The Biddulph Family of Rathrobin and Vicarstown

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

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

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/09/notes-on-family-of-frances-grattan-of.html


The Ancestry of Elizabeth Biddulph:
The Biddulph family had their orgins in Biddulph, Staffordshire. In the 1640's, at the time of the English Civil War, they supported the monarchy, and, following Cromwell's downfall in 1664, the first of the family to come to Ireland, Francis Biddulph, settled at Wexford where it is believed he had been granted land by Charles II as a mark of loyalty to the Crown.

Francis Biddulph of Kilpatrick, Co. Wexford, married  Alice and died in 1673;  these were the parents of Nicholas Biddulph of Rathrobin, who died on 5 March 1702, having married Charity and having had four children - John, Alice, Jane and Francis.  Charity Biddulph, widow of Nicholas Biddulph of Rathrobin, married, secondly, John Newcombe of Aghanvilla, King's County on 2nd October 1707.

The sons of Nicholas and Charity Biddulph of Rathrobin were Francis Biddulph of Rathrobin and Fortal,  and John Biddulph who lived in Stradbally, Co. Laois, and who died around 1740.  The oldest son Francis renewed the perpetual lease with Lord Shelbourne in 1722. He had one son, Nicholas, by his wife Mary Jackson of Ballymackey, Co. Tipperary, who he had married on 7th April 1712. This son, Nicholas Biddulph of Fortal and Rath-Robin, became High Sherriff of Kings County in 1741. He had two daughters, Sarah and Margaret. On Nicholas Biddulph’s death in 1762, the estates devolved to his two daughters – Sarah Nesbitt, and Margaret Bernard. Sarah died in 1772, and the final surviving daughter of Nicholas Biddulph, Mrs Bernard of Castle Bernard, died without issue in 1811, leaving Rathrobin to her cousin Lady Margaret Waller, wife of Sir Robert Waller of Newport, Tipperary, and then of Fortal.  At this point, Francis Harrison Biddulph of Vicarstown, son of Francis Biddulph and Eliza Harrison, took legal action to gain possession of Fortal and Rathrobin.  Eventually the affair was settled, Francis Harrison Biddulph agreed to take Rathrobin and give Fortal to his cousin Nicholas Biddulph.

John Biddulph of Stradbally, the second son of Nicholas and Charity Biddulph of Rathrobin,  had Nicholas of Glenkeen, Borrisoleigh, Tipperary;  the grandson of this Nicholas Biddulph of Glenkeen was Nicholas Biddulph of Congor, Tipperary, and of Fortal, King's County.  Nicholas of Congor and Fortal was born in 1803 and married twice, first to Catherine Lucas of Rathkeney, Cavan, and then to Isabella Digges La Touche, the daughter of James Digges La Touche of Sans Souci, Dublin.    Nicholas received Fortal following a legal case concerning the inheritance of the Biddulph family estates taken by his cousin, Francis Harrison Biddulph, the son of Francis Biddulph and Eliza Harrison, who, accordingly, received Rathrobin.

The second son of John Biddulph of Stradbally,  was Francis Biddulph (born 1727 - 1806), who lived at Vicarstown and who married Eliza Harrison - 'On Thursday last was married at the Parish Church in this town, Lieutenant Francis Biddulph, Esq., to Miss Harrison, daughter of Mr William Harrison of this Town;  a most agreeable young lady with a handsome fortune....'  ('Leeds Intelligencer', Tuesday 19th February 1765'.)

(Eliza Harrison's son, Francis Harrison Biddulph would later marry Mary Marsh whose family had earlier intermarried with a Harrison family of Lisburn, including a Francis Harrison.)

During the uprising of 1798, The Edinburgh Magazine reported that the house of Francis Biddulph of Vicarstown was attacked by rebels;  the family retreated upstairs, and Mr.  Biddulph managed to keep them at bay, although a maid servant was wounded, and all the windows and furniture were damaged.

Francis Biddulph and Eliza Harrison had eight children:
1) Francis Harrison Biddulph who married Mary Marsh. See below.

2) Nicholas John, born 23rd August 1778, died 1779.

3) Eliza, born 26th June 1766, married Richard Grattan JP of Drummin, Kildare, on 20th February 1788.

4) Mary Anne, born 9th July 1769, married William Scott of Graiguenaskerry, Queen's Co.

5) Patience, March 1771 - June 1772.

6)  Frances Margaret Sarah, June 1772 - 1775.

7) Patience Biddulph, born October 1773, married on 19th March 1801, Henry T. Warner of Warner Castle, Meath and of Merrion Square, Dublin.   Patience Warner, née Biddulph, died aged 88 at Mount Merrion Avenue, Dublin, on 31st March 1859.
A daughter of Patience Biddulph and Henry Warner was  Eliza Warner who married Rev. Edward Nangle, the son of Walter Nangle of Meath;  Edward Nangle spearheaded the Achill Mission in Co. Mayo, the primary goal of this being the conversion of Catholics to Protestantism.   Edward Nangle and Eliza Warner had two sons, William Nangle and Henry-Beresford Nangle, and three daughters, Frances-Patience Nangle, Henrietta-Catherine Nangle and Matilda Nangle.
On 1st December 1890, a Patience Grace Warner of 5 York Terrace, Cork, died at Achill, Mayo, and her will was proved by a Walter Nangle of 24 Rathgar Road, Dublin, who was the guardian of the universal legatee, the legatee (not named) being a lunatic.
Poet and novelist , Biddulph Warner,  was the son  of Patience Biddulph and Henry T. Warner of Marvelstown, Meath;  there was also a Henry Biddulph Warner of Marvelstown, who was most likely another son of Patience Biddulph and Henry T. Warner.
On 10th September 1859 in St. Anne's, Dublin, Harriet Amelia Warner, the eldest daughter of Biddulph Warner JP of Marvelstown, married Joseph Kirkwood, JP of Killala, Co. Mayo;  the officiating clergyman was Rev. J.C. Scott;  a witness was a possible sister, Henrietta Maria Warner.   Widowed, Harriet Amelia, later married a second time on 22nd August 1874, to Major-General Charles Dawson.
Biddulph Warner of Merrion Square and Marvelston,  son of Patience and Henry T. Warner, must have been twice married, since he was known  to have a stepdaughter, Agnes Blandford,  daughter of Charles Blandford/Blanford.
A daughter of Henry Warner of Merrion Square was Matilda Warner who married an Atkinson, son of William Atkinson of Forgney House, Longford  in July 1836.  The marriage took place in Castlebar, Mayo - a Matilda Atkinson died in Ballina, Mayo, on 12th May 1876 with probate to a Harriet Scott of Ballina.   This will was administered again later, this time they gave an extra address for Matilda Atkinson, Peafield Terrace, Mount Merrion, and the will was administered by a doctor, Thomas H. Scott of Ballina who was the representative of his wife, Harriet Scott.
On 10th April 1832, at Edgbaston, Warwickshire, Henry Biddulph Warner married Amelia, 4th daughter of Dr. Solomon of Liverpool.   Amelia was most likely Jewish, and was buried in Mount Jerome, Dublin, when she died 21st December 1847 - "To the memory of Amelia, wife of Henry Biddulph Warner Esq., of Dawson Court, County Meath, by birth and by faith, a daughter of faithful Abraham..."     Henry Biddulph Warner may have married a second time to a member of the Lee family, since the name was given to some of his children...
On 23rd March 1865, Biddulph Lee Warner of the 91st Fusiliers, son of Henry Biddulph Warner of Marvelstown, Westmeath, married Harriette-Isabella Hamilton, the youngest daughter of the late John Hamilton. They had Ernest Henry Lee Warner at Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, on 10th May 1869.
In May 1867 in Salcombe, South Devon, Alice Lee Warner, the youngest daughter of Henry Biddulph Warner of Marvelstown, married  Arthur Charles Newman, the son of Rev. W.A.Newman, the late Dean of Cape Town.
In 1869 at Sidmouth, Francis Biddulph Warner,  died aged 19, youngest son of the late Henry Biddulph Warner of Marvelstown.

8)  Harriett, born 1781, married on 26th January 1799, Rev. Richard Clarke.  Richard Clarke had been born to William Clarke in Queen's County in 1777; he entered TCD aged 17 on 6th October 1794, and completed his BA there in 1800.  For many years he was the minister of St. Michael's in Portarlington, and was also the sovereign of the town for twenty years. he died there on 3rd November 1838.
His widow, Harrietta, died later on 20th October 1850 in Portarlington.  The children of Rev. Richard Clarke and Harrietta Biddulph were:
a) Elizabeth Clarke, born circa 1800.
b) Mary Clarke,
c) Frances Clarke.
d) Rev. Richard Clarke of Geashill, King's County.  He was baptised in Lea, Portarlington, on 12th December 1807, and entered TCD, aged 17, on 1st November 1824.  He obtained a BA in 1829, and an MA in 1832.  He served parishes in Kildare, Lea, but primarily in Geashill.  He died on 16th July 1866 in Geashill, with probate of his will to his brother, Jonathan Clarke of Pembroke Street, Dublin, and to Mary Clarke, widow of Eglinton Park, Kingstown.
 The papers recorded the births of some of his children - on 5th March 1849, a daughter was born in Geashill;  on 5th February 1855, a son.   On 19th May 1859 at 1, Ormond Terrace, Rathmines,  the wife of Rev. Richard Clarke of Geashill, gave birth to another son.
An older son, also Rev. Richard Clarke, married in October 1868, Helen Scott, the youngest daughter of the late John Scott.
e) Dr. Francis Clarke was born in Portarlington in about 1808 and died in October 1877.  He was the medical superintendant at Blackwatertown, Co. Armagh, and was noted there in 1843.  He seems to have had contact with Thomas Grattan, a cousin, who was at that time a surgeon-dentist also in Armagh.     In May 1839, Francis Clarke of Blackwatertown, Armagh, was married by Rev. Richard Clarke of Moniver, to Rebecca, the daughter of Jonathan David Clarke of Merrion Square and of La Bergerie, Portarlington.      (Note: this older Jonathan David Clarke lived at this time in La Bergerie, Portarlington, and also in Merrion Square, Dublin;  he may be another member of this family, possibly the brother of Rev. Richard Clarke of St. Michael's, Portarlington.)
 Francis Clarke MD married a second time in Dublin on 11th April 1860, this time to Jane Crozier Magee, the daughter of Charles Magee - in 1860, Francis Clarke was living at Sydney Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.  The witness was Jonathan Clarke.   When Francis Clarke died on 4th October 1877 at 3, Ormond Road, Dublin, (late of Avon Cottage, Armagh),  his widow was named as Jane Crozier Clarke of Ormond Road.   She died on 3rd May 1907 at 13 Appian Way, Dublin, with probate to the spinster, Margaret J. Clarke, and to the Venerable Francis Edward Clarke, Archdeacon of Elphin, Co. Roscommon.   Rev. Francis Edward Clarke died on 9th March 1910 at Boyle, Co. Roscommon.     He had been born in Armagh.
f) A solicitor, Jonathan Clarke,  was born 1816 and attended Kings Inns; he died on 28th July 1887 with probate to his widow Emily Clarke.    This was probably Emily Minchin, the daughter of Henry Minchin of Holywell House, Hampshire, who married Jonathan Clarke of Portarlington on 13th July 1843 in St. Anne's
Jonathan Clarke and Emily Minchin had two children at 13  Pembroke Street, Dublin - Henry Jonathan Clarke, born 22nd December 1843 and Mary Emily Clarke/Minnie Emily on 13th February 1847.     When Jonathan Clarke died in 1877, his primary beneficiaries were his widow, Emily, and his unmarried daughter, Minnie Emily, who were both living at 30 Clarinda Park, Kingstown.
g)  Edward John Clarke.
h) Patience Clarke who died in 1860 in Lea, Portarlington.

