Intermarriage and Other Families This page shows the interconnection between the Townsend/Townshend family and some of the thirty-five families with whom there were several marriages between 1700 and 1900. It also gives a brief historical background about those families. Names shown in italics indicate that the family shown is connected with the Townsend/Townshend elsewhere. Baldwin The Baldwin family in Co Cork traces its origins to William Baldwin who was a ranger in the royal forests in Shropshire. He married Elinor, daughter of Sir Edward Herbert of Powys and went to Ireland in the late 16th century. His two sons settled in the Bandon area; the eldest brother, Walter, acquired land at Curravordy (Mount Pleasant) and Garrancoonig (Mossgrove) and the youngest, Thomas, purchased land at Lisnagat (Lissarda) adjacent to Curravordy. Walter’s son, also called Walter, was a Cromwellian soldier and it is through his son Herbert that the Baldwin family in Co Cork derives. Colonel Richard Townesend [100] Herbert Baldwin b. 1618 d. 1692 of Curravordy Hildegardis Hyde m. 1670 d. 1696 Mary Kingston Marie Newce Horatio Townsend [104] Colonel Bryan Townsend [200] Henry Baldwin Elizabeth Becher m. b. 1648 d. 1726 of Mossgrove 1697 Mary Synge m. 13 May 1682 b. 1666 d. 1750 Philip French = Penelope Townsend [119] Joanna Field m. 1695 m. 1713 b. 1697 Elizabeth French = William Baldwin John Townsend [300] Samuel Townsend [400] Henry Baldwin m. 1734 of Mossgrove b. 1691 d. 1756 b.1692 d. 1759 of Curravordy b.1701 d. 1743 Katherine Barry Dorothea Mansel m. 1725 b. 1701 d. ca 1769 Alicia Warren m. 1728 Henry Baldwin of Lissarda John Townsend [303] Edward Townsend [401] = Anna Baldwin m.176 2 Walter Baldwin b. ca 1730 b. 1727 d. 1806 Helena Becher m.1752 of Curravordy d. ca 1790 Katherine Morris m. 1726 Elizabeth Reddish Mary Hutchinson Jonas Baldwin = Barbara Townsend [312] Samuel Townsend [405] = Mercy Baldwin of Lissarda m. 1793 b. 1768 d. 1836 m. 1794 Barry The Barry family trace their origins to Sir Robert de Barri of Lismore who died in 1185. David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore and a direct descendant, married Lady Alice Boyle, daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork in 1621 and left one son, Richard Barry, 2nd Earl of Barrymore whose second daughter, Lady Katherine Barry, married John Townsend, the eldest son of Colonel Richard Townsend. Sir Robert de Barri of Lismore Richard 2nd Earl of Barrymore Colonel Richard Townesend [100] b. 1630 d. 1694 b. 1618 d. 1692 Susan Killigrew m. 1666 Hildegardis Hyde Mary Kingston Redmond Barry of Rathcormack Lady Katherine Barry = John Townsend [101] Colonel Bryan Townsend [200] Mary Boyle m. 1666 b. 1646? b. 1648 d. 1726 Mary Synge m. 1682 Colonel James Barry = Susannah Townsend [114] of Rathcormack Katherine Barry = John Townsend [300] b. 1691 d. 1756 Beamish Amongst the list of English settlers in Ireland about the time of Queen Elizabeth I, appear the name of Beamish or Beamis. The lands granted to members of the family in Co Cork were confirmed to three brothers under an Act of Settlement by Patent in 1688. The Beamish family in Ireland derives from the second brother, Francis of Kilmaloda, an officer of the Bandon Militia in 1641, who married Katherine Bernard daughter of Francis Bernard of Castle Mahon in 1679. In the 1870s the Beamish estates in county Cork amounted to over 12,000 acres. Richard Beamish of Mount Beamish married Mary Townsend [111] in 1695. Francis Beamish of Kilmaloda married Mary Townsend [138] in 1784. John Beamish married Elizabeth daughter of Dr James Edward Somerville, grandson of Mary Townsend [506] in 1871. William Delacour Beamish married Gertrude Mary Fitzgerald Townsend [555] in 1902. Becher Fane Becher, the third son of Henry Becher, Sheriff and Haberdasher of London, was granted over 12,000 acres in Co Cork during the reign of Elizabeth I. Fane’s grandson, Major Henry Becher, married Elizabeth Notte of Aughadown in 1636 and by her had a son, Colonel Thomas Becher of Sherkin Island and Aughadown, from whom the Becher family in Co Cork derives. He was an active, powerful man and his name features much in county Cork records. One of the richest men in the county with estates valued at £898 a year, he was aide-de- camp to King William III at the battle of the Boyne on 1st July 1690. Colonel Richard Townesend [100] Colonel Thomas Becher MP b. 1618 d. 1692 of Baltimore Hildegardis Hyde Elizabeth Turner m. 1662 Mary Kingston Henry Becher Horatio Townsend = Elizabeth Becher Philip Townsend Bryan Townsend John Becher Lionel Becher of Aughadown [104] b. 1670 [106] [200] of Bristol of Sherkin b. 1664 d. 1738 m. 1697 d. 1697 b.1664 d. 1735 b. 1648 d. 1726 b. 1677 d. 1742 b. ca 1686 Catherine Owen Helena Galwey