WALTER PIGOTT OF QUEEN'S COUNTY AND ANTIGUA.
Walter PIGOTT was born at Dysart, Queen's County, Ireland, about October 1665, give or take a month or so.
He was, it appears, the third son of Thomas PIGOTT (about 1641 - late 1702) and his wife Elizabeth WELDON (they were married by License of the Diocese of Dublin dated 28 April 1663).
And he was a younger brother of Robert PIGOTT (about February 1664 - 1730) of Dysart; and of John PIGOTT (about December 1664 - 1710) of Antigua and Kilcromin.
In November 1686, a Bill was brought before the Court of Chancery in Ireland by Francis MOORE, the Plaintiff [Court of Chancery, Dublin, Bill Books, 1627-1884, on Findmypast.co.uk].
The Bill, prosecuted) by Jo: LOGAN and Rob: ROCHFORT, was entered on 8 November. The defendants were Mrs WELDON, Walter WELDON, Walter PIGOTT, and Adam LOFTUS.
The only Answer, by Celia WELDON, was dated 17 November 1686. Details of the case have not survived.
Francis MOORE was probably the Rector of Athy (born about 1664, son of Rev John MOORE, Archdeacon of Cloyne, and his wife Jane WELDON), who died in 1729, having married Catherine WELDON, who appears to have been a younger half-sister of his mother!
Celia was probably the wife of Walter WELDON (he married Celia LOFTUS on 2 May 1683), and she may perhaps have been the aforesaid Mrs WELDON.
If, as I suspect, any party to a legal action in their own right would be required to be of age (in other words, not a minor), then Walter ought to have been aged 21 or more, and therefore born in or before November 1665, just 2 years and 7 months after his parents were married - just possible, but a bit of a tall order for Elizabeth to have been delivered of three sons in that relatively short time!
And the obvious question arises - where are his two older brothers, Robert (the heir) and John, and his parents Thomas and Elizabeth, and what link, if any, did Walter have with the WELDON family that they didn't?
This is the first mention of any Irish PIGOTT named Walter that I have yet found. I fully expect, therefore, that the name came directly from the WELDON side - his mother Elizabeth had a grandfather, a brother, an uncle, and a first cousin, all named Walter WELDON.
Walter PIGOTT, of the Queen's County, Gent, was witness to an Indenture of Lease, dated 11 November 1720 [Memorial 17360, Book 30, Page 221], by which his brother-in-law Lancelot SANDES of Kilcavan (the widower of Walter's late sister Elizabeth PIGOTT) made a lease of 600 profitable acres in the Townlands of Ballymacrossan and Couldonagh, Barony of Phillipstown, King's County, to Walter BIRMINGHAM of Grange, County Kildare.
Walter was probably identified as "... old Major PIGOTT" of Antigua, July 1732 - see (*) below. However, this date corresponds with a period when Walter appears to have been back in Ireland. Although these may not necessarily have been mutually exclusive conditions.
Walter PIGOTT, of Ballymadock, Queen's County, died in or shortly before 1759; he was so named as deceased in a List preceeding the one detailed in a "Handlist of the Voters for (the Borough of) Maryborough, 1761," which was published in 1954 by F.H. KEARNEY in "Irish Historical Studies" [Volume IX, Number 33, March 1954, at pages 53-83], the joint journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies.
Walter was evidently married (details unknown), with issue, probably including:
1. John PIGOTT, probably born about 1712, give or take a year or two; a Mariner; in 1732 he delivered, by his own hand, a written introduction from John GUNTHORPE in Antigua, to Abraham REDWOOD Junior (1710-1788), a Merchant in Newport, Rhode Island (his father, Abraham REDWOOD Senior, had been a plantation proprietor in Antigua from 1687 until 1712, by virtue of his marriage to a daughter of Jonas LANGFORD, whence he removed to Salem, Massachusetts, and thence to Newport in 1729, shortly before his death).
GUNTHORPE's letter, dated at Antigua on 24 July 1732 [published in a paper entitled "Commerce of Rhode Island, 1726-1800," Volume 1, 1726-1774, Page 28, Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, 1914], included the following paragraph:
"Deare Abraham...
"I beg leave to recommend the Bearer, Mr John PIGOTT, Son to old Major (*) PIGOTT of our Island, to your Friendship and favour, and if you can be any way servisable to him by assisting him to get an Employment in the Command of some goode Vessel; I shall take it as a very greate favour, for He is truely a young Gentleman of Meritt, being, very modest, sober, industrious, a brisk Sayler, and goode Artist, which I aver to be the Character given to me of him by two Captains of Men of War, he had the honour to serve under as Midship Man for four years last past. Capt. MALBONE I am in hopes will provide for him, and use your interest with him to that end."
2. Eldest daughter (implied by the wording of the marriage settlements of their "youngest" sister in 1751).
3. Middle daughter (or perhaps daughters?).
4. Margaret PIGOTT; as the "youngest" daughter, she was married at Stradbally, by settlements dated June 1751, to William GRAY of Maryborough (with issue), and to which deed her father was a party (see above). They had issue, including:
WALTER PIGOTT, MAJOR IN VILLIER'S REGIMENT.
English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714, by Charles DALTON [Volume V, 1702-1707, at page 144]:
Colonel George VILLIER's Regiment of Marines.
All Commissions dated 10 March 1702...
Captains 1st Lieutenants 2nd Lieutenants
George VILLIERS (Colonel) Thjo. HORNER (Capt-Lieut) Hy RAINSFORD
Alex. LUTTERELL (Lt-Col) Walter ELLIOTT Jno. BECKWITH
Tho. CAREW (Major) Jno. SALTER Jno. THURSTON
Robt HEDGES James CLARKE Cutts HASSAN
George BLAKENEY Robt FLOWER Jno. ANDERSON
Ben BULLER Mark HILDESLEY Jas DESBORDES
Philip DOCTON Jno. TAYLOR Ric. DOYLE
Fras BLINMAN Sol BALMIER Wm BISSET
Edward TYNTE Jno. CAWARDIN Tho. NORTHCOTE
Tho. ADAMS Robert STAWELL Danl WINTER
Walter PIGOTT (fn 11) Fleetwood WATKINS Saml BELL
Wm COURTNEY (Grenadiers) David EVANS Tho. SUTTON
Walter PIGOTT - Appointed Captain in Col Wm NORTHCOTE's Regiment of Foot, 16 February 1694; Bt Major 15 Sep 1706; resigned his Commission in Jos CHURCHILL's Regiment of Marines, 18 June 1708.
