Grace (No. 3.) family genealogy

Of Mantua, County Roscommon

Arms: Same as “Grace,” No. 1, quartering Windsor, Butler, Sheffield, Dowell, etc. Crest, and Mottoes: Same as “Grace,” No. 1.

Sir Oliver Grace, younger son of Sir John le Gros who (see the “Grace,” No. 1 pedigree) was surnamed Crios Iarann, or the “iron-belted,” was the ancestor of this branch of the “Grace” family.

1. Sir Oliver Grace, M.P. for the county Tipperary in 1559, married and had:

2. Gerald, of Ballylinch Castle, co. Kilkenny (died 1618), who m. and had;

3. Oliver of Ballylinch Castle (d. 1626), who m. and had:

4. Gerald, of Ballylinch Castle, who, on the 15th April, 1642, fell at the battle of Kilrush. A confiscation by the Commonwealth of his estates, to the extent of 17,000 acres, followed. He m. and had:

4. William, who resided at Barrowmount, county Kilkenny, mar. and had two sons and one daughter:

1. Oliver, of whom presently.
2. John, of the Grange, Queen’s County, who m., and had an only daughter, Elizabeth, who m. Richard Gamon, Esq., of Datchworthbury, co. of Herts, and had issue:

5. Oliver, an M.P. (died 1708): son of William; was Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer in Ireland; settled at Shanganagh (now called Gracefield), in the Queen’s County. He m. and had:

1. Michael, of whom presently.
2. Robert.
3. Sheffield, died 1699.
1. Lettice, who m. John Grace, Baron of Courtstown, who is No. 6 on the “Grace” (No. 2) pedigree.
2. Anne, who was twice married: first, to Richard, eldest son of Sir Richard Nagle, who was Secretary of State for Ireland, temp. James II., but by him had no issue; secondly, to Edmond Butler, the eighth Lord Dunboyne, and was mother of the 9th, 10th, and 12th Lords of that title.
3. Ellis (or Alicia), m. Samuel Gale, Esq., of Ashfield, Queen’s County.

6. Michael Grace, of Gracefield: the eldest son of Oliver; m. Mary, daughter of John Galway, of Lota House, county Cork, and had issue.

7. Oliver, of Gracefield (d. 1781), eldest son of Michael; m. Mary, dau. and heiress of John Dowell, Esq., of Mantagh (now Mantua), co. Roscommon, and had:

1. Michael (d. 1785), who m. and had an only child, the late Alicia Grace, of Gracefield.
2. John, of whom presently.

8. John Grace, of Mantua (born 1734, died 1811): second son of Oliver; m. and had one son and two daughters:

1. Oliver-Dowell-John, of whom presently.
1. Catharine-Eliza, who, in 1821, m. Rice Hussey, of Miltown, county Kerry.
2. Maria, a Nun, who died in 1837.

9. Oliver-Dowell-John Grace, of Mantua, and of Gracefield: son of John; was M.P. for the co. Roscommon; b. 1791, d. 1871; he m., in 1819, Frances-Mary, only dau. of Sir Richard Nagle, Bart., of Jamestown, county Westmeath, and had three sons and one daughter:

1. John-Dowell-Fitzgerald, of whom presently.
2. Richard-Joseph, an R.M., died 1864.
3. Raymond-Joseph, d. 1831.
1. Mary-Clare.

10. John-Dowell-Fitzgerald Grace, of Mantua: eldest son of Oliver; b. 1821; m., in 1855, Grace, dau. of Thomas Thistlethwayte, Esq., of Southwick Park, Hants, England; and was living in 1879.