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 Nessie.

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Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870) and his (probable) brother William Keating (1801 - 1885):

Agnes Keating, who married William John Anderson in 1877, descended from the Keating family of Ballyhay.

The earliest identifiable member of her Keating family, who cluster in the Ballyhay townland immediately west of Donaghadee town, Co. Down, is Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870), Agnes Keating's grandfather, who was born in 1799 and who farmed in the Donaghadee townland of Ballyhay  - he is commemorated by a headstone in Donaghadee Church of Ireland churchyard. Some of the inscription is illegible:
 
  'Erected by Agnes, Susanna and Thomas Keating of Ballyhay in memory of their father Samuel Keating who died 5th Novr. 1870 aged 71 years.  Also their brother William Keating who died 2(1)st Dec (18)60 aged 31 years. Also their mother Margaret (Keating) who died....Also (Susanna) who died...'

So Agnes Keating's grandparents were Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870) and Margaret Keating (1797 - 1878) of Ballyhay, Donaghadee. There was a second Keating family  and both seem to be interlinked - one had its origins in our Samuel Keating and the other in William Keating (1801 - 1885).  The two men were contemporary and were most likely brothers, both having had very strong links with the Ballyhay townland just outside of Donaghadee.

A lease dated 29th April 1823 for Killaughey, Donaghadee, the townland which immediately adjoins Ballyhay, was made between Sir James Bristow and a John Keating, and was for the three lives of John Keating, Eliza Keating and Susanna Keating.

The Tithe Applotment Books for the area were drawn up in 1834, and reveal Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870) farming 3 acres in Ballyhay.

Margaret Keating, the widow of a farmer (ie: Samuel Keating) died aged 81 on 11th September 1878 at 1 & 3 Third Street;  her daughter Susanna Keating was present at her death.

The known children of farmer Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870), and wife Margaret (1797 - 1878):

1) Agnes Keating, born 1824, and mentioned above on the headstone.  In 1901 she was living with her sister, Margaret McCully, at 21 My Lady's Road, Belfast.

2) Susanna Keating (1831 - 1883)  Mentioned on the family headstone, Susanna was present at 1 & 3 Third Street on 11th September 1878 when her mother, Margaret Keating, died there.  Susanna herself died aged 52 at 1 Third Street on 2nd November 1883 - this was registered by her brother Thomas Keating who follows.

3) Thomas, born 1820s and mentioned on the headstone. He was the Thomas Keating, grocer, who was living at 1 and 3 Third Street, Belfast in the 1870s - on 1st February 1878, his niece, Margaret Jane McCully was born at his house, 3 Third Street, to shoemaker, George McCully and Margaret Keating.

4) William born 1829, died 1860, as named on the family headstone.

5) Samuel Keating Jr  (our immediate ancestor), born circa 1833 - 26th February 1895. See below.

6) John Keating (1837 - 4th February 1912) , son of farmer Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870) and Margaret of Ballyhay:

On November 5th 1859, John Keating, the son of Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870) of Ballyhay, married Ann Jane Keating, the daughter of William Keating (1801 - 1885) of Ballyhay.  This was witnessed by Samuel Keating and Mary Gordon.  The bride and groom seem to be first cousins.

The children of John Keating and Ann Jane Keating include:

a) Samuel Keating,  born in Ballyhay on 1st April 1864; in 1864, John Keating was working as a farmer in Ballyhay.  In Ballycopeland in 1884, a Samuel Keating, labourer/carter of Ballyhay, son of labourer John Keating, married Mary Kerr of Ballyhay, daughter of carpenter William Kerr.  A son, Victor, was born to the couple in Killaughy Street, Donaghadee, on 14th July 1899; a son Samuel Keating was born at Drumawhey on 1st December 1888.

b) Susanna Keating born in Ballyhay on 2nd January 1867.

c) Eliza Letitia Keating, born 8th Jan 1868 in Ballyhay.

d) Margaret born in Ballyhay on 28th July 1870 - I believe this was the Maggie Keating, daughter of shopman, John Keating, who married William McClelland of Cottown, Bangor, son of James McClelland, on 10th July 1891 in Ballygrainy, Bangor; the witnesses were William St. George Keating, nephew of Anne Jane and John Keating, and a Maggie Cooper.

e) John born in Ballyhay on 8th February 1873.

f) William Thomas Keating  -  on 10th September 1890 in Ballycopeland, Donaghadee, William Thomas Keating, son of carman John Keating of Ballyhay, married Jane Strain of Ballyhay, daughter of farmer Alexander Strain of Ballyhay. The witnesses were James Strain and Agnes Crothers.
William Thomas Keating and Jane Strain settled in Cottown, Bangor, Co. Down.
The 1901 shows up their children - William born circa 1891, John Alexander born on 16th July 1895 at Herdstown, Eveline born 9th June 1897 in Herdstown, Maggie Jane born circa 1896, Agnes Hood Keating born circa 1900.  Only four of the children survived, according to the later census.
The youngest, Agnes Hood Keating, died aged only one year, of laryngitis on 2nd February 1902, while son James Keating died aged 16 of TB in Newtownards Workhouse on 11th June 1909. William Thomas Keating's wife, Jane Strain, died of TB in William Street, Newtownards, on 8th May 1904.
On 24th September 1917 in Ballygrainy Church, daughter Eveline Keating married the carpenter John McMahon, son of John McMahon of Cottown. The witnesses were an Alexander Moore and Fanny Keating, who was possibly Eveline's sister Agnes.
Margaret Jane Keating, daughter of William Thomas Keating, married, in Ballygrainy on 14th July 1920, David Harry McKee of Cottown, the son of James McKee - this was witnessed by John McIlwaine and by Letitia Jane Keating, who had been born to Elizabeth Keating of Ballyhay on 14th September 1891.

Carman John Keating spent time in Belfast city working as a breadserver like his brother Samuel - he appears in the Street Directory for 1892 at 13 Caroline Terrace and also in 1895 and 1896 as a breadserver in Harper Street, but by 1901 has moved to 16 Georges Street in Newtownards, where both John and his second wife, Annie J. Keating, were working as cardrivers, an early form of taxi-driver.
Wife Anne Jane Keating, (daughter of William Keating 1801 - 1885), died in Belfast in 1881, aged 42.
In Newtownards on 14th March 1882, John Keating, widowed breadserver of Belfast, son of farmer Samuel Keating of Ballyhay, married the widowed Ann Jane McDonald, shopkeeper of Newtownards, daughter of farmer Alexander Reid.  Witnesses were James Skilling and Jane Filson.

(Ann Jane McDonald's daughter, Eliza Jane McDonald, was married to John Keating's nephew, John George McCully, the son of Margaret Keating and George McCully.)
According to the 1911 census, John Keating and Anne Jane Reid McDonald had no children together.

In 1901, John Keating and second wife, Anne Jane McDonald, were living in Newtownards along with two of Anne Jane's daughters by the late Robert McDonald, and also one of her young grandchildren. Mary McDonald, aged 20, was there, as was Eliza Jane McCully, aged 30. This was the wife of John George McCully, John George being the son of Margaret Keating and George McCully, Margaret Keating being the brother of carman John Keating who was now married to Anne Jane Reid-McDonald-Keating!
Also present in the house in Newtownards in 1901, was John Heron, the 3-yr-old grandson of Anne Jane.  His mother was Charlotte Anna McDonald, who had married James Heron, watchmaker, the son of Alexander Heron, widower and watchmaker of Newtownards, on 4th March 1897.  The witnesses were Samuel Heron and Mary McDonald.
In 1901,  this Heron family were living at 9 North Street, Newtownards. Alexander was a dealer; by 1911 he was a fruit merchant.  By 1911 they were living in Conway Square, Newtownards, and they had five children, including John who had spent the night of the 1901 Census with his grandmother, Annie Jane, and her husband, John Keating.

Carman John Keating of Wallace's Street, Newtownards,  died aged 70 on 6th February 1912; wife Anne Jane Keating, née Reid,  was there.

7) Margaret Keating (1839 - 1907), daughter of Samuel (1799 - 1870) and Margaret Keating (1797 - 1878).
Margaret Keating, the daughter of farmer Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870) and Margaret, had married George McCully , the son of farmer Robert McCully, on May 8th 1866.

In 1901 the McCully family were living just around the corner from Margaret McCully's niece, Agnes Keating Anderson, at 21 My Ladys Road, along with Margaret's unmarried sister Agnes.  This older Agnes Keating was one of the three siblings who had erected the headstone for their parents, Samuel and Margaret Keating, in Donaghadee Churchyard.

George McCully and Margaret Keating also had two sons, Thomas McCully, born 18th November 1867 in Ballyhay, and Jean George (Jack) McCully, born as John George McCully in Killaughy Street, Donaghadee on 18th December 1869, and who left Ireland for California at some stage.

George McCully and Margaret Keating also had a daughter, Margaret Jane, who had been born on 1st February  1878 at 3 Third Street, possibly the home of the baby's maternal uncle, the grocer Thomas Keating who appeared at this address in the Belfast street directories of the 1870s. Margaret Jane McCully later married the widowed clerk, William Boyd, son of farmer Samuel Boyd, on 4th July 1900 by special licence at home in 10 Mersey Street;  the ceremony was performed by James McConnell of Megain Memorial Church, and was witnessed by our Agnes Keating, the bride's cousin, and by an Ellen Bowman. William Boyd had been born in about 1863 in Ballykeel, Co. Down.

In 1911 William and Margaret Jane Boyd were living at 4 Batley St., Belfast, and William Boyd was working as a timekeeper's clerk. They would have nine children one of whom, Anne Boyd, married an Englishman by the name of Dixon, and their daughter is Cynthia Lapaque who kindly passed me on a precious family photo showing (standing in the centre)  Margaret Jane Boyd, née McCully, her mother, Margaret McCully née Keating, and one of her aunts, either Susanna/Sassie Keating or perhaps Agnes Keating.

Margaret Jane McCully flanked by her mother and her aunt

The second son of George McCully and Margaret Keating, John George McCully, a shoemaker of Newtownards, married Eliza Jane McDonald on 21st May 1889 in Newtownards 1st Presbyterian Church.  The witnesses were his brother, Thomas McCully, and her sister, Essie/Esther McDonald.
Eliza Jane McDonald, who married John George McCully in 1889, was the daughter of a sailor, Robert McDonald, and of Anne Jane Reid who came from the Ards Peninsula.  Their children were Esther McDonald, born Greyabbey, 14th October 1867,  Eliza McDonald, born 11th April 1869, later the wife of John George McCully,  Robert McDonald, born Greyabbey, 8th March 1871, Charlotte Anna McDonald, born 13th May 1873, and Mary McDonald, born Little Francis St., Newtownards, 16th November 1876.
The girls’ father, the sailor Robert McDonald, died young, and their widowed mother, Anne Jane Reid, remarried to John Keating, who was the son of farmer Samuel Keating and Margaret of Ballyhay - John Keating has already been discussed above.

Margaret McCully, neé Keating, died aged 68 on 11th September 1907 at 4 Castlereagh Street.

George McCully was buried in the City Cemetery - he died, aged 72, at 17 Cumberland Street, on 21st June 1927.   Also in the same plot was his daughter, Margaret Jane Boyd, who died aged 77 at 24 Sydenham Drive.
In the same plot, were three members of the Anderson family -  Agnes Anderson who died aged 49 on 13th June 1892 at 13 Little Georges Street;   Eliza Anderson who died aged 65 on 26th July 1888 at 19 Little Grosvenor Street;   Ellen Anderson who died aged 53 on 16th December 1901 at Beerbridge Road. 

Robert John McCully was the brother of shoemaker George McCully, both being the sons of farmer Robert McCully and of Isabella Smith.  Robert John McCully of Ballyhay married Susanna Anderson in Ballycopeland on 18th March 1876.  She was the daughter of William Anderson of Ballyvester and the wedding witnesses were William Anderson and Matilda Tanner.  William Anderson, a baker of Donaghadee, had married Ann Jane Tanner on 29th April 1854 in the Methodist Chapel in Donaghadee. Ann Jane Tanner was the daughter of a baker Robert Tanner.

Griffiths Valuation of 1864 shows up a Robert McCully in Ballyhay, near Donaghadee, the same townland where the Keating family had their origins.  The Ros Davies website identifies Robert McCully as having been originally of Loughriscouse.  He married Isabella Smith/Smyth;  they baptised their children in Newtownards 1st Presbyterian Church:

1) George McCully (who married Margaret Keating) was born 23rd December 1845 and baptised 8th January 1846.

2) Margaret McCully, born 2nd May 1849, baptised 13th May 1849.

3) Samuel McCully, born 22nd July 1851, baptised 10th August 1851.

4) Mary McCully born 31st May 1853, baptised 3rd July 1853.

5) Robert John McCully, born 20th September 1855, baptised 6th January 1856.

6) Eliza Jane McCully born 29th December 1857, baptised 7th march 1858.

7) William James McCully, born 14th June 1859, baptised 6th September 1859.

Two further children were picked up by civil registration records:

8) Agnes McCully was born on 30th April 1868 in Ballyhay to farmer Robert McCully and his wife Isabella Smith.  Agnes would be present when her father died in Newtownards in 1895; she married David James McRoberts of Loughriscouse on 13th October 1898.

9) Isabella McCully was born on 29th December 1868 in Ballyhay to farmer Robert McCully and his wife Isabella Smith.

Isabella, the wife of Robert McCully, died in Ballyhay aged 63 on 11th November 1890, while her widower, farmer Robert McCully, died aged 72 on 20th December 1895 at Mark Street, Newtownards. The following is the will of  Robert McCully, of Newtownards, father of George McCully, who died 20th December 1895, and whose son, Robert J.McCully of Ballyhay, was the executor:

 
 '...I leave to my son, Robert John McCully, the money that is indebted to me...with this understanding that he is to give my sons, George and William James, £5 each three years after my decease...to my son, Robert John, I also leave the potatoes belonging to me, at present stored in Ballyhay.  To my daughter, Margaret, I leave the sum of £20, to my daughter, Agnes and Isabella, £20 each, and my daughter Eliza Jane £4.  I leave to the before named Margaret all my furniture and household effects...'

8)  James Keating, son of Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870) of Ballyhay, married Mary Brown, the daughter of Hugh Brown of Herdstown.  The wedding took place in Ballycopeland Church on 16th December 1848 and was witnessed by William Keating and David Cree.

Samuel Keating (1833 - 1895) son of farmer Samuel Keating (1799 - 1870) and Margaret of Ballyhay:

Samuel Keating (1833 - 1895) was our immediate ancestor.

Samuel Keating Junior (1833 - 1895) married  Agnes Jamieson (various spellings) of Newtownards in Carrowdore Presbyterian Church on June 26th 1856.  Agnes' parents were Robert and Veronica Jamieson of Ballyhay.
Samuel Keating was farming in Ballyhay at the time of the wedding, and the witnesses were James Jameson and William Keating, possible brothers of the bride and groom.

There is mention of a Jamieson family living in the neighbouring Killaughey area of Donaghadee in the early 1600s so the family must have originated in Ayrshire, Scotland, and were among the original wave of settlers who made the move to Ireland with the adventurers Hamilton and Montgomery.

