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Minutes of Ballineen, Co. Cork, Agricultural Society 1845-7, ordered that pamphlet on turnips be translated into Irish for some of the Protestant famers, turnips, flax growing plight of labourers, attendance by name and townland 1847 contrasted with 1946 location of families.

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Minutes of Ballineen, Co. Cork, Agricultural Society 1845-7, ordered that pamphlet on turnips be translated into Irish for some of the Protestant famers, turnips, flax growing plight of labourers, attendance by name and townland 1847 contrasted with 1946 location of families.

From 1946 JCHAS.

The author was somewhat surprised at the use of Irish among some of the ‘settler’ farmers. In some of the adjoining Church of Ireland parochial records there is phonetic rendering of the Lord’s Prayer in Irish.  He may be related to ‘Dr’ Jerry Crowley and James Crowley both Apothecaries  in Skibbereen.  Jerry founded the Phoenix Society and swore O’Donovan Rossa into the Society.

The Society attracted farmers from other parts of West Cork. For example Jeremiah Crowley from Ballyourane in Caheragh a very substantial tenant of Lord Bandon.

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Members Ballineen Agricultural Society 1845-7

These records were transcribed in 1946 by T. Shea and published in the 1946 issue of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.  It was based on the record lent to him by William Daunt of Deriga House, Ballineen.  His uncle Mr. Daunt was secretary of the Society and presumable maintained the records including the townland of the member.

Landlords have enjoyed a bad press in Ireland,.  However n West Cork, some and their agent were anxious to promote modern agriculture, new crops, selective breeding, instructors.  The various Agricultural Societies normally have a large Landlord representation.

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Conner, possibly not a member but gave speeches.  The Conners/Connor/O’Connors were agents for the Devonshire Estate but dismissed for alleged malpractice in granting favourable leases to relations.  The family may be a scion of the ancient irish O’Conor family or London merchants Conner.  Over the years individuals were involved in civil affairs some loyalist some nationalist. The line survives through the Fawcetts

Aghyohill, Clonakilty

Pat Walsh, family there 1946

Ardkillen, Enniskeane

  1. Crowley, family there 1946
  2. Deasy,  family gone 1946
  3. Hurley,  family there 1946
  4. Hurley,  family there 1946
  5. Mahony,  family there 1946

Jeremiah Mahony,  family there 1946

  1. Sullivan,  family there 1946
  2. Sullivan,  family there 1946

Ardkitt, Enniskeane

..  O’Donovan, family there 1946

Ballineen

  1. Crowley, family there 1946

John Culnane, family there 1946

  1. Daunt, family gone 1946
  2. Fuller, family gone 1946

…  Godsell, family gone 1946

  1. Jagoe, family gone 1946

John Schofield, family gone 1946

Bandon  

Lord Viscount Bandon, family gone 1946

Hon, H. B. Bernard, family gone 1946

Hon, Rev. C. B. Bernard, family gone 1946

Mr. Thomas

Kilountain, Bandon

Pearse Appelbe,  family there 1946

…  Barrett, family gone 1946

Knocks, Ballinascarty

…. Bateman, family gone 1946

John Brien

  1. Buckley
  2. McCarthy
  3. McCarthy

James O’Donovan

  1. Sullivan

Garranelahan, Ballinascarthy

John Donovan   

Gerah, Macroom?

…. Donovan, family there 1946

Gortenroe, Macroom?

