The Waring Family

Alice (Waring) Spencer

Birth: 22 January 1720

Father: Samuel Waring

Mother: Grace (Holt) Waring

Married: Conway Spencer

Conway was born in 1712-14 in Lisburn, county Antrim, the son of Brent Spencer and Jane (Pullein) Spencer. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, obtaining a B.A. in 1734. Conway lived at Trummery House in Magheramesk, county Antrim, until it was sold in 1728. He was High Sheriff of county Antrim in 1741. Conway married, secondly, Mary Graham on 23 November 1745 in Drogheda, county Louth, and had sons Joshua and Brent, and daughters Charlotte and Jane.
Alumni Dublinenses p770 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
SPENCER, CONWAY, Pen. (Mr Clarke, Lisburn), Mar. 30, 1729-30, aged 16; s. of Brent, Generosus; b. Lisburn, Co. Antrim. Sch. 1733 B.A. Vern 1734.

Death: 20 October 1744

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Anne (Waring) Hamilton

Father: William Waring

Mother: Jane (Close) Waring

Married: James Hamilton

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Ann Waring

Birth: 8 February 1705

Baptism: 16 February 1705 in St James Westminster, Middlesex, England

Father: Richard Waring

Mother: Alice (Ball) Waring

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Dorothy Waring

Birth: 22 October 1707

Baptism: 27 October 1707 in St James Westminster, Middlesex, England

Father: Richard Waring

Mother: Alice (Ball) Waring

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Elizabeth (Waring) Cuppaidge

Father: William Waring

Mother: Jane (Close) Waring

Married: John Cuppaidge on 22 June 1693

Children: Death: November 1720

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Frances Waring

Father: William Waring

Mother: Jane (Close) Waring

Notes: Frances is possibly the Frances Waring who died in 1703, according to an inscription on flagstones in the nave of the parish church in Waringstown, county Down.

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Frances (Waring) Croft

Frances (Waring) Croft
Frances (Waring) Croft c1725
photo of painting at Croft Castle, Herefordshire posted at National Trust Images
Birth: 29 July 1699

Baptism: 31 July 1699 in St James Westminster, Middlesex, England

Father: Richard Waring

Mother: Alice (Ball) Waring

Married: Archer Croft on 6 June 1723 in St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, London, England

Sir Archer Croft, 2nd Baronet
Portrait of Sir Archer Croft, 2nd Baronet, c1715, in the gallery at Croft Castle
photo of painting posted at National Trust
Archer was baptised on 3 April 1683 in Croft, Herefordshire, the son of Herbert Croft and Elizabeth Archer. He was educated at New College, Oxford. Archer succeeded to the baronetcy on 3 December 1720, upon the death of his father. He was a Member of Parliament, representing Leominster from 1722 until 1727, Winchelsea from February to March 1728, and Beer Alston from March 1728 until 1734, and was also a Commissioner of Trade and Plantations in 1730. Details of his parliamentary career can be found in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 (R. Sedgwick, 1970). Archer incurred serious financial losses when the South Sea bubble burst, and was forced to sell Croft Castle in 1746. He died on 10 December 1753 and was interred on 17 December 1753 in a vault in Kensington church, Middlesex. Archer's remains were later relocated to St Michael and All Angels churchyard in Croft, Herefordshire.

Alumni Oxonienses: 1500-1714 vol 1 p351 (Joseph Foster, 1891)
Croft, (Sir) Archer, s. Herbert, of Hereford (city), baronet. NEW COLL., matric. 15 April, 1702, aged 17; and baronet, M.P. Leominster 1722-7, Beeralston March, 1728-34, baptized 3 April, 1683, died 10th and buried and Kensington 14 Dec., 1753. See Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary.

Complete Baronetage vol 4 p50 (1904)
II.  1720.   SIR ARCHER CROFT, Baronet [1661] of Croft Castle aforesaid, 1st s. and h., bap. 3 March 1683/4; matric. at Oxford (New Coll.) 15 April 1702, aged 17; suc. to the Baronetcy, 3 Nov. 1720; was M.P. for Leominster, 1722-27, for Winchilsea, Feb. to March 1728, and for Beeralston, March 1728 to 1734; was a Commissioner of Trade and Plantations, 1730. He m. 10 Jan. 1723, Frances, da. of Brig. Gen. Richard WARING. He d. 10 Dec. 1753, aged 69. Admon. 21 June 1770, limited as to the interest of the family of Dyer. His widow d. 6 May 1767, at her house at Kensington. Will, in which she directs to be bur. at Thatcham, Berks, pr. 6 June 1767.

Archer's election to represent Leominster was marked by an extraordinary incident at the closing of the polls.
The Leominster Guide p227 (F. J. Burlton, 1808)
  In the years 1721 and 1722, happened a severe contest between Sir George Caswall, cashier of the South Sea company who was afterwards expelled the house, and committed to the Tower, and Sir Archer Croft of Croft-castle. The poll, which was taken in the area of the Town-hall, being closed, the Bailiff moved to adjourn to the Unicorn inn, to cast up the books, and make the return. Sir Archer drew his sword, and swore that he would run him through, if he refused to make the return immediately upon the spot. A tumult ensued, much blood was spilled, and the returning officer would have doubtless expiated his partiality by his life, had he not fortunately found means to escape along the tops of the adjacent houses. 

Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon pp389-91 (A. T. Thomson, 1848)
  On the back of the next note exists the following memorandum: “From Sir Archer Croft, Baronet, to Mrs. Clayton. The thing was done.” It is evident the gentleman was anxious to testify his zeal for the house of Hanover. He was the second Baronet of the name, and married, in 1723, Frances, daughter of the Honourable Brigadier-General Waring. He was born in 1683, and died in 1753.
  SIR ARCHER CROFT TO MRS. CLAYTON.
          Kensington, Dec. 15, 1727.
MADAM,
  I am very sensible how much I ought to ask pardon for taking this liberty with a lady to whom I am an entire stranger. The best apology I can make for it is, my disinterested zeal for the service of her Majesty, in whose royal favour you have deservedly so great a share. As I was ambitious to distinguish myself early in the last session of Parliament, upon his Majesty's accession to the Crown, so I beg leave to assure you, I had no other view in doing it, than to testify the regard I ever had for the succession of the illustrious House of Hanover. With these thoughts, I cannot be easy to find myself not in the same capacity of serving my country, occasioned by the hard usage I had at my election. If you, Madam, shall approve of laying this before her Majesty, which is entirely submitted to your better judgment, I shall yet hope to be restored to my seat in Parliament, upon some double return; in which, if I am so happy to have her Majesty's recommendation, it shall be my constant endeavour, to the utmost of my ability, to approve myself worthy of so distinguishing a mark of her Majesty's favour; and shall gladly lay hold of every opportunity to acknowledge the great obligation you will lay on me, who am, with great respect,
      Madam,
          Your most obedient,
                humble servant,
                    AR. CROFT.

  Sir Archer was not easily satisfied. He aspired to more regular, perhaps more profitable employment. The Court influence was used to get him into Parliament. We are not aware that his wishes were complied with in any other way.

    SIR ARCHER CROFT TO MRS. CLAYTON.
          Denington Castle, near Newbery, Berks,
              December 3, 1728.
MADAM,
  When I reflect upon the obligations you have laid me under, I am very much ashamed to think that my ill state of health would not (till I understood by my friend, Dr. Clarke, it was too late) allow me an opportunity to pay that respect to you, which I hope you will easily believe me, I have the justest sense, is my duty to do. If I have not already too far presumed on your goodness, and contracted a debt I shall never be able to pay, I would take the liberty once more to put myself under your protection, if you shall think me worthy of the favour I ask. The happy prospect we now have, of a Prince of Wales to reside among us, must make every man who is desirous to distinguish himself in the service of his King and country proud of being a servant to his Royal Highness. I will not be so vain, to put my merit into the balance with those who have been thought worthy of the Royal favour: but I hope I may say my zeal for the Royal Family is at least equal to theirs; which I shall always be ready to give the best proof of that I am able, upon every occasion that offers itself in Parliament. It will not, perhaps, become me to say what employment I would choose, any farther than that I doubt my indifferent health will not allow me to accept of one that requires long and constant attendance. I submit myself to their Majesties' wisdom and goodness, and if I am so happy to deserve your recommendation, I need not doubt the success.
    I am with great truth and respect,
          Madam,
      Your most obliged, faithful,
              humble servant,
                    AR. CROFT.

Frances (Waring) Croft
Frances (Waring) Croft
photo of painting posted at findagrave.com
Children: Death: 10 May 1767, in Kensington, Middlesex, England

Buried: in St Mary, Thatcham, Berkshire, England, aged 66
The History and Antiquities of Newbury and Its Environs p201 (Edward William Gray, 1839)
On a white marble monument, right-hand side of the chancel.
In a Vault near this Stone
are deposited the remains of
DAME FRANCES CROFT,
Relict of the late Sir ARCHER CROFT, Bart.
Who, after a life
EXEMPLARY
For Prudence and Resignation in Adversity,
Liberality and Charity in Prosperity,
and the constant display
of Love to her Children,
and Benevolence to all,
was removed
from the sorrows of mortality
on the 10th day of May
in the Year of our Lord 1767
and in the 67th Year of her age.
Reader, follow her example
in thy progress thro' Life,
and pray for her Composure
at the approach of Death;
“Let me die the death of the righteous,
And let my last end he like hers”
This Stone was erected
at the sole expence of her Son
Sir ARCHER CROFT, Bart. of Dunston Park
As a testimony of his Gratitude and Veneration
for the best of Parents.

Will: proved 6 June 1767

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Frances (Waring) Ussher

Birth: 27 January 1717

Father: Samuel Waring

Mother: Grace (Holt) Waring

Married: Henry Ussher on 10 April 1739 in St Anne, Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland
Henry and Frances were married by Rev. Mr. Holt. The license (consist'l) is dated 8 April 1739.

Henry was born in 1706 in Dublin, and baptised on 24 September 1706 in St Audoen, Dublin, the son of William Ussher and Lettice (Waddington) Ussher. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, obtaining a B.A. in 1726, and called to the Irish Bar in 1733. Henry succeeded to the estate at Usher's Quay on the death of his brother William in 1747. Henry was buried on 23 January 1761 at St Audeon, Dublin, and his will was proved on 29 January 1761.
Alumni Dublinenses p832 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
USSHER, HENRY, S.C. (Dr Lloyd, Dublin), Apr. 24, 1723, aged 15; s. of William, Armiger; b. Dublin. B.A. Vern 1726. [Irish Bar 1733.]

The Ussher Memoirs pp151-2 (William Ball Wright, 1889)
7. Henry Ussher, born 1706, bap. Sept. 24th, St. Audoen's, confirmed at St. Patrick's Cathl. 1720, entered T.C.D. 24th April, 1722, B.A. Vern. 1726, Councillor-at-law, afterwards succeeded in 1747 to his brother William's estates. He lived in King St., Stephen's Green, and m. Frances, dr. of Samuel Waring of Waringstown, Co. Down, M.P. for Hillsborough by his wife, Grace, dr. of the Rev. Samuel Holt, (Saml. Waring was son of Wm. Waring, who m. 2ndly, Jane Close). The License (Consist'l) of H. Ussher's marriage is dated 8th April, 1739. They were married at St Anne's, Dublin, 10th April, 1739, by Rev Mr. Holt.
  Mrs Pendarves says, “13th July, 1731, London. Last Friday I dined at Mr. Wesley's and met Harry Usher.” Again, “19th July, 1752. Will's brother Harry Usher, been a year or two at the Bath; his wife is a pretty woman.”
  In the Registers of St. Bride's Church, Dublin, the baptism of Wm. Ussher, son of Henry and Frances Ussher of Peter St., Dublin, on May 28th, 1740, is given. He must have died in infancy. Henry Ussher was buried in St. Audoen's from King St., Stephen's Greer, 23rd Jan., 1761.
  His prerog. will was proved 29th Jan., 1761 and requests that the debts of his late father Wm. Usher, Esq., and his late brother Wm. Usher, Esq., and his own debts be first paid. Further, “I leave the fee farm rents and lands of Inheritance to Isaac Holroyd and Stratford Canning of Dublin, Esqrs., in trust, viz., if I die without issue in the lifetime of my wife Frances, for the use of my wife, and after dec. for my sister Marlay, wife of Anthony Marlay, Esq., and after for the first son of Martha Marlay, etc., and in default of such male issue to Lettice Marlay, only dr. and her heirs male, and in default to Christopher Usher, of Mt. Usher, late clerk of the Linen Board. For my wife, the plate, all the ready money, etc., and she to be sole executrix. Dated 24th Aug., 1757.” He also mentions in it a mortgage on Lambay Island.

Children: Notes:
The Ussher Memoirs pp151-2 (William Ball Wright, 1889)
  Mrs Pendarves says, ... “19th July, 1752. Will's brother Harry Usher, been a year or two at the Bath; his wife is a pretty woman.”
...
  A portrait of Mrs Henry Ussher is preserved in Waringstown House, near Lurgan, Co. Down, the residence of her brother's descendant, Colonel Waring, M.P., together with a quantity of old plate engraved with the Ussher arms. Mrs. Ussher spent much time at Bath, and it is said that one night when she was at a party her footman arrived at the host's house seeking her. He told the butler to say that she was wanted, and when the butler asked how he should know her, was told in reply to go to the handsomest old lady in the drawing room. She died at an advanced age.

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George Waring

Birth: 4 October 1697

Baptism: 6 October 1697 in St James Westminster, Middlesex, England

Father: Richard Waring

Mother: Alice (Ball) Waring

Notes: George died, without issue, before the death of his elder brother, William Ball Waring on 11 August 1746.

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Henry Waring

Father: William Waring

Mother: Jane (Close) Waring

Married: Rachel Workman on 1 April 1706

Children: Notes:
A Rough Field - The story of Garvaghy Parish Co. Down (George Musgrave and Paul Thompson)
Henry Waring, fifth son of William Waring of Waringstown, built a mansion house in the parish on the mill quarter of Tullyniskey. This house occupied the ridge of land beyond the river plane opposite Waringsford village. The locality came to be named after both the Waring family and a ford over which the road to the house passed. Before this time the area was known as the Milltown and it is described as such in a deed of 1622. Henry Waring died in 1716 and the name Waringsford is first recorded in 1718. He was succeeded by his son, also named Henry, who in turn was succeeded by his only child, Ann Phyllis Waring.

Death: 1716

Buried: 1716, in the nave of the parish church, Waringstown, county Down, Ireland

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Henry Waring

Father: Henry Waring

Mother: Rachel (Workman) Waring

Children: Notes: Henry was appointed High Sheriff of county Down in 1750 (A History of the County of Down p94)
A Rough Field - The story of Garvaghy Parish Co. Down (George Musgrave and Paul Thompson)
Henry Waring, fifth son of William Waring of Waringstown, built a mansion house in the parish on the mill quarter of Tullyniskey. This house occupied the ridge of land beyond the river plane opposite Waringsford village. The locality came to be named after both the Waring family and a ford over which the road to the house passed. Before this time the area was known as the Milltown and it is described as such in a deed of 1622. Henry Waring died in 1716 and the name Waringsford is first recorded in 1718. He was succeeded by his son, also named Henry, who in turn was succeeded by his only child, Ann Phyllis Waring.