The 1834 Tithe Books show a cluster of Jamesons farming in Killaughey - Samuel Jameson, 10 acres; John Jameson, 9 acres;  D. Jameson, 7 acres;  James Jameson,  10 acres.   There were another two in Ballyvester townland - J. Jameson Junior, 1 acres, and his father James Jameson who was farming less than an acre.
On Griffiths Valuation of 1863 we find Robert Jamison leasing 18 acres from Louisa Webb in the Ballyhay district of Donaghadee. William Keating is leasing eight acres from the same Louisa Webb in the same townland.
Samuel Keating (the elder one, I'm presuming) is leasing fourteen acres of land plus a house and outbuildings from Daniel Delacherois, and is sharing an acres of turbary, or bog, with Ann Gilmore, leased from the same landlady Louisa Webb.  Ann Gilmore is leasing a house three doors down from Robert Jamison.
Samuel Keating Junior is leasing a house in Newtownards which is about ten miles south of Donaghadee.

Samuel Keating Junior  (1833 - 1895) and Agnes/Nancy Jamieson (circa 1833 - 1873) had several children while they were living in Newtownards:

a) Agnes Keating, who would marry William John Anderson in Belfast in 1877, from whom we descend directly, was born circa 1858, but civil registration didn't begin till 1864.  They stayed in Belfast.

b)  William Robert Keating, born 14th December 1862.
William Robert Keating, who was born on 14th December 1862 in Belfast to the baker, Samuel Keating, and his wife, Nancy Jamieson, died on 14th April 1925 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
He worked as a baker in the county hospital. His wife, who he married in Chicago on 16th April 1890, was Martha M. Nagel who had been born in Pammern, Germany to Adolph Nagel and Albertina Denz.

The children of  William Robert Keating and Martha Nagel were all born in Illinois:

• Samuel H. Keating  born August 1891, who died in 1965 having married Minnie Chance.
• William R. T. Keating born April 1893.
• Stella E., or Estelle was born in 1896 and died in 1962 - she married twice, first to Fauntleroy Flynn, then to Norman Volz.
• Arthur J. Keating born August 1898 - he died in Chicago, aged 26, on 15th March 1925.
• George F. Keating, born 10th May 1901 in Chicago, and died 6th December 1961 in Los Angeles.
• Martha Agnes, born 29th August 1904 in Chicago, and who died in 1992.
• Edward Keating born 17th February 1908; he married Edla Johansson and died in 1994.

The son of George Frederick Keating and Martha Nagel, George Frederick Keating (1901 - 1961) married Helen Carol Clarke (1898 - 1992), the daughter of James McKenzie Clark of Skene, Aberdeen, and of Bridget Quinn of Strokestown, Co. Roscommon.   George Frederick Keating and Helen Carol Clark also had Constance Keating who married Earl Burton, and Carol Keating (1919 - 2010) who married Frank Witte.

c)  Margaret Jane Keating born 29th March 1865 in Movilla Street, Newtownards, to cardriver Samuel Keating (1833 - 1895) and to Agnes Jamison.
Margaret Jane Keating, married Robert McWilliams in Westbourne Presbyterian Church in South Belfast on 8th June 1887.  Robert McWilliams, a pawnbroker, was the son of a land steward, also Robert McWilliams. The wedding witnesses were Martha McWilliams and W.J. Leeds.

By the time of the 1901 Census the couple were living off the Woodstock Road - on My Lady's Road where my father, Paul Cuthbert Stewart (great-grandson of Agnes Keating and pawnbroker William John Anderson) was later born in 1935 - with their eight children, one of whom had been tellingly named William John Anderson McWilliams in honour of the baby's uncle, the pawnbroker William John Anderson.   Margaret Jane's husband, Robert, was also working as a pawnbroker's assistant.  My Lady's Road is immediately adjacent to Jocelyn Street where Sarah Agnew Keating was living with her children - she was the widow of Samuel Keating, the son of baker Samuel Keating (1833 - 1895) and Agnes Jamieson.

The children of pawnbroker Robert McWilliams and Margaret Jane Keating were born as follows:

1) Florence Eveline McWilliams, born at 11 Madrid Street on 7th June 1888.

2) Ethel May McWilliams, born at 5 Harper Street on 5th July 1889.

3) Robert Jamieson McWilliams at 39 Beechfield Street on 24th December 1890.

4) Lizzie McBride McWilliams at 34 Beechfield Street on 3rd March 1892.

5) Maggie McWilliams at 57 Altear Street on 15th February 1893.

6) Samuel McWilliams at 2 Laburnum Terrace on 30th November 1894.

7) William John Anderson McWilliams at 5 Brook Terrace on 6th December 1896.

8) Norman McWilliams at 140 Templemore Avenue on 6th April 1899.

9) Veronica McWilliams born at 5 Mafeking Terrace, My Lady's Road, 17th August 1901.

Robert McWilliams, pawnbroker,  died of typhoid fever at 5 Mafeking Terrace, My Lady's Road,  on 7th October 1901 aged only 36 - the informant was his brother-in-law, pawnbroker William John Anderson of 412 Woodstock Road.
The widowed Margaret Jane McWilliams, née Keating, moved her family to Chicago in 1902.  Her father, the widowed baker Samuel Keating, along with three of his sons, had already moved there in about 1884.

The widowed Margaret McWilliams, née Keating, married Edward Mueller in Cook County, Illinois, on 1st March 1905.  The LDS has the Chicago 1910 census details for the family - Edward Mueller, had been born in Germany in about 1857 and had emigrated to the States in 1892.

The following stepchildren of Edward Mueller, the head of the household, are all named on the return as ‘Mulree’ although they correspond to the McWilliams children of My Lady’s Road, so I believe this to be an error. Perhaps a neighbour filled the form out for them and was unsure of the correct family name - Florence Mulree, born 1889 in Ireland, Ethel Mulree, born 1890 in Ireland,  Robert Mulree, born 1891 in Ireland (Robert Jamieson McWilliams was naturalised in the US in 1928),  Lizzie Mulree, born 1892 in Ireland,  Maggie Mulree, born 1893 in Ireland, and Samuel Mulree, born 1895 in Ireland.
The following stepchildren go correctly under the name of McWilliams and correspond to the earlier 1901 Irish Census - William McWilliams, born circa 1897 in Ireland William John Anderson McWilliams was naturalised in the US in 1928), Norman McWilliams, born circa 1900 in Ireland,  Veronica McWilliams, born circa 1902.   There was also a Louis or Louisa Mueller, aged 4, a daughter who must have been born to Edward Mueller and Margaret Jane Keating McWilliams, and a 2-yr-old Edward Mueller, although the return states that both his parents had been born in Germany. I think this census return may have been carelessly filled out since his mother, Margaret Keating, had been born in Ireland.
Finally, a step-granddaughter, Agnes Mulree, aged 1 year and 1 month, born to Irish parents in Illinois...see below.

The daughter of Robert McWilliams and Margaret Keating, Florence Eveline McWilliams, had married William Mulree in Chicago on 29th April 1908.
William Mulree had been born on 21st December 1880 to James Mulree and Agnes Murland in Kirkcubbin on the Ards Peninsula.  He emigrated to the US on board the ‘Majestic’, arriving in New York on 11th May 1905.  He died in Cook County, Illinois, in January 1968.  The Mulree family of Kirkcubbin were living in St. Leonard Street in Belfast in 1901 - another of the family was William Mulree’s younger brother, James, who also emigrated to Chicago, and who died there in August 1917;  he had been a labourer in a packing house.

William Mulree, who married Florence Eveline/Evelyn McWilliams, was a bricklayer.  Their children were all born in Chicago - Agnes Louise Mulree, born 20th April 1909, Margaret Lenore Mulree, born 5th February 1911,  Ethel Mae Mulree, born 3rd August 1912, the twin of William Robert James Mulree, also born 3rd August 1912, but who died a year later at 6642, So. Paulina Street, Ward 29, Chicago. He was buried in Mt.Hope Cemetery.  There was also Florence Elizabeth Mulree, born 29th August 1913, and William Mulree, born 6th August 1916.

The 1920 Census follows the Mueller family, still in Chicago. By now, Edward Mueller had also died and Margaret, née Keating, is once again widowed. Her children have reverted to their correct name of McWilliams -  Ethel McWilliams,  Margaret McWilliams, Norman McWilliams,  William McWilliams, Veronica McWilliams,  Louise Miller (or Mueller), and Edward Miller.
Who was missing?  Florence Eveline had, of course, married William Mulree.  Her sister, Elizabeth, named as Lizzie McBride McWilliams in 1901, died in Chicago on 28th September 1912. She had been born on 3rd March 1892 to Robert McWilliams and his wife, named only as ‘Keating’,in Ireland, and had been working as a clerk; her address at the time of her death was 6627 Hermitage Avenue.  She was 20 years, 6 months and 25 days old when she died.  She was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

But where sons Robert and Samuel McWilliams?  There was an Irish-born Samuel McWilliams working in California at this time, but, once again, there’s not enough information at the moment  to definitively confirm this is the correct man.

d) Samuel Keating born circa 1866 in Newtownards to Samuel Keating  (1833 - 1895) and Agnes Jamieson:; he married Sarah Agnew, and stayed in Belfast. The younger Samuel Keating remained in Belfast when his widowed father and four siblings emigrated to Chicago.

This younger Samuel Keating married Sarah Agnew in Holywood, Co.Down on 28th December 1885 and gave his profession as a breadserver like his father.  Sarah's father was a gardener of Bangor, Alexander Agnew - Sarah had been born circa 1858 in Co. Down. The witnesses to this wedding were Samuel's sister, Agnes Keating, and her husband William John Anderson, the grandparents of my paternal grandmother, Agnes Keating Wilson.

The Street Directories of 1890 shows up Samuel Keating, breadserver/baker of Memel Street.  He died young, aged 39,  at 13 Harper Street on 29th December 1899;  the informant was his brother-in-law, pawnbroker William John Anderson of 122 Albertbridge Road.  Samuel Keating was buried in the Borough Cemetery.

By the time of the 1901 Census, the widowed Sarah Keating, nee Agnew, was living with her five children in 42 Jocelyn Street, adjacent to the Woodstock Road.  Her son, William, aged 16, is working as a pawnbroker's assistant while his younger brother, Samuel (Samuel Keating Number 4!) aged 14, is working as an apprentice pawnbroker.  Given the incredibly sociable nature of these Belfast families, I'm quite certain that the enterprising pawnbroker William John Anderson had provided work for his nephews in one of his establishments.

The children of Samuel Keating and Agnes Agnew were:

a) William Robert Keating, born at 3 Cross Street on 27th November 1884.
b) Samuel Keating, born at 14 Memel Street on 14th November 1886.

c) Walter Keating, born at 14 Memel Street on 16th May 1889 - on 24th January 1913 in St. Anne's, Belfast, Walter Keating, salesman of 85 Euston Street, married Sarah Agnes Hughes of 21 Carlisle Street, the daughter of farmer Charles Hughes. The witnesses here were Robert Gamble and Elizabeth Rea.

d) Evelyn Keating, born at Harper Street on 18th July 1891 - on 6th June 1921 in Fisherwick Presbyterian Church,  Evelyn Keating, blousecutter of 85 Euston Street, married journalist James Stuart Blacke of 50 Ava Road, son of commission agent Joseph Blacke. The witnesses were William and Jane Blackwood.

e) Sarah Keating, born at 13 Harper Street on 26th May 1897.  On 1st April 1931 at 85 Euston Street, Sarah (Sadie), the youngest daughter of the late Samuel Keating, died. ('Northern Whig', 2nd April 1931.)

Sarah Keating, née Agnew, died on 24th April 1935 at her son-in-law's home, 15 Adelaide Avenue, Whitehead.

Sarah Agnew's parents were Alexander Agnew, a retired gardener who had been born in 1834 in Strandtown, Holywood, Co. Down, and Maria Magee/McKee.  (Griffiths Valuation of 1863 shows up both an Alexander Agnew and a Grace Agnew in Knocknagoney, Holywood, as well as Hugh, Charles, James and Robert Agnew in Strandtown, Holywood.)  In 1911 Alexander Agnew was living in Belfast at Colchester Street, along with his second wife, Jane McCracken, aged 70, and his sister-in-law, Margaret McKee, a widow of 71.
Alexander Agnew, gardener of Holywood, Co. Down, married his first wife, Maria Magee/McKee, before 1858 when their daughter, Sarah Agnew, was born.  They had a further two children, both of them born in Holywood, Co. Down - Thomas Agnew was born there on 10th June 1864, while Eliza Agnew was born there on 18th May 1866.
The death of a Maria Agnew, who had been born in 1833, was registered in Belfast in 1870, and may possibly be the mother of Sarah, Thomas and Eliza Agnew.
According to the 1911 census, their father, the gardener Alexander Agnew, married his second wife, Jane McCracken, in about 1874. They had two children,one of whom was Margaret Agnew who had been born in Strandtown on 16th June 1876.

e) James Keating born 8th May 1867 in Bow St, Donaghadee, to the baker Samuel Keating (1833 - 1895) and Nancy/Agnes Jamieson.

f)  Thomas Keating  born 26th September 1869 in South Street, Newtownards to the baker Samuel Keating (1833 - 1895) and Agnes Jamison; he married Hattie Irvine in Chicago.

Thomas Keating, a clerk, born 26th September 1869 to Samuel Keating and Nancy/Agnes Jamieson, died on 1st March 1941 and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Cook, Illinois.  He had emigrated to Chicago along with his father and brothers in about 1884 and had married Hattie Irvine on May 8th 1895 in Cook County, Illinois.
The couple seem to have divorced shortly afterwards, but were living together still in Chicago in 1900.  Thomas was a factory worker and the couple had had two children, Maud Keating in 1896 and Thomas Junior in 1899. Only Maud survived childhood.

Hattie Irvine, who had been born to the Belfast-born John Irvine and Missouri-born Los Angelos Welch in Streator, Illinois on 25th November 1876, remarried before the 1910 census.  Her second husband was Axel Patrick Johnson of Sweden, and the couple would go on to have a daughter, Gladys Ely Elizabeth Johnson, in 1908.

g) Jessie Jamieson Keating born circa 1870.  An unnamed son was born on 28th May 1872 at 5 Stanley Lane, Belfast, to the breadserver Samuel Keating and Agnes Jamison.
Jessie Jamieson Keating was also known as John Jamieson Keating; he married Elizabeth Schmidt in Chicago. 
Jessie/John Jamieson Keating was married to Elizabeth Schmidt and also spent his adult life in Chicago, dying there on 7th March 1949 at age 79.  He worked as the treasurer of an association in 1910 and as restaurant proprietor in 1930.

