'Hill02'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Hill of Downshire, Hill of Hillsborough, Hill-Trevor of Dungannonl
[This page was originally launched as 'Hill01'. It was renamed on 04.01.15 to enable 'Hill01' to be used for earlier generations.]

                               
Sir Moyses Hill of Hillsborough (b c1554, d 02.1629-30, provost marshall of Ulster)
m1. Alice MacDonnell (dau of Alexander MacIan Cathanach, sister of Sorley Buie (Boye) MacDonnell)
1. Peter Hill, Sheriff of Co. Down (provost marshall)
  m. ?? MacDonnell (dau of Sorley Buie MacDonnell, sister of 1st Earl of Antrim)
  A. Francis Hill of Hill Hall (d 15.10.1672)
  m. Ursula Stafford (dau of Sir Francis Stafford of Portglenone, m2. Sir George Rawdon, Bart)
  i. Anne Hill (d 07.1683)
  m1. Moyses Hill of Hillsborough (d 19.04.1664) @@ just below
  m2. (c1678) Patrick Sheridan, Bishop of Cloyne
  ii. Rose Hill
  m. Sir Robert Colvil of Newtown, Co. Down
B. Randall Hill (d unm)
2. Arthur Hill 'of Stranmellis' of Hillsborough (b c1600, d 04.1663, , Colonel)
  m1. Anne Bolton (b 1603, bur 07.01.1636, dau of Sir Richard Bolton, Chancellor of Ireland by Frances, dau of Richard Walter of Stafford)
  A. Moyses Hill of Hillsborough (d 19.04.1664/1670, Lt. Colonel)
  m. Anne Hill (d 07.1683, dau of Francis Hill of Hill Hall) @@ just above
  i. Frances Hill
  m. Thomas Coote of Coote Hill (dsp 27.11.1671, Colonel)
  ii. Penelope Hill
  m. Sir Walter Plunket (d 1671)
iii. Mary Hill
  m. Arthur Parsons of Tomduff
  iv.+ other issue - Moyses (d unm), Arthur (bur 13.01.1665), son (dvpsp?)
  B.+ other issue - Edward, Francis
  m2. Mary Parsons (dau of Sir William Parsons, Lord Justice of Ireland)
  D. William Hill of Hillsborough (d 1693)
  m1. Eleanor Boyle (dau of Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh, Chancellor of Ireland, by Mary O'Brien)
  i. Michael Hill of Hillsborough (b c1672, d 1699)
  m. (1690) Anne Trevor (d 05.01.1747, dau of Sir John Trevor of Brynkinalt)
a. Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (b 1693, d 03/5.05.1742)
  m. Mary Rowe (b 15.02.1683/4, d 22/3.08.1742, dau/coheir of Anthony Rowe of Muswell Hill & North Aston (by Mary, dau of Robert Manley), widow of Sir Edmund Denton, Bart)
  (1) Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, 1st Marquess of Downshire (b 30.05.1718, d 07.10.1793, 2nd son)
  m1. (01.03.1747) Margaretta FitzGerald (d 19/25.01.1766, dau of Robert FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare, by Mary O'Brien)
(A) Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (b 03/23.03.1753, d 07.09.1801, 2nd son)
  m. (29.06.1786) Mary Sandys, Baroness Sandys (d 01.08.1836, dau of Hon Martyn Sandys)
  (i) Arthur Blundell Sandys Turnbull Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire (b 08.10.1788, d 12.04.1845) had issue
  m. (25.10.1811) Maria Windsor (b 1790, d 07.04.1855, dau of Other Hickman Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth)
  (ii) Arthur Moyses William Hill, 2nd Lord Sandys (b 10.01.1792, d unm 16.07.1860, Lt. General)
  (iii) Arthur Marcus Cecil Hill, 3rd Lord Sandys (b 28.01.1798, d 10.04.1863) had issue
  m. (12.04.1837) Louisa Blake (d 06.04.1886, dau of Joseph Blake)
  (iv) Arthur Augustus Edwin Hill (b 13.08.1800, d 10.07.1831)
(v) George Augustus Hill (b 09.12.1801, d 06.04.1879) had issue
  m1. (21.10.1834) Cassandra Jane Knight (d 14.03.1842, dau of Edward Knight of Goldmersham Park)
