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What follows below are a number of snippets of information, beguiling pieces of a jigsaw missing the remaining perhaps two thirds, and that is only from the late 1700s. Before then are the dark ages of Irish Mordaunt family history.
This page is regularly added to or corrected as I discover or am given more information. Any information you can provide about your family members, past or present, would be very welcome. Please forward to henry@mordaunt.me.uk.
This page was last amended on 30th April, 2012.
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Preamble
The problem with doing any family history research in Ireland is the paucity of the records for all but the wealthiest of families prior to 1864 when the registration of births deaths and marriages was introduced in Ireland. On top of that, all census records prior to 1901 were burnt in the Civil War in 1921. Researchers are limited to whatever other records do survive of which, for land-holding families, the most important are the Tithe Applotment lists (1827 - 1831), the Griffiths (rating) Valuation (1848 - 1863) and surviving church and individual estate records.
The good news for Mordaunts is that a number were land-holding and that the name was comparatively rare and so is easy to pick out. The bad news is that closely related families chose all the same few names for their children making separating out who was who extra difficult.
For the serious researcher, there is no substitute for going to the Irish National Record Office in Dublin. However, some records are available via the Internet, including now the 1901 and the 1911 Ireland censuses.
What took the Mordaunts to Ireland
The other pages on this site relate how the Mordaunts were part of the Norman invasion of England and were known to have established themselves by 1197 in Bedfordshire. At some time, one or more of the younger sons of some branch of the family made their way to Ireland. In the Griffiths 'Valuation of Tenements' (1848 - 1863) are named a Cath. Mordaunt (daughter of George), Cath. (daughter of Patrick), Denis, Ellen, Michael and Stephen Mordaunt in County Wexford, Luke Mordaunt in Dublin and Judith Mordaunt in County Wicklow. This did not include poorer, non-landholding Mordaunts living in lodgings. Given the preponderance of Mordaunts in Wexford it seems that the family settled here first. Whether Luke in Dublin was part of this family or a separate arrival, I do not know.
It is frustrating not being able to find how this group, descended from the Norman French invaders of England of 1066 ended up as tenant farmers County Wexford, but while I have not found when, who, why and how Mordaunts settled in Ireland, there was, historically, a substantial movement of Catholic English emigrants to Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Given the number of Mordaunt family groups in County Wexford in the late 1700s, it does suggest the family had been settled there for several generations and it is a possibility that they were part of that same historic movement and so the reasons for it may be worth briefly exploring.
First one must overcome any idea that, in the religious struggles of the 16th/17th centuries, the population of England changed from Catholic to Protestant overnight. A great many of those brought up as Catholics may have attended the official services to keep out of trouble but in their hearts and at home they remained Catholic. They are referred to as “Church Catholics,” that is, Catholics who attended the Protestant church on Sundays (defined by someone at the time as “Papists who can keep their consciences to themselves”). The fine for missing a church service, that is, being a “recusant,” over a year amounted to more than a yeoman’s annual income and church baptisms and marriages were also compulsory. Only the very rich could afford the “luxury” of being a recusant. There are numerous instances among the peerage of the head of the family publicly conforming, going to the church and taking the requisite Oath of Supremacy, and therefore saving the family estates from sequestration or the children from being seized and fostered elsewhere, enabling the rest of the family and servants to continue relatively untroubled in the “old faith.” (Having saved the family fortune they then hoped for the opportunity of a “death-bed conversion” to save their own eternal souls).
The anti-Catholic religious laws of England were not enacted or enforced with such rigour in Ireland and there is ample evidence of fervent Protestants lamenting the rampant “popery” they witnessed in Ireland. As such, Ireland became the destination for some seeking a refuge from the severity of the English persecution. Even when “plantations” were set aside for English Protestants to move into, as part of the English government’s pacification of Ireland policy, many of these new colonists were “Church Catholics” who, once established in Ireland, felt able to revert to a more open practice of the old faith.
Records from all over Ireland show farm tenancies taken up by English Catholic, whether recusant or Church Catholic, immigrants. Sir George Calvert, later Lord Baltimore, who was to found Maryland as a Catholic colony on the American continent, acquired the Cloghamon estate in north County Wexford and recruited tenants from England to farm his holdings. “Estate documents of 1638 show that the majority of these tenants were Catholics recruited from Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire and elsewhere” (“The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland,” Alan Ford & John MacCafferty, C.U.P., 2005).
This was a time when Catholicism stubbornly persevered among branches of the Mordaunt family in England. In Elizabethan and Jacobean times, members of the Mordaunt family were, in the view of the Protestant government, “notorious” recusants and even as late as 1750s there are records, for example, of Catholic Mordaunt farmers and labourers in Lancashire and a Catholic Mordaunt freeholder in Devon.
While the government in Ireland was aware of this happening, the English Catholics who had moved over retained a loyalty to the notion of England’s right to rule Ireland and therefore were not considered the prime security risk. They may have been waiting for the Queen or King to die and for better things in the future but they were not seen as potential rebels, unlike the Catholic Irish. So, except for the periods of extreme Protestant fervour and repression, such as under Cromwell, life for English Catholics in Ireland in general remained that much easier than in England.
So, one possibility is that the first Mordaunts in Ireland were among these religious refugees.
Another possibility is the curious tale of a marriage of an Osmund Mordaunt to Mary Bulger, reportedly from "Liraan nr.Gorey in Ireland," in the church of St. Peter Cornhill, London, on 25th June 1673. I say "curious tale" because this entry in the register is clearly a clumsy and incompetant forgery naming Osmund as the son of John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Avalon, which was denounced in the 18th century as part of a fraudulent claim to the dormant Mordaunt barony. This ignores the fact that this Osmund/Osmond would only have been about 3 or 4 years old at the time and that there is no record of any claim having been made either to the College of Heralds or to the Privileges Committee of the House of Lords. But, supposing there was a genuine entry of an Mordaunt which someone, at a later date, doctored for some unknown reason. Bulger is and was a common name around Gorey. "Liraan" is surely Lyrane, near Gorey. So much of this resonates of the truth. If it is a complete forgery, the forger did his homework. So, is it possible that a Mordaunt did marry a Bulger from Gorey in London and then moved to her home town in Co. Wexford, starting the Wexford branch of the Mordaunt family?
It is not possible to say whether Mordaunts went first to Dublin or to Wexford, but as migration is usually from the land to the city, I suspect the latter. Of course, one or more Mordaunts may have gone to Wexford and another or others went to Dublin and then many Wexford Mordaunts would have moved to Dublin for work. Records based on property, such as the rating valuations, and to a lesser extent the censuses, show more family groups in Wexford and just over the border in Wicklow but birth, death and marriage records from 1865 show more activity in Dublin, suggesting perhaps more poorer families in Dublin, more likely to be missed by the census.
* Yeoman - A man holding a small landed estate; a freeholder under the rank of a gentleman; hence vaguely, a commoner or countryman of respectable standing, esp. one who cultivates his own land.
Dublin
- Elizabeth Mordaunt was godmother to John Drennan in December 1778 in St. Audoen's parish, Dublin.
- John Mordaunt married Mary Butler at St. Andrew's Church, Dublin, on 16th January, 1793.
- Eleanor Mordaunt was buried at St. Paul's Church of Ireland church in Dublin on 19th March 1793
- Patrick Mordaunt appears in a WorldVitalRecords.com transcription of a 1851 Dublin census at 6, Halpins Row, St. Thomas's North.
- Michael Mordaunt (b. abt 1780s/early 1790s), a painter, according to Tim Wheeler doing research into this branch of the family, appears on his son's marriage certificate in Liverpool. The son:
- Luke Mordaunt is listed in the 1853 Griffiths valuation occupying 66 Bride Street, St. Bridget, the immediate lessor being a Samual Murray. Luke himself was listed as the immediate lessor of nos. 62, 62 1/2, 63 and 64 which were let out to tenants and lodgers. Could he have been the Luke Mordant (sic), born 1822, whose death was registered in Dublin South in 1868?
- Ellen Mordaunt and her husband Michael Ford were the parents of
- William Mordaunt was a witness at the marriage of Wm Woolley and Eliza Carpenter at St Thomas's, Dublin.
- Edward Mordaunt and his wife Maria Phelan registered the births of the following children
- William Mordaunt (27th July 1864 - ?) in Dublin
- Margaret Mordaunt (23rd April 1875 - ?) in Dublin, Well, so says one source, but another source has Margaret Frances Mordaunt, daughter of Edward Mordaunt and Mary Whelan, baptised at St. Andrew's Church, Dublin, in 1874. Just coincidence?
- George Mordaunt and his wife Grace Cullen registered the births of the following children
- Michael John Mordaunt (16th May 1865 - ?) in Dublin
- Elizabeth Mary Mordaunt (14th September 1866 - ?) in Dublin
- Luke David Mordaunt (12th September 1868 - ?) in Dublin. Luke is not that common a name which leads me to speculate whether he is the grandson of the Luke, above, named in the Griffiths Valuation.
- Eliza Mordaunt and her husband Joseph Grant were the parents of
- Either George Mordaunt and his wife Esther Henry, according to the parish baptismal record transcribed on irishgenealogies.ie, or Patrick Mordant (sic) and Esther Cleary, according to the birth registration transcript on familysearch.org, of 63 Watling Street were the parents of
- Patrick Mordaunt (19th October 1880 - ?) baptised in St James' Church, Dublin, on 24th October, 1880. Sponsors were a Patrick Mordaunt and a Catherine Mordaunt.
The death of an Esther Mordaunt (abt.1858 - 1917), aged 59 years, was registered in the Dublin South district, according to a familysearch.org transcription. The dates allow the possibility that she was Patrick's mother.
- Charlotte Mordaunt was a sponsor at the baptism of Elizabeth Mary Hughes at Sts Michael and John's, Dublin, in 1894. I have found no other Charlotte in any other Irish or English record to identify her.
