Generation 10
ARBUCKLE, Unknown
BARRAVES,
Unknown
BURGESS
(BURGES), Unknown
CAMAC,
John
CLENMORE,
Unknown
COCHRANE,
Mary
CRAWFORD,
John
CURWEN,
Darcy
DOCWRA,
Francis
DUNLOP,
Unknown
ECCLES,
Unknown
FULTON,
Robert (Rev.)
LAWSON,
Isobel
PARKER,
Unknown
PHIPPS,
William
POTTINGER,
Thomas
SEARLE,
Susanna
SELL,
Thomas
SQUIRE,
Ann
STAMFORD,
Anne
STARR,
Unknown
WADE,
Unknown
WALDOCK,
Unknown
WILLMOTT,
Unknown
ARBUCKLE, James
F10: ARBUCKLE, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Arbuckle
D:
BARRAVES (BARRAUES),
Sarah
F10: BARRAVES, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Barraves
D:
CAMAC, Margaret
F10: CAMAC, John B:
M: Margaret Burgess
D:
Comments: of Killfallert (County Down).
Grandfather of Lt-Colonel Jacob
Camac of the Hon E.I.C.S. and of
Greenmount Co. Louth., William Camac
of 6 Mansfield
Sq London W,
and Major General Sir Burgess Camac.
M10: BURGESS
(BURGES), Margaret B:
M: John Camac
D:
CLENMORE (CLENMOE),
Julian (female)
F10: CLENMORE, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Clenmore
D:
CRAWFORD, Anne
F10: CRAWFORD, John B:
M: Unknown
D:
1797
Comments:
upon the death of John Crawford (1797), his brother, David,
succeeded
to the estate, which included Florida
Manor; David
subsequently
willed the property to his niece, Anne Crawford (Generation
9),
John’s daughter.
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: John Crawford
D:
CURWEN, Eldred
F10: CURWEN, Darcy B: 11-6-1643
M: 25-9-1677, in chapel at Isell. Isobel Lawson.
D: 30-7-1722, St
Albans.
Darcy
Curwen
Most facts on the life of Darcy Curwen, and of his unexpected inheritance (as he was not the eldest son), are not in
dispute: “Henry, the eldest son of Thomas, ‘Was born November 22, 1640, and died August 8th, being Monday at one
o'clock, 1653’, so that, although he heired, he never held the Sella Park property, into possession of which Darcy
Curwen, his brother and next heir, came when he arrived at full age.
Darcy's memorandum book, containing the dates of births, not only of his own immediate family, but of collaterals
and friends, with occasional general memoranda, has been preserved, and has been frequently referred to. He was
born, June 11th, 1643. He married at Isell, September 25th, 1677, Isabel, daughter of Sir Wilfred Lawson, who was
born, April 9th, 1653, by whom he had a very numerous family. He died at St. Albans, July 30th, 1722, having survived
his wife twenty-two years, for she was buried at Ponsonby, July 31st, 1700.
Upon the death of Darcy, Henry, his eldest surviving son, succeeded to Sella Park, and two years afterwards to the
entailed estates of the family, which he held for two years only, being killed by a fall from his horse at London, July
12th, 1727, aged 47 years, having been born January 4th, 1680. The record, in his own handwriting, of what appears
to have been his personal luggage (though some of the items seem extraordinary for a traveller), and of his ride to
London, commencing September 8th, 1726, whence he never returned, has been preserved…….He died unmarried.
This melancholy death was not the only fatal catastrophe that had befallen the family, for I believe that Wilfred, his
eldest brother, who was born at Isell, August 5th, 1678, was found dead on Cold Fell, June l0th, 1722. Eldred, the next
surviving son of Darcy, who was born April 11th, 1672, succeeded to the property.” (William Jackson, c 1866, Publications,
at http://www.archive.org/stream/publications05cumb/publications05cumb_djvu.txt)
There are, however, problems with the dating in
constructing a full biography; although only one wife -- Isobel Lawson
– is recorded for him, he is reputed to be the father of seventeen children (including three named Isabell and two
named Thomas), with dates of birth from 1678 (Wilfred) to 1698 (the third Isabell), when Isobel Lawson would have
been around age 45. A second wife might be the simplest explanation; however, it is also possible that there is, in the
family line, an extra generation that has not been acknowledged in existing research (this might explain, in part, Darcy’s
grandfather, Henry Curwen, appearing as late as Generation 12 for this family line, and as early as Generations 15
and 16 for other lines).
