlay was the daughter of John McCartney and Elizabeth Carberry - she had married James Finlay, the son of the late Joseph Finlay, in Dundela, Holywood, Co. Down, on 8th June 1921.  The witnesses were John McKernon and Jennie Freeman.    Elizabeth Finlay died at 21 Lendrick Street aged 62 on 11th February 1960 while her widower, James Finlay, died there aged 82 on 16th November 1971.
Stewart McCartney, the son of John McCartney and Elizabeth Carberry, married Violet Bell Mitchell, the daughter of George Andrew Mitchell and Mary Ann Reid, on the 12th October 1909.   On 20th November 1944 at 20 Montrose Street, this couple miscarried a baby girl who was buried in the City Cemetery on the same day.    A rivetter, Stewart McCartney moved to the UK where the 1939 census captured him living at 142 Bootle Road, Lancashire.

Stewart McCartney and Violet Bell Mitchell had a son, James Finlay McCartney, in Belfast on 8th July 1937, who married Agnes Marie Smyth and had James McCartney who shares 184 cms of DNA with me and who is my fourth cousin, both being descendants of Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy.
Stewart McCartney died in Manchester on 7th April 1976.

 

Our great-great-great grandparents on our mother’s side were John Pennefather and Emily Courtenay who married in St. Mary’s, Dublin, on January 2nd 1848.  John and Emily had a daughter, Isabella Anna Pennefather (aka Mama) who married Charles Jones, decorator;  their daughter, Tennie, married Joseph Edwards Dickson and was the mother of our maternal grandmother, Vera Williams, née Dickson.

Emily Courtenay, who married John Pennefather in Dublin in 1848, was the daughter of Frederick Hall Courtenay and Mary Tuty or Tutty of 27 Wellington Street.

Frederick Hall Courtenay (1791 - 1875) was married to Mary Tutty  (1816 – 1878) who died in 1878.  I discovered her family name in the parish register of St. James' Catholic Church. when their son, Thomas Courtney/Courtenay married Mary Browne on 5th June 1859.  This register has her name spelt as 'Tuty' whereas an Edwardian Courtenay genealogy has her named as 'Tutty' of Carnew, Co. Wicklow.  

Ancestry DNA Link:

My Ancestry DNA shows up a link with a user ‘HoldstockM’ who is a direct descendant of a William Tutty (1903 – 1982) and Roseanne Ffrench (1910 – 1996) of Dublin, and whose DNA is also shared by other descendants of Frederick Courtenay and Mary Tutty.

Was William Tutty (1903 – 1982) a member of the same Tutty family as our Mary Tutty who married Frederick Courtenay? I have pieced together a rudimentary genealogy of HoldstockM’s Tutty ancestry from the sparse records available.  The earliest traceable ancestor of this line was possibly the following Isaac Tutty who died in 1829.

Isaac Tutty (died 1829):

The earliest member of this Dublin-based Protestant Tutty family that I can identify is Isaac Tutty who is contemporary to my immediate ancestor, Mary Tutty.  The two might be siblings or cousins.   A grandson of Mary Tutty was later named as Robert ISAAC Alleyne Moore in 1871 – his parents were Mary Tutty’s daughter, Mary Courtenay, and Herbert Gilman Moore.

Isaac Tutty of the Dublin Horse Patrol died on 14^th September 1829 during a riot at Broadstone and left a widow Ann Tutty who petitioned the Lord Lieutenant for relief in November 1829 – this information comes from the newspapers of the time. 

The above Isaac Tutty might not be related to us in any way but the name ‘Isaac’ reverberates down through the following Tutty family whose DNA we match….

William Tutty (1828 – 1872):

My DNA match, HoldstockM, descends from a William Tutty who had been born in Dublin in 1828.

The Irish Court of Chancery Records note a document of 5^th February 1833 in which was mentioned the infant William Tutty – in legal terms ‘infant’ refers to a child under 18 – whose guardian was Henry Keegan and whose next friends were Elizabeth Grier and Samuel Grier.  No other details were given but William Tutty would later marry a daughter of Samuel Grier.

