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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, Castlefinn
d
ca 1732
m
ca 1714
11 Mary Judkin
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 ca
1706
d 20
Oct 1752
Great-great-grandparents
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 Joseph Judkin of Ballymore, co. Tipperary
b
d
ca 1717
m
23 Elizabeth
b
d
ca 1731
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 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 monumental inscriptions
(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
Registry of Deeds, Dublin, memorial 24957
Index to
Cashel and Emly wills
Trinity College Dublin, admissions records (IE TCD MUN V 23/1)
Monumental
inscription at Blockley
Notes
Number 17 may be Mary Stepney, who was shown as the
wife of George Canning (number 16) in several editions of Burke’s Peerage
in the 1860s, where their marriage licence is stated
to have been dated 31 Jul 1667. However, mention of Mary is absent from some
later editions. The marriage licence does seem to have been issued.
Mary appears
to
have
died on 6 Nov 1669 aged 20.
Julian Crowe, George Canning is my Son (2021),
which I have not yet seen in full, indicates that number 15 may have been
Mariane Oiseau, a wife of Melchior Guydickens prior to Hannah Handcock.