Francis Harrison Biddulph, son of Francis Biddulph and Eliza Harrison:
Francis Harrison Biddulph, for many years the Registrar of the Court of Exchequer,  the son of Francis Biddulph and Eliza Harrison, was born on 26th December 1774 and married in 1797 Mary Marsh, the daughter of the barrister Francis Marsh and descendant of Jeremy Taylor, the Bishop of Down and Connor.  Mary Marsh's parents married in Dublin on 9th September 1775, her mother being Anne Vero, the heiress of Neptune Vero of Georges Lane, Dublin.   Along with Mary Marsh who married Francis Harrison Biddulph,  Francis Marsh and Anne Vero had two sons, Digby Marsh and Rev. Francis Marsh of Ballintober, Queen's Co., whose son, another Francis Marsh, settled at Springmount, Queen's County.

(Notes on the Marsh Family: 
Rev. Jeremy Taylor ( 1613-1667), at one time Chaplain in ordinary to Charles I, then Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland, had three daughters:  Phoebe who died unmarried;  Joanna Taylor who married Edward Harrison of Maralave, Co. Antrim;  Mary Taylor who married Rev. Dr. Francis Marsh (1625-1734) who was Archbishop of Dublin,  and Dean of Down.   

Dr Francis Marsh and Mary Taylor had two sons, Francis Marsh and Rev. Jeremy Marsh of Kilmore, who married, as his second wife, Elizabeth daughter of Simon Digby of Obertstown, Kildare, Lord Bishop of Elphin.

The son and heir of Rev. Francis Marsh of Kilmore and of Elizabeth Digby was Rev. Jeremy Marsh of Athenry, Galway, who married, Jane French, the daughter of Patrick French of Monivea, Galway - Rev. Francis Marsh of Athenry died at Camira, Queen's County in 1790.   

The children of Rev. Jeremy Marsh of Athenry, Galway:
1) Francis Marsh, barrister ...see below.
2) Rev.  Henry Marsh of Killyman, Galway, who married Sophia, daughter of William Woolsey, Rector of Tullycorbet, Monaghan.
3) Rev. Digby Marsh of Trinity College, Dublin. Died 3rd November 1791.
4) Rev. Jeremy/Jeremiah Marsh of Rosenallis, or Mountmellick, Queen's County - he married, in August 1788, Rachel Montgomery, whose father, Colonel Montgomery of Dublin, was murdered during the 1798 rebellion.  Rachel died in 1837.  Their sons were Sir Henry Marsh MD,  Digby Marsh of Trinity College, and Jeremy Marsh the father of Rear Admiral Digby Marsh of the Royal Navy.       In 1794 he was living at Camira Glebe, Rosenallis,  Queen's County, which is where his father, Rev. Jeremy Marsh, had died in 1790.

The eldest son of Rev. Francis Marsh of Stradbally,  and Jane Franch of Athenry, Galway, was Francis Marsh, barrister-at-law, who married Anne Vero, daughter of Neptune Vero of Gt. George Street, in 1775, and who was the father of Mary Marsh, the wife of Francis Harrison Biddulph.  Anne Vero's sister, Eliza Vero, married a Norcutt Pidder on 9th September 1775, the same day as Anne Vero married Francis Marsh.

The children of Francis Marsh, barrister-at-law, The Abbey, Stradbally, Queen's County, and Anne Vero:
1) Rev.Jeremy Marsh of Ballintobber, Queen's County, who married Sarah, daughter of Richard Connell in 1815.  His son was Francis Marsh of Springmount, Mountrath, Queen's, who married Anna Maria Maxwell.
2) Digby Marsh who married Elizabeth Garstin of Braganstown, Louth.
3) Mary Marsh who married Francis Harrison Bidduulph.
4) Jane Marsh who married William Walker of Dublin - their daughter, Frances Walker married, firstly, Hugh O'Reilly of Meath, then Rev. William Maziere Brady.
5) Elizabeth Marsh who married Pierce Moore.
6) Anne Marsh, who married William Marsh.
7) Sarah, wife of John North.
8) Frances Marsh, wife of James Geraghty.)

Francis Harrsison Biddulph and Mary Marsh settled at Vicarstown, where Francis died in July 1827;  his widow, Mary Marsh, died later on 9th August 1861 at 3 Kingstown Parade,  Kingstown, Co. Dublin.  Her will was proved by three of her unmarried daughters who had been living with her in Kingstown, Elizabeth, Mary and Caroline Biddulph.

From 1805 Francis Harrison Biddulph worked, as already mentioned, as Register of the Court of Exchequer in Dublin, which was notorious for its inefficiency and slowness.   His duties were to be:   “...to attend the sitting of the Court of Exchequer; to take down notes of the decrees, rules and orders, in Equity causes pronounced by the said Court, which he does in a rough book kept by him for that purpose; to see that such rules, orders and decrees, as are made and pronounced, are properly posted from such rough book, in the rule books and books of hearings, which books are kept as records of the office; (these rules and decrees he compares); to receive and file notices, and list of Equity motions; to peruse and examine all drafts of decrees, to see that they contain the proper recitals; to amend such drafts, conformable to the notes of hearings, and to the decrees pronounced by the Court previous to such decrees being signed and settled by the Chief Remembrance;r and to inrol all final decrees.”
His emoluments arise from fees and a salary of 100₤ paid by the Chief Remembrancer. Of the amount of the fees Mr Biddulph has not enabled us to speak with any certainty; he states, that he has kept no regular account of them; but he estimates, rather vaguely, the amount of his net annual emoluments, at from 900 to 1,000₤ per annum after deducting from his receipts 160₤ a year for bursements .
Mr Biddulph appears from his return to execute a great part of the duties in person and for this purpose to give his attendance constantly during the sitting of the Court. He is assisted by a clerk of his own nomination to whom he allows a salary the amount of which is differently stated by him and by the clerk the former representing it to be 100₤ and the latter only 60₤ per annum...'  (From an 1818 Government Report of the Commissioners.)

Francis Harrison Biddulph is chiefly remembered for the 18-year lawsuit he waged against his cousin, Nicholas Biddulph, for the control of Rathrobin and Fortal in Tullamore. He finally got possession of this home and estate in 1824, but Francis doesn’t ever appear to have lived there. After his death in 1827 the family appear to have left Vicarstown. He and his father were buried in Curaclone graveyard near Vicarstown.

The children of Francis Harrison Biddulph and Mary Marsh were....

1)   Anne Biddulph, born 15th September 1798, married Captain Simon Biddulph, the son of Sir Theophilus Biddulph and Hannah Prestridge.  This was an English branch of the Biddulph family whose seat was in Westcombe Kent.  Captain Simon Biddulph died on 25th April 1823, leaving one daughter.

2) Elizabeth, born 10th November 1799 ; died 10th June 1893.

3) Mary, born 10th March 1801; died 10th September 1801.

4) Francis Wellesley Marsh Biddulph, born April 1802.  See below.

5) Mary, born 16th September 1803; died 2nd April 1863.

6) Frances.

7) Nicholas Biddulph, born 20th December 1805, married Miss Steele, died in 1900.

8) William, born 1st March 1809, died young.

9) Harriett, born 8th November 1810;  she went to the U.S.

10) Sarah Nesbitt Biddulph, born 11th December 1814;  she went to Australia - her descendants are currently researching the Biddulphs.   At the height of the Yackandandah goldrush, she married William Day, a New York miner, the son of Landon Day and Hannah Thorpe, on 10 Feb 1856 in - a son, William Day, was born in Yackandandah in 1857,  followed by a daughter, Sarah, in 1858 who would later marry Francis Davidson.

11) Charlotte, born 9th December 1815.

12) Patience, born March 1817.

13) Caroline, born 16th May 1819; died 28th May 1874 in Upper Georges St., Kingstown.

The eldest son of Francis Harrison Biddulph, Francis Wellesley Marsh Biddulph of Rathrobin Castle, Tullamore, (Rathrobin was the ancient seat of the Molloy family; the Biddulph's house was built in 1694) born in April 1802, married in Liverpool in 1845, Lucy Bickerstaffe, the second daughter of the late Robert Bickerstaffe of Preston, Lancashire.   He died on 28th March 1868,  widow Lucy on 29th August 1896 - her will noted her two addresses as Rathrobin, Tullamore, and Clare House, Tiverton, Devon.

"A Tiverton Will Suit - In the Probate Division yesterday, the President gave judgement in the case of Cadell and another versus Willcocks and others.  The suit had reference to the testamentary depositions of the late Lucy Biddulph of Clare House, Tiverton, who died on the 29th August 1896.  The plaintiffs claimed probate of three wills, dated 26th of April 1890, 5th of July 1894 and 5th of September 1895.  The defendants in the suit were Anne Adela Waller Willcocks (widow of Dublin),  Middleton Biddulph (of Annaghmore, Tullamore, King's County),  Assheton Biddulph (of Moneygayneen, King's County) and Lucy Biddulph Colclough, who pleaded that the will of 1890 was revoked by the will of 1894, and that was revoked by the will of 1895.  His Lordship came to the conclusion that only the will of 1894 was revoked and he accordingly pronounced for the other two wills."   (From 'The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette' of 8th December 1897.)

 Francis Wellesley Marsh Biddulph and  Lucy Bickerstaffe had:

1) Annie Adela Waller Biddulph, born 25th March 1847 and married, in 1866 in Killoughey, Captain John Willcocks Junior of St. Lawrence, Chapelizod, Dublin, the son of John Willcocks, the late resident magistrate of King's County.   The ceremony was carried out by the groom's uncle, Rev. William Willcocks.  A daughter, Lucy Annie Willcocks was born on 22nd February 1868 in Tullamore, King's County and married Lionel Lockington Harty in Dublin in 1894.  Marion was born 1 Aug 1869 (she married Frederick Francis Ledwich in 1891) and Wilmot Willcocks  was born in Tullamore, on 12th November 1870  she married Stafford Cox in 1897.   A son was born in Chapelizod in April 1872.  Florence Cawlinn Willcocks was born in Dublin on 1877 and married Benjamin Tilly in Dublin in 1897.
Captain John Willcocks Junior proved the 1871 will of his uncle, Rev. William Willcocks of St. Laurence, Chapelizod.
John Willcocks, late of the 3rd Middlesex Militia, died at St. Lawrence, Chapelizod, aged 50, on 31st May 1882.   His widow, Annie Biddulph, later married John Ousely Bonsall Murphy, in Dublin in 1898.

2)Francis Biddulph, born 14th August, died 31st August 1848.

3) Colonel Middleton Westenra Biddulph of Rathrobin.  (The name 'Westenra' entered the family via the Warner family.)  He married Vera Josephine Flower. He died in 1926.

4) Assheton Biddulph of Moneyguyneen, King's County, born 12th October 1850. He married in Warwick, on 17th June 1880, Florence Caroline Cunningham Boothby, the daughter of Rev. Cunningham Boothby of Holwell, Oxfordshire.  (She was called Hannah Catherine on the 1901 census.)
Assheton Biddulph, a keen foxhunter, was master of the King's County Hunt.
Assheton Biddulph died 17th January 1916 with probate of his will granted to his brother, the retired Colonel Middleton W. Biddulph and to a member of the Boothby family, Colonel George M. Boothby.
He had a son, Lieutenant /Bertie Assheton Biddulph, who died young in Aldershot in 1917. Daughters were Norah Beatrice, Eithne Patricia,  Kathleen Jane (1880 - 1968), Irene, born circa 1882.

