Francis Green Despard, Rev

1753 - 1818  (65 years)

• Name	Francis Green Despard  [1]
  Suffix	Rev
  Born	1753	Larch Hill, Mountrath, Laois, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Nov 1818	Laois, Ireland
  Person ID	P208	Despard Only
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Francis Green Despard,   b. 1715, Killagaghy Castle, Ireland ,   d. 1792  (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Marshall,   d. 1792
  Relationship	natural
  Married	03 Mar 1746	Saint Peter and Saint Kevin,Dublin,Dublin,Ireland   [2]
  Family ID	F30	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	Richard (of Larch Hill) Despard,   b. 1718,   d. 1779  (Age 61 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Frances Burton,   b. 1730, Carlow, Ireland
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F29	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Gertrude Calcott Bradfield,   b. Abt. 1770, married 1809
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2020
  Family ID	F31	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Jane Humphreys,   b. 1753, married 1781 ,   d. 1793  (Age 40 years)
  Married	1781
  Children	1. Richard Despard,   b. 22 Dec 1781, Offerlane, Laois, Ireland ,   d. 10 Dec 1846, New York, USA  (Age 64 years)  [natural]   2. William Despard,   b. Jan 1785,   d. Apr 1815  (Age ~ 30 years)  [natural]   3. Jane Humphreys,   b. 1753, married 1781 ,   d. 1793  (Age 40 years)  [natural]   4. Francis Green Despard, Esq,   b. 22 Feb 1787,   d. 15 Jan 1849, Strangford, Ireland  (Age 61 years)  [natural]   5. Gertrude Calcott Bradfield,   b. Abt. 1770, married 1809  [natural]   6. Green Despard,   b. 28 Aug 1789,   d. 25 Apr 1826, USA  (Age 36 years)  [natural]   7. John Despard,   b. 7 Dec 1792, Offerlane, Laois, Ireland ,   d. 1797  (Age 4 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2020
  Family ID	F32	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  While the Rev Francis was still alive Atkinson wrote in The Irish Tourist “Larch-hill, nearly south of Mountrath, is a place worth seeing. Its beauties, as you approach the place from that town, commence in a neighbourhood rather wild and heathy, and by this contrast are rendered more particularly striking. The house, though not much elevated, commands a good prospect over the demesne to the mountains of Cullinagh, about fourteen miles distant. These mountains are part of an estate recently purchased by Lord Norbury, and in that country they form an important object in its best landscapes. The improvements on Larch-hill display great taste and judgment. Of these a beautiful circular lake at the foot of the lawn, with the ornamental planting on its margin, was not the least remarkable. The prospect over this lake through an ample vista in the plantations to a fine rising country, which terminates in the mountains we have just noticed, was alone sufficient- to animate and render brilliant the whole landscape—but Larch-hill is not alto-gether dependent upon this grand feature, for its character of beauty. The little plantations, which on hills remote from the interior improvements to the scenery, and give the spectator an idea of the grandeur of space, come in also for our share of admiration, in common with the other proofs of taste and judgment which that scene exhibits.”

  
  

• Sources

  [S1204286806] Belfast, Northern Ireland, The Belfast Newsletter (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1738-1925, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S1202875437] Ireland, Select Marriages, 1619-1898, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).