De Courcy Ireland and Susannah Stanley family tree by Elizabeth Rennick

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A simplified Family Tree showing some of the descendants of
De Courcy Ireland and Susannah Stanley

I acknowledge the research Elizabeth Rennick has done to put this family tree together. Thank you Elizabeth.  Copies of her book "A Family Portfolio" are available.

De Courcy Ireland (1746-10 January 1812) of Low Park, Co.Roscommon, Ireland – brother of Richard Ireland and great uncle of Richard Davies Ireland who emigrated to Australia.

De Courcy Ireland married Susannah Stanley (1713 – 31 January 1787) – daughter of James Stanley, sister of Sir Edmond Stanley MP Prime Sergeant at Law of Ireland on 4 July 1774.

De Courcy Ireland and Susannah Stanley had 13 children:

1. William Ireland JP of Co. Kildare married Dorothea Gardiner dau of Samuel Arnoldi Gardiner.

William Ireland and Dorothea Gardiner had 6 children including Rev Arnold De Courcy Ireland (died 1836) and married Lucretia Gildea (died 1881), also Frances Ireland married Lt Col Richard Ireland Stanley, 2^nd son of James  Stanley  and only brother of Edmond Stanley MP.

Rev Arnold De Courcy Ireland and Lucretia Gildea had a son De Courcy William Ireland, Chief Administrator, Upper Burma married Mary Algie.

De Courcy William Ireland and Mary Algie had 5 children including De Courcy Ireland 36^th Sikhs, KIA 1915 married Gabriel Bryon.

De Courcy Ireland and Gabriel Bryon had a son Dr. John Evan de Courcy Ireland, a Maritime Historian Ed. Marlborough. New College, Oxford. PhD Dublin.

2. James Stanley Ireland.

3. John Joseph Ireland of Co.Galway (1785/6 – 1853).

4. Richard Stanley Ireland MD of St Stephen’s Green (1786/7 – 1875).

5. Arthur Ireland JP of Galway (1788/9 – 1869) m2. Maria Keogh.  They had 2 children: Edward Ireland and John de Courcy Ireland (1844/5 - 3 August 1874) Galway.  Emigrated to Australia 1862.  Collector of Customs, Wodonga, Victoria.  Unmarried.

6. Rev Edmond Ireland MA (born 1795/6) Member of British Assoc. for the Advancement of Science.

7. George Lewis Ireland (died 1862) in Dublin and married Dorinda Walker and had 2 children:  Rev. William Stanley De Courcy Ireland MA, LLD. (born 1826) Chaplain to Lord Crewe.  First to use double surname – De Courcy Ireland and  Rev. George Lewis Ireland (born 1828), Vicar, Holy Trinity Gough Sq, London.  Unmarried.

Rev William Stanley De Courcy Ireland married Mary-Anne Caulfield Brown and had 4 children:  Their first was William Timbrell De Courcy Ireland (1862-1929) Educated at St John’s College, Cambridge.  Arrived Sth Australia 1884.  Adelaide Mounted Constable 1884.  Bought property Walleroo 1890.  Married Agnes Cameron of Kapunda, South Australia (born 1889).

William Timbrell De Courcy Ireland and Agnes Cameron had Capt. William Stanley born 1892. Captain with AIF at ANZAC.  Married Ida Adeline Walis in 1908.

Capt William Stanley De Courcy Ireland and Ida Adeline Wallis had 2 children:  Brian Kilmaine De Courcy Ireland (born 1920) married Beth May Rice and they had a son David De Courcy Ireland (born 1956) and Nona De Courcy Ireland married Leon Dedear.

Rev William Stanley De Courcy Ireland and Mary-Anne Caulfield Brown’s second child was James Caulfield De Courcy Ireland, and their third was Rev Edmond Stanley De Courcy Ireland. 

Their 4^th child was Rev Magens De Courcy Ireland (1867-1955) Educated at St Peter’s Cambridge. Vicar. Married Elizabeth Mildred Foster-Pigott.

Rev Magens De Courcy Ireland and Elizabeth Mildren Foster-Pigott had 3 children: Montague George Ireland born 1901 married Eleanor Diana and had 3 children, Eleanor Ireland married Guy Sclater in 1963, Rosamund Diana Ireland married Richard Nash and Hermione Ireland married Charles Aldous.

