Issue Date: 16/7/2009
Home Page
Poole Ancestor List
TABLE of CONTENTS:
ELEANOR ISABELLA ARMSTRONG - 1841
ELEANOR ISABELLA WILSON - 1817
Will of John Armstrong - notes
The Armstrong of Deans Hill Papers (D/3737)
Will of John Armstrong, Abbreviated:
Edward Cornelius, Descendants of
Our Armstrong ancestors originated in County Leitrim, Ireland. John Armstrong
(2nd) emigrated to the US in the mid 19thC to Illinois, where he produced a
large extended family. By his wives, the sisters Eleanor and Henrietta Wilson.
The late 18thC and 19thC families are documented by some original written work
by Dr William Armstrong writing in the 1850's.
This is a summary; there are references to HA Poole's original text which may
contain extra information.
Other Sources:
Kathi Sittner
Tom Reilly 18 Aug 2002
EC[i] of Puerto Rico - much info
on William Armstrong (1752) descendants (2006/7).
Standard Sources:
1: Civil BMD Records 2. Parish Records.
3. IGI/AF. 4. Census.
5. Family interview. 6: Newspaper & other
publications
7: Wills 8: Tombstone
9. HAP Family History 9p: Photo Albums.
10: trade directory
|Otis A Poole
| | |Otis Manchester
| |Maria Manchester
EI Poole
| | | |David Irvine
| | |Jane Irvine
| | |Helen Kirk
|Eleanor Armstrong
| |John Wilson
| | |Eleanor Gardner
AM05/03 HP2
Poole Family
Born: 20/12/1848, Beloit, Ohio
Parents: Augustus & Mary Bishop (Manchester) Poole
Died: 1/4/1904, Berkeley, Ca.
Married, 17/2/1876, Chicago, Ill:
ELEANOR ISABELLA ARMSTRONG - 1841
AM05/04 HP3
Born9: 14/9/1841, Holly Park, Leitrim,
Antrim, NI.
Parents: John & Eleanor Isabella (Wilson) Armstrong
Died9: 14/6/1918, Yokohama, Japan.
Issue: (Details)
1/1. Herbert Armstrong Poole, born Forest Ave, Chicago,
15/10/1877, Died 1965. Author of "Bert's Begats" HP1
1/2. Eleanor Isabella Poole, born 16/11/1878.
Married NG Maitland. Grandmother to Antony Maitland
1/3. Otis Manchester Poole, Born 6/9/1880, Forest Av,
Chicago,
Died Missing Acres, Crozet, Charlottesville, Va, 21/10/1978.
----------------------------------------------------------------
************************** GENERATION 6 ************************
----------------------------------------------------------------
AM06/07 HP6
Born9: 29/12/1820, Cherry Valley, Antrim (from his own story, parish
records probably lost)
Parents: Capt. John & Helen (Kirk) Armstrong
Died9: 24/9/1892, Chicago, Ill.
1820-1832: Cherry Valley with father & Charles William A.
1832-40: with cousin, John Goodfellow at Shannon Lodge, Leitrim.
6/1853: emigrated to USA, direct to Chicago.
1860 Census, Chicago Ward 8, Cook, Ill:
Jno Armstrong (39, Coms Nest??, $1000, Ireland), Henrietta (33, Ire), Eleanor I
(19, Ire), Henrietta (16, Ire), Wm (5 (Ill), Jennie (2, Ill), Jno (2/12, Ill),
Jno Goodfellow (63, Ire), Mary Goodfellow (60, Ire) + 1 servant.
1870 Census, 18th ward, Chicago:
John Armstrong (46, Book-keeper in elevator, Ireland), Henrietta (43, Keeping
Boarding House, Ireland), William (15, Attending school, Ill), Jane (12,
attending school), John (9, attending school, Ill), Percy (3, Ill), Ellen I
(28, At home, Ireland), Haughton Vaugh (19, Book-keeper in elevator), Ireland),
Thomas Little (18, Attending school, Ireland). +2 servants.
1880 Census, Arcola, District 82, Douglas, Ill:
Henrietta Armstrong, (51, Keeps House, Ire x3), William (23, Manager of Farm,
Ill, Ire, Ire), Anamode (20, sons wife, Ill, Ohio, Ohio), Jennie E (21, living
at home, Ill, Ire, Ire), John G (20, living at home, Ill, Ire, Ire), Percy W
(12, Away at school, Ill, Ire, Ire).
1870: bought Maple Grove, Arcola, family lived there and he still worked in
Chicago.
He was in the grain business in Chicago, and lived in various houses in the
area.
Married (1st), Dublin, 20/1/1840: Eleanor Isabella Wilson
ELEANOR ISABELLA WILSON - 1817
AM06/08
Born9: 8/1817, Roscommon, Ireland
Parents: Charles & Eleanor (Mullarkey) Wilson
Died9: 28/4/1848, Leitrim, Ireland.
Issue:
1/1. Eleanor Isabella Armstrong, b. 14/9/1841, Leitrim.
1/2. Henrietta Armstrong, b. 11/6/1843, Leitrim, died Chicago
24/6/1870. Married 30/11/1865,
Eugene Wheeler. Dau. Bertha 28/5/1868-3/2/1875.
2 boys died young.
John Armstrong married, 22/10/1949, in Ireland, 2nd:
Henrietta Wilson, sister of Eleanor (6/1/1826-16/4/1914).
Issue:
1/1. John Henry Armstrong: 23/9/1850-28/10/1850 in Ireland
1/2. Mary Goodfellow Armstrong: 28/4/1852-21/12/1853, Chicago
1/3. William Rufus Armstrong: 18/10/1854-10/7/1906 in Chicago
1/4. Jennie Elvira Armstrong: 13/11/1857-22/8/1935 in Saginaw
1/5. John Edmond Armstrong: 18/3/1860-23/3/1912 in Beloit
1/6. Charles Wilson Armstrong: 22/5/1862-11/11/1862 in Chicago
1/7. Maud Mary Armstrong: 22/9/1863-22/2/1865 in Chicago
1/8. Eugene Charles Armstrong: 22/1/1866-5/8/1866 in Chicago
1/9. Percy Wilson Armstrong: 27/3/1867- Lives in Glencoe Ill
(1960). Poss death, Oct 1969,
Chicago, Cook, Ill. DoB given as 1/1/1889.
Married Jennie Tilt.
Issue:
2/1. Susannah Armstrong, 10/3/1897,
married Laurence Vail Coleman
2/9/1939.
1965: res 1500 Massachusetts Av. NW, Washington DC 2005 apt 449.
Ref US SS death index, possibility at 22202 Arlington, Va.
Poss death Susannah Coleman, b. 11/3/1897, d. 7/1985.
Poss death Laurence Coleman, b. 19/9/1893, d. 7/1982.
2/2. John Tilt Armstrong, b. 23/5/1898
3/1. Elizabeth Giles Armstrong
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:17:14 -0500
From: "Elizabeth Ligon"[ii]
I am an Armstrong by birth (Elizabeth Giles Armstrong) and am descended from
the John Armstrong who moved to Chicago directly from Ireland.
My father was John Tilt Armstrong, my grandfather Percy Armstrong. I have
the compilation written by the Pooles. I believe I am a direct descendent of
Johnnie Armstrong, "the Robin Hood of Scotland", who was captured and
killed by the King of Scotland. Do you have any information which would show
that linkage?
3/2. Joanne Armstrong, b. 14/1/1934.
1/10. Alice Maud Armstrong: 25/4/1868-21/7/1868 in Chicago
----------------------------------------------------------------
************************* GENERATION 7 *************************
----------------------------------------------------------------
AM07/13 HP12
Born: 1762, Killashandra, Cavan, Ireland
Bapt: 16/1/1764, (PR) – Killashandra records film poor.
Parents: William & Jane (Irvine) Armstrong.
Died: 8/8/1830, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, England, aged 68.
(PR checked by AM, also brother William).
From HAP, he had a varied and exciting career, mainly in the army.
Extract from HP12: ”... became a midshipman in the same ship and at the same
time as our late sovereign, William the Fourth. (Prince William Henry
commenced his naval career as a midshipman under Capt. Digby, in the
"Royal George" of 98 guns in the year 1779)."
Prince William recorded as in Royal George 1779
Was agent to Honourable Robert Pakenham.
PRONI 5/11/96:
Further check of Killashandra:
P 37: 3/4/1749 Mary dau of Wm and Jane Armstrong bapt of "Derry??"
No trace of any further relevant bapts: 2 William Armstrongs married 1773 poss
one of ours, but seems that Rev WA went elsewhere.
Checked Clergy lists for Dioceses of Drum, Kilmore, Dromore, Derry, Raphoe,
Connor, Armagh, Cloghur: no sign of Rev William A.
Try Dublin and South for him.
Ref Capt John: checked PR Glenavy nil sig.
Crumlin in Killead Parish: all relevant records destroyed in Dublin.
Tithe Apportionments: (FIN/5A/147)
John Armstrong Commissioner for Vicarial Tithes 3/2/1827 for
Camlin parish:
John Armstrong of Cherry Valley owned 206 acres.
a John Armstrong owned 52 acres in 5 holdings in Ballydonaghen, Camlin Parish.
Griffiths Valuation (said to be 1861-64, so the Armstrongs may not be relevant):
Armstrong, John, Ballydonaghy, Camlin Antrim
Armstrong, John, Ballytromery, Camlin Antrim
Armstrong, John, Main Street, Crumlin Camlin Antrim
Armstrong, John, Jr. Ballydonaghy Camlin Antrim
Armstrong, John, Sr. Ballydonaghy Camlin Antrim
Pakenham Rev. Arth. H. Ballygortgarve Camlin Antrim
Pakenham Rev. Arth. H. Ballymacrevan Camlin Antrim
Pakenham Rev. Arth. H. Ballytromery Camlin
Antrim
Will of John Armstrong - notes
of Cherry Valley, Glenavy, Co Antrim
Dated 13/5/1830, proved Canterbury 5/11/1832.
Trustees:
David Shaw of Ard, Scotland
Alexander Mckay of Stockwell, Middlesex
Son Edward Pakenham Armstrong
townlands of Cherry Valley Civer?? Court Ballygortgarve and Ballytromery[1]
Bequests/heirs:
son Edward Pakenham Armstrong
Daughters: Anna Maria Armstrong,
Glencairn Dalrymple Shaw, otherwise Armstrong
Son Charles William Armstrong, residuary legatee.
Refers to his Agency for Honourable Robert Pakenham going to Charles, or
possibly Edward taking it.
Owned 9 bonds from Baroness Longford totalling £11624, Conditioned to £6037.
These left to his children and to pay off debts by him to Margaret Park of
Cherry Valley and his sister in law, Elizabeth Isabella Dalrymple, both for
£1000, conditioned to £500.
(Margaret Park was decd wife’s aunt).
Owed £1000 by Robert Pakenham, of which:
£500 to Elizabeth Dalrymple,
£400 to John Armstrong the younger
£100 to Alexander Mckay.
Also PRONI T700/1 Bk9 p34
Will extracts in Stewart Kennedy Notebooks (TCD Library)
For Glenavy info: http://www.glenavyhistory.com/index.html
Married 2nd, at Cherry Valley, 12/1818(HAP):
Ellen/Helen Kirk, No entry on Scottish OPR’s (9/2008).
AM07/14
Born: Girvan, 20/3/1783
Parents: Andrew & Margaret (McCutcheon) Kirk.
(they are a likely line from Scottish records - Bert Poole showed her as
being "Ellen" from somewhere in Scotland. Helen Kirk is the right age
and Girvan is in the Ayr area: maybe she was the nanny employed to look after
John's children after Macrae died. No trace of her marriage or death have been
found.)
Glenavy burials 1815-20 illegible. Gartree records pre 1900 destroyed.
JA’s will is interesting. He leaves substantial legacies to his four children
by Macrae Dalrymple, referring to each as his son/daughter. A relatively small
legacy is left to “John Armstrong the younger”, no mention of this being a son.
As there is no record of him marrying Miss Kirk (although the Irish PR of the
time are fragmentary), and the reported animosity between John & his elder
half brothers after their father’s death, it may well be that Miss Kirk and
Capt John were not in fact married; she may well have been there looking after
his younger children by Macrae. John Armstrong the younger’s own story in HAP
mentions an annuity of £500pa from his father’s will: the will as probated
makes no mention of that. The best he looked to get was £400 capital. These two
stories do not tie in!
Parish of Camlin
Gentlemen's Seats
Cherry valley, the residence of Charles Armstrong Esquire, J.P., agent to the Honorable Colonel Pakenham, is a modern and gentleman - like 2- storey house, pleasantly situated in the town land of Ballymacrevan near the shore of Lough Neagh, and 1 and one-eighth miles west of Crumlin. It commands a tolerable (crossed out: beautiful) view of Lough Neagh and its distant shores. There is a good deal of planting and some old oaks (apparently natural timber) about the house.
At Cherry Valley are a few old oaks, evidently the remains of the natural woods. It is within memory of some old people since there (were) more evident vestiges of natural wood, and Boate, in his Natural history of Ireland, says, "There were in his time great forests in the county Antrim, particularly in Killultagh" (the manor in which this parish is included.
Cherry Valley, the residence of John Armstrong, Esquire…
Died: 1820, Antrim, NI (in child birth?).
Issue of John & Helen Armstrong:
1/1. John Armstrong. Born (HAP) December 21/1820 at Cherry Valley.
Married, 1st, 12/3/1801 (HAP):
Parents: General Stair Park & Glencairn Dalrymple
Glencairn died August 1816, buried Crumlin Church.
From Gentleman's Magazine, 11/1801: "At Dundalk, by special licence, John
Armstrong, esq, lieutenant and adjutant of the 71st foot, to Miss Macrae
Dalrymple, eldest daughter of Brigadier General Dalrymple."
She died 2/6/1811 (Scot PR) (ref HAP: in childbirth, bur Governor Macrae's
private burial ground, Orangefield.)
7/2004: Orangefield House said to have been the site of the control tower at
Prestwick Airport. There is no sign of it now, the airport having removed all
trace. A burial ground nearby was visited, but was 100 years too young.
HAP has Macrae's death as 1818.
Issue by Macrae Dalrymple (from her diary & SRO):
1/1. Glencairn, b 12/5/1802, cut tooth 24/3/1803
SRO 1/7/93: M: David Shaw
28/10/1826 Ayr FR223
HAP: married on November 1/1826, David Shaw of Ayr, Scotland, (5/11/1788 - May
1902) at the remarkable age of 114 years:
They lived in Ayreshire. See HAP 12 for details.
1841 Census, Wellington Sq, Ayr:
Margret Beggs (20), Ann Duffeneagh (30), Margret Guthrie (20), Janet Hower
(40), Margret Podon (20), Barbara Shaw (12), Charles Shaw (10), David Shaw
(50), Edwd Shaw (3), Elisabeth Shaw (6), Glencairn Shaw (1), Glencairn Shaw
(35), John Shaw (13), Ackeson Smith (6), Ann Smith (30), Chls Smith (4).
There is a road near Prestwick Airport called Shawfarm Rd (7/2004).
Issue:-
2/1. John Shaw, b. September 5/1827, m. Sophia Alicia Byam
Gunthorpe,
Issue:-
3/1. David James Shaw.
3/2. Margaret Glencairn Dalrymple Shaw.
3/3. John Byam Diston Shaw.
2/2. Charles George Shaw, born November 3/1830.
M. Flora Whiteside,
Issue:-
3/1. David William Shaw.
3/2. Patrick John Shaw.
3/3. Charles Alexander Shaw.
3/4. Flora Glencairn Whiteside Shaw.
3/5. Elizabeth Dalrymple Shaw.
3/6. James Edward Shaw. ("This is the man who sent me the
above history of John Armstrong. I, (H.A.P.) visited him
on July 18/1905 at his residence, Martnaham lodge, near
Ayr").
3/7. Philip Armstrong Shaw.
2/3. David Shaw. Born June
7/1832, died April 7/1834;
2/4. Elizabeth Dalrymple Shaw, born June 20/1835, died July
6/1851.
2/5. Edward William Shaw. Born July 24/1837,
M. Jane Isabella, Houldsworth of
Cranstoun Hill.
Issue:-
3/1. Helen Dalrymple Shaw.
2/6. Reverend Glencairn Alexander
Shaw, born January 17/1840.
2/7. Carolina Anna Shaw, born February 6/1840.
2/8. Barbara Jane Shaw.
1/2. Charles William Armstrong, b 18/5/1805, cut tooth 24/1/1806
Inherited Cherry Valley &
became agent to Pakenhams.
Married, September 4/1844, Louise Isabelle, dau. of Richard Boyle Bagley, by
Alicia, dau. of Richard, 2nd Baron Castlemain
1843 directory of Antrim:
Charles William Armstrong, Esq., Cherry Valley, Crumlin.
DISPENSARIES IN THE COUNTY OF ANTRIM:
Crumlin - Charles W. Armstrong, Cherry Valley
Magistrates Presiding, Crumlin:
Sir. H. Pakenham, C. W. Armstrong
Died without issue on February 7/1858.
Glenavy Church:
Charles William Armstrong, late of Cherry Valley, esq, J.P. who died 8 February
1858 in the 53rd year of his life, inscribed on Glencairn Dalrymple's (his
g/mother) tomb.
1/3. Anna Maria Armstrong, b 28/3/1807, ct 29/9/1807.
Married on March 21/1833, William Dysart Smith of Antrim.
1/4. Rev Edward Pakenham Armstrong, b 31/12/1808, ct
3/7/1809. Unmarried.
All listed in Officers List of time
ENTRY in OPR 1811 Kilmarnock SRO597/4 FR1026:
All recorded on one entry in 1811.
Armstrong:
Glencairn Dalrymple 1st child of John Armstrong Capt in the 7th Regiment
and McKay Dalrymple, his wife, was born May 12 1802.
Charles William their 2nd child born March 28 1805.
Anna Maria their 3rd child was born March 28 1807.
Edward Pakenham their 4th child was born December 31st 1808.
John Armstrong Life Summary from various sources:
(OL: Officers on Full & Half Pay in 1828, WO/25/749)
(AL: Army List) (HAP: Bert Poole & Dr William Armstrong)
1779 (HAP): Midshipman under Capt Digby, "Royal George", 2 yrs.
1781-2 (HAP): Enlisted 52nd Regt, soon NCO, India for abt 15 yrs
& Nova Scotia (prob. war with Tippoo & expedition against Ceylon 1795)
1792 (HAP): @ siege of Seringapatem.
10/12/1794: 1st Entry OL - 52nd Foot - Purch from S/Maj.
10/12/1794 (AL): Ensign 52nd Foot.
1795 (AL): Lt 92nd Regt of Foot seniority 31/5/94.
1/1/1796 (OL): 71st Foot - Purchased.
1796: already Sgt Major of 52nd Foot: promoted to be Ensign (in 75th Foot).
1797 (HAP): Lt Ensign, 71st Foot: Col Dalrymple CO (Donald Harrow Paymaster).
Soon Adjutant.
29/11/1800 (OL): 71st Foot, purch
1800 (HAP): Adjutant (Col Dalrymple now Brigadier)
Regt to Scotland & Dalrymple to Langlands (wife + 3 daughters)
1800 (AL): Lt 71st Highland Regt of Foot, seniority 1/9/95.
Lt Col Stair Park Dalrymple 1/9/95, in Army Col 1/1/98.
SPD there in 1805.
1801 (AL): Lt 71st (1/1/96).
15/10/1801 (OL): 71st Foot - Purchase Capt.
1/10/1802 (OL): 64th Foot - Purchased.
1802 (AL): J. M. Armstrong Illegible.
1803 (AL): JM Armstrong Capt 15/10/1801, Regt 1/10/1802.
EM Pakenham, Lt Col, 17/10/1799, wounded at ????
1803 (HAP): Genl D purchased Coy for S-in-l in 64th stationed in St Croix.
Promoted Capt.
Sir Edward Pakenham CO, who disliked brother Wm Armstrong, planter.
Took St Lucia and Capt A. served Col P.
28/11/1804 (OL): 7th Foot
1805 (AL): 7th Regt of Foot (Royal Fuzileers) Paymaster 23/11/1804, Lt 28/8/04.
1806 (HAP): Capt A. Paymaster of 7th Royal Fusileers from Capt Pakenham (now
recovered) & now Capt of this Regt.
1st Btln to Copenhagen, N.S., Martinique, Spain, Portugal.
1808 (HAP): Halifax, NS.
1812 (HAP): retired & became agent to Sir Edward Pakenham. Lived at Cherry
Valley, Crumlin, Antrim.
1811: Grand Juror
11/3/1813 (OL): Retired.
1813 (SRO): Langlands conveyed to Capt A.
6/8/1813: Arrived Cherry Valley.
1816 (SRO): "of Langlands".
1817 (SRO): "of Cherry Valley".
16/9/1816 (PRONI): 3478 mixed trees @ Cherry Valley (refer Col Pakenham)
13/4/1822 (PRONI): 9700 mixed trees @ Cherry Valley. (D2051/1)
D491/101: Cherry Valley papers: map of property dated 24/11/1801, showing 404
acres on either side of road past site of house (not yet built) & bounded
by river to NW of road.
D2051/2: Memorandum of Agreement 9th August 1858 between Rev Edward Pakenham
Armstrong and Mr William McConnell to sell at 1050 pounds Cherry Valley.
----------------------------------------------------------------
AM07/15 HP14
Born: 1791, Ireland.
Parents: John & Eleanor (Gardner) Wilson.
Died: 7/1/1841.
Griffiths Valuation Kiltoghert parish (inc Carrick on Shannon, 1834:
Holly Park: appears as Charles Wilson as owner, seems total about 6.5 acres,
most untitheable.
Holly Park was owned by Eleanor Mullarkey's maternal grandfather, William
Haughton.
Married:
AM07/16
Born: ???
Parents: Sir Michael & Eleanor Isabella (Haughton) Mullarkey.
Died: abt 1828.
Issue of Charles Eleanor Wilson:
1/1. Eleanor Isabella Wilson.
1/3. Isabella Wilson. Born 1819, died November 22/1852.
Married in 1838, John George
Little, born 1800, died October 10/1870 in Ireland. After her death he married,
2nd, Margaret Munns, but had no children by her.
Issue :- (by his first wife).
2/1. John Wilson Little, born August 22/1840, who in 1905
lived at Longford, Ireland. He
married Matilda J. Cody.
Issue (quote from HAP):-
3/1. George Edward Little. Born July 19/1857. Lives in
Longford.
3/2. Walter Joseph Little. Born Sept 10/1868. M. Eva
Turner.
3/3. John Armstrong Little. B. June 24/---- Lives in New
Zealand.
3/4. Herbert Wilson Little. B. March 7/1878. Lived in
Canada 1905.
3/5. Jane Isabella Little. B. Feb 24/ 1888. Live in
Longford 1905.
Longford Church, 1995: The main headstone was (copying correct??):
Annabel Turner died 23/6/1921, age 63
Dau Mary Evelyn Little, died 30/8/1939, age 69,
Husband Walter Joseph Little, died 2/12/1945, age 72,
Dau Norma Learmouth (Little), 28/3/1946-25/6/1969
Randolph Irwin Little, 3/8/1951-16/6/1978
A new stone: Cecil Little, 20/4/1992.
1/4. Mary Wilson. Born 1821, died March 10/1876 in Arcola, Ill,
and is buried at Graceland Cemetery,
Chicago. She married, 1st, her cousin Launcelot Vaugh of Sligo County, Ireland.
They were brought over from Ireland to Chicago by John Armstrong. After her
husband's death she
married, 2nd, John Stewart and went out to Australia. Many years later, after
his death, she returned to Arcola and lived with John Armstrong's family. No
children by her second husband.
