The Siblings of Rev. John Pennefather of Newport

Our maternal 5 x great-grandfather, Rev. John Pennefather of Newport, Tipperary was the son of Kingsmill Pennefather, who died young in 1777, and of Mary Lysaght.  This post concerns the siblings of Rev. John Pennefather.

Rev. John Pennefather was the second eldest son of Kingsmill Pennefather and Mary Lysaght;  the oldest son was Richard Pennefather (1756 - 1831), who succeeded their grandfather (since his father, Kingsmill died young) as the representative of the family.
Richard Pennefather lived at the family seat of New Park, and was a lieutenant-colonel of the Tipperary Militia.   Richard represented Cashel in parliament, having bought the seat in 1801 following the Act of Union. The Reform Bill opened up the franchise to a greater number of people and deprived the Pennefathers of their nomination which they held until 1831.  Richard was succeeded by his son, Matthew Pennefather.

Richard Pennefather had three wives, beginning in 1782 with Anna, the daughter of Matthew Jacob of St. Johnstown, Tipperary;  he then married Penelope, the widow of John Jacob Gledstones of Annesgift, in 1801;  Richard’s final wife was  Elizabeth, the daughter of  Nicholas Mansergh of Greenane in Dublin on 4th February 1809.   (Some of the genealogies name Elizabeth Mansergh as a cousin of Richard Pennefather, but I've as yet failed to decipher how this could be.  Richard Pennefather's sister, Catherine, married Daniel Mansergh, also a child of Nicholas Mansergh, and noted on the Mansergh family can be found later in this post....)

The Jacobs and the Gladstones/Gledstones were closely connected - the encumbered estates of the late Matthew Jacob of Mobarnane were up for sale in August 1851. Matthew Jacob had made his will on 20th April 1779 and this named his children as Samuel Jacob, James Gladstones Jacob, John Jacob, Sarah Jacob and Anna Maria Jacob. Now, in 1851, the land was the estate of Samuel and Robert Jacob.  Earlier in July 1849, the court of chancery, that all the creditors of the late Rev. Robert Staples Jacob and James Gladstones Jacob, should make themselves known as regards the estates of Johnstown and Mobarnane.  The courts named Samuel Jacob, Robert Jacob, Sarah Jacob, Alicia Jacob, Mary Juliana Jacob and James Jacob, 'by their next friend' Edward Lloyd.  The plaintiffs in the case were Anne Alicia Taylor and Maria Hannah Jacob.
On 16th May 1808, a marriage settlement was drawn up between Anne Alicia Jacob and Nathaniel Taylor - named in the settlement were Samuel Jacob and his wife Juliana, Sir Robert Staples, William Bagwell, Kingsmill Pennefather, Henry Langley, James Gledstanes Jacob and Mathew Jacob, son of Samuel Jacob.
Wray Palliser of Comragh, Co. Waterford, married Anne, the daughter of John Gledstanes who was reknowned as an early explorer of the west coast of America.  Lt-Col. Wray Palliser of Comeragh House put his estates up for sale in the encumbered estates court in 1862 - implicated legally in the sale were the wills of Thomas Gledstanes, made 24th September 1763,  the will of Matthew Jacob, made 27th April 1780 and the will of Anne Jacob made 13th April 1801.

Richard Pennefather not only married into the Jacob and Gledstones families, but he also married his first cousin, Elizabeth Mansergh.

Richard Pennefather had all of his eight children by his first wife, Anna Jacob.  They were:

1) Kingsmill Pennefather of the Tipperary Militia who died before his father in 1819. He married twice, to Maria Persse of Galway, and then to Grace Burton. (The widowed Grace would marry again, this time to Major Galeazzi of Florence.  She would die in September 1863. The papers had earlier noted the death, aged 87,  in Florence of a Michel Angelo Galeazzi on 4th November 1859. Was this the husband of Grace?) Kingsmill’s two children were Anna Pennefather who married, in May 1833 in Dublin,  Stephen Charles Moore, the eldest son of Stephen Moore of Barne, Tipperary, and Catherine who married the Hon. Henry Alexander Savile, the 2nd son of the Earl of Mexborough.
 
 2) His heir, Matthew Pennefather of New Park, who married Anna Connor, the daughter of Daniel Connor of Ballybricken, Cork.   Their children were named Daniel Francis Pennefather, Richard Pennefather, Mary Lavina Pennefather and Anna Pennefather.

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 3) William Pennefather who married Charity Maria, the daughter of Richard Long of Longfield.  His father, Richard, appointed him to the post of Mayor of Cashel in 1830. William and Charity Maria Pennefather lived at Lakefield, Tipperary.   They had Kingsmill Pennefather who died aged 11 at South Hill House, Mt Merrion, Dublin, on 27th December 1846, Richard Pennefather of Lakefield (1826 - 1876),  William Pennefather, Matthew Pennefather and William John Copley Lyndhurst Pennefather.
The eldest son, Richard Pennefather of Lakefield, married Emma Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of the late Robert Darwin Vaughan of Leamington Priors, in March 1857. The bride's uncle, Rev. Edward Humphry Dymock, performed the ceremony.
The daughter of Richard Pennefather and Emma Elizabeth Vaughan, Harriet Levina Pennefather, married in Kensington on 14th October 1884 Inspector General T.R. Warren of Kylenahoory, Co. Cork, and had Col. T.R.P. Warren. Widowed, Harriet Levina married, secondly in 1908, John Henry Gibson of Clifton. The papers noted Harriet as the niece of the late Col. Vaughan-Dymock of Bath. Harriet Levina Gibson lived alone in Ireland during the troubled era of 1916 to 1922 and suffered sectarian intimidation by the insurgents.  She died in February 1937 and is buried at the Rock of Cashel.

4) Dorothea Pennefather who married Richard Lockwood, then Thomas Sadleir, both of Tipperary.  Dorothea left no children and died in 1845.

5) Mary Anne Pennefather who married Lieutenant-Colonel John Lindsay of Tyrone.

6) Catherine Pennefather who married Colonel Owen Lloyd of Rockville, Roscommon. They had William Lloyd of Rockville, and Catherine Lloyd who married Rev. James Wentworth Mansergh.   Another daughter of Lt-Col. Owen Lloyd of the Roscommon Militia was Mary Hampton, widow of the late Rev. W.J. Wall of Surbiton, who died at Hawthorn Lodge, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, on 27th October 1868.
 A son of Owen Lloyd and of Elizabeth Pennefather was Richard Pennefather Lloyd (1810 - 1901) of Rockville who married Catherine, only daughter of James Kelly of Pembroke Street, in Booterstown, Co. Dublin, in July 1833.  A second wife was Maria Catherina Smith of Dublin who he'd married in Newtown Abbot in 1879.  On 14th September 1892 in Ripon, England, Richard Pennefather Lloyd of Morthestown, Co. Tipperary, married thirdly Charlotte Elizabeth. daughter of the late John White of Cashel and niece of Mrs. Bickersteth of West Lodge, Ripon.  The best man was named in the papers as Richard Lloyd Pennefather of Marlow, a relation of the groom.   Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth Pennefather Lloyd of 15 Brock Street, Bath, formerly of Torquay, died on 24th September 1911, widow of barrister Richard Lloyd - probate was granted to Richard Pennefather Lloyd of Goold's Cross, Tipperary, and to Rev. Reginald Wynne Windsor of Bath.  Beneficiaries were Elizabeth Florence Bickersteth and Richard Lloyd Pennefather.

Catherine Lloyd, née Pennefather,  wife of Lt-Col. Lloyd of Rockville, died aged 79 in September 1866 at Ivybridge, South Devon.

7)  Margaret Pennefather (died 1874) who married Ambrose Going (1785 - 1857), of Bally Phillip Tipperary in February 1811. Their offspring were William Going, Richard Pennefather Going, John Going who died aged 51 at Wilford oin November 1851, Anna Going who married Rev. Anthony Armstrong, Margaret Isabella Going who married Christopher F. Tuthill MD of Fitzwilliam Square in August 1841 and who died at Rockvale, Co. Tipperary, on 14th June 1858,  Elizabeth Frances Going who married John Hervey Adams of Northlands, Co. Cavan, eldest son of the Dean of Cashel, in May 1846,  and Dorothea Going who married Samuel Murray Going of Liskeveen House, Co. Tipperary, in Ballingarry in May 1848.
  8) Eliza who married Major Acheson Montgomery Moore of Co. Tyrone, and then Sir John Judkin Fitzgerald of Lisheen, She had two children - Sir Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald, 3rd baronet and Anne Montgomery More.

The youngest brother of Rev. John Pennefather was William Pennefather (1765 - 1849), of Cork, son of Kingsmill Pennefather and Mary Lysaght, who married Frances (born circa 1775), the daughter of Francis Nisbett of Derrycairne, Leitrim.   The children of William Pennefather and Frances Nisbett were:

 a) William (1795 - 1826) , who died young.

 b) Jane Pennefather who married Daniel Connor of Ballybricken, Cork in 1824.

 c) Margaret Pennefather (1801 - 1873) who married Richard Warren, MD of Lisgoold (1796 - 1870), son of Rev. Robert Warren  and Margaret Pennefather of Crookstown, Cork.  They had two daughters - Frances Warren who married twice to Captain Oldham and then William Connor of Wilton, Cork;  Augusta Warren married a relative, Richard Lane Warren.

d)  Elizabeth Pennefather (born circa 1805) married in January 1826 Phineas Bury (1772 - 1843)  of Wallestown House, Little Island, Cork.  Jane was noted as the daughter of William Pennefather of Lower Terrace, Cork. Phineas was the son of Phineas Bury, the elder, and of Jane Aldworth.  Phineas, who married Elizabeth Pennefather, was in the army, being a captain in the 57th Regiment he was also a Justice of the Peace.  His will would later make mention of a first wife by the name of Eliza Lart or Hart.
Phineas Bury and Elizabeth Pennefather  lived at Little Island, Cork, and had three children - Frances Jane, Phineas, and William Phineas, although William wasn't mentioned in his father's will, which was proved on 21st July 1843.  Phineas Bury named as his trustees Richard Aldworth of Newmarket, Co. Cork, and his brother-in-law, Richard Daniel Pennefather. These two were also named as the executors of the will, as was his wife Elizabeth. The will provided for Phineas' two sisters, Jane and Hester Bury, and also named Phineas' only daughter as Frances Jane Bury, and his only son as Phineas Bury.  Son William Bury must have been born following the drawing up of the will.

Daughter Frances Jane Bury married Major Tuckey of the 41st Regiment, who died young leaving her with two daughters. The family appeared on both the 1871 and 1881 UK censuses, living with Frances Jane’s unmarried brother, Phineas Bury, who was a major in the East Kent Militia.
In 1890  this Major Phineas Bury was accused of libel -  the accusation centred around a libellous letter received by a fellow Corkman and old friend of the Bury family, Colonel Percival Robert Champion of Combermere, Cork, following an evening at their mutual gentlemans’ club in London. The letter accused Champion of being a bounder and a Fenian. Both accusations would have excluded him from the club and heaped ridicule and contempt on him. He believed that the anonymous letter, which used a number of French phrases, had been written by Phineas Bury, since Phineas was known to intersperse his conversation with snatches of the French language.  Bury was found not guilty.
William Phineas Bury, son of Phineas Bury and Elizabeth Pennefather, married Harriet Forbes, the daughter of Arthur Forbes of Newstone, Co. Meath, on 29th August 1867 in Cheltenham.

e) Frances Mary Pennefather (1807 - 1867) married Arthur St.George Herbert Stepney in 1842.  He was the son of Herbert Rawson Stepney.  Arthur was born in Ireland in 1815 and died in India in 1850. He was of the Coldstream Guards.   A daughter was named as Laida Stepney - she was named as a beneficiary in the 1866 will of her aunt, Jane Conner, the widow of Daniel Conner of Ballybricken, Co. Cork.

 f)  Richard Daniel Pennefather (1815 - 1881) married, on October 7th 1868, Sarah Anna de Montmorency, the daughter of Hervey de Montmorency, 4th Viscount Mountmorres and Sarah Shaw.  The wierd names make this family easy to trace. The Montmorency family were an ancient French family who came to Ireland in the 15th century, settling in Tipperary and Kilkenny. The family seat was Castlemorres, Co. Kilkenny; they were at some stage known by the family name of ‘Morres’, before Frances Hervey, the 3rd Viscount, resumed the ancient name, by royal licence, of Montmorency.
Richard Daniel Pennefather, who married Sarah Anne de Monmorency, died 7th September 1881; he had lived at Kilbraccan, Co. Leitrim, and had been a lieutenant-Colonel in the East Kent Militia. The administration of his will was granted to the Hon. Arthur Hill Trevor de Montmorency, a doctor who had studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and who lived in 1881 at 36 Waterloo Road, Dublin.  Arthur Hill etc. was the son of Hervey de Montmorency and Sarah Shaw and was, therefore, the brother-in-law of Richard Daniel Pennefather.
In 1871, Richard Daniel, aged 52, was living in Penge, Surrey, with his wife, Sarah Anna, who, at 28, was much younger than him. Their son, William Pennefather, aged 1, was there, as was their newborn baby Mary Pennefather.  Living immediately next door was the unmarried Jane Pennefather, aged 51, who was living on dividends. She was sharing the house with George Le Hunte, who owned Atramont, Co. Wexford, and who had married Mary Pennefather, the daughter of Edward Pennefather, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.  Jane and Mary were sisters, and were close relations of Richard Daniel Pennefather.
Richard Daniel’s wife, Sarah Anna Pennefather, died in 1912.  She appeared on the 1911 UK Census, living in Bournemouth. She had been born in Ballybrack, just south of Killiney, Co. Dublin;  her unmarried 37-yr-old daughter, Mary Eva de Montmorency Pennefather was living there with her - this daughter had been born in Little Island, Cork. The return states that there had been three children born to Richard Daniel and Sarah Anna Pennefather and that they had all survived. A second daughter was most likely Anna de Montmorency More, wife of Alfred Thomas More, who administered her mother’s will with Mary Eva de Montmorency Pennefather in 1912.