Assheton disapproved of the marriage of his daughter Kathleen to Arthur Magan. He decided to cut her off from any inheritance she might get. Asheton’s brother Lt-Colnel Middleton Westenra Biddulph took pity of Kathleen’s son William Magan, naming him as the heir to Rathrobin. Unfortunately, the IRA burned Rathrobin down before he came into his inheritance

5) Franc/Frank  Digby Biddulph Colclough, born 22nd April 1853.  (The Digby name entered the Biddulph family via Franc's grandmother, Mary Marsh.) Franc married, in September 1885, Louisa Colclough, the wealthy daughter of John Thomas Rossborough Colclough, and heiress of Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford, at which point Franc assumed the additional name of Colclough.   There were rumours he had already been bigamously married in London, however, and, following his marriage to  Louisa Colclough at midnight in the ruined Abbey of Tintern, two more ceremonies took place in Dublin in order to reassure Louisa.

son, Caesar Franc Bickerstaff Plantagenet was born on 15 September 1886, and died in infancy; a daughter, Lucy Wilmot Maria Susannah Biddulph/ aka May, was born in 1890.  Following May's birth in 1890, her mother,  Louisa, suffered a breakdown and was kept confined in a tower by her husband at Tintern for five years;  a stout woman, he put her on a strict diet - on 13 July 1895, the day of her husband's death, she was released whereupon proceeded to consume a pound of butter neat. She had the impressive name of Louisa Maria Susanna Colclough Rossborough Biddulph Colclough.  When she died on 29th January 1912, her will was proved by Colonel Middleton Biddulph, her brother-in-law.
Their daughter, Lucy Marie Biddulph Colclough/May, lived at Tintern Abbey on the Hook Head peninsula until 1959, when she moved out, eventually bequeathing the Abbey to the state in 1963.

6) Gertrude Louisa Biddulph, born 22nd September 1856;  she married twice, first to George Carpenter Anderson, then, in Jan 1893, to Dr. Nevil Pottow Cadell of Farringdon, Berkshire.

The Family of Gilbert Tarleton and Marie Louise Charlotte de Laval of Portarlington

This is a continuation of an earlier post about the Willis/Laval families of Portarlington, and explores the line of descent of Marie Louise Charlotte de Laval and Gilbert Tarleton.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/01/portarlington-laval-willis-connection.html

The Vicomte David d’Ully de Laval's stepdaughter, Marie Louise Charlotte (de Cobreville)de Laval , following the family’s return from France to Portarlington in 1751, would marry Gilbert Tarleton of Portarlington.

Gilbert Tarleton was the direct descendant of Gilbert Tarleton who had been born in Hazelwood, Lancashire, in about 1580, and who died in 1656 in Geashill, Killeigh, King's County - his grandson Gilbert Tarleton married Elizabeth Warren and would die in Portarlington in 1740.   Their son, Edward Tarleton (1708 - 1740) married Anne Tarleton, and their son was the Gilbert Tarleton of Portarlington who married Marie Louise Charlotte de Laval in the early 1760s.
The Killeigh and Portarlington Tarletons were related to the prominent Tarleton family of Liverpool.
(The register of the French Church in Portarlington also records the death in Dublin of another elderly Tarleton family member, Elizabeth Tarleton, aged 68 on 15th January 1797.)

On 20th February 1764, the Register of the French Church recorded the baptism of Edouard Tarleton, son of Gilbert and Marie Tarleton.  David de Laval, the child’s grandfather, was recorded as the godfather. Also present at the baptism was a second Gilbert Tarleton, noted as the uncle of the baby's father - this older Gilbert was the son of Gilbert Tarleton and Elizabeth Warren.  A Miss Anne Tarleton was also there.

On August 1767, the couple had another son, David Tarleton. Present at the baptism were Samuel Beauchamp, merchant of Portarlington whose daughter, Martha, was the second wife of Thomas Willis, and Miss Francoise de Laval, aka Frances or Fanny, the daughter of David Daniel de Laval.

Yet another son was Henry Tarleton who was of the military and who died in action.

A daughter of Gilbert Tarleton and Marie Louise de Laval was Henriette Tarleton who married Gideon Castelfranc IV, a lieutenant-colonel in the English army who died childless in 1839.  Gideon was the son of Francis Castelblanc and was a member of a noble family of Castelfranc, near La Rochelle, whose surname was De Nautonnier, and who had fled to England at the time of the Revocation.
The head of the family at the time of their flight from Catholic France was a cleric of La Rochelle, married to Marguerite Chamier. They had three sons and six daughters, three of whom, following a spell in captivity in France, had been released and settled temporarily in Geneva. The other six children had been en-route to a penal settlement when their ship had been captured by the English who brought the Castelfrancs to London.   One of the daughters married a Mr. Testas, another a M. Boudet.  Three of the sons entered the English army - two died in action, while the third later settled in Portarlington.
The son who settled in Portarlington on a half-pension from the army of William of Orange was Gideon/Gedeon Castelfranc, who had married Marie Pin and who died in Portarlington on 11th July 1749. This was an ancestor of Gideon Castelfranc who married Henriette Tarleton, the  daughter of Gilbert Tarleton and Marie Louise de Laval.  
The earlier Gideon Castelfranc was the brother of Abel Castelfranc of Rathbone Place, Marylebone, London, whose will was probated on 22nd July 1748 and who had married Suzanne Le Blanc. Abel's will confirmed that his brother was Gideon Castelfranc who had settled in Ireland and who held a lease of mortgaged land at Siskin, Queen's County;  Abel had financial interest in these lands and mortgages and decreed that, following the death of his brother Gedeon, that the land should be divided equally between Gedeon's three sons, namely Peter, Francis and Gideon. Peter was named as Abel's residual legatee and was the man who proved the will in London in 1748.  Also named was Abel's sister, Mary Nautonnier Castelblanc who was to benefit from his will provided she continued to keep a school.  A niece was Esther Castelblanc who was to receive South Seas annuities;  a niece in Ireland was Charlotte Dolier;  a third niece was Margaret Castelblanc;  a fourth niece was Charlotte (?Bessott) of Switzerland.   Abel's late brother-in-law was Albert Le  Blanc who had left him his plate and linen, and which Abel was now leaving to nephew Peter Castelblanc. Peter's wife was named as Abel's niece, Elizabeth Castelblanc, the wife of Peter.


Gilbert Tarleton, born 1732, died in Portarlington aged 78 on 15th April 1810.  His wife, Marie Louise de Laval ,the daughter of Marguerite-Madeleine de Paravicini and the adopted daughter of David Robert d'Ully de Laval, died on 4th February 1814.

Edward Tarleton, son of Gilbert Tarleton and Marie Louisa de Laval:

Baptised in Portarlington on 20th Feb. 1764, he was noted in the 1801 edition of  Wilson's Dublin as a tea merchant of  88 Great Britain Street.

A son, born circa 1804, was Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton of Monaghan.

A daughter was Mary Tarleton, who died aged 73 on 13th November 1868 (ie, she'd been born to Edward Tarleton in about 1795) - Mary Tarleton died at the residence of her nephew, Frederick Falkiner Tarleton, who lived at 3 Lower Pembroke Street.    

 A third son of Edward Tarleton, tea merchant, was Edward de Laval Tarleton, born circa 1809, a doctor of Bath, who died aged 40 in Eccles Street in Dublin on 10th September 1849, and who had settled in Pulteney Street, Bath - he hadmarried in Eastgate, Lincoln, on 5th May 1846,  Ann, the second daughter of John Merryweather of Lindum Terrace, Lincoln.   Ann would later die at Pulteney Street, Bath, aged 69, on 2nd March 1869.

The grandson of Marie and Gilbert Tarleton of Portarlington, and son of Edward Tarleton, was the Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton, Rector of Tyholland, Co. Monaghan, who was the representative of the Vicomte de Laval - in 1845 a Caroline Tarleton married an Edward Rotheram, which may be the origin of Rev. John's middle name.
Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton was educated by a Mr. Fea, and entered Trinity College, Dublin,  on Nov. 6, 1815 aged 14.

Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton was married to Judith Catherine Falkiner who had died in Monaghan on 24th July 1868.  She had been born in 1798 to Frederick Falkiner (1760 - 1839ish) and to Louisa Fraser (1761 - 1817) in Congor House, Tipperary.   The brother of Frederick Falkiner of Congor House, Tipperary, was Rev. Richard Falkiner of Mount Falcon, Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary (born 1751), whose eldest son was Richard Falkiner pf Mount Falcon who married Tempe Litton of Terenure. Their children were Richard Henry Falkiner who married Georgina Rebecca Sadleir, Travers Hartley Falkiner, Frederick John Richard Falkiner (barrister), Robert George Falkiner and Rebecca Falkiner.

The Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton died at Tyholland Glebe, Monaghan, on 21st February 1885 - his will was proved by his eldest son, Frederick Falkiner Tarleton of 3 Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin.

The children of Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton and Judith Catherine Falkiner were:
1) Frederick Falkiner Tarleton, born circa 1822.  Lived at 3 Lower Pembroke Street. .   A barrister, Frederick Falkiner Tarleton would die at Pembroke Street on 30th June 1899, leaving a widow, Caroline C. Tarleton.
This couple had married in Kilrush on 7th August 1860 - she was Caroline Campbell Paterson, the daughter of Irwin Whitty Paterson of Bonnie Doon, Kilrush, Co. Clare.  The wedding was witnessed by the bride's father and by a  J.Tabuteau.

The second daughter of Irwin Whitty Paterson was Alice Paterson who married, on 29th April 1861 in Kilrush, Tyrrell E. Davenport of Ballynacourty, Co. Clare.

Three of the children of Frederick Falkiner Tarleton and Caroline Campbell Paterson were baptised in Tyholland Church, Monaghan - John Gilbert M'Ivor Tarleton on 2nd February 1862, Judith Amelia Tarleton on 5th March 1865, and Agnes Louisa Tarleton on 19th March 1870.         Judith Amelia Tarleton, known as Aimée Tarleton, married the doctor Alfred Ernest Taylor, son of Nathaniel Sneyd Taylor, on 27 July 1895; in 1901 she was living with her widowed mother, Caroline C. Tarleton, in Dunlaoghaire, Dublin, and with her children, Noel E.F. Taylor and Aimee C.V.F. Taylor.    The unmarried daughter of Caroline Paterson and Frederick Falkiner Tarleton, Agnes Louisa Tarleton, was also living with them.

2) Francis Alexander Tarleton, born circa 1830, solicitor, called to the bar in 1868, although other records note him as a senior fellow of TCD, Dublin, and a professor of natural philosophy.   He published several treatises on thermodynamics and maths.
On 9th July 1868, Francis Alexander Tarleton of TCD married Gertrude Albinia Fleury of 24 Upper Leeson St, the daughter of Charles Marlay Fleury - the witnesses were Robert George Flakiner and Annie Fleury who was the bride's sister.   Gertrude Albinia Tarleton died on 2nd December 1912 at 66 Upper Pembroke Street - she had previously lived at 24 Upper Leeson Street, and her will was proved by her husband Francis Alexander Tarleton.  
 In 1879 when he proved the will of an Eliza Tracy, late of 73 Bushfield Avenue, but who died at 3 Lower Pembroke Street, Francis Alexander Tarleton was living at 24 Upper Leeson Street. He also proved the will, along with Arthur Fleury, of the widowed Catherine Fleury in 1873.    Francis Alexander Tarleton of 24 Upper Leeson Street died in July 1920 and his own will was administered by Emma Catherine Fleury.

3) Rev. John Tenison Tarleton, born circa 1830.  Was minister at Kilmore, Co. Monaghan, then at St. Thomas's, Old Charleton, Kent, UK, where he died on 18th September 1910. His widow was Margaret E.T. Tarleton, ie. Margaret Eleanor Theresa Dowman, who'd been born in Galway in 1854 and who died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on 15th December 1934.  In 1911, the widowed Margaret E.T. Tarleton was visiting Blarney, Co. Cork.
Margaret was the daughter of the Irish-born customs officer, Jonathan Darby Dowman and of Margaret Dowman. The family had lived in Liverpool and Galway before finally settling in Dublin.

