Notes on the Family of Frances Grattan of Drummin, Kildare

This post expands on my earlier post about the Grattan family of Drummin, Kildare.  Rev. William Willis, the son of our ancestor, Thomas Willis of Portarlington, married Frances Willis, the daughter of Richard Grattan and Elizabeth Biddulph of Drummin, Co. Kildare.   I will add to it as I discover more....

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

( The Biddulphs ....
In 1694, Nicholas Biddulph leased Rathrobin from Lord Shelbourne.

Nicholas was the third son of Francis Byddolph of Kilpatrick, Wexford who died in 1673, and of an Alice. His older brothers were Thomas of Wexford and Richard of Kilpatrick.

Nicholas Biddulph,who died on 5 March 1702, married Charity and had four children - John, Alice, Jane and Francis.

The eldest son of Nicholas and Charity, John Biddulph, lived in Stradbally, Co. Laois, and died around 1740, having had five children, Richard, John, Alice, Francis and Nicholas.

Francis Biddulph (born 1727 - 1806) lived at Vicarstown and married Eliza Harrison. They had eight children, one of whom was Elizabeth Biddulph who married Richard Grattan of Drummin. They also had  Patience Biddulph who married Henry T. Warner, and Francis Harrison Biddulph who married Mary Marsh. Also Mary Anne Biddulph who married William Scott and Frances Margaret Sarah Biddulph.

Francis Harrison Biddulph, the brother of Elizabeth Biddulph who married Richard Grattan the Elder of Drummin House, (1774 – 1827) lived at Vicarstown - He married Mary Marsh and had 14 children, one of whom was Francis Marsh Biddulph (1802 – 1868)who lived at Rathrobin and who married Lucy Bickerstaffe. Their son was Middleton Westen Biddulph (1849 – 1926) who lived at Rathrobin and who married Vera Flower.)

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The Children of Richard Grattan, JP, Drummin House, and Elizabeth Biddulph:

1)  A son, born circa 1788 or 1789, died young;  this son was alluded to by Richard Grattan MD of Drummin House, who follows.

2) Richard Grattan MD, of Drummin House, born 23rd January 1790.
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3)  John Grattan, apothecary and surgeon of Cornmarket, Belfast, born circa 1801 in the Dublin region, registered with the Dublin Hall of Apothecaries in 1823, and died 24th April 1871 in Belfast.   He married Harriet Shaw or Shawe, who was most likely a member of the Shawe family of Coolair, Kildare, who intermarried with the Edenderry/Kildare Grattans.

When John Grattan died in April 1871, 'Saunders Newsletter' of 27th April 1871, noted that he was the son of the late Richard Grattan of Drummin House, Co. Kildare.

'John Grattan was a native of Dublin, where he was born in 1800. After receiving a sound education there, he came to Belfast in 1825, where he commenced to practise as a druggist.  At this time his knowledge of practical chemistry led him to introduce the now worldwide known aerated waters, which for many years were exclusively manufactured by the firm of Grattan & Co.  His son-in-law (Mr. R.W. Pring) assisted him to perfect his invention.  He married Miss Harriet Shaw, and had a family of three daughters.  His tastes were scientific, and he contributed  various papers to the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, of which he was an office-bearer for many years.  His researches on human crania, found in the vicinity of ancient Irish round towers, were of special interest, and a craniometer, invented by himself and figured in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, attracted much attention from anthropologists. He also devoted attention to phrenology, and formed a large collection of casts.  His death took place at his residence, Coolgreany, Fitzwilliam Park, in 1871.'
(Published in 'The Belfast Literary Society' of 1902.)

Both John Grattan of Belfast and Richard Grattan of Drummin mention an unmarried sister named Ellen Grattan.
John Grattan might be the Mr. John Grattan who was present at the 1847 Kildare Lent Assizes which investigated the poisoning by arsenic of Richard Grattan's son, Richard, and who handled poisoned tissue being sent for analysis.  
Both John Grattan of Belfast and Frances Grattan had links to the same Willis family - Frances Grattan was married to Rev. William Willis, white John Grattan named the nephew of William Willis - Rev. John Thomas Willis - as an executor of his will.

The daughters of John Grattan of Belfast were Eliza Pring (1826 - 1888), Ann Jane Grattan (1827 - 1898) and Mary Shawe Grattan (1835 - 1893) and Eliza Shaw Evans.

John Grattan's 1871 will named his unmarried daughters, Anne Jane Grattan and Mary Shawe Grattan.  His executors were to be his 'friend', Rev. John Thomas Willis, of Forest Hill, his daughter, Anne Jane, and a James White, flour miller of Muckamore.  His son-in-law was Richard Ward Pring who was in business with him as 'Grattan & Co', and who was married to  Eliza Grattan - Eliza's children were also mentioned, but not named.

Note: When John Grattan's sister, Frances Willis died in Dublin on 27th May 1866, John Grattan's son-in-law, Richard Pring, proved her will, as did her nephew, Rev. John Willis of Bepton, Rectory. She was buried in Mount Jerome, Dublin and the register of burials was signed by John Grattan.

John Grattan's sister was named as Ellen Grattan.   A niece was Mistress Anne Jane Lester, and a cousin was Miss Mary Anne Scott.   A John Grattan, with letters J.Y.J.L.J. following his name, was also frequently mentioned.  The codicil mentioned a newly-built house in Fortwilliam Park.

John Grattan's daughter, Eliza Grattan, married apothecary Richard Ward Pring, the son of apothecary Elijah Pring of Dublin, in St. Anne's, Belfast, on 13th October 1852. John and Thomas Grattan witnessed this wedding.

The will of John Grattan's daughter, Mary Shawe Grattan, of Coolgreaney, Fortwilliam Park, Belfast who had been born in 1835 and who died on 1st December 1893 named one of her executors as Charlotte de Castro Willis of Coolgreaney, Fortwilliam Park.  Charlotte de Castro Willis was one of the primary beneficiaries. Charlotte de Castro Willis was the daughter of Rev. John Thomas Willis, who was the son of Thomas Gilbert Willis and Deborah Charlotte Newcombe.
The will of John Grattan's other daughter, Anne Jane Grattan of Coolgreaney, Fortwilliam Park, who died 24th November 1898,  once again named Charlotte de Castro Willis as executrix and beneficiary. Also named was a cousin, Elizabeth McCaw of Lurgan;    also named was Anna Grattan, the wife of Nicholas Grattan of Cork, who was the brother of John Grattan, apothecary.

On 12th July 1850 in Belfast, another of John Grattan's daughters, Eliza Shaw Grattan, married the widower Richard Evans, a merchant and son of the late William Evans;  this wedding was witnessed by Thomas Grattan and James Dyas.

Notes on John Grattan's niece, Mistress Anne Jane Lester, who was mentioned in his 1871 will, and also relation Elizabeth McCaw of Lurgan who was named as a cousin in Anne Jane Grattan's 1898 will:
On 5th May 1869 in Trinity Church in Belfast, Elizabeth, the second daughter of the late Jacob Lester of Palnagh, Armagh married linen merchant Robert M'Caw/McCaw of Taghnevan, Lurgan.  Assisting at the wedding was the bride's cousin Rev. Edward Augustus Lester MA.  The children of linen merchant William McCaw and Elizabeth (or Mary Elizabeth) Lester were George Tyrrell Lester born in Lurgan on 29th March 1870, Isabella McCaw on 19th August 1871, Emily Harriet McCaw on 2nd November 1874, and Robert Johnston McCaw.
Robert McCaw's brother was Johnston McCaw who was in the linen business with him, and who married Isabella Carlisle, daughter of William Carlisle of Laurel Lodge, in February 1843. Isabella McCaw, wife of Johnston McCaw, died in Tagnevan, near Lurgan, on 25th April 1860.  A daughter was Isabel McCaw who married Alexander Bell of Moira on 26th February 1875.

Jacob Lester attended Trinity, Dublin - the alumni records noted that he entered the college, aged 24, on 14th October 1842, and that he was the son of the Co. Armagh farmer, William Lester.  He graduated in 1847.   A Jacob Lester died in the city of Armagh on 25th June 1849.

Jacob Lester A.B. was noted in 1849 at Vicar's Hill, Palnagh, Armagh.  His brother was George Henry Lester, married to Margaret Shields, whose son was the Rev. Edward Augustus Lester who had officiated at the wedding of Elizabeth Lester and Robert McCaw in 1869.  Rev. Edward Augustus Lester, of Rathmines, then of Devon, married twice, first in 1864 to Cecilia Jane Browne, daughter of the late Albert William Browne M.D. of Dublin, and secondly in 1868 to Mary Frideswide Standish.    A daughter of George Henry Lester and Margaret Shields was Sarah Emily Lester who married on 10th June 1875 in Killilea Church, Armagh, to James Willis, son of the late John Willis of Grange, Armagh - the groom's brother, Rev. John Willis, officiated at the wedding.  I don't believe this Willis Family of Armagh was in any way related to the Willis family of Portarlington, one of whom - Rev. William Willis - married Frances Grattan, the daughter of Richard Grattan JP and of Elizabeth Biddulph.  The 'Belfast Newsletter' of 20th January 1868 noted that Miss Eliza Lester, daughter of the late Mr. George Lester, postmaster of Killilea, had been elected by the Board of Armagh Jail to be the assistant matron and schoolmistress.
A William Alexander Lester of Palnagh, Armagh, applied to join the civil service in 1865 and provided the details of his birth on the application - according to the Lester family bible, then in the possession of Mrs. Martha Lester, he had been born on 28th
December 1845 to G. and M. Lester of Palnagh.

Jacob Lester of Taghevan, Armagh, had married Anne Jane Tyrrell, the only daughter of George Tyrrell of Kilglass House, Clonard, Co. Kildare, in St. Anne's, Belfast, on 1st November 1844.('Belfast Newsletter', 5th November 1844.)
The Carbery Church of Ireland register shows that George Tyrrell of Kilglass or Carbery had married, on 27th August 1812,  Elizabeth Shawe, the daughter of Edward Shawe of Coolcor, Co.Kildare, who was related somehow to Harriet Shawe of Coolcor or Coolair, Co. Kildare, the wife of apothecary John Grattan.   (An earlier entry in the same register, dated 19th November 1808, noted the marriage of an older John Grattan of Monasteroris, King's County, and Margaret Althrew or Althea Shawe of Carbery.)
The only son of George Tyrrell and Elizabeth Shawe was Thomas George Tyrrell who died aged 24 on 10th December 1838 at his lodgings at 19 Upper Camden Street, Dublin.

George Tyrrell's brother was Adam Tyrrell of Grange Castle, Co. Kildare, who had married in 1804 to Ann Jane Shawe, also a daughter of Edward Shawe of Coolcor.  
The daughter of Adam Tyrrell and Ann Jane Shawe was Mary Ann Tyrrell who married in 1833 Thomas Grattan, who follows later in this post, and who had close family ties with John Grattan, apothecary.
Another daughter of Adam Tyrrell and Ann Jane Shawe was Anne Jane Shawe who married in Castlemagner, near Mallow, on 27th April 1854, to Rev. Francis Webb.
A son of Adam Tyrrell and Ann Jane Shawe was William Tyrell, born 1816, who emigrated to Canada in 1836 and who named a son as Henry Grattan Tyrrell (1867 - 1948).