Issue:
2/1. Isabelle Vaugh. Born 1843, died 1854.
2/2. Christiana Vaugh. Born December 25/1849 in Ireland, died
June 21/1897 in Chicago. She
married on July 19/1873 in Arcola, James P. Slater, born March 26/1843 in
Edinburgh, Scotland, died September 10/1916 in Chicago of heart failure.
Issue:
3/1. John Wesley Slater. Born September 6/1876 in Chicago,
died June 28/1933 in the Great
Lakes Hospital, North Chicago. He married, 1st. about 1900, Jeanette May
Osborne, they were divorced. Soon after arriving in Lansing he married in 1907 Ethel
King.
Issue:- (by his second wife)
4/1. Avis Irene Slater, born October 28/1911 in Jackson
and married in Detroit in 1934,
Lloyd Beemer, a druggist. They moved to Port Huron, Michigan.
Died (US SS) 26/5/1993, res 48236 Grosse Pointe, Wayne.
LB (US SS) b. 23/10/1910, d. 12/1978. Wayne, Michigan.
Issue:-
5/1. Barbara Avis Beemer, born in Port Huron May 12/1937.
3/2. Mary Isabella Slater. Born
January 19/1879 in Chicago.
3/3. James Garfield Slater, born October 5/1880 in Chicago, died September
1/1936. No children by either wife.
3/4. Martha (Mattie) Irene Slater. Born May 30/1882 in Chicago.
No children.
2/3. Haughton Vaugh. Born 1852, He went insane. Never
married.
1/5. Henrietta Wilson. Born January 6/1826, died April 18/1914.
She married on October 22/1849, John Armstrong, as his second wife, his first wife having been Henrietta's elder sister, Eleanor Isabella, who died April 24/1845 after eight years of married life.
----------------------------------------------------------------
************************* GENERATION 8 *************************
----------------------------------------------------------------
AM08/25 HP24
Born: Said by HAP 1720, Sligo? Ireland
Died: Said by HAP to have died 1808.
Said by HAP to have been priest at Killashandra. No supporting evidence found
for this, see below for discussion.
HAP: He married a second time at an advanced age, but the name of this second
wife is not known.
Rev William Armstrong married Margaret Tew, 1786, Dublin?? (re Ancestry.com, Walker's
Hibernian Magazine (first issued in 1771 and discontinued in 1812).) Also seen
elsewhere.
John Tew Armstrong a freeholder in Armagh:
Abode Dublin, Freehold in Derryhaw, Landlord: Representatives of John Maxwell,
Value £20, reg Portadown 12 Nov 1832.
Will: dated 31/12/1801, proved 16/1/1810, Kilmore.
To be buried Drumreilly, Lease of Longfield to wife Mary & daughter Sarah,
they remaining C of E. £220 of St Croix Curr. From David Irwin, now with Wm
Armstrong to go to daus Elizabeth Kiernen & Mary Goodfellow.
1 shilling to illegitimate son James. Admon Mary Flin, widow of deceased. (From
Kathi Sittner)
This will sounds a possibility, location, Irwin, St Croix & Goodfellow
connections.
DRUMREILLY, a parish, partly in the barony of TULLAGHAGH, county of CAVAN, and
province of LEINSTER, and partly in that of DROMAHAIRE, but chiefly in that of
CARRIGALLEN, county of LEITRIM, and province of CONNAUGHT, 2½ miles (E. by N.)
from Ballinamore, on the road to Killeshandra; containing 278 inhabitants.
This parish was separated from Templeport by act of council in 1835, and
comprises 4373 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, besides a great
portion of mountain. There are large grazing farms and a vast quantity of bog.
Limestone is found here. The parish is intersected by Lake Gorradise, on which
stands Goradise of W. C. Percy, Esq., and Bush Hill, of C. Gerard, Esq. ; and
in the vicinity is Corduff, the property of W. Penrose, Esq. There is a small
island in the lake, called Robbers Island.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kilmore, and in the patronage of
the Bishop The rectory is appropriate to the see. The tithes amount to £300, of
which £200 is payable to the bishop, and £100 to the vicar. There is no
glebe-house : the glebe comprises 365 acres, of which 282 are profitable land,
valued at £322. 15s. 6 1/2d., per annum. The church is a plain structure, in
good repair, built in 1737, by William Gore, Esq.
Found 5/2007:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/QUEBEC-BEAUHUNTCHAT/2000-10/0971560977
From: JOY TWENEY[iii]
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000
To you all,
My knowledge of the Irwin/Erwin /Irvine/Irving etc. is very limited My
Armstrong tie came from County Leitrim , Ireland. The surname Irwin was given
as a given name to my 2X Great Grandfather IRWIN ARMSTRONG.
>From O"Harts, Irish Pedigree, Volume 2 is the following:- QUOTE-
(Armstrong's here recorded a branch of the Armstrongs of Gallen Priory, King's
County, settled in Sligo. Some of whom settled afterwards in the County of
Leitrim; and after the death of Robert Armstrong, his family removed thence to
Newton Gore in the County Cavan, where his son John Armstrong married a
daughter of William Irwin (whose son married Miss Haughton * who had 3 bros.
George, William, John) and had two sons John and Launcelot Armstrong) *
Haughton: the three families of the Armstrongs, the Irwins, and the Haughtons
lived convenient to each other and intermarried a great deal)....UNQUOTE
My Armstrongs were of the Scots-Irish persuasion and were Protestants.
I also note that one Ann Irwin (age 19) married in 1734 a Martin Armstrong
..She was the eldest daughter of John Irwin of Drumedillagh, County Leitrim,
High Sheriff of Leitrim 1737....
If you have a map of Ireland handy it is easy to see how close the Counties
were where families emigrated to BEAU/HUNT/CHAT...
The Irwins, who came in a large group of settlers from Quebec to Essex County I
will check into soon ..I have been into Genealogy since 1960 and am researching
over 400 Surnames, and being a physically, non-active, Senior Citizen it takes
a bit of time to reel everyone in...
I wish I could tell you more at this sitting but as I find a clue or two I will
gladly send on to you..
Irwin Armstrong's son Francis stayed in Ormstown and married a Stewart, I
believe.. Checking this out...Have all your e-mails on hand in an IRWIN File
and will keep in touch. Thank you for your mail....
Best Wishes...Joy Bell Austin-Tweney.
Married 15/2/1746-7, Killashandra (ref PRONI PR):
AM 12/3/1996: found to have married at Killashandra, Jane Irvine, 15/2/1747.
HAP gives her name as Irwin, but there is a marriage in the
Killashandra PR between William Armstrong and Jane IrVine, a common name around
there. This is very likely the correct one.
Father: David Irwin, sometime of St Croix. Will 1777 Kilmore may be his.
HAP: she was said to have had a large mouth and thick lips.
Danish Consulate in US Virgin Islands: http://www.dkconsulateusvi.com/inhabitans_pdf.htm
Several Irvines: John Christiansted 17/9/1774.
John William, planter, 3/10/1792.
15 Feb 1788 Curator for underage William Irvin his brother David Irwin and
relatives William Armstrong & James Irwin, of St. Croix, that although he
will be of age soon since he against their wishes married a girl (Isabella
MacGuire) from the states who is sickly by a priest from Tortola on a boat on
the sea, that he not be allowed to have access to his estate until he changes
and shows more responsibility.
Papers in PRO Dublin, D16576-649, T7038-7059, M1936-1986 contain a number of
wills probably not relevant, and a collection of estate land papers which may
be relevant, said to contain inter alia, Armstrong and Irwin references.
Issue:
Possible PR found at Presb records of Kildallon (Croghan) bapt shown:
1/1. James Armstrong (PR 29/10/1767) ref to illegitimate son
James in will.
PR birth: 26/9/1751.
PR: William Armstrong died Leamington Priors, 13/4/1830, age 78.
Was of St Croix as well as Ireland.
Death Notice of the time (Leamington):
"Died, at his residence in Regent Street, in this place, on the 9th inst,
Wm Armstrong esq, in the 78th year of his age, leaving a wife and child to
lament his death. He was of a noble family in the North of Ireland, and for
many years a principal merchant of the city of London, of which he was a
freeman. Mr Armstrong had also been for a long time resident in the West
Indies, and the Danish Isle of St Croix. His remains were interred on the 13th
Inst.
FROM KILLESHANDRA IRISH CRUCIANS Internet:
before 1780: First person from
Cavan County known to have gone to St. Croix. Purchased Estates Lebanon Hill
and Pearl. Also acquired Estate Mount Welcome and, perhaps, Estate Mount
Pleasant.
A number of Armstrongs are recorded as having been in St Croix late 18th
early 19thC in http://www.dkconsulateusvi.com/inhabitans_pdf.htm
15 Feb 1788 Curator for underage William Irvin his brother David Irwin and
relatives William Armstrong & James Irwin, of St. Croix, that although he
will be of age soon since he against their wishes married a girl (Isabella
MacGuire) from the states who is sickly by a priest from Tortola on a boat on
the sea, that he not be allowed to have access to his estate until he changes
and shows more responsibility.
HAP’s original text quoting Dr William Armstrong, is confusing about the
possible name of the William Armstrong’s wife; depending on how it is read, she
could have been a Miss Jackson, or Keating.
EC (2/2009):
has a marriage cert of Mr. William Armstrong and Ms. Margaret Keating. They
married in 31/8/1779 at St. Mary's Parish Church, London. This seems very likely
to be the one. I (EC) believe also that this Margaret Keating is the sister of
Mary Keating, wife of Sir Thomas Broughton 6th Baronet. As they did not have
issue I believe that Anna Maria was in the house of her aunt as the book of H
Poole said.
Married Margaret (ref Anna Maria's will):
2/1. James Armstrong, died at St. Croix, leaving a wife and
family. Possibly died St Croix 11/12/1812 (ref Danish Consular web site, US Virgin Islands 10/07)
2/2. Thomas Armstrong, no data.
2/3. Catharina Armstrong, née Sophia Armstrong, died Puerto
Rico in September 14, 1831.
The last will of Mary Catherine
Armstrong, sister of Ann Mary ArmstrongEC:
dated in September 7, 1831. Mary Catherine declared that she was converted
to Roman Catholicism and in the time of her baptism, she changed her original
name, Sophia Armstrong, to Mary Catherine Armstrong. She was single and never
been married. She also declared that she born in the Danish island of St. Croix
and was legitimate daughter of "Don William y Doña Margaret Armstrong"
(At that time, Spanish equivalent to Sir William and Lady Margaret Armstrong).
Also declared that her legitimate sister Anna Maria Armstrong-Cuveljé is her
only sucessor of all her property. Also, declared that Anna Maria will inherit
all the property left to her by their first cousin, Lady Mary Grey Egerton
(Baronets of Egerton, Earls of Wilton, etc. but I cannot connect the line yet).
Mary Catherine Armstrong also left 500 British Pounds to Elizabeth, widow of
her brother James Julius Armstrong, who lived at that time in the Danish Island
of St. Thomas. Also left some property to her brother Thomas Armstrong-Cuveljé,
who lived in Great James Street-Bedford Row in London.
2/4. Anna Maria Armstrong,EC
HP:- ...who Dr. William Armstrong said he had the pleasure of meeting at Lady
Broughton's house. She went to St. Croix, and married a Mr. Cuvalie, It is
believed Lady Broughton left her three or four hundred Pounds per annum. Anna's
husband died at St. Croix, and I don't know what became of her or her family.
(Dr William's history is quoted in HP24. A son
of Thomas below.)
Died in Puerto Rico in July 25, 1855 and was buried in the Cemetery of the
Roman Catholic Cathedral of Ponce, Puerto Rico
M. Abraham M. Cuvelje, b 10/10/1778, St Eustatius, 1811 St Croix.
Abraham Cuvelje and Anna Maria Armstrong arrived in Puerto Rico in 1820. For
this reason and the data backside the picture we believe what Louis and Anna
Juliana really born in Puerto Rico instead of St. Croix.
EC has Cert showing 1/6/1811.
Issue (dated 1827 Puerto Rico Census):
3/1. William Cuvelje
3/2. Jane Cuvelje.
3/3. Julius Cuvelje, b 1815.
3/4. Peter Cuvelje b 1819.
3/5. Mary Cuvelje, b 1817
married to Mr. Jose de la Rocha (Solicitor/Attorney at Law). She died young, in her 30's
3/6. Louis Cuvelje b 1824.
born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in
August 25, 1822 and died in May 24, 1900 in Ponce.
4/1. Edward Torres-Cuvelje.
5/1. Amelia Torres-Cuvelje.
6/1. Martha leaving issue
3/7. Anna Julianne Cuvelje b
1826.
+ 3 others un-named.
Email: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 From: EC[iv]
As maybe you know, Anna Maria married (1811) in St. Croix to Mr. Abraham
Cuvelje, a Dutchman of St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles.
Anna Maria Armstrong & Abraham M. Cuvelje have 10 children:
William, Jane, Julius, Peter, Mary, Louis and Anna Julianne (I don't remember
the others).
They came to the island of Puerto Rico when the Spanish Government proclaimed
the Royal Decree of 1815 (Cédula de Gracias). Abraham Cuvelje and Anna
Armstrong became one of the most wealthy families with the business of coffee
and sugar cane plantations. One of his children was Louis Cuvelje Armstrong (in
Spanish we use both last names paternal and maternal), who was a large
landowner and became Mayor of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico in 1849 and in 1871. He was
my great-grandfather. So Mr. Abraham Cuvelje and Mrs. Anna Armstrong were my
great-great-grandparents.
Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:15:39 -0400
My maternal grandmother is a direct descendant of Mr. Abraham Cuvelje and
Mrs. Anna Maria Armstrong. As I told you, they established in Puerto Rico in
1820 by virtue of the Royal Decree of 1815 issued by H.M. King Ferdinand VII of
Spain. At that time, they figured as an untitled noble family in the census,
military service lists, government papers, etc.
(The ancient Puerto Rican nobility is recognized and regulated today only
by the Spanish Nobility Authorities. As an actual United States territory, the
U.S. government neither the Puerto Rico government recognizes it today.)
Mrs. Anna Maria Armstrong died in Puerto Rico in July 25, 1855 and was
buried in the Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Ponce, Puerto Rico
(the cemetery does not exist today). She also always figured here in Puerto
Rico as a Roman Catholic (I don't know if she really was Catholic but the place
where she was buried can give you an idea of her status, etc).
Note: Mrs. Anna Maria Armstrong was always knew in the city as
"Madame Cuvelje".
Curious note: I found a legal document in the National Archives of Puerto
Rico, dated in 1831, about Ann Mary Armstrong-Cuvelje, widow (his husband
passed away in 1830) who sent £ 5,000 annually to her brother Thomas Armstrong,
who lived, in that year, in the courtship of London. (I don't know how many
years she sent money to her brother).
Abraham Cuvelje was son of Mr. Peter Cuvelje, Council Lord of the Parliament of
St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, in 1790's, and Mrs. Elizabeth Doncker.
Abraham has a first wife named Ellen Wildman. They married in St. Mary Priory
Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England in January 5, 1796. Abraham Cuvelje
became a British subject in 1799 by an act of the UK Parliament. Abraham had a
daughter and a son with Ellen and get divorced. She died in 1830 in England.
After that, he returned to St. Eustatius and marry Anna Maria Armstrong in 1811
in St. Croix. This last will have not the name of Anna Maria parents, very rare
but not unusual between aliens in Puerto Rico at that time. The last will of
Anna Maria is in another book and she made it after the death of his husband
Cuvelje in 1830. She was very wealthy, this information is recognized in the
last will of Cuvelje. Now, I am looking for the last will of Anna Maria but the
books summarizes last wills between 1831 and 1861 without any index so I have
to check each page so I can get it. Abraham and Anna Maria had seven children.
The Taylor-Armstrong letter which
may be relevant, from the National Library of Ireland
Dear Billy (Armstrong),
I was in Bath last month and there got acquainted with a young lady about 16
year old very well accomplished. In a short time she told me that her mother
wished to marry her to a gentleman whom she did not like and said she was
perfectly independent of her parents as her grandfather had left her £50 a
year. In Antigua we soon became more intimate and more fond and in short agreed
to marry if we could attain consent. The mother was applied to & at length
was prevailed on. The father is now at Antigua. He is the first merchant there.
His name is Nicholas Taylor. The mother promises besides the lad’s own
property, £2000 in hand & a dividend of his property on the fathers’ death
which will be several thousand. We only wait now to have our mutual properties
certified to each other and they have written both to Cork & Waterford. I
believe John Bradshaw and John Carew will be consulted as I gave their names to
Mrs. Taylor. I referred both of these to you for information & request Dear
Billy that you will do everything you can for me in this very material
business. I gave an exact account of my property to them & if any attorney
or other person should call on your relative to me, you know how to give
everything the best appearance. Murphy will inform you of everything near
Tipperary. James Hennessey near Cahir of everything about Lough[kent] &
Knockgraffon; the Hon Mr Kearney about Newcastle & Mr. Walker in Mallow
about my professions there. The business of this letter was to request you
would be prepared for these enquiries. There is no occasion that you should
mention arrears or anything more than the term and profit rent. People here
scarcely know what arrears are. If you think proper you may let my mother know
this but let her keep it secret until everything is beyond a doubt. I am much
pleased that there are such particular enquiries & certainly demanded on
one side as it will entitle me to same on my side. I have wrote so much this
day I am quite stupid 7 can not be more explicit at present. I request you will
show this letter to my uncle F Garnet & let him know I will soon write to
him.
I am Dear Billy with compliments to all friends, yours sincerely,
John Cooke
London, Grecian Coffee House February 27th 1783.
PR: 19/11/1757
md. Mary Aletta Biggs 1784 (HAP).
IRISH CRUCIANS:
FROM KILLESHANDRA
Thomas Armstrong, Sr.
before 1783: Manager at Estate Lebanon Hill
1783: Married Mary Aletta Biggs, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. (Heylinger) Biggs.
Issue, inter alia, 3 relevant lines shown, based on HAP Subject 24 with later
additions.
2/1. Dr. William Armstrong b. 1786 prob. in Modreeny, Co.
Tipperary, Ireland d. 1871
Rathangan, Co. Kildare, md. Catherine Mary Taylor.
3/1. William Rufus Taylor Armstrong b. 1813 md. Catherine
Greenwood. Resident of Wisconsin.
4/1. Catherine Armstrong md. James Cady Ellis
5/1. Benjamin James Ellis md.
Miriam Grace Greenwood
6/1. Katherine Melvina Ellis md. Melvin Miller
Rader
7/1. Gordon Ellis Rader md. Ingeburg Antonie
Schmidt
8/1. Kathleen Louise Rader
Lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, m Mr Sittner
- 4 children ages 30, 27, 14, 12 (4/2001)
2/2. Thomas Armstrong, (23/02/1787-3/8/1863),
Married: Catherine Louisa
Cornelius (11/04/1792-5/5/1852)
IRISH CRUCIANS, Killashandra Internet:
1819: Arrived with wife Catherine (Cornelius) Armstrong, dau of Henry Cornelius.
See Cornelius Family below.
Bought Estate Lebanon Hill from Dr. Benjamin Biggs. Also acquired Estate Mount
Welcome (all St Croix).
1840: Re-acquired Estate Lebanon Hill from son-in-law Robert Beatty. Also had
Estate Mount Pleasant.
1852: Left for Connecticut.
3/1. Charlotte Cornelia Armstrong (16/09/1821-30/5/1907)
M. 18/03/1847 John W. Culbert.
4/1. Aimee Culbert, M. Herbert Brunswick Harding, d.
30/1/1930.
5/1. Ethel Harding, b. 1881,
M. 14/06/1900 Charles Stewart Mott
6/1. Aimee Mott, M Patrick Butler.
7/1. Patrick Butler[v].
Of Alexandria, Va
(3/2003).
3/2. Ellen Augustine Armstrong, b. 16/07/1825 St Croix.
Married Otto Raupach.
4/1. Thomas Frederick Raupach (6/1848-1912)
(name corrected from HAP's Thomas
Ford by William Victor Raupach, his g grandson 11/2007)
Raupach was a surgeon with the Danish military in DWI about 1800. For several
generation the children would go back to Denmark for their education. My grandfather
was born in 1886. He came to Hartford, Ct to find a wife. They settled in
Hartford, CT, All of my cousins were born in Hartford. All of siblings and
cousins live within 50 miles of Hartford. I am the only one that moved out of
state. There are three Raupach brothers in Ca. that are from my line. There are
six of seven other Raupach lines in America. They are connected with each
other. I have not yet made the connection with my line.
3/3. Catherine Louise Armstrong, born Mountrath, Ireland,
May 13/1813 died at Brooklyn,
N.Y., December 5/1891, buried in Green Wood Cemetery there. She married on May
21/1831, Robert Beatty, who died April 18/1850. In 1840 they lived in New York
City. He left her $40,000 in securities to provide for her.
Issue: -
4/1. Margaret Beatty, born about 1832,
died December 25/1901.
She married, 1st, about 1851, Mr. Whittaker: 2nd, Mr, Timpson,
Issue:- (by her first husband)
5/1. Louisa Whittaker, born 1852.
4/2. Ann Catherine Beaty, born September 12/1833,
died April 19/l85O. She married on
April 13/1852, Reverend Thomas Strafford Drowne, born July 9/1823, son of Henry
B. and Julia (Strafford) Drowne.
Issue:-
5/1. Thomas Strafford Drowne.
4/3. Robert Beatty, died July 3/1901.
He married Sarah Moore, who died March 9/1880, daughter of John T. Moore,
4/4. Jane Almira Beatty, born December 8/1836,
died April 11/1918. She married
Arthur Benson, born July 20/1836, died October 23/1911, (See Riker's History of
Harlem for Benson ancestors).
Issue:-
5/1. Gertrude Benson.
5/2. Josephine Benson.
She married on April 15/1896, James Napper Jaffares.
5/3. Robert Beatty Benson, born April 6/1868,
died Oct 21/1904.
5/4. Arthur Benson.
5/5. John Walter Benson (Walter only in HAP),
16 May 2008 From: Patty
Hertzler[vi].
Jane Almira Beatty was my great-grandmother. Her son, John Walter Benson was my
paternal grandfather. I remember hearing that my great-grandmother came from
the "West Indies" but I had no other information. Walter passed away
in 1954 and my father passed away in 1980. He was an only child and was born
when his parents were 40. I remember "the aunts" but have had no
contact with any one since Aunt Jane passed away in the early 1960s. I am now
going to look further into that.
Jane Beatty married Arthur Benson who was in the import/export business in New
York City. His father, Alfred Grenville Benson, was in the same business and I
have extensive information about the importing of guano from mid-Pacific
islands.
5/6. Emma Hutchinson Benson, born September 30/1875.
She married on April 5/1899,
Russell Johnson Perrine, born October 20/1876, son of Duncan Kendig and Mary
Emma (Johnson Perrine. See Genealogy of Daniel Perrin, Huguenot, by Howland
Delano Perrine.
Issue:-
6/1. Josephine Keziah Perrine, born April 17/1903.
6/2. Arthur Johnson Perrine, born January 19/1909.
5/7. Jane Benson, No data.
4/5. John Cumming Beatty, born at St, Croix, B.W.I,
January 8/1838, died March
10/1922. He married on January 28/1868, Hettie Bull, born June 26/1846, died
August 9/1906, only daughter of William Gedney and Maria Matilda (Chetwood)
Bull,
Issue:- (from the Barber Genealogy: N.Y. Gen & Biog Rec Vol 62),
5/1. William Gedney Beatty, born June 27/1869.
