George Anthony Gowen, Jr. son of George Anthony Gowen and Anna M. Barrow Gowen, was born in Lansdowne Octo­ber 2, 1917.  Following graduation from West Philadelphia Catholic High School in 1935, he was enrolled in Pennsylva­nia Nautical School to become a merchant marine officer.  From 1935 to 1937, he studied steam engineering aboard the U.S.S. Annapolis, a three-masted schooner gunboat of the Spanish-American War.

Upon graduation, he signed aboard the S.S. Seakay, a mer­chant marine tanker.  In 1940, the U.S. Navy took over the S.S. Seakay, renamed her the U.S.S. Santee and commis­sioned George Anthony Gowen, Jr. as an ensign in the naval reserve.  Then the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor, and events began to move fast.

In April 1942, Lt.[jg] Gowen was assigned as engineering of­ficer aboard the U.S.S. Chevalier, a destroyer that partici­pated in the North African invasion.  Immediately afterward, the ship was transferred to the South Pacific campaign.  She was sunk in night action off Vela Lavella Island October 6, 1943, going up against several Japanese destroyers.  For his part in the engagement George Anthony Gowen, Jr. was given the Silver Star and promoted to lieutenant. 

The citation read:

"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as Engineering Officer aboard the U.S.S. Chevalier during the night engagement against enemy Japanese naval forces in the Solomon Islands Area on October 6, 1943.  When his ship was torpe­doed by the enemy, Lt. Gowen worked tirelessly to keep up the power, but after all engineering spaces were flooded and oil suction lost, was finally forced to give up.  With utter disregard for his own safety, he made a personal inspection to see that all of his crew were accounted for and then went topside to assist in the transfer of the wounded.  His perseverance, courage and unswerving devotion to duty were in keeping withe highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."

At the request of the Foundation, Capt. Gowen wrote a per­sonal account of the engagement:

"Sinking of the U.S.S. Chevalier [DD 451], 6 October 1943

By October 1943, we had beaten the Japanese at Guadalcanal and the lower Solomon Islands, and we were about to complete a sweep of the Central Solomons, New Georgia, Kolombangara and Vella Lavella.  The Japanese army troops were starving and were being withdrawn at night by Japanese transports and destroyers.

On the night of 6 October, the Japanese sent a force of nine or ten destroyers and a flotilla of small boats and sub-chasers to Vella Lavella to continue the with­drawal of troops.  The only U.S. force in the area was a division of three destroyers, the U.S.S. Selfridge, U.S.S. Chevalier and U.S.S. O'Bannon, and this small force was ordered to intercept and destroy the Japanese force.

At about 2230 in the evening, the U.S. force sighted the Japanese ships by radar and went to 30 knots to engage.  When the ranged closed to 7,000 yards, the U.S. ships were ordered to fire torpedoes.  Shortly afterward, they opened fire with their 5" guns.  The Japanese ships returned the fire with guns and torpe­does.

One Japanese ship, the Yugumo was hit by gunfire and a torpedo and was dead in the water.  The Cheva­lier was then hit in the bow by a torpedo which set off the ammunition for the No. 1 and No. 2 gun turrets.  The resulting explosion blew off the forward third of the ship back to the bridge. 

The Selfridge was also hit by a torpedo which blew off her bow.  The U.S. ships were making 30 knots at the time, and the Chevalier began driving downward after losing her bow and was about to go under.

A phone talker passed me the word at my battle sta­tion in the forward engineroom as to what was hap­pening on deck.  I reversed both engines to take the way off the ship to avoid sinking.  The O'Bannon, the only ship not hit, continued at 30 knots, firing to port, and did not see the Chevalier just ahead of her.  She rammed into the Chevalier on the starboard side, at which time a number of the Chevalier's crewmen and an officer went over the side and were lost. 

The O'Bannon was open in the bow, and she pulled away from the Chevalier and began picking up sur­vivors.  The Chevalier had lost all oil, both forward and aft, and all lights and power.  I ordered the men in both firerooms and both enginerooms to abandon the engineering spaces and go topside.  I went to all engi­neering spaces and with a flashlight made certain that all hands had evacuated. 

I reported to the bridge and found that George Wil­son, the captain, had suffered two broken knees from the initial explosion.  After reporting to him on the condition of the ship, he smiled and said, "Damn it Gowen, if you had been making the proper speed, the torpedo would have hit in the forward engineroom in­stead of the bow!"

I returned to the firerooms and opened the relief valves on each boiler reducing the steam pressure to prevent the boilers from exploding when the ship went down.  Such underwater explosions would severely wound any men in the water. 