Muster Roll, 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot (also known as the 2nd Regiment of Marines), taken at the Siege of Alicant, Spain, in March 1707, for the 61 days from 5 April 1707 to 4 June 1707 (both dates included):
Joshua CHURCHILL, Colonel; and as Captain of his own Company, comprising one 2nd Lieutenant, one Captain, one surgeon, one sergeant and 23 privates.
Captain ADAM's Company, with one 1st Lieutenant (Cutts HASSAN) and one private.
Major PIGOTT's Company, with one 1st Lieutenant (Fleetwood WATKIN), one Corporal (Nicholas STURCH), and five privates (John CAMPDEN, John DRAB, Ferdinand ROBERTS, William STOCK and James EDMONDSON).
Captain MARSHALL's Company, with one 1st Lieutenant (John BECKWITH), two sergeants and 18 privates.
Captain TAYLOR's Company, with one corporal and 11 privates.
John PHILIPS, Chaplain.
Alexander WILSON, Surgeon.
In Hilary Term, 1711, Walter PIGOTT, Esquire, executed his complaint in the High Court of Chancery, probably in London, against Joshua CHURCHILL and Edward CASTLE, claiming money due to him, his servants, and his company, for services as Captain of a Regiment of Marines commanded by Joshua CHURCHILL; the original document containing this information is indexed under date of 9 November 1719, which is after English Walter's will was proved - so perhaps that document was a final answer delivered by the Court after his death?
English Walter's will, dated 1716, was proved P.C.C., January 1719, late of North Bowood Farm, Netherbury, Dorset.
Walter was married firstly, at Winterborn Zelstone, Dorset, 12 February 1697-98, to Amy COMPTON, widow of Joseph HUSEY of Stourpaine and Wimborne (his Administration dated 24 July 1695). A further probate grant was made for her first husband Joseph HUSSEY on 15 February 1703, naming Thomas HOBY as the principal creditor, Amy PIGOTT alias HUSSEY, the relict, deceased, and her brother Robert HUSSEY and sister Mary FRAMPTON, Widow, the original 1695 grant being renounced. Yet another grant was made on 14 November 1708, when Walter PIGOTT was named as principal creditor of goods not administered by Thomas HOBBY, now dead, and Mary FRAMPTON the sister (of Joseph HUSSEY), the 1703 grant being renounced.
Walter was a Widower, of the parish of Hampton, County Middlesex, when he was married secondly, by License for the Royal Chapel, Hampton Court, 16 September 1703, to Rebecca ENGLISH, Spinster, of the same parish:
Walter was again a Widower, aged 35 years, of the parish of St Clement Danes, Middlesex, when he was married thirdly, by License dated 26 April 1706 for Trinity Chapel, parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on 27 April 1706, to his cousin Mary STEVENS, Spinster:
Mary died on 10 September 1737, aged 48 years, was buried in Totteridge Parish Churchyard (Totteridge is bounded by the Parishes of Hendon and Finchley), as the "...relict of Captain PIGOTT" [Country Journal or Craftsman (London), Saturday 17 September 1737], and the tabular stone on her grave records her as the "...widdow of Captain PIGOTT, and daughter of Maxemilian STEVENS, Esq" [History of Hertfordshire, by Edward CUSSANS, 1972, Volume 2, page 302].
These two mentions of his rank as Captain does tend to confirm that the Brevet Major was another Walter.
Walter and Mary had issue:
1. Ann PIGOTT (baptised at St Martins-in-the-Fields, London, 6 July 1708).
If the rank of Mary's late husband was correctly recorded as Captain, then it would appear to confirm that there were two Walter PIGOTTs, who both had Army connections, and perhaps with the same regiment.
There is therefore a possibility that some of this Army career recorded above may have been about our Walter of Dysart.
Like most of his older brothers, Walter served in the Army, from the time of the brief Jacobite supremacy, in 1689-90, and through into the War of the Spanish Succession.
According to Charles DALTON ["English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661 - 1714"], a Walter PIGOTT, who I am presuming likely to have been our Irish Walter, had served in William NORTHCOTT's Regiment of Foot (Captain, 16 February 1694), and later in Colonel George VILLIER's Regiment of Marines (Captain, 10 March 1702; Brevet-Major, 15 September 1706; Resigned his commission in the same Regiment of Marines, now Colonel Josiah CHURCHILL's, on 18 June 1708).
See details of DALTON's Regimental List in a separate section below.
However, it appears that another Walter PIGOTT, from Shropshire in England, may have, at some time, been serving as a Captain in the same Marine's Regiment. This would have caused some confusion and/or conflation - and to avoid further confusion, and distinguish between them, Irish Walter may have dropped the use of his given name, especially after he acquired the rank of Brevet Major.
See details of this English Walter further below.
Walter was named as the first of a number of joint Plaintiffs, of a Bill brought before the Court of the Exchequer in Dublin, 1 February 1708(-09), together with John PIGOTT, Alexander PIGOTT, Thomas PIGOTT, Robert PHILLIPS and his wife Ann PHILLIPS alias PIGOTT, and Samuel BOOKER and his wife Martha BOOKER alias PIGOTT; to which Bill the Defendants were Walter WELDON, and Adam KIDDER and his wife Celia KIDDER alias WELDON [Court of Chancery, Bill Books, on Findmypast]. Details of the case have likewise not survived.
It is inevitable that these were the surviving PIGOTT siblings, without their eldest brother (and heir to their late father) Robert, taking an action-at-law against several of their WELDON cousins.
BOOKER is a frequently used variant spelling for BOWKER.
Walter, after his service in the said War of the Spanish Succession, appears to have gone to the West Indies; he was probably the Major PIGOTT who was appointed, in 1718, by Thomas OTTLEY, of St Kitts, to command a small group of armed men to protect his vessels against French pirates.
Walter, after his service in the said War of the Spanish Succession, appears to have gone to the West Indies; he was probably the Major PIGOTT who was appointed, in 1718, by Thomas OTTLEY, of St Kitts, to command a small group of armed men to protect his vessels against French pirates.
Curiously, there is no other mention of him actually living in Antigua in Vere Langford OLIVER's monumental account, "The History of the Island of Antigua," other than in the PIGOTT Family pedigree, and associated Irish documents, apart from this "engagement" in 1718.
