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Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1732-3, M.P. for Dublin, 1733-6. See pp. 9-15

FruDli^picrr—Fiviii a Mrz-.ntiiit in jios^imi^ioh of I/u J!<r. II. B, SiniiiZ!/.

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THE FAMILIES

OF

French of Belturbet

AND

Nixon of Fermanagh

AND THEIR DESCENDANTS

BY

The Rev. HENRY BIDDALL SWANZY, M.A.

IPBINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.]

1908.

0

DUBLIN : PRINTED ET ALEX. THOM & CO. LIMITED.

THE LIBRARY

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITVI

PROVO, UTAH

PREFATORY NOTE.

An attempt has beeu made in the following pages to put on record what can be discovered concerning the descendants of two Irish families which became allied in 1737 by the marriage of the Rev. Andrew Nixon with Marianne French. The various families detailed on pp. 83-127, are descended from that marriage.

The Public Record Office contains evidence of the existence of many other persons of the names of French and Nixon, who, from the localities in which they lived, were very probably of the same stock, but as no proof of their relationship has been forthcoming, as a rule they have not been mentioned in the book.

It has been found necessary to condense the work as much as possible, and to leave out some biographical details which might have been inserted. I have tried in most instances to give chiefly those which come from unfamiliar sources.

The evidence for the earlier generations in the 17th and 18th centuries is in almost every case clear and complete. In the very few instances where the exact connection of certain persons with the family has not been discovered, due mention has been made of the fact.

For the details regarding the later generations I have to thank a host of correspondents. In some cases information could not be obtained.

I have to acknowledge assistance derived from the genealogical works of Foster and Burke.

It would be quite impossible to name all those who have helped me, but my thanks are specially due to Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Izod, Mrs. Oakes, Mrs. J. H. Pigot, Mrs. F. J. B. Priestley, Miss Saxby, Mrs. H. B. Stanford, Mr. G. D. Burtchaell, Dr. Crone, Major Crookshank, Dr. F. C. Crossle, Mr. P. Crossle, Major Gore Little, Mr. E. Higinbotham, Lieut.-Colonel G. H. Johnston, Mr. W. T. Kyle, Mr. 0. F. D. Nixon, Mr. W. Jackson Pigott, Mr. Henry F. Reynolds, Capt. Spedding, the Rev. W. B. Stanford, and Mr. Erskine West for information constantly and freely given. Some further assistance is acknowledged in tho foot-notes. I am also indebted to Mrs. F. R. Carter, Mrs. Walton, Mr. T. Cosby Burrowes, and Mr. G. F. Mackarness for lending me printed histories of their families ; to Mr. Conway Dighton for kindly writing the account of his ancestor, Archdeacon Benning, in Appendix XL, to Major-General John Eccles Nixon, C.B., for numerous family notes,

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and for liberal support ; to Sir Arthur Vicars, K.C.V.O., Ulster King of ArmSj for permitting me to inspect documents in his office ; to the officials in the Public Kecord Office, Trinity College Library, the National Library, and the Registry of Deeds for their unvarying courtesy ; to Miss Erskine, Miss Priestley, Miss Reynolds,' Mrs. Swanzy (of Newry), Mr. J. H. F. Nixon and Sir Henry Swanzy for allowing me to reproduce pictures in their possession ; to Mr. J. R. Blake for the drawings in his well-known style of the arms of Nixon, Swanzy and Higinbotham as recorded in Ulster's Office ; to my friend Mr. T. Geo. H. Green for reading all the proofs, and for numerous suggestions and help in many ways ; and to Messrs. A. Thom and Co. for the interest they have taken in the production of the book.

I should be most grateful for any corrections or additions regarding those mentioned in this work, and for notes of any changes which may occur in the future.

HENRY B. SWANZY.

Ivy Lodge, Newry, Co. Down, December, 1907.

CONTENTS.

Prefatory Note,

Contents,

List of Illustrations .

Sketch Pedigree of Nixon

Sketch Pedigree of Swanzy

Sketch Pedigree of French

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PART I. ^

French of Belturbet.

Chapter I. Mathew French, Senior, . . . .1

II. Richard French and his descendants, "the Good

Lord Mayor," . . . -7

III. Mathew French, Junior, and his descendants . 17

IV. Stanford of Carn. Daniel French, and his descendants 26

V. Families of Warburton, and Sonierville, Lord

Athlumney . . . . .34

VI. Tisdall of Bawn, and Families of Voules, Marlay,

and Manners, Duke of Rutland, . . 38

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PART II. The Family of Nixon.

Chapter I. Early Nixons

„ II. Main Stem

„ III. Nixon of Mullaghduff

„ IV. The Eccles Nixon Branch

J, V. Nixon of Nixon Hall

VI. Nixon of Nixon Lodge, Swanzy of Avelreagh .

VII. Enery of Bawnboy and Ballyconnell, and Nesbitt and Burrowes of Lismore, all in Co. Cavan

„ VIII. The Brinsley Nixon Branch

„ IX. Higinbotham of Nutfield

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46 48 51 66

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128 138 151

APPENDICES.

Page Appendix I. Will of Thomas Nixon, 1738 . . .167

II. Will of James Nixon, 1752 . . .169

„ III. Will of the Rev. Adam Nixon, 1767 . . 170

„ IV. Will of the Rev. Andrew Nixon, 1773 . 172

,, V. Ensign's Commission, Henry Swanzy, 1688-9 . 173

, VI. Robert Meade and his descendants . . 174

„ VII. Nixon of Cranleybeg . . . .177

„ VIII. Notes on early Nixons in Cos. Fermanagh and

Cavan ..... 182

,, IX. Swanzy of Cavan .... 184

„ X. Erskine of Cavan .... 187

„ XI. Conway Benning .... 197

Index

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ILLUSTRATIONS,

Humphrey French, M.P., " The Good Lord Mayor " Frontispiece.

Harriett, wife of Thomas Reynolds, and dau. of Wm. Witherington ....

Arms of Nixon ....

Major- General Sir Eccles Nixon

Major John Nixon, 17th Regt.

Nixon Hall, Cleenish, Co. Fermanagh

The Rev. Andrew Nixon

Marianne, wife of the Rev. Andrew Nixon, and dau, of the Rev. Mathew French

Arms of Swanzy ....

Henry Swanzy .....

Anne, wife of Henry Swanzy, and dau. of the Rev. Andrew Nixon .....

Arms of Higinbotham ....

Archibald Erskine . . . . ■

Colonel James Erskine, C.B. . . . •

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PART I.

FRENCH OF BELTURBET. CHAPTER I.

Mathew French, Senior.

Early in the seventeenth century, Richard French, merchant, hved at Belturbet, Co. Cavan. His connection with the old family of the name in the West of Ireland is not clear, though the name Mathew which he gave to one of his sons, also appears in the families of French of Galway, and French of Cork.* Berry, in his Encydoposdia Heralika, states that the following arms were granted in Ireland to the family of French of Belturbet, 26 July, 1682 : " Per bend sinister, engrailed, or and sable, a lion rampant between two fleur-de-lis counter-charged. Crest : a fleur-de-lis, or, charged with a trefoil vert." No trace of this grant now remains in Ulster's Office, and Mathew French, in 1688, sealed his will with the arms of French of Galway. While Uving at Belturbet and acquiring position and property in Co. Cavan, the family carried on the hardware business in High Street, Dublin, for about a century, and it will be seen later (p. 17) that Mathew French, junior, supplied the powder and ball used in the defence of Derry and Enniskillen during the Revolution.

RICHARD FRENCH, of Belturbet, married twice. By his first wife he had a son : —

I. Robert French a legatee of his father in 1637, probably the Robert French who was Uving at Newtown, in the parish of DrumuUy, Co. Fermanagh during the rebellion of 1641. In his deposition, sworn 12 March, 1641 2, Randall Adams and William Hitchcocke, witnesses, (CromwelUan Depositions, Co. Ferm., p. 46 b., T.C.D. Library) he stated

* Matthew French, gent., obtained, under the Act of Settlement, 4.242 acres in Co. Galway, and 970 acres in Co. Mayo, grant enrolled 16 April, 1667. " Died a few days since, at CUfthole in the Co. of Galway, Mr. Matthew French." (Public Gazetteer. 29 Oct.. 1765).

Matthew French, born at Kinsale, Co. Cork, was Scholar T.C.D. 1695. B.A. 1698, Fellow 1699, M.A. 1701, B.D. 1710. He was Reader or Curate of St. Werbnrgh's, Dublin, 1705-14, while holding his fellowship, and on 31 March, 1711, presented 27 students of the College to be confirmed by Archbishop King in St Patrick's Cathedral. He d. 12 March, 1714.

Matthew French, and Jane, his wife, otherwise Badham, occur frequently in the Chancery and Exchequer Bills in connection with Co. Cork, at the end of the 17th century.

Matthew French was appointed J. P. Co. Cork, 4 May, 1697.

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that about 24 October, 1641 he was robbed of his goods. He and his wife were despoiled of all their possessons, and had to fly to Dublin.

Richard French married a second time, and after his death his wife, Susanna, married 2nd, John Anderson (see deposition below) His will, dated May, 1637, was proved, April, 1638. He mentions besides his brother-in-law, John Warren, and his grandchild, Thomasina, wife of Daniel Browne, three children of his second marriage, viz. : — II. Richard French.

III. MATHEW, of whom immediately. I. Mary French, whose dowry disappeared in the rebellion of 1641.

The youngest son : —

MATHEW FRENCH, of Belturbet and Dublin, High Sheriff, Co. Cavan, 1677, was born after 1617, for he was a minor at the date of his father's will in 1637. He was hardly of age when the rebellion of 1641 broke out ; his deposition regarding it still remains in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, as follows : —

" Richard ffrench and Mathew ffrench of Belturbutt in the County of Cavan, merchants, in the behalfe of their ffather in law, John Anderson, of the same place, merchant, their sister, Mary ffrench, and for themselves, — being duly sworne say that at or about the 28th Day of October last past they have beene robbed and dispoyled of lands and goods of the valew following — ffirst their said Ifather in Law hath lost wares and goods worth Seaven hundred pounds — and worth one hundred pound, Debts owing him by bill and in his booke Sive hundred poimds.

" Their sister Mary hath lost Three hundred pound which was her portion, and putt out to Mr. Martin Bahtie, Mr. Rich. Morse, Mr. Charles Waterhouse and the La [die]s Butler.

" Richard ffrench saith that he hath been expulsed and dispossessed of lands worth ffifty-twoe pound a year for ever, and about one hundred pound in money which was owing him by his said liather in law.

" Mathew ffrench sayth that he hath lost and beene Dispossest of land in the County of ffermanagh worth two and twenty pound a year and ten pound a year for ever his lands and houses he had in Belturbut, money owing him by his said Sather in law being one hundred pound, Besides ffifteen pounds in money fferrall Orely tooke from him and goods worth twenty pounds.

" And all this was done in the County of Cavan by PhilUp M'Shane Rely, Esq., of Ballincargh, Edmund Rely, Cav. Gent.— McJames [Rely] Esq., Myles Rely, high Sherifi, his sonne, John Rely, sonne of Phillip McMulmore of Ballatrost, and Edmond Rely and Hugh Rely, sonnes of Mulmore McPhillip Deceased — and by their followers — and by Rory Magwyr and his followers in ffermanagh.

" Their said ffather and Mother and sister are in the hands of the

Rebells in the Countrey and these de[ponent]s were hkewiee stript as they came by the Cotch.

" Richard ffrench.

" Jurat 21^* Jany., 1641 (2). " Matthew ffrench.

" John Watson, John [Sterne]."*

Mathew French, merchant, was admitted Freeman of DubUn bv special grace and on fines, 4th Friday after 25 Dec, 1649 ; he was a titulado (or landowner) in St. Michael's parish, Dublin, in 1659, (Petty's Census) : Sherifi of the City of Dublin, 1667-8, and one of the Masters of the City works, 1668-9. In 1672 he and some others were admitted Aldermen of DubUn by Sir John Tottie, Lord Mayor, illegally. This, with other high-handed acts during the same Mayoralty, was cancelled by order from the Lord Lieutenant in 1675. (Calendar of Ancient Records, V,, 577.) He was High Sheriff, Co. Cavan, 1677 (appointed 21 Dec, \^1&— Liber Munerum). He was attainted by Jctraes IT. at his Parliament held in Dubhn in 1689, as " Mathew French, Senior of Beltiirbet, Merchant." His will, dated 25 April, 1688, was proved in the Prerogative Court, 5 March, 1691. It is as follows : —

" In the name of God, Amen, I Mathew ffrench of Belturbett, in the County of Cavan, Esq., beinge well, thanks be unto (zrod, and in good health, considering ye uncertenntys of this life, and beinge wiUing to settle my house in order, doe make, ordaine and constitute this my last will and testament in manner and form following, first and principally I committ my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator, in whom and b)^ the precious death of my blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, I trust and assuredly beheve to be saved, and my body I committ to ye earth to be buryed in such decent manner as to ray Ex""^ shall be thought meett and convenient and for the settling of what estate God in his infinitt mercy hath been pleased to bestowe upon me, I give and dispose thereof as followeth. Imprimis, my a\ ill is y'' all the debts that I owe to any pson or psons whatsoever shall be well and truely paid and satisfied in convenient time after my deceasse by my Ex^^. hereafter named. Item I doe limitt and appointe my wife Ellinor ffrench my son Mathew ffrench and John Warburton. Esqr. to be my executors to see this my last will and testament pformed. Item itt is my will that ray wife Ellinor ffrench shall have and receive dureing her naturall life the third part of the rents and protitts of all my lands housses and tenements in the county of ffermanna, county of Cavan and corporacon of Belturbett together with ye moeity of my dwelling housse in high streett in Dublin in satisfaction of her thirds and dower according to the tenure of a deed of grant and releasse made by me to my son Richard ffrench, beareing date the four and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred seaventy & five vpon my sd. sons marriage and alsoe the kitchin I make vse of over and above ye said moiety of the said housse. Item, I give and bequeath vnto ni)- said wife the sume of sixty pounds sterl. to be paid vnto her within two months after my deceasse, alsoe all my houshould goods m Dublin, one siluer tankerd, one dozen of siluer spoons and one trunck of the

* Cromwellian Depoaiiions, Co. Cavan, Vol. I., fol. 226, copied by W. G. Hodson.

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best linnen she shall make choise of in my house in Belturbett. Item,

I give and bequeath vnto my daughter Mary Warburton, the sume

of fEorty pounds ster. by reason I gave her but five hundred pounds

ster vpon her marriage w*'" Jon Warburton her husband, the said

fforty pounds to be paid vnto her w*** a provisoe y*^ John Warburton

shall give a generall discharge to the rest of my executors vpon receipt

thereof. Item, I give and bequeath vnto my son Daniel firench the

sume of ffive pounds ster. by reason he was one of those psons who

stole and took away all my cash in ye time of my great fitt of sickness

alsoe by reason I made him a leasse of my housse and malt housse in

Belturbett for nine hundred, ninety and nine years att three pounds

p. annum wch cost me four hundred pounds building. Item, I give and

bequeath vnto my daughter, Ellinor Tisdall the sume of twenty shillings

ster. by reason I gave her seaven or eight hundred pounds, ster. vpon

her marriage w*^ James Tisdall. Item, I give and bequeath my lotts,

on Oxmountown Green in Dublin w**^ all the improvements w*^^ are

or shall be made thereon to my granson Mathew ffrench, son of my son

Richard ffrench dureing his naturall Hfe and after his deceasse to his

first bo^n son lawfully begotten & to his heires and for want of such

issue to the second third fourth or fifth and every other son or eons

wch my said granson shall hapen toe have lawfully begotten, ye eldest

to have preferrance before the youngest, and for want of such issue to

ye heires female of my sd. granson for ever, but if in case my said

granaon Mathew ffrench hapen to dye before he come to, age pr have

issue lawfully begotten then I give and bequeath the said lotts to his

brother, Humphry ffrench and his heires and if in case ye said Humphry

dye before he come to age or have issue lawfully begotten, then I give

and bequeath ye said lotts to his brother Daniel and his heirs and in

case the said Daniell dye before he comes to age or have issue lawfully

begotten then I give and bequeath the said lotts to his brother Richard

and his heires lawfully begotten for ever. Item, I give vnto my son

Mathew firench the sume of twenty shillings ster. by reason I gave him

six hundred pounds vpon his marriage. Item, I give and bequeath

vnto my granson Humphry ffrench. the sume of ffifty pounds ster. and

to my granson Daniell ffrench the sume of ffifty pounds ster. and to my

granson Richard ffrench the sume of ffifty pounds ster. to be putt to

vse for them w *^^ in three months after my deceasse the same to goe on

w'^ the interest and profits thereof to be paid them when they come to

age but in case any one or more of my said gransons Humphry, Daniel

or Richard shall happen to dye before they come to age or haue issue

lawfully begotten then theire partts and legasyes w**^ the interest &

profits thereof to goe to ye survivor of them, and if itt shall hapen y*

my said gransons Humphry, Daniel & Richard shall all of them dye

before they come to age or have issue lawfully begotteii y* then y^

legaseys aforesd. wth the interest & profitts thereof shall be equally

devided and distributed amongst all the children wch my son Mathew

ffrench hath or shall have att ye time of my deceasse. Item, I give vnto

Mathew Johnson son of John Johnson the sume of seaventeen pounds

sterl. w^^. I have on a morgage on the lands of Drmninisklin. Item

I give and bequeath vnto my servant John Cooke the sume of ffive

pounds sterl. to buy him mourning. Item, further loy will is y^ after

all my debts and legaseys are all paid all debts due to me w"\ all my

cash, moneys, goods and chatties shall be' appraised & y*^ then my

Ex''^ shall sell and dispose of them for the best advantage they can

for the vse of all y® children of my son, Mathew ffrench w'^'^. he now

Lath or shall have att my deceasse, the same to be equally devided amongst them provided they will be ruled by theire parrents, if any one of them shall prove disobedient and vill not be ruled by theire parrents then yl childs partt shall be distributed & devided amongst the rest further my will, is that in case there hapen any law ahutes to arise aboute any partt of my estate twixt the heire of my son Richard ffrench, & any other pson before the said heire come to age then I give and bequeath the sume of fiifty pounds sterl. to be paid out of my psonall estate by my Ex'"^. towards defraying the charge of the said shute, if any there be. In wittnesse whereof I have hereunto putt my hand and seale the five and twenty day of Aprill in the year of our Lord God, One thousand six hundred eighty and eight.

Matthew ffrench. [Seal],

" John Cooke.

" J. A. Mageaghe."

N.B.—The seal is Ermine a Chevron {sable ?), toy crest a Dolphin emhowed. These are the Arms of the Galway Frenchs, and their use here appears to conflict with Berry's note, page 1.

" Proved by John Warburton of the city of Dublin, Esq. one of the surviving executors named, saving the right of Ellinor ffrench, widow and relict of sd. deceased another surviving executor. 5 March, 1691,- named in sd. will.

" Wheras John Warburton Esq., one of the executors of the last will and testament of Mathew firench late of Belturbett in the Co. of Cavan, Esq. deed, is desirous to have upon him the burthen & execution of the sd. will and to prove the same, but is dissatisfied \vith an expression therein concerning the testators son, Daniell ffrench consisting of these words, by reason he was one of those persons who stole and took away all my cash in the time of my greate fltte of sickness, which words as he believes were unnecessarily inserted therein & that there was not just cause or ground for the said expression & therefore not wishing to take out the probate of the said will or to prove the same with the aforesaid expression. It is therefore this day ordered by the Judge of their Maties Court of Prerogative in Ireland at the desire and petition of the sd. John Warburton that the aforesaid words be left out of the will annexed to the probate to be granted to the said John Warburton for the reasons before mentioned, & that this order be indorsed on the back of the said originall will that due notice may hereafter be taken 'thereof accordingly whereof the Regr. of the said court, and all other persons concerned are to take notice. Given under my hand the 5th day of March, 1691.

■ " Dud. Loftus."

" Mr. John Warburton of Dublin, bis bond to save harmless the Judge e^nd Regr. of y^ Prerogative."

" John Warburton of the city of Dublin Esq., bound in the sume of £500.

" Dated 10 March, 1691.

"The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the execution or probate of the mil of Mathew ffrench, late of Belturbett in the Co. of Cavan, deceased is granted by the above named most Revd Father in God unto the above named John Warburton, Esq. one of the executors therein named, and whereas there is by the order of Dr. Dudley Loftus. Judge or Commissary of the said court, the words

(by reason he was one of those persons who stole & took away all my cash in the time of ray great fitt of sickness) also omitted in the will engrossed & annexed to the probate granted to the sd. John Warburton. If therefore the said John Warburton, Esq. shall save keepe harmlesse, & indemnifyed the sd. most Revd. Father in God his substitute his Register & all other officers of the said Court from any danger or trouble that may arise by reason of the omission aforesaid that then this obligation to be void or else to be in full force and virtue in law.

" Jo. Warburton.

" B. Burton.

" John Molaneux."

Mathew French, married at St. Catherine's, Dublin, 8 July, 164-1,

Elinor, dau. of Johnston, and widow of Daniel Desminieres, of

Dublin, 2nd son of Robert Desminieres, of Rouen, freeman of Dublin, 1639, and brother of John Desminieres, Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1666.* By her he had five children : —

I. RICHARD, see Chapter II., p. 7.

II. MATHEW, ancestor of the families of Pigott, Nixon, Swanzy, Reynolds, etc. See Chapter III., p. 17, and pp. 83-127.

ill. DANIEL, ancestor of the families of Britton, Le Hunte, and Stanford, see Chapter IV., pp. 26-3.3.

I. MARY, m. 1672, John Warburton, M.P., ancestress of the Athlumney family, see Chapter V., pp. 34-7.

11. ETilNOR, m. 1682, James Tisdall, M.P., ancestress of the families of Voules, Tisdall, Marlay and Rutland, see Chapter VI., p. 38.

* Pedigree of Desminieres, by the Rev. W. Ball Wright, in The Irish Builder, 1 Dec, 1887. Mrs. Matthew French had by her first marriage, besides John and 4nne, who d. young, a son Robert Desminieres. b. 16 July. 1640, married widow of — Hunter of Sligo,; and d intestate there in 1693.

CHAPTER II. Richard French and his Descendants. " The Good Lord Mayor." The eldest son of Mathew French, senior, was :—

RICHARD FRENCH, of Dublin, merchant, J.P., Co. Cavan, 5 May,

1681, {Liher Munerum), bapt. at St. Catherine's, Dublin, 6 July, 1645

married, deed dated 24 March, 1675, Mary, dau. of Major Humphrey

Perrott,* of Dromhome, Co. Cavan, High Sheriff, Co. Cavan, 1660 and

1661, by Elizabeth, dau. of Brockhill Taylor, of Ballyhaise,! Co. Cavan,

M.P., Cavan borough 1634-6. Richard French made his will 25 Dec,

1686. It was proved 7 Jan., 1686-7. He left his brother Mathew,

" my black gelding, Imbroydered saddle, and best Silver hilted sword."

He left by his wife (who afterwards % m. Christopher Caldwell,§) with

three other children, buried at St. Michael's. Dublin, four sons :—

I. Mathew French, of Ballyhubback, Co. Wicklow, m. Elizabeth

Lenthall, granddau. || of WilUam Lenthall, the famous Speaker

of the Enghsh House of Commons, and niece ^ of Catherine

Talbot, of Kuaresborough, Yorkshire, widow. Mathew

French made his will 4 July, 1731, and d. soon after. It

was delivered to the Depujty Registrar, 12 Feb., 1731-2, and

is on record in the Registry of Deeds, (lands of Killelahard,

Co. Fermanagh, deed no. 47602). In an Exchequer Bill,

Rouse V. French, 24 Dec, 1739, it is stated that Mathew

French, " a gentleman of good Fortune " had married Betty

als. Ehzabeth his wife, without any fortune. Mrs. Talbot, who

d. in 1733, left her property to her niece to make up for this.

They had issue two sons and five daus. : —

I. Richard French, of Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow, merchant,

will dated 29 Aug., 1781, proved 19 March, 1782. He

*In a Chancery Bill, 12 Nov., 1681, Burton v. French, it is stated that Elinor Meade was a relation both of Matthew French, senior, and of Hiiraphrev Perrott.

t The Ballyhaise property descended through the Taylors to Colonel Brockhill Newburgh, M.P., Co Cavan, 1715-27, and High SherifiE, 'l705. In the Williainite war he raised an independent company for William's interest, which afterwards became a marching regt.. General Stewart's. {Particulars relating to the Life and clMtacter of the late Brockhill Newburgh, Esq.; Wrote at the instance of several of his surviving Friends, 1761, T.C.D., Lib.)

X She apparently married also, before the latter marriage. Samuel Morrison, of Dublin, Gent., whose will, dated 14 April, 1690, was proved 1691. He mentions his wife Mary, widow of French, and her sons, Mathew, Daniel, and Richard French.

§ Exchequer Bill, 13 May, 1707, Daniel French v. Mathew French, Mary Caldwell

and another.

!1 Gilbert's History of Dublin, Vol. I., p. 227.

^ Exchequer Bill, 24 Dec, 1739, Rouse v. French.

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desires to be buried at Donaghmore without any pomp, and that the old tomb standing over his father, late of Ballyhubback, should be taken down and re-built when he should be interred. He mentions his wife, Jane, and his niece Jane Hodson, as well as his only son, Humphrey, daughter in law AUce, and grand-daughter Margaret Rebecca, now an infant. His only son was : —

Humphrey French, of Dublin, m. licence bond, dated 10 June, 1779, Alicia Harris, of the parish of Taney, Co. Dublin, spinster. The following notice of him is in a letter written during the Emmet Insurrection by Sir Eichard Musgrave to the Lord Lieutenant, Lord Hardwick.* " July 29th, 1803, My Lord. . . . I have been frequently asked since last Saturday night whether I had not given information to Govern- ment of the intended rebelhon before its explosion, and I uniformly declared what I now say, that I had no suspicion of it until I saw Mr. Humphrey French, a wine-merchant in Dame Street, about nine o'clock on that night, and he informed me that he fell into the hands of a body of pikemen, near the Canal, that they stopped and threatened him, and that he believes they would have murdered him, but that he falsely told them he was a Papist." He had a dau. : —

Margaret Rebecca French.

2. William French.

1. Mary French, m. Simon Rouse, of Dublin.

2. Catherine French.

3. Alicia French, m. 1731, George Duplex, of Newabbey,

Co. Kildare.

4. Harriet French, m. William Hawker, of Dublin, and

had three daus. : — f

(1.) Frances Hawker.

(2.) Susanna Hawker, m. John Mowlds, of Churchtown, Co. Dublin, and d. 19 Feb., 1788, aged 46, having had by him, who d. 4 March, 1787, with other issue, of whom Henrietta, Susanna, and Charlotte are buned at Donnybrook, a dau. : —

Anne Elizabeth Mowlds, d. 28 April, 1842, aged 78.

* The Viceroy's Post-Bag, London, 1904, p. 307. t Eich. Bill, 19 Jan., 1762, Mowlds v. Hawker.

(3.) Elinor Hawker. 5. Elizabeth French, m. John Sherwood, of Templelusk, Co. Wicklow, and d. before 1739.

