The Richards Family
Amy Frances Richards
Edward
Richards
Frances Elizabeth (Willoughby)
Richards
Anne Catherine (Richards) Magan
Edward
Richards
Emily (Saurin) Richards
Percy Magan on 20 September 1865
The Gentleman's Magazine November 1865 p638
MARRIAGES.
Sept. 20. At Clonallon, Percy Magan, esq of Marifield
House, co. Wexford, to Annie Catherine, only dau. of the Rev. Edward
Richards, Rector of Clonallon, and Chancellor of Dromore.
Arthur William Mordaunt Richards
6 February 1860, in county Wexford,
Ireland
Solomon
Augustus Richards
Sophia
Mordaunt
(Ward) Richards
Elizabeth Kirk on 8 September 1886,
in St James Picadilly, Westminster district, Middlesex
Conveyance dated 14 July 1899 from Dublin Registry of deeds no 518 cites
marriage settlement with Elizabeth Kirk Sept 7 1886. Elizabeth, who was
known as Lillie, was born in 1856/7, in county Armagh, the daughter of
William Miller Kirk of The Park, Gorey. She died on 19 February 1940 and is
buried in Ardamine cemetery, Gorey, county Wexford, Ireland.
Army Officer, reaching the rank
of Major. Arthur was a second lieutenant in the King's County Militia, and
transferred as second lieutenant to the 5th Lancers on 6 August 1879 (London Gazette 5 August 1879 p4805), then
to the 7th Dragoon Guards on 13 September 1879 (London Gazette 12 September 1879 p5452) and
finally to the 2nd Dragoons on 23 June 1880 (London Gazette 22 June 1880 p3588). He was
promoted to lieutenant on 22 December 1880 (London Gazette 11 January 1881 p124) and
captain on 5 July 1886 (Hart's Army List for 1895 p144). Arthur
retired as captain on 11 August 1897 (London Gazette 10 August 1897 p4483). The
2nd Dragoons were stationed in Dundalk in 1879-80, Dublin in 1881,
Ballincollig in 1882 -3, Edinburgh in 1884-5, Aldershot in 1886-7, Brighton
in 1888, Dundalk in 1889-90, Newbridge in 1891-2, Dublin in 1893, Aldershot
in 1895-6 and Hounslow in 1897. In the 1911 census Arthur is listed as a
Major, Reserve of Officers, and on 7 November 1915, Major Arthur Richards,
retired, was appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Remounts in the Cavalry
Remount Service (London Gazette 16 November 1915 p11436).
Arthur was also High Sheriff of Wexford in 1906, and a Justice of the Peace
and Deputy Lieutenant in that county.
Ardamine burned down on 9 July 1921.
The Enniscorthy Guardian later reported
that, at Gorey Quarter Sessions, Arthur received £30,000 for the house,
£7,500 for the furniture etc and £150 for expenses.
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Arms of Arthur William Mordaunt Richards
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Same as Richards of Solsborough
(Sa., a chevron, between three fleurs-de-lis, arg.) with a mullet for
difference.
9 June 1931, at Nalder Hill, Newbury,
Berkshire, England, aged 71
Ardamine cemetery, Gorey, county
Wexford, Ireland
proved in the Principal Probate
Registry on 22 July 1931, by Elizabeth Richards, of Nalder Hill, Newbury,
Berkshire, widow, and Francis Augustus Richards of 53 Campden Hill Square,
London, architect.
1871: Claverly Lodge, Pembury
Road, Tonbridge, Kent
1911:
Parknacross, Ardamine, county Wexford
Arthur Francis Ward Richards
1 September 1877, in Fishponds,
Gloucestershire, England
Robert
Edward Richards
Katherine Maud (Pickering) Richards
Haileybury College
Haileybury register, 1862-1900 p363 edited
by Lionel Sumner Milford (1900)
Richards,
Arthur Francis Ward, b. Sept. 1, 1877, son of Rev. R. E. Richards.
Address, care of Rev. P. V. Doyne, Beckley, nr. Oxford.
Melvill. 1891.3 R.(b)-1893.3. U.M.1 Electrical
Engineer. In 99 at the Reading Electric Supply Co's Works.
Muriel Ward in January 1903, in Reading
district, Berkshire, England.
Muriel was born on 30 July 1876 and baptised on 15 August 1876 in
Jubbulpore, Bengal, India, the daughter of Col. Henry Constantine Evelyn
Ward, C.I.E. and Mary Kate Worsley Turner.
Census:
1911: Bucklow, Cheshire: Muriel Richards is aged 34
Electrical Engineer. Arthur
started his career in 1894 at the Hastings Electric Light Works where he
received training in generating station and distribution station practice.
From 1894 to 1901 he was assistant and mains superintendent at the Reading
Electric Light Works. Between 1901 and 1906 he was assistant engineer to the
County of London Electric Supply Co., Ltd., in the mains and distribution
departments. He was M.I.E.E. and M.Cons.E.
Arthur Richards was awarded two
patents, both dealing with electrical couplings. In 1919 he, jointly with
Charles James Beaver and Ernest Alexander Claremont, was awarded a patent
for a
"Sheath-Coupling for Electrical Cables". In 1939, he and Harold Bright
obtained a patent for a "Coupling
for
Electrical and Mechanical Purposes"
25 January 1946, in Surrey
North
Eastern district, Surrey, England, aged 68
1881: "Training
College", Oldbury Court Rd, Stapleton, Gloucestershire
1891: The Grange, St Anne's Road,
Eastbourne, Sussex
1918: Brooklands, Cheshire (patent
application)
1933: Sterndale, Royston Park, Hatch End, Middlesex (London Gazette 1 August 1933 p5150)
Bernard John Goddard Richards
10 August 1857, in Torquay,
Devon, England
Solomon
Augustus Richards
Sophia
Mordaunt (Ward) Richards
17 April 1879
The death was registered in Ireland, in Gorey district, in 1886, showing
Bernard dying aged 21 (i.e. in 1879).
Ardamine cemetery, Gorey, county
Wexford, Ireland
The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland p371
by John Bateman (1879) lists:
RICHARDS, BERNARD JOHN
GODDARD, of Ardamine, Gorey, Co. Wexford. b. 1857 s. 1874.
as owning 2,995 acres giving annual value of £2,367 in Co. Wexford and 378
acres giving annual value of £2,102 in county Dublin.
proved 23 June 1879, of a will
dated 29 March 1879
1871: Claverly Lodge, Pembury
Road, Tonbridge, Kent
Charles Frederick Richards
1838/9, in county Down, Ireland
Edward
Richards
Emily (Saurin) Richards
Army Surgeon
Charles entered the service of the Royal Army Medical Corps as an assistant
surgeon on 2 October 1866 and was promoted to surgeon on 1 March 1873 then
to surgeon-major on 1 January 1879. He retired with the honorary rank of
brigade-surgeon on 3 August 1887.
30 August 1906 at Warrenpoint, county
Down, Ireland, aged 67
The British Medical Journal September 22 1906
p736
OBITUARY.
BRIGARDE-SURGEON CHARLES
FREDERICK RICHARDS, M.B., late of the
Royal Army Medical Corps, died on August 30th at Warrenpoint, co. Down,
at the age of 67. He was the youngest son of the late Rev. Edward
Richards, Rector of Clonallon, and entered the service as an Assistant
Surgeon, October 2nd, 1866; became Surgeon, March 1st, 1873; and
Surgeon-Major, January 1st, 1879, retiring with the honorary rank of
Brigade-Surgeon, August 3rd, 1887.
granted on 10 December 1906, to
Louis Saurin Richards and Charles Maude Richards
Ireland
Calendar of Wills 1906 p444:
RICHARDS Charles
Frederick. 10 December Probate of the will (and five
Codicils) of Charles Frederick Richards
late of Rathturrent Warrenpoint County Down
Retired Brigade Surgeon Army Medical Staff who died 30
August 1906 granted at Belfast
to Louis Saurin Richards Solicitor and Charles Maude Richards M.D. Effects
£17,213 11s. 9d.
1901:
Clonallon, Warrenpoint, county Down
Charles Maude Richards
Lewis Richards
Charlotte Georgina (Maude)
Richards
Charles de Clare Richards
William
Hamilton Richards
Margaret Isabella (Lawrence)
Richards
Edward Richards
1797 in Dublin, county Dublin,
Ireland
Solomon Richards
Elizabeth
(Groome)
Richards
Castleknock School in Dublin,
then Trinity College Dublin and Trinity College Cambridge, entering Dublin
on 7 November 1814, transferring to Cambridge on 2 May 1816 and graduating
with a B.A. in Cambridge in 1819 and an M.A. from TCD in 1823.
