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Notes on the Family of Frances Grattan of Drummin, Kildare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


Notes On Rev. John Thomas Willis:

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

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

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

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

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

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











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