'Byrne1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Byrne of Cabinteely, Byrne of Timogue, Leicester of Nether Tabley

                               
Commoners reported that the O'Byrnes "derive their name from Broin or Bran, one of the Kings of Leinster". The first mentioned by Commoners within its continuous pedigree was the following Charles, "representative of the great house of O'Byrne, who was deprived by Cromwell of his extensive domains".
Charles O'Byrne
m. Frizel Byrne (dau of _ Byrne of Ballincurbeg)
1. Hugh Byrne of Dublin, later of Ballinacurbeg
  m(1). Alice Byrne (dau of Tady Byrne of Coolanearle)
  A. George Byrne (d 27.12.1697)
  m. Amey Bell (dau of James Bell, surgeon general)
  i. Gregory Byrne (dsps 14.02.1720)
  m. Mary Butler (dau of Richard Butler of Dublin)
  ii.+ other issue - William (dsp), Elizabeth (d unm 1732)
  B. Charles Byrne
  i. Emanuel Byrne (d 30.08.1743, friar as Father Francis (aka 'Father Huson'))
  ii. daughter
  m. Bartholomew Hadsor
2. John Byrne of Ballenclough, co. Wicklow
  m. Cecila Byrne (dau of Garrat Byrne of Coulanarle)
  A. Mary Byrne
  m. John Byrne of Dublin (brewer)
B. Elinor Byrne
  m. Dudley Keoghe of Ballenclough
  C. Catherine Byrne
  m. James Byrne
3. Daniel Byrne of Slane and Timogue 'of Dublin and/or Cabinteely' (bur 24.01.1683-4)
  m. Anne Tayler (dau of Richard Tayler or Taylor of Swords)
A. Sir Gregory Byrne, 1st Bart of Timogue (d 03.1712, MP)
  Commoners identifies Sir Gregory's 1st wife as Penelop, dau of Colonel Calwall of Yorkshire, and suggests that his son Daniel dvp. We follow BP1934 in showing the following:
  m1. (17.03.1669-70) Margaret Copley (dau of Col. Christopher Copley of Wadworth)
  i. Sir Daniel Byrne, 2nd Bart of Timogue (b 1676, d 25.09.1715)
  m. (c1704) Anna Dorothea Warren (dau of Edward Warren of Poynton)
a. Sir John Byrne, 3rd Bart of Timogue (d 01.1741-2)
  m. (1728) Meriel Leicester (dau of Sir Francis Leicester, 3rd Bart of Nether Tabley)
  (1) Sir Peter Byrne, later Leicester, 4th Bart of Nether Talbey (b 12.1732, d 12.02.1770)
  m. (06.07.1755) Catherine Fleming (d 08.12.1786, dau of Sir William Fleming, 1st Bart of Rydal Hall)
  (A) Sir John Fleming Leicester, 5th Bart, 1st Baron de Tabley of Tabley House (b 04.04.1762, d 18.06.1827) had issue
  m. (10.11.1810) Georgina Maria Cottin (dau of Lt. Col. _ Cottin)
  (B) Henry Augustus Leicester 'of Chester' (b 01.06.1765, d 18.07.1815)
  m. (16.02.1791) Letitia Smyth (d 21.11.1812, sister of Nicholas Owen Smyth Owen of Condover)
(i) Charles Leicester (b 29.09.1795, d 06.03.1858, rector of Westbury) had issue
  m1. (05.07.1821) Sally Topp (d 10.09.1843, dau of Richard Topp of Whitton)
  m2. (24.10.1846, sps) Susannah Crowther (d 19.03.1865, dau of Philip Wyatt Crowther of Highbury Lodge)
  (ii) Letitia Leicester
  m. (02.07.1816) Robert Hibbert of Birtles Hall (d 1817)
  (C) Charles Leicester (b 09.09.1766, d 1815) had issue
  m1. (24.01.1792, sp) Mary Egerton (dau of Philip Egerton of Oulton)
  m2. (05.1798) Louisa Harriet Smyth (b c1774, d 12.10.1862, sister of Nicholas Owen Smyth Owen of Condover)
  (D) Catherine Leicester
  m1. (13.07.1785) Rev. Christopher Atkinson
  m2. (24.03.1806) Rev. Joseph (Thomas?) Lee (vicar of Thaxted)
(i) Catherine Lee (only child) apparently of this generation
  m. Robert Clowes (vicar of Nether Knutsford)
  (2) John Byrne (d unm 1778)
  (3) Elizabeth Byrne (d 1805)
  m. Rev. William Russell
  (4) Dorothea Byrne (d 12.1761)
  m. (18.12.1759) Francis Pryce of Byrn-y-Pryce
  ii. Mary Byrne (b 1671, bur 29.08.1759) apparently of this generation, of this marriage
  m. (c1690) Sir Daniel O'Neill, 3rd Bart of Killeleagh
  m2. (1690) Alice Fleming (d 13.12.1753, dau of Randall Fleming, 21st Lord Slane)
  iii. Charles Byrne of Byrne Grove & Kilmacart, co. Kilkenny
  m. Margaret Colclough (dau of Col. Christopher Colclough of Moherry)
  a. Gregory Byrne (dsp)
  m. (1741) Margaret Bermingham (dsp, dau of Francis Bermingham, 14th Lord of Athenry)
  b.+ other issue (dsp)
  iv. Henry Byrne of Oporto
  m. Catherine Eustace (dau of James Eustace of Yeomanstown)
  a. Catherine Xaveria Byrne (d 1779)
  m. George Bryan
  (1) George Bryan of Jenkinstown
v. Christopher Byrne of Kilmagar (b 1697, d 30.08.1785)
  Christopher & family shown on MGH (NS3 vol 5 (1904), 'Pedigree of Butler, Fleming, Byrne, and Delany', p116).