When we were ordered to abandon ship, I helped to lower the wounded into two lifeboats to proceed to the O'Bannon.  After the wounded left, the survivors went into the water with life jackets on and swam to the ship.  I swam to a life raft near the stern.

Aboard the O'Bannon, I mustered the Chevalier's crew and determined missing and injured.  Of the ap­proximate 250 officers and men, we lost 53 men and one officer.  The O'Bannon proceeded to Tulagi Is­land, going in reverse to prevent further damage to her broken bow.  There I learned that I was the senior surviving officer who could walk.

From Tulagi we went to Noumea where arrangements were made to return the Chevalier's crew stateside aboard a Matson liner.  I was ordered to the airbase for a flight to Honolulu aboard a Martin Mariner, a gull-winged flying boat.  Minutes before our sched­uled take-off, the entire ammunition dump at Noumea went off in a series of explosions, damaging every­thing in the area.  We rushed to the plane and took off amid exploding shells, smoke and flames.  As we cleared the harbor, we could see the seamen below desperately towing the warships out of the flames.

At Honolulu I boarded the Pan-American Clipper for a flight to San Francisco.  Following a trans-conti­nental train trip to New York, I was met there by my fiancee, Sue Elizabeth Earnest.  We were married three days later  in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey November 18, 1943, and we've lived happily ever af­ter."

In February 1944, Lt. Gowen became the engineering officer aboard the U.S.S. Henley, a destroyer that participated in the battles of the Philippines, the Marianas and Iwo Jima.  In February 1945 he was assigned as an engineering instructor in the mid­shipman school at Cornell University.  Later in the year, he was named commanding officer of the Naval Engi­neering School at Newport, Rhode Island and was accepted in the Regular Navy.

In September 1947, he received orders for training at Cornell which was completed in May 1949.  This was followed by 10 months of training at the Navy General Line School.  Upon completion, he was promoted again.  In July 1950, Lt. Cmdr. Gowen was named executive officer of the U.S.S. Keppler, a destroyer deployed to the Korean War in Task Force 77.  He was promoted to commander in 1951 and given command of the U.S.S. Ingersoll, a destroyer of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean.  Later he was transferred to the Pentagon where it was his duty to maintain informa­tion of the location and movement of every ship in the navy.

He was assigned in August 1955 as the commanding officer of the U.S.S. McCain, a new destroyer equipped with rapid-fire 5-inch ri­fles, which was assigned to the 7th Fleet in the Orient.  He was reassigned to the staff of the Commander-in-chief, Pa­cific in July 1958 and was promoted to captain.

In May 1961, Capt. Gowen was made commanding officer of the U.S.S. Aludra, a supply ship designed to replenish ships of the line while underway at sea in formation.  In June 1962, he was named senior member of the Navy Board of Inspec­tion and Survey, based at Charleston, South Carolina.  In September 1965, he was assigned to the Navy Defense Lan­guage Institute.  In the following year, he became chief of staff of the U.S. naval forces in the Panama Canal Zone. 

He became commander of Joint Task Force 8.3 in July 1969.  His command was responsible for testing atomic weapons on islands in the Pacific.  Later his work brought him to Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico where he retired July 1, 1971 after over 30 years of naval service stretching from World War II to the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

Capt. Gowen was awarded the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal.  Additionally he received the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign medal with five battle stars, the World War II Victory medal, Navy Occupation Service medal, National Defense medal, United Nations Service medal, Philippines Liberation medal, Korean Service medal and the Korean Presidential Unit Citation.  He was awarded service medals for American Defense, European-African-Mid-East Campaign and American Campaign.

Capt. Gowen became affiliated with Gowen Research Foun­dation in 1989 and assisted in the research of his branch of the family.  He wrote August 23, 1991, "I recall my grandfather and older members of the family discussing a member of our family, name not recalled, who was descended from a shipbuilding Gowen family in Belfast, Ireland.  The young man in question married a Catholic girl and was disowned by his family.  He and wife his emigrated to America where he was converted to the Catholic faith." 

In 1991 Capt. George Anthony Gowen and Sue Elizabeth Earnest Gowen were living in Asheville, North Carolina in retirement. 

Children born to them include:

George Anthony Gowen III born August 17, 1944

Charles T. Gowen born October 10, 1946

Sue Anne Gowen born November 9, 1950

George Anthony Gowen III, son of George Anthony Gowen, Jr. and Sue Elizabeth Earnest Gowen, was born August 17, 1944 in Hackensack, New Jersey.  He became a career U. S. Foreign Service Officer.  He was married to Nina Von Well­sheim at Ft. Myers, Virginia October 6, 1969.  In 1991 they lived in Vi­enna, Virginia.

