This post follows on from the previous one....
Edwin Grogan married Isabella Courtenay, daughter of Robert Courtenay and Eliza Hudson, in Dublin in 1861. The wedding was witnessed by Robert Courtenay and James Vance. Robert Courtenay was the brother of our maternal 5 x great grandfather, Frederick Courtenay of 27 Wellington Street. James Vance was married to Robert Courtenay's daughter, Mary Alicia Courtenay.
Edwin Grogan had been born to Elizabeth Beamish and Rev. William Grogan in Dublin in about 1833.
Rev. William Grogan 1778 - 1858:
Rev. William Grogan was born in 1778 to Edward Grogan and Jane Grierson. Edward was the son of an earlier Edward Grogan of Ballytrain, Wexford.
Rev. William had a brother, John Grogan (1770 - 1832) , who was a barrister of 10 Harcourt Street, Dublin, and who married Sarah Medlicott (who died in 1819). Amongst their children was Sir Edward Grogan M.P., a barrister and MP for Dublin who was created a baronet in 1859. Another son of John Grogan and Sarah Medlicott was Rev. John Grogan who was married to Elizabeth Bourne, and who died in 12 Clyde Road, Dublin in 1899. His widow, Elizabeth, and their unmarried children were living at 21 Clyde Road in 1911 - this property was owned by the children of our great-great grandmother, Isabella Jones, who was related through marriage to the Grogan family. Elizabeth Grogan was still living here in 1922 when she died.
The Rev. William Grogan had been born to Edward and Jane Grogan in 1778. He married his first wife, Ann Saunders, the daughter of Richard Saunders of Newtown Saunders, in 1809. The same year he bought Slaney Park, Baltinglass, from Owen Saunders, whose seat was Newtown Saunders near Baltinglass. William and Ann Grogan had several children before she died young.
A son, Captain William Grogan of Baltinglass, lived from 1812 till 1887 - in the 1870s he was noted as Captain William Grogan of Baltinglass who owned 1,141 acres in neighbouring Westmeath. In 1862, Captain William Grogan of the Wicklow Militia, eldest surviving son of Rev. William Grogan of Slaney Park, married Elizabeth Mary Hackblock, daughter of John Hackblock of Reigate, Surrey.
A daughter, Anna Grogan, married Robert William Graves in 1830. Anna Graves died in 1873.
The second surviving son of Rev. Grogan was, John Grogan, who was Surgeon-Major of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, and who died at the home of his brother-in-law at Brittas Castle, Thurles Tipperary, after a few day's illness in 1866. The brother-in-law was Capt. William Knox of the 13th Dragoons who had married the youngest daughter of Rev. William Grogan, Georgiana Grogan on October 2nd 1838 in Dublin.
John Grogan lived at Rathdangan, Wicklow, and his will was proved by his widow, a Hannah Sophia Godber Grogan of 6 Charlemont Terrace, Cork.
Another son, Edward Grogan, was a lawyer of Lincolns Inn - he died in Panama in 1855 (exact date not noted) but The Limerick Chronicle noted him as the eldest son of Rev. William Grogan of Slaney Park.
Rev. William Grogan lived at Slaney Park,Baltinglass, Wicklow, and had an address in Mountjoy Square, Dublin. He owned extensive properties in Westmeath and Wicklow, approximately 455 acres.
Slaters Directory of 1846 noted Edward and William Grogan at Slaney Park, Carlow. (The property in Baltinglass straddled the Wicklow/Carlow border.)
It's unclear when Anne Saunders died, and when William married Elizabeth Beamish, Edwin Grogan's mother, but the three children of the marriage were born in the 1820s in Ireland.
It seems that Rev. William Grogan and Elizabeth divorced - in 1841, Elizabeth Grogan and her three children, Edwin, Elizabeth Jane and Henry, were living at 9 West Claremont, Edinburgh. The oldest child, Henry Grogan, had been born in Ireland in 1828; Elizabeth/Eliza Grogan, had been born in Ireland in 1830; Edwin Grogan had been born in Ireland in 1833.
A deed of 1853 (Vol, 15; Page 57) details the conveyance of an estate at Clonekilvant, Westmeath, owned by Rev. William Grogan who was selling or leasing it to Robert Courtenay. This property was still owned by Rev. William in 1855, and William's son, Edwin, was living here when he married Robert Courtenay's daughter in 1861. I accessed this deed at closing time in the Registry so only had time to scribble down the parties to the deed which refers to an earlier deed of dated 18th January 1850. The parties involved were:
1) Rev. William Grogan of Slaney Park.
2) Elizabeth Beamish, Edinburgh, Spinster.
3) Henry William Grogan, ensign, 88th Regiment of Infantry, then stationed in Kinsale, ie: in 1850.
4) Edwin Grogan, then resident with the said Elizabeth Beamish of Edinburgh, an infant of the age of 17 years, ie: in 1850.
5) Robert Courtenay, Lower Gardiner Street, Solicitor.
The witnesses at the end of the 1853 agreement were Rev. William Grogan, Robert Courtenay, Robert Courtenay Junior, apprentice, and James Wolfe.
In 1851, they were still at the same address in Edinburgh, and the mother, Elizabeth Grogan, stated that she was the wife of a landed proprietor.
Elizabeth Grogan's ex-husband, Rev. William Grogan, died on 2nd November 1858. At some stage prior to his death in 1858, he married Belinda Saunders, the third daughter of Major Richard Saunders of Newtown Saunders, Wicklow and his wife Ann Parker; Belinda must have been a relative of his first wife, Anne Saunders, possibly a sister. Belinda Grogan, who had been born in 1789, died in Blackrock, South Dublin, in 1869, and was buried in Monkstown.