– is recorded for him, he is reputed to be the father of seventeen children (including three named Isabell and two
named Thomas), with dates of birth from 1678 (Wilfred) to 1698 (the third Isabell), when Isobel Lawson would have
been around age 45. A second wife might be the simplest explanation; however, it is also possible that there is, in the
family line, an extra generation that has not been acknowledged in existing research (this might explain, in part, Darcy’s
grandfather, Henry Curwen, appearing as late as Generation 12 for this family line, and as early as Generations 15
and 16 for other lines).
Four surviving original documents (from the National
Archives of Great Britain) attest to the life and career of Darcy Curwen:
(i) Receipt by Henry Lowther of Cockermouth for £15
received from Darcy Curwen in satisfaction of six bills in
respect of the apprenticeship of Patricius Curwen. Witness: John Bell. 9 Mar. 1671/2 On reverse: Note concerning the
settlement of accounts for stints and crops between Mrs Isabell Curwen and Mrs Anne Steel. 22 Jan. 1713.
respect of the apprenticeship of Patricius Curwen. Witness: John Bell. 9 Mar. 1671/2 On reverse: Note concerning the
settlement of accounts for stints and crops between Mrs Isabell Curwen and Mrs Anne Steel. 22 Jan. 1713.
(ii) Part of a Farm Journal (incomplete) of Darcy Curwen,
recording work done by named labourers, and their wages.
With a memorandum of his brother Wilfred’s debts written by (?) Henry Curwen, c. 1720.
With a memorandum of his brother Wilfred’s debts written by (?) Henry Curwen, c. 1720.
(iii) Part of a Commonplace Book, in the handwriting of
Darcy Curwen. Mostly extracts from a
poem about David and
Jonathan.
Jonathan.
(iv) Part of the Journal of Darcy Curwen, containing
memoranda of births deaths and marriages of his relations. Also two
remedies for sickness.
remedies for sickness.
M10: LAWSON, Isobel B: 9-4-1653
M: 25-9-1677, at Isell. Darcy Curwen.
D: Buried 31-7-1730, Ponsonby.
DOCWRA, John
F10: DOCWRA, Francis B: c 1676
M: 3-10-1694, Susanna Searle
D:
before 17-3-1740.
Comments:
Siblings: Mary (before 19-3-1682 – before 18-2-1684); John
(before
29-4-1684 – before 6-5-1694); Henry (before 29-8-1687 – before
30-8-1687);
James (27-11-1687 – before 1-3-1779).
M10: SEARLE, Susanna B: c 1676
M:
3-10-1694, Francis Docwra
D:
before 19-6-1711. Buried at Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire.
Comments:
the Bassingbourn Parish Register spells the first name of the
wife
of Francis Docwra as ‘Sussan’; the surname ‘Searle’ is not given.
DUNLOP, Mary
F10: DUNLOP, Unknown B:
M: Mary Cochrane
D:
M10: COCHRANE, Mary B: possibly 20-12-1694
M: Unknown Dunlop
D:
Comments:
recorded as the daughter of the 6th earl of Dundonald;
however,
there is considerable doubt about this claim, both because of
difficulties
with the dating, and because most records state specifically
that
Mary, the daughter of the 6th Earl, ‘died unmarried’. A more-
probable
solution is that she was the sister of the 6th Earl, and daughter of
William Cochrane and Lady
Grizel Graham, although no ‘Mary’ is shown in
any
record of the children of William and Grizel.
FULTON, Richard
F10: FULTON, Robert (Rev.) B: c 1645
M:
(i) Unknown. Mother of Richard
Fulton.