II. HUMPHREY, of whom presently.

III. Daniel French, of Dublin, bapt. St. Michael's, 18 Jan., 1681-2, bur. there 23 Feb., 1711-2, will pr. 1736, had by Mary his wife : —

1. Mathew French, of Dublin, ironmonger. Churchwarden of

St. Audoen's, m. at St. Michael's, 15 Sept., 1744, Rebecca dau. of Thomas Beaumont, of Summer Hill, DubUn, and d. 11 Feb., 1755, "a Man of a very good Character."

2. Richard French, bapt. at St. John's Dublin, 25 Jan,,

1706-7, evidently d. young.

1. Mary French.

2. Elinor French, bapt. at St. John's 1 Jan., 1707-8. IV. Richard French, bapt. at St. Michael's, 3 June, 1686. The 2nd son of Richard French and Mary Perrott was :— HUMPHREY FRENCH, Sherifi of Dublin, 1711-12, Lord Mayor

of Dublin 1732-33, M.P. for Dublin 1733-6, LL.D. {Honoris Cauga) T.C.D., 1734, bapt. at St. Michael's, Dublin, 8 May, 1680. This eminent man was widely known in his day as '* The Good Lord Mayor." On 30 Sept., 1732, he was sworn Lord Mayor before Chief Baron Marlay. A month later we read of him in Pue's Occurrences, Dublin, for 31 Oct. " Yesterday, being the Anniversary of His present Majesty's Birth Day, the same was observed here with the greatest

Solemnity It is remarkable that the Lord Mayor made the

greatest Appearance that ever was known on such an Occasion. His Lordship rode in his State Coach drawn by Six Horses, whose Tails and Mains were tied with blue Ribbons, their Ear knots the same, and before him his Body Coach with two Horses, attended by several Footmen, on each Side of the Coach, with blue Cockades in their Hata." But he had more solid claims for remembrance than this. He at once set himself to reform abuses in the city, and dealt out justice and mercy firmly and impartially. Three months had not passed before we find that on 15 Jan., 1733, '^ at a Meeting of the Merchants of this aty, it was Resolved that besides the usual Present of a Piece of Plate of 50 1. Value, commonly given by their Corporation to the Lord Mayor of this City, a Gold Box should be presented to the Rt. Hon. Humphrey French, Esq., our present Lord Mayor, in Consideration of his un- common Zeal and Endeavours for the Public Service, and as a Mark of their particular Esteem." {Piie, 16 Jan.). In August " the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor was presented with his Freedom of several Corporations of this City, and was handsomely entertained by each Corporation."

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{Pue, 11 Aug.). He continued his efforts till the very end of his mayoralty. " Saturday last, the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor seized in the several Markets of this City, great Quantities of hght Bread, and unmerchantable Provisions, which he distributed amongst the poor Prisoners in the Marshalsea ; particularly in Newgate-Market, his Lordship seized several Carcasses of Mutton, for being blown, and committed one of the Butchers to Newgate." {Pue, Tuesday, 25 Sept.). During the following week he "gave Money to the several Church Wardens, to be distributed among the Poor in their respective Parishes, which Money arose from Fines and Forfeitures this Year from several Persons for Offences." On Sept. 28 a great many false barrels and other measures were burnt before the Tholsel by his orders, but the same day we find him discharging, at his own expense, several poor prisoners out of the City Marshal, who had been confined there on his warrants. {Pue, 29 Sept.). The Corporation of Coopers gave him his freedom in a box, engraved with the ensigns of their corporation, with this motto : —

" Set this Man down as one of your Flock or Corporation And believe hitn to be a Man of Courage and Honesty."

In an address to him, pubUshed in Pu£, 2 Oct., they give the reasons for their gift : — " Your constant and impartial Administration of Justice, your vigilant Care of the Markets, your putting the Laws in Execution, your daily Charity to the Poor, hath made this Year deservedly famous & has set such a worthy Example to your successors, that he will gain the greatest Glory, who will endeavour to imitate your Lordship the most." He concluded his mayoralty by giving, on 29 Sept., 1733, a magnificent entertainment, " his Grace the Lord Lieutenant honouring him with his Company, with many of the Nobility, and Persons of Distinction." The Trinity Guild of Merchants gave him a gold box, engraved with their arms, and several other corporations gave him silver boxes and other pieces of plate " with their several Addresses of Thanks for the great and many Services done to this City during his Administration." {Pue, 2 Oct.). On the 1st Oct. the new Lord Mayor, Thomas How, was sworn before Lord Chief Baron Marlay, " who made an eloquent Speech on the Occasion, in which he was pleased to bestow the highest Encomiums on the late Lord Mayor for his equal Administra- tion of Justice, etc." {Pue, 2 Oct.). There is a quotation from the Chief Baron's eulogy in The Gentleman's Magazine for Oct., 1733. Under current news a laudatory account of French's actions is given, while in the poetical section is the following : —

" N.B. — We have received four very good Pieces from Dublin, in praise of their late active Lord Mayor, Humphry French, Esq. ; who used very frequently to visit the Markets, Bakers-Shops, Prisons, &c. in Person ; but not having room for more than one, we prefer the

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following, as it touchefs with a masterly hand the Subject of Elections, now the chief topick of this Kingdom.

■' An ODE addres'd to the Citizens of Dublin, on Occasion of their late worthy Lord Mayor, HUMPHRY FRENCH, Esq., standing a Candidate to represent that City in Parliament.

How long must ye be deaf and blind ?

Hear, citizens, these lines, or read 'em. For what were Parliaments design'd.

But to support the nation's freedom.

Is there a sage and ample mind

Whose breast with innocence is arm'd ; Whose sense by virtue is refin'd.

Whose virtue by rehgion warm'd ?

Whose soul, by prejudice immoved.

No frauds nor vices can connive at ; Who acts as reason hath approv'd,

And makes the publick good his private ?

Who in a vile corrupted age.

The sword of justice bravely diaws, Restrains the giddy rabble's Rage.

And animates the djnng laws ?

Whose conduct, faitliful to his trust,

All precedents so far exceeds. His successors, however just.

Can only imitate his deeds.

In words, which Athens well might hear, While Marlay prais'd him from the bench.

Who would not wish to lend an ear ? Who would not glory to be FRENCH ?

* " Not Rome could boast in all her pride.

One juster to the pubUck cause

Tho' deathless Tully was her Guide,

Tho' Cato sanctified her laws."

For laws and liberty he fights,

Enhst yourselves beneath his banners ; Who better can defend your rights.

Than he who has reform'd your manners.

In the pre^aous July French had issued a remarkably modest election address, (Pwe, 16 July, 1733) :— " There being a Vacancy in ParUament for the City of Dublin, by the death of Alderman Samuel Burton, and being desired by several of the most Eminent Free-holders and Citizens thereof ; I do therefore intend to stand a Candidate to Represent the said City in Parliament, at the ensuing Election. And do request the Votes and Interest of all Free-holders and my Fellow-Citizens. H. French, Lord Mayor of Dublin."

But what he would not say for himself, others announced with no

* '• These Lines allude to a passage in the Lord Chief Baron's Speech."

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ancertain voice. He had on his side the powerful influence of Dean Swift, who issued a broadside to the freemen of Dublin asking them to vote for French, both on account of the fact that he held no govern- ment position, and therefore would vote fearlessly, and also on account of his personal integrity. " He has shown more virtue, more activity, more skill, in one year's government of the city, than a hundred years can equal. He has endeavoured with great success to banish frauds, corruptions, and all other abuses from among you. A dozen such men in power would be able to reform a kingdom." Surely nobler testimony to a man's devotion has been seldom paid ; it is of greater value, as coming from the caustic Dean, who was usually more inclined to blame than praise.

The election day drew near. Thomas How, the new Lord Mayor, opposed him, instead of Maccarrell, who had first come into the field, and on 27 Oct., French was leading by six votes, out of a total poll, to that date, of 682. The students of Trinity were enthusiastically on his side. " Last Wednesday," says the Dublin Gazette of 27 Oct., " a dozen Coaches, with Scholars of our University, came to the Tholsel in full Change, and both spoke and presented to Alderman Humphry French, our late Lord Mayor, an Address of Thanks for the many and great services he did this City and Kingdom during his Mayoralty. Each Scholar had an Orange Coloured Ribbon tied to his button hole." Finally, his great popularity made success certain. The result was declared in Pue's Occurrences for 30 Oct. " The Election of a Member of Parliament for this City continued till Yesterday in the Afternoon, when the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor, finding his Interest too weak to oppose the great Number of Freeholders and Freemen ready to poll for Alderman* French, his Lordship gave up the Election and Alderman Humphrey French was declared duly elected, and carried to the Parliament House, amidst the Acclamations of many thousands of People ; All the Bells in this City rung, and the Night concluded with Bonfires, Illuminations, and such Rejoycings, as were never known on the hke Occasion."

The University of Dublin recognized his merits by conferring on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at' the Spring Commencements, 1734.

Jonathan Swift seems to have regarded him not only with admiration, but with affection. Even before the time of his Mayoralty, the Dean had sounded his praises in private correspondence. As early as 15 June, 1732, Lady Catherine Jones, in a letter to Swift, added the postscript : — " Your opinion of Mr. French is just, and his due."

One of Swift's most pleasing poems is addressed to Humphrey French. It is a paraphrase of the 19th Ode of the 4th Book of Horace, and is a strange contrast to the biting sarcasm in many of the great Dean's other works.

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" Addressed to Humphry French, Esq., late Lord Mayor of Dublin."

Patron of the tuneful throng

O ! Too nice and too severe Think not that my country song

Shall displease thy honest ear.

Many valiant chiefs of old Greatly lived and died before

Agamemnon, Grecian bold.

Waged the ten year's famous war.

But their names unsung, unwept. Unrecorded, lost and gone.

Long in endless night have slept. And shall now no more be known

But, 0 Humphry, great and free. While my timeful songs are read.

Old forgetful Time on thee

Dark oblivion ne'er shall spread.

When the deep-cut notes shall fade On the mouldering Parian stone,

On the brass no more be read The perishing inscription.

Still thy labour and thj' care,

What for Dublin thou hast done. In full lustre shall appear.

And outshine th' unclouded sun.

Large thy mind, and not untried,

For Hibemia now doth stand. Through the calm or raging tide.

Safe conducts the ship to land.

Falsely we call the rich man great.

He is only so who knows His plentiful or small estate,

Wisely to enjoy and use.

He in wealth or poverty.

Fortune's power alike defies ; And falsehood and dishonesty

More than death abhors and flies :

Flies from death ? No, meets it brave,

When the suffering so severe May from dreadful bondage save

Clients, friends, or country dear.

Tliis the sovereign man complete :

Hero ; patriot ; glorious : free ; Rich and wise ; and good and great ;

Generous Humphry, thou art he !

But the end of this useful life was not far off. He died 1-3 Oct., 1736. Pue' s Occurrences for Saturday, 16 Oct. announces :" Wednesday last died, after three Day's Illness, Humphry French, Esq., Alderman, and one of the Representatives in ParUament for this City. His Death

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is universally lamented, being one of the best Magistrates that ever any City was blest with." He was buried on the 16th. " Saturday last the Corps of Humphry French, Esq., was decently Inter'd in St. Michael's Church, where an Excellent Funeral Sermon was Preached by the Eev. Dr. Owen." {Pue, 19 Oct.). The Gentleman's Magazine (which erroneously gives the date of death as the 18th) states that Alderman French had been chosen M.P. for Dublin " without a Penny Bxpence, that City having resolved not to be treated on these Occasions." The next number of the same magazine, Nov., 1736, publishes the following : —

To the Memory of the Ink. Alderman FRENCH of D^Mtn.

O Thou ! Eblanas tutelary chief, So late her triumph and so soon her grief, Accept her tears : her sons, by duty led. That hail'd thee living, now lament thee dead. Such was the joy, that thro' his native Rome Acclaim'd Marcellv^ in his martial bloom : Such was the sorrow, in its pious turn. That wail'd him, snatched to his untimely urn. Alas : 'tis all the great, the good can have, A short-liv'd honour, and a lasting grave !

If chaste Aslrea, since the golden age Descended ever to this mortal stage. To guide be-wilder'd man with rays divine, And animate a form, that form was thine. Which knew no partial love, no servile fear, A Cato, not the praetor of one year.

Thus we commit thy reHques to the dust. Thy fair example to the future just. While from this grov'ling earth thy spirit flies. To grace the bright republick of the skies. And Ireland trembles at the wrath in store When Swift shall die. and freedom be no more.

Swift intended to write a biography of Humphrey French. Some time after the latter's death the Dean wrote as follows to George Faulkner, the printer : — " Deanery House, Dublin, January 6, 1738. Sir. — I have often mentioned to you an earnest desire I had, and still have, to record the merit and services of the lord-mayor, Humphrey French, whom I often desired, after his mayoralty, to give me an an account of many passages which happened in his mayoralty, and which he has often put off on the pretence of his forgetfuness, but in reality of his modesty : I take him to be a hero in his kind, and that he ought to be imitated by all his successors, as far as their genius can reach. I desire you, therefore, to inquire among all his friends whom you are acquainted with to press them to give you the particulars of what they can remember, not only during the general conduct of his life, wherever he had any power or authority in the city, but particularly from Mr. Maple, who was his intimate friend, who knew him best, and could give the most just character of himself and his actions.

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" When I shall have got a sufficient information of all these particulars, I will, although I am oppressed with age and infirmities, stir up all the little spirit I can raise to give the pubHc an accoimt of that great patriot ; and propose him as an example to all future magistrates, in order to recommend his virtues to this miserable kingdom. T am, Sir, Your very humble servant.

" Jonathan Swift."

But the time was past, Swift was too old to carry out the work, and, failing a biography by the great Dean, we are compelled to gather what scanty notes we can from the newspapers and periodicals of the day. But we can discover enough to know that Humphrey French was a man who would shed lustre on any family.

The only memorial of him, says Sir John Gilbert in his HiMory of Dublin, is a large mezzotint portrait inscribed — " The Good Lord Mayor." A copy of this is in the National Portrait Gallery, Dublin ; another, from which the illustration (frontispiece) is taken, was formerlv in the possession of the late Rev. William Reynell, B.D., and now belongs to the Rev. H. B. Swanzy, who also has a small oil painting of him, said to have been in the collection of Sir Compton Domvile, at Santry Court.

Humphrey French ni. Anne, sister of Richard Le Hunte, M.P. for Enniscorthy, 1713-47, of Thomas Le Hunte, M.P. for Wexford borough, 1735-68, and for Newtown, Co. Down, 1768, and of Francis Le Hunte, M.D. (who m. Susanna French, see p. 27), and eldest dau. of George Le Hunte, (by Alice, dau. of Colonel WilHam Legge), son of Colonel George Le Hunte, M.P. for Cashel 1661. He d. intestate, leaving considerable property,* but it seems to have disappeared, as his son Robert was in 1753 in great want of money. He had five sons and three daus : —

I. Richard French, bapt. at St. Audoen's, Dublin, 15 Sept., 1718, d. V. p. imder age.f

11. Robert French, bapt. at same 14 Aug., 1719, petitioned the Corporation of Dublin to be appointed one of the overseers and directors of the Pipe Water works, because he was left destitute, and had a wife and five children. He got the position 5 June, 1753. He d. Dec. 1759 (" In Barrack Street, Mr. French, overseer of the pipe- water," Public Gazetteer, Dec. 11, 1759) and his widow Letitia petitioned for a pension for her helpless family. The Corporation ordered on 18 April, 1760, that she should receive £20 per ann. during the City's pleasure, and give up to Sedborough Mayne the house she occupied within one month after her child should be born. No trace has been discovered of his children or descendants.

* Exch. Bill, 7 April, 1747, Harford v. Le Hunte aad French. t Ibid.

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III. Humphrey French, (Rev.), D.D., Rector of St. Mary's, Drogheda (collated 6 Aug., 1774) and head master of a very considerable school at Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath, (see Post Chaise Companion, p. 94). He was bapt. 15 Jan., 1721, and entered Trinity CoUege, Dublin, 21 April, 1739, Scholar, 1742, B.A., 1743, M.A., 1746, and was a fellowship prizeman in 1747 and 1748. The unusual honour of D.D., honoris Causa, was conferred on him 6 Sept., 1768, when John, Duke of Bedford, was installed Chancellor of the University. Dr. French m. Susanna English, and d. 1788, (will dated 9 May, proved 1 Aug.). His successor in his benefice was collated 30 June.

IV. Mathew French, bapt. at St. Audoen's, 12 Nov., 1723, d. young.

V. George French, bapt. at St. Audoen's, 23 Aug., 1725, living 8 June, 1753, date of will of his cousin Mathew French, see p. 9.

T. Letitia French, bapt. at St. Audoen's, 10 Feb., 1715, d. under age.

II. Alice French, living 1753. \

III. Mary French, m. Robert Harford, Attorney of the Court of Exchequer, and d. Oct. or Nov., 1771.

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CHAPTER III.

Mathew French, Junior, and his descendants.

The second son of Mathew French, senior, was : —

MATHEW FRENCH, of Dublin and Belturbet, merchant, who was bapt. at St. Catherine's, Dublin, 3 March, 1647, and m. by licence, dated 17 Aug., 1673, Maxy, 2nd dau. of Robert Meade, of Dublin. For notice of her family see Appendix VIT. Mary French on 10 Nov., 1710, filed a BUI in the Court of Chancery against the family of her sister's husband, Thomas Howard, which Bill is rehearsed in another, dated 2 Nov., 17 15, Rev. Mathew French, (their son) v. Richard Roche and Mary his wife. In the Bill of 1710 Mrs. French stated that " the late warr or Rebellion in this Kingdom becoming terrible to the Protestants " Mathew French, his wife and family, and the above Thomas Howard, " were for their safety forced with other Protestants to fly for England, where they continued untill this Kingdom was afterwards reduced to the obedience of the Crown and Kingdom of England." His name appears in the contemporary manuscript list of refugees in T.C.D. Library " Mat. French, jun., £761 real estate." After this, the Bill continues, they " began their journey from London homewards, but the said Mathew ffrench falling sick he dyed at Chester, where your oratrix continued for some time." Much of his property had been destroyed by the Irish in his absence, he being obnoxious to them " for his haveing supplyed the garrisons of Londonderry and Iimiskillen with powder and ball against the Irish." A curious manu- script list of the sums granted to fugitive Protestants at Chester at this time is in T.C.D. Library. Mary French and her ten children were amongst those in need. They received £4 in Sept., 1689, and £3 per month till the following April. Mathew French was attainted in his absence by the ParUament of King James II. as Mathew French, junior, late of the city of Dublin, and is described in the Act as one of those who " have absented themselves from this kingdom, and have gone into England, or some other Places beyond the Seas, since the fifth day of November last, or in some short time before, and did not return, though called Home by your Majesty's gracious Proclamation." Admon. of his estate was granted in 1690, and his widow d. 12 Sept., 1715,* being buried the next day in the second vault in the Chancel

* Chancery Bill 26 April, 1727, Roche v Stanton and others

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of St. Michan's, Dublin, She had ten surviving children at her husband's death. Their family consisted in all of one son and eleven daus. : —

I. MATHEW, (Rev.) of whom presently.

I. Susanna French, bapt. at St. Michan's 28 Nov., 1678, m. Richard Sheridan, and d. before 1727, leaving issue, legatees, but not indi\ddually named, in the wiU of their uncle, the Rev. M. French.

II. Anne French, bapt. at St. Michan's 3 Nov., 1679, buried at St. Michan's, 16 Jan., 1680, " in the south Isle of this Church, close by the side of Mr. Standish tomb."

III. Jane French, bapt., 18 Feb., 1680-1, buried at St. Michan's

10th Aug., 1691.

IV. Martha French, bapt. 21 Feb., 1681-2, d. unm., 1727.

V. Elinor French, bapt. 20 Sept., 1683, d. intest. before 1727.

VI. Frances French, bapt. 21 Jan., 1685-6, m. James Stanton, and had a son : Mathew Stanton, Uviug 1753.

VII. Rebecca French, buried at St. Michan's 6 Oct., 1687.

VIII. Katherine French, m. the Rev. Lucas Greene, M.x4., Rector of Ballymachy, Co. Tipperary, son of Jo. Greene, of Dublin, "gen." He entered T.C.D. 16 Nov., 1698, aged 15, B.A., 1702, M.A. 1705. His will, dated 17 Feb., 1720, was proved 15 Oct., 1723. They had issue :—

1. Richard Greene. 2. William Greene. 3. Mathew Greene. 1. Frances Greene. 2. Catherine Greene.

IX. Deborah French, m. the Rev. John Pigott, M.A., Rector of Loughrea, Co. Galway. For their children and descendants see pp. 22-25.

X. Elizabeth French, m. John Curtis.

XI. Mary French, d. intest. before 1727.*

The only son of Mathew French, jun., was : —

THE REV MATHEW FRENCH, Scholar, T.C.D., 1701, B.A., 1703, entrance not recorded, bapt. at St. Michan's, Dublin, 20 Jan., 1684-5, collated Prebendary of Kilroot, Co. Antrim, 13 Sept., 1716, being next successor but one to Swift in that cure. He d. " about March, 1721, possessed of a considerable reall and personall Estate sufficient to pay

* These children, with the exception of thoae who died yoxing, are all detailed in the Chancery Bill of 1727.

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his just debts with a great overplus." * His will, dated 12 March, 1719, was proved 7 Julj, 1722. He had three children : —

I. Mathew French, d. unm. before 1739.t

I. Marianne French, m. at Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath, by licence dated 10 March, 1737, the Rev. Andrew Nixon, B.A., of Nixon Lodge, Co. Cavan, Vicar of Ahamplish, dio. Elphin. Her portrait faces p. 83, and one of her dresses is still preserv^ed. She d. 15 March, 1775, leaving numerous descendants, in the families of Nixon, Grattan, Swanzy, Erskine, etc., for whom see pp. 83-127, inclusive.

II. JOANNA, of whom immediately.

The younger dau. : —

JOANNA FRENCH, m. licence 15 July, 1738, the Rev. Edward Fanning, B.A., Rector of Banagher and Dungiven, diocese of Derry, 1751-91, son of the Rev. Geoffrey Fanning, B.A., Rector of Banagher and Dungiven, 1716-51, by his wife, sister of Henry Cary, of Dimgiven, Co. Derry, M.P. for Coleraine, and dau. of Edward Cary, of Dungiven,{ by his wife Martha, 2nd dau. of Henry Mervyn, of Trellick, Co. Tyrone, M.P. for Augher, 1661, and for Co. Tyrone, 1692, High Sheriff Co. Tyrone, 1686, eldest son of Sir Audley Mervyn, M.P., of Castle Mervyn, Co. Tyrone, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. The Rev. Edward Fanning entered T.C.D. 16 Oct,. 1728, aged 19, was B.A. 1733*, and in 1742 was living at Killala, Co. Mayo, when he was a candidate for the premium offered by the Dublin Society for the greatest yield of wheat from one plantation acre during that year. He had 19 barrels 9 stone from 3 roods 30 perches, but did not get the prize [Pue, 7 Dec, 1742). Towards the end of his life, while still holding his benefices, he lived in Grafton St., Dublin, where his wife d. May, 1776, and d. there 1791 (will proved 9 July) having had three children : —

I. Henry Fanning, (Rev.), B.A., T.C.D., 1768, d. July, 1771.

I. CATHERINE, of whom presently.

II. Martha Fanning, m. 29 May, 1762, § Blennerhasset Grove, of Dublin, one of the Sheriff's Peers, 5th son of Ion Grove, of Ballyhemock (now Annesgrove), Co. Cork, (by Arabella, dau. of Robert Blennerhasset) eldest son of Alexander Grove, of Ballyhemock, by Dorothy, younger dau. of James Mansergh,

* Same Chancery Bill.

t Chancery Bill, 28 March, 1739, Tisdall v. Nixon, Fanning and French.

X The Life of Thomas Reynolds, by his Son, London, 1839, Vol. I., p. 78.

§ " Married May 29, Mr. Blennerhasset Grove, to Miss Martha Fanning, daughter of the Rev.Edward Fanning, of Dimgiven, in the county of Derry, a moat beautifnl young lady, whose endowments in every respect cannot fail to render the married •tate truly happy." 'Public Gazetteer, 5 June, 1762).

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of Macrony Castle, Fermoy, Capt. of Horse. Mr. Grove d. Nov., 1773, leaving two daus. : —

1. Elizabeth Grove, d. 10 Jan., 1793.

2. Anna Grove, d., 1790-91. The elder dau. : —

CATHERINE FANNING, m. William Witherington,* of Grafton St., Dublin, and d. 18 April, 1797, having had by him (admon. granted 25 Feb., 1802) three sons and five daus. : —

I. Edward Witherington, Lieut. -Colonel 9th Dragoons, h. 23 Jan., 1758, m. May, 1825, Miss Childe, and d. in Dublin of cholera, 15 Aug., 1832, having had a son, b. May, 1827.

11. Henry Piercy Witherington, d. young.

III. Henry Witherington, Lieut. 9th Dragoons, exchanged in 1799 to the 2nd Regt. in order to see active service in Holland, served through the whole of that campaign ; exchanged for the same reason into the 63rd Regt., and saw further service.f . He was h. 17 March, 1779, m. 1803, Maria, 2nd dau. of General Bird, of Goytra, Monmouthshire, and sister of Lieut-Colonel Henry Bird, 5th Regt., and d. at Deal, where he had landed from Flushing, 16 Sept., 1809, leaving by her, who d. 25 Dec, 1807, a dau. :—

Selina M. A. Witherington,^ m. 21 Aug., 1849, J. H. S. Sadler, of Bleak Hall, Wilts.

I. Joanna Witherington, d. unm., 23 Aug., 1793.

II. Martha Witherington, m. 1st (a runaway match) at St. Ann's Dublin, 21 July, 1785, the famous Theobald Wolfe Tone, B.A., LL.B., Barrister-at-law, (son of Peter Tone, a coach- maker of Dublin) known for his connection with the rebellion in 1798. He d. in prison 19 Nov., 1798, having had issue : —

1. William Theobald Wolfe Tone, Lieut. 8th Royal Chasseurs

in the service of France, Legion of Honour, author of a Life of his father, 6. 29 April, 1791, m. 1825, Katherine, only dau. of Counsellor WilUam Sampson, of New York, and d. 10 Nov., 1828, at New York, lea^ng an only dau. : — Grace Georgina Toce, m. Lascelles E. Maxwell, and d. his widow, at Brooklyn, N.Y., April, 1900

2. Francis Rawdon Tone, b. 1793, d. 1806. 1. Maria Tone, d. in Paris, April, 1803.

* Stated by his grandson, T. Reynolds, 1839, to have been a naval officer. He was certainly later a woollen draper in Dublin.

t Oentlemen's Magazine, 1809, Vol. II., p. 1084.

X She was apparently m. before to Mr. Forgood, of Dartford, see Reynolds' Life. The above statement ib from the MSS. of the late Mrs. A. F. Reynolds.

HARRIETT.

AVife of Thomas Reynolds, and daughter of ^Villiam Witlierington.

See p. 21.

F)om a Miniature in possef<xio)t til Misii .Juliti B( i/noldx.

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To face p. 21.

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Martha Tone, m. 2nd, 19 Aug., 1816, Thomas Wilson of DuUatur, Scotland, and d., in U.S.A., 18 March, 1849.