Rev Magens De Courcy Ireland and Elizabeth Mildren Foster-Pigott also had Arnoldi Graham De Courcy Ireland (born 1905) Killed by elephant in Uganda and Bernard William De Courcy Ireland (born 1910) married Joan Digby and had 2 children.

De Courcy Ireland and Susannah Stanley had a further 6 children after George Lewis Ireland:

8. Magdalena Ireland married John Barty Purdon.

9. Jane Ireland.

10. Anne Ireland married Roger O’Connor of Castlebar Co Mayo.

11. Susannah Ireland married Thomas Curran, Watchmaker of Dublin.

12. Elizabeth Ireland.

13. Letitia Ireland married Jesse Cole, Solicitor.


Below is the best I can do as a copy from Elizabeth Rennick's book "A Family Portfolio" of De Courcy Ireland and Susannah Stanley's family tree.

Important to note:

The above information was from Elizabeth's book but there was obviously a problem with Susannah Stanley's dates.  If she died in 1787 at the age of 74, she was born in 1713.  She had 13 children between 1774 and 1787  -  hardly possible.  Those dates also indicate she was 61 when she married and had her first child - even more impossible.

I have tried (with much difficulty) to solve this problem.  The best I can do until someone else can enlightens us, is post what I believe to be more correct.

Susanna(h) Stanley was born 1757 in Hoey's Court, Dublin and died 1832.  She married DeCourcy Ireland on 4 July 1774 in Dublin, Ireland.

Together they had at least 9 children:

1. Magdalen Ireland born 1774.  Married1 John Batty Purdon (1775-1822) in 1800.  Married2 John Edward Blakerey R.M.L.I. (1762-1853) in 1822 in Greenhall, Co.Roscommon, Ireland.

2. William Ireland D.L.J.P. born 1776 and died 3 March 1853 in Lower Gardiner St, Dublin, Ireland. Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace.

3. Richard Stanley Ireland  F.R.C.S.E. born 1786 in Low Park and died 13 March 1875 at 121 Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland.  Married 8 September 1847 at St Peter's Dublin South, Ireland.

4. John Joseph Ireland J.P.Esq. born 1787 and died 30 June 1853 in Eyre-square, Galway, Ireland.
Justice of the Peace.

5. Arthur Ireland Esq. born 1789 and died 3 October 1864 in College Road, Galway, Ireland.

6. Edmond Stanley Ireland M.A. born 1789 and died 18 June 1851 at 2 St James Place, Middlesex, London, England. Member of British Association for the Advancement of Science.

7. Susanna Ireland born 1792 Ireland and died 21 June 1870 in China Terrace, Middlesex, London.  Married Thomas Curran.

8. George Lewis Ireland Esq. born 1793 in Ireland and died January 1862 Dublin, Ireland.

9. Letita Charlotte Ireland born 1802 Ireland and died 1873 in New Hampton, Middlesex, London.

Sir Edmond Stanley 1760 - 1843, brother of Susannah Stanley.

Edmond Stanley born 7 December 1760 and died May 1843 in Richmond, Surrey, U.K.  His father was James Stanley, mother Jane Kelly and sister Susannah Stanley, wife of DeCourcy Ireland.

Wikipedia says: Sir Edmond Stanley, SL (1760-1843 was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician who served as Serjeant-at-Law of the Parliament of Ireland, Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, now Penang, and subsequently Chief Justice of Madras. 

Born in Dublin in 1760, Stanley was baptised at St Werburgh's Church, Dublin, a parish situated next to Dublin Castle attended by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and members of the court.  He was the son of James Stanley, an attorney, and his wife Jane Kelly, and grandson of Edward Stanley of Low Park, County Roscommon, the head of a colonial, Protestant Ascendancy family.  He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1773, aged thirteen year old, was a scholar in 1777 and graduated B.A. in 1778.  He entered the King's Inns where he was called to the Irish Bar, and the Inner Temple in London, and became a bencher of the King's Inns in 1789.

In 1786 he married Jane Talbot, daughter of the Reverend John Talbot of Mount Talbot, County Roscommon.  They had one daughter Mary Anne who married Captain Edward Trant Bontein in 1815.  The marriage caused considerable scandal as the couple eloped to Gretna Green when the bride was only 14.  The groom, a widower was 29.

