William Dungan

William Dongan, the second son, was Recorder of the City of Dublin. His County Kildare possessions were :— The Manor towns and lands of Curryhills and Lougtown, and the head-rents of the lands of Whyteston, Fleshton, Coullgaffy, Horeston, and Corbellston, portions of the said Manor, which were held of the King.

• In Clane, 4 messuages and 85 acres.
• The lands of Cappagh and Corkagh.
• The lands of Grangeclare, Robenstown, and Eilbeg. (source: County Kildare Chancery Inquisition, Mo. 58 of Charles I)

His will was dated 16th November, 1622; the overseers to it were:— Sir Nicholas Whyte, Kt., of Leixlip; Sir Walter Dongan, Bart., his brother; Sir William Talbot, Kt., of Carton; and his servant, Gerald Keating, of Dublin. His death took place ou the llth December, 1622 ;'-' and he was buried with his parents in St. John's Church, Dublin. By his wife, Slany O'Brien,3 daughter of Murrough, 4th Baron of Inchiquin, he left four daughters and one son, viz.:— Honora, Mary, Margaret, and More. The son was John Dongan, of Curryhills, who was seven years of age when his father died, and did not long survive, as he too died on the 28th of February, 1685-6.4 In his will, which was dated on the same day as his death took place, he left the property he succeeded to, to his cousin, Sir John, of Castletown, and requested that his body should be buried in St. John's Church, near his father ,and grandfather. He does not appear to have married; anyhow he died without issue.

Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society, Vol. 4 at 67

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Per Thomas P. Dungan's "John Dongan, an Elizabethan Gentleman", first published in 1988 on pages 101 through 117 of the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 118, this William Dongan b. ~1583 was fostered with the family of William Clarke and Mary Weston, whose son Jeremy would go on to become the 2nd husband of Frances Latham after the decease of her 1st husband, William Dongan 'the Perfumer', b. 1607.

William Clarke, Esq.

A digital copy of that article can be obtained online through JSTOR.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/25508949?loggedin=true&seq=1#page_scan_...

Frances Latham and William 'the Perfumer' Dongan are ancestors of several of my autosomal DNA matches.