Nicholas Biddulph of Fortal and Rathrobin [b. abt 1714–d. 1762]

Nicholas Biddulph of Rathrobin and Fortal, King's County, was the son of Francis Biddulph and Mary Jackson.  He inherited both Fortal and Rathrobin from his father Francis Biddulph.

Nicholas married Patience Colley, daughter of Thomas Colley, of Killurin, Geashill, King’s County, on 26^th April 1736. They had two daughters Margaret, and Sarah.    He was a Justice of the Peace, and High Sheriff in 1741.  

Rathrobin and Fortal remained in his posession.
We hear that on Monday last the Decree of the Court of Exchequer in Irleand, made in the cause wherein Nicholas Biddulph Esq., was Plaintiff, and the Right Hon. Henry Earl of Shellburn, and Lord Dunkeron, his son, were defendants, decreeing the Renewal of Leases to the  said Mr. Biddulph, was affirmed, and the Appeal of the said Earl of Shellburn and his son therefrom, dismissed with Costs [Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer, Thur, May 12, 1748, Issue 352 ]

His daughter Sarah married Gifford Nesbitt of Tubberdaly House, King's County, in 1769.

Marriages. A few days ago, Giffard Nesbitt, Esq; to Miss Biddulph. [Limerick Chronicle Vol 1. no 6. Thur, March 9, 1769]

Sarah died childless in 1772. She bequeathed the moiety of her estate to her sister Margaret. Gifford Nesbitt died in 1773.

Nicholas'  daughter Margaret married her first husband Alexander Cornewall in 1762.

Cornwall, Alexander, gent, of Lishmote, Co. Limerick and Margaret Biddulph of Fortell, Kingscounty, spinster. Bondsmen: Richard Harrison of Aghress, Co. Clare, gent, and Derby Ryan of Killaloe, merchant, 11 June 1762. (Killaloe, Co. Clare Marriage License Bonds, 1680-1720 and 1760-1762. from Ms 31883, folio 188).

After his death in 1779 she married her second husband Thomas Bernard of Castle Bernard, King’s County, in 1780.

Margaret Biddulph also died childless on the 31^st March, 1811. She left the moiety of her estates to her cousin Elizabeth, Lady Waller, [nee Biddulph].

After the death of his first wife Patience, Nicholas Biddulph married Alice Scott of Carhircon, County Clare in 1754. They had one son, Angel Biddulph, who died in 1769, while still a child. His name, Angel, came from Alice Scott’s family.

In 1712 the Earl of Thomond leased Cahercon/Cahiracon, parish of Kilfiddane, and Killadysert, parish of Killadysert, barony of Clonderalaw, county Clare, to Angel Scott in perpetuity.

Nicholas Biddulph died in 1762. His widow, Alice, married again, John Biddulph, a lieutenant in the Army and  first cousin of Nicholas, on 30^th November 1769.

Stone Face, Cadamstown

Francis Biddulph of Mount Oliver, Queen's County [1770-1826]

Francis Biddulph was the only surviving son of Nicholas Biddulph and Elizabeth Dempsey, of Glenkeen, Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary. Brother of Thomas who died in the sinking of the Royal George in 1782, Mary and Elizabeth, and half brother of Hannah Biddulph. He married Mary Steele in 1880. She was the daughter of Richard Steele of Kyle.

Biddulph, Francis of Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary, Esq., and Mary Steele of Eirke, spinster, 31 December 1800.(C. of I., Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin Ms. GOI, 612-617).

Francis and Mary had five children, Anne, Elizabeth, Nicholas, Richard and Francis.
 Anne, born in 1801, married Hugh Boyd Wray. They had one son, Jackson Wray, who died in the Crimea. She died in 1872. Hugh Boyd Wray and Anne are buried in Deansgrange Cemetery, Kill o’ the Grange, County Dublin.
Elizabeth Biddulph was  born in 1802  She was unmarried  She  died  on the 14th of October 1877, aged 75, at Richmond Hill, Rathmines, Dublin.

Nicholas, the eldest son, was born in 1803. He married, first, Catherine Lucas in 1833, they had one son Francis Edward, and second, in 1839, Isabella Digges la Touche. Nicholas and Isabella had nine children.

Richard was born in 1809. He married Catherine Matilda Bates and emigrated to Canada. They had four children.

Francis Waller, the youngest son, was born in 1810. He married Elizabeth Shore in Canada. They had two children, Mary Elizabeth and Richard.