4)  Catherine Grattan, eldest daughter of Richard Grattan and Elizabeth Biddulph of Drummin House, who married Captain George Hamilton of Toronto, in St. Thomas's, Dublin, in July 1836.  In his 'Considerations of the Human Mind' of 1861,  Richard Grattan MD of Drummin mentions that his sister, Catherine Hamilton, wrote him a letter of consolation on 3rd February 1860, following the death of his son William Grattan at an early age.  In the letter, she mentions her sister Ellen, and tells him that her husband, Colonel Hamilton, longed to return to Ireland and Europe.  I know nothing yet about Colonel George Hamilton.  Catherine's brother, Nicholas Grattan of Cork, named a daughter - Catherine Hamilton Grattan, after his sister.

4)  Ellen Grattan, who was mentioned in a letter of 3rd February 1860 written by her sister, Catherine Hamilton of Ontario, to her brother Richard Grattan of Drummin.   John Grattan, apothecary of Belfast, also mentioned a sister, Ellen Grattan, in his will.

5) Frances Grattan, born circa 1805, married  Rev. William Willis of Charleville in July 1836 in St. George's, Limerick.  We descend directly from Eliza Willis, the sister of Rev. William Willis.  The nephew of William and Eliza Willis was the Rev. John Thomas Willis who was mentioned in the will of John Grattan above, and whose daughters were close to the daughters of John Grattan.
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6) Nicholas Grattan, M.R.C.S.E., dentist of Killeagh, Co. Cork, born 23rd March 1808, died at The View, Orry Hill, Cork on 6th August 1869 (from 'The Cork Examiner' of 7th August 1869).

He studied at the Royal College of Surgeons in England, and qualified there in 1831. He was most likely named after Nicholas Biddulph of Vicarstown, a brother of his mother's.

He lived at Sunday's Well Road, Cork in 1863.

The 'Waterford Chronicle' of 15th June 1833 noted a first marriage of Nicholas Grattan.  'In St. Andrew's, Dublin, Nicholas Gratrtan of Killeagh, Co. Cork, to Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of the late John Jackson of Grafton Street.'   Eliza, the wife of Nicholas Grattan, surgeon of Killeagh, died in August 1837. ('Tipperary Free Press', 5th August 1837.)

Nicholas Grattan married, secondly, in February 1838 in Christchurch, Cork, Mary Anne Peet, daughter of the late Joshua Peet of Waterford. ('Tipperary Free Press', 17th February 1838.)   Mary Anne Grattan would die in childbirth, aged 34, at 24 South Mall, Cork, on 5th March 1850.

The children of Nicholas Grattan and Mary Anne Peet were:
a) Nicholas Grattan, b. June 14, 1839, Killeagh, Ireland, d. August 23, 1896, Cork, Ireland.   An orthopaedic Surgeon, he qualified at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1862, and registered with the Apothecaries' Hall in Dublin the same year.

Nicholas Grattan, son of Nicholas Grattan and Mary Anne Peet, married Hamina, the daughter of the late Hamilton Cliffe Lowe of Lismore, Co. Waterford, in August 1866. ('Tipperary Free Press', 21st August 1866.)
His  first wife Hamina Lowe, died on 18th October 1878.
A second wife of Nicholas Grattan Junior was Anna Gibson, who was named in the 1898 will of Ann Jane Grattan, daughter of John Grattan of Belfast.

Nicholas Grattan Junior and Hamina Lowe had Charlotte Hamina Grattan, born at North Main Street on 22nd August 1867, but died young in 1876; Mary Elizabeth, born on 25th June 1869 at 42 Grand Parade, Marcella Grattan born at 99 North Main Street on 11th March 1871 and a son, Hamilton Grattan, was born on 28th October 1872 at 24 South Mall.

By his second wife, Anna Gibson, Dr. Nicholas Grattan Jr. had a son, William Henry Grattan, norn at 24 South Mall on 30th July 1883;  a metallurgist, he died unmarried, aged only 43, of carbon monoxide poisoning at 21-22 Rrathmines Road, Co. Dublin, on 26th May 1927. The inquest was held on 27th May 1928, and he was buried in Carbery, Co. Kildare -
 'In memory of William Henry (Harry) Grattan youngest son of the late Nicholas Grattan MD., Cork. Died 26th May 1927.'

Nicholas Grattan Junior died, aged 57, at 24 South Mall, Cork, on 29th August 1896 and was buried in St. Finbar's Cemetery.  The chief mourners at his funeral were named as Henry Grattan, John Penrose (Nicholas Grattan's brother-in-law), H.L. Livy,  Master Cecil T. Livy, F. Livy and T. Russell.

b) Mary Grattan, b. April 16, 1841, Killeagh, Ireland, to Nicholas Grattan and Mary Anne Peet.  She married in Christchurch, Cork, John Penrose of Cork, in April 1864.

c) Catherine Hamilton Grattan, b. 1847, Cork, Ireland, to Nicholas Grattan and Mary Anne Peet, and who died in January 1936 in Chicago.  Catherine Hamilton Grattan must have been named after her paternal aunt, who had been born to Richard Grattan and Elizabeth Biddulph, and who married Colonel Hamilton of Ontario.

Following the death of his first wife, Mary Anne Peet in 1850, Nicholas Grattan Senior married a second time - on 30th January 1852, he married, in Christ Church, Martha Gregg, the only daughter of the late solicitor George Gregg.  In 1850, Nicholas Grattan's address was still South Mall, Cork.  ('Evening Freeman', 24th January 1852.)   The wedding witnesses were Thomas Gregg M.D. and William Fielding Gregg.
Nicholas Grattan and second wife, Martha Gregg, had a son, Thomas Grattan, born 24th November 1864 at 24 South Mall.

7) Anne Grattan of 23 Pembroke Place, the youngest daughter of the late Richard Grattan J.P. of Drummin, married the widower, George Cooke of 4 Drumcondra Terrace, son of Randal Cooke, in St. George's, Dublin, on 12th September 1850. The wedding in St. George's was witnessed by Anne's brothers, Richard Grattan MD and John Grattan and by a John Conway. 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, son of George Cooke and Anne Grattan, followed his grandfather, Richard Grattan MD, into the medical profession; he studied in Trinity, Dublin and registered as a doctor on 22nd July 1873, before working 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, daughter of John and Georgiana Calder.
George Grattan Cooke and Henrietta Calder had Kathleen Isabelle Cooke, born 21st February 1885, who married Arthur Guy Robinson in Jamaica on 19th June 1907.
George Grattan Cooke and Henrietta Calder also had a son, George Grattan Cooke, on 8th November 1883, who married Helen Augusta Bonnito, daughter of Simon Bonnito, in Jamaica on 6th December 1911. She died on 17th August 1912, and George Grattan Cooke never remarried.  A planter, he travelled frequently between Jamaica and England where he was living at York House, Giggs Hill Rd., Thames Ditton, in 1957.
George Grattan Cooke and Henrietta Emma Calder also had a son, Francis Hamilton Cooke (1879 - 1939) who was licenced as a doctor on 10th November 1902 having trained in Trinity, Dublin. He practiced medicine in Hounslow, England, and at one stage held the post of medical officer for the West African Medical Service in Ghana.  He married Alice Katherine Fleming, the daughter of Thomas H. Fleming, in Jamaica on 26th February 1908. Their son was yet another George Grattan Cooke, who was born in 1911 and who married a Nettie Dilys Cooke, and who had another George Grattan Cooke in 1947.

Notes on Thomas Grattan of Edenderry, Armagh and Belfast:

I had originally believed Thomas Grattan to be one of the sons of Richard Grattan and Elizabeth Biddulph of Drummin, Kildare.  However, he seems rather to be the Thomas Grattan who married, in 1833, Mary Ann Tyrell - the newspaper announcement for this event names Thomas as the son of John Grattan of Edenderry.  Mary Ann Tyrrell was the daughter of Adam Tyrrell and Ann Jane Shawe of Grange Castle, Kildare.

A handwritten genealogy of the Tyrrells of Grange Castle, which is slightly faded in places, seems to have John Grattan of Edenderry, father of Thomas, as 'John Grattan MD'.

So many of this Grattan family were members of the medical profession, that it makes deciphering all this painful!  However, there was a John Grattan MD of Edenderry (1788 - 1836) who married another member of the Shawe family, Margaret Alicia Shawe, the daughter of Edmund Shawe of Coolair, and these were most likely the parents of Thomas Grattan of Belfast. The marriage of John Grattan of the parish of Monasteroris, King's County, and of Margaret Alicia Shaw of Carbery, was noted in the parish register as taking place in Carbery on 19th November 1808.  Monasteroris is on the outskirts of Edenderry,
This John Grattan MD was the son of Thomas Grattan (1749 - 1801), another of the Grattan doctors, who was married to Ann Sullivan. This earlier Thomas Grattan MD of Edenderry was the son of John Grattan MD (1713 - 1787) who was married to Hannah Colley, and who was the grandfather of the writer, Thomas Colley Grattan, a close relation of Richard Grattan MD of Drummin, second son of Richard Grattan and Elizabeth Biddulph.  I'll have to draw a chart!
A newspaper announcement mentions the death in December 1847 of William Grattan, dentist, third son of the late John Grattan MD of Edenderry, so this William Grattan, dentist, must have been a brother of Thomas Grattan of Belfast.
The Carbury church register notes the burial of Anne Jane Grattan of Monasteroris on 7th November 1813 aged only five months.
(The same register notes a stray John Grattan of Monasteroris was buried on 16th February 1814 aged 56, and also a Richard Grattan of Monasteroris who was buried aged 76 on 2nd November 1827.)
A possible son of John Grattan and Margaret Alicia Shaw/Shawe would be the 2-month-old Shawe Grattan who was buried in Carbery in 1815. The exact date wasn't noted in the burial register.

(To confuse matters even further, the Cork Examiner of June 1851 noted that a Marianne, the wife of Dr. Thomas Grattan, died in Pennsylvania, thirty years after leaving Edenderry, but this is a different Dr. Thomas Grattan.)

The Public Records Office in Belfast holds the surgeons' and apothecaries' certificates of members of the Grattan family of Edenderry;  amongst these papers are the rent receipts for Thomas Grattan's premises as a surgeon dentist in College Square, Belfast.  Also included is an 1850 letter from A. Tyrrell of Weston, Ontario.  I haven't read these items, but they serve to link Thomas Grattan to both the Tyrrell family of Weston, which had its roots in Grange Castle, Kildare, and to the Grattans of Edenderry.

Thomas Grattan had been born in about 1810.  He was a dentist who had registered with the Apothecaries' Hall in Dublin in 1832, and who died in Belfast on 21st February 1879:  the executors of his will were Richard Ward Pring, the business partner and son-in-law of John Grattan of Belfast, which whom Thomas Grattan had close links, and Joseph Richardson Turtle Mulholland, spinning-mill manager. The beneficiaries were his daughter-in-law who was the widow of his late son, Edward Shawe Grattan, and a son, John Smith Grattan.   Son Edward Shawe Grattan had been named for his maternal grandmother, Ann Jane Shawe of Kilglass, the daughter of Edward Shawe.

