This post links to my earlier post about the family of Thomas Willis of Portarlington...
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/01/children-of-thomas-willis-schoolmaster.html
George Roger Dartnell operated as a prominent solicitor in Limerick city - he was noted as the secretary of the Freemasons in 1847, with an address at 98 George's Street. He had been born in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, in 1779, and was christened later on 18th September 1782. His parents were Edward Dartnell of Rathkeale (1727 - 18th August 1799) and Elizabeth Greatorex, who had married on 14th December 1763.
George married Rose Frewen, the daughter of Thomas Frewen and Mary Taylor, on 30th July 1807, in Limerick Cathedral.
George Dartnell died at 1 Richmond Place, Limerick, on 28th May 1862 - his will was administered by his son-in-law Rev. William Newcombe Willis of Kilpeacon Glebe, and by his son, George Alps Dartnell of Ballyartney, Co. Clare. George's widow, Rose Dartnell, died later in March 1870 at 3 Wellington Terrace, the home of their son, George Alps Dartnell.
A sister of George Dartnell, Lucinda Dartnell, died at the home of her nephew, John Fraser of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, on 5th July 1854. John Fraser's mother was yet another - unnamed - sister of George Dartnell, who had married Captain George Fraser of Mitchelstown, and who herself died there on 22nd July 1851. Another of the Dartnell sisters, Ellen, was married to Peter Hands of Shannon Bridge - she died there in March 1858.
George also had a brother, John Dartnell of Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, who had married Alice Russell of Limerick city in 1792. John Dartnell had operated in Limerick as, first, a woollen or linen merchant, and then as an accountant. John Russell died on 13th December 1820. His son was the watercolour painter, George Russell Dartnell, who had been born on 20th July 1800 in Limerick, and who was also noted as the Deputy Inspector of Hospitals - he subsequently emigrated to Canada and died there on 22nd July 1878. Another son was Abraham Dartnell. There was also a son, Edward Russell Dartnell, who settled at Newcastle, immediately adjacent to Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, and whose son, John Loder Dartnell, died aged 22, in the Guanape Islands, Peru, on 22nd May 1852. Edward Russell Dartnell was married to a woman named Mary (Loder?) who died at Merville, Clontarf, Co. Dublin, in May 1878.
Yet another son of John Dartnell of Rathkeale was Nelson Dartnell who died in Calcutta, India, in April 1857. He was the surgeon of the 53rd regiment, and was noted as the brother of Mr. Dartnell of Rathkeale, and of George R. Dartnell, Deputy Inspector of Hospitals. Nelson Dartnell married in Madras, Caroline Chester, the daughter of the chaplain, Rev. W. Chester, on 7th October 1834.
A daughter of John Dartnell and Alice Russell was possibly Millina Dartnell who married James Fitzgerald of Rathkeale, and who died in Taylor Street, Limerick, in 1832.
The Children of George Dartnell, solicitor of 98 George's St., Limerick:
1) The eldest son of George Dartnell of 98 George's St., Limerick, was Edward Taylor Dartnell (1807 - 1892), who operated alongside his father as a solicitor in Limerick, before emigrating to St. Mary's, Toronto, in 1850. Edward Taylor Dartnell was married by Rev. Arthur Guinness in St. Thomas's, Dublin, on 2nd July 1832, to Catherine Coote, the widowed daughter of Gilbert Henry Flemying of Lower Gloucester Street, Dublin. Edward died in Kingston, Ontario, on 2nd February 1892.
Edward Taylor Dartnell had a daughter, Sarah Jane, who died young in October 1841 in Limerick.
A second daughter of Edward Taylor Dartnell, Kate Rose Dartnell, stayed in Ireland where she married on 26th August 1862, in St. Stephen's, Dublin, Robert Marony, a lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of Foot, the son of Burdett Marony of Co. Clare. Both bride and groom were living at 17 Adelaide Rd., Co. Dublin, and the was H.R. Marindin. This was Major Henry Richard Marindin who had been married to Kate Rose Dartnell's aunt, Elizabeth Jane Dartnell, who would die five years later in July 1867 in Vevay, Switzerland. The Limerick Dartnells and the Clare Moronys (various spellings) intermarried extensively....
