The Ryans of Ballymackeogh were the Tipperary neighbours of our maternal ancestors, the Pennefathers of Newport; because they intermarried with both the Pennefathers and possibly also the Lysaght family of Mountnorth, I'm doing a post about them.
Although of an ancient Irish family, they were Protestant, which is only of importance in the sense that it makes it easier to distinguish them from other Tipperary Ryan families who were mostly Catholic.
The earliest known member of this Ryan family in Tipperary was William Ryan, whose son, Daniel, married Honor Ewer, the daughter of a Cromwellian soldier, John Ewer, who had been granted land by Charles II in 1666-1667.
Daniel Ryan died in 1731, leaving the following children:
Anthony, George, Elizabeth Ryan who married Edward Lee of Barna, Tipperary, Anne Ryan who married Edmond Griffin, Mary, and the eldest son, William Ryan. (Note: Barna is immediately adjacent to Ballymackeogh and Newport, and the Lee family were prominent there.)
On 27th September 1707 in Clare, William Ryan, gentleman, of Ballymackeogh, married Catherine Magie, alias Elmore, and the bondsmen were Daniel Ryan of Ballymackeogh and Francis Ryan of Co. Clare. It's unclear which William Ryan this was - he was possibly the son and successor of Daniel Ryan who later married, secondly, Elizabeth Newstead. It's interesting to see the connection with Co. Clare.
In 1725, William Ryan, the son of Daniel Ryan and Honor Ewer, married Elizabeth Newsteed, the daughter of Richard Newstead of Ballybough, Tipperary. She died in 1765. Their children were:
Richard, William Ryan who married a Miss Bradsham, George Ryan who married one of the Lysaght family in the 1750's, Anne who married John Ewer, Elizabeth who married Solomon Cambic of Tipperary, and the eldest son, Ewer Ryan.
Ewer Ryan (1730 - 1802), the oldest son of William Ryan and Elizabeth Newstead, married, in 1754, Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard McGrath of Lisduff, Tipperary. In 1799, Ewer Ryan had a property in French Street, Dublin. The children of Ewer Ryan and Elizabeth McGrath were George, John, Anthony, Richard, Rickard, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Bridget, and Ewer's successor, William Ryan.
William Ryan and Anne Pennefather of Ballymackeogh:
The Tithe Books of 1832 showed up William Ryan in Ballymackeogh, Kilvellane, Tipperary, along with a Denis Ryan and a Michael Ryan. (The names 'Denis' and 'Michael' are generally Catholic names, so are probably not related.)
In 1814, Ewer's son and heir, William Ryan, married Anne Pennefather (born September 27th 1791 in Newport - Dec 10th 1863), the daughter of our immediate ancestor, Rev. John Pennefather and Mary Percival. (We descend via Anne's half-brother, Edward Pennefather.)
The marriage settlement was dated 8th September 1814 and involved four separate parties. The first party was William Ryan, eldest son of Ewer Ryan; the second party was Henry Lee of Barna, Rev. William Lee, Kingsmill Pennefather of Lacklands (ie: Newport), and Henry Vansittart of Bisham Abbey, England, all trustees; the third party was David and Saul Baldwin of Stradbally, Queen's County, William Pennefather of Cork, and Westby Percival of the Royal Navy; the fourth party comprised Rev. John Pennefather of Lacklands and his daughter Anne Pennefather. Rev. John Pennefather paid £3000 to William Ryan accordingly.
Anne Ryan, née Pennefather, made her will 4th June 1852 at Lower Mount Street, Dublin, and the executrixes of her will were named as her three unmarried daughters, Clare, Mary Anne and Laura/Louisa Ryan. The witnesses to her will were the solicitor, Joseph Lysaght Pennefather, who was her brother, and William Ryan.
The children of William Ryan and Anne Pennefather were:
1) William Ryan (born 1st December 1815, died 13th February 1890) of Ballymackeogh who married Jane Grogan (1808 -1895) in 1842. See below.
2) John Ryan, solicitor; in 1843 John Ryan married his first cousin, Louisa Ricarda Pennefather (born 1821), who was the daughter of Kingsmill Pennefather and Frances Elizabeth Hall. They lived in Dublin at 66 Lower Mount Street or at 56 Lower Mount Street.
