William A. Stewart, 1829 - 3rd October 1881, and Margaret Burke
William A. Stewart (1826 - 3rd December 1881) and Margaret Burke:William A. Stewart was born in 1826 to the farmer Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy, Comber, Co. Down. His mother may have been Ann...
View ArticleFroods, Supples, Forsters, Halls, Courtenays etc...
This is one of those rambling posts about families I'm only vaguely related to. I used online records, primarily the Irish Census and the Wills Calendars, freely available on the National Archives...
View ArticleMargaret Boyle, daughter of Henry Boyle and Mary O'Brien
We descend directly on my mother's side from Margaret Boyle and Joseph Deane of Crumlin who married in 1715. Margaret Boyle was the daughter of the Honorable Henry Boyle and Mary O'Brien....
View ArticleThe Family of Gilbert Tarleton and Marie Louise Charlotte de Laval of...
This is a continuation of an earlier post about the Willis/Laval families of Portarlington, and explores the line of descent of Marie Louise Charlotte de Laval and Gilbert...
View ArticleThe Biddulph Family of Rathrobin and Vicarstown
In 1788, Richard Grattan the Elder, of Drummin, Kildare, married Elizabeth Biddulph, the eldest daughter of Francis Biddulph of Vicarstown, Queen's County, and of Eliza Harrison....
View ArticleThe Newcombe Family of Geashill
This post concerns the family of Mary Anne Newcombe, daughter of Benjamin Newcombe and of his first wife, Martha/Marthe Beauchamp. Mary Anne Newcombe was the third wife of our immediate maternal...
View ArticleThe Gale Family of Queen's County and Carlow
I've decided to do a post about the Gales of Ashfield/Valleyfield on the Carlow/Laois border, simply because of a suspected early family link to these people. Our paternal great-grandmother was...
View ArticleGeorge and Ann White, parents of Eliza White who married Edward Pennefather
I'm indebted to Lee-Anne Taylor of Queensland who shared her incredible research into our common ancestry with me - without her invaluable and detailed input, I would never have found out anything...
View ArticleAmelia Allen of Galbally and John Chamberlain of Garryheakin, Limerick
Our paternal great-great grandparents were Henry Thomas Culbert (1848 - 1903) and Anne Allen (1848 - 1911) of Galbally, who married in Galbally, Limerick on 3rd October 1869. Anne Allen was the...
View ArticlePotted Genealogy of the Grattan Family
This post follows on from earlier posts I've done on the Grattan family of Kildare and Offaly, and their links to Hon. Henry Grattan. I've taken genealogical notes taken from, amongst others, The...
View ArticleThe Williams of Kinsale, Bantry and Macroom
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....
View ArticleJohn and Thomas Williams of Grafton Street and Lower Sackville Street
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...
View ArticleThe Perceval Family
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...
View ArticleThe Family of Maria Emily Baskin, daughter of Robert Baskin and Kate Ringwood
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,...
View ArticleThe Wilton Family of Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
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...
View ArticleAndrew and Mary Hall of Moynalty, Co. Meath
Adelaide Anne Courtenay, baptised 10th August 1831, born at 47 Moore Street, was the daughter of Frederick and Mary Courtenay....
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The Keating Family of Ballyhay, Donaghadee
William John Anderson married Agnes Keating in Belfast city in 1877. They were the grandparents of my paternal grandmother, Agnes Keating Wilson/aka...
View ArticleSome McCullough Families of Moneyreagh, Co. Down
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...
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The Stewart Family of Crossnacreevy, Comber, Co. Down
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...
View ArticleThe Courtenay Family of Ballyedmond and Dublin
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...
View ArticleDNA Links to the Stewart Family
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...
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The Descendants of William Anderson (1804 - 1892) and Sarah Fay (1804 - 1887)...
William Anderson (1804 - 28th January 1892) and Sarah Fay (1804 - 1887) :Our paternal great-grandparents were Edward Leviolett Wilson (1872 – 1953) and Agnes Jane Anderson (1881 – 1961) of Belfast –...
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JAMES CORNWALL (1826 – 1888) AND AGNES STEWART (1827 – 1911)
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...
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Lucinda Stewart and James McCartney
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...
View ArticleThe Tutty Family
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...
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