(ii)
Florence Unknown
D: before 19-11-1720
Rev. Robert Fulton
Of the brothers of John Fulton of Lisburn and Derriaghy or
Belsize, Robert Fulton, known as ‘Robert of Guanabo’,
is “the most important and interesting. The Memorandum of 1872 describes him as ‘son, or perhaps grandson’ of
William of Kilkenny, but it has now become clear to me by the tracing back of his history from Jamaica, which was
mainly effected by Dr.Fulton of Dunedin, and completed by myself with the aid of the Heralds' College, that
he must have been a grandson. A son he could not have been, as he did not graduate M.A. till 1677. At the same
time, he must have held an important position in the family, from Richard having been supposed, by my uncle's
tradition, to have been a son of his. According to what we now know of his approximate age, he was the next
brother of John ‘of Derriaghy’. '' He matriculated at Edinburgh University in 1675, and took the M.A. degree on
21st September 1677. He was ordained a deacon of the Church of England at Clones, co. Monaghan, in 1683,
and his diploma is endorsed as having been copied and registered at Lisburne in 1684. He was appointed in 1689,
‘chaplain to their Majesties' shippe Ye Successe’ (see minutes from the Commissioners for the Lord High Admiral
of England to Captain Kirby, on board the Successe lying in Plymouth, dated 1st March 1689), and he sailed for
Jamaica with one servant (Sir Theodore C Hope, 1903, Memoirs of the Fultons of Lisburn, at
http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirsoffultons00hope/memoirsoffultons00hope_djvu.txt). Robert Fulton
was, probably, already a widower, since he sailed only with ‘one servant’(his eldest son, Richard, was, at this
time, a cavalry captain with William III).
is “the most important and interesting. The Memorandum of 1872 describes him as ‘son, or perhaps grandson’ of
William of Kilkenny, but it has now become clear to me by the tracing back of his history from Jamaica, which was
mainly effected by Dr.Fulton of Dunedin, and completed by myself with the aid of the Heralds' College, that
he must have been a grandson. A son he could not have been, as he did not graduate M.A. till 1677. At the same
time, he must have held an important position in the family, from Richard having been supposed, by my uncle's
tradition, to have been a son of his. According to what we now know of his approximate age, he was the next
brother of John ‘of Derriaghy’. '' He matriculated at Edinburgh University in 1675, and took the M.A. degree on
21st September 1677. He was ordained a deacon of the Church of England at Clones, co. Monaghan, in 1683,
and his diploma is endorsed as having been copied and registered at Lisburne in 1684. He was appointed in 1689,
‘chaplain to their Majesties' shippe Ye Successe’ (see minutes from the Commissioners for the Lord High Admiral
of England to Captain Kirby, on board the Successe lying in Plymouth, dated 1st March 1689), and he sailed for
Jamaica with one servant (Sir Theodore C Hope, 1903, Memoirs of the Fultons of Lisburn, at
http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirsoffultons00hope/memoirsoffultons00hope_djvu.txt). Robert Fulton
was, probably, already a widower, since he sailed only with ‘one servant’(his eldest son, Richard, was, at this
time, a cavalry captain with William III).
In Jamaica, Robert Fulton was appointed (6-8-1691) by one of the Irish Peers and Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica,
William Earl of Insiquin (or Inchiquin), to be Rector of the Living of St Johns, where he, apparently, remarried, as there
are records of severalchildren born about this time: his Will, dated 8-10-1717, with probate granted 19-11-1720 (a copy
still exists; the sections quoted below are extracted from
richardsfulton.com/FULTONDrRobertValpyofNZDocument(2007).DOC) mentions two sons, several daughters, and a wife,
Florence (who may have been his first and only wife, having joined him in Jamaica following his appointment; however,
the interval between the births of Richard (Generation 9) in 1678 and youngest son, Thomas, in 1696, would indicate a
second marriage; Sir Theodore C Hope, 1903 (op.cit.) says that Richard’s inclusion in the family is ‘tradition’, as he rates
no mention in Robert Fulton’s will).
The will, in which son Thomas Fulton and daughter Florence
Poynter were named executors, details Grants or Patents for lands
of considerable extent, in the neighbourhood of St Johns or Guanabacoa,
for Robert Fulton; he left 100 pounds p.a and 100 acres of land in the Parish
of St Johns to his eldest (in Jamaica) son, James Fulton, and the sum of 500 pounds to his eldest daughter, Jane Matthew. To his
second daughter, Mary Crawford, he
left 500 pounds and a “negro woman” (Betty), and to his third daughter, Florence Poynter, 500 pounds. To
his “intirely beloved wife”, Florence
Fulton, he bequeathed his dwelling house in Archibald, Savannah, in the Parish of St Onoth - and
“penns of cattle, sheep, houses, lands tenements, chattels and my negro slaves
as named hereafter”. All his estate, real and personal, was left to
his second son, Thomas Fulton,
and to his heirs, or if no such heirs exist, then to his eldest son, James Fulton, and his heirs (in
default of such issue, to the heirs of his three daughters).
