The Maxwell Family
Anne (Maxwell) Bowyer
Robert
Maxwell
Grace (Leavens) Maxwell
Robert Bowyer
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
Anne (Maxwell) Maxwell
John
Maxwell
Jane
(Wright) Maxwell
Robert
Maxwell
- Robert Maxwell (who died aged fourteen)
- William Henry Nassau Maxwell (died young)
- Edward Maxwell ( ? - 1792)
- Isabella Maxwell (died young)
- John Maxwell (died of a fever in London aged 19)
- Dorothea Maxwell
- Marriage: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1669
- Children:
http://www.downcountymuseum.com/publications/ds2001/pg9.asp
Anne (Maxwell) Lyte
1787/8, in Ireland. Some sources
(e.g. Visitation
of
England and Wales Vol 5) show Anne as born in 1796, at Falkland.
This date works better with Anne's marriage date, but has problems with her
age as in the 1851 census, as well as leaving a very large gap to the birth
of her only sibling, John, in 1782, and the age of her father (who was 66 in
1796). The 1796 date seems to be associated with the age at death in 1856,
given as 60.
William Maxwell
Anne (Massingberd) Maxwell
 |
Signature of Anne (Maxwell) Lyte
|
Henry
Francis Lyte on 21 January 1818, at Queen Square Chapel, Bath,
Somerset, England
Anne's father left Falkland Castle
in Ireland for Bath when she was very young. As a young woman she lived for
a while at Marazion in Cornwall with a maiden aunt, due to ill health. It
was here she was to meet her future husband who was curate at Marazion, but
before that she befriended the poet Jane
Taylor (who most famously penned the words of "Twinkle Twinkle
Little Star"). Anne is remembered by Jane's brother, Rev. Isaac Taylor
in his biography of Jane The
Family
Pen (published 1867):
"A young lady must take the next place in these notices of my
sister's Marazion friends. This was Miss Anne Maxwell — the lady to whom
is addressed a poem entitled, The
Shipwrecked
Lascar — a True Tale. The incident out of which this
Lascar story took its rise, is mentioned in the foregoing letter to her
father and mother. Miss Maxwell was the daughter of a Lincolnshire
gentleman; but on account of the extreme delicacy of her health, and
perhaps for other reasons, resided at Marazion with a maiden aunt. The
circumstances of this young lady's early life, which might not have been
of the most favourable kind, had taken effect upon a peculiar temperament
in which were combined extraordinary fixedness of temper, with a
self-denying kindliness, such as would have fitted her well for the
labours and sacrifices of a "Sister of Charity". In truth, her manner and
appearance were very much those of a nun. She might have sat to a painter
as his model for a St. Agnes. Hitherto Jane had become acquainted with no
sample of this order of character. This new friend — a lady by habits and
connexions — but destitute of that cultured intelligence and literary
proficiency which she had been used to look for as a matter of course in
her more intimate friends — nevertheless, commanded respect, and engaged
affection on account of virtues of which no instance had before come in
her way. Wanting in that liberty of thought which attends intellectuality,
Anne Maxwell exhibited upon occasion a courage and a romantic
determination which Jane Taylor would not easily have imitated. So it was
on the occasion referred to in the Poem above-mentioned. The Indiaman
wrecked in Mount's Bay was a "country-built ship" — and was manned by
Hindoos, Lascars, and Mahometans. These men were for a time lodged in a
building near the town, and it had become our amusement to visit the
place, and to watch their various modes of caring for themselves. At
length they were put on board a vessel London-bound — one of them
excepted, who was in too feeble a state to be moved from his pallet. Of
this invalid Anne Maxwell took charge, and during several weeks, or
months, was his nurse, and found for him whatever he needed.
A few years later than this time, Miss Maxwell became the wife of a
clergyman, the Rev. Henry Lyte, a volume of whose miscellaneous poetry
still has its admirers. Husband and wife have been some years deceased."
The book also includes some letters written by Jane Taylor to Anne after
Jane's return from Marazion to her father's house.
Jane's poem in honour of Anne Maxwell reads thus:
"The Shipwrecked Lascar." by Jane Taylor (1783-1824)
Publication: The Writings of Jane Taylor, In Five Volumes by Jane
Taylor. Volume
I,
Memoirs and Poetical Remains. Edited by Isaac Taylor, Jr., of
Stanford Rivers. Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1832. pp. 310-311. Editor:
Mary Mark Ockerbloom
[Page 310]
THE SHIPWRECKED LASCAR.
(A True Tale.)
ADDRESSED TO MISS M.
–SHE sailed in her pride from the regions of day;
Her cargo was rich, and her pennons were gay:
Long homeward she scudded, defying the blast,
Till Britain's green hills were descried from the mast.
Then gathered the tempest, then heightened the gale:
The hearts of her bravest were ready to fail:
Night adds to the horror, and deepens the roar:–
She lies in the morning a wreck on our shore.
And Heaven in its mercy has rescued the crew;
They live and return to their country anew:
But one sickly stranger–unfriended, unknown,
Is left by his comrades to perish alone.
He thinks of his home, for no shelter has he;
His wife and his mother are over the sea:
He came from the Islands of Spices afar,
–The dark Asiatic, the gentle Lascar.