Alumni Dublinenses
p700 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935):
RICHARDS,
EDWARD, S.C. (Mr Gwynn), Nov. 7, 1814, aged 16; s. of Solomon,
Chirurgus; b. Dublin. B. A. not recorded. M.A. Vern 1823. [Pen. Trin.
Coll. Cambridge May 2, 1816] See Boase.
Alumni cantabrigienses part 2 vol 5 p287
(J. A. Venn, 1953):
RICHARDS,
EDWARD. Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, May 2,
1816; from Trinity College, Dublin, where he had been adm. Nov. 7, 1814;
M.A. 1823. [S. of Solomon. B. 1797 in Dublin. School, Castleknock,
Dublin.] Matric. Michs.1816; B.A. 1819. R. of Clonallon, Co. Down,
1836-83. Chancellor of Dromore, 1836-83. Married, 1824, Emily, dau. of
the Right Rev. James Saurin, Bishop of Dromore. Died Feb. 12, 1883, at
Clonallon rectory. Brother of Solomon (1816). (Trin.
Coll., Dublin, Reg.; Boase, III. 138.)
Emily Augusta Saurin on 25 February
1824 in Brighton, Sussex, England
Emily was born on 9 June 1803 in Camira, Rosenallis, Queen's county, the
daughter of the Right Reverend James Saurin, Bishop of Dromore, and
Elizabeth Lyster. She died on 6 September 1886 at Rathturret, Warrenpoint,
county Down, aged 83.
Ireland
Calendar of Wills 1886 p556:
RICHARDS Emily.
1 December The Will of the Emily Richards formerly of Clonallon and
late of Rathturret Warrenpoint County Down
Widow who died 6 September 1886 at same place was proved at Belfast
by Henry Goddard Richards of Rathturret Warenpoint Gentleman one of the
Executors.
Effects £1,670 16s. 2d.
Resworn 2869 " 18 " 9
Clergyman.
Edward was rector of Clonallon, county Down from 1836 until 1883, and
Chancellor of Dromore over the same period.
12 February 1883, at Clonallon
rectory, Clonallon, county Down, Ireland
granted on 18 April 1883, to Henry
Goddard Richards
Ireland
Calendar of Wills 1883 p754:
RICHARDS
(Reverend) Edward. 18 April The Will of the Reverend
Edward Richards late of Clonallon Warrenpoint County Down
Clerk deceased who died 12 February 1883 at same place was proved
at Belfast by Henry Goddard
Richards of Clonallon Gentleman one of the Executors.
Effects £15,386 8s. 10d.
Edward Richards
Edward
Richards
Emily (Saurin) Richards
Frances Elizabeth Willoughby on 6
December 1860 in All Saints, Blackheath, Kent, England
The
Gentleman's Magazine January 1861 p96
MARRIAGES.
Dec. 6. At All Saints', Blackheath, Edward, eldest son of the
Rev. Edward Richards, Rector of Clonallon, Down, Chancellor of the Diocese
of Dromore, to Frances Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Willoughby, esq., of
Bryan, Blackheath.
Frances was the daughter of Edward Willoughby, of Bryan House, Blackheath,
Kent
Edward Willoughby Richards
1865, in Cheltenham
district, Gloucestershire, England
Edward
Richards
Frances Elizabeth (Willoughby)
Richards
Elizabeth Richards
3 March 1801, in St Peter, Dublin,
Ireland
Solomon Richards
Elizabeth
(Groome)
Richards
Family prayerbook says she died young
Emily Sophia (Richards) Doyne
25 March 1830, in Roebuck, county
Dublin, Ireland
Taney Church, county Dublin,
Ireland
John Goddard
Richards
Anne Catherine (Ward) Richards
Philip
Walter
Doyne on 25 April 1849, in Clone, county Wexford, Ireland
31 December 1907, in Poole
district, Dorset, England, aged 77
Ardamine cemetery, Gorey, county
Wexford, Ireland
1849: Solsborough, county Wexford (marriage record) 1881:
16
Hyde Park Gardens, London, Middlesex
1901: All Saints Vicarage,
Western Road, Parkstone, Dorset
- 1881 census; exact date
and place from Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards) citing a family prayer book
- The parish of Taney: a history of Dundrum, near
Dublin, and its neighbourhood p140 by Francis E. Ball and
Everard Hamilton (1895)
- History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and
Ireland Vol II p1164 by Sir Bernard Burke (1871)
- Ireland Marriage Index
(1849 Enniscorthy vol 5 p667); exact date and place from IGI marriage
extracts batch M701995; Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards) citing Clone Parish Register on IGI
film 0101396 folio 667 entry 11: Text: 25 April 1849, entry No. 11,
folio 667. Philip Walter Doyne. Full age. Bachelor. Clk. Church of
England. Father: Charles Wm. Doyne, Clk. Church of England. Residence:
Monart Glebe, Parish of Monart to Emily Sophia Richards, Minor,
Spinster. Father: John Goddard Richards, deceased. Gentleman. Residence:
Solsboro.
- England Death Index (1Q1908
Poole vol 5a p185); exact date from thepeerage.com
citing Burke's Irish Family Records p359 by Hugh
Montgomery-Massingberd (1976) and Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards) citing memorial in Ardamine Church; Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards) lists the place of death as Bournemouth,
Hampshire, citing The Times of 4
January 1908
- transcription
of
Ardamine gravestones at From Ireland
Euphrosyne Sophia M. Richards
26 April 1909, in St
Marylebone
district, London, England
Francis
Augustus Richards
Euphrosyne Muriel (Whitaker)
Richards
20 May 1909, in St
Marylebone
district, London, England, aged 3½ weeks
Kensal Green cemetery, London,
England, in grave 2123
Francis Augustus Richards
9 August 1873, at Campagen Gordheoff,
near Geneva, Switzerland
The Times 15 August 1873: Birth Announcements
On the 9th inst at Campagen Gordheoff Nr Geneva
the wife of S A Richards Esq of Ardamine, Gorey Ireland of a son.
Solomon
Augustus Richards
Sophia
Mordaunt (Ward) Richards
Harrow & New College,
Oxford; M.A. Oxon F.R.I.B.A
Euphrosyne Muriel Whitaker on 7
July 1908, in Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London, England. Euphrosyne was
born on 30 March 1883, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, the daughter of
Joshua Whitaker and Euphrosyne Manuel. She died on 26 March 1963, in London,
England
1901: Savana House, Parkside, Southfields, Wandsworth: Euphrosyne M
Whitaker, Pupil, S, 18, Sicily (British Subj) (RG 13/482)
Architect. Francis was a
partner in the architectural firm Jarvis & Richards, whose most famous
design was that of Reigate College, Surrey, in 1927. This is a Grade L
(Locally Listed) Building. The partnership was dissolved in 1933.
London
Gazette 25 April 1933 p2792
NOTICE is hereby given
that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned,
Alfred Wickham Jarvis, Francis Augustus Richards and Charles Spencer Owen
Watson, carrying on business as Architects, at 8A, Lower
Grosvenor Place, Victoria, S.W., under the style or firm of JARVIS &
RICHARDS, has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the fifth day
of October, 1932. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be
received and paid by the said Francis Augustus Richards and Charles
Spencer Owen Watson.—Dated 18th day of April, 1933.
A. WICKHAM
JARVIS.
F. A. RICHARDS.
C. S. OWEN WATSON.
A Francis Augustus Richards, sailing
a boat named Brat with teammate
Thomas Hedberg, won a gold medal for sailing in the 18 foot dinghy class at
the 1920 Antwerp Olympic Games, but family members tell me that this was not
the same man.
(Not to detract from their presumed sailing skill, this had to be one the
easiest Olympic golds ever won - the Antwerp games, held in the aftermath of
World War I, were poorly attended, and Francis's boat was the only entry in
its class. In the only race they started, Richards and Hedberg did not
finish, and it is unclear if they were actually awarded the gold medals -
they do not appear in the Official Report of the Antwerp Games, although
they are included as medal winners in most lists of Olympic medalists.)