Death: 1769

Will: proved 1769

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Holt Waring

Holt Waring
Major Holt Waring in 1796
Drawing made in 1796 by Horace Hone.
Pencil & watercolour & bodycolour on paper (11.1 x 9 cm)
image from National Museums NI
Birth: 15 November 1722

Father: Samuel Waring

Mother: Grace (Holt) Waring

Education: Trinity College Dublin. Holt entered Trinity College Dublin on 14 November 1738.
Alumni Dublinenses p859 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
WARING, HOLT, Pen., Nov 14, 1738. [N.F.P.]

Married: Anne French in 1746

Anne was the daughter of Very Rev. William French of French Park, county Roscommon, Dean of Elphin, and Arabella Frances Marsh.

Children: Occupation: Army officer. Holt served in the 4th Regiment of Horse in Ireland, also known as Ligonier's Horse, which became the 3rd Regiment of Dragoon Guards in 1751.

Holt served in battles at Dettingen in1743, Fontenoy in 1745, and Culloden in 1746 (A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland vol 2 p1611 (Bernard Burke, 1868)). He was promoted to captain in the 4th Regiment of Horse on 10 December 1755 (Army List May 1756 p114), and appears to have resigned as a captain in 1758 (The Scots Magazine February 1758 p111). In 1778 and 1787 he is listed as a major on half-pay on the Irish Establishment, but is listed as the "agent" of the 4th Regiment of Horse (Army List May 1778 p25, Army List February 1787 p341). On 13 June 1796 Holt was moved from half-pay to be major in the 89th Regiment of Foot (London Gazette 27 August 1796 p812).

The Black Knee Chronicles vol 6
Research by Wilson Frazer, c 1930
Ligonier's was one of four Regiments of Horse which were transferred permanently to the Irish Establishment in 1714, and had already won a high reputation when Ligonier took command of it in 1720. The personnel of Ligonier's regiment, perhaps of all the Regiments of Horse on the Irish Establishment, was unusual. In a old MS., which was first published the Dublin Penny Journal of 3rd November 1832, Captain Holt Waring, the Captain in Ligonier's and De Grangues' troops during Archibald's last years in the Regiment and later Major in place of Francis Stuart, gives the following account of the Regiment. "This long period of thirty years (i.e. 1714-1743)" he writes "naturally brought the corps to be composed almost entirely of Irish; and I do not recollect at any time more than two or three private men in it of any other country. It was in general composed of the younger branches of old and respectable families: nor was it uncommon to give from 20 to 30 guineas to become a trooper." Waring's statement about the composition of the Regiment is confirmed by an official abstract of 1755 from which it appears that of the officers 3 were then English, 2 Scotch and 22 Irish, while of the men 5 were English, 1 Scotch, and 131 Irish. ...
In 1742 the Regiment was ordered immediately to England for the war with France, and Capt. Holt Waring tells the following story about this occasion. The order came, it appears, just before the Regiment were to have received new uniforms and outfit, of which they were badly in need, and while their horses were still at grass. There was no time to wait, and the Regiment in their worn-out uniforms and their horses brought straight from grass were hurriedly embarked and sent over. Directly they arrived, a review was held by the King on Hounslow Heath, and Ligonier's were stationed between two smart and jeering regiments and cut rather a sorry figure. Ligonier was peeved, but the King, who had an eye for a soldier said: "Ligonier, your men have the air of soldiers: their horses indeed look poorly - how is it?" To which Ligonier replied: "Sire, the men are Irish and gentlemen: the horses are English." However, the laugh was on the other side when the following year Ligonier's distinguished themselves so greatly at the battle of Dattingen that even the London Gazette recorded that "Ligonier's Regiment of Horse gained great reputation." In fact the Regiment had won the fame of being the finest cavalry regiment in Europe; and Ligonier, himself knighted on the field and the last man ever to be so, wrote to the Secretary-at-War in loud praise of the "young gentlemen serving in the Regiment."
... towards the end of 1745 Ligonier's Regiment was recalled from France on account of the Jacobite rising in Scotland and took part in the operations against Prince Charlie's army. When the rebellion had been crushed the Regiment was, in December 1746, rather suddenly ordered back to Ireland. The Lord Lieutenant was very apprehensive lest the return to Ireland of the Regiment at full war strength should give rise to "great uneasiness and jealousies"; and an Order was promptly issued requiring the Regiment on landing in Ireland to be reduced to the same footing as the other Regiments there. The Regiment landed at Dublin on 19th February 1747.
...
During 1748 the Regiment was stationed in Dublin, but in 1749 it went to barracks in Queen's County and Tipperary, and Ligonier's own troop to which no doubt Archibald was attached, and two other troops, were stationed at Donaghmore within a mile of Dunnacliggan. ... The following is a list of the troops of the Regiment, their officers and stations in 1749:-
Donaghmore:
Col. Sir John Ligonier
Capt. Holt Waring
Cornet Rich. Moore
Q.M. Steph. Moore

Notes: Holt was High Sheriff of county Down in 1761. He was also a long standing Freemason officer, serving in the Grand Lodge of Ireland as Junior Grand Warden in 1761, Senior Grand Warden in 1762 and Grand Treasurer from 1762 until 1790 (British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 Book 6 p22).

The first marches of he newly formed Orange Order to celebrate the "Battle of the Boyne" took place on 12 July 1796 in Portadown, Lurgan and Waringstown.
Crowds in Ireland, c.1720-1920 p106 (P. Jupp, E. Magennis, 2000)
  Other parades occurred that day in Lurgan and in nearby Waringstown where old Holt Waring, a veteran of Culloden, took a pen in his sword hand to describe it to Edward Cooke, one of the under-secretaries at Dublin Castle. Virtually paraphrasing Gosford, the elderly warrior noted the ostentatiously good behavior of 2500-3000 Orangemen with 'flags and emblems of loyalty' and a huge supporting crowd of 'at least three times that number'. They were, he boasted, 'perfectly regular and sober, no arms, and not even a stick among them'. They made solemn and public declarations of loyalty and willingness to aid the magistrates to Waring's son. Old Holt was at pains to emphasize the 'distinction to be made between these Orangemen and those of Armagh ... who have wrecked' and enclosed another copy of the rules of the Boyne Society.

Death: 15 January 1806, at Waringstown, county Down, Ireland
The Gentleman's Magazine February 1806 p183
1806 Jan. 15.
  At Warringstown, co. Antrim, Ireland, in his 84th year, Major Holt Waring. He fought at the memorable battle of Dettingen, and his intrepidity in the execution of a very dangerous piece of service during the action attracted the notice, and gained him the applause, of his Sovereign. With a rich stock of anecdote he combined a considerable degree of taste and talent for composition and polite literature. He was a sincere friend, a pleasant companion, and it is almost needless to add, a zealous supporter of the Constitution, both in Church and State.

Buried: Holy Trinity Church, Waringstown, county Down, Ireland
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p120 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
    (Tablets in South Aisle.)
  To the Memory of William Waring, who built this Church and presented it to the Parish of Donaghcloney. He was born in 1619, and died 27th July, 1703. Also Samuel Waring, Son of William, born August, 1660; died 16th December, 1739. Also of his Sons, Samuel Waring, born 11th July, 1710; died 25th March, 1793; And Holt Waring, the Father of the Very Rev. Holt Waring, born 15th November, 1722; died December, 1805.

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Jane (Waring) Houston

Father: William Waring

Mother: Jane (Close) Waring

Married: _____ Houston

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Jane (Waring) MacNaghten

Birth: 12 October 1699

Father: Samuel Waring

Mother: Grace (Holt) Waring

Married: Alexander MacNaghten

Alexander was born in 1686 in county Antrim, the son of John MacNaghten. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, which he entered on 11 October 1704. To complete his studies he moved to Leyden in Holland where he graduated with an M.D. in 1711, then to Reims where he obtained his doctorate in 1713. On his return to Ireland he received an M.B. and a M.D. from Trinity College Dublin in 1723.
Alumni Dublinenses p540 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
MACNAGHTEN, ALEXANDER, Pen. (Mr Martin, Armagh), Oct. 11, 1704, aged 18; s. of John, Generosus; b. Co. Antrim. M.B. and M.D. Æst. 1723.

The will of his cousin Edmond Frances Stafford, written in 1722, notes Alexander as being a "Doctor of Physick", of Dublin (Abstract of Wills 1708-1745 vol 1 p127 (P Beryl Eustace, 1956)). Alexander was a celebrated physician with a great reputation for philanthropy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1728, becoming its President in 1732, and was also a founding member of the Dublin Society in 1731. Alexander died on 27 August 1736.

Having only daughters, Alexander left his landed estate in county Tyrone to his nephew John "Half-Hung" MacNaghten who later became a celebrated outlaw, and was hanged for the murder of his second wife. The rope snapped in the first attempt to hang him but he climbed back on the gallows, declaring “I will not live to be known as Half-Hanged MacNaghten.”, which, of course, he was. The second hanging attempt was successful.

Children: Death: 12 February 1759

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Jane Waring

Birth: 16 April 1703

Baptism: 25 April 1703 in St James Westminster, Middlesex, England

Father: Richard Waring

Mother: Alice (Ball) Waring

Burial: 10 February 1736, in a vault in the chancel at St Mary, Thatcham, Berkshire, England
Thatcham, Berks, and Its Manors vol 2 p91 (Samuel Barfield, 1901)
   Extracts from the Thatcham Church Registers.
1736  Mrs. Jane Waring, daughter to the Honble Brigader Waring, was, ffeb. 10th, Intered in the Valt in the chancell.

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John Waring

Baptism: A History of the Town of Belfast p249 (George Benn, 1877) identifies John as being the " son of a landed proprietor at a place called Cherry Tree House, near Chorley, in Lancashire". A possible candidate baptism is that of a Jo. Wayringe who was baptised on 23 September 1585 in Chorley, Lancashire, the son of William Wayringe.

Married: Mary Peers

Children: Occupation: Tanner
John established a tannery at Toome Bridge, county Antrim.

Notes:
A History of the Town of Belfast p249 (George Benn, 1877)
John Waring, son of a landed proprietor at a place called Cherry Tree House, near Chorley, in Lancashire, emigrated to Ireland early in 1600 (in company with a brother, who settled in Co. Kilkenny). He settled at Toome, in Antrim, where he got landed property and also established a tannery. He had by Miss Peers several sons — William, Thomas, and Paul. The first succeeded to his property and a considerable sum of ready money, and an opportunity offering of purchasing land in Down from Cromwell's soldiers, he sold the Antrim property in 1656 and purchased the Waringstown and many other estates in Down. The second, Thomas, removed the tanneries to Belfast, and was Sovereign of that town, I believe, in 1660. From him the Belfast family descend. Paul was a Doctor of Divinity, and died unmarried.

An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p153 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
  The Warings were a Lancashire family, and the founder of the Irish branch was John Waring, who in the reign of King James I, came over and settled in Derriaghy, near Lisburn. Here he married the daughter of the Rector of the parish, Miss Mary Peers, by which marriage he had three sons, William, Thomas, and Paul.

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland vol 2 p1611 (Bernard Burke, 1868)
This branch of the ancient family of Waring of Lancashire whose patriarch MILES DE GUERIN, came to England with WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, was established in Ireland temp. JAMES I when JOHN WARING settled in the co. Antrim, and m. Mary, dau. of the Rev. Mr. Peers, of Derriaghy, in that co., by whom he had three sons, William; John; Paul; and several daus.

Waring Estate
John had left his home in Lancashire and settled in the Barony of Toome; he chose a property close to Glenavy on the shores of Lough Neagh. John married Mary Peers the daughter of the Rector of Derriaghy

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John Waring

Father: William Waring

Mother: Jane (Close) Waring

Married: Rebecca Masters

Children: Occupation: Woolen draper

Notes: John is mentioned in his father's will dated 8 July 1702 - "Given the towe & lands of Lisnefifee and Drumhurke, containing 280 acres of arable land Irish measure, and set to good tenants for £42 per annum out of which he is to pay his brother Samuell and his heirs ....." "I bequeathed to my son John the reversion of the other three towns (viz) Garvaghy, Fiedeny and Carnew, to enter on them after his mother's death or marriage..."

On 19 March 1722, John sold 286 acres of lands at Lisnafiffy and Drumhorc in county Down to his brother Thomas. John had inherited that land from their father, William.

Nicole Simone CRITCHLEY-WARING's Family Tree contains this note about John from Toby Barnard.
John Waring prospered in London in the woolen trade. By 1727, he had houses both near the churchyard of St. Clement's Dane in central London and at Datchet Grove in Surrey (ref. Case papers 12 May 1740, PRO C 109/2130/31). In setting up as a draper, he may have been helped by a netword of kinsfolk, neighbours and acquaintances, which reached from the north of Ireland through southern England into the Low Countries and Baltic, (Ref: J Waring to S.Waring, 24 June 1699, PROM, D 659/61). John Waring did not entirely sever his Ulster links, but they undoubtedly loosened. In 1703, he considered sending one of his own sons to Dublin University, on the grounds that its discipline was better than in the English equivalents. In the following decade, he revisited Ireland. He owned lands near Dromore in County Down, which were leased for a yearly £100. One child, allowed a dowry of £1000, married a Church of England incumbent in Kent. A second daughter would lose her portion of £1000 if she continued an apparently unsuitable attachment with a hosier in London, (Ref John's will). A son seems to have entered the Middle Temple, (ref Memo, 1 May 1731 PRO C 109/230/35). As John faced the last things, he mouthed pieties about providence and God's will. In thanking the deity for the "goodness and favour" of comfortable worldly estate, he may have done no more than fellow custom. Alternatively, he betrayed the lasting imprint of his father's training. John Waring, the London draper, turned to the other brother who had been transformed into a Londoner. Brigadier-General Richard Waring would act as executor of John Waring's will; the general's son would be the ultimate beneficiary of the draper's bequests, (Ref: 24 Dec 1727 PRO PROB 11/618 sig 312).

Death: 1727/8
John's will is dated 24 December 1727, at which time he is recorded as being of St Clement Dane, Middlesex. The will was proved 18 April 1728.