Children born to George Anthony Gowen III and Nina Von Wellsheim include:

Anne Elizabeth Gowen born September 1, 1970

Charles T. Gowen, son of George Anthony Gowen, Jr. and Sue Elizabeth Earnest Gowen, was born October 10, 1946 in Hackensack.  Following in his father's footsteps, he became a career naval officer.  Lt. Comdr. Gowen retired from the navy after 20 years of service.  He was married June 8, 1968 to Luisa Bernabei from Rome, Italy at Ft. Amador, Panama Canal Zone.  1991 they lived in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Children born to Charles T. Gowen and Luisa Bernabei Gowen include:

Samantha Jean Gowen born September 23, 1968

Christine Lee Gowen born September 21, 1971

Sue Anne Gowen, daughter of George Anthony Gowen, Jr. and Sue Elizabeth Earnest Gowen, was born November 9, 1950 in Newport, Rhode Island.  She was married December 30, 1969 to Beaty A. Spear, Jr. at Sandia Air Force Base, Albu­querque, New Mexico.  They were divorced in Septem­ber 1985, and she was remarried to Thomas G. Williford September 9, 1989 in New Braunfels, Texas where they con­tinued to live in 1991.

Two children were born to Beaty A. Spear, Jr. and Sue Anne Gowen Spear:

Brieanne Denise Spear born September 28, 1973

Chad Gowen Spear born August 28, 1978

Mary T. Gowen, daughter of George Anthony Gowen and Anna M. Barrow Gowen, was born November 22, 1919 in Lans­downe.  She died July 17, 1971.

James J. Gowen, son of George Anthony Gowen and Anna M. Barrow Gowen, was born November 9, 1921 in Lans­downe.  He served in the U. S. Army during World War II in France and Germany.  He was married to Marie Owens December 21, 1944.  In 1991 they were living in Springfield, Pennsylva­nia.

Children born to James J. Gowen and Marie Owens Gowen include:

James J. Gowen, Jr. born February 8, 1951

Therese M. Gowen born February 24, 1952

Gerard A. Gowen born March 10, 1953

Michael P. Gowen born March 16, 1954

Anne M. Gowen born May 1, 1955

Joseph J. Gowen born September 27, 1959

James J. Gowen, Jr, son of James J. Gowen and Marie Owens Gowen, was born February 8, 1951.  He was married to Deborah Vaughan September 14, 1986 in Moylan, Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. 

Children born to James J. Gowen, Jr. and Deborah Vaughan Gowen include:

Emilie M. Gowen born November 4, 1987

Therese M. Gowen, daughter of James J. Gowen and Marie Owens Gowen, was born February 24, 1952.  She was mar­ried to Thomas A. Ingle May 12, 1973 in Springfield.  In 1991 they were living in Westchester, Pennsylvania.

Gerard A. Gowen, son of James J. Gowen and Marie Owens Gowen, was born March 10, 1953.  He was married to Rita Cassidy October 23, 1974 in Springfield.  They were divorced in November 1987.  He was remarried to Lane Duncan Walsh April 30, 1988 in Florida.  No children were born to Gerard A. Gowen and Lane Duncan Walsh Gowen.

Children born to Gerard A. Gowen and Rita Cassidy Gowen include:

Melissa M. Gowen born May 22, 1975

Suzanne Gowen born May 4, 1980

Gerard A. Gowen, Jr. born July 24, 1981

Michael P. Gowen, son of James J. Gowen and Marie Owens Gowen, was born March 16, 1954.  He was married to Paula DiFederico September 23, 1978.

Children born to Michael P. Gowen and Paula DiFederico Gowen include: 

Kelly M. Gowen born January 16, 1982

Michael P. Gowen, Jr. born August 28, 1985

Anne M. Gowen, daughter of James J. Gowen and Marie Owens Gowen, was born May 1, 1955.  She was married to Paul Alesio Grasso May 6, 1983 in Springfield.

Children born to them include:

Peter T. Grasso born June 5, 1987

Joseph J. Gowen, son of James J. Gowen and Marie Owens Gowen, was born September 27, 1959.  In 1991 he lived in Springfield.

Helen A. Gowen, daughter of George Anthony Gowen and Anna M. Barrow Gowen, was born February 26, 1924 in Lans­downe.  She was married to Gerard J. Schneider July 23, 1949.  In 1991, they were living in Oreland, Pennsylvania.