Francis
Richards (sailor) Wikipedia page
8 January 1955, at 19 Campden House
Chambers, London, England
12 January 1955, in Kensington
cemetery, Gunnersbury, London (number 346)
1881:
Springfield
Road, Springfield, Tormoham, Devon
1901: Fowley
House, Bramshott, Hampshire
1906: 36 Victoria Street, Westminster, London (International Congress of Architects, Seventh
Session, Transactions p31)
1930: 53 Campden Hill Square, Kensington, London (London Gazette 8 August 1930 p4987)
1931: 53 Campden Hill Square, London (London Gazette 8 September 1931 p5876)
Frank Richards
1907, probably in Malaya.
Frank's father worked for the Public Works Department and was posted in
Penang, then part of the Straits Settlements, in 1906, and in Taiping in the
Federated Malay States in 1908
George Hamilton
Richards
Katherine Winifred B. (Garrard)
Richards
1938
George Hamilton Richards
1 July 1879, in Fishponds,
Gloucestershire, England
Robert
Edward Richards
Katherine Maud (Pickering) Richards
Haileybury College
Haileybury register, 1862-1900 p377 edited
by Lionel Sumner Milford (1900)
Richards,
George Hamilton, b. July 1, 1879, son of Rev. R. E. Richards. Address,
care of Rev. P. V. Doyne, Beckley, near Oxford.
Melvill, 1892.3, M.R.--1897.1, M.V.1. Studying Engineering at the
Borough Surveyor's Office, Salford.
On the Haileybury
website, short biographical notices have been placed of former pupils
who were awarded medals for gallantry.
Major George Hamilton RICHARDS
MC Haileybury Melville 1892.3 -
1897.1
He was born 1 July 1879. Son of Reverend R. E. Richards. Anglo-Boer War in
Duke of Lancaster's Yeomanry. AMICE Public Works Department Malay
States 1905-1929. Royal Engineers 1915-1919. Major MC Mention in
Despatches. Order of White Eagle. WW2 Lieutenant in Home Guard. Died 29
July 1962.
Katherine Winifred B. Garrard in 1905, in Brentford
district, Middlesex, England.
Katherine was born in 1880, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the daughter of
Major Francis T. Garrard and Eliza M. Garrard.
Census;
1881:
3
Segrave Place, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Betty Palmer
Civil Engineer. George was
studying engineering at the Borough Surveyor's Office, Salford in 1900. He
volunteered as a private in the Boer War in the Duke of Lancaster's
Yeomanry. George was elected an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil
Engineers on 4 April 1905. He worked in the Public Works Department (Malay
States) from 1905 until 1929, interrupted by service in the Royal Engineers
during the First World War. George was commissioned as a temporary
Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers on 29 August 1915 (London Gazette 31 August 1915 p8702).
Ranked as a Temporary Captain, George was awarded the Military Cross on 3
June 1918 "in connection with Military Operations in Salonika" (London Gazette 31 May 1918 p6506). As a
Temporary Major on 15 October 1920, George was awarded the Order
of
the White Eagle, 5th Class, a decoration conferred by the King of the
Serbs, Croates and Slovenes (London Gazette 12 October 1920 p9976).
George also served as a Lieutenant in the Home Guard during World War II.
29 July 1962
1881: "Training
College", Oldbury Court Rd, Stapleton, Gloucestershire
1906: Public Works Department, Penang, Straits
Settlements (Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 1906
p208)
1908: Taiping, Perak, Federated
Malay
States (List of Members of the Institute of Civil Engineers
1908 p217)
1942: Shortland, Kent (Commonwealth
War
Graves Commission)
Hamilton MacDonald Richards
17 May 1859
8 June 1859 in St Helier,
Jersey, Channel Islands. Hamilton Mackdonald Richards is listed as the son
of William Hamilton Richards, Captn of 55 Regt., and Margaret Isabella
Lawrence. Hamilton's godparents are listed as Henry Baynes Lawrence, Robert
Edward Richards and Florence Richards.
William
Hamilton Richards
Margaret Isabella (Lawrence)
Richards
Frances Minnie Apphia Swanson in 1893 in Steyning
district, Sussex, England
Frances was born on 12 July 1862 and baptised on 2 August 1862 in Belgaum,
Bombay, India, the daughter of Francis and Anne Blanche Swanson. After
Hamilton's death, Frances married Kenneth Ross Mackenzie in 1897 in Steyning
district, Sussex. She died in 1922, in Steyning
district, Sussex, aged 59.
Census:
1881:
48 Ventnor Villas, Hove, Sussex
1911: Weymouth, Dorset: Francis Minnie Apphia Mackenzie is aged 47
Army Officer
Gentleman Cadet Hamilton Macdonald Richards, from the Royal Military
College, was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the 16th Regiment of Foot
on 22 January 1879 (London Gazette 21 January 1879 p284).
Hamilton transferred to the 55th (Westmoreland) Regiment of Foot, where his
father was a Lieutenant-Colonel, in January 1880 (London Gazette 13 January 1880 p144). He
made Lieutenant on 27 February 1880 (Army List 1881 p299) and was appointed
Instructor of Musketry on 10 June 1881 (London Gazette 26 July 1881 p3673). The
55th Foot amalgamated with the 34th (Cumberland) Foot to form the Border
Regiment in July 1881. Hamilton was promoted to Captain on 21 January 1885 (London
Gazette 20 January 1885 p274) and Major on 20 October 1893 (London
Gazette 28 November 1893 p6987)
19 December 1896, in Quetta,
Beluchistan, India
21 December 1896, in Quetta,
Beluchistan, India
The inscription on his grave reads:
Sacred to the memory of Hamilton Macdonald
Richards. Major. 2nd Battalion The Border Regiment. Died Quetta 19 Dec.
1896. Born 17 May 1859. Deeply regretted by his brother officers by whom
this monument is erected.
1871: 58 Midland Road, or 5 Woolbourne Villas, Bedford St Paul,
Bedfordshire. Hamilton M. Richards
1881:
"School Of Musketry", Hythe St. Leonard, Kent
Henry Goddard Richards
1833/4, in county Down, Ireland
Edward
Richards
Emily (Saurin) Richards
Land Agent
1901:
Clonallon, Warrenpoint, county Down
James Saurin Richards
Edward
Richards
Emily (Saurin) Richards
James was an officeer in the army. He
died unmarried.
James Saurin Richards
1867, in St
George
Hanover Square district, Middlesex, England
Edward
Richards
Frances Elizabeth (Willoughby)
Richards
John Goddard Richards
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Silhouette of John Goddard Richards
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November 1793, in Dublin, county
Dublin, Ireland
Solomon Richards
Elizabeth
(Groome)
Richards
Trinity College Dublin which John
entered on 4 July 1810 and graduated B.A. in 1814.
Alumni Dublinenses
p701 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935):
RICHARDS, JOHN
GODDARD, S.C. (Mr Craig), July 4, 1810, aged 16; s. of Solomon,
Chirurgus; b. Dublin. B. A. Æst. 1814.
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Anne Catherine (Ward) Richards
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Anne Catherine Ward on 16 July 1821, in Bangor Castle, Bangor, county Down,
Ireland, by special license.
Anne was born on 19 November 1800, the daughter of Robert Ward and Louisa Jane Symes. She died at
10:30am on 10 May 1835, in Ardamine, Gorey, county Wexford, and was buried
at 8:30am on 13 May 1835, in the north side of Ardamine
churchyard. On 21 October 1836 the remains of her daughter who
had been still born in September 1822 at Bangor Castle and which had been
deposited in the family vault in Bangor church, were placed at the head
of Anne's grave.
Mary Rawson on 5 May 1840 in
St Peter, Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland
John Goddard Richards is recorded as resident at Ardamine, county Wexford.
Mary Rawson is recorded as a spinster resident at Wyndham Place, London. The
marriage was witnessed by Rawson Rawson and Edward Reeves.
Mary born in 1812/3 in Clifton, Gloucestershire, the daughter of William (Adams) Rawson and Jane Eliza Rawson. John and Mary
had no children. Mary married, secondly, John Billingsley Parry, on 14
October 1847, in St George, Hanover Square, Middlesex. John was a
barrister-at-law, Q.C., and judge of the County Court District, no. 36, in
England. Mary died on 1 October 1891 in Kensington
district, London, aged 78.
Census:
1841: Wyndham
Place, St Marylebone, Middlesex
1851: Marine
Parade, Brighton, Sussex
1861: Great
Cumberland Street, St Marylebone, Middlesex
1871: Leamington,
Warwickshire
1891: Cornwall
Gardens, Kensington, London
Barrister-at-law, Justice of the
Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for county Wexford. Appointed High Sheriff of
Wexford in 1824.