Will: dated 24 December 1727, proved 18 April 1728
Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills Memorial No: 37397 film 007905895 image 55
No 37397: To the Regr appointed by Act of Parliamt for Regring Deeds Conveyances & Wills pursuant to the act of Parliamt in that behalf
Regd the 18th day of Apl 1728 at 5 o Clock in the aftr noon
A MEMORIAL of a will bearing Date the Twenty fourth day of December one Thousand seven hundred and Twenty seven made By John Waring of the parish of St Clement Dane in the County of Mid~x Woolen Draper Whereby he did give one annuity or Rent Charges of four score pound p ann current money of Great Britain to his Daughtr Mary Waring and her assignes for and During the term of her natl Life subject to the Condi in such Will specifyed to be persuing out of and Charged upon the Towne Lands commonly known by the name of Anna Carnew in the parish of Carvaghy near Dromore in the County of Downe in Ireland wth a Power of Distraining for the same in case of Non Paymt and upon her marriage as therein then the said annuity to cease and he did give her one Thousand Pounds and the rest & Residue of the Rents& profits of the aforesaid Estate for the maintenance and Education and for the use and benefit of the said Testrs Grand Daughtr Mary Waring untill her Intermarriage and upon her Intermarriage he gave one Thousand pounds and likewise gave the Towne Lands of Fieday in the said parish Carvaghy near Dromore in the County of Downe in the Kingdom of Ireland to the sd Testrs son Jon Waring and his heirs and likewise gave to his son Richard Waring for his life one annuity or a Rent Charge of forty Pounds p ann to be Paid Monthly and all the rest of his Messuages Lands Tenemts of wt nature or kind soever and Wheresoever subject to the sd forty Pounds annuity Legacy given and to his Debts & Funerall Expences he did give & bequeath to his nephew William Warring son of his Bror Richd Waring and his heirs Exev Admins and Assgs of wch Will the Testrs Bror Richd Waring is Exer and the same is Witnessed by and in the presence of Glisson Maidwell in the parish of St Clement Danes in the County of Middx Glassman Fotherly Baker in the Parish of All hallows Bread Street London Gent. and Mary Wood of the said of St Clemt Danes Spinster and this Meml is witnessed by the said Glisson Maidwell and by Robert Griffith in the parish of St James Westminster as Witness my hand and seal this thirtyth day of March one thousd seven hundred and Twenty seven Richd Waring Seal - Seal - This Meml was signed and sealed by the above named Richd Waring the Exer in the presence of Glisson Maydwell Robert Griffith The abovenamed Glisson Maydwell came this Day before me and made oath that he saw the abovenamed John Waring the Testr signe and seal Publish and Declare the above mentioned Will of which the above writing is a Meml as and for his last Will and Testamt and that this Depont saw the said Richard Waring the Exr duly signe and seal the above Meml and that the names Glisson Maydwell and subscribed as a Witness to the said Will and Meml is this Deponts ow hand writing - Glisson Maydwell - Jur. dec. fertio die Aprilis Ann. Dom Millesimo Septingentesimo Vicesimo octavo con me - Robt Yard

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John Waring

Baptism: 30 November 1696, in St Clement Dane, Middlesex, England

Father: John Waring

Mother: Rebecca (Masters) Waring

Married: Elizabeth Stothard on 19 April 1765 in Magheralin, county Down, Ireland
The Gentleman's and London Magazine April 1765 p256
List of MARRIAGES for the Year 1765.
April 19. —John Waring, esq; of the co. of Down, to the eldest dau. of the late John Stothard, esq;

Faulkner's Dublin Journal Tuesday 23 Apr 1765 - Saturday 27 April 1765
Marriages.
At Maralin, in the County of Downe, John WARING, Esq to Miss STOTHARD, eldest Daughter of the late John STOTHARD, Esq.

Elizabeth was the daughter of John Stothard and Jane Cuppaidge. Jane was John Waring's first cousin. Elizabeth's will was proved in 1768, at which time she is recorded as resident at Bellmount, county Down.

Notes: John was bequeathed the townland of Fedany in Garvaghy, county Down in his father's will dated 24 December 1727 - "gave the Towne Lands of Fieday in the said parish Carvaghy near Dromore in the County of Downe in the Kingdom of Ireland to the sd Testrs son Jon Waring and his heirs"

He is likely the John Waring who was appointed overseer of a road in Magheralin parish on 3 October 1759:
Like an Evening Gone (Eileen Cousins, 1991)
"At a Vestry duly called and held within the Parish Church of Maralin on the third day of October 1759 being the Wednesday of Michaelmas day for applying the six days labour pursuant to the Act of Parliament in the case made and provided.
 ...
 It is agreed that Mr. John Waring be Overseer of the road from His Lord Bishop's Mill to William Baxter's and that the inhabitants of Ballymagin and the other part of Ballymckeanan are to work at the said road.

Buried: 8 December 1772, in Magheralin, county Down, Ireland

Will: proved 1773, in diocese of Dromore, Ireland. John is recorded as resident at Bellmount, county Down.

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John Charles Frederick (Waring) Waring-Maxwell

Birth: 1759, in Waringstown, county Down, Ireland

Father:Richard Waring

Mother:Sarah (Maxwell) Waring

Married: Dorothea Maxwell in 1783

Dorothea was John's first cousin

Dorothea Maxwell, later Waring Maxwell, succeeded to the estate in Finnebrogue on the death of her only surviving brother in 1792. John Waring then assumed the additional surname of Maxwell.

Children: Occupation: Army Officer.
John was a lieutenant in the 56th Regiment serving in Antigua and elsewhere in the West Indies in 1781-1782.
The adventures of John Waring, lieutenant in the 55th Regiment of Foot at the Capture of St Lucia in December 1778 are recorded by Colin Lindsay, Lt-Col of the 46th Regiment:
A Narrative of Events at St Lucie and Gibraltar pp468-70 (Colin Lindsay, 1793)
  Captain Downing's conduct was remarkable. He and his Lieutenant, Mr. John Waring, and three men of the 55th light company, by names Rose, Duffy, and Hargrove, defended a narrow path against the French for a considerable time, till most of the five companies had made good their retreat. These officers and soldiers parried the bayonets of the French grenadiers for some time. Mr. Waring was at length run through the body, and Captain Downing would soon have shared the same fate, if a French officer had not advanced, and lightly touched his sword, which Captain Downing instantly surrendered. He and his three faithful soldiers were immediately escorted prisoners to the old redoubt, where they found Count D'Estaing. Captain Downing here experienced most extraordinary treatment. The coat he happened to have on was not exactly new, nor was the appearance of it probably the better for the soaking it had had for many days and nights. He wore no shoulder knot, it being often the custom of our light infantry officers to wear, instead of them, a sort of fringe, called wings. In short, they believed, or pretended to believe, that he was not an officer, and tied him back to back with one of his own men. This gentleman has often, with much good humour, described his feelings in this ludricous situation, and the distress of the poor fellow, who certainly never expected to have experienced so close an intimacy with his captain.
  This piece of insolence, in supposing that French customs must be those of all the world, is not unworthy of remark; but at the same time it would be easy to bring many arguments to shew that their method of marking the different ranks of their officers by a distinguishing badge, is perfectly judicious, especially when we consider how much men are apt to be guided by externals.
  Captain Downing was unbound before the French retired, their civility having apparently been improved by their adventures. He was carried to Martinico, and some time afterwards received a visit from Mons. de Latterette, the French officer who saved his life. He expressed great satisfaction, and added, with elegance of manners, that he was certain whenever the fortune of war enabled him, he would do the same by a French officer.
  Mr. Waring was run through the lungs. He was deemed to be the captain, an honour which had nearly cost him his life. Several messages had been sent from us by flags of truce, desiring that Captain Downing might be sent back and exchanged. This, at length, they thought they had complied with. Four French soldiers came to our post, carrying a bier, on which, to our great surprise, we found Mr. Waring. The motion brought on a fever, which had nearly destroyed him; but he recovered, to the great satisfaction of his brother officers, who had much regard for him.

This John Waring would be the same officer, captain-lieutenant John Waring of the 55th Foot who was promoted to be captain of a company in the 13th Regiment of Foot on 5 February 1782 (London Gazette 2 February 1782 p1). In 1783 he is listed as being on half-pay as the regiment was reduced at the end of the hostilities in America.

Is the John Waring of the 55th the same man as the John Waring mentioned in the Percival-Maxwell Papers p44 as a lieutenant in the 56th Regiment serving in Antigua and elsewhere in the West Indies in 1781-1782? We know from the Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth Regiment of Foot p18 that the 56th was stationed at Gibraltar in 1781-1782, which creates some doubt that the statement on the Percival Papers is correct, while the 55th was in the West Indies, including a stint in Antigua.
A Historical Account of the Services of the 34th & 55th Regiments p31 (George Noakes, 1875)
  The 55th remained at St. Lucia several months, and in June, 1779, was embarked in Admiral Byron's fleet for the relief of Grenada; but an action ensued between the British and French fleets, and the transports being allowed to shift for themselves, that containing the 55th bore away for the island of St. Christopher, where the regiment was landed, and from whence it sent a detachment to the neighbouring island, St Kitts. In the following April it was moved to Antigua, but in February, 1784, it returned to St Kitts, where it appears to have remained until ordered to return home.

From this, my conclusion is that John was actually an officer in the 55th, wounded in St Lucia as described, then promoted as captain into the 13th Regiment in 1872, but shortly after placed on half-pay as the army was reduced in size, and retired in 1786.

John retired from the regular army in 1786. In the 1790s, after his wife succeeded to the estate in Finnebrogue, he entered into the militia and yeomanry responsibilities of his new position, becoming lieutenant-colonel of the Downshire Militia and, in 1796, captain of the Inch Infantry. The warrant, from the Lord Lieutenant General and general Governor of Ireland reads:
"216 Male Residents of Inch Parish, County Down, 1796" North Irish Roots vol 22 no.2 p20 (Beverley Brown) citing Public Record Office, Northern Ireland, John Waring Maxwell Papers T/1023/143)
Now We deeming it expedient for the Purposes aforesaid to raise an Armed Corps in the County of Downe to be called the Inch Infantry and having Trust and Confidence in the Courage and Loyalty of John Waring Maxwell Esquire do by Virtue of the said Authority, in His Majesty's Name, by these Presents, constitute and appoint the said John Waring Maxwell Esquire to be Captain of an Armed Corps in the County of Downe to be called the Inch infantry.

Notes: Letters from John in the period 1786 to 1790 are written from Dartry Lodge, county Tyrone (Percival-Maxwell Papers p44).

The walled garden at Finnebrogue House has a date stone, ‘John Waring Maxwell, Esq, 20 February 1802’ (Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland blog "Finnebrogue House" 7 March 2018.

Death: 26 November 1802, at Finnebrogue, county Down, Ireland

Buried: 1 December 1802, in Inch parish, county Down, Ireland

Will: John's will (proved in 1803), left his estates in trust to his eldest son, but he died before he could have this legally recognized; his wife obtained a royal licence to this effect for herself and their five children the following year.

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Mary (Waring) Close

Birth: 15 June 1657

Baptism: 19 June 1657 in Derry Cathedral, Templemore, Londonderry, Ireland

Father: William Waring

Mother: Elizabeth (Gardiner) Waring

Married: Richard Close

Windsor Lodge, Waringstown
Windsor Lodge, Waringstown, was a gift from William Waring (1619-1703) to his daughter, Mary on the occasion of her marriage to Richard Close of Drumbanagher. It has now disappeared from the landscape as so many of the these fine historic houses have.
photo from Lurgan Ancestry on Facebook
Mary's father, William, settled land at Waringstown as a marriage gift to his daughter. Windsor Lodge was built on this land.
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p86 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
  The demesne at the northern end, referred to as the seat of Mr. Richard Magenis, was originally cut off and settled by William Waring upon his daughter on her marriage with Richard Close, an ancestor of the well-known family of that name.

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland vol 3 p247 (John Burke, 1836)
  RICHARD CLOSE, esq. who inherited the Monaghan estates. He married the sister of Samuel Waring, esq. of Waringstown, in the county of Down, M.P. for Hillsborough, and received from that gentleman a grant of lands contiguous to Waringstown, on which he built a good house and resided.

Children: Death: 5 May 1720

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Mary Waring

Father: John Waring

Mother: Rebecca (Masters) Waring

Notes: Mary is mentioned in her father's will dated 24 December 1727 - "he did give one annuity or Rent Charges of four score pound p ann current money of Great Britain to his Daughtr Mary Waring and her assignes for and During the term of her natl Life subject to the Condi in such Will specifyed to be persuing out of and Charged upon the Towne Lands commonly known by the name of Anna Carnew in the parish of Carvaghy near Dromore in the County of Downe in Ireland wth a Power of Distraining for the same in case of Non Paymt and upon her marriage as therein then the said annuity to cease and he did give her one Thousand Pounds and the rest & Residue of the Rents& profits of the aforesaid Estate for the maintenance and Education and for the use and benefit of the said Testrs Grand Daughtr Mary Waring untill her Intermarriage and upon her Intermarriage he gave one Thousand pounds"

This part of her father's will mentions John's granddaughter, Mary Waring. From the context it seems likely that granddaughter Mary was the daughter of the daughter Mary, but this is not explicitly stated in the will.

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Mary Waring

Father: Richard Waring

Mother: Sarah (Maxwell) Waring

Notes: Mary died unmarried.

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Paul Waring


Father: John Waring

Mother: Mary (Peers) Waring

Notes:
A History of the Town of Belfast p249 (George Benn, 1877)
John Waring, son of a landed proprietor at a place called Cherry Tree House, near Chorley, in Lancashire, emigrated to Ireland early in 1600 (in company with a brother, who settled in Co. Kilkenny). He settled at Toome, in Antrim, where he got landed property and also established a tannery. He had by Miss Peers several sons — William, Thomas, and Paul. The first succeeded to his property and a considerable sum of ready money, and an opportunity offering of purchasing land in Down from Cromwell's soldiers, he sold the Antrim property in 1656 and purchased the Waringstown and many other estates in Down. The second, Thomas, removed the tanneries to Belfast, and was Sovereign of that town, I believe, in 1660. From him the Belfast family descend. Paul was a Doctor of Divinity, and died unmarried.

Although Benn states that Paul was a Doctor of Divinity, I find no records of him at Trinity College Dublin, Oxford or Cambridge, nor can I find records of any ecclesiastical appointment. Atkinson is more direct:
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p153 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
  The Warings were a Lancashire family, and the founder of the Irish branch was John Waring, who in the reign of King James I, came over and settled in Derriaghy, near Lisburn. Here he married the daughter of the Rector of the parish, Miss Mary Peers, by which marriage he had three sons, William, Thomas, and Paul.
...
  Of Paul Waring, the youngest son of the original settler, nothing notable is recorded.

In 1674, Paul, along with his brother William, was a witness to the signing of a certificate by Alex McWhidd, vicar of Drumballironie in the diocese of Dromore.

Will: proved 1686. Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810 p477 (ed. Sir Arthur Edward Vicars, 1897) lists Paul as being of Tandragee, county Armagh, and a gentleman.

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Rebecca (Waring) Montgomery

Father: William Waring

Mother: Jane (Close) Waring

Married: _____ Montgomery of Convoy, county Donegal.

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Richard Waring

Birth: 1667/8, in county Antrim, Ireland

Father: William Waring

Mother: Jane (Close) Waring

Education: Trinity College Dublin. Richard entered Trinity College Dublin on 9 April 1684, aged 18.
Alumni Dublinenses p859 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
WARING, RICHARD, Pen. (Mr Harvey), Apr. 9, 1684, aged 18; s. of William, Generosus; b. Co. Antrim

Married: Alice Ball on 5 February 1693/4 (OS/NS) at St James Dukes Place, London, England
Richard Warring is recorded as a bachelor. The marriage was witnessed by Edward Cochran.

Alice was born on 17 April 1678 and baptised on 1 May 1678 in St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, the daughter of William Ball and Alice. She died in 1730 and was buried on 3 November 1730 in a vault in the chancel at St Mary, Thatcham, Berkshire.
Thatcham, Berks, and Its Manors vol 2 p92 (Samuel Barfield, 1901)
   Extracts from the Thatcham Church Registers.
1730  Mrs. Alice Waring, wife of the Honble. Brigadear Waring, wass intered in the Valt in the chancell November ye 3rd [Burials].