He stretches in anguish the languishing limb,
Expecting no pity, no mercy for him;
–But England has pity–and O, there was one,
Who saw his dark face, and the kindness was done.
She took him, she nursed him with tender address;
And fair was the hand that relieved his distress:
She came like the angel of mercy from far,
To minister health to the dying Lascar.
[Page 311]
His wants and her pity could only be known
By broken expressions, and sympathy's tone:
But pity has language no words can supply,
And gratitude speaks from the eloquent eye.
He watches her coming, for all must appear
In safety and comfort, if Madame be near;
He sits in her casa, unclouded by care,
For nothing is wanting if Madame be there.
Her care is rewarded:–the sick man is well;
And now he must bid her a final farewell:
Have pity, ye sailors, ye sons of the brave!
Oh, bear him in tenderness over the wave!
Borne on by the swell of the ocean he goes
To tell to his kindred the tale of his woes;
To tell his dark beauty, with many a tear,
Of Madame's kind casa, that sheltered him here.
And O, that the knowledge she strove to impart,
May lighten the gloom of his desolate heart!
And long as he lives will be heard from afar,
The blessings and prayers of the grateful Lascar.
Marazion, November, 1815.
Shortly after her marriage to Henry Lyte, Anne's father died and "left them
a very welcome legacy which enabled them to live in reasonable comfort, as
the stipend of a clergyman was very small."
7 January 1856, at Torquay, Devon, England
11 January 1856, at Brixham, Devon,
England
dated 28 June 1848, proved (P.C.C., 401, 56) on 3 May 1856,
by Rev. John Roughton Hodd, the sole Executor.
1851: Anne Lyte, Brixham, Devon age 63, b. Ireland
Edward (Maxwell) Maxwell-Brown
General
Henry Maxwell
Dorothea (Brice) Maxwell
1803
Edward who, after a flirtation with the law, entered the army and, much too
slowly for his own satisfaction, rose to be Colonel of the 67th Regiment and
a general. He succeeded to Ballyrolly in 1763, where he and his descendants
lived, and leased Ballyrolly, Lisnamaul and Loughfalcon back to the Maxwells
of Finnebrogue. He died in 1803, having in later life, assumed the
additional surname, Brown, which was a condition of his inheriting a
property at Wycke in Hampshire from someone of that name.
- Death: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1769
- Notes: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1769
Elizabeth (Maxwell) Berkeley
Robert
Maxwell
Robert Berkeley (also spelled Barclay), D.D., Dean of
Clogher
Robert obtained the degree of M.A.. He was ordained deacon and priest 9 May
1606, installed Dean of Clogher 21 May 1617.
29 August 1635
St Patrick's Church, Armagh, county
Armagh, Ireland
Collectanea genealogica November 1881 part 4
p24 (ed. Joseph Foster)
ELIZABETH
Daughter of Robert Maxwell Dean of Admagh (1) departed this
Mortall life the 29th day of August 1635 She is buried
in St Patrick's Church in Ardmagh the of
September. She was married to Robert Barkely (2) Dean of Clougher by whom
sh’ad issue Mary Barkley. The truith of the Prmisses is
testified by the Subscription of Henry Maxwell Chancellor of Conner in
the county of Antrim taken by me Albon Leveret Athlone officer of Armes
to be recorded in the office of ye King of Armes of Ireland.
HENRY MAXWELL.
ARMS—Arg., a chevron
gu. between three mullets az., BERKELEY, impaling, arg., a saltire sa., in base
three pellets, MAXWELL.—4820 f. 20.
(1) Second son of Sir John Maxwell, of Calderwood, Scotland,
ancestor of the extinct Earls of Farnham and of the present Lord
Farnham. See Foster's “Peerage.”
(2) M.A., ordained deacon and priest 9 May 1606, installed
Dean of Clogher 21 May 1617.
Henry Maxwell
Robert
Maxwell
Jane Echlin, the daughter of Robert Echlin, Bishop of Down
and Conner (d. 1635)
-
http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#family
Henry Maxwell
James Maxwell
Jane Norris
Margaret Maxwell
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
Henry Maxwell
Robert
Maxwell
Margaret
(Echlin) Maxwell
Anne Stewart, daughter of Colonel George Stewart of
Culmore, County Donegal.
Clergyman. Henry was Rector of
Derrynoose, in the diocese of Armagh, and the prebendary of Tynan. He was
also Chancellor of Connor from 1635 until 1682.
1709, at College Hall, county Armagh, Ireland
From Armagh Clergy and Parishes (Leslie, 1911) p73:
Henry Maxwell, of College Hall,
Prebendary of Tynan and Rector of Derrynoose d. 1709
1668 - Henry Maxwell, MA., inst. Preb. Tynan and R. Derrynoose Jan. 20
(F.F.T.).
He was the 3rd son of Dr. Robert Maxwell (see above), and m. Anne
Stewart and became ancestor of the Earls of Farnham (see Peerages). He
was Chancellor of Connor - then worth £200 yearly - from 1635 to
1682. In the Carte Papers, Vol. 21, p. 346, dat. 1647, we
read "Henry Maxwell, Archdeacon of Down (sic) and 3 others, deprived by
the Presbytery lurke where they can be entertained."