The son of Edward Taylor Dartnell was the Canadian judge, George Henry Frewen Dartnell....
"Judge George Henry Frewen Dartnell was born on Feb. 13 1834 in the city of Limerick, Ireland. He was the son of Edward Taylor Dartnell, a prominent Irish solicitor, who came to Canada in 1850 and settled in Toronto.
George Dartnell studied at King's College, London, England and continued his education under the tuition of his father. He first studied law under Chief Justice Hagarty in Toronto, and with John Hillyard Cameron, a noted Toronto lawyer. He was admitted to the Bar in 1857.
In 1858 he formed a partnership at Whitby with H.J. MacDonell and Hector Cameron Q.C. and was appointed Master of Chancery in 1859. In 1873 he became Junior Judge of Ontario County and Senior Judge in 1896.
In his early years, George Dartnell was sub-editor of the Daily Patriot, the first daily paper issued in Toronto, and for 18 years, served on the Whitby School Board. He was chairman of the Board for 9 years.
Judge Dartnell was very much involved in Masonic activities. He was a senior deacon of the Grand Lodge of Canada and district grand master and representative in the Grand Lodge of Cuba and Ceylon.
He was also the first Master of a Blue Lodge at Uxbridge.
Judge Dartnell was president of the local St. Patrick's Society, president of the Whitby Cricket Club, and Patron of the Whitby Curling Club.
He was a military man also, having served during the Fenian raids of 1866, and during the "Trent Affair" of 1861, he organized a company of volunteer militia at Whitby, of which he was appointed Captain.
Judge Dartnell received his first and second class certificates at the Military School at Toronto, and commanded his company at Niagara Falls during the Fenian raids. Their duty was to stand guard at the suspension bridge linking Canada with the United States, across the Niagara River.
He rose to the rank of Major and later Lieutenant Colonel, and acted as a musketry instructor for militia training camps at Niagara.
Judge Dartnell was married twice, first to Louisa Hawke, and second, in 1873, to Caroline Gross.
In politics, he was a Conservative, and in religion, a member of the Church of England.
Judge Dartnell died on Feb. 2nd, 1899....During his term of office, he was recognized by his contemporaries as "one of the ablest, fairest and most judicious judges in Ontario." ' (From the Whitby Free Press of 1976.)
2) The 2nd daughter of George Dartnell of George's St, was Anna-Maria Dartnell (10th June 1809 - 7th November 1889) who married Thomas Morony.
3) Another daughter of George Dartnell was Rose Dartnell (1810 - 1863), who had been named after her mother, and who married, as his first wife, Charles John Whyte of Loughbrickland, Co. Down.
4) George Alps Dartnell, a son, who lived at Ballyartney, Co Clare in 1862, and who had an address at The Retreat, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, in 1880. His wife's name was Charlotte.
5) A daughter, Elizabeth Jane Dartnell (1814 - 17th July 1867), married Major Henry Richard Marindin in Limerick on 27th October 1836 - she died in Vevay, Switzerland, in July 1867. He died at the Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris, on 26th December 1877, and one of the beneficiaries of his will was the unmarried Rose Caroline Dartnell.
6) Emily Dartnell (1816 - 1816).
7) Emily Jane Dartnell (24th May 1818 - 28th Feb. 1889) who married our ancestor, Rev. William Newcombe Willis.
8) An unmarried daughter of George Dartnell, Dorothea Susannah Dartnell, died in Limerick in 1892. She had been born in Limerick in 1820.
9) Yet another daughter of George Dartnell, Eleanor Lucinda Dartnell(1821 or 1822 - 5th August 1911) married Robert Burdett Morony of Miltown House, Co. Clare, on 11th June 1847.
10) Thomas William Dartnell (before 1825 - 12th May 1862).
11) Rev. Richard Waller Dartnell (July 1825 - 19th February 1893).
12) Caroline Otway Dartnell (12th November 1827 - circa 1832).