III. HAREIETT, of whom presently.

IV. Catherine Witherington, m. 1796, John Heaviside, of the War

Ofl&ce, Dept., Dublin, and had one son.

V. EUzabeth Witherington.

The 3rd dau. :—

HARRIETT WITHERINGTON, m. 25 March, 1794, Thomas Reynolds, of Kilkea Castle, Co. Kildare, elder son of Andrew Reynolds, of Dublin, and Rathfarnham, by Rose, dau. of Thomas Fitzgerald, of Kilmeed, Co. Kildare. Mr. Reynolds, who was greatly imphcated in the troubles of 1798, d. 18 Aug., 1836, and in 1839 a Vindication of his actions was pubUshed by his son Thos. By his wife, who d. 29 July, 1851, he had issue : —

I. ANDREW FITZGERALD, of whom presently.

II. Thomas Reynolds, b. 15 April, 1798, m. in Copenhagen, Caroline Henrietta Ross, (who d. 28 Jan., 1868) and d. 8 Dec, 1846, leaving issue : —

1. Thomas Andrew Fitzgerald Reynolds, of Hamsted House, Hants, m. Anne, 2nd dau. of Thomas Raikes, of Springnill, Welton, E. Yorks, and d. s.p. 1 Jan., 1878. She d. 26 Feb., 1864.

1. Mary Reynolds, m. James Henry Hold en, Solicitor, of Hull and London, and d. s.p. 24 Dec, 1879. He d. 13 Feb., 1881.

1. Catherine Reynolds, m. 12 Jan., 1828, in Paris, M. De Bressy, a French ojBicer, and d. Nov., 1858, having had issue : —

1. Amelie De Bressy, m. and d. about 1860.

2. Valerie De Bressy, d. in infancy 14 March, 1830.

3. Harriette Elise De Bressy, m. M. de Bouffon, grandnephew of M. De Bouft'on, the famous naturalist, and d. before May, 1903, having had a son, who is dead.

4. Another dau

II. Harriett Reynolds, m. 7 April, 1828, M. Celeste Etienne David,

French Consul in Mexico, eldest son of Pierre David, Consul General at Smyrna, and d. 16 March, 1830, leaving no surviving issue.

The elder son : —

ANDREW FITZGERALD REYNOLDS, Barrister-at-law, entered Trin. Coll. Camb., 1813, and Temple, 1814, b. 10 Feb., 1795, m. 23 July, 1833, Mary, 2nd dau. of Caiua Thompson, of Hull, merch., by

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Mary, dau, of Jolin Rickard, of Beck Bank House, Yorke, and d. 23 July, 1856, having had by her, who d. 10 May, 1892, in her 95th year :

I. Henry Fitzgerald Reynolds, h. 24 Dec, 1837, d. 30 Jan., 1863. II. WALTER, of whom presently.

I. Harriett Ann Reynolds, d. in infancy 19 July, 1835.

II. Julia Ann Reynolds.

The younger son : —

WALTER REYNOLDS, of Hull, Stock and Share broker, b. 16 July, 1839, m. 18 May, 1864, Matilda, youngest dau. of James Hamilton, J.P., D.L., of Fintragh, Co. Donegal, by Anne, dau. of William Hutchinson, of Earby Hall, Yorkshire, and d. 12 Aug., 1893, having had issue : —

I. HENRY FITZGERALD, of whom presently. II. Walter Hamilton Reynolds, b. 24 Sept., 1876.

I. Mary Geraldine Reynolds. II. Kathleen Rose Reynolds, d. 5 Feb., 1872.

III. Evelyn Reynolds.

IV. Mabel Reynolds.

The elder son : —

HENRY FITZGERALD REYNOLDS, Engineer and Analytical Chemist, London, was b. 8 June, 1865.

The Family of Pigott, Descended from Deborah French.

We now return to the ninth dau. of Mathew French and Mary Meade (p. 18);

DEBORAH FRENCH, m. the Rev. John Pigott, M.A.,* Rector of Loughrea, Co. Galway, son of Thomas Pigott, of Chetwynd, Co. Cork, by Jane. dau. of Sir Emanuel Moore, Bart., of Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, High Sheriff, Co. Cork, 1677. Mr. Pigott, who was b. in Co. Cork, entered T.C.D. 30 June, 1701, aged 15, was B.A., 1705, M.A. 1708, and was buried at St. Michan's, Dubhn, 31 July, 1734, having had two eons and one dau. : —

I. Thomas Pigott, buried at St. Paul's, 10 Jan., 1708.

* The Rev. John Pigott's brother, Emanuel Pigott, of Chetwynd, M.P. City for Cork, 1735-60, was father of Major-General Thomas Pigott, of Knapton, Queen's Co., M.P. Taghmon, 1776-83, and Midleton 1783-90, and 1790-93, whose son. Sir George Pigott, Bart., so created 3 Oct., 1808, was ancestor of the baronets of Knapton. The Rev. John Pigott's gxandfather, Alexander Pigott, of Innishannon, Co. Cork, M.P. Maryborough, 1661, was son of John Pigott, of Grangebegg, Queen's Co., M.P., that Co. 1634-9, and 1639-46,by Martha, dau. of Sir Thomas Colclough, Knt., of Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford. {Lodge's Peerage, 1906).

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, II. WILLIAM, of whom immediately.

I. Elizabetli Pigott.

The younger son : —

THE VEN. WILLIAM PIGOTT, Archdeacon of Clonfert, and Hector of Killan, diocese of Kilmore, from 25 Nov., 1772, entered T.C.D 29 June, 1732, B.A. 1736, M.A. 1739, m. 1st EUza Clarke, of Cork, and 2nd, 30 April, 1770, Mary Moore, whose will, dated 15 March, 1797, was proved 4 Oct., 1797. The Archdeacon, whose will was dated 27 June, 1783, was buried at Loughrea, 17 Nov., 1790. He had by his first wife, four sons and two daughters : —

I. HENRY, of whom presently.

II. Alexander Pigott, of Monemore, Co. Galway, bapt. 1752, living 1783.

III. John Pigott, Colonel in the army, Uving 1783. It is stated

by Mr. W. Jackson Pigott that John Pigott was the Colonel Pigott. the duellist, of Loughrea, mentioned in Lever's ^'Jack Hinton, Chap. 29, as follows : — " Pigott was an old half-pay Colonel, whose principal occupation for thirteen years had been what the French would call ' to assist ' at afEairs of honour. Even the Major himself looked up to him as a last appeal in a disputed or a difficult point ; and many a reserved case was kept for his opinion, with the same ceremonious observance as a knotty point of law for the consideration of the twelve Judges."

IV. Edward Pigott (Rev.), B.A., T.C.D., 1772, Rector of Dysart

Enos, instituted 4 Sept., 1772, bapt. 1749, in. twice, one marriage being 23 July, 1774, to Anne Bilhng, by whom he had a dau. : — Frances Mary Anne Billing Pigott.

I. Elizabeth Pigott, buried at Loughrea, 1748. II. Deborah Pigott, m. 11 June, 1768, Thomas Curtis, eldest son of John Curtis, of Mount Hanover, Duleek, Co. Meuth, High Sheriff Co. Meath, 1749.*

The eldest son : —

THE REV. HENRY PIGOTT, Rector of Dunsaudle, Loughrea, Co. Galway, m. Frances, dau. of Samuel Benton, of Co. Sligo, and d. before 15 March, 1797, having had three sons and three daughters : — I. WiUiam Pigott, Capt. 84th Regt., 18 Aug., 1808, Capt. ir army

♦John Curtis of Mount Hanover, m. Feb.. 1744, Martha, dau. of Thomas Towers of Archerstown. Co. Meath, (Burke's Landed Oeiitry, 1846." Towers of Bushy Park,") His will, dated 29 Sept, 1771, was proved 27 July, 1775, A settlement had lately been made on his son Thomas Curtis. His other sons were Richard (inherited Mount Hanover), Robert (got Rasteen, Co. Meath), and William, (got Jamestown Queen's Co.).

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5 Nov., 1807, b. 1780, m. 1804, Jane Armstrong, elder dau. of Thomas Drought, of Droughtville, King's Co., by Frances Maria, dau. of Colonel the Hon. Thomas Wallen, President of the Council of Jamaica, and d. 19 Feb., 1852, aged 72, buried at Loughrea, leaving by her, who d. 1818, four children : —

1. Henry Pigott, bapt. at Loughrea 1805, went to America.

2. "William Pigott, m. 1st, Anne, dau. of Pierce Blake, of Holly

Park, Co. Galway, and 2Dd, Miss Redington.

1. Frances Pigott.

2. Jane Pigott.

II. HENRY, of whom presently. III. Thomas Pigott, bapt. 1789, buried 1790. I. Deborah Pigott, buried at Loughrea 1856, aged 76.

II. Frances Pigott, Mrs. Hawkins. ''^ III. Jane Pigott.

The second son : —

HENRY PIGOTT, of Eagle Hill, Loughrea, J.P., Co. Galway, Capt. 82nd Regt., served in the Peninsula, m. 18 Jan., 1816, Margaret, eldest dau. of Sir Scrope Bernard-Morland, Bart., M.P., of Winchendon, Bucks, by Harriett, only child and heiress of WilHam Morlaad. She d. 7 June, 1859, having had two sons and three daughters : —

I. FRANCIS BERNARD, of whom presently.

II. Henry De Renzy Pigott, Major-General in the army, B.A., T.C.D., 1844, Ensign 83rd Regt., 1845, served in the Indian Mutiny, and the Afghan war of 1878, and had medals for both campaigns. Major 83rd Regt., 1862, Major 19th Regt., 1863, Lifeut.-Coionel 70th Regt., 1872, Brevet-Colonel, 1876, commanded tho regimental district of Warrington 1881-2, retired with the hon. rank of Major-General, 1882, m. Frances, oniy dau. of Capt. Charles Paulet Doyne, Royal Horse Guards Blue, grandson of the V^ery Rev. Charles Doyne, D.D., Dean of Leighlin, 3rd son of Philip Doyne, of Wells, Co. Wexford., Major-General Pigott d. at Elkhorn, Manitoba, 14 Nov., 1889, having had issue : — ,

1. Henry Bernard Pigott.

2. Augustus Doyne Pigott, m. Florence Buchanan, of Maiden,

Manitoba.

3. Tyringham Vere Pigott.

* " Well married in Co. Cork " {The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon, by Mi8. Napier Higgins, Longmans, Green, 1904, Vol. IV,, p. 89.)

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4. Chetwynd Pigott, in. in Canuda.

1. Frances Beiitrice Pigott.

2. Violet Pigott, m. in Canada I. Marianne Frances Pigott.

II. Harriett Morland Pigott.

III. Margaret Jane Pigott.

The elder son : —

FRANCIS BERNARD PIGOTT, of Eagle Hill, 6. 5 Jan., 1822, m. 1st, 5 Sept., 1850, his cousin, Letitia Charlotte, eldest child of Sir Thomas Tyringham Bernard, 6th Bart., of Nether Winchendon, Bucks, by Sophia only child and heiress of Sir David Wilhams, Bart., of Goldingtons, Herts., and CUfiord Court, Herefordshire, and by her, who d. 17 Dec, 1865, had an only child : —

LOUISA SOPHIA BERNARD, of whom presently.

Mr. Pigott m. 2nd, 9 Oct., 1867, Charlotte Octavia, widow of Major James Harrison Cholmeley, 8th Hussars, and youngest dau. of James Raymond Johnstone, of Alva, Clackmannanshire, by Mary Ehzabeth, sister of Sir Montague Cholmeley, Bart., of Easton Park, Lincolnshire. Mr. Pigott d. 12 Nov., 1872. His only child :—

LOUISA SOPHIA BERNARD PIGOTT, m. 5 Aug., 1874, Wilham Walton, of Horsley Priory, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, J.P., eldest son of James Walton, of Dolforgan, Montgomeryshire, and has issue : —

I. Francis William Bernard Walton, 6. 29 Dec, 1891.

I. Constance Vera Walton, in. 31 Jan., 1901, Charles Kensit Norman, of Brantham Court, Suffolk, 2nd son of the Rev. Charles Frederick Norman, M.A., J.P., of Mistley Place, Essex, Hon. Canon of St. Albans, and Rector of Mistley with Bradfield.

II. Edith MiUicent Walton.

III. Florence Margaret Walton, m. 10 Feb., 1905, her cousin, Frederick James Walton, only son of Frederick Walton, of Cwmllecoediog, Montgomeryshire, and has one dau. : —

Margaret Petronilla MilUcent Walton.

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CHAPTER IV.

Stanford of Cabn.

Daniel French and his descendants.

The 3rd son of Mathew French, of Belturbet, (p. 2) was : —

MAJOR DANIEL FRENCH, of Belturbet, High Sheriff, Co. Cavan. 1690, J.P. Co. Cavan, (warrant books, Record Office), attainted by James II. as Daniel French, of Belturbet, Merchant, was active in the cause of William of Orange. In the spring of 1689 he sat out from Belturbet with sixty horse, captured Sir Gerard Irvine, and sent him a prisoner to Lord Blayney.* In the Irish Civil Correspondence, State Papers, Dublin Castle, there is a letter from him, dated 5 Aug., 1702. For the charge brought against him in his father's will, (apparently the unfounded suspicion of a sick man) and his vindication, see p. 4. He m. 1685, Isabella, niece of Ambrose Bedell, of Cam, Co. Cavan, J.P., High Sheriff Co. Cavan, 1668, sister of Ambrose Bedell, junior, of Cam, and youngest dau.f of the Rev. William Bedell, Vicar of Kinawley, diocese of Kilmore, 1634-37, and Rector of Rattlesden, Suffolk, 1644-70, eldest son of the Right Rev. WILLIAM BEDELL, the famous Bishop of Kilmore, 1629-42. Major French d. 1702, admon. 19 Feb., 1702-3 to Arthur Noble, of Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, the principal creditor, Isabella, the widow, renouncing her interest. She d. 1718, (will dat. 21 June, proved Prerog. 18 Aug.), having had three daua. : —

I. ELINOR, of whom presently.

II. Mary French, m. licence granted in dio. Kilmore 9 July, 1717, the Rev. John Fletcher, (who entered T.C.D. 23 March, 1706, aged 17, b. at Whitehaven, England) B.A., 1710, Curate of St. Michan's, Dublin, licence 5 July, 1726, son of the Rev. John Fletcher, His will was proved 6 March, 1732. They had a son : —

Bedell Fletcher, b. about 1728 in Dublin, educated by Mr. Quinton, entered T.C.D. 9 May, 1744, aged 16, Scholar 1747, B.A. 1749, M.A. I756.4:

* Derry and Enniskilhn in the Year 1689, by Professor Witherow, p. 192.

t Chancery Bill 21 June, 1728, Stanford, Fletcher, and Britton v. Geering and Bedell. Mrs. French's elder sister Penelope m. 1680, the Rev. James Lowry, Vicar of Kinawley and Killinagh, 1685, and of Arklow, Co. Wicklow, 1704. (£»7e and Death of Bishop Bedell, by Jones, pp. 237-8.)

t A marriage licence was issiied 4 Dec, 1773, between Bedell Fletcher, of Rathmineg, Co. Dublin, Gent., and Elizabeth Fletcher, of St. Mary's, Dublin, apr. to be m. in that church.

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III. Susanna French, m. lat John Britton, of Dublin, Attorney-at-law, whose will dated 8 May, 1726, was proved same year. By him she had three daus. : —

1. Isabella Britton, m. at St. Ann's, Dublin, 11 Feb., 1755,

the Ven. Charles Huson, Archdeacon of Ferns 1767-77, and Rector of St. Patrick's, Wexford, who entered T.C.D. 3 March, 1728, son of Benjamin Huson. The Archdeacon d. April, 1777, and a tablet to his memory is in Wexford Church. His will, dated 13 June, 1766, was proved in Ferns diocese 6 June, 1777. His widow, who went to live first at Artramont, Wexford, with her half-brother, R. Le Hunte, M.P., and afterwards at Belvedere, with her sister, was buried at Wexford 13 Feb., 1784.

2. Mary Britton.

3. Winifred Britton, who lived with her half-brother at

Artramont, and after his death, at Belvedere House, Wexford. She was buried at Wexford 29 Dec, 1789, will proved 29 May, 1790, by John Brownrigg, husband of Isabella Brownrigg, otherwise Stanford, the sole executrix.

Susanna French, Mrs. Britton, m. 2nd Francis Le Hunte, M.D., of Brennanstown, Co. Dubhn, one of the founders of the Royal Dublin Society. Dr. Le Hunte, who was brother of Mrs. Humphrey French, (see p. 15) succeeded his brother Richard in the family estates, and retired from practice to live at Brenanstown. See some account of him in Mr. F. Elrington Ball's History of the County of Dublin, Vol. I., p. 106. Thomas Mozeen, an actor, in his contemporary Miscellaneous Essays, p. 67, now in the British Museum, has a poem entitled " The Invitation to Dr. Le Hunt's in the County of Dublin." He describes how, as he lay on the grass, he thought about the depravity of mankind, and proceeds : —

When strait by my Side there appear'd a fair Maid In Vestments as white as the Lilly array'd Whose ruddy Complexion, and Glee of whose face Shew'd Health had a sovereign Swa}' in the Place. " Your censures are rash," said she, " V/hy for a few " Should you judge the whole World to be false and untrue " Come to * Braneustown House at the Top of the Hill " And yoiu" splenatio Humours we'll teach you to kill, " With all that the Eye can take in of Delight, " With all that the Heart conceives virtuous and right " With all that brings Mirth and gives Vapours the Rout, " I'll engage you'll be pleas'd with within and without." I thank'd her but told her I couldn't that Day, For I dined with the 'Squire and good Mrs. Bray. " Be 't soon," she reply'd, '' or I take an Aflfront, " Content is my Name, and I Hve with Le Hunt."

He adds the note : — " * Branenstoum, a seat in the County of Dublin, the property of Dr. Le Hunt formerly a Physician

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of great Eminence, but who had retir'd from Practice some Years before the above was wrote : a Gentleman who from his extensive Charities, Benevolence and great AfEability rendered himself justly beloved by every Person happy enough to be acquainted with him — He is since dead, when the many who stood in need of his Assistance lost a most valuable Benefactor, and those who did not a sincere Friend and amiable Companion," He d. 1 Dec, 1750, and in the Belfast Newsletter for Friday, 7 Dec. is the following : — " Dublin, Dec. 4, Last Saturday died at his House at Brennan's Town, Francis Le Hunte, Esq., Doctor of Physick and Fellow of the College of Physicians. Upon his Brother's Death, by which a considerable estate devolved to him, he retired from the Business of his Profession, and enjoyed his Friends with a Cheerfulness and good-nature, which, with his other valuable Qualities, have made his Death a real Loss to all who had the Pleasure of his Acquaintance. By his Death a good Estate descendeth to his only son Richard Le Hunte, Esq., a Student of Lincoln Inn." He was succeeded by his only son, by Susanna French, otherwise Britton, his wife : —

Richard Le Himte, of Artramont, Co. Wexford, M.P. Wexford 1771-6, and 1776-83, Barrister-at-law Hilary Term 1759, but did not practise,* entered T.C.D. 14 Nov., 1745, aged 17, B.A. 1750, d. s.p. 1783,t cod. to will 11 Jan., 1780, proved 12 Feb., 1783, executors his sisters Mrs. Huson and Miss Britton, and his kinsman Daniel Stanford. He left Isabella Stanford his diamond ring, his little mare called Polly, and £200, while he bequeathed Artramont to his cousin. Major George Le Hunte, great- grandfather of the present Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte, K.C.M.G., of Artramont, Governor of South Austraha.

The eldest dau. of Daniel French and Isabella Bedell,

ELINOR FRENCH, m., Kilmore Ucence 22 Nov., 1707, Capt. John Stanford, High Sheriff, Co. Cavan, 1734 and Co. Monaghan, 1741, J.P. Co. Cavan 16 Jan., 1723-4, B.A. T.C.D. 1706, (entered 27 Nov., 1701, aged 15), jure uxoris of Cam, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, which he claimed in right of his wife, J eldest son of Luke Stanford, of Belturbet, " a merchant of large dealing," § by Anne Hecclefield his wife. Capt.

* Wilson's Dublin Directory, 1780, p. 99.

•j- Deaths " at Kiltorkan, near Ejlkenny, Richard Le Hunte, Esq., Member of Parliament for the town of Wexford." {Gentleman's and London Magazine, Feb., 1783.)

X The Life and Death of Bishop Bedell, ed. by T. W. Jones, Camden Soc, 1872, p. 259, note a.

§ Exchequer Bill, 1 Dec, 1746, Bedell Howard Stanford v. EUnor Stanford and others.

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Stanford d. 1745 (will dated 28 May, proved 20 Nov.) having had 3 sons and 2 daus. : —

I. John Stanford, educated at Cavan, under Mr. Richards, entered T.C.D. 8 July, 1734, aged 15, d. 1735.*

II. Bedell Howard Stanford, of Cam, High Sheriff Co. Monaghan,

1754, and Co. Cavan, 1768, J.P. Co. Cavan, 19 May, 1759,

educated at Cavan under Dr. Sheridan, entered T.C.D. 16

Aug., 1738, aged 18, did not graduate,f migrated to the

University of Glasgow, matric. 1741, M.A. 1743, m. Elizabeth,

sister of David Jones, of Bensfort, Co. Meath, High Sheriff

Co. Cavan 1763, and eldest dau. of John Jones, of Belturbet,

J.P., High Sheriff Co. Cavan, 1750, by his wife, sister of

Benjamin Copeland, of Bensfort, High Sheriff Co. Meath, 1751.J

Mr. Stanford communicated to the publisher of the Dublin

edition of Burnet's Life of Bishop Bedell, 1758, the story of

the prayer murmured at the Bishop's funeral by a Roman

Catholic priest, " 0 sit anima mea cum Bedello." § He d.

in Dominick Street, Dublin, 11 March, 1776, in his 56th

year, and his widow placed a tablet to his memory in Belturbet

Church. His will was proved 26 April, 1776. Mrs. Bedell

Stanford, d. s.p., 1798 (cod. to will dated 24 March, proved

4 Aug.) leaving her property to her own relations, including

her nieces Mrs. Bolton and Lady Fortescue, and her nephew

John Moutray Jones.

III. DANIEL, of whom presently.

I. Anne Stanford.||

II. Charity Stanford, m. John Bradshaw, and had : —

1. Bedell Bradshaw.

2. Thomas Bradshaw.

3. Luke Bradshaw.

4. Daniel Bradshaw.^

* Exchequer Bill, 1 Dec, 1746, do., bur. at St. Michael's, 26 April, 1735.

t His father is erroneously entered in the T.C.D. matriculation register as " Beadle " instead of John. The name is correctly given in the Glasgow register.

X The Rev Thos. Sheridan, writing from Co. Cavan to Dean Swift. 20 July 1736, says : — " The ladies are full of your coming, viz. — My wife, two ladies Lanesborough . . . Jlrs. Nesbitt, her five daughters . . . Mrs. Jones, Beauty Copeland ... all your Cavan mistresses." Beauty Copeland was no doubt the future Mrs. Charles Grattan, see p. 91.

§ Life of Bp. Bedell, ed. by Jones, pp. 195 and 259.

II Possibly she was Mrs. Richardson, for Bedell H. Stanford mentions in his will, " my nephew John Richardson, of Belturbet, Esq., now a cornet in H.M.

13 Regt., of Dragoons."

^ Probably the Mr. Daniel Bradshaw whose death at his seat near Florencecourt,

14 Feb., 1824, aged 82, is announced in the Enniskillen Chronicle for Feb. 19. He was Linen Inspector in Co. Fermanagh for upwards of 40 years, and was succeeded in that oflSce by his grandson, Mr. John Hamilton, appointed joint Inspector some time since.

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1. Sarah Bradshaw.

The 3rd son :—

DANIEL STANFORD, of Dominick St., Dublin, Attorney-at-law m. Mary Richardson, and d. (will dated 25 April, 1787, proved 21 Feb.j 1788) having had, besides a dau. Mary, bapt. at St. Mary's, Dublin 22 Dec, 1770, apparently d. young, three sons and two daus. : —

I. JOHN, of whom presently.

II. James Stanford.

III. Bedell Stanford.

I. Elinor Stanford, m. 1796, the Rev. Francis Eastwood.

II. Isabella Stanford, m. at Wexford, 23 April, 1789, John Brownrigg, LL.D., Barrister-at-law, of 29 York St., Dublin, and Maghera- beg, Co. Wicklow, son of Henry Brownrigg, and by him, cod. to whose will was dated 8 April, 1795, proved 31 May, 1797, had at her death, (will proved 1805) two children : —

1, Henry John BroTSTirigg, formerly of Southampton, but after 1841, of the Chateau Duplessis L' Orient, France, will dated 13 April, 1841, proved 13 Feb., 1847, mentions his uncle, Henry Brownrigg, of Wingfield, Co. Wexford, but says that Wingfield belonged to his own wife. By her, dau. of Addington, he had issue : —

(1). Henry John Brownrigg. (1). Isabella Brownrigg. (2.) Henrietta Brownrigg. (3.) Mary Brownri^. (4.) Catherine Brownrigg.

1. Isabella Winifred Brownrigg. The eldest son : —

JOHN STANFORD, of Carn, and of Gloucester St., Dublin, High Sheriff Co. Cavan, 1789, Barrister-at-law, Hilary Term, 1785, entered T.C.D. 16 Oct., 1776, aged 16 (tutor Rev. Wm. Richardson, F.T.C.D., afterwards Rector of Clonfeacle.) but did not graduate. He was b. in Co. Derry, and m. at Wexford, 22 Oct., 1784, Barbara, 2nd dau. of Major Loftus ClifEe, by Anne, dau, of William Hore, of Harperstown, Co. Wexford, M.P. for Taghmon 1727-31, and 1741-6, by the Hon. Dorothy Ponsonby, dau. of William, 1st Viscount Duucannon, and sister of Brabazon, 1st Earl of Bessborough. Mr. Stanford d. 1806, having had issue : —

I. John Stanford, d. s.f.

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II. BEDEL,* of whom presently,

I. Anne Stanford, m. 1809, Augustus Heron.

The younger son : —

BEDEL STANFORD, of Cam, High Sheriff Co. Cavan, 1835, J.P. Co. Cavan 28 Nov., 1809, Capt. Cavan Militia 8 April, 1807, m. Elizabeth Christiana, dau. of the Rev. John Gale, of Angersleigh, Somerset. Capt. Stanford, who sold to J. H. Story some lands in Co. Cavan which had been acquired by Ambrose Bedell in 1661.t dl. 25 Dec, 1857, having had issue : —

I. JOHN WOODWARD, of whom presently.

II. BedelljHenry Stanford, d. s.p. March, 1848.

I III. Walter Frederick Stanford, d. s.p. Aug., 1850.

IV. WilUam Bedell Stanford, (Rev.), Rector of Wishaw, diocese of Worcester, formerly Canon of Christchurch, New Zealand, B.A. Balliol Coll., Oxford, 1860, M.A. 1863, b. 14 Dec, 1837. m. 8 April, 1863, his cousin Harriet, 2nd dau. of the Very Rev. Frederick Owen, M.A., Dean of Leighlin, son of the Rev. Roger Carmichael Owen, Rector of Camolin, Co. Wexford, by Anne, dau. of Major Loftus Cliffe, and has issue : —

1. WilHam Bedell Stanford, of Sutton Valence, Maidstone,

Kent, b. 14 June, 1865, m. 7 Oct., 1897, Inez Gertrude, dau. of Thomas Tennant Prince, and has : —

(1.) PhyUis Stanford.

