BLENNERHASSETT family of , CHURCHTOWN, ANNAGHARRY, MOUNT RIVERS, KELLS and BALLYMACPRIOR in Co.KERRY also the BLENNERHASSETT-EAGAR (Eager) family on F 17 - F 21 Blennerhassett Family Tree (BH08_Blennerville_F.xlsx) revised July 2014, copyright © Bill Jehan 1968-2014 Thanks to all who have contributed to these pages - please email additions & corrections to: [email protected]

CONTINUED FROM page K 34 of: Blennerhassett of , , Co.Kerry F 01

>>|>> Henry >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Arthur Augustin Blennerhassett (alias Hassett); eldest son; Blennerhassett | b.c1701 , Co.Kerry ("...apud Killariam, in Com. Kerry..."); d.bef.1736; edu. TCD (Pensioner 1719); of Gortmasherry | Middle name given in honour of Augustine FitzGerald (son-in-law of Elizabeth Blennerhassett of Ballycarty - p.C 08) Co.Kerry; | who was a "good friend" to Arthur's uncle "Black Jack" Blennerhassett while in prison at Galway (p.K 01) living c1699 | / / | Adopted the RC faith & moved to , where he became a Doctor of the Faculty of Divinity in Paris (University of the Sorbonne) and son of Capt. Robert | a RC Priest in the diocese of Lyon; he was naturalised as a French citizen in August 1734, at which date, according to his naturalisation Blennerhassett | documents, he had been "...settled for many years in our Kingdom..."; his uncle John "Black Jack" Blennerhassett, writing c1733, (b.est.c1627 prob. | said this Arthur "...Renounced his own and his family's religion and withdrew to France, where he died a Doctor of the Sorbonne..." at Ballycarty, | [HICKSON/OKR vol.1 1872, p.46] Co.Kerry) and | Avice Conway |>>Dorcas >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Thomas (a.k.a. William) Godfrey; fl.1733 (b.est.c1640, the | Blennerhassett | / dau. & coheir of | / | m. Eccleston of Drogheda Edward Conway, | m. John Godfrey | of Castle Conway) | of Ballygamboon, |>>Dorcas Godfrey; fl.1733 (p.K 01 & p.BL 01) | Co.Kerry | / / | | m. Robin (Robert?) Twiss d.bef.1732; | | bur. in the Chapel | |>>Avice Godfrey >>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Dorcas Twiss at Castle Conway, | | fl.1733 / Killorglin; | | m. William Twiss m. Caleb Palmer Included in the | | of Ballybeg inscription on | | Black Jack's 1732 | |>>Mary Blennerhassett Godfrey; fl.1733 Monument to his | / family (p.K 01) | m. Arthur Spring / | m. est.c1700 |>>Avice Blennerhassett >>>>>>>>>>>>|>>James Yeilding b.26.11.1717 Dorcas (Alice) | / | Crumpe | m.c1717 |>>Dorcas Yeilding daughter of | John Yeilding | Thomas Crumpe | of , Co.Kerry |>>Lucy Yeilding, fl.1733 of Barley Mount, | & Belleview, / Aglish, near | Glensharrold, m. Lombard Killarney, Kerry; | near Rathkeale, and Dorcas Orpen | Co.Limerick / | (dau. of Robert |>>John Blennerhassett; d.young Orpen of Killowen |>>William Blennerhassett; d.young and sister of | Richard Orpen of |>>Robert >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Henry Blennerhassett; of Annagarry House; b.est.c1738; d. an infant the White House, | Blennerhassett | Killowen) | b.c1704 |>>Belinda >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Mary Hurly >>>>>>>>>>>>|>> Eagar / | of Mount Rivers, | Blennerhassett / |>> Eagar Some sources [BP] | Annagarry, Killorglin | b.est.c1739 m. Tallis Eagar |>> Eagar [MGH NS, vol.4, | 1758; also of | Mount Rivers; later b.25.11.1752; |>> Eagar p.330] [BLGI 1912] | Annagharry House | of Annagharry House of Reen Cahir d.1826 |>> Eagar etc show her father | Annagarry (see NOTE) | / / in error as Francis | d.c1766, Will pr.1766 | m. Charles Hurly Tallis Eagar had a twin brother Frederick Eagar of Groinmore (b.25.11.1752), whose son John Frederick Eagar (b.22.1.1791) Crumpe (that family | / | (heir to his brother had a son Frederick John Eagar (b.29.3.1812), a FAMILY RESEARCHER and author of three Eagar family histories: researched by | m.est.c1738 | John Hurley) 1. An unpublished Ms. “Pedigree of the Agar or Eagar family by Frederick John Eagar" Tralee October 1st 1840” [NLI Ms.4112] Don Munroe of | Frances Yeilding | / 2. “The Eagar Family in the County of Kerry" by Frederick John Eagar, published 1860 Toronto, Canada) | b.est.c1717/19 | / 3. “A Genealogical History of the Eagar Family” by Frederick John Eagar, published Dublin 1861 | of Belleview, | / | Glensharrold, near | [BP Blennerhassett Bart.] and [BLGI 1958 BH p.250] have him as her 2nd cousin Charles Hurly | Rathkeale, Limerick | (son of Anne Blennerhassett & Dennis Hurly of Knocklong, Co.Limerick & of Tralee; p.K 56) | d.c1771 Dublin; | who m.1st c1750 Alice FitzGerald (p.K 56); but such a Blennerhassett marriage is not recorded for him | Will pr. 1771; | in [BLGI Hurly p.?] and I have not seen it elsewhere; [DEBRETT 1836] names him John Hurley | dau. of Richard | / | Yeilding & Belinda | MOUNT RIVERS, ANNAGHARRY HOUSE (ANNAGHARRY, AUNAGARRY) and FORTFIELD | Bateman of Killeen, | were three country houses located in the of Annagarry/Ownagarry, Killorglin, and it is sometimes difficult to | Oak Park, Tralee, | distinguish one from another; "Annagharry House" (demolished) and "Mount Rivers" (still standing) are thought to be | now called | distinct houses; "Fortfield" (p.K 48) may perhaps(?) be identical with "Annagarry House"; The site of "Annagarry House" F 01 | Collis-Sandes house | is believed to be close to "Mount Rivers"; [HK p.8] suggests it may have been a coach house, perhaps near Annagarry F 02 | | | 2|>>Col. Sir Rowland >>>>>>|>>Sir Robert >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Catherine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Capt. Robert Rowland Conyers; of Tralee; & of Mount Rivers, Killorglin (previously home of his uncle Robert Blennerhassett) | | Blennerhassett, Bart. | Blennerhassett, Bart. | Blennerhassett | b.bef.1840 d.1895; 89th Regt.; served in the Crimean war; | | (alias Hassett) | 2nd Baronet | b.7.7.1791; raised at | m.30.4.1861; [BIFR p.140] has m.April 1862 in error; Elizabeth "Eliza" Jane Blennerhassett (p.K 49); of Tralee; b.bef.1840; | | of Annagharry House | of Blennerville | Churchtown House, | dau. of (Thomas) Arthur Blennerhassett of Ballymacprior Lodge, Killorglin & of Princes Quay / Princes Place, Tralee - p.K 54) | | 1st Baronet | b.26.1.1769 Blennerville | Knockane, Beaufort | | | of Blennerville | / | / |>>Rev. Charles Conyers >>>>>|>>Agnes Conyers; b.?.1.1874 d.c1940 | | b.c1740/1 | of Churchtown House, | d.?.11.1869 JP; b.c1823; | | Mount Rivers, | Knockane, Beaufort | See NOTE on p.K 48 edu. TCD (BA 1844); of Castletown Conyers; | | Annagarry | nr Killarney, Co.Kerry; | / m.7.12.1871 Margaret Everina Drew; of Drewsborough & Drewscourt | | (Ownagarry), | High Sheriff of | m.16.5.1822 Tralee; | | Killorglin, Co.Kerry | Co.Kerry 1823 | [FOSTER] has CAREER OF SIR ROWAND BLENNERHASSETT, 4th Baronet of Blennerville (1839-1909) - F 03 | | / | / | 22.5.1822 in error) Politican, Pember of Parliament at Westminster, political writer on foreign affairs; Linguist; well known Irish patriot & educationalist [DNB]; | | d.14.3.1821 | Probably JP | Rev. Edward One of foremost UK authorities on foreign affairs, especially in Europe, writing in leading periodicals on political & foreign subjects, | | prob. bur. with his | (magistrate) Co.Kerry | FitzGerald Conyers; frequently contributing to reviews of foreign politics, publishing speeches and addresses; | | wife at Blennerville; | nr Muscoda, | of Castletown Senator, Royal University of 1897 (mem. of the Senate standing committee); President of Queen's Coll. Cork 1897-1904 & Visitor 1905-09; | | his Will pr.1821, burnt | Will dated 17.9.1831, | Conyers, Co.Limerick; Member of many foreign scientific bodies and possessor of honorary degrees from many leading european universities | | at Four Courts 1922 | pr.1832 transcript exists | Rector of Knockane, / | | / | / | Co.Kerry 1856 Strongly interested in Irish education; "Commissioner of National Education", Dublin; H.M.Inspector of Reformatories & Industrial Schools in Ireland 1890-97; | Attorney; JP (Magistrate) for Co.Kerry 1796-97; | m.27.5.1790 Tralee | [GM Dec.1830] Sir Rowland was present 21.4.1900 when Queen Victoria visited the industrial school at Artane, Dublin; | He commanded "Laune Rangers" regiment | (1st cousin) Rosanna | Strongly interested in land reform, advocating peasant and tenant proprietorship; he at first supported but later opposed Home Rule for Ireland, becoming a strong | of volunteers, their Col. in 1779-82 | Blennerhassett (F 16); | opponent of Parnell; NOTE: at 1871 census he was visiting the Dease family home, Coughton Court, Warwickshire; James Arthur Dease in 1872 stood in the Co.Kerry | | / | of Fortfield, Co.Kerry | election as an "Anti Home-Rule" candidate in Co.Kerry election (F 13); NOTE: Coughton Court is the home of the Throckmortons, another ancient recusant family; | Sir Rowland Blennerhassett was founder of an | / | Prominant Roman Catholic politican and personal friend of Cardinal John Henry Newman; Associated with the management of the "Home & Foreign Review", | enterprising family of merchants & businessmen; | b. Annagarry | edited by Prof. Sir John E.E. Dalberg Acton 1834-1902 (later 1st Baron Acton) the British Catholic Historian & philosopher of freedom, with whom he formed | He settled at Cahirmoreaun (Cathair Ui Mhorain) | (Ownagarry), Co.Kerry; | a close friendship from 1862 (a quote from Lord Acton: "...The test of a country's freedom is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities") | also called Tramore, a mile SW of Tralee, naming | d.c26.1.1828 | / | both his house & the village "Blennerville" after | Churchtown House | Published work: | his family; He resided at "Blennerville House", | [KEP 26.1.1828] and | wrote on political subjects in "The Times", "The Daily Telegraph", "The Nineteenth Century", "Fortnightly Review", "Deutsche Rundschau", | Main Street, Blennerville (then already an old | ["The Warder", | and, especially at the end of his life, in the "National Review". | house) until he built Churchtown House, | Dublin 30.1.1828]; | Co-founder & producer of the "Chronicle", a Catholic magazine (political & literary organ of British liberal Catholicism) from 1867-1868; | Knockane, Beaufort, near Killarney; | but [FOSTER] [BP] | "Irish University Education" (speech, 1871); "University Education in Ireland" (speech, 1873); "Irish Railways" (speech 1872); | he was already residing at Churchtown in 1790 | and [BIFR p.138] have | "The Land Question in Europe" (Fortnightly Review 1881); "Peasant Proprietors in Ireland" (Contemporary Review 1885); | and built several other large houses in Kerry; | d.4.2.1828 in error; | "Ireland 1837-1887" in "The Reign of Queen Victoria, etc" by T.H.Ward, vol.1 1887; | In 1800 he was granted permission to hold four | and [GM Feb.1828] has | Univ. Education in England, France & Germany (Queen's College Cork Address); | yearly fairs and a weekly market at Blennerville, | d.1.2.1828 in error | Edited the "Bernstoff Papers" 1908; | for annual rent of £1 | / | / | Memoir in "Memories of Gardens" (1908); | | / | only daughter of | Correspondence between Sir Rowland Blennerhassett and John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826-1902) in [BODLEIAN Ms. Eng. c. 4036, ff.191-2; & 4037, f.2] | The 1st Erasmus Smith School in Blennerville | Sir Robert BH's uncle, | Reviewed works of History in German, French & Italian; | was established 1812 with a grant from Sir | Arthur Robert BH of | Sir Rowland was credited with authorship of a famous interview with Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany which appeared in the British newspaper "The Daily Telegraph", | Rowland Blennerhassett / | Fortfield & Cara, | creating political stir at home and constitutional crisis in Germany | | / | Co.Kerry & (Rosanna) | / | On 19.6.1812 the house of Daniel Moriarty, a | Catherine Hickson | LITERARY CAREER of CHARLOTTE COUNTESS Von LEYDEN, LADY CHARLOTTE BLENNERHASSETT (1843-1917) - F 04 | mason employed in building the church at West | | Lady Blennerhassett was a serious historian, author of several biographical works in German, most translated into French | Churchtown, near Killorglin "...was broken into | | and English, receiving the "Golden Palm" from the French Ministry of Education for her services to French literature; | by a party of lawless ruffians, who swore | | A student of Prof. Sir John E. E. Dalberg Acton (later 1st Baron Acton), the renowned English Catholic historian and | Moriarty not to continue in the employment, | | philosopher of freedom who was close friend of her husband, she became a major contributor to Lord Acton's | under penalty of his life…"; following this Sir | | ["Cambridge Modern History" 1907] including "The Doctrinares" [vol.10 Ch.2] and "The Papacy & the " [vol.10 ch.5]; | Rowland Blennerhassett procured | | Lady Blennerhassett's published work includes: | "…an offer of rewards for the discovery of | | obituary of Bishop Dupanloup published in "The Contemporary Review" 1878; | the villains concerned in these outrages…" | | "Frau von Stael, ihre Freunde und ihre Bedeutung in Politik und Literatur.. Mit einem Bedeutung in Politik und Literatur.. Mit einem Portrat, etc" Berlin 1887-9, 3 vols | [Strabane Morning Post, Co.Tyrone 28.7.1812] |>>Richard Francis | "Madame de Stael her friends, & her influence in Politics & Literature" Chapman & Hall, London 1889, 3 vols (English translation by Jane Eliza Gordon-Cumming) | | / | Blennerhassett | "Madame de Stael, et son temps, 1766-1817…etc"; French translation by Auguste Dietrich; pub. by Louis Westhausser, Paris 1890, 3 vols | m.31.10.1762 at Rathkeale, Co.Limerick; | of Blennerville; | "Talleyrand, ein studie" Berlin 1894 (in German) a biography of Charles M. Talleyrand-Perogord | Millicent Agnes Yeilding (1st cousin) | JP (Magistrate) | "Talleyrand" pub. John Murray, London 1894 (English translation of the above by Frederick Clarke) 2 vols, reprinted 2005 | b.16.12.1742; bapt.18.12.1842 St.Mary's Cathedral, | Co.Kerry 1796; | "Marie-Antoinette Konigin von Frankreich Bielefeld", ö1903 (in German) | Limerick; of Belleview, Glensharrold, Rathkeale; | b.23.5.1772 Blennerville | "Chateaubriand, mit 60 Abbildungen", Mainz 1903 (in German) | (dau. of Richard Y. & Millicent Agnes Studdert) | / | "John Henry Kardinal Newman : ein Beitrag zur religi sen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Gegenwart", 1904 ("John Henry Cardinal Newman" pub. in German only) | ["Faulkner's Dublin Journal" 13.11.1762, | In 1813 fought a duel | "Maria Stuart, Konigin von Schottland 1542-87", Kempten & Munchen 1907 (in German) | for Tues.9-Sat.13 November] / | with John O'Connell, | "Maria Stuart, 1542-1587 avec au portrait", Paris 1909 (French translation by the author); republished 1933 by Bibliotheque Historique Plon | / | / | bro. of Dan O'Connell | "Louis XIV & Madame de Maintenon" with illustrations (in English) pub. G.Allen & Sons, London, 1910 | d.c1801/2; bur. Blennerville; She is said to have | "The Liberator" p.K 34 | "Geschichtsphilosophie von Taine und Seinbild Napoleons" pub. 1911, in C.L.B. Streiflichter, pp.89-119; Streiflichter, Berlin 1911 (in German) | died as Sir Rowland showed her the Blennerville | (see F 03 below) | "Sidelights", Constable & Co., London 1913 (in English) | , shortly after it came into operation, | / | a German translation of "Sidelights" by Edith Gulcher published in "Literar-Historische Aufsatze", Munich & Berlin 1916 | killed by a blow from a turning windmill sail | d.28.11.1817 (dsp) at | "Die Jungfrau von Orleans" (Frauenleben vol.9), Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1926 (in German) | as she looked out from an upper door; | Cahirsiveen, Kerry; | article on Lord Acton published in the " Review", October 1904 | Some sources say building commenced in | "...of a violent fever"; | review? "L. N. Tolstois Briefwechsel mit der Gräfin A. A. Tolstoi 1857-1903" pub. in "Hochland" magazine October 1915, pp.94-100 | c1780; Building was completed c1800; | [Foster/BP] have Nov. | "Ein Blatt aus Belgiens Geschichte" pub. in "Hochland"magazine January 1915; | | | 1827 in error; | ESSAYS published in "Deutsche Rounschau", Julius Rodenberg, Berlin: | NOTE: In times past, before the windmill became | [GM Dec.1817] has | "George Eliot" (1885); “Taine’s Darstellung der französischen Revolution” (Feb.1886); "Queen Victoria" (1887); "D'Annunzio" (1898); "Alfred Lord Tennyson" | derelict, it is said that her name and perhaps | d.4.12.1817 in error; | (vol.XXV, 5, 1889); “Paulsen über den Pessimismus” (vol.CVII Apr-Jun 1901); Herrn von Brandt`s “Erinnerungen und Zeitfragen“ (vol.CVII Apr-Jun 1901); | the date were inscribed in the woodwork of the | bur. 5.12.1817 | "F. Max Miiller and the Religious Parliament" (republished in English in "The Open Court", London vol.XV No.2 Feb.1901 No.537 p.115+) F 02 | door frame where this accident occurred | / | / F 03 | / | / | / | / BARONET BLENNERHASSETT of BLENNERVILLE in Co.Kerry : | m.31.10.1798 Tralee |>>Sir Arthur >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Sir Rowland "Roland" >>>>>|>>Sir Arthur Charles >>>>>>>>|>>Lt. Sir (Marmaduke) >>>>>>>>|>> On 13.3.1808 the ancient Blennerhassett family coat of arms was granted, | Agnes Anne Denny | Blennerhassett, Bart. | M. Blennerhassett, | Francis Maria Henry Charles Henry "ratified and confirmed" to Rowland Blennerhassett | of Tralee (dsp); | 3rd Baronet | Bart. PC, MP, JP, DL | Bernard Blennerhassett, Francis Joseph Casimir ["Blennerville, Gateway to Tralee's Past" by Liam Kelly et al, 1989, p.53]; | d.19.12.1842; | of Blennerville | 4th Baronet | Bart. BA, JP, ICS; Blennerhassett, Bart. On 22.9.1809 he was created a "Baronet of the of Great | eldest daughter of | (succeeded 1831) | of Blennerville | 5th Baronet 6th Baronet Britain and Ireland", as "Baronet Blennerhassett of Blennerville, Co.Kerry" | Sir Barry Denny, | b.30.7.1794; raised at | (succeeded 1849) | of Blennerville of Blennerville ...for services to Parliament...; this caused the 'raised hand' badge to be | 1st Bt of Castle Moyle | Churchtown House, | / | (succeeded 1909) (succeeded 1915) added to his personal coat of arms, for difference, to indicate a Baronetcy; | g.dau. of Agnes BH | Knockane, Beaufort | b.5.9.1839 Blennerville | / / NOTE: [GM 1809] gives the date as 2-Sep-1809 | of and | / | Co.Kerry; bapt. (RC); | b.14.4.1871 Munich, b.20.11.1902 (where?); The Baronets Blennerhassett may perhaps have been first of the family | Sir Thomas Denny, Knt | R.Catholic convert, | / | Barvaria, Germany; edu. St Gregory's Sch. to adopt as the family motto: "Fortes Fortuna Juvat" ("Fortune | of Tralee Castle (p.B 03) | following marriage | edu. St Gregory's Sch. | bapt.23.4.1871 (RC) at Downside Abbey, Favours the Bold" or "Fortune Favours the Brave") this appearing on | / | in 1826; | Downside Abbey, | St.Boniface's, Munich Downside, Somerset; the confirmation of arms granted to Rowland Blennerhassett in 1808, | RICHARD FRANCIS | took an oath as a | Downside, Somerset | as "Arthur Maria Karl (first in Junior House, before he was created Baronet | | BLENNERHASSETT- | catholic (RC) 1827 | Aug.1849-Jul.1856 | Heinrich Franz Bernhart later Roberts House); | | | JOHN O'CONNELL | [correspondence of | (RC independent | Blennerhassett" left Downside Jul.1920 CHURCHDOWN HOUSE : | | DUEL, 1813 | Daniel O'Connell] | boarding school of | / / Churchtown House was built by Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 1st Baronet | Richard Francis | / | Benedictine monks) | edu. at Munich of Glendower Hotel, (F 02) using stone from ancient Castle Gore standing on the property (now | Blennerhassett, | As a child of Mount | / | Gymnasium and London SW7 1926; by the 13th green!); he was residing there by 1790 & remained in his family | supported by his friend | Rivers, Killorglin; | also Stonyhurst | Balliol College, Oxford Whitehall, Kensington until sold in 1860 to James MacGillycuddy Magill by Sir Rowland BH, | Thomas Blennerhassett | later of Churchtown | College, Clitheroe, | (Matric. 1890 BA1895); Park Gardens, London 4th Baronet (F 02); the Magill family still own Churchtown and have created | of Caherine (who | House, Knockane, | Lancashire (1856-59?) | of London; 1926; Beaufort Golf Club in the magnificent grounds, overlooking the lakes | was this Thomas ?), | Beaufort, near | (RC independent | Owned 9,000 acres of 13 Upper Berkeley St. and mountains of Killarney | | fought a duel at Tralee | Killarney | boarding school of | in Co.Kerry; London 1927; of Upper | | | with John O'Connell, | / | the Jesuits) | Member of Wellington Hartfield, BLENNERVILLE WINDMILL : | | of Grenagh (1778-1853) | had a shooting lodge | / | & Savile Clubs, London / Sir Rowland Blennerhassett developed the village and port of Blennerville, | younger brother of | in McGillicuddy's | Christ Church, Oxford | / Engineer; building both the quay and windmill; The windmill, 60ft high x 25ft dia., ran | Daniel O'Connell, | Reeks mountains; | (entered 1859 but left | Entered the Indian member of the Traveller's successfully for several years, in 1802 producing 5 tonnes of flour weekly; | "The Liberator" (p.K 32) | probably identical | without a degree) | Civil Service 4.11.1895, Club, London It was first leased to Sir Rowland's son William Blennerhassett (F 14), | / | with "Arthur BH Jr. | and Christs College, | posted to the Central / then c1804 sold jointly to William's father-in-law, Richard Blennerhassett | Following argument | of Churchtown" | Cambridge | Provinces Commission; served in the RN of Ballymacprior Lodge, Killorglin (F 33), and Richard Chute of | over politics, John | who held a game | (Matric. Easter 1859); | Assistant Commissioner during WWII Chute Hall, (F 11); | O'Connell entered the | certificate or licence | Louvain University | from 1908 at Nagpur, as Lt. R.N.V.R. By 1856 the mill was in ruins; later restored to a working state but finally | Billiard Room in | for killing game 1821; | (Dr of Political & | Wardha, Saugor, Damoh, d.25.5.1940, KIA by closed in 1880s; by 1896 again a ruin; In 1900 the cap blew off in a storm | Tralee and accosted | he & son Rowland | Administrative Scien. | Jubbulpore, Raipur, bombing during the | | Richard BH in terms | BH held lands at | (distinction); Royal | Seoni and Yeotmal evacuation of B.E.F. The mill was restored in 1982/4 under direction of John Griffin of Tralee | which induced him to | Kilgobnet & Tullig, | Univ.of Ireland (LL.D) | / Force from Dunkerque, (see also the "Jeanie Johnston" projec, F 04); Declared open by the | demand a meeting; | Knockane, Co.Kerry | Univ. of Munich 1864; | Under-Secretary to the while serving on HMS Taoiseach, ; It opened as a working flour mill and tourist | The duel was fought | [GV Kerry 1852] | also studied at Berlin | Chief Commissioner in "Greyhound", on day attraction in 1989, the largest windmill in Ireland and one of the largest | on 18.1.1813 at | / | / | Revenue Department; of son Adrian's birth; in Europe, appearing in "Guinness Book of Records" | Tralee, with pistols; | Commanded a Co. | Political writer on | Financial and Revenue "Greyhound" (H05) | "...Mr.BH fired first | of the Kerry Militia | foreign affairs; MP; | Secretary; Chief Sec. was G-class destroyer Displayed on a wall just inside the building past the windmill ticket desk | and was immediately | until his death 1849; | Linguist; well known | to Chief Commissioner, launched 1935 is a large and beautifully illustrated Blennerhassett family tree chart, | returned by Mr.O'C. | High Sheriff Kerry | Irish patriot & | Central Provinces from / framed and glazed, made in 1991 by local historian Frank Blennerhassett | Neither shot took | 1820 (not 1821, | educationalist [DNB] | 22.10.1914 (date on head bur. St.James's of Oakpark, Tralee (p.G 7, p.G 69); Frank based this on a 1968 Blennerhassett | effect. Mr BH fired | that was Arthur BH | / | stone - [BP] has 1912); Cemetery, Dover, family tree drawn by myself (BJ) as my first attempt at mappping the | his second. The ball | of Ballyseedy) | Reserve Lt. 5th Batt- | JP Central Provinces (row E joint grave 3) principal lines of the family, using standard reference works then available | entered Mr O'Connell's | / | alion Royal Munster | / / & before new research had been done; to this Frank added the illustrations | mouth, knocking out | d.22.4.1849 | Fusiliers 5.7.1887 | the "Sir Arthur HMS "Greyhound" and some data on his own (Gortatlea) & the Blennerville branches; | two teeth & severely | (FOSTER & LODGE | [London Gazette | Blennerhassett Silver later sunk by dive Please be aware that my original tree (from which Frank's was taken) did | injuring his lower | Feb.1849 in error) | 5.7.1887] | Medals" were awarded bombers in the Med. contain errors and these errors remain in the wall chart at the Windmill | jaw and lodged in the | / | [TIMES 6.7.1887] | annually to seven north of Crete 1941 | | back of his neck..." | m.26.7.1826 | / | outstanding students / BLENNERVILLE QUAY : | / | Sarah Mahony of | JP sitting at Tralee | at Nagpur University / Sir Rowland Blennerhassett was responsible for building Blennerville | [TIMES 28.1.1813] | Blennerville (RC), | Quarter Sessions 1862 | (still awarded in 1938) m.2nd 2.7.1938 (RC) Quay, which still exists but in 2010 remains sadly neglected for such an | ["Limerick Chronicle" | d.10/11.7.1866 at | High Sheriff Co.Kerry | / St.James's, Spanish historic site for teh people of Kerry. In the windmill outbuildings is an | 23.1.1813 vol.XLVII] | Annagarry House, | 1864-6; DL Kerry 1899; | d.28.1.1915 Camp Yeotmal, Place, London; exhibition on emigration from Kerry, Blennerville Quay being an important | ["Limerick Evening | Co.Kerry | JP Co.Kerry 1899; | Central Provinces; said Gwenfra Mary departure place for emigrants toNorth America, particularly Quebec, | Post" 30.1.1813] | [Illustrated London | Irish PC 1905; | to have been murdered Harington-Morgan New York & Baltimore, in the early & mid 19th Century; | / | News 4.8.1866] | Member of Brook's, | (headstone inscription [IT 4.7.1938]; They were urged on by the bellman, Paddy Spatter of Blennerville, | NOTE: Another | [GM Sept 1866] | St.James', | and other sources have b.c1910; calling people about to sail on "Jeanie Johnston" and other emigrant | Blennerhassett | / | Athenaeum & Kildare | 28th but [BP] has 29th) of Cavendish sailing ships by ringing his bell in the market square & chanting : | O'Connell duel was | / | Street (Dublin) clubs | bur. Tiger Gap Cemetery, Square, London 1938 "Let all who are going on the Americay line | fought 30.11.1832 | d. of John Mahony | / | Nagpur District, C.P. / be down to the windmill in ten minutes time, | between Arthur BH | of Blennerville, | of Churchdown Hse, | Will pr.23.4.1915 London during WWII until 1944 Some people laughing & some people crying | of Ballyseedy | Co.Kerry and | Knockane, Beaufort | / she resided with their *** LINE MISSING HERE *** | (1799-1843) and | Mary | nr Killarney, Co.Kerry | a street in Jubbulpore, young son in USA; / ding-dong-bell ! " | Maurice O'Connell | / | which with its estate | north of Nagpur in the with her son she sailed Paddy Spatter's bell is displayed in the exhibition, with a variant of this verse | of | NOTE: | he sold c1870 to | Central Provinces New York-Liverpool on | (1803-53), eldest | John Mahony was | the Magill family | (now Jabalpur in State Cunard White Star Line NOTE: On p.BCL 7 is a note on the philantrapist Baroness | son of Dan O'Connell | a brother of | (who remain there) | of Madhya Pradesh) is SS "Mauretania", Burdett-Coutts of London, who gave large-scale help to the South- | "the Liberator" | Kean Mahony | & moved to London | named Blennerhassett; arriving 22.5.1944 F 03 west of Ireland during the great famine | | (p.K 32, also p.B 07) | (a.k.a. Mahany), | / | this street is located / F 04 | | | | the father of | / | in the Traffic Lanes area, / TRALEE SHIP CANAL : | | | Rowland (Roland) | Held 8393 acres in | close to Allahabad bank; on arrival they lived at Blennerville was the port for Tralee until 1846 when "Tralee Ship Canal" | | Frederick | Kerry 1873-86 (gross | it may have been named Cartnagrenach White linking Blennerville with Tralee opened after 18 years of building; | | Blennerhassett | annual value £2145); | for Sir Arthur BH or for Houses, Argyll, this canal enabled Tralee to take trade from Blennerville and effectively | | Mahany (spelt thus) | had land at Kilbane, | William Blennerhassett Scotland 1944 ended the use of Blennerville Quay | | | (1864-1937) | Ballymacelligott | (b.1845 Dorset), a High after the war returned to | | | | of Buffalo, NY, USA | / | Court Judge in Central Upper Hartfield, Sussex; Ven. Arthur Blennerhassett Rowan DD (p.R 03 p.B 05 p.K 45) Archdeacon | | and New York City | Moderate Liberal | Provinces India (p.B 12) d.21.12.1956 of , was chairman of "Tralee Harbour Commission" responsible | | (32rn district) | (Whig) MP | / Basle, Switzerland for building the Canal; c1846 a John Blennerhassett (which one?) was | | (see p.BM 1) | of Galway 1865-74; | / / involved with the building of "Mulgrave Bridge" over the canal; | | / | contested Co. Kerry | m.12.7.1899 at Passau Sir Marmaduke Abandoned for many years, the canal has been dredged & restored to | | Sarah m.2nd to | 1874; | Nieder Bayern, Germany; Blennerhassett had provide berthing for a variety of small craft | | Frederick Randall of | Home Rule MP for | Mary Frances von Aretin m.1st 20.12.1926 (RC) | | | | Highbury; Solicitor; | Co.Kerry 1880-85; | b.1876 d.9.9.1950 Church of the Oratory, "JEANIE JOHNSTON" 1847-1858 : | | | in two ceremonies | contested the Harbour | of Rue de Beaumont, Kensington, London Richard Blennerhassett, MD (p.K 49) was ship's doctor on board the | | / | Division of Dublin | Geneva Switzerland 1938 / "Jeanie Johnston" for four years from 1848; she is the best known of | | m.11.5.1850 (C.o.E.) | 1885 (defeated) | / Winifred "Win" Mary many emigrant ships that sailed from Blennerville to Canada & USA; | | St.James' Church, | / | Interpreter/Translator McFarlane Carpenter Built at Quebec City in 1847 as a cargo ship by Canadian shipwright | | Sussex Gardens, | In 1881 as an MP he | for "League of Nations" (alias Wynne Mary John Munn, she was sold the same year to Nicholas Donovan of Tralee | | London | had London lodgings | Documents Service; of Seaton-Roberts); merchants John Donovan & Sons; Intended to transport timber from | | / | at 3 St. James' Place, | of 113 Dorset House, of South Australia; Canada to Ireland, she was a triple masted barque built of oak & pine, | | m.16.5.1850 (RC) | Westminster; also of | Gloucester Place, London b.26.7.1897 Strathalbyn, 123ft long, 408 tons (700 tons displacement) | | | St.George's Catholic | 31 Curzon St. 1876-81 | 1938; also of the "Forum South Australia; | | | | Cathedral Southwark | & 19 Bolton St. 1885 | Club" 1938; only dau. of (m. anulled 25.5.1927; "Jeanie Johnston" first sailed from Blennerville for Quebec 24.4.1848 | | London | / | Baron Ludwig von Aretin, her 2nd marriage) carrying 200 passangers & crew of 17; she made at least 16 voyages | | | d.22.3.1909 at 54 | of Haidenburg, Barvaria, / from Blennerville to Quebec, Baltimore or New York during 1848-55, | | | Rutland Gate, London | & Mary Louise Howard she is said to have the principal destination being Quebec; on return voyages she carried | | | (his daughter's home); | d.1930s in England, timber & foodstuffs to Ireland; She transported several thousand | | | bur. in churchyard | in a car accident, emigrants from Blennerville to Quebec in Canada and to Baltimore & | | | of Downside RC | but record not found New York in the USA; She had a remarkable safety record, never losing | | | church, at the gate | / a