Segrave family genealogy

Of Cabra, County Dublin

Arms: Ar. on a bend gu. three trefoils slipped or. Crest: A demi lion ramp. ppr. holding betw. the paws an oak branch vert, acorned or. Motto: Dieu et mon Roy; Quartering az. three eagles displ. or.

Of this family was Captain John Segrave, of Cabra, county Dublin, the great grandson of that Segrave who fell by the hand of the great Hugh O’Neill, Prince of Tyrone, at the Battle of Clontibret. He appears to have fought with his regiment through the War of the Revolution, and laid down his sword only when the cause of his King, James II., fell at Limerick. He was attainted by the Williamite party, but having been adjudged within the capitulation of Limerick, his estates were saved. On the termination of the war, he married Anne, the second daughter of the gallant Sir Neal O’Neill, who died of the wounds he had received at the Battle of the Boyne; and thus the blood of the victor and the vanquished at Clontibret became mingled.

Captain John Segrave died in the early part of the 18th century, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Neal Segrave, who continued to reside at Cabra, and who died in 1769, when his eldest son, John of Cabra, succeeded, married a daughter of Nugent (Lord Riverston), and was father of O’Neil Segrave, of Cabra, who married a daughter of George Goold, Esq., of Cork, and who died in 1793, when he was succeeded by his son Henry John Segrave, of Cabra, to whom, in 1824 the Armorial Bearings described at the head of this paper were registered by Sir William Betham, then Ulster King-of-Arms, who describes the said Henry-John, as tenth in descent from Walter Segrave, fourth son of Walter Segrave, Esq., of Killeghan, county Meath, temp., 33 Henry VIII., A.D. 1541.

Henry-John Segrave (d. 1843), married in 1817 a cousin of his own (Anna-Frances Kellet) and was father of the late O’Neill Segrave, of Cabra, and of Kiltimon (otherwise Newtown Mount Kennedy), county Wicklow, who d.s.p. 25th June, 1878, and was succeeded by his brother Henry Segrave, of Kiltimon, and Cabra, late Captain 12th Foot, who in 1850 married Mary-Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Francis Dehane, Esq., of Raby House, Wolverhampton, county of Stafford, England, and had issue. The other brothers of Henry Segrave were:—William, late Captain 71st Foot; and Thomas, late Captain 14th Foot.