De La Hoyde family genealogy

Arms: Barry of six ar. and gu. a bend sa. Crest: A heron’s head couped ar. ducally gorged or, beaked gu. holding in the beak a snake ppr. Motto: Fides et constantia.

This family name occurs frequently in Inquisitions of the reign of Richard I., in connection chiefly with Bedfordshire, and is derived apparently from the “Manerium de La Hyde juxta Luton,” in that county.

In the Municipal Archives of Dublin is preserved a vellum folio volume, The Roll of Dublin Citizens, in which occurs the following entry: “A.D. 1226, Hi subscripti intraverunt in Gillemercaturam, Roberto Pollard et Petro de Ballimor existentibus prepositis, Anno regni Regis Henrici decimo,” and amongst others the name of Rogerus de La Hide. In 1220, William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, in a letter to Hubert de Burgh, Justiciary, mentions lands held “Quodam milite nostro Domino Rogero de Hyda.”

In 1228, the King granted letters of protection for “Roger de Hida, gone to Ireland on the service of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke.”

In 1243, John de la Hyde held the Manor of Ballymadun; his wife was a daughter of Walerand de Weleslé.

In 1288, the King granted a licence to the Nuns of St. Mary’s, of Hoges, near Dublin, to elect an Abbess in the place of Isolda de la Hide, deceased.

In 1335, Walter, Hugh and Nicholas de la Hide were among the Marchers of the vicinity of Drogheda, summoned to attend John D’Arcy, Justiciary, with men and horses into Scotland.

In 1344, Walter had a grant of the Manor of Ballymadun.

In 1361, James Dalahid was knighted by Lionel, Earl of Ulster, son of Edward III.; and, together with John Fitzjohn, of Delvin, was Knight of the Shire of Meath at the Parliament held in Dublin, 1370.

In 1387, Walter, son of James, Knight, was appointed Constable of Trym Castle, and of the lordship of Carbry.

In 1414, Henry V. granted to Sir Walter de la Hide the annual sum of Forty Marks, payable by the Prior of Kilmainham.

In 1515, Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Kildare, filed an article of complaint against Gerald, 9th Earl, and Delahide, of Moyglare, Steward to the Earl.

In 1528, Sir Walter, of Moyglare, and Walter Wellesley, of Dangan, were commissioned to treat with O’Connor Faly, for the ransom of the Lord Deputy, who had been seized by O’Connor.

In 1533, Christopher was Chief Justice, and Richard, Justice of Common Pleas. Dame Jenet Eustace (whose sister Alison married Gerald 8th Earl of Kildare), daughter of Sir Rowland Eustace, Baron of Portlester, was wife to Sir Walter de la Hide, aforesaid, and foster mother to “Silken” Thomas. She and her sons James and John were prime movers of the Geraldine insurrection. James, cousin to the Lord Thomas FitzGerald, was his Chief Counsellor in all his doings; and was included in the Excommunication pronounced by the Chapter of Dublin, against him for the killing of John Allen, Archbishop of Dublin, in 1534.

In 1537, James and his brothers John and Edward (Parson of Kilbery) were included in the Act of Attainder.

The heir to the Earldom, Gerald, a boy of twelve years, was entrusted to the care of James, who fled with him to the youth’s aunt, the Lady Eleanor FitzGerald, widow of MacCarthy Reagh, whereby the direct line of the house of Kildare was preserved; and accompanied them to Donegal, when she went to be married to Manus O’Donnell, in 1538.

In 1585, Laurence, son of James, was by Statute restored to “his ancient blood and lineage.” In the British Museum is preserved a warrant of Queen Elizabeth, granting divers lands to Dame Johann, his wife, and her son Richard, who married Ismay, 8th daughter of Sir Christopher Barnewall, of Turvey; their son Luke had seisin of Moyglare, in 1615. Captain Walter, another son of Laurence, fought under Hugh O’Neill; and subsequently served in a regiment under Henry O’Neill, in the Low Countries.

In the Cromwellian Confiscations, the family was uprooted: the name (see our Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland) occurring seven times in the List of Forfeiting Papist Proprietors, and twice in the List of the Transplanted.

