'Preston05'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Preston of Gormanston, Preston of Lara

                               
Philip de Preston (in Ireland)
1. ?? de Preston
  A. Roger de Preston (a 1327, judge)
  m. Maud (dau of Robert son of Adam of Preston of Lancaster)
  i. Sir Robert de Preston of Gormanston and Carbery, Chancellor of Ireland, 1st Lord of Gormanston (d 1396)
  m1. (1353) Margaret de Birmingham (b c1342, d 19.07.1361, dau of Walter de Birmingham of Kells and Carbery)
a. Sir Christopher Preston, 2nd Lord of Gormanston (a 1397)
  m. Elizabeth Loundres (dau of William Loundres, baron of Naas)
  (1) Christopher Preston of Naas, 3rd Lord of Gormanston
  m. Jane D'Artois (dau of Sir Jenico D'Artois)
(A) Sir Robert Preston, 1st Viscount Gormanston (d 05.04.1503)
  m. Janet Molyneux (dau of Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton)
  (i) Sir William Preston, 2nd Viscount Gormanston (d 21.09.1532, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland)
  m1. Anne Burnell (dau of Sir Robert Burnell of Ballgriffin by Margaret, dau/coheir of Sir Robert Holywood of Tartayne)
  (a) Jenico Preston, 3rd Viscount Gormanston (b c1502, d 1560)
  m1. Catherine Fitzgerald (dau of Gerald Fitzgerald, 9th Earl of Kildare)
  ((1)) Christopher Preston, 4th Viscount Gormanston (b c1537, d 24.01.1599)
  m1. Catherine Fitzwilliam (dau of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Great Park, Windsor)
  m2. (before 1584) Catherine Fitzwilliam (bur 10.02.1602, dau of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam of Meryon)
((A)) Jenico Preston, 5th Viscount Gormanston (b c1584, d 14.03.1629/30) - continued below
  m. Margaret St. Lawrence (d 16.11.1637, dau of Nicholas St. Lawrence, Lord Howth)
  ((B)) Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara (b c1585, bur 21.10.1655, General, 4th son)
  m1. (before 1618) _ Van Der Eycken (d 28.10.1621, dau of Charles Van Der Eycken, Sn de St. George of Brabant)
  ((i)) Anthony Preston, 2nd Viscount Tara (b 20.06.1618, d 24.04.1659)
m. (before 14.02.1642/3) Margaret Warren (d before 06.06.1661, dau of Anthony Warren of Ballybrittan) @1@ below
  ((a)) Thomas Preston, 3rd Viscount Tara (b c1653, d unm 06.07.1674)
  ((b)) Elizabeth Preston
  m. Nicholas Preston (d 09.05.1679) @2@ below
  ((c)) Thomasine Preston
  m. Sir John Barnewall of Ballybrittan
((ii)) Sir James ('Don Diego') Preston (a 10.1656)
  m2. (before 1624) Marguerite de Namur (d before 10.1655)
  Not sure by which wife were ...
  ((iii)) Thomas Preston (d infant?)
  ((iv)) John George Preston
  m. (before 02.03.1646/7) _ Nieuhoven
  ((C)) Eleanor Preston
  m. (1605) Thomas Luttrell of Luttrellstown
  ((D)) Mary Preston
  m. Anthony Warren of Ballybrittan
  ((i)) Margaret Warren (d before 06.06.1661)
m. (before 14.02.1642/3) Anthony Preston, 2nd Viscount Tara (b 20.06.1618, d 24.04.1659) @1@ above
  ((E))+ other issue - William, "several daughters"
  ((2)) Nicholas Preston
  ((3)) Elizabeth Preston
  m1. Thomas Nangle, baron of Navan
  m2. Richard Nugent, 13th Lord Delvin (b 1519, d 10.12.1559)
((4)) Catherine Preston
  m. Thomas Fleming, 15th of Slane, 10th Lord (d 09.11.1597)
  ((5)) Mary Preston
  m. Michael FitzWilliam of Donamore
  m2. (sps) Anne Luttrell
  (b) Christopher Preston
  m. Elizabeth Nangle (dau of John Nangle of Navan)
(c) Margaret Preston (a 21.05.1527)
  m. (before 1523) Sir John Plunkett, Lord Killeen (d 19.03.1549/50)
  m2. Eleanor Dowdall (dau of Sir Thomas Dowdall of Newtown & Termonfeighan, widow of John Nangle of Navan)
  (ii) Elizabeth Preston
  m. Christopher Nugent, 11th Lord Delvin (d 1478/1483)
  (ii) daughter
  m. (c1463) Thomas Fleming, 11th of Slane, 6th Lord (b c06.1452, dsp 08.12.1471)
  (2) Elizabeth Preston (a 07.1462) possibly of this generation
  m. Christopher Plunkett, 1st Lord of Dunsany (b c1410, d 1462-3)
  b. Elizabeth Preston
  m. (by 1383) Thomas Fleming, 7th of Slane, 2nd Lord (b c1358, d 1434/5)
  m2. Joan Hugeley

 

 

