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THE
ANCESTRY OF GEORGE CANNING
1 George
Canning
b 11
Apr 1770, Marylebone, Middlesex
d 8 Aug
1827, Chiswick Villa, Middlesex
2 George
Canning of the Middle Temple, London
b
1736, Garvagh, co. Londonderry
d 11
Apr 1771, The Temple, London
m 21
May 1768, Marylebone
3 Mary
Anne Costello
b ca
1746
d 10
Mar 1827, Bath, Somerset
4 Stratford
Canning of Garvagh
b
1703, co. Londonderry
d 30
Sep 1775
m 26
Jun 1734, St Mary, Dublin
5 Letitia
Newburgh
bap
13 Apr 1718, St Mary, Dublin
d 26
Oct 1786, Bath
6 Jordan
Costello of Connaught
b
d
m
7 Guydickens
b
d
8 George
Canning of Garvagh
b ca
1669, Agivey, co. Londonderry
d ca
1710
m
1697
9 Abigail
Stratford
b
1673
d ca
1738
10 Obadiah Newburgh of Ballyhaise,
co. Cavan
b ca
1692
d
ca 1732
m
11 Mary
b
d
12 Charles Costello of Dublin
b
d
m
13 Mary Doyle
b
d
14 Col. Melchior Guydickens
of Croydon, Surrey
bap 18 Feb 1695/96, St. James, Paddington,
Middlesex
d 25
Dec 1775, bur Brecon
m 6
Feb 1721, St John, Dublin
15 Hannah Handcock
b
d
16 George Canning of Garvagh
b
d
m
17
b
d
18 Robert Stratford of Baltinglass, co.
Wicklow, MP for co. Wicklow
b ca
1636
d
26 Oct 1699, bur Baltinglass
m ca
13 Feb 1662/63
19 Mary Walsh
b
d
20 Capt. Thomas Newburgh of Castlefinn, co. Donegal
b
d
14 May 1693, bur Donaghmore
m
1683
21 Letitia Vaughan
b
bur 26
Aug 1741, St Mary, Dublin
22
b
d
m
23
b
d
24 Edmond Costello
b
d
m
25 Dowell
b
d
26
b
d
m
27
b
d
28 Peter Guydickens
b
d
m
29 Ayme
b
d
30 Rev. Stephen
Handcock of Athlone, Dean of Clonmacnoise
b 1657
d 1718
m
31 Margaret
Warner
b
d
John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, rev.
Mervyn Archdall (1789)
Alexander Chalmers, Appendix to the General
Biographical Dictionary (ca 1820)
The Times, 10 Nov 1786 and 16 Mar
1827
Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage, 7th edition
(1842)
Robert Bell, The Life of the Rt. Hon. George
Canning (London, 1846)
Brian de Breffny, “An
Investigation into the Connacht Ancestry of Mary Ann Costello, Mother of George
Canning”, The Irish Ancestor,
12(1980):2-6
Alfred J. Webb, A Compendium of Irish Biography
(Dublin, 1878)
Joseph Foster, The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the British Empire (1883)
The Dictionary of National Biography
The Complete Peerage
(2nd edition)
George Dames Burtchaell
and Thomas Ulick Sadleir, eds., Alumni Dublinenses (Dublin, 1935)
Wendy Hinde, George Canning (London, 1973)
Edith Mary Johnston-Liik, History
of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (Belfast, 2002)
Will of Melchior Guydickens
(National Archives, PROB 11/1015/41)
Transcription of Bath Abbey MIs (typescript, Society
of Genealogists, GL/M14)
Brecon parish registers
St James, Paddington, parish registers
St Mary, Dublin, parish registers
Abstracts of St John, Dublin, parish registers
Betham Genealogical
Abstracts (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Crossle Genealogical
Abstracts (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
The Journals of the House of Commons, of the Kingdom
of Ireland, vol. 18 (Dublin, 1778), 282