LEIGH, bis heir. Richard, of Sopwell, in the county of Hertford, m. Joyce, daughter of Robert Honywood, esq. of Charing, in Kent, and had (with other issue, from whom descended the Sadliers, of Sopwell, in Ireland*), a son and successor, ROBERT, of Sopwell, in Herts, who m. Ellen, daughter of Thomas Bancrofte, and left an only daughter and heiress, ELLEN, who m. 11th December, 1662, Thomas Saunders, esq. of Beechwood, by whom (who sold the estate of Sopwell, to Sir Harbottle Grimston), she had, to leave issue, an only daughter and heiress, ANN SAUNDERS, m. first, to Sir Edward Sebright, bart.; and secondly, to Charles Lyttleton, esq. Edward, of Lotsford, in Standon Parish, married the widow of had issue. Thomas, who died unm. Ellen, d. in 1600. The eldest son, Fisher, and LEIGH SADLIER, esq. of Temple Dinsley, wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Pascall, esq. of Preston, in Essex, and had, (with a daughter, Anne, m. to Edward Aston, esq. second brother of Walter, Lord Aston), a son and successor, at his decease, 5th June, 30th ELIZABEth. THOMAS-LEIGH SADLIER, esq. of Temple Dinsley, and of ASPLEY, five years old on the 6th April, in the 35th ELIZABETH. This gentleman m. Frances, daughter of Francis Berrie, esq. of Beckering Park, in the county of Bedford, and had (with five daughters), eight sons, viz. 1. Thomas, aged 15, in the year 1634, died unm. II. EDWIN, who succeeded his father at Temple Dinsley, and was created a BARONET on the 3rd December, 1661. Sir Edwin m. Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Walter Walker, knt. LL.D., and had, (with three other sons, who all died young, and a daughter, Mary, m. to Edward CATHERINE, second daughter and co-heir of Francis Sadlier, esq. of Sopwell Hall, in the county of Tipperary, married first, John Bury, esq. of Shannon Grove, and had an only son, CHARLES WILLIAM BURY, present EARL OF CHARLEVILLE. Mrs. Bury (the co-heiress of Sadlier) wedded secondly, in 1766, Henry Prittie, esq. of Dunalley, and was mother of HENRY, present Lord Dunalley. of Edward Brereton, eldest son SIR EDWARD SADLIER, second bart. of Temple Dinsley, who m. Mary, daughter and co-heir of John Lorimer, esq. and relict of William Croon, M.D. but d. s. p. in 1706, when the BARONETCY became extinct. Sir Edward had previously sold the estate of Temple Dinsley to Benedict Ithell, esq. sheriff of Herts, 1st GEORGE II. from whose family it passed by will, to the Harwoods, and thence to the Dartons. III. Ralph, who inherited Aspley Guise died unm. IV. Leigh, who married Mary, daughter of George Haddon, esq. of Kingham, in Oxfordshire, and had, with a daughter, Mary, the wife of - Gillett, a son and heir, GEORGE, of Aspley Guise, who m. v. Edward, d. unm. East VI. WILLIAM, who became of Aspley Guise of this gentleman presently. vii. Richard, } d. issueless. VIII. Robert, The sixth son, WILLIAM SADLIER, esq. of Aspley Guise, ter of the Rev. Jasper Symonds, rector of in the county of Bedford, m. Sarah, daughwith two younger sons, Ralph and Francis, Daventry, in Northamptonshire, and had, both living in 1692, an heir, in the county of Cambridge, who m. Mary, THOMAS SADLIER, esq. of Basingburne, only daughter of Robert Smith, esq. of Potton, and had two sons, ROBERT. James, living at Windsor in 1745, m. Margaret, daughter of Valentine Beasley, and had two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. The elder son, ROBERT SADLIER, esq. of Aspley Guise, b. in 1689, who wedded first, on the 11th October, 1716, Frances, daughter of William Hancock, esq. of Southampton, and had one 23rd November, 1718, Elizabeth, youngest son, JAMES, his heir. He m. secondly, daughter of Mr. Alderman Robert Vernon, of Southampton, by whom (who died 26th November, 1773, and was buried at St. Mary's Southampton) he had issue, Robert-Smith, b. 21st June, 1721, died who inherited ASPLEY from his halfbrother. Thomas, b. 23rd November, 1724, m. 22nd May, 1755, Sarah, daughter of William Blake, of Christ Church, Hants, and died 22nd October, 1783, without issue. His widow d. in 1800. They were buried at St. Mary's, Southampton. | Maria, widow of Richard Urry, and thirdly, 19th September, 1786, Mary, widow of Fisher, but had no issue. He died 14th February, 1788, and was buried at Lymington. His last wife survived him, and died 24th August, 1805. He was s. by his brother (of the half blood), RICHARD VERNON SADLIER, esq. of Southampton, b. 6th February, 1722, and thus of December, 