Children: Occupation: Army officer, reaching the rank of brigadier-general
Historical record of the Sixth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, or the Carabineers pp54-5 (Richard Cannon, 1839)
  After the decease of Queen Anne, and the accession of King George I. several alterations were made in the army; the distinguishing colour or facing of the regiment, was changed from sea-green to pale-yellow; and in February 1715, the colonelcy was conferred on Brigadier-General Richard Waring, from the lieut.-colonelcy of the first troop of horse grenadier guards.
  In the autumn and winter of the same year the regiment was held in readiness to embark for England, in consequence of the rebellion in favour of the Pretender, headed by the Earl of Mar.
  This commotion was, however, suppressed by the forces under the Duke of Argyle, and the regiment remained in Ireland; and in 1718 the establishment was further reduced to three officers, one quarter-master, two corporals, one trumpeter, and twenty-four private men per troop.
  During the succeeding year the regiment was again held in a state of readiness for active service in consequence of a projected invasion in favour of the Pretender by a Spanish force; but this armament was dispersed and disabled by a storm, and the hopes of the Jacobites were again frustrated.
...
Brigadier-General Waring, after commanding the regiment six years, retired from the service, and was succeeded in the colonelcy in June, 1721, by Lieut.-General Viscount Shannon

 pp184-5
SUCCESSION OF COLONELS.
    RICHARD WARING.
  Appointed 15th February, 1715.
RICHARD WARING was many years an officer in the first troop of horse grenadier guards; he obtained the rank of colonel in the army in 1706, and that of brigadier-general in 1711. Being distinguished for his steady loyalty and attachment to the succession of the house of Hanover at the period when Jacobin principles were prevalent in the kingdom, he was promoted from the lieut.-colonelcy of the horse grenadier guards to the colonelcy of the Carabineers; he, however, retired in 1721, and died on the 8th of December, 1737.

A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 pp184-5 (Toby Barnard, 2004)
In 1691, Richard Waring spent £100 to £150 on his commission as captain. The true costs were greater, owing to the need to equip himself with uniform, weapons and horse. He expected to make £500 p.a., in line with the pay of a captain in 1740. Waring flourished. Within seven years, he had £1,000 to invest. This happy situation arose partly from the trade of war, but also through a good marriage. In 1721, Waring, by then a general, sold his colonelcy to another from Ireland, Viscount Shannon, for £7,500. Not only did this look a reasonable return on his initial, modest investment, it allowed General Waring to set himself up in style, first with a house in Westminster and then a country estate in Berkshire. Waring had been favoured both by the special opportunities offered by the War of the Spanish Succession and by his marriage.    

Notes:
Thatcham, Berks, and Its Manors vol 1 pp330-2 (Samuel Barfield, 1901)
  § 25 The Manor of Thatcham, acquired by General Waring. 1722.
  (11) Brigadier-General Waring, the next holder of Thatcham manor, was a distinguished officer in the British army. If Lord Bolingbroke had been charged with conspiracy in supporting the Pretender's claim to the crown of England, General Waring was no less known as a strong supporter of the House of Hanover.
  He belonged to the family of Waring of Waringstown in co. Down. The first notice we have of him is in the list of lieutenants of the Earl of Danby's Volunteer regiment of Dragoons to be raised by the city of London, 15th and 16th July, 1690. In the following year he appears in the list of officers of the second troop of Life Guards to whom supplementary commissions were given; his commission to be lieutenant and youngest captain of the Grenadier troop is dated at Kensington, 30 November, 1691.
  We soon find him engaged in active service in Holland. He took part in the battle of Steenkirk on the 24 July, 1692, the allied forces being commanded by William III. in person, the Duke of Marlborough, and other distinguished generals.
  Shortly afterwards his name appears in the list of officers of the troop of Horse Grenadier guards embodied in 1693, as “Guidon and eldest Captain;” his commission to this office bears date at the Hague, 4 October, 1693. Following this entry there is a record of his having been appointed lieutenant of the troop of Grenadier guards on the 28th February, 1694, and another entry dated at Whitehall, 1st March, 1694, of his appointment to be a lieutenant and elder captain of the troop of Grenadier guards. His subsequent promotion was rapid. His appointment as Brigadier General is dated 12th February 1711.
  Four years afterwards he was appointed Colonel of the Carabineers from the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the first troop of Horse Grenadier guards. This commission is dated 15th February, 1715, and in 1721 General Waring retired from the service.
Dunston House
Dunston House, now pulled down, near Thatcham
Photo from old drawing, circa 1798
photo from Thatcham, Berks, and Its Manors vol 1 facing p48 (Samuel Barfield, 1901)
  On taking possession of Thatcham manor in the following year he immediately set about the improvement of it. The house was built in a fine situation. It was a handsome mansion, brick, with stone corners, and stone round the windows. It is described by Rocque as one of the most magnificent in the county. A park called Dunston Park was formed, trees were planted —being in one part of the property according to the lines of the troops in one of the battles in which the General had fought. There were two main entrances to the park, one from the south-west, still called the Avenue, starting from the road to Cold Ash, near to the present National School; the other from the south-east, at a point in the Reading road to the east of the allotment gardens beyond the marsh. Both these roads led up to the house in the direction of the large circular drive in front, as appears in the illustration.
  The General, with his wife and family, had not been long at Thatcham before disputes arose between him and the owner of the adjoining estate of Henwick, which at this time was in the possession of Sir Jemmet Raymond, it having been in his family for upwards of fifty years. Sir Jemmet claimed rights in respect of his manor or reputed manor of Henwick which General Waring considered were antagonistic to those of the lord of the manor of Thatcham, as disclosed by his title deeds, and supported by the ancient testimony of old witnesses then living. This brought about the long and costly Chancery suit of Raymond v. Waring, followed by a cross suit, in which the General was plaintiff, and Sir Jemmet Raymond defendant, to which further reference is made in the Chapter on Henwick Manor.
  In December, 1737, the General died. He was buried in Thatcham Church, where his wife, who had predeceased him in 1730, was also interred.

Richard was the executor of the will of his brother John dated 24 December 1727, proved 18 April 1728
Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills Memorial No: 37397 film 007905895 image 55
No 37397: To the Regr appointed by Act of Parliamt for Regring Deeds Conveyances & Wills pursuant to the act of Parliamt in that behalf
Regd the 18th day of Apl 1728 at 5 o Clock in the aftr noon
A MEMORIAL of a will bearing Date the Twenty fourth day of December one Thousand seven hundred and Twenty seven made By John Waring of the parish of St Clement Dane in the County of Mid~x Woolen Draper ... he did give & bequeath to his nephew William Warring son of his Bror Richd Waring and his heirs Exev Admins and Assgs of wch Will the Testrs Bror Richd Waring is Exer ... This Meml was signed and sealed by the above named Richd Waring the Exer in the presence of Glisson Maydwell Robert Griffith

Death: 8 December 1737

Buried: 16 December 1737 in a vault in the chancel at St Mary, Thatcham, Berkshire, England
Thatcham, Berks, and Its Manors vol 2 pp91-2 (Samuel Barfield, 1901)
   Extracts from the Thatcham Church Registers.
1737  The Honble Brigadear General Richard Waring was Intered in the Valt in the Chancell belonging to the Parosnage Decr ye 16th.

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Richard Waring

Birth: 31 December 1711, in Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland

Father: Samuel Waring

Mother: Grace (Holt) Waring

Education: Trinity College Dublin. Richard entered Trinity College Dublin on 8 May 1728, aged 16.
Alumni Dublinenses p859 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
WARING, RICHARD, Pen. (Rev. Æneas M‘Mullin, Dublin), May 8, 1728, aged 16; s. of Samuel, Armiger; b. Dublin

Notes: Richard was never married.

Death: 27 November 1731, aged 19

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Richard Waring

Birth: 18 December 1714

Baptism: 20 December 1714 in St James Westminster, Middlesex, England

Father: Richard Waring

Mother: Alice (Ball) Waring

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Richard Waring

Father: Thomas Waring

Mother: Mary (Blacker) Waring

Married: Sarah Maxwell in 1748 in Clogher diocese, Ireland

Children: Sources:

Richard Waring

Father: John Waring

Mother: Rebecca (Masters) Waring

Notes: Richard was a beneficiary of his father's will dated 24 December 1727 - "gave to his son Richard Waring for his life one annuity or a Rent Charge of forty Pounds p ann to be Paid Monthly"

Will: a copy was lodged in 1756, in the Prerogative Court, Ireland. Richard is recorded as resident in Westminster St James, Middlesex.

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Roger Waring

Birth: 1642/3, in Belfast, county Antrim, Ireland

Father: Thomas Waring

Mother: Janet (_____) Waring

Education: Trinity College Dublin, graduating B.A. in 1664 and D.D. in 1684.
Alumni Dublinenses p859 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
WARING, ROGER, Pen. (at Lisnegarvey, Co. Antrim), May 23, 1658, aged 15; s. of Thomas, Mercator; b. Belfast. B.A. Æst. 1664. D.D. Æst. 1684. [Archdeacon of Dromore]

Married: Isabella Westenra

Isabella was the daughter of Peter Westenra and Fennekina. She married, secondly, Robert Greene.

Children: Occupation: Clergyman.
Roger has been described as an "accomplished pluralist" - a pluralist is a member of the clergy who holds more than one ecclesiastical office at a time. He was appointed Prebendary of Comber in 1673, and of Rashsarken in 1674. He was rector of Conwall and of Aghanunshin. When he was appointed Archdeacon of Dromore in 1682, which included the rectory of Donaghmore, he gave up only the rectory of Aghanunshin.

Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae vol 3 pp267-8 (Henry Cotton, 1849)
CONNOR.
    PREBENDARIES.
  2. RATHSARKAN, ROSSERKAN or MAGHERASHARKAN.
1674. ROGER WARING, M.A. a Prebendary of Derry, collated October 26, (F.F.) In 1683 he was made Archdeacon of Dromore, but retained this prebend. He died in 1692.
p297
DROMORE.   
    ARCHDEACONS.
168⅔. ROGER WARING, B. D. a Prebendary of Connor, collated January 25. (FF.) He died in 1692.
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DERRY.   
    PREBENDARIES.
  1. COMBER, or COMMYR.
1673. ROGER WARING, M. A. collated October 6. [V.B.] He became a Prebendary of Connor, and Archdeacon of Dromore.

Ulster Journal of Archaeology p61 (Ulster Archaeological Society, 1897)
    Prebend of Comber.
  1673, ROGER WARING, M.A., afterwards D.D., collated 6 Octr. He was also Preb: Rasharkin (Connor), R. Conwall and Aghanunshin (Raphoe), and Archdeacon of Dromore, fac. 16 Jan., 1682. He was a member of the family of Waringstown, Co. Down. He died 1692.

An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) pp31-3 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
  The archdeaconry and benefice fell vacant the following year through the death of Bishop Sheridan, and no doubt through the influence of William Waring, was conferred upon a relative of his, the Rev. Roger Waring, who held a variety of appointments in the dioceses of Connor, Derry, and Raphoe. Indeed, the Rev. Roger seems to have felt that his benefices were somewhat too numerous to have an additional archdeaconry, with a couple of parishes in its corps, lightly added thereto; and in a petition to the Primate for a dispensation to hold them together with the archdeaconry, he magnanimously offers to surrender one, a small parish in Raphoe. This petition, with his formal undertaking to reside in Donaghcloney, and resign Aghanunshin, being rather curious, and throwing some light upon the state of the Church and parish, are given in full, and run as follows:—
  Whereas I, Roger Waring, Clk., have not for many years last past, been in a condition to reside upon any of the Ecclescall benefices belonging unto me, and whereas there is now an opportunity afforded unto me of having both a comfortable and convenient place to reside on in the Archdeaconry of Dromore, whereof I hope to be able to doe both God and the Church, service, if his Grace the Ld Primate of all Ireland shall permit me to hold the same, I doe therefore hereby solemnly and faithfully promise to his Grace the Ld Primate that, upon his Graces dispensing to hold the said Archdeaconry and my being collated thereunto by the Bp of the Diocese, I will forth with repaire with my family unto the parish of Donacloney (which is part of the Corps of the Archdeaconry) and will therein constantly reside and duely perform the duties of my ffunction in the faithfull discharge of the cure thereof during my Incumbency in the sd Archdeaconry (on the taking whereof I freely quit the Rectory of Aghanuntion wch I now hold). And I doe hereby in Verbo Sacerdotis, promise to deal truly and faithfully herein and to perform what is before expressed as I hope for a blessing from God on me and mine.
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale this 17th day of Janry. 1682.
          R. WARING (L.S.).
Witnesses hereof—J COGHILL.
                               J. M. ABBOTT.
      (Petitions for faculties, page 33, dorso.)

ROGER WAREING.
      The humble petition of Roger Waring, Clk.
  Humbly sheweth that yr petr hath beene for some years possessor of the Prebends of Comber in the Diocesse of Derry and of the Prebend of Rasharkan in the Diocesse of Connor together with the Rectories of Conwall and Aghnuntion in the Diocesse of Raphoe, and is now in expectation of having the Archdeaconry of Dromore confer’d upon him whereon he may most conveniently fix his residence inasmuch as a neare relation of his hath lately built a Church att his owne charges therein where yr petr intends constantly to reside and officiate inasmuch as there is a large English Congregation in that place where by his endeavours and the interest of many of his relations there concerned, he doubts not to improve the same and forasmuch as yr petr hath long desired to meet with a convenient place of residence where he may duely and comfortably attend his duty in the exercise of his function and may now by yr Graces favour be settled in such a commodious place and that it may appeare to yr Grace and the world that he doth not desire to multiply livings but cheifly intends in this his application to yr Grace to be settled in such a place where he may constantly and faithfully discharge his duty—he is willing and ready to quit the Rectory of Aghununtion (one of the aforesd livings wch he now holds) upon yr Grace’s granting him a faculty to hold in lieu thereof the said Archdeaconry of Dromore.
  May it therefore please yr Grace to encourage yr Petr to a constant and settled residence therein by granting him a dispensation to hold all the said severall benefices and promotions together, except the Rectory of Aghununtion aforesd and the rather for that he hath the honour to be Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Ormond Ld Leiut of the Kingdom and doth most readily and freely quitt the said Rectory.
  And he shall ever pray.
  17 Janrie, 1682.
  Ffiat dispensatio ut petitr.
      MICH. ARMACH, C.
(No. 69. Page 33. Entry Book of Petitions for Faculties. Prerogative P R O. Dublin, L P. 10-1.)

   Roger Waring held the rectory about eight years. He was attainted by King James in 1689, as “Dr. Roger Warren of Belfast,” and died in 1692, when in accordance with his last will and testament, he was buried in “the Church of Belfast.” His incumbency synchronized with a stirring and unsettled period for the country, and the local events of its later years must have rendered his parish of Donaghcloney by no means the desirable residence it had appeared to him on his appointment.

Notes:
Roger inherited most of the property of his brother, William:
A History of the Town of Belfast pp250-1 (George Benn, 1877)
The will of William Waring of Belfast, the son of the preceding, as stated when he was made Burgess, 17th April, 1660, is very long, and deals with large property. ... His executors are desired to be in “close mourning,” and all his large property is left to his brother, Roger Waring, Clerk. 

