Updated Williams Genealogy
Having re-read my earlier post on the origins of our Dublin Williams family, I've decided to re-write it in a tidier form, along with additional information and clarifications kindly sent on to me by...
View ArticleThe Woolsey Family of Castlebellingham
Researching this post has been a nightmare! These people are so interconnected and bewildering that it's taken FOREVER to figure them out.However, the Woolsey/Palmer conglomeration had stronger links...
View ArticleHenri-Robert d'Ully de Laval - Letter from Prison
Viscount Henri Robert d'Ully de Laval settled in Portarlington, Co. Laois, following his escape from catholic France at the end of the 17th century. His great granddaughter, Deborah Charlotte...
View ArticleThomas Williams and Mary Anne Quin - Links to Castlebellingham
I'm currently exploring the links between Thomas Williams of the Bank of Ireland and Castlebellingham, Co. Louth. It's complicated and I'll add more as I find it.Thomas Williams, father of Charles Wye...
View ArticleMary Courtenay and Herbert Gilman Moore
Mary Courtenay was the sister of our great-great-great grandmother, Emily Courtenay, both women being the daughter of Frederick and Mary Courtenay of Wellington Street.Mary Courtenay married Herbert...
View ArticleJulia Pennefather, daughter of Joseph Lysaght Pennefather
Julia Elizabeth Clare Pennefather ( c.1833 - 1875) was the daughter of the Tipperary-born barrister, Joseph Lysaght Pennefather, and of his first wife, Elizabeth Rea, of Barnwood, Gloucestershire....
View ArticleThe Family of Mary Lavina Pennefather and Rev. John Hare
This post illustrates the incredible intermarrying of Anglo-Irish families in the Victorian era- it could be a book in itself, but I had to stop somewhere!Matthew Pennefather of New Park, Tipperary...
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William Henry Cuthbert and Elizabeth McManus Grattan
Our maternal great-grandmother was Rebecca Cuthbert who married Robert Stewart. Her brother, William Henry Cuthbert married Elizabeth McManus Grattan on February 22nd 1898 in St.Werburgh's, Dublin....
View ArticleAnne Cuthbert, née Allen, of Galbally, Limerick
Robert Stewart and Rebecca Cuthbert were our paternal great-grandparents, and the parents of our grandfather, Bertie Stewart.Robert Stewart, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Stewart, married Rebecca...
View ArticleWilliam Philip Allen
This post is a continuation of the previous one, in which I explore the Protestant Allen families of Galbally, North Limerick and of southern Tipperary.Robert Allen, the father of our great-great...
View ArticleSarah Anderson and James Barbour of Derry
Sarah Anderson was the daughter of our great-great-great grandparents, the Antrim-born schoolmaster, John Anderson and his wife, Jane Willson Blair. Sarah's brother was William John Anderson, born...
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James M. Orr, Watchmaker, and Jane Stewart, Belfast and Philadelphia
The four daughters of Joseph Stewart and Elizabeth Madine - Emily Jane, Louisa Helen, Mary Elizabeth and Catherine - travelled from Liverpool to Philadelphia aboard the 'Haverford', arriving there in...
View ArticleThe Children of Willis Creighton Williams and Kate O'Neill
The Children of Willis Creighton Williams and Kate O'Neill. Births Death Marriages etc...(and this is one of those posts that I'll add information to as I get my hands on it.)1)Willis Creighton...
View ArticleMaria Culbert and John Thomas Gale
Henry Culbert/Cuthbert and Anne Allen were our paternal great-great grandparents - their daughter, Rebecca Culbert/Cuthbert married Robert Stewart, and Rebecca and Robert Stewart were the parents of...
View ArticleThe Family of John Thomas Gale of Laois, Carlow and Limerick
The father of the teacher, John Thomas Gale (1839 - 1913), who married, on 21st May 1861, Maria Culbert (1840 -1911), was William Gale of the neighbouring counties of Laois and Carlow. Maria Culbert...
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Edward Leviolette Wilson and Agnes Jane Anderson
Edward Leviolette Wilson was born on 19th August 1872 in Edenderry, Portadown, Co. Armagh, to the grocer, Edward Wilson and Elizabeth Hinds. His father, Edward, may have been working as a spirit...
View ArticleThe Moore Family of Rosscarbery, Part Two
This is a continuation of an earlier post; I'll add more as I find it....http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/11/moore-family-of-rosscarbery.htmlSir Emanuel Moore, the 9th Baronet, was born in 1786...
View ArticleThe Children of Frederick and Mary Courtenay of 27 Wellington Street, Dublin
This post is to help clarify and decipher the Courtenay family. Frederick and Mary Courtenay were our maternal great-great-great-great grandparents. It seems that Frederick was the son of the...
View ArticleThomas Courtenay and Mary Brown, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham
Notes on Thomas Courtenay who witnessed the wedding of Sabina Jane Moore and Walter John Woodward in Dublin in 1877:From the LDS site: Sergeant Thomas Courtenay, born St. Andrews, Dublin, on 26th...
View ArticleMore Courtenay marriages...
This post concerns further details on Courtenay intermarriages. I'll add to it if I find more.During a recent visit to the Registry of Deeds in Henrietta Street, Dublin, I came across a deed of...
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