Peter Burtchaell (1820 - 1894)

Born 31 Oct 1820 in Kilkenney City, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Isabella (Foot) Burtchaell — married 3 Aug 1852 in St. Peter's, Dublin

Descendants

Died 21 Jun 1894 at age 73 in Larchfield, Ireland

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Biography

Peter Burtchaell (1820-1894)

Son of

Birth: 31 oct 1920, Brandondale House, Graiguenamanagh, county Kilkenny, Ireland

Baptized: 12 Nov 1820, St. Mary's, Kilkenny, Ireland.

ICEI: elected member, 1847,(10) 'but resigned his membership some years before his death'.

Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny, 1849;(12)

County Surveyor of Co. Carlow 19 April 1851-1860; of County and City of Kilkenny 1860 until his death.

RSAI: elected member 7 March 1852, proposed by SAMSON CARTER  , jr.(11)

Married, 3 Aug 1852, at St. Peter's Dublin. to Mari Isabella Foot (1824-1898).^[1][2] By License^[3] Registered, 1852, Dublin South, Ireland^[4]

CHILDREN:

1. George Dames Burtchaelll (1853-1921), genealogist
2. Lilias Jane Burtchaell (1854-1901)
3. Elizabeth Emily Burtchaell (1858-1955
4. David Edward Burtcheall (1859-1910), m. Caroline Harreit Crosby
5. Charles Henry Burtchaell (1866-1932) Sir Lt. Gen., m Berthe Marcella Auret

Peter Burtchaell appears in a list of Encumbered Estates, 1855, Kilkenny, Ireland, sold by Auction.^[5]

• Appointed 2: between 1860 - 1894, County Surveyor of Kilkenny

Addresses: Green Vale, Kilkenny, 1861-1868; Larchfield, Co. Kilkenny 1869 until death.

He is listed as having 177 acres in County Carlow in 1870s.

Inst.CE: elected member, 4 February 1879.(9)

Death: 21 June 1894. Registered, 3Q, Kilkenny, Ireland.^[6]

Burial: 25 June 1894; St John [the Evangelist] Priory, John St., Kilkenny. (Right of the path leading to the main door). Inscription: In loving memory of my dear husband Peter Burtchaell, E.E., Second son of David Burtchaell, Esq., of Brandondale Co. Kilkenny. He died at Larchfield 21st June 1894 aged 72 years. For 32 years County Surveyor for County and City of Kilkenny, MIB [Mary Isabella]"

James Dames B. was his executor; probate 1 Aug 1894

See entry in "Dictionary of Irish Architects"^[7]

• Fact: Probate (21 Jun 1894) Kilkenny

George Dames Burtchaell was named as the Primary Beneficiary in Peter's Will.^[8]

Burtchaell died suddenly of a heart attack on 21 June 1894 at his house, Larchfield, Co. Kilkenny, when he was about to go to Dublin in connection with the construction of a proposed new bridge at Ferry Mountgarrett. He had recently handed in his resignation as county surveyor because of disagreements with some members of the Grand Jury, which, as his friends believed, 'had preyed upon his mind and superinduced the disease from which he died with such alarming suddenness'. He was married to Maria Isabella, eldest daughter of Lundy Edward Foot, barrister, of 14 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin.(6) His second son, DAVID EDWARD BURTCHAELL  , was also an engineer; the eldest, George Dames Burtchaell, deputy Ulster King of Arms, was a barrister, antiquarian and genealogist;(7) the third, General Sir Charles Burtchaell had a distinguished career in the army as principal medical officer in France and India.(8) His pupils and assistants included LUCIUS JOHN BOYD  . According to his obituary in the Kilkenny Moderator, Burtchaell was a member of the Order of Freemasons, which he "'loved…with a love which nothing but death alone could quench.

"References

The fullest account of Burtchaell's life and of his career as a county surveyor is in Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 119-121. Other unreferenced information in this entry is from the obituary of Burtchaell in Proceedings of the Association of Municipal & County Engineers 21 (1894-95), 325, from Thom's directories.

(1) O'Donoghue, op. cit., above, 119. According to the obituary mentioned above, Burtchaell was apprenticed to 'Mr Johnson, the county surveyor of Wexford'. (2) IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44. (3) B.O'D. (4) B 18, 29 Dec 1860, 844; IB 3, 15 Jan 1861, 400. (5) IB 15, 15 Jul 1873, 195. (6) Obituary of David Edward Burtchaell in TICEI 37(1911), 189. (7) Obituary of George Dames Burtchaell in IB 63, 27 Aug 1921, 573. (8) See note 7, above. (9) Min Proc.Inst.CE 56 (1878-79) Pt 2, 93. (10) IB 12, 15 Aug 1870, 197. (11) JRSAI 2 (1852-1853), 188. (12) See note 7, above.

Addenta

County surveyor for Co. Carlow, 1851-1860, and Co. Kilkenny, 1861-1894 . Peter Burtchaell was born on 31 October 1820 at Brandondale House, Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny, the second son of David Burtchaell of Brandondale and Jane, daughter of Gilmore Dames, of Dublin. He was educated at the Feinaglian Instution, Dublin, and served his apprenticeship with WILLIAM JOHNSTON  , county surveyor of Waterford.(1) He might possibly be the 'Burdell' or 'Bardell' who is recorded as having entered the competition for designing Kingsbridge Station, Dublin, in 1845.(2) After working for some years on a variety of road, railway and drainage schemes, he was appointed county surveyor for Co. Carlow on 9 April 1851(3) in succession to ALEXANDER HARRISON   and remained in the post until December 1860, when he was transferred to the surveyorship of Kilkenny county and city following the death of SAMSON CARTER.  (4) He remained in this post until shortly before his own death in 1894. The frustrations consequent on being obliged by Act of Parliament to give public contracts to the lowest bidder are described in an extract from his report to the Grand Jury of Kilkenny, published in the Irish Builder. -- Dictionary of Irish Architects, 1720-1840" website. ^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Ireland, Select Marriages, 1619-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014
2. ↑ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004, citing Source number: 416.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: MRM
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. Dublin, Ireland, Probate Record and Marriage License Index, 1270-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
4. ↑ Ancestry.com. Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
5. ↑ Ancestry.com. Ireland, Encumbered Estates, 1850-1885 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020.
6. ↑ Ancestry.com. Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
7. ↑ http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/786/BURTCHAELL,+PETER
8. ↑ ancestry hints
9. ↑ http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/786/BURTCHAELL,+PETER

• James Tunstead Burtchaell III, C.S.C, ‘’The Genealogy of the Brutchaell Family’’, (2002) [PDF], p. 18, 38
• Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland: http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalhera00burkuoft#page/88
• Crisp’s Visitation of Ireland, vol 1: http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationofirel00howa#page/78
• Irish Pedigrees: Free Irish eBooks: irishpedigrees.blogspot.ca
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 02 January 2019, 15:43), entry for Peter Burtchaell(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:K8VD-HP5); contributed by various users.