Belfast Merchant Families of 17th Century p250 (Jean Agnew 1996)
Roger, born at Belfast c. 1643, educ. Lisnegarvy (Lisburn), entered T.C.D. 1658, B.A. 1664, D.D. 1684; received £500 under father's will and inherited brother's property; freeman of Belfast 1680; rector of Donaghcloney, archdeacon of Dromore; fled to England and was attainted by James II, 1699; will proved 23 July 1692, buried in Belfast church.
  wife: (?1667), Isabella, daughter of Peter Westenra, merchant of Dublin

Death: 1692

Will: proved 23 July 1692
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. vol 1 p16 (ed F. Elrington Ball, 1910)
The lady to whom this letter is addressed is said by all Swift's biographers to have been a sister of one of his companions in Trinity College, Dublin. There were in his time two undergraduates of the name, sons of William Waring, of Waringstown, in the county of Down, William, who matriculated on 11 June, 1681, and Richard, who matriculated on 9 April, 1684, but their relationship to this lady was that of cousin. As Deane Swift states ("Essay," p. 33), Jane Waring was the sister of Westenra Waring, who was also a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, but did not enter until 16 June, 1691, more than three years after Swift had left. They were children of the Rev. Roger Waring, who was Archdeacon of Dromore, and held in right of that dignity the living of Donaghcloney, in which the seat of the Waring family is situated. ("An Ulster Parish," by Rev. E. D. Atkinson, p. 105.) His wife was a Westenra, Isabella, sister of Peter Westenra, who represented Athboy in William III's first Irish Parliament, and their father, who was one of the first of the name to come from Holland, was a collateral ancestor of Lord Rossmore. Archdeacon Waring's will, which is undated and unsigned, but was proved by his widow on 23 July, 1692, is on record. In it he mentions his sons Westenra and Peter, and his daughters Jane, Elizabeth, and Fenekin, as well as three younger children, whose names are not given. 

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Samuel Waring

Samuel Waring
Samuel Waring (1660-1739)
image posted at Waring Estate
Birth: August 1660 in county Down, Ireland

Father: William Waring

Mother: Elizabeth (Gardiner) Waring

Education: Trinity College Dublin. Samuel entered Trinity College Dublin on 9 May 1677, aged 18, and obtained his B.A. in 1681 and LL.D in 1707.
Alumni Dublinenses p859 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935):
WARING, SAMUEL, Pen. (Mr Haslam, Lisburn), May 9, 1677, aged 18; s. of William, Generosus; b. Co. Down. B.A. Vern. 1681. LL.D. Æst. 1707. [M.P., Hillsborough, 1703 and 1713.]

Married: Grace Holt in 1696-8

Grace was the daughter of Rev. Samuel Holt, rector of Painstown, county Meath. She died in Dublin in 1722.
A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 p139 (Toby Barnard, 2004)
In the three weeks before Grace Waring died in Dublin in 1722, one apothecary supplied forty-seven separate concoctions, costing £7 3s. 5d. Another 'druggist' provided both palliatives like hartshorn and almond milk and beverages such as chocolate, coffee and tea.

Children: Notes: Samuel was High Sheriff of county Down from 1690 - 1691. A number of warrants and letters addressed to him in this capacity have been reproduced in An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown)  Appendix XII pp159-165 and give an interesting picture of the duties involved. Samuel was M.P. for Hillsborough from 1703 to 1715, and also colonel of the County Down Yeomanry Cavalry.

Samuel had a significant impact on the economy of Waringstown by the introduction of damask-weaving through a colony of weavers brought from the Low Countries to Waringstown. Samuel's knowledge of the weaving came from a tour of Europe that he undertook as a companion to Charles Butler, grandson of the Duke of Ormond around 1688. Toby Barnard describes Samuel's extensive preparation for the trip, and then his recollections.
Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770 pp30-1 (Toby Barnard, 2004)
  Later, back in Ireland, Samuel Waring remembered the journey which had opened eyes and mind. He told Mission that the crowded trip constituted 'one of the chiefest and most satisfactory occurrences of my life'. Various devices - his own notes, worked up after his return, engraving he had collected, drawings he had made, the guidebooks that he still studied and Mission's published version of the travels - aided his happy recollections. Tastes aroused by the expedition were retained. On the road, he noted agricultural and manufacturing novelties. Some were dismissed as inefficient or odd; others - especially those observed in the Low Countries - might possibly be applied in Ireland. Relevant to what he attempted at Waringstown were the questions of how bogs could be drained, waterways improved and the nascent linen industry fostered. These were all matters with which Waring was concerned even before he inherited the estate from his father. 

An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p49 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
THE few peaceful years at the close of the seventeenth century were of vast importance to the parish and neighbourhood for the foundation then laid of the industry of damask weaving, which ever since has so greatly flourished here, and caused the name of Waringstown to be widely known as the place where the finest linen damask in the kingdom is produced.
  Its introduction appears to have been due in part to a tour through Flanders and other Continental countries taken about the year 1688 by Samuel Waring, the eldest son and heir of William Waring. There he, no doubt, was struck by the perfection to which weaving had attained in the Low Countries, and, after his return home and the establishment of peace, proceeded to introduce the industry into his own country by bringing over a colony of weavers and settling them in the village lately founded by his father. The manufacture soon struck root, and has continued to flourish ever since. But Samuel Waring was not only a traveller keeping his eyes open and turning what he saw to the practical advantage of his native village. From 1703 to 1715 he sat in the Irish Parliament as member for the borough of Hillsborough, and must before this period have moved much in society in England and the Continent. Here he made the acquaintance of the poet Addison who wrote to him from Blois in 1699.
p71
A HISTORY of the parish of Donaghcloney would be incomplete without some slight account of the linen manufacture, upon which it mainly depends for its prosperity, and which for two centuries has flourished here in a remarkable degree. Linen weaving has indeed been carried on in Ireland from time immemorial, but it was only at the close of the seventeenth century that the finer branches of the art, damask, diaper, and cambric, were introduced into the country. This was done mainly by Huguenot exiles, who settled in the vicinity of Lisburn, Lurgan, and Belfast. The first introduction of the manufacture of damask diapers is said to have been due to the action of Mr. Samuel Waring, eldest son and heir of the founder of the Waringstown family, who brought over a number of Flemish weavers from the Low Countries, and settled them in Waringstown. This enlightened action was probably suggested to Mr. Waring in the course of his travels on the Continent, already referred to, and was productive of the most important consequences for the neighbourhood. So rapidly did the manufacture take root and spread, that Harris, the well-known historian of the County Down, writes of Waringstown about the year 1740 as follows:—
  “In this town and the neighbourhood of it the linen manufacture is carried on to great advantage, where it was introduced and cherished by the late Samuel Waring, Esq., well known for the great services he has done the country in this trade, which has spread so considerably here since that time that a colony of fine diaper weavers was transplanted lately from thence to Dundalk.”
  Samuel Waring himself continued actively to “cherish” the industry, and was one of the original trustees of the Linen Board appointed in 1711.

(Joseph Addison is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. He was one of the poet subjects of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets).

Samuel was a man of diverse interests and knowledge. Maximilien Misson, who accompanied Samuel and Charles Butler on their European tour, wrote of him in a letter dated 3 October 1688:
A New Voyage to Italy vol 2 part 1 p553 (Maximilien Misson, 1714)
By the good Providence of God, our Voyage has been in all Respects happy, and the Pleasure that attended it was never interrupted by Sickness or any Accident. And in particular, I must own my self extreamly obliged to our common Friend Mr. S. Waring, whose good Company we enjoy'd all the Way. He is Master of many excellent Qualifications, which charm all those that converse with him.

A long letter written by Mission to Samuel Waring on 1 February 1699 is included A New Voyage to Italy vol 1 part 2 pp654-76. Samuel had created a tree nursery at Waringstown House and in 1705 wrote A Short Treatise on Firr Trees, later published in The Natural History Review. He was also interested in architecture, and Toby Barnard's Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770 pp32-4 show examples of some of his architectural drawings, including an elevation of Waringstown House.
Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770 p31 (Toby Barnard, 2004)
  Buildings fascinated Samuel Waring. On his travels, rather than react randomly, he classified what he had seen. On his return to County Down, he ordered these impressions. He listed what he took to be the chief differences in the treatment of windows and interior circulation within houses. One innovation which he appreciated was the introduction of two separate staircases - 'a large public pair and a private one' - into houses of any pretension. 'The public ones', he noted, were intended 'as much almost for ornament and state as use'. In contrast, 'the lesser or private stairs' were designed 'only for back lodgings and the servants [or] children to make use of'. This convenience appeared in Waring's own house in County Down. It eased the division of the building into two units: the one for his mother once widowed and the other for himself and his growing family.
...
Waring applied his knowledge to rejigging his father's house. Waringstown, enlarged already in the 1670s, expanded with the family's prosperity and social importance. by the 1690s, extra domestic servants were engaged in order to free Mrs. Waring to entertain her guests. At the same time, the names of rooms - 'purple','blue','green','old' and 'new' parlours - told of spaces more fashionably decorated and differentiated.

Waring Estate
If William laid the foundations for the estate then his eldest son Samuel certainly secured it’s place in history. His father was a hard act to follow but Samuel had been given every opportunity, the best education, a very good marriage into Dublin society and a solid ‘old school’ family background. He drove the estate development apace; he had one of the earliest bleaching greens that enhanced the techniques of damask production, that he brought back from the Dutch Lowlands and to be properly finished. He was driven by the new scientific thinking that was to have fundamental impact throughout society and more particularly in the rural areas. He was perhaps one of the first people to cultivate trees, for sale, to stock other estates; in 1705 he authored what is perhaps the earliest tree manual, it was entitled ‘A Short Treatise on Firr'[Trees.] Distinguished gentry travelled from England to see his new plantation. He completely transformed the stripe farming style maintained by individual tenants to that of enclosed fields scientifically farmed by labourers for the estate. He enthusiastically embodied the concept of field drainage and crop management. His domain now had a demesne at it’s heart that was the educational focal point for the changes that were to sweep across the country and give the landscape that we have inherited today.
Samuel as a member of parliament used his expertise and influence to not only promote the Linen industry – he was instrumental in setting up the Linen Board, but also the general infrastructure of the country – he promoted projects such as the construction of the Newry canal that his father had mooted many decades earlier.

Death: 16 December 1739

Buried: Holy Trinity Church, Waringstown, county Down, Ireland
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p120 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
    (Tablets in South Aisle.)
  To the Memory of William Waring, who built this Church and presented it to the Parish of Donaghcloney. He was born in 1619, and died 27th July, 1703. Also Samuel Waring, Son of William, born August, 1660; died 16th December, 1739. Also of his Sons, Samuel Waring, born 11th July, 1710; died 25th March, 1793; And Holt Waring, the Father of the Very Rev. Holt Waring, born 15th November, 1722; died December, 1805.

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Samuel Waring

Father: Thomas Waring

Mother: Mary (Lawrence) Waring

Notes: Samuel did not marry.

A deed entered into on 28 June 1709 by Henry Lawrence, names Samuel as the second son of Thomas Waring and Mary Lawrence.

Death: 18 July 1764

Will: dated 30 September 1763, proved in 1764

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Samuel Waring

Birth: 11 July 1710 in Waringstown, county Down, Ireland

Father: Samuel Waring

Mother: Grace (Holt) Waring

Education: Trinity College Dublin. Samuel entered Trinity College Dublin on 8 May 1728, aged 18, and obtained his B.A. in 1728.
Alumni Dublinenses p860 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
WARING, SAMUEL, Pen. (Rev. Æneas M‘Mullin, Dublin), May 8, 1728, aged 18; s. of Samuel, Armiger; b. Warringstown, Co. Down. B.A. Vern. 1732.

Notes: Samuel was High Sheriff of county Down in 1734.

Samuel inherited Waringstown House and estate from his father. He died unmarried in 1793, and was succeeded by his nephew, Holt Waring. Holt recollected from his childhood that a foal belonging to his uncle had been killed by a wolf at Waringstown, one of the last wolf sightings recorded in Ireland.
The Extinct British Wolf The Popular Science Review vol 17 p405 (J. E. Harting, 1878)
Sir J. Emerson Tennent wrote to a contemporary on this subject as follows :—
“Waringstown, in the county Down, on the confine of the county of Armagh, takes its name from the family of Waring, which, in the reign of Queen Mary, fled to Ireland from Lancashire to avoid the persecution of the Lollards. At the close of the seventeenth century the Waring of that day was a member of the Irish Parliament; and his eldest son, Samuel Waring, was born about the year 1699, and died at a very advanced age in 1793. He was succeeded by his nephew, the Very Reverend Holt Waring, Dean of Dromore, who was born in 1766, and whom I had the honour to know. With him I happened to be travelling through the Mourne mountains, in the county of Down, on our way to the Earl of Roden's, about the year 1834 or 1835, when the conversation turning upon the social condition of Ireland in the previous century, he told me that a foal belonging to his uncle had been killed by a wolf in the stable at Waringstown, and that he, when a boy, had heard the occurrence repeatedly adverted to in the family circle. The dean was a man of singularly acute mind and accurate memory, and unless this statement of his be altogether a delusion, this would seem to be the last recorded appearance of a wolf in Ireland.”

Death: 25 March 1793

Buried: Holy Trinity Church, Waringstown, county Down, Ireland
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p120 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
    (Tablets in South Aisle.)
  To the Memory of William Waring, who built this Church and presented it to the Parish of Donaghcloney. He was born in 1619, and died 27th July, 1703. Also Samuel Waring, Son of William, born August, 1660; died 16th December, 1739. Also of his Sons, Samuel Waring, born 11th July, 1710; died 25th March, 1793; And Holt Waring, the Father of the Very Rev. Holt Waring, born 15th November, 1722; died December, 1805.

Will: proved 1793. Samuel is recorded as resident at Waringstown.

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Sarah (Waring) Maxwell

of Waringstown, county Down, Ireland

Father: William Waring

Mother: Jane (Close) Waring

Married: Robert Maxwell on 3 March 1703 in Tullylish, county Down, Ireland

Children: Sources:

Sarah Waring

Birth: 23 March 1701

Baptism: 25 March 1702 in St James Westminster, Middlesex, England

Father: Richard Waring

Mother: Alice (Ball) Waring

Notes: In England, before 1750, the New Year started on 25 March, not 1 January, so Sarah's christening on 25 March 1702 occurred only two days after her birth on 23 March 1701.

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Sarah (Waring, Lambert) Hamilton

Birth: 18 February 1704

Father: Samuel Waring

Mother: Grace (Holt) Waring

Married (1st): Montague Lambert in 1728 in St Anne, Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland
A pre-marriage settlement was dated 24 February 1728, and registered on 18 March 1728.

Montague was the only son of Ralph Lambert, Bishop of Meath, and Susanna Kelly. He was a lieutenant in the 5th Dragoon Guards. Montague died in 1740 and his will was proved that year.

Children: Married (2nd): Francis Hamilton

Francis was Sarah's first cousin.

Children: Notes: In a document dated 12 May 1741, Sarah is descibed as a widow, of the City of Dublin.

Death: 7 May 1780

Buried: in St. Nicholas churchyard, Dundalk, county Louth, Ireland
Journal of the Society for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead Vol. VII No. 2 of Part 1 (1907)
Flat limestone slab: -
Here lyeth the Body of Mrs Sarah Hamilton Wife of the Revd Doctor Francis Hamilton Rector of this Parish who departed this life the 7th Day of May 1780 Aged 77 Years.

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Sarah (Waring) Kennedy Bailie

Father: Richard Waring

Mother: Sarah (Maxwell) Waring

Married: Thomas Kennedy Baillie

Thomas was born in 1741/2, the son of Dr. James Kennedy and Sarah Bailie. Thomas graduated D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) from Glasgow University in 1784, following in the footsteps of his father who also attended Glasgow University where he studied medicine. He was Rector of Kilmore, county Down in 1806 (Topographical Dictionary of Ireland p30 (Nicholas Carlisle, 1810)) and Rector of Dromore (Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland p638 (Bernard Burke, 1904)). Thomas died in 1818, aged 76.
The matriculation albums of the University of Glasgow from 1728-1858 p67 (W. Innis Addison, 1913)
2149 THOMAS KENNEDY filii natu maximus Doctissimi Viri Jacobi Medicinae Doctoris in urbe Downe-Patrick, in Comitatu de Downe, in Hibernia.
Possibly Thomas Kennedy, D.D. Glasg. 1784, described in University Minute as "Minister of Down-Patrick," but neither denomination nor charge can be traced.

