Mary Peacock

From http://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2014/11/cultra-man...

DR HUGH KENNEDY, of Ballycultra, County Down, married Mary, daughter of Arthur Upton.

Dr Kennedy, a distinguished medical practitioner in Belfast during the 17th century, was physician to the 1st Earl of Donegall, who bequeathed him "£50 sterling a year (about £10,500 today) for four years, to commence within a year of my death".

He died ca 1683, and was succeeded by his son,

JOHN KENNEDY, who wedded Martha, daughter of William Stewart, of Ballylawn, County Donegal, and aunt of Robert, 1st Earl of Londonderry.

Dr Kennedy purchased the estate of Cultra in 1671 from the Earl of Clanbrassil.

David Kennedy, b. 1622

References

• The Scottish antiquary, or, Northern notes & queries. Volume 11, page 44-45 Archive.Org The following is an extract from the will of Hugh Kennedy of Ballycultra, County Down, 'Doctor of Physick.' ‘My brothers David and John, my eldest son David, my son Arthur, my third and youngest son John, my wife (Mary), daughter of Arthur Upton, my contract of marriage dated July 22, 1679.' Witnesses to will, Arthur Hamilton, John Ramsay, James Hamilton and ? Hamilton. Will proved June 26, 1685. ... Extract from Will of David Kennedy of Ballycultra, Esqr., dated April 24, 1697. ... ‘John Peacock of Lisburn, Dr. of Physick, and Mary, his wife, my sister-in-law (widow of Hugh, his brother). ... Mary, wife of John Peacock, mother of said Arthur and John ... . My sister Kennedy, now Peacock, condition to return the watch and two rings at the time limited, now past. ... Executors. My friends Arthur Upton of Castleton and Arthur Maxwell has dof Drum...’
• The Presbyterians of Ulster, 1680-1730 By Robert Whan Page 68-69 GoogleBooks Dr. Hugh Kennedy of Cultra, younger brother of David Kennedy of Cultra (d 1697) and his eldest brother John Kennedy, an apothecary in Edinburgh.

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From https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/OO... posted by Kelsey Jackson Williams 20 August 2017

I commented briefly on the questionable nature of the Dowling pedigree back when it was first brought up in 2013. Looking at it more closely, though (http://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=fr&pz=timothy+michael&...) it's clear that it's an absolute farrago of fantasy and wishful thinking. To take an example, one of the alleged children of the Gilbert Kennedy and Isabel Campbell you mention is supposed to be a certain Hugh Kennedy who married Mary Upton. This was Dr. Hugh Kennedy of Ballycultra, co. Down (see _Scottish Antiquary_ 11 [1897]: 44) but he neither had a son William nor a father Gilbert - his actual father being Oliver Kennedy, 1st of Breakath, a younger son of the Balmaclanachan family.