  1. Daunt,  family gone 1946
  2. Daunt,   family gone 1946

Keel, Innishannon

…  Brennan,   family gone 1946

  1. Kelleher,   family gone 1946
  2. Kiely,   family gone 1946

Keelnameala, Ballineen

  1. Wood,   family gone 1946
  2. Wood,  family gone 1946

Kilmacsimon, Bandon

Thomas Flynn, family gone 1946

… Harrington, family gone 1946

Pat Sullivan, family gone 1946

Keelnarovanagh, Maconleigh, Macroom

Sam Bateman,  family gone 1946

  1. Desmond, family there 1946

… Hurley, family there 1946

James Kent, family there 1946

…de Long

T .Woods, family gone 1946

… Warrington

Pat Sullivan

Kildarra, Bandon

  1. Teape, family there 1946

Maulrarouga

..  Bateman,

.. Horrigan, family gone 1946

.. Hennigan, family gone 1946

  1. Leary, family gone 1946
  2. Murphy, family there 1946
  3. Sealy, family gone 1946

Moneygaff, Coppeen

  1. Buttimer, family there 1946

Jer Crowley, family there 1946

Pat Connelly, family gone 1946

..  Griffin, family gone 1946

Richard Hurley, family there 1946

James Leary, family there 1946

  1. Mahony, family there 1946
  2. Mahony, family there 1946
  3. Murphy, family there 1946
  4. Nyhan, family there 1946
  5. Shorten, family there 1946
  6. Shorten, family there 1946

Tim Sullivan, family there 1946

  1. Sullivan, family there 1946

Redmond Walsh, family gone 1946

Phale, Ballineen

Lord Carbery (Freke/Evans also in Castlefreke extensive estates in Clonakilty, Ballydehob, Durrus), family gone 1946

Raharoon, Bandon/Kilbrittain

  1. Brennan, family there 1946

.. Walsh, family there 1946

Shanaway, Ballineen

Thomas Clerk, family gone 1946

… Hurley, family gone 1946

Owen McCarthy, family gone 1946

  1. Manning, family gone 1946

..  Nyhan, family gone 1946

… Perrott, family gone 1946

… Sealy, family gone 1946

  1. Sheehan, family gone 1946
  2. Sheehan, family gone 1946
  3. Sheehan, family gone 1946

… Williams, family gone 1946

Knockfenora

… Brien, family there 1946

  1. Sullivan, family there 1946

Slaveen, Clonakilty

… Bennett,  family gone 1946

… Casey

Knockaneady, Ballineen

.. Schofield, family gone 1946

Knockroe, Innishannon

Tomes, Macroom

  1. Buckley, family there 1946

Ballymoney

Rev. Robert Meade (Meades one of the ancient families of Cork),  family gone 1946

Ballykissane

  1. Buckley
  2. Duane
  3. Murphy

Ballymountain, Innishannon

…  Falvey,  family gone 1946

Ballyowrane, Caheragh

An outlier of The Western Bandon Estate

  1. Crowley, family there 1946
  2. Crowley, family there 1946, the Ballyourane  Crowleys were among the largest tenant farmers in Carbery.  Jerry and James Crowley of North St., Skibbereen Apothecaries, 1810s on  probably of that line. DNA connects to Beechers, Evans, Young.
  3. Donoghue, family there 1946

Con Driscoll, family there 1946

John Driscoll, family there 1946

  1. Hurley, family there 1946
  2. Keohane, family there 1946

Dan MacCarthy, family there 1946

  1. MacCarthy, as transcribed, family there 1946
  2. MacCarthy, family there 1946

… Mahony (c 1850 some of the Crowleys and O’Mahonys are moved to Ahagouna, Durrus,  as Lord Bandon recovers Durrus estate), family there 1946

  1. Sullivan, family there 1946

Ballytrasna, Kilmurray

… Gash,  family gone 1946

  1. Kelleher, family there 1946
  2. Lyons, family there 1946

George Wiseman,  family gone 1946

Bohana, Clonakilty

  1. Buttimer, family there 1946

George Moore,  family gone 1946

Breaghina

John Hurley, family there 1946

Caledon

Miss Alexander (a visitor may be related to Co.Tyrone family at Caledon)

Carrigroe, Enniskeane,/Ballinascarthy

  1. Crowley, family there 1946

James Keeffe,  family gone 1946

  1. Long,  family gone 1946
  2. Quirke,  family gone 1946
  3. Quirke,  family gone 1946
  4. Quirke,  family gone 1946

Carrigmore

… Lysaght,  family gone 1946

Castlebernard, Bandon

..  Bell,  family gone 1946

..   Smith,  family gone 1946

Castletown, Dunmanway?