He was not married and was an architect in New York City, in 1930.
5/2. Robert Chetwood Beatty, born May 18/1872.
He graduated from Columbia
University in 1894. He married, 1st, on January 30/1901, Jean Burlingame,
daughter of Edward Livermore and Ella Frances (Badger) Burlingame: they were
divorced and he married, 2nd, at Portland, Conn., on November 11/1911, Dee
Burke, still living in 1923.
Issue:- (by his first wife Jean Burlingame)
6/1. Ann Burlingame Beatty, born in New York City,
March 15/l9O2, living in 1927.
6/2. Hettie Burlingame Beatty, b. New Canaan,
Conn., October 8/1906: living in 1923.
Issue:- (by his second wife Dee
Burke)
6/3. James Chetwood Beatty,
born at Allenhurst, N.J. July 15/1920.
5/3. Alfred Chester Beatty, born in New York City,
February 7/1875. He graduated
from Columbia University in 1898, and became a mining engineer at Denver. In
1930 he lived in London and became a British subject. He married, 1st, on April
18/1900, Ninette Grace Madelin Rickard: 2nd, at London, England, on June
21/1913, Edith Dunn, widow of a Mr. Stone: no children by her.
Issue:- (by his first wife Ninette Rickard)
6/1. Ninette Beatty, born Denver, June 1/1901.
6/2. Alfred Chester Beatty, b. NY City, 17/10/1907
4/6. Elizabeth Beatty, born at St. Croix, B.W.I,
May 19/1939. She married Richard Jones Timpson, born 1841, died December 15/1900. He was a salesman for many years with Tiffany & Co., Union Square, New York City. They had several children: one daughter married and lived for a while in South Africa, and may possibly live in Ireland now.
4/7. Frances Beatty. She, too, married a Timpson:
three sisters married three brothers. Frances and her husband lived in Ireland: was it Wexford? No children.
4/8. Catherine Beatty, b. 7/10/1841, d. 14/12/1848.
4/9. Emma Beatty, died May 24/1900.
She married, 1st, a Mr. Hutchinson,
son of Samuel Hutchinson: 2nd, on April 24/1877, William Johnson Hutchinson,
brother of her first husband.
Issue:-
5/1. Clara Elizabeth Hutchinson,
born February 8/1865. She
married on October 22/1889, Thomas Ormiston Callander, born September 14/1862,
died February 26/1919, son of James and Agnes (Hodge) Callander.
Issue:-
6/1. Ruth Callander, born December 18/1892.
She married on April 10/1917,
Le Roy Martin, born March 29/1890, died February 28/1919. She married, 2nd, on
November 8/1929, Julian Percy Fairchild, born August 15/1881, died June 15
1934, son of Julian D. and Florence (Bradley) Fairchild.
Issue:- (by her first husband Le Roy Martin)
7/1. Le Roy Callander Martin, born November
13/1918.
6/2. Louise Hutchinson Callander,
born February 2O/1901. She married on April 25/1928, Ramon Ormiston Williams, born July 12/1899.
4/10. George Beatty, born February 10/1844,
died March 10/1882. He never married.
1/4. John Armstrong, 1762 (PR 16/1/1764)
1/5. Mary Armstrong,
abt 1764, who married John
Goodfellow, and
whose son, John, lived with John Armstrong jnr in Chicago.
PR only:
1/6. Elizabeth Armstrong - 3/2 or 27/8 1749.
1/7. Robert Armstrong - 29/4/1762.
Another descendant from Henry Cornelius, father of Catherine Cornelius.
Henry Cornelius.
Parents: Henry Cornelius
born 1795 in Mountrath
Died 1868 in Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory, Queens Co. Eire.
Married (1) Eleanor Fitzgerald 14 May 1819,
dau. of Alexander Fitzgerald, born Abt. 1799 in Castletown,
died 18 Jan 1823 in Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory,.
Burial: Family vault in Mountrath
He married (2) Unknown 1824.
Children of Henry Cornelius and Eleanor Fitzgerald are:
1/1. Henry (Harry) Cornelius, b. 08 Mar 1820, Antrim;
d. 16 Feb 1895, Castletown.
1/2. Ellen Cornelius, b. 08 Apr 1821.
1/3. Catherine Cornelius, b. 23 Jul 1822; d. 12 Nov 1822.
Children of Henry Cornelius and Unknown are:
1/4. Alexander Cornelius, b. Abt. 1825;
d. 16 Aug 1894, Borris-in-Ossory.
Married Mary Lalor 28 Nov 1854 in Abbeyleix?, dau. of Joseph Lalor and Mina
Large, born Abt. 1836 in Kylebeg House, Borris-in-Ossory, D. 17 May 1916 in
Borris-in-Ossory.
2/1. Alexander Fitzgerald Cornelius born Abt. 1860,
Died 01 May 1928 in Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory, Eire. Married Mary (Emma) Jane Townshend 01 Aug 1895 in Dublin, dau. of William Townshend, born 1871, and died 27 May 1951.
3/1. Emma (Eva) Eleanor Cornelius, b. 13 Sep 1895,
Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory,
Queens Co. Ireland; d. 11 May 1976, Derbyshire; m. John Gillies Shields, 26 Jul
1917, Borris-in-Ossory, b. 01 Feb 1882, Gateside Farm, Galston, Ayrshire, d. 18
May 1960, Isley Walton, Leics.
4/1. Dau Geraldine Shields
5/1. Dau Rosemary (Sheilds) Cryer[vii]. Retired after 39 years with the Hudson's Bay Company. Husband retired abt 1998 - a Prison Chaplain. Resident Vancouver BC 2006.
1/5. William Henry Cornelius.
1/6. Henrietta Cornelius.
Sat, 09 Sep 2006 rosemary cryer
I have found that we have a mutual connection with Henry Cornelius my
gggg-grandfather. My info differs from yours though. I did not do the research
so I don’t know the sources.
I have the children of Henry Cornelius as the children of Catherine Connor-
married in 1791 and then Henry married Elizabeth Orr in 1814. Maybe Orr could
be mistaken for Rogers. What is your source?
I come down through his son Henry
and his son, Alexander. Rosemary Cryer
22 Sept 2006.
I am thinking that as Henry’s second wife was a widow, so maybe her maiden
name was Orr and the married name was Rogers. Our records show that the second
marriage wasn’t until 1814 and I only have the actual birthdates on one of
Catherine’s siblings. Obviously there is more research to be done!
9 Oct 2006 22:30:45 -0700
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/r/y/Rosemary-Cryer-Vancouver/
I am still trying to find out who mothered Henry’s son Alexander, after his
wife, Eleanor Fitzgerald died at age 24 in 1823 having had 3 children. It
looks as if it could have been Eleanor’s sister-
a) because as the 2nd son he was named Alexander after Eleanor’s father,
b) Alexander’s son had Fitzgerald as a second name. I don’t think it was legal
to marry one’s wife’s sister which is maybe why I can’t find any records!
As I live in Vancouver, and as the Irish records haven’t survived too well,
I am having trouble finding out if Eleanor had a sister and when Alexander was
born. He died in 1894 at age 69 according to his gravestone so c1825.
I am the granddaughter of Emma Eleanor (Eva) Cornelius through her eldest
daughter, Geraldine.
Visited by A Maitland, 1995.
Originally from medieval times, a Catholic Church on the site of an old fort.
During Reformation converted to Protestants and remained in use until 1841 when
new Parish Church built.
April 2001:
Hi, Antony - I'm glad you answered! I would be willing to send you a copy of
the material I have which was written by Dr. William Armstrong. It comes from
the St. Croix Landmark Society Archives. Evidently Dr. William sent a copy to
his sons, and the one from Thomas John found its way into the Archives, only
minus a few pages (at least). I understand that much of this information is
also in the book, The Dalrymples of Langlands, a copy of which is in
Edinburgh's library if I am understanding correctly. But I have not been able
to get the book or copies of it yet. I've also been trying to get some other
things in Edinburgh concerning Dr. William Armstrong but, as I mentioned, the
researcher I hired has not sent the material he says he has found. Do you have
any idea who one contacts in Scotland concerning researchers who are
disreputable and walk away with your money? He is supposedly a "Fellow of
the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland." I'd like to report him!
Anyway... When my daughter and I were in Ireland, we found first went to The
Church offices in Dublin to check for "Rev. Wm. Armstrong" and found
that he was not on their books. Then we found his marriage record - William
Armstrong to Jane Irwin, "daughter of David" - but did not get a
copy. Might you be able to send me one? It's not available here on film. We
were really pressed on time. The old church is being restored, by the way, and
there are still Armstrongs living in the town. We noted that none of his
children were baptized in the Church of Ireland records in Killeshandra and
began to wonder whether perhaps this was because he was simply married in the
Church of Ireland to make it a legitimate marriage (a requirement at that time)
but actually attended the Presbyterian Church. We had to go to Belfast to find
the Presbyterian pastors lists and church records. He was also not a
Presbyterian minister. But in the Presb. church records of Kildallon (formerly
called Croghan - just outside of Killeshandra) we did find the following
baptisms of children with William or William "of Longfeld" as the
father: Elizabeth bp. 3 Feb. or 27 Aug. 1749 William bp. 26 Sep. 1751
Thomas bp. 19 Nov. 1757 Robert bp. 29 Apr. 1762 John bp. 16 Jan. 1764
James bp. 29 Oct. 1767
There are also several Mary's and many children without parents named.
And there are numerous Goodfellow and Keirnan/Kiernan (see below for significance)
and Irwin families, at least three William Armstrongs who were having children
around 1745-65, and including a William Armstrong Sr. and Jr., two other
William Armstrongs, and a "David Irwin & Company" (presumably
because he was involved in trading in St. Croix - see below!) in the tithe
records of 1746-47. Note that the above baptism dates are very close to what we
would expect for the family of (Rev.?) William Armstrong and Jane Irwin as
presented in your records and those of Dr. William Armstrong!
We also found in the Belfast Archives what I believe to be an abstract Of the
will of this (Rev.?) William Armstrong... It was written 31 Dec. 1801 and
proved 16 Jan. 1810, which is certainly not out of the question for someone who
died "around 1808" (according to your uncle's information and my Dr.
William Armstrong's accounts) and whose children had all moved elsewhere except
perhaps for the youngest daughter. He named his wife, Mary (the second wife we
already know existed!) and a young daughter, Sarah, by this wife. He also named
his eldest son, William, "of St. Croix" (and I have evidence that
this William was in St. Croix around this time!), and two daughters including
one we already know about, Mary Goodfellow, and another named Elizabeth
Keirnan. The other sons, unfortunately, were not named. He gave his land lease
at Longfield (which lies just over the Co. Cavan line in Co. Leitrim) and 220
pounds of St. Croix currency which he had received from his father-in-law,
David Irwin, to his son, William, and specified that his bequests were to be
given only if the children remained in the Church of England (Ireland). He also
requested that he be buried in the Church of England cemetery in Drumreilly,
which also lies barely in Co. Leitrim just northwest of Killeshandra. The
church is there in a very idyllic setting, but no gravestone remains for
William or any other Armstrongs... Jane Irwin's father, David Irwin, also left
a will in 1776, proved 1777 in the Kilmore Diocese, in which he is "of
Coramahon" - also in Co. Leitrim, just south of Drumreilly and Longfield
and west of Killeshandra. The will was not abstracted, so we have no record of
its contents.
We also visited the home where John Armstrong lived at Cherry Valley and found
out that someone from the U.S. who is also a descendant through John visited
there last year. But the owners could not find his name and address...
And we visited a fabulous bed and breakfast place in Co. Laois which was actually
the home of Luke Flood, the second husband of my Mary Aletta Biggs, mother of
Dr. William Armstrong. Dr. William lived there between about 1790 and 1800, at
which time he was sent to the University in Edinburgh. That's why I need the Scottish
records....
I have tried to prove all of the information concerning your uncle's write-up
and have found that, for the most part, it seems very accurate. I have no
reason to disbelieve it. In this first generation, the only thing which really
bothers me is the "Rev." tag... If it's true, I think he was not an
official pastor ordained by the church, but he could have been an itinerant
pastor, I suppose. It appears that he was originally Presbyterian but became
persuaded of the Church of Ireland faith, as were his children.
Oh yes - Second wife Mary remarried to a Mr. Flin(n) by the 1810 proving of
William Armstrong's will....
I'd like to go back and look at more of the church records and see if I can
find more information. Also the Belfast Archives. I have a feeling we should be
able to find more, such as something on that Longfield lease. There was another
William Armstrong who OWNED land at Longfield in Co. Leitrim, but he is
definitely not our William. And I certainly hope I'm not mixing up the two. But
with the will, it certainly appears not, because there are too many connections
- David Irwin, money in St. Croix, a second wife, an eldest son William in St.
Croix, a daughter who married a Goodfellow, a death around 1808-9, etc.
I'll look forward to your thoughts and perhaps a copy of that marriage certificate
if you have it. And if you'll send me your address, I'll send the papers from
the St. Croix Archives.
Oh, I almost forgot - My line of descent is:
* (Rev.?) William Armstrong md. Jane Irwin
* Thomas Armstrong md. Mary Aletta Biggs
* Dr. William Armstrong b. 1786 prob. in Modreeny, Co. Tipperary, Ireland d.
1871 Rathangan, Co. Kildare
md. Catherine Mary Taylor
* William Rufus Taylor Armstrong b. 1813 md. Catherine
Greenwood
* Catherine Armstrong md. James Cady Ellis
* Benjamin James Ellis md. Miriam Grace Greenwood
* Katherine Melvina Ellis md. Melvin Miller Rader
* Gordon Ellis Rader md. Ingeburg Antonie Schmidt
* Kathleen Louise Rader (me)
Address: Kathi Sittner[viii]
18 Aug 2002 From: Tom Reilly[ix]
Dear Mr. Maitland, I stumbled on your "Armstrong " information site
while looking for background on my own [more mundane] Armstrong, Montgomery and
Irwin Families. A few loose threads caught my eye!!
Several internet sites mention the 9 gt.grandsons of Johnnie of Gilnockie
brothers of Col. William Armstrong 1600-1664 who obtained land near Brookboro’
Co. Fermanagh. Three of his brothers are said to have moved to Carrickmakeggan
and Longfield Townlands in Leitrim near Killashandra.
The Godley Papers mention a 1739 Irwin lease for Drumsillagh, Drumbrick,
Aghavilla and Kilbracken Townlands These are on the Godley Estate of Ld.
Kilbracken as is Longfield and which the Godleys bought from Richard Morgan
[once known as Craigstown.]. A summary of these Irwins is in Irish Ancestor
1990, 278 in case you hav’nt seen it. Best Wishes, Tom Reilly
16 Sep 2002
Dear Antony, Many thanks for your Email. I am a retired geologist living in
West Cork and Dublin, Ireland. My mothers Montgomery family also are found in
the early Killashandra Anglican Church Registers, possibly from William
Montgomery son of John christened there in 1746. I also have an Armstrong
grandmother from Monoghan with suggested Johnnie of Kilnockie link hence my
interest.
Loose threads!!! You probably are aware of all this but several Internet sites
give details [not yet checked] of the 9 sons of Col. William Armstrong of
Brookeborough. Of these Alexander [1631-1721] is said to have settled at
Carrickmackeegan and John [1625-1695] and Robert [1610-] were said to have died
in Longfield, both these being townlands near Killashandra but in Co. Leitrim.
There is mention of a lease for Longfield of 26/6/1665 [Lawchill] as held by
Martin Armstrong, in the Godley papers. The Godleys of Kilbracken took over the
Leitrim part [Craigstown] of Richard Morgans estate, who had bought the Craig Plantation
Estate in 1734. A paper in the Irish Genealogist mentions the local Irwin
family who also held land from Richard Morgan and there is mention of many
Irwins in the various Woodford, Arvagh and Killegar Rentals. some probably
descendants?
Have you been through these? I will keep an eye out for any Irwin/Armstrong
mentions when I start looking at Deeds etc. if you could do likewise for
Montgomerys.
Best wishes, Tom Reilly.
ESTATE: ARMSTRONG (KILBRACKEN)
7/2009:
http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=439
Associated Families
Armstrong (Kilbracken)
Browne (Kilbracken)
Description
In March 1858 William, Simon and John Armstrong offered for sale the lands of
Kilbracken, barony of Carrigallen. The property was held under a lease, dated
1740, between Richard Morgan and William Armstrong. This lease was renewed in
1810, this time between John Godley of Killegar and Simon Armstrong. Mrs.
Elizabeth Browne, nee Armstrong, with this address, is listed as owner of lands
in Leitrim in 1876. The house at Kilbracken was leased by her to Wm. Murray
Hickson in 1856. The Browne estate also held land in the parish of Drumreilly,
barony of Mohill. It would appear that this estate was also connected with the
Jones family since John George Jones (Jones of Headfort family) is described as
"of Kilbracken".
Houses
William Murray Hickson was leasing the house at Kilbracken, barony of
Carrigallen, from Elizabeth Armstrong at the time of Griffith's Valuation when
it was valued at £20. In 1814 a house at Kilbracken was recorded as the
residence of Mr. Armstrong but it has been estimated that the present
Kilbracken House was built around 1825. It is not named on the first edition
Ordnance Survey map though there are buildings marked on the site. A poster in
Leitrim County Library indicates that it was the property of Thomas S.Jones in
1905 when it was offered for sale. The house is still extant and undergoing
restoration.
3/2008:
http://www.tourismresources.ie/articles/index.htm
Roundwood at Mountrath was another house that looked set to sink into ruin
before the Irish Georgian Society and the late Brian Molloy undertook it's
restoration in 1970. Although once attributed to Francis Bindon, the actual
architect of Roundwood is still shrouded in mystery. It is typical of that type
of house classed by the architectural historian Maurice Craig as being a
classic Irish house of the middle size. As at Cuffesborough and Aghaboe the
carved stone doorcase is of a different quality from the rest of the stone
work. It is a nice idea that in the 18th century you could go to the local
hardware store and select your particular door case from the pattern books. It
was built around 1750 for Mr Flood Sharp, a wool merchant, the front in cut
stone the sides in rendered rubble stone. It has four rooms on each floor with
a grand Chinese Chippendale galleried staircase leading to the first floor
while the top floor is served only by the modest back stairs. It has cellars
rather than a basement and the kitchens, normally to be found in the basement,
were in the range of buildings which remained from the original late 17th/
early 18th century house. Roundwood is now the home of Frank and Rosemarie
Kennan who run it as a most excellent country house hotel, despite the odd
ghostly child in the bushes or the tombstone in the stables.
----------------------------------------------------------------
AM08/27
Assumed from PR for Helen's birth. No further information.
IGI has an Andrew Kirk marrying Margaret McAulay, 18/12/1772, New Kilpatrick,
Dunbarton, Scotland - maybe the same??
Married:
Issue (ref Vanessa McFarlane, an abreviated line from genesreunitied):
1/1. John Kirk, b 1775.
1/2. Samuel Kirk, b 1778.
1/3. Andrew Kirk, b 1779.
1/4. Mary Kirk, b 1781.
1/5. Helen Kirk, 1783-1820.
1/6. Margaret Kirk, 1784-1789.
1/7. Agnes Kirk, b 1778.
1/8. William Kirk, b 1790, M. Marion Sawers
2/1. Sarah Kirk, 4/11/1824-1887
3/1. M. Peter McFarlane, 1822-1892.
Died of chronic bronchitus and
paralysis. At time of death was an Engineers Storekeeper and a widower. In 1851
census living at 3 Lyon St, St George, Glasgow. In 1856 at birth of son Daniel
was listed as a Cotton Spinner. In 1861 census was living at 4 Church Place, St
George, Glasgow. In 1871 living at 8 Erroll St, Govan and was an Engineers
labourer.
4/1. Daniel McFarlane, 1856-1919, M Jane Wood, b 1857.
Born at 5, Oakbank St, Glasgow.
His mother Sarah registered his birth, although she was illiterate, her mark
was witnessed by the registrar. In 1901 census living at 3 Clavering St.
Paisley. Died of Cerebral Haemorrhage at 2, Clavering St., Paisley. he died
exactly two months before his grandson David was born. He was 63 years old.
5/1. Peter McFarlane, 1883-1961,
M Annie Brown 1885-1968.
6/1. David McFarlane, 1919-1990,
M Margaret White, b 1926
7/1. Vanessa Mary Patricia McFarlane, b 1962.
M 1st: Nigel Palmer, b 1953, Issue
8/1. Niall McFarlane, b 1983.
8/2. Sayward McFarlane, b 1985.
M, 2nd 2004, Ian Tappin, 1969-2007.
1/9. Margaret Kirk, b 1793.
----------------------------------------------------------------
AM08/29 HP28
of County Sligo, Ireland. no other information about his life.
(ref HAP & John Armstrong 2).
Married:
Issue:-
1/1. Charles Wilson. died January 7/1841.
1/2. John Wilson. died in India about 1845. Never married.
1/3. George Wilson. County Sligo, Ireland.
He married Mathilda Burrowes
1/4. Henry Wilson. died young.
1/5. Marianne Wilson. Married Russell Hunter.
1/6. Eleanor Wilson. Married John Lilly.
1/7. Margaret Wilson. Never married, probably died young
----------------------------------------------------------------
AM08/31 HP28
Ref HAP: Irish, a Justice of the Peace, and Queen's Counsel for County Sligo.
Ref Gearóid Ó Maelearcaidh[x],
3/2009:
have found a Michael Mullarkey being a admitted as an attorney in the 1790's in
Dublin. Catholics were allowed to become attorneys at the end of the 18th
century and based on his name and origins as native Irish it would seem likely
that your Michael was also Catholic. As I understand the situation the
restrictions against Catholics becoming KC's / QC's did not relax until a
little latter into the 19th Century so it is very interesting that your man had
such status.
However if the Michael Mullarkey I have found is the same as yours then
unfortunately this may be a instance of exaggeration creeping into the oral
tradition.
See later in this paper notes on Irish 17thC Catholics
Married:
Born: 1780, Father William Haughton (who died 6/1780, no
further info. Ref HP 62)
Died: 1820
Issue:
1/1. Eleanor Isabella Mullarkey
----------------------------------------------------------------
************************ NEXT GENERATION ***********************
----------------------------------------------------------------
AM09/63 HP62
William Haughton was of Holly Park, Leitrim, Ireland. Holly Park was old inherited
property of the Haughtons for generations. Of his marriage nothing is known. He
died in June 1780. (ref HAP & John Armstrong)
Griffiths Valuation Kiltoghert parish (inc Carrick on Shannon, 1834:
Holly Park: appears as Charles Wilson as owner, seems total about 6.5 acres,
most untitheable.
Holly Park listed http://www.buildingsofireland.ie
Location on Ordnance Survey 1:50,000
Sheet No : 33 Grid Letter : G Grid Reference : 956044
Extract of the map is held (Holly Park Map & Pic).
Had land in Chaughduff Tullylumion Lismorefir & Bahin Bog
Issue:- (9 in all, born before 1800).
1/1. Jane Haughton. She married John Dickson,
Issue :-
2/1. Mary Jane Dickson, born 1799, died March 6/1866 in
Chicago and buried in Graceland Cemetery. She married John Goodfellow, born in Cavan, the first cousin of John Armstrong. John Goodfellow was the son of John Armstrong's aunt Mary Armstrong, the only daughter and sixth child of the Rev William Armstrong. Goodfellow was a carriage builder.
1/2. Anne Haughton.