(2.) Margery Stanford.

2. Frederick Owen Stanford, A.I.C.E., m. Sophie Ann, dau.

of Griffith Griffiths, C.E.

3. Edwin Palmer Stanford, of Erinwood, Canterbury, New

Zealand, m. 3 April, 1897, Charlotte, dau. of J. H. Menzies of Menzies Bay, New Zealand, and has one son : —

Owen Bedell Stanford, 6. 2 March, 1898.

4. Loftus CUffe Stanford, B.A., Tutor of St. Bede's College,

Durham.

1. Harriet Mary Stanford.

2. Ellen Barbara Stanford.

3. Agnes May Stanford.

V. Robert Loftus Stanford, B.A. Exeter Coll., Oxford, LL.B. LTniversity of New Zealand, 1883, Barrister-at-law, and Registrar Supreme Court, Wanganui, New Zealand, b. 8 Dec,

* So he spelled the name.

t Life of Bishop BedfU, ed by Joaes, p. 225.

1839, m. 4 May, 1864, his cousin Louisa, 4th dau, of the Very Rev. Frederick Owen, Dean of Leighlin, and has had issue : —

1. Francis Robert Larnach Stanford, b. 20 Jan., 1873, d. 20

Aug., 1903.

2. Charles Frederick Beaumont Stanford, b. 13 March, 1875,

m. 20 March, 1904, Daisy Adlam, and has issue : —

Owen Loftus James Stanford, b. 2 March, 1905.

3. John Reginald Loftus Stanford, b. 25 July, 1879.

4. Ernest Woodward Owen Stanford, 6. 20 May, 1882.

5. Arthur Bernard Kynaston Stanford, b. 26 Aug., 1883.

1. Edith Owen Stanford.

2. Constance Louisa Stanford.

3. Mabel Lucy Stanford, m. 3 Nov., 1900, Hickman Frank

Russell, 2nd son of Lieut-Colonel Hickman Rose Russell, 57th Regt., 2nd son of the Rev. John Clarke Russell, M.A., Rector of St. Thomas a ClifEe, Lewes, by Mary Tovey, elder dau. of Capt. Hickman Leland Rose, 3rd Light Dragoons, son of Joseph Rose, M.D., by Gertrude, dau. of Hickman Rose, of Limerick, by Elizabeth, dau. of Jonah Pratt, of Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, (see also p. 111). Issue : —

(1.) Loftus Hickman Russell, 6. 11 Oct., 1901.

(2.) Robert Owen Hickman Russell, b. 4 March, 1903.

(1.) Mary Louisa Russell.

4. Gertrude Owen Stanford.

5. Olive Mary Stanford.

I. Charlotte Barbara Stanford, d. s.p. Oct., 1857. II. EUzabeth Anne Stanford, of Oswestry, Salop. III. Frances Harriet Stanford, m. 10 Oct., 1860, her cousin, the Rev. Walter Charles Edward Kynaston, M.A., J.P., of Hard- wick Hall, Shropshire, son of Colonel Robert Owen, and by him, who took the name of Kynaston, had issue : —

1 , Walter Roger Owen Kynaston, Capt. Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, b. 1 March, 1874.

1. Amy Frances Owen Kynaston, m. 11 July, 1893, her cousin the Rev. Loftus Meade Owen, B.A., Vicar of Hanmer Shropshire, 2nd son of the Rev. Loftus Owen, Vicar of St. Giles, Shrewsbury, and has issue : — (1). Robert Loftus Owen, 6. 1894.

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(2.) Philip James Owen, b. 1896. (1.) Margaret Amy Frances Owen. (2.) Violet Mary Owen.

2. Maud Charlotte Owen Kynaston, m. the Rev. Frederict

Charles Chambers, M.A., Vicar of Milcombe, Oxfordshire

3. Marianne Annette Owen Knyaston. The eldest son :

JOHN WOODWARD STANFORD, of Cam, and of Chetwode Priory, Buckinghamshire, b. 14 April, 1825, m. 15 Nov., 1860, Louisa, fourth dau. of Nevile Reade, of Runnymede, Old Windsor, by the Hon. Caroline Napier, youngest dau. of Francis, 7th Lord Napier, and d. 16 June, 1904, ha^ing had by her, who d. 20 Dec, 1905, issue :— I. HENRY BEDELL, of whom presently. II. Charles Woodward Stanford, (Rev.), Vicar of North and South Elldngton, Lincohishire, B.A., Worcester Coll., Oxford, 1884, M.A. 1887, 6. 13 Jan., 1863, m. 1 Nov., 1893, Emily Mary, only child of the late Rev. James Grenville Smyth, M.A., Vicar of N. and S. Elkington and Prebendary of Lincoln, by Emily, dau. of the Rev. Edward Royds, Rector of Brereton, Cheshire, and has a dau. : — Mary Dorothy Stanford.

III. Walter John Stanford, Civil Engineer, b. 18 May, 1864, m. 28

Aug., 1895, Ruby Belany, and has a dau. : — Doreen Napier Stanford.

IV. Alfred Bracebridge Stanford, (Rev.) M.A. Emmanuel College,

Cambridge, b. 13 April, 1867, d. s.p. at Mafeldng, South Africa, 27 Dec, 1895.

V. Archibald Ambrose Stanford, b. 10 May, 1880. I. Elizabeth Mary Stanford. II. Charlotte Barbara Stanford. The eldest son : —

HENRY BEDELL STANFORD, Major Royal Garrison Artillery 6. 9 Oct., 1861, w. 10 Oct., 1887, Florence, dau., of Colonel William Frederick Carter, C.B., 63rd Regt., by Hannah Emily, dau. of John, Anderson, of Cox Lodge Hall, Northumberland, and d. 14 July, 1904, having had issue : —

I. JACK, of whom presently. I. Norah Stanford. II. Aileen Stanford. The son : —

JACK STANFORD, 6. 27 July, 1888, is now the representative (through his descent from the French family), of William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore.

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CHAPTER V.

Families of Warburton and Somerville, Lords Athlumney.

The elder dau. of Mathew French, of Belturbet, the elder (p. 2) was : —

MARY FRENCH, m. consistorial marr. lie. July, 1672, John Warburton, of Dublin, M.P. for Belturbet, 1692-93, and 1695-99, a Six Clerk in Chancery from 29 Sept., 1669, till his resignation in 1700, attainted 1689, third * and youngest son of Richard Warburton, of Garryhinch, King's Co., M.P. for Ballyshannon 1695-1711, by Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas L'Estrange, of Moystown, King's Co., M.P.f John Warburton made his will 29 June, 1703. It was proved in the Prerogative Court 11 Feb., 1703-4. His widow, Mary's, will, dated 17 Nov., 1727, was proved 12 April, 1729. They had (besides Mathew Warburton, bapt. at St. Nicholas Within, Dublin, 19 Jan., 1676-7, d. young ; John Warburton, buried at same, 28 April, 1687, and Ann Warburton, buried at same 17 Sept., 1687) three children : —

I. Richard Warburton, (Rev.) entered Trin. Coll., Dublin, 22 Sept., 1691, aged 17, B.A., 1696, M.A. 1699, d. unm., admon. granted to his mother, 3 March, 1707-8,J bur. at St. Michael's, 6 Feb.

II. GEORGE, of whom presently.

I. Mary Warburton.

The younger son : —

GEORGE WARBURTON, LL.D.,§ Master in Chancery by patent 3 April, 1712, renewed by George L, 12 Jan., 1714, bapt. at St. Nicholas Within, Dublin 20 May, 1681, m., prerog. marr. lie, 25 July, 1720, Hannah Smith, of Dromenagh Parish, Co. Fermanagh, and d. 1730,

* The other two sons were Richard and George. Richard was M.P. for Portarlington 1692 and 1715, and was father of Richard, M.P. for Queen's Co., and grandfather of John, M.P. for Queen's Co., 1779-94. George was M.P. for GowTan, 1692-93, and Portarhngton 1695-99, and was father of Richard, of Donnycamey. Co. Dublin, M.P. for Portarhngton 1715-27, and Ballynaldll 1727-47. Seven members of the Warburton family were thus representatives in the Irish House of Commons between 1692 and 1794.

■f- Members of Parliament for the County and City of Kilkenny, by G. D. Burtchaell,

p. 84.

X Information from Mr. G. D. Burtchaell, Office of Arms, Dublin Castle.

§ G. E. C. Complete Baronetage, V. 358, is the authority for this degree. Sir Quaile Somerville in his will mentions his father-in-law " Dr. George Warburton." (Information from Mr. Bellingham Somerville).

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will dated 29 May, 1726, proved 20 Feb., 1731, to be buried in Kents- town Churchyard, Co. Meath. He had two daus. : —

I. Hannah Warburton, d. before 1740.

II. MARY.

The younger dau. and eventual heiress : —

MARY WARBURTON, m. 19 Feb., 1740, Sir Quaile SomerviUe, 2nd Bart., of Brownstown, Co. Meath, High Sheriff City of Dublin, 1741- 2, eldest son of Sir James Somerville, Bart., M.P., Lord Mayor of Dublin 1736-7. Mary Somerville, d. 28 Feb., 1747, having had by her husband, who d. at Brownstown, 3 Dec, 1772 (will dated 10 April, 1769, proved 30 Dec, 1772), three sons :—

I. JAMES QUAILE, his heir.

II. Warburton Somerville, of Mullinavale, Co. Monaghan, Cornet of Dragoons,* m. 1st, EHzabeth, dau. of Capt. John Hamilton, 37th Regt. of Shankill, Co. Monaghan.t and 2nd, 9 Feb., 1803, Charlotte, widow of Richard Sheridan, M.P. for Charlemont, 1790, and sister of Henry Mitchell, of Drumreaske, Co. Monaghan. I

III. William Somerville, of Lake, Co. Cavan, J.P. that Co., 21 March, 1789, Ensign 56th Regt., will dated 2 May, 1798, proved 27 Aug., 1803.

The eldest son : —

SIR JAMES QUAILE SOMERVILLE, 3rd Bart., m. at St. Mary's, Dublin, 16 June, 1770, Catherine, dau. of Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bart., M.P., by Catherine, heiress of her brother Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Bart., M.P., and dau. of Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Bart., of Mote, Co. Roscommon, M.P. for that co., by Mary, dau. of Anthony Nixon, of Dublin, She d. 1775, and Sir James d. 1802, having had two sons : —

I. MARCUS, his heir.

II. James Somerville, of Ross, Co. Meath, High Sheriff 1816, m. 8 May, 1812, Frances Armytage, dau. of Skeffington Thompson, of Rathnally, Co. Meath, and d. 23 April, 1837, having had by her, who d. 6 Aug., 1835, issue : —

1. James Somerville, of Ross, Lieut. 6th Dragoon Guards,

1845, nth Hussars 1846, d. intestate 14 Dec, 1896.

2. Marcus Richard Somerville, d. unm. in India, 1863.

3. William Somerville, Lieut. 22nd Regt., d. 1845, admon.

granted 25 March, 1848.

• Wai of Sir Q. Somerville.

fNo. 320511. Registry of Deeds.

t Exch. Bill. 12 March, 1817, Johnston v. Mitchell and Somerville.

c2

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1. Frances Somerville, m. March, 1848, William Cruise,

Barrister-at-law, of Rahood, Co. Meath.

2. Louisa Sonier\dlle, m. 1 June, 1839, Pierce Morton, of

Kilnacrott, Co., Cavan, and d. 1844.

The elder son : —

SIR MARCUS SOMERVILLE, 4th Bart., of Somerville, Co. Meath, M.P. Co. Meath, 1800-31, m. 1st, in Sept., 1801, Anne, only dau. and heiress of Sir Richard Gorges-Meredyth, Bart, of St. Katherine's Grove, Co. Meath, by Mary, only dau. and heiress of Arthur Francis Meredyth, of Dollardstown, Co. Meath. Sir Marcus m. 2nd, Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Piers Geale, of Dublin, and d. 11 July, 1831. She m. 2nd, 26 July, 1841, Hugh, 2nd Earl Fortescue, E.G., and d, 4 May, 1896. Sir Marcus Somerville had two sons by his first marriage : —

I. WILLIAM MEREDYTH, his heir.

II. James Richard Somerville, Capt. Scots Greys, b. 1803, in. 1830, Anna, dau. of Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, K.C.B., by Sarah, dau. of Colonel Robert Patten, Governor of St. Helena, and d. 4 April, 1869, having had issue : —

1. William Meredyth Somerville, R.E., 6. 8 Nov., 1835, d.

at Scutari during the Crimean War, 3 Sept., 1855.

2. Henry John Torrens Somerville, Naval Cadet, H.M.S.,

Cleopatra, b. 21 April, 1837, d. 23 Oct., 1850.

3. Marcus Somerville, b. 8 Dec, 1842, d. 13 March, 1846.

1. Mary Anne Emily Somerville, m. 1870, the Rev. Theobald

Butler, and d. s.p. 15 Sept., 1871.

2. Anna Maria Somerville.

3. Frances Somerville.

4. Henrietta Sarah Somerville, m. 2 June, 1897, Lieut.-Colonel

John Rickaby, J.P., 3rd Batt. Prince of Wales' Own West Yorkshire Regt.

The elder son : —

THE RIGHT HON. SIR WILLIAM MEREDYTH SOMERVILLE, 5th Bart., of Somerville, 1st LORD ATHLUMNEY AND MEREDYTH, P.C., M.P., Drogheda, 1837-52, and Canterbury, 1854-65, Under Secretary Home Department 1846-7, raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Athlumney of Somerville and Dollardstown, Co. Meath, 14 Dec, 1863, and to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Meredyth of Dollardstown, 3 May, 1866, High Sheriff Co. Meath, 1834, 6. 1802, matriculated Christ Church, Oxford, 18 Feb., 1822, w. 1st, 22 Dec, 1832, Lady Maria Harriet Conyngham, youngest dau. of Henry, Ist Marquis Conyngham, K.P., by Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Denison

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of Denbies, Surrey. Lady Maria Somerville d. 3 Dec, 1843, having had a son and a dau. : —

I. William Henry Marcus Somerville d. young, 11 Sept., 1837.

I. Hon. Elizabeth Jane Somerville, m. 18 Dec, 1856, James Molyneux Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont, K.P., who d. s.p. 12 Jan., 1892. She d. 31 May, 1882.

Lord Athlumney m. 2nd, 16 Oct., 1860, Maria Georgiana Elizabeth, only dau. of Herbert George Jones, Serjeant at law, by Maria Alicia, 2nd dau. of Sir George William Leeds, Bart., of Croxton Park, Cambridge- shire, and d. 7 Dec, 1873, having had by her, who d. 6 Jan., 1899, further issue : —

IL JAMES HERBERT GUSTAVUS MEREDYTH, present peer.

III. Hon. Marcus Edward Francis Meredyth Somerville, 6. 10 Oct., 1867, d. 17 Sept., 1871.

IL Hon. Mary Anne Blanche Somerville.

III. Hon. Georgina Alice Lizzie Somerville, m. 30 April, 1888, Charles

Gore Loftus Tottenham, of Tudenham Park, Co. Westmeath, and Glenfame Hall, Co. Leitrim, J.P., High Sheriff Co. Leitrim, 1898, eldest son of Capt. Arthur Loftus Tottenham, of Glenf arne, M.P. Co. Leitrim and Winchester, by Sarah Anne, dau. of George Addenbrooke Gore, of Barrowmount, Co. Kilkenny, Issue : —

1. Harold William Loftus Tottenham, b. 26 Feb., 1889.

2. Desmond Frank Charles Loftus Tottenham, b. 16 Dec,

1896.

1. Dorothy Loftus Tottenham.

2. Aileen Loftus Tottenham.

3. Angela Frances Diana Loftus Tottenham.

IV. Hon. Edith Sophia Somerville, d. 27 April, 1867. V. Hon. Cecilia Louisa Somerville.

VI. Hon. Florence Emily Frances Somerville, m. 9 April, 1901. William Wooding Starmer, A.R.A.M., and has a son : — Lionel Meredith Starmer, 6. 6 March, 1902. VII. Hon. Catherine Mary Fanny Somerville, d. 12 Sept., 1873. The son : —

JAMES HERBERT GUSTAVUS MEREDYTH SOMERVILLE, 2nd LORD ATHLUMNEY AND MEREDYTH, and 6th Bart., Lieut. 1st Batt. Coldstream Guards 1886-97, Capt. Kent Artillery Militia from 1897, was b. 23 March, 1865. He is the present representative of Mary French, wife of John Warburton, M.P., and elder dau. of Mathew French, of Belturbet, High Sheriff Co. Cavan, 1677.

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CHAPTER VI.

TiSDALL OF BaWN.

And Families of Voules, Marlay and Manners, Duke of Rutland.

The younger dau. of Mathew French, of Belturbet, the elder (p. 2), was : —

ELINOR FRENCH, m. at St. Michael's, Dub., 20 Feb., 1682-3, James Tisdall,* of Bawn, Co. Louth, M.P. for Ardee, 1692-93, 1695-99, 1703-13, and 1713-14, J.P. Co. Louth, 14 April, 1686, High Sherifi Co. Louth, 1700, Portreive of Ardee, 1697 and 1698, second son of Michael Tisdall, of Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, by Anne Singleton, his wife. James Tisdall, who purchased Bawn, 16 July, 1690, had received in 1679, confirmation of his arms from Richard St. George, Ulster, which also covered his brother Michael Tisdall, of Mount Tisdall, ancestor of the Tisdalls of Charlesfort, Co. Meath. James Tisdall d. 2 May, 1714, in his 66th year, and an inscription to his memory is in Manfieldstown Church, adjoining Bawn demesne. His will, codicil dated 30 April, 1714, was not proved till 23 Feb., 1748. He had, (with another son, Michael, who d. 9 Jan., 1702-3, inscription in Manfieldstown Church and a dau. Catherine, bapt. 1 July, 1691,f must have d. young), issue : —

I. JAMES, his heir.

II. Richard Tisdall, d. unm.X

I. Ann Tisdall.

II. Mary Tisdall, of Dublin, d. unm. will dated 1 Jan., 1771, proved 28 March, 1775.

The elder surviving son : —

JAMES TISDALL, of Bawn, M.P. for Dundalk 1715-27, High Sheriff, Co. Louth, 1717, J.P. Co. Louth, 4 Feb., 1714-5, m. settlements § dated 14 and 15 June, 1716, Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Thomas Nugent, of Clonlost, Co. Westmeath, by Alice, dau. of Capt. Thomas Smyth, of Drumcree, Co. Westmeath. In 1741 he wished to enter Parliament again ; " We hear that Henry Bellingham and James Tisdall, Esqrs. have declared themselves Candidates for Kt. of the Shire for the County

* Chancery Bill. 28 March, 1739, Tisdall v. Nixon, Fanning, French, etc. t Ulster Office, Will Collections, information from Major W. W. Webb. X Chancery Bill, Tisdall v. Nixon, ante. § Chancery Bill, Tisdall v. Nixon, ante.

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of Lowth in the Room of Faithful Fortescue, Esq. deceased " (rue's Occurrences, 28 March, 1741). Bellingham was eventually elected. On March 28, 1739, James Tisdall, and his son, James, filed a bill in the Court of Chancery against the Rev. Andrew NLxon and Mary Anne, otherwise French, his wife, the Rev. Edward Fanning and Joanna, otherwise French, his wife, Richard French of Ballyhubback, Co. Wicklow. the Rev. Thomas Smith, Richard Tisdall and William Tisdall. This bill sets forth the marriage articles of James the elder's parents, James Tisdall and Elinor French, in 1682, and states that Elinor's portion was £800, and that her brothers Richard and Mathew were parties to the settlement. Richard French was in 1739 represented by his grandson Richard, and Mathew by his granddaughters Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Fanning. James Tisdall d. 10 Oct., 1757, aged 63, (inscription in Manfieldstowu Church), having had issue : — *

I. JAMES, his heir.

II. William Tisdall.

I. Mary Tisdall, m. — Workman, and had issue : —

1. Jeremiah Workman, legatee of his great aunt, Mary Nugent,

Mary

JAMES TISDALL, of Bawn, High Sherifi Co. Tyrone, 1754, J.P. Co. Louth, 11 May, 1759, Barrister-at-law, Trinity Term, 1745, m. 1747, Rose, only dau. and heiress of Oliver MacCausland, of Mountfield, Strabane, by Rachel, dau. of James Hamilton, of Hamilton's Grove, Co. Antrim. She d. before 13 Dec, 1755, on which date her widower and her two children, James and Rachel, minors, presented a petition to the Irish House of Commons praying " that the heads of a bill may be brought in, for the sale of the Manor of Mountfield in the county of Tyrone, in order to discharge debts and incmnbrances." Leave to bring in the heads of the bill was granted three days later. James Tisdall had issue : —

I. JAMES, his heir.

I. Rachel Tisdall, w. Ist, in Feb., 1765, Edward Bond, of Bondville

and Tyra, Co. Armagh, whose will, dated 5 Nov., 1768, was

proved 13 Jan., 1769, and had a son : —

George Bond, Cornet 6th Dragoon Guards Feb., 1793, Lieut. 4th Dragoon Guards 31 May, 1796, a legatee of his uncle James Tisdall in 1797.

* Major Webb, in his Tisdall pedigree observes that there is a statement in Ulster's Offio«, to the eSect that there were three other sons. Thomas, Richard, and Philip.

9 Feb., 1757.
1. Elizabeth Workman, 1 2. MsLvy Workman, j	legatees of their aunt Tisdall, 1 Jan., 1771.
The elder son : —

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She m. 2nd, the Very Rev. Robert Gorges, D.D. Dean of Kihnacduagh, 3rd son of Richard Gorges, of Kilbrew, Co. Meath, M.P. for Augher, 1739, and Enniskillen 1761, elder son of Lieut. -General Richard Gorges, of Kilbrew, by the Hon. Nichola Sophia Hamilton,* younger dau. and co-heiress of Hugh, 1st Lord Glenawly, and widow of Sir Tristram Beresford, Bart. Dean Gorges d. lea^'ing an only dau. to whom admon. was granted 9 March, 1804.1 the widow Rachel having renounced. Mrs. Gorges d. 6 March, 1827. The only dau :— Elizabeth Gorges, m. John Blennerhassett, of Mount Street, Dublin, Sol, second son of the Rev. John Blenner- hassett, Rector of Tralee, Co. Kerry, by Louisa, dau. of Capt. Thomas Goddard, by Mary, sister of Thomas, 1st Lord Ventry. They had two daus. : — (1). Rachel Blennerhassett, m. Lieut.-General Thomas Gordon Higgins, who d. 1871.

(2). Frances Blennerhassett, m. 18 March, 1837, the Rev. Francis Plimley Voules, B.A. Wadh. Coll., Oxford, Rector of Middle Chinnock, Somerset, and d. 21 Nov., 1845, having had three sons and two daus., viz. : —

i. Sir Gordon Blennerhassett Voules, Knt. (1906)» late of The Admiralty, h. 8 Sept., 1839' m. 12 July, 1866, Frances Cotton, dau. of James Minchin, and has issue : —

1. Francis Minchin Voules, h. 9 May, 1867, m. 28 March, 1894, Isabel Janet, 2nd dau. of Arthur Herbert Kennedy, and has a dau. : —

Kathleen Agnes Frances Voules.

2. Arthur Blennerhassett Voules, h. 15 Sept., 1870, m. 10 April, 1906, Mary Alice Stewart Campbell.

1. Cherry Marion Voules, m. 24 July, 1897, Edgar Morris Baker, Civil Servt. Straits Settlements, son of General Baker, of Ootacamund, India, and has a dau. : —

Felice Frances Baker.

2. Margaret Rose Frances Voules, m. 28 Oct.,

1901, Arthur Benison Hubback, Govt.

♦ The victim of the famous Beresford ghost incident, see Lord Belmore's History of Ttco Ulster Manors. Appendix N.

t Information from Mr. Raymond Gorges.

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Arcliitect, Straits Settlements, eldest son of Joseph Hubback, J.P., of Liverpool, and has a son : —

Arthur Gordon Voules Hubback, 6. Sept., 1902. 3. Evelyn Dorothy Felicia Voules.

ii. Frank Herbert Voules, R.N.R., h. 27 Dec, 1841, m. 16 May, 1881, Caroline, dau. of Richard Hayward, of West Chinnock, Somerset, and has a dau. : — Winifred Voules. iii. Sterling Cookesley Voules, (Rev.) M.A. Lincohi Coll., Oxford, Rector of Heysham, Lancashire, h. 4 Jan., 1843, m. 1st, 6 Aug., 1874, Isabella Sophia, dau. of Francis Hookey Bond, of Marlborough, Wilts, and by her, who d. 15 May, 1881, had a dau. :— Ethel Victoria Voules. He m. 2nd, 16 Dec, 1885, Emily Mary, dau. of the Rev. Charles Smith Royds, Rector of Haughton, Stafiordshire. i. Ehza Maria Voules, d. 1896. ii. Frances Ehzabeth Voules. m. 23 June, 1885, William Mardon Beaumont, of Bath, Somerset- shire, son of Edward Beaumont, and grandson 01 Thomas Beaumont, of Brinsop Court, Radnorshire. The son of James Tisdall, and Rose MacCausland :— JAMES TISDALL, of Bawn, High Sherifi Co. Louth, 1788 m. 1787, Catherine Maria, only child of Thomas Townley Dawson, o Kmseale>^ Co. Dublin, and d. mi (will dated 18 Oct., proved 14 D-O^-^-S^J her. who m. 2nd, 4 June. 1798, Charles William, 1st Earl of Charleville. two children : —

I. James Thomas Townley Tisdall, of Bawn, High Sherifi Co.Louth,

1824, d. unm. 15 Dec, 1851, aged 58. I. CATHERINE LOUISA AUGUSTA.

The dau. : —

CATHERINE LOUISA AUGUSTA TISDALL, m. 7 April, 1828, Lieut-Colonel George Marlay, C.B., Uth Foot, only son of Major George Marlay, by Lady Catherine Butler, dau. «f Brmsley 2nd M of LaneBborough, by Lady Jane EooUort. dau. o£ Robert. Irt Earl of

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Belvedere. Colonel Marlay d. 8 June, 1830, having had issue, three children : —

I. James Marlay, d. 1843.

II. CHARLES BRINSLEY, of whom presently.

I. Catherine Louisa Georgiana Marlay, m. 10 June, 1851, John James Robert, 7th Duke of Rutland, K.G., second son of John Henry, 5th Duke of Rutland, K.6., by Lady Elizabeth Howard, dau. of Frederick, 5th Earl of Carlisle, K.G. She d. 7 April, 1854, lea%dng by her husband, then Lord John Manners, who d. 4 Aug., 1906, an only son : —

Henry John Brinsley, 8th Duke of Rutland, and 16th Earl, Lord Lieut, and Custos Rotulorum of Leicestershire, formerly M.P. for Leicestershire 1888-95, called to the House of Lords in his father's Hfe time by writ in the barony of Manners of Haddon, June, 1896, h. 16 April, 1852, m. 25 Nov., 1882, Marion Margaret Violet, 2nd dau. of Colonel the Hon. Charles Hugh Lindsay, C.B., Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria, son of James, 24th Earl of Crawford, and 7th Earl of Balcarres. Issue : —

(1.) Robert Charles John Manners, Lord Haddon, 6. 8 Aug., 1885, d. 28 Sept., 1894.