Walter PIGOTT, of the Queen's County, Gent, was witness to an Indenture of Lease, dated 11 November 1720 [Memorial 17360, Book 30, Page 221], by which his brother-in-law Lancelot SANDES of Kilcavan (the widower of Walter's late sister Elizabeth PIGOTT) made a lease of 600 profitable acres in the Townlands of Ballymacrossan and Couldonagh, Barony of Phillipstown, King's County, to Walter BIRMINGHAM of Grange, County Kildare.
Walter was named in the will, dated 5 January 1728, of his eldest brother, Robert PIGOTT (about 1664 - 1730) of Dysart in the Queen's County, as follows:
"... To my nephews Pigott and Richard SANDES £300 in trust for my brother Walter PIGOTT." [Vere Langford OLIVER, in his "History of the Island of Antigua," Volume 3, Page 25.]
It would appear that Robert may not have been fully aware of the circumstances of Walter's where-abouts and/or his family.
And it is quite possible that his SANDES nephews may have alerted Walter to the fact that his brother had made his will, and of the bequest made to him in trust - in much the same way as their father had done, 26 years earlier, when Robert PIGOTT, then in London, had been advised that his father, Thomas PIGOTT (about 1641 - 1702), had begun to break-up the inheritance by installing his second son, John PIGOTT (about 1664 - 1710), then married with issue, including a son and heir, in the Dysart estate home of Kilcromin.
These later testamentary arrangements were confirmed in a Deed of Assignment, dated 30 September 1730 [Memorial 44375, Book 65, Page 63] - see below.
Walter was named in a number of entries in Registers of Tythe Sufferings of Members of the Society of Friends [Quaker Records, Ireland, Findmypast], for the parish of Dysart-enos, Queen's County.
The first was probably taken during the harvest of 1728, perhaps about the time of the Quarter Day (25 September) nearest to the autumn equinox (21 September):
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe... And by Walter PIGOTT and his assistance, Tithetaker under said Pigott SANDS - 25 car loads of hay and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £3:10:0."
At this time, although his eldest brother Robert had sold Dysart, he had retained the right to keep dwelling there, and the right of receiving the tythes.
In the next entry, the new owner, Emanuel PIGOTT, Robert's second cousin, was recorded as the Improprietor:
1730: "John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe... by Walter PIGOTT and his assistants, Tithe-taker under said Emanuel PIGOTT - 30 carloads of bere, 3 carloads of wheat, 270 stooks of oats, 32 carloads of hay and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £10:12:0. All worth £22:12:0."
It was not long before Emanuel had passed the baton over to the new tenants at Dysart, the BALDWINs:
Walter was named in the above-mentioned Deed of Assignment, dated 30 September 1730 [Memorial 44375, Book 65, Page 63], executed by Pigott and Richard SANDES (as Trustees), Walter and Thomas PIGOTT (as Parties) and Richard WARBURTON of Garryhinch (connected with an earlier set of deeds); and reciting those earlier Deeds of Lease and Release, dated 17 and 18 May 1725 [Memorial 28893, Book 46, Page 352], concerning the sale of Dysart, with other lands, in the Queen's County, by Robert PIGOTT of Dysart, to his cousin Emanuel PIGOTT of Chetwynd, County Cork.
1731: "John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe... by Walter PIGOTT, Tithetaker under said BALDWIN - 20 carloads of bere, 5 carloads of oats, 3 carloads of wheat and 28 carloads of hay, worth £7:0:0. All worth £20:10:0."
1732: "John POWER had taken from him for tithe... by Walter PIGOTT and his assistance - 5 carloads of bere, worth 12:0..."
1733: "John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe... by Walter PIGOTT, Tithetaker under said BALDWIN - 10 carloads of bere, 15 carloads of oats, 6 carloads of barley, 26 carloads of hay, and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £11:10:0. All worth £22:10:0.
"John POORE had taken from him for tithe, by said Walter PIGOTT and FITCHPATRICK and assistance - 13 carloads of bere, 15 carloads of oats, 2 carloads of pease, 1 carload of barley, 2 carloads of hay and 4 ridges of potatoes. All worth £7:11:0."
1734: "John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe... by Walter PIGOTT and his assistance, Tithetaker under J. BALDWIN - 34 carloads of hay, 11 carloads of bere, 2 carloads of barley, and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £6:11:0...
"John POORE had taken from him for tithe... by ye aforedsaid Walter PIGOTT and his assistance, Tithetaker under J. BALDWIN - 3 carloads of hay, 10 carloads of oats, 2 carloads of pease, and 5 ridges of potatoes, worth £2:13:0. All worth £7:15:0."
1735: "John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe... by Walter PIGOTT and his assistants, Tithetaker under said BALDWIN - 25 carloads of hay, 17 carloads of bere, 7 carloads of wheat, 22 carloads of Oats, 8 carloads of pease, and 2 and a half ridges of potatoes, worth £10:17:0. All worth £21:8:0."
1732: "John POWER had taken from him for tithe... by Walter PIGOTT and his assistance - 5 carloads of bere, worth 12:0..."
1733: "John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe... by Walter PIGOTT, Tithetaker under said BALDWIN - 10 carloads of bere, 15 carloads of oats, 6 carloads of barley, 26 carloads of hay, and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £11:10:0. All worth £22:10:0.
"John POORE had taken from him for tithe, by said Walter PIGOTT and FITCHPATRICK and assistance - 13 carloads of bere, 15 carloads of oats, 2 carloads of pease, 1 carload of barley, 2 carloads of hay and 4 ridges of potatoes. All worth £7:11:0."
1734: "John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe... by Walter PIGOTT and his assistance, Tithetaker under J. BALDWIN - 34 carloads of hay, 11 carloads of bere, 2 carloads of barley, and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £6:11:0...
"John POORE had taken from him for tithe... by ye aforedsaid Walter PIGOTT and his assistance, Tithetaker under J. BALDWIN - 3 carloads of hay, 10 carloads of oats, 2 carloads of pease, and 5 ridges of potatoes, worth £2:13:0. All worth £7:15:0."
1735: "John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe... by Walter PIGOTT and his assistants, Tithetaker under said BALDWIN - 25 carloads of hay, 17 carloads of bere, 7 carloads of wheat, 22 carloads of Oats, 8 carloads of pease, and 2 and a half ridges of potatoes, worth £10:17:0. All worth £21:8:0."