Of Interest: The Will of JANE NISBITT - Effects under £200 10 Nov 1866 The Will of Jane Nisbitt late of Ballybricken Co.Cork Spinster deceased who died 23 Oct 1866 at the same place was proved at Cork by the oath of Richard Daniel Pennefather of the Junior United Service Club, London,  Major of the East Kent Regiment of Militia the sole Executor.


The sisters of Rev. John Pennefather of Newport, Co. Tipperary, were:
  
Mary Pennefather, daughter of Kingsmill Pennefather and Mary Lysaght,  who married Daniel Connor the son of George Connor of Ballybricken. Her niece, Jane Pennefather - the daughter of her brother William, married  her son, Daniel Connor of Ballybricken.
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Catherine Pennefather (1771 - 1834) , daughter of Kingsmill Pennefather and Mary Lysaght, married Daniel Mansergh (1752 - 1823) of Cashel in 1788. He was the son of Nicholas Mansergh and Elizabeth Lockwood and was the High Sheriff of Tipperary.  One of Catherine and Daniel’s daughters, Mary Mansergh, married Edward Pennefather of Marlow near Cashel, on 4th February 1809.

Nicholas Mansergh of Grenane married Elizabeth Lockwood of Cashel on 9th December 1750.  They had two sons, Nicholas Southcote Mansergh who married Elizabeth Carden in 1770, and Daniel Mansergh who married Catherine Pennefather in 1788.  All the online genealogies mention a daughter, but never name her, and I presume that she was the Elizabeth Mansergh who married Richard Pennefather, brother of Catherine Pennefather, as his third wife on 4th February 1809.

The children of Catherine Pennefather and Daniel Mansergh were Nicholas Mansergh (1789 - 19th September 1865) of Macroney Castle,  Daniel Mansergh, James Mansergh who married Catherine Lloyd, the daughter of Lt. Col, Owen Lloyd, Margaret who married Major Jacks, Elizabeth who married Richard Martin of Castle Jane, Co. Cork,  and Mary Mansergh who married Edward Pennefather of Marlow in 1824.

The Marlow Pennefathers were closely related to the New Park Pennefathers, having descended from the same ancestors, Mathew Pennefather and Levina Kingsmill, via their third son,William Pennefather of Marlow.
William Pennefather (1708 - 1772) of Marlow married Anne the daughter of Lovelace Taylor of Noan, Co. Tipperary.   William and Anne Pennefather had two sons, Thomas, who died unmarried, and John Pennefather whose son, Thomas Pennefather, succeeded to the Marlow estate when his uncle died without children.  Thomas (1760 - 1828) married Mary Moore in November 1783, and had two sons, Thomas Pennefather  of Maryville, who married, in 1818, Mary, the daughter of Vere Dawson Hunt of Cappagh - these were the parents of  Fanny Mary Dorothy Pennefather, Anna Pennefather who married Col. Hunt, and the Rev. Thomas Pennefather, Vicar of Kiltennel, who had been born in 1823 and who married Catherine Sophia Elrington. (On 7th June 1859 in Templeshambo Church, by the Rev. C.M. Elrington of Somersetshire, assisted by Rev. R.B.F. Elrington of Lower Brixham, brother of the bride, Rev. Thomas Pennefather of Monart, to Catherine Sophia, youngest daughter of Rev. N.P. Elrington of Ferns.)
The only daughter of Thomas Pennefather (1760 - 1828) and Mary Moore was the Dorothea Pennefather who married Fitzmaurice Hunt of Cappagh in August 1827 - the wedding breakfast was held at Maryville, the residence of the bride's brother, Thomas Pennefather.

The second son of Thomas Pennefather (1760 - 1828) and Mary Moore was the Edward Pennefather of Marlow who married Mary, the daughter of Daniel Mansergh and Catherine Pennefather, in 1824.

The children of Edward Pennefather and Mary Mansergh of Marlow were:

a) Thomas John Pennefather who married, on 22nd December 1856 in Mt. Talbot Church, Co. Roscommon, Katherine L. Lloyd,  the eldest daughter of Richard Pennefather Lloyd of Herbert Place, Dublin, barrister-at-law.  Richard Pennefather Lloyd was the son of Lt-Col. Owen Lloyd and Catherine Pennefather (daughter of Richard Pennefather of New Park...see above!)  The children of Thomas John Pennefather and Katherine Lloyd were Adeline who married Arthur William Radbourne, Hortense Mary who married in 1849 Hugh Hamon Massy of Riversdale, Co. Limerick, and Richard Lloyd Pennefather of Marlow, who was living there in 1911 with his family.  Hortense Mary who married Hugh Hamon Massy was probably the Miss H. Pennefather of Marlow who, at a party in Thomastown Castle in 1881, stepped through a window onto an imaginary balcony, toppled 30 feet and was caught, completely unharmed, by some gentlemen who had stepped outside for a smoke. I'm sure she saw the funny side later.

b) Daniel Pennefather who emigrated to Australia in 1850 and who married Elizabeth Kerr, daughter of Edward Carr,

c) Edward Pennefather who died unmarried,

d) Captain George Pennefather who married Mary Hawthorn Kihdall in Dublin in 1869. The wife of Captain George Pennefather of the 65th Regiment gave birth to a son on 19th September 1875 at Macroney Castle which was one of the Mansergh residences.  A daughter, Mary Hawthorn Pennefather, was born at Northumberland Road, Dublin, on 26th August 1870 - she later married Richard Pennefather of Wilford.

e) Captain Nicholas Pennefather (1835 - 1905). On 2nd August 1864, in Hythe, Kent, Nicholas Pennefather, Lieutenant in the 83rd regiment, married Catherine, the daughter of the late Thomas Butler of Hythe.  In 1881, Major Nicholas and Catherine Pennefather were living in Kensington; staying with them was Nicholas's Irish 'niece', Caroline Elizabeth Pennefather.  She had been born circa 1860 in Ireland, and I presume, unless there were two of them, she was the Caroline Elizabeth Pennefather who married Allen Hamilton Morgan, solicitor, in Thurles on 3rd September 1890, the son of the late R.I.C. District Inspector Allen Morgan of Clontarf.  This Caroline Elizabeth was the daughter of the late Thomas Bolton Pennefather of Thurles, who was a member of the Ballynira Pennefathers who descended from Mathew Pennefather and Lavinia Kingsmill as do all the Pennefathers in this blog.  Thomas Bolton Pennefather who was the son of Richard Pennefather and Harriet Maria Piers of Ballynira/Ballyneira, had married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Smithwick, in Cork on 3rd October 1855.

Margaret Pennefather (circa 1771 - 1833), daughter of Kingsmill Pennefather and Mary Lysaght,  married  Rev.Robert Warren of  Crookstown, Cork, the son of Sir Robert Warren of Warrenscourt.  (Margaret’s niece, also Margaret, married her son, Richard Warren.  This niece, Margaret, was the daughter of Margaret No. 1’s brother, William Pennefather and Frances Nisbett, see above. These people are incestuous and confusing...)

And finally....
Whose son was this? On 24th July 1843 in Dublin, John Pennefather, merchant of London and St. Vincent, married Susan, eldest daughter of the late John Darlington of Monastery, Co. Wicklow. This might have been a second marriage for John Pennefather....A Louise Sophia Pennefather was baptised in Jamaica on 12th December 1830 by John Lisset (Lysaght??) Pennefather and Anne Brisbane. Was wife Anne Brisbane a relation of the Governor of St. Vincent, Sir Charles Brisbane, who died in Kingstown, Jamaica, in February 1830?  (Arethusa Georgiana Brisbane, daughter of Sir Charles, married Rev. William Windsor Berry, Vicar of Stanwell, Middlesex, in June 1840.  Sir John Frederick Ewart married Lavinia Brisbane, eldest daughter of Sir Charles Brisbane, of Brisbane, Scotland.)

A grandson of this stray John Pennefather and of Susan Darlington was later baptised as John Lysaght Forbes Pennefather in May 1892.    The use of the Lysaght name in conjunction with the Pennefather family name seems to suggest that this John Pennefather was a descendant of Kingsmill Pennefather and Mary Lysaght of Tipperary, but where he fits in, I have no idea.  

The 'Liverpool Mercury' of 13th May 1865 reported the death, on April 7th 1865, in St. Vincent, of Mr John Pennefather, late of Kilkenny Ireland.

The children of this John Pennefather, merchant, and of Susan Darlington were:

Siblings Frederick and Susan Martha Pennefather were baptised in Carshalton, Surrey, on 8th November 1846.  

Clara B. Pennefather - born circa 1853 in Roby, Lancashire; she was living in Dublin in 1901 with her maternal uncle, John Darlington, and his family in Glasthule;  then in Bray in 1911.   Earlier in 1871 she was working as an assistant teacher in the household of retired customs officer, John Forbes, who had been born in Birmingham in about 1798 and whose wife, Mary, had been born in the West Indies in about 1817.  (They married in Liverpool in Jan 1830, she was Mary Elenore, daughter of Henry St. Hill, colonial treasurer of the island of Trinidad.)

The military records of son Robert Forbes Pennefather state that he had joined the army in Portsmouth in January 1879, and stated he had been born near the town of Kilkenny.  The  'Carlow Post' of 1st December 1860 noted that, on November 28th 1860, at Darver House, Co. Kilkenny, the wife of John Pennefather had had a son.    Darver House is in Jenkinstown, north of Kilkenny town.

Robert Forbes Pennefather's next of kin was his older brother Richard Pennefather of London.   

Robert Forbes Pennefather, son of John Pennefather and Susan Darlington,  married Eleanor Alexandra Gosnell in Amritsar, India, on 1st February 1886.  They had Eileen born 7th July1890,

John Lysaght Forbes Pennefather born 9th May 1892, Gladys Eileen born 11th June 1889, Aimee Constance Forbes Pennefather born 24th August 1894, Bessie born 5th December 1896, and Eric born 17th December 1898.

A daughter of John Pennefather and Susan Darlington was Susan Martha Pennefather who had been born Ireland in 1845 and who had been baptised in Surrey in 1846.  On 20^th June 1872 in Christchurch, Rathgar, Co. Dublin,  widower Henry Rait of 5 Mountjoy Place, the son of George Rait J.P., married Susan Martha, the daughter of merchant John Pennefather of 4 Highfield Terrace, Rathgar. The wedding was witnessed by M. Darlington and F. Rayment.

Henry Rait (1826 – 1876) was the grandson of George Rait of Claverhouse, Dundee, who had been born in 1757 and who had moved to Rathmoyle, King’s County in Ireland by 1808 before returning to Forthill, Forfarshire, Scotland where he was noted as living in 1810. George Rait’s eldest son, also George Rait J.P., settled in Rathmoyle where he died in 1848, leaving a daughter, Agnes Patterson Rait and a son Henry Rait.

George Rait’s daughter, Agnes Patterson Rait of Rathmoyle, married William Kerr of Fort Hill, Dundee, on 3^rd January 1855 in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath – the witnesses were Sylvester Rait and D. Kerr.   William Kerr was a widower.  On 5^th July 1847 in Ballyhurly, King’s County, he had married another member of the Rait family, Catherine Jane Rait, who was the daughter of a farmer, Sylvester Rait of Clonin, one of the men who witnessed William Kerr’s later marriage in 1855 to Agnes Patterson Rait.

Henry Rait (1826 – 1876), the son of George Rait of Rathmoyle and brother of Agnes Patteron Kerr, spent much of his working life in India.  He married three times – his son by his first, unknown wife, was Henry Rait Jr. whose daughter, Anne Hindley, left descendants in England.

Henry Rait, (1827 - 1876) silk mercer, son of George Rait of RAthmoyle, married as his second wife Betsey Wemyss, daughter of John Wemyss on 2nd March 1858 in Rampore, Bengal, India.

By his second wife, Betsey Wemyss who died in 1867, he had four children – George Wemyss Rait born 1858, Esther Margaret Rait, Bessie Harriet Rait and Henry Wemyss Rait.  All four had been born in India but had been sent home to Dundee to be educated as was the custom of the day.   They may have joined their father, Henry Rait, in Dublin in the years prior to his death in 1876, but all four are believed to had experienced some difficulty getting on with their stepmother and emigrated to New Zealand where they settled in Dunedin. The youngest son, Henry Wemyss Rait, became a dentist and had a daughter, Joan Rait.

Henry Rait died on 28th April 1876 soon after his marriage to Susan Martha Pennefather in 1872 - the will of Henry Rait of 5 Mountjoy Place and of Hillsboro House, Thicket Road, Anerley, Surrey, was proved on 4th January 1878 by the executor Sir John Wemyss, bart of Bengal and by Henry's widow, Susan Martha Rait and by John Darlington (Susan's uncle) of Dublin.  The eldest son of Henry Rait was George Wemyss Rait, born in Bengal on on 13th December 1858.