  1. Appelbe, family gone 1946
  2. Chinnery, family there 1946
  3. Cummins, family gone 1946
  4. Fuller, family gone 1946
  5. Fuller, family gone 1946

Thomas Godsell, family gone 1946

…  Moore, family there 1946

  1. Noonan, family gone 1946
  2. Northridge, family gone 1946.  Dunmanway Northridges reputed to come from Ballinascarty. When they moved they took two Deasy brothers, Ploughmen with them said to be origin of Dunmanway Deasys
  3. Shorten, family gone 1946
  4. Swanton, family gone 1946

..  Wood, family gone 1946

Curragh, Kilmurray

  1. Donoghue, family there 1946

Church Hill

… Longfield, family gone 1946

Clodagh, probably Kilmurray

Denis MacCarthy, family there 1946

Denis Murphy,  family there 1946

Clonakilty

  1. H. Appelby,  family there 1946

Coppeen

… Costello, family gone 1946

… Damery,  family there 1946

Dan Hurley,  family there 1946

Crookstown  

  1. Murphy, family there 1946

Curourane

James Collins, family gone 1946

John Collins, family gone 1946

  1. Hurley, family gone 1946

Derry

John Culnane,  family there 1946

John Smith, family gone 1946

Derrygra, Enniskeane

  1. Burchill, family gone 1946
  2. Crowley, family there 1946

..  Daunt, family there 1946

John Harris, family gone 1946

John Sullivan,  family gone 1946

Tim Sullivan,  family gone 1946

Dromduff, possibly Manch

… Kearney, family there 1946

Dunmanway

General Shouldom, (Landlord), family gone 1946, Shouldoms descend from Shouldam/McCarthy wherein Shouldham acquired part of McCarthy Dunmanway Estates,  she appears shortly after in the Convert Rolls

  1. Shouldom, family gone 1946

Mrs. Shouldom, family gone 1946

Enniskeane

  1. Halliburton, family gone 1946

Rev. Mr. Sherrard, family gone 1946

.. Therane, family gone 1946

Farran, Macroom

… Murray, family there 1946

Gaggin, Bandon

  1. Tanner, family gone 1946

…

Herbert Webb Gillman (1832-1898), Clonteadmore, Coachford, Co. Cork, Judge Ceylon, Antiquarian, Authority on Castles of Co. Cork and Author of Index to the Licence Bonds of Cork and Ross.

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Herbert Webb Gillman (1832-1898), Clonteadmore, Coachford, Co. Cork, Judge Ceylon, Antiquarian, Authority on Castles of Co. Cork and Author of Index to the Licence Bonds of Cork and Ross.

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=5023

http://www.thepeerage.com/p45608.htm

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/gillmansindextomarriagelicencebonds-corkandross/

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Of General Sir Webb Gillman, whose death is announced on another page, it may be said that the Gunners have seldom produced one who, both in barracks and on active service, has proved a more popular and more successful Staff officer and commander. The second son of Herbert Webb Gillman, of Clonteadmore, Coachford, Co. Cork, he was born on October 26, 1870. His father was the senior descendant of John Gillman, who went to Ireland in 1599 as a lieutenant in the Army under the Earl of Essex, and traced his descent from Gifmin, the head of the 4th Royal Tribe of Wales, in whose memory a monument exists at Glynllivon.

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Discovery of Primitive Bog Oak Spade beneath 12 foot peat in farm of Mr. W Kingston, near Ballydehob, West Cork 1890s, 7th century King of Connaught assailed by men cutting turf who killed him.

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Discovery of Primitive Bog Oak Spade beneath 12 foot peat in farm of Mr. W Kingston, near Ballydehob, West Cork 1890s, 7th century King of Connaught assailed by men cutting turf who killed him.

