The Tew Family
Elizabeth (Tew) Fortesque
Father: John Tew
Mother: Margaret
(Maxwell) Tew
Married: Gerald Fortesque. Gerald was the Ulster King at Arms and elder brother of
Rear-Admiral Sir Chichester Fortescue, R.N.
Children:
- Thomas Fortesque. Thomas was Commissioner at Delhi
- Anne Fortesque. Anne was married to William Hopkyns
Northey, [?Tring], Bucks, and secondly to the Rev. Blackhall Vincent
Sources:
- Marriage: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/astrong.htm
- Children: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/astrong.htm
Grace Tew
Father: John Tew
Mother: Margaret
(Maxwell) Tew
Death: 1840
Sources:
- Death: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/astrong.htm
Helen (Tew, Stronge) Holmes
Title: Lady Stronge
Father: John Tew
Mother: Margaret
(Maxwell) Tew
Married (1st): Rev. Sir James M. Stronge, Bt on 27 May 1785.
James was born in 1750, and died on 1 December 1804. He was
created a Baronet on 22 June 1803.
Children:
- James Matthew Stronge (1786 - 1864) James succeded to the
baronetcy to become Sir J-M Stronge, Bt, of Tynan Abbey and Fellows
Hall. He married Isabella
Calvert, eldest daughter of Nicolson Calvert, M.P., of Hunsdon House,
Hampshire,
and the Honourable Frances Pery, daugher and coheir with the Countess
of
Ranfurly, of Edmond Sexten, Viscount Pery. He earned a Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) degree, and was made Deputy
Lieutenant, Counties Armagh and Tyrone. He also served as Gentleman of the Privy
Chamber. He was born on 6 Apr 1786. He married Isabella
Calvert on 5 Sep 1810. He died on 2 Dec 1864 at age 78.
Married (2nd): William
Holmes, M.P., Treasurer of H.M. Ordnance. William died in 1851.
Death: 16 December 1852, in Chelsea, Middlesex, England
Sources:
- Marriage (1st): Burke's
Baronetage and Peerage, 1875; http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/tynan001.htm
- Children: John R. Mayer, "Strange of Balcaskie", p.204
- Marriage (2nd): http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/astrong.htm; William death from The Gentleman's Magazine Volume XXXIX (January - June 1853) by Sylvanus Urban p218
- Death: England Death Index (4Q1852 vol 1a p75); exact date and place from The Gentleman's Magazine Volume XXXIX (January - June 1853) by Sylvanus Urban p217
John Tew
Title: Captain
Married: Margaret Maxwell
Children:
Occupation: Alderman of Dublin
Death: 1771
Sources:
- Marriage: Burke's
Baronetage and Peerage, 1875
- Occupation:
http://www.stirnet.com/html/genie/british/mm4ae/maxwell03.htm
Margaret (Tew) Armstrong
Father: John Tew
Mother: Margaret
(Maxwell) Tew
Married: William J. Armstrong in 1784. Rev. Armstrong was Rector of the Union of Termonfeckin, Co.
Louth.
Children:
- William Jones Armstrong (1794 - ? ). William, of Killylea, Co. Armagh, succeeded 1825, married 1842
Frances Elizabeth, Lady McCreagh, relict of the late Colonel Sir
Michael McCreagh, C.B., K.C.H., etc, and only daughter of Major C.
Wilson, 22nd foot; educated at the Royal School of Dungannon and is
B.A. and M.A. of the University of Dublin; called to the Irish and
English Bar; appointed King's Advocate and Colonel of Militia in 1819
and subsequently A.D.C. to Governor Bentinck, Deputy Colonial
Secretary, King's Receiver-General, etc, etc, in the colonies of
Demerera and Essequibo, South America, in 1820; has been a magistrate
of the county of Wicklow and is a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant of
Armagh County, of which he was High Sheriff in 1840.
Sources:
- Marriage: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/astrong.htm
- Children: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/astrong.htm
Robert Tew
Father: John Tew
Mother: Margaret
(Maxwell) Tew
Occupation: Soldier in the 49th Foot.
Death: 1809
Sources:
- Occupation: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/astrong.htm
- Death: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/astrong.htm
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