The will mentioned four older children by his first wife, and one child by Susan Martha when he was making his will in 1876.  The executor, Sir John Wemyss of Bogie, Fifeshire, died in Bengal on 8th March 1878 - he was noted as the son of Sir James Wemyss, writer of Kirkcaldy,  and the papers noted that he himself had never married.

By Henry Rait’s third marriage to Susan Martha Pennefather, he had three sons, John Walter Forbes Rait (born 5^th April 1873 at 5 Mountjoy Place), John Darlington Rait (born at 5 Mountjoy Place on 28^th May 1874) and Donald Harry Rait.

The UK Census for 1881 revealed the widowed, Irish-born Susan Martha Rait living in Camberwell with sons, Walter W. J. Rait, born Ireland 1873, and  Donald H. Rait, born Anerley, Surrey, in 1877.   Her stepchildren were Ester M. Rait born India 1861,  Bertha H. Rait born Scotland 1864 and Henry H.W. Rait born in Scotland in 1868.

On 5th November 1892 in West Hampstead, Susan Martha Rait married Thomas Henry Atkinson, a widower, of 1 Rostrevor Terrace, Clontarf.  He died there in 1895.  Susan Martha Atkinson, née Pennefather, died at Rowanville, 3 Churchill Road, Hampshire, on 19th December 1907 with probate to her son, Col. John Walter L.Forbes Rait.  A surgeon with the Indian Army, he died in Penwarne Radlet, Hertfordshire, on 9th April 1926 with probate to  Isabella Gray Thompson Rait.  He had been born in Dublin on 5th April 1873 (this from his obituary).

Lt.Colonel John Walter Forbes Rait (1873 – 1926) worked for the Indian Medical service and retired to the UK (possible Dundee) in 1919.  He married a woman by the name of Isabella/Bessie, and had a son, Ian Rait, whose children were Timothy Sylvester Rait born 1940 and Melinda Ann Isabella Howell born 1946.      Lt. Col. John Walter Forbes Rait and Bessie also had a daughter, Nancy Isabella Rait, who married a surgeon Walter Gordon Campbell and moved to Western Australia where their descendants still live.

Donald Harry Rait (born 1876), the son of Henry Rait and Susan Martha Pennefather, married Blanche Emma Leadbetter in the UK in 1897 and had Doreen Evelyn Rait in 1898 who moved to New Zealand and married Raymond Hughson Stout, Marjorie Rait in 1905 who married a man by the name of Broadhurst, Mary Beatrice Rait who married James McGuffie Costley in 1932,  Edith Rait who married a man by the name of Truda, and Eric Pennefather Rait who married Doris Christina Barlow in 1926.

 

The Deeds of Settlement of the Dublin Steam Packet Company

I accessed the Deeds of Settlement and the Articles of Agreement of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company in the National Archives.
I was primarily hunting for the names and addresses of the early shareholders in my quest for genealogical clues...

‘This indenture made the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and twenty-eight, between the several persons whose names are hereunto subscribed and whose seals are hereunto affixed, and Charles Wye Williams of the town of Liverpool in the Kingdom of England Esq., Richard Williams of Drumcondra Castle in the county of Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland Esq., James Jameson of Harcourt Street in the City of Dublin Esq., James Ferrier of Willoe Park in the county of Dublin aforesaid Esq.,  Joseph Robinson Pim of Fitzwilliam Square in said City of Dublin Esq., William Dixon of said town of Liverpool Esq., Sir John Tobin of said town of Liverpool, Knight,  Alexander Parlane and George Parsons both of said town of Liverpool Esquires of the second part.

‘Whereas by indented Articles of Agreement made, concluded and agreed upon on or about the thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three Between Charles Wye Williams then of Drumcondra Castle in the County of Dublin Esq., as the acting partner of the Company Copartnership or Firm therein after mentioned of the one part, and Richard Williams of Drumcondra Castle in the said County Esq., John Oldham of Suffolk Street in the city of Dublin Esq., Thomas Williams of Hampton Lodge in the County of Dublin Esq.,  John Doherty of Stephens Green in the City of Dublin Esq., Ephraim Carroll of Stephens Green in the City of Dublin Esq., Brent Neville Junior of Sackville Street in the said city Esq.,  Bryan Molloy of Belvidere Place in the said city Esq., James Kelly of Pembroke Street in the said city Esq.,  John Daniel of Belview in the county of Meath Esq.,  Henry Higginbotham of Bachelors Walk in the County of Dublin Esq.,  James McCall of Bachelors Walk in the City of Dublin Esq.,  Richard Cane of Dawson Street in the said City Esq.,  Thomas Gibbons of Dame Street in the said City Esq.,  Hutchins Thomas Williams of Dame Street in the said City Esq.,  Edward Rotheram of Sallymount in the County of Meath Esq.,  Robert Roe of Crampton Quay in the City of Dublin Esq.,  John Clarke of Astons Quay in the said City Esq.,  Alexander Taylor of Mespill in the County of Dublin Esq.,  Henry Smith of Annesbrook in the County of Meath Esq.,  George Palmer of French Street in the City of Dublin Esq.,  James Lenox William Naper of Loughcrew in the County of Meath Esq.,  Abraham Lane of Ormond Quay in the City of Dublin Esq., James Jameson of Harcourt Street in the said City Esq.,  Richard Manders of Mountjoy Square in the said City Esq.,  Robert Manders of Mountjoy Square in the said City Esq.,  Henry William Thompson of Stone Brook in the County of Kildare Esq.,  John Woolsey of Castle Bellingham in the County of Louth Esq.,  William Walshe of Rutland Square in the City of Dublin Esq.,  as anonymous partners in the said Company copartnership or Firm of the other part, it was by said Articles of Agreement among other things witnessed that the said several parties thereto had agreed...to commence and carry on a joint trade...between Dublin and Liverpool and other seaports by means of steam vessels to be built for that purpose....several parties did thereby nominate and appoint the said Charles Wye Williams to be the acting partner...under the name and firm of “Charles Williams and Company”  pursuant to an Act of Parliament enacted by the Parliament of Ireland in the 21st and 22nd years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third...and that said anonymous Partners in said Firm should be the said Richard Williams,  John Oldham,  Thomas Williams,  John Doherty,  Ephraim Carroll,  Brent Neville Junior,  Bryan Molloy,  James Kelly,  John Daniel,  Henry Higinbotham,  James McCall,  Richard Cane,  Thomas Gibbons,  Hutchins Thomas Williams,  Edward Rotheram,  Peter Roe,  John Clarke,  Alexander taylor,  Henry Smith,  George Palmer,  James Lenox William Naper,  Abraham mLane,  James Jameson,  Morgan George Crofton,  Richard Manders,  Robert Manders,  Henry William Thompson,  John Woolsey,  and William Walshe.’

It was agreed that the capital or stock of the company should be £24,000, paid as follows:
Charles Wye Williams  £4000
Richard Williams  £2000
John Oldham  £1000
Thomas Williams  £1000
John Doherty  £1000
Ephraim Carroll  £1000
Brent Neville Junior  £1000
Bryan Molloy  £1000
James Kelly  £1000
John Daniel  £1000
Henry Higginbotham  £500
James McCall  £500
Richard Cane  £500
Thomas Gibbons  £500
Hutchins Thomas Williams  £500
Edward Rotheram  £500
Robert Roe  £500
John Clarke  £500
Alexander Taylor  £500
Henry Smith  £500
George Palmer  £500
James Lenox William Naper  £500
Abraham Lane  £500
James Jameson  £500
Morgan George Crofton  £500
Richard Manders  £500
Robert Manders  £500
Henry William Thompson  £500
John Woolsey  £500
William Walshe  £500

The above was agreed to in 1823.

On 13th July 1824,  they agreed to form a new and distinct joint stock company to be called The City of Dublin Steam Packet Company.  The stock should be increased to £50,000,  and be divided into 500 shares of £100 each.
The co-partners this time were as follows:
Charles Wye Williams
Richard Williams
Henry Higinbotham
Brent Neville Junior of Sackville Street
Robert Roe of Crampton Quay
John Clarke of Astons Quay
James Jameson of Harcourt Street
Abraham Lane of Ormond Quay
Thomas Gibbons of Fitzwilliam Square
Ephraim Carroll of Stephens Green
Hutchins Thomas Williams of Belvidere Place
John Oldham of Suffolk Street
John Doherty of Stephens Green
Richard Cane of Dawson Street
George Palmer of French Street
John Williams of Bridge Street (A Willans family lived at Bridge St.; this might be a misspelling.)
William Atkinson of Werburgh Street
Thomas Williams of Hampton Lodge
Alexander Taylor of Mespill
William John Alexander of Stone House, Co. Dublin
John Woolsey of Castlebellingham
Henry Jeremiah Smith of Annesbrook, Co. Louth
Henry William Thompson of Stonebrook, Co. Kildare

Charles Wye Williams, Richard Williams and Henry Higinbotham were appointed as trustees of the company and authorised to construct the required steamships necessary for the agreed trade between Dublin and Liverpool.

The Deeds of Agreement of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, dated 13th July 1824,  were witnessed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Palmer by the following:
Charles Wye Williams
Richard Williams
Henry Higinbotham
Alexander Taylor
Brent Neville Junior
Thomas Gibbons
Hutchins Thomas Williams
Richard Cane
George Palmer
Thomas Williams
William John Alexander
John Clarke
James Jameson
William Atkinson
John Oldham
Abraham Lane
The above group also witnessed and sealed the 1825 Deeds.

By 1825, capital was increased to £100,000, before being raised to £230,000.  Also in 1825, the company merged with the ‘Liverpool and Dublin Steam Navigation Company’, otherwise called the ‘Mersey Steam Packet Co.’

In 1826, seven proprietors were appointed to decide if a new act of parliament or a new deed was required to regulate the company.  The seven proprietors were James McCall,  James Chambers,  Nathaniel Caldwell (who, in 1818, had stood guarantor for Hutchins Thomas Williams when he had applied to become a stockbroker), John George Peter,  Alexander Leslie,  Robert Orr and Robert Roe.   They suggested modifying the deed of 1825.

In 1826,  Henry Higinbotham resigned.  The proprietors were convened, and it was agreed that James Jameson of Harcourt Street be elected as a Trustee to replace Henry Higinbotham.  Amongst the proprietors in 1826 were the following:
Paul Twigg,  James Twigg,  Joseph Harvey,  William Lunell Guinness,  Arthur Lunell Guinness,  William Williams,  Thomas Williams,  James Ferrier,  James Jameson,  James McCall,  Robert Roe,  Benjamin Guinness,  George Palmer,  Alexander Bewley,  George Francis Carleton,  George Howell,  Robert Guinness,  Brent Neville,  Joseph Hone,  Richard Williams,  Richard Palmer,  Thomas Pim,  Thomas Higinbotham,  Charles Wye Williams,  Nathaniel Callwell,  Jonathan Pim,  Hutchins Thomas Williams,  Joseph Bewley.

By 1828, there were too many stock holders, and not enough time, to transcribe the complete list.  I noted down a selection along with the amount of stock held:
Thomas Gibbons  £2,400
Thomas Pim  £2,700
Joseph Harvey  £500
James Pim Junior of William Street  £200
Jonathan Pim  £2,400
Richard Williams  £8,700
Thomas Williams of Sackville Street  £200
Joseph Robert Pim  £2,400
Joseph Bewley  £500
Paul Twigg  £1000
William Dixon (of Liverpool)  £700
Charles Wye Williams  £8000
John D. Williams  £300
James Twigg  £400
George Francis Carleton  £300
Richard Palmer  £500
Brent Neville  £2000  (Brent Neville as acting executor of the late Brent Neville for £500 stock.)
James Jameson  £1000
George Howell  £200
John Oldham  £2000
Thomas Williams of Hampton Lodge  £5000
Hutchins Thomas Williams   £4,400
William Williams  £200
Arthur Guinness £400
Arthur Lunell Guinness  £200
Alexander Bewley
P.D. La Touche
William George Eades (Hutchins Thomas Williams had him arrested in 1827!)
By Proxy were Peter Willans, Edward Charley, John Charley and Matthew Charley. (The Charley family were involved with both the linen industry and shipping in Antrim and Down - Hill Charley’s son, John Charley, married the daughter of Phineas Howell of 15 Eden Quay in 1845,  Phineas Howell being the agent of the CDSPCo.)

The above proprietors elected trustees in 1828;  they elected Charles Wye Williams, Richard Williams, James Jameson, James Ferrier, Joseph Robert Pim, William Dixon, Sir John Tobin, Alexander Parlane and George Parsons.

The 1828 Deeds of Agreement were signed by the proprietors and were witnessed by either the company secretary, Francis Carleton, or by two of the company clerks, John Harden or William Foster.