He lost property amounting to £1,823 in the rebellion of 1641, and his
living value £440 a year (Dep. of 1641, T.C.D.).
He d. at College Hall in 1709, aged about 100 years.
His P. Will, made 8 April, 1709, was proved on 12 May following. He left
his eldest son John his leases in Armagh; and reversion of them to his
sister Ann Chambers; to his 2nd ,on Robert his leases from the See of
Kilmore ; to his niece Phoebe Gillespy £28, owed him by Rev. James
Greenshields ; to the poor of Tynan £5; son John exor.
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450; Armagh Clergy and Parishes (Leslie, 1911)
p73
- Occupation: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450; Armagh Clergy and Parishes (Leslie, 1911)
p73
- Death: Armagh Clergy and Parishes (Leslie, 1911)
p73; IGI
Henry Maxwell
Right Honourable
1669
Robert Maxwell
Jane (Chichester) Maxwell
Jane Maxwell
Dorothea Brice in 1713.
Dorothea was the daughter of Edward Brice of Kilroot, Co. Antrim.
12 February 1729/30 (OS/NS)
Henry Maxwell who succeeded in 1686 expanded the Finnebrogue estate in 1710
by purchasing additional townlands from the Rt Hon. Edward Southwell (the
descendant and representative of the extinct earls of Ardglass), and in 1728
acquired the three nearby townlands of Ballyrolly, Lisnamaul and
Loughfalcon. These were to have a life of their own, independent of the rest
of the Finnebrogue estate, to pass down two successive junior lines of the
family, and be leased back to and ultimately part-owned by the main
Finnebrogue branch. In 1713, Henry Maxwell's rental income was reckoned at
£600 a year.
At the 1715 general election, and possibly on other occasions as well, he
aspired to represent Co. Down in parliament. In the end, however, his long
career in the House of Commons was spent as MP for a succession of close
boroughs controlled by other people: Bangor, 1698-1699, and 1703-1713;
Killybegs, Co. Donegal, 1713-1714; and Donegal borough, 1715-1730. On the
evidence of his surviving papers, he took a keen interest as a
parliamentarian in Revenue matters and was very frequently nominated to
serve on committees. So closely was he in politics with the Rt Hon. William
Conolly, who was both Chief Commissioner of the Revenue and Speaker of the
House of Commons, 1715-1729, that he was nicknamed 'the Speaker's Shadow'.
It was Conolly who returned him for Killybegs in 1713. In 1721, he wrote a
pamphlet in support of the scheme, abortive at that stage, for establishing
a national bank. He was made an Irish Privy Councillor in 1727. He died in
1730.
- Birth: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1669
- Marriage (1st): Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450;
IGI
- Marriage (2nd): http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1669
- Death: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1669;
IGI
- Notes: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1669
Isabella (Maxwell) Graham
Robert
Maxwell
Grace (Leavens) Maxwell
Hector Graham
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
James Maxwell
Robert
Maxwell
Jane Norris
of Mullatinny, now Elm Park, County
Armagh
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
- Notes: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
James Maxwell
Robert
Maxwell
Margaret
(Echlin) Maxwell
Jane Maxwell, his cousin.
of Fellows Hall, County Armagh
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
- Notes: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
James Maxwell
John
Maxwell
Isabella Leavons
Clergyman. James was Rector of Tullamore.
- Occupation: Clogher Clergy and Parishes by Rev
James B Leslie, 1929 p46
Jane (Maxwell) Maxwell
Henry
Maxwell
Jane (Echlin) Maxwell
James Maxwell,
her cousin.
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
Jane (Maxwell) Maxwell
Henry
Maxwell
Anne (Stewart) Maxwell
Henry Maxwell
20 February 1711
of Derrynoose, Armagh.
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450;
IGI
- Death: IGI
- Death: IGI
Jane (Maxwell) Carpendale
of Falkland, County Monaghan, Ireland
1762/3
John Maxwell
Jane
(Wright) Maxwell
Thomas
William Carpendale on 29 July 1782.
|
Postcard showing an old view of English
Street, Armagh
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11 March 1835, in Armagh, Ireland
(now Northern Ireland), aged 72
Jane is likely the Mrs. Jane Carpendale who is listed in Bradshaw's 1819
Directory for Armagh City, living on English Street.
- Birth: Age at death
- Death: Armagh Clergy 1800-2000 by Rev. W.E.C. Fleming
- Carpendale family tree written by WF Montague Groome (1927)
- Family records written by Kathleen Juliana (Carpendale) Groome
John Maxwell
of Calderwood, in Scotland
Sir
Robert Maxwell
Sibella (Carmichael) Maxwell
Elizabeth Hamilton
1571
- Title: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
- Parents: http://www.stirnet.com/html/genie/british/mm4ae/maxwell03.htm
- Marriage: http://www.stirnet.com/html/genie/british/mm4ae/maxwell03.htm
- Death: http://www.stirnet.com/html/genie/british/mm4ae/maxwell03.htm
John Maxwell
|
Farnham House (before its redesign in the
1970's. It was surely added to and redesigned substantially since
the initial build by John Maxwell.
|
Robert
Maxwell
Margaret
(Echlin) Maxwell
1713
Built the house at Farnham, County Cavan, and resided there.
