Rev
John
Chetwood
aka Chetwode
Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Crewe Chetwood
and Ann Holford
Husband of
Elizabeth (Hamilton) Chetwood
— married
1769 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Hester Jane (Chetwood) Hamilton, Elizabeth Hester (Chetwode) Wilmot, John Chetwood, Lucy (Chetwood) Hawkshaw, Mary Frances (Chetwood) Thompson and Henrietta Margaret (Chetwood) Townsend
Died
at about age 72
in Glanmire Lower, County Cork, Ireland
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Biography
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John was born in 1742. He was the son of Crewe Chetwood and Ann Holford.
He was educated at Westminster School and entered Trinity College Dublin on 19 May 1758, aged 16. Sch 1760, B.A. 1762, M.A. 1781. [1]
He was ordained Deacon on the 1st, and Priest on 11 June 1762, for the stipendiary cure of Desertmore and Brinny. From 1762 to 1799 he was Treasurer of Ross, and from 1799 to 1814 Vicar Choral of Cork. He was also, from 1767 to 1780, Rector Vicar Scull; and from 1780 to 1790 Precentor of Cork and from 1790 to 1814 Prebendary of Cahirlag or (Rathcoony) (Cork) and Rector Rathconv.
He was of a highly literary turn of mind, yet never published any work.
John married Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton esq., on 25 October 1769. [2]
Children
- John, b. 1779, Captain in 33rd Regt., married Eliza Patton, daughter of Colonel Robert Patton, Governor of St Helena, in 1803.
- Elisabeth Hester married Robert Wilmot
- Henrietta Margaret married Horace Townsend in 1822.
- Lucy married (1) James Brooke Irwin in 1808, (2) Edward Hawkshaw In 1820.
- Mary Frances married Ven William Thompson, Archdeacon of Cork, in 1809.
- Anna Maria b. 7 February 1774 died unmarried 1870.
- Hester Jane married Rev John Leveson Hamilton in 1815.
He died in 1814 and was buried, by his desire, in Rathcony church-yard.
Death Notice - Oxford University and City Herald May 7, 1814
- Rev. John Chetwood, at his residence Lower Glanmire, in the 76th year of his age; He was for 30 years rector of the Union of Rathcooney.
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.
- ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/dm/IRE_DIOC_007246532_00187.pdf
- Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, Vol 1 by William Maziere Brady, 1864, Pg 52
- Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
- Vol 1 - The Province of Munster, Pg 246, 260, 284, 360
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