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: Rev. Robert Fulton (first
wife).
D:
PARKER, Mary
F10: PARKER, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Parker
D:
PHIPPS, Ann
F10: PHIPPS, William B: 13-4-1691
M:
28-6-1713, Ann Squire
D:
M10: SQUIRE, Ann B:
c 1690
M:
28-6-1713, William Phipps
D:
POTTINGER, Joseph,
R.N.
F10: POTTINGER, Thomas B:
M: c 1685, Unknown
Eccles
D: 1715
Thomas Pottinger
Thomas Pottinger held the position of Sovereign of
Belfast, High Sheriff of County Antrim, who “raised the County in favour of
William III” (Margaret Dickson Falley, 1981).
His ascendancy to the position of Sovereign followed his
father, who achieved distinction as first Sovereign (Mayor) of Belfast. Thomas, Jr, was
an equally-distinguished statesman; according to John Burke (A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the
Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, p 442), “(he was) sheriff of the
county when William III landed in that part of Ireland; when he went to meet
and welcome the king at the head of all the nobility and gentry of the county,
and afterwards provided his majesty’s army with provisions, clothes, and money,
by which he was enabled to advance and gain the Battle of the Boyne”. Thomas’s
brother, Edward, “had the honour of conveying” King William to Ireland on on ‘Dartmouth’ (he was subsequently (8-10-1690)
killed in action when his ship was sunk in battle with French ships bringing
supplies to King James).
Volume II of A History
of the Town of Belfast (George Benn, 1877) contains the following
information on the later life of Thomas Pottinger, “who was thrust in upon the
Corporation by the Government of James the Second”:
“The life history of Thomas Pottinger was disclosed for
the first time from the Treasury papers quite recently compiled, and from the
writing of the Town Clerk of Belfast nearly two hundred years ago, accompanied
with reflections in most quaint and original style. In the Treasury papers, the
petitions and letters of Thomas Pottinger will be found. He claimed from King
William’s government some compensation for the losses he had incurred in the
revolutionary troubles. His claims were endorsed by officers of rank. He makes
no pretensions to family antiquity, but merely says that his ancestor was the
first who traded from Belfast
to foreign and distant ports. He pleads poverty, which is corroborated by a
person in Dr Kirkpatrick’s work of Presbyterian Loyalty, wherein it is said
that, though the town condemned his conduct in accepting the Sovereignship, his
age and the respectable connections he had in Belfast caused him to be pitied. He was a
Presbyterian, and a house in High Street, near Skipper Street, has been pointed out to
us as that in which he lived. This tradition, to say the least, is very
doubtful……. Thomas Pottinger died in 1715, as stated in the Presbyterian
Funeral Register.”
M10:
ECCLES, Unknown B:
M:
c 1685, Thomas Pottinger
D:
Comments:
‘of Feintonah’. Probably daughter of Hugh Eccles (sovereign
of
Belfast, 1674,
died 1680), who is listed (along with Thomas Pottinger),
by
Jean Agnew in Belfast Merchant Families in the Seventeenth
Century
(http://genforum.genealogy.com/adair/messages/5799.html),
and whose
house was directly opposite ‘Pottinger’s
Entry’
SELL, John (or Thomas)
F10: SELL, Thomas B: 18-3-1682
M:
(i) 27-9-1709, Anne Stamford
(ii) 1734/5, Mary French
D:
20-5-1763
Thomas
Sell
“A database at ancestry.com which has since been deleted
showed that a Thomas Sell married Anne Stamford 27 Sep 1708/09 and she died in
1733/4. He then married Mary French in 1734/35……… The Thomas Sell who married
Anne Stamford was the son of John Sell and Margaret Nightingale.” (http://www.loiswillis.com/getperson.php?personID=I760&tree=2)
M10: STAMFORD, Anne B: 15-1-1687
M: 27-09-1709, Thomas Sell
D:
17-3-1734
STARR, Thomas
F10: STARR, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
Comments: recorded in Celia
Sheppard’s research as Edward Starr (born
15-5-1688), husband of Anna Unknown
(born c 1689). These dates are
incompatible with the proposed (in
the same research) birth date for their son, Thomas (1696).