The Christian Life 26 June 1880 pp311-2
THE REV. THOMAS KENNEDY, D.D., 1776.
  The people of Downpatrick claim for a native of their town the honour of having instituted a Sunday-school as early as 1776. This was done by a Rev. Thomas Kennedy of the Episcopal Church, first curate of Bright, but a resident at Downpatrick, and master of a classical and commercial school. He was afterwards vicar of Kilmore. But, as we have already intimated, no doubt a great number of clergymen whose names are not now known, gathered the young people together on a Sunday, and gave them religious instruction in classes. Lathbury mentions that Bishop Frampton, 1693, while attending the duties of his Church, organised a special service for children, which in some measure anticipated the efforts now on foot connected with our Sunday-schools. Kennedy, Frampton, Blair of Brechin, Scotland, and many others were all pioneers in the work which has been so useful.

Children: Notes: All of Thomas and Sarah's children died early and unmarried (The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland 1887 vol 7 p34).

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Thomas Waring

Father: John Waring

Mother: Mary (Peers) Waring

Married: Janet

Children: Occupation: Merchant, tanner and shipowner; Mayor of Belfast
Early Belfast: The Origins and Growth of an Ulster Town to 1750 p83 (Raymond Gillespie, 2007)
On the basis of the lay subsidy of 1663 one of the most prosperous men in Belfast was the tanner Thomas Waring. He had probably settled in Belfast about 1640 but had an unspectacular career until the early 1650s. Since he was English, was not a Presbyterian and was prepared to deal with the Cromwellian regime, he became sovereign of the town from 1652 to 1655 at a time when most other Irish towns were under military rule. Such an elevation propelled Waring into the upper echelons of Belfast society, a position from which he never lapsed.

An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p153 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
  The Warings were a Lancashire family, and the founder of the Irish branch was John Waring, who in the reign of King James I, came over and settled in Derriaghy, near Lisburn. Here he married the daughter of the Rector of the parish, Miss Mary Peers, by which marriage he had three sons, William, Thomas, and Paul. Of these, the second settled in Belfast, where he established an extensive tannery, with tanpits, on the south side of Goose Lane, now North Street, and the north side of Broad Street, now Waring Street. He appears to have amassed a large fortune, and was no less than five times Sovereign (or Mayor) of Belfast, viz., in the years 1652, ’53, ’56, ’64, and ’65.

Notes:
A History of the Town of Belfast pp249-50 (George Benn, 1877)
John Waring, son of a landed proprietor at a place called Cherry Tree House, near Chorley, in Lancashire, emigrated to Ireland early in 1600 (in company with a brother, who settled in Co. Kilkenny). He settled at Toome, in Antrim, where he got landed property and also established a tannery. He had by Miss Peers several sons — William, Thomas, and Paul. The first succeeded to his property and a considerable sum of ready money, and an opportunity offering of purchasing land in Down from Cromwell's soldiers, he sold the Antrim property in 1656 and purchased the Waringstown and many other estates in Down. The second, Thomas, removed the tanneries to Belfast, and was Sovereign of that town, I believe, in 1660. From him the Belfast family descend. Paul was a Doctor of Divinity, and died unmarried.
  Thomas Waring, above mentioned, appears by this account to have been the first of the family who settled in Belfast, established tanneries in Waring Street, and gave his name to that street, which it still retains. This pedigree is, no doubt, in the main correct, though John and Thomas Waring are contributors to the funds for Hume's regiment in 1645. Wills of two members of the Belfast Warings have been examined, the older of which is, without doubt, that of the very Thomas who is represented to have been the first of the name who settled in Belfast. The following extracts from it show something of his history, and a little also of the fashion of the times. It is dated 1665. He desires to be buried “within the Church of Belfast;” leaves £15 a-year for life to Janet Waring his wife ; “also the two Rooms over (? and) the Kitchen, wherein I now live, with the furniture, Bedds, and all things thereunto belonging, and one Silver Cupp and two of the best Sylver Spoones, with one Park of land near the North Gate leading to Carrickfergus.” After some other directions he enjoins his son to see him “decently and handsomlie buried,” and then leaves £40 to the poor of Belfast, to which he makes this addition — “And if it please God that my vessel called the Providence of Belfast return safely back from St Se Basstins whereunto shee is gone and Laden with several Commodities to that place, doe saflie retorne without damadge bot to a gain, then my will and mind is that Twentie Pounds more shalle bee given to the said Poore of the Towne of Belfast.”

pp289-90
The Earl of Donegall leased for ninety-nine years to Thomas Waring, at November, 1659, for a fine of £50 and £24 per annum, the town and townland of “Skeaghenearle,” and one-quarter of Listollyard adjoining thereto, with the usual additions of fat hens, duty days, and compulsory grinding at the mills of Belfast—
  “The said lands are bounded on the east by the sea; on the south by the Milewater to the new Inclosure and Park by a ditch and quicksett; on the west by the ditch of Ballyoghaghan, and so under by two other quarters of Listollyard.”
  It is far from being a clear description. The country, so near Belfast, was unenclosed and bare of houses. Mr. Waring was bound to quicksett all his part of the outbounds. He had to contract to build a “good handsome English-like house,” and plant large quantities of trees; another part of the lease expresses that his duty-days were to be in harvest, “with one able Horse or Garron, well furnished with drivers or loaders, to draw in hay for his Lordship,” to whom he was also to present yearly “a good fat mutton, or three and four pence in lieu thereof,” the probable value in 1659 of the animal so described.

pp724-6
LIST OF THE SOVEREIGNS OF BELFAST.
...
1652. Thomas Waring, or Warring, and also sometimes Warren and Waryng.
1653. Same.
1654. Thomas Theaker.
1655. John Leathes Junior.
1656. Thomas Waring.
...
1664. Thomas Waring.
1665. Same. The following is in the Record Book after the general notice :—Thomas Waring was sworn in on the 29th day of September, 1665, according to the use and custom of the Town for one whole year, but on the 23rd of November following he departed this life at Belfast. And Edward Reynell Gent, was the 1st day of December next following by election and with the consent of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Donegall sworn Sovereign of the Borough until the Feast of St. Michael following.

Belfast Merchant Families of 17th Century p249 (Jean Agnew 1996)
Thomas WARING, merchant, tanner and shipowner of Belfast
career: probably settled in Belfast in early 1640s, free stapler 1643, burgess 1652, sovereign 1652-3, 1653-4, 1656-7, 1664-5, re-elected for 1665-6 but died in office; in poll tax returns of 1660; high sheriff of County Antrim 1663; died 23 Nov. 1665, buried in church of Belfast; prerogative will dated 2 Nov. 1665, proved 2 Jan. 1665, left £40 to poor.
religion: Church of Ireland
wife: Janet, alive 1665

Death: 23 November 1665, in Belfast, county Antrim, Ireland

Buried: Church of Belfast, Ireland

Will: dated 2 November 1665, proved 2 January 1665/6 (OS/NS)
National Archives of Ireland Diocesan and Prerogative Wills, 1595-1858
In the name of God Amen the second day of November one thousand six hundred fiftie and five I Thomas Waring of Belfast in the County of Antrim Esquire being of whole mind and in good and perfect memory praised bee to Almighty God, make and ordanie herein this my last will and Testamt revokeing all former wills whatsoever in manner and forme following ffirst I recommend my Soule unto Almighty God my maker and Redeemer And my body to be buried in the Church of Belfast And as for my personal Estate worldly goods Estate ffirst I give and bequeath unto Janett Waring my now wife ffifty pounds yearely during her naturall life, to bee payd halfe yearely after my decease by my Sonne William Waring And further my will is that Janett my said wife shall have during her said naturall life the two Rooms over the kitchen wherein I now lye my selfe with the furniture of bedds bedsteads and all things thereunto belonging, together with one silver Cupp, and two of the best silver spoones, with one parke of Land which lyeth neere the North Gate leadeing to Carigfergus Item I give and bequeath to William Waring my eldest Sonne all my Estate whatsoever of goods both reall and psonall of what Qualitie or Condition soever pforming my mind hereafter expressed that is to say to pay my funerall expenses my right debts as shall appear by bond under my hand, bill, or writing or any other Accouynt whatsoever And especially to my Sonne Roger Waring five hundred pounds ster in manner and forme following that is to say ffifty pounds sterlg within six months after my funerall and soe every six months ffifty pounds until the said five hundred bee payd And if either of my said Sonns bee not pleased with this my said will that then he that is displeased, shall have onely one hundred pounds And what this my will is to either of them is in full satisfaction of all Accouynts debates or Reckonings whatsoever heretofore. Item my further will and mind is That out of my first goode the right honble the Eaarl of Donnegall shall bee satisfied the Summe of three ??? pounds which is Due to his honn. at a day after my decease and expressed in the Lease betwixt his honno. and me. Item it is my will that out of my said goods there shall be given to the poore of the towne of Belfast forty pounds within six months after my decease at the discretion of my Executor. And if it please God my vessell called the Providence of Belfast returns safely back from St. St. Basstids whereunto she is gone, and laden to severall Commodities to that place doo safely returne without damage but to againne Then my will and mind is that twenty pounds more shall bee given to the said poore of the towne of Belfast at the discretion of my said Executor as aforesaid And lastly I doo ordain and appoint my welbeloved Sonne William Waringe to bee my sole Executor in this behalfe and to see this my Last will and testament to bee pformed As alsoe to see my body decently and handsomely buried And hereunto I have Subscribed my names and putt to my Seale the day and year above written
Tho: Waring, present at the sealing and delivery hereof
Edw: Breres, Roger Waring

Sources:

Thomas Waring

Father: William Waring

Mother: Jane (Close) Waring

Married (1st): Mary Lawrence on 12 July 1694 in St Michan's, Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland

Mary was the daughter of Agnes Lawrence who is described in 1721 as a widow of the City of Dublin. Mary is noted as deceased in a deed dated 28 June 1709.

Children: Married (2nd): Mary Blacker

Mary was possibly the daughter of William Blacker of Rughan, county Tyrone, who was a party to the marriage settlement of her son, Thomas. She is possibly the Mary Waring of Waringstown whose will was proved in 1756.

Children: Notes: Thomas was High Sheriff of county Down in 1724.

Waring Estate
Warings Point 1807
Warings Point c1807
Note the number of ships waiting to unload or in the case of the smaller ones waiting for the tide to change to allow travel on to Newry.
drawing posted at Waring Estate
Samuel’s brother Thomas moved to Newry and his line became established as international merchants importing, along with many diverse and exotic goods, huge quantities of Linseed from Belorussia and Pennsylvania. The estuary at Newry was so shallow and therefore unable to handle the large ships required by his trade that he had to establish a pier ten miles to the East. This pier was known as Waring’s Point and a town grew up around it that took his name. This Waring line later merged again by marriage with Samuel’s line and returned to Waringstown.

Thomas's older brother, Samuel, was heir to Waringstown, but Samuel was also a member of the Irish Parliament, spending a lot of time in Dublin, and so he deputed care of Waringstown to Thomas.
A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 p210 (Toby Barnard, 2004)
Samuel Waring, frequently in Dublin, deputed care of his County Down property to a younger brother, Thomas. ... Thomas Waring was enabled by his duties to take a place in his own right as a squire in the county.

On 19 March 1722, Thomas bought 286 acres of lands at Lisnafiffy and Drumhorc in county Down from his brother John who was then resident in London. John had inherited those lands from their father, William.

On 4 October 1741, one Thomas Waring of Waringtown, Esquire, sold 80 acres of land at Raconnell to James Elliott. It is likely but not certain to me that this refers to this Thomas Waring (Thomas's son, Thomas, was a clergyman and would have been referred to as Rev. Thomas Waring). If it does, then it would indicate Thomas was alive at least until 1741.

Thomas is likely the Thomas Waring, resident at Waringstown, whose unproved prerogative will was lodged in 1746.

Sources:

Thomas Waring

Birth: 1709/10, in Waringstown, county Down, Ireland

Baptism: 11 June 1710, in Waringstown, county Down, Ireland

Father: Thomas Waring

Mother: Mary (Blacker) Waring

Education: Trinity College Dublin. Thomas entered Trinity College Dublin on 9 May 1728, aged 18, and obtained his B.A. in 1728.
Alumni Dublinenses p860 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
WARING, THOMAS, Pen. (Rev. John Knowles, Cavan), May 9, 1728, aged 18; s. of Thomas, Armiger; b. Warringstown, Co. Down. B.A. Vern. 1732.

Married: Hester Lucas on 2 October 1735, in Magheralin, county Down, Ireland

A marriage settlement was executed on 30 September 1735 for the intended marriage between Thomas Waring and Hester Lucas.
Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills Memorial No: 84475 film 008093185 image 117
No 84475: To the Register appointed by Act of Parliamt for Registring of all Deeds Wills Conveyances & so forth
A MEMORIAL of an Indented Deed of Marriage Settlemt bearing date the Thirtieth day of Sept one Thousd Seven Hund and Thirty five made between Thos Waring of Waringstown in the Co of Down Esqr and the Revd Thos Waring Junr third Son of the said Thos Waring Senr of the first part Jasper Lucas of Richfordston in the County of Corke and Hesther Lucas Spinster Daur of the said Jasper Lucas of the second part and John Coghlan of Rossmore in the County of Corke Esqr and the Revd George Howse of Moyra in the Co of Down Clk of the Third part the Revd Samuel Close of Mullaghting in the Co of Armagh & Wm Blacker of Rughan in the County of Tyrone Gent of the Fourth part whereby the sd Thos Waring Senr in Considern of a Marriage intended to be had & Solemnized between the sd Thos Waring Junr & the sd Hesther Lucas & of a Marriage portion of Two hund pds sterl pd or Secured to be paid unto him by the sd Jasper Lucas & in Considern of the sum of Ten shills sterl pd to him the sd Thos Waring Senr by the sd Jno Coghlan & George Howse in sd Deed pticularly Mend did Grant Bargain Sell alien re? & Confirm unto the said Jno Coghlan & George Howse all that & those the Towne and lands of Drumhurk Cont. by Estimation Eighty acres Plantation Measure or thereabts & all that part & proportion of the Town and lands of Lisnafifie belonging to the sd Thos Waring Senr cont by Estimation Two hund & Twenty Seven acres plantation Measure all wch said lands & premess are situate lying and being on the Barony of Lower Iveagh & Co of Down To have & to hold all and Singl the said Granted & released premess wth their appurts unto the said John Coghlan & George Howse & their heirs for ever upon Trust nevertheless & ti the sevll uses intents & purposes & under such provisoes & agreemts as are in said Deed particularly Mend reference to the same may more fully appear wch sd Deed was duly Executed by the sd Thos Waring Esqr Jno Coghlan George Howse & Thos Waring the younger in presence of Southwell Ricard Rector of the Parish of Shankhill in the County of Armagh & Danl Anderson then of Warringstown and now of Moyra in the Co of Down Schoolmaster subscribing witnesses thereof this Meml was duly Executed by the sd Thos Waring Esqr in presence of the said Southwell Ricard & the sd Danl Anderson of Warringstown aforesd   Thos Waring Seal   Signed & Sealed in the presence of Southwell Ricard  Danl Anderson  The above named Danl Anderson of Moyra in the Co of Down this day before me made oath that he saw the above recited Deed of wch the above Writing is a Meml duly Executed by the above Mend Thos Waring Esqr Jno Coghlan Esqr the Revd George Howse & the Revd Thos Waring Junr four of the parties thereto & that he saw the said Meml duly Executed by the sd Thos Waring Esqr and that the name Danl Anderson Subscribed as a witness to the sd Deed & this Meml is this Depts proper hand writing Danl Anderson - Taken & Sworn before me at Warringstown in the County of Down this 28th day of October 1746 by virtue of a Comisn to me granted & I know the Party Sworn  John Ferry  Saml Waring  J Stothard Justices of the peace for the County of Downe.
 