Article by Cork Antiquarian Robert Day, JCHAS, 1894.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/traditional-farm-spade-by-scotts-of-cork-and-spadework-on-olden-farms/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/irish-words-in-use-1930s/

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Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore, William Bedell (1571-1642) letter 2nd February 1631 re his objective to ‘Set forth the Bible in the Irish Tongue’ and Dr. Narcissus Marsh’s )later Archbishop of Armagh) report on progress 1682 500 copies printed in London with financial assistance from Robert Boyle (1627-1691) from Earl of Cork family. his proposal to Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore, William Bedell (1571-1642) letter 2nd February 1631 re his objective to ‘Set forth the Bible in the Irish Tongue’ and Dr. Narcissus Marsh’s )later Archbishop of Armagh) report on progress 1682 500 copies printed in London with financial assistance from Robert Boyle (1627-1691) from Earl of Cork family. his proposal to establish an ‘Irish lecture’ at Trinity College, Dublin but under great discouragements an ‘Irish lecture’ at Trinity College, Dublin but under great discouragements.

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Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore, William Bedell (1571-1642) letter 2nd February 1631 re his objective to ‘Set forth the Bible in the Irish Tongue’ and Dr. Narcissus Marsh’s )later Archbishop of Armagh) report on progress 1682 500 copies printed in London with financial assistance from Robert Boyle (1627-1691) from Earl of Cork family. His proposal to establish an ‘Irish lecture’ at Trinity College, Dublin but under great discouragements.

Robert Boyle was fostered in Lismore as a child and had fluent Irish and acted as a translator for his father The Earl of Cork. The Boyles had extensive estates in Waterford and Cork including in the Barony of Carbery. This was later to become the Devonshire Estate.

From the Tanner Letters published 1944 by Irish Manuscript commission.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_Marsh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bedell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyle

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Burial, 2nd March 1758, of James Hennessy Merchant Ostend at Family Vault, Mallow from John T Collins Newspaper Archives

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Burial, 2nd March 1758, of James Hennessy Merchant Ostend at Family Vault, Mallow from John T Collins Newspaper Archives

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/james-hennessy-irish-merchant-ostend-1699-1758/

Livings (Incumbents, churches, houses, tithes) Dioceses Church of Ireland Cork and Ross 1790.

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Livings (Incumbents, churches, houses, tithes) Dioceses Church of Ireland Cork and Ross 1790.

From St. Finbarr’s Cathedral records.

Maziere Brady History of Dioceses cover this ground extensively on line Cork past and Present.

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Form of application to build Church, to Church of Ireland Board of First Fruits 1790

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Form of application to build Church, to Church of Ireland Board of First Fruits 1790.

From St. Finbarr’s Cork, Cathedral Records.

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Recantations (Public Conversions to the Church of Ireland), St. Nicholas Church, Cork, 1765-1774, Robert Meakings, Ann Crowley, Stephen Walsh, Walter Reilly, Thomas Byon, James McCarthy of Dunmanway, Catherine Barker, Coleman Walsh (Possibly Drimoleague) and Juli(?) Murphy.

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Recantations (Public Conversions to the Church of Ireland), St. Nicholas Church, Cork, 1765-1774, Robert Meakings, Ann Crowley, Stephen Walsh, Walter Reilly, Thomas Byon, James McCarthy of Dunmanway, Catherine Barker, Coleman Walsh and Juli(?) Murphy.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12-TQFfRKt_p6AGtxLaHODge_ReszztDcE-NFF1626_c/edit#gid=0

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/public-renunciations-against-popery-and-conversions-in-clonakilty-inniscarra-kilnagross-and-caherconlish-co-cork-1769-70-from-john-t-collins-newspaper-abstracts/

 

 

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Art O’Leary (Art Ó Laoighre), antecedents and descendants.

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Art o’Leary (Art Ó Laoighre), antecedents and descendants.

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Lawyer  Descendants:

 

1768-1846 Cornelius O’Leary Barrister, Captain French Army, MP Cork City 1841-7 Raleigh, ed Paris may have been brought up Protestant, Captain French Army, m 1. Rebcca Gentleman, 2. Mary Purcell d Dromore House, Duhallow. Sons Cornelius TCD and Goodwin TCD, 1832 Son of outlaw Art O’Leary (Raleigh) and Maíre Dubh Ní Chonaill authoress of Caoineadh Art Uí Laoighre on his judicial murder 1783 for refusing to sell Abraham Morris his horse for £5.