4) Edward de Laval Tarleton, born circa 1832. Of the Royal Artillery.  Captain Edward de Laval Tarleton died on 25th December 1899 at Gourlencour, Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey - Gourlencour was the name of the Laval family estate in Picardie, France.  Edward had been named after his uncle, also Edward de Laval Tarleton, a doctor of Bath, England, who died on 10th September 1849 in Eccles Street, Dublin.  In 1848, he had been noted at 19 Great Pulteney St. in Bath.

5) Eliza Louisa Tarleton, born circa 1834 in Tyrone, who died unmarried on 11th July 1908 at 52 Wellington Road, Dublin.  In 1901 she had been living with her brother, Francis Alexander Tarleton at 24 Upper Leeson Street.

Margaret Boyle, daughter of Henry Boyle and Mary O'Brien

We descend directly on my mother's side from Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork.  The line of descent from him to us is as follows:  Richard Boyle's son was Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, who married Catherine Fenton.  They had the Hon. Henry Boyle, who married Mary O'Brien, and had a daughter, Margaret Boyle, who married Joseph Deane of Crumlin.  The daughter of Joseph Deane and Margaret Boyle was Catherine Deane who married John Lysaght, Baron Lisle of Mountnorth, whose daughter, Mary Lysaght, married Kingsmill Pennefather of Cashel, who were the ancestors of our maternal great-great grandmother, Isabella Anna Pennefather of Dublin.   Isabella Anna Pennefather married Charles Jones and had Tennie Jones who married Joseph Edwards Dickson.  They had our grandmother, Vera Antoinette Dickson, in Dublin in 1905.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/11/deane-family-of-crumlin.html

The following post is merely a potted early history of the well-documented and extensive  Boyle family, and serves as a useful illustration of the Protestant planatation of Catholic Ireland, and how this Ascendancy family arrived and settled here.
I sourced much of it from  'Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious Family of the Boyles' written by E. Budgell in 1737.

Richard Boyle, the Great Earl of Cork (1566 - 1643)...
The first of this family to be made a peer was Richard Boyle, (the youngest son of Roger Boyle of Kent and of Joan Naylor, both of whom were buried in Preston, Kent), who was known as the Great Earl of Cork.  He was born on 3rd October 1566 in Canterbury, Kent, and would become Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, Viscount of Dungarvan, and Earl of Cork.

Trained as a lawyer, Richard arrived in Dublin on 23rd June 1588 with £27 and 3 shillings to his name.  He married the daughter of William Apsley of Limerick, which brought him £500 per annum, although she died young in childbirth not long after. Richard bought land in Munster but, being wrongly accused by the Treasurer of Ireland, Sir Henry Wallop, of being in league with Catholic Spain, and his land having been laid waste during the Munster rebellion (1579–1583), he sailed from Dingle town to Bristol and from there to London, where Wallop's false evidence caused him to be jailed.  Richard, however, managed to wrangle an audience with Queen Elizabeth;  he talked his way out of jail, and was duly appointed  Clerk of the Council in Munster.
Buying Sir Walter Raleigh's ship 'The Pilgrim', he sailed back to Munster where he participated in the Battle of Kinsale (1601) when the invading Catholic Spanish were defeated by the Protestant forces.   Henry Boyle personally conveyed the news of the victory to Queen Elizabeth in London.  Shortly afterwards in about 1603, he purchased Sir Walter Raleigh's vast estates in Munster.

On  25 July 1603, Richard Boyle married his second wife, Catherine Fenton, the daughter of Sir Geoffery Fenton, the principle Secretary of State in Ireland.  She had first been promised to him when she was just two years old.
On 12th March 1606, Richard was sworn a Privy Counsellor to James I.
In 1616 he was created Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, then Lord Viscount Dungarvan and Earl of Cork in 1620.  On 26th October 1629, he was created Lord Justice for the Government of Ireland along with his son-in-law Lord Viscount Loftus.  In 1631 he was appointed Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.
Richard Boyle died in Youghal in 1643.

The children of Richard Boyle and Catherine Fenton were:
1) Roger Boyle who died aged nine at school in England on 10th October 1615 and was buried in Deptford, England.

2) Richard Boyle, who succeeded his father as 2nd Earl, born in Youghal on 20th October 1612, knighted as Viscount Dungarvan in Youghal on 13th August 1624.  He married Elizabeth Clifford , the daughter of the Earl of Cumberland, and died aged 86 on 15th January 1697.  Both his sons, Richard and Charles Boyle 3rd Vicount Dungarvan, predeceased him, so the succession passed to his grandson, Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington,the son of Charles by a daughter of William, Duke of Somerset.  Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington, had a daughter, Henrietta Boyle (1701 - 1746) who married her distant cousin Henry Boyle, the Earl of Shannon.  Another descendant of this line, Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle, married William Cavendish, the Duke of Devonshire, whose son, William would marry Georgiana Spencer, the reknowned Duchess of Devonshire.

3) Lewis who became Baron of Bandon and Viscount Kinelmeaky. Born 23rd March 1619. He married Elizabeth Fielding, the daughter of Sir William Fielding of Newenham Padox. Lewis, who supported the royal cause during the English Civil War, died at the Battle of Liscarrol on 3rd September 1642.  In recogition of her husband's support, Charles II bestowed a peerage on Lewis's widow in 1660 when she was created the Countess of Guildford.

4) Roger Boyle, the Baron of Broghill and Earl of Orrery. (See Below...)

5) Francis,  Lord Shannon, who was married at the London court to Elizabeth Killegrewe, with the support of the royal family.

6) Robert Boyle, born in Lismore, Waterford, on 25th January 1626, Robert Boyle remained a bachelor all his life.  Reknowned as a theologist and philosopher and the founder of modern chemistry, he lived with his sister Lady Ranelagh in Pall Mall, London.

7) Margaret Boyle, born in Channel Row, Westminster, England on 30th April 1629 when her father was 64 years old.

8) Lady Alice who married the Earl of Barrimore.

9) Sarah who married Lord Digby.

10) Lettice who married Lord Goring.

11) Mary who married the Earl of Warwick, ie: Charles Rich, son of Robert Rich of Leeze.

12)Joan who married the Earl of Kildare.

13) Dorothy who married Lord Loftus.

14) Katherine (1615-91) who married Lord Ranelagh, becoming Katherine Jones.  She lived in Pall Mall, London, and would later separate from her husband.  A leading intellectual of her time, she was a member of the Hartlib Circle whose interests included educational reform, medicine, agriculture and chemistry.

Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, Earl of Orrery, son of Richard Boyle and Catherine Fenton:
Born 26th April 1621, he married Margaret Howard, sister to the Earl of Suffolk.  Having travelled the continent as a young man, Roger returned to Ireland in 1641, a year of Catholic rebellion in Ireland where he summoned up a body of 500 men to fight the Royalist cause. However, following the execution of Charles I, Roger retired to his English seat at Marston;  although wishing to see the restoration of the King, he fought alongside Cromwell in Ireland, despite the suspicion that he was a Royalist at heart.  Following his return home to Munster, he finally nailed his true colours to the mast and sent his brother, the Earl of Shannon, to invite Charles II to Munster, a wise move which, following the restoration of the King,  led to Roger Boyle being created the Earl of Orrery.  Roger drew up the Act of Settlement which restored land to some Catholics, and which doled out much more of it to the Protestant population.
Sick and suffering from gout, Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, Earl of Orrery, died on 16th October 1679.

The children of Roger Boyle and Margaret Howard were:

1) Roger Boyle, son of Roger Boyle and Margaret Howard. who succeeded his father as the 2nd Earl of Orrery. A son, Charles, was born in 1676, and married Mary, the daughter of Richard, the Earl of Dorset. His son, Lionel Boyle, succeeded him, dying on 23rd August 1703.

2) Henry, son of Roger Boyle and Margaret Howard. Lieutenant-Colonel in Schomberg's Regiment, who died in Flanders in 1691 or 1693.  Living in Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, his house was besieged by the Catholic General McCarthy in 1688, following which Henry and his family fled first to Cork city, then to London in Mary 1689.  He was at this point appointed to the Protestant Schomberg's regiment, subsequently fighting at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 when the Protestant forces of William of Orange defeated the Catholic cause of James II.  
Henry married Mary O'Brien, the daughter of Lord Inchiquin, Murrough O'Brien, and of Elizabeth Saint Leger of Kent.
Following Henry Boyle's death, Mary O'Brien married, secondly, Admiral Sir Thomas Dilks, then, thirdly, Colonel John Irwin of Sligo.   By her second husband, Sir Thomas Dilks, she had a son, Michael O'Brien Dilks, and a daughter, Mary Mrs. Maitland.

The children of Henry Boyle of Castlemartyr and Mary O'Brien were:

a) Roger Boyle who died unmarried in 1705.

b) Henry Boyle,  (1648–1693), son of Henry Boyle of Castlemartyr and Mary O'Brien, Speaker of the House of Commons, who was created 1st Earl of Shannon.
His wives were Catherine Coote, the daughter of Chidley Coote of Killester, Dublin, who died young and childless, and his distant cousin Henrietta Boyle, the daughter of Charles Boyle, Earl of Cork and 2nd Earl of Burlington; the second marriage occurred in September 1726.

Henry, Earl of Shannon died on 28th December 1764, and was succeeded by his son Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon.  Henry's daughter was Juliana Boyle who married Somerset, Earl of Carrick in 1748.  This couple settled at Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, and I came across mention of them in a deed in the Registry of Deeds, ie: 548-195-362169.  This was one of those long and rambling, indecipherable documents which I was too lazy to transcribe - I merely noted the main points.  It was dated 25th February 1802 and named our maternal 5 x grandfather, Rev. John Pennefather of Newport as the executor of his maternal uncle's will, the Honorable Joseph Lyaght of the City of Cork.  This deed recited an earlier will, dated January 1773, whereby the Right Honorable Henry, late earl of Shannon, bequeathed £5000 to Richard, the present Earl of Shannon for the the use of Juliana, Countess of Carrick, Henry's daughter, and her husband Somerset, Earl of Carrick.

Other children of Henry Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon, and of Henrietta Boyle, were Captain Henry Boyle-Walsingham who died young, William Boyle who died in 1740,  Charles Boyle who died in 1734, and Captain Robert Boyle of the Royal Navy who had been born in 1736.  This son, Captain Robert Boyle, assumed the name 'Boyle-Walsingham' following his brother's death, and married Charlotte Hanbury Williams on 27th November 1776.  They had two children, Charlotte Boyle Walsingham and Richard O'Brien Boyle.