This research will proceed no further.
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Starr
D:
WADE, Joseph
F10: WADE, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Wade
D:
WALDOCK, Mary
F10: WALDOCK, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Waldock
D:
WILLMOTT, James
F10: WILLMOTT, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Willmott
D:
Generation 11
BURGESS, Guy
CAMAC,
Unknown
CHICHLEY,
Elizabeth
COCHRANE,
William
CRAWFORD,
Unknown
CURWEN,
Thomas
DOCWRA
(DOCKERELL, DOCKERILL), James
ECCLES,
Unknown (possibly Hugh)
FISHER,
Ellen
FULTON,
Unknown
GRAHAM,
Grizel
HILL,
Elizabeth
LAWSON,
Sir Wilfred
NIGHTINGALE,
Margaret
PHIPPS,
Unknown
POTTINGER,
Thomas
PRESTON,
Elizabeth
SANDERSON,
Helena
SEARLE,
John
SELL,
John
SQUIRE,
Unknown
STAMFORD,
John
BURGESS (BURGES),
Margaret
F11: BURGESS, Guy B:
M: Unknown
D:
M11: UNKNOWN B:
M: Guy Burgess
D:
CAMAC, John
F11: CAMAC, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M11: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Camac
D:
COCHRANE, Mary
F11: COCHRANE, William B:
M:
before 1688, Lady Grizel Graham
D: August, 1717.
William Cochrane
William Cochrane lived at Kilmanock, Ayrshire (Scotland), was elected member of parliament
for the burghs of Wigton, and (in 1711) held the title of Joint-Keeper of the
Signet. While father of the 6th Earl of Dundonald (Mary Cochrane’s
brother), William was not the 5th Earl (whose Christian name was
also ‘William’) but was, in fact, his distant cousin. William was the brother
of the 2nd Earl of Dundonald, John Cochrane (c 1660 - 16-5-1690).
“The second earl for a time lived with his mother, Lady
Katherine Kennedy, at Auchans, after his father died, circa 1679. Adamson
relates ambiguously that the earl lost the estate due to unfortunate scientific
speculations.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auchans_Castle,_Ayrshire)
M11: GRAHAM, Grizel B: c 1665
M: before 1688, William Cochrane
D:
30-6-1726
Comments:
sister of James Graham, 3rd Marquess of Montrose.
CRAWFORD, John
F11: CRAWFORD, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M11: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown
D:
CURWEN, Darcy
F11: CURWEN, Thomas B: c 1590
M:
3-2-1639, Dearham. Helena Sanderson.
D:
26-4-1653
Thomas
Curwen
“Thomas was born, I gather from a note-book kept by Darcy, in the Queen's Chamber in Workington Hall in the year 1590. He was
‘set tenant’ of Sella Park by Sir Henry, who died in 1597. He married Helena, eldest daughter of Samuel Sanderson, of Hedly-hope,
in the County Palatine of Durham, February 3rd, 1639 ; ‘And my said mother, daughter of the said Samuel, was borne ye 20th
February, 1612, being Saturday about nine in the forenoone att Branesby Castle: my father and my mother had 10 children in 12
years time and my father dyed April ye 26th 1653 and my mother ye 4th of February 1670.’ He was buried at Ponsonby Church,
where there is a monument to his memory.”
(William Jackson, c 1866, Publications, at http://www.archive.org/stream/publications05cumb/publications05cumb_djvu.txt)
Thomas was born when his
father, Henry, was already aged 61. Thomas, in turn, was age 52 at the birth of
his son, Darcy (Generation 10), who inherited unexpectedly after the premature
death of his elder brother, Henry. These successive examples of late-age
parentage have caused the Curwen line to become ‘skewed’ (relative to other
lines in this genealogy), so that the father-in-law of Thomas Curwen in
Generation 15 is also recorded as the father of Richard Huddleston in Gen. 19).