On 18^th August 1851 in St. Thomas’s, this William Tutty, born 1828,  a widower and dealer of Great Britain Street (now Parnell Street), son of bricklayer Isaac Tutty, married a servant Margaret Grier of 6 Aldborough Place who was the daughter of gardener Samuel Grier.  The witnesses were William Grier and Elizabeth Cope and the wedding took place in the Scots’ Presbyterian Church on Lower Gloucester Street.  (Earlier a William Tutty married Sarah Robotham in 1845 but it’s unclear if this was the same William Tutty and if Sarah Robotham was his first wife).  Was the bricklayer, Isaac Tutty, the same man as the policeman Isaac Tutty who died in 1828?

Another daughter of Samuel Grier was Elizabeth Grier who had married a soldier, Joseph Cope, son of John Cope, in St.Bridget’s on 22^nd August 1849.  Elizabeth’s address was Great Ship St and the witnesses were a Couch and Bridget Cormack.  Elizabeth Cope acted as witness to her sister’s 1851 wedding to William Tutty.

An unnamed child was born to William Tutty and Margaret Grier of 3 Newmarket on 1^st September 1859 and was subsequently baptised in St. Luke’s Church.    A James Tutty was born to William and Margaret of 46 Newmarket on 27^th January 1862 and Susanna Tutty was born at 78 Cork Street on 26^th December 1857.

The family of William Tutty and Margaret Grier struggled financially.  Margaret must have died young since, in 1870 the Poor Law and Board of Guardian Records show the widowed William Tutty being admitted to the workhouse due to illness.  A mason, he gave his last address as 57 New Street and the records confirm that he was Protestant.  The previous year, on 5^th May 1869, he had been admitted again – the records note him as a widowed Protestant bricklayer of 46 New Market.  He was discharged on 13^th July 1869.  A later note in the same workhouse register shows his 13 -year -old son William Tutty who had been admitted along with his father.  William Tutty of 59 New Street died in the workhouse on 28^th November 1872 – a mason by trade, he died a widower aged 51.

Another son of William Tutty (born 1828) and of Margaret Grier was the Protestant bricklayer Isaac Tutty who was admitted to the workhouse for a week on 10^th February 1870.  Isaac Tutty joined the army – he had been born in St. Luke’s, Dublin, in 1852 and was discharged from the East Lancashire Regiment on 23^rd September 1884.  Isaac Tutty died aged 56 on board the ‘SS Cambria’ at the North Wall in Dublin on 11^th July 1907 – his very sudden death from heart disease was reported in the papers of the day who gave his last address as 51 Brooklyn Street, Wandsworth Road, London. An employee of the London and North Western Railway, he had been visiting his sister Susan Greer in Dublin at the time of his death.   The beneficiary of his will of 1907 named his widow as Fanny Tutty of 51 Brooklands St, Wandsworth.  They had married in 1881 in Hampshire, and she was Fanny Elizabeth Harfield.  In 1890 Fanny and Isaac Tutty were living at 14 Charles St in Lambeth, London, with their children George, William, Annie, Mary and Albert.  By 1901, James and Elizabeth had been added to the list.

Isaac Tutty had been visiting his sister Susan Greer at the time of his death in Dublin in 1906.  Susanna Tutty had been baptised by her parents, William Tutty and Margaret Greer of 78 Cork Street in St. Catherine’s on 7^th May 1858.  A Protestant servant, Susan Tutty of 4 Nashes Court spent time in the workhouse when she was 16 – she left the institution on 7^th October 1875.  

On 20^th June 1882 in St. Nicholas Without,  Susan Tutty, the daughter of mason William Tutty and Margaret Grier, married brewery man Richard Greer, the son of Richard Greer who was also a brewery man. The bride was living at 11 Coombe St while the groom’s address was 9 Mountjoy Parade – witnesses were Robert Watson Greer and Helena Mary Rock (both witnesses were the groom’s siblings).  The bride’s mother, Margaret Grier, might have been a relation of the groom.    Richard Greer/Grier had been born in the early 1860s to a clerk of Mecklenburgh St, Richard Greer and to Mary Anne Watson.  Richard’s mother, Mary Anne Watson (1825 – 1906) had been born in Rathdrum, Wicklow, to John and Mary Watson – this from their descendant, Damien Rock, who put his family tree up on Ancestry.      Along with Richard Greer, Richard and Mary Anne of Mecklenburgh St, also had Margaret Greer (1871 – 1872), William Greer who had been born in 1865 and Robert Watson Greer.

By 1901 Richard Greer and Susan Tutty were living at 14.2 Common St, North Dublin, with their children Margaret, Isabella, William, John, Thomas and the younger Robert Watson Greer who had been named after his paternal uncle.