- Maria Mordaunt married James Duffy of 8 Hamilton Row they had a son:
- Grace Mordant (sic) (abt. 1826/31 - 1906), (née Cullen), born in Co. Dublin, was a widow in the 1901 census, living in a large 10 room house with her 60 year-old sister, Brigid Cullen, at house 691 in Terenure Road, Rathmines. The census suggests a birth year of 1831 but the death register suggests 1826.
- Essey Mordaunt (abt. 1851 ?), a widow, born in County Kildare, was living at a house 10.2 in James's Street, Ushers Quay, in the 1901 census, squeezed into one room in a house shared with five other families. She was working as a wash woman. The whole family could read but not write. None the family were recorded in the 1911 census
- Kate Mordaunt (b. abt. 1887), born in Dublin city, was working as a room keeper in the 1901 census. She was not listed in the 1911 census, at least not under the name Mordaunt.
- Patrick Mordaunt (b. abt. 1889), born in Dublin, was given no occupation in the 1901 census. He was not listed in the 1911 census.
- Josephena Mordaunt (b. abt. 1891), born in Dublin, was at school in the 1901 census. She was not listed in the 1911 census, at least not under the name Mordaunt.
- Margaret Mordant (sic) (abt. 1863 - ?), (née Towsen), born in Co. Dublin and described in the 1901 census as a widow and houskeeper, living with her parents in house 1 in Hacketsland, Killiney. She is presumably the Margaret Mordant ( b. abt. 1861), born in Dublin, a widow, described in the 1911 census as a servant at house no. 122 Greystones Town, Greystones, to Edward Dawson Fry, a commercial agent, Nora, his musician wife, and their one child in a large 12 room house.
- Edward Mordaunt (abt. 1866 - 1957), born in Dublin, was a Jesuit lay brother who entered the Novitiate at Dromore, County Down, in 1885. He appeared in the 1901 census as a lay brother/tailor in the Jesuit house at no. 6.1 in Milltown (part of Sandford Road), Rathmines & Rathgar East.
- William Mordaunt (abt. 1870 - ?), was born in Dublin and in 1901 was a commercial clerk with a mineral water manufacturer. His wife, Jennie/Jane Kinsella (abt. 1884 - ?) was born in County Wicklow. They seem to have married in Dublin North district in 1899. At the 1901 census they were living in house 6 in Drumcondra Road, West Side, Drumcondra; their son Cecil's age was given as 3.5 years but this was presumably 3.5 months! By the 1911 census he was working in Bray, Co. Wicklow, as the secretary of the mineral water company, living at 8, Brennann's Terrace, a substantial ten roomed house. Living with them at both censuses was Jane's widowed mother, Elizabeth Kinsella, (b. abt 1845).
- Cecil E. Mordaunt (abt. 1901 - 1911), born in Dublin, died before the 1911 census
- William E. Mordaunt (1902 - ?), born in Dublin.
- Harry Mordaunt (b. abt. 1904), born in Dublin. Was his full name Heny Claud Mordaunt? The death of a Henry Claud Mordaunt (abt. 1903 - 1928) was registered in Rathdrum in 1928.
- Mary Mordaunt (b. abt. 1909), born in Dublin,
- Alice Mordaunt (abt. 1870/71 - 1816), was, at the 1901 census, already a widow, born in Dublin, with no employment, a visitor at the Spince household at house no. 10.2 in James's Street, Ushers Quay. She was recorded again in the 1911 census as a housekeeper, boarding at 36 Annesley, Mountjoy, Dublin. The death of an Alice Mordaunt, born about 1869, was registered in 1916.
- Julia Mordant (sic) (abt. 1867 - 1935?), born in Dublin, unmarried, was, at the 1901 census, running a 13 room boarding house with two cooks and 6 boarders at house 73, Lower Gardiner Street, North Rock. She was missing from the 1911 census. The death of a Julia Mordaunt, born about 1865, was registered in Dublin South in 1935
- Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1847 - 1912), was recorded in the 1911 census, born in Dublin, a widow, described as a housekeeper and lodging (?) at 6 Drumcondra Road Lower, Drumcondra, Dublin. Her death was recorded in Dublin North
- Catherine Mordaunt (abt. 1860 - ?), aged 51, born in Dublin, unmarried, no employment , described in the 1911 census as a visitor with no employment at 26 Earl Street, Mountjoy, Dublin, the home/business of Elizabeth Sheridan, grocer and victualler.
- William Joseph Mordaunt (1867 - ?), his birth registered in Dublin North district. He was described as a carpenter, married to Elizabeth (abt. 1867 - 1924?), born Kingstown. At the 1901 census they were living at house 44.1 in Pleasant Street, Fitzwilliam, squashed into 3 rooms, and at the 1911 census were in living at 4 Clanbrassil, Lower East Side, Wood Quay, Dublin, nine in the family squeezed into two rooms. By 1911 they had had 7 children, 5 had survived. The death of a Elizabeth Mordaunt, age given as 55 years was registered in Dublin South district in 1924.
- Alice M. Mordaunt (b. abt. 1887), born in Dublin city, a tailoress in 1911.
- Elizabeth Mordaunt (b. abt. 1891), born in Dublin, also a tailoress, married for two years to John Flynn, aged 26 years, born in Dublin and described as a packer in ironware. They were living with her parents.
- Elizabeth Flynn (b. abt. 1910)
- Eva Mordaunt (b. abt. 1895), born in Dublin, no employment in 1911.
- James Mordaunt (b. abt. 1896 - 1907), born in Dublin, is listed in the 1901 census but died before the 1911 census. His death was registered in Dublin South district
- Eileen Mordaunt (1899 - ?), born in Dublin, at school in 1911. She was presumably the Eileen whose marriage was registered in Dublin South in 1922
- Florence Mordaunt (b. abt. 1908), born in Dublin, at school in 1911. The marriage of a Florence Mordaunt was registered in Dublin South in 1924
- Mary Mordaunt ( b. abt. 1889), born in Dublin, unmarried, described in the 1911 census as a domestic servant to the O'Donnells at 13 De Courcy Square, Glasnevin Ward, Dublin.
- Mary Anne Mordaunt (b. abt. 1890), born in Dublin, had, at the 1911 census no employment and was unmarried, living/staying with an uncle and aunt, James and Johana Nolan, at 3 Fitzwilliam Quay, Pembroke East, Dublin.
- Edward Mordaunt (b. abt. 1896), aged 15, born in Dublin, described as a street trader, was, at the 1911 census boarding at a "Catholic boys home" at 72 Abbey Street, Middle North City, Dublin.
- Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1871 - ), born in Dublin, was, at the 1911 census unmarried, lodging with the Bramble family at 54 Shelbourne Road, Pembroke West, Dublin. I think she could possibly have been the Wexford born Mary Mordaunt (below) who at the 1901 census was working as a cook in Hollybrook Road, Clontarf.
- Luke David Mordant (sic) (abt. 1869 - 1948), born in Dublin, does not appear in the 1901 census. In the 1911 census he was described as "deriving income as householder," was living with his wife, Teresa E. (abt. 1873 - 1946) at house no. 45 in Rock Road, Blackrock.
- George William (b. abt. 1901). The marriage of a George W. Mordaunt was registered in the Dublin South district in 1942. Was he also the 42 year-old garda detective George Mordaunt murdered by IRA gunmen Harry White and Maurice O'Neill at 14 Holly Road, Donnycarney, on October 24th 1942?
- Maria Mordaunt (abt. 1841 - ?), born in Dublin City, was a widow and dressmaker in the 1901 census, occupying two rooms in house 8.3 Hamilton Row, giving her age as 60 years. Curiously she filled in the census form herself as Maira, but signed it at the bottom as Maria. She is possibly the same person as:
- Maria Mordant (sic) (abt. 1836 - ?), born in Dublin City and described in the 1911 census as a 75 year-old old pensioner and dressmaker, was living in a sort of bedsit, a single room in a tenement building, at 1.3 Davott's Parade, South Dock.
The death of a Maria Mordaunt (b. abt. 1845), age given as 68 years, was registered in Dublin South district in 1913. Were they all the same person?
- Esther Mordant (sic) (abt. 1851 - 1948), born in County Kildare, an illiterate widow, was, at the time of the 1911 census living in one room in house no. 3.1 in Keogh's Cottages, Usher's Quay with her daughter:
- Josephine (abt. 1891 - ?), born in Dublin City, was working as a laundress at the 1911 census.
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1880 - ?), recorded as born in Dublin, was listed in the UK 1901 census as a gunner in the Royal Artillery stationed at a barracks in Dorset.
- William Mordant (sic) (abt. 1887/8 - 1918?), born in Dublin City and described in the 1911 census as a carpenter lodging in a massive tenement of 563 rooms in Bride Street, Wood Quay. The death of a William Mordaunt, born about 1887 was registered in Dublin South in 1918.
- Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1848 - 1916). Whoever she was, her death was registered in Dublin South district in 1916.
Unplaced (by me) Mordaunts from the deaths registers
- The death of a Susan Mordaunt (abt. 1800 - 1882) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a John Mordaunt (abt. 1815 - 1882) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of an Edward Mordaunt (abt. 1825 - 1895) was registered in Rathdown district.
- The death of an Edmund Mordaunt (abt. 1831 - 1881) was registered in Dublin North district.
- The death of a Margaret Mordaunt (abt. 1831 - 1887) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a George Mordaunt (abt. 1835 - 1875) was registered in Dublin South district. He does not quite fit as any of the Georges above.
- The death of a Marie Mordaunt (abt. 1839 - 1893) was registered in Rathdown district.
- The death of an Edward Mordaunt (abt. 1840 - 1900) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a Peter Mordaunt (abt. 1845 - 1869) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of an Anne Mordaunt (1845 - 1902) was registered in Rathdown district. I have not traced her in the 1901 census.
- The death of a Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1851 - 1899) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a Miles Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1857 - 1877) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1857 - 1908) was registered in Dublin North district.
- The death of a Margaret Mordaunt (abt. 1859 - 1899) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a John Mordaunt (abt. 1863 - 1904) was registered in Dublin South district. I have not traced him in the 1901 census.
- The death of a ten year-old Michael John Mordaunt (abt. 1865 - 1875) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a Honora Mordaunt (1867 - 1902) was registered in Dublin South district. A distictive name. I have not traced her in the 1901 census.