Francis Biddulph died in 1826, at his sister Elizabeth’s home in Dublin. It is not known when his wife Mary Steele died.

Died. At Fitzwilliam-square, Dublin, the 4th inst., at the residence of his sister, Lady Waller, Francis Biddulph, Esq., of Portarlington, and late of Mountoliver, Queen's County. Posthumous eulogy was never bestowed on a more worthy individual. In him was united every virtue which could ornament the human character. He was a loving parent, and affectionate husband, a sincere and unalterable friend. In all the relations to society, he was a most honourable and good man; his moral worth, inflexible integrity, and urbanity of manners, rendering him esteemed by all, and now deeply regretted by his numerous friends and acquaintances.

Elizabeth Waller [nee Biddulph], [1764-1855]

Elizabeth Biddulph [1764-1855]

Elizabeth Biddulph was born in Dublin in 1764 and baptised in St. Mary’s Church of Ireland. She was the first daughter of Nicholas Biddulph and Elizabeth Dempsey, Glenkeen, Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary, sister of Thomas, Mary and Francis Biddulph and half sister of Hannah Biddulph.

In 1789 she married Jonathon Willington of Castle Willington. They had an only daughter who died young.

24473  WILLINGTON Jonathan Esq Jul 1789 BIDDULPH Miss OFF NEWS        Walker's Hibernian Magazine

Jonathon also died in 1791.

"Here lieth the body of John WILLINGTON, Esq., Barrister at Law, who departed this life 

at Worcester in England on the 14th of Jany. 1791 aged 55 years"

County Tipperary   Templemore Parish   'EPITAPHS IN THE ANCIENT CHURCHYARD, &c.

He was in fact, 33 years old.

On the 9^th January 1806 Elizabeth married Robert Waller [2^nd Bt.] of Castle Waller, Newport, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. He was a widower and had previously been married to Mary Bernard of Castle Bernard.

Ennis Chronicle, Saturday 1 March 1806, Married, Sir Robert Waller, Bart., of Newport, Co. Tipperary, to Mrs Willington, widow of Councellor Willington.

Robert and Elizabeth had no children and Robert Waller predeceased her, dying on the 5^th June 1826.

Elizabeth died on the Isle of Man, on the 20^th November 1855.

Deaths; at her residence, near Douglas, Isle of Man, the Dowager Lady Waller, relict of the late Sir Robert Waller, Bart., of Newport, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. A lady of an amiable and charitable disposition, sincerely beloved and respected.

Madonna and Child

Madonna and Child, by Imogen Stuart, RHA. Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Detail from the Lady Chapel.

Hannah Biddulph [Abt.1777-1839]

Born in about 1777 Hannah was the daughter of Nicholas Biddulph, a distiller, of Glenkeen, near Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary, and his second wife Hannah Cooke. She was about five years old when her older half-brother Thomas Biddulph died in the sinking of the Royal George in Portsmouth in 1782.

Hannah married John Grene [Abt. 1770- 18 Jan 1837] of Clonliffe, County Dublin and of Cappamurra, County Tipperary, in September 1797. This appears to have been a Protestant marriage although the Grenes were a Catholic family. Hannah’s father was a member of the Church of Ireland and James and John Grene of Cappamurra are found in the Catholic Qualification and Convert Rolls for 1779. However, most, if not all, of Hannah’s grandchildren were baptised into the Catholic faith.

Hannah and John had nine children, Hannah, James, Nicholas, Ellen, Eliza, John, Susan, Margaret, and Maria.

Their eldest daughter, Hannah Grene, was born about 1798 in Cappamurra, Cashel, County Tipperary. Her brother James, born in September 1798 also in Cappamurra, died as an infant in 1800. Nicholas Biddulph Grene, her second son, was born in Grene Park, Cashel, on the 20^th October 1800. He married Catherine Sadleir abt 1830, and died on the 29th March 1882. Catherine was the daughter of Clement William Sadleir and Joanna Scully.

Ellen Grene was born abt 1804, and died young on the 4^th April 1818. Her sister Eliza was born abt. 1806. She died in the Presentation Convent in Thurles, County Tipperary on the 11^th December 1896. John Grene was born 21 Feb 1809. He married Anna Maria Delany in 1850.  Susan Grene was born about 1811. Margaret Grene was born in May 1818.  Maria, Hannah’s youngest daughter, married James Barry in 1837.

Hannah died on the 30^th September 1839. Her husband John Grene had predeceased her by two years.