Thomas Grattan had operated as a surgeon-dentist at College Square, Belfast - he had been working in the Coombe Hospital in Dublin in 1832.   In the 1840s he was working as a surgeon-dentist at the Medical Hall, 20 Scotch Street, Armagh.  In an advertisement for 'Grattan & Co. of Belfast', the company operated by his relation, John Grattan, he was included at the bottom as their agent in Armagh - both were suppliers of leeches.
He moved to 39 King Street, Belfast in 1876, and, on 1st March 1877, his wife, Marianne Grattan, née Tyrrell, died there.  

His son, the surgeon Edward Shaw Grattan (1840 - 1874 - he died in Bangor, Co. Down, and was buried in Rice Lane graveyard, Liverpool on 11th July 1874) appeared in the UK Medical Directory of 1863, with an address at Burrough Gaol, Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in England.   He was married to Mary, and their daughter, Harriet Emily Grattan, was baptised in St. Mary's, Walton on 1st July 1868.  Harriet Emily Grattan later trained as a nurse and worked at Lambeth Infirmiary, London.

His brother, John Smith Grattan (1834 - 1880), was noted in the earlier 1858 edition of the Medical Register as a doctor of midwivery with a similar address at Walton-on-the-Hill in Liverpool, who had studied at the Royal College of Surgeons in England.
John Smith Grattan died, aged 46 in 1881 in Lancashire, having married  Evelina Carter, the daughter of Rev. Thomas Carter of Walton-on-the-Hill, in Walton Church on 5th August 1868.
Their son, Thomas Carter Grattan, was baptised in St. Mary's on 11th September 1869.  On the same day,  another member of the same Grattan family was baptised there, Alfred Grattan, the son of another surgeon, Edwin Thomas Grattan and Mary.  Thomas Carter officiated at all the above christenings.

(Notes on the Carter family:  Evelina Carter was the daughter of Rev. Thomas Carter (1805 - 1873) of the Liverpool Borough Jail who was married to Evelina Barnes, who had been born in 1804 on St. Croix, the Virgin Islands, and who died in Lancashire on 26th June 1867. The couple married in Liverpool on 11th April 1833, and had, along with Evelina who married John Smith Grattan, Thomas Barnes Carter, born 13th February 1833, and Maria Elizabeth Carter born 30th March 1836 in Bury, Lancashire.)

Following the death of John Smith Grattan in 1881, both his widow, Evelina,  and his son, Thomas Carter Grattan, emigrated to Balmain North, Sydney, Australia, where Thomas married Ellen Elizabeth/Nellie Lynam in 1892.  He died aged 52 in 1921 in Petersham, Sydney. His mother, Evelina, died aged 72 the following year at Marrickville, Sydney.

The children of Thomas Carter Grattan of Liverpool were Doris Helen Grattan (1893 - 1986),  Robert Desmond Grattan, born in 1894, and Brian Grattan, born 1896.   Doris Helen Grattan emigrated to Kyogle, New South Wales, where she married the Englishman, William Redmayne (1886 - 1965) who had served with the Australian Army during the Great War.   A farmer, he had arrived in Australia in 1909.   The children of Doris Helen Grattan and William Redmayne were all born in Kyogle - Robert Grattan Redmayne (1920 - 2004), Thomas William Redmayne (1923 - 2003), Marjorie Elizabeth Redmayne, born 1926, and Jean Helen Redmayne, born 1926, who married Kevin Edwards.
Robert Grattan Redmayne married Edith Phyllis Pardew (1920 - 1996) and had William Robert Redmayne in 1959, Richard James Redmayne in 1960.  Thomas William Redmayne married Isabel Clare Knight, born 1926, and these were the parents of Brian Redmayne who shared this info with me.


Notes On Rev. John Thomas Willis:

Rev John Thomas Willis (1819 - 1902) was the son of Rev. Thomas Gilbert Willis and Deborah Charlotte Willis, and nephew of Rev. William Willis who married Frances Grattan, the daughter of Richard Grattan and Elizabeth Biddulph.  (Rev. Thomas Gilbert Willis and Rev. William Willis were half-brothers, both being the sons of the schoolmaster Thomas Willis of Portarlington.)
Rev. John Thomas Willis was Rector of St. Mary Belize 1861 to 1862; Chaplain of Kingston Convict Prison 1862 to 1863; Rector of Bepton Sussex England 1863 to 1867; Victor of Rhosmarket 1875 to 1875.

Rev. John Thomas Willis, youngest son of the late Thomas G. Willis. LL.D., married at Islington on 25th April 1861, Mary Ransford de Castro, only daughter of the late Samuel de Castro, Esq., of Bill Hill, Berkshire.  His brother, Henry de Laval Willis, officiated at the London ceremony.

They had four daughters -
a) Mary F. Willis, born 1862 in Honduras.

b) Charlotte Newcombe de Castro Saddler Willis, baptised 12th June 1863 in Bepton, Surrey. She died on 20th July 1923 and her will gave her two addresses as Brookhill House Cliftonville Belfast and of 11 Duke Street Bath.  She lived in Belfast later with her two relations, Anne Jane and Mary Shawe Grattan, the daughters of John Grattan and Harriet Shaw. John Grattan was either the brother or close relation of Frances Grattan who married Rev. William Willis.

c) Madeline Louise de Laval Willis, born 1868 in Kent, but died in 1871 and was buried on 5th October 1871 at Norwood Cemetery, Lambeth, London. The family's address at the time of Madeline's death was noted as 3 Plymouth Terrace, Devonshire Road, Forest Hill.

d) Rebecca Gertrude de Castro Willis, baptised 18th November 1870 in Forest Hill, England.

Notes on the Pring Family:
Richard Ward Pring, business partner and son-in-law of John Grattan, was the son of Elijah Pring, glass manufacturer or apothecary of Westmoreland St., and of Seafort, Williamstown, Dublin.
An Elijah Pring of Westmoreland Street founded the Ringsend Bottle Factory.  In 1858, Elijah James Pring lived at Maryvilla, Ballsbridge.

Elijah Pring of the New Medical Hall, Dublin, married Harriet Locke, the youngest daughter of James Locke of Taunton, on 9th October 1821 in Taunton, Somerset, England. The witnesses to this wedding were Eliza Locke, Mary Sutton and Elizabeth Cox. Harriet Pring would later die in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, on 10th March 1870.

A son was Elijah James Pring, who had been born in Somersetshire, England, in 1826, and entered Trinity, Dublin, on 2nd July 1842 aged 16.  The Medical Directory for Ireland later recorded this Elijah James Pring in Carrickfergus in 1858.

In November 1862, Charlotte Eliza Pring, the last surviving daughter of Elijah Pring, druggist of Westmoreleand Street, married John Johnson, the only son of William Johnson of Castle Kevin, and nephew of James Doyle of Cloyne.

Another child of Elijah Pring of Westmoreland Street was Edward John Locke Pring who had been born in England in about 1835.  On 18th October 1856 in Donnybrook Church, Edward John Locke Pring of Mary Villa married Emma Fannie Hayes, the only daughter of William Hayes of Trimleston, Co Dublin.  A son was born in Pembroke Cottage, Ballsbridge, on 5th September 1859, another on 15th January 1858 at the Martello Tower, Merrion Strand.
In November 1862, Edward John Locke Pring and his partner, Ephraim George Webb, photographers and picture dealers operating under the name of 'Pring, Webb & Co' at 15 Sackville Street, were declared insolvent.     Edward subsequently emigrated temporarily to Windsor, New South Wales, Australia where a daughter was born on 26th June 1867.  He practised there as a doctor, chemist and druggist.
The family moved subsequently to California in 1870 where they were captured by the 1870 and 1880 census.  Children were Ernest Pring, born circa 1858 in Ireland, Francis born circa 1860 in Ireland, William Hayes St. George born 16th April 1865 in Australia, Elizabeth born 1867 in Australia and Frances born at sea in 1870.
Edward's wife, Fannie, died on 16th May 1909 at the home of her son-in-law, Archibald Edward Moeran, in Portumna, Co. Galway.   Archibald Edward Moeran, a land agent and son of the Dean of Down, Edward Busteed Moeran, had married Helen Frances Locke Pring, the daughter of Dr. Edward Locke Pring, in Taney Church, Co. Dublin, on 17th November 1897.   She had been born, according to the Irish Census, on the Pacific Ocean, presumably on the voyage to or from New South Wales.  In 1897, the papers reporting her wedding to Archibald Edward Moeran, noted that her father, Edward John Locke Pring, was living in The Peaks, California, while her mother was living at 4 Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin.

Richard Ward Pring was licenced by the Apothecarys' Hall in 1858.

1832:  Ward, Pring & Co, New Medical Hall, 30 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. (Richard Ward)

Richard Ward Pring married twice, first to Eliza Grattan,the daughter of John Grattan of Belfast, and secondly to Adelaide Eugenie Strong.  They lived at Firmount, Belfast.  He died on 10th November 1891 at Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight.  His first wife, Eliza Pring, née Grattan, died at Firmount, Fortwilliam Park, Belfast, on 11th May 1888. Her will was witnessed by Charlotte (de Castro) Willis, and by her own sister, Anne Jane Grattan.
The widower Richard Ward Pring of Firmount was married by Rev. Willis, on 22nd January 1890, to Adelaide Eugenia, the widow of Henry B. Strong of Detroit, USA.
The best friend of Richard Ward Pring, apothecary, was Henry Kirke White of Killiney, one of the beneficiaries of his will.  Richard Ward Pring administered the 1869 will of the Offaly-born spinster (of Elizabeth Locke who died in Wexford.   Richard's brother was Edward John Locke Pring, which seems to suggest that the Prings were somehow related to the Locke family - possibly Elijah Pring had married a member of this family.

Business associate of John Grattan of Belfast, Richard Ward Pring proved many of the Grattan wills, including that of Frances Willis,  née Grattan, who had married Rev. William Willis.

The children of Richard Ward Pring and Eliza Grattan:
1) Arthur Henry Pring was the eldest son - he lived abroad in Tenerife for a number of years 'because of his health.'  Arthur seems to have settled in England - he had married Lucy Jane Barnsly Reid, the daughter of James Reid, on 30th January 1879 in Belfast.  A son, John Grattan Pring, was born in Belfast on 7 March 1881.   In 1911, one-year-old Aileen Lucy Grattan Pring, who had been born in Budleigh, Bristol, was a boarder in Paignton, Devon, along with what seems to be her parents, John Gratton Pring, and Jessie Elizabeth Pring (née Baker) of Plymouth. John Grattan Pring died at 5 East Terrace, Budleigh, Salterton, Devon, on 21st September 1952, with administration of his will to Aileen Lucy Grattan Pring and to Moya Nora Grattan Pring.

2) Rev. Richard Henry Pring (born circa 1860)  who married Ellen Marguerite of Croyden, Surrey, and who had two children - Noel Grattan Pring, born 30th December 1896 at Marto, Cheshire, wheren Rev. Richard Henry Pring was clergyman, and Nora Grattan Pring, born Oct 1899 in Marton, Cheshire (This from the UK 1901 Census. ) Son, Noel Grattan Pring, died on 15th October 1948 at Peshawar, India.  He was married to Ida Margaret.
         