- The death of an Eliza Mordaunt (abt. 1870 - 1926) was registered in Dublin North district. I have not traced her in the 1901 or 1911 censuses.
- The death of a four year-old Margaret Mordaunt (abt. 1875 - 1879) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a baby Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1879 - 1879) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a two year-old Edward Mordaunt (abt. 1875 - 1879) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a Catherine Mordaunt (1883 - 1930) was registered in Dublin North district. I have not traced her in either the 1901 or 1911 censuses.
- The death of a Kate Mordaunt (1889 - 1939) was registered in Dublin South district. I have not traced him in either the 1901 or 1911 censuses.
- The death of a one year-old Gerrard Mordaunt (1890 - 1891) was registered in Dublin North district.
- The death of a four year-old Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1892 - 1889) was registered in Dublin North district.
- The death of a John Mordaunt (1892 - 1935) was registered in Dublin South district. I have not traced him in either the 1901 or 1911 censuses.
- The death of a four year-old John Mordaunt (abt. 1897 - 1901) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a baby Julia Mordaunt (1901 - 1901) was registered in Dublin South district.
- The death of a baby Patrick Brazil Mordaunt (1902 - 1902) was registered in Dublin South district. Brazil, that is what the familysearch.org transcript has!
County Kilkenny
- "Jack" Mordaunt (about 1780s? - ?) seems to have been a painter. In around 1820 he was living and working in Graignamanagh, Kilkenny. Graignamanagh is on the eastern border of Kilkenny, close to county Wexford, which suggests that he may have originally have come from Wexford but still might well have come down from Dublin. That is certainly the direction his trackable offspring went.
- Ralph Mordaunt (abt. 1808 - 1890) like his father was a painter and he later worked as a painter at the Botanic Gardens in Dublin. I am rather making the assumption that ther was only one Ralph Mordaunt and that all references in that name are to him. The article below says he was leader of the band in 1829 when he would have been only about 21 years.
I do not know where this journal article came from. I found the photocopies in my father's papers after his death.
There is an Internet reference to this ghostly phenomenon near the bottom of this link.
Ralph moved to Dublin where a Ralph Mordaunt and his wife Margaret were the named parents of
The above article says clearly that Ralph also had sons
- P. Mordaunt, (Patrick, possibly, or Peter?)
- T. Mordaunt, (Thomas?) (? - 1907?)
A Ralph Mordaunt appears in a WorldVitalRecords.com transcription of a 1851 Dublin census at 4, Stephen's Lane, St. Peter's. His death was registered in South Dublin but the article above states that Ralph was buried back in Graignamanagh, Kilkenny
- Thomas Mordaunt. I assume the Tom Mordaunt (painter) listed in the above articles as 1st basoonist in the Graignamanagh band was Ralph's brother. Was he the husband of Johanna below?
- Johanna Mordaunt (b. abt. 1824), a widow, born in County Kilkenny, was living at a house 9.1 in Ranelagh Road, Rathmines & Rathgar East, Dublin, in the 1901 census, squeezed into three rooms in a house shared with two other families. The fact that she was from Kilkenny, her son was called Thomas and he was a painter leads me to speculate that she may have been a relative by marriage to Ralph Mordaunt, maybe his brother(?) Thomas's wife. None of the family were recorded in the 1911 census
- Mary Mordaunt (b. abt. 1849), born in Dublin city, was simply listed as a spinster in the 1901 census. She was not listed in the 1911 census.
- Thomas K. Mordaunt (b. abt. 1854 - 1907?), born in Dublin, was a painter and contractor in the 1901 census. Was he the Thomas Keating Mordaunt who married in South Dublin in 1906? And if so, was Keating his mother's maiden name? He was not listed in the 1911 census.
- Patrick Hugh Mordaunt (abt. 1856 - 1908?), born in Dublin, was a law clerk in the 1901 census. He was not listed in the 1911 census. The death of a Patrick Mordaunt, age given as 51 years, was registered in Dublin North district in 1908. Could it have been him?
- Agnes Mordaunt (abt. 1864 - 1947?), born in Dublin, was a shopkeeper, stationary and fancy goods, in the 1901 census She was not listed in the 1911 census. The death of an Agnes Mordaunt, born about 1863 was registered in Dublin North in 1947.
The death of a Thomas Mordaunt (b. abt. 1850) was registered in the Dublin South district in early 1910. As the only Thomases at the time seem to have a Kilkenny connection, it could have been Ralph or Johanna's son.
There were no Mordaunts listed in Kilkenny in the 1901 census.
County Wexford
Confusing glimpses of the late 1700s and early 1800s
The land holding Mordaunts, the only ones for which some records are available from this time, were almost entirely based in the parish of Kilnahue, north west of Gorey, in the townlands of Ballintlea, Foxcover and Lyrane. One, Denis Mordaunt, had land several miles south of Gorey in the parish of Monamolin.
- Patrick Mordaunt (b. unknown but probably around the 1760s) - the Sales Book of the Ram Estate 1870 (which I saw in Gorey in 1982 when it was in the private possession of a local historian) refers to "a house transferred on 1st December 1805 to John Inman, as trustee to Judith and Catherine Mordaunt, daughters of Patrick Mordaunt, for their lifetime. Judith since deceased
and Catherine still alive"
- Judith Mordaunt (? - ?)
- Catherine Mordaunt (? - after 1870?)
- George Mordaunt (b. unknown but probably around the 1760s) was the father of:
- Catherine Mordaunt who was listed in the Griffiths Valuation in possession of 8 acres in Ballintlea from Denis Mordaunt and Catherine Mordaunt (Patk)
Two Catherine Mordaunts were recorded in the Griffiths valuation of about 1853
- 1. Catherine Mordaunt daughter of Patrick Mordaunt, quite possibly but not necessarily the Patrick and Catherine above. "Catherine (Patk)" was listed in possession of a farm of 42 acres in Ballintlea. She was also in joint possession with a Denis Mordaunt of 8 acres in Ballintlea sub let to "Catherine (Geo)"
- 2. Catherine Mordaunt daughter of George Mordaunt, already mentioned above.
The index of the death registers lists two Catherine Mordaunts from this time: 1790 - 1866, whom I suspect is Catherine, daughter of George, and 1791 - 1871, whom I suspect is Catherine, daughter of Patrick from the reference in the Sales Book of the Ram Estate, referred to above.
- Laurence Mordaunt (abt. 1772 - 1846) married Mary Weslain (abt. 1772 - 1846) in 1794. A gravestone inscription in a cemetery in Gorey reads:
"Erected by John Mordaunt of Ramstown in memory of his father Laurence Mordaunt who died 20th March 1846 age 74. Also his mother Mary who died 10th September 1846 age 74."
- John Mordaunt (abt. 1803 - 1873), who married Mary (? - 1865). A gravestone insciption in a cemetery in Gorey reads:
"Erected by John Mordaunt of Ramstown in memory of his wife Mary who died 8th June 1865 aged 52 years. Also two children".
A death certificate records the passing of John Mordaunt, Farmer, Age 70, at Ramstown on 1st December 1873. (Wasn't there anyone to erect his gravestone?) Curiously, no land-holding of a John Mordaunt is listed in the Griffiths Valuation 1853.
- Mary Mordaunt, a surviving daughter, married Terence Donnelly of Monaseed. (With thanks to Diedre Donnelly of Dublin,who found the connection while doing research into her family. Terence was her great-grandfather's brother. She has found no record of any children of the marriage.)
- Stephen Mordaunt (b. about 1788 - 1873) and Anne Mordaunt (b. about 1786 - 1874) - a death certificate of a Stephen Mordaunt, farmer of Lyrane, aged 85, is dated 7 May 1873. Anne died in 1874, aged 88. A witness to both death certificates was a Patrick Mordaunt but whether that was a son or another relative I do not know. The Griffiths Valuation (1850s) puts Stephen as the occupier of 126 acres in Lyrane, the immediate lessor being an Edward Doyle.
I am very confused as to what happens next. Rating records place:
- George Mordaunt in possession in 1882. Charlotte Byrne, who told me her uncle now occupies the farm, kindly contacted me to say that he married an Elizabeth Steadman.
- Stephen Mordaunt in possession in 1888. He seems to have married Anne (abt. 1841 - 1911), who, in the 1901 census, is a widow and named as head of the family. She was not listed in the 1911 census. The death of an Anne Mordaunt was registered in Gorey in the early months of 1911.
- Stephen Mordaunt (abt. 1867 or 1876 - 4th February 1952), named as the head of the family in the 1911 census. His age was given as 34 years in 1901 and as 35 years in 1911. He is buried in Craanford Cemetery, where his age was given as 82 years, indicating yet another alternative birthdate of abt. 1869. His wife, Ellen McCann (abt. 1886 - 19th March 1947), is buried with him.
- Anne Mordaunt. According to Charlotte Byrne's research, they had only one child, Anne, who married John Byrne. They had six children of whom
- Charlie Byrne married Angela Doran and had four children including Charlotte Byrne. Her uncle still farms the same land at Lyrane.
I am very grateful to Charlotte Byrne for writing to me with information about her family.
Charlotte also informed me that, sometime within the last 90 years or so, the spelling of the name within the family has evolved to Mourdant!
- Mary Anne Mordaunt (abt. 1879 - ?)
- George Mordaunt (abt 1882 - 8th May 1929). He is buried with his brother Stephen in Craanford Cemetery, his age given as 45 years.
- Elizabeth (Lizzie) Mordaunt (abt 1884 - ?), who was not in the house for the 1911 census
- James Mordaunt (abt. 1788 - 1866) – a death certificate dated 23rd December 1866, aged 78 and so born about 1788. He was married.
- Edward Mordaunt (abt. 1784 - 1852?) and Ellen Mordaunt (abt. 1791 - 1886) are recorded in the tithe applotment list, 1829, as living at Monaseed and farming land at Ballintlea, both north of Gorey in the parish of Kilnahue. I noted a daughter, Elizabeth, was born about 1828.