Walter was named in the above-mentioned Deed of Assignment, dated 30 September 1730 [Memorial 44375, Book 65, Page 63], executed by Pigott and Richard SANDES (as Trustees), Walter and Thomas PIGOTT (as Parties) and Richard WARBURTON of Garryhinch (connected with an earlier set of deeds); and reciting those earlier Deeds of Lease and Release, dated 17 and 18 May 1725 [Memorial 28893, Book 46, Page 352], concerning the sale of Dysart, with other lands, in the Queen's County, by Robert PIGOTT of Dysart, to his cousin Emanuel PIGOTT of Chetwynd, County Cork.
And further therein reciting that Robert PIGOTT of Dysart, by his last will and testament, dated 5 January 1728, did:
"... charge and encumber the said Lands of Dysart, and the said other lands, with the sum of £900 sterling, and did, inter alia, leave and bequeath unto his brother Walter PIGOTT the sum of £300 sterling, part of the £900, charged on the said lands of Dysart and said other lands, and by a will remaining as of record in His Majesty's Prerogative Court of this Kingdom may more at large appear, a Probate of which will, administration cum testamento annexo, was by the said Court granted and committed unto Thomas PIGOTT, nephew of the said Testator and of Walter PIGOTT the Devisee."
And by the said (30 September 1730) Deed of Assignment:
"They the said Pigott and Richard SANDES, Esq's, Trustees, and Walter PIGOTT, Devised, and Thomas PIGOTT, Administrator, did, for and in consideration of the said sum of £300 sterling, to them some or one of them paid or secured to be paid, Assign, Transfer and Make Over unto the said Richard WARBURTON, his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns..."
This Deed was witnessed by John BOWKER, of Coolchrie, and Matthew CASSAN, of Maryborough, both in the Queens County.
Walter was probably identified as "... old Major PIGOTT" of Antigua, July 1732 - see (*) below. However, this date corresponds with a period when Walter appears to have been back in Ireland. Although these may not necessarily have been mutually exclusive conditions.
In 1744, Walter PIGOTT was Plaintiff in a Bill brought before the Court of the Exchequer in Ireland [Court of Exchequer, Bill Books, Findmypast]. The Defendents were listed as Pigott SANDYS (sic), Thomas PIGOTT, and John BOWKER. The Bill was undated, but SANDES' answer, per Mr DEMPSEY, was dated 20 April 1744; a reply by Mr CASSAN Attorney, was dated 30 November; a further rejoinder by DEMPSEY for SANDES was dated 26 February 1744(-45); and PIGOTT's answer, by Mr GREEN, was dated 21 May 1746. The details of the case have not survived, but the story of it is probably illustrated by the deeds already mentioned.
Walter was of Stradbally, Gent, when he made Articles of Agreement, dated 16 June 1751 [Memorial 132594, Volume 201, Page 233], which were the Settlements for the marriage of his youngest daughter Margaret PIGOTT (as the joint first party), to William GRAY of Maryborough, Gent (the second party), and for which the witnesses were Francis COSBY of Stradbally, Gent, and his servant Joseph HILL, with Walter's signing and sealing being witnessed by the said Joseph HILL and Richard GRAY of Stradbally, shoemaker. This deed was not registered until 21 June 1759, and that belated registration may have been associated with, and perhaps brought on by, Walter's death.
Walter was of Stradbally, Gent, when he made Articles of Agreement, dated 16 June 1751 [Memorial 132594, Volume 201, Page 233], which were the Settlements for the marriage of his youngest daughter Margaret PIGOTT (as the joint first party), to William GRAY of Maryborough, Gent (the second party), and for which the witnesses were Francis COSBY of Stradbally, Gent, and his servant Joseph HILL, with Walter's signing and sealing being witnessed by the said Joseph HILL and Richard GRAY of Stradbally, shoemaker. This deed was not registered until 21 June 1759, and that belated registration may have been associated with, and perhaps brought on by, Walter's death.
The description of her as the "youngest daughter" might reasonably be construed to indicate that she had at least two older sisters.
Walter PIGOTT, of Ballymadock, Queen's County, died in or shortly before 1759; he was so named as deceased in a List preceeding the one detailed in a "Handlist of the Voters for (the Borough of) Maryborough, 1761," which was published in 1954 by F.H. KEARNEY in "Irish Historical Studies" [Volume IX, Number 33, March 1954, at pages 53-83], the joint journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies.
There were apparently three consecutive lists, recorded in a manuscript note-book, now in the National Library (in Kildare Street, Dublin), among the Earl of Drogheda Papers [Ms 1726]. KEARNEY only published the final list, which was an up-grade inevitably used by political agents for the 1761 General Election. The list mentioning Walter PIGOTT was the preceding list, undated but probably made about 1758-59, or perhaps earlier. I have not yet seen the unpublished lists, and was advised of Walter's entry by library staff about 18 months ago - their advice was that the published list was actually dated 1760, and that the preceding list was dated 1759.
The Earl of Drogheda probably came into possession of the note-book after he was appointed as Governor of Maryborough in the 1770s.
It's authorship remains, as yet, unknown - but it would not surprise me if it turned out that one or other or all of the then Burgomasters were involved.
Walter was evidently married (details unknown), with issue, probably including:
1. John PIGOTT, probably born about 1712, give or take a year or two; a Mariner; in 1732 he delivered, by his own hand, a written introduction from John GUNTHORPE in Antigua, to Abraham REDWOOD Junior (1710-1788), a Merchant in Newport, Rhode Island (his father, Abraham REDWOOD Senior, had been a plantation proprietor in Antigua from 1687 until 1712, by virtue of his marriage to a daughter of Jonas LANGFORD, whence he removed to Salem, Massachusetts, and thence to Newport in 1729, shortly before his death).
GUNTHORPE's letter, dated at Antigua on 24 July 1732 [published in a paper entitled "Commerce of Rhode Island, 1726-1800," Volume 1, 1726-1774, Page 28, Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, 1914], included the following paragraph:
"Deare Abraham...
"I beg leave to recommend the Bearer, Mr John PIGOTT, Son to old Major (*) PIGOTT of our Island, to your Friendship and favour, and if you can be any way servisable to him by assisting him to get an Employment in the Command of some goode Vessel; I shall take it as a very greate favour, for He is truely a young Gentleman of Meritt, being, very modest, sober, industrious, a brisk Sayler, and goode Artist, which I aver to be the Character given to me of him by two Captains of Men of War, he had the honour to serve under as Midship Man for four years last past. Capt. MALBONE I am in hopes will provide for him, and use your interest with him to that end."