- Death: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
- Notes: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
John Maxwell
Baron Farnham of Farnham, County
Cavan
Henry Maxwell
Anne (Stewart) Maxwell
Judith Barry in 1719. Judith was
the daughter and heir of James Barry of Newton Barry, County Wexford.
- Robert Maxwell ( ? - 1779) - 2nd Lord of Farnham
- Barry Maxwell ( ? - 1800) - 3rd Lord of Farnham
- Henry Maxwell ( ? - 1798) - Bishop of Dromore and of Meath
1759
John represented the county of Cavan in Parliament from 1727
until his elevation to the peerage of Ireland on 6 May 1756.
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
- Children: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450; http://www.stirnet.com/html/genie/british/mm4ae/maxwell03.htm
- Death: http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cavanno1/FarnhamEstate.htm
- Notes: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
John Maxwell
of Falkland, County Monaghan
Venerable Reverend
1705/6
Robert Maxwell
Sarah
(Waring) Maxwell
Jane
Wright
Isabella Leavons, the
daughter of Rev. John Leavons of County Lough.
Trinity College Dublin. John
entered Trinity College on 13 May 1721, aged 15, and obtained his B.A. in
1725 and M.A. in 1728. Later he was awarded B.D. and D.D. (Doctor of
Divinity) in 1753.
Clergyman. John rose to be Archdeacon of Clogher from
1762 until 1783. John may have been the J.M., who was C. St. Catherine’s
Dublin, 1732 ; C. Clontibret, 1735. He was V. Donagh, 1738-46, R.
Aughnamullen 1746-62, R. and V. Rossory 1764-8, R. Drummully, c. 1763 to
1783, holding with it this Archdeaconry of Clogher.
From Clogher Clergy and Parishes by Rev James B Leslie, 1929 p46
1762- John Maxwell, coll. Nov. 12 (D.R.)
He was the eldest Son of Robert M. of Falkland (son of Robert M., Bishop
of Kilmore) was b. at Falkland. Ed. by Mr. Knowles, in his father’s house.
, ent. T.C.D. May 13, 1721, aged 15, B.A. 1725, M.A. 1728, B.D. and D.D.
1753. He may have been The J.M., who was C. St. Catherine’s Dublin, 1732 ;
C. Clontibret, 1735. He was V. Donagh, 1738-46, R. Aughnamullen 1746-62,
R. and V. Rossory 1764-8, R. Drummully, c. 1763 to 1783, holding with it
this Archdeaconry.
He m (1) Jane dau. of Thos. Wright, and had issue – 3 daus. ; m. (2)
Isabella, dau of Rev. John Leavons, Co. Lough, and by her had issue – Rev.
William D.D., R. of Kilcleagh and Ballyloughloe (Meath) ; Rev. James, R.
of Tullamore, and another son. (See B.L.G and Peerages, "Farnham"). He
res. in 1783 (D.R.) and d. in 1784, in which year his P. Will was proved.
1783
proved 3 January 1784
Clearly some data is astray here.
Leslie clearly has John as married 1st to Jane Wright and 2nd to Isabella
Leavons, but in his entry for Thomas Carpendale he states that Jane Maxwell,
daughter of John Maxwell and Jane Wright, died in 1835 aged 72, making her
birth in 1762/3, when John was about 57 years old, and much later than the
birth of William from his second marriage which is given as 1832 by Shirley.
I suspect William's birthdate is wrong, but if so, John was marrying, having
children, remarrying and having more children at quite an advanced age.
- Birth: Age at entry to Trinity College Dublin from Clogher
Clergy and Parishes by Rev James B Leslie, 1929
- Marriage(1st): Clogher Clergy and Parishes by Rev James
B Leslie, 1929; IGI Film 471431 Ref 400
- Marriage(2nd): Clogher Clergy and Parishes by Rev James
B Leslie, 1929
- Education: Clogher Clergy and Parishes by Rev James
B Leslie, 1929
- Occupation: Clogher Clergy and Parishes by Rev James B
Leslie, 1929
- Death: will proved 3 January 1784; held the archdeaconry until
1783
- Will: LDS film 537379
- Confirmation of arms of Maxwell Carpendale transcribed at http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~heraldry/bga_carnell_carr.html
John Robert Maxwell
Colonel
John Maxwell
Isabella Leavons
Mrs. Grace Corry, a widow, in 1776.
from http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1791
In 1776, [Col. John Maxwell] married a landed widow, Mrs Grace Corry,
and her property, in Cos Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone, was settled on
the issue of their marriage, with remainder to herself. There was no
issue: as she later complained in 1779, when seeking a divorce, Colonel
Maxwell, in spite of 'repeated efforts for the purpose', had 'never
consummated the said marriage, but appears totally impotent'. She also
complained that, in the previous year, he had induced her to re-settle her
estate on him, in failure of issue; and that she had subsequently
discovered that he had made a will by which he had left his remainder in
fee in her estate to his nephews and nieces, leaving to her nothing but 'a
small island on the coast of North America at ... [that] time ... actually
in the hands of the insurgents'. It is unclear if Mrs Maxwell obtained her
divorce and reacquired her landed property.