M11: SANDERSON, Helena B: 20-2-1612, Hedley Hope
M:
3-2-1639, Dearham. Thomas Curwen of Sella
Park.
D:
4-2-1670.
Comments:
Her sister, Barbara, married John Emerson, Mayor of
Newcastle – her second
husband --in 1660.
DOCWRA, Francis
F11: DOCWRA (DOCKERELL, DOCKERILL),
James
B: before 19-2-1654
M:
1-2-1680, Ellen Fisher, at Bassingbourn.
D: before 12-7-1718
Comments:
with this generation, several variations on the spelling of
‘Docwra’
(Dockerill/Dockerell/Dockrill) are evident in the records. “The…
interchange
seems to have happened between the Parish Registers
and
the Bishops Transcripts
for some of the Cambridgeshire parishes. So I
think
we have to assume that they may be interchangeable even within
families depending on who produced
the record” (‘Anne’, 27-10-2003, at
10/1067214734)
M11: FISHER, Ellen B: c 1660
M: 1-2-1680, James Docwra (Dockerell,
Dockerill), at Bassingbourn.
D:
before 20-2-1689
ECCLES, Unknown
Female
F11: ECCLES, Unknown (possibly Hugh) B:
M: Unknown
D:
Comments: Hugh Eccles (Sovereign of Belfast, 1674; died
1680), a Belfast merchant living at the same time as Thomas Pottinger, was
“given permission to build a bridge directly outside the front door of his
house … the location was opposite the present-day Pottinger’s Entry” (O’Regan, R,
2011, Hidden Belfast: Benevolence,
Blackguards and Balloon Heads, at
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZT9ijDhN6x8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
This is not, however, sufficient evidence to identify him, with any confidence,
as the father-in-law of Thomas Pottinger; this genealogical line will terminate
at this point.
M11: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown (possibly Hugh) Eccles
D:
FULTON, Robert
(Rev.)
F11: FULTON, Unknown B: c 1619
M: Unknown
D:
Comments: son of William Fulton of Kilkenny, of whom Records of the
Family of Fulton notes, “His son, whose name we cannot ascertain, took
up land in Ulster,
probably as a tenant of the Marquis of Hertford”.
M11: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Fulton, son of William of
Kilkenny.
D:
LAWSON, Isabel
F11: LAWSON, Sir
Wilfred B: 1664 (Baptised 31-10-1664).
M: 21-5-1692,
Elizabeth Preston
D: 13-11-1705
Sir
Wilfred Lawson
Wilfred Lawson, Baronet of
Isell, the second (but only surviving) son of William Lawson and Milcah
Strickland, had residences at Isell and Brayton Hall. He received his education
at Gray’s Inn (admitted 14-3-1860), and subsequently attended Queen’s College, Oxford (1681).
Wilfred succeeded to the
Baronetcy on 13-12-1689, on the death of his grandfather, Sir Wilfrid Lawson.
He was High Sheriff of Cumberland
(1689 - 90), and M.P. for Cockermouth (1690 - 95).
M11: PRESTON, Elizabeth B:
M:
21-5-1692, Sir Wilfred Lawson
D: 1734
PHIPPS, William
F11: PHIPPS, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M11: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Phipps
D:
POTTINGER, Thomas
F11:
POTTINGER, Thomas
B:
M: Unknown
D:
Thomas
Pottinger
Thomas Pottinger is claimed, in
biographies of Sir Henry Pottinger, to have held the position of first
Sovereign of Belfast (elected 1661), “on the incorporation of that town by
Charles II” (from The Gentleman’s Magazine, May, 1856, p. 517). He is named in the First Charter of Belfast
(1613), and there is ample contemporary evidence to support the claim: Richard
L Greaves, in God’s Other Children: Protestant Nonconformists and the
Emergence of Denominational Churches in Ireland, 1660 – 1700, (1997),
states, “The Presbyterian merchant Thomas Pottinger negotiated a new charter
for Belfast and became the town’s first sovereign”; James Godkin (The Land
War in Ireland (1870); A History for the Times) concurs, stating that “The chief magistrate
was called ‘the sovereign;’ and
the first who held the office was Thomas
Pottinger, ancestor of the celebrated Sir Henry Pottinger’; and
Thomas Pottinger’s position is further affirmed by William McComb (1861), in Guide
to Belfast: the Giant’s Causeway and the Adjoining Districts of the
counties of Antrim and Down, with an account of the battle of Ballynahinch (p. 8):
“The first
sovereign of the town (1661) was
Thomas Pottinger”.