The children of James Jamieson Keating and Elizabeth Schmidt were:

a) Frederick Sturgeon Keating, born in Chicago on 9th May 1893. He worked as an accountant and statistician, and married the English woman Florence - they had two sons, Robert Warren Keating in 1920 and Kenneth Keating in 1923.  Kenneth kindly contacted me with further details of his family.  His brother, Robert Warren Keating graduated as a chemical engineer from MIT in 1941 and spent the war years managing an industrial site which was a vital part of the war effort;  he died in 2010 in Tajunga, California.  Kenneth served with the US Navy from 1942 till 1946, and married Charlotte Adele Matthews in 1947; he graduated from Stanford in 1955 and worked, firstly, for Motorola in Phoenix, then as a professor in the College of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson, where he still lives.

b) William S. Keating.

c) James Alfred Keating (4th December 1897 - 2nd October 1976). He married Ruth Zimmermann and worked as a investment banker, at one time with Harris Bank of W. Monroe Street, Chicago.  His draft registration papers for the First World War make mention of the fact that James Alfred Keating had already served for three years as a sergeant in the infantry.  His nephew, Kenneth Keating has confirmed to me that James Alfred had volunteered to join up before America had entered, and went into US Army Air Service, where he could be attached as a volunteer to the RAF, and where he learned to fly Airco DH.9 bombers.  He received his commission with the RAF in February 1918 and was attached to the 49th Squadron in June. Designated as an American air ace, he scored his first victory during a raid on Bettencourt, and scored a further four during a raid on the bridge at Falvy; he received the US Distinguished Service Cross and the UK Distinguished Flying Cross as a recognition of the role he played.
He had a daughter, Corinne Keating, in about 1929 in Chicago.   James Alfred Keating died on 2nd October 1976 in Fort Lauderdale.

d) George Dewey Keating, born 8th May 1898. A car salesman, in 1920 he married Indiana-born Betty/Elizabeth Jane Van Briggle,  and moved to Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, where they had George B. Keating in 1925 and Nancy J. Keating in 1929.  By 1940, George Dewey Keating was the manager of a music store in Madison, Dane, and had had another daughter, Sharon Keating in 1933.

The Emigration of Samuel Keating (1833 - 1895):

In 1870, the street directories note Samuel Keating at South St, Newtownards - he was listed under the heading of 'Bakers & Flour Dealers'.

The next reference to Samuel Keating (1833 - 1895) is on his daughter's marriage certificate (Agnes Keating) in 1877 when he gives his occupation as a driver.  He can be traced in the Belfast Street Directories as a bread server which was the Victorian term for a delivery man for a bakery. Later, his sons in Chicago stated that their father, Samuel Keating, had been a baker and this too is confirmed in the Street Directory for 1880 when the entry for Samuel Keating gives his address as the bakery of 27 - 29 Carlow Street which is between the Shankill Road and the Falls Road of central Belfast.

The 'Belfast Weekly News', 25th January 1873, noted the death in the General Hospital, Belfast, of Agnes, née Jamison, wife of Samuel Keating, late of Ballyhay, Co. Down.  The official registration of death notes that she had died of typhoid in the General Hospital - a note in the registration book states that her age should have been recorded as being 37 years and not the 48 years as originally written.  This was confirmed by her husband, the bread deliverer Samuel Keating, before the presiding justices in Belfast. 

Samuel Keating (1833 - 1895) and three of his sons emigrated to Chicago in about 1884. He applied to the Cook County Court for naturalisation on 30th April 1890, and this was witnessed by his son, William Robert Keating.

The Chicago Street Directories record Samuel Keating, labourer, at 3601 Laurel Street in 1888, 1889 and 1890.  Son William Robert Keating was at 3819 Halsted Street in 1890, while a Thomas Keating, possibly another of the sons, was recorded in 1889 at the rear of 3729 Laurel Street.

The Chicago Voters Lists also record Samuel Keating of Ireland at 3601 Laurel Street in 1892 - it was noted that he had been in Chicago for the previous 8 years. William Robert Keating of Ireland was noted at Taylor Street, having lived in Chicago for 9 years.  Thomas Keating was at 3601 Laurel Street and had also been there 9 years.

Born 1833 in Ireland, Samuel Keating died in Chicago aged 62 on 26th February 1895; at the time of his death he was working as a carpenter.

The Belfast Newsletter of 20th March 1895 recorded Samuel Keating's death  -
   "Keating - Feb 26 1895 at his residence, Laurel Street, Chicago, US America, Sam'l Keating of Ballyhay, County Down, late of Belfast, aged 62."
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William Keating (1801 - 1885) farmer of Ballyhay and Mary Buchanan:

But to return to Ballyhay, Donaghdee, Co. Down. Another Keating family of Ballyhay, Donaghadee, descended from William Keating (1801 -1885) who was the the brother - I believe - of Agnes Keating's grandfather, farmer Samuel Keating  (1799 - 1870) of Ballyhay.   Both men were approximately the same age and lived in the same townland.

William Keating (1801 - 1885) , farmer of Ballyhay, died in Ballyhay on 26 July 1885, aged 84 with his will administered by Samuel Buchanan Keating, a child of Ballyhay.  A fellow researcher on the internet confirms that William Keating had married a Mary Buchanan.  They had at least two children in Armagh - James Alfred Keating and Samuel Keating - before settling in Ballyhay where they had further children.   I detail the children of William Keating and Mary Buchanan below.

James Alfred Keating:
The son of William Keating and Mary Buchanan, James Alfred Keating, had been born in Armagh on 9th August 1826.  (John Jamieson Keating,  the grandson of farmer Samuel Keating 1799 - 1870 of Ballyhay, also named a child as James Alfred Keating on 4th December 1897 in Chicago.)

James Alfred Keating, the son of William Keating of Ballyhay, married Eliza Gordon on 12th March 1859 in Donaghadee.  Eliza was the daughter of Robert Gordon of Ballyhay and the wedding was witnessed by Robert and Jane Gordon.
Amongst their seven children were William Robert Keating, born 9th March 1864,  John Keating born 1st January 1866 in Ballyhay, a second John Keating born 7th November 1871 Ballyhay, Margaret Gordon Keating born Ballyhay 6th July 1867 and Susannah Keating born 17th June 1873.

The family of James Alfred Keating and Eliza Gordon emigrated in about June 1873 to Blythe, Ontario, but, in 1879, they headed to Adair County, Iowa;  they would have thirteen children in total.

(Eliza Gordon, who had married James Alfred Keating in 1859, was the daughter of Robert Gordon of Ballyhay, 1797 - 18th February 1892,  and of Elizabeth Moorehead.  They baptised six children in the First Presbyterian Church of Donaghadee - Eliza who married James Alfred Keating was born 13th Aug 1834, Robert Gordon was born 14th September 1836, William Gordon was born 1st May 1838, James Gordon was born in 1840, Jane Gordon was born on 3rd January 1842, and Margaret was born on 3 Jan 1844. 
Daughter Jane Gordon married James Jamison on 25 Nov 1864, and this might be a member of the Jamieson family of Agnes Jamieson who married the baker Samuel Keating from whom I descend.)

Another son of William Keating and Mary Buchanan was the carpenter Samuel (Buchanan?) Keating, who had been born in Armagh, (1834 - 1902) and who had died aged 68 in Ballyhay on 2nd March 1902; brother John Bleany Keating was present.  
The Keating brothers were living together in Ballyhay in 1901, along with sisters, Elizabeth Letitia Keating, Susanna Matilda Keating,  Eliza Letitia's son, Robert Henry, niece  Eliza Keating, nephew William George Keating (son of Susannah Matilda), nephew Robert H. McKee, and grandniece Jane Keating.  In 1911 they were joined by nephew Ernest Keating and John Keating.

On 10th November 1859,  Samuel Keating, the son of William Keating (1801 - 1885) and Mary Buchanan of Ballyhay, married Charlotte Carson, the daughter of Alexander Carson of Donaghadee;  this was witnessed by David Beatty and Eleanor Davidson.  Did Charlotte die before official registration began in 1864?

On 21st June 1849, Mary Keating, the daughter of William Keating of Ballyhay, married William Gordon, son of William Gordon Sr. of Ballyhay.  This was witnessed by James Alfred Keating and Elizabeth Buchanan who must have been a relative of the bride's mother, Mary Keating, née Buchanan.

The unmarried daughters of William Keating and Mary Buchanan all gave birth to children in Ballyhay, which must have been quite the scandal in that era.    Susannah Matilda Keating had William George Keating on 29th November 1870 - Anne Jane Keating was present, presumably the sister of Susannah Matilda and wife of carman John Keating.  
Eliza Jane Keating was born to Margaret Keating on 7th July 1874  in Killaughy  - Eliza McKeown was present.
Mary Keating was born in Ballyhay on 14th January 1877 to Susannah Matilda Keating - Anne Jane Keating was present again.
Robert Henry Keating was born in Ballyhay on 9th August 1878 to Eliza Laetitia Keating - sister Susannah Keating present.
On 18th August 1880, another James Alfred Keating was born at Ballyhay to Eliza Keating;  Susanna Matilda Keating was again present at the birth.
Later, a Letitia Jane Keating was born to Elizabeth Keating in Ballyhay on 14th September 1891 - this was possibly the Letitia Jane Keating who witnessed the 1920 marriage in Ballygrainy of Margaret Jane Keating, the granddaughter of carman John Keating and Anne Jane Keating.

The 'Belfast Newsletter' of 20th July 1888 reported that William St.George Keating (1846 - 1910), John B. Keating, William Thomas Keating and Samuel B. Keating, farmers of Ballyhay, had stolen four cows from the bailiff who had previously seized them. I'm sure it was a terrible misunderstanding....I believe that William Thomas Keating was the son of carman John Keating and Anne Jane Keating, and the cousin of the other three mentioned here.

In Newtownards Church on 3rd December 1884, the farmer (later a gardener) William St. George Keating of Ballyhay, son of William Keating, farmer, and of Mary Buchanan, married Anna Bella Kerr of Newtownards, daughter of farmer William Kerr. The witnesses were Ellen Keating and William Savage.

Gardener William St. George Keating (1846 - 1910),  and Anna Bella Kerr had James Alfred Keating on 4th May 1891 in Ballyhay;  he died 5th March 1895 at 34.2 Lilliput Street, aged 3.  They also had William St. George Keating Jr. on 25th March 1885.
Soldier Ernest Keating, son of late gardener William Keating of Ballyhay, married in Helen's Bay, Bangor, Helen Lightbody, daughter of Hugh Lightbody of Portavo. Witnesses: James Lightbody and Alice Woods.  The wedding took place on 8th December 1917.

Anna Bella Keating (1865 - 1902), née Kerr, wife of gardener William Keating of Ballyhay, died aged 37 on 15th June 1902; husband William Keating was present.  William St. George Keating died aged 64 in Ballyhay, a widowed Loft Man, on 23rd April 1910; nephew William Keating was present.

Elizabeth Keating, daughter of gardener William (St. George) Keating, died aged 14 of lung disease in Ballyhay on 23rd August 1903; grandfather William Kerr was present at her death.

John Bleany Keating, son of William Keating and Mary Buchanan, of Ballyhay county Down farmer died 13 March 1928 Probate Belfast 13 September to his nephew Robert Henry McKee, farmer.

Andrew and Mary Hall of Moynalty, Co. Meath

Adelaide Anne Courtenay, baptised 10th August 1831, born at 47 Moore Street, was the daughter of Frederick Courtenay and Mary Tuty.   Adelaide Anne's sister was Emily Courtenay who married John Pennefather - Emily Courtenay and John Pennefather of Dublin were our great-great great grandparents.

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Adelaide Anne Courtenay married a commercial clerk, George Hall, who was the son of Andrew Hall, on 12th October 1851.  John Pennefather and Henry Reynolds witnessed the marriage in the Black Church.  Adelaide Anne's sister, Mary Courtenay, married Herbert Gilman Moore in the same church on the same day.

According to the census, George Hall had been born to policeman Andrew Hall in Bray, Co.Wicklow in about 1830.   Roots Ireland provided the baptism for me and clarified this - George Hall was christened in Bray, Co. Wicklow on 9th December 1827 by Andrew and Mary Hall.  Policeman Andrew Hall and his wife Mary also baptised their son, John Hall, on 31st March 1833 in Delgany, Co. Wicklow, and a daughter, Elizabeth Hall on 15th March 1829 in Powerscourt Church, Co. Wicklow.

Wicklow-born Andrew Hall enlisted in the Royal Irish Constabulary aged 19 in 1824.   His R.I.C. records, which I consulted in the National Archives, show that he married a Wicklow-born woman, ie, Mary, in 1830, and had been recommended to the Constabulary by William St.Clair who was a magistrate living at Emma Vale, Arklow.
George Hall was appointed to Meath and Wicklow on 1st May 1824 and was promoted to constable on 1st August 1827.  His records show that he was pensioned off in July 1866.

Andrew Hall of the R.I.C. was later stationed in Moynalty, Co. Meath with his wife, Mary, living in Westland Cottage, where the couple had a son, Andrew Hall Jr., on 8th July 1842.

Constable Andrew Hall was stationed in Moynalty, Meath - he featured from 1839 till 1859 in the Irish Petty Sessions Court Registers.
Andrew Hall died aged 63 at Westland, Co. Meath, a retired police sergeant, on 27th Dece,ber 1867.  He died of liver cancer, and his death was registered by a Jarard or Gerard Irvine.
Mary, widow of the late Andrew Hall of Moynalty, Co. Meath, died aged 65 at 52 Bolton Street, Dublin, on 10th February 1870 - this from both the 'Freeman's Journal' and the 'Dundalk Democrat and People's Journal' of 12th February 1870.

The known children of Andrew and Mary Hall of Moynalty, Co. Meath:

• George Hall who had been  baptised in Bray, Co. Wicklow, on 9th December 1827  and who married Adelaide Anne Courtenay in 1851 in Dublin.
• Elizabeth Hall of Cookstown was baptised in Powerscourt Church, Co. Wicklow, on 15th March 1829 by Andrew and Mary Hall.
• John Hall, later a gardener, was baptised on 31st March 1833 in Delgany, Co. Wicklow, by policeman Andrew Hall and his wife Mary.
• William Hall, who had been born in Wicklow on 6th June 1836 and who was baptised in Moynalty, Co. Meath;  he married Emmaletta White in 1871.
• Andrew Hall, born at Westland Cottage on 8th July 1842; his wife was Eva Boyd.

The Children of George Hall, son of policeman Andrew Hall:

a) Emily Amelia Hall born 26th June 1852 at 31 Wellington Street.  She died aged 73 at 16 Cabra Road on 3rd May 1929.

b) Evelina Anne Hall (possibly known as Mary later) born 5th January 1857 at 6 Middle Mountjoy Street, the family's permanent address from this point.  Mary Elizabeth Hall died  at 16 Cabra Road on 6th April 1924;   sister Emily Hall was there when she died.

c) Georgina Hall born 29th February 1860 - from about 1911 she lived with her sisters at 16 Cabra Road, where she died aged 70 on 22nd December 1931.  Her sister, Adelaide A. Hall was there.
d) Adelaide Anne Hall, born 9th September 1862; she died aged 80 at 16 Cabra Road on 1st February 1943.   J.R. Lunny of 43 Connaught Street,  a friend of the deceased, was present.

e) Matilda Hall born 7th July 1865. The widowed Matilda Ussher died at 16 Cabra Road, aged 79, on 24th December 1943. Her cousin, E. E. Hall was there when she died.  Edith Evelyn Hall (7th September 1888 - 12th June 1959) was the daughter of  William Hall and Emmaletta White.

f) Frederick William Hall born 24th September 1867 - a coal merchant, he was living at 50 Mountjoy Street when he died on 18th January 1897.  By the time of Frederick William Hall's birth, his father, George Hall, who had earlier been a commercial clerk, was listed as a railway clerk.

g) Albert Andrew Hall born 11th January 1872. Albert Andrew Hall, born 11th January 1872 to George Hall and Adelaide Anne Courtenay;  when Albert Andrew Hall  married Eveline Beatrice Forster in 1901, he was noted as the secretary of a limited company - the couple were living at 29 Corrig Avenue, Dunlaoghaire, then called Kingstown, in 1911.  He would later work as secretary of the Irish Times.