She married abt Oct 1796, William
Vaugh, Irish, a farmer, probably son of James Vaugh of Leitrim. Marriage
evidently had broken up by 1821. John Dickson appointed to administer the lands
left to Anne by her father which had been in the name of her husband. (ref
marriage settlement deed of arrangement when marriage broke up)
Issue:-
2/1. Margaret Vaugh, married Sans Pierce,
2/2. George Vaugh, married Margaret Hewitt. Both died in America
2/3. James Vaugh, a trader in produce.
2/4. Maria Vaugh, married Francis Erwin,
2/5. John Vaugh, came to America.
died abt 1846. M. Miss Nichols.
2/6. Launcelot Vaugh, was an engineer and died in 1852.
He married Mary Wilson, daughter of Charles & Eleanor Isabella (Mullarkey) Wilson. She was born in 1821 and died March 10/1876 at Maple Grove, Arcola, and buried in Graceland Cemetery. Further details about her will be found under subject HP14.
2/7. Jane Vaugh, married William McCormick,
1/3. Isabella Haughton.
Married Richard Jordan, Irish,
rank unknown.
Issue (with additions by Tom Colquhoun[xi],
4/2006):-
2/1. Mary Isabella Jordan, b Carrickfergus abt 1803,
Married John Augustus Reid, b
Dublin abt 1796 son of John Reid and Miss O'Mahony. Captain, 4th Dorset
Regiment, and was at Waterloo 1815. HAP has John killed at Waterloo, but census
1851 shows that to be incorrect. In Glasgow 1851. GG Grand parents of Tom
Colquhoun. Nine children.
3/1. Hannah Jemima Reid, M. Thomas Parks
3/2. Maria Jane Reid ( - dec.)
3/3. James Reid ( - dec.)
3/4. Christina Wilhelmina Reid B. Dublin 1828 - dec.)
3/5. Matilda Edith Reid B. Dublin 1831 - 1900)
D. 16/12/1900 16 Battlefield
Gardens, Glasgow, age 69. M. James Pollock Browne (B.1835) Gorbals, 20 Jun
1854, son of Mathew Browne and Mary McGill. Married 2nd Christina
McDonald.
4/1. John Reid Browne
4/2. Mary Browne
4/3. Edith Browne
4/4. Jane Reid Browne B. 2 Carlton Court,
Glasgow 12/6/1868 D. 20 Dec 1947
22 Midcroft Avenue, Glasgow, age 79 years M. Peter Gilchrist Colquhoun St Johns
Ch, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow, 17 Dec 1889. B. 109 West George Street, Glasgow
27 Jan 1863, son of John Colquhoun and Elizabeth Bain. D. 23 February 1920 No.
19 Dixon Avenue, Glasgow, at 57 years, watchmaker.
5/1. John Colquhoun B. Grangemouth 23 June 1891.
D. infancy
5/2. Matilda Edith Colquhoun B. 18/7/1892, Glasgow,
116 Waterloo Street M. Robert
Ritchie Queens Park Parish Church, 18 Feb 1917. B. Inverkip 1891, s of James
Ritchie & Catherine Darroch.
6/1. John Patrick Mitchell Ritchie ( - dec.)
6/2. Jane Reid Colquhoun Ritchie ( - dec.)
6/3. Robert Darroch Ritchie ( - dec.)
7/1. Peter Ritchie ( - )
7/2. Dawn Ritchie ( - )
7/3. Rodger Edgar Thomas Ritchie ( - )
5/3. Elizabeth Colquhoun B. Glasgow,
116 Waterloo street 5 October 1894. D 6/10/1894 Glasgow, 116 Waterloo Street
5/4. Peter Gilchrist Colquhoun born Glasgow,
116 Waterloo Street 20/10/1895 D. 20/11/1895 116 Waterloo Street
5/5. James Browne Colquhoun B. 31/10/1897
116 Waterloo Street, Glasgow 31
Oct 1897, D. 11/9/1956 22 Midcroft Avenue, Glasgow, at 58 years.
M. Janet Scott Ritchie Hillhead, Skelmorlie, 01 Jun 1927. Born Langhouse,
Inverkip 23/2/1902, dau of Thomas Ritchie and Janet McFarlane. D.14/11/1989 at
87 years of age.
6/1. James Iain Colquhoun B. 19 Dixon Avenue,
Glasgow 05 Feb 1929 (1929 - )
M. Marjorie Alice Irvine (1933 - 1997)
7/1. Eileen Jane Colquhoun ( - )
M. Victor Moore
8/1. Christine Moore
8/2. Jennifer Moore ( - )
7/2. Alice Colquhoun
M. John Chesney
8/1. Kathryn Chesney
8/2. Eryn Chesney
8/3. Glenn Chesney (1988 - )
7/3. Colin Irvine Colquhoun (1954 - )
M. Dorothy
8/1. Daniel Colquhoun
9/1. Brianna Colquhoun
8/2. Jamie Colquhoun (1976 - )
9/2. Connor Colquhoun
8/3. Pamela Colquhoun (1981 - )
9/3. Nathaniel
6/2. Edna Ritchie Colquhoun (1931 - )
M. Hermann Heinrich Gotthold
Clauss
7/1. Jurgen Robert Clauss
M. 1st Birgit
8/1. Eva Catriona Clauss (1993 - )
8/2. Hannah Janice Clauss (1994 - )
8/3. Karin Clauss
M. 2nd Bernd Blümlein
8/4. Lisa Catriona Blümlein ( - )
7/2. Barbara Clauss (1956 - )
M. Ralf Dieter Scheid
8/1. Claudia Scheid
8/2. Annette Scheid (1983 - )
8/3. Daniella Scheid (1988 - )
6/3. Thomas Ritchie Colquhoun (1941 - )
Janice Underhill (1946 - )
7/1. Gavin James Colquhoun (1970 - 1991)
7/2. Jennifer Jane Colquhoun (1973 - )
M. Alan Masterson
8/1. Aedan Gavin Masterson (2005 - )
7/3. Judith Anne Colquhoun (1973
- )
M. Angus Forsyth
7/4. Lesley Jill Colquhoun (1979 - )
3/6. Eliza Reid B. Dublin 1831
M. Hutchesontown, Glasgow, 26 April 1860, James Miller
3/7. Mary Reid B. Dublin 1836
M. Hutchesontown, Glasgow, 1859 David Gray.
3/8. Meica Laura Reid B. Dublin 1842
M. J. D. Porteous
3/9. Isabella Reid B. Dublin 1842
M. James Gregory 1/3/1866.
2/2. Jane Jordan, married Mr Atkins,
1/4. Elizabeth Haughton. She married Oliver Haskin,
Issue
2/1. William Baskin, married Maria Deaker of Dublin.
2/2. Mary Baskin, married Robert Thompson of Dublin.
2/3. Isabella Baskin. Never married.
1/5. Eleanor Isabella Haughton.
She married Sir Michael
Mullarkey,
Issue :- (handwritten: possibly part only)
2/1. Eleanor Isabella Mullarkey, married Charles Wilson
VAUGH NOTES
http://vaugh.co.uk/deeds/r16.htm
TRANSCRIPT OF A DEED FROM THE REGISTRY OF DEEDS DUBLIN
Year 1797 Vol 494 Page 566 Entry 337087
To the reg appointed for registering Deeds & so forth A Meml of an indented
deed of sett bearing date the twenty second day of Oct one thousand seven
hundred & Ninety six made between James VAUGH of Leitrim in the County of
Leitrim of the one part & William HOUGHTON of said place Gentn of the
second part & Wm VAUGH & Ann his wife of the third part Recting a
Marriage having been solemized between the said Willm & Anne and reciting
several annuities to be paid to the said William and Ann out of the lands of
Chaughduff Tullylumion Lismorefir & Bahin Bog situate in the county of
Leitrim and also reciting that for certain considerations in said deed
mentioned the said James VAUGH assigns all his right title & interest to
the lands of Mallaghbawn situate in said county aforesaid to the said William
& Anne to hold for the term of their natural life & after their decease
to the use of the issue of said marriage in such measure as the said William
should die possessed of To go to and amongst such children share and all th...
which sd contained several such clauses & covenants ....... thereunto had
... off... & which said deed & meml are witnessed by .... of the city
of Dublin Attorney & John VAUGH Leitrim in the county of Leitrim Gentm
James VAUGH Signed sealed in presence of Jsoai BOTHIER & John VAUGH the
above memorial John VAUGH maketh oath & saith he is a subscribing witness
to the said deed of which the above writing is a meml & saith he saw the
said deed & this meml duly executed by the said James VAUGH who appears to
be executing party to said deed this meml & saith the name Jno VAUGH signed
as a witness to said deed & this meml is the Deponants proper name &
handwriting sworn before me this 9th day of Nov 1796 A master appointed by
commission for taking Affidavits in the county & I know the Dept John VAUGH
http://vaugh.co.uk/deeds/r17.htm
TRANSCRIPT OF A DEED FROM THE REGISTRY OF DEEDS DUBLIN
YEAR 1821 VOL 760 PAGE 252 ENTRY NUMBER 516187
MORMON CHURCH FILM NUMBER 0467069
To the registrar appointed by act of parliament for registering deeds
conveyances and so forth
A memorial of an indented deed of Separation bearing date the second day of
March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one and
made by and between William VAUGH of Rockbrook in the Coy of Leitrim
Gent of the first part Anne VAUGH otherwise HOUGHTON his wife of
the second part and John DICKSON of the city of Dublin Gent of the third
part Whereby after reciting that divers disputes and unhappy differences had
for some time past arisen between sd Wm and Anne and that in
consequence the said Anne had for some time lived separate and apart
from and sd Wm and Anne had mutually consented and agreed to live
separate and apart from thence forward and recitg that sd Wm VAUGH was
then seized and possessed of The Towns and lands of Mullaghbown Upper and Lower
Drumhearney under & by virtue of leases thereof to him made and that the
said Anne as one of the Co Heiresses of her late father Wm HOUGHTON
Esqre deceased was entitled to one undivided fifth part of the Towns and Lands
of Creaghduff Lismorefin & Tullylinmore with there Sub denominations all
situate in the Barony and County of Leitrim and partition had then lately been
made there of and reciting that the said Anne had consented and agreed
to take upon herself the B____th of supporting cloathing maintaining and
educating from thence forward all her unmarried children being nine in number
all begotten by the said William VAUGH and to enable her so to do the
said Wm VAUGH did remise release and for ever quit claim to the said Annes
share or portion of said lands of Creaghduff Lismorefinn and Tullylimnon and
did thereby not only charge the same and the sd lands of Mullaghbown upper and
lower Drumhearny with one annuity or sum of fifty five pounds as and for the
support maintenance and cloathing of the sd Anne and her children and said
Wm did thereby for ever quit claim to all or any property which the said
Anne then had or should thereafter acquire and did covenant not to
institute any suit against her in the ecclesiastical or any other Courts for on
acct of her
living apart from him and it was thereby covenanted and agreed that in case of
nonpayment of the said annuity that it should be lawful for the sd John DICKSON
to distrain for the same and in said deeds are contained other covenants and
agreements and said deed and this memorial are witnessed by Sandys PIERS of
Lisdalkey in the Coy of Leitrim Gent & John LAWDER of Ashfort in the
Coy of Roscommon Atty at law Wm VAUGH (Seal) signed and sealed in
presence of Sandys PIERS John LAWDER the above named Sandys PIERS
maketh oath and saith he is a subscribing witness to and did see the deed
whereof the above is a true memorial and the above memorial duly executed and
saith the name Sandys PIERS set and subscribed as a witness to said deed
and this memorial is the depts proper name and handwriting Sandys PIERS
sworn before me this 2d day of March 1821 at Drumsna in the County of Leitrim
by virtue of a commission to me directed for taking affidavits in said County and
I know the dept John BUSH Comr
A true copy. B CANIEN
Dublin 12/12/05:
O'Hart Irish Pedigree, V2, p26: (National Library)
Armstrong:
The family of Armstrong here recorded, which was a branch of the Armsrongs of
Gallen Priory, King's Co., settled in Sligo. Some of them afterwards settled in
Co Leitrim, and after the death of Robert Armstrong, his family removed to
Newtown Gore, Co Cavan.
His son John m dau of William Irwin (whose son m. Miss Haughton, who had 3
brothers George, William and John).
Son of John: Launcelot,
Son of Launcelot: Thomas b abt 1807.
Footnote: The 3 families of Armstrong, Irwin and Haughton lived convenient to
each other and intermarried a good deal.
Memoires of the Family of Haughton in Ireland, by Rev WB Steele of Enniskillen.
(MS9869)
These Haughtons do not seem directly related to ours, and were Quakers. Wilfred
Haughton was an adventurer who came with Cromwell (listed between 1642-6). He
came from the North West of England, and may be from the de Hoghtons of
Preston, related to Richard Vernon, Antony Maitland's step father-in-law.
Papers in PRO Dublin, D16576-649, T7038-7059, M1936-1986 contain a number of
wills probably not relevant, and a collection of estate land papers which may
be relevant, said to contain inter alia, Armstrong and Irwin references.
DALRYMPLE FAMILY NOTES
Scottish Record Office: 1/7/93
Also:
Jane Armstrong: b: 25/5/1840 Kilmarnock FR2133
Parents: Charles Armstrong/Alice Thornhill
Jessie Gowlay: c:11/6/1843 Colmanell FR173
DALRYMPLE:
Charles: c:19/10/1721 Ayr FR797
Parents: James Dalrymple/Margaret Ramsay
Glencairn: c: 10/9/50 Monkton FR57
Father: Charles Dalrymple
James: c: 21/6/1752 Monkton FR59
Father: Charles Dalrymple
Charles: c: 28/11/1753 Monkton FR62
Father: Charles Dalrymple
McRae: b: 19/6/1758 Ayr FR386
Parents: William Dalrymple/Susannah Hunter.
Margaret: c: 13/7/59 Monkton FR73
Father: Charles Dalrymple
William: c: 11/8/1762 Monkton FR82
Father: Charles Dalrymple
Williamina: c: 9/10/1804 Monkton FR376
Parents: Charles Dalrymple/Margaret Boswell
Charles: c: ?/8/1790 Monkton SRO606/1FR251
Parents: James Dalrymple/Jannet Dunlop
Charles: c: 11/12/1773 Monkton FR180
Macrae: c: 21/9/1785 Monkton SRO606/1FR230
Parents: James Dalrymple/Jannet Dunlop
James: c: ?/3/1787 Monkton SRO606/1FR238
Parents: James Dalrymple/Jannet Dunlop
Glencairn: c: 26/1/84 Monkton SRO606/1FR222
Parents: James Dalrymple/Jannet Dunlop
Betty: c: 30/4/1767 Monkton SRO606/1FR99
Sarah: b:28/2/1777 Monkton FR180
Parents: James Dalrymple/Susanna Cunningham
CUNNINGHAM Susannah: c: 29/1/1727 Irvine FR88
Parents: Robert Cunningham/Isbel Bennermose
KIRK Helen: b:20/3/1783 Girvan FR258
Parents: Andrew Kirk/Margaret McCuttcheon
OPR Monkton SRO606/1FR99
Betty Dalrymple lawful daughter to Charles Dalrymple of Orangefield was born on
21st April and baptised on 30th April 1767 before the witnesses William Campbell
of Fairfield and Mr David Shaw Minister in Cayltoonn (Campbelltown??) Baptised
by William Dalrymple minister in Ayr.
OPR Monkton SRO606/1FR222:
Glencairn Dalrymple Dunlop natural son to Jannet Dunlop whom she fathered on Mr
Dalrymple of Orangefield was born on 3rd January and baptised on 26th January
1784 and represented by Duncan Good.
OPR Monkton SRO606/1FR230:
Macrae Dalrymple Natural daughter to James Dalrymple esq of Orangefield and
Jannet Dunlop was born on 3rd August and baptised on the 25th September
1785 and represented by Duncan McKelvie was sponsor for the child.
OPR Monkton SRO606/1FR238
James Dalrymple natural son to J Dalrymple esq of Orangefield and Jannet Dunlop
was born on February 1787 and baptised in March following.
Langlands/Stair Park/Armstrong.
Examination of the Records of Sazines at SRO (30/3/94).
Langlands, Stair Park Dalrymple and John Armstrong are covered by many entries,
relating mainly to SPD's mismanaged affairs.
ref Ayr 9962:
The trustees for the creditors of Major General Stair Park Dalrymple of Langlands
seized 7/1/1811 (misc property in Kilmarnock) on Disp of Mrs McRae Dalrymple,
with the consent of John Armstrong, her husband, Paymaster of 7th regiment
of foot, Elizabeth D., daughter of SPD and Glencairn D, his relict. 3/6/1807.
Further property seized 22/6/1813.
Loan by Donald Harrow entered.
In 1816, John Armstrong described as "of Langlands", but during sale
of properties to James Dunlop in 1817 he was "of Cherry Valley".
1819: seized property from SPD to General Alan Dyce.
9487: 19/9/1809: £1500 loan seized to Robert Reid, 20/9/1784, by Capt SPD.
7815: 30/4/1805:
Brig Gen SPD as heir to Sarah Dalrymple of Langlands and Dr William Park MD,
her husband, his mother and father, seized 6/4/1805 in land, houses and yards
in and about Kilmarnock. on Pr CC by commissions of the Marchioness of
Tichfield 20/3/1805.
OPR: a Stair Dalrymple born 30/7/1743 Inveresk of James Baronet/Dalrymple and
Christian Hamilton (689/8 FR2544).
It seems probable that SPD may have been born surnamed Park, and maybe his
children also. He married Glencairn Dalrymple of Langlands. He inherited
Langlands from his mother's side, who was a Dalrymple. He seemed to have spent
a life fraught with financial difficulties, but seemed to have succeeded in
dying leaving a number of long term, unsettled debts which appear to have taken
John Armstrong about 10 years to sort out.
Some property was only transferred to him in 1805 from his parents, Sarah
and Dr William Park. His property was seized for his trustees in early 1811,
but the entry has a date of 1807 attached.
MISCELLANEOUS BACKGROUND INFO.
Irish Genealogist Magazine, Oct 1945:
Abstract of Wills from Swazey Collection.
Armstrong, Alexander of Carrickmakeggan, Leitrim, Gent.
Dau Sarah, Jane, Wf Francis, Son Martin, Brothers Simon & Thomas (of Ahavora,
Fermanagh).
21/1/1720-1.
Armstrong, Simon of Aghamor, Leitrim, gent.
To be buried at Killeshandra. Brother John & his son Martin, and brother
Thomas & his son Christopher.
Armstrong, Thomas of Ahavore, Leitrim, gent.
To be buried at Killeshandra. Lease of Drumhart, Cavan. Wife Elizabeth &
unnamed children.
4/1/1733, proved 16/7/1735
Armstrong, James of Coothill, Cavan, gent.
Wf Anne (Bradshaw), 3 ch, Valentine, Thomas & John.
Bro Thomas, John & Conway, sister Margaret.
3 daus of John A of Scarvy: Margaret, Mary & Elinor.
Exec. John Bradshaw of Lysabrack Monahan & bro William of Cavin, Monahan. 21/7/1752,
proved 2/3/1753.
Armstrong, Christopher of Gortemore, Leitrim, esq.
Wf Elizabeth, ch James, William & John. Son-in-law William Ingram of Gortemore.
24/2/1753, proved 26/5/1755.
Armstrong, Robert of Carrigellan, Leitrim.
To be buried at Killeshandra (where my dear father was).
Wf Elinor, natural son Frank, brother Christopher.
Exec. William A. esq & Captain Robert A.
2/1/1763, proved 27/3/1764.
Armstrong, George of Pullebacon, Cavan.
Wf Sarah, Son Thomas (<21), Brother John, James Sister Alice.
18/9/1769, proved 1/10/1768.
Armstrong, Alice of Pullakeil, Cavan, Widow.
Son John, dau Alice Clindinning, Sons James & William.
26/12/1769, proved 2/4/1770.
Armstrong, James of Lisgool, Fermanagh, esq.
Nephews John (s of brother Thomas of Castle Balfour) & James.
10/1/1777, proved 22/11/1782.
Armstrong, William of Killbracken, Leitrim, esq.
To be buried at Killeshandra.
Son Simon, Now Wf Lucy (Nicholls).
19/9/1777, proved 3/8/1778.
Armstrong, Nemon of Chapleizod, Dublin.
Military man in Dublin. 27/5/1789, proved 2/1/1790.
Armstrong, Hugh of Derrycheldy, Fernamagh
N/A, 10/1/1793, proved 22/9/1793.
Also reference to a will of James Armstrong of Killeshandra, 1797.
Irish Genealogical Office: Ms111f fol 265:
Confirmation of Arms to descendants of Surgeon Major Robert Alleyne, Indian
Army (?), and to his grandson, James Robert Alleyne, only son of Charles
William Alleyne of SHANNON LODGE, Co Leitrim, Dec 21 1940.
(Shannon Lodge was John Goodfellow's house in 1840's).
Irish Genealogical Office: Ms111c fol 31:
Grant of Arms to Maj Gen William Wallace Kenny 1922.
Younger son of Randall Young Kenny of Killashandra co Cavan, & Anna Maria
his wife, dau & co-heiress of William Armstrong of Kilbraken, Leitrim, and
grandson of William Kenny of Drumboory, co Monahan.
Griffiths Valuations & Tithe Applotments:
Wilsons in Leitrim: none relevant for Leitrim GV 1856
GV for Kiltoghert parish (inc Carrick on Shannon), many Vaugh's & Irwins in
Bellanaboy Village. Some Armstrongs, but none recognisable.
Tithes 1834:
Holly Park: appears as Charles Wilson as owner, seems total about 6.5 acres,
most untitheable.
Haughton, Leitrim: GV nil relevant.
Armstrong, Antrim: GV 1862, Camlin, nil relevant, but much of village owned by
Rev Arthur H Pakenham.
Buried @ Leamington Priors:
John Armstrong 11/8/1830 aged 68
William Armstrong 13/4/1830, age 78.
Irish Marriages:
Rev William Armstrong m. Margaret Tew Marlbore St, Killester, Co Dublin,
Sept 1786.
PRO Northern Ireland:
Killashandra PR:
Microfilm records start in 1735, but are difficult to read until about 1747. A
number of Armstrongs were active in the Surrounding villages.
Page 20:
Marriage of William Armstrong and Jane Irvin (note v not w) 15/2/1747, at
Killashandra and presumed resident there, other entries had place name
attached.
No other relevant entries in christenings until 1770, or deaths until 1790
except as follows:
Burial: John Irvin esq of Drumvilla(?), Carrigallen 6/10/1772: Jane's father?
Burial: Jane Irvin of Drumskelly(?) 16/5/1782.
Perhaps as the priest here, the children were christened at Kilmore Cathedral?
Other parts of the parish are Kilmont, Drumkeern, Corlespratten, Derrylane.
Land Records:
Pakenham Estate papers, Crumlin. 14630 acres, £15601 value.
Includes maps & leases by William Armstrong.
PRONI: 13/1/99
Checked:
John Armstrong name card index: nil sig
(references to JA as agent to Viscount Montgomery)
Glenavy for marriage of John Armstrong & Ellen Kirk & deaths: nil
D491/101: Cherry Valley papers: map of property dated 24/11/1801, showing 404
acres on either side of road past site of house (not yet built) & bounded
by river to NW of road. Other papers in file, not relevant to us.
D2051/2: Memorandum of Agreement made this day 9th August 1858 between Rev
Edward Pakenham Armstrong and Mr William McConnell. Mr Armstrong agrees to sell
and Mr McConnell agrees to buy at 1050 pounds all the estate and interests of
his and said Edward Pakenham Armstrong subject to an annuity payable to Mrs
Louisa Isabella Armstrong during her life and to the trusts of the will of the
late Mr John Armstrong esq liable to come into force after the death of the
said Edward Pakenham Armstrong.