The Obituary of Richard, 2nd Earl of Shannon, the son of Henry, Earl of Shannon and of Henrietta Boyle, appeared in 'The Gentleman's Magazine' of 1807:

'At his seat at Castle Martyr, co. Cork, at the advanced age of 80, Richard Boyle, Earl of Shannon, Viscount Boyle, Baron of Castle Martyr, Knight of St. Patrick, Governor and Custos-Rotulorum of the County of York,  a Privy Counsellor in England and Ireland, and a Peer of England by the title of Baron Carleton of Carleton in Yorkshire.  
This distinguished nobleman (whose Parliamentary influence in the sister kingdom, previous to the Union,  was so unbounded, that no Vice-Regent felt easy on his throne, until he secured his Lordship's friendship) was born Jan. 30th 1727,  and sat first in Parliament in 1749, for the borough of Dungarvon.  In 1761, he was elected member for the county;  which situation he continued to fill until 1763,  when he succeeded his father, Earl Henry, in the peerage.   In 1766 his Lordship was appointed Master-general of the Ordnance, and sworn of his Majesty's Privy Council.    In December 1781,  he was appointed a Lord of the Treasury,  and on the first institution of the order of  St. Patrick,  nominated an original Knight Companion.   In September, 1787, created (at the King's influence, without any solicitation from his Lordship)  a Peer of Great Britain,  by the title of Baron Carleton, in Yorkshire, which honour had become extinct in another branch of the  Boyle family, by the decease, without issue,  of Henry Boyle, Lord Carleton, in 1724, who was principal Secretary of State to Queen Anne in 1707.  
The Earl of Shannon married,  Dec. 15, 1763, Catherine Ponsonby, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. John Ponsonby (Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland, and brother of the second Earl of Bessborough),  by the Lady Cavendish, daughter of the third Duke of Devonshire, by whom he has left issue, one son, Henry, Viscount Boyle, representative for the county of Cork, born August 8 , 1771, married, June 1795, to Sarah, fourth daughter of John Hyde, esq., by whom he has issue, three daughters;    and Catherine Henrietta, born Jan., 12, 1768, married, Feb., 12. 1784, to Francis, Earl of Bandon.  
The late Earl of Shannon was the eldest son of Henry Boyle, the first Earl, and many years Speaker of the House of Commons, by Lady Henrietta,  daughter of Charles Boyle, third Earl of Cork;  which Henry Earl of Shannon was son of the Honorable Henry Boyle of Castle Martyr  (by Lady Mary O'Brien, daughter of Murrough Earl of Inchiquin),   younger son of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, and grandson of Richard Boyle,  Earl of Cork.  The title of Viscount Shannon (revived in the late Earl's father)  was first conferred in 1660 by Charles II on the  Hon. Francis Boyle, sixth son of the first Earl of Cork, for his services in the Civil Wars;  but the title became extinct in 1740,  on the death of Francis, Viscount Shannon without male issue.'

c)  Margaret Boyle, daughter of Henry Boyle and Mary O'Brien, who married Joseph Deane of Crumlin in 1715, and from whom we directly descend.  The daughter of Joseph Deane and Margaret Boyle was Catherine Deane who married John Lysaght, Baron Lisle of Mountnorth, whose daughter, Mary Lysaght, married Kingsmill Pennefather of Cashel, who were the ancestors of our maternal great-great grandmother, Isabella Anna Pennefather of Dublin.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/11/deane-family-of-crumlin.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/p/index-to-pennefather-posts.html

d) Captain Charles Boyle of the Royal Navy, son of Henry Boyle and Mary O'Brien.

e) Captain William Boyle, son of Henry Boyle and Mary O'Brien, commissioner of appeals, who married in 1711 Mary Beaufoy the only daughter of Sir Samuel Garth, physician-general of the army.  William Boyle died in 1725.

f) Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of Henry Boyle and Mary O'Brien, who married Bettridge Badham of Rockfield, Co. Cork, in 1709.

3) Lady Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of of Roger Boyle and Margaret Howard, who married Foliott Wingfield, Viscount Powerscourt.  In the archives of the Chief Herald (National Library, Microfilm POS 8290), Elizabeth's name was manually crossed out and replaced by  'Dorothy' Boyle, daughter of the Earl of Orrery.  She was interred under the communion table in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on 23rd October 1709.

4) Lady Margaret Boyle, daughter of of Roger Boyle and Margaret Howard, who married William O' Brien, Earl of Inchiquin.  William O'Brien, Baron of the Burren, was the eldest son of the Honorable Elizabeth, Countess Dowager of Inchiquin, eldest daughter of the Honorable William Sent Leger of Kent and Lord President of Munster, and of the Right Honorable Murrough O'Brien, Lord Baron Inchiquin, Lord Viscount Brien of Burren by King Charles II.


5)  Catherine Boyle, daughter of of Roger Boyle and Margaret Howard, who married William Brett of Somerset.

6) Barabara Boyle, daughter of of Roger Boyle and Margaret Howard, who married Arthur Chichester, Earl of Donegal.

Froods, Supples, Forsters, Halls, Courtenays etc...

This is one of those rambling posts about families I'm only vaguely related to.  I used online records, primarily the Irish Census and the Wills Calendars, freely available on the National Archives site, as well as the church records, freely available on the Irish Genealogy site, the LDS site, and much googling.  It starts with the family of Frederick and Mary Courtenay of 27 Wellington Street who were my immediate ancestors - I descend via their daughter, Emily.  Another of their daughter, Adelaide Anne Courtenay, married George Hall in 1851.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/10/the-children-of-frederick-and-mary.html

Adelaide Anne Courtenay, baptised 10th August 1831, born at 47 Moore Street, was the daughter of our immediate maternal ancestors, Frederick and Mary Courtenay.   Adelaide Anne Courtenay married a commercial clerk, George Hall, who was the son of Andrew Hall, on 12th October 1851.
George Hall had been born to Andrew Hall in Bray, Co.Wicklow.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/search?q=andrew+hall

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.

Eveline Beatrice Forster had been born on 15th July 1871 in Donnybrook, Dublin, to Ralph Moore Forster (1817  - 12th April 1877)  and to 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.

The Forster Family of Broomhill, Ballinagh, Co. Cavan:

Ralph Moore Forster was the 4th son of Rev.Thomas Forster of Kilmainham.

Rev. Thomas Forster of Kilmainham Wood, Co. Meath, died on 13th February 1853 after a few days' illness. He had been 48 years as incumbent of the parish. ('Dublin Evening Mail', 23rd February 1853).
His wife, Elizabeth Forster, died aged 82 on 21st February 1865.('Belfast Morning News', 28th Feb.1865.)
In June 1831, Eleanor Forster, youngest daughter of Rev. Thomas Forster of Kilmainham Wood, married Joseph Francis Hopkins of Priorland, Co. Louth. ('Drogheda Journal', 4th June 1831.)
Francis Boyle Forster of Kilmainham Wood died on 4th July 1862. ('Evening Freeman', 12th July 1862.)  His will stated that  had died on the 6th July 1862; probate was granted to Francis Willetts Hopkins of Rolagh Lodge, Co. Meath, who was the committee of the person of Thomas Forster, the brother of the deceased, who was 'limited during mental incapacity.' Francis Willetts Hopkins, named in this 1862 will, must have been named for the earlier Francis Willetts Hopkins of Priorsland, Co. Louth, whose estate was in chancery in May 1822. ('Saunders Newsletter', 6th May 1822.)
On 2nd January 1848 in Kilmainham Wood, the death occurred of Mrs. Eleanor Forster, the wife of Francis Forster of Keadue, near Cavan. She had been 90 years old.  Her husband, Francis Forster, was an earlier relation of the previously-named Francis Boyle Forster.

Ralph Moore Forster of Broomhill, Cavan (1817 - 12th April 1877), a clerk in the Record Office, and Emma Matilda Supple had the following recorded children:

1) Thomas Frederick Forster was born in 1864,  and married in St. Mary's, Dublin, on 24 February 1892, Mary Anne Spotten/Spotton, the daughter of James Spotten of Ballinagh, Co. Cavan.     Witnesses: J.W. Jolley and Jane L. Jolley. Thomas Frederick farmed at Broomhill,  Ballinagh, Co. Cavan.   According to the census, the children of this couple were:
   a) Jennie Loftus Forster, born Cavan 1893.
   b) Violet Marrian Forster, born Cavan 1894.
   c) William Frederick Augustus Forster, born Cavan 1896.  He was named after his paternal  great-uncle,  William Frederick Augustus Forster of Broomhill, Co. Cavan, who died on 25th August 1881 - his widow was Emma Forster of Ellen Lodge, Dalkey, Co. Dublin.   He had been born in 1815 and was contemporary with Ralph Moore Forster who had been born in 1817 in the same place.
  d) Rebecca Matilda Forster, born Cavan 1899.
NB:  Thomas Frederick Forster of Broomhill proved the will of another member of the Forster family, namely Mary Forster of Crosshue, Co. Wexford, who died on 7th May 1876 when Thomas Frederick was only 12. She was the wife of Thomas Forster of Crosshue, Co. Wexford, who died there on 16th March 1886, and his will named his nephew as Thomas Frederick Forster of Broomhill.   Mary had been born in 1819, her husband, Thomas Forster in 1812, which makes him contemporary with Ralph Moore Forster and William Frederick Augustus Forster, all three possibly brothers.

2) Ralph Moore Forster, born Dublin, circa 1864.  He married Eliza Jane Spotton/Spotten who was the sister of his sister-in-law, Mary Anne Spotten.  Ralph Moore Forster was the executor of his father-in-law's will when James Spotton died in February 1910 at Blacklion, Co. Cavan.    The children of Ralph Moore Forster and Eliza Jane Spotton were:
    a) Rebecca Matilda Forster, born circa 1901 in Cavan.  She shared a name with her cousin.
    b) Anna Richardson Forster, born Cavan 1903.
    c) Frederick Frood Forster, born Cavan 1906.

3) Emily Maude Forster, born in Dublin in 1869.  She married, in St. Thomas's, Dublin, on 16 February 1892,  John George Foster (NOT Forster), who also originated in Ballinagh, Co. Cavan, and who was the son of a farmer John Foster. The Forsters and Fosters of Ballinagh may well be the same family with different spellings.  The witnesses were Emily's brother, Thomas Frederick Forster, and Jane F. Jolley.   The couple settled and farmed at Corduff, Ballintemple, Cavan and had numerous children, of whom seven were still alive in 1911:
    a) John F. B.G. Foster, born Cavan 1892.
    b) Ralph Moore Foster, born Cavan 1894.
    c)  William Graham Foster, born Cavan 1896.
    d) Supple George Foster, born Cavan 1899.
    e) James White Foster, born Cavan 1900.
    f) Eliza Jane Foster, born Cavan 1906.
     g) Thomas Henry Foster, born Cavan 1908.

4) Eveline Beatrice Forster born 15 July 1871 51 Grand Canal Street, Dublin. She married Albert Andrew Hall in 1901.

Ralph Moore Forster of Broomhill, Co. Cavan, died in Dublin at 86 Haddington Road on 12th April 1877; when his widow, Emma Matilda Forster, née Supple,  proved his will, she was living at 14 Richmond Avenue, Fairview, Co. Dublin.

The Supple Family of Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath:
To return to Eveline Beatrice Forster who married Albert Andrew Hall in 1901, she was the daughter of Ralph Moore Forster of Broomhill, Cavan, and of Emma Matilda Supple of Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath.
From 'The Dublin Evening Mail' of 12th September 1861 - '9th September in Donnybrook Church, Ralph Moore Foster, 4th son of the late Rev. Thomas Forster, incumbent of Kilmainham, to Emma Matilda, 2nd daughter of Frederick Austin Supple, Esq., of Merrion and Dunshaughlin Lodge, Co. Meath, and granddaughter of the late Major David Supple of the 17th Lancers.'

Emma Matilda Supple was the daughter of Frederick Austin Supple of Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath, and Anna Maria Gillespie of Dublin.  The couple married in Donnybrook on 25th March 1828.   Anna Maria Gillespie was the fourth daughter of William Gillespie of Richmond and of Lower Gardiner Street.

Frederick Austin Supple was the eldest son of Major David Supple of the 17th Lancers and of Amelia Charlotte Connell (noted by the LDS website as Caroline).  Frederick Austin Supple had been born in Preston, Lancashire, on 27th March 1801 and received a military education in the Royal Military College of Sandhurst, but didn't enter the army since he inherited property and income at Dunshaughlin.   The LDS website show up two other children born to Major David and Amelia Charlotte/Caroline Supple in Preston - an older son, David John Augustus Tudor Supple, baptised in June 1800, and a daughter, Caroline Isabella Dorothea Supple born 4th April 1802.

Major David Supple of the 17th Lancers was the son of Patrick Supple of Dunshaughlin who was noted as J.P. of Dunshaughlin - his death was announced in The Gentlemans Magazine of 1779 and was buried in Dunshaughlin in the family plot.

(A possible relation, Frederick Augustus Supple, was born to a Frederick and Maria Anna Supple at Wynnefield Place, Rathmines, Co. Dublin on 23 August 1843.)

A headstone in Dunshaughlin commemorates the early members of the Supple family, and was erected by W.R. Supple in memory of his brother, David Wilson Supple and other members of his family 1698 - 1876.   They were noted on the tombstone as follows:
Patrick Supple 1779.
John Supple 1807.
Anne Supple 1821.
Walter William Supple 1825.
David Supple, Major 17th Light Dragoons 1829 (Father of Frederick Austin Supple.)
Caroline Supple 1834. (Mother of Frederick Austin Supple.)