In March 1898, Mr. George Hall of 50 Mountjoy Street was nominated as a Loyalist candidate in the City Elections.  He stood for the Finglas Ward, having been nominated by John Byrne of 13 Conyngham Road, and in April 1898, both George Hall and Edward Carolan withdrew from the race.

Adelaide Anne Hall, née Courtenay, mother of the above children and wife of George Hall, died 24th February 1891 whilst being conveyed to the Mater Hospital. She was 59 and had been suffering from disease of the heart and brain.

By the time of the 1901 census, trhe widowed George Hall was a coal merchant.

Daughter Matilda Hall, of 6 Middle Mountjoy St., married William Egan Ussher or Usher  of 21 Glengariffe Parade, South Circular Road,  the son of  Joseph Ussher,  on 9th April 1890.   The witnesses to the wedding were Emilie Lunny and Robert Mottershed - Robert Mottershed was married to Isabella Alexandra Jones, the daughter of  Isabella Anne (Pennefather) Jones, who was the niece of Adelaide Anne Courtney.  William Egan Ussher died almost immediately and his death was registered in the north Dublin district in 1890.

In 1901, the widowed Matilda Hall Usher/Ussher was living at 50 Mountjoy Street with her widowed father, George Hall, coal merchant, and with two of her unmarried sisters, Georgina aged 38 and Emily aged 44.

The aunt of George Hall, Anne J. Brown, aged 83,  (born 1818) was living with the family at 50 Mountjoy Street in 1901 and would die there, aged 91 on 3rd November 1904 - her grandniece, Emily Hall, was in attendance.

 In 1901 Albert Andrew Hall, was living at 9 Sydney Avenue, Blackrock: he was an accountant, unmarried and living with two of his single sisters, the telegraphist, Adelaide, and Mary Hall.
Frederick William Hall, the coal merchant son of George and Adelaide Anne Hall, died at 50 Middle Mountjoy Street on 18th January 1897, and probate was granted to his father, George Hall of 50 Middle Mountjoy St.
By 1911, Matilda Usher was living at 16 Cabra Road, Glasnevin with her sisters, Emily, Mary and Adelaide Hall.

Their brother, Albert Andrew Hall, married Eveline Beatrice Forster in Christ Church, Kingstown, on 9th July 1901.  He was living at Alfred Ville, 9 Sidney Avenue, Blackrock, while Eveline, the daughter of Ralph Moore Forster, was at 13 Burdett Avenue, Sandycove. The wedding was witnessed by Albert's cousin, Ada Hall,  and by Henry George Owens.
Albert Andrew Hall became the secretary of The Irish Times - the couple were living at 29 Corrig Avenue, Dunlaoghaire, then called Kingstown, in 1911.
Eveline Beatrice Forster had been born on 15th July 1871 in Donnybrook, Dublin, to Ralph Moore Forster (1817  - 12th April 1877)  and Emma Matilda Supple.  Eveline's parents had married in St. Mary's on 9th September 1861 - their fathers were Rev. Thomas Forster and Frederick Austin Supple.
Albert Andrew Hall, the son of George Hall and Adelaide Anne Courtenay, died on 28th July 1935;  he had been living in Dunlaoghaire/Kingstown at 6 Clarinda Park East, but died in Hastings at the Alexandra Hotel.  Probate of his will was granted to James Gilbert Millard, stockbroker, and to Albert Ernest Prentice, solicitor.  His widow, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, died on 24th March 1948 at 15 Rosmeen Park, Dunlaoghaire;  Evelyn McNally of 14 Corrig Avenue was present.

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William Hall, son of policeman Andrew Hall:

The brother of George Hall of Middle Mountjoy Street was William Hall of the Inland Revenue, who had also been born in Wicklow on  6th June 1836, and who married Emmaletta White in Clogheen in 1871.
The British Civil Service Proof of Age Archives, viewable on Find My Past,  record the fact that, in 1855, William Hall produced proof that he had been born on 6th June 1836 to policeman Andrew Hall and his wife, Mary, and had been baptised in Moynalty Church 10 days later.

Emma/Emmaletta White was the daughter of schoolteacher James White of Knocklofty. She married William Hall in Tullamellan Parish Church in Clogheen, Co. Tipperary, on 11th July 1871.  William Hall was already living in Palmerston Place, Dublin, and was working as an Inland Revenue officer. His father Andrew Hall had died by this stage; James and George White were the witnesses at the 1871 wedding.

Emma's sister, Anna Delia White of 23 Serpentine Avenue, Sandymount, Co. Dublin, married a ladies' tailor, George Powell Mumford of 19 Northumberland Road, the second son of the tailor George Mumford of Weymouth, England. The wedding took place in St. Mary's, Donnybrook, Co. Dublin, on 17th December 1890 and was witnessed by Richard T. Martin (or Richard S. Martin) and Selina White (1859 - 1894), who might be another of Emma Hall's sisters.   She died of cancer aged only 35 on 9th June 1894, a draper's assistant of Lower Leeson Street; George Powell Mumford of Brighton Ville, Sydney Parade, was the informant, and 'caused her body to be buried'.

James White (1807 - 1877) of 3 Anne Street, Clonmel, died aged 70 on 4th June 1877;  an Elizabeth Sarah White was present at death.  James White's will was administered by son Horatio George White of 35 College Green, Dublin.  Horatio George White, a bank clerk aged 29 of 15 Castlewood Avenue, Rathmines, died of cancer on 3rd November 1881; his sister, Henrietta J. White was present.  Henrietta Jemima White died unmarried aged 48 on 30th January 1892 at 25 Belgrave Road, Rathmines;  sister Selina White was there when she died.

William Hall and Emmaletta White had nine children but only four had survived by the time of the 1911 census.  Most of the children had been born in Palmerston Place, which runs from Middle Mountjoy Street where George Hall and Adelaide Anne Courtenay were living at the same time.

W. Hall of 5 Palmerston Place won a pair of lustres in a raffle at Edwards Concert Hall in Dublin in 1874 ('Freeman's Journal', 26th Feb 1874).

The daughter of William Hall and Emmaletta White, Ethel Evelyn Hall, was the E.E.Hall, cousin, who was present at the death of George Hall's daughter, Matilda Ussher, in 1948.

The children of William Hall and Emmaletta White were:

Ethel Evelyn Hall, born 7th September 1888; matron of the Dublin Masonic Girls' School, she would die in Enniskillen on 12th June 1959.

Herbert John Hall was born at 5 Palmerston Place on 20th October 1884.  A shop assistant, he died young at 62 Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, on 8th May 1913.

Henry Hall was born on 10th May 1872, but died of TB/phthisis at 10 St. Alphonsus Road on 21st April 1893.

William James Hall was born 6th December 1875 at 5 Palmerston Place.

Alfred William Hall was born on 28th October 1880.

Horatio Andrew Hall was born on 18th November 1878 but died in 1883.

Eleanor Mary Hall was born on 28th November 1874.

Perceval George Hall was born on 28th January 1883 at 5 Palmerston Place, Dublin.  He married Bessie Keith in Belfast, the daughter of James Keith,  in 1912.  'The Northern Whig' of 20th May 1925 reported in his death the previous day.  Mr Percy G. Hall, well-known in business, sporting and church circles, had died at home at 2 Hampden Villas, Cyprus Park.  He worked most of his adult life in the business of Robert Johnson, saddler and ironmonger.  Percy left a son and two daughters, and a sister, Ethel Hall, matron of the Masonic School in Dublin.  Percy had been an enthusiastic cyclist, a member of the Strandtown Bowling Club, a Unionist and a Past master of Masonic Lodge 372, as well as being on the vestry of St. Donard's Church.  His widow, Bessie Hall of 17 Ardgreenan Gardens, died on 19th November  1952 at 90 Belmont, Church Road, with probate of her will granted to her only son William Gordon Hall, factory manager.   He also proved the will of his sister, Ethel Evelyn Hall of 84 Derrychara Drive, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, who died at 8 Castlehill Drive in Belfast on 12th June 1958.   Earlier, William Gordon Hall, only son of the late Percival George Hall of Belfast, was selected to attend the Masonic Boys' School in Clonskeagh, Dublin, his late father having been a member of Masonic Lodge 372 in Belfast.

In 1901 William and  Emma Hall, and their children, Perceval George, Herbert John and Ethel Evelyn Hall were at 66 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast; by 1911, William, Emma and Ethel Hall were at 62 Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, Dublin.

William Hall, retired inland revenue officer, died aged 75 of influenza at Hampden Villa, Bloomfield, Belfast, on 28th November 1918;  son Percy G. Hall was present.  His widow, Emma Hall of 79 Booterstown Avenue, Dublin, died in Sir Patrick Dunn's Hospital on 27th May 1921.

Andrew Hall, son of policeman Andrew Hall:

Constable Andrew Hall was stationed in Moynalty, Meath - he featured from 1839 till 1859 in the Irish Petty Sessions Court Registers.  The 'Dublin Evening Mail' of 10th October 1868 published the list of successful candidates who had sat the civil service exams, one of them being Mr. Hall of Moynalty, who had been accepted into the Inland Revenue;  this was Andrew Hall Jr.

Andrew Hall Jr., who had been born in  Moynalty, Co. Meath, to Andrew and Mary Hall on 8th July 1842, applied to the civil service in 1867 and his father, Andrew Hall, provided the proof of baptism.

'The Waterford Mirror and Tramore Visitor' of 4th September 1872 noted the marriage in Ballinakill Church of Andrew Hall, HM Inland Revenue, Carrick-on-Suir, to Eva Boyd, daughter of the late Richard Boyd, Collector HM Revenue of Wicklow.    Eva Boyd's parents, Richard Walsingham Boyd of the Customs, New Ross, Co. Wexford, married Susan, eldest daughter of John Hodges of Waterford, on 5th June 1846 in Waterford. (' Freemans Journal, 9th Jan 1846.)

In 1860, Richard Walsingham Boyd and his wife, Susan, née Hodges, were living in Scotland at Bexley terrace, Pulteneytown, Wick, Caithness.  His place of birth wasn't given, but Susan had been born in 1826 in Waterford. Their children were John Walsingham Boyd, born 1848 in the Isle of Man, Anna Eva Boyd who later married Andrew Hall born in Co. Down in about 1852, twins Lindsay Fillars Boyd and James Alexander Boyd, both born in 1852 in Waterford, James Alexander Boyd born 1854, Julia Eliza Boyd born 1856 in Cork, and Martha Emma Boyd born 1858 in Wick, Scotland.
Richard Walsingham Boyd, Collector of Customs, died aged only 45 in Wick, Caithness, on 4th January 1866. ('John O' Groats Journal', 11th January 1866.)  On 21st March 1910, at her residence,  Grange, John's Hill, Waterford, the death occurred of Susan Boyd, widow of the late Richard Walsingham Boyd, Collector HM Customs of Caithness, Scotland, brother of the late Thomas Boyd of Chilcomb Park, Kilkenny.  

On 8th August 1881 in Shanbaugh near New Ross, Co. Wexford, the son of Thomas Boyd of Chilcomb, 20-yr-old Charles Daniel Boyd, was shot and killed by agrarian protesters Walter and John Phelan.  The 'Aberdeen Journal' of 16th June 1883 reported that Thomas Boyd of Chilcomb, Kilkenny, was awarded £1000 for the agrarian murder of his son, Charles Daniel and £250 for himself for injuries sustained on the same day.  £50 compensation was also paid to John Thomas Evans Boyd for injuries same day. Solicitor Arthur Gladwell Boyd, cousin of Charles Daniel Boyd, had also been present during the attack in Shanbough.  Arthur Gladwell Boyd was the son of Arthur J Boyd, a solicitor of Parade House, Kilkenny.   On Oct 15th 1885 in St. George's, Dublin, solicitor John Thomas Evans Boyd, son of solicitor Thomas Boyd of Chilcomb, New Ross, Co. Wexford, married Emily Martha Crawford of 5 Rutland Square, Dublin and of 14 Mark Street, Portrush, the younger daughter of the late Isaac Crawford of Troy, Londonderry and Portrush, Co. Antrim; the witnesses were Henry J. Litton Cary and George B. Crawford MD.

On 30th April 1887 in St. Anne's, Dublin, Henry John Litton Carey, District Inspector, R.I.C, of Killenaule, Co. Tipperary, son of the policeman, Henry G. Carey of County Dublin, married Katherine Frances Jane of 29 Kildare Street, Dublin, daughter of Thomas Boyd of Clonmel and Chilcomb; the witnesses were John Thomas Evans Boyd and Fannie Boyd.

Andrew J. Hall of the Inland Revenue, son of policeman Andrew Hall,  was living at 104 Leinster Rd, Rathmines in 1904.  In 1901, the family were there:

Andrew Hall, inland revenue office, born Meath;  wife, Eva, born Down, 1852, she died aged 73 at 26 Longford Terrace, Monkstown, on 25th September 1922.
Maud Mary Hall, born Tipperary circa 1874
Ada Emily Hall born Tipp circa 1877;  she married Albert John Harris, of Longford Avenue, son of Alexander Harris, excise supervisor, on 22nd October 1902 in Holy Trinity, Rathmines. This was witnessed by Andrew and Charles W. Hall.
Charles Walsingham Boyd  Hall, born at Hill Terrace, Bandon, on 18th December 1881.
Kathleen Hall, born 25th April 1884 at Hill Terrace, Bandon, Co. Cork - she died unmarried on 7th February 1936 in the Mater Hospital and gave her address as 16 Cabra Road, the address of her cousins, the daughters of George Hall and Adelaide Anne Courtenay.
Bertha Agnes Ruth Hall, born 12th May 1885 at 55 Raymond Street, Dublin.
Arthur William Hall (named at his baptism as Andrew William Arthur Hall) was born at 104 Leinster Road on 31st August 1889.  He died, aged 27, a commercial clerk, of Longford Terrace, of flu, and his father was present.

Eva Hall, née Boyd, died at Longford Terrace, Rathmines, on 25th September 1922.
Andrew Hall, retired inland revenue officer, died aged 85 at 9 Clarinda Park, Dunlaoghaire, on 26th March 1928;  M. Hall was present.

John Hall, gardener, son of policeman Andrew Hall:

In December 1873, William Hall, Inland Revenue officer of 5 Palmerston Place, Dublin,  swore on behalf on his nephew, William Andrew Hall, that his nephew had been born on 4th September 1858 to brother John Hall and his wife Elizabeth Hall in Kilmer, near Ballirig or Ballivor, Co. Meath.
William Hall also testified that John Hall, father of the applicant William Andrew Hall, had died in about 1867 or 1868.  The local clergyman of Killochonnigan Church, Ballivor, also confirmed that he had indeed baptised the boy who had lived at Ballivor, near Kells, Co. Meath and that the boy's father,  John Hall, had been a gardener.  William Andrew Hall, son of John and Elizabeth, and nephew of William Hall, was applying in 1873 to join the Post Office.