(Louisa Isabella Armstrong was widow of EPA's elder brother, Charles William
who died earlier in the year).
D2051/1: Statements to Pakenhams of tree planting by John Armstrong at Cherry
Valley:
16/9/1816, 3478 mixed trees (refer Col Pakenham)
13/4/1822, 9700 mixed trees.
Army Lists for John Armstrong:
1795: Lt 92nd Regt of Foot seniority 31/5/94.
1800: Lt 71st Highland Regt of Foot, seniority 1/9/95.
Lt Col Stair Park Dalrymple 1/9/95, in Army Col 1/1/98.
SPD there in 1805.
1805: JA 7th Regt of Foot (Royal Fuzileers) Paymaster 23/11/1804, Lt 28/8/04.
Re: Armstrongs of Kiltoghert
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:20:33 +1300
From: "Patricia O'Shea"[xii]
Hello Antony. I have just come across your webpage and notice references to
Armstrongs of Kiltoghert, Leitrim. I have a 3xggrandfather, Thomas Armstrong,
who gives birthplace as Kiltoghert.
I have what I think is his marriage and children who lead on to my line but
have just discovered this link to Kiltoghert from his Militia discharge papers.
I'm not sure from your webpage if this is one of your lines - if not, do
you have links to others researching this family? I would love to confirm the
data I have.
Here is the direct line you speak of (working backwards):
Patricia K O'SHEA b 1940 Matamata, New Zealand daughter of Ernest Frederick (O)
SHEA and Maisie Jean CAVANAGH
Ernest b Boyle Roscommon, 1903 son of James Bartley (O) SHEA and Jane Elizabeth
ARMSTRONG
Jane Elizabeth b Boyle, Roscommon 1878 daughter of Francis ARMSTRONG and
Wilhelmina LOANE
Francis b Manchester, England 1845 son of Francis ARMSTRONG and Mary Ann
JOHNSON
Francis b Boyle, Roscommon 1817 son of Thomas ARMSTRONG and Catherine CARNEY
Thomas may be the Thomas ARMSTRONG for whom I have militia discharge papers.
Discharged 1835. Residence Boyle, Roscommon. Age 58 yrs. Birthplace Kiltoghert.
Occupation shoemaker.
All these ARMSTRONGs seem to have strong links with the Roscommon
Militia/Connaught Rangers. Both Thomas and Francis the elder were shoemakers. Francis
the younger was on the permanent staff of the militia and the Rangers for over
30 years.
I have most of the marriage and sibling information etc (mainly from COI
registers at the RCB library) and am presently working on the disappearance of
the sons of Francis and Wilhelmina - I suspect they may have gone to South
Africa for the Boer War perhaps and stayed on there. This is a hunch based on
the fact that Francis' cause of death in 1916 was cerebral malaria, which would
be unusual given that he appears to have spent most of his life in Boyle. His
Army records do not indicate any overseas service so I am guessing at a visit
to his sons in SA around 1910.
In your experience, is there any possibility that he would have left a will?
Wilhelmina died in 1927 in Boyle - I have visited Boyle several times,
frustratingly I find out more after each visit which makes me want to go back
for another search!! I'm sure you know this feeling!!
Irish Trip August 1995.
Visited Cavan, a thriving market town, much changed since HAP's visit in 1905!
Its most notable feature is the relatively new and very attractive Catholic
Cathedral for the diocese. Stayed the night in Killeshandra, where the Rev
William Armstrong was a priest in the 1750's: Captain John Armstrong and his
brothers and sister were born there, between about 1742 and 1765.
The present Church of Ireland Church is a mid 19th Century building on the
Cavan side of town, and is in good repair, with a new sign and some recent
graves. On the road west of the village centre, opposite a large creamery, is
the old burial ground. It contains graves of both Catholics and Protestants.
The burial ground encloses a derelict church with the date 1688 engraved on a
crest above the west door. It was built in the restoration style. It is
overgrown with trees growing out of the walls, no roof and, most extraordinary
of all, several graves in what was the nave and a family crypt. The west end
has a set of steps between floors. The present floor level is well below the
present ground floor.
A side room with a brick vaulted ceiling was off to one side: the caretakers
said that it was said to have been used for gambling and drinking when the
building was in better order (the caretaker was in her 70's and this was a
story relayed from what she described as an old person in the village). On the
west wall was a plaque commemorating James Hamilton of Castle Hamilton. I think
that this was probably the church over which the reverend William Armstrong
presided in the 1750's. The graveyard was very overgrown, but a project is in
hand to restore the whole site: EEC money!
Some graves were visible, two of which were Armstrongs:
John Armstrong, died April 13 1888, age 75, erected by his son Thomas.
Alexander Armstrong, died 5/1/1883, age 68, and daughter Lucinda died 29/12/1913,
age 62.
Also John Sheridan, died 1818.
We picked up a boat at Carrick-on-Shannon. It was another busy town, making
much out of the tourist traffic on the river. The Church of Ireland was not too
old, but had a few graves in it of interest:
William Armstrong, died 17/2/1879, aged 7 yrs & 9mths.
Also Henry aged 1 year.
John Irwin died 24/10/1847, aged 76 + family.
We moored at Leitrim for the night. It is probably not much changed in layout since
HAP's visit in 1905, but considerably more prosperous. There appears to have
been little extra building recently. There is a small recently built RC church.
The main local churchs were at Carrick and Drumshando.
We tried to stay the night on the way from Dublin at Roundwood House in Queen's
County (now Co Laois), which was owned by The Reverend William Armstrong's son,
William: it is now a high class Bed & Breakfast establishment. It was fully
booked, unfortunately.
We moored for the night at Cootehall, from where some Armstrongs came, but the
RC church was fairly new: a notice refered to the refurbishment of the burial
ground.
We passed through Longford on the way back to Dublin: the Church of Ireland
Church was in good repair, but the graveyard had been let go, but was being
tidied up. It was the church for the nearby barracks. We found a Little grave:
The main headstone was:
Annabel Turner died 23/6/1921, age 63
Dau Mary Evelyn Little, died 30/8/1939, age 69,
Husband Walter Joseph Little, died 2/12/1945, age 72,
Dau Norma Learmouth (Little), 28/3/1946-25/6/196
Randolph Irwin Little, 3/8/1951-16/6/1978
A new stone: Cecil Little, 20/4/1992.
Visit to Glenavy & Gartree Churches 24/9/98
Glenavy: only monument relevant:
Large Slate Monument with grave plot surrounded by iron railings, inscribed as
follows:
"Erected by John Armstrong of Cherry Valley, 1819.
In memory of Glencairn Dalrymple, widow of General Stair Park Dalrymple, died
Aug 1816.
Also
Charles William Armstrong, late of Cherry Valley, esq, J.P. who died 8 February
1858 in the 53rd year of his life.
Gartree Church.
The family church of the Pakenhams of Langford Lodge, built in its present
state by General Hercules Pakenham. Now surrounded by disused RAF Airfield, the
buildings of which are used by an engineering firm. The monument to John
Armstrong as seen by HA Poole in 1905 still exists in good condition over the
arched gateway. The church was restored within the past 15 years. The walls
are full of memorials to Gen HRP and his offspring.
Churchyard:
Stones:
1. ARMSTRONG
in memory of Isabella
died 9 nov 1965
James Armstrong Died 9 May 1980.
2. In memory of our dear father Thomas Saunders who died 3 March 1889 aged 72
years.
Also Joseph Campbell our stepfather who died 13 April 1911 aged 54 years.
Our dear mother Alice Campbell who died 11 Feb 1927 aged 77 years. Her dau
Margaret Armstrong who died 19March 1941 aged 71 William Armstrong of
Ballynadrentagh, Crumlin, who died 15 Feb 1966 aged 71
His loving wife Margaret Armstrong who died 25 November 1990 aged 89
Erected by Herbert & Mary Freyne. (not in N Irish phone book!)
3. Hercules Dermot William Pakenham born 29/7/1901, died 2/6/1940
4. Thomas Henry P, Lt Gen b 26/5/1826, died 20/2/1913.
5. Under seat by door, relating to Glebe House,
Hon Emily, Lady Pakenham, deceased 26/1/1875, erected by son Arthur.
Inside on the walls:
1. Lt Col Charles Wellesley Pakenham, Grenadier Guards, youngest son of Lt Gen
Hon Sir Hercules Pakenham & Emily, 4th dau of 22nd Lord Le De Spencer. Born
21/6/1840, died 15/10/1873 on "Hydaspes" in Red Sea.
2. Elizabeth Catherine, wife of Thomas Thistlethwaite, 2nd dau of Lt. Gen.
Hercules Rowley Pakenham & Emily died 22/1/1885.
3. Edmund Powerscourt Pakenham, 6th son of Sir Hercules Pakenham & Emily,
born 23/12/1832, died India 28/9/1861.
4. Lt Col Edward William Pakenham, eldest son of Lt Gen Hercules Rowley Pakenham
& Emily, born 9/1819, died Inkerman (Crimea) 5/11/1854.
5. Lt Gen Sir Hercules Rowley Pakenham KCB, Col of 43 Light Infantry, Deputy Lt
of Co Antrim and for 8 years Lt Gov of Portsmouth, commanding the SW district
of England. He was 3rd son of 2nd Lord Longford and grandson of the Countess of
Longford who survived her son. Born 1781, he entered the Army 1803, in which he
served with highest distinction, having been engaged at the siege & capture
of Copenhagen 1807, also in the peninsular campaigns of 1809, 10, 11 & 12,
including the Battles of Elkadeir, Roleia Viniera, Ponchal, Foz d'Aronca, Salincal,
Busaco, & Fuentes d'Onor and siege & storm of Cuidad Rodrico, 2 sieges
& storm of Badajoz, at the assault of which he was severely wounded. He
received the Gold Medal for Busaco, Foz d'Aronca, Cuidad Rodrico & Badajoz
and Silver Medal for Roleira Viniera and 2 clasps.
(names may not be correctly spelt by A3M!)
He married Hon Emily Stapleton, dau of Lord Le Despencer, by whom he left 6
sons ad 3 daughters.
He died suddenly at Langford Lodge 8 March 1850.
6. Lt Gen TH Pakenham of Langford Lodge, born 26/6/1826 died 20/2/1913
7. Elizabeth Staples wife of Lt Gen TH Pakenham born 7/3/1836, died 6/2/1919,
by son Arthur Pakenham.
8. Robert Maxwell Pakenham, 4th son of Lt Gen Hercules Rowley Pakenham &
Emily born 4/1834 died 26/2/1857, Lucknow.
9. Hon Emily, 4th dau of Thomas, 22nd Lord Le Despencer and wife of Hercules
Rowley Pakenham born 9/12/1798, died 26/1/1875.
Visit to Cherry Valley House, 17/8/1998.
15, Cherry Valley Rd, Crumlin, Antrim BT29 4QN
Visited during stopover at Aldergrove.
Owned by Joe Ballance, who bought it as a wreck about 2 years ago on his return
from 25 years in Australia as building services manager for Camden Hospital
(near Sydney).
Previously owned by family Jordan, farmers in the area, and before that by the
Lignite mining company, and before that by McConnels, who were there in 1905
when HA Poole visited the house. McConnels were Presbyterians buried in Crumlin
Church.
Owners now well advanced in restoring the house. House is set well back from
the road (100 yds), original drive was curved round from road with 2 entrances,
with stone pillars at the entrance. Some specimen trees still remain in the
garden.
Front of the house is now painted rendering with moulded quoins and pretty
moulded (or carved) drip shields ("eyebrows") over the windows. A
range of outbuildings are attached to the rear of the house surrounding a small
courtyard.
The interior ground floor consists of a large hall with one reception room on
either side, both nice sized rooms, and a small study at the rear of the hall. Passage
through to old kitchen at the back, and a scullery beyond; there had also been
a lean-to room at one side, now demolished. The staircase had been renewed, but
used to be swept round at the intermediate level, at which point a passage led
to the small bedrooms over the kitchen wing. The intermediate landing is
semicircular with pretty moulded panels either side of a similarly curved
doorway to the back landing; the door has been removed by previous occupants.
On the main bedroom floor, there were 2 good sized bedrooms and a smaller one over
the study. There were also attic rooms, presumably for servants. At the rear of
the house, the main outbuildings referred to by HA Poole have been replaced by
a decaying pig unit. The foundations of the bell tower still exist.
Cherry Valley
The following is an extract from the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland.
Parishes of County Antrim VII 1832 - 1838.
Parish of Camlin
Gentlemen's Seats
Cherry valley, the residence of Charles Armstrong Esquire, J.P., agent to the
Honourable Colonel Pakenham, is a modern and gentleman - like 2- storey house,
pleasantly situated in the town land of Ballymacrevan near the shore of Lough
Neagh, and 1 and one-eighth miles west of Crumlin. It commands a tolerable
(crossed out: beautiful) view of Lough Neagh and its distant shores. There is a
good deal of planting and some old oaks (apparently natural timber) about the
house.
At Cherry Valley are a few old oaks, evidently the remains of the natural
woods. It is within memory of some old people since there (were) more evident
vestiges of natural wood, and Boate, in his Natural history of Ireland, says,
"There were in his time great forests in the county Antrim, particularly
in Killultagh" (the manor in which this parish is included.
Cherry Valley, the residence of John Armstrong, Esquire…
1786: About three quarters of a mile to the L. of Crumlin, is Cherry Valley,
the seat of Mr. Gorman.
These notes on this family are included as background to the story of Capt John
Armstrong, and his family. It is a combinations of various sources, including
his own history and others found on the internet.
Much of HAP’s information came from “The Dalrymples of Langlands”. By John Shaw
(probably John Armstrong’s grand-son by his daughter Glencairn who married
David Shaw).
A copy of this is thought to exist in the Scottish National library in
Edinburgh.
----------------------------------------------------------------
************************* GENERATION 8 *************************
----------------------------------------------------------------
Born abt 1750.
Parents: Dr William & Sarah (Dalrymple) Park
A history of Lord Macloed’s Highlanders 1777-98 makes reference to Major
Dalrymple’s part in the Indian actions.
Westmeath MI:
In memory of Stair Park Dalrymple Esq. of Langlands Ayrshire, North Britain,
Lieut. Col. of the 71st Regt. of foot and Major General of his Majesty's
forces. He departed this life suddenly at Ballinasloe, from where his remains
were removed to this place the 2nd day of Decr. A.D. MDSSSV. aged 55 years.
Married:
Born: 8/9/1750
Parents: Charles & Macrae (McGuire) Dalrymple
Died: 20/8/1816 (internet download)
Buried in Crumlin Church, 8/1816: her memorial was in good condition when photographed
4/2004.
HAP's extracts from "The Dalrymples of Langlands" gives Mrs D death
as 1818, but the monument shows Aug 1816.
----------------------------------------------------------------
************************* GENERATION 9 *************************
----------------------------------------------------------------
At some time, this family adopted the surname of Dalrymple, perhaps to do with
the Langlands estate.
A mason, master of St Marnock in 1767, then of Langlands.
Married Sarah Dalrymple, g/dau of Charles & Elizabeth (Wallace)
Dalrymple of Langlands.
Issue, inter alia:
1/1. Stair Park (Dalrymple)
1/2. Margaret Park (referred to in Capt John Armstrong’s will)
1/3. Sarah Park.
1/4. Elizabeth Isabella Dalrymple
Born: 30/10/1721
Parents: James & Margaret (Ramsay) Dalrymple
Died: 10/8/1781
Married:
Macrae McGuire
Parents: James Macrae, Governor of Madras.
She inherited Orangefield, Ayr, from her father.
Issue, inter alia:
1/1. Glencairn Dalrymple, wife of General Stair Park D.
----------------------------------------------------------------
************************* GENERATION 10 ************************
----------------------------------------------------------------
Born 1680
Parents: Charles & Elizabeth (Wallace) Dalrymple
Probably a Mason.
Married Margaret Ramsay
Issue:
1/1. Charles Dalrymple
1/2. William Dalrymple, Rev Dr of Ayr
Issue:
1/1. Elizabeth Macrae, married 1744, William, 13th Earl Glencairn
2/2. James Cunningham, 1749-91, 14th earl Glencairn
1/2. Dau 2, who m. James Erskine, advocate, Lord Alva.
1/3. Dau 3, who m. James MacRae
1/4. Macrae MacRae, who married Charles Dalrymple.
The Anecdotage of Glasgow
Romantic Story of Governor MacRae,
Donor of King William's Statue
JAMES MACRAE, Esq., Governor of the Presidency of Madras, in the year 1734
gifted the equestrian statue of King William, which still stands at the Cross,
to the city of Glasgow, of which he was then a burgess.
The story of the donor, and of the recipients of his immense fortune, is a most
romantic one. It appears that during the reign of Charles II. there lived in a
small cottage in the town of Ayr a decent washerwoman, whose name was Widow
Macrae, but was commonly called Bell Gardner, her own name. The widow had a
little son Jamie, who, by and by, went to sea, and nothing more was heard of
him in his native place for some forty long years. Meanwhile he became Governor
of the Madras Presidency in 1725, and amassed a great fortune.
On his return home he sought out his relatives, namely, a cousin, Bell Gardner,
wife of an itinerant fiddler, named Hugh M’Guire, in whose house his mother had
latterly lived and died. M’Guire, the fiddler, and his wife had four daughters,
who, as the prospective heiresses of their mother’s cousin, were educated and
brought out in a style befitting their position. The eldest (Lizzie or Leezie)
became the wife of William, thirteenth Earl of Glencairn, in 1744; and on the
day of her marriage received as tocher the Barony of Ochiltree, which cost
£25,000, as well as diamonds to the value of £45,000. Her second son, James,
fourteenth Earl of Glencairn, was the patron and friend of Robert Burns.
The second daughter received the estate of Aila, and was married in 1749 to James
Erskine, an advocate, who was raised to the bench as Lord Alva; the third
daughter married James MacRae, a nephew (or, as some said, a natural son) of
the Governor; her dowry being the estate of Houston in Dumfriesshire; the
fourth daughter, who was the Governor’s favourite, received the estate of
Orangefield in Ayrshire, and was married to Charles Dalrymple, nephew of
Charles Dalrymple of Langlands, and brother of the Rev, Dr. William Dalrymple,
formerly minister of Ayr.
----------------------------------------------------------------
************************* GENERATION 11 ************************
----------------------------------------------------------------
Married Elizabeth Wallace:
Issue:
1/1. Charles Dalrymple, b 1678
Of Langlands.
Married Elizabeth Cunningham
2/1. Elizabeth Dalrymple, b 13/6/1711
2/2. Sarah Dalrymple, 13/6/1715
Married: Dr William Park, father of Gen Stair Park Dalrymple.
1/2. James Dalrymple, b 1680
http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/DalrympleJames175215195.267.shtml
Dalrymple, James (1752 — 95)
The son of Charles Dalrymple of Ayr, James Dalrymple married Miss Macrae
M'Guire in 1750. She was the heiress to the estate of Orangefield in Monkton
Parish, and the sister of Elizabeth, Countess of Glencairn. James Dalrymple
succeeded to the estate in 1785.
The 'pulse too hot' proved his undoing. A keen hunter, he dissipated his
fortune and was declared bankrupt in 1791, his trustees being the Rev William
Dalrymple, Robert Aiken and John Ballantine.
The house of Orangefield for some years formed part of the terminal hotel
buildings at Prestwick Airport, but has since been demolished.
(This article has the wrong Dalrymple).
http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/CunninghamJamesfourteenthEarlofGlencairn174915191.255.shtml
Cunningham, James, fourteenth Earl of Glencairn (1749 — 91)
He was born at Finlayston, the second son of the thirteenth earl. For a time he
served as a Captain in the West Fencible Regiment. His elder brother having
predeceased him, James Cunningham succeeded his father as fourteenth Earl in
1774. From 1780 to 1784 he was one of the Representative Scots Peers in the
House of Lords. While there, he supported Fox's India Bill. In 1784, Glencairn,
as patron of Kilmarnock parish, presented a staunch Conservative, the Rev
William Mackinlay, to fill the vacancy, though Glencairn himself was not
apparently an Auld Licht supporter, his desire being to fulfil the wishes of
the majority of the parishioners. The appointment, however, produced Burns's
satire 'The Ordination'. Glencairn's factor, Alexander Dalziel, drew the Earl's
attention to the Kilmarnock Edition by which he was much impressed. When Burns
arrived in Edinburgh in 1786, armed with a letter of introduction from
Dalrymple of Orangefield (who was married to Lady Glencairn's sister), the Earl
received the poet warmly in his house and introduced him to his friends. On of
these was the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Henry Erskin, who in his turn
introduced Burns to the Duchess of Gordon. Another was the publisher, William
Creech, who had once been Glencairn's tutor and travelling companion. Burns
afterwards described Glencairn as his 'titular Protector'. He told Mrs Dunlop,
in a letter of 22nd March 1787: 'The noble Earl of Glencairn, to whom I owe
more than any man of earth, does me the honour of giving me his strictures; his
hints, with respect to impropriety or indelicacy, I follow implicitly.'
Clearly, Glencairn was able to extend to Burns the benefits of his patronage
without upsetting the poet's sensibility. In fact, he was to Burns in Edinburgh
pretty much what Gavin Hamilton had been to Burns in Ayrshire. When the
subscription list for the 1787 edition of Burns's Poems was opened, Glencairn
and his mother took 24 copies. As a result of the Earl's influence, within 10
days of the poet's arrival in Edinburgh, the Caledonian Hunt subscribed
'universally one and all', accounting for 100 copies. When the book was about
to appear, Burns asked the Earl's permission to publish in an Edinburgh
newspaper his 'Verses Intended to be written below a Noble Earl's Picture'.
Glencairn did not give his permission, however, possibly feeling that such
advertising would be too blatant.
On 4th May 1787, when Burns was leaving Edinburgh he sent Glencairn a somewhat
stilted but obviously sincere letter thanking him for 'all that patronage, that
benevolence, and that friendship with which you have honoured me.'
In January 1788, when Burns had decided that he must enter the Excise service,
he wrote to Glencairn asking his assistance in getting him an appointment.
Glencairn never married and never enjoyed good health. In the autumn of 1790
his health began to fail and he went to Lisbon in search of relief. He returned
soon after landing, on 30th January 1791.
In the letter accompanying his 'Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn', which
Burns sent to Dalziel on 10th March he says 'God knows what I have suffered at
the loss of my best Friend, my first my dearest Patron and Benefactor; the man
to whom I owe all that I am and have!'
Ref Masons:
In 1767 another Lodge was formed in the town, and called the St Marnock; but it
does not now exist. Its last meeting was in 1818. The first Right Worshipful
Master of St Marnock was William Park of Langlands, surgeon. In 1770 that
office was held by William, Earl of Glencairn. The Rev. Mr Mutrie of the low
church was chaplain; and among the honorary members were the honorable John
Cunningham, brother to the Earl of Glencairn, James Dalrymple, Esq. of
Orange-field, &c.
The Armstrong of Deans Hill Papers (D/3737)
http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/astrong.htm
----------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
The papers of the Armstrong family of Deans Hill (i.e. the former Church of
Ireland Deanery, on the outskirts of Armagh City) consist of c.5,000 documents
and volumes, almost all of them documents, spanning the period 1823-1960, but
principally that between 1850 and 1940.