The writer was inevitably Colonel John GUNTHORPE (about 1683-1740), the son of Major John GUNTHORPE and his wife Feelove COOKE, and so a first half-cousin of Captain John PIGOTT (about 1704-1763), who was likely to have been this Midshipman PIGOTT's first cousin german.
And very likely to have been the second Captain John PIGOTT, who is mentioned by Robert PIGOTT in his 1808 Petition, as having returned to Ireland about 1760 "... after many years service abroad."
And very likely to have been the second Captain John PIGOTT, who is mentioned by Robert PIGOTT in his 1808 Petition, as having returned to Ireland about 1760 "... after many years service abroad."
2. Eldest daughter (implied by the wording of the marriage settlements of their "youngest" sister in 1751).
3. Middle daughter (or perhaps daughters?).
4. Margaret PIGOTT; as the "youngest" daughter, she was married at Stradbally, by settlements dated June 1751, to William GRAY of Maryborough (with issue), and to which deed her father was a party (see above). They had issue, including:
a. Letitia GRAY; she was married at Stradbally, by License of the Diocese of Ossary, 1 September 1768, to James BARRINGTON, of Stradbally, Coachmaker [the laoishouses.wordpress.com web-site]; they had issue, mentioned in a family tree on ancestry, as:
i. Henry BARRINGTON.
ii. John BARRINGTON.
iii. Richard BARRINGTON.
iv. Letitia BARRINGTON, born about 1782; she was married, by an Indented Deed of Settlement, dated 17 May 1817 [Memorial 489237, Book 715,Page 302], made between James GREENHAM of Cork Street, Dublin, Merchant (the groom), of the first part, James BARRINGTON of Stradbally, Merchant, and his daughter Letitia, Spinster, of the second part, to which Ann GRAY and Elizabeth GRAY of Stradablly, Spinsters, and maternal aunts of Letitia, were the Trustees, and in which several of the properties involved were leaseholds of Richard GRAY.
v. Thomas BARRINGTON.
vi. Robert BARRINGTON.
vii. William BARRINGTON.
See below, at the end of this article, for the descent from Margaret PIGOTT and William GRAY.
_____________________________________________
WALTER PIGOTT, MAJOR IN VILLIER'S REGIMENT.
English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714, by Charles DALTON [Volume V, 1702-1707, at page 144]:
Colonel George VILLIER's Regiment of Marines.
All Commissions dated 10 March 1702...
Captains 1st Lieutenants 2nd Lieutenants
George VILLIERS (Colonel) Thjo. HORNER (Capt-Lieut) Hy RAINSFORD
Alex. LUTTERELL (Lt-Col) Walter ELLIOTT Jno. BECKWITH
Tho. CAREW (Major) Jno. SALTER Jno. THURSTON
Robt HEDGES James CLARKE Cutts HASSAN
George BLAKENEY Robt FLOWER Jno. ANDERSON
Ben BULLER Mark HILDESLEY Jas DESBORDES
Philip DOCTON Jno. TAYLOR Ric. DOYLE
Fras BLINMAN Sol BALMIER Wm BISSET
Edward TYNTE Jno. CAWARDIN Tho. NORTHCOTE
Tho. ADAMS Robert STAWELL Danl WINTER
Walter PIGOTT (fn 11) Fleetwood WATKINS Saml BELL
Wm COURTNEY (Grenadiers) David EVANS Tho. SUTTON
Chaplain, Tho. ROSE.
Adjutant, Abr. COAKLEY.
Quarter Master, Jno. ANDREWS.
Chirurgeon, James CHURCH.
Footnote 11 [Page 146]:Walter PIGOTT - Appointed Captain in Col Wm NORTHCOTE's Regiment of Foot, 16 February 1694; Bt Major 15 Sep 1706; resigned his Commission in Jos CHURCHILL's Regiment of Marines, 18 June 1708.
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Colonel George VILLIERS drowned off the Spanish coast in December 1703, and was succeeded as Colonel of the Regiment by Alexander LUTTERELL, commissioned on 6 December; he died in early 1706, and was succeeded by Josiah CHURCHILL on 1 February; he was, in turn, succeeded by Sir Harry GORING on 1 March 1711.
Muster Roll, 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot (also known as the 2nd Regiment of Marines), taken at the Siege of Alicant, Spain, in March 1707, for the 61 days from 5 April 1707 to 4 June 1707 (both dates included):
Joshua CHURCHILL, Colonel; and as Captain of his own Company, comprising one 2nd Lieutenant, one Captain, one surgeon, one sergeant and 23 privates.
Captain ADAM's Company, with one 1st Lieutenant (Cutts HASSAN) and one private.
Major PIGOTT's Company, with one 1st Lieutenant (Fleetwood WATKIN), one Corporal (Nicholas STURCH), and five privates (John CAMPDEN, John DRAB, Ferdinand ROBERTS, William STOCK and James EDMONDSON).
Captain MARSHALL's Company, with one 1st Lieutenant (John BECKWITH), two sergeants and 18 privates.
Captain TAYLOR's Company, with one corporal and 11 privates.
John PHILIPS, Chaplain.
Alexander WILSON, Surgeon.
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WALTER PIGOTT OF SALOP AND DORSET.
There was another Walter PIGOTT, born about 1670 (from the age he recorded on the Allegations of his third marriage in 1706), a son of Thomas PIGOTT of Chetwynd, County Salop, by his first wife Elizabeth LOET.
He was therefore distantly related - as about 7th or 8th cousin - to our Walter PIGOTT of the Queen's County.
AN ARMSTRONG MARRIAGE?
Frances GRAY; in 1761, a Spinster, she was named as the niece of John PIGOTT of Prospect, Queen's County, Esq, in the Articles of Agreement, dated 15 January 1761 [Memorial 222628, Book 328, Page 545], which were the Marriage Settlements for her and Warneford ARMSTRONG, of Ballycumber, King's County, Esq; the trustees were Thomas ARMSTRONG of Morook (?) and Andrew ARMSTRONG of Gallen, both of King's County, Esq'rs; and the witnesses were Thomas PIGOTT of Prospect, Esq, and William LONG, servant to Mr George ARMSTRONG.