Children born to Gerard J. Schneider and Helen A. Gowen Schneider include:

Marianne H. Schneider born June 3, 1950

Elaine A. Schneider born July 27, 1953

Michelle M. Schneider born March 14, 1955

Gregory G. Schneider born April 19, 1956

Robert S. Schneider born November 2, 1957

Gerard J. Schneider, Jr. born September 5, 1962

Marianne H. Schneider, daughter of Gerard J. Schneider and Helen A. Gowen Schneider, was born June 3, 1950.  She was married to Robert W. Peters February 6, 1971 in Oreland.  In 1991 they were living in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.

Children born to them include:

Jennifer A. Peters born January 19, 1972

Michael A. Peters born November 12, 1973

Matthew R. Peters born April 5, 1975

Regina M. Peters born May 11, 1977

James D. Peters born June 10, 1979

Elaine A. Schneider, daughter of Gerard J. Schneider and Helen A. Gowen Schneider, was born July 27, 1953.  She was married  to Francis J. Allison May 25, 1974 in Oreland.  In 1991 they lived in New Britain, Pennsylvania.

Children born to them include:

Francis G. Allison born April 14, 1973

died October 21, 1979

Katie M. Allison born April 24, 1985

adopted October 27, 1983

Joseph P. Allison born May 31, 1985

Michelle M. Schneider, daughter of Gerard J. Schneider and Helen A. Gowen Schneider, was born March 14, 1955.  She was married August 6, 1988 in Erdenheim, Pennsylvania to Joseph Edward Schwartz.  In 1991 they continued there.

Gregory G. Schneider, son of Gerard J. Schneider and Helen A. Gowen Schneider, was born April 19, 1956.  He was mar­ried to Ellen Louise Mehan September 23, 1983 in Oreland.  In 1991 they were living in Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania.

Robert S. Schneider, son of Gerard J. Schneider and Helen A. Gowen Schneider, was born November 2, 1957.  He was married to Patricia A. Dante August 3, 1985 in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania.

Children born to them include:

Christina Schneider born February 12, 1988

Gerard J. Schneider, Jr, son of Gerard J. Schneider and He­len A. Gowen Schneider, was born September 5, 1962.  He was married to Cheryl A. Cracknell April 19, 1985 in Ore­land.

Children born to them include:

Gerard J. Schneider III born February 4, 1986

Timothy H. Schneider born December 11, 1987

Anna M. Gowen, daughter of Myles Joseph Gowen and Mary Elizabeth Furey Gowen, was born August 6, 1895.  She died April 18, 1891.

Gertrude Gowen, daughter of Myles Joseph Gowen and Mary Elizabeth Furey Gowen, was born March 13, 1897.  She died in infancy August 30, 1897.

Loretto Agnes Gowen, daughter of Myles Joseph Gowen and Mary Elizabeth Furey Gowen, was born November 30, 1898 in Philadelphia.  She was married there to George A. Duffy December 1, 1934.  He died July 27, 1969, and she died March 12, 1984.

Children born to them include:

Barbara Duffy born January 15, 193

George A. Duffy, Jr. born June 17, 1942

George A. Duffy, Jr, son of George A. Duffy and Loretto Agnes Gowen Duffy, was born June 17, 1942 in Philadelphia.  He was married there May 7, 1966 to Helene Delaney

Children born to them include:

Brian J. Duffy born May 2, 1967

Timothy G. Duffy born April 28, 1969

Andrew Gowen Duffy born December 6, 1975

Walter A. Gowen, son of Myles Joseph Gowen and Mary Elizabeth Furey Gowen, was born May 17, 1900 in Philadel­phia.  During World War I he served with the American Expeditionary Force in France where he was gassed.  He was married about 1923 to Elizabeth Barrow of Lansdowne.  They were separated after one child was born.  Walter A. Gowen died October 7, 1956 in Philadelphia.

One son was born to Walter A. Gowen and Elizabeth Barrow Gowen:

Walter A. Gowen, Jr. born about 1925

Walter A. Gowen, Jr, son of Walter A. Gowen and Elizabeth Barrow Gowen, was born about 1925.  Of this individual nothing more is known.

Margaret M. Gowen, daughter of Myles Joseph Gowen and Mary Elizabeth Furey Gowen, was born October 6, 1902 in Philadelphia.  She was married April 20, 1963 to Wallace H. Dull.  He died July 2, 1968, and she died about January 1, 1990 in Philadelphia, according to Capt. George Anthony Gowen, Jr.