Their children were William Ewer Ryan, John Pennefather Ryan (born in Lower Mount Street on 6th March 1847), Frances-Elizabeth Ryan (born at Lower Mount Street on 31st May 1848) and Louisa Mary Ryan.
The oldest son, William Ewer Ryan, was a cleric - in 1891 he was resident as the Vicar of Pilton in Devon, and was sharing the vicarage with his widowed mother, Louisa Ricarda Ryan, née Pennefather. Next door to them in Orchard House was Townshend Monckton Hall, a widower who'd been born in Torquay in 1845 to an earlier Vicar of Pilton, Rev. William Craddock Hall who was the first cousin of William Ewer Ryan's mother.
John Pennefather Ryan (1847 - 1927), the son of John Ryan and Louisa Ricarda Pennefather, died in Brisbane, Australia. He had been born and educated in Dublin and attended the Royal College of Surgeons there. He worked firstly in an English hospital and then as a doctor aboard an emigrant ship to Argentina, before emigrating to Australia in 1874 where he worked as a medical officer. He married Miss Bliss of Gumple in 1877, and left five children, including the solicitor Guy Ryan, Mrs. Llewelyn Stephens, Mrs. A. Henderson and Mrs. R.P. Stumm.
3) George Henry Ryan, a surgeon in the Royal Navy who died without issue. On 1st January 1855, he was appointed surgeon to the 'Agamemnon'.
4) Robert Percival Ryan.
5) Elizabeth Ryan.
6) Maryanne Ryan.
7) Edward Ryan.
8) Clare Ryan. She made her will on 18th July 1890. The executor was her nephew, Charles Arthur Ryan; the beneficiaries were her sisters, Mary Anne and Laura Ryan; also mentioned was her grandniece and godchild, Anna Alice Drew who was the daughter of her niece, Anna Alicia, and a second grandniece, Jeanette Louisa Clare Maunsell who was the daughter of her other niece, Jeanette Maunsell.
9) Laura Ryan, born circa 1838. Sometimes noted as Louisa Ryan, she was mentioned in both her mother's and her sister's wills. In 1901 she was living with her nephew at Ballymackeogh, Charles Arthur Ryan.
William Ryan and Jane Grogan:
William Ryan, the oldest son of William Ryan and Anne Pennefather, was born on 1st December 1815, and married, on the 29th November 1842, Jane Grogan (1808 -1895).
Jane Grogan of Harcourt Street, Dublin was the second daughter of John Grogan and the sister of Sir Edward Grogan. The couple were married in the British Embassy in Paris on 24th November 1842, the ceremony being performed by Jane's brother, the Rev. Charles James Grogan of Harcourt Street and of Dunleckney, Carlow. William Ryan was later nominated as the executor of this brother's 1887 will.
An obituary from the Limerick city archives noted the death in Leeson Street, Dublin, of Sarah, the widow of Anthony Dopping. Sarah Dopping (1804 - 1870) was Jane Grogan's sister; Anthony Dopping was of Colemolyn, Co. Meath, and predeceased his wife.
A census fragment for 7th April 1861 survived and noted several members of the family at Ballymackeogh, namely, Jane Ryan and her three daughters, Anna, Elizabeth and Antoinette, along with an uncle, Anthony Ryan. It was noted that William Ryan, Charles Ryan and Jeannette Ryan were absent and resident in Kingstown, Dublin.
The children of William Ryan and Jane Grogan were:
1) William Edward Ryan, born 24th March 1851.
2) Charles Arthur Ryan, born 7th November 1853, and died in Dublin in August 1929 - his wife was Mary, the daughter of Captain Henry Ormsby-Rose, who he married on 24th February 1903 in Dublin.
3) Anne Alicia Susanna Ryan.
4) Elizabeth Ryan.
5) Jeannette Ryan.
6) Antoinette Jane Ryan, born circa 1856, she died on 4th June 1903 at 67 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin. Previously, in 1901, she was living with her older brother, Charles Arthur Ryan, at Ballymackeogh, along with her paternal aunt, Laura Ryan.