13 April 1846
dated 4 April 1840
John inherited the estates of
Ardamine, near Gorey, county Wexford and Roebuck House, near Donnybrook,
county Dublin.
1841: Wyndham
Place, St Marylebone, Middlesex
- Alumni Dublinenses
p701; exact month from Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards); Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
vol 2 p1164 (Bernard Burke, 1871) has birth year as 1794
- Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
vol 2 p1164 (Bernard Burke, 1871)
- Alumni Dublinenses
p701
- Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
vol 2 p1164 (Bernard Burke, 1871), place, license from Richards
DNA
website; Anne birth from Richards
DNA
website; Anne father and death from Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
vol 2 p1164 (Bernard Burke, 1871), place of death from Richards
DNA
website; Anne mother and father's occupation from
obituary of Robert Ward in The Gentleman's Magazine 1 February 1831;
Anne
burial from Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards)
- Parish
records of Dublin St Peter; Mary birth from age of 78 at death in
1891 with place from 1851 census; Mary father from Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
vol 2 p1164 (Bernard Burke, 1871); Mary mother from Richards
of Wexford; Mary second marriage from England Marriage Index
(4Q1847 St Geo.Han Sqr. vol 1 p9) with exact date and place from Annual Register for 1847 p190; John
Parry details from Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
vol 2 p1164 (Bernard Burke, 1871); Mary death from England Death
Index (4Q1891 Kensington vol 1a p129) with exact date from Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards)
- Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
vol 2 p1164 (Bernard Burke, 1871)
- Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
vol 2 p1164 (Bernard Burke, 1871)
- Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards)
John Goddard Richards
William
Hamilton Richards
Margaret Isabella (Lawrence)
Richards
Katherine Daisy (Richards) McBryde
24 April 1907, in Malaya
Katherine's father worked for the Public Works Department and was posted in
Penang, then part of the Straits Settlements, in 1906, and in Taiping in the
Federated Malay States in 1908
George
Hamilton Richards
Katherine Winifred B. (Garrard)
Richards
James R. McBryde in 1938 in St
Marylebone
district, London, England
Army Nurse.
Katherine was provisionally appointed Staff Nurse in Queen
Alexandra's
Imperial Military Nursing Service on 30 September 1935 (London Gazette 10 January 1936 p232). She
was commissioned as Sister (equivalent rank to a lieutenant) on 1 June 1942
(London Gazette 8 September 1942 p3959) and
was posted to South Africa, but died when the ship transporting her there
was sunk in December 1942.
Katherine may have been known as
"Deidre".
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Katherine died aboard the S.S. Ceramic
when it was sunk in 1942
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7 December 1942, aboard the S.S.
Ceramic when it was torpedoed west of the Azores.
The Ceramic left Liverpool on 23
November 1942, bound for South Africa and Australia, carrying both Allied
troops and 378 civilian passengers. It was torpedoed by U-515 on the night
of 6 December 1942 in latitude 40 deg. 30 min. N., longitude 40 deg, 20 min.
W, west of the Azores in the Atlantic ocean. The Ceramic took about three
hours to sink, and everyone on board was evacuated to lifeboats. The
lifeboats drifted through a relatively calm night, and contact was made
between some of them at daybreak, but a terrible storm descended in the
morning and some of the lifeboats were swamped and capsized. Rescue vessels
were forced to turn back due to the storm. Of the 656 people on board the Ceramic, only one survived - Sapper
Eric Munday was pulled from the water by the U-boat for interrogation and
subsequently held as a P.O.W. The complete story of the Ceramic,
including interviews with Eric Munday and some of the U-boat crew has been
recorded in SS Ceramic - The Untold Story (Clare
Hardy, 2006)
SS
Ceramic - The Untold Story (Clare Hardy, 2006)
CASUALTY LIST
...
McBRYDE KATHERINE DAISY
Age: 30
Sister; 236022
Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service
Ticket No. 332
Destination: Cape Town
Daughter of George Hamilton Richards and Katherine Winifred Richards, of
Shortlands, Kent. Panel 22. Column 2.
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Brookwood Memorial where Katherine's name
is inscribed
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Brookwood Memorial,
Brookwood, Surrey England. Katherine's name is inscribed on panel 22 column
2
Kathleen Louisa Vere (Richards) Fairthorne
8 July 1875, in Fishponds,
Gloucestershire, England
Robert Edward
Richards
Katherine Maud (Pickering) Richards
Berkley
William Fairthorne on 18 April 1897, in Little Hinton, Wiltshire,
England
21 October 1950, in Old Farmhouse,
Abingdon, Berkshire, England
The Cemetery, Pring Road,
Abingdon, Berkshire, England
1881: "Training
College", Oldbury Court Rd, Stapleton, Gloucestershire
1901: Abingdon district, Berkshire: Kathleen L. Fairthorne is aged 25, born
in Fishponds, Gloucestershire
1911: Abingdon district, Berkshire: Kathleen Louisa Vere Richards is aged 35
Lewis Richards
Edward
Richards
Emily (Saurin) Richards
Charlotte Georgina Maude on 13
February 1866 in the parish church, Trory, county Fermanagh, Ireland
The Londonderry Sentinel 20 February 1866:
February 13,
in the Parish Church, Trory, county of Fermanagh, after banns, by the
Rev. Edward Richards, Rector of Clonallan and Chancellor of Dromore,
father of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev. George Tottenham, Rector
of Innismacsaint, cousin to the bride, the Rev. Lewis Richards, M.A.,
Incumbent of Warrenpoint, to Charlotte Georgina, third daughter of the
late Hon. and Rev. John C. Maude, Rector of Ennoskillen.
Charlotte was the daughter of the Hon. and Rev. John Charles Maude.
Lewis was curate of Warrenpoint,
county Down, in the diocese of Dromore.
Lewis Saurin Richards
Lewis
Richards
Charlotte Georgina (Maude)
Richards
Louisa Elizabeth (Richards) Maconchy
11 May 1824, in Roebuck, county
Dublin, Ireland
25 May 1824, in Taney, county
Dublin, Ireland
John Goddard
Richards
Anne Catherine (Ward) Richards
George
Maconchy on 27 April 1843
13 December 1864
1841: Wyndham
Place, St Marylebone, Middlesex
Marianne Richards
about 1795
Solomon Richards
Elizabeth
(Groome)
Richards
The family prayer book records that
she died young and places her between John Goddard Richards, the eldest
child and Edward Richards born in 1797. A younger sister, born in November
1799, was also named Marianne, or Mary Anne, so this Marianne must have died
before then.
Marianne (Richards) Johnson
21 November 1826, in Roebuck, county
Dublin, Ireland
Taney Church, county Dublin,
Ireland
John
Goddard Richards
Anne Catherine (Ward) Richards
Samuel
Johnson on 5 November 1850 in Ardamine Church, county Wexford,
Ireland, by Edward Richards, Rector of Clonallon, county Derry. The marriage
was witnessed by S.A. Richards and J.H. Walker. Samuel is recorded as a
bachelor, of full age, a manager of a bank, of Wexford, the son of William
Johnston, a collector of customs. Marianne is recorded as a spinster, of
full age, of Ounaverra, Ardamine, the daughter of John Goddard Richards,
gentleman and Deputy Lieutenant of county Wexford.
Two of Marianne's daughters joined
missions to China. Marianne was active in the recruitment of missionaries. India's Women vol 13 p200, a publication of
the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, tells us that:
The gathering at Clontarf Rectory naturally bore
witness to the earnest workers; there the Rev. M. Bradshaw, who presided,
opened with prayer, and his son-in-law, the Rev. J.G. Garrett, of Ceylon,
closed the meeting. Mrs. Johnson, the mother of one of our missionaries in
China, also kindly gave very efficient help. The C.E.Z.M.S. has this year,
for the first time, found a place among the Societies which keep their
anniversaries in Dublin in April.
23 July 1908, in Rathdown district, county Dublin or county
Wicklow, Ireland, aged 81
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Headstone of Marianne (Richards) Johnson
in St John the Apostle graveyard, Ardamine, county Wexford
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St John the Apostle graveyard,
Ardamine, county Wexford, Ireland. Marianne's headstone reads:
In
memory of
Samuel Johnson
OF Brookville,
Wexford
WHO DIED 2nd
APRIL 1883
AGED 70 YEARS.
Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life:
and i will dwell in the house of
the lord for ever.
ALSO OF
Marianne his wife
who died July 23rd 1908
aged 81 years
Mary Ann (Richards) Wynne
November 1799
25 December 1799, in St Peter,
Dublin, Ireland
Solomon Richards
Elizabeth
(Groome)
Richards
Henry Wynne on 31 October 1824
Henry was born in 1798/9, in county Westmeath, the son of Henry Wynne and
Catherine Eckersall. He was the brother of Katherine Wynne, the first wife
of Marianne's brother, Solomon. Henry entered Trinity College Dublin on 7
October 1816 and graduated B.A. in 1820 and M.A. in 1824.
Alumni Dublinenses
p899 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935):
WYNNE, HENRY, S.C. (Dr Carpendale,
Armagh), Oct. 7, 1816, aged 17; s. of Henry, Clericus; b. Co. Westmeath.
B.A. Æst. 1820. M.A. Vern. 1824.
Rev. Henry Wynne was rector of Ardcolm, county Wexford. Three of Henry's
sermons were published in 1847 as Three Sermons
preached on the occasion of the re opening of the Church of Ardcolm in the
diocese of Ferns, reviews of which are found in The Irish Ecclesistical Journal January 1848 p9
and The Scottish magazine, and churchman's review pp141-5. Henry died on 7 September 1847,
and was buried in the churchyard at Ardcolm "beside the hallowed walls of
his church as close as is permitted by Statute in accordance with a wish to
that effect expressed in his will" (The Irish Ecclesistical Journal January 1848 p9).
A stained glass window
has been erected to his memory in Ardcolm church.
The
Clergy of the Church in Ireland Weighed in the Balance
p10 (G. A. Hamilton 1868):
In this list (and it is by no means complete) there are the names of no
fewer than forty of those excellent men who then had fallen victims to the
devoted discharge of their duties:—
Rev. Henry Wynne, Rector of Ardcolm, Diocese of Ferns. His constitution
sunk under his arduous services on the Relief Committee, and in his
endeavour to relieve the suffering poor.
- Henry Eckersall Wynne (1825 - 1895)
- Frederick Richards Wynne (1827 - 1896)
- Elizabeth Agnes Wynne (1829 - 1901)
- Albert Augustus Wynne (1833 - 1922)
- Charles Edward Wynne (1835 - 1858)
- Owen Llewellyn Wynne (1839 - 1860)
- Adelaide Wynne (1844 - 1863)
21 April 1864, at Orchard Street, St
Marylebone, Middlesex, England, aged 64
The Gentleman's Magazine June 1864 p808
DEATHS.
April 21. In Orchard-st., Portman-square, aged 62, Marianne,
widow of the Rev. Henry Wynne, of Ardcolm. co. Wexford.
Mary Alice Richards
1867/8, in county Cavan, Ireland
Lewis
Richards
Charlotte Georgina (Maude)
Richards
1901:
Clonallon, Warrenpoint, county Down
Philippa Mary Richards
8 September 1909, in Bucklow
district, Cheshire, England
Arthur Francis
Ward Richards
Muriel (Ward) Richards
1911: Bucklow district, Cheshire: Philippa Mary Richards is aged 1
Robert Edward Richards
21 January 1832, in Roebuck, Dublin,
Ireland
John Goddard
Richards
Anne Catherine (Ward) Richards
Cheltenham College, then Trinity
College, Cambridge. Robert graduated B.A. in 1854 and M.A. in 1857.
Cheltenham college register, 1841-1889 p78
Richards,
Robert Edward, son of John Goddard Richards, Esq., Ardamine, Gorey, Co.
Wexford; born 21st January, 1832. 7C-1C. Baxter.
Left September, 1850.
Senior (Classical) Scholar, 1846. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1850;
B.A. (44th Senior Optime, and 14th in 2nd Class Classical
Tripos), 1854; M.A. 1857. Ordained Deacon, 1856, and Priest, 1857. Curate
of Corfe Castle, Dorset 1856-61; of Tor-Mohun, 1861-69; of Corfe Castle,
1869-71. Principal of Fishponds Training College, near Bristol, since
1871.
Address:- The Training College, Fishponds, near Bristol Alumni Cantabrigienses by John Venn (1940-54)
transcribed at A
Cambridge Alumni Database
Richards, Robert Edward.
Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, May 30, 1850. [2nd] s. of John Goddard, of
Ardamine and Roebuck, Co. Wexford, (and Anne Catherine, dau. of the Hon.
Robert Ward).
B. Jan. 21, 1832 in Dublin.
School, Cheltenham College. Matric. Michs. 1850; B.A. 1854; M.A. 1857.
Ord. deacon (Salisbury) 1856; priest, 1857; C. of Corfe Castle, Dorset,
1856-61.
C. of Tor-Mohun, Devon, 1861-9. C. of Corfe Castle, 1869-71.
Principal of Fishponds Training College, Bristol, 1871-90.
R. of Little Hinton, Wilts., 1890-8. Married, 1870, Katharine Maud, dau.
of Rev. Edward Hayes Pickering, M.A., of Eton College.
Resided latterly at Oxford.
Died Oct. 18, 1902, at Beckley, Oxon.
(Cheltenham Coll. Reg.; Winchester
Coll. Reg. and add.; Crockford; The
Times, Oct. 20, 1902; Burke, L.G.
of Ireland; V. Hodson.)
Katharine Maud Pickering on 18 October 1870, in Parish
Church, Addington, Kent, England. Katherine was born in 1846, in Eton,
Buckinghamshire, and baptised on 8 December 1846 in Eton, the daughter of
Edward Hayes Pickering and Anna Maria Stephenson. She died on 13 January
1892, in Little Hinton, Wiltshire, aged 45, of a ruptured gall-bladder and
broncho-pneumonia. She is buried at Ardamine cemetery, Gorey, county
Wexford, Ireland.
Clergyman.
Robert was ordained deacon (Salisbury) in 1856 and priest in 1857. He was
curate of Corfe Castle, Dorset, from 1856 until 1861, then curate of
Tormoham, Devon, from 1861 until 1869, and again curate of Corfe Castle from
1869 until 1871. He was Principal of the St Matthias Church of England
Teacher Training College in Fishponds, Bristol, from 1871 until 1890, then
rector of Little Hinton, Wiltshire, from 1890 until his retirement in 1898.
Crockford's Clerical Directory (1872) p720
RICHARDS, Robert
Edward, Corfe Castle,
Dorset. - Trin. Coll. Cam. B.A. (Sen. Opt. and 2nd cl. Cl. Trip.) 1854,
M.A. 1857; Deac. 1856, Pr. 1857 by Bp of Sarum. С. of Corfe Castle, Dio.
Sarum, 1870. Formerly С. of Corfe Castle, Dorset, 1856-61; Tor Mohun with
Cockington 1861-70
17 October 1902, in Beckley,
Oxfordshire, England, aged 70
Ardamine cemetery, Gorey, county
Wexford, Ireland
1871: The Vicarage, Corfe
Castle, Dorset
1881: "Training
College", Oldbury Court Rd, Stapleton, Gloucestershire
Robert Charles Pickering Richards
2 November 1873, in Fishponds,
Gloucestershire, England
Robert Edward
Richards
Katherine Maud (Pickering) Richards
Haileybury College
Haileybury register, 1862-1891 p289 edited
by Lionel Sumner Milford (1891)
Richards,
Robert Charles Pickering, b. Nov. 2, 1873, son of Rev. R.E. Richards,
Training College, Fishponds, Bristol.
Melvill, 1888.2, R. - 1890.3.
U.M.2(b)
Gladys Gill. Gladys was born
in 1875.
Dusia Evdokia Vasilievna
Rotnova. Dusia was born in 1900/1, in Russia, the daughter of General
Rotnova of Guriev, S. Russia. She died in 1964, in Battersea
district, London, aged 63.
Bankers Clerk (1891);
International businessman (1947)
In WW1, Robert arranged the
destruction of Romanian oil wells.
16 September 1947
1881: "Training
College", Oldbury Court Rd, Stapleton, Gloucestershire
Solomon Richards
August 1758, at York Street, Dublin,
Ireland
Goddard Richards
Anne Hewetson
Elizabeth
Groome in November 1792, in Castlecombe, county Kilkenny, Ireland
Surgeon. Solomon was president
of the Royal College of Surgeons and member of the Royal Irish Academy and
Royal Dublin Society.