John Gowen, son of George Gowen and Mary Brennan Gowen, was born in Philadelphia April 4, 1865.  He died at age one February 22, 1866.

Jane Marie Gowen, daughter of George Gowen and Mary Theresa Brennan Gowen, was born in Philadelphia Novem­ber 11, 1867 in Philadelphia.  She was married about 1886, husband's name, Harmon.  Jane Marie Gowen Harmon died October 29, 1948.

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Gowen Wren was married February 21, 1721 to Jane Monroe at St. Andrew’s Church, according to “Marriage Entries from the Register of the Parish of St. Andrew.”

Descendant Researchers:

Jewel Ann Lorenz Dunn, 915 Park Place SE, Olympia, WA, 98503, 206/456-5702

Austin William Gowan, Route 86, Box 134, Wilmington, NY, 12997

Edward Miles Joseph Gowen, 1258 Cresthaven Drive, Silver Spring, MD, 20903

Capt. George Anthony Gowen, 694 New Haw Creek, Ashville, NC, 28805, 704/298-0266

COUNTY TIPPERARY, IRELAND

The signatures of John Goan, Jack Goan and Patrick Goan appeared on an anti-Catholic petition submitted from the Barony of Slievardagh May 12, 1827.  The petition was published in the “Tipperary Free Press.”

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The following article was published in "Irish Ancestor" about 1971 and was furnished to the Foundation Library by Robert N. Going, attorney of Amsterdam, New York.  Mun­ster [Memha in Gaelic] was one of the traditional five provinces or "Fifth" of Ireland which appeared about A.D. 300.  Munster was comprised of the five counties of Tipper­ary, Waterford, Limerick, Cork and Kerry in the southwest of the Republic of Ireland.

GOING OF MUNSTER

by the Rev. C. C. Ellison

This account is based on the extensive genealogical tables and notes compiled by John Charles Going of Cranna House, Co. Tipperary. He became interested in family history in 1908 after receiving a request for information from the Marquis de Ruvigny who was then compiling his massive works on "The Blood Royal."  He corresponded with various branches of the family in Ireland and abroad, had searches made in the Public Record Office, Registry of Deeds etc. [his agent being the well known researcher Mr. Tenison Groves who worked for 8s. a day], obtained a report from a French expert on the origins of the family in Lorraine and investigated the numerous 18th century Goings of East Anglia.

Research led him to believe that the Goings originally derived their name from the fief of Going or Coing sur Seille near Pont a Mousson in Lorraine.  They belonged to the Ancienne Chevalerie, their forbears having taken part in the First Crusade under Duke Godfrey de Bouillon.  Fruits de Coing, i.e. quince fruits, appeared as charges in the Arms of some of these families, others having D'azure a la croix d'argent cantonee de quatre fleurs‑de‑lys or, indicating a connection with the House of Chamblay.  Some of these are said to have come to England in 1605, their armorial bearings being a cross crosslet fitchy surrounded by four fleurs‑de‑lys, and the crest an arm embowed in armour charged on the forearm with three estoiles gules holding a palm branch, the motto being Dum Spiro Spero.  This crest and motto were retained by most of the Irish Goings, but their principal charge was Argent on a mount vert a palm tree, there from a serpent descending proper.

The armorial seal on the will of Robert Going of Crannagh, one of the first Goings in County Tipperary, shows a palm tree crest, and on the shield in middle chief a lion passant between two cross crosslets surmounting a crescent.  There were also three other charges which are too indistinct in the sketch made by J. Atkins Davies to be identified with certainty, but possibly they were lions passant or even the three scythes found on the will of Robert's contemporary, James Going, Mayor of Clonmel.

Some branches altered the palm tree to an oak, symbol of strength, with the serpent ascending.  Others had as crest an arm embowed in armour holding a dagger.  In the arms of Joseph Going, who emigrated to America in 1855, the only charge is a palm tree beneath an arm holding a sword, the motto remaining Dum Spiro Spero, but the crest being a boar.

The Lorraine families emigrated on account of the wars of religion, some settling in Holland and later in East Anglia. These are not to be confused with the Breton families of Guin or Gouin.  A number of families named Gowen, Gowing or Going inhabited the village of Leigh‑on‑Sea in Essex during the 18th and early 19th centuries, mostly seafaring folk stated to have been originally Van Gowens from Holland.  They became merchants and landowners; one of them, John Going, churchwarden, presented a bell to Leigh church in 1753, and John and Richard Going gave another in 1794.  A merchant of this family perished in the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755. Their Christian names were the same as those current in the Munster families, who also first appeared about 1700 as craftsmen and merchants.