(2.) John Henry Montague Manners, Marquis of Granbyj 6. 21 Sept., 1886.

(1.) Lady Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners.

(2.) Lady Violet Katherine Manners.

(3). Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners.

The younger son : —

CHARLES BRINSLEY MARLAY, of Belvedere House, MuUingar, Co. Westmeath, and Bawn, near Castlebellingham, Co. Louth, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, J.P., D.L., High Sheriff Co. Westmeath 1853 and 1906, Co. Louth 1863, and Co. Cavau, 1885, was h. 1831, and succeeded to the settled estates of his ancestor Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere. He is the present representative of Elinor French, wife of James Tisdall, M.P., and younger dau. of Mathew French, of Belturbet, High Sherifi Co. Cavan, 1677.

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Arms of NIXON, on record in Ulster '.s Office.

Sable, five bezants, two, two, and one, on a chief engrailed argent, a battleaxe in fesse of the field. Crest — A game cock jjpr. charged on the breast with a bezant.

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PART 11.

THE FAMILY OF NIXON.

CHAPTER I.

Early Nixons.

Several Fermanagh families are said by tradition to have come from the borders of England and Scotland, and among them the Armstrongs, Croziers, and Nixons.* Families of these names had long inhabited the border districts, and had lived a wild, unsettled life, full of rapine and war. Sir Herbert Maxwell has given the reason of this, when he says, dealing with the years 1527-28 : — " Among the most distressing results of two centuries of almost incessant war with England, was the condition of the Border clans. Their means of honest living had vanished under the perennial visitations of fire and sword : when their flocks and herds were driven ofi, they must either recoup themselves by ' lifting ' from somebody else, or starve. Thus it came to pass that, as often as foreign relations permitted attention to be given to domestic affairs, these Armstrongs and Elliots, Irvings, and Olivers, Nicksons and Dicksons, the very best and hardiest Hght horsemen of Western Europe, came under punishment, whereof the mode, unfortunately, was indistinguishable from the original crime. Burn their houses and crops, drive ofE their cattle and horses, take away their means of living, and then cut them down or hang them up by scores ! " t

During the insurrection of 1527, among those in arms in the district of Redesdale were three " Nexsons," according to the confession of Humphrey Lysle.| A little later, on March 6, 1543-4, Sir Ralph Eure wrote from Chipchase to the Duke of Suffolk a letter preserved among Lord Salisbury's manuscripts, and reports " that the Armstrongs and Nixons of Liddesdale lately made a raid into Tyndale, and took away certain cattle belonging to one Percy Robson ; and also that yesterday one Edmond Nixon and certain of Hector Armstrong's servants came into Tyndale and slew as proper a man as is within all Tyndale, callide Bartyr Yowng, upon no caws but only that the said Bartyr Yownge's friends were my gydes when I borned Mangerton."§ Shortly afterwards these turbulent horsemen were won over to the side of England, for in 1547, in Liddesdale and the debateable land, no fewer

* Burke's Family Records, 1897, p. 195, article " Crozier of Gortra."

t History of the House of Douglas, 1902, Vol. II., p. 88.

X History of the House of Percy, by Gerald Brcnan, 1902, Vol. I., p. 193.

§ Calendar of M8S. at Hatfield, Historical MSS. Commission, Part I., p. 24.

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than 106 Elliotts and Nixons gave pledges to Lord Wharton that they would serve the King of England.*

From these sturdy warriors the tradition is that the Nixons of Fermanagh are descended. The earliest account of the settlement in Ireland seems to be that which we find in the manuscript history of Fermanagh (quoted below, p. 46), written in 1718-19, which states that they had been in the county since the reign of James I., when they probably were some of the tenants introduced by the under- takers for the plantation of Ulster. Among the depositions of survivors of the massacres of 1641 is one of " Rickard Bowrk, of Enniskillen, in the Countie of Fermanagh, Bachelor in Divinity, minisf of God's word " who, on 12 July, 1643, swore that during the rebelUon one Hugh Nickson, a protestant, and his wife, had been murdered at Kinally by some of the children of Phelim O'Cassidy, and others, the said Phelim having then the goods of the said Nickson put into his hands in trust.f

Andrew Nixon, Lieutenant in Colonel Henry Flower's Regt., took part in the military operations in Ireland during the Commonwealth. On 30 June, 1657, Derby Morrin, of Brynstown, Co. Meath, filed a bill in the Court of Chancery, against Dr. (afterwards Sir William) Petty, Col. Flower, Morgan, Nixon, etc. He states that he married Alson, dau. of Sir John Draycot, late of Margvorton, Co. Meath, and obtained much property. " Shortly after the death of the said Sir John Draycot the late horrid Rebellion broke forth in the land, by reason whereof the premises became waste and unprofitable or were possessed by the rebells until they were recovered by the forces of the Commonwealth, and afterwards seized into His Highness the Lord Protector's hands, and disposed of by his said Highness and the Commonwealth to Doctor William Petty, of the Citty of Dublin, Esqr., Collonell Henry fflower, Major Anthony Morgan, Lieut. Andrew Nixon, Nathaniell Hownisley, — Woodward and others whose names your said suppUant cannot discover."

There were several intermarriages between the Nixon and Hassard families in Fermanagh in the 17th century. Jason Hassard of Mully- mesker. High Sheriff Co. Fermanagh, 1676, in his will, dated 21 Oct., 1690, proved 25 April, 1692, mentions his nephew Robert Nixon, his sister Margaret Nixon, | otherwise Hassard, and Rebecca Hassard, otherwise Nixon. Margaret had married Archibald Nixon, of Rossory, Co. Fermanagh, who had d. intestate, admon. granted 20 Aug., 1673, to Margaret Nixon, als. Hassard, the widow, James Auchinleck, and

* Scott's Border Antiquities, see Genealogical Magazine, Vol. III., p. 99.

t Cromwellian depositions, Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

1 Mrs. Nixon was also sister of William Hassard, who had two sons, Capt. Jason Hassard, of Skea, High Sheriff, Co. Fermanagh 1695, and the Rev. Robert Hassard, who entered TrinityCollege, Dublin, 6 July, 1671, aged about 17, Scholar 1673, no record of degree, inducted Rector and Vicar of Killeshandra, Co. Cavau, 20 Dec, 167S. His successor inducted 20 Julv, 1682.

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Samuel Thomson. Admon. of the estate of Thomas Nixon, of Rossory, was granted 20 Dec, 1679, to Janet Nixon, otherwise Armstrong. Another Archibald Nixon, of Co. Cavan, also d. intestate, admon. granted to Henry Gwyllym, the principal creditor, 11 Feb., 1702-3.

Adam Nixon was a soldier in Lord Castlestuart's Regt., 29 Oct., 1648.*

On 31 Oct., 1685, Ferdinando Davies, of Lisgoole, Co. Fermanagh, filed a bill in the Court of Chancery against Jason Hassard and Isabell Nixon. The plaintiff stated " that Isabell Nixon, widdow, was tenant of ye lands of Culkey, Mullanollough, Lackagh, Anagh, Grangemore, Grangebegg, and Clonbonagh in ye said county by virtue of a lease from the Earl and Countess of Huntingdon to one Adam Nixon, dated 11 March, 1661, for 21 years." Isabell Nixon, in her answer, dated 21 April, 1686, says that her late husband, Adam Nixon, " dyed in or about the tenth day of November, 1669," and that administration was granted in the Const. Court of Clogher 25 Nov., 1669. She was his administratrix and entered into his estates. She mentions George Nixon. Adam probably died later than the 10th, for he was buried at Enniskillen, 18 Nov., 1669. According to the pedigree in Burke's Landed Gentry, 1863, Adam Nixon was father of George, who was the undoubted ancestor of the families we now proceed to trace.

* Report of Historical 3ISS. Comm. on the Marquis of Ormonde's MSS., Vol. II. p. 83. 1899.

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CHAPTEK II.

Main Stem.

A manuscript history of Fermanagh, known as the Betham-Phillips MS., and written as early as 1718-19, is preserved at Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham, having been acquired by the late Sir Thomas Philhps from the library of Sir Winiam Betham, Ulster King of Arms. It is entitled " History of the Co. Fermanagh, with the antient families of y® same, written 1718-19. An alphabetical Table of y*^ most Remarkable Brittish families in y® County of Fermanagh, proceeding according to y® first letter of each sirname, wherein by y^ pages annexed to their names y" description may be found m y^ book at y^ same page." The author states that he attended at the Assizes to gather particulars from the heads of the various families. His account of the Nixons, as they were nearly two hundred years ago, is as follows : —

" The family of Nixon are of Antiquity in ye County of fiermanagh since ye reigne of King James ye first of England, and ye sons of Mr. George Nixon is ye most remarkable of ye said family, being blesst wth 6 sons, one of them called Adam Nixon, Esqr.* a man of learning and sound judgm* — he was ChancelF in ye Diocese of Cloagher and justice of peace in this county dyed ano Xri, 1716. The next in calling and credit is Quartermaster Thomas Nixon a forward man of considerable estimation in ye commonwealth and free-houlder in ye Barony of Mageristafianagh. There is another son called Mr. Andrew Nixon, Cleark, another son called Mr. James Nixon, Gent., Attorney in his Majesty's Court of K.'s Bench in Dublin."

The above : —

GEORGE NIXON, of Granshagh (Grangemore ?), Co. Fermanagh, was living in the county in 1662, the date of birth of his son Adam, (Matriculation Entry, T.C.D.). His will, dated 5 Jan., 1702, was proved in the diocesan Court of Clogher, 25 Feb., 1702, witnesses William Nixon, Alexander Lang, Charles Nixon, and "William Nixon. He says he is " sick and weake of Body," and desires to be buried in Rossory Church. He leaves his cattle, sheep, horses, mares, and all other goods and substance and freehould lands and tenements to be disposed of as his sons, the Reverend Adam Nixon and Thomas Nixon should think fit. They, with Mr. Patrick Enery, (see p. 128), and D. FuUedy, junior, were

* Adam was in Holy Orders.

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to be executors. He had, with at lea3t one other son, five sons and two daus. : —

I. JOHN NIXON, of Granshagh, ancestor of the Nixons of Mullagh- duff, see Chapter III., pp. 48-50.

n. ADAM NIXON (Rev.), M.A. Chancellor of Clogher, ancestor of the Eccles Nixon branch, see Chapter IV., pp. 51-65.

III. THOMAS NIXON, of Kingstown, Co. Fermanagh, ancestor of

the Nixons of Nixon Hall and Nixon Lodge, and the Swanzy and Enery families, see Chapters V., VI. and VII., pp. 66-137.

IV. ANDREW NIXON, (Rev.) M.A., Prebendary of Errew, probably

father of Andrew Nixon, of Cavan, ancestor of the Brinsley Nixon branch, see Chapter VIII., pp. 138-150.

V. James Nixon, Attorney at law. Court of King's Bench, Dublin, admitted City Attorney 4 July, 1711, (Corporation Records), 6. about 1673, d. 27 April, 1752, aged 79 {Faulkner's Newsletter), will dated 21 April, 1752.

I. ANNE NIXON, m. Thomas Higinbotham, of TuUymaglowny, Co. Cavan, and had issue, for whom see Chapter IX., p. 151.

II. Margaret Nixon, m. — Carr, and had issue, who were legatees, but not by name, of their uncle, James Nixon.

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CHAPTEE III.

Nixon of Mullaghduff.

The eldest son of George Nixon, of Granshagh : —

JOHN NIXON, of Granshagli, m. Margaret, dau. of (she was

buried at Ennisldllen, 14 Dec, 1706) and was buried there 11 March, 1707-8, (will dated 6 March, 1707-8, proved in the diocese of Clogher 8 April, 1708, desires to be buried in Enniskillen Churchyard, overseers his brothers Adam Nixon, Clerk, and Quar'^. M^. Thomas Nixon, of Rollinkilroy). He had issue : —

I. Adam Nixon, of Granshagh, bapt. at Enniskillen 17 March, 1692 was to have the two Granshaghs under his father's will, but might prove to be " stubborn." This probably occurred, for he went to Dublin, became a " joyner," and d. aged about 25, will dated 1 June, 1716, proved in the diocese of Kilmore 1 April, 1717, leaving no lawful issue. II. James Nixon, bapt. 29 June, 1694, probably d. young.

III. George Nixon, bapt. 16 Nov., 1696, living 1708.

IV. WILLIAM, of whom presently.

I. Grisell Nixon, bapt., 18 April, 1685.

II. Isabel Nixon, bapt. 10 June, 1695, living 1752, when she was a legatee of her uncle James Nixon.

III. Elizabeth Nixon, bapt. 1 Dec, 1697.

IV. Jane Nixon, living 1752. V. Anne Nixon, living 1752.

The youngest son was : —

WILLIAM NIXON, of Mullaghduff, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, a legatee of his father in 1708, and of his uncle, James Nixon in 1752. Early in life he and Jason Hassard, a member of an allied family (see note) went from Fermanagh to Dublin and embarked in business there. They married into the same family.* William Nixon m. at St.

* Peter Ward, of Dublin, merchant, made his will 30 May, 1722. It was proved same year. He had one son and two daus., viz., I. Charles Ward. I. Ruth Ward, m. Nathaniel Rothery, and had — 1 . William Rothery. 2. John Rothery, d. unm,

1. Ruth Rothery, m. Thomas Scott ; 2. Mary Rothery, m. Samuel Powell ; 3. Elizabeth Rothery, m. John Orpin ; 4. Anne Rothery, m. 1733, WiUiam Nixon. II. Sarah Ward, m. Enoch Mason, of Dublin, and had : — 1. Thomas Mason ;

2. Enoch Mason; 3. Joseph Mason, 6. after 1722; 1. Sarah Mason, m. William McKenzie, and d. before 1735 ; 2. Mary Mason, m. 1st, settlements, 10 March, 1731, Jason Hassard, of Mount Hassard, Co. Fermanagh, and of Dublin, elder son of Capt. Robert Hassard of Mount Hassard, High Sheriff, Co. Fermanagh, 1719. He d. 3 June, 1745, and she m. 2nd Pegwell Burrowes, and 3rd Watson ;

3. Ruth Mason ; 4. Charlotte Mason ; 5. Anna Mason, (Chancery Bill, 27 Aug., 1735, Rothery v. Mason and others). The Wards were a mercantile family in Dublin.

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Werburgh's, Dublin, 16 March, 1733, Anne, youngest dau. of Nathaniel Rothery, of Dublin, by Ruth, elder dau, of Peter Ward, of Dublin. Eventually he returned to MuUaghdufE, and d. at an advanced age, will dated 3 July, 1783, proved 20 Dec, 1788, appointing as his executors Colonel (afterwards Major-General Sir) Eccles Nixon, Alexander Nixon, of Nixon Hall, and Humphrey Nixon, of Nixon Lodge. He had issue : —

I. WILLIAM, his heir.

I. Frances Nixon, m. 31 July, 1773* Capt. James Nixon, 25th Regt. (Lieut. 23 Nov., 1768) of Loughmuck, Co. Tyrone, and by him who d. before 3 July, 1783, (admon. bond 8 July, 1783) had issue : —

1. George Nixon.

2. James Nixon.

1. Mary Nixon.

2. Anne Nixon.

II. Martha Nixon, m. 1774, Henry Bulteel.

III. Anne Nixon, m, — Pierce.

IV. Isabella Nixon, m. Hamilton.

The son : —

WILLIAM NIXON, of Mullaghdufi m. Feb., 1792, Jane Monaghan, and d. 1806, codicil to will dated 23 May, provec* 19 July, leaving issue

I. JANE, of whom immediately.

II. Anne Nixon.

The elder dau. : —

JANE NIXON, m. at Monaghan, 20 Dec, 1812, George Marshall Knipe, of Erne Hill, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, J.P., High Sheriff Co. Cavan, 1831, Capt. Belturbet Infantry, 17 May, 1816, and by him, who d. 22 Feb., 1859, had issue :— f

I. George Marshall Knipe, Major 89th Regt. and Adj. Carlow Rifles, bapt. at Belturbet, 12 Sept., 1819, m. 1847 Jessie Maria, dau. of Simon Howard, of Carlisle, and d. 3 Jan., 1876. II. WiUiam Nixon Knipe, bapt. 22 Aug., 1820, buried 13 Sept., 1820.

III. William Sneyd Knipe, buried 6 May, 1835, aged 10.

IV. Robert Henry Knipe, bapt. 17 Dec, 1827.

V. Samuel Nixon Knipe, Solicitor, m. 7 Nov., 1853, Hannah Maria, widow of Edward O'Rourke, of Belfast, and d. at Belturbet, 21 Feb., 1878.

* London Magazine.

t This aocoimt of the family of G. M. Knipe is very incomplete, as it ha« be«n found impossible to trace the living descendante, if any.

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VI. Francis Melvill White Knipe, bapt., 20 Aug., 1832.

VII. Elliott Augustus Knipe (Rev.) Vicar of Laister Dyke, Yorkshire,

B.A., T.C.D., 1859, also bapt. 20 Aug., 1832, w. 9 Nov., 1871, Marianne, dau. of Colonel Charles Pratt, 11th Regt. (by Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Abraham Bradley King, Bart.), son of General John Pratt, Royal Irish Artillery, * by Elizabeth Preston, dau. of General Charles Vallancey, R.E. Mr. Knipe d. 1 Sept., 1878, and his widow d. 16 Sept., 1889.

VIII. Thomas Frederick Knipe, of Belturbet, J.P., Co. Cavan, bapt.,

10 Jan., 1836. IX. John Copeland Knipe, Surgeon Major Army Medical Staff, m. 8 Oct., 1867, Catherine, eldest dau. of Capt. Hunter Hailes, 10th Bengal Cavalry. I. Jane Knipe, m. at St. George's, Dublin, 17 July, 1834, Francis

Blake Knox, late 5th Dragoon Guards. II. Catherine Knipe, d. July, 1830, in her 16th year.

III. Elizabeth Augusta Knipe, m. 1st, 1837, William Henry Moore,

and 2nd, 10 May, 1864, James Smyth-King, Barrister-at-law, son of Hulton Smyth-King, of Borris Castle, Queen's Co., brother of Sir Abraham Bradley King, Bart., of Corrard, Co. Fermanagh, She d. 29 Sept., 1877. Her husband d. 23 Aug., 1867.

IV. Eleanor Knipe, d. 24 June, 1885.

V. Rosamond Knipe, buried 26 Dec, 1834.

VI. Isabella Olivia Knipe, m. Theophilus Thompson, J.P., of Ford Lodge, Co. Cavan.

* General Pratt was son of Eobert Pratt, of CastlemartjT, Co. Cork, who was son of James Pratt, of Carricknashinny, Co. Cork, by Alice, daughter of Simon Green, of Youghal, same Co Bailiff of Yoiighal, 1696 ; see also p. 111.

MAJOE GENERAL SIR ECCLES NIXON.

Iroin (t M'uiidturc in posscn^hiii uj Mixs Liicij VrkfiUvij, BtibUn

MAJOR JOHN NIXON, 17th Regt.

(>Soii (if Sir Ecclefi Kixoii). From a Mhual'irc in iiviscssion of Miss Lacij I'ricsUci/, JJnhli/i.

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CHAPTER IV.

The Eccles Nixon Branch.

The second son of George Nixon, of Granshagh, (p. 46), was : —

THE REV. ADAM NIXON, M.A., of Drumcrow, Co. Fermanagh, J.P., Vicar-General of Clogher,* and Chancellor of the dioce8e,t Rector of Aghalurcher, diocese of Clogher, 15 Sept., 1690, b. 1662, educated by Thomas Dunbar,! entered Trinity College, Dublin 5 July, 1679, aged 17, Scholar 1682, B.A., 1683, M.A., 1686, ordained priest in St. Patrick's Cathedral, DubUn, on Sunday, 20 Feb., 1686, by Francis Marsh, Archbishop of Dublin, licenced as Curate of Clonturk, otherwise Drumcondragh, 25 June, 1687, on presentation of John Coghill, licenced as Curate of St. Werburgh's, Dublin, 15 Sept., 1688, on nomination of William King, afterwards Archbi8hop.§ The author of the manuscript history of Fermanagh (see p. 46), describes him as " a man of learning and sound judgment — he was Chancellor in ye Diocese of Cloagher and justice of ye peace in this county." His name appears with a list of others appointed to the office of J.P., Co. Fermanagh, dated 7 Dec, 1714 (warrants in Public Record Office). He bought the interest in the lands of Drumcrow ("all the quarter of lands of Lislost, called Lislosht, Slushill, Drumcrow and Edenscochan ") from Patrick Dunkin. of Cashellstown, Co. Louth, Gent., by deeds, dated 8 and 9 Feb., 1709,l| but he had been livmg at Drumcrow before this, as his son Eccles was b. there in 1696, ( matriculation entries. Trinity College). The Rev, Adam Nixon m. bef(»re 1696 Mary,^ eldest dau. of Daniel Eccles, of Shannock, Co. Fermanagh, High SherifE of that Co., 1675, (by Sarah,

* Signature as such to marriage licence bond, diocese of Clogher, 30 Dec, 1713 between Robert Somervell and Alice Hassard.

t Betham-Phillips MS., and Chancery Bill, 17 July, 1708, Gilbert Eccles v Joseph Eccles, Adam Nixon, and others.

J Mr. Dunbar also educated the Rev. Robert Hassard, see note, p. 44.

§ Information from the late Rev. W. Reynell, B.D. Hughes' History of St. Werbitrgh''s, p. 76, says that Adam Nixon became Archdeacon of Clogher in 1706, probably an error for Chancellor. There is a tradition that a member of the family was private chaplain to William III., No proof seems to be forthcoming of this, but Adam Nixon appears to have been officiating in Co. Louth just after the battle of the Boyne. The diary of Colonel Thomas Bellingham, of Castlebellingham, for the year 1690, belongs to the present Sir Henry Bellingham, and has been pubhshed in the County Louth Archaeological Journal for July, 1905, pp. 48-60. He describes the battle on July 1st, and on the 27th he writes " Very hott, Mr. Nixon gave us a very good sermon." Nixon seems thus to have been in the neighbourhood about the time of the battle, and may have acted as chaplain to the king.

II Deed. No. 1823, Registry of Deeds, King's Inns, Dublin.

^ Exchequer Bill, 20 Jan., 1703, Michael I^aw and Sarah, otherwise Ecclesjiis wife, and Ann Eccles v. Gilbert Eccles, Nehem. Donnellan, Joseph Eccles, Adam Nixon, J»Iary his wife, Hester Eccles and Jane Eccles.

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dau. of William Moore, of Tuilyvin, Co. Cavan), son of Gilbert Eccles, of Shannock, High Sheriff. Co. Fermanagh, 1665 and Co. Tyrone, 1673.* He d. intestate, administration of his estate granted 8 March, 1716-7, to Mary Nixon, the widow, Daniel Eccles, of Fintona, and Hugh Willoughby, of Carrow. The Rev. Thos. Bindon, M.A., was instituted R.V. Aghalurcher, 10 April, 1717, in the room of Adam Nixon, dec, on presentation of Trin. Coll., Dublin. {Clogher Institutions, MSS. of late Rev. W. Reynell). Nixon is omitted from the list of Rectors of Aghalurcher in the T.C.D. Calendar for 1873, p. 297. By Mary Eccles, his wife, the Rev. Adam Nixon had at least t three sons ; —

I. ECCLES, of whom immediately.

II. Daniel Nixon, apprenticed to David King, Goldsmith, Dublin, 1715. +

III, James Nixon, of Cummeny, Cappagh, Co. Tyrone, a mmor, 12 July, 1728,§ of age 15 Oct., 1733, when he assigned £220 to Eccles Nixon, Clk., of same.]| James Nixon, of Gammy (Cummtny '{) Co. Tyrone, had a 2nd dau : —

Anne Nixon, m. settlements 17 Jan., 1760, John Rogers, of Omagh, son of William Rogers, of Drum, Co. Tyrone. ^

The eldest son : —

THE REV. ECCLES NIXON, M.A., of Drumcrow, b. there about 1696, entered Trmity College, Dublin, 17 March, 1713-4, aged 17, Scholar, 1716, B.A., 1718, M.A., 1721, m. at St. Michan's, Dublin, 25 April, 1719, Mary Conry, " a papist convert." With Mary his wife he took part in a renewal fine in the lands of Drumcrow. 19 Jan., 1724. In 1728 he was living at Laran, Co. Antrim, and was apparently not yet ordained. He was still alive in 1752, when he was mentioned in the will of his uncle, James Nixon, as " the Reverend Mr. Eccles Nixon, Clerk, my lafce brother Adam Nixon's eldest son." An Eccles Nixon was buried at St, Andrew's, Dublin, 14 Dec, 17b5, but this may have been his grand- son, Eccles (son of Joseph and Anne) bapt. there 19 June, 1763. The

* Ancestor, through another son, of the family of Eccles, of Ecclesville, Co. Tyrone.

t There was apparently another son, Gilbert, for Mrs. Adam Nixon's eldest brother, Gilbert Eccles, of Shannock, High Sheriflf, Co. Fermanagh, 1696 and 1698, in his will, (codicil dated 9 March, 1718, proved in the diocese of Clogher, 8 April, 1719) mentioned his godson, Gilbert Nixon, to whom he left a " sorrell filly."

X List of apprentices to the Goldsmiths' Company, ed. by H. F. Berry, 1902.

§ Admon. bond late Adam Nixon, of Drumcrow, 12 July, 1728, " We Eccles Nixon, of Laran, Co. Antrim, Adam Nixon, of Clownish, Co. Monaghan, cler. (see p. 66), Edward Leonard, etc. The condition of the within Obligation is that the within mentioned Eccles Nixon, natural and lawful Brother of James Nixon, minor, and Adam Nixon, kinsman. Guardians or trustees of said minor, Jamea Nixon, son of the late Rev. .\dam Nixon, of Drumcrow," etc.

II Deed. No. .54503, Registry of Deeds.