The Lunny Family:
The Lunny family seem to have been friendly with the family of George Hall of 50 Middle Mountjoy Street.  I'm not sure if there was some some of family link, but I'll include them here nonetheless. When George's daughter, Matilda, married William Egan Ussher on 9th April 1890, one of the witnesses was Emilie/Emily Lunny, the daughter of John Lunny and Eliza Scovelle.   Her brother, John Robert Lunny, was present at 16 Cabra Road when Adelaide Ann Hall, daughter of George Hall and Adelaide Anne Courtenay, died in 1943.

John Lunny, a widowed housekeeper at the Registry of Deeds, with an address at 5 Henrietta Street, son of the merchant James Lunny, married Eliza Schovell, daughter of a gardener, John Schovell of Manor House, Dundrum. The couple married in St. Michan's on 16th May 1861- one of the witnesses was a John Stephens, while the second one was Francis McMee.  (John Lunny had married Rebecca Morris, the daughter of George Morris of Coolock, as his second wife on 6th March 1852. I haven't isolated his first wife yet.)

John Lunny applied to join the  Registry Office as part of the British Civil Service, and the details are published online via Find My Past -  he gave his address as at the rere of Charlemont House, 22 Rutland Square and stated he had been born in Ballibay, Monaghan on 1st May 1822 to James Lunny, farmer of Ballybay and had been schooled in Mullaghglass.  His most recent job had been with Thomas Drury, warehouseman, Merchants Quay.  He had left to work for the 1851 census, had been with the register Office since;  in 1878, when he made the latest application, he must have been interested in a different position in the Registry Office.

Emily Jane Lunny was born to John Lunny and Eliza Schovell at 5 Henrietta Street on 26th December 1894;  her brother,  John Robert Lunny was born on 24th April 1868.  Sisters were Frances or Fanny Lunny and Caroline Louisa Lunny.
Caroline Louisa Lunny  married William John Strickland  on 2nd December 1892, while Fanny married William Norton.  Emily Lunny married David Orr on 26th December 1894.  Her brother, John Robert Lunny, died on 10th May 1954 at 43 Connaught Street;  a druggist, he had never married.  Edith C. Strickland was present.

The 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 Henry Street.
Patrick's eldest son and heir was Patrick Jones Junior, who married in 1818, as his second wife, a Mary Wilton of Mullingar.   This post, therefore, is a brief foray into the Wiltons of Co. Westmeath, and collates what little information I could gather on the family of Mary Wilton.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/jones-family-of-dublin.html

Deed 732-286-499421, registered 3rd October 1818 - dated 29th August 1818, recorded the marriage settlement of Patrick Jones of Bishop Street,  house painter, and Mary Wilton, spinster of Mullingar. Also named were William Blackhall, woollen draper, and Mary's brother, Henry Wilton of Mullingar.
(The 'Treble Almanack' of 1818 noted William Blackhall, woollen-draper, at 22 Parliament Street, Dublin.)

The deed ran as follows: reciting that by indented deed of release, dated 1st June 1778, Redman/Redmond Nowlan did demise to Thomas Gorman Jr. ground and ale house in Big Booters Lane, now Bishop Street, at a rent of £32 per annum - these premises then became vested in the said Patrick Jones, and the estate of Redmand Nowlan became vested in James Corballis, timber merchant.
An annuity of £91 per annum was granted to Mary Wilton out of the lands of Scurlockstown, Co. Westmeath (for three lives - Alex Murray, Mary Wilton and Henry Wilton);  Alex Murray, in order to more effectually secure the payment of said annuity, did grant to Mary's brother, Henry Wilton of Mullingar, the lands of Scurlockstown for 300 years upon the marriage of Patarick Jones and Mary Wilton;  also, at the time of the 1818 marriage, the house in Bishop Street was to be assigned to William Blackhall and Henry Wilton, so that provision might be made for Mary Wilton should her husband, Patrick Jones, die or become bankrupt, or to provide for any children resulting from the marriage.   If Patrick Jones was to die, the trustees could sell the house in Bishop Street;  if Mary died, then the proceeds of the house could go to her children.
Patrick Jones the Elder, father of Patrick Jones Junior, held, at the time of his death, a house in Henry Street.  Patrick Jones Senior died intestate - his son, Patrick, as his eldest son and heir-at-law, obtained the legal right of administration of his father's property and granted and recited said premises in mortgage to Thomas Smart, carpenter on 12th May 1812.
Also mentioned in this deed of 1818 was the earlier marriage settlement of 30th November 1811 whereby Patrick Jones married spinster Mary Anne Stockdale - two daughters had resulted from this marriage, namely Hannah and Ellen Jones.  Following the early death of Mary Anne Jones, née Stockdale, John and Roger Stockdale had gained judgement against Patrick Jones in His Majesty's Court of the King's Bench in Ireland.
The witnesses to the 1818 deed of marriage was John Shaw, apothecary of Dublin, Michael Walker of Clonegar, Co. Meath, Patrick Jones, Mary Wilton, William Blackhall and Henry Wilton of Mullingar.
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William Blackhall, either one of Mary Wilton's trustees in 1818 or a relation of his, was implicated in other Wilton deeds.  Deed 541-407-357750, dated 14th January 1802, had been drawn up between John Wilton of Mullingar, John Rorke of Dublin,  William Blackhall of Stonehall and James Ryan of Co. Kildare. John Wilton granted his land in Ballynakill, Co. Meath to James Ryan.  John Wilton was entitled to the lands of Springfield and Cooksborough in Co. Westmeath, and to a house in Mullingar. The trustees were here named as John Rorke and William Blackhall.

Yet another deed  (398-70-262355) of 3rd November 1787 named both John Wilton Senior of Marktown (or perhaps Martinstown) and John Wilton Junior of Stonehall, both of Co. Westmeath, farmers, and also William Blackhall Senior and William Blackhall Junior of Martinstown, Co.Westmeath, farmers.  The Wiltons here leased land in Stonehall to William Blackhall Jr.

The 'Freeman's Journal' of 4th July 1877 reported from the Record Court in Dublin on a law case, Blackhall v. Gibson, which was an action of ejectment for non-payment of rent of the lands of Blackmills, Co. Westmeath.  The plaintiff claimed under a devise in the will of Henry Wilton, late of Mullingar, who died in 1810.  Blackhall stated that the three children of an older brother of his, and also the childrens' mother, had emigrated to the US in 1835 and that he had only ever had one letter from them. The court found in his favour.  This case was immediately followed by a second, also Blackhall v. Gibson, and again an ejectment for non-payment of rent on lands of Stonehall, and was brought for the purpose of establishing title of the plaintiff who claimed as heir-at -law of his grandfather, William Blackhall of Clongriffin/Clongriffen, Co. Meath who had died there in 1820.
The 'Westmeath Journal' of 15th March 1827 noted that the demesne of Cookesborough in possession of Mr. J. Wilton and his undertenants was to be let.
Stonehall is in Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath, 17 kms north of Mullingar town;  other townlands named in these Wilton deeds cluster in this same area, namely, Martinstown, Ballynakill, Springfield and Cookborough.

A John Wilton was running a coach service in Mullingar in the 1780s - he advertised this extensively in the papers of the day.  'Saunders Newsletter' of 2nd December 1806 reported that Mr. John Wilton of Mullingar was running coaches everyday between Thomastown and Mullingar, and then on to Longford, and could therefore meet passenger off the Royal Canal which had recently opened  at Thomastown and which now linked this area to Dublin.

Henry Wilton
As noted in the 1818 marriage settlement of Patrick Jones and Mary Wilton, Henry Wilton of Mullingar was named as the brother of Mary Wilton.  Their parents were not mentioned.

A deed (1840-23-244) of 25th November 1840 drawn up between Henry Wilton and Laurence Middleton of Mullingar, noted that Henry was leasing a house and 11 acres in Mullingar to Laurence Middleton for the lives of Andrew Dudgeon, his wife Elizabeth Dudgeon, née Wilton, and Alexander Dudgeon, the 4th son of Ralph Dudgeon of Clones, Co. Monaghan.

'Saunders Newsletter' of 19th February 1817 noted the death on 15th February 1817 in Blessington Street, Dublin, of Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Dudgeon and daughter of Mr. Wilton, late of Mullingar.

'Saunders Newsletter',  4th October 1817, the year before Mary Wilton married the short-lived Patrick Jones of Bishop Street,  ran an advertisement for the letting of 'Wilton's Inn' of Mullingar on the Royal Canal, 60 miles from Dublin.  The future tenant could also lease 50 acres of land adjoining the town.  Application was to be made to either Andrew Dudgeon, solicitor of 22 Blessington Street, Dublin, or to Henry Wilton on the premises.

The 'Westmeath Journal' of 18th March 1824 was advertising the Westmeath Steeplechase, one of whose organisers was Henry Wilton of Mullingar.   He was named as a church warden of Mullingar Parish Church by the 'Westmeath Journal' of 14th July 1825.

The 'Roscommon and Leitrim Gazette' reported on 26th June 1824 that, in Mullingar on 17th June, the house, barn, stables and car-house, half a mile from Mullingar, the property of Henry Wilton of Monte Video, had been maliciously burnt.   Later, on 26th February 1829, the 'Westmeath Journal' reported that Henry Wilton was leasing out his house, Monte Video, five minute's walk from Mullingar.

The Landed Estates Court Rentals put up for sale, on 3rd June 1858, 6 Main Street, Mullingar.  The original lease had been signed on 16th December 1833 from Rt. Hon. Viscount Forbes to Henry Wilton for three lives - namely, Henry Wilton himself, Edward Maxton and William Malcolm Maxton.  Now, in 1858, only two of these were still alive, Henry Wilton, aged about 70 and Edward Maxton now about 35.   Henry Wilton, therefore, had been born in about 1788.

Henry Wilton lived for a time at Monte Video Cottage in Mullingar.

The unmarried Henry Wilton (1788 - 1860) of Montevideo Cottage, Mullingar, and of The Retreat, Finglas Road, Dublin, died on 25th October 1860 - his will was granted to his spinster sister, Ann Wilton of 68 Aungier Street, who died at 2 Peter Place on 23rd September 1866. The 'Clare Journal' also reported Henry Wilton's death, and noted that he had died at Bell View in Finglas.

Henry Wilton of Monte Video had links to the lands of Clonmoyle and Tullanisky, south of Mullingar - the 'Westmeath Journal' of 18th March 1824 advertised the letting of Mr. Wilton's lands of Clonmoyle and Tullimsky (sic), which comprised 254 acres and which was situated 1 mile from Mullingar.  Proposals were to be received by both Henry Wilton of Monte Video and by John Wilton of 3, College Green, Dublin.

These lands of Clonmoyle and Tullanisky were associated with another cluster of Wiltons, who seem to be related.  The first of this second Wilton family, that I can isolate,  was John Wilton of Rathcarn or Rathcane, Co. Westmeath, who had business links with the Williams family of Dublin who were prominent in the glassmaking industry.

John Wilton of Rathcarn/Rathcane, Co. Westmeath:
Deed 324-2-211172, dated 28th February 1777, concerned the sale of land, ie, Clonmoyle and Tullanisky, plus land of Stonestown, all in Fortullagh, Co. Westmeath.  John Wilton of Rathcarn, Co. Westmeath sold a moiety of his share of land, ie, 371 acres, for £500 to John Alderton of Dublin.

These lands of Clonmoyle and Tullanisky were mentioned in the 1783 will of this same John Wilton, which was lodged in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.  John Wilton was late of Rathcarn/Rathcam, Co. Westmeath, and of Potter's Alley, Dublin.   In his will, which he drew up on 11th March 1783, he named three sons, Thomas Wilton, John Wilton and George Wilton, and also three daughters, Elizabeth Wilton, Rose Wilton and Mary Wilton.  The mother of all six of his children was Mary Neary or Nairy, who had lived with John Wilton for the past 30 years;  he was now adopting the six children, and the will made ample provision for both them and his partner.
To his second son, and obvious favourite, John, he left his share of the lands of Clonmoyle and Tullaniksy which were currently tenanted by a John Jones. Should son John not have any children to inherit this property, then the land was to pass to eldest son Thomas.  Should he have no issue, then it was to go to third son George, and should he die childless, the land was to be sold and the proceeds to be divided between the three daughters and their mother.
His lands of Gortumblo/Gortunloe and Redmondstown, Co. Westmeath, were to be sold by Patrick Mullingan, Dublin attorney, and by William Williams, his business partner, and the said proceeds were to go to Bridget Neary, and, after her death, to his children.  Other land mentioned in the will was land in White Cliff, Hull, Yorkshire, and in Baldonnell, Co. Dublin.
John Wilton also alluded to his co-partnership with Dublin glassmaker, William Williams of The Strand, who was to ensure that his family be supported in a frugal manner after his death and that they should all live together.  He left his house in Potters Alley to Bridget, including his furniture and plate in England, Ireland and France.
A brother was named as Henry Wilton (not the Henry Wilton who was the brother of Mary Wilton, wife of Patrick Jones, but an earlier Henry Wilton), to whom he only left £10, given that this Henry was aged and childless, and that he had already benefitted from a bequest of land from a brother, Walter Wilton, and that he, John, had already assisted Henry in expanding his property.  John Wilton claimed that his brother, Henry, already lived in a state of opulence, and that he, John, wished to provide mostly for his own partner and children  who would have no other means of income.  John also left £10 to his sister Rose Wilton.
John Wilton Sr. of both Rathcarn, Co. Westmeath, and of Dublin, died on 31st January 1786 as confirmed by later deeds drawn up by his grandson in 1832.  His will was finally proved in London on 1st December 1794.
John Wilton of Rathcarn, Co. Westmeath, was the son of Hugh Wilton and Elizabeth Wakely.

John, Henry, Walter and Rose Wilton, had all been born  to Hugh and Elizabeth in Dublin the 1720s.   I wonder was the elderly, opulent Henry Wilton, who was aged and childless in 1783, the same Henry Wilton who died in Westmeath in 1810 and who named William Blackhall under a devise in his will?
The children of Hugh Wilton and Elizabeth Wakely, who had married in 1716, were baptised as follows in St. Mary's, Dublin, although son John Wilton must have been christened elsewhere:

• Henry Wilton, 5th August 1718.
• Kathrin Wilton, 17th October 1720.
• Rose Wilton, 18th April 1722.
• Elinor Wilton, 17th July 1723.
• Mary Wilton, 12th November 1724.
• Walter Wilton, 16th April 1727 - a Walter Winton died in Cashel, Tipperary, in 1763.
• Thomas Wilton, 4th July 1729.
• Robert Wilton, 3rd March 1730.

Other Westmeath Wiltons were  John Wilton of Stonehall who died there in 1757 and John Wilton of Stonehall who died in 1792.  I came across a marriage in the 'Marriage Licence Bonds, Diocese of Meath', dated 1787, between a John Wilton and a Bridget Tremble.