passenger or crew member to disease or to the sea; | | | to Downside Abbey | Winifred was the She was sold in 1856 and sank in mid-Atlantic on 31.10.1858 carrying | | | and School, Wiltshire | dau. of Colin Dawson timber from Quebec to Hull; the crew were all saved | | | obit. | McFarlane Jr (wrongly | | | | | [TIMES 24.3.1909]; | named Col. Duncan A full scale replica of "Jeanie Johnston" was built at Blennerville 1996-99, | | | portrait in [Illustrated | McFarlane on her 1926 then moved to harbour in 2000 to be fitted out in preparation for | | | London News" 1909] | marriage certificate) her maiden voyage in Spring 2001; | | | | / | and Maud Mary Evans, She sailed to Irish & British ports before crossing the Atlantic to Canada | | NOTE: >-----> | m.9.6.1870 Munich | both b. South Australia; & USA, calling at eastern seaboard ports; The voyage was planned to | | her name is | Countess Charlotte | / mark both the Millennium & 150th anniversary of the mass emigration | | sometimes written | Julia von Leyden, | Winn had a brother, from Ireland that accompanied and followed the great Irish famine, caused | | de Layden, e.g. when | (Lady Blennerhassett) | Doug McFarlane by failure of the potato crop in 1845-8; | | | publishing in French, | b.19.2.1843 Munich, | of South Australia; | | | | or in England during | Germany; | this was Winifred's John Griffin of Tralee was Secretary & driving force for the project; | | WWI when wising | only dau. of Count | 2nd marriage, she m.1st Ann Martin was site administrator during construction; | | not to emphasise the | Karl Joseph August | Mitcham Military Camp, Helen O'Carroll was the project historian & is now curator of the | | German connection | Graf von Leyden | South Australia, to Co.Kerry Museum at Ashe Hall, Tralee; | | | (e.g. it appears as | zu Ainhoffen (1806-76) | (Vere) Collis Nugent the Ship's Master was initially Capt. Michael Forward, later | | de Layden on the | of Barvaria, Germany | Carpenter of Australia, | | | | grave of her eldest | and Franziska Weling | issue 3 children: | | | | son who died in | von Edler (1817-1898) | 1. Betty Margaret C. | | | | India 1915) | / | (d.2005 Australia) | | | | | privately educated at | 2. Jack Carpenter | | | | | the monastery of | 3. Robert Carpenter | | | | | Blumenthal, near | | | | | | Aachren, for 3years; | | | | | | edu. University of | | | | | | Munich (Ph.D.) where | | | | | | taught by Ignaz von | | | | | | Dollinger (1799-1890) | | | | | | "...the first writer of | | | | | | Germany..." | | | | | | / | | | | | | Lady-in-waiting to, | | | | | | and intimate friend of, | | | | | | the Empress Frederick | | | | | | of Germany; | | | | | | historian, biographer | | | | | | & essayist; prominent | | | | | | Anglo-German Roman | | | | | | Catholic (see F 02 | | | | | | for a list of her works) | F 04 | | | | | / | F 05 | | | | | / | | | | | | of 6 Leopoldstrasse, |>>Lady (Mary) Charlotte >>>>>>>>>>|>>Baron Henry Roland Kasimir d'Erlanger; b.1895 Woodbridge, Hampshire; Banker; | | | | | Munich (as widow); | Frances Roselyne | d.2.1.1937 killed flying from Paris to Italy when his plane hit a tree, as he attempted a forced landing | | | | | Her portrait is in | Blennerhassett | in a field at Lombasco, near Castel Campo in the Giudicaric Alps, Trento region [TIMES 4.1.1937] | | | | | "Kunstler-Monoc" | (named as above at | (but [ADB] has Caroline's son "twice wounded in WWI and KIA in Libya 1941 - something wrong here) | | | | | by Knackfuss, 1898 | birth but known as: | / | | | | | / | Marie Carola "Caroline" | m.Apr-Jun.1921 Kensington, London (no issue) | | | | | d.10.1.1917 Munich | Franziska Roselyne | Margarita Covarubias; of Mexico; dau. of Mexican minister at London | | | | | (not 11.2.1917) | Blennerhassett | | | | | | [Frankfurter Zeitung | CBE (1926) DG St. John | | | | | | Jan.1917] | / |>>Baroness >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | | | | | [TIMES 14.2.1917]; | b.5.1.1876 Mayfair, (Marie Mathilde) | | | | | | bur. | London; Charlotte d'Erlanger | | | | | | / | of 31 Curzon Street, b.1897 d.1980 | | | | | | admin.2.7.1917 | Mayfair, London; / | | | | | | London [PPR] | of 54 Rutland Gate, m.28.11.1922 | | | | | | | London; Brompton Oratory | | | | | | | of 19 St James' Square, (RC), London; | | | | | | | London 1911; Roderick Peter | | | | | | | charity & civic worker George Denman |>> | | | | | | in S.Australia & UK [TIMES 24.10.1922, | | | | | | / 10.11.1922, 29.11.22] | | | | | | contributed an essay to b.1894; of London; | | | | | | ["A Book of South of the family of | | | | | | Australia" Adelaide the Barons Denman; | | | | | | 1936]; pub. a memoir d.1941 | | | | | | ["The Past Revisited", | | | | | | London 1953] | | | | | | / | | | | | | following the funeral of her brother Arthur (d.28.1.1915) | | | | | | in India, she travelled to India, returning under | | | | | | her maiden name "Lady Mary Blennerhassett" | | | | | | (of 22 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW) sailing Bombay | | | | | | to Plymouth on P&O line SS "Persia", arriving 12.3.1915 | | | | | | / | | | | | | d.29.6.1963 St Merryn, Cornwall [ADB]; photographic | | | | | | portrait by (Henry) Walter Barnett at [NPG Ref. x45422] | | | | | | / | | | | | | m.1st 28.11.1894 Munich by the Archbishop of Munich; | | | | | | Baron Raphael Sidell d'Erlanger of Paris; b.1865; | | | | | | Professor of biology, who built his own laboratories | | | | | | at the University of Heidelberg; d.?.11.1897; | | | | | | son of Baron (Friedrich) Emile | | | | | | d'Erlanger (formerly Erlanger) of Frankfurt; Banker; | | | | | | and 2nd wife Marguérite Mathilde Sidell (Slidell?) | | | | | | / | | | | | | m.2nd 26.8.1913 Royal Barvarian Chapel, London; | | | | | | Lt-Col. Sir Henry Lionel Galway, | | | | | | KCMG (1910), DSO, Despatches (MID) several times; | | | | | | b.25.9.1859 | | | | | | (formerly named Gallwey, he and his sister Julia Mary | | | | | | changed their name by deed poll on same day in 1911); | | | | | | / | | | | | | joined 30th Regt. 1878; | | | | | | Vice-Consulate-General Oil Rivers Protectorate 1891; | | | | | | concluded treaty with the King of Benin 1892; | | | | | | took part in operations against Brass chiefs 1895 and | | | | | | in Aro expedition 1901-02 (mentioned in despatches); | | | | | | Governor of St Helena 1902-1011; | | | | | | Governor of the Gambia 1911-1914; | | | | | | Governor of South Australia 1914-1920 | | | | | | / | | | | | | d.17.6.1949 (dsp), obit in [TIMES 20.6.1949 p.7] [ADB]; | | | | | | ["Gallway of Killarney" pp.71-75 in | | | | | | The Galweys of Munster by Sir Henry Blackall] in | | | | | | [Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological | | | | | | Society, vol.74 No.219 1969, pp.72-73] | | | | | | | | | | | |>>Paul Charles William | | | | | | Marmaduke Rowland (or R. M.) Blennerhassett | | | | | | b.4.12.1877; | | | | | | d.25.8.1878 ["The Cork Examiner" 13.9.1878] F 05 | | | | | | F 06 | | | | | | | | | | | |>>Capt. (Rowland Lewis) >>>>>|>>Maj. (Casimir Paul >>>>>>|>> | | | | | William "Willie" Paul Francis) Rowland | | | | | | Sebastian Blennerhassett Blennerhassett |>> | | | | | DSO, OBE, despatches; / | | | | | (he used the initials he used the initials R.P.F.C. Blennerhassett, placing Rowland first; | | | | | W.L.R.P.S. B'hassett, b.25.8.1911 at 9 William St., Lowndes Square, London; of London & of , Sussex; | | | | | placing William first, as a boy in 1923 started a family scrapbook, news cuttings etc (volume now owned by Bill Jehan); | | | | | and published as acted with "The Cockyolly Players" at Webber-Douglas Theatre, London 1934 | | | | | "W.L. Blennerhassett") / | | | | | b.6.10.1882 St.George Civil Servant, Superintendant of Customs 1938; Assistant Comptroller of Customs, Nigeria; | | | | | Hanover Sq., London sailed on MV "Abosso" from Liverpool to Lagos, Nigeria, departing 31.10.1938; | | | | | / served WWII in Burma as Maj. in the Nigeria Regt.; decorated; of Nigeria Customs Preventice Service 1946; | | | | | of 44 Brunswick as Collector of Customs was resident in Nigeria when sailed on MV "Thomas Holt" from Lagos to Hull, | | | | | Gardens, London W.; UK arriving 26.1.1948; of 105 Campden Hill Road, London 1938; | | | | | mem. of the Wellington of 12 St.Alban's Mansion, Kensington Court Place, London 1949-1951; of 3 Cornwall Gardens, London 1952; | | | | | & Savile Clubs, London worked for Childs Bank, London; wrote letter to [TIMES 20.10.1951]; | | | | | stockbroker; d.19.3.1993 Haywards Heath, Uckfield, West Sussex | | | | | gave up his profession / | | | | | during WWI to join the m.4.6.1945 (RC) Brompton Oratory, Kensington, London; Elizabeth Charlotte Josephine Stapleton | | | | | intelligence corps, [BP, Duke of Norfolk]; Social Secretary, "Lady of the Manor of Bishops Stortford"; | | | | | serving as secret agent b.28.2.1907; d.29.3.1995 Brighton, Sussex; [BP] has her d.1996 in error; | | | | | with MI1(C) and SIS she sailed from Tiko, Cameroon, West Africa (adjoining Nigeria) to Garston, Liverpool, | | | | | in France and elsewhere on Elders & Fyffes Line SS "Reventazon", arriving 3.4.1949 | | | | | / | | | | | / her 2nd marriage; she m.1st 2.8.1941 Maj. Francis John Angus Skeet | | | | | / d.9.2.1943 (dsp); of Stortford Park, Herts; Royal Dublin Fusiliers | | | | | / | | | | | / | who was ROLAND P. BLENNERHASSETT? served as 2nd Lt. (temporary) in MI1(C), Military Intelligence Corps (SIS - Security Intelligence Service) 1915-1918 in France and elsewhere | an unknown "Roland P. Blennerhasset" (listed in ship's passenger lists 1921-22 as of British nationality; b.c1880 Sheffield England; NOTE: MI1(C) or MI1C was the British War Office section dealing with secret agents and liason with bureau founded by Sir Mansfield | unmarried; non-immigrant alien in the USA; "accountant/paymaster; resident of Bermuda & of Providence Rhode Island USA ), Cumming, the original "C"; ["The Quest for C: Sir Mansfield Cumming and the founding of the Secret Service" by Alan Judd, 2000] | sailed from Hamilton, Bermuda to New York in June 1920 on SS "Fort Hamilton", again in June 1921 & Sept. 1922 on SS "Fort Victoria"; relates that "...at one period the War Office announced that it had subsumed Cumming's part of the bureau into MI1(C) and this was | his address: Narrangansett Hotel, Dorrence Street Providence, Rhode Island, USA (where he had a friend Mr. E.B. Laderer) what the Secret Service would henseforth be known as..." | / | | | | / | no Roland P. Blennerhassett was born in Sheffield, England at any date; | | he was mentioned in despatches ["London Gazette" 17.1.1915, p.1651] [TIMES 26.4.1915 & 18.2.1915 p.5]; retiring at rank of Captain | there were two men named "Rowland Ponsonby Blenner-hassett", one a well known Irish MP b.1850 at Kells, Co.Kerry (p.F 13), 1920, he continued his work with SIS until at least June 1921; officially "his abilities as a linguist were known to the foreign office, which | the other of humbler origins b.1879 London (p.BCL 04), but their known details do not agree with this Roland P. Blennerhassett ; following the war employed him on financial business in northern Russia and Finland in 1919"; following this he was British delegate to | in 1921-22 William Lewis Blennerhassett may have continued to be employed on intelligence work, so I wonder could it perhaps be him League of Nations, continuing to work for the foreign office as Acting British Vice-Consul at Kovno, Kaunas, Lithuania until June 1921; | travelling under an alias?; his travel to the USA could perhaps be regarding his work with the League of Nations, but why a false name? His obit. [TIMES 26.5.1958, p.8] states that he "occupied a position in Lituania on behalf of the British Government" but this was | | | | | certainly SIS work, vice-consul being the position most used as cover for SIS staff overseas; in Foreign Office file [NA FO 511/16] is a | | | | | document written by W. L. Blennerhassett at Kovno 4.2.1921; | | | | | awarded the DSO 1919 ([BP] has 1920), OBE (1920) and Croix de Guerre (France) | | | | | / | | | | | William Lewis Blennerhassett (named in error "Charles Blennerhassett") is mentioned in ["The Zinoviev Letter" ch.2 "The Letter", p.57] | | | | | in connection with the "Zinoviev Letter", a controversial document published by the British press in 1924, allegedly sent from the | | | | | Communist International in Moscow to the Communist Party of Great Britain; the letter, which later investigation suggested was a forgery, | | | | | purported to be a directive from Moscow calling for intensified communist agitation in Britain and helped ensure the fall of the Labour | | | | | government of Ramsay MacDonald in the October 1924 election; the letter took its name from Bolshevik revolutionary Grigory Zinoviev, | | | | | its purported author | | | | | / | | | | | as "W.L. Blennerhassett" he wrote for ["The National Review" June 1918] ["Blackwood's Review" Dec.1918] [Jan.1919 & Feb.1919]; | | | | | he also wrote "The Gospel According to Karl Marx" pub. in ["The Cornhill" magazine Dec.1919] and | | | | | and "A Tragedy of Error: being a contribution towards 'The truth about 1918' " pub. in ["The Cornhill" magazine Dec.1920]; | | | | | he worked his experience of revolutionary Russia into material for two novels, "The Red Shadow" (pub. Duckworth 1922) & "The Dreamer" | | | | | (pub. Chapman & Dodd 1922), which were "...distinguished less for style or narrative than for their precise descriptions of scenes and | | | | | events which the author had witnessed..."; | | | | | Contributed to "Encyclopaedia Britannica" on Finland history [EB vol.9 pp251-253 of 1962 edition] | | | | | and Lapland History [EB vol.13 p.718 of 1962 ed.] both under the initials "W.L.B."; he wrote letter on Russia to [TIMES 29.6.1920 p.12] | | | | | / | | | | | In 1923 returned to London Stock exchange where he was "a prosperous & highly respected member" for 30 years, with offices at | | | | | Warnford Court, Throgmorton Street, London | | | | | / | | | | | In 1933 he sued Novelty Sales Services Ltd & the London "Evening Standard" newspaper for libel, over an advertisement in the Evening | | | | | Standard of 26.5.1932, p.10, despite the E.S. having published an apology on 27.5.1932; The advertisement featured "H. Blennerhassett of | | | | | Throgmorton Street, London"; initially a prosperous City man, after learning to use the Yo-Yo, abandoning other interests to obsessive | | | | | use of his new toy; Counsel for the defendants was Sir Patrick Hastings "…in mocking mood…" & the case was stopped by judge for | | | | | lack of evidence, he finding no case to go to the jury; See ["The Stockbroker & the Yo-Yo" in "Cases in Court" by Sir Patrick Hastings]; | | | | | ["Libel & Slander" 1949 (ch.2, pp.22-106)], [Hatred, Ridicule or Contempt: A Book of Libel Cases by Joseph Dean, 1955, ch.10 | | | | | "Blennerhassett v. Novelty Sales Services Ltd. 1933", pp.134-138]; | | | | | Reported in [TIMES 19.5.1933] ["Blennerhassett at Bay", Time magazine 19.6.1933] | | | | | / F 06 | | | | | / F 07 | | | | | / | | | | | d.24.5.1958 Innsbruck, Austria; obit. in [TIMES 26.5.1958, p.8] | | | | | / | | | | | m.14.7.1910 Brompton Oratory (RC) London; | | | | | (Olivia) Frances Grove [TIMES 15.7.1910, p13]; d.2.1.1953; | | | | | dau. of Sir Thomas Fraser Grove, 1st Baronet; of Ferne, Wiltshire | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ROSANNA BLENNERHASSETT (Rose Blennerhassett) | | PIONEER NURSE |>>Sister Rosanna "Rose" Annie Blennerhassett (a.k.a. Sister Aimée, a.k.a. Sister Rose); | | | | in RHODESIA b.12.5.1843 at Paris, France; bapt.17.7.1843 (RC) Sainte-Madeleine, Paris (her name is recorded as "Rosalie Blennerhassett", but this probably transcription error; | | | | (now ZIMBABWE) Rosanna Blennerhassett, daughter of a Baronet and from a prominant Irish Roman Catholic family, was born in Paris, France, raised in Ireland, educated in England | | | | / | | | | Her father, Sir Arthur Blennerhassett, 3rd Baronet of Blennerville, Co.Kerry, d.1849 when Rose was aged 5 years. Her parents lived at Churchtown House, | | | | Knockane, Beaufort, Co.Kerry, and there she spent her childhood; In 1851, aged 7 years, she boarded at a RC girls school, The Lodge Convent, Silver Street, | | | | Taunton, Somerset; She had one sibling, her brother Rowland M. Blennerhassett (b.1839 d.1909), who succeeded to the baronetcy in 1849 at the age of 9 years | | | | / | | | | Their mother Sarah Blennerhassett, nee Mahony, remarried at London in 1850 (She was aunt of Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany, b.1864 d.1937, | | | | an American poet and Republican politican who represented New York in U.S. Congress at Washington DC 1895-99); The Churchtown estate in | | | | Co.Kerry was sold out of the family in 1870 by her brother, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Bart. (F 02) who had moved to London & entered politics | | | | / | | | | Shortly before 25.3.1868 Rose became engaged to the Right-Hon. Sir Francis Richard Plunkett PC, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (b.3-Feb-1835 Corbalton Hall, Co.Meath, | | | | Ireland; d.28-Feb-1907), 6th and youngest son of Arthur James Plunkett, 9th Earl of Fingall, of a prominant RC family, but the marriage did not take place. | | | | The engagement was reported in ["London Express" 25.3.1868, p.2], ["London Magnet" 30.3.1868, p.4] and ["Guardian" 1.4.1868]; | | | | F.R.Plunkett was a diplomat, at the time of his engagement to Rose in 1868 attached to the British legation at Berlin; | | | | 1873-76 Secretary of the British Legation in Tokyo; then Diplomatic Secretary at St Petersburg, Russia; Constantinople, Turkey and Paris, France; | | | | British Minister to Belgium; 1884-1887 British Minister at Tokyo, Japan; while at Tokyo made Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael & St George; | | | | 1900-1905 British Ambassador to Austria-Hungary at Vienna; Privy Council (PC) 1901; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) 1901; | | | | After his engagement to Rose Blennerhassett had ended Plunkett married 22-Aug-1870 to Mary "May" Tevis Morgan (b.?.12.1850 d.20-Jan-1924), | | | | daughter of Charles Wain Morgan of Philadelphia, USA, and had issue Norah Plunkett (b.19.6.1871; m24.8.1891 Count A. Fersen Gyldenscolphe of Sweden) | | | | and Helen Plunkett (b.25.4.1875); He retired 1905 and d.1907 at Paris | | | | / | | | | Following this terminated engagement Rose did not marry. She trained in London as a nurse (medical, surgical & midwifery) and in 1888 at the age of 44 | | | | was superintendent nurse at Cardiff Union Hospital in Wales. Hearing of the typhoid epidemic at Johannesburg in the Transvaal, South Africa; | | | | in the spring of 1890 she embarked for Durban, Natal, South Africa on the Union Line ship "Spartan", as a Sister of the Red Cross. | | | | On board she met a younger English Red Cross nurse, Lucy Sleeman (b.c1867 d.1905), they becoming good friends and subsequently working together for | | | | many years; Lucy may perhaps be identical with Lucy Anna Louisa Sleeman, b.16-Apr-1865 Whitchurch, nr Tavistock, Co.Devon, dau. of Richard Sleeman | | | | & Annette Shuttleworth ; On their arrival at Durban in 1890 the pair first travelled to Johannesburg, where they joined an Anglican nursing sisterhood | | | | "The Order of St.Michael and All Angels", as Sister Aimée (a.k.a. Sister Rose) and Sister Lucy. They resided at the "nurses' home", the foundation | | | | stone of Johannesburg General Hospital being laid that same year; At Johannesburg Rose contributed "Graphic Sketches of Mining Life" to | | | | "The Diggers' News" ["Bush Advocate" New Zealand 3-Jan-1891, p.7 "The Ladies Column"]. | | | | / | | | | Moving on to Kimberley in Cape Colony (later to be renamed Cape Province), they nursed for 6 months at Kimberley (Carnarvon) Hospital under Sister Henrietta | | | | Stockdale who was matron from 1886-1894. Rose was employed as night superintendant; At Kimberly the two friends were persuaded by Dr George Wyndham | | | | Hamilton Knight-Bruce DD, Anglican Bishop of Bloomfontein and the new Bishop of Mashonaland, to undertake the establishment of a hospital for the mission | | | | he had started at Manica, in the south-east of the new British colony of Mashonaland (later to be named Rhodesia) then ravaged by fever; | | | | NOTE: Manica is now a province of Zimbabwe | | | | / | | | | In the spring of 1891, in the company of a third nursing Sister, Beryl Welby, they sailed from Durban on the steamer "Tyrian", to the Portuguese port of Beria, | | | | arriving 26th May; Circumstances forced them to stay on board the "Tyrian" while it sailed on to Mozambique and Quilimane, returning them to Pungwe Bay, | | | | off Beria, on the 12th June; at 4am the following morning they set off on a small thames launch named "Shark" to travel 70 miles up the Pungwe River as far as | | | | Mapanda (Rose calls this M'panda's), a journey that took them over 16 hours in cramped conditions, sitting "...close against the boiler, with a temperature of | | | | something over 100 in the shade...". | | | | NOTE: Beria was then a small town on the Portugese East Coast but had mainly British inhabitants - later it became part of the Portuguese colony Mozambique, | | | | but in those days "Mozambique" was not a colony but the name of a town, located on a small island. | | | | / | | | | On arrival at Mapanda they found "...there were about forty white people there, miners and traders, and a more unhealthy pioneer settlement one could not | | | | hope to find - set down, as it was, beside a stagnant pool... Our hands were soon full of nursing, and all the time we were waiting and longing for carriers to | | | | take us up to Umtali, but they never came...". There they were helped by a carpenter "...one Wilkins, an excellent but doddering old person, who said that he | | | | had been with Dr Livingstone and told many anecdotes of the great explorer..." who recruited carriers for them. The Bishop, Dr. Knight-Bruce, had before their | | | | arrival gone ahead in a wagon to Umtali, their destination in Manicaland, and sent letters back requesting the nurses bring him some stores; | | | | No wagons being available, the three nurses decided to walk to Umtali, starting out from Mapanda on foot 30-Jun-1891 accompanied by Dr. Doyle Granville | | | | and Mr Sutton (son of the archdeacon of Lewes) and, initially, 34 carriers for the stores and baggage. The party braved swamps, crocodile-infested rivers, | | | | lion country, mountain ranges and the Pungwe flats to walk 190 miles (140 as the crow flies) inland to Penhalonga, near Umtali. | | | | / | | | | On 30th June they started out on foot, braving swamps, crocodile-infested rivers, lion country, mountain ranges and the Pungwe flats to walk | | | | the final 190 miles (140 miles as the crow flies) inland to Penhalonga, near Umtali in Manica (a district of Mashonaland, a short distance inside | | | | the present Zimbabwe border). Their nine porters quickly deserted them but they were accompanied by a servant "...one Wilkins, an excellent | | | | but doddering old person, who said that he had been with Dr Livingstone and told many anecdotes of the great explorer...". These were the | | | | first European women to enter Africa from the East Coast; Lucy suffered a severe attack of malaria during the journey, but immediately | | | | following their arrival on at Penhalonga, on 14-Jul-1891, the nurses took possession of four round beehive-shaped huts with mud walls and | | | | earthen floors, and within a day had set up, by a fig tree on Sabi Ophir Hill, what despite great difficulties was to become a successful hospital F 07 | | | | / F 08 | | | | / | | | | UMTALI (now named Mutare) - "Fort Umtali" in 1891 consisted of a few huts and a police camp not far from Penhalonga. In December 1891 | | | | that site was abandoned, relocating to "New Umtali" 6 miles south, the hospital moving with it, to a new building capable of taking 30 patients. | | | | Rose later described this move, with some humour, in the book "Adventures in Mashonaland, by two Hospital Nurses" (see below); | | | | During the 1896/7 rising in Rhodesia the relocated hospital at Umtali functioned as a Military Hospital, described by Elsa Godwin Green | | | | (my g.g.aunt - B.J.) in her "Raiders & Rebels in South Africa" pub. London 1898 [EGG]. An accomplished artist, many of her African paintings | | | | were used to illustrate that book; "The Military Hospital, Umtali", one of her watercolours of the time (signed E.G.G. lower right) appears | | | | opposite p.80; Umtali became the capital of Manicaland, one of the divisions of Rhodesia. After Rhodesia in 1982 formally gained | | | | independence from Britain as Zimbabwe, the capital Salisbury became "Harare" and the town of Umtali was renamed "Mutare" | | | | / | | | | AFTER UMTALI | | | | Four months after their arrival in Manicaland, Beryl Welby married Dr. Lichfield of Umtali hospital (at 4pm on Christmas Eve, 24-Dec-1891) and the pair | | | | moved away (where to?). Rose & Lucy continued working in Manicaland, departing after two years in May 1893. As they were about to leave both | | | | ladies became dangerously ill with fever, but fortunately construction of the Beira to Umtali railway had commenced during their time at Umtali, so on the | | | | return journey they were able to benefit from this for the final 35 miles of the journey. They were replaced at Umtali Hospital by Sister Emily Hewitt (who | | | | later married Herbert Blatch of Massi Kessi) & Sister Mary Saunders (who later married R. Nesbitt), sent by Bishop G.W.H. Knight-Bruce to relieve them. | | | | Emily & Mary appear in the photographs "NURSES' HUTS" and "THE DINING-ROOM HUT" shown above; | | | | From Umtali the two friends returned to England via Capetown in 1893. Following their return an interview, conducted with Rose and Lucy at their hotel, | | | | was published in "The Sketch" magazine, a weekly "journal of art and actuality" ["The Sketch" 20-Sep-1893, p.421] under the title "Nursing Sisters | | | | Aimee and Lucy - A chat with Miss Rose Blennerhassett and Miss Lucy Sleeman"; This was accompanied by a joint photograph, the only such of these | | | | two ladies that I have seen, taken by "J.Weston and Son, Grand Parade, St.Leonards" | | | | / | | | | On 2-Dec-1893 the two ladies again left England, departing Southampton on Union Line ship "Gaul", to nurse at St. Helena. From St. Helena they together | | | | returned to South Africa (when?), to nurse at Capetown. Lucy resided at Kimberley 1897-1902 with her family and Rose appears also to have been resident | | | | in Nov. 1901, when she had a Christmas short story published in "The Diamond Fields Advertiser" of Kimberley | | | | Despite her engagement in 1868 (see above) Rose Blennerhassett did not marry. | | | | She is believed to have died 9-Oct-1907, age 63 - location uncertain but perhaps(?) in South Africa, at Capetown. (where is she buried?) | | | | / | | | | "ADVENTURES IN MASHONALAND" | | | | Before their time in Mashonaland a letter from Rose in South Africa had been published in London [Pall Mall Gazette 21-Aug-1890 & 31-Oct-1890]. | | | | Three of Lucy's long letters from Umtali, dated 23-Jul-1891, 2-Aug-1891, 11-Aug-1891, describing their experiences in to her family at home in England, | | | | were also published in London, having been forwarded to "The Times" by her sister Mary Sleeman [TIMES 28-Dec-1891]; | | | | The publication of these letters no doubt led to suggestions that a book about their experiences be written, this being undertaken by Rose, she compiling | | | | into chapters 4 & 5 ubstantial parts of Lucy's earlier letters home; In these letters, and chapters, Lucy refer to Rose throughout as "Sister Aimée"; | | | | / | | | | The book was published by Macmillan and Co. of London and New York in Nov. 1893 at a price of 8s 6d (reprinted Dec. 1893 & Jan. 1894) under the title | | | | "Adventures in Mashonaland, by two Hospital Nurses, Rose Blennerhassett and Lucy Sleeman", publication being expedited by help from Rose's brother | | | | Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Bart., a member of the Athenaeum. | | | | This work was reviewed in ["Athenaeum" Oct.1893] & [TIMES 20.10.1893]; also published as No.164 of "Macmillan's Colonial Library" 1893; | | | | A facsimile reprint published at Bulawayo, 1969 by "Rhodesiana Reprint Library", Gold Series vol.8; | | | | Quotes from the book appear in article "African Exploration and Travel" in "The Atlantic Monthly" USA (vol.74, issue 444, Oct.1894, pp.559-560); | | | | / | | | | Rose features in "Memoirs of Mashonaland" by G.W.H. Knight-Bruce DD, Bishop of Mashonaland, | | | | and in the Bishop's Journals of the Mashonaland Mission 1888-1892 pub. by the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" | | | | in 1892, is Chapter VI "Miss Blennerhasset's Journal" with her entries for 16th Apr. - Oct. 25th 1891 | | | | Rose is also mentioned in "Great Days" by Sir Frank Johnson and in "Raiders & Rebels in South Africa" 1898 by Elsa Godwin Green 1898 (Bill Jehan's g.g.aunt); | | | | See "South African Literature: a general survey" (p.134) by M. Nathan, Juta, Capetown 1925 & "Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa" 6th ed. 1973 | | | | Rose and Lucy are mentioned in "Experiences of Rhodesia's Pioneer Women", by Jeannie M. Boggie, pp 97-101 and "The World's View", by Nora S. Kane, p.130 ; | | | | / | | | | On 2-Dec-1893 Rose & Lucy once again left Britain, departing Southampton for St.Helena, on the Union Line ship "Gaul", to nurse at St.Helena. | | | | From St.Helena they returned to Kimberley, where in Dec-1897 Lucy Sleeman married an engineer, (Charles) Granville Vines (b.c1871/3 Peterborough); | | | | In 1901 he became an associate member of the IEE and IME, and during the he worked for the army, as a civilian, operating searchlights | | | | as signals to communications with the outside world | | | | / | | | | In 1901 Rose contributed a short story, a Christmas ghost story titled "The Red Marble Tank, by Miss R. A. Blennerhassett", to "The Diamond | | | | Fields Advertiser" of Kimberley, pub. in an "Illustrated Christmas Number", Nov.1901, pp.32-33; Granville Vines d.28-Mar-1902 of Typhoid | | | | (Enteric Fever) at Kimberley, bur.29-Mar-1902 at Kimberley. An obituary appears in the "Journal of the IEE" vol.32 1902-3, p.1157; | | | | NOTE: G.L.Vines (perhaps their child) was b.May-1901, d.12-Mar-1902 of TB, at Kimberley, bur.13-Mar-1902 Kimberley; | | | | Mary Catherine Granville Vines (perhaps their dau.) was b.11-Jun-1899, d.4-Mar-1984; | | | | / | | | | A nurses' "Garden of Rememberance" was planted on Sabi Ophir Hill, centred around a memorial seat into which is set a bronze plaque. Seat | | | | and plaque were erected 1941 by the Rezende mine of Umtali, to mark the 50th anniversary of their journey from Beira on the east african coast, | | | | and their arrival at Umtali to open the first hospital; An embroidered panel, made by Penhalonga Women's Institute, depicts Rose BH, Lucy | | | | Sleeman & Beryl Welby, with patients, at makeshift hospital they founded on Sabi Ophir Hill, Penhalonga 1891; "First Hospital, Penhalonga, | | | | 1891" is one of 42 such panels, each depicting an incident in the history of Rhodesia, together making a 100ft x 17in "National Tapestry"; | | | | These were designed and embroidered on linen over 15 years by members of Women's Institutes of Rhodesia, who presented them to the | | | | nation as a memorial to the country's pioneer women; The panels were displayed, with a copper plaque, in the members' dining room of the | | | | Rhodesian (Zimbabwe) House of Parliament, at Cecil Sq., Salisbury (Harare). Sometime after 1971 the tapestry was moved to the National | | | | Museum & Archives of Zimbabwe, at Bulawayo [RT]; | | | | The nurses' home at "Andrew Fleming Hospital" in Salisbury (Harare) was named "Blennerhassett" in her honour. | | | | / | | | | Rose Blennerhassett d.9.10.1907 (location unknown, perhaps in South Africa) unm. F 08 | | | | / F 09 | | | | / | | | | LUCY SLEEMAN | | | | Lucy Anna Louisa Sleeman was born 20-Mar-1865 at Whitchurch, Tavistock, Devon, youngest daughter of Rev. Richard Sleeman & Annette Shuttleworth. | | | | Her father died while she was a young child and in 1871 her mother, a widow, resided with nine children at 26 Springfield Villa, Crediton, Devon. | | | | Lucy married ?