Edward clearly died before the Griffiths Valuation of about 1853. An Edward Mordaunt, born about 1784, is recorded as dying in Boulacrena(?) on 6th February 1854. In the Griffiths Valuation Ellen is occupying a house and acre of land in Foxcover, right on the border with Monaseed, from Hamilton K.G. Morgan, but still holding 81 acres in Ballintlea, 21 acres to a Michael Purcell and 60 acres sublet to a Martin Nowlan. The townland of Ballintlea was dominated by Mordaunts. A Michael Mordaunt was farming 56 acres, a Catherine Mordaunt (Patk.) 42 acres, Denis Mordaunt had sublet 45 acres to a Patrick Carton and 8 acres were occupied by Catherine Mordaunt (Geo.) from Denis and Catherine (Patk.) jointly.
The suggestion is a close relationship between them all, but what, precisely, I do not yet know.
Edward and Ellen are buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Monaseed.
Ellen's death certificate in 1888 gave her age as 92! which means she was born about 1791.
- Alice/Alicia Mordaunt (abt. 1826 - 15th July 1896). She is buried with her parents in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Monaseed, her age given as 70 years.
- Elizabeth Mordaunt (abt abt 1829 - 16th August 1907). She married Alexander Kinsella (abt. 1828 - 14th October 1919). They are both buried with her parents in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Monaseed, her age given as 78 years, his as 91 years.
In the 1901 census, Ellen's old lands were still in the possession of Purcells and Nolans (sic). Denis's land had been taken over by his second son Myles and in 1901 was occuped by his widow, Mary. Cath. Mordaunt (Patk.)'s land was occupied by:
- Michael Mordaunt (abt. 1828 - before 1911), whose relationship I do not know. A widower, described as a farmer in the 1901 census. Perhaps he was the Michael named in the Griffiths Valuation
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1860 - 6th May 1946), married to Sarah (abt. 1870 - 6th December 1950). He was 'head of the family' at the 1911 census. According to Myes Mordaunt, see below, he sold the farm and had a late change of occupation. Patrick and Sarah were buried in Craanford Cemetery.
- Michael Mordaunt (abt 1898 - 22nd November 1963). He is buried with his parents. It was presumably he who married Rosanna (abt. 1906 - 29th January 1964) also buried at the same spot.
- Maryanne Mordaunt (b. abt. 1899).
- Peter Mordaunt (b. abt. 1901).
- Elizabeth (Lizzie) Mordaunt (b. abt. 1904).
- Sarah Mordaunt (b. abt. 1907).
- Margaret (Maggie) Mordaunt (b. 1910).
- Denis Mordaunt (abt. 1786 - 1865) was my great great grandfather. Below is a summary of his family which can be seen in greater detail on the my family history page. He was a tenant farmer married to Mary (abt. 1791 - 1852). Because of a lack of certainty over ages at death, I am still not sure who was the oldest son, Michael or Myles, so I have relied on my father's memory and placed Michael first.
- Michael Mordaunt (1818/19 - 1894) A Michael Mordaunt, described as a farmer from Clone, of full age, son of Denis Mordaunt, farmer, married Anne Murphy (abt. 1830 - 1904) on 12th November 1869. A Michael Mordaunt, a farmer from Clone, died 31st March 1894, aged 75 years old and so born around 1818/19.
- Myles Mordaunt (1817/19 - 1895). The death certificate of Myles Mordaunt, a farmer from Ballantlea, wife Mary, aged 78 is dated 21st June 1895. His tombstone gives his age as 76 years old, so he was born anywhere between 1816 and 1819
- Margarett Mordaunt married Mogue (or Moses or Moyses) Murphy
- Mary Mordaunt married a Peter Laffin
- Catherine Mordaunt was godmother to a sister’s baby in 1849. I know nothing more about her.
- Charles Mordaunt was godfather to a sister’s baby in 1852. According to family oral tradition passed to me by my father , Charles went to the USA where he was popularly believed to have made his fortune.
- Edward Mordaunt (abt. 1831 - 1917) was my great grandfather. He married Bridget Crowe (abt. 1841 - 1921)
- Denis Mordaunt (1865 - 1941). His birth was recorded in Killenagh and Wells.
- Mary Mordaunt (1866 - 1910). Her birth as recorded in Killenagh and Wells. About her and her sister:
- Catherine Mordaunt (abt.1867 - ?) I know nothing.
- James Mordaunt (1869 - 1943?)
- Myles Mordaunt (1871 - 1875) died when he was 4 years old.
- Michael Mordaunt (1872 - ?) I presume he died young as a second Michael was registered in 1875.
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt.1874 - 1914), my grandfather served in the British Army. He married Bridget Plunket (May 1873 - December 1957)
- Edward(Ned) Patrick Mordaunt (8th July 1900 - 1982). He married Lilian Mary Milnes (1907 - 1994)
- Mary Brigid Genevieve Mordaunt (1930 - 2011) married Dezso Pinter
- Andrew Pinter (b. 1964)
- Brigid Amelia Pinter (b. 1967)
- Clare Rowena Mordaunt (b. 1931) married Arthur Bernard Edwards
- David Edwards (b. 1955) married Susy Cormack
- Catriona Edwards (b. 1980)
- John Edwards (b. 1982)
- Huw Edwards (b. 1983)
- Rhodri Edwards (b. 1985)
- Richard Edwards (b. 1957) married Lynn in 1996
- Hugo Edwards (b. 1997)
- Nicholas Edwards (b. 1998)
- Robin Edwards (b. 1958) married Emma Clark
- Alice Edwards (b. 1990)
- Arthur Edwards (b. 1992)
- John Edward Patrick Mordaunt (b. 1939) married 1. Jennifer Mary Snowden
- Penny Mordaunt (b. 1973) was elected to Parliament for the Portsmouth North constituency in 2010
- James Mordaunt (b. 1973)
- Edward Mordaunt (b. 1978)
- Henry Charles Mordaunt (Me - b. 1943) married 1. 1972 Helen Caulfield (b.1948)
- Sarah Elizabeth Mordaunt (b. 1975), married 1. Alfred Stangl and married 2. Tony Elder
- Christine Jennifer Mordaunt (b. 1977)
- Maximus (Max) Alexander Smith (b. 2008)
- William Luther Smith (b. 2010)
married 2. 1987 Alison Hearsey (b.1944)
married 3. 2002 Leonida Edwards (b. 1955)
- Rhianne Elaine Mordaunt (b. 1988)
- Ruby Tuesday Mordaunt (b. 1991)
- Michael Mordaunt (1945 - 1945)
- Bridget Mordaunt (1902 - 1992) married Bert Lewin
- Michael Mordaunt (1903 - 1920)
- Myles Mordaunt (1905 - 1902) married Mildred Carruthers
- Michael Mordaunt (b. 1930) was born in Hampstead. He married Mary Calvert and lives near Eastbourne
- Delia Mordaunt (b. 1957) was born in Lambeth. She married James Reynolds in Penrith in December 1996.
- Saskia Beresford Reynolds (b. 2000)
- Christopher Mordaunt (b. 1960) was born in Surrey. He married Diedre Fox in 1997
- Theodora Catherine V. Mordaunt (b. 1999)
- Myles Joseph Mordaunt (b. 2001)
- Ulic Mordaunt (1933 - 1933) was born and died in Richmond.
He then lived with Dora Marsh and they had a son
- Timothy Mordaunt (1945 - 2009) lived in High Wycombe. He married 1. Valerie Beaver Romley (b. 1947)
- Caroline Helen Mordaunt (b. 1971) was born in Cliveden
- India Rose R. Mordaunt (b. 2002) born in Chiltern, Bucks.
- Chaya Rubt Mordaunt (b. 2003) born in Chiltern, Bucks.
- Nima Gaia Mordaunt (b. 200?)
- Myles Nicholas Mordaunt (b. 1973) was born in Cliveden
- Megan Irvine-Mordaunt (b. 2002) was born in Kensington and Chelsea
He married Natalie Weston in 2010
- Morgan Mansell Mordaunt (b. 2011) was born in Monaco
Timothy married 2. Sarah Chambers in 1989 who has children
- Elizabeth Jane Mordaunt (b. 1993) was born in High Wycombe
- Edward Victor A. Mordaunt (b. 1996) was born in High Wycombe
- Mary(Molly) Mordaunt (1908 - 1995) went to Australia and married Edward Pursell
- Patrick(Paddy) Mordaunt (1910 - 1986)
- Desirée Mordaunt (1942 - 2009) was born in Drayton, Portsmouth. She married Khaldoun El Solh in 1963.
- Yanal El Solh (b. 1963) was born in Hammersmith, London. He married 1. Zöe and had daughter
He married 2. Linnéa Larsson from Sweden in 2005
- Malia Eleonora El Solh (b. 19th June, 2006) was born in Truro, Cornwall.
- Leo Habib El Solh (b. 18th August, 2008) was born in Linkoping, Sweden
- Nayla El Solh (b. 1965) was born in Beirut
- Patrick Mordaunt (1943 - 2004).
- Natalie Mordaunt (b. 1974) was born in Basingstoke
- Peter James L. Mordaunt (b. 1977) was born in Basingstoke.
- Brigid Mordaunt (1912 - 1993) married Albert Lewin in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
- Denis Mordaunt (1912 - 1914)
- Michael Mordaunt ( 21st August 1875- ?). .
- Johanna Mordaunt (abt.1877 - 1892)
- Margaret Mordaunt (20th May 1879 - ?) She married Tom McConneloge.
- Esther (Essy) Mordaunt (abt.1881 - ?)
- Charles Mordaunt, (24th May 1883 - ?). He went to the USA in 1912. I have no information on him after 1920.
- Hester Mordaunt was born in 1832 and married Francis Rath
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1834 – 1892) was a godfather to a sister’s baby in 1854. His wife was Ellen Crowe (1838-1899). He was to acquire a farm at Ballymurragh
- Mary Mordaunt, (18th January 1864 - ?). Either she died young and a later daughter was also called Mary or the date given in the English census records for Mary, Sister of Charity, below, is well out.