3) Henry Grattan Pring died at Slieve-na-Failte, Whiteabbey, Co. Antrim on 5th October 1942.  He married Eliza Barbour Gordon in Belfast in 1894. In 1906 he proved the will of his sister, Harriet Grattan Pring Macmaster of Skerries, Co. Dublin. He worked as a merchant in aerated water, which had been originally manufactuered by Grattan & Co, the firm founded by his grandfather, John Grattan, and taken over by his father, Richard Ward Pring. Henry Grattan Pring had a large family in Whitehouse, Co. Antrim, and they appeared on both the 1901 and 1911 census - Elizabeth Violet Beatrice Pring, born Antrim in about 1896; Vera Pring, born circa 1897; Hilda Pring, born circa 1898; Moya Pring, born circa 1900; Ellen Pring, born circa 1903; Richard Gordon Pring, born circa 1909.
         
4) Elizabeth Frances Pring, or Frances Elizabeth Pring. On 24th June 1891 in St. James's, Belfast, Rev. Richard Henry Pring presided at the wedding of his sister, Frances Elizabeth, to John Traill Mill.
         
5) Harriet Grattan MacMaster. Harriet Grattan Pring was married to Charles Macmaster;  a son, Richard Ward Pring Macmaster was born at Moyne Road, Rathmines, Co. Dublin, on 14th November 1886. There were also two daughters - Lizzie Macmaster, born circa 1885 and Edith Macmaster, born circa 1888. Richard Ward Pring Macmaster died on 3rd July 1956 at 63 Church Street, Skerries, Co. Dublin - he had married Emma Caroline Fennell in Dublin in 1938.   Harriet Grattan Pring Macmaster died at Holpatrick Villa, Skerries, on 27th April 1906, with probate of her will to her merchant brother, Henry G. Pring, and to Elizabeth F. Mill. According to the two Irish censuses, Charles Macmaster had been born in either Meath or Louth in about 1856.

Rev. John Grogan and Lizzie Bourne, Balrothery and Clyde Road

I recently came across the accounts book which had been kept by Rev. John Grogan, Vicar of Balrothery and of Clyde Road, Dublin (2nd September 1816 - 28th December 1899).  He kept an assiduous record of his spending from January 1st 1864 until his death in 1889 at 12 Clyde Road -  I thought it was an interesting record of late Victorian family life so I went through it with a fine tooth comb, taking notes of whatever caught my eye.  I also came across a used chequebook, dated 1913/1914, which had been owned by Rev. John's widow, Lizzie Grogan,  and which details payments made by her to other member of the families mentioned below.

 I am vaguely related to the Grogans, since they intermarried with both my Courtenay,  Pennefather and Ryan ancestors.  Rev. John Grogan's sister, Jane Grogan, married William Ryan of Ballymackeogh, Co. Tipperary, whose mother was Anne Pennefather, the daughter of our immediate ancestor Rev. John Pennefather of Newport, Co. Tipperary.  Edwin Grogan married one of our Dublin Courtenay family  - Edwin Grogan was the son of Rev. William Grogan of Slaney Park, who was the uncle of Rev. John Grogan of Balrothery.

Rev. John Grogan of Annamoe Parish, Co. Wicklow, married Elizabeth Bourne in St. Peter's, Dublin, on 2nd October 1850 - the ceremony was performed by his brother, Rev. Charles James Grogan.

The children of Rev. John Grogan and Elizabeth/Lizzie Bourne were:

1) John Edward Grogan, born 7th February 1852, died 8th October 1871.

2)  Lizzie/Elsie Grogan, born on 13th March 1853 - 4th December 1938; she died at 21 Clyde Road.

3) Edward Medlicott Grogan, born 6th April 1856  and died on 20th April 1871.

4) Ellen Fanny (known as Eileen) Grogan, born 19th June 1857 -in September 1889 she married Rev. Arthur Edward Butt of Seaton, Devon, the son of William Butt, and had twin daughters, Irene and Olive Butt, on 25th April 1895 at Exmouth, UK.
According to her father's account book, but she was staying with her widowed mother at Clyde Road in 1901, along with her two twin daughters, Irene and Olive Butt, who had been born in England in about 1896.
 A third daughter, Agatha Ryder Butt, was born and died on 12th April 1893 in Lukkur, Bombay;  she was buried the same day at Sukkur-Scinde, Bombay.  The husband of Ellen France/Eileen Grogan,  Rev. Arthur Edward Butt, died 30th October 1895 at Sanfield, UK, aged 33.    Throughout 1913/1914, Lizzie Grogan sent cheques to both Eileen Butt and Ellen Butt, one of which was for the twins.
Olive Meredyth Butt of 21 Clyde Road married Captain Henry Vere White of Leeson Park, the son of  Henry Vere Dawson White, the Bishop of Limerick, although, at the time of his son's marriage in St. Bartholomew's, Clyde Road, on 9th September 1919, he was of Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin. The groom's mother was Frances Alice Meredith, but wasn't in any way related to the family of Sarah Meredyth, who was the bride's direct ancestor.

5)  Caroline Jane Grogan, born 9th December 1858 in Kingstown, Co. Dublin, and baptised in Monkstown, Co. Dublin.  She married, on 18th December 1888, Arthur Gore Ryder, the engineer son of Rev. Arthur Gore Ryder, Sub-dean of Christchurch and rector of St.Mary's, Donnybrook.  The 'Freeman's Journal' of 3rd December 1888 noted that the officials and employees of the Dublin Portland Cement Co. had assembled at their place of work - First Lock, Grand Canal - to present a lamp and a purse to Arthur G. Ryder CE on the occasion of his marriage with Caroline Grogan.

In 1897 Arthur G. Ryder and Caroline Jane Grogan were living at St. John's Terrace, Dolphins Barn.

This daughter was rarely mentioned in her father's accounts book, other than vague references to the Ryders;  she was, however, buried alongside her family in Mount Jerome cemetery when she died on 16th July 1935.  

Notes on the Ryder family:  The Ryder or de Rythre family of Riverstown, Co. Kildare, claimed descent from an ancient English family who had lived in Rythre, Barkstone, Yorkshire.
The earliest member of this family to settle in Ireland was Rev. Thomas Ryder of Mitchelstown, who was noted there in 1725 and who had been the Rector of Kilfinan and Darragh, Co. Limerick.
Rev. Thomas Ryder married Martha Badham, daughter of Bretridge Badham, MP for Rathcormack.  A son was St. George Ryder who married Margaret Fitzgerald, and who had the barrister St. George Ryder who married Mary or Abigail Rothwell, and Rev. John Ryder of Castlelyons, Co. Cork, Chancellor of the Diocese of Cloyne,  who married Margaret Browne the daughter of Rev. Joshua Browne of Castle Lyons.
Abigail, wife of barrister St. George Ryder, died aged 82 in Bath Square, Tunbridge Wells, in February 1842, and was noted in the papers as the sister of the late John Rothwell of Staffordstown House, Co. Meath, and of Castle House, Devonshire.
The children of Rev. John Ryder of Castlelyons were Rev. John Browne Ryder, St. George Ryder of the 71st Regiment who died at Deal in 1809 upon his return from the island of Wacheren, and Rev. William Ryder who married Marianne Ross.   The daughter of Rev. William Ryder and Marianne/Anne Ross was Annie Ryder who married, in October 1854, Walter Bourne CE, the son of Peter Bourne of York Street, Dublin.  Annie died not long afterwards on 17th November 1859, at Calcutta where her husband, Walter Bourne, was the district engineer.  Annie's father, the Venerable William Ryder died aged 71 at Queenstown in May 1862.
The second son of Rev. Thomas Ryder of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, was Henry Ryder who married in 1740 Mary Grayson, and who had Abraham St. George Ryder, the first of the family to settle at Riverstown House although he was generally noted as being of Bray, Athy, Co. Kildare.
Abraham St. George Ryder married in 1777 Frances, daughter of William Harrington of Grange Con Castle, Co. Wicklow.  Their children were Captain William Ryder/de Rythre of Riverstown House and of the Kildare Militia who had been  born in 1787 and who married, Anne Dickson of Montalto, Co, Tyrone, Harrington Ryder who married Elizabeth, the daughter of Arthur Gore, and St. George Ryder who married Annabella Pennicuick.  Abraham Ryder's daughter was Emma Ryder who married James Cassidy of Bray. Co. Wicklow, in December 1836.

Harrington Ryder of Archer's Grove, Co. Kilkenny, son of Abraham St. George Ryder, married Elizabeth Gore of Kilkenny in January 1822.  In 1824 in Archer's Grove, Harrington and Elizabeth Ryder had twins. The 'Kilkenny Journal' of 20th February 1867 noted the death at The Abbey, Co. Tipperary, the residence of her son Rev. Arthur Gore Ryder, of Eliza, the widow of Harrington Ryder of Kilkenny, and sister of the late Mrs. Peter Roe, aged 76.   (When son Rev. Arthur Gore Ryder was appointed to Carrickmacross School as headmaster in 1850, he was noted as nephew to the late Rev. Peter Roe.)  
The Harringtons and the Ryders seem to have been in business together in the 1820s - in 1820 a fire destroyed Mallardstown Mills in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, which was the property of Messrs. Harrington, Ryder & Co.
Harrington Ryder, wine merchant of Archers Grove Mills, died of fever in Kilkenny in September 1826. ('Dublin Morning Register', 7th September 1826.)

The son of Harrington Ryder and Elizabeth Gore was Rev. Arthur Gore Ryder, father of the younger Arthur Gore Ryder who married Caroline Jane Grogan in 1888.  Rev. Arthur Gore Ryder married twice - his first wife was Anne Gore, the daughter of William H. Gore M.D. of Tramore, who he married on 13th July 1850 in Drumcannon, Waterford.  Arthur had been appointed by the Marquess of Bath in 1850 to the headmastership of the Carrickmacross Endowed School.
On 6th December 1858, the death occurred of 7-year-old Harrington Dudley Ryder, the eldest son of Rev. Arthur Gore Ryder, at The Abbey, Co. Tipperary.
In January 1859 a second son, St. George Ryder, died at The Abbey.
On 14th February 1863, Anne, wife of the Rev. Arthur Gore Ryder, died in childbirth at The Abbey, Co. Tipperary.
He was appointed as Rector to St. Mary's, Donnybrook, shortly afterwards, and married his second wife there, on 31st July 1871, Nina  Gertrude MacMahon, the youngest daughter of Sir Beresford B. MacMahon.    A daughter, Nina Beryl Ryder, born in Dublin on 30th November 1874, and another son, Ralph St. George Gore Ryder, born in Dublin on 15th April 1879.  There was also the fabulously-named Beresford Burton McMahon Ryder, born in Dublin on 27th May 1877.
The 'Essex Newsman' of 24th February 1906 reported that, on the 18th February 1906, in Holborn, Beresford Burston MacMahon Ryder, son of the late Canon Arthur Gore Ryder, Sub-Dean of Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, married Eleanor Maitland Curle, daughter of the late W. Curle of the East Indies and of Mrs. Curle of 36 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh.