1853 Cornelius F.O.O’Leary Councillor TCD 1832, son Cornelius. On platform 1853 Skibbereen to welcome Daniel O’Connell, his cousin. Only active in one known case, 1843 assistant to Daniel O’Connell. Died unmarried aged 31, Dromore House, Duhallow Grandson of outlaw Art O’Leary (Raleigh) and Maíre Dubh Ní Chonaill authoress of Caoineadh Art Uí Laoighre on his judicial murder 1783 for refusing to sell Abraham Morris his horse for £5. Paddy O’Keeffe papers

 

 

 

 

From Father Holland’s History of West Cork, 1949.

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Benjamin Sullivan, (1720-1767), O’Sullivan Mór, Clerk of the Crown for Co. Cork and Waterford Kinsman to Laurence Sullivan, Chairman East India Company.

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Benjamin Sullivan, (1720-1767), O’Sullivan Mór, Clerk of the Crown for Co. Cork and Waterford Kinsman to Laurence Sullivan, Chairman East India Company. Barry Crosbie’s book 2012 Cambridge Press says they were brothers and sons to Philip O’Sullivan and Miss Irwin from a trading family with Roscommon and Cork connections.  He suggests Benjamin became a Judge in Calcutta, which seems unlikely.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=DpvRF0W5KIMC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=clerk+of+the+crown+for+cork+1750&source=bl&ots=US9h-C-l5P&sig=BNrHrORmT-zggnlr20xZ3uVq9eg&hl=ga&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiymt717p3LAhVDnw4KHbbMB_kQ6AEIHzAB#v=onepage&q=clerk%20of%20the%20crown%20for%20cork%201750&f=false

 

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According to Denny Lane, Cork Antiquarian, Benjamin Sullivan styled himself the head of the O’Sullivan Mór, Sept.

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1720-1767 Benjamin Sullivan Attorney, Barrister, 1752 Clerk of the Crown for Counties Cork and Waterford. Thomas Harrison writing clerk to him 1742, Married Bridget Limerick daughter of Dr. Limerick, Rector Kilmoe (Ballydehob), 1742 Father Philip mother Elizabeth Irwin a Presbyterian, Parish of St Paul. Benjamin Sullivan Senior Esq., eminent Attorney died London 1767, May have been Recorder of Cork 1765. Son Sir Benjamin Sullivan, Kt, Judge Supreme Court Madras, the Right Hon John Sullivan of Richings Park, Co. Bucks, Privy Councillor, MP Old Sarum, Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan Captain RN and MP for Seaford Baronet UK 1804. Protest against him being appointed Freeman as he allegedly did not serve 7 years as an apprentice, 1742, Memorial 77771. May be related to Laurence Sullivan speculation the Laurence was an illegitimate elder brother, d so Lawrence may be variation of Lábhrás a name common among the O’Sullivan Beres, Chairman of East India Company. Parliamentary biography gives his address, as Dromeragh. (Dromreagh Durrus?) http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/potpourri/corkancestors.com/Deathsmarriages2.htm Oldest son Benamin, 2nd son John,Memorial 1764, 161080, Thomas Llyd Councellor mentioned with John Lloyd Victualler, Cork.

It is possible that the Sullivans originate in the Aughadown area. In 1700 Bishop Dives Downes mentioned area Schull that a Mr. Sullivan, a Protestant is a land owner. The Protestant Sullivans of Dunmanway held lands on the Mizen peninsula at cashelane possibly connected they are related by marriage to the Dunmanway/Clonakilty legal/land owning family of Wright.