The Trinity Records ('Alumni Dublinenses', 1924 edition) name a few Wiltons who all seem to fit into the above family:
Hugh Wilton (father of John, Henry, Walter and Rose?) was admitted to Trinity on 5th October 1711 aged 19, and was named as the son of the nobleman Henry Wilton of Gaulstown, Co. Meath.
John Wilton was admitted to Trinity aged 17 on 6th May 1735, the son of Hugh Wilton, nobleman.  A Hugh Wilton of Rathcane, Co. Westmeath, died there in 1752.
Rose Wilton, a spinster, died in Dublin in 1798, and was probably the sister of John Wilton who made his will on 11th March 1783.

The children of John Wilton and Bridget Neary/Mary were mentioned in deed 528-3-344334, whose date I neglected to transcribe in the Registry of Deeds.  This was a deed of assignment between Thomas Wilton of Dublin, Benedict Hamilton of Harcourt Street, Elizabeth Hamilton, otherwise Wilton, his wife, and widow Rose O'Hegarty, otherwise Wilton, and John Wilton of Dublin.  The deed concerned the lands of Baldonnell, Co. Dublin, which had been named in John Wilton's will of 1783, and which, according to this deed, had been firstly owned by John Preston, and then by John Wilton of Dublin who passed it on to his above-named children.

Three later deeds, drawn up at the same time, late April 1832, continued the story. (Deeds 883-163-5855164, 883-164-588165, and 883-166-585166.)  John Wilton of Rathcarn, Co. Westmeath, then of Dublin, made his will in March 1783.  He left his lands of Clonmoyle and Tullanisky to his second son, John Wilton, so that the profits of this land should stand as a provision for the younger children of John Wilton Jr.
John Wilton Jr. died intestate on 30th July 1830, leaving one son, John Lucas Wilton, Lieutenant in the 70th Regiment, and also four daughters, namely, Amelia, wife of William Henderson, Maria Olivia, Hariet, wife of Robert Power of Bloomfield, Co. Kildare, and Louisa Wilton of Carnarvon, North Wales.   These deeds confirmed that John Wilton Sr. of both Rathcarn, Co. Westmeath, and of Dublin, had died on 31st January 1786.

Captain John Lucas Wilton (1802 - 1867) married Elizabeth Frances Carr in 1834. He died in South Stoneham, Hampshire, in 1867.  Elizabeth Frances Wilton died in Richmond, Surrey, in 1864. They had three daughters, Charlotte Wilton, born in Gibraltar in 1839, Georgina Wilton born in Co. Wexford in 1841 and Louisa Wilton born in Co. Wexford in about 1848.  The UK census reveals the family living in Stockport, Cheshire in 1851.      In 1871 the three unmarried Wilton sisters were living together at 19 Ledbury Road, Paddington, London.

The 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, all of them Methodist.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/john-pennefather-and-emily-courtenay.html

John Pennefather and Maria Emily Baskin married on September 12th 1888 in Dublin.  At the time of the wedding, John was living at 132 North Strand Road and was working as a clerk. Maria Emily Baskin was living at 219 Clonliffe Road - her father was Robert Baskin, a gentleman. The witnesses were her brother - Richard Ringwood Baskin and Laura Owens.

Maria Emily Baskin had been born May 20th 1861 to Robert Baskin (who had been born in 1828) and Kate Ringwood in Dublin. Robert Baskin and Kate Ringwood had married at Erke, Kilkenny on 22nd October 1856.  Robert Baskin was noted as a gentleman baker of Buckingham Street, the son of William Haughton Baskin, while Kate Ringwood was the daughter of Richard Ringwood a farmer of Eirke. Thomas Ringwood and William H. Baskin were the witnesses.

Maria Emily Baskin's great-grandparents were Oliver Baskin and Elizabeth Haughton who married in 1795. They settled in the Co. Waterford area where they had son William Haughton Baskin on 19th  May 1798 in Kilmacthomas. Other children born to Oliver Baskin and Elizabeth Haughton were Isabella Baskin, born 1795, Mary Baskin who married Robert Thompson in Dublin in 1822, and Robert Baskin who died at age 12.

(A Serjeant Oliver Baskin who had been born in Inver, Co. Donegal joined the army. Find My Past hold the Kilmainham Pensioners British Army Service Records online, and his file notes that Serjeant Oliver Baskin had been born in Inver in 1758 and had served 15 years in the Donegal Militia, but had been discharged in 1800 due to a longstanding liver complaint. This individual might not be the Oliver Baskin who married Elizabeth Houghton in 1795, or he might be a relation, since the largest cluster of Baskins occurs in Donegal.)

William Haughton Baskin (19th May 1798 - 18th November 1877) the eldest son of Oliver Baskin and Elizabeth Haughton and father of Robert Baskin :

On 15th May 1821, William Haughton Baskin of Paradise Row (modern name Wellington Street), son of Oliver Baskin and Elizabeth Haughton, married Maria Deaker (1799 - 25th April 1881) of Abbey Street.  Maria Deaker was the daughter of  John Dacre/Deaker 1762-1815, and Lydia Margaret Steele 1770 -1847.

The children of Lydia Margaret Steele and John D'acre/Deaker of Co. Wexford:

1) Alice D'acre (c.1795 - 21st February 1874) who married, on 11th May 1813, George Hipwell (baptised Offerlane, Queen's County 19th December 1791 - 13th January 1829), son of George Hipwell, of Marymount, Queen's County.
(A second Hipwell family, that of William and Ann Hipwell of Ballinrally, was also recorded in the Offerlane Parish Register.)
Alice and George Hipwell settled in Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford where their children were  baptised in St. Mary's Church.
Their only surviving son, John William Hipwell, married, in March 1838 in St. Mark's, Dublin, Maria Caroline, the eldest daughter of Dublin solicitor John Wiber.  
George Hipwell died in January 1829 and his death was recorded in the St. Mary's register in Newtownbarry, as was the death of a Humphries Hipwell in 1831.  Alica, wife of George Hipwell died in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, aged 79 on 21st February 1874, and her will was granted to her son-in-law, Miles Sterling of Thomastown.
Anne Hipwell, who had been born in Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford, in May 1827 and who had been christened there in St.Mary's by George and Alicia Hipwell of Newtownbarry, married William Hinton of Grosvenor Road, Rathmines , in June 1859 in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.

Margaret Hipwell, eldest daughter of Alicia and George Hipwell of Newtownbarry, married Dr. Miles Sterling of Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, on 30th December 1840.  Miles Sterling also had strong links to the Deaker and Ringwood families - he reappears later in this post.

2) Richard D'acre (11th July 1795 - 27th May 1861.)

3) William D'acre/Deaker (1st September 1797 - 18th August 1880). William Deaker, a baker, was of Abbey Street in the 1830s and 1840s. He married Sarah Sterling in the Meath Diocese in 1830. When he died on 18th August 1880 at 77 Kenilworth Square, his widow was noted as Sarah Deaker.  When she died in 1897 in Rathgar, her will was probated by William Houghton Baskin, of Lurgan, the son of Maria Deaker and William Haughton Baskin Senior .

In 1865, Elizabeth Deaker, daughter of William Deaker of Kenilworth Square, married James William Levis, son of Samuel Levis of Leap, Glandore, Co. Cork. The witnesses were Miles Sterling and William Deaker.  William Ringwood of Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, son of farmer Richard Ringwood, married Alice Sterling of 77 Kenilworth Square, Rathmines, daughter of surgeon Miles Sterling.  The witnesses were Miles Sterling and Richard Ringwood.

The youngest daughter of William Deaker of Kenilworth Square, Rathmines was Sarah Louisa Deaker who married Thomas Bennett, son of Thomas Bennett of Shannon Vale, Clonakilty, in the Wesleyan Church, Charleston Road, Dublin,  on 18th October 1866. ('Belfast Newsletter', 20th October 1866.)
William Deaker died aged 83 at 77 Kenilworth Square, Rathmines, on 18th August 1880;  his widow, Sarah Deaker, died aged 98 at 77 Kenilworth Square on 25th January 1897;  William Haughton Baskin of Hill House, Lurgan, was the informant of death.

4) Maria D'acre/Deaker (20th December 1799 - 25th April 1880) who married, in 1826, William Haughton Baskin (19th May 1798 - 18th November 1877).

5) Robert D'acre/Deaker (16th May 1805 - 12th July 1861).  A merchant of Eden Quay involved in both shipping and the wine business.  His estate was settled in the Court of Chancery - this was announced in the papers of the day, and named his widow as Jane Deaker, who was Robert's second wife. His first wife had been Maria Kent, the youngest daughter of William Kent of Aungier Street, who he'd married on 30th March 1842.
He then married Jane, the daughter of surgeon Thomas Underhill of Tipton, England - she died aged 70 on 3rd July 1887 at  272 Monument Road, Edgbaston Road, Manchester. ('Manchester Times', 9th July 1887.)   Her will was proved by her two brothers, the surgeon William Lees Underhill of Tipton, Stafford, and Dr. Thomas Underhill of Summerhill House, West Bromich.

Robert Deaker died, aged 56, at his residence in Grosvenor Terrace, Rathgar, on 12th July 1861. ('Cork Examiner'', 16th July 1861.)

Robert Deaker's only surviving daughter, Eliza Anne Deaker, married Thomas Edward Owen, surgeon of Devon, on 20th July 1859 in Coolock where the Deaker family had settled at Lark Hill. The witnesses were Jacob Owen, Robert Deaker and Charles Baskin.
Thomas Edward Owen was the son of naval architect Jeremiah Owen and grandson of Welsh-born Jacob Owen, architect of the Dublin Board of Works.  Jeremiah was one of the 13 surviving children of Jacob Owen of Mountjoy Square;  another was Mary Anne Mew who married, on 29th October 1846 in St. George's, Thomas Underhill, surgeon of Tipton.  Robert Deaker of Eden Quay had married, as his second wife, Jane, the daughter of this same Thomas Underhill.

Thomas Edward Owen, husband of Eliza Anne Deaker,  practised medicine in Totnes,Devon, England, becoming mayor there;  he died in 1884, leaving Eliza with seven children to support -

a) Emily Owen 1860 - 1950.
b) Arthur Owen, born 1862, he married Kate O'Neill, and had Marjory, Vaughn and David.
c)Harold Own, born circa 1862, who emigrated to New Zealand; his daughter is believed to have married a man by the name of 'Swan' there.
d) Edith Owen (1864 - 1959) of Plymouth, married Elgar Down (1867 - 1930) a doctor from Kent; the family settled in Plymouth and had three daughters - Monica, a talented doctor who died before the age of 30,  Ruth, who was the secretary to various Governors of Bermuda and who died in Cornwall in 1989, and Dorothea who married William James Coode and whose son, Mark, kindly passed his family info onto me for inclusion here.
e) Percy (1867 - 1926), who married Ella Egremont Pigou.
f) Lucy (1868 - 1958), who married Edward Bennett and had two sons, Owen and Richard.
g) Gerald who died in 1884, the same year as his father.

Robert Deaker's son, William Deaker, married Henrietta Lydia, 3rd surviving daughter of Henry Hill of 5 Ventnor Terrace, Cliftonville, late of 65 Avenue Road, Regent's Park, in Hove, Brighton, on 26th August 1867.  ('Dublin Evening Mail', 28th August 1867.)   A wine merchant of 20 and 21 Eden Quay and of 35 Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, he died on 17th January 1893;  probate of his will was granted to his widow Henrietta Lydia Deaker. ('England and Wales National Probate Calendar'.)

His widow, Henrietta Lydia Deaker, died at 21 Eden Quay on 10th October 1912;  her will was granted to the widowed Catherine Prosser Middleton.


6) Lydia Deaker (25th March 1808 - 21st December 1882) who married Dr. William Clendinnen in Co. Wexford in 1826.   William Clendinnen was the son of the Methodist preacher, Rev. John C. Clendinnen, who had been born in Co. Down, where the Clendinnen name proliferates, and who died in Bideford, England, on 6th February 1855.  John was the son of James Clendinnen who had moved from Dunfriesshire, Scotland, to Co. Down in the 1750's.  Rev. John C. Clendinnen had married Mary A. on 4th March 1802, and son William had been born in 1804 or 1805 in Skibbereen or Bandon in Co. Cork.
Rev. John Clendinnen moved to Gorey, Co. Wexford, where Mrs. Clendinnen, wife of Rev. John C. Clendinnen, ran a ladies' academy in the 1830s, buth ultimately they settled in Carlow.

Lydia Clendinnen, née Deaker, died aged 75 at Minvaud House, Hacketstown, in 1882.
A son of Dr. William Clendinnen and Lydia Deajer was John Deaker Clendinnen, who had been born on 24th February 1828, in Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford, and who emigrated to Canada in 1855.

Other children of William Clendinnen and Lydia Deaker were Charlotte Clendinnen who married Abraham Harrison, son of Robert Harrison, in Clonmore, Co. Carlow, on 22nd October 1856, Margaret Alicia Clendinnen who married Samuel Hanna, son of Samuel Hanna, in Carnew on 24th October 1852, John Clendinnen who settled at Yarra Yarra, Australia, and whose daughter, Mary Charlotte, married Charles Stevens Reeves on 28th January 1862.  L
ydia Sophia Clendinnen, daughter of William Clendinnen and Lydia Deaker, married Rev. Francis Bettesworth Mollan, the curate of Fiddown, son of Rev. Robert Mollan of Drumgath, in Dublin on 26th May 1880.
On 26th October 1870 in Clonmore, John Wheeler of Carysfort, Co. Wicklow, married Maryanne, the eldest surviving daughter of Dr. Clendinnen of Clonmore Lodge, Co. Wicklow.
On 29th July 1869 in the Scots Church, Adelaide Road, Dr. J.G. Clendinnen, son of Dr. Clendinnen of Clonmore Lodge, married Lizzie, the daughter of James McEntire of Eary, Co. Tyrone.
Another son of William and Lydia Clendinnen was the doctor William Ellis Clendinnen who had been born in 1839 and who practised, first in Cheswardine, then in Stafford where he was the medical officer for health.  An unpleasant individual, he was accused and acquitted of rape in 1870, but was also known to beat his wife, Sarah, who later left him when she saw sense, as dud his children who later emigrated.

7) Margaret d'Acre/Deaker (15th November 1809 - 30th december 1885) who married William Doyle (6th December 1791 - 17th March 1866) on 9th December 1829.

In 1848, juries were put together to try the republican rebels, William Smith O'Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher.  Two of the jurors in the O'Brien case were John Deaker of 21.5 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, gentleman, and William Deaker, baker of 74 Abbey Street.  Robert Deaker of 21 Eden Quay was named as one of the jurors in the Meagher case.

Online research:  Maria Deaker was daughter of  John Dacre/Deaker 1762-1815, and Lydia Margaret Steele Dacre/Deaker 1770?-1847.
Lydia Margaret Steele was from Kyle, Queen's County - her brother Richard Steele had been born there in about 1773 and emigrated to Grenada in the West Indies.   Francis Biddulph (1770 -1826) of Mount Oliver, Queen's County, married Mary Steele, the daughter of Major Richard Steele of Kyle - Richard S. Biddulph, the second son of the late Francis Biddulph of Mount Oliver, Queen's County, married Catherine Matilda, the daughter of Colonel Bates of the 21st Light Dragoons, in Kensington in July 1838.