Jenico Preston, 5th Viscount Gormanston (b c1584, d 14.03.1629/30) - continued above
m. Margaret St. Lawrence (d 16.11.1637, dau of Nicholas St. Lawrence, Lord Howth)
1. Nicholas Preston, 6th Viscount Gormanston (b c1607, d 28/9.07.1643)
  m. Mary Barnewall (d 05.1642, dau of Nicholas Barnewall, 1st Viscount of Kingsland)
  A. Jenico Preston, 7th Viscount Gormanston (d 17.03.1691)
  m1. Frances Leke (dsp 29.07.1682, dau of Francis Leke, 1st Earl of Scarsdale)
  m2. (11.1683) Margaret Molyneux (d 02.09.1711, dau of Caryll Molyneux, 3rd Viscount Molyneux)
  i. Mary Preston (d 27.12.1750)
  m. (1700) Anthony Preston, 9th Viscount Gormanston (d 25.09.1716) @3@ just below
B. Nicholas Preston (d 09.05.1679)
  m. Elizabeth Preston (dau of Anthony Preston, 2nd Viscount Tara) @2@ above
  i. Jenico Preston, '8th Viscount Gormanston' (dsp 1697)
  m. Margaret (bur 22.10.1733)
  ii. Anthony Preston, '9th Viscount Gormanston' (d 25.09.1716)
  m. (1700) Mary Preston (d 27.12.1750, dau of Jenico Preston, 7th Viscount Gormanston) @3@ just above
  a. Jenico Preston, '10th Viscount Gormanston' (b 1707, d 31.10.1757)
  m. (09.02.1729) Thomasine Barnewall (d 10/6.01.1788, dau of John Barnewall, 11th Lord Trimlestown)
(1) Anthony Preston, '11th Viscount Gormanston' (b 1736, d 08.12.1786)
  m. Henrietta Robinson (d 06.02.1826, dau of Lt. Gen. John Robinson of Denston Hall)
  (A) Jenico Preston, 12th Viscount Gormanston (b 03.12.1775, d 10.02.1860)
  m. (19/27.12.1794) Margaret Southwell (b 01.09.1775, d 26.01.1820, dau of Thomas Arthur Southwell, 2nd Viscount)
  (i) Edward Anthony John Preston, 13th Viscount Gormanston (b 03.06.1796, d 28.09.1896) had issue
  m. (19.07.1836) Lucretia Jerningham (b 10.08.1804, d 05.02.1891, dau of William Charles Jerningham, brother of 8th Baron Stafford)
  (ii) Charles Preston (b 28.04.1803, d 02.02.1888, 5th son) had issue
  m. (1853) Alicia Margaretta North (d 11.11.1903, dau of William North of Northbrook)
(iii) Thomas Preston of Silverstream (b 03.05.1817, d 29.08.1903, 7th son) had issue
  m. (09.08.1843) Margaret Hamilton (d 28.12.1891, dau of John Hamilton of Sundrum)
  (iv) Matilda Margaret Preston (b 01.01.1810, d 22.12.1888)
  m. (16.06.1842) Matthew Elias Corbally of Corbalton Hall (d 1870)
  (v)+ other issue - Arthur Anthony (b 02.06.1798, d 20.04.1827), Jenico (b 24.09.1800, d 03.02.1874), Robert (b 23.01.1802, d 03.03.1869), Edmund (b 16.02.1808, d 1826), Harriet (b c1806, d c1815)
  (2) James Preston (d 25.04.1823)
  m. (23.04.1774) Purefoy Aston (d 14.03.1792, dau of Sir Willoughby Aston, Bart)
(A) Edward Lewis Preston, Comte de Preston (b 13.09.1783, d 04.05.1884, 3rd son) had issue
  m. (1824) Caroline, Baroness Wittenback
  (B) Philip Frederick Preston (b 08.02.1790, dsp 12.05.1880)
  m. (11.06.1827) Susan Holmes (dau of Isaak Holmes of Louth)
  (C) Catherine Elizabeth Preston (b 10.04.1776)
  m. (04.05.1813) Theodore J.V. de Hensch
  (D)+ other issue - Jenico Willoughby James (b 1775, d 1796), John Aloysius Patricius (b 1779, d 1794), Antoinette Jane (b 20.12.1777, d 20.04.1778), Mary Frances (b 16.12.1780, nun), Sidney Mary (b 08.03.1782), Frances Antoinette (b 24.04.1785)
  (3) Catherine Preston
  m. Anthony, Count Doria
  (4)+ other issue - Jenico (b 21.06.1751, d 25.01.1810.canon of Liege Cathedral), John, Frances, Bridget, Elizabeth, Margaret
  C. Anne Preston
  m. Robert Luttrell
2. Mary Preston (d before 18.06.1666)
  m1. (after 1616) Sir Thomas Alen, Bart of St. Wolstan's (b c1566, dsp 07.03.1626-7)
  m2. (before 11.1634) Simon Luttrell of Luttrelstown (d 1650)

Main source(s): BP1934 (Gormanston) with input from TCP (Tara, Taragh, or Tarragh)
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