Army officer, and Governor of
the Bahamas
from http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1791
He was probably the John Maxwell who was promoted to be Major in the
15th Regiment of Foot in 1771, and he was later Colonel of the 27th
Infantry. His papers contain important documentation of the American
invasion of Canada in 1775-1776, when he was on the staff of Sir Guy
Carleton, Governor of Quebec. Thereafter, he was Governor of the Bahamas.
John was Governor of the Bahamas from 1780 until 2 May 1782 when the
Spanish occupied the island, imprisoning John Maxwell until 1783, when
the Bahamas became a British possession and John became Governor again
until 1784.
1791
John had no children, and almost all his property was passed to his sister's
son, John Waring, who had married another of his sisters's daughters,
Dorothea Maxwell.
John Maxwell
1781/2, in Bristol, Somerset, England
William Maxwell
Anne (Massingberd)
Maxwell
29 November 1861, in Torquay, Devon, England, aged 80
The Gentleman's Magazine (1862)
OBITUARY
At Torquay, aged 80, John, only son of the late Rev. William Maxwell,
D.D., of Falkland, co. Monaghan, and of Bath.
John was insane (a "lunatic" in the parlance of the day),
and never married.
1851: Brixham, Devon; John Maxwell, Visitor (of Henry Lyte);
age 60
1861: Mount Hermonel, Tormoham,
Devon
- Birth: 1861 census. There is a 19 year discrepancy in his age
as given at the 1851 and 1861 censuses. The age at death corresponds
with the 1861 census age.
- Death: England Death Index (4Q1861 vol 5b p102); exact date
from Hogg
vs. Jones; exact place and age at death from The
Gentleman's Magazine (1862)
- Notes: Ellis
vs. Maxwell, a legal dispute on the will of John's
father, records in 1841 that "At
the
date of the will the testator’s
son John Maxwell was, and still remained, a lunatic and
unmarried." and Hogg
vs. Jones records in 1863 that "John
died
on the 29th November 1861, a lunatic, and without ever having
married."
Margaret (Maxwell) Maxwell
Robert
Maxwell
Margaret
(Echlin) Maxwell
Henry Maxwell
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
Margaret (Maxwell, Maxwell) Butler
Henry
Maxwell
Margaret (Maxwell)
Maxwell
Sir Robert Maxwell, of
Orchardtown
James
Butler
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
Margaret (Maxwell) Tew
Robert
Maxwell
Grace (Leavens) Maxwell
John
Tew
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
Mary (Maxwell) Close
Robert Maxwell
Grace (Leavens) Maxwell
Maxwell Close, of Elm
Park
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
Patrick Maxwell
1721
Henry Maxwell
Dorothea (Brice) Maxwell
1749
Patrick succeeded to the estate at Finnebrogue, but died unmarried and the
estate passed to his younger brother, Robert.
- Birth: IGI
- Death: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1769;
IGI
- Notes: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1769
Robert Maxwell
Very Reverend
John Maxwell
Elizabeth (Hamilton) Maxwell
Isabella Seaton (according to Leslie) or Susan
Armstrong (according to Burke)
Clergyman. Dean of Armagh,
Chancellor of Connor
1622
from Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
THE VERY REV.
ROBERT MAXWELL, 2nd son of Sir John
Maxwell, Knt. of Calderwood, in Scotland, went over into Ireland, in the
latter end of the reign of ELIZABETH, by order of JAMES
VI., in order to secure an interest for his majesty in that kingdom.
Mr. Maxwell was appointed dean of Armagh, which deanery, with
other considerable Church livings, he held till his decease.
From Armagh Clergy and Parishes (Leslie, 1911) pp12-13
Robert Maxwell, Dean of Armagh, d.1635
King James, writing to Sir A. Chichester, July 15, 1609, says that
Maxwell "has painfully laboured [in Ireland] for certain years past in
his ministry, and the king designs to confer upon him some
ecclesiastical dignity in his gift" (S.P.I.). It is therefore probably
the same who was nominated Chancellor of Connor in the Charter of July
20, 1609, and who held that position also in 1622.
...It is said that he debarred himself from further preferment by
opposing Primate Henry Ussher, who had intended to lease the See lands
of the Primacy in a fee farm grant for £1,500 per annum for ever to a
dependant of the Duke of Buckingham on the latter's solicitation (Lodge
and Old See Rental). He received a grant of denization 20 May, 1617
(P.R.). He received a grant of the Dean's Demesne in Armagh and also the
territory of Derrynoose 27 Feb., 1613 (P. R. ).
In 1622 he was "taken with a dead palsie." The Deanery was rated in the
King's books at £35; value £120; Resident at Armagh." His charge
is at the Cathedrall. The Deanery consisteth only in land. He hath a
poore house in Ardmagh opposite the land of the Deanery " (R. V. 1622).
- Title: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
- Marriage: Armagh Clergy and Parishes (by Rev James
B Leslie, 1911); Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
- Occupation: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
- Notes: Armagh Clergy and Parishes (by Rev
James B Leslie, 1911); Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
- Death: Armagh Clergy and Parishes (by Rev
James B Leslie, 1911);
Robert Maxwell
Right Reverend
1598, in Kilbride, County Armagh, Ireland
Robert Maxwell
Margaret Echlin
M.A., D.D. and Fellow of Trinity
College Dublin.