Running out of time, I whizzed through the documentation relating to the winding up of the company in the 1920s and 1930s and came across a reference to our great-aunt, Elizabeth Willis Williams, who was the granddaughter of Richard Williams, the bookkeeper to the CDSPCo.  She appeared as a minor shareholder under the heading 'Payments to Ordinary Stockholders on Final Disbursement of Surplus Assets of the Company, 1931'.    She held £20 of stock, and her address was given as the Royal Bank of Ireland (our grandfather, her brother, worked for the Royal Bank of Ireland), Terenure Branch, Rathmines. This was clearly the address of her bank account.  I found no other Williams entries under this heading, but I was pushed for time and could easily have missed something.   Elizabeth/Eliza Willis Williams (known as Lil) never married and died in Dublin in 1975.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.com/2012/04/notes-on-shareholders-of-cdspco.html


 

Peter Lavalade, Dromore 1770 - From the Registry of Deeds

We descend directly from an Agnes Lavalade who married Reid Wilson in Ballygunaghan, Donaghcloney, Co. Down, in 1826.  There seems to be only the one Lavalade family recorded in Ireland, all of them clustered in the 15-mile area between Lisburn and Donaghcloney.  The name seems to disappear completely with the death of Edward Lavalade who was recorded in the tithe books as farming in Monree, a townland neighbouring Ballygunaghan, in the 1830s. 

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/reid-wilson-and-agnes-leveletlavalade.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/wilsons-huguenot-ancestry.html

Peter Lavalade of Dromore and Donacloney must be another member of this family.

Deed 299-479-199076 from the Registry of Deeds, dated 12th May 1769, was an indenture of lease between farmer, Peter Lavalade of Co. Down, and Edward Dowglass of Drumskee, Dromore.  Peter Lavalade did demise, set and lease to Edward Dowglass several messuages and tenements now, or late, in the possession of Michael Strain, James Magill and Alexander McCalester, as well as the houses called the shop, and the schoolhouse with gardens in possession of the said Edward Dowglass and his tenants in Church Street, Dromore.  These were to be held by Edward Dowglass for 31 years with a covenant to renew the lease from time to time at the yearly rent of 2 shillings and 6 pence.  The deed was witnesses by John Heyland and Joseph Dickson, gentlemen of Dromore, who were also implicated in the following deed.

 Indented deed of assignment (ref: 284-350-184864; date: 28th December 1770) concerns the sale of a house in Church Street, Dromore, County Down, by its owner, Peter Lavalade, to Terence Heyland.


I transcribed the following deed as best I could, and added in a few punctuation marks to make it more legible.  The name 'Lavalade' is only spelt correctly in one place - where Peter himself signed and sealed the deed - and was also spelt correctly in the Index to Deeds in the Registry Office where I found it.

'A memorial of an indented deed of assignment bearing date the twenty-eighth of December, one thousand, seven hundred and seventy, made between Peter Lavadare (sic) of Donaghclony in the County of Down farmer of the one part and Terence Heyland of Dromore in the County of Down Gent of the other part, whereby reciting as is therein recited the said Peter Lavadare for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred pounds did give grant bargain sell and assign unto him, the said Terence Heyland, all that Tenement containing 55 feet fronting Church Street southward, 37 feet joining Mr. Maginnis's tenement westward, 53 feet on Mr. John Bateman March Northward, and 37 feet on John Things March eastward, together with the Stable thereunto belonging being 20 feet long and 16 feet broad together also with the gardin (sic) thereto belonging, being 122 feet in length, bounded with John Haltride Esqrs March, 30 feet in breadth, bounded with Mr Sheweb (?) March, and 38 feet in breadth bounded with Mr. Tillets March, together with all the...(illegible)...gardens formerly belonging to Matthew Lonwellt, Thomas Thokher, being 274 feet fronting Church Street southward, and 110 feet bounded with the walk westward, and 164 feet bounded with Mr. Stothard's March, and 102 feet on Mr. Magennis's March eastward, late in possession of Alice Graham, situate in the town of Dromore and County of Down, as also all those parts and parcels of the Townland of Donaghcloney in the County of Down, late in the possession of Coolett Stothard, Gent., Deceased, but now in the possession of the said Peter Lavadate with their and every of their apputenances and all his, the said Peter Lavadale's, right to the property claim and Domain whatsoever into or out of all or any of the said assigned premises....Their appurtenances unto the said Terence Heyland his Executors, Admons, or Assigns from the twenty-nineth day of September last for and during all the residue of the terms for years or Interest, the said Peter Lavadare, his Executors, Admons and Assigns have to come or may or can have in the said assigned premises, either of them subject to Redemption or payment of the said sum of one hundred pounds sterling with Interest on the said first day of May next, which Indented Deed of Assignment and this Memorial is witnessed by Joseph Dickson of Dromore in the County of Down, Gent, and Alexander Dickson his son, and John Heyland of Dromore, aforesaid gent Peter Lavalade (seal) signed and sealed in presence of John Heyland, Alexander Dickson, Joseph Dickson.  The above named Alexander Dickson maketh oath that he saw the above named Peter Lavadale and Terence Heyland duly execute the Indented Deed of Assignment whereof the above writing is a Memorial and also saw the said Peter Lavadale sign and seal this Memorial and that the name Alexander Dickson is a witness to said Indented Deed and Memorial, is this deponent's proper name and handwriting, Alexander Dickson sworn before me at Dromore in the County of Down this twenty-eighth day of December 1770, by virtue of a Commission to me granted and I know the Deponent Joseph Dickson, Present Morgan Tellett, Thomas Wanny, Justice.'

Early Records of Peter Lavalade and Other Family:

A Margaret Levelit was born 10th June 1757 to Peter Levelit in Dundalk, Co. Louth.

The Freeholders' Records on the Proni website record Peter Lovedale, aka Lavalade, farming in Lurgantamary in July 1781, with an added note that his wife was a 'Papist'.

Peter Lavalade was later noted in 1791 as a farmer of Lurgantamry townland in Donaghcloney, ten kilometers west of Dromore.  Peter Lavalade married Catherine Durry in 1793 in the same area.  Catherine was either his second wife, or there were two Peter Lavalades, possibly a father and son.

Peter Lavalade made his will in 1805.

(Notes on the Durry family of Dromore:  I found no further reference to the name 'Durry' in Dromore/Donaghcloney. I did, however, come across a Dromore family by the name of 'Derry' and it seems likely that this was the same family. 
In 1826, Ann Derry made her will in Dromore.  
Two years earlier, in 1824, Thomas Derry, a boot and shoe maker, was noted in Dromore town. In 1846, there was a Richard Darry in the street directories as a boot maker and leather merchant on Church Street, Dromore.  The profession of shoe/boot maker or leather dealer seems to have been passed on through the family - in 1870, James and Thomas Derry were shoemakers of Rampart Street.  
Richard Derry was noted as a leather merchant in 1886 in Church Street, Dromore, (the same street where Peter Lavalade had owned a house in 1770),  but, earlier in 1881, Richard had tried his hand as a china, glass and earthenware dealer.  In 1881, James Derry of Rampart Street was a boot maker and leather dealer.

The Proni website has published the wills of some of these people, the earliest being the will of  Richard Derry in 1870 - Richard, shoemaker of Church Street, divided his house between his two sons, namely Richard Junior and Wesley. He also left £10 to his granddaughter, Mary Jane, who was the daughter of Wesley. The will was witnessed by Joseph Dickson which is a real coincidence, the 1770 deed of Peter Lavalade having been witnessed by an earlier Joseph Dickson.
Thomas Derry, shoemaker of Rampart Street, made his will in 1872 and left everything to his widow, Isabella Russell, who made her will in 1890, leaving everything to a nephew, John Boyle.
Wesley Derry (1834 - 1906), son of Richard, had moved to Belfast and was living at Little Victoria Street when he made his will in 1906.  The family were Methodist which explains his name. Wesley had married Susanna Porter in Hillsborough in 1862 and had two daughters, Mary Jane/Minnie and Susan Elizabeth/Lizzie.  Wesley Derry, a rent agent, owned property - nine house in Mourne St, 118 University Street where his daughters later lived, five house in Maryville Street and four houses in Vernon Street.  Mary Jane made her own will the same year, leaving everything to her younger sister.  By the time of the 1911 Census, there is no sign of the surviving members of this family.)

The next mention of a Lavalade was Edward Lavalade who was noted in the Tithe Applotment Book of 1834 as a farmer of Monree which is the townland next to Lurgantamry/Lurgantamary where Peter Lavalade was earlier farming.
The Masonic publication 'Ars Quatuor Coronatum' noted that Edward Lavalade was a member of the Masonic Order from 1793 till 1822 - he was associated with Lodge 777, which was located, according to this particular publication, in Magherfelt, Co. Derry.  The only Lodge 777 I could find was, however, located in Belfast.

Edward Lavalade was almost certainly the father of Agnes Lavalade/Lavelet who married Reid Wilson in Ballygunaghan in the 1830's or 1840's - their son was named Edward Wilson and was our paternal great-great-grandfather.  (Ballygunaghan, Monree and Lurgantamry are all adjacent townlands in the parish of Donaghcloney south of Dromore.)

In the same Dromore/Donaghcloney area, there were other members of the Lavalade family -  A Mary Lavelet, daughter of John Lavelet and Elizabeth Stephenson, was christened on 18th July 1790 in Dromore Parish. A later Mary Lavelett, daughter of Richard Lavelett and Mary Beard, was christened in Dromore Parish on 19th June 1797.

 I consulted the book 'Marriage Licence Bonds - Down, Connor, Dromore, 1721 - 1845' during a recent visit to the Dublin National Archives in Bishop Street and discovered yet another Lavalade reference in the same area, although an exact address wasn't given.  This was Richard Lavalade who married Isabella Ezdal  in 1808.  The name 'Ezdal' is probably a corruption of 'Esdaile' or 'Esdale'.
A William and John Esdaile were noted as freeholders of Monaree townland, Donaghcloney, which was where Edward Lavalade was farming in the 1830s.

Thomas Harvey Todhunter and Henry Bewley of Dublin

Our maternal great-great grandfather was Richard Williams the bookkeeper of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, who lived at their Dublin headquarters at 17 Eden Quay from 1837 till 1857.

This post, which is really nothing more than genealogical gossip, concerns his known acquaintances, Thomas Harvey Todhunter (1799 - 1884) with whom he ran a shortlived business in the mid-1840’s, and Henry Bewley who, although originally a Quaker, as was Todhunter, became a member of the Plymouth Brethren evangelical movement, and eventually founded their meeting place of Merrion Hall, now the Davenport Hotel off Merrion Square.

Thomas Harvey Todhunter’s father, an English merchant who was the son of a Cumberland ship-owner, settled in Dublin in the early nineteenth century - the earliest mention of a Todhunter in Dublin that I’ve found is from 1801 when John Todhunter, a merchant, was living at 56 City Quay.
By 1814 the directories show up a William Todhunter living at 22 Holles Street, but both John and William have businesses at Sir John Rogerson’s Quay.  William Todhunter was engaged in the manufacture of turpentine and was also an oil-millar.

Sir John Rogerson’s Quay quickly became the hub for this family of Todhunters;  although it’s difficult to discern the family relationships between them, I have to assume that they are all of the same family.
In 1824, J. Todhunter of 85 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, was a corn merchant and factor.   The same year, there was Isaac Todhunter, a rope-maker, dealer in pitch, tar, rosin and sailcloth, who was living at 81 Sir John Rogerson’s - by 1846, he was a coal-dealer of 14 Summerhill Parade and Ringsend.  (In September 1869, The Limerick Chronicle recorded the death of Louisa, wife of the late Isaac Todhunter, at Leeson Park, Dublin.)

In 1846,  John Todhunter, merchant, was of 17 and 19 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, with a residence at 1 Upper Parnell Place.   Also noted at 1 Upper Parnell Place were two of his sons, William Todhunter and Joshua Todhunter.
John Todhunter, the merchant of 1 Parnell Place, died on 6th September 1844, aged 73, which gives him a birth year of  1772, therefore he would be the correct age to be the father of Thomas Harvey Todhunter.   He was married to Susanna Harvey who was born in 1776, and who died in 1850.  The couple’s son, Thomas Harvey Todhunter, would later marry another member of the Harvey family, Hannah Harvey.
The youngest daughter of John Todhunter, Elizabeth Todhunter, married Joshua Reuben Harvey, a doctor in Cork, at the Friends' Meeting House. (This from the Limerick Chronicle of 11th September 1841.)
Thomas Harvey Todhunter also had a sister, Susan, who married Jonathan Pim whose mother was yet another member of the Harvey family,this time a Mary Harvey.  Jonathon Pim was a member of the Quaker famine relief committee as were his brothers-in-law, Thomas Harvey Todhunter, William Todhunter and Joshua E. Todhunter. Both Jonathan Pim and Thomas Harvey Todhunter were members of the Statistical Society.
John Todhunter was born in 1772 to Joseph Todhunter and Hannah Robinson - Joseph must be the ship owner of Cumberland and the grandfather of Thomas Harvey Todhunter of 17 Eden Quay and Sir John Rogerson’s.

By 1846, Thomas Harvey Todhunter, who was our Richard William’s business partner for a time, was noted as a merchant of 17 Eden Quay (as was Richard Williams) but was resident at 19 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay.

Thomas Harvey Todhunter was one of the executors of the will of Limerick timber merchant and ship owner, James Harvey who died on 29th February 1848.  In 1844, Matthew Barrington of Limerick and Dublin demised to Thomas Harvey land at Little Kilrush, St. Munchins, Limerick, which, in accordance with Thomas Harvey's will, Thomas Harvey Todhunter was to sell on to Daniel Gabbett of Richmond, Limerick. This conveyance was legalised with deed 1848-18-17;   this deed was immediately succeeded by another related document, in which a property which had earlier been sold by Matthew Barrington to George Gibbons Williams, the son of the notary Richard Williams, of 38 Dame Street and Drumcondra Castle, was being conveyed to the same Daniel Gabbett of Richmond, Limerick.   Both deeds held the proviso 'excepting unto the said Matthew Barrington, his heirs and assigns.'