^ Deed. No. 139614, Registry of Deeds,

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Rev. Eccles Nixon had at least* three sons (for Sir Eccles Nixon, in a memorial to the East India Company Directors, stated that his brother fell in Colonel Baillie's defeat in India in 1780), and also more than one daughter (for Sir Eccles in a letter dated 1768, quoted later, mentioned his sisters who had not made good marriages). Two of the sons were : —

I. JOSEPH, of whom later, p. 61.

II. ECCLES, of whom immediately.

One of the younger sous of the Rev. Eccles Nixon was : —

SIR ECCLES NIXON, Knt. (1799), Major-General Madras Array, H.E.LC.S. and Colonel of the 1st Madras Native Infantry, who was b. about 1736-7, for he was 31 at the date of the letter of 1768, quoted, below. He became Lieut. 35th Regt., 31 June, 1758, reduced 1763. Capt. H.E.LC.S. 4 July, 1764, Major 21 Feb., 1774, Lieut. -Col., 30 Dec, 1775, Colonel 29 May, 1783, Maior-General 20 Dec, 1793, and received the honour of knighthood at St. James's Palace, 3 Dec, 1799. He wrote an interesting account of his experiences in the war with Hyder Ali of Mysore, 1764-71, which has been printed, from the original manuscript, by his grandson, the late Major-General John Pigott Nixon. " After an agreeable passage," he says, " of five months and 12 days and landing at Fort St. George on the Coast of Coromandel on the 2nd day of July, 1764, I was soon ordered to join the Army then employed in the siege of Madura. ... On the 22nd day of December, 1768, I march(ed) from Erode at daylight. . . . We were cannonaded from ten guns well served and levelled. Then charged by two columns of Infantry led on by fat Generals mounted on elephantf . They were twice repulsed, but in vain. Fresh troops and fresh charges made all resistance fruitless. My party of four hundred was cut in pieces, one Lieutenart killed, two Captains wounded and taken. Of the

* Greorge Lennox Nixon, 4th Native Infantry Vet. Batt., who d. 1822 (will dated 3 May, proved 2 Aug.) left his " friend and relation," Capt. Joseph Nixon, 1st Regt. N. I. (son of Sir Eccles) as executor and trustee for his only son WilHam, a minor. This was probably the William Nixon, who settled in America, and whose numerous letters to the widow of Capt. Greorge Eccles Nixon (p. 62), are still preserved. The Frteman's Journal announces the marriage, on 6 April, 1847, at Cincinnati, U.S.A., of James R. Smith to EUzabeth Adela, dau. of WiUiam Nixon, Esq., formerly of Gloucester Street, Dublin. It is quite possible that the brother of Sir Eccles Nixon, who fell in Colonel Baillie's defeat by Hyder Ali, 10 Sept., 1780, was Capt. James Nixon, 25th Regt., who m. 1773, Frances Nixon, of MuUaduff (see p. 49), and who d., admon. not granted till 10 July, 1783, leaving four children, George, James, Mary, and Anne. If this be so, the son George may have been Capt. George Lennox Nixon, mentioned above, and one of the daughters may have been wife of Capt. James Macartney, 18th Hussars, whose sons were nephews or great nephews, of Sir Eccles Nixon, see p. 60. In a letter from George Eccles Nixon, 25th Regt. (p. 62), to his father Joseph Nixon, dated Plymouth Soimd, 2 Aug., 1795, he mentions his cousin Lennox, in the same Regt., and in a later letter, " On board the Success Transport, Downs, Aug. 12, 1799," he says : " Lennox is still in London. I heard from him a day or two ago, in the same situation. My Uncle Eccles, Colonel Alcock, and their friends have made every intercession for him ; 'tis not as yet finished. I wish he may be reinstated in his former situation, but fear it will never take place."

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Europeans thirteen remained, and of the Sopoys, I could get account of only sixty-nine. Being brought before Hyder he enquired my name and rank. When he was satisfy'd on this head, and perceiving I grew weak with loss of blood, having two wounds running plentifully, he ordered me into a dooly (a country conveyance) where I was placed on a spade, pickaxe and bill-hook, without any covering from the sun, was carry'd through the insults of his army, the consequence of that pride generally felt by pusillanimous victors." He was kept a prisoner till the peace, in May, 1769. Shortly before his captivity, he wrote as follows to his brother and sister-in-law (Joseph and Anne Nixon) from " Trichinopoly, 13 Sep^., 1768. Dear Sister, I shou'd be guilty of a violence to myself were I to neglect offering my respects to one who has so large a share of my affections ... 1 wish you all Joy and Happiness in your liittle Children. God Grant the Girls may marry with more prudence than my sisters have. The Family of the Nixons, I find is like to be of some Duration which pleases me greatly, as I apprehend no hope or expectations of that kind ought to be placed in me. I am now 31 years and think less of a wife than formerly . . . in me, therefore, the family might be extinct . . . Our people here are Involved in a tedious war, old Hyder long life to him is not conquered yet tho' we have been at him Pell-Mell above 14 months, Beat him 4 times out of the field and taken above 50 Forts. Another battle is on the Anvil, the English troops within 16 miles of him strongly Incamped under the walls of Bangalore. I am, my Dr. Joseph with love and esteem Yrs. Eccles Nixon." On 8 Sept., 1781, Colonel Nixon attacked and took the Fort at Manargudi, and the Fort at Mahadavypatam on the 16th, also Nagore in October. {History of the Madras Army). He commanded the English force in the south in 1782, and gained a victory over the enemy on the Coleroon near Combaconum on the 1st July in that year. He also commanded the garrison of Trichinopoly. Though most of his career was spent in India, he did not cease com- munication with his relations in Fermanagh, for in 1783 William Nixon, of MuUaghdufE (see p. 49), appointed as executors to his will, Colonel Eccles Nixon, Alexander Nixon, of Nixon Hall, and Humphrey Nixon, of Nixon Lodge. Major-General Sir Eccles Nixon m. before 1775 Anne Philadelphia, dau. of Dr. Braham, of Suffolk, Lady Nixon d. at Cheltenham, 24 July, 1803, and Sir Eccles was lost at sea, in the Prince o1 Wates, 29 May, 1804, (will dated 12 March, 1804, proved 19 Feb. 1806) having had three sons and four daus. : —

I. George Nixon, Capt. 5th Dragoons, h. 18 April, 1776, d. unm.

22 Dec, 1796. II. JOHN, of whom presently.

III. Joseph Nixon, Lieut.-Colonel Madras Army, 6. 30 Aug., 1785, m. Annette, dau. of Edward Campbell, and niece of Sir Robert Campbell, Bart., and d. s. p., on his passage from Rangoon,

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10 April, 1826. Mrs. Nixon m. 2nd, 18 Nov., 1830, William Henry Chichele Plowden, of Ewhurst Park, Hants., J.P., D.L., F.R.S., M.P. for Newport, and by him, who d. 1880, was mother of Sir William Chichele Plowden, K.C.S.I., M.P. for Wolverhampton.

I. Anne Nixon, b. 24 April, 1775, m. John Kenworthey, Madras

Civil Service, Second Member of the Board of Trade, ard by

him, who d. at Fort St. George, 24 July, 1812, had at her death,

12 July, 1864, in her 90th year, an only child : —

Anne Kenworthey, rn. 5 Oct., 1814, Major Edward Jonathan

Priestley, K.H., 25th Regt., Deputy Inspector-General

of Constabulary in Ireland, third son of Thomas Priestley,

of Spring Hall, Yorkshire, and by him, who d. 4 Dec,

1858, had at her death, 15 July, 1870, four sods and six

daus. ! —

(1.) Edward Ramsden Priestley, Colonel 42nd High- landers (The Black Watch), served in the Indian Mutiny (medal), b. Dec, 1817, m. 6 Sept., 1852, Arabella Emma, dau. of Capt. Henry Hill, 57th Regt,, and niece of Sir J. Hill, and d. 25 March, 1868, having had by her, who d. 16 July, 1894, five daus. : — i. Edith Priestley, d. Nov., 1855. ii. Eva Priestley, iii. Emma Priestley.

iv. Ella Priestley, m. 8 March, 1884, James William Bond, M.D., and had issue : —

1. Francis Edward Bond, b. 14 June, 1886.

2. William Schuyler Studdert Bond, 6. 19 Oct., 1888.

3. Alexander Beckett Bond, b. 16 Jan., 1891.

4. Edward Ramsden Priestley Bond, b. 11 May, 1895.

1. Dorothy Bond.

2. Margaret Agatha Edith Bond.

3. Mary Frances Bond. V. Esther Priestley.

(2.) Frederick John Blakiston Priestley, General Madras StafE Corps, Supt. Revenue Survey, Madras, b. 29 Aug., 1819, m. 6 April, 1852, Amelia, only dau. of Capt. John Miller, 25th Regt., J.P., Co. Clare, and d. 17 Jan., 1894, having had five sons and two daus. : —

i. Edward John Kenworthey Priestley, Colonel (brevet) and Lieut. -Colonel Royal Garrison

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Artillery, retired, served in the South African War, 1899-1902 (Queen's medal with clasp, King's medal with two clasps), b. 18 May, 1853, m. 7 April, 1888, Clara EUza, dau. of Gervaise Le Gros, Viscount of the Island of Jersey, and has issue : —

1. Frederick Gervaise Priestley, h. 15 Sept., 1890.

1. Mary Louisa Priestley.

2. Muriel Amy Priestley.

ii. Frederick Joseph Blakiston Priestley, Lieut.- Colonel Indian Army (4th Bengal Cavalry), retired, b. 18 April, 1858, m. 23 Nov., 1905, Violet Maud, youngest dau. of William Harvey 0' Grady, J.P., of Karatiroe Estate, Batticaloa, Ceylon.

iii. Henry Wood Priestley, Major (brevet). Indian Staff Corps, served in the Manipur Field Force, India, (medal with clasp), N. E. Frontier, 1891, 6. 28 July, 1860, d. unm. 5 May, 1899.

iV. George William Priestley, Major Indian Army (2nd in command 99th Deccan Inf.), 6. 26 Dec, 1862.

V. Charles Eccles Nixon Priestley, Major Indian Army (82nd Punjabis) 6. 24 April, 1867, m. 30 July, 1898, Mary Agnes, dau, of K. Bruce Foote, Supt. Geological Survey of India, i. Amy Lucy Priestley.

ii. Caroline Annie Priestley, m. 19 Feb., 1898, Major James Alban Wilson, Indian Army, 8th Gurkha Rifles.

(3.) Arthur Gore Priestley, Major Bengal StafE Corps, h.

March,1828, m. Emma, dau. of General Righy, Bengal

StafE Corps, and d. 17 Oct., 1868, having had by

her, who d. 18 July, 1880, issue : —

i. Arthur Righy Priestley, 6. Dec, 1858, w. 31 Oct.,

1905, Beatrice, dau. of R. M'Harg. i. Florence Caroline Priestley, m. Jan., 1883,

Robert Roland Murray. ii. Isabel Emma Priestley, m. Oct., 1897, Bart.

Kennedy, iii. Bertha Clara Priestley.

(4.) Horatio Priestley, Major 32nd Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, served in the Indian Mutiny (medal),

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6. March, 1830, m. 22 May, 1857, Charlotte Clierry, youngest dau. of F. N. Balmain, of HockclifEe Lodge, Bedfordshire, and had : — i. Henry Horace Priestley, d. an infant 1863. i. Blanche Ethel Priestley, d. 14 March, 1863. ii. Aimee Charlotte Louisa Priestley. iii. Ada Balmain Priestley, iv. Gertrude Helen Priestley.

(1.) Mary Anne Priestley, d. 10 Nov., 1823.

(2.) Georgina Emma Priestley, d. July, 1831.

(3.) Caroline Amelia Priestley, m. 8 Oct., 1861, the Rev. George Studdert, M.A., Rector of Ardee, Co. Louth, son of George Studdert, by Letitia, dau. of the Very Rev. Stewart Blacker, of Carrick- Blacker, Co. Armagh, Dean of Leighlin. Mrs. Studdert d. 19 March, 1897, and her husband d. 14 April, 1897, having had one child, who d. young.

(4.) Helen Elizabeth Priestley, d. at sea, Jan., 1827.

(5.) Anne Philadelphia Priestley, d.ll May, 1846.

(6.) Augusta Lucy Priestley.

II. Elizabeth Nixon, h. 17 Dec, 1778, m. 1st, Lieut. -Colonel Burton Gage Barbut, Deputy- Quarter-Master- General to the Forces in India, who d. 21 May, 1803, and 2nd, 1 Oct., 1808, W. Macpherson, 12th Regt.

III. Mary Nixon, 6. 15 Jan., 1780, m. Capt. Thomas Wood, Madras

Engineers, younger brother of Sir Mark Wood, Bart., of Gatton Park, Surrey, of Admiral Sir James Atholl Wood, Knt., C.B., and of Major-General Sir George Wood, K.C.B. Mrs. Wood had, with other children who d. s. p., an only surviving dau : —

Anne Elizabeth Wood, m. at Berne, 23 Sept., 1829, the Rev. Horatio Montagu, M.A., son of Montagu Montagu, oi Little Bookham, Surrey, by Anne Catherine, eldest dau. of the Hon. Henry Hobart, M.P. for Norwich, 3rd son of John, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire. She d. at Paris, 23 June, 1830, and her husband m. 2nd, his first wife's cousin, Frances Mary, elder dau. of Major-General Sir George Wood, K.C.B., of Ottershaw Park, Surrey, by whom he had a son, Horace Montagu, Colonel 8th Hussars, b. 19 April, 1835.

IV. Helen Philadelphia Nixon, b. 16 Dec, 1789, m. 31 Dec, 1807,

Major James Grant, 17th Light Dragoons, H.E.I.C.S., and d. at Fort William, Bengal, 9 Sept., 1808, in her 19th year. Major Grant d. at EUichpore, 14 Dec, 1819.

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The second son of Major-General Sir Eccles Nixon : —

JOHN NIXON, Major 17tli Regt., was b. 25 June, 1777, and became Comet 20th Dragoons 14 Feb., 1800, Lieut. 18 Feb., 1802, Lieut., 12th Dragoons, 12 June, 1805, Capt. 5th Garrison Battalion, 28 Nov., 1806, Capt., 6th Regt., 16 April, 1807, Capt. 17th Regt. 30 June, 1812, brevet Major 12 Aug. 1819, served in Spain and Portugal, and was A.D.C. to Major-Gen. Sir Miles Nightingall in 1811. He m. in Java, 1815, Eliza Mary Anne, dau. of Capt. Emerson, 72nd Regt., and niece of the Right Rev. William Bennet, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne. Major Nixon d. at Madras, and his wife d. 21 Nov., 1878. His portrait faces p. 51. By his wife, who was a descendant of the Butlers, Earls of Ormond,* he had three children : —

I. JOHN PIGOTT, of whom presently.

II. Edward Maitland Nixon, Capt. late Bombay Army, d. at the Cape of Good Hope, 27 Oct., 1900.

I. Helen Flora Nixon,m. 21 July, 1842, Charles George Prendergast, son of Guy Lenox Prendergast, M.P., (brother of Lieut.- General Sir JefErey Prendergast, see also p. 120), by Dorothy Christian, dau. of the Rev. James Stephen Lushington, of Rodmersham, Kent. He d. 16 Aug., 1851, and his widow d. 7 Dec, 1881, having had two sons and three daus. : —

1. Charles Lewis Prendergast, Major-General Indian Army,

retired. Colonel 28th Punjabis, b. 15 Oct., 1843, m. 1st, 11 June, 1868, Louise Victoria, dau. of John Catania, and 2nd, 25 April, 1887, Adelina Charlotte, . only dau. of Commissary -General Randolph Routh, C.B., son of Sir Randolph Isham Routh, K.C.B. Issue : —

(1.) Charles Randolph Prendergast, b. 23 April, 1888. (2.) Guy Routh Prendergast, b. 25 Aug., 1890.

2. William Miles Prendergast, Major Worcester Regt., b. 28

April, 1845, m. 15 Nov., 1876, Maria Louisa, 3rd dau. of Colonel Edmund Sissmore, H.E.I.C.S., and has a dau : — k Marie Antoinette Prendergast.

1. Helen Prendergast.

2. Rosetta May Prendergast,

3. Paulina Georgina Mary Prendergast, d. 2 Aug., 1850.

The elder son of Major John Nixon : —

JOHN PIGOTT NIXON, Major-General Bombay Army, was 6.' 1822, served through a long career in India, and was with the field force in Scinde aod Afghanistan 1842-3, and in the Mutiny as political agent at Bhurtpore, commanded the Bhurtpore Contirgent at the Battle of

* Information from the late Major-General John Pigott Nixon.

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Dawsah in Jeypore under General Showers. He retired on full pay as Lieut.-CoL, Hon. Major-General 1879. He m. 1st, at the British Embassy, Brussels, Ellen Sophia, dau. of George Cooper, of Brentford Butts, Middlesex, by Charlotte, dau. of the Rev. George Nicholas, D.C.L., Wadham College, Oxford, of Ealing, Surrey, (she d. 28 Dec., 1861, leaving three sons), and 2nd, dau. of L. 0. Bean, of Lenaga, South Africa, and had by her one dau. Major-General Nixon d. 9 June, 1906, as the result of a carriage accident. He had issue : — I. EDWARD BAYNES, of whom presently.

II. George Tate St. Aubyn Nixon, m. 16 Feb., 1876, Marie Therese Amelia, only dau. of Alexander AVilliam Innes, of The Admiralty, Whitehall, and niece of William Famell- Watson, J.P., of Hendford, Sussex, and Surbiton, Surrey, and by her, who d. Dec. 1896, had issue : —

1. Crommelin St. Aubyn Nixon, 6. 5 Dec, 1876.

2. Kenneth St. Aubyn Nixon, 6. 7 Sept., 1880.

3. Alexander Percival St. Aubyn Nixon, 6. 9 Dec, 1886.

1. Kathleen St. Aubyn Nixon.

2. Helen St. Aubyn Nixon.

III. John Eccles Nixon, C.B., Major-General Indian Army, Inspector- General of Cavalry in India since 1906, &. 16 Aug., 1857, Sub.- Lieut., 25th K.O.S.B., 10 Sept., 1875, Lieut. Bengal S. C, 2 May, 1878, Capt. Indian Staff Corps 10 Sept., 1886, Major 10 Sept., 1895, Brevet. Lieut.-Col. 22 Jan., 1896, Colonel 12 March, 1899, Assistant Quarter-Master- General in India, 12 March, 1899, Brigadier-General commanding the Bangalore District, 1 May, 1903, Major-General 12 Jan., 1904, C.B., 26 June, 1902. He served in the Afghan war, 1879-80, Zaimusht Expedition and capture of Zawa, (mentioned in despatches, and medal) ; and the Mahsud Waziri Expedition in 1881. He took part in the Chitral Relief Fo/ce, 1895, as D.-A.-Q.- M.-G. , Intell. Branch, and was at the storming of the Malakand Pass and the action near Khar at the descent into the Swat Valley, (mentioned in despatches, London Gazette, 15 Nov., 1895, brevet of Lieut.-Col., and medal with clasp). He was again in active service on the North- West Frontier of India 1897-8, (despatches, London Gazette, 11 Feb., 1898, clasp). In the South African war 1901-2 he commanded a cavalry brigade, and obtained a medal, and the Companionship of the Bath. Major-General John Eccles Nixon is author of Solution of Tactical Problems on Maps, Notes of Military Law, and Notes for Staff Officers on Field Servix:e. He m. 18 Aug., 1884, Amy Louisa, youngest dau. of James Wilson, of Gratwicke, Billingshurst, Sussex, and has had issue :— 1. Adrian Leonard Eccles Nixon, 6. 24 April, 1889.

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1. Cecil Amy Nixon, d. 10 June, 1888.

I. Ellen Lavinia Philadelphia Nixon, m. Frederick Edward Worsley-Roberts.

The eldest son : —

EDWARD BAYNES NIXON, Major Bengal Staff Corps, served in the Jowaki Expedition 1877-8 (medal with clasp) and Afghan war 1878-80 (medal) 6. 26 Sept., 1848, m. 1st, Florence, 2nd dau. of E. Benham, of Sion Lodge, Isleworth, (she d. 7 July, 1878), and 2nd, 17 Aug., 1887, his cousin, Emily Mabel Macdonald, dau. of George Francis Cooper, M.D., of Brentford, by Emily Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Henry Stephen Nooth, 6th Dragoon Guards, nephew of Lieut. -Colonel Sir Henry Vavasour, Bart., formerly Nooth. Major Nixon d. in the lifetime of his father, 11 Feb., 1891, leaving by his second marriage, an only son : —

MERVYN OSSORY NIXON, 6. 10 Dec, 1889, who is the present representative of Sir Eccles Nixon.

Major-General Sir Eccles Nixon had two nephews and a niece (see note, p. 53), who were children of Capt. James Macartney, 18th Hussars. These were : —

I. James Nixon Macartney, Major 7th Dragoon Guards, Capt. 9th Lancers, 6. 14 Feb., 1802, m. 17 March, 1829, Catherine Colquet, dau. of John Smith, of London, and d. at Torrington, North Devon, 3 Dec, 1865, having had, with another son and two daus., who d. in infancy, two sons and three daus. : —

1. James Nixon Gooch Macartney, Lieut. 57th Regt., h. April,

1836, was present at the Redan and fall of Sebastopol, d. at Malta, 7 Dec, 1856.

2. Arthur Sutherland Macartney, Lieut. -Colonel R.A., retired,

of Salterns, Torringtou, entered R. A., Dec, 1855, Com- mandant Oxford Military College, 1880-93, h. 12 March, 1838, m. 5 July, 1864, Amelia Jane, youngest dau. of John Sloley, of Torrington, and has issue : — (1.) John Nixon Herbert Macartney, 6. 18 April, 1865, m. 3 Nov., 1897, Margaret, only child of James McKeand, of Douglas, Manitoba, Canada, and has : —

i. Arthur Sutherland Macartney, h. 18 Feb., 1902.

ii. Ronald David Macartney, h. 14 June, 1904.

i. Amelia Dorothy Macartney.

ii. Ellen Rhoda Macartney.

(2.) Arthur Belton Macartney, h. 5 March, 1867, m. 12 Nov., 1897, Ethel Errington, 2nd dau. of Richard Loveland Loveland, Q.C., D.L., Deputy Chairman of

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the County of London Sessions, by Maria Elizabeth Oddie,5th dau. of the Rev. Phihp Henry Nind, M.A., Vicar of Woodcote-cum-Soutbstoke, Oxfordshire,

and has : —

Belton Charles Douglas Macartney, b. at Johannesburg, 25 Dec, 1898. (3.) James Hugh Macartney, 6. 30 Nov., 1873. (4.) Walter Crealock Macartney, 6. 7 April, 1876. (1.) Ellen Katharine Macartney, m. 7 April, 1904, Arthur Edward Hardcastle Herschel, of Mayfield, Bearodin, near Glasgow, younger son of Sir William James Herschel, Bart., of Oxford, and has :— Eileen Dorothea Herschel.

1. Rhoda Macartney, of Tavistock, Devon.

2. Clara Amelia Frances Macartney, d.

3. Jane Letitia. Macartney, m. 1866, Thomas Wyld Haverfield,

R.N., and had issue :— (1.) Arthur GUbert Haverfield, d. in infancy. (2.) Henry Wyld Haverfield, (Rev.) B.A. Selwyn Coll., Cambridge, 1903, Cuddesden College, 1904, Curate of St. Peter's, Plymouth, d. 8 Nov., 1905. (1.) Clara Rhoda Haverfield. (2.) Katherine Gertrude Haverfield. II. John Lennox Macartney, of Dublin, m. 23 Sept., 1835, Letitia Mary, youngest dau. of Robert Johnston, Q.C., of Maghera- mena Castle, Co. Fermanagh, by Letitia, dau. of Sir William Richardson, Bart., of Augher Castle, Co. Tyrone. He d. 7 March, 1861, having had issue :—

1. Robert John Macartney, b. Nov., 1836, d. 17 Sept., 1840.

2. James Macartney.

1. Letitia Anne Macartney, w. 25 March, 1856, Francis Edward Hassard, Royal Lancashire Regt. I. Frances Macartney, d. unm.

One of the sons of the Rev. Eccles Nixon (p. 52), and brother of Sir Eccles was : —

JOSEPH NIXON, of Stafford Street, Dublin, entered apprentice to the Goldsmiths' Company, 1743 * m. Aug., 1757, Anne, dau. of

* " 1743 Joseph Nixon, son of the Rev. Ecdos Nixon, Co. Tjarone.'' See the List of ApprentiL to the Goldsmiths' Company of Dublin 1653-1752 ed.ted by HF Berry, Journal of th< Cork Historical and Archc^ological Society, 1902. p. 48.

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Alderman Walker of Dublin, and had issue, witli others : —

I. Eccles Nixon, bapt. at St. Andrews, Dublin, 19 June, 1763,

probably the Eccles Nixon buried there 14 Dec, 1765.

II. Robert Nixon, bapt. there 25 Feb., 1767. III. GEORGE ECCLES, of whom presently.

I. Mary Nixon, bapt. 26 April, 1760, buried 31 Aug., 1761. II. Ann Nixon, bapt. 17 Aug., 1761.

III. Mary Jane Nixon, bapt. at St. Andrew's 26 Nov., 1769, m. at St. Mary's, Dubhn, 1 May, 1796, Drelincourt Young, of Dublin, and had issue, of whom were : — 1. Eccles Young, d. intest. admon., 1840.

1. Anne Young, d. 29 Oct., 1831, in her 23rd year.

2. Rebecca Henrietta Young, m. 17 Dec, 1842, her cousin, George Eccles Nixon, Surgeon Indian Army, see p. 63.

The youngest son : —

GEORGE ECCLES NIXON, Capt., 25th Regt., entered the army in 1795 as Ensign 25th Regt., then (in August) under orders for Gibraltar.* m. Oct., 1797, Abigail, dau. of John Clements, and sister of Lieut. -Colonel Henry Clements, 16th and 71st Regts., A.D.C. to Sir John Moore. He had by her, who d. 5 July, 1857, in her 82nd year, four sons and one dau. : —

I. John Clements Nixon, d. young, killed by a blow from a schoolfellow. II. ROBERT LAW DRELINCOURT, of whom presently. III. James Lennox Nixon, of Clontarf, Co. Dubhn, m. Sarah, dau. of John Scott, and d. 10 April, 1876, having by her, who d. 13 April, 1890, had issue :—

1. Henry Scott Nixon, 6. 21 June, 1838, m. 25 Aug., 1884,

Frances EHzabeth, youngest dau. of the Rev. John

Elliott Lyon, M.A., of Rockbrook House, Queen's Co.,

and d. 13 Oct., 1907, having had issue : —

(1.) George Eccles Nixon, h. 29 July, 1885.

(2.) Henry Scott Nixon, h. 22 May, 1889.

(3.) Arthur Wilham Lennox Nixon, h. 4 Feb., 1891.

(1.) Mary Bailey Nixon, d. 19 March, 1900.

(2.) Lilah Eveleen Nixon.

(3.) Kathleen Frances Maud Nixon.

2. James Lennox Nixon, m. May, 1867, Mary Jane, dau. of

John Allison, and went to New York. He had seven sons, of whom were : —

(1.) Charles Nixon.

* Letter from George Eccles Nixon to his father, from Plymouth Sound, 2 Aug., 1795.

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(2.) James Nixon.

(3.) Henry Scott Nixon.

3. George Eccles Nixon, d. unm., 12 July, 1870.

1. Sarah Maria Nixoi^, d. 1855.

2. Eliza Anne Nixon, m. 14 Oct., Alexander Tyndall, 1863,

Bank of Ireland, youngest son of Samuel Wilkinson Tyndall, J.P., Divisional Magistrate, City of Dublin, and by him, who d. II March, 1904, had, at her death, 20 Oct., 1891, issue :—

(1.) George Alexander Tyndall, b. 10 March, 1870, m. 17

May, 1905. Ahce dau. of Charles M'Gowan. (2.) William Scott Tyndall, d. unm. (1.) Rachel Annie Tyndall, m. John Antonio, and d.

leaving a dau. : —

Lilah Eachel Olga Antonio, dec. (2.) Mary Elizabeth Tyndall, d. (3.) Sarah Jane Tyndall, m. 11 Aug., 1897, George

Leopold Caird. (4.) Abigail Alice Tyndall, m. 21 Dec, 1904, William

O'Donnell.