Robert Gowin or Goin, late of Clonmel, was sued for unlaw­fully seizing a lamb worth £3 on 1 September 1693.  The ear­liest record in the Indexes to Marriage Licence Bonds is the 1711 entry for Philip Going and Mary Knight.  In 1713 Richard Going leased premises in the Barony of Lower Or­mond from Francis Heaton. During the 18th century the Goings increased in number and prosperity and Ambrose Leet's Directory of 1814 lists no less than 17 family properties in Counties  Tipperary, Limerick and Clare.

Decline then set in, and a century later only 6 remained.  The various branches were grouped round Nenagh in north Tip­perary, Clonmel, Thurles and Killenaule in the south and east, with a few in Cork and Limerick. Not being, on the whole, very extensive landowners, there was a strong leaning towards the professions--medicine, law, army and church--as outlets for younger sons. Later, banking, commerce and civil engineering, both in Ireland and overseas, provided worthy careers.  As with most Irish families in the 19th century, emi­gration to the New World and the British Colonies was the lot of the more adventurous. Today the name, with or without the final g, is found widely in North America and in New Zealand.

The varied spellings of the name complicate research and render mistakes easy.  Variants include Gowing, Coeing, Goin, Gouin and even Guing.  A John Gouing, merchant of Bristol, was one of the English Adventurers of the 1640's, subscribing the large sum of £1,000, but according to the Bristol City Archivist, the name was probably Gonninge or Gunning.  Moreover Gowen, Gowan and Gowin (the Irish Smiths) cannot be completely passed over, as they are in some cases synonymous with Going, though it is unlikely that Laffan was correct in assuming that all the MacGowans, etc. of the Tipperary Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 were in fact Goings and indexing them as such.  It is obvious that these were indigenous Catholic families whereas those treated here were almost all of the Reformed Faith. These lineages con­tain the inevitable gaps and uncertainties (and no doubt er­rors) and at the end ‑ as a spur to further research--are the names of those of so far unidentified descent.

Going of Cranna, Rathurles, Tullaghmoylan, Traver­ston, etc.

Robert Going of Cranna or Castlecrannagh, near Birdhill, Co. Tipperary, was ancestor of many of the Munster Goings. His will, made at Rathurles Castle, Barony of Upper Orrnond, 6 June 1732, was proved at Cashel 8 July 1732, and begins "I Robert Going of Crannagh, Co. Tipperary, gentle­man, being infirm of body by sickness and old age, yet of per­fect strength of memory .... To my son Philip Going £150 sterling, to James Going £20 sterling, to the children of my dau. Mary Walpole £50, to my dau. Mary Walpole 1 s., to my son‑in‑law Thomas Lanphier f 100 due to me by Pearl Bond . . . . to my grandchild Going Lanphier £25 due to me by his father. To my executors £40 to put at interest for the use of my dau. Sarah Franklin .... To my son Robert Going of Rathurles £200 and do appoint him sole executor. Residue to be equally distributed between my children, aforesaid lega­cies to be discharged principally out of Mr. John Bagwell's cash note of £500 sterling." Witnesses: John Barton clerk, R. Morris, Richmond Allen. By his wife, who by tradition was English and had evidently predeceased him, he had issue,

I.   Robert, of Rathurles and Tullaghmoylan, of whom presently

II.  James, of Ballyphilip (see Going of Ballyphilip).

III. Philip, of Knockane, Bny Upper Ormond, whose will, dat. 12 Feb. 1754, pd.      Killaloe 23 Oct. 1758, mentions his wife Susanna, son Philip, daus., sons‑in‑law and grandchildren, executors his brother Robert, son Philip and Jonathan Will­ington of Ballinteary gent, witnesses Robert Darcy, John Hill, James Hurst.  A codicil mentions a grand dau. and sons‑in‑law and was witnessed by Michael Philpot, Richard Ryan and Robert Going junr. in 1724 he had been appointed Way‑warden by the Vestry of Templedowney and Annamea­dle, in 1728 Overseer of Highways and in 1726 churchwar­den. He had issue.

1. Philip, who regularly attended Vestry meetings from 1755 to 1790 and was churchwarden 1755‑61, m. (Cashel MLB 1750) Loveday Godfrey (d. 8 Oct. 1772), and had issue,

   a. Loveday, m. Jan. 1796 William Middleton of Limerick, merchant.

  b. Mary, m. 1786 Thomas Kent, and had issue Philip Going Kent, M.D. of 30 Mary St., Dublin.

