Parnell family genealogy

Of Avondale, County Wicklow

Arms: Gu. two chevronels ar. Crest: A boar’s head erased or.

We are indebted to the Pall-Mall Gazette for the following account of the “lineal descent of Charles Stewart Parnell, Esq.,” from Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick, “The Kingmaker:”

1. Richard Nevill, K.G., Earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker, killed at Barnet, 1471, had issue:

2. Lady Isabel Nevill (d. 1476), who m. George Plantagenet, K.G., Duke of Clarence, who died 1477, leaving issue:

3. Lady Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (beheaded 1541), who mar. Sir Richard Pole, K.G., and had:

4. Henry Pole, Lord Montacute (beheaded 1549), who m. Lady Jane Nevill, daughter of George, Lord Bergavenny, and had:

5. Hon. Katherine Pole, who m. Francis Hastings, K.G., second Earl of Huntingdon; d. 1561, leaving issue:

6. Lady Francis Hastings, who m. Henry Compton, first Lord Compton; died 1589, leaving issue:

7. Hon. Margaret Compton, who m. Henry Mordaunt, fourth Lord Mordaunt; d. 1603, leaving issue:

8. John Mordaunt, first Earl of Peterborough (d. 1642), who mar. Hon. Elizabeth Howard, dau. of William, Lord Effingham, and had:

9. John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt, of Avalon (d. 1675), who m. Elizabeth Carey, daughter of Hon. Thomas Carey (son of Robert, Earl of Monmouth), and had:

10. Hon. Sophia Mordaunt, who m. James Hamilton, of Bangor; d. 1707, leaving issue:

11. Ann Hamilton, who married Michael Ward, and had:

12. Anne Ward, who m. Sir John Parnell, Bart.; died 1782, leaving issue:

13. Sir John Parnell,[1] Bart. (d. 1801), who mar. Letitia Brooke (who was descended from Viscount Mordaunt of Avalon, aforesaid, and whose sister, the Hon. Anne Mordaunt, was her great-grandmother), and had:

14. William Parnell, of Avondale (Hayes), died 1821. He married Frances Howard, daughter of Hugh Howard (son of Viscount Wicklow), and had:

15. John Henry Parnell (d. 1859), who mar. Delia Tudor Stewart, dau. of Admiral Charles Stewart, and had:

16. Charles Stewart Parnell, of Avondale, M.P.; born 1846, and living in 1888.

The brothers of Charles Stewart Parnell were:

1. John Howard, who was the eldest son; deceased.
2. Henry-Tudor, b. Dec. 1850.

The sisters were:

1. Delia, who mar. Livingstone Thompson, Esq.
2. Emily, mar. Captain Dickinson.
3. Sophia, mar. Alfred MacDermott, Esq.
4. Fanny.
5. Anna-Mercer.
6. Theodosia.

Notes

[1] Parnell: Sir John Parnell was M.P. for the Queen’s County, in the Irish Parliament; he succeeded his father in the Baronetcy in 1782. He was the grandnephew of the Very Rev. Thomas Parnell, Archdeacon of Clogher, who was born in Dublin in 1679. Sir John Parnell was appointed a Commissioner of Revenue in 1780, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1787, and a Lord of the Treasury in 1793. He commanded a Regiment of the Volunteers. Barrington says of him, “Though many years in possession of high office and extensive patronage, he showed a disinterestedness almost unparalleled; and the name of a relative or of a dependant of his own, scarcely in a single instance, increased the place or the pension lists of Ireland.” “His conduct at the Union,” says Grattan’s Life,” did him honour, and proved how warmly he was attached to the interests of his country, and on this account he was dismissed” (from his offices). Both he and his son Henry voted against the Union. Some lines on his death will be found in the Gentleman’s Magazine for December, 1801.