In 1903, the younger Arthur Gore Ryder who married Caroline Jane Grogan, proved the will of the elderly spinster, Frances Anne Ryder of Riverstown House.  She had earlier been the primary beneficiary of the will of Robert Browne of Riverstown House who died there on 9th January 1879.

Caroline Jane's husband, Arthur Gore Ryder, died on 17th February 1906; he was late of both 3 Sidmonton Terrace, Bray, Co. Wicklow, and of Riverstown House, Monasterevan, Co. Kildare.   They were both living at Sidmonton Terrace in 1901 - Arthur was a civil engineer, deriving income from landed property.  He had been born in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan - his clerical father had been running a school there at the time.   Caroline Jane had been born in Kingstown, Co. Dublin.   Later, in 1913/1914, her mother would send her money, but the address was not included in the chequebook stubs.

6)   Alice Grogan, born 1st April 1863 in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin.  The 'Sussex Agricultural Express' of 12th October 1901 noted her marriage in St. John's, Norwood, England, on 9th October 1901 to Ernest Arthur White, who had been baptised on 22nd November 1871  by the auctioneer Walter Wiggins White and Frances Elizabeth Godfrey of Denmark Hill, Southwark, London. 
In 1901, when Alice Grogan married Ernest Arthur White,  the White family were living in Lindum House, Anerley.
Alice and Ernest Arthur White had a son, Gabriel Ernest Edward Francis White, in Rome, on 29th November 1902.

7)  Dr. Amelia Gertrude Grogan who was born on 9th October 1864 and who died on 27th September 1930 in Tegernsee, Bavaria;  at the time of her death she was living at 7 Anson Road, Tufnell Park, Middlesex.

8) George Meredith Grogan, born 29th August 1867  and died 4th July 1942 at Plattenstown, Co. Wicklow.

Rev. John Grogan was married to Elizabeth Bourne who he called Lizzie;  an entire section of the accounts book was devoted to Lizzie's allowance which, in 1864, totalled £130.  She divided her time between Dublin, probably at the Bourne family home in 30 York Street, and The Glebe House in Balrothery, North Co. Dublin.
A typical entry for his wife, Lizzie,  was a list written in 1865.   £12 was spent on Lizzie's teeth and on 'mourning' (ie:  a wardrobe of black clothing).   £24 was allocated to Lizzie at York Street and at Harrogate.  He gave his wife £14 to purchase a stitching machine, and money for a trip to London.  The childrens' boots cost £2. 15. 0d.
The entry for May 2nd 1870 mentioned another mourning allowance;  this was repeated on 28th April 1871 when £10 was allocated for mourning for the couple's oldest son, John Edward Grogan.  On 12th October 1871, she bought an astrachan coat and muff for £6.
On December 2nd 1873, £10 was allocated 'for going out of mourning'.  Lizzie had to re-invest in mourning clothes again on September 4th and 15th 1874.
In 1880, £5 was paid for a dress for their youngest daughter, Elsie Grogan (aka Lizzie Grogan), to attend the wedding of Anna Ryan of Ballymackeogh.  A further £5 was spent the following year in 1881 for Elsie's fare to this wedding.  I believe Anna Ryan was the daughter of Jane Grogan and William Ryan of Ballymackeogh.  William Ryan was the daughter of William Ryan and Anne Pennefather whose half-brother, Edward Pennefather, was our immediate ancestor.
£10 was paid on October 18th 1882 for clothes when Lizzie's mother, Mrs. Bourne, died.   On December 14th 1887,  Lizzie needed a further £20 for mourning for her brother-in-law,  Rev. Charles James Grogan, Vicar of Dunleckney.  On February 19th, £12 was needed for the 'childrens' mourning for poor William Ryan'.
(Notes on Rev. Charles James Grogan:  This was the brother of Rev. John Grogan.  The Vicar of Dunleckney, he died unmarried on 5th October 1887.  He celebrated the wedding of his sister, Jane, to William Ryan, when they married in Paris.  The executors of his will were his brother, Rev. John Grogan, and his brother-in-law, William Ryan.  He named his heirs as his nieces, Maria, Nina, Sarah and Aileen, who were the daughters of Sir Edward Grogan, his brother.   Other beneficiaries were Charles Ryan , Anna Antoinette Ryan, and Jeanette Ryan, all three the children of his sister, Jane.  Also the children of his niece, Antoinette Darcy of Hyde Park, Co. Westmeath, who was the daughter of Charles James Grogan's sister, Sarah Grogan.  Sarah Grogan had married Anthony John Dopping.  Antoinette Dopping was married to George James Darcy.  Another beneficiary of Rev. Charles James Grogan was his nephew, Edward Grogan.)

In 1890 £5 was paid for Ryder's trip to Scotland.  (Daughter, Caroline Jane, was married to Arthur Gore Ryder.)

Finally, in 1891,  Rev. John Grogan noted that his wife, Lizzie, was now in receipt of Gibb's lecagy so she no longer needed to be paid an allowance by her husband.   A note the following year read 'I now save Lizzie allowance annually £80 by her not calling on me for it most kindly.'      Gibbs legacy amounted to £315 per annum.   She was most likely left this money by Fanny Gibbs who died at the Gibbs' family home of 119 Stephens Green, Dublin, on 28th January 1892.  A spinster, she was most likely an aunt of Lizzie's, Lizzie being the granddaughter of George Gibbs.
(Notes on the Bourne family:   Lizzie Grogan's father was the solicitor, Peter Bourne of 30 York Street;  her mother was Ellen Gibbs, the daughter of the lawyer and Deputy Clerk of the Crown, George Gibbs of 35 York Street and of his wife Ellen Carmichael.   George Gibbs was noted in 1842 as Deputy Clerk of the Crown for Kildare, Westmeath, Kings and Queens County and Carlow, but was resident at York Street. George Gibbs married Jane Carmichael on 22nd December 1798.
 Lizzie's father, Peter Bourne of 30 York Street, died on 7th October 1844, while her mother, Ellen Bourne,  née Gibbs, died on 18th September 1882 - Rev. John Grogan mentioned the death of Mrs. Bourne, his mother-in-law, in his accounts book, since he had to pay for mourning clothes for the family.  The Bournes were generally noted as being of Taney Hill, Dundrum.  
Peter Bourne's father was Walter Bourne of Harcourt Street and of Taney Hill, who had been born in 1766 and who married Eliza Peter, the daughter of Walter Peter, an attorney of Edgecourt, on 5th June 1788.  Walter Peter had married another member of the Bourne family, Frances Bourne of St. Patrick's Close, Dublin.
The children of Peter Bourne and Ellen Gibbs of 30 York Street were:
a)  Walter Bourne of Monkstown, Co. Dublin, born circa 1826.  A civil engineer, he married Anne Ryder in December 1853 - she was the daughter of the Venerable William Ryder.  Rev. John Grogan mentioned the Ryder family frequently in his account book, his daughter, Caroline Jane Grogan having married a younger member of the same family.
b)   Jane Bourne who married, on 27th September 1849, Dr. Charles Frizell Junior of Castle Kevin, Annamoe/Laragh, Co. Wicklow.   The wedding ceremony was performed by Rev. William Bourne of Rathcormac who had married Elizabeth Frizell in 1833.
The Grogan family maintained close contact with the Frizell family also.  In August 1854, Rev. John Grogan officiated at the wedding of Harriette Frizell to Rev. John G. Eccles, the son of Cuthbert Eccles of Eccles Street.  When Rev. John Eccles of St. Peter's, Drogheda, died on 16th October 1895 at East Hall, Delgany,  the beneficiaries of his will were his brother, Captain Hugh Eccles of 5 Clyde Road, and Rev. Charles William Frizell of 2 Cyrene Villas, Belfast.
Dr. Charles Frizell was apparently forced by hostile neighbours to leave Castle Kevin. He died on 20th March 1866 and his will noted that he'd been living at both Leeson Street and Warrington Place in Dublin.  His will was proved by his son, Charles Frizell, who was still resident in 1866 at Castle Kevin.  This younger man died at Dunluce Rectory, Co. Antrim on 28th June 1892, and the primary beneficiary of his will  Rev. Charles William Frizell who was also mentioned in the earlier will of Elizabeth Bourne who died at Mespil Road, Dublin, on 15th September 1876.   Charles William Frizell had been born in about 1850 in Dublin to Jane Bourne and to Charles Frizell of Castle Kevin, Annamoe, Co. Wicklow.  
Another son of Charles Frizell and Jane Bourne of Castle Kevin was Walter Hugh Frizell who had been born in 1856 and who had married, in March 1896, Clara Maud de Vere Wellesley,  the daughter of Augustus Colley de Vere Wellesley, a relative of the Duke of Wellington.  The bride was noted as the sister of Edward H.C. Wellesley of Bromley, Greystones, Co. Wicklow who had been High Sheriff in 1895 -6. The daughter of Walter Hugh Frizell and Clara Maud de Vere Wellesley was Hyacinth Frizell.   The 'Belfast Newsletter' of 19th March 1896 reported on the marriage in London and noted that the Wellesley family lived at 10 Granville Place, Portman Square, London;  one of the guests was named as Selina Frizell.

The 'Dublin Daily Express' of  24th October 1885, announced the marriage on 21st October 1885 in Derralossary Church, Co. Wicklow, of Rev. John Pim, the curate of Portrush, to Jane Caroline Beatrix Frizell, daughter of Charles Frizell JP of Castle Kevin.  The ceremony was performed by the groom's father, Rev. John Pim and by the groom's brother, Rev .Charles William Frizell of Dunluce.

On the eve of the war, the 'Dublin Daily Express' of 4th June 1914 announced that a marriage had been arranged between Charles William Frizell of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, the only son of the late William Hume Frizell and grandson of the late Charles Frizell of Castle Kevin and nephew of Peter Denny of Crosslet, Drumbarton, and Nancy Tulloch the youngest daughter of Col. J.M. Tulloch of Dumbarton.


c) Elizabeth/Lizzie who married Rev. John Grogan on 2nd October 1850.  She died at 21 Clyde Road on 24th July 1921.)

From 1893, Rev. John Grogan's accounts detail the pocket money paid to his three unmarried daughters, Elsie/Lizzie, Alice and Gertrude (Amelia Gertrude).   They each received approximately £28 per annum.  In February 1894, Alice was in Bournemouth.  Elsie and Alice visited Cannes in January, February and March 1897.