In 1660, Don Jorge De la Hoyd was Captain in the Spanish Netherlands; and three of the name are (see the “Forty-Nine Officers,” ibid.) on the List of Officers who had served in the Royal Forces, in 1640. Luke Delahyde, son of Richard, of Castletown, King’s County, having followed the King’s Ensigns abroad, was, in 1664, Captain in the Duke of York’s troop of Guards; and petitioned (in vain) to be restored to his inheritance. Michael Delahoyde, Lieut.-Colonel of the Earl of Westmeath’s Infantry, in James II.’s Army, was slain at the Battle of Aughrim, on the 12th July, 1691; and there was an Ensign of the name in Lord Slane’s Regiment. During the penal times several members of the family served in France and Spain.

1. Rogerus de Hyda, de La Hide, came to Ireland on the service of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; was inscribed on the Roll of Dublin Citizens, 1226.

2. John was seized of the Manor of Ballymadun, 1243-1260; married Agatha, daughter of Walerand de Welleslé.

3. Henry.

4. John: his son (of Moyglare?), Knt., 1295; married Mabilla.

5. Walter.

6. James: his son, Knt., m. Anna, daughter of Math. Bath, of Dulardstown; ob. 1344.

7. Walter: his son, Knt., married Elizabeth Preston, dau. of Christopher, Viscount Gormanstown. Had a grant of Ballymadun, 1344; killed ante 1365.

8. James: his son; knighted by Lionel Earl of Ulster, 1361; Knight of the Shire for Meath at the Parliament held in Dublin, in 1370; mar., in 1369, Winifred, dau. of Robert de la Hide; living in 1427.

9. Walter: his son; Knight; appointed Constable of Trym Castle and of the lordship of Carbery, 1387; living, 1420.

10. John: his son; Knight; mar. “Blanch, f. n. c. Kildare.”

11. James: his son; Knight; mar. “Rex,” daughter of Hussey, Baron of Galtrim.

12. Walter: his son; Knight; m. Genet, dau. of Sir Rowland Eustace, of Harristown, Baron of Portlester; living in 1530. His brother Richard, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1532, married Genet, daughter of Christopher Plunket.

13. James: his son; attainted in 1537; married Joanna, daughter of Chief Baron Kent. He had two brothers,—John, of Dunshaughlin, and Oliver, of Portlester, ancestor of the De la Hoydes, of co. Clare.

14. Laurence: his son; restored to his “ancient blood and lineage,” in 1585; married Johann, daugnter of Mayler Hussey; Will dated in 1584.

15. Richard: his son; mar. Ismay, daughter of Sir Christopher Barnewall, of Turvey.

16. Luke: his son; had livery of seisin of Moyglare, in 1615; acquired a lease of Baldwinstown, in 1629; and forfeited under Cromwell.

17. Thomas: his son; temp. Car. II.

18. Richard: his son; temp. Jac. II.

19. Robert: his son, of Baldwinstown, and Bealinstown, co. Dublin; married Margaret Barnewall, of Turvey (whose sister Elizabeth married Talbot, of Malahide), and had twenty-three sons, and one daughter, several of whom emigrated to the Continent and West Indies; died in 1788, aged 104, and was interred in the tomb of the Barnewalls, St. James, Dublin.

20. Thomas: his son; of Bealinstown; Conservator of the Peace, in 1798; married Margaret, daughter of William Field;[1] died in 1822, aged 86.

21. Robert: his son, of Dublin, merchant; married Frances, dau. of John O’Reilly; died Dec., 1876, and left issue two sons: I. Albert, of whom presently; II. O’Connell-John, of Dublin, member of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians, and Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland; and five daughters: 1. Mary-Frances; 2. Josephine; married to Patrick Walshe, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.A; 3. Emily, died 1st of March, 1887; 4. Katherine; 5. Teresa.

22. Albert: son of Robert; of the General Post Office, and of Cheniston Gardens, Kensington, London; Knight of the Pontifical Order of Pius IX., and of Francis I. of the Two Sicilies. Entered the Papal Army as Sub-Lieutenant in the Battalion of St. Patrick, in 1860, and was present at the defence of Ancona. On the disbandment of the Irish Battalion, consequent on the usurpation of the Papal States, he entered as a private in the Pontifical Zouaves; was present at the battle of Mentana, as Lieutenant, in 1867; was promoted Captain immediately after, and commanded the defence of the Porta Pia, at the bombardment of Rome, in 1870; married, October, 1882, Frances Margaret, daughter of John Berry Walford, of Abergavenny, and has issue: I. Walter-Ambrose, born 27th September, 1883. II. John-Walford, born 4th Oct., 1884.

Notes

[1] Field: This William Field was of the Fieldstown family, in the county Meath.