Griffiths Valuations noted both Frederick A. Supple and David W. Supple in Main Street, Dunshaughlin.  David Wilson Supple was most likely the son of Major David Supple, as was William Rathborne Supple. David Wilson Supple (1805 - 1876) of Dunshaughlin Castle died on 8th June 1876, and his will was proved by his brother William Rathborne Supple Senior of Juneville, Dunleer, Co Louth.  Supple  In his turn, William Rathborne Supple Senior died on 6th March 1895 and his own will was proved by his son, Rev. William Rathborne Supple of 8 Clyde Road, who was the curate of St. Bartholomew's, Clyde Road.

In 1901, Rev. William Rathborne Supple was living at 21 Clyde Road, which was later occupied by Rev. John Grogan and his family, who also had links to the Courtenay family.  This was probably pure coincidence.   Rev. William Rathborne Supple (Junior) married Elizabeth Mary Garner, the daughter of Samuel Hartwell Garner MD who died in Segowlie, India on 23rd July 1857. At this time, Rev. William Rathborne Supple was stationed in Gorey, Co. Wexford.  Children of Rev. William R. Supple and Elizabeth Mary Garner were St. George Rathborne Supple who was born on 30th July 1873 in Limerick, and William Hamilton Supple who was born on 23rd March 1878 at Coleman, or Arthurstown, Co. Wexford. A daughter, Eileen Supple, was born circa 1882 in Arthurstown, Wexford.  Both Eileen and William Hamilton Supple were living abroad in 1911 - Eileen was in Ealing and William was in India with the army.  William Hamilton Supple (28 March 1878-1972, died in Hampshire, UK) gradulated from Dublin University and was commissioned in 1900 as a Second Lieutenant fighting with the Dublin Fusiliers in the South African Boer war. Second Lieutenant in 1901 and Captain in 1908. Seconded to Liberia and serviced in the Frontier Field Force after WWI. Served with the Fusiliers through WWI with final promoton to Lt. Colonel, attached to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps for a time and retired when the Fusiliers were disbanded in 1922, following the separation of Ireland from Great Britain.

The wills calendars, online via the National Archives site, provide invaluable information...Dr. Robert Harrison Supple died at 14 Fair Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth, on 1st September 1903, with administration to Rev. William Rathborne Supple and Irene Constance Mabel Supple.   Robert Harrison Supple was born in Co. Louth, most likely to William Rathborne Supple Senior of Dunleer, Co. Louth.  Robert married Elizabeth Johnston. Their children were Mary Frances Supple, born Louth 17th January 1870, William Robert Supple born Louth 1st May 1871, Irene Supple, born 1875, Margaret born Louth 3rd January 1878.

Another son of Major David Supple and Amelia Charlotte Connell was most Lieutenant John Connell Supple who died on 23rd September 1841 at Surab, aged only 27. He was of the 13th Bombay National Infantry,  When Amelia Charlotte Supple, relict of Major David Supple of the 17th Light Dragoons died on 21st November 1841, she died in Bombay, and had possibly been living with her son.

The 'Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courrier' of 31st May 1838 carried a disturbing report. Christiana Newburgh Connell had been held prisoner in absolute seclusion in Glasnevin Asylum for three years, and had recently managed to smuggle out a letter to a solicitor, dated 9th May 1838, in which she stated she was completely sane but at the time of her incarceration had been delirious due to a lack of sleep.  She had been committed there by Mr. John Gillespie of Gardiner Street, and by her own brother-in-law, Mr. Frederick Supple, of Dunshaughlin, who visited her once a year but who failed to support her as he should, leaving her in need of new clothes.  She stated that her doctor was Dr. Eustace of Gloucester Street, the head of the asylum, who would not release her without the permission of Supple and Gillespie.  The paper noted that her solicitor managed to get permission from the court to allow an independent doctor to visit her in hospital.

How was the above Christiana Newburgh Connell related to Frederick Austin Supple?  Frederick's mother was Amelia Charlotte Connell, the daughter of Field Marshall John Shadwell Connell of Rio. Christiana was the wife of William Gilbert Connell, also a child of John Shadwell Connell, and christened a son as Frederick Supple Connell in Bristol in October 1824.   Mr. John Gillespie, who also committed Christiana to Glasnevin Asylum, must have been related to Frederick Austin Supple's wife, Anna Maria Gillespie.
Field Marshall John Shadwell Connell died on 19th April 1821 at Rio de Janeiro aged 77. He was noted as Councillor of War and Knight of the Order of the Tower and Sword.  He entered the Portugese Service as Captain in 1763, with leave, then being a lieutenant in the British army;  he was Governor of Lagos and Faro and, until 1818, of the Kingdom of the Algarve in Portugal.  His children had been born in Lisbon, Portugal -  Amelia Charlotte Connell (who married Major Daniel Supple) born 19th October 1788, John Jervis Connell born 19th January 1793, and William Gilbert Connell born 16th December 1796.  A daughter was the Miss Connell who married in St. James' Church on 8th April 1808,  Captain William Mainwaring of the East India Company's Naval Service at Bombay.

Frederick Austin Supple and Anna Maria Gillespie had a Dublin residence, Fortland Cottage at Merrion, where, on 13th September 1853, Mrs. Frederick Supple had her 17th child.   Earlier children were born at Gardiner Street, Wynnfield, Co. Dublin, and Dunshaughlin.  Of their 17 children, I've only isolated Emma Matilda Supple who married Ralph Moore Forster, Frederick Austin Supple Junior, Jane Nickson Supple who married Thomas Nicholson Frood, and Anna Maria Supple who follows.

On 1st Aug 1855, in Clonturk, North Co. Dublin,  Anna Maria Supple, the daughter of Frederick (Austin) Supple, married William Richardson, son of William Richardson.  Her brother, Frederick Austin Supple of Dunshaughlin died at Glasnevin, Dublin, on 25th January 1863, and his will was proved by William Richardson,  Proctor of the Admiralty, resident in Belgium, and by Thomas Nicholson Frood of 41 Bushfield Avenue, Dublin.   The daughter of Frederick Austin Supple, Jane Nickson Supple, married on 6th June 1857, Thomas Nicholson Frood, the son of Thomas Nicholson Frood.



The Frood Family:
The daughter of Frederick Austin Supple, Jane Nickson Supple, married on 6th June 1857, Thomas Nicholson Frood (1835 - 1915) the son of  Major Thomas Ellis Frood and Elizabeth Frood of Fortview, Clontarf, North Co. Dublin.

Thomas Ellis Frood (c. 1796 - 1868) was noted as an ensign with the Dublin City Militia in 1813.

The 'Belfast Commercial Chronicle' of 9th July 1825 reported that Thomas Ellis Frood attempted suicide in O'Dienne's Hotel, Sackville Street, Dublin, by trying to cut his own throat with a penknife. Surgeon Geoghegan attended him and he survived.  A troubled man, Captain Thomas Ellis Frood was jailed for 12 months for forgery in April 1849.

Thomas Ellis Frood died on 13th September 1868 at Richardson Street, London;  his sons, Thomas Nicholson Frood (1835 - 1915) and Gore William Frood, were the executors of his will.

The children of Thomas Ellis Frood and Elizabeth Frood were:
a)  Thomas Nicholson Frood born Co. Cavan in 1835, died 1915, who married Jane Nickson Supple in 1857.
b) Twins James Wallace Frood and Angelina Frood, born Clontarf , 4 July 1841.
c) William Gore or Gore William Frood, born 8 March 1844 in Clontarf, died in Southwark in 1881.

Frood is not a common name in Ireland.  The earliest member of this family I can uncover is a Dublin merchant, James Frood, who operated in North Anne Street in the 1780's.  The family also held property in Belturbet, Cavan, where the death occurred of Rebecca, wife of the late James Frood of Claremont, Co. Dublin - she died at the residence of her eldest son on 10th November 1829.   James Frood, merchant of North Ann Street, had made out a will on 19th December 1786, in which he named his wife as Rebecca Garner and his eldest son as Thomas Nicholson Frood, and his second son as James Frood.  A brother-in-law was Samuel Garner, wile his sisters were Elizabeth Beard, Jane Frood and Mary McClelland.  James Frood's niece was an Agnes Duncan.

The eldest son of James Frood was Major Thomas Nicholson Frood.  In 1829, the Grand Treasurer of the Orange Order was Major Thomas Nicholson Frood of Riversdale, Belturbet, Cavan. In September 1833 at Clontarf, Anne, wife of Major Frood of Riversdale, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, died.  
Thomas Nicholson Frood was noted as a major in the Dublin Militia in 1808.
The Fictitious Votes Committee of the 1830's noted Thomas Nicholson Frood as being of Belturbet, Cavan and of South Anne Street.  The following year the subsequent entry in the Fictitious Votes Committee noted the same Thomas Nicholson Frood as being of Dungannon, Co. Tyrone and of North Anne Street.

This Major Thomas Nicholson Frood links to Major Thomas Ellis Frood, who named his son after Thomas Nicholson Frood.
A daughter of Major Thomas Nicholson Frood was Jane Rebecca Cochrane who died on 24th April 1881 at Rathmines Road, the widow of John Cochrane.
 In the book, 'Report of Cases, Civil and Criminal', of 1843, I found the memorial of an indenture of a marriage settlement, dated 2nd November 1831. The parties named were, of the first part Thomas Nicholson Frood;  the second part was his daughter, the bride, Jane Rebecca Frood;  the intended groom John Coghrane was the third part;  the fourth part was John Fleming and John Drope McIlree.  A marriage was about to take place between Jane Rebecca Frood, daughter of Thomas Nicholson Frood, and John Coghrane or Cochrane.  Thomas Nicholson Frood did demise etc. unto John Fleming and John Drope McIlree ...expectant on the survivor of them, the said Thomas Nicholson Frood and Thomas Ellis Frood, therein named, in all that part of the...permises situate in North Anne-street and Cuckoo Lane....(ie, Nos. 28, 29 + 30).

Major Thomas Nicholson Frood, late of the Dublin City Militia, died in Newry, Co. Down, in December 1847. ('Freeman's Journal', 21st December 1847.)

Although of the same family, it's unclear how Major Thomas Nicholson Frood and Major Thomas Ellis Frood link to each other.

In the same era, there was also a Major James Nicholson Frood who settled in Dundalk and who was undoubtedly another member of this same family.
 Major James Nicholson Frood married, on 15th July 1818, Sarah Stewart, youngest daughter of William Stewart of Wilmount, Ballydrain, Co. Down.  Sarah, wife of Major Frood, died in Dundalk on 17th March 1830, aged 39.
Irish marriage records show up a 2nd marriage in 1835 of James Nicholson Frood to Helena Hannyngton.

In Clontarf on 17th August 1850, Lucinda Sara Frood, 6th daughter of late Major James Nicholson Frood of Dundalk, to William Fenton, of Kiltegan, Wicklow, 5th son of Richard Fenton. The witnesses were William T. Frood, or perhaps William S. Frood, ie: William Samuel Frood, the bride's brother, who settled at Gorey and then at Castlebellingham, and William Courtenay. (Cork Examiner, 21st August 1850.)

A daughter of James Nicholson Frood was Harriette Louisa Frood, born 1842.

On 5th May 1841 in Ahareva, Isabella Eliza, the daughter of the late Major Frood of Dundalk, and widow of the late John Atkinson of Benburb, married Rev. Robert G. Atkinson of Mullabrack, son of George Atkinson of Millvale.
On 14th April 1837, in St. Nicholas Church, Dundalk, by Rev. Elias Thackeray, George Lennox Bigger of Longford Bank, third son of Lennox Bigger of Dundalk, married Charlotte, 2nd daughter of Major Frood, High Bailiff of Dundalk.

