Brent Spencer (abt. 1729 - 1772)

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Died 1772 at about age 43 in Bath, Somerset, England

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Brent Spencer, of Ballyardle, co. Down, Esq., also known as Brent Spencer of Ballycastle and Spencer Hill, was the brother of Conway Spencer and uncle of Jane Spencer, who married Paul Canning of Garvagh, co. Londonderry.

"Elizabeth Leigh (16) married Rt. Rev. Tobian Pullein, Bishop of Dromore and grandson of Rt. Rev. Archbishop Pullein of Tuam."^[1]

This source gives Jane Pullein as the daughter of the Bishop of Dromore, and has her marrying Brent Spencer of Lisburn, MP for Lisburn, co. Antrim. Jane Pullein married Brent Spencer, father of the Brent Spencer who died at Bath in 1772. "His widow, Hannah, married the Rev. William Stafford of Spencerhill, Catstlebellingham, Co Louth." [see below]

"(2) Rev. William [Stafford], who became Curate of Kilsaran, and married Hannah the widow of Brent Spencer of Ballycastle and of Spencer Hill."

Brent Spencer was buried in St. James's church, Bath, co. Somerset. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ gravesfa.org/gen035.htm
2. ↑ prattens.co.uk/families/SPENCER/text.txt

• Mourne Marmions and Related Families marmionfamilytree.com/TheMarmionandrelatedfamiliesStory.html
• HISTORY OF KILSARAN UNION (1908), by James Blennerhassett Leslie, pp. 36 & 227