Our family branch of the Fetherstonhaughs appear to have begun the move from Northumbria to Ireland when Ralph Fetherstonhaugh (1574-1636) married Jane Appleyard in Philipstown c1600. Despite his Irish marriage, documents show Ralph continued to live at Stanhope Hall and to be active in the English parliament, representing Northumbria. Likely it is because of Ralph’s Irish connection that his youngest son, Cuthbert1, fled there after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Cuthbert’s son, John, was the first of his children to be born in Ireland in 1652. Due to the large number of Cuthberts in the various branches of the Irish Fetherstonhaughs our specific Cuthbert family ancestors below are numbered by superscript to avoid confusion.
Generation 21: Cuthbert1 Fetherstonhaugh (1618 – 1693) married unknown. Issue: (i) John (1652- ), (ii) Thomas (1654-1728), (iii) Phillip (1656-1728), (iv) Jacob (1658- ?), (v) James (1681-1761).
Generation 22: John Fetherstonhaugh (1652 – ?) of Castlekeeran, County Meath and Rath, County Westmeath, married c1673 to Susanna Coddington. Issue: (i) Cuthbert2 (1675-1744) who was father to the Bracklyn Castle line, Dardistown/Mosstown line, and the Grouse Lodge line; (ii) Thomas (1677-1749) who was father to the Carrick line of Westmeath, and the Ardagh line in County Longford; (iii) Francis (1679 – 1749) who was father of the Whitrock line; (iv) John(1684 -1766), (v) Elizabeth (1686); (vi) Mary (1688 – 1745); and (vii) Ann (1688).
Generation 23: Cuthbert2 Fetherstonhaugh of Dardistown (1675 – 1744) married Mary Magan (1690 – 1776) in St Audoen Dublin, daughter of Richard and Margaret Magan. Issue: (i) John (c1716 – 1766), (ii) Thomas (c1718 – 1776) of Bracklyn; (iii) Richard (c1719 – 1771) of Grangemore; (iv) Frances (c1721), (v) Margaret (1722 – c1770), (vi) William (c1724 – 1780), (vii) Francis (1726 – 1748) of Whiterock, Co. Longford.
Generation 24: John Fetherstonhaugh of Dardistown (1716 – 1776) married his cousin Ann Magan (1719 – 1766). Issue: (i) Cuthbert3 (1742 – 1817), (ii) Thomas (1743), (iii) Elizabeth (1745), (iv) Mary (1746), (v) Edward (1748).
Generation 25: Cuthbert3 Fetherstonhaugh, (1742 – 1817) High Sheriff 1781 of Mosstown, married Mary Wolfe: Issue: (i) John (1773 – 1794, oral history has it he shot himself at Mosstown); (ii) Theobald (1774 – 1844); (iii) Edward (1775 – 1843); (iv) Cuthbert (1780 – 1848); (v) Richard Thomas (1790 – 1790); (vi) William; (vii) Lydia.
Generation 26: Theobald Featherstonhaugh (1774 -1844) High Sheriff 1805 of Mosstown married Mary Harding (1781 – 1856). Upton records Mary giving birth over a 30 year period to 29 children (including one set of twins), of whom 7 sons and 10 daughters lived to adulthood.
Mary and Theobald’s issue: 1. John (1797) died unmarried, 2. Edward (1798), 3. Cuthbert (1799 – died), 4. Pearson (1800), 5. Mary (1801 – died um), 6. Cuthbert (1802 – died), 7. Cuthbert4 (1803-1892), 8. A child (1804), 9. William (1805), 10. Hannah (1806 – m1831), 11. Jonathon Harding (1806), 12. Theobald (1807 – 1886), 13. a child (1808), 14. A boy (1809), 15. Elizabeth (1810), 16. Edward of Blackrock (1810 – 1892), 17. Elizabeth (1811), 18 unknown, 19. William (1813) 20. Lydia (1814 – m1832), 21. Charlotte (1815-1900), 22. Thomas Henry (1816) 23. Jane (1817 – m), 24. a boy, 25 unknown, 26. Margaret (b1818), 27. Harriette (1821), 28. Frances Sarah (1823 – died um). 29. A boy (1827)
Generation 27: Cuthbert4 Fetherstonhaugh (1803-1892) of Mosstown Co. Westmeath, High Sheriff 1841, lived at Dardistown House, Killucan, also known after migration to Australia in 1851 as “the Governor”. He was married in 1827 to Susan Curtis daughter of William Curtis of Annemore (1798 – 1871). Issue: (i) Theobald (1828 – 1909), (ii) Alfred (iii) William (1830 – 1875), (iv) Adelaide (1832), (v) Louisa Elizabeth (1833-1924), (vi) Susan (1834 – 1917), (vii) Cuthbert Albany5 (1837 -1925), (viii) Frances (1839), (ix)Grace Caroline (1843), and (x) at least one other boy who did not live to adulthood. All recorded as born at Grouse Lodge.
Cuthbert4 Fetherstonhaugh migrated to Australia with his sons Theobald and Alfred in 1852 and was joined by his third son Cuthbert5 Albany in 1853. Their stories and that of Cuthbert4‘s sisters are on separate tabs.
Generation 28: Cuthbert5 Albany Fetherstonhaugh (1837 – 1925) of Dardistown, was married in 1876 to Flora Agnes Murchison (1830 – 1925) in Victoria, Australia. Cuthbert5 is the father of the our branch of the Australian Fetherstonhaughs. Issue: (i) Cuthbert Murchison (1879-1961), (ii) Albany Murchison (1882- 1949 – father of Dick Fetherstonhaugh), (iii) Dorothea Murchison (1886-1974).
Generation 29: Richard (Dick) Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh (1917 – 2012) married Denise (Dell) Cheesman ( – 1973). Issue: Denise, Anthony, Timothy and Amanda.
Sources:
- Burke, Bernard, Sir. (1012) A genealogical and Heraldic History of the landed gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison. Accessed Oct 2022 at https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhera00burkuoft/page/220/mode/2up?q=fetherstonhaugh
- Fetherstonhaugh, A.J. (1879). A History of the Fetherstonhaugh Family (with pedigree of the Irish branches). Dublin
- Fetherstonhaugh (Aust descendants) family records (Misc. left by Richard (Dick) and Sheila Fetherstonhaugh.)
- Upton, H. (Catalogued 2012). Upton papers 21(24-25) Fetherstonhaugh Irish pedigree. IE RIA. Retrieved from: https://iar.ie/archive/upton-papers