- Michael Mordaunt (b. 1866 - 1928?) who married to Mary. The death of a Michael Mordaunt, born about 1867, was recorded in Gorey in 1928
- Patrick Mordaunt (1915 - ?).
- Michael Mordaunt (b. 1958)
- Charles Mordaunt (b. 1959)
- Mary Mordaunt (b. 1961)
- Olive Mordaunt (b. 1964)
- Elizabeth Mordaunt, (1867 - ?)
- Margaret Mordaunt, (1869 - ?).
- Ellen Mordaunt, (1871 - ?)
- Johanna Mordaunt, ( 1873 - ?)
- Myles Mordaunt, (1874 - 29th June 1946). Sometime in the early 1900s, he acquired the farm in Ballintlea formerly held by his grandather Denis and then by his uncle Myles. He is shown there in the 1911 census, a farmer married for 8 years to Margaret (Maggie) (abt. 1885 - 8th May 1951). Their marriage was registered in Gorey in 1902. They were both buried in Craanford Cemetery, together with a number of their children
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1904 - 27th October 1967). He inherited his father's farm but, being a batchelor, it was finally passed on to a son of his sister, Ellen. He is buried with his parents in Craanford Cemetery
- Ellen Mordaunt (abt. 1906 - ). One of her son's was to inherit the farm at Ballintlea.
- Bridget Mordaunt (abt. 1907 - 25th November 1928). Her nephew, Myles, told me that she died of TB. The tombstone apparently gives her age as 17 years (d.o.b. abt. 1911) which does not fit with the 1911 census (d.o.b. abt. 1907).
- Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1910 - 7th July 1929). Her nephew, Myles, told me that she died of TB. The tombstone apparently gives her age as 15 years (d.o.b. abt. 1914) which does not fit with the 1911 census (d.o.b. abt. 1910).
- Myles Mordaunt (1914 - 1955). In 1943 he and his family moved to Rosslare Strand. Among any other children he may have had was
- Myles Mordaunt (b. ?) who moved to west London and married Rosalyn MacEntee in Ealing in 1964. They lived in Hayes, Middlesex, before returning to Ireland on his retirement in 2002.
- Jacqueline Elizabeth Mordaunt (b. 1967). Her birth was registered in Hillingdon.
- Michelle Ann Mordaunt (b. 1975). Her birth was registered in Hillingdon.
I am very grateful to Myles who kindly contacted me to inform me that it was his grandfather Myles who took over Denis Mordaunt's land holdings in Ballintlea and to give me a great deal more information about the family, especially those buried in Craanford and Monaseed, taken from records prepared by those parishes..
- A Denis Mordaunt, who "died young" is buried with his parents. He is presumably the son that his nephew Myles told me died in a farming accident.
- Margaret Mordaunt, (1879 - ?)
- Mary Mordaunt, (abt. 1880 - ?).
- Johanna Mordaunt and
- Rose Mordaunt were godparents in 1859. I know nothing more about them.
- Another Ellen Mordaunt dates from this time. The death register index records an Ellen Mordaunt born about 1791 and died 1883 in the Gorey district. It does not state if she was/had been married. She is so close to Ellen, wife of Edward, that I may have their dates mixed up.
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1794 - 1829) - from a gravestone in a cemetery in Gorey:
"Erected by Jain Mordaunt in memory of her husband Patrick, late of Ramstown, departed June 4th 1829 age 35".
- Stephen Mordaunt (abt. 1796 - 1875) - a death certificate of a Stephen Mordaunt at Killenagh, aged 79, is dated 1875.
One of these Stephen Mordaunts attended the wedding of his daughter Rose Mordaunt in 1867 (b. about 1832). She was 35 years old at the time.
- Stephen Mordaunt, quite possibly one of the two named above, attended the wedding of his daughter Rose Mordaunt
- Rose Mordaunt (abt. 1832 - ?) in 1867. She was 35 years old at the time.
- Stephen Mordaunt, quite possibly any of those named above, occupied a house and garden in Coolookmore, Killenagh, at the Griffiths Valuation.
- George and Brian Mordaunt (probably born before 1800). - Killvey parish records show a George and his wife, Judith, having children baptised from 1825. They were also sponsors for Brian’s child born in 1827.
- A George Mordaunt, date of birth about 1800, born in Gorey, moved to England where he clearly flourished. He is recorded in the 1851 English census living in Nether Hallam, Sheffied, with his Sheffield-born wife, Anne Maria and two children. He is described as a "picture dealer". In the 1861 census, he is a "dealer in fine arts". His descendants, based around Sheffield, belong on the pages of the Mordaunts in Britain
- Michael Mordaunt (abt. 1804 - 1864). The death of a Michael Mordaunt was registered in the Gorey district
- Patrick Mordaunt, quite possibly one of those already mentioned above had a son
- John Mordaunt. The Sales Book of the Ram Estate 1870 records "John Mordaunt, son of Patrick Mordaunt, deceased, lease transferred from Steven Ram in 1866 for the life of the Prince of Wales or for 31 years". Which Patrick Mordaunt I do not know. Perhaps the younger seems more likely.
These Mordaunts from Wexford, born in the 1770s/80s/90s, lived through one or both of two major events of modern Irish history, the 1798 rebellion and the Potato Famine 1846/49.
The 1798 rebellion swept through North Wexford in a surprisingly short space of time. On May 26th, the first armed encounter in the county occured at The Harrow, only two miles west of Clone. On the following day, the battle of Oulart between insurgents and yeomanry, was fought only three miles south of Clone. Within days, Enniscorthy and Wexford had fallen. First the rebels, advanced north, committing atrocities against Protestants and loyalists and scavaging for food as they went and then the militia pushed them back south also committing atrocities and scavaging for food. The remnants took refuge on Vinegar Hill outside Enniscorthy where they were finally overrun on 21st June. All this passed through whatever landholdings the Mordaunts held at the time. They seem to have come through it relatively unscathed. For an brief guide to the 1798 rebellion visit this link and for interesting contemporary first hand accounts of the rebellion in Wexford try this link.
The Great Famine (1846/49). Caused by the failure of the potato crop, those who were tenant farmers of a reasonable sized plot would have been cushioned from the worst effects of the calamity. Denis's holdings of 105 acres and Stephen's of 126 acres would have been large for the time and indicate their families comparatively comfortably off. In 1845, for example, 24% of all Irish tenant farms were of one to five acres (0.4 to 2 hectares) in size, while 40% were of five to fifteen acres (2 to 6 hectares). A British Government report carried out shortly before the Great Hunger noted that the scale of the poverty was such that one third of all small holdings in Ireland were presumed to be unable to support their families, after paying their rent, other than through the earnings of seasonal migrant labour in England and Scotland. (Thanks to Wikipedia for that bit.)
I am grateful to Deirdre Donnelly who, while doing research into her own family. came across a book 'Historic Gorey 3. The Famine Years' by Michael Fitzpatrick. She very kindly forwarded to me a list of Mordants (sic) among those who died during the great Famine or from the resultant typhus:
George Mordant died 24th April 1849 in the workhouse aged 14
Rose Mordant died 22nd June 1849 in the workhouse aged 17
Catherine Mordant died 30th January 1850 in the workhouse aged 3
George Mordant died 10th March 1850 in Ramstown an infant
Laurence Mordant died 27th May 1850 in the workhouse aged 12
Stephan Mordant died 7th April 1851 in the workhouse aged 15
Richard Mordant died 20th December 1851 in the workhouse aged 2
Edwd. Mordant died 6th February 1852 in Boulacrena aged 68, probably the Edward Mordaunt, husband of Ellen, of Foxcover and Ballintlea above.
James Mordant died 25th May 1856 in Gorey aged 10
Jane Mordant died 29th August 1858 in the workhouse aged 40
It is probably worth remembering that, awful though we may now imagine workhouses were, their rudimentary facilities were often the nearest thing to a hospital that many poorer people in the area would have had.
The start of official records, 1865
The system of registering all births deaths and marriages was only introduced to Ireland in the 1860s. Searching through them I found one registrar had not paid attention on his training course. On marriage certificates there is a column headed "Condition." It is meant to record whether the person is a bachelor or spinster or widow etc. The registrar, as I have said, had not paid attention and he used the column to descibe their physical condition - "strong and healthy" or "sickly and weak." I only mention it here, not because it is rather funny but because of one entry I noted, "As you would expect of children of farmers," meaning fit and well fed.
Sadly it was not the case for all Mordaunts in the Gorey area. A search of the cemetries and birth, marriage and death certificates tell a different story. Mordaunts described as labourers or paupers, dying in the workhouses of the area. Even a 6 month old baby, Denis, in 1871 is described as a pauper on his death certificate! Spellings were very variable indicating these poorer Mordaunts were illiterate and that registrars or priests etc. were having to guess at spellings as best they could.
- George Mordaunt and his wife Anne Giles registered the births of the following children
- Stephen Mordaunt (12th June 1865 - ?) in Gorey
- Anne Mordaunt (24th August 1868 - ?)
- Margaret Mordaunt (1st January 1872 - ?) in Ballinclay
- George Mordaunt (29th June 1878 - ?)
- Michael Mordaunt and his wife Mary Anne Ireton (abt. 1838 - 2nd December 1891) registered the births of the following children
- Ellen Mordaunt (14th February 1866 - ?) in Gorey
- Mary Mordaunt (24th January 1868 - ?). The death of a Mary Mordaunt, born about 1868 was recorded in Gorey in 1907
- Catherine Mordaunt (5th January 1869 - 15th June 1937) which would have made her 68 years old but the tombstone says she was 67 years old.
- Margaret Mordaunt (13th November 1875 - ?)
- George Mordaunt (15th September 1880 - ?)
I am assuming this is the Michael Mordaunt who buried a wife, Mary Anne, and a daughter, Kate, in Craanford Cemetery, (old section)
- Patrick Mordaunt (? - ?) and his wife, Eliza Graham registered the births of the following child
- Jane Mordaunt (29th August 1872 - ?) in Gorey
- Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1831 - ?) appeared at the 1911 census, a widow, living with her brother, Patrick Gahan, a widower aged 82, both described as farmers, and with two much younger married relatives, at house no, 2 in Mullaunreagh, Monamolin. It was a sizable house with six rooms and with extensive farm buildings. Mary was not at the house at the 1901 census when Patrick's wife was still alive. Where she was then, or where she 'suddenly' came from, I have no idea. I do wonder if she was the Mary, married to my great great uncle Myles, son of Denis above.