Many of the Irish Quakers educated their children at the Ballitore School run by the Shackleton family.  In 1807,  Thomas Harvey Todhunter and, presumably his brother, Joseph Todhunter, were pupils there together;  three years later, William Todhunter was a pupil at the same school.   By 1823, John Todhunter and Joshua Edmundson Todhunter appear on the school lists - these were the sons of John Todhunter, each of them starting their education at Ballitore at the age of about 6 or 7 years old.

Thomas Harvey Todhunter was married to Hannah Harvey (1806 - 1857), the daughter of the prominent Limerick merchant, Joseph Massey Harvey, and many members of this Harvey family also attended Ballitore School - in 1812, James and Rueben Joseph Harvey were there;  they were joined two years later by a Joshua Harvey.  Also present at the school were members of other prominent Quaker families - Bewleys, Hanks, Pims etc.
In 1850, the one-year-old daughter of Thomas Harvey Todhunter and Hannah Harvey, Susanna Todhunter, died, as did the 74-year-old Susanna Todhunter who was the widow of John Todhunter.

By 1881, Thomas Harvey Todhunter has moved to 116 Lower Baggot Street along with  John Todhunter, and Joshua Todhunter.  Earlier, on 24th May 1851, ‘The Illustrated London News’ reported that two men had died near Chesterfield when a goods train had accidentally ploughed into the back of a stationary passenger train. Among the injured were John Todhunter of Dublin, who sustained two broken legs, and his brother, Joshua Todhunter, who sustained a broken shoulder blade. Although Thomas Harvey Todhunter had a son, Dr.John Todhunter who would continue on to be a celebrated Irish writer, the two men who were injured in the train crash were actually his brothers.

(Also of interest here is Joseph Todhunter, the Secretary of the National Assurance Company of Ireland;  he lived at the company headquarters of 3, College Green, which, in 1832, had been the residence of William Williams.  William Williams of College Green was an early shareholder of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company; this may have been the nephew of Thomas Williams of the Bank of Ireland who had been admitted to the Freedom of Dublin in 1817, but I’ve been unable to find enough corroborating evidence to support this.    Joseph Todhunter may have been another brother of Thomas Harvey Todhunter - a boy of this name was a pupil in Ballitore School at the same time as Thomas.)

During the Famine, the brothers, Thomas Harvey Todhunter, William Todhunter and Joshua E. Todhunter,  were members of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends in Ireland as were prominent members of the Pim, Harvey and Bewley families.  The Quakers, although there were only 3000 of them among a population of almost 8 million, spearheaded the efforts to relieve the suffering of the starving Irish, and have been rightly commended for their efforts.
William Todhunter was put in charge of the distribution of agricultural seed, which was transported free of charge by the Williams’ company, the CDSPCo;  he also organised the distribution of replacement fishing gear, many of the fishermen having sold their nets early in the distress in an effort to feed themselves and their families.
William Todhunter died from exhaustion on January 30th 1850, aged 46 (ie: 1804 - 1850) - it was noted that, although he died in Dublin, he had spent some years in Portumna, Galway; other texts mention that he was a Quaker of Cork.

The Central Relief Committe, which coordinated the national relief efforts from Dublin, had been founded by Jonathan Pim and Joseph Bewley.
Jonathan Pim (the son of Thomas Pim) married, in 1828, Thomas Harvey Todhunter’s sister, Susan Todhunter - she too helped with the famine relief effort, distributing food and clothing from their home in Monkstown;  Jonathan Pim almost collapsed from exhaustion in 1847, but survived the famine, going on to become the first Quaker MP in 1865.  This couple lived at Monkstown, South Dublin, where the beautiful Quaker Meeting Hall can still be seen, and also in Rosbarnagh, Co. Mayo.

Thomas Harvey Todhunter’s brother-in-law was the noted botanist, William Henry Harvey, who lived with the couple at their home in Baggot Street, Dublin.

Joseph Bewley, tea merchant and  co-founder of the Quakers’ Central Relief Committee, was the eldest son of Samuel Bewley and Elizabeth Fayle who lived at Rockville, South Dublin.
From the RDS website: Samuel Bewley (1764-1837), tea merchant and manufacturer, 72 Meath Street, was elected a member of the Dublin Society in 1803. A Quaker, he was highly respected for his philanthropic work and was a trustee of the house of recovery, a committee member of the Kildare Place society, and a generous supporter of the Meath hospital, Cork Street fever hospital, the sick poor institute, and Dublin savings bank. In addition to his tea business, he was a silk importer and poplin manufacturer. He was an activist in the revived Dublin Chamber of Commerce, 1820, and a promoter of the National Assurance Company of Ireland. Although critical of the insurance company's controlling board, he accepted the post of treasurer in 1824. In the same year he gave evidence to a parliamentary committee of inquiry as spokesman for the Dublin silk merchants. On 19 March 1835 he presented to the R.D.S. museum the Chinese port clearance documents for the first voyage from Canton to Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) following the opening of direct trade with China by the ending of the East India Company's monopoly in 1834. He reported with evident satisfaction that the round-trip was made by his (Waterford-built) schooner Hellas between 22 October 1834 and 20 February 1835, captained by Dubliner Anthony Scanlan. Samuel Bewley resided at Rockville, Monkstown, in the 1830s.

Samuel Bewley of Rockville died in 1837 at Mount Street; his son, Charles Bewley, also died in Mount Street but in 1835;  Charles was noted as being ‘of Samuel Bewley & Sons.’   In 1824, at the Friends’ Meeting House in Sycamore Alley, Charles Bewley, the son of Samuel Bewley of Rockville, married Hannah, the eldest daughter of John Todhunter of Sir John Rogerson’s Quay.  Hannah died on 21st June 1847 - she died of fever at the home of her father, 1 Parnell Place.

Charles’ brother, Joseph Bewley, collapsed from exhaustion and died on 4th November 1851, leaving three surviving children.   He made his will on 25th September 1846.  At this time, he gave two addresses, Sandford and William Street, Dublin city.  He named his wife as Elizabeth, and brothers as Henry Bewley, Samuel Bewley, Thomas Bewley, Williams Bewley and Joshua Bewley.  A sister was Susannah, wife of Samuel Pim.  A sister-in-law was named as Hannah Bewley (the wife of Charles Bewley);  brothers-in-law were Ebenezer Pike, William Cooper Clibborn, George Sutton (married to Joseph's sister Eliza Bewley) and Edward Court or Tulse of Winterbourne, Co. Dublin.   A late uncle was Thomas Blake,  and a late brother was John Blake Bewley.  A sister was Sarah Blake; a niece was Mary Blake Sutton, the daughter of sister Sarah Sutton.   One of Joseph Bewley's sons was John Blake Bewley, named after Joseph's dead brother;  the oldest son was Samuel Bewley of 6 Dame Street who proved his father's will in 1851.

Joseph and Charles Bewley  were also the brothers of Samuel Bewley (1820 - 1877) who was married to Maria Clibborn;  Samuel and Maria lived at Sandford Grove in Ranelagh.  Samuel Bewley, tea-dealer, died in 1877, leaving £12,000 in the UK. Probate was granted to (his sons?) Samuel Bewley of 9 Trafalgar Terrace, Monkstown, William Frederick Bewley of 56 Bushfield Avenue, and Francis Bewley of Sandford Grove.
The Bewley’s family tea business was at 6 Dame Street with offices at Sycamore Alley. The 1845 Directory shows up another possible brother, Alexander Bewley, a merchant with an office at Sycamore Alley - in 1854 Alexander Bewley took out a shared lease in Forge Lane, Mountmellick, with Henry Bewley who was yet another son of Samuel and Elizabeth of Rockville.  Also noted in 1845 at 20 Sycamore Alley was Joshua Bewley, an actuary of the China Tea Co., who had a residence at Rockville and who must surely be yet another close relation.

Yet another possible son of Samuel Bewley and Elizabeth Fayle of Rockville was Thomas Bewley of Cope Street and Rockville who died in 1875;  probate was granted to Samuel Bewley of Sandford Grove, also the son of the Bewleys of Rockville.

Henry Bewley, the son of Samuel of Rockville, would have been an acquaintance of our great-great grandfather, Richard Williams - both had close involvement with the Plymouth Brethren evangelical church. Henry Bewley built the Brethrens’ meeting hall in Merrion Square in 1863 at a cost of £25,000.  He was a highly successful business man,  with a huge amount of capital invested in his business as a wholesale chemist (Bewley & Draper, of Mary Street and 2 Sackville Street), and also in gutta-percha, a rubber-like resin which was used to construct the first transatlantic cables. Henry Bewley also owned a number of coalmines in Germany. He lived, firstly at Lota, Booterstown, then at Willow Park, Booterstown.
Following the death of his only son in the 1850s, he turned to philanthropy, giving away huge sums to beneficial causes;  he was associated with the Bible Tract Depository on D’Olier Street, which published the religious tracts which were so popular in the Victorian era.
Henry married Ann Pike, the daughter of Jonathan Pike in 1835.
Henry Bewley died in July 1876 and was interred at Mount Jerome Cemetery. His funeral was attended by most of the leading merchants and traders of the day.  Prayers were read by the grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Rev.Grattan Guinness, who was an associate of Thomas Barnardo;  the two men were involved in the Barnardo Childrens’ Homes in the UK.  Thomas Barnardo had been a close acquaintance of our Richard Williams before Thomas moved to London.
The chief mourners at Henry Bewley’s funeral were his only son, Henry Thomas Bewley,  who was born after the death of his first one.  Also present was his nephew, Samuel Bewley Junior of Sandford Hill, who was the son of Henry’s brother, Samuel. His two brothers-in-law, William Pike and Ebenezer Pike, were in attendance - Ebenezer Pike was from Besborough, Cork; he died in 1883, leaving a massive £80,000 to his wife.  There were two other Bewleys present at Henry’s funeral, although it’s unclear who their parents were - John E. Bewley and James Arthur Bewley.
The probate of Henry Bewley's will was granted to Samuel Bewley of Sandford Grove, Ranelagh and to William Fry, solicitor of 13 Lower Mount Street.  William Fry was also the solicitor of our branch of the Williams family.

Both the Pims and the Bewleys held stock in the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company.  Jonathan Pim and Thomas Pim were noted as proprietors of the company in 1826, as were Joseph and Alexander Bewley.  By 1828, James Pim Junior of William Street was included, as was Joseph Harvey.  In 1828, one of the trustees of the business was Joseph Robert Pim.
A T.W. Bewley of Sandford Grove, Ranelagh, still held £20 worth of stock in the CDSPCo when it was being wound up in 1931.

The descendant of Thomas Harvey Todhunter, Benedict Heal, has done excellent research into his family tree and has kindly allowed me to add a link to his own family history site here -

http://www.benedictheal.com/personal/family/FH/fam232.html

The name 'Geraldine O'Moore Creighton'.

Our great-great-grandmother, Geraldine O’Moore Creighton was the second wife of Richard Williams, the book-keeper of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company.  They married in Dublin in 1847.

Geraldine’s parents were the English evangelical minister, Rev. David Hill Creighton, and Eliza Willis, the daughter of the Portarlington schoolmaster, Thomas Willis. They married in Portarlington, Laois, on January 31st 1810, where David Hill Creighton was stationed, and had their first daughter, Geraldine O’Moore Creighton in about 1811;  she was followed by her younger sisters, Louise, who died almost immediately, Eliza Willis Creighton,  Louisa Adelaide and Mary Anne.

The subject of this post is Geraldine’s name, Geraldine O’Moore, which is a mysterious choice of middle name for the daughter of a very Anglo-Irish Protestant couple at the beginning of the nineteenth century.  No other members of the Willis or Creighton families carried the names ‘O’Moore’ or ‘Geraldine’ prior to our great-great-grandmother’s birth in 1811.  The name itself is a highly traditional Irish Catholic name, and, given that Geraldine’s father, David Hill Creighton, had been born in Dorset, England, the couple must have had some specific reason for giving their daughter this particular name.
Irish children at that time were almost always named after an older relative or close family friend, but I’ve failed to find any close or plausible link to any member of any O’ Moore family.  Perhaps a member of the O'Moore family stood as godparent to Geraldine when she was baptised?

This post, therefore, is pure speculation. If anyone out there can shed any light on this mystery, please let me know!

Geraldine is the female version of Gerald, or Gearóid, or Garrett, and the only possible link that I can find would be with Garrett O’Moore of Cloghan Castle in King’s County/Co.Offaly.   The link is spurious to say the least, but, for the record and for the moment, I'll compile here what I can unearth about the O'Moore family of Cloghan Castle, bearing in mind that I've come across very few families bearing the O'Moore name.

Garrett O’Moore married a Jane Foster in 1806 - the LDS site says the marriage took place in Monkstown, South Dublin, rather than Offaly, but it wasn’t unusual for gentry types to marry in Dublin at that time.  Geraldine’s mother, Eliza Willis, was the daughter of the schoolmaster, Thomas Willis, and his first wife, Betty Foster. I wonder, therefore, was Garrett O’Moore’s wife, Jane Foster, a relation of the Willis family?