Clergyman. Robert was ordained on 27 January 1617/8
(OS/NS). He held the Rectories of Derrynoose and Clonoe from 1623 to 1666,
and was named the 4th Prebendary of Tynan in 1625. In 1643 he became the
Bishop of Kilmore, and the Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh in 1666.
From Armagh
Clergy and Parishes, Rev James B Leslie, 1911 p73
Robert Maxwell, Prebendary of Tynan, 1625 – c. 1661 and Bishop of
b>1625-Robert Maxwell, M.A. (afterwards D.D.), coll. Mar. 7 (R.V.
1633). Query, was it 1625/6, for, according to the P.R., he was pres. by
the Crown Nov. 22, 1625.
He was again admitted on 2nd April, 1634/5 (F.F.T.), being pres.18 Mar.
(R. V. 1633) and was named as 4th Preb. under the new Charter, Jan. 23,
1637/8, and allowed the parish in commendam with the Bishopric of
Kilmore Mar. 22, 1643 (P.R.). He held also from 1623 to 1666 the Rectories
of Derrynoose and Clonoe.
He was the eldest son of Robert M. Dean of Armagh; was ord. D. Jan. 27,
1617/8 (one copy of the R. V. of 1633 has " 1627 ") ; P. May 2, 1618. He
was an M.A., D.D. and Fellow of T.C.D. and Chaplain to the Lord
Lieutenant, and may have succeeded his father as Chancellor of Connor, but
it is doubtful.
He became Archdeacon of Down in 1628, which dignity he res. in 1639.
Cotton seems to think that he was Archdeacon of Down, Dean of Connor and
Chancellor of Connor - an unheard of plurality - at the same time in 1634.
He quotes as his authority "Commons Journals" (see Fasti V, 243).
We find R.M. writing to Wentworth from Armagh on May 29, 1639, concerning
the landing of boats at Copeland I. He speaks of himself as not being much
"in favour with the Covenanters" (Harris M.S.S., Vol. VIII).
He suffered much in the rebellion of 1641, as appears from his Deposition
in T.C.D. Library. He got £120 pension from the Commonwealth 10 Mar., 1657
(Comm. M.S.S., P.R.O.).
In 1643 he was raised to the Bishopric of Kilmore, to which Ardagh was
added in 1666. He m. Margaret, dau. of Henry Echlin, Bishop of Down (who
survived him) and had
(1) John of Farnham, ob. 1713 ;
(2) James of Fellows Hall,
(3) Henry of College Hall, who also became Preb. Tynan,
(4) William of FaIkland, who. m. Anne, dau. of Rev. George Walker,
Chancellor of Armagh, and whose son was Robert of Falkland, D.D. (See
Shirley's Monaghan, and Peerages).
He d. Nov. 1, 1672, and was bur. "in the country on Nov. 6" (Funeral
Entries, U.0.). Shirley's Hist. of Monaghan has "Nov. 16." He left
£200 to 'T.C.D.
In his P. Will, proved 1672, he desired to be bur. in Tynan ; mentions his
sons and his dau. Mrs. Phoebe Maxwell (£300) and his son-in-law Henry
Maxwell. He seems to have res. the Preb. Tynan before 1661.
1 November 1672
6 November 1672

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Farnham Estate
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Robert was
imprisoned by the Catholics during the rebellion of 1641, and held in
County Tyrone. In 1642, he gave a famous deposition
to
a commission of enquiry in which he testified to the extent of
certain massacres of Protestants, the extent or even existence of some
of which is now in dispute.
Farnham Estate to the northwest of Cavan town as it is now known was
originally called Waldron Estate, after Sir Richard Waldron the first
landlord in the area. In 1664 the Right Rev. Robert Maxwell, Bishop of
Kilmore purchased the Waldron Estate and renamed it Farnham after Sir
Richard's wife who was a Miss Farnham. The estate remained in the family
since then, until being sold
to
a hotel developer in 2001. Farnham House is one of the largest
houses in Co. Cavan.
Robert
was according to Leslie "Chaplain to Henry Carey, Fifth Viscount Falkland and Lord
Deputy of Ireland (1622-1629). From hence we have the name Falkland, which he gave
to the Townland and Seat acquired early in Reign of Charles
II under a fee farm rent payable to the Leslie Estate, in which
the whole is now again vested, by purchase from the Representatives of
Mr. Maxwell Lyte, in 1874." (note that Henry Carey was
actually the First Viscount Falkland, not the Fifth who was Anthony
Carey, Lord of the Admiralty). The Falkland estate, "which appears to
have been Identical with Drumnagmore in the Parish of Donagh",
passed to his youngest son William. The link to the Falkland Islands is
that Lord Falkland's grandson, the fifth Viscount was
first Lord of the Admiralty in 1690, and when one Captain John Strong became
the first man to land on the Islands in that year, he named them The
Falkland Islands, after the Viscount.
