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THE ANCESTRY OF
ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 1ST DUKE OF WELLINGTON
1 Arthur
Wesley, afterwards Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Wellington
b 29
Apr or 1 May 1769, Dublin
d 14
Sep 1852, Walmer Castle, Kent
2 Garret
Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington
bap
10 Aug 1735, St Andrew, Dublin
d 22
May 1781, Kensington
m 6
Feb 1759, St Mary, Dublin
3 Anne
Hill
bap
27 Jun 1742, St Mary, Dublin
d 10
Sep 1831, Henrietta Street
4 Richard
Colley, later Wesley, of Dangan
Castle, co. Meath, Baron of Mornington
b ca
1690, near Edenderry
d 31
Jan 1758, Dublin
m 23
Dec 1719, St Anne, Dublin
5 Elizabeth
Sale
b
bur
20 Jun 1738, St Andrew, Dublin
6 Arthur
Hill, afterwards Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon
b ca
1694
d 30
Jan 1771, Dublin
m 12
Jan 1737
7 Anne
Stafford
b 25
Dec 1715, Hillsborough, co. Down
d 13
Jan 1799, Hampton Court
8 Henry
Colley of Castle Carbery, co. Kildare, MP for co. Kildare
b ca
1647, Dublin
bur
ca 1719, Carbery
m
Jul 1674
9 Mary
Ussher
b
d
10 John Sale of Dublin, registrar of the
diocese of Dublin and MP for Carysfort
b ca
1675, Dublin
d 7
Jul 1732
m
11 Ellinor Desminières
b
d
12 Michael Hill of Hillsborough
b 7
Aug 1672
d
1699, bur Hillsborough
m
1690
13 Anne Trevor
b ca
1669
d 5
Jan 1747, Dublin
14 Edmond Francis Stafford of Brownstown, co.
Meath, MP for Lisburn
b 9
Oct 1693
d 13
Jan 1724, Naples
m 18
Nov 1714, Hillsborough
15 Penelope Leslie
b 30 Nov 1694, Galgorm
d 24 Oct 1718, Portglenone,
co. Antrim
16 Capt. Dudley Colley of Castle Carbery
b
bur
Carbery
m
17 Anne Warren
b
d
18 Sir William Ussher of Dublin
b ca 1610
d 23 Apr 1671
m 14 May 1645
19 Ursula St Barbe
b
d
20 Edmund Sale of Dublin, registrar of the
diocese of Dublin
b
d
ca 1692
m ca
4 Apr 1672
21 Ellen Harvey
b
d
22 Robert Desminières of Sligo, merchant
b 16 Jul 1640
d 1693, Sligo
m
23 Elizabeth
b
d
ca 1724
24 William Hill
b ca
1641
d
Little Chelsea, Middlesex, bur 31 Oct 1693, Kensington, Middlesex
m
25 Eleanor Boyle
b
d
26 Sir John Trevor of Brynkinalt,
Denbighshire, Master of the Rolls
b ca
1637
d
20 May 1717, London
m
27 Jane Mostyn
b 1643
d
1704
28 Edmond Stafford of Brownstown
b ca
1661
d
Aug 1713, Portglenone
m ca
24 Feb 1691/92
29 Anne Spurstow
b ca
1659
d
ca 1730
30 Henry Leslie, Archdeacon of Down
b 4 Nov 1651, Sheepland,
co. Down
d 3 Sep 1733
m ca 26 Jul 1674
31 Margaret Beachan
b
d 11 Apr 1717
Sources
The Complete Peerage
(2nd edition)
The Dictionary of National
Biography
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography
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1779)
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John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland (1754)
John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, rev.
Mervyn Archdall (1789)
Edith Mary Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish
Parliament 1692-1800, 6 vols.
(Belfast, 2002)
Richard K. Evans, The Ancestry of Diana, Princess
of Wales (Boston, 2007)
George Hill, An
Historical Account of the Macdonnells of Antrim
(Belfast, 1873), 350
James O’Laverty, An Historical Account of the Diocese of Down
and Connor, 3 vols. (Dublin, 1878-84), 3:306
The Earl of Belmore, The History of the Corry Family of Castlecoole
(London and Dublin, 1891)
Vivien Costello, “Researching
Huguenot Settlers in Ireland”, BYU
Family Historian, 6(2007)
Henry
Biddall Swanzy, The
Families of French of Belturbet and Nixon of
Fermanagh (Dublin, 1908)
John Barry, Hillsborough
(Belfast, 1962), 110
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(Society of Genealogists, MX/R136)
The
Daily Courant, 15 Jul 1732
The
Gentleman’s Magazine, 101.2(Jul-Dec 1831):282
St Mary, Dublin, parish registers (online at www.irishgenealogy.ie)
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(online at www.irishgenealogy.ie)
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(Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1697)
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to June 1694 (London, 1890)
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Keeper of the Public Records and Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland
(Dublin, 1895), 756
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King, D.D. (Dublin, 1903), 86
Notes
The exact date of the Duke of Wellington’s birth was debated even within his own lifetime. Of the various dates which have been suggested, 29 Apr and 1 May are the two for which reasonable evidence is known to exist. From what I have seen so far, I am more inclined to believe the earlier date, though 1 May was widely believed to be the Duke’s birthday during his lifetime.