3. Abigail Nixon, m. 13 Sept., 1866, James Kildahl, Eoyal

Bank, Dublin, son of James Kildahl, M.A., and by him,

who d. 31 Jan., 1897, had issue : —

(1.) James Alexander Kildahl, &. 31 Aug., 1868, d. 25

Sept., 1896. (1.) Lilah Evelyn Kildahl, m. 8 Aug, 1895, Robert Dunlop, D.I., R.I.C., son of Major Dunlop, and had : — Mary Tempe Dunlop. (2.) Mary Tempe Kildahl, m. 17 July, 1896, William James Dilworth, M.A., and had : — i. Robert Kildahl Dilworth, b. 28 Sept., 1897. i. Grace Evelyn Dilworth. (3.) Helena Abigail Kildahl, w. 6 May, 1896, WUliam Hunter, and had : —

William Adams Hunter, 6. 6 April, 1897. (4.) Amelia Jane Kildahl, m. 7 Nov., 1897, William Coote. (5.) Sarah Harriet Kildahl, d. 25 Sept., 1875. (6). Alice Maud Mary Kildahl. (7.) Isabella Rhoda Kildahl. (8.) Florence Beatrice Kildahl.

(9.) Edith Constance May Kildahl, m. 21 June, 1907, the Rev. Alexander Munro, B.A.

IV. George Eccles Nixon, Surgeon, 1st Bombay Lancers, afterwards of the Horse Artillery, Turkish Contingent, m. 17 Dec, 1842,

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his cousin Rebecca Henrietta, dau. of Drelincourt Young (see p. 62), and d. 13 Nov., 1858, leaving, by her, who d. 1 April, 1861, an only child : —

Rebecca Mary Anne Nixon, m. 2 April, 1873, John Irvine, and d. 24 Sept., 1878, ha-ving had issue : —

(1.) Eccles Irvine, d. (2.) A. Ernest Irvine. (1.) Violet Olive Irvine.

I. Eliza Anne Nixon, m. 17 Jan., 1822, Richard Bempde Scott Johnston, 2nd son of Alexander Johnston, Paymaster, 25th Regt.

The second son of Capt, George Eccles Nixon, (p. 62), was : —

ROBERT LAW DRELINCOURT NIXON, B.A., Trinity College, Dublin, 1823, M.A., and M.B., 1838, M.D., 1851, F.R.C.S.I., 1844, long eminent in his profession in Dublin, b. 1801, m. 30 Aug., 1836, Emma Fielding, dau. of Ambrose Leet, of Dublin, President of the Inland Department of the General Post Office, by Jane Fielding, and d. 15 March, 1853, having had by her, who d. 21 June, 1870, issue : —

I. HENRY CLEMENTS, of whom presently. II. Ambrose Leet Nixon, d. 8 Aug., 1853.

III. Robert Cramer Nixon, d. 19 May, 1870.

IV. George Eccles Priestley Nixon, M.D., Shrivenham, Berkshire, d.

unm., 8 Jan., 1900. V. Frederick Fleming Nixon, h. 17 Oct., 1840.

I. Jane Fielding Ould Nixon, d. 3 Oct., 1870. II. Emma Leet Nixon, d. 12 July, 1853, aged 3.

The eldest son : —

HENRY CLEMENTS NIXON, L.R.C.S.I., 1859, L. M., Rot. Hosp., Dublin, 18b9, L.R.C.P., Edinburgh, 1860, sometime Surgeon Cape Mail Service, 6. 21 July, 1837, m. 1 Aug., 1865, Elizabeth Frances Laura, youngest child of John Louis Oustaigne, and d. 26 Jan., 1905, having had by her, who d. 1 Aug., 1903, issue : —

I. OSCAR FREDERICK DRELINCOURT, of whom presently.

II. Sydney Herbert Leet Nixon, 6. 3 Nov., 1867, m. 6 Aug., 1898, Lucy Adele, dau. of Isaac Pratt, and has issue : —

1. Noreen Adele Clements Nixon.

2. Geraldine Eccles Cotterell Nixon.

III. Robert Fielding Ould Nixon, 6. 10 Oct., 1869, d. unm. at Chicago,

6 Jan., 1892.

IV. George Eccles Nixon, b. 19 May, 1874, m. 24 April, 1907, Kathleen

Melville, dau. of Alexander DouU.

I. Emma Elizabeth Nixon, m. 17 April, 1900, Henry Douglas

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Dawson, and has issue : —

Ivan Drelincourt Dawson, b. 4 July, 1904.

The eldest son : —

OSCAR FREDEEICK DRELINCOURT NIXON, was b. 14 Aug., 1866, and is, as far as has been ascertained, representative in the male line of the senior branch of the family of Nixon of Fermanagh

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CHAPTER V.

Nixon of Nixon Hall.

The third son of George Nixon of Granshagh (p. 46), was : — THOMAS NIXON, of Kingstown, Co. Fermanagh, on roll for High Sheriff, Co. Fermanagh, 1736, Quarter Master in the army of William III.,* who is described in the Betham-Phillips manuscript, 1718-19, as " a forward man of considerable estimation in ye commonwealth, and freehoulder in ye Barony of Mageristaffanagh." He m. 1st, Lucy Percy, said to be of the Northumberland family,^ by whom he had issue. By his second wife, Jane,:j; he seems to have had no issue, and he m. 3rd,

marriage articles § dated 16 Aug., 1735, Mary, widow of Borough,

sister-in-law of the Rev. WiUiam Finglas, M.A., of Erginah, Co. Tyrone,

dau. of Stogdell, and mother of Mary Borough, wife of Henry

Leslie, of Nutfield, Co. Fermanagh. Mrs. Nixon was buried at Aghavea, Co. Fermanagh.|| Thomas Nixon's will, dated 6 Sept., 1738, was proved 9 June, 1739, see Appendix I., p. 167. He had by his first wife three sons, and three daus. : —

I. Adam Nixon (Rev.), M.A., Vicar of Clontibret, Co. Monaghan, collated 29 Dec, 1741, formerly Curate of Clones, b. at Kingstown Co. Fermanagh, son of Thomas, generosi entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1 Feb., 1713-4, Scholar, 1716, B.A., 1718, M.A., 1721. The Rev. Adam Nixon built the present glebe house of Clontibret in 1742. *f[ He inherited and acquired considerable property in Co. Fermanagh, which descended to his nephew, Alexander Nixon, of Nixon Hall. Mr. Nixon never married, but his niece, afterwards Mrs. Swanzy, lived with him (for an incident in connection with this, see p. 99). His will, codicil, dated 29 May, 1767, was proved 4 Dec, 1767, see Appendix III., p. 170.

* The Matriculatiou entry, T.C.D., of his son Andrew, describes Thomas Nixon as " Leutenantis."

t Burke's Landed Gentry, 1863, is responsible for this statement.

X Exchequer Bill, 5 Aug., 1736, Thomas Nixon v. Adam and Andrew Nixon.

§ Registiy of Deeds, book 79, p. 435.

II There is a stone there with this inscription: "Here lyeth Mary Nixon; her sister Dorothea Finglass ; her grandchild Penelope, daughter of Henry Leslie, esq., of Nutfield" {History of Tv:o Ulster Manors, by the Earl of Belmore, 2nd ed., 1903, p. 435). Pwe's Occarrtnces announces the marriage, on 24th Sept., 1755, of "Henry Lesly, of Nutfield, in the County of Fermanagh, Gent., to Sliss Mary Borrough of St.. Andrew's Parish." Thomas Nixon left £5 to his wife's daughter, Miss Marj' Borrogh. James Borough Leslie of Nutfield, d. 23 Feb., 1815, aged 18, and was buried in the Oliver vault, Co. Limerick, inscription at Aghavea. The Rev. Wm Finglas m. at St. Bride's, Dublin, 17 Aug., 1719, Dorothy Stogdell. He held the College living of Cappagh, Co. Tyrone, 1730-50.

IT The details connected with this are noted at length in Clogher Grant Book, No. 5, pp. 156-166 (Public Record Office, Dublin;.

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II. GEORGE, of whom immediately.

III. ANDREW (Rev.) of Nixon Lodge, ancestor of that branch, and of the Swanzy and Corry families, see Chapter VI., p. 83.

I. FRANCES, w. John Enery, of Bawnboy, Co. Cavau, J.P., High Sheriff, Co. Fermanagh, 1727, and Co. Cavan, 1738, and had issue, see Chapter VII., p. 128.

II. Margaret Nixon, m. Clogher marriage licence 20 July, 1717, Francis Young, of Killeshandra parish, Co. Cavan, and was still living in 1752, date of her uncle James Nixon's will. She had issue* : —

1. Thomas Young.

2. Richard Young.

III. Nixon, m. James Little, f and had a dau. : —

Jane Little, vi. 1733, Richard Hassard, of Garden Hill, Co. Fermanagh, and had numerous descendants, including the Hassards of Garden Hill and of Waterford ; Sir Francis Hassard, Sir John Hassard, K.C.B., the families of MacMahon, and Grogan, Baronets ; the late General Sir Richard Stewart, K.C.B., the families of Story, McMaster, Carson, Hudson, etc., for whom see The Family of Hassard by the Rev. H. B. Swanzy, Dublin, 1903, pp. 29-58.

The second son : —

GEORGE NIXON, of Nixon HaU (or Mullymeskei;) Cleenish, near Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, High Sheriff, Co. Fermanagh, 1743, appointed J.P. that county 23 May, 1737. He purchased Mullymesker, originally the seat of the Hassards, from Mr. Cole, Lord Enniskillen's ancestor, and called it Nixon Hall, a name which was apparently not in general use till his son's time. George Nixon m., settlements, 16 June, 1720,t Catherine, third dau. of Alexander Acheson, of Tonnyheague, Co. Fermanagh, High Sheriff for that county, 1703, Capt. in Col. Abraham Creighton's Regt., of Foot, and d. April, 1757, " to the in- expressible grief of his afflicted Family, being a tender Husband, and indulgent Parent ; in him the Poor have lost their best Friend and his Acquaintances a most agreeable and sincere companion." {Dublin

* The Rev. Adam Nixon, in his will, mentions " my niece Harkness." She may have been a dau. of Mrs. Yoimg. There was already a Harkness and Young marriage, for there is a Clogher marriage hcence, 20 Oct., 1720, between Thomas Harkness of the diocese of Armagh, and Mary Young of the parish of AughnamuUen.

t Burke's Landed Gentry, and Short's History of the Hassards state that Richard Hassard married Jane, dau. of J. Little. The Rev. Adam Ni.xon in his will mentions "Jane Hazard my niece of Garden Hill,'" and she is also mentioned by her grandfather, Thomas Nixon, in his will, 1738. If Burke's and Short's pedigree be correct, she must have been Jane Little, but no other proof has been discovered of a Nixon and Little marriage.

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Gazette, April 30 to May 2, 1757). He had by his wife, who survived him, five children : —

I. Thomas Nixon, killed by a fall from his horse in his father's Ufetime.

II. ALEXANDER, of whom presently.

I. Catherine Nixon, m. —Barton.

II. Mary Nixon, m. at St. Andrew's, Dublin, 12 Dec, 1761, her cousin Thomas Higinbotham, of Farmley, Co. Dublin, son of Andrew Higinbotham, of Nutfield, Co. Cavan, and had issue, see p. 152.

III. Jane Nixon, m., settlements dated 22 March, 1765, Robert Hassard. of Skea, Co. Fermanagh, J. P., and had issue, for a full account of whom see The Family of Hassard, by the Rev. H. B. Swanzy, pp. 87-95. She was ancestress of the families of Hassard of Desertcreat, and of Skea, Irvine of Killadeas, Hemsworth of Abbeville, and Peacocke, Archbishop of Dublin.

The second son : —

ALEXANDER NIXON, of Nixon Hall, High Sheriff, Co. Fermanagh, 1761 and Co. Monaghan, 1775, appointed J.P., Co. Fermanagh, 4 Aug., 1758, Capt. Irish Fusiliers Provincial Regt. of Foot, Feb., 1783, b. about 1726, entered Trinity College, Dublin, 27 Sept., 1743, aged 17, Scholar, 1746 ; B.A., 1748. He was executor to the wills of his uncle, the Rev. Adam Nixon, and his aunt, the widow of the Rev. Andrew Nixon, and was guardian to her two unmarried daughters, Frances and Barbara (afterwards Mrs. Corry). He m., settlements dated 20 June, 1758, Mary, eldest dau. of Alexander Montgomery, of Bessmount Park, Co. Mouaghan (by Elizabeth, 3rd dau. of Henry Richardson, of Bally- kinler, Co. Down *) son of Robert Montgomery, of Anarea, Co. Monaghan, brother of Alexander Montgomery of Ballyleck, same Co. He made his will 5 March, 1776. It was proved 21 April, 1791, in the Pre- rogative Court. He did not leave as much to his son Alexander as to the others, as he was being provided for by his grandfather Montgomery, and asked his friend Mervyn Archdall, of Castle Archdall, to be guardian to his children. He had eight sons, and five daus. : —

I. George Nixon, of Nixon Hall,- High Sheriff, Co. Fermanagh, t804. Barrister at law, Hilary Term, 1785, Lieut. Irish Fusiliers Provincial Regfc. of Foot, Feb., 1783, b. about 1761, educated at Enniskillen under Mr. Noble, entered Trinity College, Dublin , 7 July, 1777, aged 16, Scholar, 1780 ; B.A., 1782 ; m. his cousin, Catherine, dau. of Humphrey Nixon, of Nixon Lodge (see p. 94) (by Anne, sister of the Right Hon. Sir John Stewart, Bart.) son of the Rev. Andrew Nixon, by Marianne, dau. of the

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Rev. Mathew French. George Nixon was the last of his line to live at Nixon Hall (now a ruin) which, on 1 Dec, 1807 * he let to John Fawcett, and lived among his brothers. James Denham, J.P., D.L., took a lease of Nixon Hall, 8 July, 1814 from George Nixon, and called it Fairwood Park. See the view of it (facing p. 68), from a picture in possession of Mr. J. H. F. Nixon, J.P. (see p. 98). The following appeared in The Dublin Evenin^f Post, Dec. 16, 1802 :— " Tuesday— A duel was fought near the North Wall between George Nixon, of Nixon Hall, Esq., and D'Arcy Mahon, of Cloon, Esq., in which the former received a wound in the breast, which was at jfirst supposed to be mortal, but which is not likely to be fatal." He made his will 6 April, 1818, when living at Dunbar with his brother Thomas, and d. 11 Oct., 1818. A monument is erected to his memory in Cleenish Churchyard. He had by his wife (who m. 2nd, 1822, Charles Ovenden, M.D., and d. 11 Nov., 1839) issue : —

1. Alexander Nixon, d. an infant.

1. Mary Nixon, d. unm., 19 Aug., 1832, in her 18th year.

2. Anna Nixon, eventual heiress of Nixon Hall, m. 22 June, 1840,

John Netterville Blake, of Dowth Hall, Co. Louth, after- wards of Nixon Hall, High Sheriff, Co. Fermanagh, 1846, eldest son of Edward Blake, J.P., D.L., of Castlegrove, Co. Galway, nephew of John, 6th Viscount Netterville. She d. 15 Sept., 1841.

II. ALEXANDER, of whom presently, p. 77.

III. Adam Nixon, of The Graan, Co. Fermanagh, for 42 years Clerk of the Peace for that county, m. at St. Andrew's, DubUn, 10 Sept., 1793, his cousin, Mary, dau. of John Enery, of Bawnboy, Co. Cavan,by Margaret, sister of Sir John Hamilton, Bart., of Dunnemana, Co. Tyrone (see pp. 131 and 139), and d. 12 May, 1845, leaving by her a son : —

Alexander Nixon, of Belnaleck and the Graan, High Sheriff, Co. Fermanagh, 1841, D.L., Co. Fermanagh, appointed J.P., 14 Jan., 1835, Lieut. 27th Inniskilhng Regt., 4 Nov.,

1813, served in the Peninsular war, wounded 27 Feb.,

1814, Capt. Fermanagh Militia, 10 March, 1836, m., settlements, 26 July, 1818, his cousin Mary, dau. of Capt. Andrew Nixon, of Belnaleck, and d. 12 Oct., 1866, having had by her, who d. 1847, two daus. ; —

* He was still living there in 1805, when the following incident occurred, •' Deaths, Sept. 27, at Enniskillen, capt. Sir James Rivers, Bart., of the third dragoon giiards. While on a shooting party at Nixon-hall, in company with Captains Faucutt and Piatt, of the 50th foot. Sir James's gmi unfortunately went off and killed him almost instantaneously." {Anmud Btgieter, 1806, p. 500.)

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(1.) Mary Nixon, d. 1851.

(2.) Hannah Georgina Nixon, d. 18 Sept., 1852.

IV. Andrew Nixon, of Belnaleck and Silver Hill, High Sheriff, Co. Fermanagh, 1800, Paymaster, Fermanagh Militia, 8 Sept., 1806, m., settlements, dated 5 Oct., 1793, his cousin Hannah, dau. of Thomas Higinbotham, of Farmley, Co. Dublin (see p. 152) by Mary, dau. of George Nixon, of Nixon Hall. Andrew Nixon d. July, 1834, and his wife d. 28 April, 1829, having had (with two other daus., Eliza Nixon, buried at Belnaleck 21 June, 1803, and Catherine Nixon, buried there 21 June, 1807) five children : —

1. Thomas Nixon, d. unm. under age.

1. Mary Nixon, m. 1818, her cousin Capt. Alexander Nixon,

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2. Hannah Nixon, m. 1822, Ralph Scott, of Manor Highgate,

Co. Fermanagh, Solicitor, son of William Scott, of Scotts- borough, Co. Fermanagh, by Elizabeth, dau. of Alexander Rosborough, third son of John Rosborough, of Mullinagoan, Co. Fermanagh (see also p. 111). She d. 24 May, 1831, and Mr. Scott d.ll Aug., 1863, having had issue : — (1.) Andrew William Scott, d. young. (1.) Hannah Georgina Scott, d. unm., 27 May, 1906. (2.) Elizabeth Scott d. unm.. 22 June, 1907. (3.) Mary Scott, d. unm., 17 Jan., 1901.

3. Jane Nixon, d. unm.

4. Georgina Nixon, buried 24 June, 1836, aged 30.

V. Montgomery Nixon, of Lakeview House, Enniskillen, a doctor, appointed J.P., Co. Fermanagh, 4 July, 1804, b. 1768, m., settlements dated 27 June, 1794, Jane, eldest dau. of George Alcock, of Dublin, second son of the Rev. George Alcock, M.A., by Mary, second dau. of the Right Rev. Henry Downes, D.D., Bishop of Derry, and sister of the Right Rev. Robert Downes, Bishop of Raphoe. Dr. Nixon d. 11 July, 1821, and his widow d. April, 1841, having had (with another dau. Julia Nixon, buried at Belnaleck, 9 Jan., 1812) three sons and four daus. : —

1. George Alcock Nixon, midshipman R.N.,H.M.S. Maidstone,

d. s. p. of fever, 2 Oct., 1825 at Sierra Leone. (See Ennis- killen Chronicle for 27 April, 1826).

2. Montgomery Downes Nixon, of Lakeview, B.A., T.C.D.,

1830, M.A., 1840, Barrister-at-law, J.P., Cos. Fermanagh and Kerry, m. 6 Oct., 1855, Louisa Mary, 3rd dau. of James Peare, of Upton, Co. Wexford, and <i. 16 Oct., 1866,

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having had by her, who d. 20 April, 1892, two sons and two daus. : —

(1.) George Alcock Nixon, 6. 6 March, 1862, d. 9 March, 1894.

(2.) Alured Montgomery Downes Nixon, 6. 20 Aug., 1864, m. 31 July, 1893, Elizabeth Southern, dau. of John Royle, of Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

(1.) Jemima Juliana Nixon, m. 21 March, 1887, Richard Follis, and has : — i. Charles George Nixon Follis, h. 28 Jan., 1888. i. Louisa Mary Follis.

(2.) Emma Dorothea Nixon, ?«. 19 March, 1890, Thompson Armstrong, and has : — i. Alured Montgomery Thompson Armstrong, h.

20 Jan., 1893. ii. John Edwin Armstrong, h. 7 Jan., 1895. iii. Alfred George Ernest Armstrong, 6. 15 Jan.,

1897. iv. Robert Nixon Armstrong, h. 29 Aug., 1902. i. Louisa Mary Josephine Armstrong.

Frederick Trimnell Nixon, of Eden Lodge, Co. Fermanagh, Solicitor, and Sub-Sheriff of the County, ni. Elizabeth Nixon, (who d. 8 June, 1861) and d. 27 Nov., 1861, having had issue : —

(1.) Montgomery Nixon, B.A., T.C.D., h. 5 July, 1848.

(2.) Frederick Alcock Nixon, of Merrion Square, Dublin, F.R.C.S.I., formerly Surgeon R. N., h. 23 Sept., 1850, m. 12 Sept., 1877, Elizabeth Mary, eldest dau. of John Griffin, and d. 23 May, 1897. She d. 11 Feb., 1898.

(3.) Alexander Edward Nixon, h. 25 Nov., 1852, d. umn. 25 June, 1900.

(1.) Elizabeth Nixon, d, unm., 12 Feb., 1902. (2.) Mary Nixon, d. unm., 31 May, 1895. (3.) Blanche Nixon, m.9 June, 1886, Henry Edward Beare, eldest son of George Hatchell Beare, of Ph jenix Glen Lodge, Dublin, and grandson of Henry Edward Beare, of Bearehaven, Derbyshire, and d. 6 Dec, 1906, having had issue : — i. George Shirley Beare, h. Jan., 1888, d. June,

1888. ii. John Henry Edward Cecil Beare, 6. Oct., 1891 ^

d. 20 Jan., 1895. i. Blanche Kathleen Maud Beare.

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1. Mary Jane Nixon. )

2. Jemima Nixon, m. Jan., 1826, Henry Gary Field, M.D., of

Fieldville, Co. Dublin, who d. 28 Jan., 1851, and d. 19 April, 1851.

3. Sophia Nixon, m. 6 Oct., 1838, Espine Ward, of Charlemont

St., Dublin, who d. 27 Aug., 1856, and d. 30 April, 1865, leaving issue : —

(1.) Montgomery Albert Ward, of Dublin, M.D., 6. 10 Oct., 1839, m. 20 Sept., 1865, Frances Elizabeth, dau. of Major Henry Keane, 25th and 87th Regts., of Corbally, Co. Down, and d. 30 Dec, 1897, leaving by her, who d. 17 July, 1906, an only child : —

Frances Adelina Ward, m. 2 June, 1897, Hume Robertson, Secretary Provincial Bank, son of William Blakeman Robertson, and has issue.

1. Eric Hume Robertson, 6. 10 May, 1898.

2. Algar Ronald Ward Robertson, b. 8 Sept.,

1902.

1. Vera Adeline Frances Robertson.

2. Rhona Noreen Helena Robertson.

(2.) Espine Ward, Staff Surgeon in the army, m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Picton Reede, of Dublin, and d. leaving a son : —

Espine Montgomery Picton Ward, late Lieut. 2nd Batt. the Prince of Wales' Leinster Regt., h. 11 Jan., 1879, m. 9 March, 1904, Lucie Johanna, dau. of the late P. O'Flanagan, of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and of Mrs. J. Wood, of Pretoria.

4. Harriet Nixon, d. 9 Dec, 1825.

VI. Thomas Nixon, of Dunbar House, Enniskillen, m. 13 Oct., 1802,

Jemima, dau. of George Alcock, aforesaid, Lord Mayor of

Dublin, 1786, and d. 14 Oct., 1814, having had by her, who

d. 15 Jan., 1847, three sons and three daus. : —

1. Alexander Nixon (Rev.) B.A., T.C.D., of Knockballymore,

Co. Fermanagh, and Heathfield, Co. Donegal, J.P., Cos.

Fermanagh and Donegal, 6. 1804, m. 1st, 13 March, 1828,

Mary Anne, only dau, of Roger Sheehy Keating, by

Frances Aylmer, his wife, and by her, who d. 1 Jan., 1857,

had issue : —

(1.) Thomas Nixon, d. abroad.

(1.) Frances Maria Nixon, m. 1 July, 1869, Bernard Greorge Shaw, D.I., R.I.C., only son of George Nathaniel Shaw, of Cork, and d. 26 Jan., 1871, leaving a dau. : — Frances Maria Eva Shaw.

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The Rev. Alexander Nixon m. 2nd, 25 Feb., 1858, Anne Catherine, dau. of the Rev. Thomas Harpur, M.A., Rector of Maryborough, and afterwards of Templeshambo., diocese of Ferns, and d. 25 March, 1882, ha\-ing had further issue : —

(2.) Harpur ColviU John Nixon (Rev.) B.A.,T.C.D., 1881. M.A., 1889, of Heathfield, now of Denman Island, British Columbia, 6. 5 Dec, 1858, m. 1888, Marie, dau. of Arthur Pennamen Louis, of Douarnenez, Finnisterre, France, and has issue : — i. Harpur Cyril Nixon, 6. 1888. ii. James Nixon, 6. 1889. iii. Louis Hamilton Nixon, 6. 11 Dec, 1891. iv. Frank Alexander Nixon, &. 23 June, 1895. V. Thomas Marie Nixon, h. 26 Dec, 1896. vi. John Nixon, h. 19 Oct., 1904. (2.) Hannah Frances Nixon. (3.) Jemina Nixon.

2. George Alcock Nixon, M.D., Glasgow, 1834, of Enniskillen, m. 1st 15 June, 1832, his cousin Anna Maria, dau. of Major Alexander Nixon-Montgomery, of Bessmount Park, Co. Monaghan (see p. 80) and by her, who d. 7 April, 1842, had issue : —

(1.) Thomas Nixon, d. 3 Aug., 1859. (2.) George Nixon, h. 23 July, 1839, d. young. (1.) Eliza Nixon, m. 26 July, 1859, John Harpur, of New Park, Queen's Co., son of the Rev. Thomas Harpur, Rector of Maryborough, and had issue : — i. Thomas Geoi^e Montgomery Harpur (Rev.) B.A., Incumbent of Timahoe, diocese of Leighlin, h. 18 April, 1861, m. 27 April, 1897, Kathleen, dau. of Robert Wilson, of Kenagh, Co. Longford, and has : — 1. Ernest Ian Wilson Harpur, h. 31 May, 1899.

1. Kathleen Violet Harpur.

2. Edith Elizabeth Armstrong Nixon Harpur. i. Anna Harpur, m. 27 July, 1893, Alexander

Francis Boyle, J. P., of Belmont House, Queen's Co., and has had issue : —

1. Ivan Alexander Boyle, 6. 30 April, 1895, d.

5 June, 1896.

2. Dermot Alexander Boyle, h. 2 Oct., 1904.

3. Brian James Harpur Boyle, 6. 17 April, 1906. 1. Sylvia Boyle.

Dr. George Alcock Nixon, m. 2iid, at Gretna Green, 11 Nov.,

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and at the Cathedral, Manchester, 27 Nov., 1847, Frances Willoughby, eldest dau. of Sir Thomas Charles Yates, by Maria Isabella, youngest dau. of Sir William Richardson, Bart., of Augher Castle, Co. Tyrone. He d. 21 May, 1853, aged 48, and his widow d. 20 July, 1867. They had further issue : — (3.) Charles Alexander Newburgh Nixon, B.A., T.C.D., h.

