Crossle Record
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The Mid-Ulster Mail
Cookstown, November 29, 1919
Captain William Beatty
The letter in the last issue from Mr. Phillip Crossle, of Dublin, asking information about the descendants of Captain Beatty who was a native of Cookstown, and served in the siege of Derry, has elicited some further information.
With reference to the 9th son, who had been living at Brackagh, and went to Ballymulligan, we have been informed by Mr. Samuel Young, of Ballyriff, Moneymore, that his great grandmother was Beatty, and that she was the last of that name left on the farm in Ballymulligan. She married Samuel Mulligan, who went to live at Ballymulligan, and his grandson of the same name is still living on the old farm there.
Rev. H. B. Swanzy, of the vicarage, Newry, writes with regard to Captain Beatty’s sixth son, who went to Downpatrick—
I am much interested in the notes published by Mr. Crossle on persons of the now famous name of Beatty connected with County Tyrone. I can add one brick to his building: Vincent Beatty, son of Ross Beatty, entered Trinity College, Dublin, 26th October 1796, aged 18 but did not graduate. He would appear to be the same Vincent Beatty who was Captain 1st provisional Battalion of Militia, half pay, 1814, as proved by the Army list for 1817.
Mid-Ulster Mail
December 13, 1919
Captain Wm. Beatty
Dear Sir---
Since sending my enquiry about the descendants of Captain William Beatty, which appeared in your issue of the 22nd ult., I have received an interesting communication from Mr. G. D. Burtchaell, of the Office of Arms (supplied to him mostly by H. R. Popham Baker, M. R. C. S., of Blackburn, Lancashire, grandson of Captain John Popham Baker, R. N.) which not only supplements the pedigree, but also enables me to make the following corrections—
1. James Beatty (second son of Vincent of Downpatrick) who held a Revenue appointment at Derry, was married, and is not to be confused with his son, James Beatty, junior, of Derry, merchant, who died unmarried in 1818.
2. Anna Beatty (whom I have given as a daughter of Vincent, of Downpatrick) was elder daughter of James Beatty, Revenue officer in Dublin.
From Mr. Burtcheall’s communication, after making the above corrections, together with a few additions of my own, the pedigree continues as follows---
James Beatty, who was an officer of the Revenue at Derry (second son of Vincent Beatty, sometime of Downpatrick, but later of Clones) married Anne Smyth, and had four sons and two daughters—
1. Sir William Beatty, surgeon on the Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar; he preserved the bullet with which Nelson was killed. He subsequently became surgeon to Greenwich Hospital, was knighted 28th May, 1831 and died unmarried in York Street, London, 25th March, 1842.
2. Vincent Beatty joined the 24th Light Dragoons as Cornet 24th March, 1801; Lieut., 25th October, 1802; Capt., 4th April, 1807; was placed on half pay of the regiment on 20th Nov. 1817, with the rank of Cornet; he married, 22d October, 1812, Belinda, daughter of Whitewell Butler, of Waterville, Co. Kerry, and niece of Archdeacon Robert Beatty’s wife.
3. George Beatty, joined the Royal Marines as 2nd Lieutenant, 16th May, 1795; 1st Lieutenant, 20th November, 1796; Captain, 18th August 1806; Major, 12th August, 1819; Lieutenant-Colonel, 16th April, 1832; Colonel, 27th December, 1837; Major-General, 9th November, 1846; Lieut-General, 20th June, 1854; General, 20th June, 1855. General Beatty’s war services—Landed at the attack of Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, when Lord Nelson lost his arm; battle of the Nile; siege of St. Jean d’Acre (wounded); was favorably mentioned in Sir Sidney Smith’s dispatch. In 1803 he was at the capture of the “Harmonie” privateer, and at the surprise and destruction of Fort Dunkirk, Martinique. The publication of the despatches connected with these events, in which he was most favorably mentioned, procured him a patriotic sword of the value of 50 pounds, Captain of the Marines in the “Courageux,” at the capture of the “Marengo” and “Belle Poule” in March, 1805; and in the “Donegal,” Captain P. Malcolm, when a small squadron under his command attacked two French Frigates under the batteries of La Hague, near Cape Barfleur, 10th November, 1810. He was engaged in other offices of minor importance, and was selected for the duty of accompanying Sir G. Cockburn with Napoleon in the “Northumberland” to St. Helena. General George Beatty died without leaving issue in Dublin, 26th June 1857.
4. James Beatty was a merchant at Derry, born 1784; died unmarried 27th November 1818.
5. Anna Beatty born 1782; married 11th July 1805, Captain John Popham Baker, R. N., and had a son, Frederick Walter Baker (Rev.), born 16th April, 1814, incumbent at Beaulieu, Southhampton.
