Lloyd (No. 2.) family genealogy

Of Losset, County Cavan

Arms: Or, a lion ramp. reguardant sa. on a canton az. a cross pattée fitchée of the first. Crest: A demi lion ramp. reguardant sa. charged on the shoulder with a trefoil slipped or. Motto: Tendil in ardua virtus.

The male line of this family (by evidence of name, coat of Arms, and place of origin) derives its descent from the family of LLoyd, of Llanrhaidr y Mochnant, in Denbyshire, who were descended from Rhirid Flaid (or Rhirid the Wolf), a Welsh Prince, and Lord of nine Towns.—See Annals and Antiquities of Wales, by Nicholas; and Herald’s Visitations of Wales, by Lewis Dhum, deposited in the Lib. of Trinity College, Dublin.

1. Robert LLoyd was born at Llanrhaidr, in Mochnant, in Denbyshire, and Diocese of St. Asaph, Wales.

2. Robert: his son; mar. Jane —, by whom he had six sons: 1. Robert, b. 6th Nov., 1653, d. s. p.; 2. Rev. Humphrey, of whom presently; 3. Richard, b. 30th Sept., 1660, d. 3rd May, 1728; 4. John, b. 28th June, 1663; 5. Lewis, born 26th Oct., 1666; 6. Griffin, b. 11th Jan., 1668.

3. Rev. Humphrey LLoyd: second son of Robert; b. 30th May, 1656, d. 15th April, 1727; went to Ireland, and settled in the county Wexford. He lived at Boanmore, near New Ross, and afterwards at the Folly House[1] and the Abbey House, New Ross. He was curate of Horetown and New Ross; was a free burgess, and his son Bartholomew was a freeman, of New Ross; and he was buried in the chancel of St. Mary’s Church, New Ross. Tradition says he went to Ireland as chaplain to a Lord Lieutenant, and we find him living in Boanmore in 1683, in which house three of his children were born. He mar. Miss Elizabeth Balfe (b. 10th June, 1665), and had three sons and five daus.: 1. Robert, d.s.p.; 2. Rev. Richard (b. 1699), Rector of Rathcormack, Diocese of Cloyne, ancestor of the LLoyds of Passage West, co. Cork; 3. Rev. Bartholomew, of whom presently; 1. Jane, who married Rev. William Hartley, ancestor of Hartley, now of Beech Park, county Dublin; 2. Elizabeth, married Rev. John Acteson, M.A.; 3. Mary, mar. John Batt, Esq.; 4. Anne, mar. Henry Moore, Esq.; 5. Frances.

4. Rev. Bartholomew LLoyd, of Abbey House, New Ross: third son of Rev. Humphrey; b. 13th Jan., 1708 at Folly House, New Ross, d. 26th April, 1763; was curate of Ross. He m. Anne Clifford, of the Wexford Clifford family; she was b. in 1700, and d. in 1780. He left three sons and one dau.: 1. Humphrey; 2. Robert; 3. Rev. John, Vicar of Ferns, Rector of Kilbride, and Prebendary of Clone, in the Diocese of Ferns. We have not met the daughter’s name.

5. Humphrey: eldest son of Rev. Bartholomew; b. at Abbey House, New Ross, 4th August, 1735, d. 5th October, 1786. Mar. 24th Nov., 1766, Miss Margaret Borbridge, and had nine children, of whom three were sons: 1. Rev. Bartholomew; 2. John (b. 1774), who mar. dau. of Rev. William Hall, Rector of Wexford; 3. Robert (b. 1785), who m. Charlotte, dau. of Rev. John Ball, son of John Ball, Esq., of Season Park, county Wicklow, and which Rev. John Ball was grandfather of the Right Hon. John Thomas Ball, ex-Lord Chancellor of Ireland, living in 1887.

6. Rev. Bartholomew LLoyd, D.D., Provost of Trinity College, Dublin (1831-7), and President of the Royal Irish Academy: eldest son of Humphrey; b. 5th Feb., 1772, in county Wicklow. He mar. in July, 1799, Eleanor, daughter of Patrick MacLoughlin, Esq., of Dunshaughlin, county Meath, and of Kilmartin, county Dublin (who was High Sheriff of Dublin in 1779). He had four sons and six daughters:

1. Rev. Humphrey, D.D., of Victoria Castle, Killiney, and of Kilmartin, county Dublin; Provost of Trinity College, Dublin; President of the Royal Irish Academy; b. 16th April, 1800, d.s.p. 17th Jan., 1881. He received in 1874 “Pour le mérité” from the Emperor of Germany, the Prussian Order of the Verdiensthreux or “Cross of Merit;” married 14th July, 1840, Dorothea, dau. of Rev. James Bulwer, of Hungworth, county Norfolk.
2. Bartholomew, of whom presently.
3. Robert, Lieut.-Colonel 76th and 68th Regt.
4. Rev. John, Rector of Worksworth, Derbyshire.

7. Bartholomew-Clifford LLoyd, of Losset, county Cavan: second son of Rev. Bartholomew LLoyd, D.D.; born 1808, died 28th April, 1872; Q.C., LL.D.; was called to the Bar in 1830, and appointed Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the county Waterford in March, 1865 (see No. 18 on the “LLoyd” No. 1 pedigree). Mar. 1st, on 21st Sept., 1844, Caroline-Hamilton Brooke, only dau. of the Right Hon. William Brooke, of Dromavana, county Cavan, Q.C., Master in Chancery, and one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal in 1874.

Bartholomew mar., 2ndly, Anna-Maria, only surviving child of Major Sackville-Brownlow Taylor (late of the 6th Regiment), of Moone, co. Kildare, by whom he had no issue. The children of the first marriage were six sons and five daughters:

1. Clifford-Bartholomew, of whom presently.
2. William-Chetwode, Major 20th Huzzars, b. 24th Nov., 1846.
3. Humphrey-Wilmot, B.A., T.C.D., District Registrar of the Court of Probate, Mullingar; b. 28th Feb., 1848.
4. Alfred-Robert, Captain, Bedfordshire Regt.; b. 31st July, 1854.
5. Arthur-Brooke, B.C.L. Brasenose College, Oxford; of the Inner Temple and North Eastern Circuit; Barrister-at-Law.
6. Frederick-Charles, Lieut. Lincolnshire Regt.; b. 10th Oct., 1860.

The five daughters were:

1. Emily-Janet, who on the 20th August, 1875, mar. Captain Skeffington John Wynne, of the Army Pay Department, son of Captain Wynne, R. A., of the Hazlewood family, Sligo.
2. Constance-Eleanor.
3. Florence-Caroline.
4. Edith Catherine, died 26th June, 1859.
5. Caroline-Alice-Elizabeth.

8. Clifford-Bartholomew LLoyd, of Losset, county Cavan, and Victoria Castle, Killiney, county Dublin, B.A Lincoln College, Oxford; b. 18th August, 1845, and living in 1887: eldest son of Bartholomew Clifford LLoyd. Mar. on the 5th May, 1870, Isabella, eldest dau. of the late Major Des Veux, of Portarlington, Queen’s County, and has issue one son and two daughters:

1. Wilmot-Humphrey Clifford, b. 15th July, 1879.
1. Beatrice A. C. J. Clifford.
2. Alice-Clifford: the three of whom living in 1887.

Notes

[1] Folly House: This house, which stood at the old wall of New Ross, is now in ruins. It was the house in which Cromwell is reported to have lodged when he took New Ross. Boanmore (or Bawnmore) and the Abbey House still exist.