Benjamin Sullivan likely attorney related to Limricks of Goleen relation Laurence Sullivan chairman East India company

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Lease made between Benjamin Sullivan, City of Corke {sic}, and James Morrison, City of Corke, for two fields estimated to be eleven acres, part of Ballintemple in the South Liberties of the city of Corke. The fields are bounded on the north by the strand adjoining the river, on the south with the high road leading to Blackrock, to the East by Mr. [Bournefield’s] lands, and to the west by other fields owned by said Mr. Benjamin Sullivan. It is for a term of 890 years from 29th September next, for the sum of £25 sterling, to be paid half-yearly on the 25th March and 29th September. Signed and sealed by both parties at the end of the document.

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THE LIMRICK FAMILY STORY

Appendix B – Bridget Limrick and her Sullivan descendants

The following information is mainly sourced from Denny’s Family of Limrick of Schull,

William Betham’s Baronetage of England, Sidney Lee’s Dictionary of National Biographies

and the official History of Parliament.

On 3 January 1742 Bridget Limrick, eldest daughter of Rev. Paul Limrick married

Benjamin Sullivan in Aughadown, Co. Cork.

Benjamin Sullivan was born in the parish of St. Paul in Cork city on 15 June 1720, the

second son of Philip O’Sullivan and Elizabeth Erwin. The O’Sullivans were kinfolk of

Laurence Sullivan, director and chairman of the East India Company who was influential

in the careers of his relatives.

In 1753 Benjamin (who had dropped the O’ prefix) was appointed clerk of the crown for

the counties of Cork and Waterford and clerk of the peace for Waterford. Following the

accession of George III he was reappointed to these offices on 6 February 1761.

Benjamin and Bridget had four sons and five daughters.

• Sir Benjamin Sullivan born 1747 in Cork city. On the death in Madras in 1793 of his

unmarried first cousin Philip O’Sullivan, a captain in the service of the East India

Company, Benjamin inherited the title O’Sullivan Mor (a clan chief of the O’Sullivan

family). Knighted in June 1801, he was a puisne judge of the Supreme Court of

Judicature, Madras. He was married to Elizabeth Dent, daughter of Admiral Sir Digby

Dent. KB. and they had four children. He died in 1810.

• Rt. Hon. John Sullivan born 1747. After a successful career in India lasting 20 years he

returned to England in 1795, where he bought an estate (Richings Park) in

Buckinghamshire. He then entered politics and served three separate constituencies as

an MP (Old Sarum, Aldborough & Ashburton); in 1801 he was appointed Under

Secretary of State for War and Colonies through the influence of his brother-in-law,

George Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckingham. John was married to Lady Henrietta Anne

Barbara Hobart, daughter of George, 3rd Earl of Buckingham. They had five daughters

and one son, (John Augustus Sullivan who was Provost-Marshal of Jamaica from 1825).

• Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan, 1st Baronet of Thames Ditton. Born in 1752 he also spent

his early career in India, returning to England in 1784. He served as MP for New

Romsey 1787-96 and later as MP for Seaford in 1802. On 22 May 1804, following

William Pitt’s return to office, Sullivan was created a baronet. Richard was married to

Mary Lodge in 1778. Their eldest son, Richard, having died in 1789, the title devolved on their second son, Henry (1785–1814), MP for the City of Lincoln (1812–14) and

lieutenant-colonel of the Coldstream Guards. He died in battle at Toulouse on 14 April 1814. Sir Charles Sullivan (1789–1862), his younger brother, succeeded him as third

baronet, entered the navy in February 1801, and eventually became admiral of the blue.

• Henry Boyle Sullivan who died unmarried in 1783.

• Margaret Sullivan, married General Gordon Forbes.

• Elizabeth Sullivan, married Patrick Lawson.

• Sabina Sullivan, married John Otto Bayer of Antigua. She died in 1784.

• Henrietta Sullivan, married (1) Colonel Alexander Maclellan and (2) John Balfour,

• Anne Sullivan, married Lt-Col. George Hallam of White Barns, Herts, in 1781

Benjamin Sullivan died in Knightsbridge, London in 1767. Bridget lived for many more

years and died on 8 July 1802. She is buried in Iver, Buckinghamshire. As this is very close

to Richings Park, it is safe to assume that she was probably living with her son John at the

 

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