  m. (1720) Christian Sinnot of Ross (b 1699, d 31.03.1780)
  a. Gregory Byrne of Dublin (dsp)
  m. Sarah Archbold (dau of Robert Archbold of Davidstown)
  b. Alice Byrne (b 1729, d 11.1801)
  m. James Butler of Tullow (b 1719, d 18.11.1796)
  c. Mary Ann Byrne
m. _ Kavanagh
  B. John Byrne of Cabinteely, Sheriff of co. Wicklow (d 1681)
  m. (1678) Mary Chevers (dau of Walter Chevers of Monkstown)
  i. Walter Byrne of Cabinteely (dsp 21.01.1731)
  m. Clare Mapas (dau of Christopher Mapas of Roachestown)
  ii. John Byrne of Dublin, later of Cabinteely (d 1741)
  m. (1717) Marianna Colclough (dau of Colonel Dudely Colclough of Mohory)
  a. George Byrne of Cabinteely
  m. (1740) Clare Nugent (dau of Michael Nugent of Calanstown, sister of Robert, Earl Nugent)
  (1) Michael Byrne of Cabinteely (d unm)
  (2) Gregory Byrne (d unm)
  (3) Robert Byrne of Cabinteely (d 1798)
  m. Mary Devereux (dau of Robert Devereux of Carigmenan)
(A) Mary Clare Byrne of Cabinteely (d unm 1810)
  (B) Clarinda Mary Byrne of Cabinteely
  (C) Georgiana Mary Byrne
  (4) Mary Byrne
m. Hyacinth (probably not William) Skerrett of Finvara
  b. Dudley Byrne
  m. Elizabeth Dillon (dau of James Dillon)
  c. Colclough Byrne probably of this generation
  m. (12.04.1758) Mary Galwey (dau of William Galwey of Lota)
  d. Mary Byrne
m. Walter Blakney or Blackney of Ballycormack 'of Ballyellin'
  (1) ?? Blackney
  (A) Walter Blackney of Ballyellin apparently of this generation
  m. Catherine Wyse (dau of John Wyse by Mary Ann Blackney, cousin)
  (2) Mary Ann Blackney apparently of this generation
  m. John Wyse
  e. Frances Byrne
  m. Edward Masterson (son of John of Castletown)
  f. Harriet Byrne
  m. Anthony Lynch of Dublin
  g. Marianne Byrne
  m. (c01.1753) Adam Colclough
h.+ other issue - Francis (d unm), Walter (d unm), George, Daniel, Joseph, Anne (d young)
  iii. Alice Byrne (d young)
  C. Walter Byrne (Captain)
  m. Darcus Crosby
  i.+ 1 son and 1 daughter
  D. Joseph Byrne of Dublin (Captain)
  i. daughter
  m. _ Gibson of London
  ii. Elinor Byrne (dsp)
  E. Mary or Catherine Byrne
  m1. John Walsh of Old Connaught
  i.+ issue - Edward, John
  m2. Sir Luke Dowdall, Bart
  G. Margaret Byrne
  m. (1676) Terence Dunn of Brittas
4. Sarah Byrne
  m. Turlough Byrne

Main source(s): Commoners (vol I, Byrne of Cabinteely) with input from BP1934 (Leicester, Baronets)
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