Wellesley family genealogy

Of Dangan, County Meath

Arms: Az. on a cross, sa. five escallops of the first.

There are in Burke’s Peerage (1887) sixteen generations of the Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) family; commencing with Waleran de Wellesley, who is stated to have been “Justice Itinerant for Ireland,” A.D. 1261. The descent from said Waleran is given by Burke, as follows:

1. Waleran de Wellesley, of a branch of Wellesley, of Wellesley, county Somerset, England.

2. Waleran de Wellesley, of Brianstown, county Meath.

3. Sir John de Wellesley.

4. Sir John de Wellesley (2).

5. Sir William de Wellesley.

6. Sir Richard de Wellesley, had five sons.

7. Christopher of Dangan, youngest son.

8. Sir William Wellesley, lord of Dangan.

9. Gerald Wellesley, of Dangan and Mornington, second surviving son.

10. William Wellesley, of Dangan and Mornington.

11. Gerald Wellesley, of Dangan and Mornington.

12. Valerian Wellesley, of Dangan and Mornington.

13. William Wellesley, of Dangan and Mornington.

14. Gerald or Garrett Wellesley, of Dangan and Mornington.

15. William Wellesley, of Dangan and Mornington.

16. Garrett Wellesley, of Dangan and Mornington; M.P. for Trim, county Meath; was married, and d.s.p. 23rd Sept., 1728. He bequeathed all his real estates to his cousin Richard Colley (see No. 8 on the “Colley,” No. 1 pedigree, ante), who assumed the sirname Wellesley, and was in 1746 created “Baron Mornington.”