- Denis Mordaunt (abt 1851 - ?) was not recorded in the 1901 census but at the 1911 census was living and working on the farm of Patrick Rath in Ballyedmond, Wells.
- Luke Mordaunt (abt. 1863 - 30th December 1952) a farmer, married from about 1892 to Margaret (abt. 1869 - 31st October 1943). In the 1901 census and the 1911 census they were in Ballingarry Upper, Gorey Rural. They had had 9 children, 8 surviving in 1911. They are buried in Craanford Cemetery, together with six of their children none of whom married, presumably. Their ages given on their tombstone would give them all different dates of birth than that suggested in the 1901 and 1911 censuses. I guess the census dates are likely to be the more accurate.
- Michael Mordaunt (abt. 1893 - 20th October 1979)
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1894 - 5th February 1975)
- William Mordaunt, (abt. 1896 - 5th May 1972)
- George Mordaunt, (abt. 1897 - ?)
- (?) Mordaunt.
- Lizanne Mordaunt, granddaughter of George, who wrote in my Guestbook, 4th April 2010
- Luke Mordaunt (abt. 1900 - ?)
- Ethel Mordaunt (abt. 1902 - 26th August 1975)
- Robert Mordaunt (1903 - 25th June 1987)
- Julia Mordaunt (abt. 1905 - 15th February 1993)
- Patrick Mordaunt (? - before 1901) and his wife Margaret Byrne (abt. 1833 - 1915?) registered the birth of three children in the 1870s. In the 1901 census and the 1911 census, Margaret was widowed, described as a retired farmer in Brackernaugh, Ballycanew. She had borne seven children of whom only three had survived to 1911. The death of a Margaret Mordaunt, age given as 82 years, was registered in Gorey district in 1915.
- Mary Mordaunt (10th May 1867 - ?). She must have died before the birth of her sister Mary in 1876
- Patrick Mordaunt (20th February 1871 - ?), described as a general labourer in 1901 and as a farmer in 1911. He was not married in 1911.
- Mary Mordaunt (4th March 1876 - ?). She was not listed at home in the 1901 census,
- Catherine var. Katherine (Kate) Mordaunt (3rd July 1878 - ?) was at home in the 1901 and 1911 censuses
and a grandson to an unidentifed parent
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1890) - ?), described as a scholar in 1901 and as a farmer's son in 1911
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1841 - ?) was listed in the 1901 census as head of the household, married to Eliza/Elizabeth Mordaunt, (abt. 1846 - 1915?) born in County Wicklow. He was described as a general labourer, living in Georges Street, Gorey. Patrick died before the 1911 census. Elizabeth bore four children of whom only three had survived to 1911. The death of an Elizabeth Mordaunt, age given as 67 years, was registered in Gorey district in 1915. Living at home in both the 1901 and 1911 censuses were
- John Mordaunt (abt. 1876 - ?), working as a gardener
- James Mordaunt (abt. 1882), working as a general labourer. Curiously he is the one member of the family listed as unable to read.
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1831 - 1918?), described as married (but where was his wife?), was, at the 1911 census one of two lodgers with the five member Doyle family in their five roomed house at 1 Church Lane, Gorey. There was no mention of him in the 1901 census. The death of an 86 year-old Patrick Mordaunt was registered in Gorey in 1918.
- James Mordaunt (abt. 1877 - ?), was recorded in the 1901 census as a farm worker for Richard Sinnott at house 4 in Clone, Ballycarney. Despite the discrepancy in dates, I suspect this is the same James as that immediately below.
- James Mordaunt (1881 - ?), a labourer married since 1902 to Margaret (abt. 1884 - ?) was recorded in the 1911 census at house 13 in Clone, Ballycarney. Living with them, squeezed into a two room rented house, was Margaret's 80 year old grandmother, Mary Quail, and their five children. Unusually, none, except Margaret, could read or write. Despite the discrepancy in dates, I suspect this is the same James as that immediately above.
- Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1902 - ?)
- Elizabeth Mordaunt (abt. 1904 - ?)
- James Mordaunt, (abt. 1906 - ?)
- Aiden Mordaunt, (abt. 1908 - ?)
- Margaret Mordaunt (1910 - 1913), aged 2 months at the 1911 census. The death of a 2 year-old Margaret Mordaunt was recorded in Gorey in 1913.
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt.1859 - 1927?), married his wife Annie, (abt. 1861 - 1916?) in 1884. They were recorded in the 1901 census as a farmer in house 5 in Ferns Upper, Ferns, with their only child. They were again recorded at the 1911 census at house 8, Coolbaun, Ferns. They could read or write at the 1901 census but had apparently forgotten how to do so by the 1911 census! The death of a Patrick Mordaunt born about 1859 was registered in Enniscorthy in 1927. The death of an Annie Mordaunt born about 1857 was registered in Enniscorthy in 1916.
- May K. Mordaunt (abt. 1886 - ?), was not listed at home at the 1911 census
- George Mordaunt (abt. 1876 - 1927?), newly married to Lizzie (abt. 1875 - ?), both born in Co. Wexford, had moved to house no. 29.3 in Donnybrook East, Dublin by the 1901 census, working as a gardner. At the 1911 census he was described as a motorman, married for 11 years, living at 69 Pembroke Cottages, Pembroke West, Dublin. In that time they had had 6 children of whom only 3 had survived.
- May Mordaunt (b. abt. 1902) was born in Dublin.
- Kathleen Mordaunt (b. abt. 1904) was born in Dublin.
- Michael Mordaunt (b. abt. 1908) was born in Dublin. The death of a Michael Mordaunt, born about 1907, was recorded in 1932 in Dublin North.
- George Mordant (sic) (abt. 1847 - 1928), born in Co. Wexford, served in the Royal Irish Constabulary. In the the 1901 census, however, he was working as a publican, living in house 51 in Mayors Walk, Waterford. He married his wife Bridget Nolan (abt. 1855 - 1934), from Waterford, in about 1877. By the 1911 census he had left the pub trade and had moved down the road to house 13, Mayors Walk, and he was living on his RIC pension. According to the 1911 census they had had a total of 8 children but only three had survived. Clearly they had spent some years in Tipperary, where three of their children were born.
- John Mordant (6th June 1878 - 1899). His birth and death were registered in Waterford.
- Michael Mordant (13th September 1879 - 1893). His death was registered in Waterford.
- Edward Mordant (1881 - 1907), birth registered in the Nenagh district, Co. Tipperary. In the 1901 census, age given as 19 years, he was still described as a scholar. His death was registered in Waterford.
- Catherine Mordant (1884 - 1884). Her birth and death were registered in Thurles, Tipperary.
- Patrick Mordant (1885 - 1885). His birth and death were registered in Thurles, Tipperary.
- Mary Catherine Mordant (1987 - 1937), birth registered in the Thurles district, Co. Tipperary and died, unmarried in Waterford.
- Another Patrick Mordant (b. abt. 1888), birth registered in the Thurles district, Co. Tipperary. In the 1911 census he was described as a clerk, out of employment. He was possibly the only one of the eight who outived both his parents.
- Another Michael Mordant (b. abt. 1895), born in Waterford City. The death of a Michael Mordaunt, born abt. 1895/6 was registered in Naas in County Kildare in 1919
- Margaret Mordant (sic) (abt. 1855 - ?), born in Co. Wexford, was, at the 1901 census, one of 111 inmates at the Workhouse, house 3 in Ramstown Lower. She was described as a widow, a servant and unable to read or write.
- Mary Mordant (sic) (abt. 1868 - 1907). Her death was registered in Gorey district. She could be the daughter of Michael Mordaunt and Mary Anne Ireton above but, there again, she may not be.
- Mary Mordant (sic) (abt. 1871 - ?), born in Co. Wexford, was, at the 1901 census in Dublin working as a cook and living in with the large Moran family at house 30 in Hollybrook Road, Clontarf West. I think there is a good chance she was the Mary Mordaunt in the 1911 census, working as a shopkeeper and lodging in Shelbourne Road, Dublin, although it was recorded that she was born in Dublin.
- Jane Mordant (sic) (abt. 1875 - ?), born in Co. Wexford was, at the 1911 census, single and working as a servant at house no. 8, Main Street, Arklow, Co, Wicklow, to Edward Norris, pawnbroker, a family of 6 in an 8 roomed house.
- Esther Mordaunt (abt. 1882 - 1914). Her death was registered in Gorey in 1914, according to the familysearch.org transcription.
- Esther Mordaunt (1901 - ?). Her birth was registered in Gorey in 1901. Her parents were apparently not recorded, according to the familysearch.org transcription
- Pte J. Mordaunt from Gorey was wounded or shell-shocked or missing after the battle of Ginchy and Guillemont in October 1916. He was serving with the 6th Royal Irish Regiment
- James Mordaunt (b. 1939) was born in County Wexford, Ireland. He moved to Lancashire and with his partner, Joy Smith, he had a number of children born in Leigh, within the Ormskirk registration district, and Wigan
- James Anthony Mordaunt (b. 1970) was born in Ormskirk. He married Michelle Green in Salford in September 2003. Today he lives in New Zealand, where he is better known as Tony Mordaunt.
- James Mordaunt (b. 2009 )
- Martin Francis Mordaunt (b. 1971) was born in Leigh. He is now living in San Francisco
- Marie Louisa Mordaunt (b. 1973) was born in Leigh. She married Neil Capner in Wigan in April 1991 but has since divorced.
- Shaun Frederick Capner (b. 1993) was born in Wigan
- Tara Sarah Mordaunt (b. 1981) was born in Wigan and now lives in Leigh.
- Ollie Michael Grimes (b. 2006)
- Oscar Mark Grimes (b. 2010)
James married Ann M. Bennett in Leigh in May 1985 but sadly they divorced a few years later.