-Dec-1897 at Kimberley, Cape Colony to Charles Granville Vines, known as Granville | | | | / | | | | (Charles) Granville Vines was born 1873 (either at Peterborough, or at Birlingham, near Pershore, Worcestershire); Raised at Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, | | | | where his father was Vicar; Educated Christchurch School, Oxford; Rossall School, Lancashire 18858-9 and the School of Science and Art, Lincoln 1890-94; | | | | A Consulting Engineer, Granville served his apprenticeship with Robey & Co. of Lincoln 1890-1894, attending evening classes at Lincoln School of Science and Art; | | | | Subsequently employed as "Improver" by Willans & Robinson's "Outside Department", working on construction of the City of London Electric Light Company | | | | station at Bankside, Southwark (15 months), House-to-House Lighting Station at West Brompton (4 months) and Hull Corporation Electric Light Station (1 month) | | | | / | | | | Granville Vines "while in delicate health" emigrated to South Africa c1896/7 "for the benefit of his health", residing first at Middelburg, near Johannesburg; | | | | He moved to Kimberley, where in Dec. 1897 he married Lucy Sleeman, then in 1898 to Bulawayo "to take up an appointment in connection with one of the mines" | | | | in the employ of A.L. Golding A.M.I.E.E. of Bulawayo (6 months). That same year he was engineer to Belingwe (in Rhodesia) Consolidated Development Co., | | | | Matabeleland; From the end of 1898 to May 1899 he was employed on construction work at Glen Deep and Jumper's Deep mines, Johannesburg; | | | | From 1-May-1899 he returned to Kimberley as electrical engineer and manager of "Mr T. Reunert's Electrical Department", also local agent for Reunert & Lenz | | | | of Johannesburg, responsible for the installation of "house to house" electric light at Kimberley. On its completion he was elected Borough Electrical Engineer | | | | by Kimberley Town Council. He took over as consulting engineer to the Council from George Labram, designer of the gun "Long Cecil", who was killed in early | | | | February 1900. Granville Vines was an associate member of both the Institution of Electrical Engineers (1901) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers | | | | ["Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers" vol.32 1902-3]; | | | | The Kimberly Municipality City Engineers Dept. have a "Power Station Notebook" by C. Granville Vines, dated 1900 | | | | / | | | | Lucy and her family resided at Kimberley during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 and were present during the Siege of Kimberley (this lasted 124 days, ending | | | | 15-Feb-1900 when the town was relieved by Lt.-Gen. John French); Granville, a civilian, served part-time as private then non-commissioned officer in the Veteran's | | | | Company of the Kimberley Town Guard; During the siege he operated the town's searchlight, sending signals with the light beam, this being Kimberley's only | | | | means of communication with the outside world; For this service he was awarded the Queen's South Africa medal, with "Defence of Kimberley" clasp | | | | / | | | | Granville Vines died of enteric fever (typhoid) at Kimberley Hospital on 28-Mar-1902, buried 29-Mar-1902 at West End Cemetery, Kimberley | | | | (Den 6, Bloc I, Row C, grave 0005, no headstone); | | | | An account of his illness in the Kimberley [Diamond Fields Advertiser" 29-Mar-1902] stated that he "...has done excellent service for the town"; | | | | The same newspaper printed his obituary on 31-Mar-1902, as did the [Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers", vol.32, 1902-3, p.1157]; | | | | His Kimberley obituary tells us "...Mr Vines, though no means strong, devoted himself with great zeal to the interest of the town and his loss will be much felt. | | | | He belonged to the well known English family of the famous mountaineer Mr Stuart Vines..." | | | | / | | | | The younger of their two children, Georgina Lucy Vines (born May-1901 at Kimberley), died 12-Mar-1902 at Kimberley of Tuberculosis; | | | | she was initially buried 13-Mar-1902 at West End Cemetery, Kimberley (Den 6, Bloc E, Row A, grave 20, no headstone) but her body | | | | was subsequently exhumed, to be reinterred with her father who died only two weeks after her (Den 6, Bloc I, Row C, grave 0005, no headstone) | | | | / | | | | Where Lucy and Rose resided from 1902 to 1906 is unknown to me; Lucy, herself in poor health that may have been the legacy of bouts of malaria in Manicaland, | | | | returned to England c1906 with her elder daughter Mary Catherine Granville Vines; | | | | It is suggested Rose Blennerhassett may have returned to England with them, but if this is so she left soon after, as Rose died 9-Oct-1907 and no death record | | | | has been found for her in England; Rose may have perhaps have died in South Africa | | | | / | | | | Lucy Vines died 25-May-1907 at St.Saviour's Hospital, St.Pancras, London, aged 42 years; She is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London | | | | / | | | | "FEVER COUNTRY" by William Higham | | | | William "Bill" Higham, author of "The Hammarskjold Killing" (2007), "Nakada's Touch" (2008) and "The Spiritic" (2013), published by HiMa, | | | | previously penned a film script titled "Fever Country" (c1999), a fictional account closely based on Rose Blennerhassett's "Adventures in Mashonaland, | | | | by Two Hospital Nurses" and other East African works of the same era; | | | | Higham, born in England and raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), was a Rhodes Trustee Prizewinner in English Composition and | | | | freelance photographer during the Rhodesian U.D.I. period; he later settled in Australia, where for some years he was copy editor on News Corp's | | | | "The Australian" newspaper at Sydney, New South Wales; he retired to Kyogie, NSW | | | | / | | | | FREDERICK COURTNEY SELOUS | | | | Rose Blennerhassett was acquainted with , with Frank Johnson (later Sir Frank Johnson) leader of the Pioneer Corps, and with | | | | Frederick Courtney Selous, legendary big game hunter, explorer and scout; It was Selous who led Frank Johnson and the Pioneer Corps into | | | | Mashonaland in 1890; Selous was author of "A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa" (1881), "Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa" (1893) and | | | | "Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia" (1896), but Rose is not mentioned in these; | | | | Selous was the model for Allan Quatermain, hero of the popular East African novels "King Soloman's Mines" (1886) and "Allan Quatermain" (1888) | | | | by Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925); also for the 'Sean Courtney' & 'Zouga Ballantyne' characters of the South African novelist Wilbur Smith; | | | | The "Selous Scouts" were a special forces regiment (a.k.a. Bush Commandos) of the Rhodesian Army that operated during the bush war 1973 - 1980 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |>>Rowland Blennerhassett, RN; Midshipman(?); b.6.11.1795; unm. | | | | raised at Churchtown House, Knockane, Beaufort, Co.Kerry; | | | | / | | | | Perhaps(?) identical with the Rowland Blennerhassett who owned Annagarry House, Annagarry/Ownagarry, | | | | near Killorglin, bef.1837 (p.K 38, p.K 40) | | | | but no evidence for this [GV Kerry 1852]; see also Robert Blennerhassett of Mount Rivers, below and (p.K 33) F 09 | | | | F 10 | | | | | | | |>>Robert >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Johanna (not John) Blennerhassett | | | | Blennerhassett | b.c24.8.1814 Churchtown; bapt.24.8.1814 Killorglin (RC) | | | | bapt.17.7.1797 | (dau. of Robert Blennerhassett of Churchtown & Catherine Crone) | | | | St John (C.o.I.) Tralee | sponsors: Philip Sullivan & Johanna Shea | | | | [FOSTER] [BP] | | | | | [DEBRETT] |>>Alice Blennerhassett | | | | [LODGE] | b.c12.8.1828 Duglas; bapt.12.8.1828 Killorglin (RC) | | | | all have b.27.7.1797 | (dau. of Robert Blennerhassett of Churchtown & Catherine Crone) | | | | in error | sponsor: Ellen Sullivan | | | | / | | | | | raised at Churchtown |>>Frances Blennerhassett | | | | House, Knockane, | b.c25.7.1830 Duglas; bapt.25.7.1830 Killorglin (RC) | | | | Beaufort, Co.Kerry; | (dau. of Robert Blennerhassett of Churchtown & Catherine Crone) | | | | until c1814; | sponsor: Mary Sweeny | | | | / | | | | | of Mount Rivers, |>>Mary Blennerhassett | | | | Annagarry, Killorglin of Annaghgarry, nr Killorglin | | | | from c1814 (dau. of Robert Blennerhassett, Gentleman, of Annaghgarry) | | | | [GV Kerry 1852] / | | | | / m.20.5.1858 at Killorglin; | | | | / Henry Parker, Shopkeeper, of Milltown | | | | / | | | | d.2.7.1862 at Mount Rivers [Cork Examiner 11.7.1862] | | | | [FOSTER] & [BP] have "dsp" but this only applies to Robert's 2nd (C.o.I.) marriage | | | | / | | | | m.1st (RC) Catherine Crone (he then aged 17 years) | | | | of Churchtown 1814; of Duglas 1828-30 | | | | / | | | | m.2nd (C.o.I.) 4.9.1838 Tralee (1st cousin); Sarah Eagar b.est.c1817; of Tralee & Ardinane, Co.Kerry; | | | | d.2.2.1856 at Mount Rivers (dep) [Cork Examiner 29.2.1856]; | | | | dau. of Dr Alexander Eagar and g.dau. of Sarah Blennerhassett & John Eagar (p.K 38) | | | | / | | | | NOTE: HICKSON says Robert Blennerhassett's wife was still alive c1880 (perhaps indicating he m. three times?) | | | | / MOUNT RIVERS and | | | NOTE: [BP] says this Robert Blennerhassett dsp; but a Robert Blennerhassett, gentleman, of Annaghgarry ANNAGARRY (ANNAGHARRY, AUNAGARRY) HOUSE and FORTFIELD | : | (or Aunagarry), Killorglin, had a dau. Mary Blennerhassett who m.20.5.1858 at Killorglin to Henry Parks, were three country houses located in the townland of Annagarry/Ownagarry, | | shopkeeper, of Miltown; Killorglin, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish one from another | | "Annaghgarry" & "Mount Rivers" are believed to be different houses within the townland of Annagarry / | | | | (see NOTE to left); Mount Rivers was left to Robert's nephew Capt. Robert Rowland Conyers (p.K 41), "Annagarry House" (now demolished) and "Mount Rivers" (still standing) | | indicating Robert Blennerhassett had no legitimate children of his own are thought to be two distinct houses; | | Fortfield (p.K 48) may perhaps(?) be identical with "Annagarry House"; | |>>Richard Blennerhassett; b.25.8.1799 unm. The site of "Annagarry House" is believed to be close to "Mount Rivers"; | | raised at Churchtown House, Knockane, Beaufort, Co.Kerry; HK (p.8) suggests it may have been a coach house, perhaps | | nr Annagarry Bridge on the road from Waterville to Killorglin (see also p.K 38) | |>>William Blennerhassett; b.2.2.1802; unm.; of Mount Rivers, Annagarry, Killorglin | | | | raised at Churchtown House, Knockane, Beaufort, Co.Kerry; | | | | executor of his father's Will 1832; d.16.6.1836; Will dated 7.6.1835, pr.?.10.1835; amount £6,923 | | | | | | | >---> This connection ? | | | is suggested but ? | | | unproven… (p.G 56) ? | | | | | | | |>>John Blennerhassett >>>>>>|>>Mary "May" >>>>>>>>>>|>>issue (p.G 56) | | | gentleman | Blennerhassett (p.G 56) | | | perhaps b.c1791 | b.1806 Killorglin, Co.Kerry (not b.1808 Miltown); | | | (p.G 56) | bapt.10.11.1806 Killorglin (C.o.I.) [SPRING p.3]; | | | / | (recorded in C.o.I. bapt. register for "...Kilcolman, Kilbonane, Kilcredan, | | | m. Ellen Martin | Molahiffe, Kilanear and the Manor of Killorglin…"); | | | (p.G 56) | emig. to Victoria, Australia c1864; | | | / | d.1.9.1902 at Miners Rest, Victoria; bur. Dowling Forest Cem. (C.o.E.), near Ballarat | | | / | / | | | / | NOTE: Mary's age on her death record, 84 yrs 8 mths, indicates she was b.cMay1817, | | | There is a tradition | but this not possible as she m.1829 and had a child 1830; also, the ages of her | | | among descendants | children on that record are all incorrect, so this age may be discounted; | | | of their dau. Mary in | Her death record has her aged 18 at her marriage, (i.e. b.c1811) | | | Australia, that they | but she was b.c1806, so would be aged about 23 years at her marriage | | | descended from a | / | | | "Robert & Rosanna", | m.16.7.1829 Ballymacelligott, Co.Kerry | | | that there was a title | Richard Arthur Blennerhassett (alias B.Hassett;) "Gentleman Farmer" | | | in the family, and | b.c1812 Gortatlea, Ballymacelligott, near Tralee, Co.Kerry; | | | that one of the | of Gortatlea 1830; d.20.6.1862 at sea, on the way to Australia (p.G 51) F 10 | | | family became R.C. | F 11 | | | | | | | |>>Elizabeth Blennerhassett (p.G 56) | | | b.c1804 (not c1812) Killorglin, Co.Kerry; | | | bapt.27.2.1804 (C.o.I.) perhaps at Milltown, Co.Kerry [SPRING p.2] | | | (recorded in C.o.I. baptismal register for | | | ...Kilcolman, Kilbonane, Kilcredan, Molahiffe, Kilanear and the Manor of Killorglin…) | | | | BLENNERVILLE HOUSE : |>>Arthur Blennerhassett >> >|>>Rowland A. Blennerhassett; b.c1800 Co.Kerry; | Blennerville House passed by marriage from | of Blennerville House, | edu. TCD (Pensioner 1814, BA c1819); | Blennerhassett to Chute families in 1839; | Co.Kerry; b.27.10.1776 | he is recorded by [FOSTER, Peerage 1881] but omitted by [BP] | Sold out of the Chute family in 1919, | JP [KEP 1.6.1839] & | Perhaps died young, as his sisters were "co-heiresses" of their father (dsp) | Blennerville House has been in the | [KEP 30.12.1846] | | Johnson family since 1950 and is | / |>>Millicent (Melicent) >>>>>>>|>>Theodora Denny | presently the home of Mary Johnson | In 1838 he purchased | Agnes Blenner- | | / | | much of the lands of | hassett; b.est.c1800 |>>Penelope Jane Denny | At the time of the 1919 sale a still was found | Rowland Eagar (d.1830; | d.bef.1849 | / | was found hidden in a wall - this remains | p.K 33) from the heirs, | / | m.18.4.1860 Richard Alexander O'Donnell d.1867 | exposed as a feature | inc. lands Culleenybeg, | m.15.11.1827 | | | | Droumavally, | Blennerville; Rev. |>>Amelia Denny >>>>>>>>>>|>>Melicent Agnes >>>>>>>>>>|>>Herman Gerard Mos | | | Droumtaker, | (Edward) Maynard / Gulcher of Luxembourg | see p.S 02 etc for another Blennerhassett | Ballyvorane, Cloghers | Denny; b.c1792 m.1877 Jan Cornelis / FAMILY RESEARCHER | family at Clahane, near Tralee | Clahane, Lyre, etc. | [ Gulcher of Amsterdam m. Herman Gerard Mos and | | | / | 1.12.1827]; ROYAL DESCENTS | | | d.31.5.1839; bur. in the | d.30.4.1861 ; RESEARCHER | | | churchyard of St.Anne | edu. TCD (BA 1814, MA 1832); | | | Blennerville (C.o.I.); | Rector of Tralee 1827; Rector of Listowel, Co.Kerry | | | his large stone tomb | / | CHUTE HALL (Chute family, to right --->) | survives, iron railings | He m.2nd (bef.1850) | Chute Hall, Tullygarran, nr Ballymacelligott | gone; | Jane Gun b.c1820; d.20.7.1878 Listowel; having further issue | was built c1730-40; | | inscription: "The family | | Three storey house built in a small open | burying place of the | | square; the stableyard a large square | Blennerhassetts of |>>Theodora >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Francis >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Maj. Richard >>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Chaloner Chute | encompassed by long rectangles; | Blennerville, erected at | Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett Chute | Aremberg | | surrounded by a park, with gardens, | the decease of Arthur | her father's heir, | JP (Magistrate) | Blennerhassett Chute |>>Anne Theodora >>>>>>>|>> | plantations and a gate lodge; | Blennerhassett esq | succeeding to | b.18.9.1837; | b.24.6.1870 at 74 Leeson Chute | | The house was burnt during the troubles | who deceased | Blennerville House | of Chute Hall and | Street, Dublin / |>> | of the 1920s, then demolished | May 31st 1839" | and estate 1839; | 74 Leeson Street, | / m.24.1.1947 (D 1962) | | | | [KEP 1.6.1839]; | b.c1812; d.25.7.1845 | Dublin; | privately bapt.2.7.1870 William Henry | | | | / | bur.28.7.1845 | of Blennerville House | St Peter's (C.o.I.) Dublin Leicester Stanhope | | | H.R.H. PRINCESS | Blennerville church is | Blennerville | Blennerville from 1845 | NOTE: There are two b.24.8.1922; of | | | MARGARET | demolished, all traces | / | / | register entires, one Ballingarry, Limerick | | | | now gone, the site now | m.18.10.1836 (his 1st) | Lt. Kerry Militia; | bapt.2.7.1870 as above, / | | | | into a small park | Richard Chute | appointed to the | the other has "entered 11th Earl Harrington, | | | | named for the Irish | JP, DL, Grand Juror; | Commission of the | in register" 24.8.1870 Viscount Petersham, | | | | patriot Robert Emmet | High Sheriff 1856; | Peace for Kerry 1864; | / Baron Harrington |>> | | | (p.K 60) whose headless | of Chute Hall, | High Sheriff Co.Kerry | of Chute Hall, Co.Kerry (s.1929); Viscount | | | body was reputed to | (Chutehall), | 1865 | / Stanhope of Mahon | | | be buried under the | Tullygarran, | / | 2nd Lt. Royal Irish & Baron Stanhope | | | "back porch" of the | Ballymacelligott | succeeded to | Fusiliers (Princess of Elvaston (s.1967); | | | church following | (built c1730-40) | Blennerville House | Victoria's) 1892 / | | | his execution in 1803 | / | and estate from his | [TIMES 9.4.1892]; edu. Eton; Capt. 15th/19th | | | / | b.22.5.1811 Chutehall | mother 1845; | Lt. 5th Battalion, King's Royal Hussars RAC | | | Will dated 20.8.1838, | d.13.9.1862 Chutehall | inherited from | East Surrey Regt; served WWII; d.12.4.2009 | | | codecil dated , | [IT 19.9.1862 p.3]; | his father the Eagar | Capt. Manchester Regt. his 2nd marriage; | | | pr.31.8.1839 (PC) | [LODGE] has | lands purchased from | / / | | | amount £23,000 | d.31.9.1862 in error | Rowland Eagar 1838 | succeeded to his 2nd marriage; | | | (Will burnt at the | / | / | Blennerville House 1902 Lord Harrington had | | | Four Courts 1922 but | son of Francis Chute | he held 10,328 acres | & sold it out of the family m.1st 5.2.1942 | | | Transcript exists) | of Chute Hall | 1886, gross annual | 1919, to the Johnson Eileen Foley Gray >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | | | / | (married three times, | value £786 | family who still reside | | | / | d.12.8.1849); from his | / | there; d.1936 | | | / | father inherited Eagar | He ran the Ballyseedy | / | | | m.17.9.1799 St.George | family land | Hunt jointly with | m. Anna Lowe (age 17) | | | Mountjoy Square, | purchased 1838 from | Arthur Blennerhassett | who on her husband's | | | Dublin, 2nd cousin | Rowland Eagar | of Ballyseedy (p.B 08) | death entered a closed | | | Helena "Helen" | at Chute Hall he kept | "…their huntsman, | order at Wexford; d.1989 | | | Jane Mullins (p.K 44) | a pack of hounds | wearing an old coat | | | | (de Moleyns from 1841) | / | & ill-fitting breeches, | | | | [newspaper 25.9.1799] | From c1804 he was | would ride up & down | | | | / | joint owner (with | the streets of Tralee | | | | of Burnham House, | Richard BH of | blowing a horn to | | | | ; b.c1773/4 | Ballymacprior Lodge, | advertise that there | F 11 | | | / | Killorglin - p.K 43); | was to be a hunt…" | F 12 | | | / | of BLENNERVILLE | / | | | | she d.24.12.1846 at | WINDMILL built by | d.1902 | | | | Blennerville House of | Sir Rowland Blenner- | / | | | | "dropsy on the chest"; | hassett (F 02) and | m.6.2.1869 St Stephen | | | | bur.25.12.1846 | previously leased | (C.o.I.) Dublin; | | | | at Blennerville | to Sir Rowland's son | Cherubina | | | | [KEP 30.12.1846] | William B'hassett | "Cherry" Herbert | | | | ["The Cork Examiner" | b.1780 d.1842 (F 14) | d'Esterre Roberts | | | | 1.1.1847]; youngest | / | b. Dublin; | | | | dau. of Thomas, | Richard Chute | of 23 FitzWilliam | | | | 1st Baron ; | m.2nd 3.3.1847 | Place, Dublin 1869; |>>Arthur Torrens Chute >>>>|>>Arthur Sydney >>>>>> >|>> | | | g.dau. of Elizabeth | Rose Mullins (de | and of Ardmore; | b.5.10.1871 Chute Hall Torrens Chute | | | | Blennerhassett (p.K 44) | Moleyns from 1841) | dau. of | bapt.3.12.1871 b.12.7.1916 |>> | | | | d.21.4.1898 (dau. of | Norcott Roberts | Ballymacelligott; / | | | | | 3rd Baron Ventry) | | of Portsmouth; d.1924 m. Margaret Jean |>> | | | | and had further | | / Barnett; of Stockton, | | | | | issue 7 children | | m. Edythe Mary Geiger California, USA |>> | | | | (p.K 25) | | | | | | | |>>Theodora Eveline (Evelyn) | | | | | | Chute | | | |>>Eliza Blennerhassett | | b.16.4.1877 Chute Hall; | | | d.c13.5.1815 | | bapt.20.6.1877 Ballymacelligott | | | | | | | | | |>>Cherry Herbert Ada Chute | | | | | b.10.9.1880 Chute Hall; | | | | | bapt.18.10.1880 Ballymacelligott; d.1963 | | | | | | | | | |>>Lt. Challoner Francis >>>>>|>>Theodora Chute | | | | Trevor Chute | | | | | / |>>Cherry Herbert Ada | | | | / Chute | | | | b.6.5.1885 Chute Hall; | | | | bapt.2.4.1885 Ballymacelligott | | | | [BLGI 1912 p.112] has b.2.4.1885 in error | | | | / | | | | Lt. 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers; | | | | d.27.8.1914 K.I.A. (WWI) at Etreux, Aisne, France; | | | | bur. Etreux British Cemetery (grave II.6); | | | | Etreux was the scene of the Rearguard Affair, | | | | in which the 2nd Munsters were overwhelmed, | | | | after long resistance, by 9 German battalions; | | | | the cemetery was made by survivors 28.8.1914, in an | | | | orchard close to scene of 2nd Munsters' last stand | | | | / | | | | m.29.6.1911 Mary (Maud) Emily St.Clair Hobson | | | | of Myler's Park, Wexford; | | | | she m.2nd Carew | | | | | | | | | | | |>>Arthur Rowland Chute; of Blennerville; b.20.12.1838; Ensign 90th Regt.; | | | | / | | | | d.23.2.1858 at Culcutta, India, "while on service in the Indian Mutiny" | | | | "...of disease induced by fatigue and exposure [IT 19.9.1862 p.3] | | | | to an Indian Climate..."; his white marble headstone, against the churchyard | | | | wall in the churchyard of St.John (C.o.I.) Tralee, is damaged | | | | | | | |>>Trevor Bomford Chute; of Blennerville; b.c1843 d.?.7.1846 an infant; | | | | bur.10.7.1846 Blennerville ["The Cork Examiner" 10.7.1846] [IT 19.9.1862 p.3] | | | | | | | |>>Millicent (Melicent) >>>>>>|>>Helena Jane Leslie; d.19.9.1876 | | | | Agnes Chute | | | | / | | | | m.6.2.1869 St Stephen (C.o.I.) Dublin; Cherubina | | | | of Tarbert House, Co.Kerry; High Sheriff 1863; Capt. of Kerry Militia 1855; | | | | In 1904 he sold the lands of Tarbert to the tenants under the land | | | | purchase act of 1903, retaining only Tarbert House & demesne | | | | | | | |>>Helena Jane Chute | | | / | | | m.30.11.1875 Ballymacelligott | | | Capt. Francis Ogilvie Fuller; of Tralee; Capt. 101st Royal Bengal Regt. | | | d.19.9.1876 Chute Hall [Limerick Chronicle 23.9.1876] (dsp) F 12 | | | son of Charles Wery Fuller F 13 | | | KELLS LODGE & GARDENS | NOTE: >-----> |>>Rowland >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Millicent (Melicent) >>>>|>>Millicent Collis fl.1879 BARROW HOUSE In 1837 Rowland Blennerhassett, son of Sir | Stained glass window | Blennerhassett | Agnes Blennerhassett / Rowland Blennerhassett, Bart (F 02) purchased | A stained glass | b.26.12.1780 (twin) | b.c26.9.1810 m. Rev. J.Herrernan the Kells estate on the northern edge of the | window at | d.12.4.1854 (not 1855) | Blennerville in Co.Kerry and there built a | St.John (C.o.I.) Tralee | at Day Place, Tralee | ["General Advertiser" 26.9.1810] small hunting lodge named "Holly Mount"; | (behind & to left | / | / Much added to over the years, Rowland's | of the altar) was | of Blennerville 1810 | m.?.4.1836; Thomas (John) Collis, of Barrow House, Co.Kerry; grandson of Sir Barry Denny (p.B 03); In 1870 he sold Barrow House to Robert McCowen of Tralee grandson Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett | erected to the | of Day Place, Tralee | extended and rebuilt Holly Mount to become | memory of | He purchased the Kells |>>Mary Blennerhassett >>>>>>>>>|>>Rowan Purdon (dau.) the present house "Kells Lodge" and around | Rowland & Letitia | estate & Kells Lodge | fl. 1855 | it began to create extensive and beautiful | Blennerhassett by | (Holly Mount), | / |>>Rowland Purdon b.1838 d.1883 gardens with rare and unusual plants, these | "..their surviving | Killinane, near | m.?.4.1836 | developing into magnificent sub-tropical | children Mary & | Cahirciveen, Co.Kerry | Rev. Geo. R. Purdon |>>Letitia Purdon gardens. He personally completed the Ladies' | Alice.." in 1855 | [GV Kerry 1852] | / Walled Garden, the Tree-fern Forest, the Long | | / | m. Rev.John Collins of Drive and some of the paths that wander | | [DEBRETT'S | through the garden. Over recent years the | | BARONETAGE 1899] |>>John Hurly >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Letitia Millicent Blennerhassett; of 2 Janeville, Tivoli Raod, Kingstown, Co.Dublin 1909; gardens became neglected but in 2006 the | | calls him an MP, but | Blennerhassett b.1812 unm.; d.3.10.1909 [IT 16.10.1909]; Will pr. Dublin, sealed 13.11.1909 London; executor Dr.Henry Marturin Johnston, MD (p.K 63) property was sold and new owner Billy | | no evidence for this | of Kells, Co.Kerry; Alexander is busy with an extensive program | | / | d.14.12.1847 Tralee ["The Cork Examiner" 20.10.1847] of restoration, in the tradition of The Lost | | m.c18.5.1808 Tralee | / Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, open to the | | Letitia "Lucy" Hurly | m.25.4.1844 St.Michael, Limerick; [FOSTER] & [LODGE] have July 1844, in error; Annabella Yeilding of Bellview, Limerick public as Kells Bay Gardens . He has revealed | | of Tralee | one of the largest collections of mature tree- | | (eldest dau. of John |>>Letitia Blennerhassett; b.1814 d.?.12.1828; unm.; [HICKSON] has her m. Rev.George Purdon, in error - that was her sister Mary ferns you will see outside of New Zealand | | Hurly of Tralee | and proudly displays the tallest palm tree in | | g.g.daughter of Anne |>>Lucinda "Lucy" Blennerhassett; unm.; Ireland | | | Anne Blennerhassett | NOTE: [FOSTER] & [BP] show Letitia & Lucy as sisters, as shown here, but [DEBRETT 1836] shows one child named "Letitia Lucinda" | | | of Castle Conway | | | | & Dennis Hurly p.K 62) |>>Alice Blennerhassett; fl.1855 (dsp); m. Charles Chute; of O'Brennan, Tralee BLENNERHASSETT LANDS IN THE KELLS ESTATE 1861 : | | / Ms.114 in the NLI at Dublin is an... | | | NOTE: 5 portrait miniatures representing of members of this family, those individuals marked (M*), were in an auction of portrait miniatures held at Phillips, London Nov. 2001 "Attested Copy of Receiver's Account for 1st Nov 1861: | | / in the matter of Rowland Blennerhassett, a Minor" dated 17.12.1861 | | / NOTE: in 1929 RFPB owned a portrait miniature of his ancestor William Carrique Ponsonby, who inherited Crotto 1762 (this is Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett, b.27.7.1850); | | / / This Ms. lists the estate & property, with tenant's names: | |>>Richard Francis >>>>>>|>>Rowland Ponsonby >>>>>>>|>>Richard Francis >>>>>>>>>|>>Diana "Deenagh" Mary Ponsonby Blennerhassett (no issue) Boherdagh; Cahirlehilan; Cahereightenesh; Lisableure; Dirreen; Cappamore | | Blennerhassett (M*) | Blennerhassett (M*) Ponsonby b.26.12.1916 Kensington, London; of 23 Great Pulteney Street, Bath; d.?.11.2000 Bath; (tenant: Honoria Blennerhassett, Rowland's mother); Gurleleu; Kells | | b.c1819/20; | QC/KC, JP, MP; Blennerhassett (M*) [TIMES 30.12.1916] of Frieth, nr Henly-on-Thames & Bath; (tenants include: Honoria Blennerhassett); Killeenleigh; Knopogue; | | edu. TCD (Pensioner | b.22.7.1850 Kells, Kerry; M.I.C.E; A.M.I.E.E; [TIMES 10.12.1938] reports her attending Grantham Hospital Ball… Tulleyelane; Maulcore; Glanmachee; Coomaspeara; Kells Lots (tenants | | 1836, BA 1840); | / b.29.6.1879 Chelsea, author of: include: Honoria Blennerhassett); Kells Coastguard Station; Teeromoyle; | | of Tralee & of Kells | Kerry landowner, of London "The Toad in the Greenhouse: A Toad's Eye View of Life" 1961; "The Tortoise in the Rockery" 1965; Knockbrack; Knocknahila; also some tenaments at Tralee | | | Lodge, Killinane, | Kells Lodge, Killinane, / "The Cool Greenhouse and Conservatory" 1959, 1985, 1989, 1973; "Unheated Greenhouse" 1955, 1960; NOTE: Townland spelling unclear in some cases, not verified… | | Cahirciveen, Kerry; | Cahirciveen, Co.Kerry; Civil Engineer; "The Cool Greenhouse Today 1969, 1973; "A Conservatory Manual" (The Gardener's Library) 1987; | | | JP (Magistrate) Kerry | also of Dublin & of of Kells Lodge, "The Small Greenhouse" (Wisley Gardening Companion No.19) 1974, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1991; | | | / | 54 Hans Place, Chelsea, Killinane, Cahirciveen, "Indoor, Conservatory & G'house Gardening" 1995, 1996, with Ann Bonar, Alan R.Toogood, Ray Waite ROWLAND PONSONBY BLENNERHASSETT : | | Chairman, | London 1881 & Co.Kerry; / In 1873-86 Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett owned 6274 acres in Kerry (gross annual valuation £504) | and Glencar Dispen- | 52 Hans Place 1895-1913 34 Kensington Sq. W., m.31.3.1939 Chelsea Old Church, London; [IT 30.8.1886], reduced to 700 acres when the greater part of the estate was sold to tenant farmers | sary District 1852 | see NOTES to left London; of 74 Elm Park Maj. Richard John Moreton Goold-Adams, CBE following Lord Ashbourne's "Land Purchase Act" of 1885; This made state credit available to entice | ["Tralee Chronicle" | / Road, London 1938; (only son of Maj. Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams, GCMG, CB of London); tenant farmers in Ireland to buy the land they worked, and landlords to sell it to them | 23.7.1852] | edu. TCD (1st hons.); with his parents at 54 marriage notices [TIMES 14.10.1938 & twice on 1.4.1939] | | | | d.20.9.1854 | Christ Church, Oxford Hans Place, Chelsea, b.24.1.1916 Brisbane, Australia; of London & of Bath, Somerset; "The Life of Raymond Chandler" by Frank MacShayne (Dutton & Co. New York, 1976 & G.K.Hall, | [FOSTER] [BP] have | (Matric. 