The Steele family of Kyle, Co. Wexford had links to Richard Ringwood, as well as to the Deaker family - in 1852, the Encumbered Estates Court was selling off land leased by Richard Ringwood in Co. Kilkenny, at Rathpatrick and at Bawn.  The original Rathpatrick lease had been taken out on 3rd March 1819 for 197 acres from the Earl of Courttown by Richard Ringwood, for the three lives of Richard Steele, son of John Steele of Kyle, Samuel Ringwood son of William Ringwood of Granige (or Graigue), and William Little, son of John Little of Balliquiddihy.

On 2nd April 1805, Richard Ringwood took out a further lease from the Earl of Courttown for land in Bawn, Co. Kilkenny - the three lives named in this one were Richard Steele, William Jacob and Thomas Steele of whom only Thomas Steele was still alive, aged about 50, in 1852.  

Notes on the Steele family of Kyle, Queen's County...the following births, deaths etc. have been sourced from the Irish Newspapers archive courtesy of Find My Past, and from the National Archives wills calendars.   

Early Steele marriages:
William Steele of Keile (sic), Queen's County, married Charlotte Fielding in St. Catherine's, Dublin, on 21st July 1722.
Anne Steele of Kyle married Thomas White of Donoughmore, Queen's County, on 17th April 1739.

Major Richard Steele  -  in October 1775 Richard Steele of Kyle, married Miss Philips of Philipsburgh, Queen's County.   The death of Major Richard Steele (1744 - 1835), last Major of the Irish Volunteers of 1782 - he died at Kyle House, in 1835 aged 91.  ('The Pilot', 12th August 1835.)

 'Saunders Newsletter', 28th November 1821, announced the upcoming sale of the lands of Ballydowell and Coolishill, Co. Kilkenny, which was to be sold following a decree executed in the court of chancery on 27th May 1818, by way of executing the will of the late Richard Phillips the elder.  The two executors of his will were Richard Steele and James Scott. The plaintiffs in the case were Richard Phillips Junior, son and heir of the deceased.

In June 1803, Richard Steele of Mount Oliver married Miss Rathborne, the daughter of R. Rathborne of Ballimore, Co. Galway.   In April 1807, Richard Steele of Kyle, near Rathdowney, was letting or selling Mount Oliver, also near Rathdowney.  On 15th November 1847, the lands of both Harristown and neighbouring Kyle were both being put up for sale in Dublin by order of the Court of Chancery - the sale of  the Harristown property was subject to its original lease, dated 2nd April 1799, in which Richard Steele demised his Harristown property to his eldest son, George Steele.  

George Steele married Dorothea Armstrong in 1797.

George Steele, eldest son of Richard Steele, died at some stage prior to 1826, when his eldest son and heir, Richard Steele of Harristown, married Annabelle Murray, daughter of Rev. Henry Murray of Dublin.  Annabelle's brother, Charles Murray, was one of the trustees, and land mentioned here was property near Rathdowney including Skirk, all to be held in trust on behalf of the bride. A William Armstrong Steele was also mentioned in this document, but his relationship to the groom, Richard Steele of Harristown, wasn't clarified, although he was most likely his brother, their parents being George Steele and Dorothea Armstrong.     In September 1819,  Ellen, the eldest daughter of the late George Steele, and sister of Richard Steele, of Harristown, had married a William Armstrong. 

Annabella, née Murray, widow of the late Richard Steele of Skeirke and earlier of Harristown, married John Kennedy, son of the late Rev. P. Kennedy of Loughmore, Tipperary, in Holycross Church in April 1853. (From the 'Southern Reporter', 26th April 1853.)

William Armstrong of Farney Castle - who had bailed out the insolvent Richard Steele of Balledmond in 1848, died on 22nd December 1872 and the executor of his will was George Vandeleur Steele, who lived at Skeirke Cottage and who sorted out the will of his late brother, Captain William Armstrong Steele of the 30th Regiment of Foot who had died on 20th August 1874.

On 29th July 1852 in Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, George Vandeleur Steele of Skeirke, son of the late George Steele, J.P. of Harristown, married Susan Staples of Gowran Glebe, the daughter of Rev. Alexander Staples - the witnesses were Robert Staples and Lorenzo Alexander. Daughter Dorothea Anna Georgina married Harold Baxter Boulter F.R.C.S., the youngest son of the late Benjamin Boulter of Hull, on 11th August 1881.  A second daughter, Catherine Florence Steele of 36 Elgin Road, married Lt.Major William Hamilton Haire, the son of Rev. Hamilton Haire, on 26th April 1893; this was witnessed by Frances Dorothea Staples and Dorothea A.G. Boulter.

George Vandeleur Steele must have been the dependable type - he also stood as executor to his wife,Susan Steele who died at Skeirke Cottage on 25th January 1866, and to Mary Switzer, late of Osier Hill, Taghmon, Co. Wexford, who died in Tramore on 14th August 1882 - Mary Steele, youngest daughter of the late Captain Richard Steele of Ballyedmond, had married Rev. Nathaniel Switzer on 11th August 1858 - the groom was the son of an older Nathaniel Switzer, while the bride was noted as the daughter of Captain Richard Steele. Her address in 1858 was both Rathdowney and 2 Eccles Street; the wedding was witnessed by John Chinnery Armstrong and James Beatty.

In October 1848 it was reported that Richard Steele of Ballyedmond had been jailed in Maryborough as an insolvent - Rev. Robert Armstrong of Clonoulty, Tipperary, and William Armstrong of Farney Castle became sureties on his behalf. (A William Armstrong married a Sarah Steele in 1829.)  
Earlier, the 'Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail' of 19th April 1834 had announced the marriage in Ardagh Church, Co. Cork, of Richard Steele of Ballyedmond, Captain in the Roya Queen's County Militia, to Eleanor/Ellen, daughter of the late Rev. Anthony Armstrong, Vicar of Emly.   Ellen Steele died in Ballyedmond on 30th January 1866.    In 1844 George Steele, youngest son of Richard Steele of Ballyedmond, died. 

In 1813 the death occurred of the wife of Richard Steele of Kyle. ('Gentlemans' Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Part 1'.)

Deed 573-266-388440, registered on 20th November 1805, was between George Bond of Kelogue, Queen's County, Susanna Steele, spinster of Borris-in-Ossory, Susanna Roberts, the spinster aunt of Susanna Steele, and Richard Steele of Keelogue.  George Bond was marrying Susanna Steele.  The lands of Springhill, Villars, near Borris-in-Ossory, were being placed in trust for the bride;  this was witnessed by gentleman Thomas Steele and William Dawson Roberts.   A deed of assigment, 573-266-388440, dated 20th October 1805, between Joseph Bond of Clononen, Queen's County, and George Bond of Kelogue, named three members of this same Steele family, namely, Thomas Steele, his wife Ellen, and Richard Steele.

The 'Dublin Evening Mail'  of 12th March 1845 reported on the case in chancery, whereby the creditors and legatees of the late Richard Steele of Kyle, Queen's County, were named as Richard Steele, John Steele, a second Richard Steele and Jane Steele. 

John Steele of Kyle House, Queen's County:
In 1861 the death occurred of Elizabeth, the widow of John Steele of Kyle Park, and third daughter of the late Hon. Eyre Massey of Queen's County. ('Kings County Chronicle', 3rd April 1861.)  Elizabeth was noted as the aunt of Nicholas Biddulph, who had been born to Mary Steele and Francis Biddulph in about 1803.

The children of John Steele and Elizabeth Massey were Eyre Massy Steele, Richard William Steele, Hugh Massey Steele, John Steele and William Henry Steele, whose lands of Monanelli or Monelly were put up for sale by the Encumbered Estates Court on 22nd June 1869.   Matilda Frances Steele died 21st February 1859 in Monarelli, with probate granted to her father John Steele of Monarelli.  

The eldest son of John Steele of Kyle House was Richard William Steele who married Hanora Butler, the eldest daughter of Charles Lennon of Tramore, in April 1840. ('Southern Reporter', 28th April 1840.)  Hanora gave birth to a daughter at her father's home in Co. Wexford, in October 1841. 

On 5th December 1850, Eyre Massy Steele of the Queen's County and of Gardiner Street, the son of John Steele, married Mary Franklin of 102 Gardiner Street, the daughter of Thomas Franklin.

Hugh Massey Steele, son of John Steele of Kyle House, emigrated to Australia where he married Maria Frost, second eldest daughter of John Frost of Suffolk, England, on 23rd August 1870 in Bowral. The 'Sydney Mail' of 27h August 1870 named Hugh Massey Steele as the 5th eldest son of the late John Steele of Kyle House, and late of Her Majesty's 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars.

Samuel Ringwood took out a lease on Bawn on 3rd March 1819 for the lives of Thomas Little, William Ringwood and Richard Mason, of whom only William Ringwood and Richard Mason were still alive, both aged about 36, in 1852.  In 1852, this land was tenanted by Thomas Ringwood.

Thomas Ringwood was one of the three lives named in the lease, dated 20th October 1847, for land in Yoletown, (near Rosslare), Co. Wexford, which was, at the time of its sale in June 1879, tenanted by the representative of Catherine Higginson. The other two lives named were John Sealy and William Tanner, of whom only William Tanner was still alive in 1879.
Another  Yoletown lease was dated 2nd April 1810 from William Hobbs to William Tanner for the three lives of Samuel Higginson, John Barrington and William Barrington;  only the Barringtons were still alive in 1879 at the time of the sale of the property.  (Landed Estates records courtesy of Find My Past. )

Richard Ringwood had married into the Higginson family of Yoletown, but would settle and farm in the townlands of Eirke, Johnstown, Rathpatrick, and Bawn, in the parish of Galmoy, Co. Kilkenny.

Richard Ringwood (1799 - 1881) of Co. Kilkenny married Susan, eldest daughter of Richard Higginson of Yeoultown/Yoletown, Co. Wexford, in Kilsceran Church in April 1828.  A Richard Higginson had married a Catherine Barrington in 1804 - this from the Marriage Licence Bonds of Ossory, and would tally with the above Yoletown lease of 1810 which named both the Higginsons and the Barringtons.  Richard Higginson of Yoletown, Co. Wexford, died in April 1836.

Richard Ringwood of Farrenmurry died on 22nd March 1881, with probate granted to William Ringwood of Tullavolta, Johnstown, and to Henry Ringwood of Medop Hall, Ferns, Wexford.

Ringwood wills indexed in the Public Records Office:
Henry Ringwood of Castle Pierse, Co. Kilkenny - 1838.
Mary Ringwood of Graigue, Queen's County - 1842.
Richard Ringwood of Graigue, Queen's County - 1848.
Samuel Ringwood Graigue, Queen's County  - 1816.
Samuel Ringwood of Castle Pierse - 1829.
Thomas Ringwood of Tillavalty, Co. Kilkenny - 1826.

The Children of Richard Ringwood and Susan Higginson of Tillavolty or Farrenmurry, Johnstown were:

1) Kate Ringwood, who married Robert Baskin at Erke, Kilkenny on 22nd October 1856 - their daughter, Maria Emily Baskin, married our John Pennefather on September 12th 1888.
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2) The eldest son of Richard and Susan Ringwood was Thomas Ringwood of Castle Pierce, Johnstown, Kilkenny. He married in Dublin, on 11th December 1866, Mary Elizabeth Christianna Perry (1842 - 1920), the only child of William C. Perry of Rathdowney, Queen's County.

Elizabeth Christiana Ringwood, widow, late of 87 Upper Georges Street, Kingstown, Co. Dublin, died in 1920, and her will was granted to Rev. James MacManaway.  His brother was Terence McManaway who married Susan Adelaide Ringwood, the daughter of William Ringwood, the brother of Thomas Ringwood.
Rev. James Macmanaway and Terence McManaway were both the sons of John MacManaway and Jane Augusta Clarke of Coolougher, Co. Roscommon.
Rev. James MacManaway married the daughter of Thomas Ringwood and Lizzie Perry, Sarah Thompson Ringwood, in London in 1891;  another researcher online has noted the marriage as occurring in Castle Pierce, Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, on 8th April 1891.    Sarah Thompson Ringwood had been born to Thomas Ringwood and Lizzie Perry on 25th July 1864.   Rev. James MacManaway and Sarah Thompson Ringwood had four children together, including Richard Thomas Ringwood MacManaway, who died at his father's residence - Aghavea House, Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh, in 1945, leaving a widow, Norah Kathleen, and a son, Major Robert Bruce MacManaway.   Sarah Thompson MacManaway died in 1920 and Rev. James MacManaway married, secondly, Mary Richardson.

Another son of Rev. James and Sarah Thompson MacManaway  was Rev. James Godfrey MacManaway, MP for Derry.   Rev. James MacManaway died at Aghavea House two years after his son in 1847 aged 85.

Thomas Ringwood and Lizzie Perry also had Richard Thomas Ringwood in about 1863 who married Charlotte Warren in Gorey in 1879, and also Susan L. Ringwood in about 1865.

Thomas Ringwood of Castlepierce, Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, died on 17th September 1877. His will was granted to his brother William Ringwood of Johnstown and to Henry George Perry.

3) Richard Ringwood, born 1846, barrister-at-law, of the Middle Temple, London.  Called to the English bar in 1873, he married Emma Louisa Shapleigh, youngest daughter of Henry Shapleigh of Tiverton, on 23rd October 1866.  In 1901, the childless couple were living in Hornsey, Middlesex.

4) Mary Anne Ringwood married John Stacey Palmer (1830 - 1879), the proprietor of the 'Waterford Mirror and Tramore Visitor', on 13th February 1866.   John Stacey Palmer, journalist, died at his UK residence in Little Britain Street, London, after a long illness in July 1879.

5) A Susan Ringwood, daughter of farmer Richard Ringwood, 14 North Richmond Street, married William Nathaniel Webster, son of farmer William Webster of Ballyhast, Gorey, Co. Wexford,  in Dublin on 31st August 1870.  Witnesses were Richard and William Ringwood.

6) William Ringwood of Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, third son of farmer Richard Ringwood of Tillavolty, married Alice Sterling of 77 Kenilworth Square, Rathmines, daughter of surgeon Miles Sterling in Rathmines on 30th September 1868.  The witnesses were Miles Sterling and Richard Ringwood.
The children of William Ringwood and Alice Sterling were (possibly) Thomas Sterling Ringwood born 1873 in Kilkenny, Alfred George Ringwood born 1st August 1875 and who married Lilias Burland in 1908, Susan Adelaide Ringwood born 1877 and who married Terence M'Manaway in 1904, Jane E. Ringwood born 1881 and James H. Ringwood born 1882, Margaret Ringwood who married Francis Henry Symes of Ballyhast, the son of the late Francis Henry Symes of Hillbrook, Co. Wicklow, on 5th November 1895.

William Ringwood farmed at Tillavolty, Kilkenny, and was living there in 1901;  his wife, Alice, died at some stage after 1901, and he married, secondly, a woman named Mary Jane;  this couple were living in Donaghmore, Queen's County, in 1911.

7) Henry Ringwood of Medophall, Ferns, Co. Wexford, born circa 1835 in Co. Kilkenny.   He was one of the executors of his father's will.  Henry died on 27th January 1915 with probate granted to Richard T. Ringwood.   On 24th January 1862, in the Scots Church on Adelaide Street, Dublin, Henry Ringwood of Medop Hall, Comalin, married Susan Anne, the youngest daughter of William M'Culloch of Carlanstown, Castlepollard.