In Dublin on 25th July 1848, William Samuel Frood, son of James Nicholson Frood, married Sophia Mitchell, daughter of Blayney Mitchell.
The 'Freeman's Journal' of 22nd October 1887 described the will of John Bagot of Clontarf, former honorary secretary to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, who had worked as a wine merchant in the firm of 'Bagots, Hutton and Co. 'of William Street.   His wife was named as Jane Forster Bagot, daughter of the late Rev. Blayney Mitchell.  Also named in the will were George Bigger of Rathmines and Charles Mitchell of Greenmount, Drumcondra who were left money to invest on behalf of John Bagot's widow.  Other members of the Mitchell family were mentioned -  Blayney Mitchell and his wife Matilda Mitchell of Greenmount, Drumcondra, Owen Mitchell of Hollymount, Drumcondra, Thomas Mitchell, Blayney Mitchell Junior, Annette Mitchell, Ellen Mitchell, Charles and Arthur Mitchell, all of Greenmount.  Small legacies were bequeathed to the following members of the Frood family - Mrs. Maria Frood and her daughter Lillie Frood, and Miss Harriet Frood of Rathmines.
Harriet Frood was the daughter of Major James Nicholson Frood;  she died in Marlborough Home, Rathmines, Dublin, on 9th May 1912 with probate to a married woman, Lucinda H. Drury.   In 1901, Harriette Louisa Frood appeared on the census alongside her niece, Lucy N. Fenton of Wicklow.

Throughout the 1830s, mention was made in the papers of Major James Nicholson Frood at Dundalk. His grandson married in New Zealand.  This was also James N. Frood, LRCSI, who married on 10th September 1878 in Waipukurau, New Zealand, Mary Catherine Isabella Campbell, the daughter of J.H. Campbell of Waiapu.  

But to return to Thomas Nicholson Frood (1835 - 1915) the son of  Major Thomas Ellis Frood and Elizabeth Frood of Fortview, Clontarf, North Co. Dublin.

The 'Freeman's Journal' of 11th January 1882 reported on a law case involving Thomas Nicholson Frood of 41 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, a partner in the wine merchants 'Chambre and Frood' of Commercial Buildings.  The case involved charges brought against the brothers, Brooklyn and John C. Soady, who harrassed the Frood family and broke several of their windows, when they called demanding an apology from Thomas, claiming that his daughter had slandered them by commenting they had misbehaved somehow in public.  The night they had called to the Frood home in Marlborough Road, the door had been opened to them by a daughter, Annie;  there was also a nephew of Thomas Nicholson Frood staying in the house with them - the student Henry Richardson.  

A son of Thomas Nicholson Frood of Commercial Buildings and Henrietta Place, Dalkey, was Dr. Thomas M. Frood who, in April 1899, was elected President of the Transvaal Medical Association;  he had already been practising for several years in Johannesburg. ('Dublin Daily Nation', 18th April 1899.)

In November 1898, Miss Tiny Frood of Dalkey sued Surgeon-Captain Mawhinney for breach of contract when Mawhinney had been unable to secure a position in India. ('Weekly Freeman's Journal' 26th Nov 1898.)

The children of Thomas Nicholson Frood, wine merchant, and Jane Nickson Supple were born at 41 Bushfield Avenue, Donnybrook, Dublin:

a) Eveline Maude, born 1864, died 18 months later on  4th March 1866.
b) Caroline Frances Frood, born circa 1871, Dublin.
c) Gore William Frood, named after an uncle, born 1874.
d) Rosanna Hassard Frood, 1876.
e) Eveline Beatrice Frood, 1877. She would marry, on 16 May 1899, Kevin McNally MD, son of Lawrence McNally - the witnesses were her first cousin Eveline Beatrice Forster and Albert Andrew Hall, who would themselves marry in 1901.
f) James Arthur Supple Frood, 25 January 1881.
g) Helen Gillespie Frood, 1885 at 43 Marlborough Road.
h) Harriet Helena Frood, who married William de la Ware Hemsworth, a clerk in the Bank of Ireland, and son of William Garrett Hemsworth of 25 Kenilworth Rd.,  on 3 January 1887. The witnesses were J. M. Frood and M.G.L. Hemsworth.

Thomas Nicholson Frood and Jane Nickson Frood were living in Henrietta Terrace, Dalkey, in both 1901 and 1911.   Thomas died on 13 January 1915, with probate to his son-in-law, William de la Ware Hemsworth, and to Henry G. Owens.  His wife, Jane Nickson Frood, died on 19th Oct. 1922 aged 85.  They were buried in Mount Jerome.

Notes on the family of Dr. Kevin McNally who married  Eveline Beatrice Frood on 16 May 1899:

The first members of this family that I managed to source on www.irishgenealogy.ie were Kevin's grandparents,  Laurence McNally and Mary Dillon, who married in St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Dublin, on 22nd February 1808, the witnesses being John and Alice Dillon.   The name 'Dillon' would reverberate through the following generations, helping to identify them.
On 3rd June 1823, Laurence and Mary McNally witnessed the wedding of Francis Dillon and Anne Lawlor in St. Andrew's.

Laurence McNally (the father of Dr. Kevin McNally) was born to Laurence McNally and Mary Dillon  in 1819, and was baptised the same year in St. Andrew's.  The first child must have died since a second Laurence McNally was baptised in the same church by the same couple later in 1828.  Other children baptised by Laurence and Mary McNally in St. Andrew's were John in 1810, Catherine in 1814, Bartholomew in 1817, Jacob in 1820,  Agnetm (?)  in 1828, Francis in 1828 and Alice in 1828, the last three were born elsewhere and baptised later on the same day, I presume....

The son of Laurence McNally and Mary Dillon, Laurence McNally Junior,  married Mary Maguire in the Pro-Cathedral, Marloborough Street, on 25th April 1868.  Both were resident at the McNally family home, 77 Lower Gardiner Street, and the witnesses were William Purcell, Bernard Rispin and Anna Maguire. Mary was the daughter of Thomas and Catherine Maguire.

Laurence McNally and Mary Maguire settled at 11 Richmond Place where their children were born:

a) Mary Catherine McNally was born 31st May 1869;  the baptism occurred in St. Agathas;  the sponsors were Catherine McNally and Robert Spence.

b) Evelina Maude Patricia McNally was born 25th March 1873; sponsors were Cornelius Joseph Maguire and Mary Theresa Dunne.

c) Florence Emily McNally, born 10th May 1875;  baptism sponsor was Thomas McNally.

d) Christina Mary Adelaide McNally, born 10th May 1876;  sponsor was Stanislaus Maguire.

e) Kevin, born 15th May 1877, and was baptised as Frederick Charles Kevin Dillon McNally in St. Agatha's. The sponsors were Bernard Rispin and Catherine McNally.  He would later marry Eveline Beatrice Frood.

Another family related to the above McNallys was the family of Thomas McNally and Catherine Maguire.  When their daughter, Mary Augusta McNally was born on 7th January 1873, they were living at 77 Lower Gardiner Street, the home of Laurence McNally when he married Maria Maguire.  Thomas was most likely Laurence's brother therefore.   The children of Thomas and Catherine McNally were:

Kathleen  Mary Baptiste McNally, born 27th December 1869, sponsors were Laurence McNally, Emily Maguire and William Purcell.
 Mary Augusta McNally,  born on 7th January 1873, sponsors were Stanislaus Maguire, Mary McNally and William Purcell.
Eugenia Mary Clothide McNally, norn 25th March 1874.
Thomas Laurence Mario Dillon McNally, born 14th February 1875. (Later a dentist....)
Irene Annie Henrietta Maria McNally, born 12th April 1878.

William A. Stewart, 1820 - 3rd October 1881, and Margaret Burke

William A. Stewart  (1820 - 3rd December 1881)  and Margaret Burke:

William A. Stewart was born in 1820 to  Joseph and Ann Stewart of Crossnacreevy, Comber, Co. Down.  His known brothers were our great-great grandfather, Joseph Stewart of Dublin, John Stewart of Crossnacreevy and Robert McKitterick Stewart.  He also had three known sisters, Mary, Agnes and Lucinda Stewart.

https://alison-stewart.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-stewart-family-of-crossnacreevy.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/p/index-to-stewartmadine-family-posts.html

One of the most prominent farming families in this Moneyreagh area were the Huddlestons.  In 1844 Robert Huddleston, a poet, published a volume of his works, 'A Collection of Poems and Songs on Rural Subjects.' Included at the end of the collection was a list of subscribers, and these include Joseph Stewart of Gransha and William A. Stewart of Crossnacreevy;  William was only 18 when he subscribed to his neighbour's book.

William A. Stewart married Margaret Burke in Downpatrick Registry Office on 27th December 1851. William, the son of the farmer, Joseph Stewart of Crossnacreevy, was a hosteler living at 29 Prince's Street, Belfast, while Margaret was the daughter of a labourer, John Burke, with an address at the time of her marriage in Downpatrick.  The witnesses were William Lascelles and Agnes Crothers.

Margaret Stewart, née Burke - photo kindly shared by James May

                                                 
 

It seems that the family of Margaret Burke had their origins in Leveroge, Drumbo, Co. Down,  south of Lisburn,  since a known cousin was Hugh Geddes Burke who originated there.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/04/hugh-burke-cousin-of-jane-orr-nee.html

William Stewart can be traced through the Belfast street directories.  In 1851, at the time of his marriage to Margaret Burke, he was at 29 Prince's Street, as he was in 1865, and ran an eating-house and stabling yard there.  In 1863, the street directories note him at 18 Marlborough Street, which actually runs into Prince's Street.
Prince's Street and Marlborough Street intersect Ann Street, where, on 9th February 1868, William's younger brother, Joseph Stewart - our great-great grandfather - was living at 88 Ann Street when his wife, Elizabeth Madine gave birth to a second stillborn child who they named Joseph.  88 Ann Street is on the corner of Prince's Street where William A. Stewart had his eating house and stabling yard.

In 1875, when William's daughter, Jane Stewart, married James M. Orr, she was living at 50 New Lodge Road, which is where William A. Stewart and his family were living in 1881, the year of William's death.

William A. Stewart gave up his stabling yard in about 1868, according to evidence given to his 1881 inquest by his daughter Margaret Stewart and was subsequently unemployed - perhaps the William Stewart who ran a pub at 92 Ann Street in the 1870s was a different man altogether?

(Note: Throughout the 1870s, another William Stewart ran a pub at 92 Ann Street.  This was not our ancestor but, instead, was William Stitt Stewart, who not only held a licenced premises at 92 Ann Street, but also at 19 Ann Street.  In the 1884 street directory, a publican named Ellen Stewart was listed at 92 Ann Street - this was Ellen, the widow of William Stitt Stewart who had died in 1882, and the licence had passed to his wife, who died in February 1887.)

The Children of William A. Stewart and Margaret Burke:

It is known from the records that the couple had four daughters.
The children of William and Margaret were born prior to official registration, but Jane Stewart was born circa 1855 in Belfast, and her sister, Margaret was born circa 1859.  There was also  a sister, Agnes Stewart,  who witnessed Jane's wedding to James M. Orr and who was named in newspaper reports of 1881 when her father committed suicide at home.

Jane Stewart was working as a machinist prior to her 1875 marriage to James Orr.   

https://alison-stewart.blogspot.com/2012/08/james-m-orr-watchmaker-and-jane-stewart.html

Margaret was working locally in York Street Mill in 1881, while daughter Agnes, in 1881, was working for the Belfast linen company, Betzolds of Fountain Street.

There was also a fourth, unnamed, daughter who was living at home in 50 New Lodge Road in 1881 when her father killed himself.  A later report of court proceedings in the Belfast Morning News of 15th February 1882, in which the widowed Margaret Stewart, née Burke, struggled to get a life insurance payment of £6 10s. from the City of Glasgow Friendly Society, mentioned incorrectly that William A. Stewart's widow was named Agnes, and that a daughter was named Sarah Stewart.  Although the newspaper report in this instant got several facts wrong, perhaps the fourth daughter really was named Sarah Stewart? Alternatively, the existence of this 4th daughter might be a mistake on the part of the journalist who wrote the article in 1882.