1869); student London SW 1881 d.?.3.1995 Bath; obituary in [Daily Telegraph 1.5.1995, p.21] Boston, 1986), a biography of Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) the American movie screen writer, | d.16.2.1854 in error | 1870; Barrister-at-Law / / author of crime fiction & creator of detective "Philip Marlowe: Private Eye", contains on p.17 this | / | (Inner Temple London edu. Eton 1893-1898 & edu. Winchester & New College, Oxford (BA 1937 MA 1938); passage of c1912:- | m.11.10.1849 | 1878) N.E. Circuit 1878; City & Guilds Central Major, Royal Corps of Signals (1939), serving in Middle East & Italy …From there he moved to the Westminster Gazette, then edited by J.A.Spender and the best | St John (C.o.I.) Tralee | QC 1894; Bencher 1903; Technical College, / evening paper in London. Chandler got the job through the intercession of a friend of his uncle's, | ([FOSTER/BP] have | House of Lords Practise; London (student 1901); Journalist; Assistant Editor of "The Economist"; contributed political features to "The Sunday Times"; a wonderful old boy named Roland Ponsonby Blennerhasset, a barrister with a House of Lords | m.13.10.1849 in error) | chambers at 2 Mitre Ct Electrical Engineer and TV/Radio Interviewer; at "Independent Television News" 1955-6; Practice, a wealthy Irish landowner (he owned some fabulous number of acres in Kerry), a member, | [Nenagh Guardian | Bldgs, Temple EC 1884; "a Director of Electrical Co-founder in 1958, with Dennis Healy & others, of "Institute for Strategic Studies" (Chairman 1963-73); as I understand from my uncle in Waterford, of one of those ancient untitled families that make | 20.10.1849]; | 12 New Court, Carey St. Undertakings…"; Member of the "Royal Institute for International Affairs", "Society for Nautical Research", earls and marquesses appear quite parvenu..." | | | / | 1895; 18 Abingdon St., Mem. Brooks Club "British Atlantic Committee", "Atlantic Institute" (Paris); Served on Academic Council at Wilton Park; | | | | Honoria Ponsonby | Westminster 1895-97 / Chairman of the "Guthrie Estates Agency" (Malaysian Rubber Plantations) MP for Co.Kerry 1872-1885 representing Isaac Butt's "Home-Rule" party (formed 1870) in the parliament | (M*) of Tralee & | JP (Mag.) Kerry 1899; d.17.6.1938 Chelsea; / at Westminster, elected by "an overwhelming majority of votes" (2237 to1398); In this famous and | Crotto (Stackstown), | Mem. Reform, Brooks, Will pr.10.8.1938 Author of: "South Africa Today & Tomorrow" (1936); "Middle East Journey" (1947); interesting election of 1872, he, a young Protestant landlord of "liberal" politics standing for Home-Rule, | Co.Kerry | St.James' Clubs, Lon. London [PPR] "The Time of Power" (1962); "The Return of the Great Britain" (1976) defeated James Arthur Dease, an "anti Home-Rule" candidate sponsored by the Catholic Lord | d.3.12.1883/4 | / / / and representing the Liberal party (see also p.K 43); The election was on Friday, the result being | / | d.7.4.1913 Hotel Prince m.10.7.1914 Chairman and driving force of the "Great Britain Project", which in 1970 salvaged and returned the hulk of declared the following Monday morning in Tralee courthouse; "Shortly before twelve o'clock the court | youngest dau. of | de Galles, Monte Carlo, St.Margaret's steamship "Great Britain" from where it had been abandoned on rocks in Sparrow Cove, off the Falkland house was thrown open to the public, and in a short time it was densely crowded in every part. | Maj. William | Monaco [TIMES Westminster; Islands since 1937; designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway, The grand jury gallery was filled with ladies, curious to see and hear the proceedings that were to bring | Carrique | 10.4.1913 & 11.4.1913]; Sylvia Constance the "Great Britain" was the first large ship constructed of iron and using a screw propellor; she was built to a close so momentous an election. While they were waiting, the crowds amused themselves by | Ponsonby (M*) | Will pr. Dublin, sealed Myers at Bristol 1839-43 & launched by Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria; restored in the same "Great singing the ballad "Jemmy Goes Marching Home" | | d.bef.1837 (p.BL 2) | 9.8.1913 London b. Western Dock" at Bristol where she was built, she is now a popular tourist attraction; see NOTES on p.D 05 F 13 | | | | of Crotto, | / / / F 14 When the result was declared "...on coming forward to thank his supporters, Blennerhassett (known | (between Tralee & | / / / to his rural supporters as "Mr Hassett") was greeted with cheering & waving of hats which lasted for | Listowel) Co.Kerry; | NOTE: of Radnage, Bucks & NOTE: James Blennerhassett, b.c1839 Co.Kerry, was passenger on the 27th voyage of the several minutes..."; This was the last Parliamentary election by open vote, the secret ballot being | / | an unrelated Rowland Whitelands House, "Great Britain", leaving Liverpool England 25.7.1865 for Melbourne, Australia (p.D 05) introduced in 1872 following this election; Until that date tenants voted in full view of, & risked the | whose brother Maj. | Ponsonby BH b.1879 London SW wrath of, their landlords; Landlords often treated their tenants as extensions of their own vote, using | Richard Carrique | on p.BCL 04 [TIMES 11.7.1914] their agent to round up tenants for voting at election time; "Romantic Hidden Kerry" by Thomas | Ponsonby (K 19) | was named after him d.3.7.1957 O'Sullivan tells an amusing story of the "Dingle contingent" of voters during this election, with | m. Letitia Blenner- | / / Mr de Moleyns (agent for de Moleyns, Lord Ventry, p.K 19 - who favoured the "anti home-rule" | hassett (F 13) | m.21.9.1876 Brighton; / candidate), leading a 1/4 mile procession of conveyances carrying his tenants from Dingle towards | youngest daughter | Mary "May" / Tralee, escorted by the local militia, "...but the voters kept escaping..." | | of Rev. John BH | Beatrice Armstrong Her father was Frederic William Henry Myers (b.1843, d.1901 Rome) of 2 Richmond Terrace, Lond. | | | | "Parson Jack", | b.c1856/7 Hampstead, & Leckhampton House, Cambridge (which he built); Cambridge Don, "brilliant classical scholar", Rowland P. Blennerhassett was re-elected as Kerry MP in 1880, when he was joined in representing | Rector of Tralee | London; critic, essayist & psychical researcher (co-founder of the "Society for Psychical Research"); Kerry by Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Bart; contested the N.E. Division of Manchester as a Liberal | (K 11) | of Ennismore Gardens, author of "St.Paul", "Human Personality & its Survival of Bodily Death" and "The Renewal of in 1885 (defeated); "...He is a very clever man, who was quite young then, but has now blossomed into | / | London 1876; Youth & other Poems"; a K.C. in London and is mighty shrewd about speculations..." (from: "Reminiscences of an Irish Land | Honoria m.2nd (dsp) | as a widow 1913-15 of Her mother was Eveleen Tennant, an accomplished portrait photographer of eminent Victorians who also had Agent, being those of S.M.Hussey" 1904) | | Dr James Barry, MD | 53 Hans Place Chelsea an interest in psychical research; obit. in [TIMES 13.3.1937 p.14]; | | | | of Villa Nova, | 1913-15; 3 Sloane Court, Her portrait was painted by Watts, Millais & Henner Correspondence between Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett and John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of | Valentia & | Chelsea 1928; / Kimberley (1826-1902) is in [Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. Eng. c. 4170, fols. 96-103] | Caherciveen, | Mem. of the Irish Sylvia Myers continued her parents' work in psychical phenomena & in 1940 established (working | | | | Co.Kerry | Industries Assocation with Harry Price 1881-1948, founder of the "National Laboratory of Psychical Research", London) The "Home-Rule" cause was in 1885 taken up by Gladstone & Liberal party, but Gladstone's Home-Rule | | London Committee; "The Blennerhassett Trust" (for Psychical Research) at New College, Oxford, its funds being Bill was defeated in the Commons in part because of defections from Gladstone's own party | | prominent socialite, under the control of "The Society for Psychical Research"; | | | |>>Rowland | frequent mentions in / | | | Blennerhassett | [TIMES] Court & Sylvia in 1940 presented "Virgin & Child with Ten Saints", attributed to Andrea Di Bonaiuto, PONSONBY of CROTTO | | d.?.9.1840; unm. | Social in 1921-28 to the National Gallery, London; This painting had been acquired by her father at Rome and Crotto House built 1669, demolished | | | (Racing, Cowes Week, was inherited by Sylvia from her mother in 1937; Crotto was sold out of Ponsonby family 1842; | | | Weddings, etc); Trinity College Library, Cambridge has, among the papers of Frederic W.H.Myers: Lord Kitchener (b.1850) as a child lived at Crotto House | | d.13.5.1928 Chelsea; [Trinity/MYERS/13/47 "letter (copy) from Miss Sylvia Constance Myers to W.H.Salter 14.2.1946"] The name Ponsonby is pronounced "Punsunby" [Gourley] | | Will pr.1.8.1928 London; and [Trinity/MYERS/10/176-179; three "Childhood letters from Miss Sylvia Constance Myers to | | | | bur. Highgate her father, F.W.H. Myers 12.10.1892 to 15.9.1899"] | | | | Cemetery, London / | | | | [TIMES 16/17/18.5.1928] NOTE: Sylvia's aunt Dorothy Tennant married Sir Henry Stanley, the African explorer | | | | | | | |>>Honoria Blennerhassett; b.c13.3.1852 Tralee; bapt.13.3.1852 St John (RC) Tralee | | | she may not belong here - is possibly dau. of Dr Richard & Honoria BH on F 13 | | | | | BLENNERVILLE |>>William >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Frederick Blennerhassett; unm. | | WINDMILL | Blennerhassett (twin) | b.c1811 Co.Kerry; edu. TCD (Pensioner 1830); | | ? of Blennerville | c1853 of 3 Mainstreet, Blennerville (p.IRE 3) | | | Co.Kerry; b.26.12.1780 | [GV Kerry 1852] | | | / | | | | d.?.5.1842 Blennerville |>>Millicent Blennerhassett | | | [GM May 1842] | d.11.7.1843 "...in her brother's house at Blennerville…"; unm. | | | / | | | | only 4 children listed in |>>Rowland Blennerhassett | | | [DEBRETT'S | b.c1811 Co.Kerry; of Blennerville; edu. TCD (Pensioner 1829, BA 1834); unm. | | | BARONETAGE 1836] | | | | / |>>Charlotte Blennerhassett; b.1831 (d.20.6.1872 or d.22.6.1843 ?); unm. | | | one of four men who in | | | | 1800 leased the new ? | | | Blennerville windmill | | | | from Sir Rowland |>> Blennerhassett; unm; b. post 1836 | | | Blennerhassett (F 02); of "Islands 9 to 14", Parish of Killemlagh, Co.Kerry (c1848/64) | | | / | | | Perhaps(?) identical with William Blennerhassett of Mount Rivers (p.K 44) or of Churchtown, Knockane, Beaufort, nr Killarney | | | (home of his brother Sir Robert Blennerhassett, p.K 34) who was executor of Sir Robert's Will 1832 & whose own Will was dated | | | 1835 (transcript exists); but that could also be this William's nephew William Blennerhassett (p.K 37) | | | / | | | m.27.1.1805 Dromavally (Dromavalla) church, nr Killorglin, Co.Kerry | | | Elizabeth "Eliza" Blennerhassett; of Ballymacprior Lodge, Killorglin, Co.Kerry (p.K 49) | | | [Ennis Chronicle 4.2.1805] & [Cork Morning Chronicle" 4.2.1805]; | | | b.est.c1780; d.21.12.1857 Ballymacprior; | | | eldest dau. of Richard "Yellow Dick" BH; of Ballymacprior Lodge, Killorglin, & Elizabeth "Eliza" de Moleyns, dau. of 1st Lord Ventry (p.K 49) | | ? | | | | | |>>further issue, perhaps(?) illigimate… | | This is uncertain; not shown by [BP] , but "further issue" is mentioned in [FOSTER] , stating that he had "…with other issue, five sons…"; | | After 1881 Foster's "Peerage" was absorbed into BP, so perhaps(?) the removal of this note merely indicates an error being corrected, | | that there was no further issue; | | | | NOTE: Early editions of [BP] (up to at least 1862), also [DEBRETT'S BARONETAGE 1836] , incorrectly show Sir Rowland BH (F 02) | | having a daughter Catherine Blennerhassett who m. to Rev. Edward Conyers of Knockman; this is an error, corrected in later editions, F 14 | | caused by confusion with his g.daughter Catherine who did m. Rev. Edward FitzGerald Conyers, Rector of Knockane (p.K 41) F 15 | | | EAGAR FAMILY |>>Alice >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Alexander Eagar; d. an infant | | Blennerhassett | | | b.est.c1741 | | | Mount Rivers, |>>Rowland Eagar JP; b.c1760 | | Annagarry | Collector of Excise (Customs), Co.Kerry 1808-1826 | | (Ownagarry) later of | / | | Annagharry House | Inherited Droumavally, Ballymalis & Culleenybeg; | | / | Purchased leases for the lands of Cloghlies, | | m.9.6.1758 Co.Kerry; | Ballybeggan Mill Land, several tenements in | | James Eagar | Tralee; also a mill & house at Blennerville | | b.c1730 d.1806; | / | | of Castle Ballymalis, | In 1838 this property & much of his land, inc. | | Culleenybeg, | Culleenybeg, Droumavally, Droumtaker, | | Droumavally etc | Ballyvorane, Clohers, Clahane & Lyre | | which he inherited | was sold by order of the court and purchased by | | from his father | Arthur Blennerhassett of Blennerville House | | / | (p.K 45) from whom it later passed to his son-in-law | | Collector of Excise | Richard Chute (p.K 45) | | (Customs) Co.Kerry | d.5.12.1830 (dsp) | | / | / | | s. of Alexander Eagar | m.?.12.1792 cousin | | & Rose Anne Eagar | Charlotte Blennerhassett (dsp) (p.K 35) b.c1763 (not 1773) | | | dau. of Henry Blennerhassett of Tralee & Dublin (p.K 33) | | | d. "the Sunday before 17.2.1847" at Dublin, aged | | | 84yrs, of paralysis ["The Cork Examiner" 17.2.1847] | | | | | |>>Belinda Eagar | | | / | | | m. Francis Eagar (his 2nd m.) son of James Eagar | | | | | |>>Barbara Eagar; m. Joseph Webb | | | | | |>>Agnes Eagar | | | | | m. William Mason of Ballydugamy | | | | | |>>Mary Eagar | | | / | | | m. Rev.Thomas Nash | | | | | |>>Harriett Eagar | | | / | | | m. John Bride of Co.Cork | | | | | |>>Frances Eagar >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Geoffrey Eagar; unm. | | / | | | m. Richard "Dick" |>>Edward Eagar | | Eagar, "Uncle Dick"' | | | of Gortamakery |>>James Eagar; unm. | | (son of Geoffrey Eagar) | | | |>>Henry Eagar; unm. | | | | | |>>Rowland Eagar | | | / | | | m. Anne Hickson | | | | | |>>Richard Eagar; unm. | | | | | |>>Sydney Eagar | | | | | |>>Alice Eagar | | | m. Stephen Huggard | | | ("little") of Killarney | | | | | |>>Charlotte Eagar | | / | | m. Stephen Huggard | | ("big") of Killarney | | | | | | F 15 | | F 16 | | FORTFIELD (Fordhill), Annagarry, |>>Arthur Robert >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Robert Arthur Blennerhassett (only son) b.c1772; of Knockane (dsp) Killorglin, Co.Kerry : | Blennerhassett | perhaps(?) known as Arthur - see [DG 4422] below Arthur Robert Blennerhassett, by Will dated | (sometimes called | / 26.4.1790 Tralee, pr. 10.9.1806, left these lands: | Robert) [DG1160] | In 1790 succeeded to the Fortfield property for life (see NOTE to left); d.12.8.1814 at Tralee ("The Gentleman's Magazine" Sept.1814); Town & lands of Gortnescarny (under a lease | b.est.c1745 | following his death Fortfield passed to the estate of his uncle, Col. Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Bart. (F 02) under terms of his father's Will; for 3 lives); Lands of Coolroe, Cooleraheen, | / | "…He was returning to his lodgings in Tralee, apparently in perfect health, in company with another gentleman; Gortrelig, Comletragh (Coomlettra) and West | of Fortfield | and when within a few yards from the house, fell lifeless to the ground; unavailing efforts were immediately made Aulagh in the of Dunkerron, under a | (a.k.a. "Ford's Field"), | to restore animation. The cause of his sudden death is attributed to the bursting of a blood-vessel on the brain..." lease for lives; Town & lands of Knockalaghty, | & Cara, Co.Kerry | / part of Collerny, in the Barony of Mugunihy; | / | m.22.5.1798 Tralee (1st cousin) Tenements at Killorglin in the Barony of | [BIFR p.138] | Catherine Hickson (dsp); b.c1779 d.?.5.1841; of Fermoyle & Tralee; dau. of Robert Christopher Hickson of Fermoyle ; Lands of Tyromoyles in the | says "of Fortfield | Barony of Iveragh (lease for 3 lives); Lands | (or Aunagarry)" - I | of Coomasheary (Coomashanna) in the Barony | am uncertain if these | [DG] believes Robert Arthur Blennerhassett (above) to be identical with:- of Iveragh (lease 90 yrs); Killeenologht, | are the same place | Arthur Blennerhassett [DG 4422]; of Laharan, Killorglin [GV Kerry 1852] Ardacluckeen, "...the four cows grass of East | (see p.K 38 & p.K 44) | NOTE: in the bapt. record for his son James at Killorglin (RC), the register has his his name Aulagh...", Goulnacappy, Maghanconsane | / | (as the father) entered "Blennerhassett" but the "Blenner" is crossed out (Maghancoosaun), Maghanastrahane, | d.4.5.1790 Fortfield | / Dromleagh, Cournagreanys & Gortnagrenane | [MO] & | p. Julianna Sullivan >>>>>>>>|>>James Blennerhassett >>>>>>>>|>>Mary Hassett [DG ?]; b. Glounaguillagh, ; in the Barony of Dunkerron (lease 98 years); | [GM May 1790 p.476] | Namoe [DG 4423] (alias Hassett) | bapt.25.12.1850 St.James' church (RC), Killorglin; a "...plot of ground with a pound built thereon | / | [DG 4444] (natural | / at Annagarry..." (lease for 98 years); | m.est.c1770 | son of Arthur | m. Michael Connor all these bequeathed to his son Robert | (Rosanna) | Blennerhassett) | Blennerhassett, for life (see p.K 38, p.K 44) | Catherine Hickson | bapt.1.8.1831 (RC) |>>James Hassett [DG 93]; b.c1863 (date from m. certificate) | | [DG 1426] | St.James' Killorglin | or b.c1867 (date from ship's manifest) at Glounaguillagh, Caragh Lake, Killorglin | | b.est.c1745/6; | [OCM vol.2 p.367]; | (bapt. at St.James' ch. RC, Killorglin ??); emig. to USA; | | of Tralee (dau. and | of Laharn, | sailed Mar.1892 from Queenstown (Cobh), Co.Cork to N.York on SS "Teutonic"; | | eventual co-heir | Killorglin 1850 | settled at South Manchester, Connecticut; Labourer 1892-1899; | | of James Hickson) | / | d.1946 St.James, Manchester; bur. St.James, Manchester | | / | m.10.2.1850 | / | | / | St.James' church (RC) | m.6.9.1899 St.James' ch., South Manchester, Connecticut; | | / | Killorglin; | Margaret Breen [DG 94]; b.c1872 Ireland | | / | Johanna Murphy | | | / | b. Cean-Ovree, Kerry; | | | / | spoke Gaelic only; |>>Patrick Hassett [DG 60]; b. Glounaguillagh, Caragh Lake, Killorglin; | | / | (dau. of bapt.25.1.1866 St.James' ch. (RC), Killorglin [OCM vol.5 p.277] (ship's manifest b.c1870); | | / | Dionysius Murphy & emig. to USA to join his brother James Hassett; sailed May 1900 from Queenstown | | / | Johanna Liane) (Cobh), Co.Cork to New York on Cunard Line SS "Etruria"; | | / | settled at South Manchester, Connecticut; d.1.11.1941 Connecticut; unm. | | / | | | / | | | / |>>Rosanna Blennerhassett; of Fortfield, Co.Kerry; b. Annagarry (Ownagarry), Killorglin, Co.Kerry; | | / d.c26.1.1828 Churchtown House ["Kerry Evening Post" 26.1.1828] & ["The Warder" Dublin 30.1.1828] | | / but [FOSTER] [BP] & [BIFR p.138] have d.4.2.1828 in error; [GM Feb.1828] has 1.2.1828 in error | | / / | | / m.27.5.1790 Tralee (1st cousin) Sir Robert Blennerhassett, Bart. (F 02) | | / 2nd Baronet of Blennerville; of Churchtown House, Knockane, Beaufort, | | / near Killarney; b.26.1.1769 d.21.9.1831 (Will pr. 1832, transcript exists) | | / | | / | | p. (name unknown) >>>>>>|>>Elizabeth Blennerhassett | | (natural daughter of Arthur Robert Blennerhassett) | | / | | m. Denis Murphy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | F 16 | | F 17 | | | BLENNERHASSETT |>>Millicent (Mildred) >>>>>>>>>>|>>Lucy Eagar | EAGAR FAMILY | Blennerhassett | / | | b.est.c1750 | m. James Murphy | | Mount Rivers, | | | Annagarry |>>Alice Eagar | | (Ownagarry) later of | / | | later of | m. Samuel Saunders | | Annagarry House | | | / |>>Sarah Eagar | / | / | m.est.c1772 | m. Thomas Webb | James Eagar >>>>>>>>>>|>>Tallis Eagar | | [BLGI 1958 p.249] b.25.11.1752 |>>Frances Eagar; unm. | son of John Eagar Ballynacourty, Kerry; | | of Ballinacourty and | of Culleenymore, |>>Millicent Eagar >>>>>>>>>>|>>Millicent Eagar | Dorothea Tallis | Beaufort, Co.Kerry | / | | of Dingle, Co.Kerry | which he inherited | m. Geoffrey Eagar |>>Francis Eagar | (dau. of Philip Tallis) | from his father | of Faha, Co.Kerry; | | / | [BLGI 1958 p.249] | son of Henry Eagar |>>Philip Eagar | m. Margaret Day | / | & Lucinda Yeilding | of The Manor | Tallis Eagar m.2nd | | (dau. of Thomas Day) | Mercy Namuck (issue) |>>Rowland Eagar >>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Rowland Tallis Eagar >>>>>>|>>issue (F 22) | / | this m. not shown in of Lahard, Co.Cavan | of Culleenymore | / | [BLGI 1958] / | / | / | m. Jane Eagar (cousin) | he purchased the lands of Cottage, Ballymalis | / | dau. of James Eagar JP | (later called Gortroe House, Aghadoe?) | / | of Cottage, Ballymalis | from his 1st Cousin, James Raymond Eagar | / | (later called Gortroe | / | / House, Aghadoe?) | m.1st 1822 Tralee | / | Anne Catherine Blennerhassett (F 22); | James Eager (above) had a brother Philip Eager | b.c1810 Kilbonane, Co.Kerry; d.bef.1841; | / | dau. of John Henry Blennerhassett of Tralee (F 22) | [BLGI 1958 p.250] has Philip Eagar m. once: | / | / | m.2nd 27.5.1841 | m. Elizabeth Browne >>>>>>>>>|>> Eagar | Lucinda "Lucy" >>>>>>>>|>>issue (F 22) | of Valentia, Co.Kerry | | Stokes | |>> Eagar | of Caracraig, Co.Kerry | | | | |>> Eagar | | |>>James Eagar; d. an infant | [EAGER 1840 p.31] has Philip Eagar m. twice: | | / |>>Catherine Eagar | m.1st Elizabeth >>>>>>>>>>>>|>>John Eagar | | Blennerhassett | "went abroad" |>>Millicent Eagar; d. an infant | (who is this?) | | / |>>Alexander Eagar | / | "went abroad" | / | | / |>>Robert Eagar | / | d. in England | / | | / |>>dau. Eagar | / / | / m. Nicholson | / | m.2nd >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Philip Eagar | | | |>>Geoffrey Eager | | | |>>Mary Eager | | / | | m. Foley | | | |>> Eager | | / | | m. Taylor | | | | | | | | F 17 | | F 18 | | | BLENNERHASSETT |>>Sarah Blennerhassett >>>>>|>>Dr Alexander Eagar >>>>>>>|>>Annabella Eagar; m. Dr Peppard of Co.Limerick | EAGAR FAMILY b.est.c1755 | MD, AB (TCD) | | Mount Rivers, | b.est.c1780 Ardinane; |>>Sarah Eagar b.est.c1817; of Tralee; d.2.2.1856 at Mount Rivers ["The Cork Examiner" 29.2.1856] (dsp.) | Annagarry | of Tralee & Ardinane, | / | (Ownagarry), | Co.Kerry | m.4.9.1838 Tralee (1st cousin) | Killorglin, Co.Kerry | / | Robert Blennerhassett; of Mount Rivers, Annagarry/Ownagarry, Killorglin from at least 1814 (p.K 44); | / | Known as "the poor | bapt.17.7.1797 St John (C.o.I.) Tralee; [BP/FOSTER/LODGE] have b.27.7.1797 in error; | later of | man's physician" | son of Sir Robert Blennerhassett, 2nd Baronet of Blennerville | Annagharry House; | d.15.7.1817 Tralee | d.2.7.1862 at Mount Rivers ["The Cork Examiner" 11.7.1862] | d.6.9.1826 Tralee | / | / | / | m.29.9.1811 Tralee | NOTE: [HICKSON] says Robert Blennerhassett's widow still alive c1880; an error, or did he marry twice? | m.10.9.1776 | [BLGI 1958 p.250] | / | John Eagar (Agar) | has 1812 in error; | NOTE: [BP] says Robert BH had "dsp"; however a Robert Blennerhassett, gentleman, | b.9.1.1745 (not 1751) | Annabella Yeilding | of Annaghgarry (Annagarry/Ownagarry, Killorglin; p.K 37 & p.K 44) | bapt.9.1.1745 | of Cloghers, Co.Kerry; | had a dau. Mary who m.20.5.1858 at Killorglin to Henry Parks, shopkeeper, of Miltown | Ardrinane; | b.est.c1783 | / | of Ardrinane, | d.1838 Co.Kerry | perhaps(?) not the same man; "Annaghgarry" & "Mount Rivers" are thought to be | Ballynacourty, | (d. of Richard Yeilding) | different houses within the townland of Annagarry (Ownagarry); | Co.Kerry; | | Mount Rivers was left to Robert's nephew Capt. Robert Rowland Conyers (p.K 41), | JP Co.Kerry | | indicating no legitimate issue | / | | | He held the lands | |>>Catherine "Kate" Eagar | of Droumavally, | | / | Co.Kerry | | m.27.9.1854 at Rathkeale, Co.Limerick; | / | | Capt. Townsend Blennerhassett of Ballymacprior Lodge, Killorglin; | Attorney; | | b.11.2.1829; Kerry Militia; d.20.6.1867 (p.K 52) | High Constable | | | for the Barony | |>>Alexina Eagar (dsp) | of Corkaguiny | / | (as was his son | m. (1st cousin) | Robert & Robert's | / | son John after him) |>>Robert Eagar >>>>>>>>>>>|>>John Eagar; b.1811; of Dingle, Co.Kerry; High Constable of the Barony of Corkaguiny (dsp) | / | b.1784 Ardrinane; | | d.1814 "aged 63" | of Dingle; Inherited |>>Alexander Eagar; d. young | Anascaul, Co.Kerry | Ardrinane & Rathmilode | | / | / |>>Rev. Thomas Eagar >>>>>>|>>Dr Robert Taylor Sumner Eagar, MD | son of Alexander | High Constable of the MA (TCD) | b.10.5.1849 (dsp) | Tallis Eagar and | Barony of Corkaguiny b.18.6.1814 | / | Tryphena Browne | / of Ardrinane; | m. Caroline Webb | [BLGI 1958 p.250] | Established three incumbent of | | | breweries, at Dingle, Audenshaw, |>>Margaret Elizabeth Eagar | | Tralee & Killarney, the Manchester; | b.5.12.1854 d.1878 | | last of which he sold to d.2.1.1893 | | | Christopher Galway of / |>>Margaret Eliza Eagar >>>>>>|>> Eagar | | Killarney m. Mary Taylor b.15.6.1857 | | | / dau. of / |>> Eagar | | d.?.7.1843 Stephen Taylor m.1882 | | | / Sir William Edward |>> Eagar | | m.1st 1810 Margaret Eagar Garforth LL.D., JP | | | (dau. of John Eagar, Recorder of Dingle) of Snydale Hall, |>> Eagar | | / ; | | | / d.1.10.1921 |>> Eagar | | m.2nd est.c1821 | | | Susan Thompson >>>>>>>>>|>>Catherine Eagar |>> Eagar | | b.est.c1800 Rathronan, | | | Co.Tipperary |>> Eagar | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | F 18 | | F 19 | | | BLENNERHASSETT |>>Rowland >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>John Rowland Eagar >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Rowland Henry Eagar >>>>>|>>John Curtis Eagar; b.16.7.1912 d.?.7.1980 | EAGAR FAMILY | Blennerhassett Eagar | b.14.5.1816 Sr., b.5.4.1858 | | | b.1786 Adrinane, | post 1855 he emig. to Missouri, USA; went |>>Robert Gouldman Eagar; b.8.9.1915 (twin); | | Ballynacourty Co.Kerry | USA via Kent, England, to Virginia post 1865; | d.7.1.1983 Caroline Co., Virginia | | / | settled Missouri then d.1927 Caroline Co. | | | inherited Droumavally | Caroline Co., Virginia, / |>>Rowland Henry >>>>>>>>>>|>>Diane Lee Eagar | | Co.Kerry from his father | post 1865; d.1899 m.1st Patti Virginia Eagar Jr. b.8.9.1915 b.5.2.1956 Richmond, | | / | / Clarke (dsp) (twin) Caroline Co., Virginia | | d.20.4.1847 | m.28.8.1855 / Virginia; d.23.1.1975 / | | [BLGI 1958 p.250] | Alicia Eagar b.9.5.1820; m.2nd Richmond, Virginia Pennsylvania; | | or d.1843 aged 57 (?) | dau. of John Frederick Nettie Miller Wright / B. McKeithen; | | / | Eagar of Ballymullen, m. Doris Lee Goodman of Philadelphia, | | m.c1.3.1813 | Tralee & Normanton Pennsylvania; | | Mary Anne (Marianne) | House, Dublin FAMILY RESEARCHER | | Mason | [BLGI 1958 p.250]; | | b.est.c1780 | sister of Frederick John Eagar, | | of Kilmore, Co.Kerry | FAMILY RESEARCHER (F 01) | | or Droumavally, Kerry | / | | (dau. of Oliver Mason) | her 2nd marriage; | | | She m.1st 19.1.1848 William Brereton; d.bef.1855; | | | they had a dau. Wilhelmina Brereton | |>>Tallis Eagar; unm. | | | b.?.7.1787 d. Cork |>>Rowland Oliver Eagar; b.4.3.1822 Droumavally; emig. to USA | | | | | |>>Theodora Eagar b.1814 | |>>Frederick Eagar | m.19.6.1845 William Hickson | | d. Dingle (unm.) | | | |>>Sarah Eagar; b.1820 Dromavally (d. young) | | | |>>Frances "Fannie" Eagar >>>>>>>>>>>|>>William Yeilding b.c1796 | b.est.c1777 Ardrinane, | | Ballynacourty, Co.Kerry |>>Alexander Yeilding b.c1798 | / | | m.est.c1795 |>>Dr Richard Massy >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Richard Massy >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Charles Yeilding b.c1848 | Ballynacourty; | Yeilding Jr. Yeilding III | / | Richard Massy | b.3.4.1800 Glensharrold b.c1822 | m. Fanny | Yeilding Sr b.21.6.1773; | Physician; d.12.8.1892 / | | of Bellevue House | Chase, Kansas, USA m. Charlotte Townley |>>two further ch. | (aka Belvue House), | / b.8.5.1823 | | Glensharrold, | m.1st |>>Cyril Yeilding | Co.Limerick; | / | bapt.21.6.1773 | m.2nd c1834 | Rathkeale, Co.Limerick | Margaret Blake >>>>>>>|>>William Massy Yeilding;>|>> b.18353 ch. d.1901; Farmer; to Pennsylvania 1873 | / | b.1810 Ireland | / | d. post 1850 | d.1891 | m.1st Susan "Sue" | Belleview House | / | / | probably bur. at | Brothers Dr Richard | m.2nd Mary Jane Wakeman (issue 3 ch.) | Rathronan Church | Massy Yeilding Jr & | | Ardah, Co.Limerick; | Agar Yeilding emig. |>>Fannie Belinda Fancy Annabella Yeilding | son of Col. William | to Ottawa, Canada | | Richard C.B. Yeilding | c1825 "with shipload |>>Alexander Tallis >>>>>>>>>|>>Charles "Charlie" William Yeilding; b.1878 d.1928 | & Mary Agnes Massy | of goods"; Yeilding; b.17.8.1848 | | | c1837/8 Richard & Batavia, Genesee Co., |>>Richard Andrew Yeilding; b.1880 d.1941 | | family moved from NY; Farmer, Merchant | | | Ottawa, Canada to & Postmaster; |>>Arthur Tallis Yeilding; b.1883 d.1917 | | Batavia, N.York USA; School District Clerk | | | c1855 they moved on / |>>John Chester Yeilding; b.1885 d.1885 | | to Fennimore, nr In 1873 he moved with | | | Muscoda, Grant Co., his father to Rice Co., |>>Lilian Mary Greenlees Yeilding; b.1891 d.1967 | | Wisconsin, USA West Kansas, | | | establishing a farm |>>Walter Archie Yeilding; b.1897 d.1983 | |>>Agar (Eagar) Yeilding & rural Post Office | | | MPP; b.1814 d.7.6.73; named Glen Sharrald |>>Howard Greenlees >>>>>>>>|>>Howard Greenlees >>>>>>>|>> | | emig. Ottawa, Canada / Yeilding Sr Yeilding Jr | | c1825; m.1877 Mary Agnes b.24.7.1894 b.29.10.1921 | | named their home at Greenlees of Illinois d.12.10.1937 d.10.2.1945 | | Ottawa "Glensharrold" / / | | for their old home in Ireland m. Eva Frances m. Hettie Jo Sargent | | / Argrabright b.12.12.1923 | | m. Mary Campbell b.1813 d.14.3.1882 | | F 19 | |>>John Yeilding b.c1815 F 20 | | ???? >|>>Tallis Eager >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Edward >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Johanna "Annie" >>>>>>>>>|>>Geoffrey Edward O'Connell | DISCONNECTED of Caherciveen, | Blennerhassett | Catharine Eagar | b.6.5.1845 Oudtshoorn | BLENNERHASSETT Co.Kerry, Ireland | Eagar | b.22.11.1826 Capetown | | EAGAR FAMILY / | b.c1799/1800 | bapt.16.2.1826 |>>(Edward) William >>>>>>>>|>> O'Connell | m. Julia Barton | Co.Kerry, Ireland | in the English Church | O'Connell b.28.1.1847 | | | / | (one of these two | / |>> O'Connell | | / | dates must be wrong!) | he left his wife and | | emig. to Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, Cape | / | eight children destitute |>> O'Connell | Colony, South Africa; he was one of a party of | m.1.8.1844 (RC) | d.30.4.1890 Transvaal | | 35 settlers from Co.Kerry, Ireland who sailed | Oudtshoorn, S.Africa | / |>> O'Connell | on the ship "Amphitrite", arriving Table Bay 1820; | John O'Connell | m. Henrietta Ann | | led by Dr Nightingale, the party included | b.c1811 Co.Kerry; | Helen Hitseroth |>> O'Connell | Edward Blennerhassett Eagar; Elizabeth Ann | emig to Cape Province; | | | O'Connell (nee Ross) and her children John, | settled at Oudtshoorn, |>>Elizabeth O'Connell |>> O'Connell | Michael & Annie O'Sullivan / | Cape Province; | b.1848 | | | / | d.24.10.1885 | |>> O'Connell | | Edward B. Eagar was | Oudtshoorn |>>Daniel O'Connell | | | granted permission | / | b.1850 |>> O'Connell | | to remain in the | this was | | | colony 1822; in 1823 | John O'Connell's |>>Emily O'Connell | | he had retail shop | 2nd marriage; | b.1852 Oudtshoorn; | | at 31 Longmarket | he m.1st (unm. partner) | d.1899 Beaconsfield, | | Street, Capetown; | Susanna Tolvey | Cape Colony, SA | | by 1830 had entered | (or Falvey?), | / | | into partnership with | having issue 2 sons: | m. John Lindsay Payne | | Henry Home and | 1. William O'Connell | | | others as a merchant | b.18.1.38 Oudtshoorn; |>>Jane O'Connell b.1853 | | / | 2. John O'Connell | | | in April or May 1855 | b.15.2.45 Oudtshoorn |>>Annie O'Connell b.1854 | | Home, Eagar & Co | d.c1887? | | | surrendered its | / |>>Mathilda O'Connell | | estates due to | John O'Connell | b.2.12.1855 | | financial difficulties | was a son of | d.18.12.1855 an infant; | | / | Dr Geoffrey O'Connell | parish of St.Petere | | in 1858 "Eagar & Co." | b.c1776 Co.Kerry | & St.Paul, George, | | were merchants and | d.c1812 Co.Kerry; | Cape Province | | general agents at | and | | | Mossell Bay, then a | Elizabeth Ann Ross |>>Johanna O'Connell b.1857 | | small seaport 250 m. | (bapt.1775 Chatham, | | | east of Capetown; | England; d. SA; |>>John O'Connell b.1858 | | in 1864 Edward | she went to Capetown | | | Blennerhassett Eagar | as a widow, with her |>>Mary Mathilda O'Connell | | was appointed | children John, Michael b.1861 d.26.4.1863 | | United States | & Annie O'Connell, | | Consul for | residing at George | | Mossell Bay | with her son | | / | Michael O'Connell | | of Wardel Street, | (prominent merchant | | Gardens, Capetown; | at George) and | | d.c22.10.1874 | daughter Annie | | at his home [Cape | / | | Argus 