The O’Moore or Moore family were an old Gaelic family of Laois who participated in the 1641 rebellion;  following the uprising, their lands were confiscated, but under the Act of Settlement of 1652, they were granted land at Cloghan in the neighbouring county of Offaly.

Garrett O’Moore lived from 1737 till 1824;  Jane Foster was most likely a second wife, who he married 16 years before his death.  Jane O’Moore died at Denzille Street/Holles Street in Dublin in 1832.
Garrett was the son of John O’Moore of Annabeg;  Garrett’s sister, Margaret, married Connor O’Kelly in 1766.

Garret O’Moore had a son, also named Garret O’Moore, who lived from 1784 till 1833 -  the son’s wife was Mary Bateman, who died at Cloghan Castle, Offaly, in 1831.   In February 1858, Bridget Bateman, died aged 64 - she was noted as the sister-in-law of the late O'Moore of Cloghan Castle, and as the 3rd daughter of the late John Bateman of Altavilla, Limerick, and of Oakpark, Co. Kerry. A Captain John Bateman MP of Oakpark, Tralee, died in October 1863 in Croyden.  Earlier in October 1848, Mrs. Arabella Bateman of Oakpark, died aged 84;  she was the widow of the late Rowland Bateman of Oakpark, and mother of the M.P. John Bateman.

In December 1827, Garrett O'Moore was selling 4000 acres of land in Mayo;  his Dublin address was noted as Redesdale, Stillorgan.

This Garrett O'Moore died suddenly in November 1833  - the papers noted that he dropped dead at about 12 o'clock in the offices of Mr. Birmingham in Smithfield, Dublin.

From the Trinity Admission Records:
Garrett O’Moore: S.C. (Mr.Scott, Norfolk), June 12th 1802, aged 17;  son of Garrett, Miles; born King’s County. BA Vern 1806.   (Miles signifies that his father was of the military.)
Garrett O’Moore, SC (Mr. Eaton) July 4 1825, aged 15, son of Garrett, generous, born Dublin. BA Aest. 1830.
Hubert O’Moore, Pen (Eaton Coll.), Nov. 3 1833, aged 16, son of Garrett, generous, born King’s County. BA Aest 1834.  (A brother of the above Garrett O’Moore.)
Hubert died in Dublin on October 3rd 1846.
John Edmund O’Moore, SC (Mr.Eaton), Oct 19 1829, aged 17, son of Garrett, generous, born King’s. BA AEST. 1834. (Generous means gentleman.)
John Edmund O’Moore, the son of Garrett O’Moore, was a solicitor who lived at Elm Lodge, Fairview, Dublin - he was noted there in both 1846 and 1880.

In Jersey in May 1854,  the death occurred of the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Creagh, who was noted as the eldest daughter of the late O'Moore of Cloghan Castle.

A great scandal occurred in October 1852 when the 40-yr-old Garrett O'Moore eloped with a Miss Blair, aged 17, who was then living with her mother and stepfather, Captain Meaher.
On 30th August 1864, at Sees, Normandy, Garrett O'Moore, D.L., of Cloghan Castle died aged 52, leaving a widow and young children.  The remains were removed to Paris for burial.

All the land, including Cloghan Castle, of Garrett O’Moore, was put up for sale in 1852 by the Encumbered Estates Court and were subsequently purchased by the Graves family of Dublin.
Cloghan Castle was beside the river Shannon, and two miles from Banagher, Offaly.  It had an excellent garden and farmyard with coach-house, stables, cow-houses, barn, piggery and fattening houses. The castle’s estate consisted of 5 acres and was advertised as ideal for shooting and fishing.
The Castle had been built in 1200 AD in the time of King John;  it was four stories high.  It had been taken by Sir William Russell in 1595, the Lord Deputy who put 46 of the garrison to the sword, its owner, O’Madden, having refused to surrender. The castle had been home to the family of Garrett O’Moore since Elizabethan times, he having been banished from Leix in Queen’s County.
    The castle had three cellars, hall and pantry, drawing room, state bedroom, 2 other bedrooms, nursery and three servants rooms upstairs. Attached to the castle was a servants’ hall, a large loft and an unfinished water closet. There was also a new three story extension, suitable as a modern residence for a gentleman of fortune.
     The adjoining land was divided into 10 separate lots, mostly tenanted by reliable people who paid their rent on time.
      In 1856, No. 42 Leeson Street, Dublin, was also put up for sale - Garrett O’Moore had leased it in 1803 along with a John Scott, as trustees of Lady Dunboyne.

    About five miles south-east of Cloghan is Ballyboy which was noted in 1814 as the county seat of a Thomas Foster.  Portarlington is another 30 miles east of Ballyboy.
    I’ll add more to this post as I discover better information....

James Gibbons, 38 Dame Street - who was he?

 Who was the James Gibbons who was in business with Richard Williams at 38 Dame Street in the early years of the nineteenth century as notaries to the Bank of Ireland?  I am in no way related to the Gibbons family, but have done much research into the Williams family, founders of the Dublin Steam Packet Company, and was curious about the origins of Gibbons family accordingly.

Gibbons and Williams were notaries to the Bank of Ireland, and appear in the Dublin street directories as such from 1800 (I believe this is the earliest entry, although James Gibbons was mentioned earlier in the 1780s as a notary to the Bank of Ireland when it first opened.)  The ‘Treble Almanack’ of 1832 names the notaries to the Bank of Ireland, and a variety of other Irish banks, as Messrs. Gibbons and Williams, although at some stage James Gibbons parted company with Richard Williams.

It seems that the Gibbons family actually lived at 38 Dame Street.  The Treble Almanack of 1815 notes the attorney E.H. Gibbons at this address.  The same year, Thomas Gibbons Junior was one of 21 managers elected to the board of the charitable Richmond National Institute of Great Britain St/Parnell St.    By 1824,  E.H. Gibbons, the attorney, had moved north of the Liffey to 27 Queen Street in Smithfield and was resident there with Edward Gibbons who was possibly his son.

The records of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, founded by Charles Wye Williams and his brother, Richard Williams, who worked with James Gibbons in 38 Dame Street, makes mention of Thomas Gibbons from 1823;  there is never any reference to James Gibbons who must have been elderly by that stage.
In 1823, Thomas Gibbons of Dame Street was an early proprietor of the shipping company, as was Hutchins Thomas Williams of Dame Street, both men holding stock to the value of £500.  The following year, both have moved - Thomas Gibbons was of Fitzwilliam Square while Hutchins Thomas Williams was at Belvidere Place.  By 1828, both men have increased their holding in the CDSPCo - Thomas Gibbons held £2,400 of shares while Hutchins held £4,400.    A law case of 1829 mentions a clerk, Thomas H. Gibbons, who worked at a dwelling-house in Dame Street along with Hutchins Thomas Williams - Hutchins' sister was resident in the same house and was ill at the time of the incident.
The records of the Keeper of the Public Records for Dublin gives three possible marriages for Thomas Gibbons, but no address for any of them - in 1810, Thomas Gibbons married Eliza Byrne;  in 1814, Thomas Gibbons married Catherine Chamney;  in 1824, Thomas Gibbons married Sarah Bradbury.
These records also record the death of a James Gibbons of Bolton Street, Dublin, in 1834.

By 1833, the firm of Gibbons and Williams comprised Richard Williams (of Drumcondra Castle) and his close relative Hutchins Thomas Williams;  these two dissolved their partnership in 1833 - Richard continued in business as Richard Williams & Son, while Hutchins continued  in business as Gibbons and Williams.
When Hutchins’ company went  bankrupt because of his embezzlement of clients’ funds in 1835, James Gibbons Junior of Ballynegall, Westmeath, quickly issued a statement that he was not involved in the firm of Gibbons and Williams.  Calling himself ‘James Gibbons Junior’ signifies that he was the son of an earlier James Gibbons - I suspect that the original notary to the Bank of Ireland who went into partnership with Richard Williams in about 1800 was James Gibbons Senior of Ballynegall.

The Belfast Telegraph of Jan.27th 1835, reported on the failure of the firm of Gibbons and Williams in Dublin.  The piece states that one of the firm had his estate in Westmeath, which seems to confirm my suspicion that both James Gibbons Senior  had been in business with the Williams family on Dame Street.
     'A complete panic pervaded the mercantile interests of this city on Thursday at the closing of this house, so long deemed of the highest character, credit and respectability....the paper of the bank is said to have obtained a large circulation in the county Westmeath,  where the estate of one of the firm is situate...'

'The Waterford Mail' of 21st January 1835 clarified things when the bank of Hutchins Thomas Williams collapsed: 'It's not the well known house of Gibbons and Williams that has failed, that one having been dissolved two years ago, and neither James Gibbons of Ballinagall, who retired, nor Mr. Richard Williams of Dame Street, now head of  Richard Williams and Son, were ever connected with the bank of Hutchins Williams who operated under the name of Gibbons and Williams....the young Mr. Gibbons who worked there was son of the late Thomas Gibbons and nephew of Mr. James Gibbons....'     The article went on to state that Hutchins and Richard Williams didn't see eye to eye, and that Hutchins Williams had used the name of Gibbons and Williams with the consent of James Williams.

'Pue's Occurrences' of 24th March 1757 noted the recent marriage of Thomas Gibbons, Notary Publick' to Miss Tate of Lisburn.  Given that a relation of James Gibbons of Ballinagall was named as Adam Tate Gibbons, I would presume that this early Thomas Gibbons was an early member of the Gibbons family, and very likely the father of James Gibbons Senior (1761 - 1835), Thomas Gibbons of Fitzwilliam Square and Adam Tate Gibbons.

James Gibbons (1761 - 1835) Senior of Ballynegall, Westmeath, died at Cheltenham on 15th March 1835.  James Gibbons -  Senior or Junior?  - built Ballynegall House in about 1808 for the enormous cost of £30,000. Although now in ruins, its portico was removed and currently forms part of Straffan House in Kildare.  In 1844, the Limerick Chronicle recorded the death in Ballynegall of Mary Amelia, aged 90, the widow of James Gibbons, Esq.  If she had been born in 1754, then presumably her husband had been born in roughly the same year.

The subscribers lists to the ‘Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor of Ireland’ lists the Gibbons (unhelpfully)  as follows in their 1820 edition:
James Gibbons,Esq.,Junior, of Ballynagall. ( He was aged 28 in 1820.)
James Gibbons, Dame Street
Mrs. Gibbons, Ballynagall.

The Trinity College admission records seem to confirm that James of Ballinagall was the son of James of Dame Street since the date of birth is correct, although this may well be pure coincidence:  'Gibbons, James, S.C. (P.T.), October 5th 1806, aged 15, son of James, Notarius Publicus;  born Dublin;  B.A. Aest 1810, MA Vern 1820.'

In 1824 at Ballynagall, James Gibbons (Junior or Senior?) donated land and £1,892 towards the construction of the Protestant church there.  In the 1820s he was also involved with the establishment of the county jail and courthouse in Westmeath.

On 12th May 1823 in Drumcree, Co. Westmeath,  by the Rev. William de Courcy of Drumcree Church, James Gibbons, only son of James Gibbons of Ballynegall, married Alicia Frances, the daughter of William Smyth of Drumcree.   Rev. William de Courcy's children married into the family of Thomas Williams of Sackville Street who himself had links to the Dublin Steam Packet Company, and might have been a distant relation of the Williams who founded the business.  William de Courcy was married to a member of the Drumcree Smyth family.
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James Gibbons Junior (1792 - 1846) of Ballinagall , who was JP, DL and High Sheriff for County Westmeath, died on 22nd February 1846, aged 54, whilst hunting; he died intestate, leaving no children. He died in Leamington at the house of Richard Coote, or at the house of the widow of William Bennitt of Drumlavery, Co. Cavan.  Ballynegall Manor passed to the nephew of his wife, James William Middleton Berry, who died in 1855, and then to his cousin Thomas James Smyth, who sold the house in 1863.   Thomas James Smyth was the son of Adam Tate Smyth (1772 - 1822), who was (I believe) brother of James Gibbons Senior ((1761 - 1835).

The young Thomas Gibbons (or Thomas H. Gibbons in some records) who was working alongside Hutchins Thomas Williams in the bank of Gibbons and Williams when it failed in 1835, was noted as the nephew of James Gibbons (Senior) of Ballynagall, who had been in business with Richard Williams.  He was possibly the son of Thomas Gibbons of Fitzwilliam Square.

In 1774, Thomas Gibbons was the secretary of the Incorporated Society for Promoting English Schools in Ireland. His office was at 6 Suffolk Street.

Thomas Gibbons, banker, of Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, was a proprietor of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company in 1824, which had been founded by Richard Williams’ brother, Charles Wye Williams.   

(On 14th July 1842 in Cobh, Co. Cork, the second daughter of a deceased John Gibbons, Jane Gibbons, married Quayle/Quaile Welsted Hawkes of Sirmount, Ovens, Co. Cork.  ('The Cork Examiner', 18th July 1842.) Online researchers have named Jane Gibbons as the daughter of Thomas Gibbons rather than John Gibbons.
In 1866 the Landed Estsates courts were selling off the estate of a James Symes in Portarlington and Eccles Street, Dublin.  The newspaper announcement for the sale of these properties also named Quaile Hawkes and his wife, Jane Hawkes otherwise Gibbons, along with spinster Mary Curtis and the minors John Gibbons Curtis, Catherine Curtis and Susan Curtis.  The name 'John Gibbons Curtis' would suggest that Jane Hawkes was indeed the daughter of the late John Gibbons rather than Thomas.)

