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About Mary Armstrong


G. Mary Carew m. Thomas Armstrong of Mealiff


Mary Carew, wife of Thomas Armstrong, was the sister of Juliana Carew, wife of John Armstrong, his brother.


“Landed families of Britain and Ireland - (182) Armstrong and Heaton-Armstrong of Farney Castle, Mount Heaton, Moyaliffe, and Chaffpool“ < link >

Armstrong family of Moyaliffe and Chaffpool

Armstrong, Thomas (1671-1741). Younger son of Capt. William Armstrong (c.1635-90?) and his wife Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Deane, born 1671. High Sheriff of Tipperary in the reign of Queen Anne, and said to have been an MP in the Irish Parliament. He married Mary (d. 1751), eldest daughter of Robert Carew of Castle Boro (Wexford), whose sister married his brother, and had issue:

  • (1) William Armstrong (1704-68) (q.v.);
  • (2) Andrew Armstrong (1706-40), born 1706; apprenticed to a merchant and mariner in Cork, and afterwards set up in business as a merchant by his father; he joined with others in purchasing or building a ship, the Armstrong, which he sailed himself to the West Indies with stores for the King's forces there in 1740; died unmarried on the return journey when the ship was lost with all hands;
  • (3) Rev. John Armstrong (1708-81) (q.v.);
  • (4) Rev. Robert Carew Armstrong (1709-90) of Corolanty (Offaly), born 1709; educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1729; MA 1732); rector of Shinrone (Offaly); married Jane, fourth daughter of Anthony Atkinson MP of Cangort (Offaly) and had issue one son; died 1790;
  • (5) Peter Armstrong (b. 1711); died in infancy;
  • (6) Charles Armstrong (1713-31);
  • (7) George Armstrong (1716-39), born 1716; apprenticed to a banker in Cork; died 1739;
  • (8) Alice Armstrong; married, 1719, James Ellard of Newtown (Limerick) and had issue;
  • (9) Anne Armstrong (d. 1731);
  • (10) Juliana Armstrong; died in infancy;
  • (11) Margaret Armstrong (d. 1788); married, 1738, James Dexter, Marshal of the Four Courts, Dublin, of Brannockstown (Kildare), eldest son of John Dexter of Brannockstown and Dublin and had issue four sons and four daughters; died 14 March 1788 and was buried in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin;
  • (12) Elizabeth Armstrong; married Rev. John Smyth (d. 1749) and had issue two sons;
  • (13) Mary Armstrong; married Rev. Richard Lloyd of Castle Lloyd (Limerick), eldest son of Rev. Thomas Lloyd, and had issue;
  • (14) A daughter; married John Bettridge of Forest (Tipperary) and had issue two daughters.

He acquired the Moyaliffe estate in about 1695.

He died 20 July 1741. His widow died in 1751.


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Mary Armstrong's Timeline

1674
1674
Ballyboro, Wexford, Ireland
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January 24, 1698
Fermanagh And Omagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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