Notes on the Sterling family of Kyle:

The Sterling family relate to both the Deaker and Ringwood families.
William Deaker married Sarah Sterling in the Meath Diocese in 1830.  In 1865, Elizabeth Deaker, daughter of William Deaker of Kenilworth Square, married James William Levis, son of Samuel Levis of Leap, Co. Cork. The witnesses were Miles Sterling MD and William Deaker.

William Ringwood of Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, son of farmer Richard Ringwood, married Alice Sterling of 77 Kenilworth Square, Rathmines, daughter of surgeon Miles Sterling.  The witnesses were Miles Sterling and Richard Ringwood.

Miles Sterling M.D.  lived at Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, 22 kilometers north of Kyle.  In December 1840, Miles Sterling M.D. married Margaret, the eldest daughter of George Hipwell of Newtownbarry.  He would die insane at his son's house in Castlecomer on 22nd July 1889 and probate was granted to son James Sterling and to William Ringwood.
Amongst his children were Margaret Maria who married, on 19th August 1880, Albert E. Chamney, and James Sterling who married Sarah, the daughter of J. Warren of Leskinfere, Co. Wexford, on 22nd October 1868.
The youngest son of Miles Sterling was Henry Miles Sterling, who accidentally poisoned himself with strychnine, which he'd been using to deaden the pain of neuralgia, in Grafton Street, Dublin, on 7th June 1886.  Henry had been working in an insurance company in San Francisco and had returned home briefly for a visit.
The youngest daughter of Miles Sterling was Annie Elizabeth who married on 20th December 1894 Christopher Somer Spear, Junior, the only son of Christopher Somer Spear of Springfield House, Glenageary, Co. Dublin.

The Children of William Haughton Baskin (Senior)  and Maria Deaker of of 7 North Richmond Street, near Mountjoy Square, were:

a) Robert Baskin, flour merchant of Abbey Street, born 1828,  who married Kate Ringwood at Erke, Kilkenny on 22nd October 1856 - their daughter, Maria Emily Baskin, married our John Pennefather on September 12th 1888.
Robert Baskin's mother, Maria Baskin, organised a plaque in Ballycarney Church, Co. Wexford, as a memorial of her affection to him, on 31st December 1850.   Details on Robert Baskin and Kate Ringwood follow.

b) William Houghton Baskin (Junior)  1831- 11th July 1907. Noted in 1879 as a clerk in the Bank of Ireland and living at the Baskin family home of 7 North Richmond Street.  On 16th February 1871 he married Anne Alicia Knaggs, daughter of James Knaggs, of 3 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines - the witnesses were Stewart Baskin and James B. Baskin, the groom's brothers.  He was later the secretary of Ball's Bank on Henry Street.

The children of William Houghton Baskin and Anne Alicia Knaggs were:
William Oliver Baskin was born on 11th January 1872 at 3 Grosvenor Square.
James Charles Baskin was born on 31st January 1873 at 3 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, to William Houghton Baskin and Anne Alicia Knaggs.
A daughter, Anne Alicia Houghton Baskin, was born at 2 Grosvenor Square on 13th February 1876.

Robert Dacre Baskin was born there on 4th April 1879.  His father, William Houghton Baskin, was noted as the secretary of Balls Bank.  Later, on 21st April 1913, in Charleston Road, Rathmines, Robert R.D. Baskin, a farmer of Ballykeel, Dromore, Co. Down. the son of the late banker, William Houghton Baskin, married Edith Denmark of 8 Belgrave Road, Rathmines, the daughter of the late William Denmark.  The witnesses here were Charlotte Shannon and Bertie M.P. Piers.

In 1901 William H. Baskin and his family were living in Cornakinnegar, Co. Armagh.  Retired banker, William Houghton Baskin, died at Ballykeel, Co. Down, on 11th July 1907 - his son, R.R.D. Baskin, was present.

His obituary was published in the 'Belfast Telegraph' of 9th September 1907: 'In the death of Mr. William Haughton Baskin, the Methodist Church in Ireland has lost a devoted member...deceased was the son of the late Mr, William Haughton Baskin of Dublin, and brother of the late Rev. Charles Baskin, Methodist minister.  He was also brother-in-law of Rev. Dr. Nicholas, President of the Methodist College, Belfast.  He was born in Dublin in 1831 and was educated at Wesley College, Dublin. He entered Ball's Bank, Dublin, and became its secretary, but some years ago retired from business and latterly lived in Co. Down, near Dromore, where he had passed away, aaged 76 years.'

His widow, Anne Alicia Baskin, died at 2A Grantham Street, Dublin, on 3rd April 1929.

c) Stewart Baskin 1838 -82; a leading member of the Dublin Methodist community and chief accountant at Guinness's, he married Antrim-born Lucinda Hessie Johnston, the 5th daughter of the late John Moore Johnston of Glenavy, Co. Antrim. Lucinda's sister was Mrs. Johnson, a native of Glenavy, Co. Antrim, and niece of the late Mayor of Belfast,  Mayor Philip Johnson.   The wedding took place in Glenavy Church on 3rd August 1871.    Stewart Baskin and his brother, William Haughton Baskin, were noted as the nephews of Robert Thompson of Eccles Street who died in 1871.  On 22nd December 1822 in Dublin, Mary Baskin, daughter of Oliver Baskin and Elizabeth Haughton,  had married Robert Thompson;  the witnesses were her brother, William Haughton Baskin, and James Edmiston.

William Haughton Baskin was born to accountant Stewart Baskin and Lucinda Hessie Johnston at 14 Charleville Road, Rathmines, on 1st May 1876.  On 26th September 1907 in Centenary Church, Dublin, he married Margaret Kathleen Martin of 69 upper Beechwood Avenue, the daughter of the later merchant Roger Martin.  At the time of the wedding, which was witnessed by Lucinda Hessie Baskin, William Martin, Sarah A. Thompson and Alfred W. Johnson, William Houghton Baskin was working as an accountant and had an address at 14 Mount Eden Road in Donnybrook.  An accountant, William Houghton Baskin died aged 69 at 54 St. Kevins Park on 31st December 1945; a Marjorie Baskin was present.  His daughter was Dorothy L. Baskin who died aged only 32 at 7 Sunbury Gardens; once again Marjorie Baskin was the informant.
Stewart Baskin's widow, Lucinda Hessie, died on 5th July 1925, aged 84, at her son's home, 14 Mount Eden Road;  her daughter-in-law was named as M.K. Baskin of 8 Garville Avenue.

Henry Thompson Baskin was born at 14 Charleville Road to Stewart Baskin and Lucinda Hessie Johnston on 8th June 1879.  Henry Thompson Baskin  of 16 Upper Leeson Street died on 12th January 1900 in Colorado - his will was granted to his widowed mother Lucinda Hessie Baskin.

Stewart and Lucinda Hessie Baskin also had Jane Rosamund Baskin on 30th May 1872, Mary Eliza Baskin, who had been born at 14 Charleville Road on 20th May 1874, and Stewart Lucinda/Lucie Baskin, who was born there on 30th December 1882.  Her father, Stewart Baskin, had just died.

Stewart Lucy Baskin of 14 Mount Eden Road, Donnybrook, married Digby Wolsely Morton of Bessboro, Terenure, in Lucan on 2nd February 1906.  Digby Morton was the son of an older Digby Morton;  the witnesses were Captain George S. Cary and Adelaide Morton.  Digby Wolseley Morton and Stewart Lucie Baskin had a son, Henry Digby Morton, on 27th November 1906 at 26 Oaklands Park Avenue.

Stewart Baskin, the son of William Haughton Baskin and Maria Deaker, died of apoplexy at 24 Charleville Road, Dublin, on 3rd may 1882 aged only 44. ('Belfast Newsletter', 4th May 1882.)

d) Rev. Charles Baskin 1840- 26th July 1901. A Methodist minister, he had been born in about 1840 in Dublin to William Haughton Baskin, and had been educated, first at Dr. Sullivan's private school and then at the Wesleyan Connexional School on Stephen's Green which became Wesley College in 1879.  He was reccommended to the Methodist ministry by the Abbey Street Church and was latterly stationed at various places throughout his career - Ballymena, Newry, Armagh, Portadown, Castlederg, Sligo and Downpatrick.
On 27th October 1868 in Sligo, Rev. Charles Baskin of Gilford, Co. Down, married Rebecca, youngest daughter of Joseph Lockeed or Lougheed of Ballymote, Sligo.    The couple were married by Charles Baskin's brother-in-law, Rev. William Nicholas, who was married to Charles' sister, Eliza Baskin who follows.
The children  of Rev. Charles and Rebecca Baskin were Mary Barret Baskin, Charles P. Baskin, Lockeed Baskin and William Houghton Carson Baskin. (A William Baskin married Margaret Carson in Raphoe, Co. Donegal, in 1830 but this might be coincidence.)

Rev. Charles Baskin died at his residence, North Parade, Ormeau Road,  Belfast on 26th July 1901.

e) Eliza Baskin 1844 who married Rev. William Nicholas on 7th June 1866 in the Wesleyan Chapel of Lower Abbey Street.   Eliza Baskin was the only daughter of William H. Baskin of 7 North Richmond Street, near Mountjoy Square.   Rev. Nicholas was the president of the Belfast Methodist College.   On 14th 1894 in Charleston Methodist Church, Dublin, the second daughter of Eliza and Rev. William Nicholas, Susanna Nicholas,  married Thomas, son of Mathew Griffin of Clonskeagh. The bride's uncle, Rev. Charles Baskin, assisted.
Rev. William Nicholas, who had been born in Co. Wexford in 1838,  died in Portrush in September 1912, following a long career as a Methodist minister, during which time he had been stationed in Portadown, Abbey Street in Dublin (the Baskins' place of worship), Skibbereen, Lurgan, Drogheda, Cork, Belfast and Dublin.  His home address had been Dacre, Ravenhill Park, Belfast, and he was survived by his widow, Eliza, two sons and four daughters.    William Haughton Nicholas born 16th September 1868, Maria born 16th June 1867 in Lurgan, Elesia, Kathleen, Harriet, and Robert born in Cork on 3rd February 1880.   The couple also had Eliza Baskin Nicholas (was this Elesia?) on 7th February 1875 and Stewart Baskin Nicholas born 15th May 1870 in Portadown.

f) James Benjamin Gillman Baskin (1847 - 1914).

The children of Robert Baskin and Kate Ringwood were:

a) William Houghton Baskin  (Junior) was the Chief Cashier of the Bank of Ireland.  William Houghton Baskin married Mary Louisa Scott, of Belfast, whose father was William M. Scott, a merchant. They married on November 10th,1880 in Co. Antrim, Belfast, at the residence of the bride's father. Their marriage was officiated over by his uncle, the minister, Charles Baskin and one of the witnesses was cousin Annie Baskin.   Living in College Green, Dublin, in 1911, children were Robert S. Baskin born 1884 in Dublin,  and Margaret J. Baskin born in Dublin in 1890.

b) Richard Ringwood Baskin,  born 16th September 1864 at 3 North Richmond Street; on 8th October 1890, in the Abbey Street Methodist Church, he married Ann Jane Byron, the daughter of agent Richard Byron in Dublin. In 1890, Richard worked as a railway clerk, with an address at 219 Clonliffe Road.  Robert John and Catherine Byron witnessed the wedding.

Richard Ringwood Baskin and Ann Jane Byron had a son, Robert Richard Ringwood Baskin, on 15th February 1892 at 3 Victoria Terrace, Fairview.  The papers of the day had the father of the infant as Edward Ringwood Baskin, rather than Richard.   The son died of pleurisy aged only 20 at 25 Rock Road on 18th April 1912;  his aunt was present and was named as E.(?) Gibson of 5 St. Albans Road, South Circular Road.

 c) Robert Dacre Baskin born 1872.

d) Maria Emily Baskin, born 1861, who married our John Pennefather Junior in 1888.

e)Elizabeth Charlotte Baskin, born on 17th April 1874 at 4 North Richmond Street to Robert Baskin, the manager of a bakery. On 5th November 1907 in Clontarf Methodist church, Lizzie C. Baskin of 23 Windsor Avenue, Fairview,  married Hewson Deverell. The witnesses were Anthony Deverell, Kate Baskin and W. H. Baskin.
Hewson Deverell, hardware merchant, was a Plymouth Brethren member, living in 1901 in Blackrock.  He was the son of Hannah Deverell and Anthony Deverell, merchant of 50 Henry Street and of 24 Rutland Square, who died on 11th November 1891 with probate to Hewson and Anthony Deverell.
A daughter of Anthony and Hannah Deverell of 24 Rutland Square was Hannah Amy Deverell who married George Lennox Bigger, eldest son of Lennox James Bigger, on 4th February 1890 - the ceremony was performed by the registrar.

f)  Susan Annie Baskin, born in Dublin in 1869,  who married the shopkeeper/draper Francis Hawksby of 28 Upper Sackville Street in 1881.  He died young on 20th May 1893.  The couple's one surviving daughter was Kate Ringwood Hawskby, born in 1887, who worked as a draper like her widowed mother.  Both were Methodist and were living together in Glasnevin in 1911.  They were included in the Baskin family memorial plaques in Ballycarney Church, Wexford - Mrs. Hawksby and her daughter, and also Mrs. Hawskby's sister, Miss Baskin, presented the memorial on 12th January 1937 to a K.L. Purser.   Included on the same plaque was the message that it had been presented to Ballycarney Church on 18th May 1937 by H.L. Purser of Aughmacart, Rathdrummy, Queen's County.
Also on this plaque was a presentation to Richard Ringwood Baskin with best wishes from his father, Robert Baskin, dated 21st May 1892, and also an earlier presentation from Maria Baskin, née Deaker, to her son, Robert Baskin, dated 31st December 1850.

g) Kate Baskin, 16th January 1867 at 3 North Richmond Street to the master baker, Robert Baskin and Kate Ringwood, probably the unmarried sister mentioned, but not named, in the Baskin plaque in Ballycarney Church, Co. Wexford, as the sister of Susan Annie Hawskby, in 1937.   Miss Kate Baskin died on 15th June 1950 at 127 Tritonville Road, Sandymount,  The informant was her nephew John Edward Pennefather of 4 Upper Glenageary Road.

In 1837, a Robert Baskin was named as a Methodist preacher on the Dundalk and Castleblaney circuit.  Several members of the Dublin Baskin family made contributions to the Jubilee Fund of the Wesleyan Missionary Society in 1869 - they were noted as members of the 2nd Dublin Circuit of the Methodist church and were named as Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Baskin (sen.), Mr and Mrs. R. Baskin and children, Mr. W.H. Baskin and Miss Baskin, Mr. Stewart Baskin, Mr. Charles Baskin and Mr. J.B.G Baskin.

Robert Baskin, collector, died at 23 Windsor Avenue on 13th April 1916;  Kate Baskin was the informant.

Kate Baskin, née Ringwood, died a widow, aged 89, at 23 Windsor Avenue on 19th May 1926; her daughter, Kate Baskin, was present.  The registration details note her as the widow of a collector for a business.