'Drought1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Drought of Cappogolan, Drought of Droughtville (The Heath), Drought of Lettybrook, Drought of Whigsboro'
BLGI1912 reports that "About the year 1600, a rather numerous family of the name of Drought were settled in the c. Carlow, from which they spread into the co. Kildare, and the Queen's and King's Counties." | |||||||||||||||
Richard Drought of Cappogolan, King's Co. | |||||||||||||||
m. _ Baldwin (dau of John Baldwin) | |||||||||||||||
1. | John Drought of Cappogolan | ||||||||||||||
m. Mary Beasly (dau of Euseby Beasly) | |||||||||||||||
A. | John Drought of The Heath, King's Co. | ||||||||||||||
m. Alice Low (d 07.01.1778, dau of Nathaniel Low of Lowville) | |||||||||||||||
i. | Thomas Drought of The Heath aka Droughtville | ||||||||||||||
The following is partly supported by Commoners (vol 4, 'Armstrong of Ballycumber', p345). | |||||||||||||||
m. (02.04.1752) Caroline Armstrong (b 11.1728, dau of Warneford Armstrong of Clara) | |||||||||||||||
a. | Thomas Drought of Droughtville (b 16.08.1755/1758, d 1833) | ||||||||||||||
m. Frances Maria Wallon (dau of Col. Thomas Wallon, President of the Council of Jamaica) | |||||||||||||||
(1) | Jane Drought (b 1786-7, d 20.05.0810) | ||||||||||||||
m. (29.08.1804) Henry or William Pigot (Captain) | |||||||||||||||
(2) | Eliza Drought | ||||||||||||||
m. William Hawkins (son of the Bishop of Raphoe) | |||||||||||||||
(3)+ | other issue - John (b 11.1780, dsp), James (b 06.1785) | ||||||||||||||
b. | John Armstrong Drought of Lettybrook (b 1761, d 04.1839) | ||||||||||||||
m. (1784) Letitia Head (dau of John Head of Ashley Park by Phoebe, sister of John, 1st Earl of Norbury) | |||||||||||||||
(1) | John Head Daly Vaughan Drought of Lettybrook, Sheriff of King's Co. (b 20.08.1790, d 29.04.1876, Lt. Colonel) had issue | ||||||||||||||
m. (20.07.1853) Frances Jane Spunner (d 11.1874, dau of Henry Spunner of Corolanty) | |||||||||||||||
(2) | Michael Head Drought of Harristown, Queen's Co. (dsp 11.1850) | ||||||||||||||
m. Anna Hutchinson (dau of William Hutchinson of Timoney Hall) | |||||||||||||||
(3) | Thomas Armstrong Drought (General) had issue | ||||||||||||||
m. (1847) Mary Isabel Lock (d 28.11.1906, dau of Frederick Lock, son of the Vice Admiral) | |||||||||||||||
(4) | Phoebe Drought | ||||||||||||||
m. (21.09.1804) (Henry Greene) Barry (Major General) | |||||||||||||||
(5) | Caroline Drought | ||||||||||||||
m. Richard Milett of Kyle | |||||||||||||||
(6) | Letitia Drought (d 1839) | ||||||||||||||
m. James B. Elliott of South Lodge | |||||||||||||||
(7)+ | other issue - Maria Catherine (d 11.1853), Eliza Barbara (d unm 20.02.1829) | ||||||||||||||
c. | Caroline Drought (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Armstrong | |||||||||||||||
d+ | other issue - Elizabeth (d unm), Alice, Caroline, Mary | ||||||||||||||
ii. | John Drought of Whigsboro', King's Co. (b 1725) | ||||||||||||||
The following comes from BLGI1912 (Drought of Whigsboro'). | |||||||||||||||
m. (1747) Susanna Mitchell (dau of Adam Mitchell of Rathgibbon, 'Mrs. Clarke') | |||||||||||||||
a. | John Drought of Whigsboro' (b 1751, d 1814) | ||||||||||||||
m. (27.05.1772) Isabella Meares (d 1805, dau/coheir of George Meares of Dublin) | |||||||||||||||
(1) | John Thomas Drought of Whigsboro' (b 04.04.1782, d 30.11.1851) had issue | ||||||||||||||
m. (10.1805) Anne Carleton Perceval (sister of Col. Alexander Perceval of Temple House) | |||||||||||||||
(2) | George Meares John Drought of Glencarrig, co. Wicklow had issue | ||||||||||||||
The following comes from BLGI1912 (Drought of Glencarrig). | |||||||||||||||
m. Jane Acton (dau of Thomas Acton of West Aston) | |||||||||||||||
(3) | Isabella Drought | ||||||||||||||
m. (06.1794) Robert James Enraght-Moony of the Doon | |||||||||||||||
(4) | Susan Drought | ||||||||||||||
m. Robert Lawder of Moyclare | |||||||||||||||
(5) | Elizabeth Drought | ||||||||||||||
m. Henry Spunner of Corolanty | |||||||||||||||
iii. | Euseby Drought of Lettybrook | ||||||||||||||
m. Dorothy Elliot | |||||||||||||||
a.+ | 2 sons and 2 daughters | ||||||||||||||
iv. | William Beasly Drought (Captain) | ||||||||||||||
B. | Anne Drought possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
m. Ralph Smyth of Lismacrory | |||||||||||||||
C.+ | other issue | ||||||||||||||
2.+ | other issue - Arthur, Richard, Robert, Thomas | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): BLGI1912 (Drought of Lettybrook) with input as reported above
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