- Birth: IGI
- Marriage: Armagh Clergy and Parishes by Rev James B
Leslie, 1911; Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
- Education: Armagh Clergy and Parishes by Rev James
B Leslie, 1911
- Occupation: Armagh Clergy and Parishes by Rev James
B Leslie, 1911; Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
- Death: Armagh Clergy and Parishes by Rev James B
Leslie, 1911
- Buried: Armagh Clergy and Parishes by Rev James B
Leslie, 1911
- Notes:
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cavanno1/FarnhamEstate.htm; The
History of the County of Monaghan pp. 618. by Shirley,
Evelyn Philip (Pickering & Co: London, 1879)
Robert Maxwell
of Killyleagh, County Down
Henry Maxwell
Jane (Echlin) Maxwell
Jane Chichester, the daughter of
the Rev. John Chichester of Belfast
1686
It was Robert's achievement to add to
the family property the Ards or Groomsport estate, near Bangor, which he
purchased from Henry Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassill, in 1674. In the
deeds documenting this transaction he is still described as 'of Killyleagh'.
- Marriage: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#family
- Death: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#family
- Notes: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#family
Robert Maxwell
Reverend
1665/6
James Maxwell
Jane (Maxwell)
Maxwell
D.D. from Trinity College Dublin.
He entered TCD aged 16 on 15 June 1682, and obtained his B.A. in 1687, his
M.A. in 1693 and B.D. and D.D. in 1719.
Ann
1737
Robert succeeded his uncle John at Farnham House, County
Cavan. He died without children, and the estate passed to his cousin John
Maxwell who was later elevated to the title of Baron Farnham.
From Armagh
Clergy and Parishes, Rev James B Leslie, 1911 p74
Robert Maxwell, of Fellows Hall, Prebendary
of Tynan, d. in 1737
1709-Robert Maxwell, coll. Sep. 17 (D.R.).
He was the son of James M. of Fellows Hall, 2nd son of Bishop
Robert Maxwell, born in Co. Armagh, ent. T.C.D. aged 16 as a Pensioner
June 15, 1682; became B.A. 1687 ; M.A. 1693; B.D. and D.D. 1719 (Reg.
T.C.D.). He had a licence to go to England June 7, 1722 (D.R.). He d. in
1737, and by his P. Will, dated 29 Oct., 1721, proved 4 Mar., 1737/8, he
desired to be bur. in Tynan Church with his ancestors, and left 4
townlands purchased by him from the late John Hamilton, of Caledon, to
his wife Ann for life - she paying £40 to his nephew Robert Maxwell
Leavens - then to said nephew and his heirs, failing these to his nephew
Cap. Robert M., of College Hall, and his heirs, failing whom to his
nephew Captain John M., of Falkland; £100 to the poor of Tynan and £50
to the poor tenants of Farnham. His college leases, to his wife for life
and then to Cap. Robert M, - he paying £3,000 to be equally divided
between the children of Captain John Charlton and testator's brother
Lieut. Robert Maxwell, of Dunmurry, Co. Cavan. Wife exor.
- Birth: Age at entry to TCD
- Education: Armagh
Clergy
and Parishes, Rev James B Leslie, 1911 p74
- Marriage:
Armagh
Clergy
and Parishes, Rev James B Leslie, 1911 p74
- Death: Armagh
Clergy
and Parishes, Rev James B Leslie, 1911 p74; Burke's
Baronetage
and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
- Notes: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450; Armagh
Clergy and Parishes, Rev James B Leslie, 1911 p74
Robert Maxwell
of Falkland, County Monaghan
in Donagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
William Maxwell
Anne
(Walker) Maxwell
Sarah
Waring on 3 March 1703 in Tullylish, County Down, Ireland
1750
- Marriage: IGI Film 537379
- Death: IGI Film 537379
Robert Maxwell
Henry Maxwell
Anne (Stewart) Maxwell
Grace Leavens, the daughter of Rev.
John Leavens
Robert was of Fellows Hall, County
Armagh. He was a "captain of horse".
- Marriage: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
pp449-450
- Notes: Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
Robert Maxwell
Henry Maxwell
Dorothea (Brice) Maxwell
Anne Ward in 1741. Anne was the younger
daughter of Robert Ward of Strangford, Co. Down. She died without children.
Mary Montgomery in 1749. Mary
was the eldest daughter of William Montgomery of Greyabbey, Co. Down. There
were no children from this marriage.
Anne
Maxwell
- Robert Maxwell (who died aged fourteen)
- William Henry Nassau Maxwell (died young)
- Edward Maxwell ( ? - 1792)
- Isabella Maxwell (died young)
- John Maxwell (died of a fever in London aged 19)
- Dorothea Maxwell
1769
Robert succeeded to Finnebrogue in 1749, upon the death of his elder
brother, Patrick. The estate passed to his son Edward, and later to his
daughter, Dorothea.
- Marriage (1st): http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1669
- Marriage (2nd): http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1669
- Marriage (3rd): http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1669
- Children:
http://www.downcountymuseum.com/publications/ds2001/pg9.asp
- Death: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1669;
IGI
- Notes: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/perceval.htm#1669
William Maxwell
of Kilmore, County Cavan, Ireland
1652
Robert Maxwell
Margaret
(Echlin) Maxwell
Anne
Walker in 1691
High Sheriff of Monaghan (County
Monaghan, Ireland) in 1691
- Birth: LDS Ancestral File (AFN: TJC7-D4)
- Marriage: Newry Telegraph, 30 October 1838
- Notes: Carpendale family tree written by WF Montague Groome
(1927)
William Maxwell
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William Maxwell
is the gentleman seated on the right in this drawing Dr.