In March 1830,  11 Fitzwilliam Square and its contents, was being auctioned off following the death of its owner, Thomas Gibbons.

On 27th September 1838, Mary, the eldest daughter of the late Thomas Gibbons of Fitzwilliam Square, married William Curtis, the youngest son of Thomas Curtis of Lehenagh, Cork. ('Dublin Evening Post', 2nd October 1838.)

On 15th June 1854, in Ovens, Co. Cork, Kate, the youngest daughter of the late Thomas Gibbons of Fitzwilliam Square, married John Dowman, Captain, Unattached. ('Dublin Evening Mail', 19th June 1854.)

Adam Tate Gibbons, the brother of James Gibbons Senior, was born circa 1772, and spent some time in the army. His military record appears in the book ‘A Record of the Services of the Fifty-first (Second West York)’ and shows that he was an ensign in the 71st Regiment in 1791, Lieutenant in 1792, Captain in 1798, joined the 10th Foot in 1801, then the 51st in 1804, before retiring in 1805. He became a merchant with the East India Company and died in Bengal on 10th November 1822. His widow, Anna Elizabeth, later married a Thomas Stanuell - they lived at Tickhill, York, UK, and named one of their children as Charles Gibbons Stanuell.    Charles Gibbons Stanuell or Stanwell married Margaret, the daughter of Captain Samuel Athill of the East India service Bombay engineers, in St. Pancras Church on 14th August 1851.  A solicitor, he settled in Dublin, living at a variety of addresses - Lower Mount Street, 23 Kildare Street and 6 Eccles Street.

Adam Tate Gibbons had an only son, Thomas James Gibbons, who graduated from Oxford in 1833, aged 18.   Thomas became the final owner of Ballynagall House, selling it in 1863.
Thomas James Gibbons, formerly of Madras, died, aged 48, at Greenwood Lodge, Wargrave, Oxfordshire, on 15th May 1864.

The daughter of Adam Tate Gibbons was Mary-Anne Gibbons who married in 1832,  Rev. Thomas Smyth of Drumcree, who was the son of Thomas Hutchinson Smyth of Drumcree and Abigail Hamilton of Belfast who had married in 1796.  Thomas Hutchinson Smyth of Drumcree was the son of Thomas Smyth of Drumcree and Martha Hutchinson of Lisburn.

James Gibbons Junior had married to Alicia Frances Smyth, who was the daughter of William Smyth of Drumcree, Westmeath.  Alicia’s sister was Letitia who married John Berry of Middleton (and it was their son who owned Ballynegall House following the death of James Gibbons Junior);  a third sister married Rev. Michael de Courcy, two of whose children married the son and daughter of Thomas Williams, linen-merchant of 50 Lower Sackville Street, who I suspect was a member of the Williams family of the Dublin Steam Packet Company.


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Dr. Richard Grattan, Drummin House, Kildare

Our maternal 3-times great-grandparents were Eliza Willis of Portarlington and Rev. David Hill Creighton of Blandford Forum, England.
Eliza Willis was the eldest child of the schoolmaster, Thomas Willis, and his first wife, Betty Foster. She was born on December 27th 1781, and died  15th March 1866.
Eliza married David Hill Creighton on 31st January 1810 in the French Church in Portarlington.

Her brother, William Willis, was born to Thomas Willis and Betty Foster in Portarlington on November 1st 1783 and died 8th May 1848. He entered holy orders as did so many of this family, after studying at Trinity College, Dublin.
William Willis was married to Frances Grattan (1805 - 1866), the daughter of Richard Grattan., JP., of Drummin House, Kildare.  They were married on 31st May 1826 in Limerick by, I presume, William’s brother, named in the Freeman’s Journal as the ‘Rev. Doctor Willis’.

The Grattan Family of Drummin/Drummond, Kildare - Frances Willis, née Grattan, was the third daughter of  Richard Grattan JP and Elizabeth Biddulph of Drummin House, Kildare.

The Grattans of Clonmeen (who I'm still trying to decipher....):
The Grattans of Drummin descend from the Grattans of Clonmeen who were noted there from about the end of the 17th century...
A  Symon/Simon Grattan of Rinaghan, Carbery, Kildare, died there in 1697.  He also owned or leased property in James St, Dublin, but I can find no further reference to Simon Grattan.
A John Grattan of Clonmeen died in 1741;  a second John Grattan of Clonmeen died there in 1754.

These Clonmeen Grattans were buried in Carbery.  An early headstone there reads: 'Here lieth the body of Mary daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Grattan who departed this life the 26th (?) 1721 aged 17yrs. Also Robert Grattan who departed this life December 7th 1748 aged 77. And Elizabeth Grattan who departed this life December 6th 1758 aged 73.'

John E.Grattan (1696 - 1740) of Clonmeen:
'This stone was placed by Martha Grattan in memory of her husband John E. Grattan who departed this life June 1740 in ye 44th year of his age...'
Also:  'On April 17th 1756 Olivia Grattan daughter of John E. and Martha Grattan of Clonmeen appoints this stone to be erected in memory of her said parents whose remains lye in the body of this church but their descendants have chosen this place on the northerly side for their internment. Here lye Ann and Elizabeth Whitterig, granddaughters to John E. and Martha Grattan. Here lyes the body of Miss Martha Whitterig who died October 1763 in the 16th year of her age. Here also lyeth the body of the mentioned Olivia Grattan who departed this life ye 15th October 1786 in the 66th year of her age.'

(NB: John Grattan, son of Dr. James Grattan and Elizabeth Tyrrell, was married to Martha Mason, but it's unclear if these were the John and Martha Grattan of Clonmeen mentioned above). One of their daughters, Anne Grattan, who died on August 6th 1748, married the wealthy merchant, William Lunell of Dublin, while a second daughter, Mary Grattan, married William Whitmore and had a daughter, Olivia Whitmore, who married Arthur Guinness of Beaumont.
John Grattan and Martha Mason  also had a son, Rev. William Grattan, which confuses the issue still further, given that there are so many Rev. William Grattans in this genealogy!

 Rev. William Grattan (1715 - 1761) of Carbery married Catherine, the daughter of  Counsellor Sherlock, and was recorded as dying at Sherlockstown, Kildare, in July 1761.   His headstone in Carbery reads: 'Here lyeth the body of Rev. William Grattan of Drummin who departed this life July 1st 1761 in the 46th year of his age. This is the appointed burial place of his widow and children.'
This Rev. William Grattan of Drummin was the grandfather of Dr. Richard Grattan of Drummin House, and the father of Richard Grattan JP of Drummin.

Betham's Extracts records the will, dated 2nd July 1791, of Richard Sherlock of Dublin, wherein he named his wife as Anne Martin, and his nephews as Richard Grattan (JP) of Drummin and Rev. William Grattan. This Rev. William Grattan must be the son, as was Richard Grattan JP, of Rev. William Grattan and Catherine Sherlock.  Also named in Richard Sherlock's will was his niece, Ellinor Sherlock of Marlboro Street and her son William Sherlock.

Deed 132-331-89496, dated  February 1745, details an arrangement between John Grattan  of Clonmeen, Kildare, and his son and heir, Rev. William Grattan, whereby it was agreed that, during his life, John Grattan should hold land known as Demesne - still called that today - and that he would pay £6 8s. 6d. per annum to the heirs and assigns of Robert Grattan.  His son and heir, Rev. William Grattan was to get half of Clonmeen, somewhere indecipherable such as Derenany as well as a windmill in the same townland, Ballyshannon, Knockballyboy, Phillipstown and Killaderry.  Most of these places are close to Carbery, Drummin/Drummond and Edenderry.   Clonmeen was two miles north of Edenderry.

The Grattans of Drummin:

Rev. William Grattan, who the father of  Richard Grattan JP, took out a lease on approximately 580 acres of land at Drummond, Kildare, in 1746. This lease was renewed by his grandson, Richard Grattan MD, in 1840 for the lives of himself and his two sons, Richard and William Grattan. Also mentioned in the lease was Nicholas Biddulph, brother-in-law of Richard Grattan MD.

In June 1850, the estate of Hercules Robinson, ie, Drummond, Kildare, was up for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court.  The estate was held by Richard Grattan MD under two leases, one a renewal of one originally made on 17th February 1846 to William Grattan for three lives, not mentioned in the sales details, and renewed on 4th February 1840.  A second lease was dated 1840, made out to Richard Grattan MD, for three lives, ie, himself, Nicholas Biddulph (his brother-in-law) and William Grattan, all still alive in 1850 at the time of the sale.   Yet another lease was made out to the same Richard Grattan MD for three lives, himself and his two sons, Richard and William.

Rev. William Grattan of Drummin died on 1st July 1761 - 'Here lyeth the body of Rev. William Grattan of Drummin who departed this life July 1st 1761 in the 46th year of his age. This is the appointed burial place of his widow and children.'

In October 1781, Mrs. Grattan, the wife of the late Rev. William Grattan, died at Drummin, Kildare.

Rev. William Grattan was the father of Richard Grattan the Elder, who married, in 1788, Elizabeth Biddulph, the daughter of Francis Biddulph and Eliza Harrison of Vicarstown, Queen's County.

I also read through Deed 634 - 515 - 438150, dated July 1811, between Richard Grattan the Elder, William Scott of Fishertown, Queen's County, Francis Harrison Biddulph of Dublin, Rev. Richard Clarke, and Richard Grattan, eldest son and heir apparent to Richard Grattan the Elder, the younger Richard being Dr. Richard Grattan of Drummin.    This deed recited an earlier marriage settlement of 18th February 1788, which had been drawn up at the time of the older Richard's marriage to Elizabeth Biddulph;  at the time of this marriage, Richard Grattan granted to William Scott and Francis Biddulph 355 acres of land in Kildare, including Drummin, to be was held in trust.  The current deed of 1811 was to legalise the release of this land to the younger Richard Grattan, possibly at the time of his first marriage, although this wasn't mentioned in this deed.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2014/03/the-biddulph-family-of-rathrobin-and.html

The children of Richard Grattan Senior, who was buried in Carbery on 26th September 1839, and Eliza Biddulph were:

1) Their first child, a son, died in infancy - an old family tradition had it that the firstborn son would never live at Drummond.

2) Richard Grattan MD of Drummin was born on 23rd January 1790.  

3) Possibly John Grattan, apothecary of Cornmarket, Belfast, born circa 1801 in the Dublin region, died 24th April 1871 in Belfast.   This has yet to be confirmed.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/09/notes-on-family-of-frances-grattan-of.html

4) Frances Grattan, born circa 1805, married  William Willis.

5) Nicholas Grattan, dentist of Killeagh, Co. Cork, born 23rd March 1808, died in Cork in 1869.

6) Catherine Grattan, who married a Colonel Hamilton of Toronto.

7)  Ellen Grattan, named in her brother's will - ie: the will of John Grattan, apothecary of Belfast, and also named in a letter home by Catherine Grattan Hamilton of Toronto.

 8) Anne Grattan, daughter of the late Richard Grattan JP of Drummin, Kildare, married in Dublin on 12th September 1850, George Cooke, the son of Randal Cooke. The wedding in St. George's was witnessed by Richard and John Grattan. At the time, Anne Grattan's address was 22 Pembroke Place, Dublin, and George Cooke's was 4 Drumcondra Terrace, where the couple's son, George Grattan Cooke, was born on 9th April 1852.  George Grattan Cooke followed his grandfather into the medical profession, first with the Royal Navy, then taking up a post in 1877 as the district medical officer for the Mandeville area of Jamaica, where he married Henrietta Emma Calder.  This couple had Kathleen Isabelle Cooke, born 21st February 1885, who married Arthur Guy Robinson in Jamaica on 19th June 1907.

A first cousin of the above children was the poet and novelist, Biddulph Warner, who must have been the son of Elizabeth Biddulph's sister.  Biddulph Warner was the son of Patience Biddulph and Henry T. Warner of Marvelstown, Meath.  Both Patience Biddulph and Elizabeth Biddulph were the daughters of Francis Biddulph of Vicarstown, Queen's County. Francis was the son of John Biddulph of Stradbally, Queen's County.

The Grattans of Drummin House, Edenderry, Kildare, were known to be related to the Irish orator and nationalist MP, Henry Grattan, but I've been unable to decipher how correctly - both Grattan families had their origins in Kildare, however.  In his book 'Considerations on the Human Mind', Richard Grattan MD mentions his relative, the writer, T.C. Grattan - this was Thomas Colley Grattan of Kildare, who descended from Rev. Patrick Grattan of Belcamp, Santry, as did Henry Grattan, the great Irish policitian.

Richard Grattan, Frances Willis's brother or perhaps her father, was an old schoolfriend of Feargus O'Connor - they had both been educated by Thomas Willis at his school in Portarlington.  Feargus, it is said, tried to elope with one of Thomas's daughters, possibly Eliza Willis, our 3 x great grandmother.  Her brother, William Willis, would go on to marry Frances Grattan.

Dr. Richard Grattan of Drummin House, brother of Frances Willis:

A prolific writer, I gleaned much of the following information from his own works.  He was born on 23rd January 1790 and recalled that his father was 'a zealous cleric and a benevolent doctor'.