The next portion of the accounts book dealt primarily with the education of the eldest son of Rev. John Grogan and Lizzie Bourne,  John Edward Grogan,  known to the family as Johnnie.   Rev . John paid much attention to this firstborn son.   Johnnie Grogan was sent away to his first school - Dr. Rice's - on 16th March 1863, which was to cost £12. 12s. 0d. per annum, but the boy was sent home again three weeks later when he came down with whooping cough.   On 29th August 1863,  he was sent to Dr. John A. Wall of Arlington House, Portarlington, Queens County.   Tuition was billed at £47. 5s. 0d. with medicine costing £1. 1s. 0d, and washing costing £0. 6s. 2d.
'John was taken away after Christmas Vacation 1865 from Portarlington School - he was there 2.5 years.'    Following this, he was sent on to Dungannon School, Co. Tyrone in February  1866 under the headmaster Rev. F. H. Ringwood.
February 8th 1869 - 'Informed Mr. Ringwood he would be taken away next June to begin his medical studies in Autumn 1869.   He left Dungannon School in June 1869 (aged 17.5 years).'
Johnnie Grogan's medical tuition began November 1st 1869.  He was to board, lodge and study with Dr. Morgan at 23 Stephens Green, Dublin, for a session of eight months at £100 a session.    expenses in December 1869 were - a surgical book for 11s. 6d.,  dancing at £2. 11s. 6d;  mourning in April 1870, plus a velocipede costing £6.10s.   £2 was needed for rail fare to Janes (?) on 11th July 1870.   Tailoring in February 1870 cost £9. 15s.
'My poor dear child, John Edward, left us for God on 8th October (Sunday) 1871.  May God's Will be done - Amen.  (He died at 3 minutes past 2o'clock on Sunday morning October 8th 1871.)  We were sad and bowed down by the sudden and unexpected death of poor dear Edward M., but this new addition....of our trial has inflicted inexpressible pain upon us all - My poor dear boys - "They were lovely and pleasant in lives, and in their death they were not divided." '
The Rev. John was referring in the previous quote to the earlier death of his younger son, Edward Medlicott Grogan.
Meticulous as ever, he even noted the 'sickness cost' of John Edward's death:
Servants - Butler £3.0.0.
Housemaid (at Dr. Morgan's) - £2.0.0.
Cook - £1.0.0.
At York St:  Bessy £1.0.0.
                     Eliza £0.10.0.
At Stephen's Green:  Maria £1.0.0.
                                      Maid £0.7.6.
Harcourt Street:   0.12.0.
Rail Fare - Ryan £2 + Frizell £1.
3 Nurses paid £4 and £5.
Rev Lucas - £14.
Wine £5;  Brandy £2;  Beef Tea £4;  Laundress £1;  Champagne and Cakes £2.
Housekeeping at York Street £8.
Extra Rail Expenses up and down £2.
Nicholls' Bill £25. 6s. 6d.
Extra Carriage (Medical Students)  £1.
Welsh trip to console the family £27.

Edward Medlicott Grogan's Education:
Edward Medlicott Grogan was sent to Kingstown School, run by Rev. William C. Stacpoole, on 5th February .   However, on 6th May 1868...'Edward dropped this quarter from being ill of Rheumatism - he came back ill from school on 17th April 1868 to York Street.'  Although he went back to Kingstown School in late August...'Edward had a sharp of Rheumatism, and in bed till the 13th of January 1869.'    He returned a second time on 1st April 1869 when he had recovered.
Rev. William C. Stacpoole died on 24th December 1870 and was succeeded by Rev. John W. Chambers.
'Edward Medlicott came home from school on 6th April 1871, his birth day - last time!'
'Dr. Morgan came down to see my poor Edward on 20th April 1871 at Balrothery....My dear child Edward Medlicott died on 20th April 1871 (Thursday) to the great grief of all the family especially to his parents - May God's will be done, Amen, tho' it is a heavy blow...He died about 20 or 15 to 8 o'clock P.M. Thursday April 20th 1871.  Dr. Morgan and I came down from Dublin by the mail and called for Dr. McEvoy en route - We could not arrive therefore at Glebe before about 20 or 15 to 9 o'clock (P.M.) for the train is only due 8.18 P.M. at Balrothery....'

The costs of Edward Medlicott Grogan's sickness (and death) were also noted:
Dr. Morgan £5.
Dr. McEvoy £6.
Gifts and Travelling - Ryan £5.
Gifts and Travelling - Frizell £10.
Church £3.
Digges Funeral Bill £34.
Mourning Johnnie £10.
Mourning Liz and Children £20.
Gifts to Children £4. 18. 0.
Porter for men at funeral £0. 19s.
Gifts to servants at Glebe, Balrothery £2. 12. 0.

George Meridyth (Merry) Grogan's Schooling:
Rev. John Grogan's third son, Merry Grogan known formally as George Meredyth Grogan (29th August 1887 - 4th July 1942) was sent to Miss Farrants at Belgrave Villa, Belgrave Square, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, on 14th February 1879.  The following year's school expenses included £1.5.0 for  a laundress, and 2s. 6d. for a seat in church.
Merry left Miss Farrants at summer vacation 26th June 1880, and was sent on to the Royal School in Armagh under the headmaster Rev. William Moore Morgan, before being sent to Birkenhead School, Shrewsbury Road, near Liverpool, on 30th April 1884.  While there,  he engaged in dancing lessons, cricket and football.   Merry left Birkenhead on 19th February 1886, and did his Preliminary Examination in Dublin on 23rd and 24th of February 1886, although his father didn't note where.

Notes:  George Meredyth Grogan, retired Lt. Col. H.M.A., of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, who had served in both the Boer and the First Workd War, died at Plattenstown, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, on 4th July 1942;  his widow was Eva Augusta Ellis, known as Augusta, who he had married in Wicklow on 9th February 1929.  She had been born on 25th April 1899 in Lisburn, Co. Antrim, to the Wexford-born land agent, Ernest Francis Leslie Ellis, and his wife, Harriett Eva Ellis.   The Ellis family were buried in Inch Church, Co. Wexford. The pulpit commemorates Eva Ellis's grandparents - Augusta Catherine Ellis, widow of Thomas Cupples Ellis of St. Austin's, died 1st November 1899; the memorial was erected by her children,  Ernest, Emily and Violet.  Thomas Cupples Ellis was born  13th February 1829 and died on 20th August 1885.  George Meredyth Grogan was buried there by his widow, Augusta, in 1942, as were her parents, Ernest Francis Leslie Ellis who was born 22nd October 1867 and who died 12th February 1947, and Harriett Eva Ellis, who was born 31st October 1855 and who died 28th July 1948.  George Meredyth Grogan's wife remarried following his death; her second husband was Arthur Donel McMurrough, The O'Morchoe, who died 29th August 1966.  His two daughters were Patricia and Anne.  Arthur Donel McMurrough's first wife was Isabel Hester McMurrough who died on 12th April 1947.  His second wife, Eva August Ellis, died 12th April 1974.
 In 1931, George Meredyth Grogan and Eva Ellis had a son, Hume Grogan, later Major Hume Grogan of the Irish Guards.

The Girls,  Alice, Gertrude and Elsie:
Alice and Gertrude Grogan went to Alstone Court School in Cheltenham, England under the Misses Robinson on 20th January 1880.   Along with their lessons, their father paid 2s. for cab hire, 5s. 6d. for concert tickets, 6s. for house shoes, and £1. 1. 0. for meat for breakfast for the two girls.   Alice took violin lessons, the violin and strings costing £2.
In 1889, there was a list of the girls' trips -  On May 10th,  Elsie went to N. Revell,  and Eileen (who was Eileen?) went to Bray.   In July,  Gerty went to N. Revell, Alice went to Maunsell and Elsie went to Scotland.

(Notes on these Revells:  
Successive generations of the Revell family were buried in Dunganstown Churchyard, Co. Wicklow. They were associated with the Wicklow properties of Newcastle, Ballymoney, Coolaneary and Ballyherig.  These burials were recorded by the Irish Memorials Association in 1907.
On 1st June 1886, Ellen Jane Bourne, the daughter of Walter Bourne, civil engineer, married John Anthony Revell, the son of John Revell of Newcastle House, Newtown Mountkennedy, Co. Wicklow.  One of the witnesses was Charles Frizell of Castle Kevin.   Walter Bourne was Rev. John Grogan's brother-in-law,  as was Charles Frizell who was married to Jane Bourne.  Walter Bourne, Jane Frizell and Lizzie Grogan were all siblings.   Later in 1914,  Ellen Jane Revell was noted as the next-of-kin of George Gibbs Revell.  In 1913/1914, Lizzie Grogan wrote several cheques for E. J. Revell.  John Anthony Revell died on 27th February 1895 at Newcastle House, and his will was granted to the unmarried Henrietta Mary Anne Revell of 65 Northumberland Road, Dublin.  She died in 1911 and her executors were her unmarried Margaret and Isabella Revell.  There was also a fourth sister Frances Revell, and all four were living together in Morehampton Road in 1901. 
A Jane Revell, daughter of William Revell Esq., of Newcastle, Wicklow, married Robert J. Callwell of  the 45th regiment of Infantry, the son of Rev. J. Callwell of Aghalee, Fermanagh, on 26th March 1863.)

In 1890 they had more trips - Elsie and Alice went to the Revells in Scotland;  Alice also went to Howth, Circus and Clonmel;   Merry and Gerty visited Dunluce, Co. Antrim, while Rev. John Grogan also paid for the Ryders' trip to Scotland.

Gertrude/Gerty fulfilled her father's desire to have a doctor in the family, and, in 1889, she attended the College of Surgeons.  She also studied the same year at the City of Dublin .  Her father bought her a stethoscope in 1889, and gave his daughter £3 on 11th October 1889 as a prize for passing her exams.  On 14th November 1889 he also paid £10 for a microscope for his daughter.    Her tuition at the College of Surgeons continued the following year, and the proud father gave his daughter a further gift of £3 for getting her A.B. degree.    In 1894 he made a note that Gertrude was now studying at the Rotunda;  by 1895 she was at the Adelaide Hospital, and he rewarded her with a further £5 on 14th October 1895 for passing another set of exams.   (Note: Amelia Gertrude Grogan was the principal doctor in charge of the womens' wing of the Mullingar Lunatic Asylum in 1900, and subsequently moved to England where she worked as a medical officer in a womens' hospital in Brighton. )

In 1891, he noted Alice's violin tuition.  A gift was sent to Eileen for keeping Alice during a visit there.  Alice also went this year on a visit to Seaton.
In 1891, the youngest daughter, Elsie/Lizzie Grogan, did music lessons.  Her father noted her birthday as March 13th. (She was born March 13th 1853 and died at 21 Clyde Road on 4th December 1938). Elsie took a trip to Scotland and to what looks like 'Tankerville'.  On 19th September 1891, Lizzie took a trip to visit Rev. Chas. N. Frizell at  Rectory, Bushmills, Co. Antrim.

(Note:  Rev. Charles N. Frizell was actually Charles WILLIAM Frizell of Dunluce.  Charles William Frizell had been born in about 1850 in Dublin to Jane Bourne and to Charles Frizell of Castle Kevin, Annamoe, Co. Wicklow.  Jane Bourne was the sister of Elizabeth Bourne who was married to Rev. John Grogan.)

Other information gleaned from Rev. John Grogan's accounts book:  He noted that he left Balrothery Parish on 5th August 1887 and resigned his post there on 16th June 1889.   In the section of the book devoted to his own life insurance, he noted his own birth date as 28th June 1816.

There was a section devoted to 'George William Grogan's Marriage Trust Money', which was begun on October 15th 1856 when Rev. John Grogan was living at home at Harcourt Street.  Rev. George William Grogan was Rev. John Grogan's brother, born in Dublin on 20th March 1819.  He married an Englishwoman, Helen Isabel Maria Graham, the daughter of Rev. William Hall Graham of Great Bromley, Essex. The marriage occurred on the day that Rev. John started his marriage trust fund,  so presumably the fund was started to put aside money for Rev. George William's children.  Rev. John Grogan resigned as trustee in 1876.