Extract from History of Royal College of Surgeons
of Ireland by Sir C.A.Cameron, 1886, transcribed at Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards)
SOLOMON, having received an excellent classical
education was apprenticed to James Boyton, an assistant surgeon to St
Steven's Hospital. He finished his apprenticeship in April 1781 and then
proceeded to London, Edinburgh and Paris, where he studied his profession
under the most eminent teachers of his day. On his return to Dublin he
became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons on 16th May 1785 and
subsequently was elected four times as President in 1794, 1803, 1808 and
1818.
In 1790 he succeeded Arthur Winton as Surgeon to
the Meath Hospital and retained that office until his death.
His practice was large and lucrative and he was
able to purchase the estates of Roebuck in co. Dublin from Lord
Trimleston, Ardamine in Co.Wexford from Sir Thomas Roberts Bt. and other
estates in counties Wexford and Wicklow.
In 1812 he won a lottery prize of £10,000.
He had the reputation of being very charitable
and his professional services were freely at the disposal of the poor. As
a clinical lecturer he was much praised for the lucidity of his style and
the elegance of his diction, furthermore he was celebrated for his puns
and bon mots. As to his person, it was said of him that he was the fattest
surgeon in the United Kingdom.
Learned Societies: He was a member of the Royal
Irish Academy and the Royal Dublin Society.
References.
Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland
History of the Royal College of Surgeons of
Ireland. Sir C.A.Cameron,1886
He was the second candidate to receive letters of
testimonial. The examination was on 17 and 19 Feb 1785 and he became a
member of the RCSI on 2 May 1785
The Treble Almanack for 1818,
transcribed at Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards), lists him as:
Life Subscriber to the Royal Irish Academy
Member of the Dublin Society
Royal College of Surgeons: Richards, Sol. St
Stephen's-green, E.
Surgeon to the Female Orphan House in Circular
Road (for destitute female children)
Governor of Dr Steven's Hospital, 1730 - and
visiting surgeon.
Governor of St Patrick's Lying-in Hospital
The Meath Hospital: Attending surgeons Solomon
Richards Esq, Stephen's-Green
Cow-Pock Institution, 62 Sackville St. Opened
under the superintendence of the following Physicians & surgeons
...... Solomon Richards, Esq
Richmond National Institution for the Blind....
Surgeons ...... and Solomon Richards, Esq Stephen's-Green, East
Hospital for incurables, Donnybrook Road,
Governors include Solomon Richards, Esq
Surgeon to the Magdalen Asylum, Leeson St
6 November 1819
Askinvillar, Killane, county
Wexford, Ireland. There is a memorial plaque to Solomon in Killane Church of
Ireland church which says that he was buried at "Askinvillar in this
parish." (see Memorials of the Dead by Brian
Cantwell, vol 9, East Wexford, transcribed at Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards))
This anecdote of Solomon being robbed
at gunpoint was related in an article Recollections
of a Long Professional Life - 1844 to 1904 by Lombe Atthill, M.D.,
printed in the British
Medical Journal
on 22 January 1910:
Mr. Solomon Richards, who died in 1819,
was in his day a leading Irish surgeon.
He had the reputation of being the
fattest and biggest surgeon in the United
Kingdom. Ireland at the beginning of the nineteenth
century was in a most unsettled state - even the roads
about Dublin were not safe after dark, robberies and
even murders not being uncommon.
Well, Richards was called on to perform an
operation near Santry, a village some
ten miles from Dublin, and was detained
with the patient till long after sunset.
It was winter, and he was returning in
his carriage, having with him a Dr. Obré, who had
called him in, a physician at that time in good
practice, and who was as spare and insignificant as
Richards was the reverse. Suddenly the carriage was
stopped, and a footpad, opening the door on the side
next which Richards sat, presented a pistol and demanded
his purse. Richards, begging him to lower
his pistol, handed him the purse, and then his watch,
which the robber demanded. Then followed the demand:
"Have you anything else?" "Yes," replied
Richards, "here is my case of instruments," handing
them out promptly. All this time Obré was concealed -
hid by Richards's huge frame, which, in the dark,
seemed to fill the carriage - and the footpad, not observing
him, called to the coachman to drive on, but
Richards stopped him, saying: "Oh, no; not till you
speak to my friend on the other side of me." So Obré,
too, thus pointed out, was relieved of his money and
watch. Then the robber politely said, "Good
night." But Richards was not yet done with him, and
said: "My friend, you would not have got that
gentleman's money if it had not been for me.
Now, my instruments won't bring you ten shillings
in Charles Street (a street which was, and still is,
the mart for all kind of second-hand tools and iron),
while to me they are of value. I think you might
give me them back." "Well, I will," was the prompt
reply, and the case was handed in. "One word more,"
said Richards, "you will get very little for that old
watch. I care for it because it was my father's. Let
me have it." "Well, you are a decent fellow," said the
robber, "here it is." Then they drove on. Obré then, in great
anger, broke the silence, and in unmeasured
terms abused Richards, declaring that it was mean
of him to point him out, as otherwise he would have
escaped. Richards let him talk for a while, and then
quietly said: " Do you think I was going to allow you
to boast in the club to-morrow how well you got off
while Richards was robbed? Oh, no; if I was to be robbed
you must be also."
Solomon purchased the estate of Roebuck, county Dublin from Lord
Trimleston, Ardamine, near Gorey in county Wexford from Sir Thomas
Huberts in about 1819, and other estates also in couty Wexford from Abel Ram
of Clonatin.
Registry of Deeds, Dublin, book 725 p508
mem.495443, transcribed at Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards)
Roberts to
Richards, registered 21 March 1818.
To the Registrar appointed by Act of Parliament
for registration of Deeds, Conveyances and so forth. A memorial of
articles of agreement bearing date the 18 day of March 1818 made between
Sir Walter Roberts of Courtlands in the County of Devon in England Baronet
of the one part and Solomon Richards of the City of Dublin Esquire of the
other part witnessing that the said Sir Walter Roberts in consideration of
the sum of £5000 then paid and of the further sum of £15000 to be paid as
therein after mentioned did thereby for him and his heirs covenant and
agree with the said Solomon Richards his heirs and assigns and all those
persons that could lawfully claim any estate or interest under him in
trust for him or otherwise in the lands and premises therein and herein
after mentioned should and would on or before the expiration of one month
from the date thereof by such conveyances and assurances ways and means in
the law be the same by fine recovery or otherwise as he the said Solomon
Richards his heirs and assigns or his or their counsel should reasonably
devise advise or require will and sufficiently grant bargain sell release
convey and assume to and to the use of the said Solomon Richards his heirs
and assigns forever or to whom he or they should appoint.
All that and those the Manor town and lands of
Middleton, Ballintra, Glinn, Ballybracken, Knockroe, Seafield and Grass
Park by whatever denomination called or known as then in the possession of
Wm Masterton, Henry Richards Senr, Edward Richards, David Brownrigg, Hugh
Hovill Farmer, Henry Richards, James Hickey, Abraham Brownrigg, Thomas
Derensey, Martin Redmond, Edward Richards, James Murphy, James Godkin,
Judith Elchingalls, Thomas Whelan and John Dunn or their undertenants
containing 884 acres one rood and 26 perches be the same more or less and
now producing the yearly sum of £1037.15.4 or thereabouts together with
all manorial rights therein to belonging which premises are situate lying
and being in the County of Wexford. To hold from the 25 then inst unto the
said Solomon Richards his heirs and assigns forever subject to the year by
quit rent crown and composition paid and payable for the same in which
said deed of conveyance should be contained covenants that the said lands
and premises at the time of such conveyance are free from all
incumberances whatsoever except the tenants and undertenants lease then
really and bonafide made as expressed in a rental therein annexed and with
such warranty and other reasonable and fit covenants as by the said
Solomon Richards his heirs or assigns or his or their counsel should
advise or require with other clauses or covenants which said articles of
agreement as to the execution thereof by the said Sir Walter Roberts and
Solomon Richards respectively are witnessed by John Colburn of Aungier St.
and Richard Bailie of Nelson St. in the City of Dublin Attorneys at Law.
1799: York Street, Dublin, county Dublin (baptism
record of daughter Mary Ann)
Solomon Richards
1798
Solomon Richards
Elizabeth
(Groome)
Richards
Trinity College Dublin and
Trinity College Cambridge, obtaining a B.A from the latter in 1820.