On 20^th April 1906 Margaret Greer, daughter of Richard Greer and Susan Tutty, married Frederick Albert Arden in Derry.  He was a solder and the son of brass moulder Robert Arden.  According to his UK military records, he had been born in London and had one older brother Harry Arden of Shoreditch.  The children of Frederick Arden and Margaret Greer were Susan Alice Arden born 1907 in Derry, Frederick Albert Arden born 1908 in Tidworth, Lilian Isabella Arden born 1910 in Aldershot, William John Arden born 1911 in Aldershot, Richard Arden born 1913 in Devonport and Margaret May Arden born 1916 in Camberwell.

Frederick Arden and Margaret Greer had Susan Alice Arden who went on to marry Andrew Paton and whose descendant Anne Jones is another of our DNA matches on Ancestry.

Robert Watson Greer, who witnessed the marriage of Susan Tutty to his brother, Richard, in 1882, died a widower aged 72 at 36 Commons St., North Wall, on 19^th October 1934 – his son was William Greer of 15 Eblana Villas.  Robert Watson Greer, son of Richard Greer and Mary Anne Watson had married twice, first wife being Ellen Reynolds of Mecklenburg St, and then Annie Graham of Commons St.

Robert Watson Greer, son of Richard Greer and Mary Anne Watson, lived at 36 Commons Street – in 1911 at 33.1 Commons St. lived another member of this same Greer family.  This was James Norton Greer (born UK 1873 – died Dublin 1942) who was the son of Wicklow-born John Greer and Isabella Teer who had married in Dublin in 1866 (the witnesses were William Hamilton Teer and Ann Ardill).   John Greer, porter and then boiler man, was the son of commercial clerk Richard Greer and Mary Anne Watson – John had been born in Wicklow, presumably at the home of his mother Mary Anne Watson.  John Greer and wife Isabella Teer must have spent a few years working in England where at least 3 of their children were born – James, Ellen and Richard Greer – but had returned to Dublin at some stage.   James Norton Greer died in Dublin in 1942 and administration of his affairs was granted to policeman Henry Greer who was probably his younger brother.

William Tutty (born 1856):

William Tutty was the son of William Tutty and Margaret Grier.  William lost his mother before he was 13 years of age and spent time in the workhouse along with his widowed father.  The Irish prison records also record his serving time for malicious assault aged 19 in 1874.  He had been born in Cork Street, was Protestant, worked as a bricklayer and his last address had been at Ward’s Hill.

William Tutty (born 1856) had married twice.  Although being born to a Protestant family, his first marriage occurred in a Catholic church, St. Nicholas of Myra, on 7^th January 1881 to Ellen McEntyre the daughter of the late plumber William McEntyre.  Both bride and groom were living at 106 Francis Street in 1881.  William Tutty and Ellen McEntyre had had a son, William Tutty, at 106 Francis Street 25^th November 1880. 

First wife, Ellen, died of TB/phthisis on 10^th September 1899 and William Tutty (born 1856) of 61 Cork Street remarried on 18^th February 1900.  The wedding took place in St. Kevin’s, and the bride was the widow Catherine Fox of 86 St. Stephen’s Green South who was the daughter of currier William Handcock.  The witnesses were John Baker and Mary Anne Buckley.  Catherine Handcock’s first marriage had been to James Fox of Francis Square, the son of John Fox.

This family were living at 3 Brabazon Row in 1911.  William Tutty was a bricklayer.  With him and Catherine were Catherine’s 14-year-old daughter, Mary Fox, James Tutty aged 11, William Tutty aged 7 who had been born in the Coombe hospital on 5^th August 1903, who married Rosanna Christina Ffrench and from whom HoldstockM descends) and Susan Tutty aged 5 (Susan Tutty was born to William Tutty and Catherine Handcock at 10 Ward’s Hill on 25^th October 1905).   James Tutty had been admitted to the workhouse in 1907 aged only five – he had skin disease and his last address had been 9 Braithwaite Street.  Catherine’s 12 year old son, William Fox, died of shock on 15^th July 1906 after being hit by a tram on Victoria Quay.

In 1915 William Tutty (born 1856) was noted in the Irish prison records as being fined for having assaulted a Mary Browne.  His last known address was 2a Brabazon Row, his next of kin was his wife, Kate Tutty, and he was listed as a bricklayer.