O’Connell (No. 2.) family genealogy

Of Derrynane Abbey, County Kerry

Arms: Per fess ar. and vert., a stag trippant betw. three trefoils slipped counterchanged ppr. Crest: A stag's head erased ppr. charged with a trefoil slipped vert. Motto: Cial agus neart. (Anglicé, “Wisdom and strength.”)

Commencing with No. 14 on the “O’Connell” pedigree, p. 184, Vol. I. of this Edition, the following is the genealogy:

14. Daniel O’Connell (d. 1770), married Mary, daughter of Dubh O’Donoghue, of Amoys, in the co. of Kerry, and had twenty-two children,[1] who lived to be adults.

15. Morgan (d. 1809), of Cahireen, in the barony of Iveragh, was the second surviving son. He married Catherine, dau. of John O’Mullane, of Whitechurch, county Cork, by whom he had four sons and six daughters:

1. Daniel, of whom presently.
2. John, of Grenagh, co. Kerry, who in 1806, mar. Elizabeth, dau. of William Coppinger, Esq., of Ballyvolane and Barry’s Court, and had two sons and two daughters:
   1. Morgan-John, M.P. for the co. Kerry, b. 1811, d. 1875; married in 1865 Mary-Anne, only dau. of Charles Bianconi, Esq., D.L, of Longfield, co. Tipperary, and left a son— John Charles Coppinger O’Connell, b. 1871.
   2. Rev. John Dominick Patrick.
   1. Jane, daughter of John, of Grenagh, mar., first, Charles O’Donoghue, of The Glen, county Kerry, and secondly, McCarthy O’Leary, Esq.
   2. Catherine, second dau. of John, of Grenagh, married Samuel Vines, Esq.
3. Maurice: third son of Morgan; b. 1776; entered the British Army, and died on the expedition to St. Domingo.
4. Sir James O’Connell, of Lakeview, Bart, of whom see Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage.

Morgan’s daughters were:

1. Mary, who married Jeremiah McCartie, Esq., of Woodview, co. Kerry.
2. Honora, mar. Daniel O’Sullivan, Esq., of Reendonegan, co. Cork.
3. Catherine, mar. Humphrey Moynihan, Esq., of Rathbeg, co. Kerry.
4. Ellen, m. Daniel O’Connell, Esq., of Tralee.
5. Bridget, m. Miles MacSwiney, Esq., of Kenmare.
6. Alicia, mar. William Finn, Esq., formerly M.P. for Kilkenny.

16. Daniel O’Connell, M.P., styled “The Liberator:” eldest son of Morgan; born 6th August, 1775, and died at Genoa, on the 15th May, 1847. His heart was sent to Rome, and his body interred in the Prospect Cemetery, Glasnevin, Dublin, where a Round Tower of Lucan granite, 173 feet high, surmounted by a granite cross 7 feet in height, has been erected to his memory. A splendid statue of The Liberator, in O’Connell-st., Dublin (which was lately so named after him), forms one of the chief attractions of one of the grandest streets in Europe. (See the Note “Liberator,” in p. 184, Vol. I.) This Daniel O’Connell, M.P., Q.C., of Derrynane Abbey, Cahirciveen, county Kerry, m. in 1802, his cousin, Mary, dau. of Edward O’Connell, M.D., of Tralee, and had four sons and three daughters:

1. Maurice, of whom presently.
2. Morgan, who was formerly M.P. for the county Meath, and late Registrar of Deeds, in Ireland; m. Kate Mary, dau. of Michael Balfe, Esq., of South Park, co. Roscommon.
3. John (died 1858), who was M.P. for Clonmel, and afterwards Clerk of the Hanaper in Ireland; m. in 1838, Elizabeth, dau. of Dr. Ryan, of Jubilee Hall, co. Dublin, and had:
   1. Daniel, who d.s.p.
   2. John, mar. Mary Baldwin, and had issue.
   1. Elizabeth, who mar. James Sullivan, Esq.
   2. Mary, m. Andrew Comyn, Esq.
   3. Eily.
   4. Kathleen.
   5. Alice.
4. Daniel O’Connell, formerly M.P. for Tralee, etc.; living in 1888; Chief Commissioner of Income Tax; married in 1866, Ellen-Mary, dau. of E. Foster, Esq., of the Elms, Cambridge, England, and has issue.

The three daus. of The Liberator were:

1. Ellen, who mar. Christopher Fitzsimon, Esq., of Glancullen, formerly M.P. for the county Dublin.
2. Catherine, m. Charles O’Connell, Esq., formerly M.P. for the county Kerry, and son of Daniel O’Connell, Esq., of Iveragh.
3. Elizabeth, married Nicholas Joseph French, Esq., R.M.

17. Maurice O’Connell (d. 1853), who was M.P. for Tralee: eldest son of the “The Liberator;” m. in 1832, Frances-Mary, only dau. of Bindon Scott, Esq., of Cahircon, co. Clare, and had:

1. Daniel, of whom presently.
2. John, married in 1874, Mary, dau. of Daniel McCarthy, Esq. of Ardnageeha, co. Cork.
1. Fanny, died unm. in 1878.
2. Mary, mar. in 1858, Daniel McCartie, Esq., of Headfort, co. Kerry.

18. Daniel O’Connell, of Derrynane Abbey, J.P., D.L., born 1836; son of Maurice; married in 1861, Isabella-Ellen, dau. of Denis Shine Lawlor, Esq., of Grenagh House, co. Kerry; living in 1888.

Notes

[1] Children: Of those children of Daniel, No. 14, were:

1. John, who mar. Miss O’Falvey, of Faha, county Kerry, and died in his father’s life-time.
2. Maurice, who succeeded his father, mar. Mary, daughter of Robert Cantillon, Esq., of the county Limerick; but d.s.p. 1825, aged 97, when he was succeeded by his nephew, “The Liberator,” the illustrious Daniel O’Connell, Esq., M.P.
3. Morgan, who is No. 15 on this pedigree.
4. Daniel, Count O’Connell (b. 1743), entered the French Service, in Lord Clare’s Regiment of the Irish Brigade, 1757. He was present at the capture of Fort Mahon, in 1779; and, in 1782, at the grand attack on Gibraltar, where he was severely wounded. On the downfall of Louis XVI., he returned to England, and in 1793, was appointed Colonel of the 6th Irish Brigade; which command he retained until that corps was disbanded. He died in July, 1833, aged 90, at his chateau, near Blois, on the Loire, holding the rank of General in the French, and the oldest Colonel in the English service.
1. Elizabeth, mar. Timothy McCarthy, Esq., of Liss, county Kerry.
2. Honora, mar. Charles Sugrue, Esq., of Fermoyle Castle, county Kerry.
3. Abigail, married Major O’Sullivan of the Austrian service.
4. Mary, married James Baldwin, Esq., of Clohinna, county Cork.
5. Ellen, mar. Arthur O’Leary, Esq., of Raleigh, county Cork.
6. Catherine, married Murtogh O’Sullivan, Esq., of Coulagh.
7. Anne, married Maurice O’Connell, Esq., of Lative, and d.s.p.
8. Alice, married Thomas Segerson, Esq., of Ballinskelligs Abbey, co. Kerry.