 2. Elizabeth, m. 1728 Thomas Higginbotham, and 2ndly 1741 Nathaniel Hurst, and had issue by both.

 3. Mary, m. 1746 Barnes Middleton.

 4. Jane, m. 15 Dec. 1750 Aquila Kent of Greenhills and had issue.

 5. dau. m. Thomas Harman.

IV. Mary, m. ‑------Walpole and had issue.

 V. Elizabeth  m. Thomas Lanphier and had issue.

[Elizabeth Going, daughter of Robert Going, was born about 1701, according to Ann Maloney, a descendant.  She wrote,

"Elizabeth Going was married to Thomas Lanphier who was born in Ireland in 1699.  One son, Going Lanphier, was born to them in February 1727.  He accompanied his parents to America in 1732.  He was married to Elizabeth Wilkinson of London, England. Going Lanphier died in Alexandria, Virginia in September 1813.  His wife died in 1828.

Thomas Lanphier and Elizabeth Going Lanphier arrived in Port Tabaca, Maryland in 1732 with 11 servants and possessing £40,000 sterling.  Thomas Lanphier died at age 42 in 1741."

 VI. Sarah, m. Richard Franklin and had issue.

The eldest son,

 ROBERT GOING, of Rathurles Castle and Tullaghmoylan, d. 12 Apl. 1774 at Nenagh, m. Jane, 2nd dau. and co‑heir of Thomas Johnston Esq of Co. Cork, and had issue,

 I. John, died young.

 II. Robert, of Tullaghmoylan and Traverston, of whom presently.

 III. Thomas, of Cooleen (Coolbay or Coolboy), near Cloyne, Co. Cork, b. 1730, d.s.p., by a fall from his horse, 16 July 1794, bur. at Aghada; m. 1755 Elizabeth, dau. of Roger Adams of Shandrum, Co. Cork, who died a month before his fatal accident. By will, dat. 15 Jan. 1791, codicil 15 Jan. 1794, pd. Prerog. 24 Nov. 1794, he left the bulk of his property in trust for his nephews, viz. the lands of Springfort, Killen­donal, Firgrove and Gurtroche, Co. Cork to Thomas, son of his bro. James of Bellisle, Co. Clare, with remainder to his younger bro. Andrew. Lands of Coolbay, Ardraghmore and Kilcully, Co. Cork to testator's bro. Richard of Birdhill and his son Thomas. The codicil, made on the death of Thomas, son of James, assigned the interest in Springfort and Quolly to his bro. Andrew. The residue to Thomas, son of Richard "who now lives with me." The exors. were his brothers lames and Richard, the witnesses Thomas Carson, William Buck­master and George Buckmaster to the codicil, and Wallis Adams. George Buckmaster and Robert Powell to the will.

IV. James, of Bellisle, Doonass, Co. Clare, and Cragg, Co. Tipperary, d. 16 Dec. 1797, will pd. Prerog. 1805, m. 1765 Marcella (Margery) Welsh of Newtown and had issue,

 1. James, of Bellisle and Violet Hill, Broadford, Co. Clare, will pd. Prerog.. 1843, m. 6 April 1805 (Doonass) Jane Frances, dau. of Marcus Patterson of North Strand, Limerick (by his wife Mary 2nd dau. of Wyndham Quin of Adare, M.P.), and had issue,

 a. Rev. James, of Violet Hill, b. 1 Feb. 1806, d.s.p. at Violet Hill 27 Apl 1874, curate of Kilkeedy, Co. Limerick until 1842 when he became Vicar of Kilgarvan, Co. Kerry; m. 8 June 1843 Mary Anne, youngest dau. of Rev. Bastable Herbert, Vicar of Kilgarvan, who d. Apl 1844. He m. 2ndly 14 Jan. 1851 Theodora Elizabeth (d. 17 Sept. 1880), 2nd dau. of Sir Richard John Theodore Orpen of Ardtully.

 b. Marcus, M.D., M.R.C.S.Eng., J.P., of Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, b. 25 Oct. 1809, d. at Violet Hill 2 Feb. 1889.

 c. Wyndham Quin, of Violet Hill, J.P., d. unm. 2 July 1888.

 d. Robert (? of Prospect, Sallins, Co. Kildare in 1894).

 e. Richard Philip, of Kilcoman, Broadford, J.P., d. 23 Mch. 1888, m. Sarah Georgina, 2nd dau. of James Denniston of Greenock, Renfrew­shire, and had a son, James Denniston, of Violet Hill, J.P.. b. 1868. m. 25 July 1908 Ida Helen, only dau. of J. I. Pim of Drenta. Dunmurry, Co. Antrim, and had issue a son Richard Wyndham Quin.

 f. Mary, m. 1845 Maurice Studdert Welsh of Newtown, Clonlara, Co. Clare and had issue.

 g. Margaret.

 h. Marcella.