On 26th October 1871 in York Street Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church in Belfast city centre, William A. Stewart's brother, John Stewart of Crossnacreevy, married his second wife, Elizabeth McGowan.  Elizabeth was the daughter of John McGowan, a labourer of Ballystockart, Comber, Co. Down.  William A. Stewart was one of the witnesses at the wedding.   

The brothers' sister, Mary Stewart, had earlier married Hugh Morrow in the same York Street church  on 13th Sept. 1865.   (Another brother was Robert Stewart who married  Jane Madine  in Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church  on July 9th 1860.  Both bride and groom were living in the Madine's hometown of Killyleagh at the time of the marriage and Robert Stewart gave his profession as a mechanic.  Jane was the youngest sister of Elizabeth Madine who was married to another of the Stewart brothers, Joseph Stewart from whom we directly descend.)
I've often wondered why the siblings married in central Belfast rather than make the short trip home to Crossnacreevy, Moneyreagh,  and marry there - it turns out that a local Moneyreagh native, Rev. John Jelllie, had been the Unitarian minister at home until 30th December 1861, when he had accepted a new post at York Street Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Street in central Belfast, so it seems that both John and Mary Stewart chose to be married by their old minister in his new premises.  Our own direct ancestor, Joseph Stewart, another of these Stewart siblings, chose to marry in the Church of Ireland faith, probably because this was his wife's preferred church.

William A. Stewart died under tragic circumstances on 3rd December 1881 at 50 New Lodge Road;  the newspapers recorded that he died from a head wound inflicted with a hammer.  An inquest concluded that he'd committed suicide by fracturing his skull while in a state of unsound mind.

From 'The Belfast Telegraph' of Dec.5th 1881:  'An inquest was held on Saturday on the body of Wm. Stewart, who was found dead with his head broken, in the yard of his house in New Lodge Road that morning.  Evidence was given that, for the past two months, the deceased talked foolishly.  The Coroner described the case as a most extraordinary one.  The jury returned a verdict of suicide, while in an unsound state of mind.'

Belfast Newsletter, 5th December 1881:

'EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE IN BELFAST
The Inquest.  
On  Saturday morning, the body of a man, William Stewart, aged 55, residing at 50, New Lordge Road, was discovered in the yard.  The breast was resting on the ledge of the ashpit, whic h is almost four feet in height.  The head was hanging over in the ashes,  the hands were outstretched in front, and a small hatchet was lying between the hands in the ashes.   The scalp was removed for nearly five inches,  and in the centre of the wound there was a hole in the skull.   Dr. Dill, coroner for the borough, and a jury,  held an inquest on the body, at half-past five o'clock, in Mr. Crawford's public-house, New Lodge Road.  Sub-Inspector Singleton was present.  Head-Constable Howe had charge of the case.
Margaret Stewart, daughter of the deceased, was the first witness examined.  She deposed that her father had kept a yard for stabling, but had given it up about thirteen years, and was not able to get another.  He had since only been able to do household work for the family.  He had been in good health until within the last two months.  Since then he took something on the back of his neck like a carbuncle,  but it was nearly well.  Witness last saw him alive that morning at her bedside. He came to waken her.  That was about twenty minutes past six.  He was in the habit of wakening her to let her out for her work in York Street mill.  She dressed and came downstairs,  and found the deceased sitting on his own beside the fire. He was sitting with his hands closed, and witness desired him to go to bed.    He had then his trousers and his shirt on him.  He did not reply, and witness afterwards went out, her mother telling her that she would make him get in.   She was afterwards sent for,  and heard that he was dead.  It was about twenty-five minutes past six when she left the house, and the  message came before breakfast time.    She came home and found him lying dead on the kitchen floor, with blood about his head.  Some time before he took the carbuncle - two or three months - he sometimes talked foolishly,  and appeared a little weak in the mind.  She did not know what made his mind weak.  She had heard him say that he was in the way instead of working, and she believed he felt that he was a burden to his family.  He and his family always agreed perfectly.  There were in the house, besides the deceased, three daughters and their mother.   When she left the house to go to work,  her two sisters and their mother were in the house in bed in separate rooms.   Her mother was lying in the bed which her father had been sitting on.  
To Head-Constable Howe - A man, his wife, and a baby, named Hyndman, had the front room of the house to themselves. They were also in the house when she left it. 
A Juror - Had your father the full use of his legs and arms?  No, he was lame of one knee, and had been lame for as long as I remember.    Could he go about without crutches?  He generally carried a stick,  but could go a short distance without a stick.  When he was going out, however,  he generally took a stick.  Was it true that he was going to the workhouse yesterday or today?  He was not going to the workhouse;  Mother was going to get him into the Royal Hospital;  but I don't think he knew that himself. 
Dr. Charles Wadworth deposed that Wm. Stewart, the deceased,  had been occasionally attended by him for about six weeks.  He had first been called to see him about a carbuncle on the back of his neck.  Witness looked upon him as a debilitated, weak old man.  He also appeared rather simple in mind.  Witness was called on that morning, and was at the house about nine o'clock.  The deceased was then lying dead in the kitchen. Witness discovered a very extensive scalp wound on the top and centre or crown of  the head, extending from the forehead backwards.  The wound was about five inches in length.  The scalp wound went down to the bone, exposing it.  About the centre of the wound there was a fracture of the skull, extending into the brain.   The brain was injured underneath. The edges of the wound were ragged;  it was not a clean cut. The brain was to be seen,  and a small portion had protruded.  The wound was nearly an inch deep into the brain, and must have been produced by some sharp and moderately-heavy instrument,  but it was not done with one stroke.  That was the only wound he saw.  The deceased died from the effects of that injury.  The injury must have been an ante-mortem one. 
The Coroner -  Was that  a self-inflicted wound?  Oh, yes: I believe it is possible.
Was it not rather in a peculiar position for a self-inflicted wound?  It was most peculiar. 
It was in a position you never saw before?  I never saw the same before. I can understand how much easier it would have been for another person to have inflicted the wound than for any person to have inflicted it on themselves.  There would be no difficulty about the hatchet produced inflicting the wound. 
Is that weapon the most likely to have been used?  It is the only weapon that I have been shown.
In his own hand was it possible to be  done?   Oh, I think so, with the force that could have been used. To produce the injury as I saw it,  it must have taken more than one blow. The reason I say that is, that the skin wound is twice as long as the edge of the hatchet, and that the edges of the wound are ragged. 
And then, doctor, do you think that he would have been able to do more than one stroke?   Well, at first, knowing that he was an old man, I was rather astonished that he could have been able to inflict the wounds. 
A Juror - Could he have inflicted a second wound on himself?   He could if the first blow had only caused a scalp wound,  and had not produced concussion of the brain;  but if the first blow had fractured the skull it would have been impossible for him to give himself a second blow.  Although he was feeble of limb, he had great power of arm;  but it must have required a great determination for one to inflict the wound on himself. 
The Coroner - It certainly required great bravery. 
A Juror  - Didn't  it surprise you when you heard that he had done it on himself?   Well, I must say it did. 
To the Coroner - I heard that he was accustomed to work a mangle, and that probably kept his arms active and strong. 
The Coroner - Did you see anything peculiar in the temper or disposition of the family  towards him?   They were all crying.
Were those tears crocodile?  Well, Doctor, I can't say that. 
Well, you can form an opinion?   I may say that during the time  I have visited him, the family appeared attentive, and gave me no reason to think that there was anything wrong. 
You didn't see anything that led you to believe they were tired of him?  No, they were exceedingly attentive to him,  and seemed to want to ge the carbuncle cured. 
A Juror - Do you know he was a member of any burial society?  Well, I heard incidentally that he was, but that he would only get £5 or £6. 
The Coroner - That would only bury him.  You have no grounds to suspect that the wound was inflicted by any person other than himself?   Well, I don't think so.  I find that the hatchet fits the wound in the skull.
To A Juror - If he had been struck from behind, the shape of the wound would have been reversed.  The blow was inflicted from before.  It appears to me  most astonishing that he could have done it. 
The Coroner - Still you don't retract from your statement that it must have been inflicted by himself?  I did not state that he must have done so.  I said it was possible for him to have done it himself. 
Well, you say it was likely to have been done by himself?
Witness - All I can say in reference to it is that it is most astonishing to me how he had strength to persist in doing it if he did do it. 
Agnes Stewart, daughter of the deceased, deposed that she got up to go to work at eight o'clock that morning to go to her work in Betzold's in Fountain Street.  When she came downstairs, she saw the coalhole door and the yard door open.  She then went into the yard, and there she discovered her father lying with his head over the breast of the ashpit.  She went up to him and raised his head, and saw that he was dead.  Blood was on the flags of the yard.  She then ran into the house and awakened her mother,  who was in bed sleeping.  She then ran and told Hyndman, the lodger.  When she came back her mother had got the length of the yard door,  and her mother and Hyndman then carried her father in and put him on the kitchen floor. 
To Mr. Singleton - The body was warm then.  
To The Coroner - When they were carrying him in witness saw the wound on his head. She afterwards saw the hatchet lying in the ashpit, where they raised him.
To Mr. Singleton - The hatchet is usually kept in the coalhole. 
To the Coroner - She never heard of any dispute in the house between the members of the family or the lodgers. 
To Mr. Singleton - The head was lying with the wounded part down at the ashes. He was still on his feet and the hands were outstretched in front.  They had him insured in a burial society for nearly nine years.  She though 1d a week was what was paid.  They were to get £6 10s, she thought, but she had since been told that owing to the way in which he died they would not get anything. They thought his foolish talk came from the pain he was suffering from the carbuncle. 
To the Coroner - She asked Mr. Dunlop to send for the police. 
To Mr. Singleton - The lodgers were asleep.  The deceased constantly boasted of his strength of arms.
Constable Drought deposed that Dr. Dunlop was driving along North Queen Street , and told him that a man had been found dead in the New Lodge Road. Witness went to the place, and on entering found three women and a man.  They were all bewailing what had happened.  He saw the dead man in the kitchen.  He examined the ashpit, and found a pool of blood on the edge. There was more blood in the ashpit.  The hatchet (produced) he found on the ashes in the ashpit.  It was covered with blood.  He examined the yard, but found no marks of a struggle. 
To Mr. Singleton - He examined the inmates of the house,  but found no blood about them. They all had white aprons on. 
Mrs. Stewart deposed that sometimes her husband would have gone about wringing his hands.  Sometimes he would sit for a while before the fire and get up saying "What's this?".
The Coroner, in summing , said the case was one of the most extraordinary he had known, yet they had only evidence to suppose that suicide had been committed.
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased had committed suicide by striking himself on the head with a hatchet while in an unsound state of mind.'

Margaret Stewart was present at 50 New Lodge Road in 1875 when her daughter, Jane Orr, gave birth to Thomas Edwin Orr.
A Margaret Stewart - most likely the wife of William A. Stewart who was noted as a nurse when she died in Belfast in 1888 - was present when William A. Stewart's brother, Robert McKitterick Stewart, died on 18th November 1880 in Killyleagh.

Following her husband's death,  Margaret Stewart, née Burke, moved from 50 New Lodge Road and was noted at Limestone Street (or Road) in October 1884.

The widowed Margaret Burke (1839 - 1888) died aged 49 on 4th May 1888 at 42 Limestone Road;  she was noted as a nurse, and her daughter, Agnes Stewart, was present when she died.

 Her two daughters, Jane Orr and Margaret Stewart, emigrated to Philadelphia shortly after this, along with Jane's husband, James M. Orr.    They kept in contact with their cousins, the four daughters of Joseph Stewart and Elizabeth Madine, who had settled in Dublin in the 1880's.

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