22.10.1874] | as a widow Elizabeth | | / | Ann O'Connell m.2nd | | m.4.3.1822 in the | to N. N. Eagar, they | | English Church at | having a daughter | | Capetown; | Elizabeth Eagar | | Johanna Catherina | | | Bossert | | | d.6.7.1878 | | | |>>Robert Daniel Eagar | | | b.3.3.1825 Capetown | |>>John Eagar | | | emig. Cape Colony, |>>Edward Eagar | | South Africa 1824 | b.19.1.1829 Capetown | | with his bro. Robert; | | | d. unm. |>>Tallis Rowland Eagar | | | b.20.9.1843 Capetown | | | d.?.6.1844 Capetown | | | | | |>>Matilda Eleanor Eagar | | | b.17.8.1845 Capetown F 20 | | | F 21 | | | | | |>>Henry Charles Eagar | | | b.20.9.1841 Capetown | | | | | |>>John Harrington Eagar | | | b.4.9.1837 Capetown | | | | | |>>Jane Elizabeth Eagar | | | b.29.9.1823 Capetown | | | | | |>>William Frederick Eagar | | b.1.8.1839 Capetown | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |>>Robert Eagar >>>>>>>>>>|>>issue | / | emig. to Cape Colony, South Africa 1824 with his brother John | went to England with wife & children and stayed there | / | m. Hendrina | | | ???? >|>>Blennerhassett Eagar >>>>>|>>Blennerhassett Edward Eagar | b.1862 Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa | d.4.3.1901 Palmiafontein, Bloemfontein, South Africa | [Transvaal Deceased Estates Index 1855-1976] | | ???? >|>>Justus "Juste" >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Grace Janet Eagar | Blennerhasset Eagar / | d.bef.1921 m.1st Berrange | of Port Elizabeth, Natal, / | South Africa 1910-1918 m.2nd 14.9.1921 | [Cape Estates Death St.Clement Danes, | Notice Index 1834-1951] London; | / Stanley Norie-Miller, | m. Orange Free State MC, MA; of Cleeve, | Perth, Scotland & | [Free State Marriages} 5 Orme Court, London | | | ???? >|>>Douglas Blennerhasset >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | Eagar | b.18.4.1893 d.11.10.1958 | bur. Kleinbrak, S.Africa | / | m.c1936(?) Myra Searle | | | | | | | | ???? >|>>Charles Ross Eagar >>>>>>>|>>>>>>>>> FROM WHOM DESCENDED >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | / | perhaps related to Edward Blennerhassett Eager (above) F 21 | F 22 | |>>Samuel >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Anne Blennerhassett (perhaps Anne E. Avice Blennerhassett?); of Coolfada, Co.Cork; b.c1742; d.4.5.1813 "...after a severe illness..." | Blennerhassett | / | of Tralee; | m.1st John Hoare (p.K 35 & p.BD 01) of Drumcar, Co.Kerry (family of Dunkettle and Factory Hill, Co.Cork); | b.c1709 | (issue, p.BD 01); he had m.1st Anne Alcock (b.c1690 Co.Cork) dau. of Maskelyne Alcock | / | / | d.24.10.1794 | m.2nd her cousin Robert (a.k.a. John) Blennerhassett of Rossbeigh, Co.Kerry ([BLGI 1958 EAGAR p.249] names him John); b.bef.1736 d.bef.1807 (issue - p.K 35) | at Ballynalart, | son of Edward Blennerhassett of Rossbeigh Lodge, Glenbeigh, Killorglin, Co.Kerry (p.K 19) | near Tralee; | / | bur. Ballyseedy | m.3rd 18.11.1807 (she aged 65 years) at Tralee; | / | John Moore Eagar of Cottage, Co.Kerry (he aged 36 years) b.c1761 (p.K 35); son of James Eagar of Ballymalis and Cottage, Co.Kerry; | m. Catherine | his 2nd marriage - he m.1st Elizabeth Peet, dau. of Ephraim Peet of Cork, and had issue: 1. James Peet Eagar (unm.); 2. Elizabeth Eagar; m. George Beale of Cork | O'Connor (Connor) | | dau. of Ven. |>>Frances >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> McCarthy >>>>>>>>>>|>>issue | Maurice O'Connor; | Blennerhassett | / | Archdeacon | d.c21.12.1808 | m. | of Ardfert | Srugrena | | / | [CMC 21.12.1808] |>>Samuel Trant >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Samuel Trant >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Samuel Trant McCarthy | (descendant of | / McCarthy Sr McCarthy / | King Edward I | m.1777 Daniel McCarthy; / In 1921 he assumed, by deed poll, the ancient title of "McCarthy Mor", on the basis of | of England) | of Srugrena Abbey, / m. a personal belief that his grandfather Samuel Trant McCarthy was eldest son of Daniel | ROYAL DESCENT | Co.Kerry; m. McCarthy and Frances Blennerhassett and thus heir to McCarthy Mor; | | In late 1700s of Sunday's Valerie Bary in [HK] disputes this, writing: | | Well House, Killarney; "...In 1921, during the upheaval of the (Irish) Civil War, Samuel Trant McCarthy | | heir to "McCarthy Mor" strangely claimed by deed poll, the title of MacCarthy Mor. This could have been | | disputed by two more senior lines... In fact there had been a bitter correspondence in | |>>Mary Blennerhassett (dsp) a Kerry newspaper, from members of the Srugrena Sept, who contested the seniority | |>>Thomas Blennerhassett; d.bef.1774 (dsp) of Samuel Trant's grandfather. This was never resolved. It is probable that heirs exist | |>>John Blennerhassett; d.bef.1774 (dsp) for the senior Dunguile line, and perhaps even a junior line of MacCarthy Mor..." | |>>William Blennerhassett; d.bef.1774 (dsp) | | | |>>Henry Blennerhassett >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>John Henry >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Anne Catherine >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Rowland Eagar; d. an infant | of Tralee, Co.Kerry | Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett | | & Dublin; b.c1734/5 | b.est. c1760 Dublin | b.c1801 Kilbonane, |>>John Henry Blennerhassett Eagar | / | / | Kerry; d.bef.1841 | | d.1816 bur. Ballyseedy (bur. register starts 1817); | In 1803 he inherited | / |>>Morgan O'Connell Busteed Eagar | Solicitor in Chancery (Attorney); | from his mother her | m.1822 at Tralee; | | "Clerk of the Crown & Peace for Kerry" at Tralee | "...seal with | Rowland Tallis Eagar |>>Elizabeth Eagar | 1759 (keeper of the legal records for the county); | Blennerhassett | of Culleenymore | | of 9 South Cumberland Street, Dublin; of Bishop | arms set in gold..."; | (which he inherited); |>>Jane Eagar | St., Dublin 1783; of St.Andrew Street, Dublin 1802 | all her silver plate | g.son of Millicent | | / | and "his own picture" | (Mildred) BH |>>Anne Eagar | m.1.7.1759 (settlement 21.12.1758 ) Mary Poujade | / | Tallis Eagar (p.F 17) | | NOTE: the 1.7.1759 date is embossed in gold on | of Killorglin; also | / |>>Catherine Frances Eagar; d. an infant THE GIFT OF . | the binding of a "Book of Common Prayer" given | of Tralee 1817-1841; | He purchased "The | HENRY BLENNER: | by Henry BH to Mary Poujade on their marriage; | of The Terrace, Tralee | lands of Cottage", |>>Millicent Eagar; d. an infant HASSETT TO HIS | d.1803 (Will dated 1.1.1802, pr. 25.5.1803); bur. | 1835 | Ballymalis, Co.Kerry | WIFE MARY ON | St.Peters churchyard, Dublin, with her mother; | / | (later called Gortroe |>>Ellen Eagar; d.an infant THEIR INTERMAR- | (stone no longer visible c1883); She inherited the | d.15.8.1841 Tralee, | House, Aghadoe?) RIAGE JAN: RY 7 . TH | residue of her mother's property on condition | bur. Ballyseedy | from a 1st cousin, 1759 | that husband Henry Blennerhassett was | (but not in register) | James Raymond | "...to have no means to meddle with it…" (p.K 56) | / | Eagar | | m.1st c26.9.1791 | / |>>Alice Blennerhassett >>>>>>|>>issue | Elizabeth O'Connell of | Rowland Tallis Eagar | m. Daniel Ferris | Kiltannon, Rathkeale, | m.2nd 27.5.1841; | of Muckinagh (RC) | Co.Limerick d.31.8.1807 | Lucinda "Lucy" >>>>>>>>|>>Oliver Eagar | | (d. of John O'Connell) | Stokes of Caracraig, | |>>Lucy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Gerrard | / | Co.Kerry; |>>Honoria Eagar | Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett | / | dau. of Oliver Stokes | | / | Heaphy | / | |>>Margaret Eagar | m. John Heaphy, | | / | | (Heafy, Healy) |>>John | / |>>Catherine Blennerhassett; unm. | / | Blennerhassett | / | THE BOOK OF | son of Rachel | Heaphy | / |>>Mary Blennerhassett; unm. COMMON PRAYER | Blennerhassett | | / | | (of Riddlestown Park, |>>Avice | / |>>Henry Blennerhassett; b.c1802 d.c24.6.1819 Tralee; unm.; | Limerick; p.R 11) | Blennerhassett | / not mentioned in his g.mother's 1802 Will | & Daniel Heaphy | Heaphy | / | | | NOTE: [BIFR O'Connell p.895] but not [BIFR Blennerhassett p.138 & p.139] has this John Henry Blennerhassett | |>>Lucy | as m.2nd 31.10.1803 to Ellen O'Connell (nee Tuohy), widow of Thomas O'Connell, MD (s. of Jane Blennerhassett & | Blennerhassett | father-in-law of "The Liberator", p.K 32); This is in error, Ellen Tuohy O'Connell did remarry to a Blennerhassett | Heaphy | but not to John Henry Blennerhassett; Ellen's "Blennerhassett" husband died before 1836 (p.K 27) - who was he? F 22 | (the above four also appear on p.R 11) | / F 23 | John Henry | / birth record is indexed as William Alexander Russwurm TRINIDAD, B.W.I. | Blennerhassett's | J.H.B. m.2nd 19.7.1817 Enniscorthy, Co.Wexford (C.o.I.); (not Co.Down); b.Oct-Dec.1863 at Portsea Island - we need to see this St.LUCIA, B.W.I. | 2nd marriage... | ["Freeman's Journal" 26.7.1817]; [BIFR p.139] has m.1818 in error birth certificate to verify if states Alexander or Arthur JAMAICA, B.W.I. | | / / PANAMA | | Veronica Montgomery >>>>>|>>Veronica >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Veronica >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Lt.-Col. William >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>William "Bill" John Pierce Russwurm Blennerhassett * | | of Co.Cavan; | Montgomerie | Montgomerie | Arthur Russwurm | b. Apr-Jun.1903 East Stoke, near Wareham, Dorset; | | Proprietor of | (Montgomery ) | (Montgomery ) | Blennerhassett* | edu. Bristol Grammar School; of Tunbridge Wells, Kent; | POSSIBLE(?) DISCONNECTED FAMILY: | Enniscorthy School | Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett | / | d.1967/8 Marseilles, France (dsp) | Mary B. (Blennerhassett?) Atthill | b.c1790 | b.c1819/1820 Tralee | Atthill | b.Oct-Dec.1863 | / | b.c1865 Ireland; | / | Co.Kerry, Ireland | / | Portsmouth, Hants | m.1st Oct-Dec.1936 Ipswich, ; | visitor at Ross, Herefordshire, England 1901 | d.4.12.1827 | / | b.c1841/3 St.Lucia, | (re:1911 census) as | Ada English (D) | | at Prince's Quay, Tralee | of Tralee 1840; | British West Indies | William Arthur | / | | "...after a protracted | of 2 Park Villas, Park | / | Russwurm (Russwürm) | m.2nd Apr-Jun.1948; Willesden, Middlesex; | | illness"; | Road, St Leonard, | of 2 Park Villas, Park | the additional surname | | | bur.7.12.27 Ballyseedy | Hythe, Kent 1871; | Road, St Leonard, | Blennerhassett* (his | Lilian M. ("Nancy"?) Watkins | | old graveyard; | of Sea Rd, Felpham, | Hythe, Kent 1871; | maternal g.mother's | | | ([BIFR p.139] has | Chichester, | of Sea Road, | maiden name) being | |>>Edward Blennerhassett (dsp) | d.1828 in error) | West Sussex 1891; | Felpham, Chichester, | assumed for all this |>>John du Sautoy >>>>>>>|>> | | / | d.7.1.1897; (not | West Sussex 1891 | family by deed poll in | Russwurm | | | dau. of | 11.1.1888 or 1885) | / | 1912, at urging of his | Blennerhassett *, | | | Robert Montgomery | , Sussex; | d.23.7.1909 | Irish aunts, the line of | MBE (1969); b.9.4.1905 | | | of Co.Wexford; | bur. Worthing | South Bank, Swanage, | John Henry BH of | West Ham, London; | | | [FOSTER] & | / | Dorset, England | Tralee being extinct | edu. Bristol | | | [BIFR p.139] have him | m.15.9.1840 | / | / | Grammar School | | | of Co.Down, in error | Dingle (C.o.I.) Kerry; | m.1st 1861 St.Lucia | edu.Trinity College, | / | | | / | Hon. John Grey | Capt. William | Stratford on Avon; | Lieut. RNVR WWII | | | NOTE: Her family name | Porter Atthill LL.D. | John Russwurm | of 29 Withleigh Road, | / | | | was Montgomery but | b.12/31.12.1812 | (Russwürm) | Knowle, Bristol 1911; | stationed at Jamaica, | | | but children used the | Brandiston Hall, | / | 134 Queens Rd, Clifton, | B.W.I. in 1940s/50s; | | | spelling Montgomerie | nr Norwich, Norfolk; | b.c1831 Portsea, | Bristol 1920; fire & life | of Balmoral Avenue, | | | as a middle name | (but 1871 census | Hampshire; | insur'ce inspector 1911; | Kingston 10, Jamaica; | | | | has him b. Ireland); | bapt.7.1.1831 | Mgr of Sun insurance | & of Cargill Avenue, | | | | named for Rev. John | St John, Portsea | office, Clare St. Bristol | Kingston, Jamaica | | | | Grey Porter, son of | NOTE: [FOSTER] | / | / | | | | Bishop of Clogher | names him William | Lieut. in Lincolnshire | British Consul at | | | | and a family friend | Alexander Russwurm | Regt. c1886-1887; | Colon, Panama | | | | / | / | as Lieut. transferred to | during the 1950s; | | | | Barrister-at-law; | son of Rev. Alexander | the 1st Battalion The | of Cristobal | | | | of St Peter's Dublin | & Emily Russwurm | Sherwood Foresters | (at Atlantic end of the | | | | 1840; of St Lucia & | of Mareham Vicarage, | (Derbyshire Regiment) | Panama Canal Zone) | | | | Kingston, Jamaica; | Abingdon, Berkshire | 23.3.1887, his posting | / | | | | Judge of the Royal | who in 1878 proved | anti-dated 2.6.1886 | Retired to Regent, | | | | Court at the Island | the Will of Alfred | [London Gazette | Whangarei, NI, | | | | of St.Lucia in BWI | Du Sautoy (d.29.3.78) | 3.5.1887, p.2442]; | New Zealand | | | | Attorney General for | of The Pines, | served at Kilkenny, | (of 216 Morningside | | | | St.Lucia" 1844; | Petersfield, Hampshire | Ireland 1886-1887 and | Rd, Whangarei, NZ) | | | | Chief Justice, Court | [London Gazette | Limerick, Ireland 1888-9 | / | | | | of Vice-Admiralty at | 2.7.1878 p.4120] | transferred to Plymouth | d.3.9.1983 Whangarei | | | | St.Lucia, W.Indies; | / | (Devonport) 1889; | / | | | | in 1863 he was | commissioned Ensign | resigned his | m.3.8.1940 | | | | recommended for | in 3rd Battalion West | commission 1889 | (Hilda) Elinor Wooler | | | | transfer to Tobago, | India Regt. of Foot | [London Gazette | of Leeds, England | | | | but did not accept; | 5.1.1847, succeeding | 8.11.1889 p.5921] | b.28.7.1915 | | | | retired bef.1873 | O'Flanagan | / | d.2000 New Zealand | | | | / | / | moved to South Africa; | | | | | d.3.9.1887 Fairview, | promoted Lieutenant | sergeant in "G" Troop | | | | | Lansing, Sussex; | 28.4.1852; served in | of the Bulawayo Field | | | | | Will dated 1887 | Gambia, West Africa; | Force during Matabele | |>> | | | / | present at storming | Rebellion of 1896 | | | | fourth son of Rev. | and destruction of the | / | | | | William Atthill, MA | fortified Mandingo | Lt. with Matabeleland | | | | b.?.4.1774 d.1847; | town Sabajee on the | Mounted Police, in | | | | of Brandiston Hall, | river Gambia 1.6.1853; | Rhodesia, during the | | | | nr Norwich, Norfolk; | promoted Captain | Matabele War from | | | | went to Ireland (as | 13.8.1858, without | 24.3.1896- 31.12.1896 | | | | chaplain to Dr Porter, | purchase [London | / | | | | Bishop of Clogher); | Gazette 24.8.1858] | joined Bechuanaland | | | | Prebendary of | / | Border Police 1897; | | | | Clocher & Rector | appointed Commander | Lieut. in British South | | | | of Ardess, Ireland; | of McCarthy's Island, | Africa Police, as warder | | | | & Henrietta Margaret | in the Gambia River | of Johannesburg Old | | | | Eyre Maunsell | 18.2.1863 | Goal, & Customs Dept. | F 23 | | | / | / | / | F 24 | | | / | / | / | | | | for 300 years the | the 3rd West India | during the Anglo-Boer |>>Flora Liebe >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | | | Atthill family seat | Regt. returned from | War he joined the Natal | Russwurm | | | was Brandiston Hall | West Africa to | Mounted 2.9.1899 | Blennerhassett * | | | in Norfolk; | Jamaica in 1865 | as Sergeant and was | (Lady Hanson) | | | monuments to the | / | later commissioned | / | | | Atthill family are in | died (at Jamaica?) | (service/medal No.317); | there seven 1925 photo | | | Brandiston Church | still serving, at end of | with NMR saw action at | portraits of Lady Hanson, | | | (now disused) | 1865 or early 1866, | Elandslaagte, Defence | by Bassano, at National | | | | being succeeded as | of Ladysmith, and | Portrait Gallery [Ref: | | | | Capt. in 3rd W. India | Laingh's Nek; also ops | x121371-4 & x123241-3] | | | | Regiment 26.1.1866 by | in Cape Colony, Orange | / | | | | Lt. Ebenezer Rogers | Free State & Transvaal | d.10.11.1956 | | | | [London Gazette | / | / | | | | 30.3.1866 p.2140]; | discharged 1.10.1900 | m.28.2.1922 | | | | [Hart's Army List | but re-enlisted on same | Sir Gerald Stanhope Hanson, Bart.; 2nd Bt of Bryanston Square (London); b.23.4.1867; | | | | 1867 p.584] | day, serving briefly as | succeeded 1905 at his father's death; edu. Magdalen College, Cambridge; | | | | / | Squadron Sergeant- | Lt. 4th Battalion Oxford Light Infantry; | | | | [BIFR 1976 p.139] | Major in the Natal | Capt. Royal Fusiliers & RFA; d.18.1.1946 (his 3rd marriage) | | | | has d.1863, in error | Volunteer Composite | / | | | | / | Regiment (No.12); | he had m.1st Apr-Jun.1899 St George Hanover Square; Sylvia Linda Dutton-Cook; d.1.1.1910 (issue) | | | | NOTE: his youngest | Lieut. in 1st Kitchener's | / | | | | child Emily "Daisy" | Fighting Scouts | he had m.2nd 24.10.1912 Dorothy Gwendoline Peel; of Lincoln; d.24.10.1918 (D 1917) | | | | Russwurm b.c1865/6 | 10.12.1900 - 23.3.1901; | | | | | at Portsmouth, | made Captain 24.3.1901; |>>Veronica Mary >>>>>>>>|>> | | | | Hampshire, England; | transferred to 2nd Regt. Russwurm Blenner- | | | | | she perhaps(?) born | K.F.S. April 1901, hassett * b.5.7.1906 |>> | | | | postumously | serving as Captain & West Ham, London; | | | | / | Adjutant until 7.7.1902, of 3 Meadow Close, | | | | NOTE: | on operations in Cape Bransgore, Christchurch, | | | | [BIFR 1976 p.139] | Colony, Orange Free Hants (now Dorset) 1976 | | | | states William John | State and Transvaal; / | | | | Russwurm was | said to be "a character" m.12.1.1935 James | | | | "...sometime Military | and a great friend of Herbert Sloan; of Belfast; | | | | Governor of St Lucia" | Lord Kitchener, on Commodore, Indian | | | | but no evidence found | whose staff he served; Steamship Company; | | | | for him holding this | discharged July 1902 d.9.12.1972 | | | | post; he was married | / | | | | at St Lucia, BWI, | In 1905 he was cited as "William Arthur Russwurm Blennerhassett" in divorce proceedings brought by Edgar Lyman against his wife | | | | where father-in-law | Edith Lyman [divorce court file 5975; J 77/855/5975]; | | | | John Gray Porter | and from 1912 he was for all purposes known by his formally adopted surname "Blennerhasett"; | | | | Atthill did hold senior | / | | | | positions, so perhaps | his WWI medal rolls index card originally named him "W.A.R. Blennerhassett", but later, perhaps at the end of the war, someone | | | | he has been confused | has indicated on the card that that W.A.R. represented "William Arthur Russell" (rather than the correct "William Arthur Russwurm"); | | | | with his father-in-law? | this is probably an error caused by misreading "Russwurm" on some other document, but biographical notes for WABR printed in a | | | | / | sale catalogue for "A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers", at which WABR's South African medals | | | | / | sold by auction 30.3.2011, state "During the Great War he served under a less Germanic name, as William Arthur Russell Blennerhassett" | | | | / | / | | | | / | Capt. Commanding Bristol East Company National Reserve 1914; | | | | / | comissioned into the Gloucestershire Regt. (Bristol Boy's Regt.) as Captain 9.8.1914 | | | | / | promoted to Maj. 12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt.; served on the Western Front, arriving at the Somme 22.11.1915; | | | | / | "…On the morning of 20.11.1915 the transport under Major W.A.R. Blennerhassett moved off; their route lay through | | | | / | Southampton & Harve…" quote from from the narrative of Lt.-Col. H.A.Colt, DSO, MC, 12th Battalion Gloucestershire Regt. | | | | / | Major with 17th Battalion (Territorial) Essex Regiment; resigned his commission Feb. 1919, retiring at the rank of Lieut.-Col. | | | | / | / | | | | / | MEDALS AWARDED | | | | / | for B.F.F. service: British South Africa Company medal, "Rhodesia 1896" engraved on reverse (i.e. not a bar); medal order No.96 July 1897; | | | | / | for Natal Mounted Rifles service: Queen's South Africa Medal of 1899-1902 | | | | / | with six bars (clasps); for Cape Colony, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal and Laing's Neck; | | | | / | for Kitchener's Fighting Scouts service: King's South Africa medal with two bars (clasps), for 1901 & 1902; | | | | / | for WWI service: awarded the 1914-15 trio of Victory Medal, British War Medal and 1914-15 star (a.k.a. "Mons Star"); | | | | / | The first 3 medals were sold by auction 30.3.2011, one lot of "A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers"; | | | | / | An incomplete set of miniature medals, with uniform buttons from Kitchener's Fighting Scouts, is in the custody of his grandson Ned | | | | / | / | | | | / | following retirement to Jamaica he was a farmer, leasing a farm at Shooters Hill in the parish of Manchester, Middlesex Co., Jamaica; | | | | / | d.3.1.1930 at Mandeville, the principal town of the parish of Manchester and "a rural place high in the mountains"; | | | | / | his death notice in [TIMES 7.1.1930] gives this date but [BIFR p.139] has him d.1.1.1930; he is said to have died as a result of having | | | | Follow this column | been thrown from his horse during the King's Birthday Parade, but have no confirmation of this; bur. in the fore-yard of parish church | | | | down to Veronica | at Mandeville; a brass memorial plaque to Lt.-Col Blennerhassett is on a wall inside the church - need photograph of this plaque | | | | Montgomerie BH | / | | | | Atthill's possible | m.c1896 Carribean (or m.11.7.1901 ?); | | | | 2nd & 3rd marriages | Edith Livingstone F 24 | | | | / | b.c1877 Newark, Nottinghamshire; d.1942; widow of Mr Gray of Nottingham F 25 | | | | / | | | | | / |>>Veronica Emily A. >>>>>>>>|>>Maj. Guy du Sautoy >>>>>>|>> | | | the great war for civilisation | medal, / the 1914-15 star | Russwurmand the British war medal | Atthill | | | | | / | b.1862/4 Corozal, | b.8.9.1885 Brandiston |>> | | | | / | British Honduras | Hall, Norfolk; | | | | / | / | secondary schoolmaster; | | | | / | of Bank, Matlock, | of 1 Salisbury Villas, | | | | / | Derbyshire 1871; | Dorchester, Dorset 1911; | | | | / | school mistress 1911 | d.1947 | | | | / | / | / | | | | / | d.Apr-Jun.1955 | m.Jul-Sep.1907 Christchurch, Hampshire (now Dorset); | | | | / | Ipswich, Suffolk | Mary Turner; b.c1829 Croydon, Surrey | | | | / | / | | | | | / | m.14.12.1884 |>>Canon John "Jack" Alexander Atthill, V.F. | | | | / | at St.Faiths, Norfolk; | b.1.1.1887 Rhyl, North Wales; | | | | / | (jointly with sis. Emily?) | of Brandiston Hall, Norfolk | | | | / | William Atthill (cousin) | / | | | | / | b.3.10.60 Central India | RC Priest, ordained 1911 (Edmundian Fathers, Hitchen); | | | | / | perhaps(?) a nephew of | headmaster of the school at Hitchen; | | | | / | Veronica Montgomerie | Nottingham Cathedral; assistant priest St.Mary's, Derby; Melbourne until 1939 | | | | / | Blennerhassett Atthill | (1 year at Long Eaton); Parish Priest of St.Helen's, Oldcotes & of Harworth; | | | | / | (F 23) | Dean of the Worksop Deanery; | | | | / | / | d.4.7.1963 Woodthorpe | | | | / | edu. Downing College | | | | | / | Cambridge c1891 (BA); |>>Rosamond Eyre Atthill; b.c1889 Brandiston Hall, Norfolk; | | | | / | schoolmaster 1911 | boarder at 104A Station Road, Langley Mill, Nottinghamshire 1911; | | | | / | / | District Nurse at Beeston; of Scilly Isles | | | | / | of Brandiston Hall, | | | | | / | nr Norwich, Norfolk; |>>Vera Herbert Atthill; b.1891 Chesterton, Cambridgeshire; d. an infant | | | | / | of 125 Chesterton Rd, | | | | | / | Chesterton, Camb. 1891; |>>Cicely Lloyd Atthill; b.c1895 Budleigh, Devon; | | | | / | of 9 Moring Road, | perhaps(?) m. Mr Pearson of Wellington, Somerset | | | | / | of Tooting Graveney/ | | | | | / | Balham, Wandsworth |>>Phyllis Blennerhassett Atthill | | | | / | 1901; of 15 Glenton Rd, b.Jan-Mar.1899 Tooting Graveney / Balham, Wandsworth, London; | | | | / | London 1911 of Lavenham, Suffolk; | | | | / | / bapt.16.2.1899 Tooting Ggaveney | | | | / | d.1938 / | | | | / | m.28.2.1925 Lavenham; | | | | / | Frank Joseph Head; b.c1902, of Monks Eleigh | | | | / | | | | | / |>>Emily "Daisy" >>>>>>>>>>|>>Rev. Pierce Rollo >>>>>>|>> | | | | / Russwurm; b.c1865/6 | Butler; b.6.11.1885 | | | | / Portsmouth, Hants; | Rector of Melcombe | | | | / perhaps postumously; | Bingham, Dorset | | | | / (perhaps b.Jul-Sep.1865 | 1913-23; d.1950 | | | | / Portsea Island, but this | / | | | | / is uncertain) | Served in WWI with | | | | / / | the Italian Red Cross | | | Veronica Montgomerie Atthill of Bank, Matlock, | and RAF; | | | (nee Blennerhassett) Derbyshire 1871; at | and as hon. Chaplain, | | | b.c1841/3 St.Lucia, British West Indies (F 23) boarding school 1881 | Despatches (MID); | | | is believed to have m.2nd (11 St Andrews Place, | Croce di Guerra; | | | to Mr de Bougarde St Pancras, London); | Port Chaplain at South- | | | (but no record of this marriage has been found) d.24.5.1933 | ampton, Hants 1923; | | | | / / | Rector of N. Baddesley, | | | The only de Bougarde or Bougarde found in perhaps m.14.12.1884 | Hampshire 1937-50 | | | the UK at that date is Peter Leopold Bougarde, at St.Faiths, Norfolk | / | | | b.c1902, d.Jan-Mar.1903 Hackney, London jointly with sis. Veronica | m.7.1.1911 Ethel Florence | | | | / (but not m.1.1.1885); | Symes; d.1943 | | | Veronica Montgomerie Atthill de Bougarde Rev. Pierce Armar | | | | (nee Blennerhassett) Butler; b.26.6.1863 |>>Maj. Hubert >>>>>>>>>>>|>> | | | b.c1841/3 St.Lucia, British West Indies (F 23) / | Blennerhassett Butler | | | | is believed to have m.3rd Rector of Brancaster, | b.12.8.1887 |>> | | | to Maj. Claude William Montgomerie, Kings Lynn | / | | | 3rd Madras Native Infantry (see below, F 26) [BP Carrick, Earl] | served WWI as 2nd Lt. & Capt. in the Dorsetshire Regt. in France & Palestine; | | | | / d.23.3.1924 | Maj. Royal Engineers; served WWII in Egypt; d.1986 | | | 1901 census states the Veronica de Bougarde | / | | | who m. Maj. Claude William Montgomerie | m.4.10.1919 | | | was b.c1844 Ireland, not at St Lucia; | Sophie Marie Castravelli; | | | but, as Veronica's mother was b. at Tralee, | of Bacos, Alexandria, Egypt; d.1985 | | | Ireland, this may be a census form filling error | F 25 | | | | / |>>Norah Veronica Pierce; b.30.8.1904 d.1995 F 26 | | | | / | | | | m.3rd | | | NOTE >------> | Maj. Claude William >>>>>>|>>Rev. Philip Vincent >>>>>>>>>>|>>Patrick >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | | | It is said that c1931 | Montgomerie Montgomerie (C.o.E.) | Blennerhassett | | | when Rev. Philip | 3rd Madras Native b.20.7.1873 S. Stoneham, | Montgomerie b.1910 | | | Vincent Montgomerie | Infantry; d.bef.1901 Bitterne, Hampshire | emig. to Australia c1946 | | | died, a relative named | / / | / | | | "Blennerhassett" | NOTE: he perhaps(?) adult baptism 6.4.1896 | m.1940 | | | returned to Cork; | identical with at St Andrew the Less, | Winifred Roast; d. | | | who is this? | S. C. Montgomerie, Cambridge; edu. St. | | | | | Maj. 3rd Madras Catherine's, Cambridge |>>Ralph Montgomerie | | | | Native Infantry, (Matric 1894 BA 1900); | b.1912 d.1988 | | | | b.c1843; of 7 Warkworth Terrace | / | | | | appointed Maj. 1863; Camb. 1896 (as student) | m. Mary | | | | retired full pay 1878 ordained Deacon 1900 | | | | | at Rochester; Priest |>>Kathleen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | | | | 1901; Curate of | Montgomerie | | | | |>>Henrietta Margaret St.Mark's, Lewisham, | b.1914 (twin) | | | | | Eyre Atthill Kent 1900-02; | d.1987 | | | | | b.c1844 Ireland Curate of St.Peter's, | / | | | | | / Rochester 1902-3; | m.1943 | | | | | m. Frederick Arthur Curate of Kingsbury, | Harry Foxwell; |>> | | | | Selwyn Warwickshire 1904-8 | of Lymington, | | | | | / | Hampshire | | | | | in 1901 with his mother | | | | | |>>Emilie Gertrude Atthill Veronica at 104 High |>>Marjorie | | | | | / Road, Lee, Lewisham; | Montgomerie |>> | | | | m. C. de Ciraudy of Verwood, Wimborne | b.1914 (twin) | | | | Dorset 1911; | d.1986 unm. | | | | d.Oct-Dec.1931 | | | | |>>Helena Grace Atthill Lymington, Hampshire |>>Jack Montgomerie | | | | d.3.2.1883 / b.1918 d.1918 | | | | / | | | | m.Oct-Dec1908 Hampstead, London; | | | | Katherine Franklin; b.c1888 Hurley, Warwickshire | | | | | | | author of: |>>(William Eyre) >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Isabel Blennerhassett Atthill | | | [Treatment of Post | Blennerhassett | b.Oct-Dec.1873 Holborn, London | | | Partum Haemorrhage | Atthill, MD | | | | pt XIX, The British | b.14.4.1848 St. Lucia, |>>Gertrude Maude Blennerhassett Atthill; | | | Medical Journal | British West Indies | b.c1874 Walenbeck, Scotland; d.1904(?) | | | 18.4.1874 p.507]; | / | / | | | | Medical Student, | m.Jul-Sep.1900 Sunderland, Durham; | | | | of 4 Lancaster Road, | (Frederick) Conway Tearle | | | | Kensington, 1871; | (born Frederick Levy; stage name "Conway Tearle") | | | | L.R.C.P. London, | | | | | M.R.C.S. England | b.17.5.1878 NY City; edu. West Point, New York State | | | | / | U.S. Screen actor; d.1.10.1938 Hollywood, California; | | | | in 1874 of Waterbeck, | he m.2nd 1905 Josephine Park; | | | | Ecclefechan, Dumfries | he m.3rd 1912 Roberta Menges-Corwinhill (D 1913); | | | | & Galloway, Scotland | he m.4th 1922 Adele Rowland | | | | / | | | | | acting assistant |>>Hilda Kathleen Atthill; b.c1876 Walenbeck, Scotland; d. post 1939 | | | | surgeon, 2nd Kent | / | | | | Volunteer | m.1st Jul-Sep.1896 Kensington, London; William Henry Chaplin | | | | Corps from 18.9.1875 | / | | | | / | m.2nd c9.2.1913 at Peak Church, Hong Kong; | | | | of 54-55 East Street, | Sir William Rees-Davies, Knt; b.11.5.1863 | | | | Faversham, Kent | thier honeymoon two weeks in Philippines, sailing on SS "Goeben" [Straits Times 12.2.1913, p.15]; | | | | 1877-1882 | edu. Eton & Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1885); | | | | / | Barrister, Inner Temple 1887; KC Hong Kong 1908; | | | | d.Sep-Dec.1889 | JP & DL Pembrokeshire; Liberal MP for Pembrokeshire 1892-98; | | | | Paddington, London | Attorney General Bahamas 1898-1902; King's Advocate, Cyprus 1902-7; | | | | / | Attorney-General Hong Kong 1902-12; Chief Justice of Hong Kong 1912-24; | | | | m.9.7.1872 Augusta | member of The Peak, Hong Kong and Reform Club, London; | | | | Jane Vine Edmonds; | d.14.4.1939 (no issue); obit. [TIMES 15.4.1939, p.14] | | | | b.c1849/51 Bradford- | / | | | | on-Avon, Wiltshire | his 2nd marriage: he m.1st 1898 Florence Beatrice Birkett; of Kendal, Westmorland; d.1910 (issue 1 son) | | | | of Berryfield House, | | | | | Bradford 1861 |>>Margaret Louise Blennerhassett Atthill; b.Jul-Sep.1876 Farnham, Surrey | | | | | / | | | | | m.19.6.1899 Stevenage, Hitchin, Hertfordshire F 26 | | | | | John Clarkson Ogilvie Mack; b.c1872 F 27 | | | | | | | | |>>Laura Adela Herbert |>>Eric Blennerhassett Atthill | | | | Montgomerie Atthill | b.Jan-Mar.1878 Faversham, Kent; of Faversham 1881 | | | | b.c1850 St.Lucia, BWI | | | | | of Battersea, London |>>(Maud) Alice Atthill | | | | 1881; | b.Oct-Dec.1879 Faversham, Kent; | | | | Worthing, Sussex 1897 | d.Oct-Dec.1887 Hampstead, London | | | | / | | | | | m.1st Ernest Francis |>>John Blennerhassett Atthill, RN | | | | Hercules Rickard b.26.11.1881 Faversham, Kent | | | | / / | | | | m.2nd 14.1.1880 of 44 Windmill Road, Brentford, Middlesex 1909; | | | | (Thomas) seaman RN, Service No. F14385; | | | | Richard Copeland [NA - Royal Navy Register of Seaman's services, | | | | b.c1843 March, Cat. Ref. ADM 188/588, Image Ref. 2384/384] | | | | Cambridgeshire; d.Apr-Jun.1939 Uxbridge, Middlesex | | | | of Croydon; d.bef.1891 / | | | | m.31.5.1909 St Paul's, Brentford, Middlesex | | | | Edith Sophia Wicks; b.c1887 | | | | of 7 Orchard Road, Brentford 1909 | | | | | | | |>>Isabel Blennerhassett >>>>>>>|>>(Grace) Isabel Dora Birch | | | | Atthill b.c1850/1 | b.c1875 Dulwich, Surrey | | | | St.Lucia, BWI | d.Oct-Dec.1951 Ealing, London | | | | / | | | | | m.7.10.1873 St.Alban's |>>Charles J. Blennerhassett Birch | | | | Ch. Holborn, London; | b.Jan-Mar1876 Dulwich, Surrey; | | | | Charles Birch | meat importer's clerk 1901; | | | | / | perhaps(?) d.Apr-Jun.1956 Camberwell, London | | | b.c1845 Oxford; of Holborn Viaduct 1873; | | | | Innkeeper at the Eloane Hotel, Goring Village, |>>James Robert Birch b.Apr-Jun.1885 Brighton, Sussex | | | Oxfordshire 1881; | fancy goods salesman 1901 | | | of 45 Melbourne Grove, Camberwell 1891; | | | of 1 Solway Road, Camberwell 1901; NOTE: There is a BH - Birch connection on p.BKN 02 | | | Timber Merchant's Clerk 1891-1901 also Blennerhassett - Beech or Beeche on p.BMN 04 | | | | | | | |>>Robert Maunsell >>>>>>>>|>>Rowland (Robert?) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Rowland Benedict >>>>>>|>> | | | | Eyre Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett Atthill Blennerhassett | | | | | Atthill | b.2.12.1880 Victoria Rd, Atthill |>> | | | | b.15.11.1853 | Twickenham/Brentford; b.17.2.1915 | | | | | British West Indies | bapt.3.4.1881 Portland, Trinidad, B.W.I. | | | | | (perhaps St Lucia?); | Dorset d.22.12.1999 Medway, | | | | | medical student 1878; | (his birth and death Kent, England | | | | | / | records have Rowland, / | | | | | of St Philip's Vicarage, | bapt. record and m. Joyce Olive | | | | | Battersea 1878; | [FOSTER] have Robert) Thornton; | | | | | of Reforne (Street), | / b.31.8.1919 | | | | | Portland, Dorset 1881 | of Sea Road, Felpham, d.1.1.1998 | | | | | medical assistant 1881 | West Sussex 1891; | | | | | of Sea Road, Felpham, | left Colon, Panama for Southampton, |>> | | | | West Sussex, | on RMS "La Plata" arriving 13.7.1905; | | | | England 1891 | Govt. Officer & Customs at Trinidad, later at Tobago; | | | | / | moved to England 1931 | | | | m.11.3.1878 St Philip, | d.Apr-Jun.1938 Croydon, Surrey | | | | Battersea, London; | / | | | | [FOSTER] has | m.?.?.1913 Trinidad; | | | | m.6.2.1878 in error; | Maria Rossi Ricci; b.?.5.1884 Caracas, Venezuela; | | | | Agnes Sarah Parker | Land Owner at Caracas; d.15.2.1947 | | | | b.c1859 Catherham, | | | | | Surrey; |>>Ernest Blennerhassett Eyre Atthill | | | | of Belford Lodge, | b.Apr-Jun.1878 Lambeth, London; | | | | Windsor 1878 | d.Jan-Mar.1879 Wandsworth, London | | | | / | | | | | d.4.5.1913 Trinidad, |>>Agnes Isabel "Lil" >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> Richard James | | | | British West Indies Blennerhassett Maunsell Collins | | | | Maunsell Atthill "Dooley"; b.27.8.1904 | | | | b.19.5.1879 | | | | Endlesham Rd, Balham/Clapham, Wandsworth, London; | | | | bapt. 20.6.1879 St Philip's Ch., Battersea, London; | | | | of Sea Road, Felpham, West Sussex 1891 | | | |>>Charles Reddie / | | | b.c1857 St Lucia, BWI m. post1891; Trinidad, British West Indies (BWI) F 27 | | | adopted son Richard "Dick" Collins F 28 | | | | | 2|>>Henrietta Charlotte >>>>>>|>>Henrietta Charlotte Blennerhassett Woolley | | | Blennerhassett | b.Jul-Sep.1845 Brompton, London; fl.1861 | | | b.c1821/2 Killorglin, | | | | Co.Kerry |>>George John >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Florence Kate Blennerhassett Woolley | | | / Blennerhassett | / | | | as a widow 1881, of Woolley | m.Apr-Jun1898 at Leicester, Leicestershire, England | | | Hunts End, Buckden, b.Apr-Jun.1847 | to: Thomas Villiers Crosbie OR William Henry Cox | | | St Neots, Buckden, St Neots, | | | | Huntingdonshire; Huntingdonshire |>>Ethel M. Woolley; b.c1874 Maidstone, Kent | | | d.?.12.1883 St Neots / | | | | / JP (Magistrate) 1906; |>>Blanche G. Woolley; b.c1885 Leicester, Leicestershire | | | m.2.7.1844 chemist & dentist | | | Holy Trinity Castrice, / | | | St.Lucia, of 102 High Street, Buckden 1861; | | | British West Indies of 116 Oxford Street, St Mary, Leicester, Leicestershire 1881; | | | / of 31 & 33 London Road, leicester 1901; of Stoneygate, Leicester 1911; | | | Dr George Newenham of Buckden, Springfield Road, Leicester, Leicestershire 1932; | | | Woolley, MD, d.25.8.1932 Leicester, Leicestershire; Will proved 3.12.1932 | | | MRCSL, M&LA; / | | | b.23.1.1815 Buckden, m.c1873 Fanny ; b.c1847 Lincoln | | | Petersfield, Hampshire | | | / | | | bapt.29.7.1830 (aged 15) St Luke's, Chelsea, London; | | | surgeon, general practitioner (GP) and apothecary; | | | of Brompton, London 1844; of High Street, Buckden, Huntingdonshire 1848-61; | | | of 26 Ferry Road, Bardney, Lincolnshire 1871; d.16.5.1874 Bardney, Lincolnshire | | | | | |>>Elizabeth >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Elizabeth Blennerhassett Thicknesse-Touchet | | | Montgomerie | d.21.2.1926; unm. | | | Blennerhassett | | | | b.c1822 d.15.2.1915 |>>George John Thicknesse-Touchet | | | / | b.27.4.1847 d.11.11.1866 | | | Kings Bench 1897, | | | | court case C194, |>>Charlotte Anne >>>>>>>>>>|>>Gertrude Anne Touchet-Jesson | | | Samuel Smith Seal | Thicknesse-Touchet | b.15.8.1876 d.3.12.1963 unm. | | | vs Elizabeth | b.1860 d.1.3.1912 | | | | Blennerhassett | / |>>(Charlotte) Dorothy >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Richard Michael | | | Thinknesse Touchet | m.16.6.1875 | Touchet-Jesson Thomas Souter | | | [J 55/20/262] | Thomas Jesson | b.22.3.1878 d.30.3.1958 b.31.5.1914; | | | / | of Great Houghton | / 25th Lord Audley (s.1973) | | NOTE: | m.6.9.1842 | House, | m.14.4.1910 / | | Thicknesse-Touchet | Hon. John Nicholas | near Northampton | Sir Charles Alexander m.18.10.1941 | | family is mentioned in | Thicknesse-Touchet | | Souter; d.9.1.1958 Lily Pauline Eskell | | ["Bath" by Edith | b.8.11.1819; |>>Maria Jane | | | Sitwell 1932, ch.12 | d.21.7.1861 Co.Cork | Thicknesse-Touchet |>>Thomas Touchet >>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Rosina Lois Veronica | | "Society in Bath"] | / | d.15.2.1867 | Touchet-Jessson | Touchet-Jesson | | | 2nd son of | | "Tim"; b.17.7.1879 | 24th Baroness Audley | | | George John |>>Dorothea Susan | d.14.10.1939 | (succeeded 1963) | | | Thicknesse-Touchet Thicknesse-Touchet | / | b.10.7.1911 | | | 20th Baron Audley; / | m.25.8.1910 | d.24.10.1973 (dsp) | | | brother of George m.24.1.1878 | Annie Rosina | / | | | Thicknesse-Touchet Charles Samuel | Hammacott Osler | m.24.4.1943 | | | 23rd Lord Audley Twistleton | d.23.4.1922 | John Archibald | | | / (his 2nd. marriage) | | Joseph MacNamee | | | g.son of Capt Philip |>>George Arthur | | | | Thicknesse & Lady Touchet-Jessson |>>Thomas Percy Henry | | | Elizabeth Touchet b.31.5.1885 Touchet-Jesson MBE | | | 23rd Lord Audley (s.1942) | | | b.15.9.1913 d.3.7.1963 | | | / | | | m.1st 15.11.1952 (D) | | | June Isabel Chaplin | | | (her 2nd marriage) d.1977 | | | / | | | m.2nd 26.4.1962; | | |>>Jemima Blennerhassett Sarah Millicent Hermione | | | b.bef.1827; unm. Churchill b.7.10.1914 | | | d.24.9.1982 (dsp); | | | (her 3rd marriage) | | | dau. of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, | | | CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon.RA (b.30.11.1874 d.24.1.1965) F 28 | | | & Clemantine Ogilvy Hozier, Baroness Spencer-Churchill F 29 | | | | | |>>Anna "Annie" Sarah >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Louise Blennerhassett Tincler; b.7.8.1844 Dublin (one source has her b.c1850/51); | | Blennerhassett | of 5 Montpelier Ct., Brighton, Sussex 1881 (with her mother); | | b.c1824/6 Killorglin, | of 53 Cromwell Rd, , Sussex 1891; with niece Evelyn Mabel B'hassett Tincler (F 31) | | Co.Kerry; co-heir; | of Bracken Hill, Limpsfield, Surrey 1901 (with her mother); d.1907 [IT 15.10.1930]; | | d.cSep.1905 | Author of 3 books of fairy tales "by Louise Blennerhassett Poirez", titled "Smiles & Tears from Fairyland" London 1881; | | Eastbourne, Sussex | Rose-Leaves for Rose-Buds Remington & Co. 1882, reviewed in [TIMES 23.12.1881]; "Eight Tales of Fairyland" 1887 | | / | / | | she resided with her | m.1st ?.11.1866 (D) Gordon Archdall, MD; | | dau. Louise in 1881 | he divorced her 1872, co-respondant La Touche [divorce court file 2532; J 77/127/2532] | | & 1901 | / | | / | m.2nd cDec1874 Marylebone, London; (James) Adolph Poirez; | | at the 1881 census | b.c1849/52 Mayence, Germany; Wine Merchant; visitor at 646 Fulham Rd, London 1901; | | she was named | in 1875 one of the defendants in court case brought by his wife "Poirez vs. Jefferies" [Cause Chamber 1875, p.146, amended 1877; C 16/1030/P146] | | "Annie BH Tincler", | | | but at 1901 census |>>George Samuel >>>>>>>>>|>>George Blennerhassett >>>>>>???? George Tincler; b.cJun.1901 Todmorden, Lancashire | | named "Anna BH"; | Blennerhassett Tincler | Tincler | | | (I could not find | b.11.3.1845 [FOSTER] | b.11.3.1875 |>>Ida Tincler; b.cMar1905 Rochdale, Manchester, Lancashire | | her in 1891 census) | died aged in his 40s | / | | / | / | Irish professional athlete; world record holder for mile and 2 mile flat races; he won the Mile at Gaelic AA championships 1892 & 1893; | | m.30.10.1843 | Barrister-at-Law, | in USA during 1890s ran a world record 4 min 8sec mile during a time-trial, making him fastest miler in the world until New Zealander | | Francis Green | of Dublin; | Jack Lovelock, 35 yrs later; his best mile performance achieved as a professional was in the match with Thomas "Tommy" P. Conneff | | Tincler | he participated in the | (the fastest American miler) at Worcester, Massachusetts, USA on 21.8.1897, time 4 mins 15 1/5 secs (then the 2nd fastest official time, | | of Gloucester Street | defence of men who | behind a 4 mins 12 3/4 secs by Walter George of England on August 23.8.1886); | | Dublin; Solicitor; | took part in the Dublin | / | | d.17.6.1877 | PHOENIX PARK | in 1898, advertised as "holder of the world record for the mile & two mile flat races", he was one of the attractions at a "Highland | NOTE: THE PHOENIX PARK MURDERS >---> / | MURDERS of 1882 | Gathering" in Central Park, Aberdeen; won gold medal at Irish Amateur Athletics Association "Championship of Leinster" (Georgie | “The Phoenix Park Murders” were the 1882 Will dated 6.8.1874; | (see NOTE to left) | Harman has this medal); on 24.2.1906 he was beaten by newcomer Alfred Shrub in two mile race at Olympia [TIMES 26.2.1906 p.11]; | assassination by “Irish National Invincibles” [IT 15.10.1930] | / | In 1913 he trained Australian runner Hans Holmer; | of Thomas Henry Burke (the senior Irish Civil discusses a court | in his youth a serious | / | Servant) and Lord Frederick Cavendish (newly case of c1908 | competitive rower, as | He features in "Running Recollections and How to Train: Being an autobiography of A. R. Downer, Champion Sprinter of the World, | appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland & nephew relating to this Will | were his brothers | and Short Biographical Sketches of E. C. Bredin (with his ideas on training), Len Hurst, Fred Bacon, George Blenner-Hasset Tincler, | of British Prime Minister William Gladstone), | Blenner and Charles; | with method of training in the early part of the present century and notes on training for boys...... " by A.R. Downer (pub.1902, undated); | while walking in Phoenix Park, Dublin | his g.g.daughter | "The Milers" by Cordner Nelson and Roberto Quercetani (Los Altos, California: Tafnews Press, 1985, p.52) | / | | Georgie Brian has | "Powderhall and Pedestrianism" by D.A. Jamieson, (Edinburgh, Scotland: W.A.K. Johnston, 1943, pp.86-87) | They were not simply stabbed to death, but | several photographs, | "The Quest for the Four-minute Mile" by Bob Phillips | "slashed" by means of long cuts all over their | also a trophy (glass | / | body, more painful because it takes longer to die; | decanter) 1st prize at | NOTE: A racing greyhound named "George Tincler" was entered at "Waterloo Cup" race meeting in 1899 & 1900 | All the assassins were eventually captured, | Kingstown Regatta | / | five were hanged | | 1869, Pair Oar'd Race, | perhaps(?) m.cMay.1900 Rochdale, Manchester, Lancashire; to either Lydia Hardman or Lizzie Sykes | | | B.M.Tincler, | | | | Geo. S.B.Tincler (str) |>>Ida Emily Tincler >>>>>>>|>>Richard >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | | | W.Fitzsimons (coxn.) | b.1873 Blennerhassett | | | | / | emig. to New Zealand Temple | | | | / | c1891/2; d.1953 b.22.2.1898 d.1974 | | | | m.Jul.-Sep.1872 | / at school in | | | | at Bangor, Anglesey, | m.25.2.1897 Auckland c1915 | | | | Caernarvonshire, | Arthur Leofric Temple / | | | | Wales; | b.1868 d.1956 m. 11.1.1927 Timaru, | | | | Eva Louisa Kirkwood | of Castlewood, New Zealand; | | | | b.c1853 Ireland | Geraldine, Elsie Palmer Chapman | | | | of Barira, Co.Mayo | New Zealand b.4.3.1900 | | | | / | (descended from John of Timaru, NZ | | | | Eva m.2nd cMar1900 | Temple of Ten Hills, d.?.8.1966 | | | | Wigton, Cumberland; | Boston, USA - p.K 56) | | | | John Holmes | / |>> | | | of Highfield House, | he owned a "tin trunk" | | | Bowness on Solway | containing all the | | | Wigton, Cumberland | family papers | | | | | | | |>>Charles "Charlie" Knox Kirkwood Tincler | | | | b.5.10.1880; emig. to New Zealand | | | | (following his sister Ida who emig. to NZ c1891/2) | | | | / | | | | served in the army WWI; | | | | Private in the Canterbury Regt., 1st Battalion | | | | N.Z. Expeditionary Force (service No.6/4365); | | | | / | | | | d.11.6.1917 in France, of wounds; | | | | bur. Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, grave IV.B.56, | | | | Boulogne-sur-Mer, France; | | | | This cemetery contains 5577 Commonwealth F 29 | | | | burials of WWI and 224 of WWII F 30 | | | | | |>>Jane Blennerhassett >>>>>>>|>>Mary Armstrong | |>>Evelyn "Eva" Mabel >>>>>>>>>>|>>William Ormsby | | bapt.16.3.1760 fl.1802 | | Blennerhassett | Maskew b.c1916 | | Dublin; of Bishop's St. / | | Tincler | d.1918 in influenza | | Dublin 1783; Inherited from her | | b.c1884 Dublin d.1966 | epedimic | | she inherited from her grandmother | | / | | | g.mother Jane Poujade Mary Poujade a | | of 53 Cromwell Road |>>Marion Maskew | | (p.K 33 & p.K 56) small legacy and her | | Hove, Sussex, with | d. aged 9 years | | "...furniture, gold "..best sattin cloke.." | | her aunt Louise, 1891 | | | wedding ring & silver (p.K 33 & p.K 56) | | / |>>(Thomas Michael) >>>>>>|>> | | box..." | | emig. to New Zealand Raeburn "Rae" | | | / | | following her sis. Ida Maskew | | | m.c20.12.1783 St.Peter's Dublin; | | / b.1920 d.2000 | | | Edward Armstrong | | m.1915 Thomas / |>> | | [HC 25.12.1783]; | | Stordy Maskew m. Helen Thomas | | | ["Faulkner's Dublin Journal" 20.12.1783] | | | | | | | | | | | |>>Claude Tincler | | |>>Mary Blennerhassett >>>>>>>|>>issue (p.K 09) | b.c1893 prob(?) at | | | / | Carlisle, Cumberland | | | b.c1766/7 Ireland; | / | | | but [BIFR p.139] has b.1764; | of Highfield House, | | | / | Bowness of Solway, | | | Mary Blennerhassett in 1803 inherited from her | Wigton, Cumberland | | | mother Mary Poujade, "...for her sole use...", | 1901 (with his mother) |>> | | "...my gold locket of my mother's hair and my gold | | | | seal with Blennerhassett crest, both hanging to my | | | | watch chain..." (p.K 33, p.K 56) | | | | / | | | | of 15 Kensington Crescent, Kensington Road, | | | | London 1851-9, | | | | home of her son-in-law Dr William Bruce | | | | and her g.dau Letitia Bruce | |>> | | / | | | d.28.12.1859 | | | / | | | m.30.4.1791 cousin | | | Capt. Thomas Blennerhassett of Tralee & of Cork; | | | Capt. Kerry Militia ("Kerry Legion" corps | | | of volunteers) 1779, Tralee Barracks (p.K 09); | | | d.17.5.1822 at Brussels, Belgium; | | | [BIFR p.137] has d.1825 in error | | | / | | | son of Rev. John Blennerhassett, | | | "Parson Jack", Rector of Tralee (p.K 08) | | | | | | | | |>>Francis Edward Blennerhassett | | | (sometimes named Edward Francis) | | | / | | | younger than his sister Mary who was b.c1766/7; | | | JP Co.Kerry 1797 | | | | | | | | |>>Charlotte Blennerhassett; b.c1763 (not 1773); | | of Dublin & of Tralee, Co.Kerry; | | / | | in 1803 she inherited from her mother Mary | | Poujade Blennerhassett (p.K 33, p.K 56) a gold | | chased watch, two shraggreen cases, chain with | | two fancy seals and "my father's arms all set in | | gold and hanging thereto"; | | also "...the manuscript directed to her..." | | / | | d. "the Sunday before 17.2.1847" aged 84, of | | paralysis, at the residence of Jeffrey Eagar, Tralee"; | | ["The Cork Examiner" 17.2.1847] | | / | | m.?.12.1792 (dsp) | | Rowland Eagar JP; of Castle Ballymallis, Co.Kerry | | b.c1760 d.5.12.1830; | | Collector of Excise (customs) Co.Kerry 1808-1826 | F 30 | son of James Eagar & Alice Blennerhassett (p.K 37) | F 31 | | | NOTE: |>>Col. Blennerhassett >>>>>>|>>Venice Maud >>>>>>>>>>|>>(Edward) Shirley >>>>>>>>>>>>>>?????? | in 1879 he, followed | Montgomerie Tincler Blennerhassett | Blennerhasssett | by his younger | Blennerhassett b.6.4.1876 Cork, Ireland | Woolmer | brothers Charles | CMG, FRCSI, LRCPI / | b.c1905 London | Tincler (1883) and | known as "Blenner" of East Hill, Colchester | / | Ernest Tincler (1885) | / (St James parish), | working at his father's | were encouraged by | b.18.11.1849 Dublin, Essex 1881 (visiting | office 1937 | their Blennerhassett | named Blennerhassett family of her cousin | / | aunts in Ireland to | Montgomerie Tincler Joseph Savill (b.c1809 | in 1971 his widow presented to Brighton & Hove City Museums a 3/4 length "Portrait of Mrs Woolmer" | to assume the | (Blennerhassett Greenwich, Kent) | c1933-4, oil by Glyn Philpot (1884-1937) and "Valley Landscape" c1850, an oil on wood panel; | Blennerhassett | surname assumed 1879) / | d. bef.1971 | surname, his grand- | / boarder at a school in | / | father John Henry | in his youth a Vicarage Road, South | m. post.1938 | Blennerhassett | serious competitive Hayling, Hants. 1891; | d.?.5.1976 | having left no | rower, as were his of Leinster Gardens, | | surviving sons | brothers Charles and Paddington, 1911; |>>Capt. Frederick "Fred" Montgomery Woolmer; b.c1906 London; army, stationed at Aldershot 1938 | / | George Tincler of Bracknell, Berkshire | / | the heavily | / 1926; | m.c1938 Beryl Roberts | named Colonel | edu. King & Queen's of Shepherd's House, | her "guardian and uncle" was Sir George Thursby "the well known racing man"who appeared | usually appears as | College of Physicians Ascot, Berks from 1938 | dressed as a jockey in a 1907 "Vanity Fair" caricature by "Spy", titled "Mr George" | Blennerhassett | of Ireland (Lic. 1870) / | | Montgomerie | Mem. Royal College d.15.10.1941; Will |>>Arthur Jeffery Woolmer | Blennerhassett | of Surgeons of Ireland proved 16.1.1942 [PPR] b.c1909 London | but occasionally as | (Lic.1871; Fellow 1889) / | Montgomerie | / m.Jan-Mar.1903 Paddington, London; | Blennerhassett | served in the Army Shirley Worthington Woolmer; | Blennerhassett | Medical Corps (AMC) b.c1868 Deal, Kent | | 1892-1906; from 1898 / | | named Royal Army of St.John's Vicarage, Chislehurst, Kent 1901; | | Medical Corps (RAMC) of Warfield Priory, Bracknell, Berks (until sold 1936); | | / solicitor, of "Shirley W. Woolmer & Co., | | Lt-Col. 1892-1902; Temple Chambers, Temple Ave., London" | | participated in the / | | Ashanti Expedition perhaps(?) d.Sep-Oct.1936 | | 1895-1896; | | Mentioned in Despatches (MID); GMG (1896); Queen's Star (Bronze star); | | promoted Colonel 1.4.1902 [London Gazette 13.6.1902 p.3900]; | | Colonel & Surgeon Major, Army Medical Service 1902-6, retired 1906; | | Surgeon General at the British Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, India 1903 | | [The Medical Register 1903]; member of the Naval & Military Club | | / | | Brigade-Surgeon Lieut-Col. at "Royal Victoria Hospital", Netley (Netley Abbey), Southampton, Hampshire, when on 23.3.1898 | | transport ship "Simla" arrived at Southampton with 313 on board, sick & wounded British soldiers, including 60 wounded | | from N.W.Frontier of India; One of these 60 was George Findlater (1872-1942), piper with the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, | | awarded the Victoria Cross personally by Queen Victoria at Netley on 14.5.1898, she travelling from Windsor to do this | | / | | Montreal to Liverpool on Allen Line SS "Virginian", arriving 15.6.1912; Tilbury, London to Sydney on Orient Line SS "Osterley", dep. 11.10.1912 arr. 21.11.1912; | | London to Brisbane, Queensland on The Aberdeen Line SS "Demosthenes", departing 24.10.1914 stating Australia as intended place of residence; | | travelled to New Zealand for big-game fishing c1915; at Geyser Hotel, Rotorua, NZ in 191_(?) and again in NZ for his last six months in 1926; | | d.10.6.1926 (not 24.5.1926 ) King George V Hospital, Rotorua, North Island, NZ; | | bur. Rotorua Cem.; Will dated 6.6.1926, pr.8.1.1927 London [PPR]; | | administration granted to his brother Charles Lewis Blennerhassett | | / | | m.?.4.1875; Gertrude Harcourt Willcox; of Kingstown, Co.Dublin; d.?.4.1878 | | / | | p. Zima Louisa Helen Ebden; b.25.9.1854 Cape Colony (now Cape Province, S.A.); | | dau. of Alfred Johnson Ebden of Belmont, Cape Colony; | | NOTE: her name "Zima" derives from the name of her mother, Decima Grimley | | / | | Col. Blennerhassett was at Singapore in July 1882 and as a result of his stay there was named as co-respondent in divorce proceedings held 1883 | | [divorce court file 8633; J 77/292/8633]; the case was brought by Alexander Gentle (of London; of Bellevue, Singapore; & of Sherwood Cottage, | | Singapore), merchant and secretary of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, against his wife Zima Louisa Helen Gentle, nee Ebden; | | Blennerhassett chose to defend himself & was ordered to pay the petitioner's legal fees of more than £500, a large amount for the time; | | Zima d.11.3.1915 Kensington, London | | / | | Zima Louisa Helen Ebden had m.1st 22.10.1874 Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London; Alexander Gentle (D 1883) and they had | | 5 children, including Zima Helen Gentle b.25.8.1875, Winifred Gentle b.11.8.1879 & Eric Grant Gentle b.9.11.1880 | | / | | Zima Louisa Helen Gentle m.2nd cJan-Mar 1886 Brighton, Sussex, to novelist Bertram Mitford (b.13-Jun-1855 Bath, Somerset); of 84 Westbourne Park Rd, London; | | following this marriage she used the name Louisa Helen Mitford; they had a daughter Yseulte Helen Mitford (b.1887 Kensington); he resided at 55 Holand Road, | | Kensington, London 1911; between 1882 and 1913 Bertram Mitford published 44 novels, mostly action adventure stories set in Southern Africa, in a similar style to F 31 | | H. Rider Haggard, with whom he ihas been compared; Bertram Mitford d. 4.10.1914 Cowfold, Horsham, Sussex F 32 | | | NOTE: in 1883 he |>>Charles Lewis Tincler Blennerhassett | (like his brothers | b.5.10.1852 Ireland, named Charles Lewis Tincler | Blennerhassett | (Blennerhassett surname assumed 1883) | Tincler 1879 and | / | Ernest Tincler 1885) | in his youth a serious competitive rower, as were his brothers Blenner and George | were encouraged by | / | their Blennerhassett | of Kingstown, Co.Dublin; moved to England; | aunts in Ireland to | of Kensington, London 1891; of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex 1911-26; | to assume the | of "The New Club", Bexhill-on-Sea 1926; of 53 Jameson Road, Bexhill-on-Sea 1935; | Blennerhassett | plaintiff in a court case of c1908 regarding his father's Will of 6.8.1874, | surname, his grand- | his brother Ernest being the defendant [IT 15.10.1930] | father John Henry | / | Blennerhassett | d.11.5.1935 Sussex; Will pr. 27.6.1935 [PPR]; executors: his 1st cousin | having left no | Venice Maud Woolmer and her husband Shirley Woolmer, solicitor (F 28) | surviving sons | / | | m.3.2.1883 St.Peter's Church, Brighton, Sussex, England; | | Catherine Elizabeth Paxton | | b.c1850/51 Adelaide, South Australia; | | of Palmeira Square, Brighton, Sussex 1883 | | | NOTE: in 1883 he |>>Col. Ernest Blennerhassett Tincler Blennerhassett | (like his brothers b.29.6.1863 Monkstown, Co.Dublin, Ireland, named Ernest Blennerhasstt Tincler | Blennerhassett (Blennerhassett surname assumed 1885) | Tincler 1879 and / | Chas Tincler 1883) Commissioned Lieut. in the 1st Battalion Royal Inniskillin Fusiliers, 6.5.1885; | were encouraged by Infantry Lieut. at Portsea Barracks, Hampshire 1891; promoted Major 3.11.1902 [London Gazette 6.1.1903 p.109]; | their Blennerhassett served in China & India; posted to Tientsin, North China 1911; | aunts in Ireland to attached to the Indian Army 1912; | to assume the retired 29.6.1913 [London Gazette 1.7.1913] [TIMES 2.7.1913]; | Blennerhassett / | surname, his grand- served WWI as Lt.-Col Royal Inniskillin Fusiliers (27th Regt.); | father John Henry temp. Lt.-Col. Liverpool Regt (1st G. Battalion), | Blennerhassett Mentioned in Despatches (MID) [London Gazette 14.6.1918, p.7052] | having left no / | surviving sons for many years the Adjutant of the 3rd Regt. Royal Jersey Militia, Jersey C.I. | / | defendant in a court case of c1908 regarding his father's Will of 6.8.1874, his brother | Blennerhassett Montgomerie Blennerhassett being the plaintiff [IT 15.10.1930] | / | of 8 Rue Ebu Yasser, Sporting Club, Ramleh, Egypt 1935; | of Alexandria, Egypt 1938 | / | d.2.8.1937 at 12 Rue Boileau, Paris, France; | administration with Will pr.28.1.1938 London [PPR]; | [NA: Court Records FO 847/143/ | Estate of E.B. Blennerhasset - Consulate, Alexandria, Egypt, 1937] | / | m.1st Oct-Dec.1892 Kensington, London; | Ethel Bowles | / | m.2nd Jul-Sep.1899 Middlesex (to either Mary Boyd or Ada Faithful) - CHECK THIS | / | m.3rd c1921/25 Alexandria, Egypt; | Marguerite (Marguerita) Arduin | [British Consulate marriages vol.15 p.203]; | d. post 1938 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | F 32 | F 33 | BLENNERHASSETT MEDICAL DYNASTY of BALLYMACPRIOR LODGE, Killorglin, Co.Kerry |>>Richard >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Richard >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Elizabeth "Eliza" >>>>>>>>>|>>issue (p.K 48) The seven surviving sons of Dr Henry William Blennerhassett (William, Richard, Thomas, Rowland, Townsend, Aremberg, Edward) were Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett; b.est.c1781; in their youth known for spending their days fishing, shooting and cockfighting; They continued a medical tradition started by their BALLYMACPRIOR the elder; | "the younger"; | of Ballymacprior, Co.Kerry; d.21.12.1857 Ballymacprior Lodge, Killorglin; grandfather, three brothers & a cousin being physicians, one a ships' doctor on an emigrant ship, another brother a Pharmacist in the USA LODGE b.c1718 d.c11.7.1791 | known as | / Ballymacprior | "Yellow Dick" | m.27.1.1805 Dromavally (Dromavalla) Church, nr Killorglin A "Dr W. Blennerhassett" and a "T. Blennerhassett" were members of the "Board of Guardians" for Tralee Workhouse 1847 (p.IRE 1) / | (perhaps he suffered | [Ennis Chronicle 4.2.1805] & [Cork Morning Chronicle 4.2.1805] I am not aware of a Dr William Blennerhassett (unless it is Dr Henry William Blennerhasett, but in 1847 he lived at Dublin) of Ballymacprior Lodge, Killorglin, Co.Kerry | from jaundice) | (from c1785) [Hibernian Chronicle 14.7.1791] | / |>>Dr Henry William >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>William Blennerhassett; b.c1816/17 (dsp); suffered smallpox in 1835; unm.; & [Waterford Herald 19.7.1791] | b.est.c1750; | Blennerhassett, MD | Perhaps(?) identical with William G. BH (on "Board of Customs") in 1851 of Laharan, Valentia, Caherciveen, / | of Ballymacprior | b.1783 of Ballymacprior | where he held House, offices & land [GV Kerry 1852]; At the 1881 census he was staying with the widow of his Dr Thomas O'Connell, MD (of Rathkeale, | Lodge, Killorglin | Lodge, Killorglin | brother Dr Edward BH MD, and her sons, in lodging house at Llanfair Fechan, Caernarvonshire, Wales (p.K 53) Co.Limerick; also of Tralee & Ballymacprior | from c1785; | [GV Co.Kerry 1852] | in Co.Kerry) son of Jane Blennerhassett | [WALLIS] has him | / |>>Dr Richard >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Richard Blennerhassett; b.c1842; Private in the Kerry Militia at Tralee Barracks 1864; and father-in-law of Daniel O'Connell | b.c1780 in error | edu. Edinburgh Univ. | Blennerhassett, MD | their civil marriage record names his father Dr Richard Blennerhassett (the only other "The Liberator" (p.K 34), resided at | d.12.7.1821 | MD 1805; Licentiate, | b.1818/21 at Dublin | "Richard Blennerhassett MD" in Ireland at the time was his 1st cousin b.c1830/1 (F.25) Ballymacprior Lodge until he died there 1785 | [paper of 25.7.1821] | Royal College of | of Dingle, Kerry 1824 ? / / | / | Physicians in Ireland | later to Tralee 1839 | m.21.5.1864 St John (RC) Tralee; Johanna Donoghue, servant, b.c1835 m. Mary Rice of Ballingolin (later named | Medic (Doctor) | (L.R.C.P., also called | / | Burnham) dau. of Edward Rice (and said to be | [TCD-AD | L.K.Q.C.P.) Dublin 1809 | edu. Edinburgh Univ. |>>Honoria Blennerhassett; b.c13.3.1852 Tralee; bapt.13.3.1852 St John (RC) Tralee g.dau. of Lucy Blennerhassett of Ballyseedy & | see the entry for | as later were his sons | Medical School she may not belong here - is possibly dau. of Richard Francis & Honoria BH on F 13 Lt. John Walker, but not confirmed) (p.BL 3) | his son Townsend | Rowland & Edward | (MD 1842, where also | Blennerhassett] | Blennerhassett; | qualified in surgery) and Dublin (midwifry); member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin; | / | Hon. Mem. of the Royal | as medical student 1841 resided at Bridge-of-Allan, Logie, Perthshire, Scotland, his profession "surgeon"; founder of Blennerhassett medical dynasty in Co.Kerry; Resident JP for Co. | Physical Soc. of Edin. | Bridge-of-Allan was a fashionable "Spa Town", like Cheltenham & Leamington, with health-giving waters Co.Kerry 1785; Perhaps(?) identical with the Richard BH who was a junior | / | / officer (2nd Lt ?) in the "Kerry Legion" regiment of volunteers 1779; | Respected & popular | Ship's surgeon on barque "Bussorah Merchant" (Master: Mr.Beal) 1845-47, sailing from The Downs, Kent, England (dep. 8.2.1845) to Sydney, NSW (arr. 22.6.1845); c1804 became a joint owner, with Richard Chute of Chute Hall (F 11), of | doctor practising at | left Sydney (dep. 17.8.1845) for Culcutta, India, where Dr. BH took the opportunity to study cholera, endemic in the city; the ship transported 250 Indian "free labourers" Blennerville Windmill, built by Sir Rowland BH (F 02) and previously leased | Dublin, Dingle and | from the port of Culcutta to the British colony of Demerara (later joined with Berbice to form “British Guyana”, now “Guyana”); one week after leaving Culcutta cholera to his son-in-law William BH (F 14), the son of Sir Rowland BH, Bart. (F 02) | Tralee, became known | broke out on the ship and 51 passengers died, "...every one of whom he was himself obliged to launch over board at night, as the sailors were afraid to touch them..."; | / | as "the poor man's | a watercolour by David Michael Hartigan Little of sailing ship "Bussorah Merchant" is in "La Trobe Picture Collection" at State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia m.?.6.1780 Hon. Eliza (Elizabeth) Mullins (de Moleyns from 1841) | physician" because of | / of Burnham House, Dingle; d.29.10.1844; dau. of the 1st Baron Ventry | his willingness to | For 4 years he was a well respected ship's doctor on the barque "Jeanie Johnston" (p.K 42); "JJ" was built 1847 at Quebec City, as a cargo ship, by Canadian shipwright & grandaughter of Elizabeth Blennerhassett & Townsend Gun | always give the best | John Munn, & sold that same year to Nicholas Donovan, of Tralee merchants John Donovan & Sons, for