Alumni Dublinenses
p701 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935):
RICHARDS,
SOLOMON, S.C. (Mr Leney), Nov. 6, 1815, aged 17; s. of Solomon,
Chirurgus; b. Dublin. [Pen. Trin. Coll. Cambridge May 4, 1816.]
Alumni cantabrigienses part 2 vol 5 p289
(J. A. Venn, 1953):
RICHARDS,
SOLOMON. Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, May 11,
1816; from Trinity College, Dublin, where he had been adm. Nov. 6, 1815,
aged 17. [3rd] s. of Solomon [surgeon, of York Street, Dublin].(and
Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. Edward Groome). [B. in Dublin, 1798.]
School, Castle Dawson, Co. Londonderry. Matric. Michs.1816; B.A. 1820.
Of Ounavarra, Co. Wexford. J.P. Married (1) Katherine, dau. of the Rev.
Henry Wynn; (2) June 9, 1852, Florence, dau. of the Rev. Henry Moore, R.
of Ferns. Died, May 14, 1862. Brother of Edward (1816). (Burke, L.G.of
Ireland; Al. Dublin)
Katherine Wynne
Katherine was born in 1809, the daughter of Henry Wynne and Catherine
Eckersall. She was the brother of Henry Wynne who married Solomon's
sister, Marianne in 1824. Katherine died on 31 October 1848.
Florence Moore on 9 June 1852
Florence was born on 19 June 1830, the daughter of Henry Moore and Lucie
Currie. She died on 1 February 1873, at Ounavarra, county Wexford, aged 45.
Ireland
Calendar of Wills 1873 p565:
RICHARDS
Florence. 21 April The Will of Florence Richards late of
Ounavarra County Wexford Widow
deceased who died 1 February 1873 at same place was proved at the Principal Registry by the oath of
Solomon Augustus Richards of Ardamine Gorey in said County J.P. one of
the Executors.
Effects
under £4,000.
Justice of the Peace. Solomon had no
children.
14 August 1862 at Ounvarra, county
Wexford, Ireland
granted on 13 November 1862, to
Solomon Augustus Richards
Ireland
Calendar of Wills 1862 p279:
RICHARDS
Solomon. 13 November Letters of Administration (with the
Will annexed) of the personal estate of Solomon Richards late of
Ounvarra in the county of Wexford
Esquire deceased who died 14 August 1862 at same place was granted at Principal Registry to Solomon
Augustus Richards of Ardamine Courtown Gorey in the county of Wexford
Esquire Nephew of deceased one of the Residuary Legatees.
Effects
under £14,000.
Ireland
Calendar of Wills 1901 p416:
RICHARDS
Solomon. 10 December Administration (with the Will) of
the unadministered estate of Solomon
Richards late of Ownvarra County Wexford
Esquire deceased who died 14 August
1862 granted at Dublin
to Mary A. Johnson Widow (Former Grant 13 November 1862)
Effects £1,769 4s. 7d.
Solomon Augustus Richards
16 August 1828, in Roebuck, county
Dublin, Ireland
Taney Church, county Dublin,
Ireland
John Goddard
Richards
Anne Catherine (Ward) Richards
Eton School (matriculated 1
July 1845, aged 16) and Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated B.A. on 6
June 1850.
Alumni Oxonienses vol 3 p1194
Richards,
Solomon Augustus, Is. John Goddard, of Taney, со. Dublin,
arm. TRINITY COLL., matric. 21 Oct., 1847,
aged 19; B.A. 1850, of Ardamine, со. Wexford, and of Roebuck, со. Dublin,
a student of Lincoln's Inn, 1849, died 13 Jan., 1874. See Eton
School Lists.
Sophia
Mordaunt
Ward on 10 June 1856, in St Peters, Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland
A notice in The Times on 13 June 1856
gives the place of marriage by The Hon. and Rev. Henry Ward assisted by
Revd. Robert Richards. He is "Captain in Wexford Regiment and she is only
dau of Revd. Bernard Ward of Bangor, Co Down.
(Henry Ward was the bride's first cousin and Robert Richards the
bridegroom's brother.)
A conveyance dated 14 July 1899 from Dublin Registry of deeds no 518 cites
marriage settlement with Sophia M Ward 9th June 1856.
Solomon was a magistrate and
Justice of the Peace, and in 1851-4, High Sheriff of Wexford. He was also a
captain in the Wexford militia.
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St John the Evangelist Church at Ardamine,
Gorey, county Wexford
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Solomon had a church built at
Ardamine, on the grounds of an older church that had been pulled down forty
years earlier. The Church of St John the Evangelist was consecrated on 26
May 1862.
An article in Gorey Echo on 17 September 2009 reads:
MANY OF the small rural churches serving the Church of Ireland faith are
found in remote and peaceful locations.
Usually, surrounded by tall trees of mature growth, the only
intrusion is reserved for the crows, Sunday service and other ceremonies.
The history of these churches is generally well documented and very
often they are located on the old Christian sites.
One church that is an exception to the description given in the
opening paragraph is the Church of Saint John the Evangelist at Ardamine,
a short distance south of Courtown Harbour which enjoys a prime position
overlooking the Irish Sea.
The parish of Ardamine and Killena is situated on the sea coast and
extends for some miles inland, but the leading landmark is Ardamine
Church.
It is very familiar to the multitude of holiday makers who have
been coming to this pleasant part of Co. Wexford for countless
generations.
At Ardamine, where now stands the church, a most significant
feature is the Moate situated on the south side of the church. Here, very
probably, was the burial place of some person of importance.
The story is told that about 1780 a man was ploughing in the
vicinity and his plough, drawn by a rather restive horse, struck an
obstacle just under the surface of the ground.
On investigation the object proved to be a large stone cross which
can now be seen in the vicinity of the churchyard.
The main shaft of this cross was broken by the plough.
When it was re-erected in its present position, its height was
considerably decreased.
According to Professor Westropp this cross was very probably
connected with the Moate and both have been making the burial place of
some Christian notable of perhaps 1500 years ago!
About the year 1824 the church on the site, being in a sad state of
repair, the building of a new church was contemplated.
After discussion it was decided to move the location of the parish
church to a more inland site at Killena.
Some people felt that the new site would be more central for the
parish and some felt that the present site was rather exposed to the
elements and that a new church on the old site might suffer damage from an
encroaching sea.
After a certain amount of argument a new site at Ballyduff was
decided upon and the land for building was given by Mr. Richard Bolton.
So the old church was pulled down and it is recorded that during
this operation hulls of oats were found in the crevices of the walls, thus
giving substance to the tradition that Cromwellian troops had stabled
their horses within the old church!
About forty years later, Captain Solomon Augustus Richards, whose
estates included the old site, hallowed by Christian churches from time
immemorial, decided to re-occupy the site of the present beautiful church
of Saint John the Evangelist.
The architect was George Edmund Street (1824-1881), a famous
architect who designed the Law Courts in London, and many ecclesiastical
buildings.
Ardamine Church and the church at Piltown in south Kilkenny are
apparently the only example of Street's work in Ireland. John Kelly of
Gorey superintended the work on the building.
However, he was in some way associated with Christ Church, Dublin.
The church shares a feature characteristic of several churches in
the neighbourhood, notably the lovely Roman Catholic Church at Riverchapel
and Christ Church, Gorey, and possibly several other churches.
This is the rather short turret reaching up into the sky.
Writing in a reference source that is in keen demand, 'Sights and
Scenes of the Fatherland', published in the 1860's, Wexford-born writer,
Thomas Lacy, says of Ardamine; "This exceedingly beautiful edifice, which
is the early English style, was designed by Mr. G.E. Street of London, a
famous architect. The church is sixtysix feet in length and sixteen and a
half in breadth.
The walls, externally and internally, are of irregular masonry with
ornamental bands of red brick.
This, with the open timber roof and the splendid floor which is
paved with encaustic tiles in patterns, presents a rich appearance."
The Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Ardamine, was consecrated
on May 26th 1862, the ceremony being performed by the Lord Bishop of
Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, the Right Reverend James Thomas O'Brien.
Solomon Augustus Richards the family also had seats at Solsborough,
near Enniscorthy, and Monksgrange, near Killanne and his wife, Sophia,
were chiefly responsible for the building of the present church.
The two stained glass windows in the west wall of the church are
placed in their memory.
