Hanna (No. 2.) family genealogy

Of Newry, County Down

John O’Hart
Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation
1892 (5th Edition)
Volume 2

Arms: Same as “Hanna,” No. 1.

This old family, whose ancestor held a command under Gustavus Adolphus, in the Bohemian war of 1620, tracing to the Scottish stem of “Hannay,” became established a century and a half ago at Newry. They acquired property in the county Down, by intermarriage with the Wallaces, of Crobane; and their descent from thence is, as follows:

1. William Hanna (b. circa 1731, d. 1807) mar. Jane, dau. of Robert Wallace, Esq., of Newry (by his wife Jane (?) Stuart, whose mother, Mary Scott, was a descendant of Mary Scott,[1] of Harden, celebrated as “The Flower of Yarrow”), and granddaughter of James Wallace, Esq., of Crobane, by his wife Anne Ross. Their children were:

  1. Samuel, of whom presently.
  2. Jane, who m. John Bradshaw, Esq., now represented by Canon Bradshaw, Inisheen, Dundalk.
  3. Robert, d. unm. in China.
  4. William, whose line is traced in the “Stewart-Hanna” pedigree, next infra.
  5. Mary, mar. Samuel Townley, Esq., of Newry.
  6. James, m. Jane, daughter of William Ogle, Esq., of Newry, and had:
    1. Samuel, known as Dr. Samuel Hanna, M.D., Dublin, mar. Emily Fortescue, and had no children.
    2. William, d. unm.
  7. Margaret was twice mar.: first, to Bernard Cross, Esq.; secondly, to William Conolly, Esq.
  8. George, the last survivor of the family, in Newry, was living in 1820; he d. unm.

2. Samuel Hanna, of Newry, and sometime of Acton Manor, county Armagh (b. circa 1759; died 12th October, 1798, in Aldermanbury, London): eldest son of William; m. on 12th Dec., 1785, Jane, dau. of John Hutchinson, Esq., of Grange, co. Louth, and had:

  1. William, of whom presently.
  2. Magdalene, married Rev. F. Chomley, now represented by Francis Chomley, Esq., of Clermont, Rathnew, co. Wicklow.
  3. Robert, d. unm.
  4. Jane, m. Arthur Baker, Esq., of Dublin.
  5. John, d. young.
  6. Elizabeth, m. W. Cosgrave, Esq.

3. William (best known as “counsellor”) Hanna, of 5 Gardiner’s-place, city of, and of Corduff House, co. of Dublin: eldest son of Samuel; m. in 1810, Louisa Maria, dau. of John Chomley, Esq., by his wife Henrietta Baker. Their children were:

  1. Harriett-Rebecca, who m. W. Gerard, Esq., Belfast.
  2. Samuel, of whom presently.
  3. Counsellor Hanna, m., secondly, 27th Dec., 1821, Rhoda, dau. of Thomas Dobbin, Esq., of Armagh, and his wife Rhoda Browne. The children by the second marriage were:
  4. Jane, who married Richard Brown, Esq., of Newry.
  5. William St. Patrick, d. unm.
  6. Thomas, of 6 Gardiner’s-place, Dublin, mar. Rhoda, dau. of Leonard Dobbin, Esq., of Dublin and Armagh. Their children were:
    1. Mary.
    2. William-Leonard, of Morgan, Texas, U.S.A., who m. Constance-Ellen, daughter of John W. Hicklin, Esq., of London—all living in 1888.
  7. Rhoda, dau. of Counsellor Hanna, m. Robert J. Chomley, Esq., of Dublin.
  8. Robert, C.E., of Cawnpore, India, was killed in the massacre perpetrated by Nana Sahib, in 1857.
  9. Madeline, d. unm.
  10. Leonard, d. young.
  11. John, of Hong Kong, d. unm.
  12. Francis Baker, C.E., Madras Railway, and Colonel Madras Engineer Volunteers; married Elizabeth, dau. of John Connor, Esq., of Innismore, Delgany, county Wicklow, and his wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Maziere, and had:
    1. Elizabeth.
    2. John.
    3. Robert F.; and
    4. Rhoda, now living.

4. Samuel Hanna, of Corduff, etc.; eldest son of William; sometime District Judge, Ceylon, and late Resident Magistrate, Carrick-on-Suir, co. Tipperary, and of Bray, co. Wicklow; mar. Annie, dau. of Rev. James Fitzgerald (Leinster branch of the family), of Shepperton, county Clare, and his wife Grace Maunsell, Esq., of Limerick, and granddau. of Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., of Shepperton, and Lannahilty, co. Tipperary. Their children were:

  1. William, of whom presently.
  2. Grace-Maunsell, mar. Charles Gwynne, M.D., of Sheffield, England.
  3. Louisa-Maria, m. W. Waller, Esq., Castletown Manor, co. Limerick.
  4. Annie-Stone.
  5. Samuel, married Louisa, dau. of — Hayter, of London.
  6. Magdeline-Chomley.
  7. Jane-Hutcheson.

5. William Hanna, Captain R.A.: elder son of Samuel; mar. Iza, dau. of W. Lawless, Esq., of Ardmeen, Blackrock, co. Dublin, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Colonel Skerrett, and granddaughter of Field Marshal Baron Lawless of France. They have:

  1. Iza-Mary-Grace; living in 1888.

Notes

[1] Scott: Mary Lilias Scott, another relative of Mary Scott’s, was a second “Flower of Yarrow.” On this lady were written in 1731 the following lines:

“What beauties does Flora disclose;

How sweet are her smiles upon Tweed.”

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