transporting timber; she took emigrants to Quebec, Baltimore (p.K 25); [GM Mar.1845] has her d.5.11.1844, in error | care to everyone who | or N.York, returning to Ireland with a cargo of timber & foodstuffs; On 24.4.1848 "JJ" sailed from Blennerville, Co.Kerry to Quebec, her first voyage as an emigrant ship, | | crossed his path | carrying 200 passengers and a crew of 17; On the day before this voyage, while moored at Blennerville, he delivered on board baby boy Nicholas "Johnston" Ryal; | | / | On 16.10.1854 the ship owners John Donovan & Son wrote that "he was one of the few medical men who could say that, during a period of four years, he never had a of 26 Lower Gardiner St., Dublin 1858; Physician at Dublin for twelve years (at North-West Dispensary, | single death on board his ship (except that of one infant at the breast) and one of his voyages was madein that dreadful year when very few vessels escaped great and Beresford St.; "The Sick Poor Institution", Meath St.; & seven years at "Dublin General Dispensary"); | serious loss of life amongst their passengers..." [Tralee Chronicle 17.11.1854]; Physician at Dingle Dispensary, Co.Kerry 1824-39, he being the 2nd doctor at Dingle (the first started in | on leaving the ship at end of 1852 the crew presented him with a gift, as a sign of their appreciation and affection; this was a fine folding "surgical saw" in brass, ivory 1814); at Tralee, Co.Kerry from 1839; Physican at Fever Hospital, Castleisland, Co.Kerry | and steel; engraved on one side is "Doctor R. Blennerhasset" and on the other "from the crew of the Jeannie Johnstone 1852"; this saw came into possession of an Ohio, "Medical Directory for Ireland 1860" [MDI]; Chairman of Tralee Town Commissioners; | USA antique dealer who in May 2006 offered it for sale on eBay, it being subsequently acquired by the Kerry County Museum, Tralee for their collection; in 1847 living at Strand Street, Tralee; Returned to Dublin, at 26 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin c1855-61; | "Jeanie Johnston" made at least 16 voyages from Blennerville to Quebec, Baltimore or N.York 1848-55, the principal destination being Quebec, and transported inoculated his own surviving eight children against smallpox in 1835; | / | many emigrants; The ship was sold in 1856 & sank in mid-atlantic on 31.10.1858 while carrying timber from Quebec to Hull; all the crew were saved Author of three papers pub. in the "Dublin Journal of Medical Science": | / | / "A Thermometrical Register for Dingle During Seven Years" 1841 [DJMS vol.?, article ?] | in May 1854 he joined "Lady Russell" of Liverpool as ship's doctor, with charge of more than 500 passengers; he crossed the Atlantic 6 or 7 times; Many testimonials to his "On Small Pox after Vaccination" 1841 (not 1845), from letter of 15.5.1840 [DJMS vol.18, article 11] | ability were written by passengers [Quebec Morning Chronicle 25.5.1850] & [Tralee Chronicle 17.11.1854]; In Sept 1854 he was one of two doctors aboard emigrant ship "On the extremely rare Occurrence of Consumption in Dingle & its Neighbourhood" 1841 | Ben Nevis (a sister ship of "Lady Russell") at Liverpool, preparing to leave for Australia with 466 German emigrants, when cholera broke out & 2 children died; The ship left [DJMS vol.19, article 12], this last being reprinted in [KEP 1.5.1841] | / | Liverpool on 26.9.1854 & by the time it reached Queenstown (Cobh) in Co.Cork on 29th had 19 cases of Cholera & 14 deaths (see Coroner's Report in a Liverpool newspaper | / | / | [The Nation 7.10.1854] & [Freeman's Journal]; Dr Henry William Blennerhassett was a strong supporter of Daniel O'Connell "The Liberator" (p.K 34); | Dr Richard Blennerhassett d.30.9.1854 of Cholera, on board the "Ben Nevis" as it was moored in Queenstown Harbour (previously Cove, now Cóbh) prior to sailing for In 1828 he signed "Protestant Petition in favour of Catholic Emancipation" and in 1844 presided over a | Galveston, Texas, USA; he is bur. at the Old Church graveyard, Cóbh (pronounced "Cove"), Co.Cork; no headstone survives; Newspaper items about him as ship's doctor number of Repeal meetings at Tralee, including that of 9.6.1844 held in the square at Tralee where the | appeared in the [Tralee Chronicle 9.4.1848, 22.6.1850, 23.7.1852, 17.11.1854], [Kerry Evening Post 4.10.1854], [The Nation 7.10.1854], [GM Nov.1854]; people of Tralee proclaimed support &sympathy for Daniel O'Connell & condemned the government | The life of Dr Richard Blennerhassett has been researched by Helen O'Carroll, curator of Kerry County Museum at Tralee and historian for the "Jeanie Johnston" replica for putting him in Goal; In April 1829 the Catholic Emancipation Act was put through the British | shipbuilding project at Blennerville & Fenit in Co.Kerry (p.K 42); Helen is author of "Richard Blennerhassett - Ship's Doctor" in [The Kerry Magazine Issue 7 1996] parliament at Westminster by Wellington, it being put the House of Commons by Sir Robert Peel; | / The Act said that UK Catholics could henceforth sit as M.P.s at Westminster, thus enabling Dan | m. est.c1854 Honora Murphy; no marriage record located; [BIFR p.139] has Dr Richard unm. but he had a family; O'Connell to take a seat; When Dan O'Connell left Kerry on his election as MP for Dublin in 1832, his | Honora Murphy was dau. of Cornelius Donoghue of Gortnaclough and Margaret Green, m.18.2.1830 (RC) at nominees for the Kerry election were his son-in-law Charles O'Connell & Mr Mullins; | / Dr Henry W. Blennerhassett seconded Mr Mullins (who had been proposed by Dan O'Connell's | RICHARD BLENNERHASSETT, MD, IN KERRY DURING THE FAMINE brother John O'Connell of Grenagh) & both men were elected without opposition [TIMES 29.12.1832] | from [The Cork Examiner" 7.4.1847]: "...CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY - STARVATION IN KERRY. The following inquests were lately held in the county of Kerry: | / | the first on the body of Mary Kennedy, on 27th March, at Derrymore. Catherine Moriarty sworn. — Deceased, Mary Kennedy was her sister. She, deceased, d.9.2.1861 Leith, near Edinburgh, Scotland; bur. in family vault of brother-in-law, Mr Paton of Leith; | and three children were sent on a car from Inch, to the Tralee Poor-house by the Rev. George O'Sullivan. They were not taken into the Workhouse. Denis Sears was the His obituary in [Tralee Chronicle] & [KEP 20.2.1861] says "of large & enlightened views & unfettered | carman who brought them. He carried them back part of the way, and about two hours after nightfall he turned them out of the car and left them on the road. by class by class distinctions, he was the very antithesis of all that is illiberal in politics or religion" | Jeremiah Flyn let them into his house at Derrymore that night. They then came on to the house of the Widow Layne, who refused to let them in, and they remained near | / | / | the wall which was close to the house. Deceased died the next morning. On the way from the poor house they got some bread at Tralee. They used to be two days NOTE: There is a tradition, told by descendants of Dr. Henry William BH, | m.1st est.c1815 | without any food before they were sent to the poor house, and is of opinion that if deceased had food, she would not now be dead. that a Blennerhassett family "big house" or estate (sometimes mistaken in | Anne Bell | Richard Blennerhassett, MD, deposed that the deceased Mary Kennedy came by her death, to the best of his judgment, from starvation. — Verdict, died of starvation. the telling as being "Ballyseedy Castle") "…had been lost to the family | d.10.8.1852 Killarney | The same verdict was returned on the inquest of Daniel Griffin, one of the children, who also died on that occasion. On the 29th of March a third inquest was held near through the death of a first wife from whom we were descended, the house | / | Derrymore, on the body of Catherine Moriarty, the witness on the two former inquests. John O'Donnell deposed that he yesterday saw the deceased Catherine Moriarty then passed to the family of the second wife…"; this tale may refer to | m.2nd 1858 | & two children with her by the wall in the same place she now lies; did not speak to her but spoke to the boy that was with her, who told witness she could take no food. Ballymacprior Lodge and Mrs Roche, but that is supposition, not proven… | Mrs Roche, a divorcee, | In about two hours after he saw her, at which time she was not dead; the two children came to the house of witness after nightfall, and told them she was dead; F 33 | | she m.1st to | he put the children into a house of his and gave them some straw for a bed, and went to where she was, and found her dead. —Verdict like the preceding…" F 34 | | | |>> Blennerhassett | |>>Henry Blennerhassett; perhaps(?) b.c1819; d. an inf. | of Ballymacprior | |>>Thomas Blennerhassett d. an inf. | Lodge, Killorglin, | | | Co.Kerry | |>>Thomas Blennerhassett; b.10.9.1821; suffered smallpox in 1835; of Launemount Cottage, Killorglin; | | | m.13.2.1866 (not 21.2.1866) at Killallagh (cousin) Eliza Barry; of Meanus, Kiltallagh, Co.Kerry; d.1822 (dsp); dau. of Thomas Barry | | MONTREAL | | | QUEBEC, CANADA |>>Dr Rowland >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>(Charlotte) Rhoda Blennerhassett; b.22.1.1866 Coolaney, Tobercurry, Co.Sligo; d.1883 | | | Blennerhassett, MD | | | | b.c1823/4 Ireland |>>Rowland Hamilton >>>>>>|>>Rowland James >>>>>>>>>>|>>Rowland Nelson >>>>>>>>>|>> | | | / | Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett; | Blennerhassett | | | LRCSI (Royal Coll. | of 43 Durocher St. | of 583 Durocher St. | b.30.3.1921; | | NOTE: | of Surgeons of | Montreal, Quebec, | Montreal, Quebec, | of Dollard Des | | The Ship "Carlotta" | Ireland) 1861; | Canada; | 1917; | Ormeaux, Montreal | | arrived at Halifax, | LRCPI (Royal Coll. | b.19.12.1867 Coolaney, | b.12.4.1897 Mont. | / | | Nova Scotia, Canada | of Physicians of | Tobercurry, Co.Sligo | d.16.12.1984 Mont. | m. Mrs Bessie | | 27.3.1872 from | Ireland) as was his | / | bur. Montreal; | Aronson, nee | | Portland, Maine; | father & his brother | emig. to Canada 1880; | Sales Manager, | | | one of the 33 | Edward B'hassett; | settled Montreal, PQ; | "Better Packaging |>>Ruth Margaret >>>>>>>>>>|>> | | passengers was a | Univ. St.Andrews | Joined the Plymouth | of Canada Ltd" | Blennerhassett; | | | Mr. Blennerhassett | (MD 1862); LRCP | Brethren; a clerk | / | [BIFR p.139] names | | | (who was this?); | Edinburgh 1862; | in 1891; worked | Proprietor of | her Ruth Isabel | | | the source was a | Lic. Midwife 1862; | for Canadian Pacific | "The Easy Washing | in error; R.I. was of | | | Halifax newspaper; | [Med. Dir. 1873 & | Railway Co. in | Machine Co.Ltd" with | the prev. generation); | | | also on p.CAN 21 | Med.Register 1877] | Montreal 1894 to | stores at Outremont | b.27.3.1923; |>> | | | MD at Coolaney, | 1936; Dock Supt; | & Notre Dame de | of Montreal | | | | Co.Sligo 1866-78 | Served with Imperial | Grace in Montreal, | / | | | | / | Government Dept., | selling 'Easy' Vacuum | m.7.9.1946 | | | | as a boy he took part | British Ministry of | Electric Washer | Albert Henry | | | | in "The Voyage of | Shipping in WWI | / | Hall; b.7.3.1920 | | | | the 'Colleen Dhas'" | (Eng. & Transport | Driver; Clerk 1917; | d.24.2.1998; | | | | (See below) | Supervisor, St.John | Plymouth Brethren; | bur. Mount | | | | / | New Brunswick); | Drafted for service | Royal Cemetery, | | | | d.14.1.1878 Coolaney, | [Lovell's Montreal | in WWI 1917 | Montreal | | | | Tobercurry, Co.Sligo | Directory 1891-2]; | (2nd Depot Battalion, | | | | | [Cork Examiner | d.23.1.1950 | 2nd Quebec Regt.) | |>> | | | 22.1.1878] | / | / |>>James Skinner | | | | / | m.1st 19.4.1892 | m.1st 20.5.1920 | Blennerhassett | | | | m.23.5.1863 Dublin | at the bride's home | Winnie (Ethelwyn) | b.29.12.1925 | | | | Maria Haire b.c1839 | (Parish of Tres | Bickerdike | d.29.12.1925 | | | | (perhaps England); | St.Sacrement, | b.15.2.1895 | (stillborn) |>> | | | d.24.4.05 Montreal; | Chateaugay Co.) | d.26.11.1967 | | | | | sister of Elizabeth | Montreal, Quebec; | / | | | | | Lizzie Haire (p.K 43) | Janet Weston Gordon | m.2nd post1967; | | | | | / | of Montreal; | (Anna) Margaret | |>> | | | Her son Rowland | b.1870 d.5.2.1936 | Dickson Stewart | | | | | Hamilton BH | / | of Montreal (dsp); | | | | | emig. to Montreal | m.2nd Ida Swift | b.c1905/6 | | | | | 1880; She followed | (dsp) | d.9.10.1999 Montreal | | | | | him there with her | | bur. Montreal | | | | | dau. Harriet 1882; |>>Thomas Aremberg | / | | | | | Her son Townsend | Blennerhassett | Obit. in [Montreal | | | | | followed in 1883; | b.30.6.1869 Coolaney, | Gazette 13.10.1999 | | | | | Two other children | Tobercurry, Co.Sligo; | & 14.10.199] also | | | | | died, in 1881 & 1883 | d.Jan-Mar.1881; | [Winnipeg Free | | | | | / | at school in Dundalk, | Press 13.10.1999] | | | | The Voyage of the 'Colleen Dhas' | Ireland | / | | | | NOTE: Brothers Rowland (F 34) & Aremberg | | her 2nd marriage; | |>> | | (F 37) Blennerhassett were leaders of |>>Harriet | She m.1st William | | | five Tralee boys who on 29.6.1844 left | Blennerhassett | Kenneth Ross (issue) | | | Blennerville quay to row a 24ft boat to Dublin | b.2.1.1872 Coolaney, | | | | (via & the Grand Canal) to visit | Tobercurry, Co.Sligo; | | | | their hero Daniel O'Connell, "The Liberator" | d.28.1.1909 | MONTREAL | | | (p.K 34) in Richmond Goal; The voyage took a | at Montreal | QUEBEC |>>Wynetta Janet >>>>>>>>>>>|>> | | week; on arrival they were invited to dinner by | / | CANADA Blennerhassett | | | Dan O'Connell, in prison; Their brothers Thomas | emig. to Monteal | b.11.2.1930; of Rideau Ferry | | | & Townsend joined them for the final stage of | with her mother | Lanark Co., Ontario | | | the return journey; | in 1882; brothers | / | | | in November that year, after his release, Dan | Rowland Hamilton | m.13.8.1955 | | | O'Connell visited Tralee, a parade organized | Blennerhassett 1880 | Philip Leander Mitton | | | in his honour; At the head of the procession | and (Wm) Townsend | b.18.7.1932; | | | was carried their boat, the "Colleen Dhas" | Blennerhassett 1883 | d.17.4.1010 Rideau Ferry | F 34 | | | / | also settled there | Cem, Lanark Co. Ontario | F 35 | | | / | | | | | See "The Voyage of the 'Colleen Dhas' " by |>>William Townsend |>>Ruth Isabel (Isabella) >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Weston George |>> | | Russell McMorran [KERRY MAGAZINE | Blennerhassett; | Blennerhassett | Morgan | | | issue 2 1990] and ["A Guide to Blennerville & | b.18.5.1873 Coolaney, | b.1900 | b.17.4.1923 | | | the " by Frank Blennerhassett | Tobercurry, Co.Sligo | d.1.8.1933; | d. at birth | | | of Tralee with Sara Hollwey (Pub. Butler Sims, | / | of Montreal | | | | Dublin, c1992 - BLENNERVILLE/2] p.G 7 & G 69 | d.c1874 (as an infant) | / |>>Ernest Henry | | | | | Coolaney, Tobercurry | m. Henry George Morgan | | | | | | Mogan; d.1960 b.6.3.1928; d. | | | | | | | | | | | |>>Walter Gordon >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Stanton "Stan" Walter | | | | | | Blennerhassett Louis Blennerhassett | | | | | | b.17.9.1904 d.17.2.1988; b.24.5.1935; unm. |>> | | | | | of Montreal, Quebec of Hampstead, | | | | | (& of St.John, Montreal, Quebec | | | | | New Brunswick (and of St.John, New | | | | | during summer) Brunswick in summer) | | | | | / | | | | | m.20.9.1928 | | | | | Florence Violet Crowe | | | | | b.1907 d.1980 | | | | | | | | | |>>Arthur Haire >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Robert Lorne >>>>>>>>>>|>> | | | | Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett | | | | | b.9.10.1919 Montreal | b.6.9.1950 | | | | | d. bef.1977; of | at Missquoi, |>> | | | | Point Clair, Montreal | Sweetburg, Que.; | | | | / | of Kamloops, BC | | | | / | / | | | | m.1st | m.3.6.1978 | | | | Ruth Calhoun; | Sally Elizabeth | | | | of Montreal (dsp) | Haywood-Farmer; | | | | / | b.15.8.1950 Vancouver, BC | | | | / | | | | | m.2nd c1950 (issue) |>>Richard Anthony >>>>>>>>|>> | | | | Gladys Irene Myers, Blennerhassett | | | | | MPA; b.2.4.1948 Montreal; | | | | | b.16.8.1926 Stormont, of Halifax, Nova | | | | | Nova Scotia, Canada; Scotia & of New | | | | | d.c1986; City Clerk, Glasgow, Nova Scotia | | | | | Halifax, Nova Scotia; / | | | | | Charter member of m.1st c1968 | | | | | "Association of Mary E. MacLellan | | | | | Municipal b.11.11.1949; of |>> | | | | Administrators" Hammonds Plains, NS; | | | | of Nova Scotia Immigration Officer; | | | | / (p. Brian Hatchett) | | | | / / | | | | / m.2nd 1988 | | | | / Debbie | | | | m.3rd | | | | Enid Annie Copeman >>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Angela Janet | | | | (not Edith) Blennerhassett; | | | | b.16.5.1928 b.28.1.1958; | | | | Norfolk, England; of Owen Sound; | | | | emig. to Canada London; & Toronto, | | | | early 1950s; all in Ontario | | | | d.21.4.1975 / | | | | Montreal, Quebec Human Resources | | | | / Director, Geosoft Inc. | | | | (she m.2nd Technical Director of | | | | Errol Vince Roberts, Alumnae Theatre, | | | | who d.1994) Toronto (oldest still | | | | operating Theatre | | | | Company in Canada) | | | | / | | | | m.1st 1.10.1977 | | | | Lakeshore Evangelical | | | | Ch., Dorval, Montreal; | | | | Norman David Finlay | | | | / | | | | m.2nd 9.2.1990 F 35 | | | | Brian David Muir F 36 | | | | | | NOTE: >----> | |>>William Townsend >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>James Rowland >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>James Roy Dugan | | William Townsend | (a.k.a. William Thomas) Blennerhassett (aka James Roy Conway) | | Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett (a.k.a. b.c1925 (Feb. or May?); | | wrongly believed that | b.6.9.1874 Coolaney, Tobercurry, Co.Sligo James Roy Dugan) of LaPine, Oregon; After | | he was descended from | (another source has him b.6.8.1877; b.1901/3 Bolivar, Ohio his father's death took his | | or otherwise an heir to | his headstone indicates he was b.1879); / step-father's sur name, | | | in his youth he was known as "Townsend", With his family moved as "James Roy Conway" | | of "Blennerhassett | but came to dislike the name & in 1918 was using to Vancouver, BC; then / | | Island" in W. Virginia | "William Thomas BH" (by the 1930s he is said to to Seattle, Washington m. several times (dsp) | | (p.K 13) | have adopted "William Timothy BH", but it could 1906; to Portland, Oregon | | | be "Timothy" was a memory error for "Thomas") after 1920 | | | / / | | | of Bolivar, Ohio c1901/3; he believed in error that Changed his name to James Roy Dugan in early 1920s; | | | he was born in Ohio and census returns show that) Founded one of the first large taxicab businesses at | | | Registered for U.S. WWI draft 1918 Portland, Oregon; Lifetime member of the Elks; | | | / d.1.1.1931 Portland, Oregon, USA; probate 3.1.1931 | | | emig. to Canada 1883, settled Montreal, Quebec; as "Rowland G. Blennerhassett" of Portland, Oregon | | | followed his bro. Rowland Hamilton BH (in 1880) / | | | and mother & sister Harriet (who went in 1882); m.1st to Helen (D); | | | moved to Vancouver, BC, Canada; NOTE: Helen remarried Conway; | | | settled at Seattle, King Co., Washington 1906; they had a dau. Marion Conway (b.25.12.1883 | | | of 5523 Renton Ave., Seattle 1915; d.8.7.1958 Marin Co., Califoria) who m. Cassidy | | | of 142 Ranier Ave., Seattle 1920; driver 1915; | | | laundryman & driver, Supply Laundry Co., Seattle m.2nd Alice Eliza >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Molly Lou Dugan >>>>>>>>>|>> | | | 1920; d.3.8.1947 Seattle, Washington; Carroll b.1.10.1930; | | | | bur. Mt Pleasant Cem., Seattle (lot 103, section 8); b.21.7.1903 of Portland, Oregon | | | | / Royalton, Wisconsin; / | | | | m.1st to (mother of James Rowland BH) d.3.3.1993 m.20.9.1948 | | | | / Portland, Oregon; Richard Alexander | | | | m.2nd Alice Delila Gilbert; b.c1879/80 Ohio; Moved to Washington Hosking | | | | of Seattle, King Co.; d.10.2.1972 Seattle (dsp); then Portland, Oregon b.25.1.1930 | | | | bur. Mt Pleasant Cem., Seattle (lot 103, section 8) Pocatello, Idaho; | | | | Moved to |>> | | |>>Capt. Townsend >>>>>>>>|>>Annabella "Annie" >>>>>>>>>|>>Townsend Portland, Oregon; | | | | Blennerhassett Charlotte Blennerhassett Blennerhassett d.11.9.1990 |>> | | | b.11.2.1829 d.1.5.1882; [BIFR p.140] McGillicuddy | | | | Capt. Kerry Militia; of has d.1.7.1882 b.27.4.1882 d. young |>> | | | Ballymacprior Lodge, / | | | Killorglin m.14.4.1880 | | | / Edward Abram McGillicuddy; b.?.11.1854, of Tralee (p.K 08) | | | / | | | He d.20.6.1867, drowned in Castlemaine Bay (Killorglin Bay) nr Valentia, attempting to rescue a young boatman, Mr Costello, who had fallen overboard [BIFR p.140]; | | | Two monuments were erected to his memory; a stone cairn on the coast (perhaps at Ballykissane nr mouth of R.Laune?) where his body was brought ashore; and a fine | | | stone obelisk outside a church in the centre of Killorglin, into which are set two marble plaques recording his "...gallantly attempting to save the life of a fellow creature..." | | | / | | | [IT 24.6.1867, p.3] reports: | | | "MELANCHOLY DEATHS BY DROWNING. - On Thursday afternoon, while sailing near Valentia in a pleasure boat with his family and some friends, Townsend | | | Blennerhassett, Esq. of Ballymacpier (sic), near Killorglin, was drowned in a vain attempt to save a boy who had fallen overboard. - From our own correspondent." | | | | | | [TIMES 25.6.1867, p.13] reports: | | | "...A pleasure party came to a most tragic end near Tralee on Thursday afternoon. About 4 o'clock Captain Blennerhassett, with a large party of | | | ladies (including his wife, his young daughter, and several of his immediate connexions), and accompanied also by Mr. James Redmond Barry, | | | Inspector of Fisheries, a gentleman far advanced in life, went out in a sailing boat for an excursion to Inch Island, in Castlemaine-bay. | | | He took with him to assist in managing the boat two men named Costello, father and son. The intention of the party was to land in Inch Island | | | and dine there, for which purpose provisions were taken in the boat. When out some distance in the bay something got wrong about the rope | | | attaching the punt to the large boat, and the younger Costello was directed to look after it. He went into the punt, which was upset, and, being | | | unable to swim, he was in danger of being drowned. | | | / | | | Captain Blennerhassett, a good swimmer, undressed, plunged in, and swam to where the young man was struggling for life. He would have been | | | saved, & all would have ended happily had the sailing boat been brought to; but old Costello & Mr. Barry became utterly paralyzed, and incapable | | | of managing it. Accordingly it drifted on before the wind, leaving the owner to his fate. There was a fishing-boat in the offing, and to it the agonized | | | ladies made signals by waving their handkerchiefs and pointing to the spot. The fishermen responded, but too late. Captain Blennerhassett, being | | | exhausted, was obliged to let go the young man, who sank to rise no more. When the gallant gentleman was drawn into the fishing-boat he was still | | | breathing, but he died in a few minutes..." | | | / | | | m.27.9.1854 at Rathkeale, Limerick; Catherine "Kate" Eagar | | | (g.dau. of Sarah Blennerhassett & John Eagar, p.K 38) | | | as a widow she sold Ballymacprior Lodge, Killorglin, in 1870 to Dr W.H.Dodd | | | / | | | NOTE: [HICKSON/OKR vol.2 1874, p.218] | | | has this Townsend Blennerhassett m. Catherine Yeilding(?) F 36 | | | & having an only child Alexina Yeilding who m. John Eagar of Ardrinane F 37 | | | | | |>>Aremberg >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Rowland (Roland) Aremberg Blennerhassett b.17.10.1867 Coolaney, Tobercurry, Co.Sligo; | | | Blennerhassett | emig. to USA with his parents on S.S. "Colorado", departed 5.5.1868 Liverpool, | | | b.c1833/4 Co.Kerry | England via Queenstown (Cobh) Co.Cork, Ireland, for New York; perhaps d.bef.1895 | | | (or b.5.12.1824 ?) | | | | / |>>Frederick "Fred" T. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Ernest Edward >>>>>>>>>|>> Blennerhassett | | | As a boy took part | (S.?) Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett b. Mason City, Iowa | | | in 'The Voyage of | b.c1871/2 Mason ? b.25.6.1896 | | | the Colleen Dhas' | City, Iowa; | Mason City, Iowa; | | | (F 34) | moved to Montreal | of Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware 1917/18; | | | / | Quebec 1898 | worked for Bell Telephone Co. 1918; | | | Pharmacist/Druggist | / | registered for WWI draft 1918 | | | emig. to USA on | salesman at | / | | | S.S. "Colorado", | 720 Cedar Street, | m. Jenny | | | departed Liverpool, | Hianathe(?), Ramsay | | | | 5.5.1868 (via Cobh/ | Co., Minnesota 1905; | | | | Queenstown, Cork, | of Lynn, Mass. 1911 ? | | | Ireland) for N.York | (mem. of Lynn, Mass. | | | | / | Elk Lodge 117) | | | | of Rock Grove, | / |>>Fred B. Hassett >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Jaunita Hassett | | | Floyd Co., Iowa, | d.25.1.1911 Lowell, (B. = Blenner?); | b.c1915 Iowa | | | USA 1870; | Massachusetts b.c1884 Iowa, USA | | | | of Forest City, | ["Garner Signal" / |>>Frederick Hassett | | | Winnebago Co. | newspaper of Garner, m. Cassie E. b.c1915/16 Iowa | | | Iowa, 1880-1903 | Hancock Co., Iowa] b.c1887 Iowa | | | / | / | | | d.5.11.1895 | m.?.9.1892 b. Indiana | | | Forest City; | | | | joint Will with wife |>>Anna "Annie" H. >>>>>>>>>|>>Regine E. Farmer b.c1894 | | | dated 29.10.1895, Blennerhassett | | | pr. at Iowa 20.7.1903; b.c1874 Iowa; of St.Paul Ward 9, Ramsey, Minnesota 1900-1904; | | | admon. in England of Minneapolis, USA in 1913 | | | granted 20.7.03 PPR / | | | / Annie appears to have believed that she was one of the legal heirs of Harman | | | m.20.5.1865 Blennerhassettof "Blennerhassett Island" in West Virginia (p.K 12); | | | Monkstown, Kings- In 1913 she attempted to claim part of an inheritance in Ireland she believed to | | | town (Rathdown); be due to heirs of Harman Blennerhassett or his children; | | | Eliz. "Lizzie" Haire; See "Tisdale Recorder" newspaper of Saskatchewan, Canada 17.4.1913 | | | b.c1837/40 Ireland containing an extract from a Minneapolis paper; | | | (not b.c1827/30); See note "1904 & 1913 CLAIMS ON A SUPPOSED HARMAN | | | her death record in BLENNERHASSETT INHERITANCE" (p.K 37) | | | error has b. England / | | | / m. Ernest F. Farmer; b.c1869 | | | of Glass Drummard, / | | | Co.Fermanagh; NOTE: His Solicitor & attorney in the UK was Blaney Leslie Winslow of Lisuaske(?), | | | keeping house 1880-95 Co.Fermanagh, Ireland; and to this solicitor admon. of the estate of his father-in-law | | | Methodist in 1895; Aremberg Blennerhassett was granted 20.7.1903 | | | (sister of Maria | | | Haire, p.K 50) DISCONNECTED | | | / Marie B. Hassett (B. = Blenner?) of Iowa, USA c1999 | | | d.24.11.1904 Ramsey, | | | Minnesota, the home Cecilia B. Hassett (B. = Hassett?) b.24.11.1911 d.?.1.1994; of Crawford, Iowa | | | of her children Fred also on p.U 8 | | | & Annie | | | | | | | | BLENNERHASSETT | Frederick Thomas >>>>>>>>|>>Frederick Thomas >>>>>>>>>>|>>Jessie Lydia Tranfield >>>>>|>>Mary Lydia Jones; | | TRANFIELD | Tranfield Sr | Tranfield Jr | b.10.3.1865; bapt.9.4.65 | b.15.12.1887 Waterville; | | CONNECTION | b.c1813 | b.19.11.1841 | St Michael's church, | d.Oct-Dec.1980 | | | Hackney, London | St Martin-in-the-Fields | Islington, London | Bromley, Kent | | and | / | Westminster, London; | / | | | Waterville, Co.Kerry | builder & contractor; | bapt.19.12.1841 | of Valentia Island |>>Gladys Tranfield; | | | carpenter (maker | St Martin-in-the-Fields | from 1867 b.c1891 Co.Kerry | | | maker of window | / | / / | | | blinds/shutters) | of Longs Court, St. | m.19.5.1885 Valentia Is. niece (re: 1901 census), | | | / | Martin-in-the-Fields, | William Jones dau. of Tranfield, | | | of Longs Court, St. | London c1841-1848; | b.c1857; adopted as their own | | | Martin-in-the-Fields, | of 3 St James Street, | telegraphist at Waterville, daughter bef.1911 | | | Westminster, | St Pancras, Lon. 1851; | Co.Kerry 1885-1911 | | | London c1841-1848; | of 3 Ravensborne St., | | | | of 3 St James Street, | Greenwich 1854-1861 |>>Elizabeth Mary J. Tranfield; | | | St Pancras 1851 | (St Alphege parish); | b.Jul-Sep.1866 Islington, London; F 37 | | | / | / | d.1867/8 Valentia Island F 38 | | / | / | | | | of 33 Ravensborne | of 2 York Pl., Maiden |>>Frederick "Fred" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Jessie Christina Rose Tranfield | | | Street, Greenwich W. | Ln., Islington, 1864-66 | William Tranfield | b.24.12.1894 Waterville; bapt.22.2.1895 Dromod | | | London 1854-61; | / | b.19.12.1867 Valentia | | | | of Rose Cottage, | of Valentia Island, | / |>>Sheila Annie Tranfield | | | 3 Alfred Road, | Co.Kerry 1867-85; one | of Valentia Island 1867 | b.16.3.1899 Waterville; bapt.9.5.1899 Dromod | | | Surbiton Hill 1866-7; | of three original staff | / | | | | of 87 Waterloo Road, | of Atlantic Telegraph | telegraphist at |>>Frederick John Tranf. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | | | Lambeth, Lond. 1874; | Co. at Valentia Island | Waterville for American | b.2.11.1900 Waterville; | | | | of Clarence Street, | Cable Station, first as | Cable Company; | bapt.19.12.1900 | | | | Kingston-upon- | telegraphist, later as | of Waterville 1893-1911 | Dromod | | | | Thames 1867-1874; | superintendant | / | / |>> | | | of 9 Hyde Cottages, | / | m.1st 2.9.1893 Valentia; | at various Wembley | | | | Hyde Lane Battersea, | joined the Commercial | (Anne) Eliza Doughty; | addresses 1929-1951; | | | | London 1881 | Cable Co. as their | b.c1869 Scotland; | working for the cable |>> | | | / | Superintendant when | of Valentia Island 1893 | company in many | | | | bankrupt 1867 | their Cable Station | / | parts of the world; | | | | [London Gazette | opened at Waterville | m.2nd Jul-Sep.1915 | d.Jun.1987 Wembley | | | | 5.2.1867 p.583] and | in 1885; freemason | Waterville, Co.Kerry; | / |>> | | | [London Gazette | (Valentia Lodge 1891) | Annie Bennett | m. Olivia Cuhna | | | 27.3.1874 p.1911] | / | | b.c1899; of Brazil | | | / | Superintendant for | | | | | d.Apr-Jun 1883 | Commercial Cable Co. | |>>Doreen Cecilia Tranfield; b.Apr-Jun.1908 Waterville | | | Epsom, Surrey | Bradford, Yorks 1901; | / | | | / | of 55 Athol Road, | m.Oct-Dec.1937 | | | m.4.2.1841 St. | Bradford 1901; | | | | Martin-in-the-Fields, | of 104 Jesmond Ave., | | | | Lydia Ramsey | Bradford 1911-27; |>>Charles Herbert Tran. >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Irene Tranfield | | | Mason | d.1927 Bradford | b.5.5.1869 St Pancras, | b.?.5.1903 Hearts Content, | | | (marriage ceremony | / | London; bapt.14.7.1869 | Newfoundland | | | conducted by Rev. | m.18.8.1864 St.Mary's, | St Luke's, Islington; | | | | Sebastian Ramsey) | Islington, London; | of Valentia Island 1867; |>>Clifford Tranfield | | | b.c1813 at | Jessie Jeffrey | Superintendant of the | b.?.2.1907 Hearts Content, | | | Tower Hamlets / | b.c1842 E. Greenwich | Western Union Cable | Newfoundland | | | Spitalfields, London | | Co. at Hearts Content, | | | | / |>>Robert Charles Tran. | Newfoundland from |>>Melville Tranfield | | | ran a grocer's shop | b.28.8.1843 and | 1914; d.Jul-Sep.1946 b.?.6.1908 Hearts Content, | | | at Greenwich 1861; | bapt.19.11.1843 | Edmonton, London Newfoundland | | | d.Oct-Dec.1874 | St Martin-in-Fields | / | | | Kingston, Surrey | (1861 census names | m.?.5.1864 Violet | | | | him Richard, in error) | b.?.7.1874 | | | | | | | | |>>Edward Eyer Tranfield |>>Caroline 'Carrie' Louisa >>>>>>>>>>>|>>William Gwynne Bennett; b.19.8.1897 Waterville; | | | | b.8.1.1846 Greenwich; | Tranfield | bapt.29.9.1897 Dromod | | | | bapt.29.7.1857 | b.13.5.1871 Valentia | | | | | St.Alphege, Greenwich | d. Brent, England |>>Charles Vivian Bennett; b.16.6.1899 Waterville; | | | | | / | bapt.4.7.1899 Dromod | | | |>>George Samuel | m.1.12.1894 Valentia | | | EDWARD BLENNERHASSETT TRANFIELD | Tranfield | (C.o.I.) Thomas Bennett |>>Frederick Jerrrey Bennett; b.28.9.1895 Waterville; TRANS-ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE | (b.9.5.1873 d.26.2.1921) | b.6.3.1848 Greenwich; | b.c1865 England; bapt.19.10.1895 Dromod | | was one of three generations of the Tranfield | bapt.29.7.1857 | telegraphist at / Inscription on IEEE commemorative plaque erected at the | family who had a 75 year association with the | St.Alphege, Greenwich | Waterville 1894-1911 (one of these three brothers died bef.1911) gate of the cable house of the Commercial Cable Company | Atlantic Telegraph Company at Valentia Island | | Atlantic Cable Station at Knightstown, Valentia Island in 2000 | Cable Station and the other Co.Kerry Cable |>>Louisa Elizabeth |>>EDWARD BLENNERHASSETT TRANFIELD - b.9.5.1873 at Valentia Island, Co.Kerry; of Valentia until 1885, subsequently of | | stations, at Waterville & ; | Tranfield | Waterville where he was telegraphist for the Commercial Cable Company; boarder in Waterville at the home of his sister Caroline | | They worked for both the Atlantic Telegraph Co. | b.8.3.1851 Greenwich; | Bennett 1901; he and Harry Pomeroy (below) were boarders in house No.61 at Waterville 1911 ; he d.26.2.1921 Waterville; unm.; IEEE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING MILESTONE | and the Commercial Cable Company; several | bapt.29.7.1857 | / TRANSLANTIC CABLE STATIONS | women of this family married company men | St.Alphege, Greenwich | Named for Dr Edward Blennerhassett MD (F 39), medical officer of Valentia Island 1870-74 who founded the Village Hospital at On July 13, 1866 the Great Eastern steamed westward | | | | Valentia; perhaps he was a family friend and the boy's godfather, or he was the doctor present at the birth, his care acknowledged from Valentia, laying telegraph cable behind her. | The 1st attempts at laying trans-atlantic telegraph |>>Joseph Tranfield | in the baby's name; in the Tranfield family is his silver christening tankard (with a handle), with inscription: "EBT 9 May 1873"; The successful landing at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland | cables connecting North America with Europe | b.2.3.1854 Greenwich; | A silver Christening cup for Irvine Rowland Blennerhassett, son of Dr Edward Blennerhassett MD (F 39), is dated 9 Dec 1863 on July 27 established a permanent electrical | were made in 1857, 1858 (2 cables) and 1865; | bapt.29.7.1857 | communications link that altered for all time personal, | these ran from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum | St.Alphege, Greenwich |>>Cecilia "Cissie" Letitia Tranfield; b.1.8.1874 Valentia Island commercial and political relations between people | Bay, Valentia Island, Co.Kerry to Heart's Content, | | / across the Atlantic Ocean. Later, additional cables | Newfoundland (a province of Canada since 1949); |>>Benjamin Tranfield | m.1941 Bradford; Henry "Harry" Pomeroy; were laid from Valentia and new stations opened | the first successful cable was laid in 1866 by | b.2.3.1854 Greenwich; | b.c1872 Athlone, Co.Westmeath (re: 1901 census) at Ballinskelligs (1874) and Waterville (1884), | engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ship | bapt.29.7.1857 | or b. England (re: 1911 census); making County Kerry a major focal point for | SS "Great Eastern", at that time the largest ship | St.Alphege, Greenwich | telegraphist at Waterville (Spunkane) 1901-1911 global communications. | | ever built; further cables were laid in 1873, 1874, | | July, 2000 | | 1880 & 1894 so by the end of the 19th century |>>William Octavius Tran. |>>Emily Ramsey Tranfield; b.7.4.1880 Valentia; telephone IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | British, French, German and American owned b.18.11.1858 Greenwich; opreator at Bradford 1901; d.Jan-Mar.1974 Bradford | | cables were in operation | bap.10.6.1863 / F 38 | | | St.Alphege, Greenwich m. 1907 Bradford, Yorkshire; Arthur Barker; law clerk F 39 | | | BLENNERHASSETT FAMILY LIVERY BUTTONS | VALENTIA ISLAND |>>Dr Edward Blenner- >>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Irvine Rowland >>>>>>>|>>Madeline "Maida" Elizabeth Blennerhassett There exist two identical brass livery uniform buttons of c1858-1868, | Caherciveen, Co.Kerry | hassett, MD, Ph.D. | Blennerhassett F.A.I. | b.25.5.1886 Crickhowell 3cm diameter, displaying the Blennerhassett arms, crest & motto | (sometimes written | b.24.6.1838, Killarney | b.9.12.1863 Bayswater | / ("Fortes Fortuna Juvat" = "Fortune Favours the Bold"); on the reverse is | Valencia in error - | / | Kensington, London | m.Jan.-Mar.1910 Crickhowell; the manufacturer's name, "Foley and Croker, 24 College Green, Dublin" | Valencia is in !) | physician; edu. TCD | / | Richard Walter Roberts / | | | (MD adm.1854) | of 64 Norfolk Terrace, | One button has for many years been treasured as an heirloom within the | CRICKHOWELL | MRCS London; | Bayswater, |>>Gwendoline "Gwen" >>>>>|>>Doreen Isabel Sylvia >>>>|>> same family, known to them as the "Blennerhassett Button"; inherited | Breconshire, Wales | MRCPI Dublin (i.e. | Kensington 1863-70; | Alleyne | Coles | by the present owner from her g.mother, a daughter of Irvine Rowland | | Mem. Royal Coll.of | returned to Co.Kerry | Blennerhassett | b.1919 d.1998 | Blennerhassett of Crickhowell, Co.Breconshire, himself son of Dr. Edward | NOTE: | Physicians of Ireland | with family c1870; | b.26.7.1891 | / | Blennerhassett MD (b.1838 d.1874), of the family of Medics from | There is another | as also was his father | of Knightstown, | Abergavenny; | m. Arthur Edward | Ballymacprior in Co.Kerry; This button shows some wear, the attachment | Brecon connection | & bro. Rowland BH) | Valentia Island, | of Newport, S.Wales; | Abell | loop is broken off, both indicating considerable use; | with Blennerhassett | / | Co.Kerry c1870-1874 | of Kingston Bridge, | b.4.3.1909 | a few modern copies, in brass, were made in 2009 as family keepsakes | on p.A 1 | moved to England; | / | Kent 1916 | Shipston-on-Stour, | / | | | Assistant Surgeon | of Tyronen, | / | Warwickshire; | The other button, identical apart from having been made into a brooch | | at Bassett Road | 1 Llanbedr Road, | her grandaughter Pip | d.?.10.1989 Bath | (the brooch clip broken off, now missing), is owned by another lady | | Camborne, Cornwall; | Crickhowell, | has her wedding ring | They owned & ran | descendant of Irvine Blennerhassett, inherited by her with Irvine | | of 64 Norfolk Terrace, | Breconshire (Powys), | / | Cleveland Hotel, Bath | Blennerhassett's silver Christening Cup; The cup is inscribed with the | | Bayswater, | Wales 1886-95; | d.1952 Bath | | Blennerhassett crest and motto "Fortes Fortuna Juvat" above the text : | | Kensington, | in 1891 his in-laws | perhaps(?) bur. Bath | | "TO Irvine Blennerhassett, Born in London December 9th 1863 | | London 1863-1870 | lived at 2 Llanbedr Rd; | or perhaps bur. Arnos |>>Maurice Alexander | FROM Maddine Gilmer, Bayswater" | | | / | of Greyhound Hotel, | Vale Cemetery, Bristol ? | Coles; b.1921 d.2007 | / | | | returned to Co.Kerry, | Abergavenny 1901-3; | / | | During the late 18th and early 19th century local Militia Regiments were | | Ireland c1870; | of Llangattock, | m.Jun-Sep.1916 | | often raised and supported by the larger landowners, themselves | | of Knightstown, | Crickhowell 1912 | Wimbledon, Kingston |>>Jacqueline Alleyne | sometimes becoming Colonel of the regiment; Regiments sponsored by | | Valentia Island, | / | Horace Farquhar Coles b.1928 d.c1996 | branches of the Blennerhassett family in Co.Kerry were "Laune Rangers" | | Co.Kerry c1870-1874; | Classics Teacher 1881; | Evelyn Coles / | at Killorglin and the "Elmgrove and Blennerville" unit of the Kerry militia | | Medical officer of | fluent in English & | b.c1897 m. Group Captain | at Tralee; However, this button is not from the uniform of a militia unit, | | Valentia; founder of | Welsh | Securities Clerk with Colin Parry, RAF; | nor from the uniform of a foxhunt, as such buttons do not display | | its Village Hospital; | / | Midland Bank at of Clevedon, | personal family coats-of-arms | | | [The Medical | Accountant, | Newport, Wales Somerset; d.2010 | / | | | Directory 1873] | Auctioneer, Valuer, | / | These buttons were on a livery uniform, as worn by coachmen or | | / | Land & Estate Agent, | / | household servants at a Blennerhassett "big house" such as | | d.24.3.1874 | Insurance & General | a well-known player of billiards, won the Welsh | Ballyseedy, Churchtown or Riddlestown | | | Knight's Town, | Commission Agent; | amatuer championship four times in four years, | | | | Valentia, Co.Kerry; | at Standard St., Crick- | taking the Challenge Cup "for keeps"; | | | | bur. Killorglin, | howell &12 Cross St., | in 1933 made the championship | | | | Co.Kerry; | Abergavenny, | record with 363 against Frank Edwards; | | | | obit [KEP 28.3.1874] | Monmouthshire (an | took part in the sixth "British Empire Amateur | | | | / | Hotel & Public House) | Billiards Championship" May13 - June4 1935, | | | | m.13.1.1862 | / | in which program he is described as: | | | | at Trinity Church, | first worked at a bank; | "The most polished Billiards player of our time" | | | | Rathmines, Dublin; | accountant; | and "Had he willed it would have been one of | | | | Cheretta "Cherry" | Clerk to Crickhowell | the greatest players the world has ever known" | | | | Greene Rothwell | Union Board of | | | | | d.of Samuel Rothwell, | Guardians (ran the | | | | | Newtown, Co.Meath | the workhouse at |>>Rowland Irvine >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Elizabeth Margaret | | | | ["Cork Examiner" | Llangattock, now Ty | Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett | | | | 1.2.1862] | Croeso Restaurant) | b.1.12.1887 Crickhowell | (a.k.a. Margaret M. | | | | / | & Crickhowell Rural | / | Blennerhassett) | | | NOTE: the 1881 | b.c1839/43 (not 1850) | District Council, for | edu. Roath | b.Jan-Mar.1917 |>> | | census has Cherry | Dingle, Co.Kerry; | 23 yrs; Secretary of | Occupational School | Abergavenny, | | | aged 38 yrs (b.c1843) | d.6.5.1898 Anglesey, | C'howell Public Hall; | Glamorganshire 1901, | Monmouthshire | | | 1891 census has her | North Wales; | Certified Bailiff; clerk | residing with an uncle | / | | | aged 41 yrs (b.c1850) ! | bur. Llangristiolus | Pensions Committee | Alfred T. Fisher, at | typist 1941; | | | | churchy'd, Anglesea | / | Cardiff while at school | of 30 Renwick Road, | | | | / | mem. of Crickhowell | / | Aintree Liverpool 1941 | | | | as widow, with sons | Agricultural Soc., | fitter (iron) 1911; | / | | | | Irvine & Edward, | Abergav'y Laundry | railway employee 1941; | m.23.4.1941 |>> | | | she resided in 1881 | Soc., and Crickhowell | of Crickhowell until the | St Mary the Virgin, | | | at a lodging house | Debating Society | 1920s; | West Derby, Liverpool; | | | in Llanfair Fechan, | / | d.Jan-Mar.1943 | Robert Gore Rotheram | | | Caernarvonshire, | played for Crick- | Liverpool North | b.c1913 (son of Robert | | | Wales (with her | howell Football Club | / | Gore Rotherham, | | | bro.-in-law William | (Secretary 1886-1787, | m.Apr.-Jun1916 | pawnbroker) | | | Blennerhassett K 49 | Treasurer from 1887; | Crickhowell; | / | | | he prob. of Laharan, | resigned 1888, but | Mary E. Allen | served in RAF WWII; | | Valentia, Co.Kerry); | remaining committee | b.c1901 | transport driver RAF | | and in 1891 at No.4 | Member 1888-89) | Abergavenny, | (No.1,017,001); | | | Pensallt St., Bangor, | / | Monmouthshire, | of Lynwood Eaton Rd, | | | Carnarvonshire | applied for Clerkship | Wales | West Derby, Liverpool F 39 | | | | of Ulverston Union, | | 1941 F 40 | | | | Cumberland 1889-90 | | | | |>>Charlotte | [CRO BD TB 79/ | LIVERPOOL, |>>(Richard) Irvine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | | | Blennerhassett | 12/33 Testimonials | ENGLAND John Blennerhassett | | | | b.1831 | for Irvine | b.1.11.1921 | | | | d.20.6.1872 unm. | Blennerhassett"] | NOTE: Abergavenny; | | | | | / | Other Blennerhassett d.3.1.1985 Liverpool | | | |>>Frederick | manager of The | families from Liverpool bur.15.1.1985(?) | | | | Blennerhassett | Greyhound Hotel, | are on page LL 1 admon.11.3.1985; | | | | d. an infant | 4 High Street, | of 7 Kersey Road, | | | | | Abergavenny, | Southdene, Kirkby, | | | |>>Elizabeth | 1901-03 | Merseyside, Lancs. | | | | Blennerhassett | / | / |>> | | | d. an infant c1834(?) | in 1912 Irvine was | m. 29.11.1947 L'pool; | | | | | suspected of financial | Doreen Spencer | | | |>>Elizabeth | irregularities with his | b.11.3.1928 | | | | Blennerhassett | official positions; | W. Derby, Liverpool |>> | | | d. an infant c1836(?) | when about to be | d.Nov.1991 Knowsley, | | | | | arrested he resigned | Lancashire | | | |>>Maria | all his posts, leaving | | | | Blennerhassett | his home at |>>(Cherry) Evelyn "Eva" >>>>>>>>>|>> Done | | | b.c1835 | Llangattock by car Blennerhassett | | | / | about midnight b.Jul-Sep.1893 Crickhowell; | | | d.3.6.1847 at father's | 20.3.1912 and d.24.6.1966; | | | home, Strand Street, | disappeared [MP] of Hendon & Hythe [TIMES 30.6.1966] | | | Dublin; age 13 years, | / / | | | "the youngest and | the following day m.Jul-Sep.1918 Eastry, Kent | | | beloved daughter" | (21.3.1912) he sailed John Paul Cussons Done, F.R.I.C.S. | | | [The Cork | from Liverpool on b.16.8.1890 Dover, Kent; | | | Examiner 7.6.1847] | Allen Line RMS of Hendon, Middlesex 1891; | | | | Tunisian, using the d.6.8.1977, obit. [TIMES 15.8.1977] | | | | alias "Joe Benson", / | | | | a widower, arriving Official Arbitrator under the Acquisition of | | | | Halifax, 31.3.1912; Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act 1919 |>> | | | his stated destination Mem. of Lands Tribunal appointed by the | | | | on the ship's manifest Lord Chancellor under the Lands Tribunal Act | | | | was Kootenay, British of 1949; retired 1960; | | | | Columbia, Canada, Agent for estates of All Souls Coll., Oxford 1942 | | | | where he was to work Senior partner in Done, Hunter & Co., London | | | | as a farmer; he had / | | | | with him £240 in cash John Done m.2nd Apr-Jun.1969 at Worthing, | | | | [MP] Sussex, to Helena Allen, who survived him | | | | / |>> | | | a warrant for his arrest was issued 28.3.1912 ; he was suspected of going abroad | | | | and, it being only 3 weeks before Titanic sailed on it's maiden (and only) voyage, | | | | a rumour soon circulated that he had been on it; | | | | he was eventually found at Field, British Columbia, working as "Joe Benson" at | | | | the "Mount Stephen House", the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway) Hotel at Field, | | | | adjacent to the railway station; he was extradited to UK [MP]; | | | | / | | | | NOTE: Kootenay is a large area of forest, also the name of a lake, so is | | | | difficult to be precise as to its distance from the town of Field, but using |>> | | | the modern "trans-Canada highway" Field is 108km by road from Kootenay | | | | National Park; they lie in the beautiful Banff area of the Canadian Rockies | | | | / | | | | [TIMES 1.11.1913] reported: "At the Brecknockshire Assizes at Brecon | | | | yesterday, before Mr. Justice Bankes, Irvine Blennerhassett, formerly clerk | | | | to the Crickhowell Board of Guardians and Rural District Council, was | | | | charged with forgery of bankers' cheques & receipts for money, and with | | | | embezzlement and falsification of minute books, there being altogether 31 | | | | indictments. The prisoner was convicted and sentenced to three years' penal | | | | servitude. " From Brecon he was taken initially to Cardiff goal then to | | | | Parkhurst prison on Isle of Wight [MP]; | | | | reports of the trial appeared in [BCT 5.6.1912, 23.10.1913, 6.11.1913 p.2]; |>> | | | ["Abergavenny Chronicle" 17.10.1913] & ["Brecon & Radnor Express"] | | | / | | | Following his release from prison in 1916, Irvine Blennerhassett | | | (previously alias "Joe Benson") remarried under the name "Irvine Benson"; | | | at the time of this 2nd marriage he resided at 38 The Polygon, Southampton; | | | after the marriage he and Matilda Jane resided at "Whiteclff View", Royal St., | | | Sandown, Isle of Wight, Hampshire until he d.10.8.1919 of phthisis | | | (chronic tuberculosis of the lungs) at Dudley House Nursing Home, Sandown | | | bur.12.8.1919 Christ Church, Sandown, Isle of Wight F 40 | | | / F 41 | | | / | | | m.1st 21.4.1885 Crickhowell; Sarah Elizabeth Williams | | | b.c1860/3 Brecon; d.10.8.1915 Abergavenny, Mommouthshire; | | | while her husband in prison; bur. Crickhowell (lower end of churchyard, | | | white cross under a beech tree, opposite what was until recently the | | | "Six Bells" public house); her headstone inscription has d.14.8.1915 in error; | | | Will dated 28.2.1906, pr. 22.1.1916 Llandaff (Cardiff); of Moreton, Brecon Road, | | | Abergavenny 1906; of 10 Western Terrace, Brecon Road, Abergavenny 1915 | | | / | | | m.2nd 15.2.1917 St.Peter's | | | Church, Southampton; | | | as Irvine Benson, to: | | MATILDA JANE WEBBER was daughter of | Matilda Jane Webber >>>>>>>>|>>Gwendoline Thomas; b.c1887 Abergavenny | | James Webber, schoolmaster (b.c1831 Blaenavon, | b.Jul-Sep.1864 | (step-daughter to Irvine Blennerhassett) | | Monmouthshire) and Matilda S. | Abergavenny; widow | | | (b.c1826 Wrexham, Denbighshire); | of Abergavenny; |>>Cyril D. Thomas; b.c1894 Abergavenny | | Matilda had a brother Frederick W. Webber | Edith Webber (sister?) (step-son to Irvine Blennerhassett) | | (bank clerk, b.c1862 Abergavenny); | was a witness | | In 1871 they resided at the "National School" | / | | Master's House, a part of the school building, | her 2nd marriage; she had m.1st Apr-Jun.1886 at Abergavenny, | | at 162 Hereford Road, Abergavenny | to David Francis Thomas; a draper (b.c1861/2 d.Jul-Sep.1913 Abergavenny); | | | in 1891 they resided at Moreton(?) Villa, Brecon Road, Abergavenny; | | | at her marriage to "Irvine Benson" she resided at Wilcot, Abergavenny | | | / | | | "Matilda Jane Benson" d. Jan-Mar.1959 at Southport, Lancashire | | | / | | | The life of Irvine Blennerhassett has been well researched by | | | historian Maldwyn Powell of Crickhowell; | | | See his: "The Crickhowell Sensation 1912-1913: The Tale of Irvine Blennerhassett" | | | published in the Crickhowell District Archive Centre Newsletter, No.13, Dec.2009 | | | also published online with illustrations at: | | | Crickhowell and District History Society website | | | | | | | | |>>Walter Patton Blennerhassett, b.22.6.1865 Westminster | | | | | |>>Edwardine (Edwardina) Bessie Blennerhassett; b.27.5.1867 London; | | | bapt.7.6.1867 All Saints Church, Kensington, London; d.23.6.1867 London | | | | | |>>Cherry Letitia Blennerhassett b.Jan-Mar.1870 Kensington, London; | | | d.Jul-Sep.1870 Poplar, London | | | | | |>>Rev. Edward Townsend Blennerhassett (1881 census has 'Edward F.' in error); | | b.14.2.1872 Valentia Island, Co.Kerry; at school 1881; | | at home (No.4 Pensallt St., Bangor, Carnarvonshire) 1891; Student of Philosophy 1891; | | edu. University College Durham (University of Durham) L.Th. 1893; Deacon 1895; | | Curate of St.Andrew's Cardiff 1895-96 (residing 119 Crwys Road, Cardiff 1895); | | Curate of St.Fagan's Cardiff 1897; Curate of All Saints, Weston, Bath, Somerset | | 1897-1900; he is not listed in "Crockford's Clerical Directory" after 1902 | | / | | Served in Royal Army Medical Corps 1907-1911 (discharged 29.12.1911) and | | again during WWI, signing on 10.8.1914 as male nurse for four years with the | | RAMC Special Reserve | | / | | NOTE: What became of Edward Blennerhassett after leaving RAMC c1918 at end of | | WWI is a puzzle... I cannot find his death recorded in England or Wales, so he may | | have gone abroad after WWI | | / | | NOTE: perhaps(?) identical with an unknown Rev. Blennerhassett (born c1869) who | | sailed 16.2.1899 on SS "Dunolly Castle" from Southampton, England to Mossel Bay, | | South Africa (approximately half way between Cape Town & Port Elizabeth), but this | | is doubtful, as date conflicts with him being curate of All Saints, Weston until 1900... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | F 41 | | F 42 | | | |>>Charlotte >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>issue | | Blennerhassett b.c1789 | | / | | m.8.8.1806 Thomas Barry Jr; of Ballymacmoy | | ["Cork Morning Chronicle" 18.8.1806] | | | | NOTE: | | The LDS IGI database shows Charlotte and Mary Blennerhassett (see left) | | born at Lahore, Punjab, India and Mary married there... This is incorrect, | | they were both born and married in Co.Kerry and have no Indian connection | | | |>>Mary Blennerhassett >>>>>>|>>issue | | b.c1789 d.6.4.1872 | | of Ballymacprior Lodge, Killorglin & of Princes Street, Tralee | | / | | m.3.8.1808 at Tralee; | | Francis Walker of Rapogue, Killcolman, nr Milltown, Co.Kerry & of Laharan, Co.Kerry | | NOTE: there is a Laharan at Killorglin and another at Valentia, Caherciveen - which one? | | NOTE: There are other Blennerhassett Walker connections on p.BW 01 | | | |>>Arabella Blennerhassett >>>>>|>>son Jones (dsp) | | b.1797 d.7.7.1875 | | | / |>>dau. Jones (dsp) | | / | | m.1st 3.1.1825 (or 9.4.1825?) Kiltalla, Co.Kerry; | | Lt-Col Frederick Jones; d.?.5.1832; | | 26th (or 25th?) Regt. of Foot (Cameronians) | | / | | m.2nd 1841 | | Capt. Bartholomew Hepenstal Hartley; d.1854 | | 94th & 8th Regiments | | | |>>Townsend R. Blennerhassett b.c1800; edu. TCD (Pensioner 1816, BA 1821); | | probably d.c1830 Tralee (re: Will); unm. | | | | | |>>Theodora >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Theodore Eagar; d. young | | Blennerhassett | | | of Ballymacprior Lodge, |>>Arabella Eagar; [BLGI 1958 p.251] names her Annabella | | Killorglin, Co.Kerry; | / | | and of Tralee; | m. Charles Newton; of Milltown, Co.Kerry | | perhaps(?) b.c1803 | | | / |>>Elizabeth "Eliza" Eagar | | m.?.2.1805 (or 1824 ?) | / | | Edward Supple Eagar; | m. Alexander Thompson of Castleisland, Co.Kerry | | of Ardrinane, Kerry; | | | Solicitor & Attorney; |>>Anna Maria Eagar | | (1824 seems more | / | | probable than 1805…) | m. Andrew Mabon; of Leith, Scotland | | / | | | (g.g.son of Anne |>>Edwardina Eagar | | Blennerhassett and | | | Dennis Hurly; p.K 62) |>>Louisa "Louise" P. >>>>>>>>|>> Ellis >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>issue | | | Blennerhassett | / | | | Eagar d.1873 | m. (cousin) | | | / | Charlotte Barry | | | m. Agahdoe, | | | | Killarney |>>Eliza Ellis | | | ([OCM] has | | | | m.12.8.1889 in error); |>>Arabella Ellis, unm. | | | Richard Ellis | | | | of Glenascrone, |>>Charlotte Ellis | | | Abbeyfeale (3rd m.) | | | | |>>Maria Ellis, unm. | | |>>Richarda Eagar | | / | | m. Greenstead; | | settled in USA | | | | | | F 42 | | F 43 | | | |>>(Thomas) Arthur >>>>>>>>>|>>Dr Richard Henry >>>>>>>|>>Lucy Blennerhassett >> >|>>Lucy Alice Gregg b.post 1866 (under age 21 in 1885) | Blennerhassett | Blennerhassett, MD | b.Jan-Mar.1860 Surrey | a.k.a. Arthur Thomas; | b.c1830/1 Ireland; | / | of Ballymacprior | Surgeon & General | m. Abraham Gregg, Professor of Languages | Lodge, Killorglin; | Practitioner MRCPE | of 14 Rue Grange Bateliere, Paris 1885 | & of Princes Quay | (Mem. of the Royal | | (Princes Place), Tralee | College of Physicans |>>Harriet Madeline Blennerhassett; b.1862/3, probably Ireland; | / | of England); | d.c11.6.1863 Dublin ["The Cork Examiner" 11.6.1863] | b.c1814 | of 72 Upper New St. | | d.26.12.1865 Tralee | St.Helier, Jersey, |>>Richard A. Wilberforce Blennerhassett | ["The Cork Examiner" | C.I. 1861; b.23.8.1865 Wellington Place, Enniskillen, Co.Fermanagh | 1.1.1866] | of Enniskillen, Co. d.?.3.1869 Clarinda Mount, Kingstown, Co.Dublin [Limerick Chronicle 16.3.1869] | / | Fermanagh 1865-7 | m.?.11.1829 cousin | of Tralee 1868 NOTE: There is another Dr Richard Blennerhassett, MD (p.F 33) | Sarah Anna Mullins | / | (de Moleyns from 1841) | d.28.7.1868 Mount Rivers, Annagarry (Ownagarry), Killorglin (p.K 44) | of Burnham House, | home of his bro.-in-law Robert Conyers (p.K 41) | Dingle; | / | as a widow in 1867 | m.1858 at Dublin; | living with her son | Elizabeth Anne Bird b.c1831 Ireland; of 14 Rue de la Grange Bateliere, Paris; d.12.5.1885 at her home in Paris; | Richard Henry | Will dated 12.5.1885 Paris, administration granted 22.6.1885 [PPR London] | Blennerhassett at | / | Enniskillen, | [BIFR p.140] has her a dau. of Capt. Wilberforce Bird, RN and 1st cousin of the Most Rev. John Bird Sumner | Co.Fermanagh | (b.1780 d.1862), Bishop of Chester 1828-1848 and Archbishop of Canterbury 1848-1862; | / | The parents of Rev. John Bird Sumner were Rev. Robert Sumner and Hannah Bird (Hannah Bird being | d.18.12.1881 | 1st cousin of William Wilberforce b.1759 d.1833, the great philantropist and anti-slavery campaigner) but I | (g.g.dau. of Elizabeth | have so far been unable to confirm there was a brother of Hannah Bird named "Capt. Wilberforce Bird, RN" | Blennerhassett & | | Townsend Gun of | | Rattoo, Co.Kerry; |>>Henry Blennerhassett d. an inf. | p.K 25) | | | | |>>Lt. William Blennerhassett, 21st Fusiliers | | d.23.3.1867 Killyhevlin, Co.Fermanagh | | bur. Derryvullan New Churchyard, Co.Fermanagh (with his sister Madeline) | | ["Journal of the Association for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead in Ireland" 1916] | | [Old Irish Graveyards - Co.Fermanagh, part 5, by Eileen Hewson] | | | |>>Madeline Blennerhassett | | d.5.6.1867 Willoughby Place, Enniskillen, Co.Fermanagh; unm. | | bur. Derryvullan New Churchyard, Co.Fermanagh (with her brother William) | | ["Journal of the Association for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead in Ireland" 1916] | | [Old Irish Graveyards - Co.Fermanagh, part 5, by Eileen Hewson] | | | |>>Elizabeth "Eliza" >>>>>>>>|>> Conyers | | Jane Blennerhassett | | of Tralee; b.bef.1840 | | / | | m.30.4.1861 ([BIFR p.140] has April 1862 in error) | | Capt. Robert Rowland Conyers (p.K33); b.bef.1840 d.1895; of Tralee; | | also of Mount Rivers, Killorglin, previously the home of his uncle Robert Blennerhassett (p.K 33); | | 89th Regt. served in the Crimean War (son of Catherine Blennerhassett of Blennerville; p.K 33) | | | |>>Charlotte Henly Blennerhassett of Tralee, b.c1840 (dsp) | | / | | m.1st 6.10.1863 at Tralee, Capt Henry Haire; | | of Aghaboy, b.bef.1842; 71st Fermanagh Light Infantry (Militia) | | / | | m.2nd 11.11.1868 St.Annes, Dublin; | | Francis H. Walker | | of Liskennett (Belville), Co.Limerick | | / | | NOTE: There are other Blennerhassett Walker connections on p.BW 01 | | | |>>Evelyn (Eveline) >>>>>>>>|>>William Frederick de Moleyns; b.1.12.1874 | Florence | | Blennerhassett |>>Evelyn Florence de Moleyns; b.3.12.1877 | / | m.16.7.1872 Caherciveen | Co.Kerry (2nd cousin); William Townsend de Moleyns; | b.16.7.1850 50th Regt; Rector of Killorglin (p.K 26) F 43 | d.28.5.1900 Killorglin F 44 | BALLYMACPRIOR LODGE (O'Neill) |>>Alice Blennerhassett >>>>>>>|>>John O'Neill >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>Martin O'Neill >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>John O'Neill b.24.11.1850 b.est.c1770; of | b.16.7.1800 Garrahadoo | b.?.2.1827 Ardmoniel | Ballymacprior Lodge, | d.7.7.70 Ballymacprior | d.1870-1879 |>>William O'Neill b.1858 Killorglin, Co.Kerry | / | / | / | m.2.2.1826 | m.12.2.1850 |>>James O'Neill b.1864 m.18.5.1799 Killorglin | Kate Doyle | Julia Doyle | Martin O'Neill | b.c1808 d.31.1.1878 | b.?.2.1828 Kilcoolagh |>>Martin O'Neill b.6.8.1867 of Garrahadoo, | Ballymacprior | East, Co.Kerry; | Co.Kerry | | d.13.7.1910 |>>Julia O'Neill b.9.7.1869 | | | | | |>>Daniel O'Neill >>>>>>>>>>|>>Julia O'Neill b.1909 | | b.23.4.1873 | | | / |>>Hannah O'Neill b.1910 | | m.13.2.1908 | | Catherine Murphy | | b.1887 Dromlohert, Glencar, Co.Kerry | | | |>>Cornelius O'Neill b.?.1.1829 d.17.6.1852 | | | |>>Michael O'Neill b.?.9.1830 | | | |>>William O'Neill b.?.10.1831 | | | |>>John O'Neill b.15.4.1834 d.17.6.1852 | | | | | |>>Ellen O'Neill >>>>>>>>>>|>>Daniel O'Neill >>>>>>>>>>|>> O'Neill | | b.?.7.1837 | b.1868 | | | / | / |>>Denis O'Neill b.30.4.1893 Ardmoniel | | m. O'Neill | m. 13.2.1892 | / | | b. at Laharn | Bridget Clifford | m.26.2.1911 Lizzie O'Sullivan | | | b.1875 Laharn | | | | |>>John O'Neill b.1894 | | | | | |>>Catherine O'Neill |>>Martin O'Neill b.1880 |>>Mary O'Neill b.1897 | | b.?.4.1841 | | | | |>>William O'Neill b.1882 |>>Daniel O'Neill b.1900 | | | | | | |>>Catherine O'Neill |>>Deborah O'Neill b.1903 | | | b.1885 | | | | |>>Ellen O'Neill b.1906 | | |>>Patrick O'Neill b.1889 | | | |>>Julia O'Neill b.1909 | | | | | |>>Bridget O'Neill | | | | | |>>Nora O'Neill | | | |>>Kate O'Neill >>>>>>>>>>>|>>Ellen Doyle >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>issue 12 children | | b.26.2.1843 | b.6.1.1862 Ballymacprior | | Ballymacprior | / | | / | m.29.11.1879 David Fitzpatrick | | m.2.2.1861 | b.1851 Shandon, Co.Cork | | Jeremiah Doyle | d.18.10.1924 Killorglin | | b.8.8.1835 | | | Kilcoolaght East |>>Mary Doyle >>>>>>>>>>>>|>>issue 6 children | | d.?.12.1889 | b.22.8.1863 Ballymacprior | | Ballymacprior | / | | | m. David Cremen, b. Mallow, Co.Cork | | | | | |>>John Doyle b.8.11.1864 Ballymacprior; d. USA | | | | | |>>Julia Doyle >>>>>>>>>>>>|>>issue 3 children | | | b.23.6.1866 Ballymacprior | | | / | | | m. Everett Ricketson | | | | | |>>Catherine Doyle b.7.7.1867 | | | / | | | m. Con (Cornelius) Cremen | | | F 44 | | | F 45 | | | | | |>>Denis Doyle b.24.1.1868 | | | / | | | m.?.4.1904 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Hannah Kennedy | | | | | |>>Jeremiah Doyle b.9.11.1870 | | | | | |>>Cornelius Doyle >>>>>>>>>|>>issue 7 ch. | | | b.15.6.1872; | | | d.?.8.1930 Ballymacprior | | | / | | | m.1st ?.11.1906 Margaret Hogan; b.6.8.1876 Lissavane; | |>>James O'Neill | d.15.12.1911 Ballymacprior (2 ch.) | | b.?.8.1845 | / | | | m.2nd ?.2.1914 Ellen Heffernan; | |>>Richard O'Neill | b.9.5.1888 Knockkavota, Milltown, Co.Kerry (5 ch.) | | b.?.6.1848 | | | |>>Hannah Doyle >>>>>>>>>>|>>issue 4 children | | | b.9.12.1873; | | | d.?.9.1913 Kimberly, S.Africa | | | / | | | m. Stephen Flynn; b.1870 Ballinaglera, Leitrim; d.17.3.19 Kimberley | | | | | |>>William J. Doyle >>>>>>>|>>issue 10 children | | | b.11.3.1876 | | | / | | | m.1902 South Africa; Mary Jane French; | | | b.17.2.1882 Jagersfontein, South Africa | | | | | | | | |>>James Doyle b.26.4.1877 | | | | | |>>Patrick Doyle b.5.8.1878 | | | / | | | m.1927 at Germanstown; | | | Lily Lang; b.1881 Durban, South Africa | | | | | |>>Bridget Doyle >>>>>>>>>|>>issue 5 ch. | | | b.15.3.1883 | | | / | | | m.?.2.1917 James McCarthy; b.c1883 at Listowel | | | | | |>>Martin Doyle b.7.8.1886 | | | | | |>>Mary O'Neill >>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>William Healy >>>>>>>>>>|>>Willie Healy | b.?.2.1850 / | / m. | m. Patrick Healy | | |>>Cornelius O'Neill >>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>John O'Neill b.?.3.1844 | b.?.10.1813 | | / |>>Martin O'Neill b.?.9.1846 | m.14.2.1841 | | Julia Hartnett |>>William O'Neill b.?.11.1849 | |>>William O'Neill >>>>>>>>>>|>>Alice O'Neill b.?.7.1845 Tulligmore | b.?.12.1815 | / | m.12.2.1844 Catherine Teahan | b. at Ballymacprior | |>>Elizabeth O'Neill b.?.3.1818 | |>>Richard O'Neill b.?.12.1820 Tulligmore | / | m.19.2.1846 Bridget Riordan | |>>Timothy O'Neill b.?.6.1824

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