This was Warneford ARMSTRONG's third marriage; he was born at Ballycumber in 1699, a son of Andrew ARMSTRONG and Lucy CHARNOCK; his first wife was Elizabeth BAGGOTT (married in 1719); and his second was Jane JONES (married in 1742).
The second trustee, Andrew ARMSTRONG, was married to Constantia Maria PIGOTT, the younger daughter of John PIGOTT (he was living at Prospect about this time).
The first witness, Thomas PIGOTT, was either a first cousin of John PIGOTT, or instead his brother.
Warneford died in 1767; there appears to have been no issue of this, his third marriage.
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WALTER PIGOTT OF SALOP AND DORSET.
There was another Walter PIGOTT, born about 1670 (from the age he recorded on the Allegations of his third marriage in 1706), a son of Thomas PIGOTT of Chetwynd, County Salop, by his first wife Elizabeth LOET.
He was therefore distantly related - as about 7th or 8th cousin - to our Walter PIGOTT of the Queen's County.
It does appear that he may have been a candidate for the Captain in William NORTHCOTT's Regiment of Foot, 1694; Captain, George VILLIERS' Regiment of Marines, 1702; and served in the War of the Spanish Succession.
However, he advertised rewards for information on deserters from his company, 1702, then residing at Wimborne Minster, Dorset.
But, as we see below, English Walter was not a Major (that appears much more likely to have been the Irish Walter, who survived until the late 1750s - see above).
Perhaps Irish Walter was just visiting his very distant relation, English Walter?
In Hilary Term, 1711, Walter PIGOTT, Esquire, executed his complaint in the High Court of Chancery, probably in London, against Joshua CHURCHILL and Edward CASTLE, claiming money due to him, his servants, and his company, for services as Captain of a Regiment of Marines commanded by Joshua CHURCHILL; the original document containing this information is indexed under date of 9 November 1719, which is after English Walter's will was proved - so perhaps that document was a final answer delivered by the Court after his death?
Was this instead our Irish Walter? I think not, as by this time, Irish Walter had been promoted to Brevet Major in 1706, and had resigned his commission in the Regiment in 1708.
English Walter's will, dated 1716, was proved P.C.C., January 1719, late of North Bowood Farm, Netherbury, Dorset.
Walter was married firstly, at Winterborn Zelstone, Dorset, 12 February 1697-98, to Amy COMPTON, widow of Joseph HUSEY of Stourpaine and Wimborne (his Administration dated 24 July 1695). A further probate grant was made for her first husband Joseph HUSSEY on 15 February 1703, naming Thomas HOBY as the principal creditor, Amy PIGOTT alias HUSSEY, the relict, deceased, and her brother Robert HUSSEY and sister Mary FRAMPTON, Widow, the original 1695 grant being renounced. Yet another grant was made on 14 November 1708, when Walter PIGOTT was named as principal creditor of goods not administered by Thomas HOBBY, now dead, and Mary FRAMPTON the sister (of Joseph HUSSEY), the 1703 grant being renounced.
Walter was a Widower, of the parish of Hampton, County Middlesex, when he was married secondly, by License for the Royal Chapel, Hampton Court, 16 September 1703, to Rebecca ENGLISH, Spinster, of the same parish:
[Image courtesy of Ancestry.com - London and Surrey Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921.]
Walter was again a Widower, aged 35 years, of the parish of St Clement Danes, Middlesex, when he was married thirdly, by License dated 26 April 1706 for Trinity Chapel, parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on 27 April 1706, to his cousin Mary STEVENS, Spinster:
[Image courtesy of Ancestry.com - London and Surrey Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921.]
The Marriage Settlements recorded Walter at Wimborne Minster, Dorset - and she was daughter of Maximilian STEPHENS by Mary PIGOTT of Chetwynd, Salop.
Walter's signatures on both of the allegations for the above licenses were identical, and one of them mentioned his "Militare" status.
Mary died on 10 September 1737, aged 48 years, was buried in Totteridge Parish Churchyard (Totteridge is bounded by the Parishes of Hendon and Finchley), as the "...relict of Captain PIGOTT" [Country Journal or Craftsman (London), Saturday 17 September 1737], and the tabular stone on her grave records her as the "...widdow of Captain PIGOTT, and daughter of Maxemilian STEVENS, Esq" [History of Hertfordshire, by Edward CUSSANS, 1972, Volume 2, page 302].
These two mentions of his rank as Captain does tend to confirm that the Brevet Major was another Walter.
Walter and Mary had issue:
1. Ann PIGOTT (baptised at St Martins-in-the-Fields, London, 6 July 1708).
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However, the footnote in DALTON's Commissions Register records that Walter PIGOTT, of VILLIER's Marines, received a brevet promotion to the rank of Major in September 1706; and that he resigned from Josiah CHURCHILL's Regt (formerly VILLIERS'), with the rank of Major, in 1708.If the rank of Mary's late husband was correctly recorded as Captain, then it would appear to confirm that there were two Walter PIGOTTs, who both had Army connections, and perhaps with the same regiment.
There is therefore a possibility that some of this Army career recorded above may have been about our Walter of Dysart.
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RELATED DOCUMENTS, THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, KEW.
C 10/357/29
COMPTON v. PIGOTT.
Plaintiff - Henry COMPTON.
Defendants - Walter PIGOTT and Amy PIGOTT his wife, Robert HUSSEY and Mary FRAMPTON.
Subject - Marriage contract, Hampshire.
Document type - two bills and answer.
Date 1699.
[Kew].
C 10/414/6
COMPTON v. PIGOTT
Plaintiff - Hoby COMPTON.
Defendants - Walter PIGOTT, William HIGHMORE, Clerk, Edward YARD, Amy COMPTON, Widow, Robert HUSSEY and others.
Subject - Marriage contract, Hampshire.
Document type - bill and answer.
Date - 1701
[Kew].
C 6/397/7
COMPTON v. COMPTON
Plaintiffs - Elizabeth COMPTON, of Hampshire, next friend, Elizabeth COMPTON infant, Henry COMPTON infant, Katherine COMPTON infant, and Anne COMPTON the younger infant.
Defendants - Hoby COMPTON, infant, Thomas HOBEY, Esq, guardian, Sir Dewey BULKELEY, Kt, Maurice BUCKLAND, Esq, Henry HOOKE, Esq, and John WILLIS, Gent.
