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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

 

Parents

 

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

 

Grandparents

 

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

 

Great-grandparents

 

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

 

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

   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

 

 

Sources

 

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