Hester was born in 1711/2, the daughter of Jasper Lucas of Richfordstown, Clonakilty, county Cork. She died on 21 February 1798, aged 86, and was buried with her husband in Moira churchyard, county Down.

Children:
St John Moira
St John's church in Moira, county Down, where Thomas was rector for 34 years
photo posted at Ros Davies' Co. Down, Northern Ireland Family History Research Site
Occupation: Clergyman
Thomas was rector of Moira, county Down, from 1743 until his death in 1777.
Footprints over Moira pp37-8 (David McFarland, 2011)
The Sinner
Abigail made her way up the drive beneath the trees to St. John’s Parish Church in Moira. It was a Sunday evening in the mid 18th Century and the sun was setting behind the Castle. She cast a long shadow on the drive ahead as she walked alone and reluctantly to the impressive Georgian building that had been built in the village when she was a child.
This was the church where she and her husband worshipped. But today was different. She was here by order.
The churchwarden at the door looked condescendingly and solemnly at her as she entered and then without a word led her inside. Glancing left, she saw Sir John Rawdon, recently appointed Earl of Moira, sitting with his family and servants in their pew. On the right sat the Waring family. Then her eyes went to the front where the Reverend Thomas Waring stood waiting below the three-decker pulpit. He had demanded that she appear before him and the congregation but she had to wait until the end of Evening Prayer.
Eventually the moment came when she was led up the aisle to stand where all could see. There before the parishioners, Abigail had to make a public confession. What was her crime? Had she stolen something? Had she been drunk in the street? The curious congregation strained to hear her, as in a trembling voice she said: “I am sorry for the abusive words I used about Sarah, calling her a ***.” (Historical records do not show the word)
Such was the nature of Church discipline in those times. No record is given of any penalty Abigail may have had to pay. Neither is there any account of her relationship with her husband from then on, for the one who heard her use the words and reported them to the church, was her own husband!

Death: 27 May 1777, aged 67

Buried: Moira churchyard, county Down, Ireland
Thomas and Hester are buried under a horizontal stone on ground in rail enclosure with arms:
On a bend three mascles.
Crest:- A crane's head couped at the neck.
Motto:- "Nec vi nec astutia"
(Not by force, nor by cunning)
The inscription reads:
Here lyeth the body of the Revd. Thomas Waring, Clerk, late Rector of the Parish of St. John of Moira.
He kept during 34 years a continued residence in said parish and departed this life 27 May 1777 aged 67 years.
Also the body of Heaster Waring his wife who departed this life the 21st day of February 1798 aged 86 years.

Will: proved 1777

Sources:

William Waring

William Waring
William Waring
This portrait hangs at the top of the stairs at Waringstown House
image posted at Waring Estate
William Waring
William Waring
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p53 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
Birth: 1619

Father: John Waring

Mother: Mary (Peers) Waring

Married (1st): Elizabeth Gardiner on 26 May 1656 in Derry Cathedral, Templemore, county Londonderry, Ireland

Elizabeth was the daughter of William Gardiner, of Londonderry.

Children: Married (2nd): Jane Close

Children: An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p153 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
  William, the eldest son, like his brother, went into the tanning business, and carried on operations at Toombe Bridge, County Antrim, whereby he amassed sufficient capital to become the purchaser in 1656, from Captain Barret, of a large slice of the Clanconnell territory, as related in the text. He married twice, Elizabeth, daughter of William Gardiner, and Jane, daughter of John Close, and was the father of what he himself describes as a “numerous family.”

Notes:
A History of the Town of Belfast p249 (George Benn, 1877)
John Waring, son of a landed proprietor at a place called Cherry Tree House, near Chorley, in Lancashire, emigrated to Ireland early in 1600 (in company with a brother, who settled in Co. Kilkenny). He settled at Toome, in Antrim, where he got landed property and also established a tannery. He had by Miss Peers several sons — William, Thomas, and Paul. The first succeeded to his property and a considerable sum of ready money, and an opportunity offering of purchasing land in Down from Cromwell's soldiers, he sold the Antrim property in 1656 and purchased the Waringstown and many other estates in Down. The second, Thomas, removed the tanneries to Belfast, and was Sovereign of that town, I believe, in 1660. From him the Belfast family descend. Paul was a Doctor of Divinity, and died unmarried.

William became heir to his father's Toome estate which he sold to purchase, in 1658, a large tract of land in the Clanconnell district from Captain John Barret. The land had been confiscated from the Magenis clan chiefs who owned it following their participation in the Irish Rebellion of 1641, by Cromwell's Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652. The land was re-distributed to Cromwellian soldiers in lieu of their salary arrears in 1657. Few of the soldiers wanted to become colonsts in the war torn region, and Captain Barret bought up many of their allotments, selling the Donaghcloney part of it to William Waring.

With the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, and a new Act of Settlement in 1862, the Magenises petitioned the Court of Claims in 1662 for return of their lands but the court ruled that the lands had been rightfully forfeited by the claimants due to their overt acts of rebellion against the English rule, and Waring retained possession of his purchase. In 1668 William purchased further land in Leenan from Bryan McFerdoragh and Donnell Magenis, descendants of
Waringstown House 1812
Waringstown House 1812
drawing posted at Waring Estate
the Manus Magenis who had not had his land confiscated. Here he built the mansion to which, with the village which soon sprang up in its neighbourhood, he gave the name of Waringstown.
Waringstown House
Side view of Waringstown House in the late 19th century
photo from An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p26 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
Waringstown House
Waringstown House in recent times
photo posted at Waringstown.org

William served as High Sheriff of county Down in 1668-9.
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) pp153-4 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
  In 1668-9, William Waring was High Sheriff of the County Down, of which he has left a very curious memorial, in a memorandum of the cost of entertaining the Judge at the Assizes, which throws a strong light on the change in value of various articles of food, and also on the drinking habits of those days.
“Particulars of my proceeding in ye office of Sherife—
29th Decr. 68 I returned my Comisson & took upon me ye office
12 Janr. I was att ye sessions at Downe . . . .
A memorand how I found John Colles provided to Entertan ye Judge att ye asizes ye 2d morning after I came there—
1 qr. of mutt worth            0    1    3
1 side of veale                   0    1    8
1 side of lame                    0    2    6
1 whole lame                     0    2    6
4 capones or henes            0    2    8
1 turkey cocke                   0    1    6
fish in aboute value           0    1    0
                                         00  13   1
besides ye above yis is all he could shew me or mak outt he had provided neither fatt mutten nor lame provided to kill
  The Charge computed for ye first Asize: 14 Aprill 69
                                                                                      £      s.     d.
John Coles acct                                                 31    03    03
and he had an                                                    04    00    00
pd for clarett wine                                             07    10    00
for 20 galones canary                                        06    13    04
for glasses & 11 bottles                                     01    00    00
for caridge to Downe                                         00    15    00
for 12 bottles of sak att Downe                         01    01    00
pd ye trumpetts & shewing yere horeses &c.    03    00    00
otherwise spent waiting for the Judge               00    13    06
Drink money att Downe                                    01    00    00
spent att Nurey                                                   03    06    00
                                                                           60    00    06
        Otherwise                                                   01    00    00”

  That Mr William Waring was himself a cheerful soul the following note in the same diary tends to prove:—
“Sacco cum sugero, nutmeg cum gingero,
In meo judicio melior est cum Pipe of Tobacco!” 

Holy Trinity Church Waringstown
Holy Trinity Church, Waringstown, county Down
photo by Albert Bridge posted on wikipedia
William built a church at Waringstown that was completed in 1681. It was designed by James Robb, chief mason of the King's Works in Ireland, who also designed Waringstown House. A tower and spire were added in 1748 and a north transept in 1832. The church includes the bell from the original church in Donaghcloney.
The graveyards of North County Down
The new church at Waringstown was built in 1681 by William Waring and is probably the most interesting and beautiful parish church in the county. It still has
Interior of Holy Trinity Church Waringstown
Interior of Holy Trinity Church, Waringstown, county Down, showing the original oak beams with carved pendants in the centre
photo from An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p70 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
the original oak beams resting on there corbels, and with carved pendants in the centre. The large north transept was added in 1830 and other additions subsequently. In the floor are tablets to early members of the Waring family and on the walls are later memorial tablets, all containing little-known information.

An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) pp30-1 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
Even though we may suppose the parish church [of Donaghcloney] to have been repaired and regularly served after the Restoration, it was still two long miles distant in what had been but lately described as “a very fast country of wood and bog.” And thus it came to pass that Mr. Waring, in order to provide the means of grace at hand for his family and tenants, undertook to build a church upon a portion of his own demesne, situated about the middle of the village, not many hundred yards from his house, which he had previously built on the lands bought from Bryan McFerdoragh and Donell Magenis. This church consisted of a simple nave fifty-two feet long in the mixture of Gothic and Classic style, commonly known as Jacoboean. It was without aisles or transept, and appears to have been lighted by three square-headed windows on either side, with pointed ones at east and west. The western gable seems to have been surmounted by a small belfry. But its most striking feature was its remarkably quaint and massive timbered roof of native oak, which after all the changes and enlargements of more than two centuries, still remains as quaint and as sound as ever. The building was completed some time in the year 1681, and was consecrated as the Church of the Holy Trinity

Following the destruction of the original parish church during a battle in 1690, Holy Trinity was constituted as the parish church of Donaghcloney.

Irish political turmoil continued in 1688 with the overthrow in England of the Catholic King James II in the "Glorious Revolution". James landed in Ireland on 14 March 1689 in an attempt to recover his kingdoms.
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p34 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
In 1688 King James, having fled in panic from his English throne, landed in Ireland, and set up his Court in Dublin. His coming struck terror into the hearts of all who held their lands under titles derived from the Act of Settlement, or had been prominently identified with the Protestant cause, and who now, not without reason, saw looming before them reprisals and forfeitures, if not worse. William Waring, among others, seems to have been panic-stricken, and fled with all his family forthwith to Douglas, in the Isle of Man, where he remained for a short time. Some time before leaving Ireland he obtained from Lieut.-General Richard Hamilton—the same who, having been sent to Ireland by the Prince of Orange to treat with the Lord Lieutenant, Tyrconnell, had passed over into the service of King James—a letter of protection in the following terms:—
March 15th, 1688.
           William Waring Esqr.
                 protection.
   By the Right Honble Richrd Hamilton Esq. Leut generall of all his majesties forces in the Kingdom of Ireland.
   Upon request made unto me by William Waring of Waringstown in Clanconell in ye County of Downe Esqr upon his compliance with his majesties proclamation doe here by grant unto him protection also to his wife family goods and cattle, to the utmost extent of the sayed proclamation, of which I will and require all his majesties subjects and soldiours to take notice, as they shall answer the contrary at their perils dated this fifteenth day of March 1688.
                   RICH : HAMILTON.
  Notwithstanding this, Mr. Waring soon after left the country, leaving his house in charge of his servants.

At the Isle of Man, which had remained neutral in the dispute between James II and William of Orange, William Waring got word that Waringstown had been occupied for King James by a company of soldiers under the command of Captain Conn Magenis and his brother Friar Dominick descendants of the original Magenis clan chiefs who had owned the land before 1650. In 1689, James II's Patriot Parliament repealed the Cromwellian Settlement of 1652 and all lands taken after the 1641 Rebellion reverted to the heirs of the former owners. This William Waring lost the land he had purchased from Captain Barret (such is the risk of purchasing land to which the title is contested), but he still held claim to the land he had purchased later from Bryan and Donnell Magenis and on which Waringstown House was built. Landowners who had fled were ordered by King James to return if they would retain possession of their land, so William returned, alone, to Ireland in 1689 to reclaim Waringstown and with the apparent intention to live as a loyal subject of King James and as neighbours to the Magenis clan. He was ordered to be reinstated in Waringstown House pending resolution of legal claims, and he formally surrendered his Act of Settlement land to Dominick Magenis.
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) pp153-4 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
          To CAPT ARTT HAGAN at Waringstowne.
 These—
                   Belfast 20th June 1689.
CAPT HAGAN,
  I order you to let Mr. Waring have possession of his house, he being come back within the limites of his Maties proclamationes to the country. What any man may clayme to it must be made good by law, till then he is to stay there. If, as you say, the house be strong, you may keep watch there, but he is still the master of his house, till law decide it, and I order you to place him there. What they have don violently they must answer for it. None can suffer abuses whilst I am empowered by his Maty to redresse disorders in showing the sweetness of his clemency and government.
  Keep yor people in good order and discipline in the counry as you might be answerable.
          I am yr servant
              T : MAXWELL

  To facilitate the surrender of his house by the Friar, the following note of resignation was signed by William Waring. In this he pledged himself to yield up to the Friar so much of the lands of Clanconnell as should be his under the Act repealing the Act of Settlement of Charles II, provided that he himself was given peaceable possession of his house. To this the Friar could have no legal claim, since it stood on the lands he had purchased from his stepfather Bryan.
          [Endorsed.]
       My fathers note of resignation to Domenick Maginis &c.
  I doe hereby promis that what Land now in my possession that Mr. Dominick MaGiniss is to be restored unto by ye act of Repeale, I will observe ye sd Act and give it up to him at ye time limited : and pay such Rent for ye yeare ending at May next as ye Comr : apoynted by ye sd Act shall apoynt between us : considering ye times and taxes on ye Land ; provided ye sd Mr. MaGiniss leave me in peasable possession of my house that he unjustly detains, and give my under tennts noe trouble or dissquiet but that they may peaceably hould ye Land for ye sd yeare.
        Dated this ii of July 89.

On 24 July 1689, the Commissioners of Revenue ratified the reinstatement of William at Waringstown. Many of the letters to and from William and the Macgenis clan and his lawyers can be found An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) pp35-41.

