Are Robert and Olivia Cuthbert related to Christopher?

The Christ Church Delgany parish register lists the baptisms of the following children of a Robert and Olivia Cuthbert:

William b 2 Sept 1810 Kilquade;

Robert b 19 Sept 1813 abode Woodstock;

Mary Anne b 22 Oct 1815 Kilcoole;

Jane baptised 14 June 1818 abode Glen of Downs; and

Robert born 23 Apr 1821, baptised 26 Apr 1821 (mother’s name spelled as Olymphia).

While there is a nineteen-year gap between the 1791 baptism of Christopher’s youngest known child and Robert and Olivia’s oldest, there is a possibility that the two families might be related since they all belonged to the same Delgany church.  

My e-friends Sheila and Barrie in England are searching for a possible link.  Is there anyone else out there who might also be able to shed some light on this?  

Was Joseph Cuthbert related to Christopher?

Faulkner's Dublin Journal of March 5th - 9th, 1765, at http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Dublin/1765/MAR.html contains the following notice under the heading Marriages:    

“Wednesday last, Mr. Joseph CUTHBERT, an eminent Taylor of the Parish of Delgenny, County of Wicklow, to Miss MEDCALF, of Windgate, in said Parish”.  

The Christ Church Delgany register shows the marriage of Joseph Cuthbert to Elizabeth Medcalf on March 7th, 1765.  This is the earliest Cuthbert marriage at Christ Church, the same church in which Christopher was married in March 1769.  Were Joseph and Christopher related? 

The only child of Joseph and Elizabeth Cuthbert that I have discovered so far is a son, Richard Cuthbert, baptised on October 13th, 1766, also at Christ Church Delgany.   This is the earliest Cuthbert baptism listed in the Delgany register. 

Christopher and Elizabeth’s children

I am eternally grateful to my friend Doreen in Ireland who first found Christopher and Elizabeth Cuthbert and their family in the Delgany parish records, getting me back one further generation.   The Parish Registers of Christ Church Delgany show the baptisms of their children:   

Mary, Nov 1769;  

Robert, May 1772;  

Christopher, Dec 1774;   

Charles, March 1776;  

William, Jan 1779 ; 

John,  Nov 1781;  and 

Jane, Jan 1791. 

The family lived at Windgate at the time of at least one of the baptisms.  

William is my great great grandfather and I’ve traced many of his descendants down to the present.  Charles was the subject of a fascinating court case which I’ll describe later on.  I would be interested in learning more about the other children and their descendants.

The Parish Registers of Christ Church Delgany are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin.  A transcription is at the Society of Genealogists Library in London.

Christopher Cuthbert was from Killincarrig

At the time of his marriage in March 1769, Christopher Cuthbert, was from Killincarrig, County Wicklow, Ireland.  A topographical dictionary from a slightly later period describes Killincarrig as a village in the parish of Delgany, barony of Rathdown, county of Wicklow, and province of Leinster, half a mile east north-east from Delgany, on the road from the village of Bray to the town of Wicklow.  Later generations of the Cuthbert family lived in Bray for over 100 years, until the early to mid 1900's. Bray is located along the coast, not far south of the city of Dublin.