Papers and background notes
There is a small quantity of estate material comprising rentals, accounts,
receipts, bank books, investment ledgers, deeds, etc, 1823-1825 and
c.1850-1960, the rentals relating mainly to Balteagh, Carricklane, Derryhaw,
Lisslanly, Killylea, Doogary and Naul, parish of Tynan, Co. Armagh, and to
property in Armagh City, but also to Boolabwee and Coolaneqague, Co. Cork,
Cloonbearla, Co. Longford ('the Bawn estate'), and town property on Usher's
Quay, Dublin. The main component of the archive, however, is correspondence
covering the period 1820-1940 and deriving mainly from two generations of the
family, William Jones Armstrong of Kippure Park, Blessington, Co. Wicklow, and
subsequently of Glenaule, Mount Irwin and Killylea, Co. Armagh (1794-1872), and
his two sons, William Fortescue and Henry Bruce.
The papers include (D/3737/J) a sub-section on family history, biographies and
obituaries of members of the family, etc, some of which provide useful
introductory information. Among this material is a draft biographical notice of
himself compiled by William Jones Armstrong, [c.1860?], presumably for
insertion in some work of reference:
'Armstrong, William Jones, of Killylea, Co. Armagh, eldest son of the late Rev.
W.J. Armstrong, Rector of the Union of Termonfeckin, Co. Louth, [who had] married
in 1784 Margaret, daughter of Alderman John Tew of Dublin, sister to Helen,
wife to the Rev. Sir James M. Stronge, Bt. ...
Alderman John Tew, who died in 1771, had by his wife, Margaret Maxwell of
Fellows Hall, Co. Armagh: ... Robert Tew, 49[th] Foot, died unmarried ... in
1809; Grace Tew, died in 1840; Elizabeth Tew, married to Gerald Fortescue Esq.,
Ulster King at Arms and elder brother of Rear-Admiral Sir Chichester Fortescue,
R.N., and had issue Thomas, Commissioner at Delhi, and daughter Anne, married
to William Hopkyns Northey, [?Tring], Bucks, and secondly to the Rev. Blackhall
Vincent; Margaret Tew, widow of the Rev. William Jones Armstrong; and Helen,
married firstly to the Rev. Sir J. M. Stronge, Bt, and secondly William Holmes,
M.P., Treasurer of H.M. Ordnance. ...
[William Jones Armstrong was] born 1794, succeeded 1825, married 1842 Frances
Elizabeth, Lady McCreagh, relict of the late Colonel Sir Michael McCreagh,
C.B., K.C.H., etc, and only daughter of Major C. Wilson, 22nd foot; educated at
the Royal School of Dungannon and is B.A. and M.A. of the University of Dublin;
called to the Irish and English Bar; appointed King's Advocate and Colonel of
Militia in 1819 and subsequently A.D.C. to Governor Bentinck, Deputy Colonial
Secretary, King's Receiver-General, etc, etc, in the colonies of Demerera and
Essequibo, South America, in 1820; has been a magistrate of the county of
Wicklow and is a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant of Armagh County, of which he
was High Sheriff in 1840.
This family is another branch of the ancient Border family of Armstrong,
deriving traditionally from a common ancestor with the King's County family,
[and] is maternally descended from the second branch of the Maxwells of Farnham
... . William Armstrong by Jane Garvey, his wife, was father of Edward
Armstrong Esq., who married in 1760 Grace Jones, descended traditionally from
Colonel Michael Jones, Commander-in-Chief of the Parliamentary Forces in
Leinster and Governor of Dublin, A.D. 1649, an officer much in the confidence
of the Protector Cromwell and ancestral [sic] to some of the Jones families
settled in Leitrim and Sligo. He had two sons, William Jones and Edward.
The elder, the Rev. William Jones Armstrong, married as above and had issue:
William Jones, now of Killylea; second, John Tew, who married Anne, daughter of
Ralph Tew of Roddinstown, Co. Meath, and had issue: Maxwell, John, Thomas and
Anne; thirdly, Thomas Knox of Fellows Hall, a magistrate of Co. Armagh, who
married Catherine Frances, second daughter of Wallop Brabazon of Rath House,
Co. Louth, by Jane, his first wife, daughter of Josias Dupre of Milton Park,
Bucks, and died in Rome in January 1840, leaving Jane, Rebecca and Diana
Lucinda; Helen, married to the Rev. John Kerr; Archibald, Captain 26[th] Madras
Fusiliers; and John, also Lieutenant in the 26[th] East India Native Infantry;
Anne married to Walter Newton, Womersley Grove, Pontefract, formerly of the
21[st] Light Dragoons, and has issue three sons and four daughters; Diana Jane,
died unmarried. ...'
D/3737/J also contains a newspaper report of Senator H.B. Armstrong's
retirement from one of his county offices, in 1931, which makes incidental
mention of a number of other positions in public life which he filled:
'Senator H. B. Armstrong ..., H.M.L., has retired from the chairmanship of the
County Armagh Regional Education Committee, a position he has held since the
committee was formed under the Education Act of 1923. Senator Armstrong devoted
a great deal of time to educational matters throughout the county, and he led
the committee to undertaken the erection of many fine new schools ... . He is
now 87 years of age, and in 1873 he became a member of the grand jury of Co.
Armagh. He was an original member of the County Council when it was formed in
1899 [and Chairman of its Finance Committee, 1899-1920], and he remained a
member until 1920. From 1906 till 1909 he was Vice-Chairman, and Chairman from
1909 till his retirement. In 1875 Senator Armstrong was High Sheriff of Co.
Armagh and in 1894 he filled the same office in Longford. In 1920 he became a
member of the Senate of Queen's University [Belfast], and in 1921 was returned
unopposed to represent Mid-Armagh in the Imperial Parliament. For a quarter of
a century [actually, 1897-1921] he has been a member of the Representative Body
of the Church of Ireland. In his earlier days he travelled extensively in the
East and Far East. Just this week he has been appointed Vice-Chairman of the
Board of Governors of Armagh Royal School.'
These biographical, genealogical and official details are important to an
understanding of the connections subsisting between the Armstrongs and their
correspondents and of the various public offices which the correspondence
reflects.
Correspondence
The correspondence of William Jones Armstrong (1794-1872) runs from 1820 to
1872 and relates initially to Guyana, where he held office in the 1820s as
King's Advocate in Berbice and Deputy Colonial Secretary in Demerera and
Essequibo. Thereafter, it relates to Armagh estate business and to
landlord-tenant relations generally, to the situation of those who, like
Armstrong, were chief tenants of Trinity College, Dublin, to railway
development in Ulster, to the affairs of Armstrong's family and friends
(notably Thomas Fortescue of Suffolk Hall, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire), and to
Armstrong's quarrel in 1865 with his younger brother and solicitor, John Tew
Armstrong of Dominick Street, Dublin.
The few letters and papers, 1860-1871, of Armstrong's elder son, Lieutenant
William Fortescue Armstrong (b. 1843; d. 18710, are mainly about business,
social events and his short-lived career in the 7th Hussars in India.
The numerous letters and papers, 1868-1943, of Armstrong's younger son and
successor, Senator the Rt Hon. Henry Bruce Armstrong, H.M.L., of Killylea and
Deans Hill, Co. Armagh (1844-1943), concern family, estate and financial
affairs, the situation of the tenants of T.C.D. under the successive Land Acts,
Land Purchase generally, Armstrong's youthful career at the Inner Temple and
the London Bar and youthful travels in North America, India, China and Japan,
the financial and Co. Wexford estate affairs of Thomas Fortescue (his mother's
first cousin), which occupied Armstrong as an executor from Fortescue's death
in 1872 until 1902, Co. Armagh local politics and administration (from 1873,
when Armstrong first served on the grand jury to 1939, when he retired as
H.M.L. for the county), the Co. Longford shrievalty (which he held in 1894),
the Irish Convention, 1917-1918 (of which he was a member), his service as a
Unionist M.P. for Mid-Armagh at Westminster, 1921-1922, and as a Senator, Privy
Councillor and Lord Justice (in the absence of the Governor) of Northern
Ireland, 1921-1938, the affairs of the Church of Ireland, in the archdiocese of
Armagh and generally, and architectural operations or projects involving Armagh
Cathedral and Infirmary, Deans Hill, Killymoon Castle (Cookstown, Co. Tyrone),
Killylea Church and the Usher's Quay property in Dublin. (Armstrong bought
Deans Hill from the Representative Church Body of the Church of Ireland in
1888, and moved in as soon as alterations and refurbishments permitted.)
Among Armstrong's noteworthy correspondents are: J.T. Agg-Gardner, M.P. for
Cheltenham, 1874-1880, 1885-1892 and 1900-1906, and other members of his
family, 1877-1921; William Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh, 1896-1911 (the
letters cover roughly the same period); Frederick A. Butler, a Dublin-based
architect, who attended to the Usher's Quay property of H.B. Armstrong as well
as being concerned with various architectural commissions in Armagh (the
cathedral and infirmary, Killylea Church, etc), 1869-1890; Sir John B.
Lonsdale, Bt, H.M.L for the county, 1910-1924; the Hon. Albert D. Ryder, a
friend of Armstrong's at Trinity College, Cambridge, and his companion on some
of his foreign travels, c.1870-1881; Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess
of Londonderry, Leader of the Northern Ireland Senate and Northern Ireland
Minister of Education, 1927-1931; and H.D. Traill of The St James's Gazette,
c.1875-1885.
In addition, there are diaries and correspondence, c.1910-1950, of Armstrong's
daughter, Miss Margaret Armstrong, a few letters and papers, 1949-1953, of his
grandson and successor, Capt. Michael H. Armstrong, M.B.D., D.L. (1924-1982),
and sundry newspapers, newspaper cuttings, photographs and printed matter,
c.1860-c.1940, mainly bearing on Co. Armagh and local Unionist politics.
A.P.W. Malcomson
PRONI
Table of Contents
Summary
Papers and background notes3
Correspondence
Armstrong (of Deans Hill) Papers
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2
Summary
The papers of the Armstrong family of Deans Hill (i.e. the former Church of
Ireland Deanery, on the outskirts of Armagh City) consist of c.5,000 documents
and volumes, almost all of them documents, spanning the period 1823-1960, but
principally that between 1850 and 1940.
Crown Copyright 2007
Armstrong (of Deans Hill) Papers
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 3
Papers and background notes
There is a small quantity of estate material comprising rentals, accounts,
receipts, bank books, investment ledgers, deeds, etc, 1823-1825 and
c.1850-1960, the rentals relating mainly to Balteagh, Carricklane, Derryhaw,
Lisslanly, Killylea, Doogary and Naul, parish of Tynan, Co. Armagh, and to
property in Armagh City, but also to Boolabwee and Coolaneqague, Co. Cork,
Cloonbearla, Co. Longford ('the Bawn estate'), and town
property on Usher's Quay, Dublin. The main component of the
archive, however, is correspondence covering the period 1820-1940 and deriving
mainly from two generations of the family, William Jones Armstrong of Kippure
Park, Blessington, Co. Wicklow, and subsequently of Glenaule, Mount Irwin and
Killylea, Co. Armagh (1794-1872), and his two sons, William Fortescue and Henry
Bruce.
The papers include (D3727/J) a sub-section on family history, biographies and
obituaries of members of the family, etc, some of which provide useful
introductory information. Among this material is a draft biographical notice of
himself compiled by William Jones Armstrong, [c.1860?], presumably for
insertion in some work of reference:
'Armstrong, William Jones, of Killylea, Co. Armagh, eldest son of the late Rev.
W.J. Armstrong, Rector of the Union of Termonfeckin, Co. Louth, [who had]
married in 1784 Margaret, daughter of Alderman John Tew of Dublin, sister to
Helen, wife to the Rev. Sir James M. Stronge, Bt. ...
Alderman John Tew, who died in 1771, had by his wife, Margaret Maxwell of
Fellows Hall, Co. Armagh:... Robert Tew, 49[th] Foot, died unmarried ... in
1809; Grace Tew, died in 1840; Elizabeth Tew, married to Gerald Fortescue Esq.,
Ulster King at Arms and elder brother of Rear-Admiral Sir Chichester Fortescue,
R.N., and had issue Thomas, Commissioner at Delhi, and daughter Anne, married
to William Hopkyns Northey, [?Tring], Bucks, and secondly to the Rev. Blackhall
Vincent; Margaret Tew, widow of the Rev. William Jones Armstrong; and Helen,
married firstly to the Rev. Sir J.M. Stronge, Bt, and secondly William Holmes,
M.P., Treasurer of H.M. Ordnance. ...
[William Jones Armstrong was] born 1794, succeeded 1825, married 1842 Frances
Elizabeth, Lady McCreagh, relict of the late Colonel Sir Michael McCreagh,
C.B., K.C.H., etc, and only daughter of Major C. Wilson, 22nd foot; educated at
the Royal School of Dungannon and is B.A. and M.A. of the University of Dublin;
called to the Irish and English Bar; appointed King's Advocate and Colonel of
Militia in 1819 and subsequently A.D.C. to Governor Bentinck, Deputy Colonial
Secretary, King's Receiver-General, etc, etc, in the colonies of Demerera and
Essequibo, South America, in 1820; has been a magistrate of the county of
Wicklow and is a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant of Armagh County, of which he
was High Sheriff in 1840.
This family is another branch of the ancient Border family of Armstrong,
deriving traditionally from a common ancestor with the King's County family,
[and] is maternally descended from the second branch of the Maxwells of Farnham
... . William Armstrong Crown Copyright 2007
Armstrong (of Deans Hill) Papers Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 4
by Jane Garvey, his wife, was father of Edward Armstrong Esq., who married in
1760 Grace Jones, descended traditionally from Colonel Michael Jones, Commander-in-Chief
of the Parliamentary Forces in Leinster and Governor of Dublin, A.D. 1649, an
officer much in the confidence of the Protector Cromwell and ancestral [sic] to
some of the Jones families settled in Leitrim and Sligo. He had two sons,
William Jones and Edward.
The elder, the Rev. William Jones Armstrong, married as above and had issue:
William Jones, now of Killylea; second, John Tew, who married Anne, daughter of
Ralph Tew of Roddinstown, Co. Meath, and had issue: Maxwell, John, Thomas and
Anne; thirdly, Thomas Knox of Fellows Hall, a magistrate of Co. Armagh, who
married Catherine Frances, second daughter of Wallop Brabazon of Rath House,
Co. Louth, by Jane, his first wife, daughter of Josias Dupre of Milton Park,
Bucks, and died in Rome in January 1840, leaving Jane, Rebecca and Diana
Lucinda; Helen, married to the Rev. John Kerr; Archibald, Captain 26[th] Madras
Fusiliers; and John, also Lieutenant in the 26[th] East India Native Infantry;
Anne married to Walter Newton, Womersley Grove, Pontefract, formerly of the
21[st] Light Dragoons, and has issue three sons and four daughters; Diana Jane,
died unmarried. ...'
D3727/J also contains a newspaper report of Senator H.B. Armstrong's retirement
from one of his county offices, in 1931, which makes incidental mention of a
number of other position in public life which he filled:
'Senator H.B. Armstrong ..., H.M.L., has retired from the chairmanship of the
County Armagh Regional Education Committee, a position he has held since the
committee was formed under the Education Act of 1923. Senator Armstrong devoted
a great deal of time to educational matters throughout the county, and he led
the committee to undertaken the erection of many fine new schools ... . He is
now 87 years of age, and in 1873 he became a member of the grand jury of Co.
Armagh. He was an original member of the County Council when it was formed in
1899 [and Chairman of its Finance Committee, 1899-1920], and he remained a
member until 1920. From 1906 till 1909 he was Vice-Chairman, and Chairman from
1909 till his retirement. In 1875 Senator Armstrong was High Sheriff of Co.
Armagh and in 1894 he filled the same office in Longford. In 1920 he became a
member of the Senate of Queen's University [Belfast], and in 1921 was returned
unopposed to represent Mid-Armagh in the Imperial Parliament. For a quarter of
a century [actually, 1897-1921] he has been a member of the Representative Body
of the Church of Ireland. In his earlier days he travelled extensively in the
East and Far East. Just this week he has been appointed Vice-Chairman of the
Board of Governors of Armagh Royal School.'
These biographical, genealogical and official details are important to an
understanding of the connections subsisting between the Armstrongs and their
correspondents and of the various public offices which the correspondence
reflects.
Will of John Armstrong, Abbreviated:
I John Armstrong of Cherry Valley in the Parish of Glenavy and county of Antrim
being of sound disposing mind and memory and understanding do make and publish
this my last will and testament
Trustees: David Shaw of Ard in Scotland esq
Alexander MacKay Of Stockwell in Middlesex in England esq
and my son Edward Pakenham Armstrong of Cherry Valley
they do and shall hereby and herewith as soon as conveniently may be after my
decease pay and satisfy my funeral and testamentary expenses debts and legacies
all of which I hereby declare a charge and chargeable upon all my estate as
well real as personal and upon further trust as to and concerning all and every
my lands and tenements in the town lands of Cherry Valley Civer?? Court
Ballygortgarve and Ballytromery[2]
with their appurtenants and all my term for lives and years and interest
thereon that they do ...
out of the rents issue and profit thereof pay unto my son Edward Pakenham
Armstrong ... annuity ... of one hundred pounds
provided that in case my eldest son Charles William Armstrong at any time
hereafter be appointed agent to the estate of the Honourable Hercules Robert
Pakenham which agency is enjoyed at present by myself and shall be in receipt
of the Emoluments of the said agency then ... for such period as the said
Charles William Armstrong shall continue in such Agency and Enjoyment of its
Emoluments .. the annuity of one hundred pounds hereby made payable to Edward
Pakenham Armstrong shall be increased by the additional sum of fifty pounds
sterling
Provided further and it is hereby expressly declared and my Will is that in
case the said Edward Pakenham Armstrong shall at any time be appointed to the
agency hereinbefore mentioned ... shall not enjoy at the same time both the
said annuity aforesaid and the Emoluments of the said annuity (does this
mean the agency??)
Lands and Tenements aforesaid ... subject nevertheless to the said annuity
hereinbefore charges thereon in favour of the said Edward Pakenham Armstrong
upon trust for the sole use ... of Charles William Armstrong and his children
...
for default of such issue upon trust for my second son Edwd Pakenham Armstrong ..
and for default of such issue
... do and shall dispose of sell all and singular the said lands and tenements
with the appurtenances ... the monies or proceeds arising from such sale or
sales as to our one moiety thereof upon trust for the use and behoof of my
daughter Glencairn Dalrymple Shaw otherwise Armstrong the wife of the said
David Shaw ...
the remaining moiety of the monies ... use of my daughter Anna Maria Armstrong
... and I hereby declare my Will to be that it shall and may be lawful for my
son Charles William Armstrong by deed of marriage settlement to be executed
previous to his marriage ... to direct and appoint that from and after his
decease an annuity ... not exceeding the annual sum of one hundred pounds
sterling ... unto any wife
provided also ... in case the said EDWARD PAKENHAM ARMSTRONG shall at any time ..
in possession benefit of the trust estate ... it shall be lawful for the said
EDWARD PAKENHAM ARMSTRONG by Deed of Marriage Settlement
And whereas I am interested in and possessed of the four several bonds
following with the judgements thereon respectively ?? that is to say
Bonds from Catherine, Baroness of Longford:
20/5/1797 to William Marshall, £350
20/6/1797 to George Burleigh, £274, conditioned to £137
1/11/1806 to George Burleigh, £2600, conditioned to £1300
26/5/1814 to George Burleigh, £300, conditioned to £150
entered in the Court of Exchequer of Hilary term 1816.
Page 6
... four several bonds and judgements ... into the proper hands of my said
daughter Glencairn Dalrymple Shaw ...
in case there shall be no child of mine living in such case the same shall fall
into the residue of my personal Estate and remain for the use and benefit of my
residuary legatee
And whereas I am also interested in and possessed of the two other Bonds with
Judgements entered thereon respectively that is to say
Bonds from Baroness Longford to George Burleigh:
22/5/1813, £1700, conditioned to £850
26/5/1814, £1700, conditioned to £850
entered into the Court of Exchequer Hilary term 1816.
...into the proper hands of my daughter Anna Maria Armstrong
of my personal Estate and remain for the use and benefit of my residuary
legatee hereinafter named as Executors and Abuttors and Assigns (the will copy
duplicates this – elsewhere a total of 9 bonds is mentioned)
And whereas I am likewise interested in and possessed of a certain other Bonds
and Judgement
Bonds from Baroness Longford to George Burleigh:
1/12/1812, £1700, conditioned to £900
... Unto my said son EDWARD PAKENHAM ARMSTRONG
...for the use and benefit of my residuary legatee hereinafter named his
executors Abuttors and Assigns
And whereas I am likewise interested in and possessed of a certain other Bond
and Judgement
Bonds from Baroness Longford to George Burleigh:
1/7/1810, £2000, conditioned to £1000
...either by assignment of the said Bond and Judgement or with the proceeds
arising from a sale thereof or with the monies thereby secured or otherwise pay
off satisfy and discharge a certain judgement debt entered upon a
bond 20/1/1819
whereby I became bound to one Margaret Park of Cherry Valley Spinster for
£2000, conditioned to £1000.
And whereas I am likewise interested in and possessed of a certain other Bond
and Judgement
Bonds from Baroness Longford to George Burleigh:
31/12/1812, £1000, conditioned to £500
after my decease thereby and therewith either by assignment of the said Bond
and Judgement or with the proceeds arising from a sale thereof
discharge a certain judgement debt entered upon a bond of 20/1/1819 whereby I
became to my sister in Law Elizabeth Isabella Dalrymple spinster
£1000 Irish, conditioned to £500
Owed £1000 + 4% interest from ... Honourable Hercules Robt Pakenham stands
indebted to me in the sum of one thousand pounds sterling bearing interest at
the rate if four per cent per annum for which debt I hold his letter of
acknowledgement dated the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and
twenty eight
one moiety, £500, with interest at 4% ... use of my said sister in law
Elizabeth Isabella Dalrymple
... and as to the £400 ... other part ... for the proper use of John Armstrong
the younger of Cherry Valley
... and as to the £100 ... other part ... for the proper use of John McKay of
Cherry Valley ... in consideration of the trouble which I expect that the said
John McKay will have and which I request he will undertake in assisting my
Executors to arrange and settle my affairs
9 judgements bear interest at 5%.
And Whereas a large sum of money is due to my in right of my deceased wife by
the Honourable East India Company
for the proper use and behoof of my four children hereinbefore mentioned to
wit CHARLES WILLIAM ARMSTRONG EDWARD PAKENHAM ARMSTRONG Glencairn Armstrong
Shaw and ANNA MARIA ARMSTRONG
... my farming stock and crop, my plate, books, household furniture and the
ready money, all half pay and other monies ... which shall be in the hands of
Alexander MacKay one of the trustees as Agent to the Honourable Colonel
Pakenham aforesaid and all arrears of interest which shall be due on the
aforesaid nine several bonds and judgements
... I hereby declare that the same are bequeathed ... for the proper use and
behoof of my said eldest son CHARLES WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
... also to the payment of the legacies
to EDWARD PAKENHAM ARMSTRONG £30
£20 each to ANNA MARIA ARMSTRONG, Miss Margaret Park, my sister in law
Elizabeth Isabella Dalrymple, my nephew Dr William Armstrong and John
Goodfellow
And I nominate and appoint the said David Shaw Alexander McKay and CHARLES
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG to be Executors of this my last will and testament
13/5/1830.
Witnessed: Richard Davison of Belfast Attorney at Law
Alexander Arthur of same Attorney at law
John Montgomery of same Attorney at law.
Proved at London 5th November 1832
Edward Cornelius, Descendants of
Generation No. 1
1. CAPT. EDWARD1 CORNELIUS
was born in Dromore, Coote Hill, Co. Monahan. He married SOPHIA ATKINSON.
She died aged 101 years and is buried with her daughter at St Andrew's Church,
Suffolk Street, Dublin.