I am very grateful to Shaun Capner for finding my website and spotting gross errors and I am very grateful to his mother, Maria Mordaunt, for writing to me and correcting them as well as providing much additional information about her family.
Unplaced (by me) Mordaunts from the deaths registers
- The death of a Bridget Mordaunt (abt. 1800 - 1891) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a Michael Mordaunt (abt. 1813 - 1895) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1824 - 1892) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1825 - 1898) was registered in Gorey district. I wonder if this is the husband of Margaret Byrne, above
- The death of a Michael Mordaunt (1826 - 1902) was registered in Gorey district. I have not traced him in the 1901 census
- The death of a George Mordaunt (abt. 1834 - 1892) was registered in Gorey district. I wonder if he was the husband of Anne Giles above?
- The death of a Partick Mordaunt (abt. 1838 - 1885) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of an Ellen Mordaunt (abt. 1838 - 1899) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a Edward Mordaunt (abt. 1841 - 1869) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a George Mordaunt (abt. 1848 - 1903) was registered in Gorey district. I have not traced him in the 1901 census
- The death of a Margaret Mordaunt (abt. 1850 - 1892) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a James Mordaunt (abt. 1857 - 1893) was registered in Enniscorthy district.
- The death of a Denis Mordaunt (1859 - 1932) was registered in Goery district. I have not traced him either the in the 1901 or 1911 censuses.
- The death of a six year-old Catherine Mordaunt (abt. 1864 - 1870) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a twelve year-old Anne Mordaunt (abt. 1864 - 1876) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a Mary Mordaunt (1867 - 1947) was registered in Gorey district. She may be listed above but I have not been able to identify her.
- The death of a six year-old Margaret Mordaunt (abt. 1868 - 1874) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a six year-old James Mordaunt (abt. 1869 - 1875) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a four year-old Miles Mordaunt (abt. 1871 - 1875) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a baby Denis Mordaunt (1871 - 1871) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a two year-old Michael Mordaunt (abt. 1873 - 1874) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of an unnamed baby Mordaunt (1876 - 1876) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a nine year-old Elizabeth Mordaunt (abt. 1884 - 1893) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a baby Mary Ann Mordaunt (abt. 1899 - 1899) was registered in Gorey district.
- The death of a Margaret Mordaunt (1845 - 1902) was registered in Gorey district. I have not traced her in the 1901 census
- The death of a Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1909 - 1926) was registered in Gorey district. I have not traced her in the 1911 census.
County Wicklow
- Judith Mordaunt is listed in the Griffiths Valuation list 1852/3 leasing 96 acres of house, offices and land with the substantial rateable value of Ł26 from Earl Fitzwilliam at Curraghlawn, Kilpipe. She was subleasing a house to a John Byrne. Presumably her sons included
- Stephen Mordaunt (abt. 1830 - 1905), described as a farmer in the 1901 census but living with his brother who is listed as the head of the family. His death was registered in Shillelagh.
- George Mordaunt (abt. 1851 - 1907) a farmer, listed as head of the family, was occupying the farm at Curraghlawn at the 1901 census. By the 1911 census, his widowed wife, Margaret Kinsella (abt. 1859 - 1937) from Wexford was 52 years old. The family appears, helpfully, in the Cheesman family history site. They had married on 30th September 1890 in Askamore Catholic Church, Askamore, Gorey, (Margaret was a Wexford girl). They are both buried in Annancurra, Aughrim, Co. Wicklow.
- Julia Mordaunt (1892 - 1976). Mike Hanley, now of Clearwater, Florida, kindly wrote in my Guest Book on 5th October 2011 that he delivered mail to Julia, then of Toberpatrick, during the 1950s. She had never married and was the only Mordaunt then in the immediate district. He remembers "Julia was a kind soul and always had a hot mug of tea ready which was much appreciated on a cold and wet Irish winter day."
- George Mordaunt (abt. 1895 - 1924). His death was registered in Shillelagh. He was still in his 20s.
- Thomas Mordaunt (abt. 1896 - 1927). His death was recorded in Shillelagh in early 1927. He too was still in his 20s.
- Sarah/Sally Mordaunt (abt. 1897 - 1967) married George Graham.
- Peter Mordaunt (abt. 1900 - 1982) married Julia Byrne (? - 1987).
- Stephen Mordaunt (abt. 1902 - 1973).
With the family at the 1901 census was an unmarried niece, Mary Corcoran (abt. 1881 - ?), described as a farmer's daughter. She was not with them in the 1911 census
- William Mordaunt (abt. 1848 - ?), born in County Wicklow, was a farmer at Balleeshal, Aughrim in the 1901 census, married to Lucy Sinnott (abt. 1865/8 - 1901), who worked as a dressmaker. The marriage of a William Mordaunt was recorded in the Rathdrum registration district in 1891. Lucy died very soon after the 1901 census, her age given as 43 years. William is not recorded in the 1911 census; the death of a William was recorded in 1906 but his age was recorded as 45 years, therefore born about 1861.
- Julia Mordaunt (abt. 1892 - ?). At the 1911 census she and her brother were living or staying with her widower grandfather, John Sinnott, a farmer, his son Patrick with his wife Julia
- William Mordaunt (abt. 1895 - ?). The four roomed house and modest farm were in the Parish of Kilpipe, the Townland of Killadoran in the district electoral division of Aughrim.
- Patrick Mordaunt (abt. 1848 - ?), born in County Wicklow, was a farmer at Killinure in the 1901 census, married to Mary (abt. 1849 - ?). Living with them, described as a farmer's son. was a nephew, John Deegan, aged 14. Neither Patrick nor Mary are recorded in the 1911 census.
- Edward Mordaunt married Anna Ward in Arklow on 18th February 1857
- John Mordaunt, (abt. 1863 - 1904), and his wife Mary (abt. 1866 - ?) were both born in Co. Wexford but moved to 8, Watkin's Cottages, South City No 3, Dublin. In the 1901 census John was described as a labourer. He died before the 1911 census, leaving Mary a widow.
- John Mordaunt, (abt. 1892 - 1935?), born Co Dublin, a brewery labourer in 1911.
- Margaret Mordaunt, (b. abt. 1894), born Co Wexford, a laundress in 1911.
- James Mordaunt (b. abt. 1896), born Co. Wexford, a brewery labourer in 1911
- George Mordaunt (b. abt. 1898), born Co Dublin, was at school in the 1911 census
- William Allen (b. abt. 1910), adopted, born in the city of Dublin
- Michael Mordaunt seems to have been an itinerant worker. He and his wife, Julia Holden (abt. 1874 - ?) from Westmeath, are not recorded in the 1901 census. Their daughter was born in England and their son was born in County Kerry. I feel sorry for Julia. By the 1911 census she was a young widow, working as a laundress supporting her two young children. She had ended up in a three room rented house in east Wicklow, Sub-District Avoca, the Parish of Castlemacadam, the Barony of Arklow, the Townland of Ballanagh, the District Electoral Division of Ballyarthur. This was a long way from Westmeath and a very long walk from the support of the nearest possible Mordaunt relation, leaving her quite isolated. Where Michael originated I do not know.
- Elizabeth Mordaunt (abt. 1902 - ?). The 1911 census records she was born in England but I have not found her name in the England records..
- Peter Patrick Mordaunt (21st August 1905 - ?) 1905), born in Kerry, was baptised in Killorglin on 25th August 1905.
- Mary Mordant (sic) (abt. 1871 - ?), born in Co. Wicklow, was, at the 1901 census, an unmarried housemaid, domestic servant, with Albert Wynne, a civil and mining engineer, and his family in a substantial house, no. 2 in Cherrymount, Cronebane.
Unplaced (by me) Mordaunts from the deaths registers
- The death of Anne Mordaunt (abt. 1824 - 1889) was registered in Rathdrum district.
- The death of Peter Mordaunt (abt. 1837 - 1902) was registered in Rathdrum district. I have not traced him in the 1901 census
- The death of a baby George Mordaunt (abt. 1875 - 1879) was registered in Shillelagh district.
- The death of a baby boy Mordaunt (abt. 1897 - 1897) was registered in Rathdrum district.
Unknown origins
- Bridget Mordaunt (abt. 1785 - 1874). Her death was registered in Trim district, County Meath
- Hannah Mordant (sic) (abt. 1788 - ?), described as an orange dealer, unmarried, in the 1851 English census was staying in the Edmonton, London, District Union Workhouse.
- Hannah Mordant (sic) (abt. 1801 - ?), described as a "Travler" and married in the 1861 English census was being detained at Brideswell Street House of Correction in Warwick. With her was a 10 year-old girl, Mary Mordant; her daughter or her granddaughter?
- Mary Mordaunt (abt 1833 - ?) married ? Casey and is listed in the 1861 English census in Manchester, working as a dressmaker, with two daughters. Living with her, working as a house servant, was a 19 year-old sister Annie Mordaunt. Both were listed as born in Ireland,
- Edward Mordant (sic) (abt. 1834 - ?), born somewhere in Ireland, was working as a market porter in Wapping, Tower Hamlets, London, in the 1861 English census
- John Mordant (sic) (1840 - ?), aged 20 was listed in the 1861 English census, working as a painter and lodging in Bethnal Green, London.
- Catherine Mordaunt (1884 - ?). Her birth was registered in Roscrea district (for Laois of Offaly or Tipperary)
- Frederick Mordaunt (1885 - ?). His birth was registered in Naas district (for Kildare or Wicklow)
- Charles Mordaunt (1887 - ?), born in Ireland, was a 14 year-old assistant dairyman boarding in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, at the 1901 English census.
- Mary Mordaunt (1908 - ?). Her birth was registered in Naas district (for Kildare or Wicklow)
- Patrick Mordaunt (1910 - ?). His birth was registered in Naas district (for Kildare or Wicklow)
Emigrés to America and Canada
Canada
- John Mordaunt (abt. 1817 - ?) is recorded in an 1851 census of Canada in Sheffield, Addington County, Canada West (now Ontario?), with his wife, Ann (abt. 1812 - ?).