Yet Thomas’s name is, unaccountably, omitted
from the list of Sovereigns of Belfast compiled by James Adair Pilson in History
of the Rise and Progress of Belfast and Annals of the County Antrim (1846),
which lists Sovereigns dating from as far back as 1613, beginning with Thomas
Vesey (referred to as ‘John Vesey’ by Simon Hunter in Belfast City Hall
Newsletter, 1-6-2006).
The Irish Genealogy Database
of Melaney Moore-Dodson (melaney@cox-internet.com) contains a further reference
to Thomas Pottinger for this period: “RICHARD LOWTHROP, baptized 12 Oct 1595,
Etton, Yorkshire, England,
buried10 Feb 1640/1, Cherry Burton, Yorkshire,
England.
Married 3 June 1634, Holy Trinity, Yorkshire,
England, DOROTHY
LAWSON. No doubt he was the Richard Lowthropp of Etton, York, yeoman, who along
with William Archer of Etton, yeoman, William Blackstone of Etton, gentleman
and Thomas Johnson of Beverley, York, gentleman, complained against Thomas
Aulaby, Esq., and his wife Sarah, Thomas Pottinger, William Downing, bailiff,
Gervaise and Edward Harmon, gentlemen, Ralph Eastabye, Marmaduke Hopper, John
Carlin and others for excessive fines in Etton and Coatgartle court-leets, and
for building a house on the waste land of the lordship, perjury, pulling it
down, and assault. (ref: English Origins, 1st Series)”.
Thomas Pottinger is also very likely the ‘ancestor’ referred to by his son, Thomas (Generation 10), who, to support a claim for
compensation, averred that “his ancestor was the first who traded from Belfast to foreign and distant ports” (George Benn, A History
of the Town of Belfast, Volume II , 1877). D. J. Owen, in The History of Belfast (1921) also makes reference to the importance of Thomas
Pottinger to the trading eminence of seventeenth-century Belfast: “One of the great names in connection with the early trade of Belfast
was Pottinger, which is perpetuated in Pottinger’s Entry and Mount Pottinger. We find John Black, who was born in 1681, writing: ‘My
father, educated as a merchant by Mr. Pottinger, had been often super-cargo to the West Indies, at Cadiz, Bordeaux, Danzick, Holland,
England, Rouen, &c.’ This carries us back at least to the middle of the seventeenth century, and testifies to the widespread nature of
the commerce of Belfast even then”.
The prominent role which the Pottinger family played in
the early life of Belfast is commemorated by a memorial erected to the family
in the churchyard of the Parish Church of St George, a few hundred yards from Pottinger’s
Entry (in 1806, when the monuments at the Saint George’s site were demolished,
the Pottinger monument was moved to Kilmore churchyard, near Crossgar, County
Down, where it still stands, although that Church has since been moved the
Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra).
M11: UNKNOWN B:
M: Thomas Pottinger
D:
SEARLE, Susanna
F11:
SEARLE, John B:
M: Elizabeth Hill
D:
M11:
HILL, Elizabeth B:
M: John Searle
D:
SELL, Thomas
F11:
SELL, John B:
15-1-1644
M:
(i) c 1664, Dinah Baker
(ii) 5-7-1675, Margaret Nightingale
D: c 25-10-1726
M11:
NIGHTINGALE, Margaret B:
15-12-1656
M:
5-7-1675, John Sell
D:
buried 10-3-1718
Comments:
The date of death given in this present research follows the
interpretation
of Bob Copeland at http://www.bobcopeland.net/all-
o/p192.htm#i7235
SQUIRE, Ann
F11:
SQUIRE, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M11:
UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Squire
D:
STAMFORD, Anne
F11: STAMFORD, John B: 1648
M: Elizabeth Chichley
D:
M11:
CHICHLEY, Elizabeth B:
February, 1653
M: John Stamford
D:
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