Mary Synge Hester Duddlestone Catherine Dunscombe m. 1698 m. 1705 m. 1682 m. 1695 m. 1712 Elizabeth Becher = Richard Townsend John Townsend Mary Townsend = John Becher Samuel Townsend Edward Becher d. 1743 [201] [300] [121] of Creagh [400] b. ca 1715 b. 1684 d. 1742 b. 1691 d. 1756 b. 1710 m. 1727 b.1700 b.1692 d. 1759 Mary ? Katherine Barry Dorothea Mansel Colonel John Becher = Barbara Townsend Helena Becher = Edward Townsend Edward Becher of Hollybrook [306] m. 1752 [401] of Ballycamclogh d. 1778 m. 1771 b. 1727 d. 1806 Jane Bousfield m. 1756 Samuel Townsend Lionel Becher [405] of Rock Castle b.1768 d. 1836 b. ca 1750 Mercy Baldwin Sarah Stammers m. 1794 m. 1782 Samuel Townsend = Charlotte Becher Anne Townsend = Edward Baldwin Becher [412] b. 1820 d. 1881 [417] of Rock Castle b. 1800 d. 1865 m. 1844 b. ca 1812 d. 1865 m. 1836 Carleton Burke’s Irish Family Records 1912 records the lineage of the Carleton family of Co Cork deriving from Francis Carleton who was born in 1713, the third son of John Carleton of Darling Hill, High Sheriff for Tipperary in 1717. Francis married, Rebecca, daughter of Hugh Lawton of Castle Jane, Co. Cork in 1737. Mildred Townsend [6A08] married Webber Carleton in about 1800. Edward Warren of Belleville, son of Anna Townsend [408] married Penelope Carleton in 1824. Daunt Thomas Daunt of Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire went to Ireland in about 1585 and took up residence at Britfieldstown House, near Robert’s Cove in Co Cork. In 1588 he leased Tracton Abbey, Co Cork from Sir Warham St Leger and the following year purchased the Gortigrenane Estate from him. It is from his son, Thomas Daunt of Gortigrenane, that the Daunt family in Co Cork derives. Several members of the family owned property in the Kinsale area in the 1870s. These included the representatives of Achilles Daunt with 2000 acres, George Daunt with 1000 acres and William Henry Daunt of Fahalea, with 1,372 acres. Colonel Richard Townsend [100] Thomas Daunt b. 1618 d. 25 Sep 1692 of Owlpen and Gortigrenane Hildegardis Hyde b. 1593 d. Dec 1669 Mary Kingston Catherine Clayton Captain Horatio Townsend [104] Colonel Bryan Townsend [200] Cornelius Townsend [108] Georged. ca 1700 Daunt b. 1648 d. 1726 b.1650 d. 1696 of NovohalElizabeth & Gortigrenane Becher Mary Synge Jane Swete b. 1630m. 1697 d. 1697 m. 1682 Mary Turner Richard Townsend [201] Henry Daunt John Townsend [300] Philip Townsend [500] John Townsend [122] Horatio Townsend [600] Thomas Daunt b. 1684 d. 1742 of Knocknamanagh b.1691 d. 1756 b. 1700 d. 1786 b ca 1672 d. 1736 b. 1706 d. 1772 of Gortigrenane Mary Synge m. 1706 b. ca 1682 d. 1738 Katherine Barry Elizabeth Hungerford Margaret Bowdler Mary Hungerford b. 1675 d. 1747 Elizabeth Becher Anne Knolles m. 1706 m. 1733 Joanna Murphy m. 1739 Elizabeth Synge m. 1697 Horatio Townsend [130] Achilles Daunt b. 1699 d. 1764 b. 1702. d. 1760 Anne Richards Anne Daunt m. 1742 Maria Townsend = Thomas Daunt Achilles Daunt Philip Townsend Richard Townsend Edward Townsend Richard Townsend = Mildred Daunt [212] of Fahalea of Newborough [304] [501] [601] [6A00] b. 1747 b. 1707 d. 1755 b. 1707 d. 1779 b. 1735 d. 1794 Mary Delap b. 1736 d. 1817 b. 1741 d. 1819 b. ca 1750 d. 1805 m. 1772 m. 1746 Frances French Margaret Townsend Elizabeth Townsend m. 1747 [141] [144] m. 1762 d. 1790 b. 1742 d. 1831 m. 1766 Thomas Digby Daunt = Frances Daunt John Townsend = Eleanor Townsend of Fahalea m. 1779 [316] [510] b. 1758 d. 1837 b. 1764 d. 1849 m. 1788 d. 1817 George Digby Daunt = Helena Townsend of Broomley [619] m. 1815 d. 1846 b. 1783 d. 1846 Eliza Daunt = John Townsend b.1818 d. 1904 [333] m. 1867 b. 1805 d. 1883 De Burgh The de Burgh family traces itself back to William de Burgh, brother of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, who received a grant of lands in Ireland in about 1185. The family, originally from Co Mayo, settled at Dromkeen in Co Limerick in the 15th century. In 1726 Thomas Burgh of Dromkeen, son of the Rev Richard Burgh, married his cousin Mary Burgh of Oldtown, Co Kildare and had a son Richard who when he died in 1762 left his estate to his cousin Walter Hussey. Distinguished as one of the most eloquent advocates at the Irish Bar and later Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, he held land in the parish of Dromkeen, Co Limerick, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. His son, John Hamilton Hussey de Burgh, married Louisa Jane Townsend [249] of Shepperton in 1844 and their daughter, Jane de Burgh married Henry John Townsend [251] in 1864 Fleming The Fleming family in Co Cork is of Scottish origin and there are many Fleming monuments in Glasgow Cathedral; the crest and motto borne by the Flemings of New Court, Skibbereen are included in the East window.