  m2. (11.05.1847) Louisa Knight (d 29.07.1889, dau of Edward Knight of Goldmersham Park)
  (vi)+ other issue (d unm) - Charlotte (d 1821), Mary (d 23.05.1830)
  (B) Mary Amelia Hill (b 16.08.1750, d 28.11.1835)
  m. (02.12.1773) James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury (b 04.09.1748, d 13.06.1823)
  (C) Charlotte Hill (b 18.03.1754, d 07/17.01.1804)
  m. (07.05.1776) John Chetwynd Talbot, later Chetwynd-Talbot, 3rd Lord of Hensol, 1st Earl Talbot (bpt 25.02.1749, d 19.05.1793)
  (D)+ other issue - Marcus (b 21.02.1752, d 18.04.1756), Mary Anne (b 28.05.1749, d 19.12.1749)
  m2. (11/4.10.1768, sp) Mary Stawell, Baroness Stawell (d 29.07.1780, dau of Lord Stawell)
  (2) Anne Hill (01.08.1751)
m. (23.12.1746, sp) Sir John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira (d 20.06.1793)
  (3)+ other issue - Charles (d young), Arthur (d young), Anthony (d infant)
  b. Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon (d 30.01.1771)
  m1. Anne Deane (dau of Joseph Deane, Lord of Exchequer in Ireland)
  m2. (12.01.1737) Anne Stafford (dau of Edmund Francis Stafford of Brownstown & Mount Stafford)
  (1) Arthur Hill-Trevor (b 24.12.1738, dvp 19.06.1770)
  m. (27.02.1762) Letitia Morres (d 07.12.1801, dau of Hervey, 1st Viscount Mountmorres)
  (A) Arthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon (b 02.10.1763, d 14.12.1837)
  m. (30.07.1795) Charlotte FitzRoy (d 22.11.1828, dau of Charles FitzRoy, 1st Lord Southampton)
  (i) Arthur Hill-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Dungannon (b 09.11.1798, dsp 11.08.1862)
  m. (10.09.1821) Sophia Irvine (d 21.03.1880, dau of Gorges Marcus D'Arcy Irvine of Castle Irvine)
(ii) Charles Henry Hill-Trevor (b 21.09.1801, d unm 18.09.1823)
  (2) Anne Hill-Trevor (b 23.06.1742, d 10.12.1831)
  m. (06.02.1759) Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington (b 19.07.1735, d 22.05.1781)
  (3) Prudence Penelope Hill-Trevor (b 17.03.1745)
  m. (22.05.1765) Charles Powell Leslie of Glaslough (d 08.1800)
  c. Anne Hill
  m. St. John Brodrick 'of Midleton' of Ballyanan (dvp 21.02.1728)
  ii. Anne Hill (d young)
  m2. Mary Trevor (d 09.07.1711, dau of Marcus Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon, by Frances Whitechruch)
  iii.+ other issue - Arthur (d aged 21), William (d young), Marcus of Holt Forest (d unm 06.04.1751)
  E. Conway Hill (a 1665, dsp)
  m. _ Jones
  F. Penelope Hill
  m. (07.1666) Richard Coote of Tullamaine
G. Jane or Sarah Hill
  m. Gilbert Ormsby of Tobervaddy
  H. Dorothy Hill
  m. Richard Eustace of Dowdringston
  I.+ other issue (d young) - Arthur, daughter
BP1934 (Downshire) reports that Sir Moyses had 3 daughters but does not name them. Lodge identifies them as Mary (m. Sir James Craige), unnmaed (m. Arthur Wilmot), and Penelope (m1. Sir William Brooke, m2. Edward Russel). TCP (Wilmot) reports that Arthur Wilmot was also husband of Penelope.
3. Mary Hill
  m. Sir James Craige of Carrickgergus
4. daughter
5. Penelope Hill (bur 12.07.1694)
  m1. Arthur Wilmot (b by 1610, dvpsp 31.10/01.11.1632)
  m2. (before 1642) William Brooke (d 09.1643)
  m3. Edward Russell (d 21.09.1665)
m2. Anne Grogan

Main source(s): BP1934 (Downshire) with support/input from BP1934 (Trevor), Lodge (vol 2, Hill, Earl of Hillsborough)
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