General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather and Margaret Carr
General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather was born on September 9th 1798, the third son of the Rev. John Pennefather and Elizabeth Percival. We descend directly from his half-brother, Edward Pennefather,...
View ArticleThe Ryan Family of Ballymackeogh, Newport, Tipperary
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...
View ArticleThe Grogan Family of Dublin, Westmeath and Wicklow
Although not closely related to them, the Grogan family of Westmeath, Dublin and Wicklow crossed paths with my own Dublin Courtenay family and with the Ryans of Ballymackeogh, Tipperary, who also...
View ArticleLouisa Willis and George Allen Proctor
Louisa Willis, the daughter of Thomas Willis and Mary Anne Newcombe of Portarlington, married George Allen Proctor, gentleman, on 26th May 1825, in St.Peter’s, Dublin, two months after the death of...
View ArticleThe Children of Alexander Farquharson and Mary Anne Creighton
Mary Anne Creighton was born circa 1822 in Portarlington to Eliza Willis and Rev. David Hill Creighton who were our maternal great-great-great grandparents. We descend directly from Mary Anne's...
View ArticleThe Bolton + Glorney Families of Dublin
The Bolton Family of Ballinastraw, Gorey, Co. Wexford, and of Dublin.Edward Parker Bolton married Helen Seyton/Seaton Farquharson, who was the daughter of Mary Anne Creighton and Alexander Farquharson,...
View ArticleThe Family of Emily Jane Dartnell, who married Rev. William Newcombe Willis
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.htmlGeorge Roger Dartnell...
View ArticleRev. John Grogan and Lizzie Bourne, Balrothery and Clyde Road
I recently came across the accounts book which had been kept by Rev. John Grogan, Vicar of Balrothery and of Clyde Road, Dublin (2nd September 1816 - 28th December 1899). He kept an assiduous record...
View ArticleNotes on the Family of Frances Grattan of Drummin, Kildare
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...
View ArticleWilliam 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 ArticleJamiesons of Donaghadee, Co. Down
This post is merely a collation of information on the Jamieson/Jamison/Jameson families of rural Donaghadee. We descend from a Robert Jamieson of Ballyhay, Donaghadee, but it's unclear whether all...
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