1851, m. 3 Sept. 1874, Martha Plunkenette, 4th dau.

of Thomas Howard Wisdom, of Dublin, and d. 7 April,

1875. She m. 2nd, 17 Sept., 1877, Alexander William

Brett, R.N.

(4.) George Michael Nixon, M.B., Surgeon-Major Indian Medical Service, h. 16 Feb., 1852, m. 12 Oct., 1878, Adelaide, 3rd dau. of Edward Fetherstonhaugh, of Blackrock, Co. Dublin, by Elizabeth Dorothea, dau. of William Curtis, of Annaghmore, King's Co., (see also p. 126). He d. 17 Aug., 1896, leaving issue : — i. Charles Howard Fetherstonhaugh Nixon, Lieut. 5th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, 6. 14 Aug., 1884. ii. Brian George Michael Frederick Nixon, 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regt., h. 5 June, 1886. i. Marjorie Adelaide Eileen Nixon, m. 2 March, 1907, Cecil Roy Millar. Lieut. Royal Army Medical Corps, 3rd son of Richard Chaytor Millar, of Foxrock, Co. DubUn.

3. Thomas Nixon, of Dunbar House, Capt. Fermanagh Militia, J.P., Co. Fermanagh, 11 March, 1835, m. 9 Dec, 1840, his first cousin, Juliana Mary Anne, widow of John Bovell, of Demerara, and eldest dau. of George Alcock, of Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin. She d. 6 April, 1860, and Capt. Nixon d. at Frescati, Blackrock, 28 Feb., 1862.

1. Maria Nixon, d. 23 Feb., 1826, aged 16.

2. Jemima Nixon, d. Aug., 1811.

3. Jemima Georgina Mary Nixon, d. in infancy, July, 1813.

Vn. Robert Nixon, C.B., Lieut.-Colonel in the army, 30 May, 1811, Major 28th Regt., 15 Dec, 1804, served in Egypt, the Penin- sula, and Waterloo, wounded at Waterloo 18 June, 1815, gazetted C.B. for services, 4 June, 1815, re-gazetted C.B. for services at Waterloo on the 22nd of the same month, awarded the 4th Class of the Order of St. Wladimir by the Emperor of Russia (Wellington's despatches, 21 Aug., 1815) retired from the service 1816, d. unm., 26 Aug., 1826, intestate,

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his niece Anna Nixon, of Nixon Hall, afterwards Mrs. Netter- ville Blake, being his heiress at law.

VIII. James Nixon, of Rosskean, Co. Fermanagh, appointed J. P., Co. Fermanagh, 14 Feb., 1812, d. 8 Nov., 1816, leaving no lawful issue.

I. Catherine Nixon, m. Jan. 1785, her cousin, Richard Hudson, of Dublin, elder son of Edward Hudson, by Frances, 4th dau. of Richard Hassard, of Garden Hill, Co. Dublin. They had seven sons and five daus., foi' whose descendants, Hudsons and Carsons, see The Family of Hassard, by the Rev. H. B. Swanzy, 1903, pp. 41-45.

II. Elizabeth Nixon, m. 18 Jan., 1794, John Curry, Barrister-at-law, of Londonderry, son of Samuel Curry, and by him, who d. 18 Jan., 1834, had at her death, June, 1855, in her 85th year, three sons and five daus. : —

1. John Montgomery Curry (Rev.) B.A.,T.C.D., m. Emily

Middleton, of St. Heliers, Jersey, and had one dau. : — Wilhelmina Curry, m. H. Cary, son of the Rev. Radclifie Joseph Cary, Rector of Desertegny, Co. Donegal, son of the Rev. Anthony Grayson Cary, and had one child.

2. Alexander Curry, B.A., T.C.D., Barrister-at-law, h. 24 June,

1802, m. 28 March, 1844, Caroline, dau. and co-heiress of Tristram Cary, of White Castle, Co. Donegal and The Casino, Deny, by Henrietta Sophia, 2nd dau. of Lieut. - Colonel Henry John Kearney, of White Waltham, Berks, eldest son of the Rev. John Kearney, D.D., by Henrietta, dau. of the Rev. the Hon. Henry Brydges, D.D., brother of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. Mr. Curry d. 27 Dec, 1859, leaving four sons and two daus. : —

(1.) John Brydges Curry, h. 17 Jan., 1845.

(2.) Henry John Kearney Curry, h. 5 July, 1850, d. unm., Jan., 1872.

(3.) Alexander Curry, b. 21 April, 1854, d. unm.

(4.) Tristram Curry, b. 10 May, 1857, m. Frances Philippa, dau. of Thomas Bedingfeld, and had issue : —

i. Alexander Curry, 6. Oct., 1886.

i. Evelyn Grayaon Curry, m. 15 April, 1903, Lieut. Charles White, R.N., son of the Rev. James White, Vicar of St. Peter's, Paddington, London, and has : —

Kathleen Hawtrey White.

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ii. Hilda Boys Curry, m. 18 Dec, 1905, Perciva T. Nicholls, Surgeon K.N., 2nd son of H. J. Nicholls, of Coed Celyn, Dolgelly, North Wales, and has : —

Evelyn Grayson Bedingfeld Nicholls. iii. Olive Curry, iv. Blanche Curry.

(1.) Henrietta Curry.

(2.) Frances EHzabeth Curry, m. 30 April, 1868, Com- mander George Herbert Blake, K.N., son of George Blake, of Bramerton Hall, Norfolk, and by him, who d. 4 March, 1907, had issue : —

i. Herbert Arthur Blake, h. 1 June, 1869, d. 17 Aug.,

1894. ii. Tristram Kennedy Blake, h. 3 Nov., 1877. iii. Sydney Alexander Blake, h. 27 Nov., 1880, d. 20

April, 1901. i. Georgina Alexa idra Blake, m. 24 Nov., 1897,

William James Reid, M.D., son of Capt. Raid,

95th Regt. ii. Caroline Cary Blake, m; 1 July, 1903, Claude

Edward Vance, son of Capt. Eustace Johu

Vance, 13th Hussars, son of Thomas Vance,

J.P., of Blackrock House, Co. Dublin, and

has : —

Caroline Evelyn Leigh Vance. iii. Florence Mabel Blake, iv. Rosalie Eileen Margarite Blake. V. Frances Marie Helen Blake. 3. George Curry, d. unm.

1. Ann Curry, d. unm.

2. Elizabeth Curry, d. unm.

3. Margaret Curry, d. unm.

4. Rebecca Jane Curry, d. unm.

5. Mary Curry, m. her cousin William Curry, son of Joseph

Curry, and had issue : —

(1.) Joseph Curry.

(2.) William Curry, of Buncrana, Co. Donegal, d. unm. 5 Sept., 1858.

(1.) Elizabeth Wilhelmina Nixon Curry, d. unm., 7 Sept., 1894.

III. Mary Nixon, m. deed dated 14 July, 1804, Denis O'Donoughoe, and d. s. p.

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IV. Anne Nixon.

V. Jane Nixon, m. 1804,Richard Power,of Rosskean, Co. Formanftgh, and d. 2 Dec, 1839, aged 63, having had issue : —

1. William Power.

2. Alexander Power, of Rosskean, d. 1846. 1. Mary Power, m. John Tegarty.

The second son of Alexander Nixon, of Nixon Hall, by Mary Montgomery his wife (see p. 68) was : —

ALEXANDER NIXON-MONTGOMERY, of Bessmount Park, Tyholland, Co. Monaghan, J.P., High Sheriff, Co. Monaghan, 1790, Major Monaghan Militia, b. 1762, educated by the Rev. C. Meares (see p. 141), entered Trinity College, Dublin, (as Nixon) 5 July, 1779, aged 17, did not graduate, succeeded to Bessmount under the will of his maternal grandfather, and assumed the additional name of Montgomery. He m. at St. Ann's, Dublin, 18 Aug., 1807, Eliza, dau. of Arthur Stanley, of Dawson St., Dublin. She d. 8 May, 1827. Major Nixon-Montgomery d. 1 April, 1837, having had eleven children, who bore the name of Montgomery only. They were : —

I. ALEXANDER, of whom presently.

II. Arthur Henry Montgomery, of Crieve House, Co. Monaghan, b. 9 April, 1810, m. 29 April, 1851, Henrietta Frances, eldest dau. of the Rev. Francis Chamley, Vicar of Wicklow, and d. 2 Dec, 1859, having had issue : —

1. Alexander Nixon Montgomery (Rev.) of Carnaveagh, Co.

Monaghan, Rector of Aughnamullen in that Co., B.A., T.C.D., b. 5 Oct., 1852, m. 1 Aug., 1895, Mary Elizabeth, only dau. of Thomas Hanna, of Dublin, by Rhoda Mary, dau. of Leonard Dobbin, of Armagh, by Mary, 4th dau. of the Rev. George Miller, D.D., F.T.C.D., Rector of Derryvoland, Co. Fermanagh. Issue : —

Arthur Henry Montgomery, 6. 17 April, 1897.

2. Francis Chamley Montgomery, D.S.O., Lieut. Roberts'

Horse, b. 25 June, 1855, served in the South African War, d. 18 March, 1901, of wounds received in action on the previous day near Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa.

1. Madeline Montgomery.

III. Robert Montgomery, b. 29 Nov., 1811, d. 5 July, 184.3.

IV. George Montgomery, M.D., of Dubhn, b. 15 Dec, 1814, w.

11 Aug., 1842, Elizabeth, 3rd dau. of George Arbuthnot Holmes, of Moorock, King's Co., eldest son of Richard Holmes, of Prospect, King's Co., by Anne, dau., of John Arbuthnot, of Rockfleet, Co. Mayo, and sister of the Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot, P.C, M.P., the Right Rev. Alexander Arbuthnot,

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D.D., Bishop of Killaloe, Lieut. -General Sir Robert Arbuthnot, K.C.B., and Lieut. -General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, K.C.B. Dr. Montgomery d. 4 Nov. 1869, and his widow d. 21 Dec, 1894, having had one son and three daus. : —

1. Alexander Nixon Montgomery, F.R.C.P.I., of Dublin, h. 1 May, 1847, m. 15 Sept., 1885, Anna Sophia, 3rd dau. of Benjamin Samuel Adams, of Shinan House, Co. Cavan, by his first wife, Georgina Charlotte, dau. of the Rev. George Hickson, Vicar of Magheracloone, diocese of Clogher, and has had issue : —

(1.) George Alexander Nixon Montgomery, 6. 19 Nov., 1886, d. 13 July, 1887.

(2.) Alexander Nixon Montgomery, h. 18 May, 1894.

(1.) Jeannie Holmes Montgomery.

(2.) Georgina Hickson Montgomery.

(3.) Anna Elizabeth Mary Montgomery.

1. Jeannie Holmes Montgomery, m. 17 Sept., 1873, as his

second wife, Benjamin Samuel Adams, of Shinan House, J.P., High Sheriff, Co. Cavan, 1866, Lieut. 12th Regt., son of Capt. Charles James Adams, R.N., J. P., of Shinan House, by Anne Jane, dau. of Capt. William Foster, of Fosterstown, Co. Meath, and d. 13 June, 1876, having had by him, who d. 3 June, 1899, issue : — (1.) Elizabeth Montgomery Azalina Adams, d. 1876. (2.) Jeannie Holmes Adams, d. 5 Jan., 1888.

2. Elizabeth Stanley Montgomery.

3. Mary Montgomery.

V. Handcock Montgomery, h. 29 June, 1816, m. 23 May, 1838, Alicia, sister of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Westmeath, and dau. of David Verner, of Churchill, Co. Armagh, brother of Sir William Verner, Bart. Mr. Montgomery d. 8 May, 1839, leaving by his wife (who m. 2nd, 20 July, 1846, Langford Kennedy, H.E.I.C.S., and d. 8 Aug., 1859) an only child :—

Alexander Nixon Montgomery, Capt., 7th Royal Fusiliers, and Commandant I.N.N.C., J.P., Natal, of Ismont, Mid-Ilovv, Natal, author of The Natal Magistrate, Hints about Egypt, and various pamphlets, b. 23 March, 1839, m. 4 Jan., 1861, Istere Alicia, 4th dau. of Solomon Atrutel, of Gibraltar, of the race of the Sephardim, and by her, who d. 14 June, 1900, has had five sons and nine daus. : —

(1.) Roger Montgomery, b. 3 June, 1863, d. 19 Sept., 1863.

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(2.) John Willoughby Verner Montgomery, Capt. 0. C. D. Squadron, Natal Carbineers in Natal Vol. Composite Regt., served through the South African War (mentioned in despatches, Queen's and King's medals with six clasps) and in the Native Rebellion, 1906, (medal), b. 18 May, 1867.

(3.) Gabriel Charles Langford Montgomery, 6. 30 March, 1874, d. 22 Aug., 1874.

(4.) Waldyve David Montgomery, b. 2 April, 1875, d. 19 July, 1875.

(5.) Quintin Hogg Montgomery, served throughout the South African War in the Natal Carbineers and Composite Regt. (Queen's and King's medals with clasps), b. 26 June, 1877, w. 1 Oct., 1903, Adelaide Maud, 2nd dau. of John A. de Waal Berning, and grand-dau. of F. S. Berning, Registrar of Deeds, Colony of Natal, and has issue : —

i. Rogfer Quintin Montgomery, b. 5 May, 1906.

i. Dulcia Maud Montgomery.

(1.) Alethe Sylva Montgomery, m. 13 Dec, 1880, Leonard Guise Wingfi eld-Stratford, of Powerscourt, Natal, grandson of Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. John Wingfield- Stratford, son of Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt, by Lady Emilia Stratford, dau. of John 1st Earl of Aldborough. Issue : —

i. Mervyn Edward John Wingfield-Stratford, 6. 17 Sept., 1883.

i. Maud Frances Jane Wingfield-Stratford.

ii. Agnes Mary Wingfield-Stratford. iii. Murielle Victoria Alethe Wingfield-Stratford. iv. Hermione Wingfield-Stratford. (2.) Blanche Lucia Montgomery, m. 8 April, 1891, Edward Harry Hayes, of Hardington, Natal, 2nd son of George Bevan Hayes, of Klipspruit, Natal, son of the Rev. James Haye^, M.A., Vicar of Wybunbury, Cheshire, and has a dau. : — Virginia Lucia Hayes.

(3.) Dulcia Gabiiella Montgomery, d. in infancy, 19 July, 1865.

(4.) Grace Dorothea Montgomery, m. 16 Dec, 1891, Richard Neville Wingfield-Stratford, of Wingfield, Nalal, 6th son of John Wingfield-Stratford, J. P., D.L., of Addington Place, Ken*-j by Jane, dau. of General

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Sir John Wright Guise, Bart., G.C.B., of Elmore Court, Gloucestershire and has : —

i. Esme John Richard Wingfield-Stratford, 6. 12

Feb., 1897, ii. Georgina Grace Ida Wingfield-Stratford.

(5.) Muriel Constance Montgomery, d. in infancy, 15 Oct., 1868.

(6.) Istere Octavia Montgomery, m. 24 Feb. 1897, ^ Reginald Dewhurst, of Apsley, Natal, 3rd son of

Henry Dewhurst, of Fartown Hall, Hudders field, and Highfield, Eastbourne, and has a dau. : — Istere Dewhurst.

(7.) Alexandra Rogeria Louisa Montgomery, in. 23 Feb., 1905, Frank Foxton Beaumont, of Skirbeck, Ixopo, Natal, only son of William Foxton Beaumont, of Skirbeck, Weymouth, and had : —

William Alexander Beaumont, h. 30 March, 1906, d. 2 April, 1906.

(8.) Edith Lavinia Decima Montgomery. (9.) Irene Sibyl Theresa Montgomery.

VI. Thomas Montgomery, h. 7 May, 1818, d. same day.

VII. Mark Anthony Montgomery, Ensign 67th Regt., b. 9 Sept., 1823, killed by a fall from his horse, 26 April, 1844.

I. Anna Maria Montgomery, b. 24 May, 1809, m. 15 June, 1832, her cousin, George Alcock Nixon, M.D., and d, 7 April, 1842, leaving issue, see p. 73. II. Mary Montgomery, 6. 13 Feb., 1813, m. 8 June, 1841, Robert Adams, M.D., Surgeon in Ordiaary to the Queen in Ireland, and d. 29 May, 1851, having had by him, who d. 13 Jan., 1875, two sons and three daus. : —

1. Robert Adams, Lieut. 98th Regt., d. 24 April, 1880.

2. Samuel Adams.

1. Mary Alicia Adams, m. 1st, 28 April, 1869, Capt. Thomas Coote, of Racconnell House, Co. Monaghan^ J.P., D.L., High Sheriff, Co. Monaghan, 1869, sod of Major Thomas Coote, of Brandrum, same Co., J.P., D.L., and by him who d. 18 Jan., 1880, had with other issue : —

(1.) Thomas Coote, /■. 1870, m. and has issue.

She m. 2nd, 9 Sept., 1882, James Charles Wolfe, eldest son of the Veil. John Charles Wolfe, D.D., Archdeacon of Clogher and Rector of Clontibret, Co. Monaghan, and had issue : — (1.) John Charles Wolfe, h, 14 Juno. d. 26 Aug., ISm.

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(2.) James Charles Wolfe, b. 20 Oct., 1884.

(3.) Richard Straubenzie Wolfe, b. 7 Dec, 1886, d. 28 Sept., 1888.

(1.) Nora Dorothy Wolfe, d. 11 Sept., 1888.

(2.) Eileen Wolfe.

2. Anna Charlotte Adams, m. 9 Dec, 1873, Edward Richardson,

of Poplar Vale, Co. Monaghan, J.P., D.L., High Sheriff, 1871, Lieut, list and 80th Regts., eldest son of Capt. John Richardson, 40th and 83rd Regts., by Frances, dau. of George Jacson, of Barton Hall. Lancashire, and by him, who d. U July, 1883, had at her death, 19 March 1882, u^sue :—

(1.) Edward John Richardson, of Poplar Vale, J.P., D.L., High Sheriff, 1902, Capt. 5th Batt. Royal Irish Fusiliers, b. U Sept., 1874.

(2.) Robert Adams Richardson, b. 19 Dec, 1875, d. unm. in South Africa, 26 July, 1899.

(3.) Charles Roger Richardson, 6. 24 Feb., 1879.

(4.) George Clements Kirkwood Richardson, b. 31 Dec, 1880.

(1.) Frances Dorothy Richardson, d. young, 1877.

(2.) Mary Eleanor Richardson.

3. Jane Caroline Adams, m. 3 April, 1867, Colonel Frank

Edmund West, Madras Staff Corps, youngest son of John Beatty West, Q.C.,M.P. for Dublin, 1841-2 (see also p. 114), and by him, who d. 2 Oct., 1885, had at her death, 23 April, 1906, issue : —

(1.) Victor Robert Beatty West, Capt. 5th Batt. Royal Irish Fusiliers, b. Aug., 1871.

(1.) Hilda Mary Caroline West, m. 28 Aug., 1889, Theodo- e Dickson Browne, M.D., of Benburb, Co. Tyrone, and has had issue : —

i. Francis William Henry Browne, h. 29 May,

1890, d. 8 Jan., 1906. ii. Alexander Edward West Browne, h. 10 June,

1893, d. Sept., 1895. iii. Theodore Victor Browne, b. 29 July, 1897. i. Hilda Theodore Geraldine Mabel Browne.

(2.) Elma Jane Geraldine West. (3.) Zelda Aune Frances West. (4.) Sylvia Violet West. (5.) Ethel Maude West,

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III. Elizabeth Montgomery, b. 29 Dec, 1820, m. 23 May, 1845, James

Power, of Colehill House, Co. Longford, and has issue.

IV. Jane Caroline Montgomery, b. 14 Dec, 1824, d. 20 May, 1889.

The eldest son of Major Alexander Nixon- Montgomery (p, 77), was :—

ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY, of Kilquade House, Delgany, Co. Wicklow, J.P., Co. Monaghan, High Sheriff, Co. Monaghan, 1832, B.A.,T.C.D., b. 17 May, 1808, m. 8 Oct., 1846, Henrietta, dau. of Major Randal Stafford, of Tully House, Co. Cavan, by Letitia, eldest dau. of Colonel the Hon. Arthur Cole-Hamilton, of Beltrim, Co. Tyrone, son of John, 1st Lord Mountflorence, and brother of William Willoughby, 1st Earl of Enniskillen. Mr. Montgomery d. 25 June, 1881, and his widow d. 5 Sept., 1894, having had a son : —

ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY, of Kilquade House, b. 12 May. 1851, m. 4 April, 1873, Mary, dau. of Major William Lane, and great- grand-dau. of Colonel George Lane, of Lanespark, Co. Tipperary, and d. 27 Dec, 1878, having had issue : —

I. Alexander Montgomery, d. young, (5 June, 1877.

II. ALEXANDER RANDAL WILLIAM, his heir. The younger son :—

ALEXANDER RANDAL WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, 6. 27 Oct.,

1878, is the present representative, in the male line, of the Nixons of Nixon Hall, descended from Thomas Nixon, of Kingstown, Co. Fermanagh, 3rd son of George Nixon, of Granshagh.

THE EEV. ANDREW NIXON.

1710-1774. From a MiiiUitun, dated 1761, in iJOS)<i.'mon of tin' Fav. T. Efxhinc Swunzij.

MARIANNE.

Daughter of the Kev. Mathew French, and wife of tlie Mev. Andrew Nixon.

From a Miniattirc, doted 1761, in ijotsscssio/i of tlie Fov. 7. Ershiin Sv:ainii.

To face p. 83.

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CHAPTER VI. Nixon of Nixon Lodge. Swanzy of Avelreagh.

The youngest son of Thomas Nixon, of Kingstown (see p. 66), was : —

THE REV. ANDREW NIXON, of Nixon Lodge (or Artonagh), Drumlane, near Belturbet, Co. Cavan, Vicar of Ahamplish, diocese of ■Elphir, 6. 1710, son of Thomas, " Leuteiiantis," educated at EnnLskillen . under Dr. Adams, entered Trinity College, Dublin, 19 June, 1726, aged 16, B.A., 1730, m., prerogative marriage licence bond 10 March, 1737, Marianne, elder dau. and co-heiress of the Rev. Matbew French, B.A., Prebendary of Kilroot, Co. Antrim,* only son of Mathew French, of Dublin, who was uncle of Humphrey French, M.P. for Dublin and Lord Mayor of that city, " the Good Lord Mayor," and 2nd son of Mathew French, of Belturbet, High Sheriff, Co. Cavan, 1677, see Part I., Family of French, p. 19. Mr. Nixon, who lived most of his life in Belturbet, acquired considerable landed property in Cos. Cava.n - and Fermanagh, some of which was purchased with money left to him by his brother, the Rev. Adam Nixon, in 1767. He d. at Belturbet, 6 Jan., 1774, and his successor, the Rev. Matthew Browne, was collated to Ahamplish the same month, in room of the Rev. Andrew Nixon, deceased. {The Public Gazetteer, 1 Feb., 1774). His will, dated 18 Dec, 1773, was proved in the Prerogative Court, 22 Jan., 1774. See Appendix IV. His widow, Marianne Nixon, d. in Grafton St., Dublin, 15 March, 1775, and her will, dated 24 Nov., 1774, was not proved till 28 Nov., 1777, by Alexander Nixon of Nixon Hall, the nephew and executor. Their descendant, the Rev. T. Erskine Swanzy, has miniatures of Andrew Nixon and his wife, dated 1761, here reproduced. The Re-sT. Andrew Nixon had issue f (besides another son Brinsley Nixon, d. intestate, admon. granted to his father, 15 April, 1765) four sons and three daus., viz. : —

I. HUMPHREY, of whom presently, p. 86.

I.I. Mathew Nixon, of Ballyhaise and Annagh, Co. Cavan, J. P., Co. Cavan, 4 March, 1778, Ensign 61st Foot, (Gray's Regt.), 28 Feb., 1766, m., marriage licence bond 6 Dec, 1769, Elizabeth,

* Chancery Bill, 28 March. 173'J, Tisdali v. Nixon, Fanning and French.

t Burke'9 Landed Gentry, 1863, voU tl., p. I08(i. slatcb that the Kov.. Andrew Nixon had married before, and was fathei" of Andrew, ancestor of the Brinsley Nixons. This is disproved by a Chancery Bill, 20 Dec, 170(3, Nixon v. Nixon, see further, p. 138

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dau. of Edward Reilly, of Tullyco, Co. Cavan, and widow of Marshall Mee, eldest son of John Mee, of Butler's Bridge, Co. Cavan.* Mr. Nixon d. s. p. I. 1 Jan., 18(X),t and was buried at Belturbet on the 3rd. •

III. Adam Nixon, of Greeny, Co. Cavan, Ensign 53rd Foot, 20 Feb.,

1767, Cornet 13th Light Dragoons, 6 June, 1770, ni. Rose, dau. of Richard Phepoe, of Dublin, J and d. intestate 30 May, 1808, § admon. granted 19 Aug., 1808, having had two sons : — 1|

1. Richard Phepoe Nixon, Lieut. 19th Regt., 7 Aug., 1807, and

Adjutant of the Regt., b. about 1770, will dated at Point de Galle- Ceylon, 22 May, 1810, in which he leaves his property of Kilmore, Co. Cavan, to his cousin, James Swanzy, of Austin Friars, Loudon (see p. 103). R. P. Nixon d. before 7 Sept., 1810, but the will, of which James Swanzy and Harry Swanzy were executors, was not proved till 29 April, 1815.

2. Andrew Nixon, b. aboTit 1771, must have d. before 19 Aug.,

1808, when R. P. Nixon was his father's only next of kin.

IV. GEORGE, of Lurgan Lodge, Co. Cavan, High Sheriff, Co.

Fermanagh, 1785, for whose marriages and descendants, see p. 96.

L ANNE, m. settlements ^ 10 Oct., 1765, Henry Swanzy, of Avelreagh, and Harrymount, Co. Monaghan, and d. 4 Feb., 1822, having had ten children, for whom and their descendants, see pp. 99-127. IT. Frances Nixon, who lived from 1765 with her sister Mrs. Swanzy** imtil 1822. She d. unm. at Maytone, Co. Armagh, the residence of her niece, Mrs. Mather, and was buried in the Swanzy vault at Clontibret, 22 Oct., 1830, aged 80. Will dated 11 Feb., 1822.

IIL Barbara Nixon, m. 8 Dec, 1778, Isaiah Corry, of Ballytrain, Co. Monaghan, uncle of Colonel Thomas Charles Stewart Corry, of Rockcorry Castle, M.P. for Co. Monaghan, and son of the Rev. John Corry, J.P., of Fairfield, Rockcorry, Co. Monaghan. Mr. Corry's will, dated 16 Dec. 1811, was proved 28 April, 1820, executors his nephews James Swanzy and Henry Swanzy, also Arthur Irwin and Barbara Corry. Mrs.

* Chancery Bill, 12 June,