Subject - The Plaintiff Elizabeth's claim against the executors and trustees of the will of Henry COMPTON, Esq, of Bisterne, Hampshire, her late husband. She wanted to be re-imbursed for the maintenance of her eldest son and was concerned that her younger children's portions would be compromised if the trustees paid an annuity to her brother-in-law: mentions Richard COMPTON, Esq, of Bisterne, Hampshire, Amy PIGOTT (alias Amy HUSSEY alias Amy COMPTON) his wife: property in Crow, Hampshire; Exbury Farm, Exbury, Hampshire; Leape, Hampshire; Totton, Hampshire; Berkeley Minstead, Minstead, Hampshire; and Brook, Hampshire.
Document type - Bill, four answers, two schedules.
Date Range - 1705-1706.
[Kew].
C 8/625/91
PIGOTT v. COMPTON
Plaintiff - Walter PIGOTT.
Defendants - Hoby COMPTON, Thomas COMPTON, William HIGHMORE, Mary FRAMPTON, Hubert HUSSEY, John SLORSCH and others.
Subject - personal estate of Richard COMPTON, Bisterne, Hampshire.
Document type - two bills and three answers.
Date - 1706.
[Kew].
C 6/362/53
PIGOTT v. HIGHMORE.
Plaintiff - Walter PIGOTT, Esq.
Defendants - Anne HIGHMORE, widow, Mary FRAMPTON (alias Mary HUSSEY), widow, and George FILLISTER, gent.
Subject - Response to an earlier judgement relating to a marriage agreement and the inheritance of lands and effects in Dorset and Hampshire.
Document type - Answer only.
Date - 1706.
[Kew].
C 11/741/37
PIGOTT v. EALES
Document type - Bill and answer.
Plaintiffs - Walter PIGOTT, Esq, of North Bowood, Dorset.
Plaintiff - Mary EALES.
Dateof Bill (or first document) - 1715.
PROB 18/35/79
Probate law suit, THORNHILL v. PIGOTT, concerning the deceased Walter PIGOTT of Bowood, Netherbury, Dorset, but [who died ?] in the precincts of Bridewell, London. Allegation.
Date - 1719.
[Kew].
D/PIT/T417
North Bowood Farm; ground on the south side of Witch Street, St Mary le Strand, Middlesex, in deed of 1720; marriage settlement of Walter PIGOTT of Wimbourne Minster and Mary STEPHENS of Middlesex, 26 April 1706; copy will of Thomas HAWES, Esq, of St Margaret's, Westminster (21 May 1743). (WECKETT, THORNHILL, PIGOTT, STEPHENS, SNAPE, TONGE, GALLOP, WALLER, POLE, MUNDAY, POLLARD).
Date range - 1706 - 1743
[Dorset History Centre].
C 11/1990/37
PIGOTT v. PIGOTT
Bill and two answers.
Plaintiffs - Ann PIGOTT of St Paul, Covent Garden, Middlesex (only daughter of Walter PIGOTT, Esq, deceased, late of North Bowood, Dorset, and Mary PIGOTT his wife), infant (by said Mary PIGOTT, her mother).
Defendants - Robert PIGOTT, Esq, Andrew SNAPE, D.D., Maximillian STEPHENS, Esq, Jeremiah THORNHILL and Mary THORNHILL.
Date of Bill (or fist document) - 1720 JFP
[Kew].
C 11/1435/18
PIGOTT v. WECKETT.
Bill, Answer and Plea.
Plaintiffs - Mary PIGOTT (widow of Walter PIGOTT, Esq, deceased, late of North Bowood, Dorset), Ann PIGOTT, aged 14 (sole daughter and heir of the said Walter PIGOTT and Mary PIGOTT his said wife), infant (by her said mother) and Maximillian STEPHENS, Esq, of Surton, Surrey.
Defendants - William WECKETT, gent, and Mary WECKETT his wife, Jeremiah THORNHILL and Elizabeth THORNHILL his wife.
Date of Bill (or first document) - 1723.
[Kew].
C 11/1329/75
WEKETT v. THORNHILL
Document type - Bill only.
Plaintiffs - William WEKETT, Clerk, of Brancepeth, Durham, and Mary WEKETT his wife (executrix and residuary legatee of Walter PIGOTT, Esq, deceased, of North Bowood, Dorset).
Defendants - Jeremiah THORNHILL, Mary RAYNOR and (unknown) RAYNOR.
Date of Bill (or first document) - 1728.
[Kew].
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THE GRAY FAMILY OF DESCENDANTS.
Walter PIGOTT's daughter Margaret married into the GRAY family of Maryborough, Queen's County.
BETHAM's Abstracts record that a William GRAY, of Cudicha (?), in the Queen's County, made his will (or it was proved P.C.I.) on 8 April 1723, naming his sons William, George and Jonathan, and daughters Jane, Rebecca and Margaret GRAY.
This son William may have been the next?
William GRAY may have been a widower when he and Margaret PIGOTT were married in June 1751.
Several on-line family trees suggest that he had issue born earlier, or that there may have been more than one William GRAY of Maryborough?
These were:
1. Frances GRAY, said to have been born in 1742, and to have died in 1807; she was married, by Settlements dated 15 January 1761, to Warneford ARMSTRONG, of Ballycumber, in the King's County, Esq - she was here recorded as the niece of John PIGOTT of Prospect, in the Queen's County, Esq, and one of the witnesses was Thomas PIGOTT, also of Prospect.
2. Humphrey GRAY, said to have been born in 1744; he was married to Sarah FRENCH; with issue.
William's marriage to Margaret PIGOTT appears to have produced at least another three daughters, as follows:
3. Letitia GRAY, probably born about 1751 or 1752; she is said to have died in 1810; if she was Margaret's daughter, she would have been aged about 16 or 17 when she was married at Stradbally, by License of the Diocese of Ossory, 1 September 1768, to James BARRINGTON, a Coachmaker; he is said to have been born in Rahinelusk, County Wexford, about 1743, and to have died in 1817.
They had issue, and from the information in the on-line family trees, after a gap of almost 10 years (or there were older children who did not survive?):
a. Henry BARRINGTON; said to have been born in 1778.
b. John BARRINGTON, ditto 1779.
c. Richard BARRINGTON, ditto 1780; said to have died in 1837.
d. Letitia BARRINGTON. See [Z] below.
e. Thomas BARRINGTON, ditto 1784.
f. Robert BARRINGTON, ditto 1791.
g. William BARRINGTON.