History was not done with this story. Within a month of the settlement above, on 12 August 1689, the army of William of Orange landed in county Down to force out King James.
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) pp41-2 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
On the 12th of August, 1689, a landing was effected at Donaghadee by Duke Schomberg, with 10,000 men, who, after occupying Carrickfergus and Belfast, advanced south as far as Dundalk. It was probably at this time that a skirmish took place in the neighbourhood of Donaghcloney between a detachment of the advancing army of Schomberg and some troops of King James, who, according to local tradition, took up their position within and around the ancient Parish Church. In the course of the struggle the old church was completely destroyed, the only relic preserved being the bell, which appears to have been flung into the adjacent river, and was in after years fished up and hung in the tower of the present Parish Church. The church was never rebuilt, and nothing now remains of it but the foundations, which can still be traced in the ancient churchyard by the Lagan. Waringstown was occupied for King William. Schomberg retired northwards for the winter, and fixed his headquarters at Lisburn. His troops were quartered in cantonments, in the surrounding country, one detachment, the 17th Foot under the command of Colonel Wharton, now known as the Leicestershire Regiment, being stationed at Waringstown (nine miles distant), of which the following letter, addressed by the Duke to the officer in command, is an interesting memento:—
By Frederick Duke of Schonberg,
    Generall of all their Majtes fforces,
  Whereas we have directed Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Esqr comissary Genll of the Provisions to make Magazines of provisions and to build Ovens for baking bread for the Army att Warrenstowne wee doe hereby appoint and direct for the said use the Houses Malthouses and Barnes of William Warren Esqr and the Widdow Dynes and the Officer Commanding in Chief att Warrenstowne is hereby required to be aiding and assisting to the said Comissary Genll and his Deputies in the execution of this our Order and to appoint Convenient quarters for the said Agents Waggoners and Bakers and forgage for the horses to be employed in this Worke.
  Given at our Head Quarters at Lisburne the 25th day of January, 1690.
          SCHONBERG.

A room in Waringstown House, said to have been occupied by Schomberg himself, is still familiarly known as the “Duke's room.”

On 14 June 1690, William of Orange arrived in Belfast with a fleet of 300 ships and the Battle of the Boyne took place on 1 July 1690, leading to James fleeing to France and the ware ending with the Treaty of Limerick signed on 3 October 1691.  With the establishment of peace, William brought his family back to Ireland from the Isle of Man, a return which included the adventure of a shipwreck. Paperwork regarding the recovery of goods from the wreck to be returned to William gives insight into their possessions and is presented verbatim at An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p51.

Death: 25 July 1703

Buried: Holy Trinity Church, Waringstown, county Down, Ireland
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) pp53-4 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
A monument was indeed designed by his son and successor, and an inscription composed as follows:—
P. M. S.
Hic infra condita sunt ossa
Guilielmi Waring Armigeri:
Qui cum (sanctitate et probitate conspicuam)
Ad LXIIII annum produxisset vitam
fato succubuit XXV die Julii
Anno Dom MDCCIII.
Hanc ille Ædem SStae: Trinitati dicatam
(propriis extructam sumptibus)
pietatis reliquit Monumentum
Et perenne hoc marmor (obsequii specimen)
Samuel Waring, filius haeres,
Patri Amantissimo posuit.
Australi hujus Cancelli parte, Aream
lat : x : ped : long : XIII pro Coemeterio sibi
—et suis seposuit—

  “Hereunder are interred the bones of William Waring, Esquire, who when he had prolonged life (conspicuous for holiness and uprightness) to the seventy-fourth year yielded to fate on the twenty fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord 1703.
  He has left this House, dedicated to the Sacred Trinity (built at his own expense), as a monument of his piety. And Samuel Waring, his son and heir, has set up this imperishable marble (a mark of dutifulness) to his most loving Father.
  He has set apart, in the south part of this chancel a space ten feet wide, thirteen feet long, for a burial-place for himself and his children.”

This monument was never erected, but a memorial put up in the latter half of the present century is now affixed to the wall of the south aisle.  

An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p120 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
    (Tablets in South Aisle.)
  To the Memory of William Waring, who built this Church and presented it to the Parish of Donaghcloney. He was born in 1619, and died 27th July, 1703. Also Samuel Waring, Son of William, born August, 1660; died 16th December, 1739. Also of his Sons, Samuel Waring, born 11th July, 1710; died 25th March, 1793; And Holt Waring, the Father of the Very Rev. Holt Waring, born 15th November, 1722; died December, 1805.

Will: Part of William's will deals with his burial; the will was lodged in 1703 and proved in 1704
An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p53 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898)
“I commend my soule into the hands of Almighty God that gave it trusting to be saved by the alone meritts of Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour and my body to be gently buried in the Chorch at Waringstowne aforesaid bult att charge and in the buring place theare that I apointed and reserved for a burieing place for my Family.”

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William Waring

Father: Thomas Waring

Mother: Janet (_____) Waring

Married: Anne

In his will, William refers to Anne as his "pretended wife" and leaves her "nothing but what she recovers by law".

Occupation: Tanner and Merchant

Notes:
A History of the Town of Belfast pp250-1 (George Benn, 1877)
The will of William Waring of Belfast, the son of the preceding, as stated when he was made Burgess, 17th April, 1660, is very long, and deals with large property. A few short extracts only can be inserted. It is dated 1676. He also directs that he shall be decently “Buryed in the Church of Belfast;” and after some other lengthened items makes the fifth, which is rather peculiar and now inexplicable. It is —“ That my Exectrs allow my petended wife Nothing but what she Recovers by Law.” The next clauses are somewhat curious—
  “I Leave to my several Relations in Downe and Antrim, those of the name of Waringe, to each person qualified to wear them, as well Men as women, A Scarffe and Ring, and to the meaner sorte 20 shillings a peece in lieu thereof, if they demand it personally one Month after my Decease.”
  “I leave enclosed a Paper to be observed by my Executors at my ffunerall, and doe hope they will make it a Devout ffunerall; for Wyne and Tobacco giving to Strangers I think itt needlesse.”
  The paper referred to contains the names of those in Belfast who were to receive scarfs and rings. “Mr. Soverron, three Phissisions,” and many more of the principal persons in the town are remembered for these gifts. His executors are desired to be in “close mourning,” and all his large property is left to his brother, Roger Waring, Clerk.
 
p278
In September, 1671, it is recorded —
  “That, taking into consideration the Presentments of three several Grand Juries all urging the necessity of repairing the course of the back water belonging to the Mills and the same brought to the Rampier near the North Gate, and from thence on the back side of the North Street as low as the house of Henry Thetford in the said street, and from thence all along the present Sovereign's new Plantation. And the same to be repaired and maintained from time to time at the cost and charges of the inhabitants of the said North Street. It is ordered, finding a great necessity of doing the said work, and the use it may be in time of necessity and otherwise, that the said work be forthwith repaired and made up by the said inhabitants of the North Street, and for the future to be maintained and kept up from time to time at their only cost and charges. This is to stand and remain for a Bye Law for ever.
          “WILLIAM WARING, Sovereign.”

pp283-4
  In 1670 the Earl of Donegall demised to William Waring the following properties:—
  “The four half Burgage Shares or tenements called John Brookes's, Colwells, Huddlestons, and Taylor's Tenements, with the Tenement or Tan Pits, containing in front 228 feet, and extending back 126 feet on the north side of Broad Street in Belfast.
  “The close belonging to the said Tan Pits lying in Stronmoore.
  “A parcel of land in Stronmoore in the fields of Belfast.
  “A parcel in Stranmoore, making in Stranmoore Thirteen acres English measure.
  “Two Tenements or Half Burgage Shares in Broad Street and Skipper Lane, with three acres in the Fields of Belfast."
  The above is an abbreviation of a very long document. Waring made a payment to the Earl of £60; surrendered a certain lease granted to his father, Thomas Waring, of a close or plot of ground containing two acres on the south side of Goose Lane “without the gate of Belfast;” contracts to pay besides, for all the burgage shares, the tan pits, the lands in Stronmore of great extent, now near the centre of Belfast, the yearly rent of £15 0s. 3d., “and seven couple of fat capons . . . seven days’ work of a horse and man, or seven shillings in lieu thereof . . . £2 12s. 0d. as Heriot at the death of every chief Tenant; to grind at Belfast Mills; to build good Houses in front of the said Burgage Shares within Five Years, and to plant and preserve one hundred and fifty young oak, ash, elm, or beech trees.”
  The preceding quotation might give rise to much inquiry. Waring Street and Skipper Street were not entirely built up in front in 1670. How many houses did Mr. Waring erect on all these burgage shares? Was it intended from the language that he should plant the oaks in Waring Street, or in the close belonging to the tan-pits in Stronmore? Did he duly deliver the duty fowl, and send his man and horse for seven days to draw in my Lord's crops to the Castle? or did he pay one shilling per day in lieu thereof, that being the estimated daily cost of a man and horse in 1670? What might be the yearly value now
of all these burgage shares, the thirteen acres of land in Stronmore, and the three acres in the fields? Doubtless a sum that would have appeared utterly incredible to William Waring. 

pp724-6
LIST OF THE SOVEREIGNS OF BELFAST.
...
1669. William Warring.
1670. Same.

Belfast Merchant Families of 17th Century p250 (Jean Agnew 1996)
William, tanner and merchant of Belfast, in poll tax returns of 1660; assessed at £8 in subsidy roll 1661 and £5 in 1666 (both highest); had 4 hearths in 1666, 2 in 1669; freeman 1660 (as ‘Warren’), burgess 1660, sovereign 1669-70, 1670-1; will dated 15 Apr. 1676, dead by 19 Oct. 1676 when he was replaced as burgess.
  religion: Church of Ireland
  wife: Anne, alive 1670, referred to his ‘pretended wife’ in will.

Death: 1676

Will: dated 15 April 1676

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William Waring

Birth: 9 June 1658

Baptism: 18 June 1658, in Derry Cathedral, Templemore, Londonderry, Ireland

Father: William Waring

Mother: Elizabeth (Gardiner) Waring

Death: 6 August 1658

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William Waring

Birth: 1694/5

Father: Thomas Waring

Mother: Mary (Lawrence) Waring

Notes: William did not marry.

A deed entered into on 28 June 1709 by Henry Lawrence, names William as the eldest son of Thomas Waring and Mary Lawrence.

He is probably the William Waring who graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1717:
Alumni Dublinenses p860 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
WARING, WILLIAM. B.A. Vern. 1717. [? Irish Bar 1723.]

Burial: 6 March 1768 in St Werburgh, Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland, aged 73
William is recorded as a councellor, resident at Werburgh Street. The cause of death is listed as old age.

Will: proved 1768

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William Ball Waring

Birth: 2 August 1696

Baptism: 2 August 1696 in St James Westminster, Middlesex, England

Father: Richard Waring

Mother: Alice (Ball) Waring

Married: Mary Humfreys on 27 March 1733 in St George Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England

Mary was the daughter of Orlando Humfreys and Ellen Lancashire. She married, secondly, John Honeywood and thirdly Thomas Gore on 15 September 1748 in Tring, Hertfordshire. Mary died on 27 October 1759.

Notes:
Thatcham, Berks, and Its Manors vol 1 pp332-4 (Samuel Barfield, 1901)
Dunston House
Dunston House, now pulled down, near Thatcham
Photo from old drawing, circa 1798
photo from Thatcham, Berks, and Its Manors vol 1 facing p48 (Samuel Barfield, 1901)
  § 25 The Manor of Thatcham, acquired by General Waring. 1722.
  On taking possession of Thatcham manor in the following year he immediately set about the improvement of it. The house was built in a fine situation. It was a handsome mansion, brick, with stone corners, and stone round the windows. It is described by Rocque as one of the most magnificent in the county. A park called Dunston Park was formed, trees were planted —being in one part of the property according to the lines of the troops in one of the battles in which the General had fought. There were two main entrances to the park, one from the south-west, still called the Avenue, starting from the road to Cold Ash, near to the present National School; the other from the south-east, at a point in the Reading road to the east of the allotment gardens beyond the marsh. Both these roads led up to the house in the direction of the large circular drive in front, as appears in the illustration.
  The General, with his wife and family, had not been long at Thatcham before disputes arose between him and the owner of the adjoining estate of Henwick, which at this time was in the possession of Sir Jemmet Raymond, it having been in his family for upwards of fifty years. Sir Jcmmet claimed rights in respect of his manor or reputed manor of Henwick which General Waring considered were antagonistic to those of the lord of the manor of Thatcham, as disclosed by his title deeds, and supported by the ancient testimony of old witnesses then living. This brought about the long and costly Chancery suit of Raymond v. Waring, followed by a cross suit, in which the General was plaintiff, and Sir Jemmet Raymond defendant, to which further reference is made in the Chapter on Henwick Manor.
  In December, 1737, the General died. He was buried in Thatcham Church, where his wife, who had predeceased him in 1730, was also interred.
  (12) The suits were revived by his son and heir, William Ball Waring, who then became the lord of Thatcham manor by virtue of the trusts contained in the Settlement executed by him and his father on his marriage in 1732 with Mary, the daughter of Orlando Humphreys, and grand-daughter of Sir William Humphreys. The litigation with Sir Jemmet Raymond was continued by William Waring until his death in 1746; when the proceedings were dropped. His widow appears to have resided at Dunston until her second, marriage with Thomas Gore, esq., Commissary General, and by an agreement dated the 15th May, 1756, between Dame Frances Croft, then residing in London, and Thomas Gore, and Mary, his wife, Lady Croft granted to them a lease of Dunston House for the life of Mrs. Gore at a pepper-corn rent.
  (13) William B. Waring had, by his will dated 1st May, 1742, devised the Thatcham estates and the furniture in Dunston House to his wife for life, with a direction that if the park “should be stockt with deer, that his said wife should continue the same stockt with the like number of deers as should be found therein at his death.”

    § 26. The estate passes by marriage to the Croft family.  1759
  (14)  General Waring had devised the estates after the death of his widow, which occurred on the 27 Oct. 1759, in trust as to the annual income for his sister Frances (who so far back as the year 1723 had married Sir Archer Croft, Bart., of Croft Castle in Herefordshire) for her life; and after the deaths of his wife and sister the estates were to go to his nephew, Archer Croft, the eldest son of his sister in tail male; and he desired “that his household goods and furniture at Thatcham should go along with his freehold estate.”
  (15) By a Codicil, dated 16 May, 1744, he revoked the devise of the Thatcham property to his nephew, Archer Croft, and gave it to his younger brother, Herbert Croft, in tail male in like manner. William Ball Waring died without issue, but leaving his sister, Lady Croft, his heiress-at-law. He also was buried in Thatcham Church. 

William was a beneficiary of the will of his uncle, John Waring, dated 24 December 1727, proved 18 April 1728
Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills Memorial No: 37397 film 007905895 image 55
No 37397: To the Regr appointed by Act of Parliamt for Regring Deeds Conveyances & Wills pursuant to the act of Parliamt in that behalf
Regd the 18th day of Apl 1728 at 5 o Clock in the aftr noon
A MEMORIAL of a will bearing Date the Twenty fourth day of December one Thousand seven hundred and Twenty seven made By John Waring of the parish of St Clement Dane in the County of Mid~x Woolen Draper ... he did give & bequeath to his nephew William Warring son of his Bror Richd Waring and his heirs Exev Admins and Assgs of wch Will the Testrs Bror Richd Waring is Exer

Death: 11 August 1746

Buried: 22 August 1746 at St Mary, Thatcham, Berkshire, England

Will: dated 1 May 1742, proved 21 August 1746
William devised the Thatcham estates and the furniture in Dunston House to his wife for life, with a direction that if the park “should be stockt with deer, that his said wife should continue the same stockt with the like number of deers as should be found therein at his death.” He devised the estates after the death of his widow, which occurred on the 27 Oct. 1759, in trust as to the annual income for his sister Frances for her life; and after the deaths of his wife and sister the estates were to go to his nephew, Archer Croft, the eldest son of his sister in tail male; and he desired “that his household goods and furniture at Thatcham should go along with his freehold estate.” By a Codicil, dated 16 May, 1744, he revoked the devise of the Thatcham property to his nephew, Archer Croft, and gave it to his younger brother, Herbert Croft, in tail male in like manner. William died without issue, leaving his sister, Lady Croft, his heiress-at-law.

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