Christopher Cuthbert’s Son, William Cuthbert, and his Family

In my March 13th, 2010 post, I wrote about Christopher Cuthbert’s son, Charles Cuthbert, and his unfortunate marriage to Hannah Darling.  At the present time I have no additional information about Charles or his descendants, if any.   

So I’ll leave Charles for now, and in today’s post I’ll write about Charles’s brother, William Cuthbert (my great great grandfather) and his wife and family.

On Sept 24th, 1812, William Cuthbert and Margaret Dalton were married by licence in St. Paul’s Church (Church of Ireland) in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.  The Dublin Consistorial Office marriage licence books that I saw at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in 2007 (Film # 0,100,227) say that the licence was issued September 23rd, 1812;   that William was a Gentleman from Windgates, County Wicklow;   and that Margaret was a spinster from Dublin. Since she is shown as being from Dublin, rather than from County Dublin, could this mean she was from Dublin city?

William had been baptized on January 17th, 1779, in Christ Church Delgany.  The baptism would likely have taken place not long after his birth and so he may have been born in early 1779.   The burial information for St. Paul’s Church cemetery in Bray says that William Cuthbert (grave number 305) of Church Terrace died October 8th, 1843, at age 63 which would make his birth around 1779 or 1780. 
(See http://homepage.eircom.net/~genbruce/MyGenealogy/6Stpauls1.html  and http://homepage.eircom.net/~genbruce/MyGenealogy/6Stpauls8.html )

From her age at death in 1879 (84), Margaret would have been born around 1795.  Her place of birth is not yet known for certain.  The Bray Historical Society has no records of Church of Ireland Daltons in Bray in the 1700s, although there were C. of I. Daltons in Bray in the 1600s.  Margaret’s  parents are not noted in the St. Paul’s marriage register, nor are the names of the witnesses.   

William and Margaret had eleven children, all baptized in St. Paul’s Church in Bray.  I found the following dates of their baptisms in the St. Paul’s Church Register of Baptisms, Burials, Marriages when I was at the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin in October 1999:

Elizabeth on November 14th, 1813;  

Eleanor in October 1st, 1815;  

Robert Benjamin on October 5th, 1817 (died young);  

George Christopher on September 5th,1819; 

Jane on October 7th, 1821 (died young);  

William on April 4th, 1823;  

Jane on June 25th, 1826;  

Richard on Feb. 1st, 1828;   

Susanna on November 13th,1831;  

Robert (my great grandfather) on October 12th, 1834;  and 

Margaret on June 10th, 1838.  

All nine of the children of William and Margaret Cuthbert who survived to adulthood were married, many of them in St. Paul’s Church in Bray. 

On January 1st, 1836, at St. Paul’s, their oldest child, Elizabeth,  married David BEGGS, Gentleman, of St. Mary's, Dublin.

Seven years after that, in 1843,  William died at age 63, before seeing the rest of his children married.

On June 12th, 1847,  at St. Paul’s, their second child, Eleanor, married Benjamin BUCKLEY, a farmer of Kilmurray Parish, Delgany, son of John Buckley, a farmer.

On December 7th, 1854, their eighth child, Richard married Margaret CAREY, in the Parish of Lusk, north of Dublin, daughter of Thomas Carey, ship owner and merchant.  After Margaret’s death on January 13th, 1879, Richard married Elizabeth Mary Westropp McDONALD of Farran Kelly on May 6th, 1880, at 1 Manders Terrace, Dublin, daughter of Francis McDonald, Esquire, of Farran Kelly, Delgany, Co Wicklow. 

On March 13th, 1855,  at St. Paul’s, their seventh child, Jane, married Francis CAREY of Rogerstown House, son of the same Thomas Carey who was father of Margaret Carey.  And on the same day at St. Pauls, ninth child, Susanna married John DOYLE of Graystones, south of Bray, a grocer, son of John Doyle, also a grocer.     

On May 13th, 1862 at St. Paul’s, sixth child, William, married a widow, Eleanor CARROLL (nee DALTON), of Bray, daughter of John Dalton, grocer.  After her death, he married widow Annie Macfarlane (nee Davidson) at Carlisle Road Presbyterian Church in Londonderry on April 29th, 1869, daughter of Daniel Davidson, a ship’s captain.  William and Annie lived in Londonderry for a time where Annie owned a hotel named the Neptune.

  

On February 24th, 1866, fourth child, George Christopher,  married Emily ROWE in the Registrar's Office, Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), daughter of William Rowe, farmer.

On September 7th of the same year, 1866, tenth child, Robert (my great grandfather) married Maria BEGGS, daughter of Ebenezer Beggs, coach proprietor, in St. Kevin’s Church in the Parish of St. Peter in Dublin.

And on November 13th, 1871, the youngest child, Margaret, married Ralph VALENTINE, merchant, son of Thomas Valentine, farmer, in the Parish Church, Parish of Bray in the County of Wicklow (not sure if this was St. Paul’s or Christ Church, Bray, which was built in 1863.

My aim has been to trace the descendants of these marriages down to the present day.  In a number of cases I have been successful in finding living relatives in various parts of the world including England and Jordan!  Now we can share information about the history of our family

In a future post, I’ll write about the coal business which Margaret (Dalton) Cuthbert continued to operate after her husband William’s death, transporting coal in her own sailing ships from Whitehaven in England to the harbour in Bray, just south of Dublin.   

Some of William and Margaret’s sons obtained qualification as Master Mariners (ships’ captains) and sailed to ports as far away as to the gold rush at Ballarat, Australia, in the 1850’s, and to Quebec City, Canada, in 1861.  Their exploits as seafarers will also be the subject of some future posts.