Richard Wynne (abt. 1757)

Born about 1757 in County Sligo, Ireland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland

Biography

Richard Wynne was a younger son of Owen Wynne, MP for Hazelwood and Anne Maxwell, the Earl of Farnham's sister. ^[1]

Rev Richard Wynne married Catherine Beavor. ^[2]

Children:

1. Arthur married Miss Law
2. Lowry William Montgomery,Lt, R.A. married a dau of Lt-Col Paine, R. A.
3. Mary Ann married James Wynne.
4. Richard married Miss Irvine

Owen Wynne, Esquire, M. P., plaintiff in error ... R.W. possessed a certain vicarage and also a rectory and chantoship in Ireland, in consideration of a sum of 6000l. advanced to him by the Globe Insurance Company, granted to them, and charged upon his said benefices, an annunity of 825l. 5s. Irish currency for a term of 99 years... indenture dated 1 Feb 1811 between Richard Wynne, Clerk, .... warrant against Messrs. Richard and Owen Wynne ... brother ... On the 25th of April, 1825, the Plaintiff in Error obtained an order from the Court of Exchequer, by which the Globe Insurance Company was ...^[3]

Richard Wynne Slave-owner on Tortola. The Carrot Bay estate passed, according to the Slave Registers, by purchase to Richard Beavor Wynne, son of Rev. Richard Wynne of Drumcliff Co. Sligo. In the 1798 Robert Wilkinson map, Rev. Mr Wynne owned lots 7 ('late Brown, sugar') and 23 (sugar). Inference that the Tortola estates passed to Rev. Richard Wynne through his marriage to Catherine Beavor Brown. ^[4]

Research on the Family

Richard Beaver Wynne, Esq. is probably a son of Rev. Richard Wynne and Catherine Brown, whose father's name was Richard Beaver Brown. (1851 is much too late for the death of Rev. Richard Wynne who was born in the 1750's.) The obituary below also suggests that Richard B. Wynne, Clerk of the Peace, died at a young enough age that he still had dependent children, but a son old enough to take on the Clerk position.
"DEATH OF RICHARD B. WYNNE, ESQ. We have to record a very melancholy event ; the sudden, and most unexpected death, of Richard Beaver Wynne, Esq., for many years Clerk of the Peace for this county. He expired upon Friday evening of disease of the heart. The most deplorable fact connected with his death is, that he has left a very large and helpless family to lament his loss. If any public body in the county had the appointment, which he held, at its disposal we are sure his son would receive it, but it is entirely in the gift of the Custos Rotulorum. Colonel Gore would certainly consult the wishes of the people of Sligo if he would generously, leave the situation to a member of the deceased gentleman's family. "^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "General Practice? Victorian Irish Women and United Kingdom Medicine" by Margaret O Hogartaigh in "Knowing Their Place: The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century" edited by Brendan Walsh
2. ↑ A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, by Sir Bernard Burke. Edited by his son. publ 1898 vol 2 p 491 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858027897986&view=1up&seq=1031&size=125
3. ↑ "New reports of cases heard in the House of Lords, on appeals and writs of error; and decided during the sessions[s] 1827[-37]" by Richard Bligh. v 4 p 27 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433009483979&view=1up&seq=41
4. ↑ Legacies of British Slave-ownership https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146651927
5. ↑ Sligo Champion - Monday 27 October 1851 p 8

See also:

• "General Practice? Victorian Irish Women and United Kingdom Medicine" by Margaret O Hogartaigh in "Knowing Their Place: The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century" edited by Brendan Walsh