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/01/children-of-thomas-willis-schoolmaster.html
George Roger Dartnell operated as a prominent solicitor in Limerick city - he was noted as the secretary of the Freemasons in 1847, with an address at 98 George's Street. He had been born in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, in 1779, and was christened later on 18th September 1782. His parents were Edward Dartnell of Rathkeale (1727 - 18th August 1799) and Elizabeth Greatorex, who had married on 14th December 1763.
George married Rose Frewen, the daughter of Thomas Frewen and Mary Taylor, on 30th July 1807, in Limerick Cathedral.
George Dartnell died at 1 Richmond Place, Limerick, on 28th May 1862 - his will was administered by his son-in-law Rev. William Newcombe Willis of Kilpeacon Glebe, and by his son, George Alps Dartnell of Ballyartney, Co. Clare. George's widow, Rose Dartnell, died later in March 1870 at 3 Wellington Terrace, the home of their son, George Alps Dartnell.
A sister of George Dartnell, Lucinda Dartnell, died at the home of her nephew, John Fraser of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, on 5th July 1854. John Fraser's mother was yet another - unnamed - sister of George Dartnell, who had married Captain George Fraser of Mitchelstown, and who herself died there on 22nd July 1851. Another of the Dartnell sisters, Ellen, was married to Peter Hands of Shannon Bridge - she died there in March 1858.
George also had a brother, John Dartnell of Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, who had married Alice Russell of Limerick city in 1792. John Dartnell had operated in Limerick as, first, a woollen or linen merchant, and then as an accountant. John Russell died on 13th December 1820. His son was the watercolour painter, George Russell Dartnell, who had been born on 20th July 1800 in Limerick, and who was also noted as the Deputy Inspector of Hospitals - he subsequently emigrated to Canada and died there on 22nd July 1878. Another son was Abraham Dartnell. There was also a son, Edward Russell Dartnell, who settled at Newcastle, immediately adjacent to Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, and whose son, John Loder Dartnell, died aged 22, in the Guanape Islands, Peru, on 22nd May 1852. Edward Russell Dartnell was married to a woman named Mary (Loder?) who died at Merville, Clontarf, Co. Dublin, in May 1878.
Yet another son of John Dartnell of Rathkeale was Nelson Dartnell who died in Calcutta, India, in April 1857. He was the surgeon of the 53rd regiment, and was noted as the brother of Mr. Dartnell of Rathkeale, and of George R. Dartnell, Deputy Inspector of Hospitals. Nelson Dartnell married in Madras, Caroline Chester, the daughter of the chaplain, Rev. W. Chester, on 7th October 1834.
A daughter of John Dartnell and Alice Russell was possibly Millina Dartnell who married James Fitzgerald of Rathkeale, and who died in Taylor Street, Limerick, in 1832.
The Children of George Dartnell, solicitor of 98 George's St., Limerick:
1) The eldest son of George Dartnell of 98 George's St., Limerick, was Edward Taylor Dartnell (1807 - 1892), who operated alongside his father as a solicitor in Limerick, before emigrating to St. Mary's, Toronto, in 1850. Edward Taylor Dartnell was married by Rev. Arthur Guinness in St. Thomas's, Dublin, on 2nd July 1832, to Catherine Coote, the widowed daughter of Gilbert Henry Flemying of Lower Gloucester Street, Dublin. Edward died in Kingston, Ontario, on 2nd February 1892.
Edward Taylor Dartnell had a daughter, Sarah Jane, who died young in October 1841 in Limerick.
A second daughter of Edward Taylor Dartnell, Kate Rose Dartnell, stayed in Ireland where she married on 26th August 1862, in St. Stephen's, Dublin, Robert Marony, a lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of Foot, the son of Burdett Marony of Co. Clare. Both bride and groom were living at 17 Adelaide Rd., Co. Dublin, and the was H.R. Marindin. This was Major Henry Richard Marindin who had been married to Kate Rose Dartnell's aunt, Elizabeth Jane Dartnell, who would die five years later in July 1867 in Vevay, Switzerland. The Limerick Dartnells and the Clare Moronys (various spellings) intermarried extensively....