Johnson at the Mitre by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1860).
The drawing illustrates the following passage from Dr. Maxwell's Collectanea
in from Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson: ‘Two young women
from Staffordshire visited him when I was present to consult him
on the subject of Methodism, to which they were inclined. “Come,”
said he, “You pretty fools, dine with Maxwell and me at the Mitre
and we will talk over that subject,” which they did and after
dinner he took one of them on his knees, and fondled them for
half-an-hour together.’
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Reverend Dr.
1732, in Donagh, county Fermanagh, Ireland
John Maxwell
Isabella Leavons
Trinity College Dublin MA, 1755,
and DD 1777
Anne Massingberd on 6 December 1777. Anne was the
daughter of William Burrell Massingberd of Ormsby, Sheriff of Lincolnshire
(1745), and Anne Tancred Dobson.
Jane Ellis, the daughter of
Robert Ellis and Penelope Leslie. Jane died in 1847. Clergyman. William was Rector of Mount Temple, county
Westmeath, and later Rector of Kilcleagh, county Clogher and Ballyloughloe,
county Meath.
Rev. Dr. William Maxwell was a personal friend of the diarist Dr.
Johnson, and provided the material for the Collectanea
in Boswell's biography Life
of
Samuel Johnson. Maxwell termed his friendship with Johnson "At
once the pride and happiness of his life" (Leslie), and it is
said that he attempted to imitate Dr. Johnson's maner and appearance.
William was the last inhabitant of Falkland Castle before leaving Ireland
for Bath in 1780, after which the castle fell into ruin. The ruins still
exist today. Of that estate at Falkland, Leslie writes
"The house is a Ruin, though inhabited by Rev. Dr. William
Maxwell 1732-1818 at the end of the last century. It must have been a
mansion of considerable pretension. There are remains of old trees, and an
avenue of Limes, still very perfect. The relics of the Library, a rare
thing in Ireland, are still preserved at Tarough Lodge the Seat of Mr.
Anketell...
Dr. Maxwell is said to have gone to reside in Bath about
1780, and to have allowed Falkland subsequently to fall into ruin.
However, he appears to have been there about the time of the Rebellion,
when by the relation of his widow to the Late Mrs. Auketell, she stated
that the Rebels fired into his bedroom with intent to kill him: she was
standing near a window. The Ball passed over her head. This was the
principal reason of his leaving Falkland. "
The estate which had been "acquired early in Reign of Charles II under a fee farm
rent payable to the Leslie Estate, in which the whole is now again
vested, by purchase from the Representatives of Mr. Maxwell Lyte, in
1874"
William erected a school in Glaslough, County Monaghan.
8 September 1818, in Bath, Somerset,
England
The Gentleman's Magazine by Sylvanus Urban of January 1819 p92
records:
At Bath, in his 87th year, Rev. William Maxwell, D.D. of Falkland, co
Monaghan, a gentleman of a most respectable Irish family, who for nearly
fifty years had chiefly resided in that city.
dated 25 March 1818. William's
will was a complex affair, mainly due to his desire to provide for his
insane son, and for the possibility that his son might regain his sanity
and have male heirs. The will landed up in court an number of times,
some of the cases providing arcanes points of legal precedent. Ellis
vs. Maxwell in March 1841 decided the ability of William's
grandson, Henry William Maxwell Lyte to continue to receive a
maintenance allowance from the will even after twenty one.Hogg
vs. Jones decides that William's plate should go to his
great-grandson, Edward Maxwell Lyte, in a case convoluted by
disentailing deeds to William's entailed estate.
A biography of William son-in-law, Henry Francis Lyte, notes that
William "died shortly after the Lytes were married and
left them a very welcome legacy which enabled them to live in reasonable
comfort, as the stipend of a clergyman was very small."
- Birth: The History of the County of Monaghan
pp. 618. by Shirley, Evelyn Philip (Pickering & Co: London, 1879);
place from Dictionary of Ulster Biography compiled
by Kate Newman (1993)
- Education:
http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/m/Maxwell,W/life.htm
- Marriage (1st): The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal:
The Anne of Exeter Volume p552
- Marriage (2nd): Ellis genealogy at
http://www.cousinconnect.com/d/a/75368; Ellis
vs. Maxwell; Jane's death also from
England Death Index (2Q1847 vol 11 p24)
- Occupation: The History of the County of Monaghan
pp. 618. by Shirley, Evelyn Philip (Pickering & Co: London,
1879); Clogher Clergy and Parishes by Rev James B Leslie,
1929 p46; Dictionary
of Ulster Biography compiled by Kate Newman (1993)
- Death: Ellis
vs. Maxwell; The Gentleman's
Magazine by Sylvanus Urban January 1819 p92; The History of
the County of Monaghan pp. 618. by Shirley, Evelyn Philip
(Pickering & Co: London, 1879); biography
of
Henry Francis Lyte
- Will: Ellis
vs. Maxwell; Hogg
vs. Jones
- Notes: The History of the County of Monaghan
pp. 618. by Shirley, Evelyn Philip (Pickering & Co: London, 1879); Dictionary
of Ulster Biography compiled by Kate Newman (1993)
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