The brother of Belinda Grogan was Owen Saunders who had sold Slaney Park to William Grogan in 1809. Other properties associated with the Saunders family were Largay, Co. Cavan and Ballinderry, Co. Tipperary.
By 1861 his ex-wife, Elizabeth, and her family had moved to East Villa, Dick Place, Edinburgh and Elizabeth stated that she was now the widow of a landowner.
Her son, Edwin Grogan, joined the Stirlingshire Militia. Records of his service survive - in 1858, Edwin Grogan, gentleman, who was previously a lieutenant in the 6th Regiment of Foot, was appointed lieutenant in the Sterlingshire regiment. On 17th May 1862 he was appointed Captain in the 90th or Sterlingshire Regiment, Highland Borderers, Light Infantry. On 1st February 1873, he was granted the Honorary Rank of Major.
Edwin married Isabella Courtenay, the daughter of Robert Courtenay, solicitor, and Eliza Hudson, in Dublin in 1861. Robert Courtenay was the brother of our 5 x great grandfather, Frederick Courtenay of 27 Wellington Street. A marriage notice in the Limerick Chronicle noted that Isabella Courtenay was of Upper Gloucester Street and that the groom, Edwin Grogan, was of Clonekilvant, Westmeath. A quick browse through Griffiths Valuation for 1855 confirms that Edwin's father, Rev. William Grogan, owned 25 acres of farmland in Clonickilvant. The marriage certificate of 1861 confirmed that Edwin's father was a clerk in holy orders.
Edwin's sister, Elizabeth Jane Grogan, married Isabella Courtenay's brother,the widower William Courtenay of Arklow and Gloucester Street, on 24th March 1863 in Rathfarnham, and their daughter, Mary Isabella Courtenay, would marry Rev. Gerald King Moriarty in 1896 in Co. Louth.
In the Registry of Deeds, Henrietta Street, I came across two deeds pertaining to Elizabeth Jane Grogan, in which her inheritance was settled. Both deeds bore the date March 23rd 1863, the day before her marriage to William Courtenay of Woodmount, Wicklow. (Deeds 1863-12-46 and 1863-12-47). The first of these deeds was the marriage settlement itself - the parties named were William Courtenay of Woodmount, Eliza Jane Grogan of Garville Place, Rathgar, Edwin Grogan, Captain in the Stirling Militia, and Henry Shepard of Oatlands, Wicklow, who was a landowner there and probably a friend of the family. This marriage settlement recited an earlier deed of 19th January 1850, whereby Elizabeth Jane Grogan's father, Rev. William Grogan, promised a sum of £5000, along with land at Friarstown, Wicklow, to his daughter at the time of her marriage, the money and land to be held until then in trust by her brother, Edwin Grogan, and by Henry Shepard of Oatlands. Elizabeth Jane's mother, Elizabeth Beamish, was also named as a party to this agreement.
The second deed ensured the tranferral of this land etc. to Elizabeth Jane Grogan in March 1863, and the parties to this deed were named as Elizabeth Beamish of Garville Place, Elizabeth Jane Grogan, also of Garville Place, William Courtenay of Woodmount, Edwin Grogan, and Henry Shepard of Oatlands.
I have only come across one child of the marriage of Edwin Grogan and Isabella Courtenay - their daughter Isabella Grogan married Robert Courtenay Vance, the son of James Vance and Mary Alicia Courtenay, in Dublin in 1884. Dr. James Vance, apothecary of 10 Suffolk Street, had witnessed Edwin and Isabella's 1861 wedding; Mary Alicia Courtenay seems to be a daughter of Robert Courtenay - I haven't found birth documentation for her, but an 1841 deed of marriage gives her address as Lower Gardiner Street, which is where Robert Courtenay was living at that time.
Our great-great grandmother, Isabella Jones, daughter of Emily Courtenay of Wellington Street, would later buy 55 and 56 Blessington Street from Robert Courtenay Vance.
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Edwin's wife, Isabella Courtenay, died at some stage and he married subsequently Agnes Emma Warner on 5th April 1873 in Rathmines. Once again he confirms that his father was a clerk in holy orders. Edwin's address was 138 Rathgar Road, and he was a Major in the Sterlingshire Militia. Agnes Emma lived at Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, and was the daughter of a captain in the Indian Navy, Robert Edward Warner. She had been born in Kensington, London, on 21st December 1850 to Robert Edward Warner and Margaret Urquhart. Children of this second marriage were:
Margaret Urquhart Grogan born 1874. Was known as Daisy Grogan in 1901.
Agnes Irene Grogan born in Dublin in 1876. Aka Irene Grogan.
Elizabeth Warner Grogan born Dublin 1878.
Henry William Grogan, born and died in 1880 at Royal Terrace West, Kingstown/DunLaoghaire.
Catherine May Edwin Grogan born 1882, married in 1908, John de Burgh Galwey.
Winifred Grogan/Winnie Grogan, born Kingstown 1883.
By 1901 Edwin had died (I can find no record of his death) and Agnes Emma and her unmarried daughters were living at 23 Royal Terrace West, Kingstown/DunLaoghaire. Agnes Emma, still resident at 23 Royal Terrace, died on 12th September 1911 but at Portland Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow. Her will was administered by her unmarried daughter, Margaret Urquhart Grogan, and by her daughter, Katherine May Edwin Galwey.