Notes for CAPT. EDWARD CORNELIUS:
An officer in "The Green Horse" who came from Orange-Nassau, over to
Ireland with William 111, married Sophia Atkinson- the daughter of a fellow
officer- and after the Treaty of Limerick, was granted the land of Dromore,
Coote Hill, Co. Monahan.
He was at the siege of "Darry in 1688"
The family became agents to Lord Farnham of Cavan and the Coote family (Lord
Bellamont, Earl of Mountrath) and the Uniack family of Mount Uniack.
Children of EDWARD CORNELIUS and SOPHIA
ATKINSON are:
1/1. HENRY CORNELIUS, b. 1707, Dromore; d. 1792, Dromore.
1/2. JOHN CORNELIUS.
John lived at Bally-Haise, Co. Cavan and his name appears in various registers and deeds from 1708-1820 when land at Galoone, Dromore was assigned to him.
1/3. UNKNOWN CORNELIUS.
Generation No. 2
HENRY CORNELIUS, born 1707 in
Dromore,
died 1792 in Dromore. He married
(1) UNKNOWN WALSH.
She died Abt. 1744. He married (2) UNKNOWN
HENNESY 1767.
Notes for HENRY CORNELIUS:
In 1729 left his mother in Dublin and became the agent to Lord Farnham of
Cavan. and later Judge Coote of Bellamont Forest and after the death of Judgee
Coote, he moved to Munster to manage the Coote lands there. He left Munster in
1785 and returned to Coote Hill where he died in 1792 aged 85.
Both he and his wife are buried in the church yard of Coote Hill.
His wife was the Daughter of Anthony Walsh, agent to Mr. Ankettle of Ankettle
Grove, Co. Monahan.
Children of HENRY CORNELIUS and UNKNOWN WALSH are:
2/1. JOHN CORNELIUS, b. 1738, Dromore, Galoone.
2/2. HENRY CORNELIUS, b. 1740, Mountrath; d. 1826, Mountrath.
Children of HENRY CORNELIUS and UNKNOWN HENNESY are:
2/3. JOSHUA3 CORNELIUS.
2/4. SAMUEL CORNELIUS.
2/5. CHARLES CORNELIUS, b. 1782, Kilmallock.
Generation No. 3
HENRY CORNELIUS b.1740, Mountrath,
Died 1826 in Mountrath.
He married (1) CATHERINE CONNER 1791. She was born Abt. 1768 in Cloyne.
He married (2) ELIZABETH ROGERS 1814.
His mother died when he was very young and he and his
brother John, were sent to live with their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Atkinson,
in Dublin. A magistrate of the Queen's Bench. He was a "Vicars
Choral" or Lord of (Vicars Choral) in Cloyne Cathedral. Land was
gradually acquired through marriage or assignment- Shamrock Lawn, Myrtle Hill,
Spring Field, and Cloyne in Cork, Monaghbeg; Ross-na-clonagh; Coolnagower;
Bally-tarsna, Mountrath; Rosscrea, Bally Laise, Co. Cavan: Dromore, Co.
Monahan; Caher Lusky, Castle Town, Bally Fin, Gossbrooke and Westmeath etc. The
marriages were to local landed or farming families e.g. Fitzgeralds (the
Geraldines) of Kildare and Castle Town; the Whites of Castle Town; the Lalor of
Kylebeg; the Penrose Robinson, the Robert's, Watson's, Roe's, Short's,
Armstrong's, Jackson's, Townshend's, Moore's (Earl of Mount Cashel), Kemmis,
Hydes, Jestin's, Giles, Carroll's, Gort's, Croker's, Dickson's, McCrea's,
Doherty's, McLoughlin's, and in NZ the Girdwoods and Walkers etc. "They
appear to have wasted their talents on their love of horses, women and whisky"
Obit: "1826, at Mountrath at an advanced age, Henry Cornelius, a
magistrate of the Queen's Bench and one of the Lords of Cloyne Cathedral, agent
to Sir J.H. Coote, Bard of Ballyfin. His urbanity of manners and amiability
of disposition endeared him to a large circle of friends."
Notes for ELIZABETH ROGERS: ref Henry’s will: Mrs. Rogers was the widow of the
Rev. James Roberts and had a daughter Mary Anne who is mentioned in Henry's
will. This is not verified but seems likely! He left Mary Anne, her second
daughter, 50 pounds sterling.
Children of HENRY CORNELIUS and CATHERINE CONNER are:
1/1. CATHERINE LOUISA CORNELIUS,
b. 11 Apr 1792, Springfield,
Cork, Ireland; d. 05 May 1852, New London, Connecticut, USA1;
m. THOMAS ARMSTRONG, 21 May 1810; b. 23 Feb 1787, Carrick, Meath, Ireland; d.
03 Aug 1863, New London, Connecticut, USA1.
Notes for THOMAS ARMSTRONG:
Thomas Armstrong born at Carrick, West Meath,
on February 23/1787, died at New London, Conn., August
3/1863, buried here with his wife.
Nothing is known of his early youth or education. He married on May 31 1810,
Catherine Louisa Cornelius, born at Springfield, County Cork, Ireland, April
11/1792, died at New London, Conn. May 5/1852. Her father, Henry Cornelius was
said to have come from Holland and was twice married, probably living at
Springfield, Cork, with his first wife, the pretty Kate Connor of Cork. Henry
married, 2nd, a widow named Mrs. Rogers, many years younger than himself, and
they lived at Montrath, Queen's County, where Henry was agent of the Earl of
Mountrath. This probably explains how Catherine met Thomas Armstrong. Catherine
was the daughter of Henry Cornelius' second marriage, and she had two sisters,
Margaret, who married William Penrose Robinson of Shaxarook Lawn, Douglas,
County Cork, and Bessie Cornelius.
Catherine also had three brothers, Henry Cornelius, Captain Charles Cornelius
of the 71st Regiment, and Richard Cornelius a captain in the army. Through the
interest of her father Henry Cornelius, Thomas Armstrong got a sinecure position
in Dublin worth £300, and they lived there nine years. This position he
resigned to go to St. Croix. During their nine years in Ireland, eight
children were born, four of whom lived to grow up.
In 1819, Thomas and Catherine Armstrong went out to St. Croix, leaving
five daughters behind. At St. Croix he bought an estate called Lebanon Hill
from Dr. Biggs: he also got an estate named Mount Welcome which he got from his
uncle William. The five daughters left in Ireland were placed in the care of relatives,
and were sent to a school kept by Madame Despard in Dublin, and were taught
music, dancing and deportment In St. Croix, seven children had been added to
the family. Then preparations were made for the five sisters to come out from
Ireland in the care of Dr. William Armstrong, who wanted his family to come
over also.
So on September 25/1825, the regular packet ship "Silas
Richards", sailed from Liverpool, having on board as passengers, the five
sisters, and their twin boy cousins, all under charge of the boys' grandmother
Mrs. Taylor. After a somewhat tempestuous voyage, the ship arrived at New York
on October 28/1828, with dry goods to Fish, Grinnell & Co. The ship was
built in New York about 1822 for Grinnell, Minturn & Co., who established the
Swallow Tail Line of packets: she was of 453 tons. The girl's father Thomas
Armstrong, who had become acquainted with Captain Joseph W. Alsop of
Middletown, Conn. was doing business with him, and arranged that the little
girls should go to St. Croix in Captain Alsop's brig "Condor",
Captain Goodrich commanding.
The next outward voyage was not for two months, so the little girls had a
delightful visit in New York. They stayed with a friend of Mrs. Taylor, Mrs.
Cadwallader Golden, whom she had met in England. They visited the Museum and
other places of interest.
Mrs. Taylor liked to show them off when walking on Broadway and they
often heard persons passing by say:-"there go the little English
girls". The "Condor" sailed on December 23/1828 from New York
for St. Croix. The boys must have remained in New York with their father, and
I'm sure Mrs. Taylor never went to St. Croix: I don't know what became of her.
The little girls were in the care of the captain and the voyage was progressing
favorably, when one day the Captain observed a strange sail on the horizon,
coming nearer and nearer. The Captain, not liking the looks or the vessel, grew
very uneasy as it was in the days of piracy.
The Captain made the girls go down into the cabin and locked them in,
telling them to remain very quiet. The vessel turned out to be a pirate, but
unfortunately for the latter, the men were in a half starved condition and weak
from want of food, and told the Captain that if he would only give them food, they
would not molest them. The Captain considered they had had a most fortunate
escape, and told the girls they might have been taken, but that he was prepared
to shoot them before letting them fall into the pirate's hands. The voyage must
have taken about three weeks, so around January 20/1829, they arrived at St.
Croix, to be greeted by the mother who they had not seen for ten years, and by
brothers and sisters they had never seen. I doubt that there were any
opportunities for education at St. Croix. Up to the present, Thomas and
Catherine had had fifteen children, several of them having passed away, and ere
eight years had flown by, three more were added to the household. The name of
the estate they lived at was Mount Pleasant, though the name Mount Welcome
comes to my mind. In December 1832 the family were in Middletown, Conn., at
what is now 180 Washington St. At this time their child Anna Maria received
burns from the fireplace in the dining room, which caused her death. Thomas
Armstrong was in New London in June 1839, and still there in June 1940.
He was offered a lot by Captain Mather for $4000: the western half was 98
ft on Washington St. and 93 ft on the Rope Walk. At this time the Robert
Beattys came back to the States, and Thomas Armstrong and his family went back
to St. Croix, having bought the "Lebanon" estate from Robert Beatty
for $14,474.97. There was also a fountain which cost $300. The family were in
St. Croix in August 1844, by which time their son Thomas had gone out west to
where his brother William was living, on the border of a lake where the hunting
and fishing were excellent: Thomas was devoted to both sports. Thomas had left
a name in St. Croix of being the most correct young man in business, and it was
a pity that his talents should have been wasted in the back woods. Thomas and
Catherine were still at Lebanon in 1849: there must have been an insurrection
previous to this time end many people feared there would be another. There was
a very strict Governor who was determined to have the strict laws obeyed. They
were still there in 1851. Catherine had been in St. Thomas, as she was not
well, and it was decided to send her to the States in Captain Tikiole's vessel
to New Haven, as the doctors said it was the only chance for her health. Her
husband Thomas had the hardest time that summer to get along: he was anxious to
sell out and the family were anxious to leave St. Croix. Lebanon Hill was an
estate of 500 acres, and was appraised on November 2/1849 for $24,424. The
crops were sugar rum and molasses, which for the year 1849 were:-84 hogsheads
and 145 barrels of sugar, 41 puns and 3 barrels of rum, and 53 casks of
molasses, and the net proceeds were $3165.17. Mount Pleasant estate was rented
to Mr. S. Kelton for $298. Lebanon Hill would rent for $200. Mrs. Mary
Cummings, who died in 1846, and Mrs Wittroz were interested in the Lebanon Hill
property. Thomas, Catherine and their family must have come to the states in
1852, the year in which Catherine died unexpectedly. Their coming may have been
hastened by the insurrection. They did not have a large supply of this world's
goods to bring with them. Thomas Armstrong's last years were spent in New
London with his daughters Frances and Elizabeth keeping house for him. Amongst
some of the silver of Thomas and Catherine which has come down through the
family, is a spoon, with the crest of the Armstrongs of King's County, Ireland,
which was "An armed hand holding a broken ulig spear, ppr". The motto
is "Vi at Armis". The spoon has the hall mark of John Pitter, Dublin,
1810.
Notes for CATHERINE LOUISA CORNELIUS:
Listed here are the children of Catherine and Thomas taken from One World Tree:
William Armstrong M 22 May 1811 in Dublin, Ireland
Mary Aletta Armstrong F 22 Jun 1812 in Montrath,
Catherine Louise Armstrong 13 May 1813 in Montrath, Ireland
Margaret Elinor Armstrong 27 Jun 1814 in Mountrath, Ireland
Frances Armstrong F 2 Jul 1816 in Mountrath
Elizabeth Armstrong F 1 Dec 1817 in Castletown, Ireland
John Armstrong M 28 Nov 1818 in Castletown,
Thomas Armstrong M 14 Jun 1820 in St Croix, Bwi,
Charlotte Cornelia Armstrong 16 Sep 1821 in St Croix,
Anna Maria Armstrong F 3 Mar 1823 in St Croix,
Henry Cornelius Armstrong 21 Mar 1824 in St Croix, Bwi,
Ellen Augustine Armstrong 16 Jul 1825 in St Croix, Bwi,
William Armstrong M 2 Jun 1828 in St Croix, Bwi,
Emma Armstrong F 2 Nov 1829 in St Croix, Bwi,
Louisa Armstrong F 16 Jul 1834 in St Croix, Bwi
Thomas Henry Armstrong M 12 Dec 1836 in St Croix, Bwi,
1/2. MARGARET ELEANORA CORNELIUS2,
b. Abt. 1793; m. WILLIAM PENROSE ROBINSON2,
1832, Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland2; b. Shamrock Lawn, Co. Cork,
Ireland.
1/3. ELISABETH ANNE CORNELIUS, b. Abt. 1794;
m. JAMES SHORT,
11 Jun 1819; b. Newton, Later Weston, Mountrath, Queens Co..
1/4. HENRY CORNELIUS, b. 1795, Mountrath; d. 1868, Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory, Queens Co. Eire.
1/5. CAPT. RICHARD LONGFIELD
CORNELIUS3, b. Abt.
1797; d. Jun 1848, London, Middlesex, United Kingdom3.
Notes for CAPT. RICHARD LONGFIELD CORNELIUS:
Capt in Royal Artillery and Richmand St. M.S. 13 May 1819
Issue son Richard Longfield Cornelius who died in New Zealand
1/6. DR. CHARLES
HENRY CORNELIUS,
b. 1804; d. 1821.
Generation No. 4
HENRY CORNELIUS
was born 1795 in Mountrath, and died 1868 in Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory,
Queens Co. Eire. He married (1) ELEANOR FITZGERALD 14 May 1819, daughter of ALEXANDER FITZGERALD
and UNKNOWN. She was born Abt. 1799 in
Castletown, and died 18 Jan 1823 in Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory,. He married
(2) UNKNOWN 1824.
More About ELEANOR FITZGERALD:
Burial: Family vault in Mountrath
Children of HENRY CORNELIUS and ELEANOR FITZGERALD are:
1/1. HENRY CORNELIUS, b. 08 Mar 1820, Antrim; d. 16 Feb
1895, Castletown.
1/2 ELLEN CORNELIUS,
b. 08 Apr 1821.
1/3. CATHERINE CORNELIUS, b. 23 Jul 1822; d. 12 Nov 1822.
Children of HENRY CORNELIUS and UNKNOWN are:
1/4. ALEXANDER5 CORNELIUS, b. Abt. 1825; d. 16 Aug 1894,
Borris-in-Ossory.
1/5. WILLIAM
HENRY CORNELIUS.
1/6. HENRIETTA CORNELIUS.
Generation No. 5
HENRY (HARRY)5 CORNELIUS
was born 08 Mar 1820 in Antrim, and died 16 Feb 1895 in
Castletown. He married ELIZABETH MARY WHITE NEE
GILES 04 Sep 1844 in Rathfarnham, Dublin,
daughter of RICHARD GILES and ELIZABETH
KEMMIS. She was born 06 Apr 1818 in
Castletown, and died 21 Dec 1893.
Notes for HENRY (HARRY) CORNELIUS:
Born in Antrim he lived in Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory and
later at Ross na Clonagh, Mountrath and shortly before his death in a home
called Shanderry ( according to a letter from his nephew written in 1894).
Burial: Old Anatrim graveyard
Residence: Ballytarsna and later Rossneclonagh
Notes for ELIZABETH MARY WHITE
NEE GILES:
Widow of James White of Cootehill.
There is a story on the family that one day a gypsy went to Ross na Clonagh
selling clothespegs. When Elizabeth refused to buy any, the gypsy cursed her
saying that her daughters would all be barren and her sons would only bear
daughters. Of her 9 daughters,only one had children (Susannah) and her son,
Harry, had only the one daughter. Thomas died without children.
Burial: Old Anatrim graveyard
Children of HENRY CORNELIUS and ELIZABETH GILES are:
1/1. THOMAS KEMMIS6
CORNELIUS, b. 06 Apr 1845, Ross na
clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d. 22 Jun 1893, Rossnaclonagh.
Baptized in Anatrim Church
1/2. ELEANOR (ELLEN) GERALDINE
CORNELIUS, b. 23 Jul 1846, Ross na
clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d. 01 Nov 1921; m. JOSEPH
ALFRED ROE,
16 Mar 1893.
No children.
1/3. SUSANNAH VICTORIA CORNELIUS, b. 10 Jun
1847, Ross na clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d. 21 Aug 1849, Mountrath. Bur Mountrath
Vault
1/4. MARGARET ELEANORA CORNELIUS, b. 21 May
1849, Ross na clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d. 11 May 1872, Rossnaclonagh.
Baptized in Mountrath Church. Never married.
1/5. GEORGIANNA GILES CORNELIUS, b. 03 Feb
1851, Ross na clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d. 12 Jun 1875, Shanderry House,
Anatrim.
According to a letter written by Alexander-her cousin- she was in poor health
and was sent "to the sea"- Dublin- for the air. Maybe she had a
respiratory illness? She died aged 24.
Burial: Anatrim Cemetery
1/6. SUSANNA KEMMIS CORNELIUS,
b. 29 Jun 1852, Ross na clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d. 1896, NZ.
1/7. CATHERINE LOUISA CORNELIUS, b. 23 May
1855, Ross na clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d. 03 Sep 1922;
*Married Richard Carroll Hyde at Anatrim church by Canon Kellett and his son
Rev. Richard Kellet. 08 Feb 1898
They had no children.
They clothed and educated their nephews Harry and Billy- seemingly a common
practice when the families were so large.
* From the family bible
1/8 HENRY (HARRY) CORNELIUS,
b. 25 Sep 1856, Ross na clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d. 08 Mar 1931, Pahiatua,
New Zealand.
1/9. ANNA WILHEMINA
CORNELIUS, b. 20 Feb 1858, Ross na
clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d. Aft. 1923; m. REV.
ROBERT DOHERTY,
Ballinamore, Co Leitrim.
They had no children. Refer to a letter in the scrapbook written after the
death of her sister Louisa, to her brother Harry in NZ.
1/10. CHARLOTTE HENRIETTA CORNELIUS, b. 15
Aug 1859, Ross na clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d. 31 May 1919; m. JOHN MCLOUGHLIN.
She had an adopted daughter, Lilian who died on the ship Adriatic on Nov. 1st
1923. Burial: Kilworth
1/11. FLORENCE CORNELIUS, b. 20 Aug 1862, Ross na clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland; d.
Aft. 1923; m. CHARLES WM. MORE, 5TH EARL OF MOUNTCASHELL,
17 Oct 1893; b. Moore Park, Kilworth, Co. Cork; d. 21 Feb 1898.
Godmother and cousin of Emma Eleanor aka Eva Geraldine
Cornelius
6. ALEXANDER5 CORNELIUS
was
born Abt. 1825, and died 16 Aug 1894 in Borris-in-Ossory. He married MARY LALOR 28 Nov 1854
in Abbeyleix?, daughter of JOSEPH LALOR and MINA LARGE. She was born Abt. 1836 in Kylebeg House,
Borris-in-Ossory, and died 17 May 1916 in Borris-in-Ossory.
The Cornelius grave is at St Judes Church (Church of Ireland) at Coolrain (you
will need help to find Coolrain) near The Pike of Rush Hall, but it is not far
from Bally Colla where the Lalor's live or from the old farm at Bally Tarsna .
there is a newish church and just past this is the ruins of an old church with
a high stone wall around it and high locked gates. It was totally overgrown and
we had to scale the wall . The grave is to the left of the graveyard about
1/3rd of the way down .
The full head stone is as follows
In Loving Memory
of
Alexander Cornelius
of Ballytarsna Borris-in-Ossory
who died 16th August 1894
Aged 69 years
And his wife Mary
who died 17th May 1916
aged 80 years.
And their children
Henry Charles
Joseph Lalor
Charles Henry
Margretta Eleanora
Mary Cornelius Dickson
(Grand-daughter)
Alexander Reginald Townshend Cornelius
(Grandson)
Children of ALEXANDER CORNELIUS and MARY
LALOR are:
1/1. HENRY CHARLES6 CORNELIUS.
1/2. JOSEPH LALOR CORNELIUS.
1/3. ALEXANDER FITZGERALD CORNELIUS,
b. Abt. 1860; d. 01 May 1928, Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory, Eire.
1/4. CHARLES HENRY CORNELIUS.
1/5. MARGRETTA ELEANORA CORNELIUS.
1/6. ALICE CORNELIUS, d. 19 Apr 1960. Spinster
1/7. ELLEN CORNELIUS,
d. 19 Apr 1960.
1/8. EMMA CORNELIUS, d. 05 Mar 1929; m. COL. EDWARD
MCCREA,
1915, Loughry, Helen's Bay, Bangor; b. Loughry, Helen's Bay, Bangor.
HENRIETTA5 CORNELIUS
She married G.V. WATSON.
He was born in Monkstown, Dublin.
Children of HENRIETTA CORNELIUS and G.V. WATSON
are:
1/1. NATHANIEL6 WATSON.
1/2. VINCENT WATSON.
1/3. GEORGE WATSON.
Generation No. 6
8. SUSANNA KEMMIS6 CORNELIUS
(HENRY (HARRY)5, HENRY4,
HENRY3, HENRY2, EDWARD1)
was born 29 Jun 1852 in Ross na clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland, and died
1896 in NZ. She married THOMAS PRICE GIRDWOOD
in N Z. Susanna went to NZ with her brother, Harry in 1894.
Children of SUSANNA CORNELIUS and THOMAS
GIRDWOOD are:
i. SAMUEL7 GIRDWOOD.
ii. ELIZABETH MARY CORNELIUS GIRDWOOD.
iii. AGNES GIRDWOOD.
iv. FRANCES MAUD GIRDWOOD.
9. HENRY (HARRY)6 CORNELIUS
(HENRY (HARRY)5, HENRY4, HENRY3, HENRY2, EDWARD1)
was
born 25 Sep 1856 in Ross na clonagh, Mountrath, Ireland, and died 08 Mar 1931
in Pahiatua, New Zealand. He married MARGARET DALZIEL REESE 21 Sep 1905 in Christchurch, NZ, daughter of DANIEL REESE and CECILIA WILSON. She was
born 14 Apr 1869 in Christchurch, NZ, and died 04 Apr 1962 in Rossnaclonagh,
NZ.
Along with his sister Susannah Kemmis C.-Harry was the first of the Cornelius
clan to go to NZ, in 1874. He sponsored his 5 nephews who emigrated. He paid
the boat fare for 4 of the brothers and they worked for him to repay the fare. His
nephew George and his son-in-law Teddy Walker, found him dead on horseback on
his farm at Ross na Clonagh, Pahiatua.
Excerpt from Tui Country:
"Then on 8th March 1831,that old stalwart of the Pahiatua County Council,
Councillor Harry Cornelius, died in office. The minute book records the
following tribute to him by Chairman Sam Bolton:
"He had been a councillor for the Mangahao Riding for over 30 years and in
public office for more than 40 years. He had been widely known for his many
labours on behalf of the Pahiatua County and had been held in the highest
esteem and respect by his fellow members.
He had occupied the position of Chairman for eight years as well as being a
member of the Wairarapa Hospital Board, the Tararua Electric Power Board and
the Manawatu Gorge Board of Control during its existence and filled these
offices with much credit to himself and much benefit to the county.
