Reverend
John
Townsend
Born about in Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Ancestors 
Son of John Townsend
and Elizabeth (Reddish) Townsend
Brother of
James Townsend, Dorothea Townsend, Mary (Townsend) Robinson, Richard Townsend and Barbara (Townsend) Baldwin
Husband of
Martha (Williams) Townsend
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Father of
Martha (Townsend) Williams
Died
at about age 41
in Cork, County Cork, Ireland
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Biography
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| Church of Ireland Clergy |
John was born about 1752. He was the son of John Townsend and Elizabeth Reddish.
He was educated by Mr W. Jessop and entered Trinity College Dublin on 1 November 1770, aged 18. B.A. 1775. [1]
He was ordained Deacon on 23 April 1775, and Priest on 5 May 1776, both at Cork.
In 1776 he was Curate of Island, Ross, and from 1788 to 1791 he was Curate of Marmullane.
John married Martha Williams, daughter of Carre Williams, esq., of Ashgrove, county Cork, in 1788.
Child
- Martha, married Carre-Columbine Williams, esq., of Cork.
He died in 1793 and was buried at St Finbar's Cathedral, Cork on 13 April 1793. [2]
Probate in 1794. [3]
Sources
- ↑ FindmyPast - Alumni Dublinenses - 1924 Edition Note: Published in 1924, this is the first edition Alumni Dublinenses, a register of provosts, professors, graduates and students of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.
- ↑ FindmyPast -Cork, St Finbar's Cathedral, Baptisms, marriages & burials, 1752-1833
- ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/dw/IRE_DIOC_007246597_00226.pdf
- [Townsend Family Records web site-http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/home.php]
- Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, Vol 1 by William Maziere Brady, 1864, Pg 213
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
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~0.78%
Sharon Townsend
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A003420 [compare]
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Living DNA, GEDmatch Z943862 [compare]
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~0.78%
Richard Townsend :
Living DNA, GEDmatch Z681385 [compare]
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