Solomon died in 1874, fourteen years after the completion of the
church. Sophia was granted her eternal rest in 1899.
Two oak prayer desks in the chancel were given to her memory in
1915 by her two sons, Arthur and Frank.
The font is of Caen stone, given in memory of the Rev. Philip
Walter Doyne, who had married Sophia, a sister of Solomon Augustus
Richards.
He died in 1861 at a comparatively early age.
The landowners of Ireland by
U.
H.
Hussey De Burgh (1878) p387 lists:
RICHARDS, SOLOMON AUGUSTUS,
the late, J.P., co. Wexford (was High Sheriff 1854), - Ardamine, Gorey. as
owning 2995 acres in county Wexford with a valuation of £2367.
Same as Richards of Solsborough
(Sa., a chevron, between three fleurs-de-lis, arg.) with a mullet for
difference.
13 January 1874, in Ardamine, Gorey,
county Wexford, Ireland, aged 45
Ardamine cemetery, Gorey, county
Wexford, Ireland
His gravestone reads:
To the beloved memory of Solomon Augustus Richards
of Ardamine Co. Wexford and Roebuck, Co. Dublin who was called to his
heavenly rest
January 13th 1874 aged 45
1871: Claverly Lodge, Pembury
Road, Tonbridge, Kent
- 1871 census; exact month
and place from History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and
Ireland Vol II p1163 by Sir Bernard Burke (1871); exact
day from Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards) citing family prayer book
- The parish of Taney: a history of Dundrum, near
Dublin, and its neighbourhood p140 by Francis E. Ball and
Everard Hamilton (1895)
- History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and
Ireland Vol II p1164 by Sir Bernard Burke (1871)
- Alumni Oxonienses vol 3 p1194; A catalogue of all graduates in divinity, law,
medicine, arts and music, who have regularly proceeded or been
created in the University of Oxford, between October 10, 1659, and
December 31, 1850 (1851) p781
- Ireland Marriage Index
(1856 Dublin South vol 5 p313); exact date from History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and
Ireland Vol II p1163 by Sir Bernard Burke (1871), exact
place from Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards) citing The
Times 13 June 1856; conveyance, Times
notice from Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards)
- 1871 census; History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and
Ireland Vol II p1163 by Sir Bernard Burke (1871); High
Sheriff from Thom's directory of Ireland (1851)
- History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and
Ireland Vol II p1164 by Sir Bernard Burke (1871)
- Ireland Death Index (1874
Gorey vol 2 p708); exact date from transcription
of
Ardamine gravestones at From Ireland; exact place from Rootsweb
WorldConnect
(Christopher Richards) citing The
Times 17 January 1874
- transcription
of
Ardamine gravestones at From Ireland
Walter Hayes Pickering Richards
20 May 1881, in Barton
Regis
district, Gloucestershire, England
Robert Edward
Richards
Katherine Maud (Pickering) Richards
Mary Florence Clarges Pearson on 5
July 1911 in Macroom district, county Cork, Ireland.
Mary was born on 13 April 1887 in Macroom district, county Cork, Ireland,
the daughter of John Pearson and Eleanor Percy Hawkes. She died on 22
November 1942.
Census:
1901:
Ardnacrushy, county Cork
1911:
Ardnacrushy, county Cork
Army Officer. Walter was
commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry as a Second Lieutenant on
1 September 1899 (London Gazette 8 September 1899 p5583). He
was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 July 1900 (London Gazette 10 August 1900 p4945), and
appointed Adjutant of the Chatham Battalion of the RMLI on 1 January 1910 (London
Gazette 18 January 1910 p433). Walter was promoted to Captain
on 1 September 1910 (London Gazette 2 September 1910 p6331).
3 May 1915, in Gallipoli, Ottoman
Empire
Walter's name is memorialised on
the Helles
Memorial in Turkey.
In the Ardamine churchyard, near Gorey, county Wexford, Ireland is a
gravestone that reads:
To
the
glory of God
and in loving memory of
Walter Hayes Pickering Richards
Captain and Adjutant of the
Royal Marine Light Infantry (Chatham)
aged 33 years
who was killed in Action in the
Dardanelles on May 3rd 1915
whilst gallantly leading his men
he was the fourth son of the
Reverend Robert Edward Richards.
1911: Medway district, Kent: Walter H. P. Richards is aged 29
William Hamilton Richards
29 December 1833, in Roebuck, county
Dublin, Ireland
19 January 1834, in Taney, county
Dublin, Ireland
The baptism sponsors were Thomas Laurence Ward and William Ward.
John Goddard
Richards
Anne Catherine (Ward) Richards
Margaret Isabella Lawrence on 4
August 1858 in St Marks, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. The marriage
was performed by William's brother, Rev. Robert Edward Richards.
The Gentleman's Magazine September 1858 p307
Marriages.
Aug. 4. At St. Helier's, Jersey, William Hamilton Richards, esq.,
Capt. 55th Foot, son of the late John Goddart Richards, esq., of Ardamine,
co. Wexford, and Roebuck-house, co. Dublin, to Margaret Isabella, only
dau. of the late Brevet-Major S. H. Lawrence, 32nd Regt., and of Belmont,
near Cork.
Margaret was born in 1838/9 in Ireland, the daughter of Samuel Hill Lawrence
and Margaret Marriott MacDonald. She died on 23 March 1911 at The Rectory,
Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, of cerebral softening and respiratory
failure, aged 72. She was buried on 28 March 1911 in Hove Cemetery, Old
Shoreham Road, Hove, Sussex.
Census:
1861: Peel Cottage, Fulwood, Lancashire: Margaret Isabella Richards is
married, aged 22, born in Ireland, her occupation is listed as Captains Wife
1871: 58 Midland Road, or 5 Woolbourne Villas, Bedford St Paul,
Bedfordshire. Margaret I. Richards is married, aged 32, born in Ireland, her
occupation is listed as Wife of Officer in the Army
1881:
Camberley Heathcote, Frimley, Surrey
1891: Hove, Sussex: Margaret I. Richards is married, aged 52, born in
Ireland,
Army Officer
William was commissioned an Ensign in the 55th Regiment of Foot, by
purchase, on 14 May 1853 (London Gazette 13 May 1853 p1364) and
promoted to Lieutenant on 15 September 1854 (London Gazette 15 September 1854 p2835).
William served with the 55th Regiment throughout the Eastern campaign of
1854-55 including the battles of Alma (carried the Colours) and Balaklava,
siege and fall of Sebastopol, and assaults of the Redan on 18 June and 8
September. He was wounded and mentioned in despatches. He was awarded the
Crimea medal with three Clasps, 5th Class of the Medjidie and Turkish Crimea
Medal. (New Annual Army List 1878 p299). He was
made Captain on 1 June 1855 (New Annual Army List 1878 p299). On 2 March
1858, William was decorated with the Order
of the Medjidie, 5th Class, for services in aid of the Ottoman Empire
during the Crimean War (London Gazette 2 March 1858 p1263). In 1863
William was seconded from the 55th Foot and appointed Instructor of Military
Drawing and Surveying at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (London Gazette 31 March 1863 p1822). On 14
December 1870, Captain Richards, then on the Supernumerary List was promoted
to Major in the 55th Foot (London Gazette 12 December 1870 p5748),
then Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 October 1877 (London Gazette 2 October 1877 p5462). In
1878 William was the Chief Garrison Instructor Lucknow (New Annual Army List 1878 p299). He was
promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on 16 September 1879 (London Gazette 6 January 1880 p50). On 29
December 1888 Wiliam, then described curiously as "Lieutenant-Colonel and
Colonel" was placed on retired pay (London Gazette 28 December 1888 p7420). He
was appointed to command the Infantry Volunteer Dover Brigade on 2 August
1890 (London Gazette 1 August 1890 p4226).
Military
Surveying And Field Sketching (1875)Text
book of military topography (1888)
18 April 1895, at 9 Palmeira Road, Brighton, Sussex,
England, aged 61
22 April 1895 in Hove Cemetery, Old
Shoreham Road, Sussex, England
1861: Peel Cottage, Fulwood, Lancashire
1881:
Camberley Heathcote, Frimley, Surrey
1891: Hove, Sussex
William Saurin Richards
Edward
Richards
Emily (Saurin) Richards
_____ Richards
(a daughter)
22 September 1861
Solomon
Augustus Richards
Sophia
Mordaunt (Ward) Richards
22 September 1861
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