1749, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of the Rev. Timothy Owen, of North Stoneham, in the county of Hants, by whom, who died 5th April, 1793, he had a daughter, Elizabeth, who died an infant. He died 2nd March, 1810, (will dated 18th June, 1808, last codicil 19th February, 1810, proved 17th April following) was buried at St. Mary's, Southampton, and 8. by (the eldest son of his sister, Ursula) his nephew, URSULA, b. 10th January, 1719, m. 30th“ Aspley Guise." This gentleman m. 5th November, 1741, to EDMUND MOODY, esq. of Southampton and Hardle, (son of Edmund Moody,* esq. by Eleanora Wyatt, his wife), and had issue, ROBERT-SADLIER MOODY, of whom hereafter, as heir to his uncle, RICHARD-VERNON SADLIER, esq. of Aspley Guise. Edmond Moody, d. at the age of seven or eight. Richard-Vernon Moody, born 13th ROBERT-SADLIER MOODY, esq. one of the June, 1748, m. in 1785, Mary-An- commissioners of the Victualling Board, b. nabella, dau. and co-heir of Wil- 21st March, 1744, who thus became of liam Nicholas, esq. of Froyle, in 'Aspley Guise." He m. 14th January, Hampshire, and d. in November, 1773, Jane, only daughter of Capt. Andrew 1792; will dated 4th September, Riddell, of Enfield, and niece of Sir James 1789, proved in 1793. He was Riddell, bart. of Ardnamurchan, in the buried at St. Mary's Southamp-county of Argyll, by whom (who died 10th ton. His widow d. 2nd Decem- October, 1825, and was buried at St. Maryber, 1829, and was interred at le-Bone) he had issue, Froyle. They had issue, Richard-Nicholas Moody, who Mr. Edmund Moody d. 24th April, Mary, born in 1724. Elizabeth, born in 1731. Robert Sadlier, died in August, 1778, was buried at St. Mary's Southampton, (will dated 6th June, 1775, proved 9th October, 1778) and was s. by his eldest son, JAMES SADLIER, esq. of Aspley Guise, m. first, in 1747, Mary, daughter of George Shergold, who died in 1750, aged 36. He espoused, secondly, 13th July, 1759, Beata 66 Edmund-James, b. 13th August, 1775, Jane-Riddell, d. unmarried, 29th De- Mr. Moody died 9th November, 1825, was buried at St. Mary-le-Bone, and s. by his only surviving son, The Rev. HENRY RIDDELL MOODY, of Aspley, in the county of Bedford. Arms-Per pale az. and arg. a chevron engrailed between three trefoils slipped a chief per pale, thereon three fusils, all counterchanged, quartering SADLIER, à Leigh, Chute, and Trott. and hilts or, surmounted by a wolf's head Crest-Two falchions in saltier ppr.pomels erased, per pale arg. and az. Estate Manor of Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire. Residence-Chartham Rectory, near Can terbury. O'CONNELL, OF DERRYNANE ABBEY. O'CONNELL, DANIEL, esq. of Derrynane Abbey, in the county of Kerry, barrister-at-law, and king's council, holding rank, by patent of precedency, immediately after the first serjeant at the bar in Ireland; member of parliament for the city of Dublin, b. 5th August, 1775, m. 3rd June, 1802, his cousin, Mary, daughter of Edward O'Connell, M. D. of Tralee, and has issue, I. MAURICE, M. P. for Tralee, m. in 1832, Miss Scott, only daughter of Bindon II. Morgan, M. P. for the county of Meath. III. John, M. P. for Yougal. IV. Daniel. 1. Ellen, m. to Christopher Fitzsimon, esq. of Glancullen, M. P. for the county of Dublin. 11. Catherine, m. to Charles O'Connell, esq. M. P. for the county of Kerry. III. Elizabeth, m. to Nicholas Joseph French, esq. of Fort William, in the county of Roscommon. Mr. O'Connell succeeded his father in 1809, and inherited the estates and representation of the family at the decease of his uncle, Maurice O'Connell, esq. in February, 1825. Before his election by the city of Dublin, the learned gentleman represented in succession the counties of Clare, Waterford, and Kerry. He was chosen by the freeholders of Clare, for the first time, while Roman Catholics were yet excluded from parliament, and he took his seat, after a second election, as member for the same county, in the session immediately succeeding that in which the Catholic Relief Bill had received the royal assent. Lineage. The surname of O'Connell, according to the authority of Irish writers,* emanated from CONAL GABHRA, an ancient prince of the royal line of HEBER, Son of MILESIUS; from whom likewise the districts of Upper and Lower Connelloe, in the county of Limerick, acquired their denomination ; O'Brien's Dict. p. 125. See also Valancy's Collectanea, vol. i. p. 387, second edition, but he refers to a period when Conal Gabhra was known as the