Lord
William
Charles O'Brien
FitzGerald
Born in Ireland
Ancestors 
Brother of
Mary Rebecca (Fitzgerald) Ross, Emily Elizabeth (Fitzgerald) Henry, Elizabeth Mary (Fitzgerald) Baker, George Fitzgerald, Isabella Charlotte (Fitzgerald) Rohan-Chabot [half], Cecilia Olivia Geraldine (Fitzgerald) Foley, Olivia Letitia Catherine (FitzGerald) Kinnaird and Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald
Husband of
Honoria Joanna (Burke) Taaffe
— married
after 1819 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 71
in County Dublin, Ireland
Profile last modified
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Biography
"Lord William Charles O'Brien FitzGerald (4 January 1793 – 8 December 1864); married and had issue one daughter:
"Geraldine Sydney FitzGerald (died 1896); married on 2 October 1855 Henry William Paget Butler (28 April 1831 – 14 August 1913)."
Research Notes
- "He died unmarried at Harcourt Terrace, Dublin in December 1864." [1]
- 4 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin 2, DUBLIN
- Formerly overlooking a large wedge-shaped green, the houses were built as a speculative venture by Charles Jaspar Joly, the son of Jean Jaspar Joly (d.1823) who came to Ireland from France as private secretary of Lord William Fitzgerald and acquired land in the environs of what became Harcourt Terrace. [2]
- "Henry William Paget Butler, Capt Carlow Militia, was the 4th son of Son of Sir Thomas Butler of Ballintemple. He married Geraldine Sydney Fitzgerald, one of the three love children of Lord William FitzGerald, brother of the 3rd Duke of Leinster, to whom the manor of Graney, at Castledermott had been granted." [3]
- Geraldine Sydney FitzGerald
- Birth 4 March 1821 - St Marylebone, England
- Death 27 Oct 1896 - Dublin, Ireland
- Mother Honoria Joanna Taaffe
- Father William Fitzgerald [4]
Sources
- ↑ FITZGERALD, Lord William Charles O'Brien (1793-1864). Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009 historyofparliamentonline.org
- ↑ 4 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin 2, DUBLIN The National Built Heritage Service
- ↑ Rossleighan MORE MINOR THAN MAJOR. Lesser Laois Houses
- ↑ https://www.ancestry.com.au/genealogy/records/geraldine-fitzgerald-24-5lkmz5
- Burke, John. A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (London: Harrison & Sons, 1915) Page 1225-1228. Internet Archive
- FITZGERALD, Lord William Charles O'Brien (1793-1864), of Carton, co. Kildare. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986 historyofparliamentonline.org
See also:
- Malcomson, A. P. W. The Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland 1740-1840. Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006. GoogleBooks
- Wikipedia, William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster [1]
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