Much of the book dealt with the boring finances associated with Balrothery Parish;  there also a section dealing with fire insurance paid on a property in Vesey Place, Kingstown.

A section of the book was devoted to the sale of two carriages, a phaeton and a brougham, on July 18th 1888.  They had been kept in a coach house on Raglan Road which runs adjacent to Clyde Road.

He detailed the rent paid on the family's home, 12 Clyde Road, which they took on 20th May 1887, at a rent of £100 per annum.  The landlord was the builder, Edward Kennedy of 6 Percy Place, Dublin, who would later die on 28th June 1890.  His daughters inherited the house - Julia Kennedy was the mother superior of Presentation Convent, St. Joseph's, Lucan, while her older sister was the unmarried Mary Kennedy of 9 Percy Place.  When Julia Kennedy died on 15th November 1906, her executors were Christopher and Margaret Rock of 53 Northumberland Road.
Later, Lizzie Grogan moved to 17 Clyde Road, then 21 Clyde Road, and her chequebook showed her paying the rent for No. 21 to a Marion C. Wallace, but no address was provided for this landlady.

A section of the accounts book dealth with an annuity paid at £1 a week from 5th August 1887 to a Mrs. Margaret Nixon of Balrothery village.  Rev. John's notes are intriguing: 'This discontinued as long as George Nixon is not in constant work but lives at the family's expense generally.  It is not just I should contribute to his support after his conduct in attempting to refuse to surrender the old castle premises to the Rev. Mr. Lombard the Rector so I discontinued April 6th 1888 the Annuity...'  On October 13th 1890 George Nixon died, so payment resumed again.  Margaret Nixon died on 10th January 1890 and the account was closed forever.   Rev. John Grogan gave a further £1 to Maria Nixon to cover the funeral expenses.  The 1901 census reveals Maria Nixon working as a house maid for the Grogan family in 17 Clyde Road.

Rev. John Grogan also devoted a portion of his accounts book to money which his brother, Sir Edward Grogan, had transferred to him to manage while he was abroad.

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/05/the-grogan-family-of-dublin-westmeath.html

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/11/the-family-of-edwin-grogan-son-of-rev.html


NB:  I have recently, in April 2015, deposited the accounts book of Rev. John Grogan of Balrothery and Clyde Road, with the R.C.B. Church Library in Rathgar, Co. Dublin, where it is free to consult.

The Family of Emily Jane Dartnell, who married Rev. William Newcombe Willis

This post links to my earlier post about the family of my immediate maternal ancestor Thomas Willis of Portarlington...

http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/01/children-of-thomas-willis-schoolmaster.html

The grandson of Thomas Willis of Portarlington was Rev. William Newcombe Willis of Kilpeacon who married Emily Evans Dartnell, the daughter of George Roger Dartnell and Rose Frewen, on 21st February 1843.

George Roger Dartnell operated as a prominent solicitor in Limerick city - he was noted as the secretary of the Freemasons in 1847, with an address at 98 George's Street.  He had been born in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, in 1779, and was christened later on 18th September 1782.  His parents were Edward Dartnell of Rathkeale (1727 - 18th August 1799) and Elizabeth Greatorex, who had married on 14th December 1763.

George Dartnell married Rose Frewen, the daughter of Thomas Frewen and Mary Taylor, on 30th July 1807, in Limerick Cathedral.

George Dartnell died at 1 Richmond Place, Limerick, on 28th May 1862 - his will was administered by his son-in-law Rev. William Newcombe Willis of Kilpeacon Glebe, and by his son, George Alps Dartnell of Ballyartney, Co. Clare.  George's widow, Rose Dartnell, died later in March 1870 at 3 Wellington Terrace,  the home of their son, George Alps Dartnell.

A sister of George Dartnell, Lucinda Dartnell, died at the home of her nephew, John Fraser of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, on 5th July 1854.   John Fraser's mother was Maria, yet another sister of George Dartnell, who had married Captain John Fraser of Mitchelstown, former Captain in the 54th Regiment on 2nd August 1805 in St. Michael's, Limerick.   Maria Fraser died in Mitchelstown on 22nd July 1851.
Another of the Dartnell sisters, Ellen, was married to Peter Hands of Shannon Bridge - she died there in March 1858.

George also had a brother, John Dartnell of Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, who had married Alice Russell of Limerick city in 1792.  John Dartnell had operated in Limerick as, first, a woollen or linen merchant, and then as an accountant.  John Dartnell died on 13th December 1820. His son was the watercolour painter, George Russell Dartnell, who had been born on 20th July 1800 in Limerick, and who was also noted as the Deputy Inspector of Hospitals - he subsequently emigrated to Canada and died there on 22nd July 1878.   Another son was Abraham Dartnell.

John Dartnell also had a son, Edward Russell Dartnell, who settled at Newcastle, immediately adjacent to Rathkeale, Co. Limerick;  Edward Russell Dartnell was married to a woman named Mary Loder who died at Merville, Clontarf, Co. Dublin, in May 1878.   Another newspaper entry names his wife as Mary Loder, daughter of the late Robert Loder of Oxford, and states that she died of cholera at Newcastle, Limerick.
The son of Edward Russell Dartnell and Mary Loder was John Loder Dartnell who died of yellow fever aged 22, in  the Guanape Islands, Peru, on 22nd May 1852.  The 'Cork Examiner' of 15th September 1848 reported his marriage in Lima to Mercedes, the only child of the late Admiral Guise of the Peruvian Service, Grand Marechal of Paris and ex-Captain in the Royal Navy.
Another daughter of Edward Russell Dartnell and Mary Loder was Ann Loder Dartnell who married in Rathronan, on 5th August 1851, Henry Sharp, son of Hugh H. Sharp.

Edward Russell Dartnell, son of John Dartnell and Alice Russell, died at Gurboy Cottage, Co. Limerick, on 23rd February 1869, with probate of his will granted to his unmarried daughter Alice Dartnell.

Edward Russell Dartnell was buried alongside his wife, Mary Loder, in St. David's churchyard in Newcastle West, Co. Limerick:  

"Sacred to the memory of Edward Russell Dartnell of Gortboy Cottage Newcastle died  Feb 3rd1868 aged 75 years. Mary his wife daughter of the late Robert Loder of Oxford died March 26th 1849 aged 33 years. And in memory of their children who died young."

(Inscription transcribed by Mary Kury)

Yet another son of John Dartnell and Alice Russell of Rathkeale was Nelson Dartnell who died in Calcutta, India, on 18th February 1857.   He was the surgeon of the 53rd regiment, and was noted as the brother of Mr. Dartnell of Rathkeale, and of George Russell Dartnell, Deputy Inspector of Hospitals.   Nelson Dartnell married in Madras, Caroline Chester, the daughter of the chaplain, Rev. W. Chester, on 7th October 1834. On 6th March 1862 in Calcutta, their daughter, Ethelreda Mary Dartnell, married Captain Edward Tierney of the Royal Artillery.

George Russell Darnell, son of John Dartnell and Alice Russell, had a daughter, Alice Isabella Dartnell, who married on 1st May 1865, in Henley-in-Arden, UK, Rev. Thomas Jones of Henley. On 17th April 1855 at Wadlands, Temerton, near Plymouth, the wife of George Russell Dartnell, Deputy Inspector General, had a daughter.

A daughter of John Dartnell and Alice Russell was possibly Millina Dartnell who married James Fitzgerald of Rathkeale, and who died in Taylor Street, Limerick, in 1832.

The Children of Rose Frewen and George Dartnell, solicitor of 98 George's St., Limerick:

1)  The eldest son of George Dartnell of 98 George's St., Limerick, was Edward Taylor Dartnell (1807 - 1892), who operated alongside his father as a solicitor in Limerick, before emigrating to St. Mary's, Toronto, in 1850.   Edward Taylor Dartnell was married by Rev. Arthur Guinness in St. Thomas's, Dublin, on 2nd July 1832, to Catherine Coote, the widowed daughter of Gilbert Henry Flemying of Lower Gloucester Street, Dublin.  Edward died in Kingston, Ontario, on 2nd February 1892.

The children of Edward Taylor Dartnell and Catherine Coote were christened in St. Michael's, Limerick:
Elizabeth Morton Dartnell on 26th August 1835.
Catherine Rosa Dartnell on 3rd December 1836.
Rosa Caroline Dartnell on 17th December 1837.
Sarah Jane Dartnell on 24th March 1840 - she died young in October 1841 in Limerick.
Richard Bettesworth Dartnell, born 26th January 1842.

The second daughter of Edward Taylor Dartnell, Kate Rose Dartnell, stayed in Ireland where she married  on 26th August 1862, in St. Stephen's, Dublin, her cousin Robert Burdett Morony of Miltown House, a lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of Foot,  the son of Burdett Marony and Eleanor Lucinda Dartnell of Co. Clare.   Eleanor Lucinda Dartnell was the sister of Edward Taylor Dartnell, both being the children of George Dartnell of Limerick.
Both bride and groom were living at  17 Adelaide Rd., Co. Dublin, and the witness was H.R. Marindin.   This was Major Henry Richard Marindin of the 1st Royal Regiment who had been married to Kate Rose Dartnell's aunt, Elizabeth Jane Dartnell, who would die five years later in July 1867 in Vevay, Switzerland, and who was the daughter of George Dartnell of Limerick.

A third daughter of Edward Taylor Dartnell was Rose Caroline Dartnell who had been born in Limerick in 1837 and who would prove the will of her uncle, Henry Richard Marindin, when he died at 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris, on 26th December 1877. At the time of his death, she was living at this address, but would die at 6 Warwick Mansions, Cromwell Crescent, Middlesex, on 19th February 1929, with probate to Philip George Tillard, retired commander in the R.N., and to his wife Kathleen (Rose) Tillard, née Morony, the daughter of Rose Caroline Dartnell's sister, Kate Rose Dartnell and Robert Burdett Morony.   In 1911, the Tillards were living in Croyden, and Kathleen Tillard's widowed mother, Kate Morony, was visiting - her late husband, Robert Burdett Morony, retired Captain in the 3rd Buffs, of Lochcarrig, Ballinacurra, Co. Cork, had died in Bedford on 17th February 1887.

The Limerick Dartnells and the Clare Moronys (various spellings) intermarried extensively....