Dr. Richard Grattan later attended Trinity, Dublin : 'Grattan, Richard. Pen. (Mr. Leney) November 14th 1805, aged 16. Son of Richard, Generosus; born Queen's County; B.A. Vern 1810; (M.D. Edinburgh)'

He married Rosetta Alathea/Esther Haigh in 1829.  Rosetta Grattan, of York St., Dublin, and Edenderry, Kildare, who was the daughter of Rev. Dr. Martin of Dublin, vicar of St. Patrick's Cathedral, died 13rd August 1834 and was buried in St. Patrick's.   Rosetta Alathea Martin had previously been married to William Haigh of Westfield House, Doncaster, who died, aged 63, on 12th May 1828.  He had been a civil magistrate in Ireland, and was the agent of Earl Fitzwilliam's estates there.  Rosetta's sister, Jane Haigh, married Thomas Alexander of Frowick House, Essex, and of Buncrana, Donegal, in 1836.

 Richard himself referred to the death by cholera of his wife, Rosetta, in his book 'Considerations on the Human Mind' -
    'My wife died (of cholera) after a few hours' illness, on Wednesday, the 13th of August, (1834), a little before sunrise - having throughout her illness expressed the most anxious wishes to see me, and continuously desired me to be sent for. At the time of her death I was travelling in the mail, and asleep, when I was suddenly awakened by a rush of something which startled me, and caused me, at the instant, to think it was my wife.  Again, in travelling, also in the mail,  on the night of the same day,  about ten o'clock, having fallen asleep, I was startled as before, with the same feeling, but stronger, as if a handkerchief had been thrown in my face by my wife to waken me. (She was "buried by torchlight" that night.)......
......'When conversing with my wife's family on the subject of her death, one of them, her brother, exclaimed , "Oh, but did you hear what happened in your house in the country?"  "No; what was it?" 
"The strangest thing in the world - sure, Rosetta appeared to your children the night she was buried." 
"Nonsense," I said, "that is too ridiculous; they must have been dreaming, as I was when I was in the coach, and thought she wakened me."  "It is perfectly true," he replied, and then he told me what I tell you.
....Three children, one five, another three, and the third not quite two years old, were put to bed in their nursery at their usual hour. They were all asleep, when, about ten o' clock, on the night of the day when their mother died, and before any person in the house had been informed of her death, the children ALL suddenly awoke, screaming under the influence of fright, the two elder exclaiming "There's mamma! there's mamma!'

The same publication mentions two older children, daughters aged nine and ten, at the time of Rosetta's death in 1834.
The baptismal register of Carbery church notes that a daughter, Elizabeth Grattan, was born to Richard and Rosetta Althea Grattan of Drummin on 10th January 1833, and was baptised there on 13th February 1833.

In December 1845, Dr. Richard Grattan of Drummin lost a hand between the rollers of a threshing machine.  The Quaker nationalist, Alfred Webb, recalled that Dr. Grattan of Carbury had lost an arm in a threshing machine.

Following the death of his first wife, Rosetta Althea Martin in 1834, Richard Grattan married a second time.
'Saunders Newsletter' of 13th October 1836:  'Married on the 12th instant, at St, Thomas's Church, Richard Grattan of Drummin House, Kildare, to Grace Nixon, third daughter of William Gillespie of Lower Gardiner Street.'

The baptismal register of Carbery Church noted that a son, William, was baptised by Richard and Grace Grattan of Drummin on 5th November 1837. His date of birth was also noted but was illegible. Oddly, a later entry in the same register noted the date of baptism as 8th October 1837.

A second son of Richard and Grace Grattan of Drummin was baptised as Christopher Hutchinson Grattan on 22nd January 1838, and this was the man who proved his mother's will when she died at Drummin House on 28th April 1881.

At the beginning of the Great Famine, Richard Grattan wrote a letter detailing the first major failure of the potato crop, both on his own farm and in Co. Kildare in general, in October 1845, to John William Gillespie of 93 Lower Gardiner Street, and this man must surely be a relation of his wife, Grace Nixon Gillespie of Lower Gardiner Street.  A Christopher Gillespie was a wine merchant of Lower Gardiner Street.

The Kildare Lent Assizes for 1847:
In 1847, at the height of the Famine, Jane Maher and Garret Lynam were accused of poisoning, with arsenic, Richard Grattan Junior (1831 - 1846), aged 15, the son of Richard Grattan MD and Rosetta Haigh of Drummin House, Kildare.  Richard Grattan had attempted to alleviate the distress of his tenantry by purchasing a large quantity of Indian corn. Indian corn was deeply unpopular, being difficult both to prepare and digest.  It arrived in Drummin on the 14th or 15th of August 1846- when the servants refused to touch it, Richard Grattan ordered that it be served to his own family as breakfast porridge, or stirabout, on the mornings of the 17th and 18th August.  The servants still refused to eat it, and gave the leftovers to four calves which subsequently died.

At the time of the trial, Grattan testified that he was living at Drummin with his wife, five children (only three were named during the trial - Anne, William and the young victim, Richard, but the remaining two were mentioned as sisters to Anne) and five servants, two of whom were the suspects in the poisoning case - the cook, Jane Maher, and the steward, Garret Lynam.  Grattan helped Jane Lynam to prepare the porridge in the kitchen;  shortly after breakfast on the 18th, Grattan's family fell ill, and his son, Richard Junior, died about a day later.
The burial register of Carbery Church noted that Master Richard Grattan of Drummin was buried on 21st August 1846 aged 15.
The trial failed to find enough evidence to convict the two defendants, and the pair were released.
In the course of the trial, a Mr. John Grattan, possibly John Grattan of Belfast, was also mentioned.
The poisoned child, Richard Grattan, died aged 15, on 18th August 1846.

On December 17th 1859,  William Grattan, aged 22, eldest son of Richard Grattan M.D., died at Drummin House, Kildare - the death of this beloved son seems to have prompted the writing of 'Considerations on the Human Mind' as much of the book is devoted to his memory, and to the memory of his lately departed cousin, Biddulph Warner.
William and his father were buried in Carbery graveyard - 'William son of Richard Grattan Esqr. MD, Drummin House. Born October 1837, died December 1857.  "Farewell, dear William, for a time, Farewell ere longue both shall surely meet again, till then - child of my findest hopes, Farewell."  Richard Grattan, born January 1790. Died May 25th 1886.'

The 1901 census shows two unmarried sisters living in a 15-room house in Drummin, Kildare - Anne Grattan who had been born in Dublin in 1834, and her sister, Elizabeth Grattan, who had been born in Kildare in 1837.  (I had originally confused this Anne Grattan with her paternal aunt, Anne Grattan who had married George Cooke in 1850, but a newspaper announcement of 1850 clearly stated that the older Anne was the daughter of the LATE Richard Grattan of Drummin,)
From 'Walford's County Families' of 1901, it is stated that Anne Grattan of Drummin House was indeed the eldest daughter of Richard Grattan and of Rosetta Alathea who was herself the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin of Dublin.  Anne Grattan's sister, Elizabeth Grattan, who was also living at Drummin in 1901, was born in 1837 according to the census, so would have been born three years after the death of Rosetta Alathea Grattan, who was Anne's mother.
Anne Grattan died at Drummin House, Carbery, Co. Kildare, on 20th November 1915, and her will was granted to Robert Cecil Grattan de Courcy Wheeler, of Drummin, who also erected the sisters' gravestone in Carbery -
   'In memory of Anne Grattan who died 20th November 1915 aged 87 years, eldest daughter of Richard Grattan MD of Drummin House and of her sister, Elizabeth Grattan, who died 29th january 1922 aged 90 years. Erected in their memory by Robert Cecil Grattan De Courcy Wheeler of Drummin.'

 The register entry for the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has the following for Richard Grattan: 'Grattan, Richard - L, 17th Sept 1814;  F, 14th April 1817;  C., 1817 - 1822;  MD, Edin;  BA, Dublin. Drummin House, Carberry, Enfield, county Kildare.'
In the Dublin directory of 1818, Dr. Richard Grattan was mentioned as a Censor of The King's and Queen's College of Physicians;  he was also one of the Inspectors of Apothecaries Shops, appointed by Act of Parliament.
In 1818, his Dublin address was 32 Peter Street, and, in 1829, 23 York Street.
In 1848, Dr. Richard Grattan, who had strong nationalist sympathies, signed the William Smith O'Brien petition.

Dr. Richard Grattan, Drummin House, was vehemently patriotic, and was the author of ‘Vox Hiberniae e Deserto Clamantis: or, Ireland, her Grievances and their Remedies’, which was published in 1870.
On his kinsman, Henry Grattan:  ‘...Henry Grattan, returned as a representative through the patronage of the Earl of Charlemont, by his eloquence and liberal views soon became a leader in the Irish parliament. He was a strenuous advocate for Catholic emancipation.  He claimed and obtained free trade for Ireland.  Supported by the Irish Volunteers, he set the English minister at defiance, and compelled England, terrified by her ignominious defeat in the war with the United States, to ratify his resolution that no power on earth has the authority to make laws for Ireland, except the King, Lords, and Commons of IRELAND...my efforts, however feeble, have always been in accord with the principles of Henry Grattan...I have devoted my attention chiefly to the improvement of the hard-working and industrious classes....I have no faith in the wisdom, no confidence in the justice of an English Parliament in its dealings with Ireland...’

On being Protestant in Ireland:  ‘In this hatred of oppression no men have been more prominent than Protestants...Born in Ireland, dwelling in Ireland, Irish in feeling and bound to their fellow countrymen by the strong ties of a common nationality and of mutual interest, there never have been wanting amongst them brave hearts and strong minds to resist aggression, from whatever quarter it might come.’

On the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland:  ‘The greatest triumph of modern advancement has been that of the total separation of the Church and State in Ireland.  The disestablishment of the Irish branch of the English Church is indeed a great gain...the English parliament...has profited by the example of America, and is gradually adopting the democratic principles of the younger country, which has sprung from herself, speaks her language, and...can never forget or cease to be proud of her English origin.
   ‘...And why should it not be so with Ireland?  Ireland wishes to be connected to England by the golden link of the crown, but will no longer submit to be her slave. England and Ireland may and ought to move together in their foreign relations, but as regards the internal affairs of Ireland these must be managed by Ireland for her own benefit, and without English interference.’

‘I am the Senior Fellow of the College of Physicians - the father of the profession in Ireland...But I am not a mere doctor. Many years ago I retired from the laborious practice of the profession.  I preferred to reside on my own land, the greater part of which I inherit, and for which I pay no rent.  For more, I pay a small chief rent, and for the rest, all of which I hold in perpetuity, I pay the fair value.  Altogether I have as much as I want, a surface of nearly two thousand acres, much of which is waste. I have set some in farms to tenants;  I give leases of three lives or thirty-one years, whichever shall longest last.  I keep about three hundred acres in my own hands, and intend that so much shall always be attached to the family residence.  I set some of this for grazing by the year. I do not allow any house to be erected on it; whatever improvements are required I make myself. I have drained a large surface of land, and planted a good deal,  so that I have given an improved character to the entire country in my immediate vicinity.  I live on good terms with my tenants.  I do not wish to exterminate the labourers, of whom I employ a good many.  They are all Catholics, decent, hardworking people - orderly and obedient. I respect their creed, and they never think of finding fault with mine....I disapprove of the distribution of tracts offensive to Roman Catholics. I do not subscribe to the Bible Society.  My principles are rationalistic - that is, they are those of Protestantism carried to their legitimate extent, according to the strict rules of logical ratiocination.’

On his associations with Daniel O’Connell, the great Irish statesman: ‘The last time I stood by his side in public was when he seconded my resolution that we would never pay one shilling of tithes...We had resolved to disendow and disestablish the church altogether. Under the flag of civil and religious equality we had banded ourselves together...when without our knowledge a compromise was entered into by O’Connell and the Ministry. By means of this arrangement the tithes were converted into a permanent rent charge, payable by the landlords. The tithes no doubt were abolished, but the money charge was continued, and the Church was better off than ever.
   ‘...O’Connell acted his part well and nobly. Who but O’Connell could have thundered at the door of the English Commons, and bursting it in, stand proudly and alone in the midst of the elect of the British empire, bearding and defying them?...A giant, he possessed a giant’s strength, and he used it...O’Connell had to pull down before he could build. He had to undermine the strong towers and breach in the embattled walls of Protestant ascendancy, strengthened and consolidated as it was by the crushing exercise of penal laws and arbitrary power. He left the ground cumbered with rubbish, but the work was done by him, supported as he was by the liberal Protestant party. Since then the Established Church has fallen, and the rubbish has been removed.’

‘The case of Ireland is one of peculiar hardship. With the exception of the linen trade of the North, we do not possess a single manufacture.  During the long and calamitous period of the last forty-seven years, since the Union with England was forced upon this country, the jealous policy of the stronger nation has been perseveringly directed to destroy the trade and manufactures...added to this, the unceasing drain from Ireland by remittances to absentees - the fraudulent and repeated changes in the value of the currency - the destructive monopoly of the Bank of Ireland...have deprived this country both of capital and of credit.
   ‘England, by means of the Union, have placed us at her mercy, and deprived us of a resident legislature, the only safeguard of our national rights, now that we are famine-worn and fever-stricken, tells us that we are a nation of mendicants - that our country is not our own - that the produce of our cornfields and of our rich pastures is theirs, the property of English monopolists, and must be exported...to feed the English mechanic, even though two millions of the people of Ireland shall perish from want of food. And again and again she repeats that of money, even of our own money which we have paid into the English Treasury, not a guinea will be advanced to us, to relieve us in our present great distress.’