The son of Edward Taylor Dartnell was the Canadian judge, George Henry Frewen Dartnell....
"Judge George Henry Frewen Dartnell was born on Feb. 13 1834 in the city of Limerick, Ireland. He was the son of Edward Taylor Dartnell, a prominent Irish solicitor, who came to Canada in 1850 and settled in Toronto.
George Dartnell studied at King's College, London, England and continued his education under the tuition of his father. He first studied law under Chief Justice Hagarty in Toronto, and with John Hillyard Cameron, a noted Toronto lawyer. He was admitted to the Bar in 1857.
In 1858 he formed a partnership at Whitby with H.J. MacDonell and Hector Cameron Q.C. and was appointed Master of Chancery in 1859. In 1873 he became Junior Judge of Ontario County and Senior Judge in 1896.
In his early years, George Dartnell was sub-editor of the Daily Patriot, the first daily paper issued in Toronto, and for 18 years, served on the Whitby School Board. He was chairman of the Board for 9 years.
Judge Dartnell was very much involved in Masonic activities. He was a senior deacon of the Grand Lodge of Canada and district grand master and representative in the Grand Lodge of Cuba and Ceylon.
He was also the first Master of a Blue Lodge at Uxbridge.
Judge Dartnell was president of the local St. Patrick's Society, president of the Whitby Cricket Club, and Patron of the Whitby Curling Club.
He was a military man also, having served during the Fenian raids of 1866, and during the "Trent Affair" of 1861, he organized a company of volunteer militia at Whitby, of which he was appointed Captain.
Judge Dartnell received his first and second class certificates at the Military School at Toronto, and commanded his company at Niagara Falls during the Fenian raids. Their duty was to stand guard at the suspension bridge linking Canada with the United States, across the Niagara River.
He rose to the rank of Major and later Lieutenant Colonel, and acted as a musketry instructor for militia training camps at Niagara.
Judge Dartnell was married twice, first to Louisa Hawke, and second, in 1873, to Caroline Gross.
In politics, he was a Conservative, and in religion, a member of the Church of England.
Judge Dartnell died on Feb. 2nd, 1899....During his term of office, he was recognized by his contemporaries as "one of the ablest, fairest and most judicious judges in Ontario." ' (From the Whitby Free Press of 1976.)
2) The 2nd daughter of George Dartnell of George's St, was Anna-Maria Dartnell (10th June 1809 - 7th November 1889) who married Thomas Morony.
3) Another daughter of George Dartnell was Rose Dartnell (1810 - 1863), who had been named after her mother, and who married, as his first wife, Charles John Whyte of Loughbrickland, Co. Down.
4) George Alps Dartnell, a son, who lived at Ballyartney, Co Clare in 1862, and who had an address at The Retreat, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, in 1880. His wife's name was Charlotte.
5) A daughter, Elizabeth Jane Dartnell (1814 - 17th July 1867), married Major Henry Richard Marindin in Limerick on 27th October 1836 - she died in Vevay, Switzerland, in July 1867. He died at the Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris, on 26th December 1877, and one of the beneficiaries of his will was the unmarried Rose Caroline Dartnell.
6) Emily Dartnell (1816 - 1816).
7) Emily Jane Dartnell (24th May 1818 - 28th Feb. 1889) who married our ancestor, Rev. William Newcombe Willis.
8) An unmarried daughter of George Dartnell, Dorothea Susannah Dartnell, died in Limerick in 1892. She had been born in Limerick in 1820.
9) Yet another daughter of George Dartnell, Eleanor Lucinda Dartnell(1821 or 1822 - 5th August 1911) married Robert Burdett Morony of Miltown House, Co. Clare, on 11th June 1847.
10) Thomas William Dartnell (before 1825 - 12th May 1862).
11) Rev. Richard Waller Dartnell (July 1825 - 19th February 1893).
12) Caroline Otway Dartnell (12th November 1827 - circa 1832).