The son of Edward Taylor Dartnell was the Canadian judge, George Henry Frewen Dartnell....
"Judge George Henry Frewen Dartnell was born on Feb. 13 1834 in the city of Limerick, Ireland.  He was the son of Edward Taylor Dartnell, a prominent Irish solicitor, who came to Canada in 1850 and settled in Toronto.
George Dartnell studied at King's College, London, England and continued his education under the tuition of his father.  He first studied law under Chief Justice Hagarty in Toronto, and with John Hillyard Cameron,  a noted Toronto lawyer.  He was admitted to the Bar in 1857.
In 1858 he formed a partnership at Whitby with H.J. MacDonell and Hector Cameron Q.C. and was appointed Master of Chancery in 1859. In 1873 he became Junior Judge of Ontario County and Senior Judge in 1896.
In his early years, George Dartnell was sub-editor of the Daily Patriot, the first daily paper issued in Toronto, and for 18 years, served on the Whitby School Board.  He was chairman of the Board for 9 years.
Judge Dartnell was very much involved in Masonic activities.  He was a senior deacon of the Grand Lodge of Canada and district grand master and representative in the Grand Lodge of Cuba and Ceylon.
He was also the first Master of a Blue Lodge at Uxbridge.
Judge Dartnell was president of the local St. Patrick's Society, president of the Whitby Cricket Club, and Patron of the Whitby Curling Club.
He was a military man also, having served during the Fenian raids of 1866, and during the "Trent Affair" of 1861, he organized a company of volunteer militia at Whitby,  of which he was appointed Captain.
Judge Dartnell received his first and second class certificates at the Military School at Toronto,  and commanded his company at Niagara Falls during the Fenian raids. Their duty was to stand guard at the suspension bridge linking Canada with the United States, across the Niagara River. 
He rose to the rank of Major and later Lieutenant Colonel,  and acted as a musketry instructor for militia training camps at Niagara.
Judge Dartnell was married twice,  first to Louisa Hawke, and second, in 1873, to Caroline Gross.
In politics, he was a Conservative, and in religion, a member of the Church of England.
Judge Dartnell died on Feb. 2nd, 1899....During his term of office, he was recognized by his contemporaries as "one of the ablest, fairest and most judicious judges in Ontario." '   (From the Whitby Free Press of 1976.)

2)  The eldest daughter of George Dartnell of George's St, was Anna-Maria Dartnell (10th June 1809 - 7th November 1889) who married Thomas Morony, eldest son of Thomas Morony of Miltown House, in September 1833 in Miltown Church, Miltown Malbay.

Anna Maria Dartnell

3)  The second daughter of George Dartnell was Rose Dartnell (1810 - 1863), who had been named after her mother, and who married on 1st September 1832, as his first wife, Charles John Whyte of Loughbrickland, Co. Down, who settled at Strandfield House, Co. Wexford, but who was also noted at Strandfield House, Miltown Malbay, and later in life at Blenheim House, Brighton. Charles John Whyte was the grandson of John White and Letitia de Burgh of Leixlip.
Wife Rose Dartnell was the widow of John Reeves of Limerick, who she had married in Limerick in April 1831.   The great-great-great granddaughter of Charles John Whyte and Rose Dartnell, Pam Numan of Bendigo, Austalia, kindly shared these family photos of the Dartnell family with me.

A son of Charles John Whyte and Rose Dartnell was Pam's great-great grandfather, George Lewis Whyte of the 55th Regiment, who married Frances, only daughter of Henry Whitcomb R.N., Miltown Malbay, in St. Michael's, Limerick, in November 1856.
In 1833 Henry Whitcomb R.N. had married Frances Morony, the youngest daughter of Thomas Morony of Miltown House, Miltown Malbay - Frances Morony was the youngest sister of Thomas Harrison Morony, whose two sons had married daughters of George Dartnell of Limerick - Thomas Morony Junior (1809 - 23rd August 1847) had married Anna Maria Dartnell in 1833, while brother Burdett Morony had married Eleanor Lucinda Dartnell in 1847.  Thomas Morony Junior had died of inflammation of the heart in Sackville Street, Dublin, on 23rd August 1847, and Burdett Morony succeeded him as head of the Morony family of Miltown House.

Charles Whyte Junior

4) George Alps Dartnell, a son, who lived at Ballyartney, Co Clare in 1862, and who had an address at The Retreat, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, in 1880.

In April 1854 in Kildysart Church,  George Alps Dartnell, 2nd son of George Dartnell of Limerick, married the widow, Charlotte Barclay, the daughter of Thomas Morony of Miltown House, Miltown-Malbay, Co. Clare.   Charlotte was the widow of Thomas Barclay of Ballyartney, who had died in about 19th June 1847 leaving no will.  He left four minor children - Richard Barclay, Anne Barclay, Thomas Harrison Barclay and Robert Burdett Barclay.  

On 22nd June 1881 in Ballymote Church, Robert Burdett Barclay, bank inspector, the only surviving son of the late Thomas Barclay of Ballyartney, married Frances Mary Moore, second daughter of Rev. Arthur Moore B.D., Dean of Achonry, who conducted the ceremony.

Robert Burdett Barclay, son of Charlotte Morony and Thomas Barclay, proved the will of his widowed mother when she died at 19 Upper Leeson Street on 31st May 1888.

George Alps Dartnell

5)  The 3rd daughter, Elizabeth Jane Dartnell (1814 - 17th July 1867), married Major Henry Richard Marindin in Limerick on 27th October 1836 - she died at La Tour de Peilz, Vevay,  Switzerland, on 17th July 1867, aged 52. He died at the Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris, on 26th December 1877, and one of the beneficiaries of his will was the unmarried Rose Caroline Dartnell, his niece, who was the daughter of Edward Taylor Dartnell and Catherine Coote.

Henry Marindin

Elizabeth Jane Dartnell

The Marindin family originated in Vevey, Switzerland - where Elizabeth Jane died in July 1867 - and settled in Birmingham in the 1750's where they operated as merchants.  John Philip Marindin married Eliza there;  a merchant, he died at Edgbaston, Warwickshire, in 1806. His wife, Eliza Marindin, died in Charles Street, Birmingham, aged 85, in July 1835.

Their son was the Birmingham merchant, Samuel Peter Marindin, who had been born in Birmingham in 1774 and who married in Bristol in 1805, Catherine Louisa Webb, the third daughter of Samuel Webb of Henbury, Gloucestershire.    Following the birth of their children, Catherine Louisa Marindin died in December 1813 at the home of her father, Samuel Webb of Henbury.
Samuel Peter Marindin married again, applying for a marriage licence in Birmingham on 24th May 1819. His second wife, by whom he had no further children , was Isabella Iddins, the daughter of John Iddins of Summerfield House, Birmingham.
Declared bankrupt in 1827 in Birmingham, Samuel Peter Marindin died in September 1839 in Worfield, Shropshire; his debts were later settled by his son, Rev. Samuel Marindin.

Samuel Peter Marindin and his first wife, Catherine Louisa Webb, had:

a) Catherine Louisa Marindin who was born in late 1813 at Henbury, Gloucestershire,  prior to her mother's death in December 1813, and who was baptised in 1814.  She married William Sharington Davenport of Worfield, Shropshire, in 1835 and died aged 52 on 17th July 1865 at Davenport, Shropshire.
b) Philip Marindin, a pupil of the Free Grammar School in Shrewsbury, who drowned while swimming in the Severn in September 1824.
c) Henry Richard Marindin, born 1812 at Henbury,  who married Elizabeth Jane Dartnell, daughter of George Dartnell, in Limerick on 27th October 1836.  
d) Rev. Samuel Marindin, born circa 1813 in Edgbaston, Warwickshire. Formerly of the 2nd Life Guards, he married Isabella Colville.
Amongst the children of Rev. Samuel Marindin and Isabella Colville were Major Arthur Francis Marindin of the Board of Trade, and George Eden Marindin, a Master at Eton School, who proved the will of his aunt, Elizabeth Jane Marindin, wife of Henry Richard Marindin, when she died in July 1867.  She died at Vevay, Switzerland, the ancestral home of the Marindin family.  At the time of her death, her address was noted as 8 Rue Keppler Chaillot, Paris.  Along with nephew George Eden Marindin, her will was proved by Robert Morony of 8 Hampton Place, Bedford, late a Captain in the 3rd Regiment.

Major Henry Richard Marindin and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Dartnell, had lived for a time at Osberstown, Co. Kildare, where, on 7th March 1859, their two Dartnell nieces - unnamed by the 'Belfast Newsletter' of 17th March - almost drowned in Celbridge, when during a visit to their uncle the horse pulling their phaeton bolted and tipped them into the Grand Canal.

Elizabeth Jane's husband, Henry Richard Marindin, died on 26th December 1877 at Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris, and his will was proved by two relatives, Edmund Davenport of Davenport House and by niece Rose Caroline Dartnell of 211 Rue St. Honoré, daughter of Edward Taylor Dartnell and Catherine Dartnell and who had been born in Limerick in 1837.

6) Emily Dartnell (1816 - 1816).

7) Emily Jane Dartnell (24th May 1818 - 28th Feb. 1889) who married our ancestor, Rev. William Newcombe Willis.

Rev. William Newcombe Willis, wife Emily Jane Dartnell and their son, Charley Willis. 

8) An unmarried daughter of George Dartnell, born in 1820,  Dorothea Susannah Dartnell, died at Quinlan Street,  Limerick on 4th January 1892.   He will was administered by relative Henry de Laval Willis, JP of Ennis.

9)  Yet another daughter of George Dartnell, Eleanor Lucinda Dartnell (1821 or 1822 - 5th August 1911) married Burdett Morony of Miltown House, Co. Clare, on 11th June 1847.   Burdett Morony of Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, had been born in 1815 to Thomas Harrison Morony and Anna Burdett of Miltown House.  Their son, Robert Burdett Morony, Lieutenant in the 3rd Buffs, married, on 26th August 1862 in St. Stephen's, Dublin, Kate Rose Dartnell, the second daughter of Edward Taylor Dartnell of Canada West.  The widowed FEleanor Lucinda Morony of Miltown House died on 5th August 1911, and her will was administered by the unmarried Lucy and Florence Dartnell.

10) Thomas William Dartnell (before 1825 - 16th May 1862). A solicitor, he lived at 63 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, where his wife gave birth to a son on 18th July 1849;  this infant, named as Thomas William, died on 4th September 1849.  Another son, with the same name was born at this address on 14th November 1852, but died, as did a third son, also Thomas William Dartnell, who was buried on 23rd November 1855 in St. George's.  Thomas William Dartnell, solicitor and son of George Dartnell of Limerick, died in Melbourne on 16th May 1862.

A son, George Meadows Dartnell, was born to Thomas William and Dorothea Dartnell at Upper Gardiner Street on 8th July 1848.

11)  Rev. Richard Waller Dartnell (July 1825 - 19th February 1893).  On 29th April 1851 at Rodbourne Cheney in Wiltshire, UK, Rev. Richard Waller Dartnell, Vicar of Rodbourne Cheney, married Arabella Thring Goddard, the youngest daughter of the late Rev. Edward Goddard of Cliffe Pypard. The ceremony was performed by the bride's brother, Rev. George A. Goddard, rector of Cliffe Pypard, Wiltshire.
On 14th March 1854, his wife gave birth to a daughter at Parsonage House, Mordon, Wiltshire, UK.  In June 1862, they had a son at the Vicarage, Bridge Water, Somerset.

Richard Waller Dartnell's mother-in-law, Mrs. Goddard, died in April 1855.

Rev. Richard Waller Dartnell died, aged 67, at Huish Rectory on 19th February 1893 - he had been incumbent there for the previous 19 years.


12)  Caroline Otway Dartnell (12th November 1827 - January 1829.)  Caroline died aged 14 months in George's Street, Limerick.