His great ideal in life had been work and he passed away just as he himself
would have desired, in the midst of his labours and with undiminished mental or
physical powers.
The Chairman then moved that "a record of the great services rendered to
the Council by Cr. Cornelius, and the high esteem by which he was held by the council
and staff be recorded in the minutes of the council. That we mourn the loss of
a good friend and the rate payers a valued councillor in his passing."
More About HENRY (HARRY) CORNELIUS: Burial: Mangahao, Pahiatua
More About MARGARET DALZIEL REESE: Burial: Mangahao, Pahiatua
Child of HENRY CORNELIUS and MARGARET REESE is:
1/1. CLONAGH7 CORNELIUS, b. 08
Jul 1907, Rossnaclonagh, NZ; d. 29 Jun 1980. Burial: Mangahoa, Pahiatua
10. ALEXANDER FITZGERALD6 CORNELIUS (ALEXANDER5, HENRY4, HENRY3, HENRY2, EDWARD1) was born Abt. 1860, and died 01 May 1928 in Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory, Eire. He married MARY (EMMA) JANE TOWNSHEND 01 Aug 1895 in Dublin, Eire, daughter of WILLIAM TOWNSHEND. She was born 1871, and died 27 May 1951.
Notes for ALEXANDER FITZGERALD CORNELIUS:
Alexander went to New York and took the family silver with him. He lost all his money and later returned to Ireland.
Alexander inherited Ballytarsna after the death of his brothers. He was a train driver and a reluctant farmer
He had a great love of horses and after his marriage, he settled down to farming, brood mares and racing. He also had a large family. In his later years he suffered from rheumatism and gout. Just before his death, his horses were brought to the windows of his downstairs room so he could say goodbye to them!
Notes
for MARY (EMMA) JANE TOWNSHEND:
She may have come from Lime Tree House, Ballykeepe, Kilkenny.
She had a brother who was in the Scots Guards and Gillies had his medal- John
probably has it now.
A "domineering and haughty" lady.When she visited her daughter Eva
and son-in-law Johnny Shields- Johnny used to leave the train and boat
schedules prominently displayed. Apparently there was no love lost between
them!
After the death of her husband, and after Ireland became independent in 1926,
Mary Jane (always known as Emma) did not want to live in a "Papist
State". With only one son, Charlie, remaining in Ireland, 1932 aged
61years of age, she decided to move to NZ., where she died in 1951 aged 80. She
is buried in Pahiatua Cemetery along with Gerry. She would be horrified to know
that her gravestone carries the name Mary Jane as she was known as Emma.
To her grandchildren, she was known as Granny Cornelius or "Granny
Cornie" and moved around between her sons and her niece, Clonagh Walker,
not owning property in NZ.
Apparently she always referred to Bertie's boys as "Bertie's Brats"!
Recollections from Colin Cornelius:
Firstly Emma Cornelius, we called her Granny Cornelius, came out to New Zealand
in 1932 (letter from W.C.Cornelius re. Charles T.Cornelius' will) dated Nov
1976) at about 61 years and she died in 1951 at the age of 80 years.
I well remember Granny Cornelius in 1949 when she looked after us ( Barry,Colin
and Kevin) while Mum was away at the time of our sister Gerraldine's birth. She
was a stern, grumpy old lady who would "switch" us around the legs
with an apple tree stick or the riding crop( for no go reason at all of
course?). She also growled at us for being too hard on our horses - especially
for riding fast up and down steep country, and for galloping along the metal
roads.
Another pet hate was Kevin's ears. They did stick out a bit and she wanted to
stick them in with sticking plaster. Apparently this worked for dogs in
Ireland. Anyway in the end she had to be content with just jamming his hat down
hard over the top of his ears.
Granny Cornelius was the one that first called us "Berties' Brats"
and this was carried on with gusto by Uncle George. We had the last laugh as
Uncle George was later blessed with 5 boys of his own. Come to think about it
"Berties Brats" sounds like it might have been the fore-runner of
Polly Shields' "Bitch Pack".
We found it difficult to understand how we earnt the "Berties' Brats"
tag! Maybe it had something to do with an incident in about 1947 while we were
staying at Uncle George's farm in Hukanui. Uncle George had been skiting about
this great motor car he owned - a Morris Eight. Now every 11-12 year old boy
knows that all you needed to start a Morris 8 was to jam a small screw-driver
in the ignition. Brother Barry decided that we should go for a test drive. I
was about 9 years old at the time and I can still vividly see the stern-face
reception committee lining the driveway as we returned home. Apparently there
had been much conjecture as to who might have taken the car, but Mum knew - she
was just praying that we would drive straight past and not turn up the drive.
Children of ALEXANDER CORNELIUS and MARY TOWNSHEND are:
i. EMMA (EVA) ELEANOR7 CORNELIUS, b. 13 Sep 1895, Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory, Queens Co. Ireland; d. 11 May 1976, Derbyshire; m. JOHN GILLIES SHIELDS4, 26 Jul 1917, Borris-in-Ossory, Queens Co. Eire; b. 01 Feb 1882, Gateside Farm, Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland; d. 18 May 1960, Isley Walton, Leics.
Notes for EMMA (EVA) ELEANOR CORNELIUS:
Always
known as Eva Geraldine, her father got drunk on the way to register her birth
and couldn't remember the correct names so named her after his sisters, Emma
and Eleanor! This was not discovered until the birth certificate was produced
for the wedding.
She met her future husband, Johnny Shields, when he was serving in WW 1 for the
Leics. Regiment and was sent to Ireland to recover from the effects of gassing
in the trenches. There he met Eva at the home of the Countess of Mouncashell
(Eva's cousin, Florence).
The story about Eva marrying John Shields was handed down to all the children
in N.Z by the 5 brothers. I think there were either rather envious or totally
stunned that their big sister could sit on the front fence of the farm and
"snare" a very eligible English army officer , and then leave
Ireland for a life of perceived luxury in England, where as they were sent to
N.Z where they had to work extremely hard for their uncle to repay their boat
fare. I get the impression things were pretty tough in Ireland at the time and
that the family was living on past glories.
"The Marriage of Lieut. J.G. Shields R.F.A. with Miss Eva Geraldine Cornelius
July 26th 1917
(As taken from a newspaper account)
The
marriage of Lieutenant John Shields R.F.A. to Miss Eva Geraldine Cornelius,
took place at the parish church, Borris-in Ossory, Queens Co. Ireland, the home
of the bride, on Wednesday. The bridegroom is the eldest son of Mr. John
Gillies Shields J.P. C.C. (the agent for the executors of Lord Donington and
Major Gretton of Donington Park), and a well-known agriculturist, and of Mrs.
Shields, of the Manor House, Isley Walton, Leicestershire. Mr. Shields, who
volunteered for service when the war began, will be best remembered as the
popular captain of Leicestershire County Cricket Club and a member of the
M.C.C. The bride, who is a cousin of the Countess of Mount Cashel, is the
daughter of Mr. Alexander Fitzgerald Cornelius and Mrs. Cornelius of
Ballytarsna House, Borris-in -Ossory, Ireland. The Rev. Robert Mollen, rector
of Borris-in-Ossory performed the ceremony and the church was crowded. Mr.
Reginald Cornelius, brother of the bride, was best man, the bridegroom having
come from France on short leave for the wedding. There was one bridesmaid, Miss
Ruby Cornelius, sister of the bride. The bride, who was given away by her
father, wore a dress made in German style of an old gold satin and nigger brown
and a picture hat.
A reception was held afterwards at Ballytarsna House and the newly married pair
crossed to England on Thursday and motored home from Birmingham on Friday
morning. This was the bride’s first visit to England. They will reside in
Breedon Hall. A large number of presents awaited them and the approaches to
Isley Walton were gaily decorated."
More About EMMA (EVA) ELEANOR CORNELIUS:
Burial: All Saints, Isley Walton, Leics.
Notes
for JOHN GILLIES SHIELDS:
Born in Scotland, his family moved to Leicestershire in 1883.
He served in WW 1 for the Leics. Regiment and was sent to Ireland to recover
from the effects of gassing in the trenches. There he met Eva at the home of
the Countess of Mount Cashel (Eva's cousin, Florence). They met again later
when he was out riding past Ballytarsna and Eva was sitting on the fence
watching for him. He told his fellow soldier that he was going to marry
"that red-head"!
They married July 26th 1917 and the notes for Eva contain an account of their
wedding.
He took over as the Land Agent from his father and managed the estates and
farms owned by the family- the farms were rented out- around the Castle Donnington,
Isley Walton area of Leicestershire.
Capt. of Leics. Cricket team and wicket keeper. The story goes that he bought
steaks en route to a game and stuffed them into his gloves, to prevent
bruising! He also played for the Gentlemen v the Players at Lords.
He was an excellent horseman and one of the best shots in the county.
After his death, his son J. Gilles Shields inherited, in trust, all the lands
with the exception of the Manor House and grounds along with the living of the
United Benefice of Breedon and Worthington, and Longcliffe Quarry. In 1976,
Gillies broke the Trust and sold Donnington Hall to British Midland Airlines
and the Race Track and the lands at the Coppice where a Racing museum now
stands.
More About JOHN GILLIES SHIELDS:
Residence: 1901, Castle Donnington, Leicestershire, England4,4
ii. ALEXANDER REGINALD TOWNSHEND CORNELIUS, b. 1897, Ireland; d. 1918, Coolrain, Ireland.
Notes for ALEXANDER REGINALD TOWNSHEND CORNELIUS:
Reggie came home from the front in 1917 to be a witness at the marriage of his sister, Eva to Johnny Shields.
After he returned home from the war, he died shortly thereafter of influenza and is buried with his grandparents Alexander and Mary.
iii. RUBY FLORENCE CORNELIUS, b. 10 Oct 1898, Ireland; d. 16 Mar 1979, Leics.; m. JACK HARPUR.
iv. CHARLES TOWNSHEND CORNELIUS, b. 13 Mar 1900, Ireland; d. 01 Jun 1976, Rathangan, Kildare, Eire; m. EDITH GERALDINE JACKSON; d. 19 Apr 1960.
Notes for CHARLES TOWNSHEND CORNELIUS:
No Children.
He raised race horses for the Curragh. He lived at Guidanstoun House, Rathangan, Kildare
Notes for EDITH GERALDINE JACKSON:
Widow of Brig. F. Jackson
v. ALBERT (BERTIE) EDWARD CORNELIUS, b. 29 Apr 1901, Donnybrook, Co. Dublin, Eire; d. 14 Jan 1956, Omana, Northland, New Zealand; m. MARY EVA HORNCY, 19 Mar 1934, St Matthews Church, Hastings, NZ; b. 22 Dec 1911, Horton, Mddx England; d. 04 Dec 1996, Whangerai, NZ.
Notes
for ALBERT (BERTIE) EDWARD CORNELIUS:
The only one who paid his way out was
Bertie, who at the time had a job in a bank in Dublin and was seen to have a
job for life and his parents wanted him to stay in Ireland (probably to support
them). He boarded the ship with 2 of his brothers apparently with out his
parents knowledge. He was the most successful of the 5 brothers , but
unfortunately died of Kidney Disease in his 50's. I can still just remember
the drama of the 4 brothers going up to the funeral. Dad had just brought a new
car, and none of the others would help with the driving and he was just about
asleep at the wheel when the cops pulled him up for weaving over the road. They
took some convincing that he was not drunk , then after the funeral and
presumably after the wake they were heading home over a long one way bridge and
met another car in the middle. The 4 very stubborn Irishmen refused to back up
and apparently there was a bit of a stoutish and they were probably lucky they
were not locked up for the night. All of the brothers had really broad Irish
accents and were something to behold when they got excited.
ALBERT EDWARD CORNELIUS-submitted by Colin Cornelius
Also affectionately known as BERTIE or PADDY
Born in Donnybrook, Dublin County, Ireland in 1901 where he did well at school,
interested in sport especially tennis. Worked in the Bank for 6 years and had
to learn to speak and write the Gaelic language.
Emigrated to New Zealand in 1925 with two of his brothers (George and Gerry). A
rushed decision for him as his family had deliberately kept his brothers'
travel plans secret. Worked on Harry Cornelius' sheep station at Mangahao, and
afterwards at other sheep stations in the district. Became an excellent
shepherd and an exceptional trainer and breeder of sheep dogs.
In the early 1930's he managed the Shamrock Hotel in Wellington before buying
his first farm, in partnership with his brother Gerry (Cornelius Bros.), at
Makarau, North Auckland in 1934. This farm ran south from the Makarau railway
station to the tunnel. Eventually "The Bros" hard work resulted in a
good mixed farm unit of dairy and sheep. Paddy bought out Gerry's half in about
1939-40. In 1945 he sold the Makarau Farm and bought 229 acres (Sanatorium) at
Omana North Auckland and in 1948 bought another farm of about 400 acres
(Kaitaringa Farm). On Sanatorium he ran mainly sheep and on the Kaitaringa Farm
dairy and beef cattle. Also, leased the "Kauri Workings" for winter
grazing - this was cutover native forest in the Tangihua Range.
He was a successful farmer.
In 1955 he was admitted to Greenlane Hospital with a kidney complaint and then
followed nine dreadful months with eight major operations. Paddy died at his
home at Omana on 14 January 1956 following a Coronary Thrombosis.
This quietly spoken Irishman was known far and wide as "Paddy" - a
pet name.
Remembered by his wife Eve, for his courage, hard work for his family, his
loving caring nature, and so cheerful, always.
More About ALBERT (BERTIE) EDWARD CORNELIUS:
Cause of Death: Coronary thrombosis
following kidney problems
vi. HENRY WILLIAM CORNELIUS5, b. 11 Oct 1902, Kingstown, Dublin, Ireland; d. 11 May 1994, Levin, New Zealand; m. AMY GWENETH RUSSELL, 26 Jun 1930, Pahiatua, NZ; b. 06 Jul 1901; d. 19 Feb 1995, Levin, New Zealand.
Notes for HENRY WILLIAM CORNELIUS:
Farmer
More About HENRY WILLIAM CORNELIUS:
Burial: Manakua Cemetery
Occupation: Farmer
vii. GEORGE TOWNSHEND CORNELIUS, b. 04 Nov 1903, Sandycove, Dublin, Ireland; d. 18 Dec 1967, Napier Hawkes Bay, NZ; m. MAUDE EVELYN BAKER, 11 Jun 1946, Holy Trinity, Gisborne, NZ; b. 02 Nov 1918, Gisborne, NZ; d. 17 Jul 1994, Hawkes Bay, Napier, NZ.
Notes
for GEORGE TOWNSHEND CORNELIUS:
At a young age, George was sent off to live with his maiden aunt, Alice, in
Dublin. We are not sure why George was chosen but believe this might have been
common practice amongst large families.
We believe he went to Dublin for his schooling so it could have being about
1910 when he left home. We know that he was in Dublin in 1916 (aged 13) as he
was arrested during the Easter uprising for being in the wrong place at the
wrong time (and probably throwing stones!!) much to the families
consternation. From what Dad told us it was an experience he never wished to
repeat, and it was only the efforts of Alice and his Mother that got him out of
jail . These were rather interesting times in Dublin and not a time to be a
teenager roaming the streets!
He emigrated to NZ in 1926 and worked for Harry Cornelius at Mangahao for a
number of years. (Later, in 1931, he found Harry, dead and still on horseback,
at Ross na Clonagh). He then milked cows at Ranfurly Road, just out of Pahiatua
until he went to WW11. He joined the Hawkes Bay Territorial regiment in 1937,
and then enlisted in the regular force on 23/10/1940. He served in the 1st
battalion N.Z Scottish regiment as part of the New Zealand Army Service Corp.
He entered camp in July 1942 and went overseas on the 10/11/1942 as a Driver,
transporting ammunition to the front. He saw action in both the North Africa
and Italian campaign arriving back in N.Z on the 20/11/1945. His army records
show that he had pay deducted for speeding and reckless driving, and for being
AWOL.
On returning to N.Z after the war the government of the day had a program to
settle returning soldiers on to farms and George took advantage of this
program. He purchased a dairy farm at Hukanui , south of Pahiatua where he
farmed until his retirement in 1966. He married Maude Baker in 1946 and they
had 5 sons. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1967 aged 64 and is buried at
Taradale.
viii. FITZGERALD (GERRY) CORNELIUS, b. 18 Dec 1905, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland; d. 29 Jul 1988, Pahiatua, New Zealand; m. RELLIS ALINDER GICHARD, 1940; b. 1912, Pahiatua, NZ.
Notes for FITZGERALD (GERRY) CORNELIUS:
Emigrated to NZ in 1926 aged 21.
ix. WILLIAM CALBECK CORNELIUS, b. 13 May 1908, Ireland; d. 1989, Lower Hutt, NZ; m. DORIS BOYD.
11. MARGRETTA ELEANORA6 CORNELIUS (ALEXANDER5, HENRY4, HENRY3, HENRY2, EDWARD1) She married UNKNOWN DICKSON. He was born in Blackrock, Dublin.
Child of MARGRETTA CORNELIUS and UNKNOWN DICKSON is:
i. MARY CORNELIUS7 DICKSON.
Notes for MARY CORNELIUS DICKSON:
Buried with her grandparents, Alexander and Mary Cornelius
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, One World Tree (sm), Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., n.d., Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc.
2. Platt, Lyman, Irish Records Extraction Database, Provo,
UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1999, Online publication - Platt, Lyman. Irish
Records Extraction Database [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com,
Inc., 1999.
3. FreeBMD, England and Wales, Death Index: 1837-1983, Provo, UT, USA:
MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006, Online publication - FreeBMD. England & Wales,
FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1983 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and
Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office, ©
Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the
Office for National Statistics. You must not copy on, transfer or reproduce
records without the prior permission of ONS. Database Copyright © 1998-2003
Graham Hart, Ben Laurie, Camilla von Massenbach and David Mayall.
4. Ancestry.com, 1901 England Census, Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc.,
2005, Ancestry.co.uk. 1901 England Census [database online]. Provo, Utah:
MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Indexed by MyFamily.com, Inc. from microfilmed
schedules of the England 1901 Census. Data imaged from the National Archives,
London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy,
completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may
be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications
for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond,
Surrey TW9 4DU. Infringement of the above condition may result in legal action.
5. Birth Certificate copy.
Gearóid Ó Maelearcaidh
The problems with penalties on Catholics in Ireland go back to the Reformation
and as in England legislation was introduced piecemeal to limit Catholic
participation in national administration. The legislation in Ireland was held
back to some extent up to the time of James 1 because there was a Catholic
majority in the Irish Parliament. But in the time of James 1 that parliamentary
majority of Old English Catholic MP's was by a variety of means overcome. Some
MP's converted to preserve position and wealth, yet more MP's were either
intimidated from attending Parliament, some assassinated and others accused of
treason and fled the country. With a bare Protestant majority laws were
introduced which financially penalised Catholics so that many more of the
wealthier Catholics began to leave the country.
Nevertheless a Catholic presence in the Irish Parliament did have some effect
to delay legislation against Catholics from being enforced effectively. It was
not until the 1690's with the Irish backing of the Stuarts counter rebellion,
the Cromwellian repression and period up to the mid 1700's that draconian laws
became effectively enforced. This creates a huge black hole for Irish genealogy
as Catholics become non persons and disappear from official records. It's here
that old estate papers are often the only hope to find native Irish and hence
why detailed research by persons such as yourself are so valuable.
A few of the wealthiest Catholics did by means of very clever lawyers manage to
use the law by means of trusts and clever devises / arrangements to hang on to
some wealth. The one area where Catholics were not proscribed was commerce and
from the ranks of such people who managed to survive the 18th century a small
class were able to rebuild their status when the establishment began to ease
the constraints on all Dissenters. It's possible that this is where Michael
Mullarkey fits into ambitious late 18th century Sligo society.
The Inns of Court were one area which proscribed Catholics from the 1690's so
that Catholics were unable to become JP's, solicitors or attorneys. Attorneys
were a lower level of lawyer perhaps equivalent to a legal executive.
Additionally should a man marry a Catholic, or have his children be brought up
as Catholic he would be disbarred from any legal office. This was designed
amongst a raft of other administrative measures to prevent people just
pretending to convert to the Established church to gain some advantage.
Eventually Catholics were proscribed from receiving any form of education which
it was hoped would finally ensure an end to a case for their role in
administration.
There was as a result a slow but gradual conversion process throughout the 17th
century as people became desperate to escape their state. But rather conversely
that conversion process resulted in some Catholics converting not to the
Established church but to Presbyterianism. The constraints on Dissenters and
the opening of America with it's welcome to Dissenters then resulted in many of
these new converts together with Scottish settlers (Scots Irish) emigrating to
America, thereby weakening Protestantism in rural Ireland. With the Stuart
cause failed and the lack of a Catholic elite to oppose the establishment and
the emergence of freethinking, a new enlightenment gradually spread amongst
Protestant radicals who had influence in the Irish Parliament and slowly the
whole structure of repression was slowly unpicked, or allowed to gradually fall
into disuse.
The 1780's and 1790's were the turning point in the radicalisation of Irish
politics and because of the mood of emancipation interweaved with politics
there was a re-invigoration of Catholicism and a sudden halt if not reversal of
the conversion process. Nevertheless County Sligo where Michael Mullarkey came
from was one county outside the North of Ireland and the old Pale counties of
Leinster where the Established church did have some success with conversions.
There was good sense in the liberalisation of laws as there were fears in the
establishment not just in Ireland but in England that social injustice had to
be addressed or that the masses of the poor would simply sweep the old system
away. Catholics in Ireland were therefore allowed to join the British army.
This was hoped to counter the emigration of Irish (wild geese) into the armies
of England's enemies especially France. By the time of Waterloo there were
20,000 Irish with Wellington at Waterloo but still there were almost a similar
number of Irish (though a generation older) in Napoleon's army.
Similarly the English government encouraged and funded the creation of Maynooth
college to train Catholic priests in Ireland again to counter the effect of
Irish going into foreign seminaries and returning to Ireland radicalised with
republican ideas.
In this context there are a number of possible points about Michael Mullarkey.
He could have been a convert to the established church and as a result he may
have become a KC and JP. Because of the benefits conferred by conversion
Parliament in a series of enactments laid down a highly structured process to
record conversion. The records of conversions were sadly destroyed, but indexes
to survive. Unfortunately the indexes do not give enough detail to accurately
identify individuals but information in the indexes may perhaps be indicative
of possible conversion.
It was difficult often to administer justice at the end of the 18th century in
rural Ireland. To have someone as JP who might be seen as poacher turned
gamekeeper would have been something which would have been encouraged
especially in revolutionary times when local courts might have had to prosecute
local men for all kinds of offences linked to treason. If Michael had been a JP
and a prosecution KC against enemies of the State even at a local level I think
it not impossible that such a person might have been rewarded for his loyalty
by elevation to the Peerage. The problem as I see it is that I have been
totally unable to find state lists which show lists of JP's for Sligo for the
relevant period and I have no idea where I might find details of KC's in
Ireland. If Michael was elevated to the Peerage again I do not know where I am
going to find definitive information.
Issue Date: 25/4/2001
15/6/2001: resaved HTML from Word
7/1/2002: added email detail & edited
23/10/2002: email info.
18/2/2004: Thomas Armstrong (1787) issue and Tom Reilly info
25/6/2004: Tree layout
22/3/2005: Vaugh Documents
14/12/2005: Minor additions from Dublin
17/1/2006: Patricia O'Shea info
10/5/2006: Additions to William Haughton line
7/8/2006: Ann Maria Armstrong descendants.
20/10/2006: Cornelius Line
10/5/2007: reformatting and additions
27/9/2008: Captain John Armstrong Will
2/4/2009: Mullarkey info