Edmond Stanley entered the Parliament of Ireland as MP for Augher 1790-1797.  He served as Third Serjeant in 1793 and from 1795-1801, and was appointed Prime Serjeant 1801-1802.  He resigned as Serjeant in 1802, apparently because of his massive debts.  Possibly because of these debts he sold the family estates in Roscommon and moved to London.  He repaired his fortunes sufficiently to buy an estate in Pembrokeshire.  He was Commissioner of Appeals 1795-1798, and became Commissioner of Accounts in 1802.  He voted with the government against a proposal for an enquiry into the causes of the 1798 Rising, and (again with the Administration) in favour of the Act of Union 1800 in 1799 and 1800 which dissolved and abolished the Parliament of Ireland.  In 1798 he was sent under a special commission to Cork to preside at the treason trials held there in the wake of the Rising.  He was knighted in 1807.

The court system in Prince of Wales Ireland became fully developed as a consequence of the 1807 Charter of Justice, whereby the British Crown established the right to a permanent Court of Judicature in the settlement of Penang.  This was followed by the appointment of the first Supreme Court judge in 1807, designated as the "Recorder" and Sir Edmond Stanley assumed office in 1808 as the First Recorder of the Supreme Court of Penang, where he is acknowledged as such and honoured to this day by the Penang Bar.  At the same time, Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, was the first registrar of the Supreme Court.  (The designation of "Judge" was subsequently substituted for that of "Recorder").  The Supreme Court of Penang, which was first housed at Fort Cornwallis, was opened on 31 May 1808.

Edmond Stanley left Penang in Decmeber 1816 on being transferred to the Madras Presidency in 1817 as puisne judge.  He was subsequently appointed as Chief Justice of the Madras Supreme Court on 17 May 11820 in succession to Sir John Henry Newbolt.

Edmond served until his resignation on 28 January 1825 when he retired to England.  He died in Richmond, Surrey in 1843.  He was buried alongside his wife in the catacombs fo Kensal Green Cemetery.  He left his property to his daughter Mrs Bontein, on condition that she and her sons take the name Stanley.  She died in Brussels in 1881.

The Heraldic Register 1849-1850 

with an Annotated Obituary by J.Bernard Burke Esq.

Rev Edmond Stanley Ireland , son of DeCourcy & Susannah Ireland. (page 83).

Ireland as borne by the Rev Edmond Stanley Ireland, MA, Rector of Bicknor, Kent, and officially curate of Brookesby, co.Leicester, fifth son of the late DeCourcy Ireland Esq, of Low Park, co.Roscommon, and Bethlem, co.Weatmeath, by Susanna, his wife, sister of Sir Edmond Stanley, M.P., Prime Serjeant of Ireland, a descendant from a younger branch of the noble house of Derby.  The Rev.Edmond Stanley Ireland's eldest brother, William Ireland Esq, of Robertson and Annsborough House, Co.Kildare, represents a junior branch of the very ancient and knightly family of Ireland, Lords of the Hutt, and Hale Hall, Co.Lancaster, the last of whom in possession was the second Sir Gilbert Ireland who died in 1675.  Their lineal ancestor, Sir John de Ireland, flourished in the time of the Conquerer, A.D.1066 and from that period to the reign of Charles 11, the direct line of descent is given in the Harl. MSS.  William Ireland Esq, of Robertson, is also heir general of the noble house of DeCourcy, created Baron Kingsale by patent, A.D.1181.  (See Peerage and Landed Gentry, edition 1850).

Arms - Gu.six fleurs-de-lis, 3,2,and 1, arg.with an annulet, for filial distinction.
Crest - a dove.  Arg. in the beak a sprig of laurel vertical.
Motto - Amor et pax.

Memorials at Abingdon Pigotts, Cambridgeshire.

Hermoine de Courcy-Ireland and Charles Aldous (1971-1972)
 in the church yard at Abingdon Pigotts, Cambridgeshire.

Montague George De Courcy-Ireland (1901-1987) and Eleanor Diana De Courcy-Ireland (1904-1988).
Son of Rev Magens DeCourcy-Ireland (1867-1955) and Rector at Abingdon Pigotts, Cambridgeshire.

If you have any comments, corrections or additions to make, please contact the author, Joy Olney via email - joyolney@gmail.com