4. Anne GRAY; a spinster when she was named in her niece Letitia's Marriage Settlements, 1817.
5. Elizabeth GRAY; ditto 1817.
[Z] Letitia BARRINGTON, said to have been born in 1782; she died in Dublin, 18 April 1853, "... in her 72nd year... relict of James Dyas GREENHAM, of Cork Street, and Greenville, in the County Dublin, Esq" [Saunders Newsletter, 22 April]; she was married, by Settlements dated 17 May 1817, as his second wife, to James GREENHAM, of Cork Street, County Dublin, Merchant; he died in Dublin, September 1826 [mjpa Lynch Family Tree on Ancestry.com]; by his first wife, Jane E. HORNIDGE, he had issue:
a. James Hornidge GREENHAM, born 1799; died in 1816.
b. Leonard GREENHAM, born 1799; died in 1862.
c. John Robinson GREENHAM, born 1801.
d. Edward Joshua GREENHAM, born and died in 1802.
e. Robert GREENHAM, born in 1803; died in Australia in 1869.
f. Greage GREENHAM, born in 1805.
g. Margaret Jane GREENHAM, born 1808; she died in 1873; was was married at St Catherine's parish church, Dublin, 15 August 1830, to Richard STARR, of St Mary's parish; as Jane E. STAR, she witnessed her half-sister Letitia's marriage in 1851.
h. Francis GREENHAM, born 1817; died in 1879.
By Letitia BARRINGTON, he had further issue:
j. Lavinia GREENHAM, born 1854; died in 1928; she was married at Naas, County Kildare, 15 July 1875, to William Nassau CUTLER.
k. Jemima Letitia GREENHAM, born and died in 1821.
l. Letitia Elizabeth Barrington GREENHAM, born at Ballintore, County Kildare, in 1822; she died at Harrington Street, Dublin, 18 November 1890; she was married at Baltinglass parish church, Parish of Timolin, County Kildare, 30 August 1851, to Ebenezer MOLLOY, aged 27, Bachelor, son of Robert MOLLOY, of Nass, Merchant.
Edward GRAY, of Maryborough, Queen's County, Gent, was grantee of a Lease, dated 16 February 1737 [Memorial 62917, Book 89, Page 218], by which Sir John Denny VESEY, of Abbey Leix, Queen's County, Baronet, demised and let unto the said Edward GRAY "... all that part of the Lands of Knocknagowre lately held by John BENN, and now in the actual possession of the said Edward GRAY..."
Edward GRAY, of Maryborough, Esq, was Grantor in Deeds of Lease and Release, dated 25 and 26 November 1751 [Memorial 101119, Book 147, Page 496], by which he demised unto Mary TODD, of the City of Dublin, Widow, for ₤500 sterling, "... all that great store house or tenement formerly in the occupation of Joseph PARTRIDGE, Gent, and afterwards in the occupation of Edward DODSWORTH, Esq, deceased, and Judith his widow, and then in the possession of the said Edward GRAY, together with the tenements thereto adjoining... all situate... in the Town of Maryborough, and the Brew House, stable, yards... as then held by the said Edward GRAY...", and witnessed by Edward STIRLING and Samuel HEATLEY, both of Dublin.
Edward was named as Grantee in a Deed Poll dated 10 September 1753 [Memorial 109728, Book 161, Page 515], whereby William WALL, also of Maryborough, Esq (one of the M.P.s for the Borough of Maryborough) demised and set unto him "... all that shop, the malt house, store house and kiln house, now in the possession of the said Edward GRAY, situate in the west end of the Town of Maryborough...", which deed was witnessed by Bartholomew William GILBERT of Killminchy, Esq, Richard SWORDS, Gent, and Jacob KNOWLES, Cordwainer, both of Maryborough, all in the Queen's County.
Richard GRAY, of Stradbally, Queen's County, Cordwainer, was the Grantor in Articles of Agreement, dated 14 September 1734 [Memorial 56768, Book 80, Page 521], by which he demised a vacant block of ground, between his dwelling house and the gable end of the new dwelling house of Elizabeth ROBERTS, in the Town of Stradbally, to the said Elizabeth ROBERTS, of Stradbally, Widow.
In June 1751, Richard GRAY of Stradbally, Shoemaker, was witness to Walter PIGOTT (also of Stradbally, Gent) signing and sealing the Marriage Settlements, dated 16 June 1751 [Memorial 132594, Book 201, Page 233], for his youngest daughter Margaret, a Spinster, and William GRAY, of Maryborough, Gent.
I speculate that this Richard and William GRAY were probably related, perhaps as brothers? However, he was not mentioned in the 1723 Will/Probate of William GRAY (see above).
A BARRINGTON FAMILY IN STRADBALLY.
William BARRINGTON is said to have been born in Stradbally, about 1772 ["Wendy" Family Tree on Ancestry.com]; and to have died in Dublin on 26 November 1852, having married Catherine PURCELL, with issue including:
a. Richard Wellington BARRINGTON (1814-1891); probably the Solicitor who married Kate BARRINGTON (see below), and perhaps his cousin.
In July 1795, Mr William BARRINGTON, of Stradbally, Queen's County, was married to Miss PURCELL, of College Green [Saunders News Letter (Dublin), Wednesday 29 July].
Richard BARRINGTON is said to have been born at Stradbally about 1780; he died at Rathkeale Lodge, Queen's County, 5 September 1837; he is said to have been married firstly, in India, to a "creole of Mauritius," by whom he had issue:
a. Kate BARRINGTON, born in Bombay, 20 March 1816; she is said to have died at Malden, Massachusetts, on 4 August 1890; she was married on "... 2 June 1840, at St Anne's parish church, to Richard BARRINGTON, of Lower Ormond Quay, Solicitor" [Dublin Evening Mail, 18 June].
He was married secondly, by M.L.B. dated 1827, to Elizabeth ROBERTS (1784-1847), the widow of Godfrey WILLS (1768-1825).
In December 1801, Thomas BARRINGTON, of Stradbally, was married to Miss CAHILL, daughter of John CAHILL, of the said place, Merchant [Saunders News Letter (Dublin), Friday 1 January 1802].
James BARRINGTON, born about 1804, perhaps at Stradbally; of Stradbally, Queen's County, when he died at New York, 14 December 1858, aged 54 years [Waterford Mail, Saturday 22 January 1859].
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Chris PIGOTT,
Potts Point, N.S.W.
cgpigott5@gmail.com