6. Eliza Beatty, married 1st October, 1808, to her cousin, Rev. Robert Beatty, Archdeacon of Ardagh.
I have also received information on the following—
In a lease dated 1753, of the site for a house in the town of Cookstown, the ground is described as opposite the tenement of John Beatty. He does not appear in the list of Protestant householders for the parish of Derryloran, dated 1740 (in which list are Joseph Betty and Robert Betty); neither is he given in the religious census of 1766 for the parish of Derryloran, in which appear the names Adam Beatty and Henry Beatty, both living in Cookstown. Turning to the census of 1821, the only Beattys living in the well populated parish of Derryloran were two old ladies residing with the following family in the town of Cookstown—
George Rogers, aged 28, grocer
Mary Rogers, his sister; aged 30
Anne Rogers, his sister; aged 24
Margaret Beatty, aged 72
Jane Beatty, her sister, aged 70
This Rogers connection raises an interesting side issue on this Beatty pedigree. In the Clogher will James Beatty, of Aghnaclogh, Co. Tyrone, farmer, dated and proved in 1765, he refers to his two elder sons John and William by a former wife; to his minor children Margaret, Jane (the two old ladies above), James, Samuel, Thomas and Robert, by his second wife, Diana Maxwell and he appoints his brother William an executor. He leaves his lands of Aghnaclogh, Tallyreagh and Cullolongford to the children of his second wife. Tallyreagh I find to be in the parish of Dumragh; the other lands are probably Annaghalough and Cullow in the parish of Longfield West, but I am open to correction upon this.
James Beatty, the eldest son by the second wife, Diana, lived in Kevin Street, Dublin, his prerogative will dated and proved in 1805. He desires to be buried in Scarvagherin, parish of Ardstraw, where he states there is a family tombstone. He had no children, but mentions his wife, Jane Beatty, alias Gallagher; his brother William; his stepfather, John Donoghoe; he makes conditional provisions for his niece, Mary Beatty (daughter of his brother William) that she should marry his cousin, Joseph Rogers; he also mentions John Rogers, Margaret M’Phellemy, alias Beatty, and Martha Beatty alias Hood; and to Masonic Lodge No. 547 held in Newtownstewart, “my apron and sash as token of my friendship for them.”
Joseph Rogers and Mary Beatty carried out the wishes of above testator, their marriage settlement dated 16th August, 1805, in which Joseph Rogers is described as of Dublin, William Beatty and his daughter Mary, of Newtown Stewart, and John Rogers of Newtown Stewart, grocer, was a trustee.
Arising out of the interesting reference in your issue of the 29th ult. That Samuel Milligan married the last Beatty left on the farm at Ballymulderg, confirmation of this is obtained from the census of 1821, parish of Ardtrea, townland of Ballymuldergbeg—
Samuel Milligan, aged 50; farmer
Jane, his wife; aged 50
Nancy his daughter; aged 20
Elizabeth, his daughter; aged 20
Sarah Jane, his daughter; aged 14
Samuel, his son; aged 14
John, his son; aged 11
Beatty James, his son; aged 8
The following notes have also been supplied to me. In the list of Protestant housekeepers for the parish of Lisson, Co. Derry, for 1740, there is given Ralph Beatty; and in the religious census of the parish of Ardtrea for 1766, his son Thomas, was living at Ballymulderg. On 21st May, 1752, Ralph Beatty of Brackagh (in Lissan) got a lease of 66 acres in Ballymulderg, situate in the proportion of Salters and Company, of Derry, from Thomas Bateson, of Belfast, Esq., and on 5th July, 1753, Ralph Beatty of Balymulderg, got another lease of half a farm in Balyronanbeg, 41 acres, situate in the same proportion, and from the same landlord.
I might also add that in the 1631(1681?) census there was living in the townland of Ballynagare, parish of Artrea, the following family—
William Beatty, aged 50
Mary his wife, aged 40
Mary his daughter, aged 16
Lucinda, his daughter, aged 13
James his son, aged 7
Also in the 1821 census, in the townland of Creeve, parish of Lissan—
Widow Beatty, aged 60
Adam, her son, aged 28
James, her son, aged 19
Martha her daughter, aged 12
These may be descendants of Joseph Beatty (whom I place as the 4th son of Captain William) who was living at Creeve in 1773, but in Cookstown in 1740.
One more addition and correction to my account runs as follows—Anne, one of the three daughters of Captain William Beatty, was wife to Stephen Oliver, of Tattykeel, in the parish of Kildress, Co Tyrone, whose prerogative will, dated December, 1760, proved July 1761, mentions 3 sons and 5 daughters.
1. William Oliver, who is no doubt the William of Dublin, gentleman, who goes bailsman in 1775 with his cousin, Thomas Beatty, of Ballymulderg, to administer the goods of Captain Robert Beatty, of Liverpool. 2. Andrew; 3. James; 4. Jane (wife to Samuel M’Minn) 5. Mary; 6. Margaret; 7. Elizabeth; and 8. Isabella.
In this connection, from the census of 1821, the following were living in the old town of Cookstown—
Rev. James Oliver, aged 70
Stephen, his son, aged 48
William, his son, aged 45
Elizabeth, his daughter, aged 43
Ellen Brown, his granddaughter, aged 8
Apologizing for the length of this communication,
Yours faithfully,
P. Crossle
47 Upper Beechwood Avenue, Dublin
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