appellation of a territory from its original possessor. districts, originally the lands and abode of the family before us, as chiefs of the Sept O'CONNELL. Thence they removed to Iveragh, in the western extremity of Kerry, and there for a considerable time enjoyed the rank of Toparchs. The rebellion of 1641, however, transplanted the O'Connells, with many other victims of that disastrous event, to the county of Clare. Omitting anterior generations which ascend to a remote antiquity,† we shall commence with The details which follow are derived from and verified by accurate dates, and from a work, family papers, confirmed by historical references, entitled "Memoires Généalogiques de diverses familles qui prétendent aux honneurs de la Cour." The long and rigid exclusion of Catholics from places of honour and emolument in their native land, forced the bold and aspiring amongst them to seek in foreign climes a more active and a more impartial sphere of action. Hence, in foreign archives alone were to be found those vouchers of illustrious descent, which at home would De memorials of spoliation, and incentives to perse АODн, or HUGH O'CONNELL, lord and Maurice, 10th earl of Desmond, who had chief of the clan, who appears joined with | been engaged in the same rebellion. He his two sons, Hugh and Jeffrey, in a com- wedded Juliana, daughter of O'Sullivan mission issued by EDWARD III. anno 1337, More, lord of Dunkerran, in Kerry, by empowering them to reduce some refractory whom he had two sons, viz. tribes in the county of Limerick, which had refused submission to the terms on which Hugh, and his sons had acknowledged the royal authority. He was s. by the elder son, HUGH O'CONNELL, second of the name, and chief of the Sept, who was long at hostility with his neighbours, the Geraldines, in defence of his possessions. From his union with Marguerita, daughter of Mahon Menevy O'Brian, Prince of Thomond, and his wife, Una, daughter of Feidlim O'Connor, Prince of Corcumruadh, in Clare, sprang JEFFREY O'CONNELL, successor to his father, and chief of his nation, as he is specially designated in an order on the Irish Exchequer from EDWARD III. anno 1372, in his favour, for thirty marcs. RICHARD II. retained this Jeffrey near his person and remunerated his faithful services by various donations. His wife was Catherine, daughter of O'Connor, dynast of Traght-y-Connor, by whom he had, with other issue, a son, DANIEL O'CONNELL, similarly distinguished as chief of his sept, in a treaty entered into by himself and his son, in 1421, with James Fitzgerald, seventh earl of Desmond, known for his pious foundations. Daniel espoused Honora, daughter of O'Sullivan Beare, Lord of Dunboy, Beare, and Bantry, in the county of Cork, and had a son, HUGH O'CONNELL, third of that name, who had been a party to the above treaty of 1421, and succeeded as captain of his sept. The honour of knighthood was conferred on him by Richard Nugent, seventh baron of Delvin, then invested with a high military command, and afterwards lord deputy of Ireland. In 1490, he obtained from HENRY VII. an order on the Irish Exchequer for twenty pounds sterling, in consideration of the eminent services rendered by him in the province of Munster. By his wife, Mary, daughter of M'Carthy More, Prince of Desmond, he left MAURICE O'CONNELL, lord of his sept, who, with his two brothers, espoused the pretensions of Perkin Warbeck, in opposition to HENRY VII. but promptly recalled to his allegiance, he received the royal pardon on the 24th August, 1496, with cution. "Proprium humani ingenü est odisse quem laeseris." Thus it was that the mind and nerve of Ireland were so often arrayed in the camp and council of hostile nations against the best interests of that to which by position, blood, and -affinity, she was so indissolubly allied. MORGAN, who experienced the royal grace in 1496. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of O'Donovan, lord of Cloncahill, in the barony of Carbery, and county of Cork, and predeceasing his father, left a son, Hugh, successor to his grandfather. Hugh, who appears to have d. issueless. Maurice was succeeded by his grandson, HUGH O'CONNELL, fourth of that name, and, like his predecessor, styled the chief of his sept, in a treaty entered into with Lord Leonard Grey, lord justice, and subsequently, lord deputy of Ireland, on the 22nd January, 1535. He espoused More O'Brien, daughter of Sir Teige O'Brien, of Bally Corig, in the county of Clare, descended from the noble houses of Thomond, and (maternally) of Desmond. By her, he left, MORGAN O'CONNELL, of Bally Carbery, who had been sent, as hostage, by his father, in execution of the said treaty of 1535. On the 10th October, 1542, he made his submission to HENRY VIII. engaging for himself, and his heirs male, to pay a crown rent of twenty-pence Irish, as a nominal tribute, and recognition of that monarch's sovereignty. By EDWARD VI. he was appointed, under a royal writ of 20th December, 1550, high sheriff of the county of Kerry. He m. Hellen, daughter of Donald M'Carthy, Prince of Desmond, and was succeeded by his son, RICHARD O'CONNELL, chief of his name, who made a submission of his territory of Bally Carbery, in the barony of Iveragh, to Queen ELIZABETH, and obtained from that sovereign a regrant thereof, with all its seigneurial dependencies and appurtenances, in recompense of his signal services, against the rebels of Desmond. He m. Joan, dau. of Callaghan M'Carthy, esq. of Carrignamuck, by his first wife, Sheela, or Julia, daughter of Teige M'Owen McCarthy, of Drishane, and had a son and successor, second of that name, who was appointed, MAURICE O'CONNELL, of Bally Carbery, 10th February, 1586, high sheriff of Kerry. During the rebellious disturbances of the Earls of Desmond, he conducting himself peaceably, and dying on the 24th July, 1607, The Earls of Desmond, as Palatines of Kerry, also nominated sheriffs (the vice-comes, or sheriff, being the deputy of the earl) with certain limitations, however, of jurisdiction, and the royal appointment was of course, the superior dignity.— See Note, under family of Barry. The elder son, JEFFREY O'CONNELL, succeeded as lord of Bally Carbery, and by letters mandatory of JAMES I. was constituted high sheriff of the county of Kerry. He wedded Honora, daughter of Mac Crohan, chief of that name, and lord of Letter Castle, in the barony of Iveragh, and left, at his demise, 25th April, 1635, four sons, viz. 1. MAURICE, who having forfeited his IV. John, d. s. p. The second son, DANIEL O'CONNELL, esq. of Aghgore, in the barony of Iveragh, took no part in the insurrection of 1641, and preserved his estate. By Alice, his wife, daughter of Christopher Segrave, esq. of Cabragh, in the county of Dublin, he had two sons, viz. 1. JOHN, his heir. 11. Maurice, who d. in 1715. He was grandfather of Richard O'Connell, captain in the Legion de Maillebois, in the service of Holland. Several others of his descendants are spread over the counties of Kerry and Clare. Daniel O'Connell was s. by his elder son, JOHN O'CONNELL, esq. of Aghgore and Derrynane, in the barony of Iveragh, who raised a company of foot for the service of JAMES II. and embodied it in the regiment of his cousin, Colonel Maurice O'Connell. Dr. Burke, in his Hibernia Dominicana, Suppt. p. 884, gives a list of this Catholic Convention, taken from the archives of St. Isidore, at Rome; it is a curious and interesting record, among the Proceres Spirituales appears, as above, Richardus Conall, episcopus Ardferdensis. ↑ Some portion of this unforfeited property, still in the hands of Mr. O'Connell, is free from all chiefry, imposts or crown charge, a very unusual circumstance, and demonstrative of the antiquity of possession. He signalized himself at the siege of Derry, in 1689, as well as at the battles of the Boyne and Aughrim, in 1690 and 1691, after the latter conflict he retired with his shattered regiment to Limerick, and was comprehended in the capitulation of that city. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Conway, esq. of Clahane, in the county of Kerry, and had three sons, 1. MAURICE, who had a son, Jeffrey, 11. DANIEL, of whom presently. John O'Connell died in 1741. His second son, DANIEL O'CONNELL, esq. of Derrynane, espoused Mary, daughter of Duffe O'Donoghue, esq. of Anwys, in the county of Kerry, and had twenty-two children, of whom the following arrived to maturity, viz. 1. John, who m. Miss O'Falvey, of 11. MAURICE, heir to his father. of Iveragh, m. Catherine, daughter 1. DANIEL, Successor to his uncle. Jane, relict of Charles O'Do- 3. James, of Lakeview, in the county of Kerry, who m. in March, 1818, Jane, daughter of Charles O'Donoghue, of the Glyns, and has five sons, Maurice. Daniel. Charles. James. Morgan. 1. Mary, m. to Jeremiah M'Cartie, esq. of Woodview, in the county of Kerry. *This ancient Milesian family is now represented by Captain Edward O'Mullane, of Cork. |