Captain
Phillip
(Phillip of Derry)
Townsend
Born in Castle Townsend, County Cork, Ireland
Ancestors 
Son of Bryan Townsend
and Mary (Synge) Townsend
Brother of
Barbara Townsend, Richard Townsend, Edward Townsend, Bryan Townsend, Mary (Townsend) Hough, Katharine Townsend, John of Skirtagh Townsend [half], Samuel Townsend, Francis Townsend, Helena (Townsend) Meade, Barbara (Townsend) Hungerford II, William Townsend and Horatio Townsend
Husband of
Mary (Delap) Townsend
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Elizabeth (Hungerford) Townsend
— married
25 Nov 1733 (to after 1749) in County Cork Ireland
Descendants 
Father of
Richard Townsend MD and Horatio Townsend
Died
at age 85
in Derry, County Cork, Ireland
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Nov 2015
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Biography
Philip was the 8th son of Bryan Townsend and Mary Synge.
Derry, co Cork was purchased in 1686 by his father Adam Townsend.
Capt. in the Army,
Philip married Elizabeth Hungerford, daughter of Thomas Hungerford, on 28 November 1733. [1]
Children
- Richard b. 12 January 1736 [1737] married (1) Eleanor Sealy, daughter of Dr. Sealy, of Bandon, co. Cork, (2) Margaret Townsend, daughter of Horatio Townsend, of Bridgemount, co. Cork.
- Thomas Hungerford, b. 1737-8, Captain of the Battle-axe Guards at Dublin Castle ; died unmarried
- Horatio (Rev.) married Helena Meade in 1785.
- William, died unmarried 1821.
- Susannah, married Michael French, of Rath, co. Cork.
- Mary, married Thomas Somerville, of Castlehaven, co. Cork.
He died in 1786. [2]
Sources
- ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/dm/IRE_DIOC_007246531_00368.pdf
- ↑ 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
- A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke and Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Publication date 1912, Family: Townshend of Myross wood
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