- Katherine Mordaunt (abt. 1841 - ?) was born in Ireland. In the 1901 Canadian census, a Catherine Mordaunt, unmarried, born 1841, was lodging with the Paul family in Newburg (Village), Addington, Ontario. She was not listed in the 1911 census.
- James Mordaunt (abt. 1843 - ?) was born in Ireland. I am almost certain that he was the James Mordaunt of Irish origin who appeared in the 1880 US census with his 2nd wife Hannah in Spalding, Menominee, MI, and went on to raise a large family who can be tracked on the Mordaunts in America webpage.
- Michael Mordaunt (abt. 1845 - ?) was born in Ireland
- Ann Mordaunt (abt. 1847 - ?) was born in Canada. I am almost certain that she was the Anna Mordaunt (b. abt 1844) of Canadian Irish origin who had married William Navin in upper New York State by 1880, as recorded on the Mordaunts in America webpage.
- Peter Mordaunt (abt. 1849 - ?) was born in Canada. I am almost certain that he was recorded in the 1900 US census as an "inmate" in Rochester State Hospital, Ward 2, Minnesota.
- unnamed Mordaunt (abt. 1850 - ?) a girl, age given 1 year in the census.
None appear in later Canadian censuses
America
US Census Records
I have used ancestry.com to view US Census and other records. I do not know if the census records are incomplete or if ancestry.com are at fault but there are clearly a lot of gaps.
The 1860 US census shows 12 Mordaunts of whom 5 were born in Ireland:
- John Mordaunt, born about 1828, and Cathrine (sic), his wife, born 1835. Living in New York Ward 21, District 5, New York. They moved about, one daughter was born in Massachusetts in about 1850 and another in New York in 1857.
- Living with them or a very near neighbour in 1850 was Mary Mordaunt, born in Ireland about 1825. Could she have been John's sister
- George Mordaunt, born about 1830, and Ann Mordaunt, his wife, born about 1830. Living in New York Ward 7, District 5, New York. They left for America in their late teens or early twenties because they had children James, born in New York about 1852, and Emma, born in New York about 1854.
The 1870 US census shows:
- George, Ann, James and Emma now living in Brooklyn Ward 19, Kings
- Charles Mordaunt, born about 1830 in Ireland, living in New York Ward 7, District 8 (2nd Enum), New York, and Jane, his wife, also born in Ireland about 1832.
The 1880 US census shows:
- An Unknown Irish Mordaunt emigrated to the US before the birth of two sons recorded in the 1880 census, making him, perhaps, the earliest Irish Mordaunt immigrant in the US. His unknown wife was also Irish.
The sons of these Irish parents were George Mordaunt (abt. 1845 - ?) and John Mordaunt (abt. 1847 - ?), both born in New Jersey and living, in 1880, in Philadelphia, PA. John had an Irish born wife, Catherine (abt. 1850 - ?).
- Patrick Mordaunt, born about 1830 in Ireland, living in Oswego, Oswego, NY and Ann, his wife, also born in Ireland, about 1834. I suspect they reached the US via Canada.
- Michael Mordaunt (abt. 1833 - ?) born in Ireland, was living in Kings, Brooklyn, with his New York born wife Katherine (abt. 1842 - ?) and their three sons and two daughters born between 1864 and 1876. He was working in insurance, according to the 1880 census.
- Peter Mordaunt (abt. 1840 - ?) and his wife Catherine (abt. 1846 - ?), both from Ireland, were living in Trenton, Mercer, NJ, at the time of the 1880 census. He was described as a hod carrier.
- James Mordaunt (abt. 1842 - before 1920?), from Ireland, more than likely the son of the John Mordaunt listed in the Canadian 1851 census, reached Spalding, Menominee, MI, with his English born wife, Hannah Kenny(?) (abt 1846 - before 1900) at the time of the 1880 census via Canada and Illinois. He was described as a labourer and on that work raised a large family.
Recorded elsewhere and not in a census are:
- George Mordaunt (dates unknown) is reported in the www.celticcousins.net webpage on the Chronology of Scott County, Iowa: " March 6, 1877, George Mordaunt arrested for forgery on several parties in Davenport." www.celticcousins.net is a website intended to foster an interest in research of those Irish born persons who went to Iowa. I do not know if this is one of the Georges already listed on this page or whether it is a new one.
- Charles Mordaunt (24th May 1883 - ?) was drafted into the army for WWI in Manhatton where he was a barman. Born in County Wexford, Ireland, he was my great uncle.
- Peter Mordaunt and his wife Margret/Margarite were the parents of
- Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1829 - )
- Helen Mordaunt (abt. 1834 - )
- Peter Mordaunt (abt. 1840 - )
The similarity with the family below is marked but I have no evidence they are the same family.
- Peter Mordaunt (abt. 1805 - ?) crossed to the USA from Liverpool on the Boadecia arriving in New York August 15th, 1849, accompanied by three younger family members, presumably his children
- Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1827 - )
- Catherine Mordaunt (abt. 1831 - )
- Michael Mordaunt (abt. 1836 - )
The similarity with the family above is marked but I have no evidence they are the same family.
Mordaunt visitors to Ireland
Sir Nicholas Mordaunt - a skeleton in the cupboard
Nicholas Mordaunt (? - 1623) is definitely the most interesting of the English Mordaunts who found their way to Ireland. Some years before I learnt of him I was aware of a Mordaunt with a coat of arms in reverse colour - white on black rather than black on white (no two people could have identical coats of arms and so relations had to devise minor alterations) in County Clare in the early 1600s. This coat of arms turned out to be that of Sir Nicholas Mordaunt, onetime Captain Mordaunt and variously Marshal of Thomond, commissioner for Connaught, constable of the Castle of Gann and latterly knight of Carrick in County Clare. His ancestry is vague, appearing in neither the Turvey or Massingham Parva family lists but he certainly led an eventful life even if he is not much loved in Irish memory. He was involved in some very unpleasant events and in this age would be put before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes, but he was probably no worse than many other of the English governors of the time. At first I was excited that, unpleasant skeleton in the family cupboard though he would have been, he might just have been the ancestor of at least some of the Irish Mordaunts but he appears to be another genealogical dead-end. I have found no record of him leaving a family, quite the opposite there is suggestion of a homosexual proclivity, but he did marry and leave a widow Dame Sara Mordant", whom the "General Armoury of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland," published by Burkes in 1884, identifies as Sarah Stockdale, from Green Hamerton, Yorkshire. For those interested in Irish history his story is worth following as a microcosm of the time and he earns his place also in English literature as the inspiration for "Sir Mortdant" in Spenser's "The Faerie Queene." Edmund Spenser too had served in Ireland and was uncompromising apologist for the ruthless suppression of Irish resistance.
- A suggestion of a relationship with the Mordaunt's of Turvey is made in this volume
- In Dunmore but I suspect the date has been transposed and should read 1585. Near the bottom of a long page.
- A particularly bloodthirsty reference about a third down the page.
- The unpleasantness continues in Limerick and Spanish Point both, again, near the bottom of long pages.
- Most illuminative is Irish Names in The Faerie Queen, (section 4, starting page 31), which a kind library subscribing to Jstor forwarded to me in pdf format. Use the Glossary in the index list on the left of this page for the definitions of some archaic terms.
- Created a knight on 1st July, 1604.
- Finally his death is recorded - well, there was a link here but the URL has clearly been changed and I cannot now find it! It is so annoying when this happens.
Sophia Mordaunt - 3rd daughter of John Mordaunt, Viscount Avalon
- Sophia Mordaunt married James Hamilton of Bangor, Ireland. They had no surviving sons. Their daughter Ann had a fine memorial to them erected in Bangor Abbey under the terms of her Will.
- Cary Eleanor Hamilton (? - 1725), was buried in All Saints Church, Fulham
- Ann Hamilton (? - 1st May 1760) was to inherit the family seat. She married Michael Ward, Esq, who was to become a Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland. She died in Dublin.
Anne Mordaunt - 4th daughter of John Mordaunt, Viscount Avalon
- Anne Mordaunt married James Hamilton of Tullamore, Ireland. He was presumably the member of the Council for the North East (Derry and Inniskillen) appointed for the "protection" of Protestants in January 1689.
- James Hamilton (? - 1758), later Viscount Limerick and Earl of Clanbrassil.
Charles Mordaunt - later Sir Charles Mordaunt, 8th Baronet
- Charles Mordaunt, the future 8th baronet, was 27 years old at the outbreak of the 1798 rebellion. He was among the among the troops rushed over from Britain, with the Warwickshire militia regiment, less some 200 recusant refusers who were permitted to remain behind in Liverpool. The regiment was fresh from dealing with the Nore mutiny, 1797. They arrived in Dublin on 30th June, too late to play any part in the fighting but in time to view some of the causes of the outbreak. In letters home he wrote "I never saw such misery as appears in the lower orders. It has been observed by some one, that until he saw the Beggars of Dublin he never knew where the Beggers of London sent their old clothes" and "Whatever may be the views of the Leaders; whether religious animosity, a wish to subvert the form of government, or mere opposition to persons in power actuates them, yet the mass of their followers are certainly led by one view only, a wish to change their miserable order at any rate - and while the lower orders are so cruelly oppressed, & there is no one between the prince and the beggar, this country can never be blessed with happiness or content." His letters from Ireland are full of such perspicacity. Charles returned to England the following year. He became an MP at Westminster in 1805 and became Sir Charles in 1806 but, never in good health, he died in 1823, aged 52.
Henry Mordaunt
- Henry Mordaunt was a captain in the "Royal Engineer Corps" who, with his wife Elizabeth, had their daughter
Anna Maria Theresa Mordaunt (? - ?) baptised on 14th September 1817 in a Church of Ireland church in Kilnaughtin, County Kerry.
I have not been able to identify this family anywhere else in the British Isles.
Thomas - Dentist Mordaunt
- Thomas Mordaunt (abt. 1874 - 1943?) was the grandson of George Mordaunt (abt 1800 - 1875) who left Gorey, Wexford, and made his fortune as an art dealer in Sheffield, Yorkshire. Thomas is recorded in the 1901 census working as a dentist Nenagh, Tipperary.
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