 2. Robert, of Cragg, Newport, Co. Tipperary, b. 1766, d. 1838, will pd. Prerog. 1839, m. 1804 Anne, dau. of John Dwyer of Dublin, and had issue,

 a. John, of Cragg, J.P., b. 1 Oct. 1812, d. 16 Dec. 1880, m. 15 Jan. 1857 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Charles Mayne, V.G. of Cashel and Rector of Kilmastullagh, and had issue,

 1. Robert Edward, B.A., J.P., Army Veterinary Corps, b. 13 Dec. 1861, who inherited the Traverston estate in 1881 on the death of Caleb Going and later sold it to his cousin John Lloyd. He lived for some years at Ballymagarvey House, Bal­rath, Co. Meath, and m. 4 July 1889 Edith Hamilton, dau. of Thomas Worthington, J.P., and had issue,

 i. John, b. 14 Apl. 1890 at Ballymagarvey, served in the Su­dan. ii. Edith Mayne, b. 1 May 1891.

 2. Charles Mayne, of Cragg, J.P., D.L., M.F.H., High Sheriff 1915, b. 14 Aug. 1864, d.s.p. 14 May 1939; m. 2 Sept. 1932 Louisa Margaret, dau. of Robert Gabbett Parker of Killaloe.

 3. John, b 13 Mch. 1866, Capt., later Lt. Col. S. Wales Bor­derers. awarded D.S.O. during Gallipoli campaign 1915. retd. 1920; m. 3 Oct. 1894 Ethel Mary, only dau. of Benjamin Bridger of Manor House, Mitcham, Surrey, and had issue a dau. Joan Mary Mayne, b. 2 Oct. 1895.

 4. Susan Ellen, vivens unm. 1907.

 b Rev. Robert James, b. 31 Mch. 1815, d. 6 Feb. 1875, curate of Ballymackey 1847‑56 and Rector of same 1866‑73, Archdeacon of Killaloe 1874; m. 1stly Feb. 1840 Margaret, eldest dau. of Henry Allen of Cloyne House, Co. Cork, by whom he had an only child,

1. John Henry, b. 27 Sept. 1845, d.s.p.

 He m. 2ndly 1865 Maria Marcella, dau. of Rev. Mark Clarke, and by her (who d. 15 May 1908) had further issue,

 2. Robert Marshall, M.B., F.R.C.S.Eng. 1897, practised in Sussex, m. Frances Edgecumbe and had issue.

 3. Marianne, vivens unm. 1907

 c. Anne, m. 1828 Edward Lloyd, of 12 Upper Mount St., Dublin, and had issue including John Lloyd, solicitor, who owned Traverston and at his death unm. In 1910 left it to his niece, Anne Norris, who left it to her niece, Mrs Kortright.

 d. Marcella Jane, of Cluen Lodge, Castleconnell, b. 26 Jan. 1807, d. unm. 24 Jan. 1885

 e. Jane, of Cluen Lodge, d. unm. 22 Oct. 1878.

 f. Frances Maria, b. 18 Mch 1811, d. unm: at Cragg 24 May 1890.

 g. Elizabeth, b. 21 Nov 1818, d. unm. 22 May 1902.

3. Richard, of Park Lodge, Doonass, d. 12 Jan. 1813 aged 29, m. 3 Jan. 1811 (St Michael's, Limerick) Constance Anne, dau. of Edward Waller of Limerick and widow of Myles Jackson of Castle Jackson. She was bur. 17 Oct 1864 aged 82 at Mallow, having m. 3rdly 28 Aug. 1817 John Armstead Braddell, bur. (Mallow) 25 Jan. 1848 aged 60.

 4. Thomas, mentioned in the will of his uncle, Thomas Going of Coolboy, 1791, dead in Jan. 1794. Being tall and thin he was nicknamed Tom the Gad to distinguish him from his cousins ‑ Thomas, son of Richard of Bird­hill, a barrister known as "Silky Tom" reputed the handsomest, and Thomas son of Robert of Traverston, called "Pompous Tom."  No nickname is recorded for the other cousin, Tom son of Philip of Monaquil.

 5. Andrew, a beneficiary under the will of Thomas of Cool­boy. His will pd. Prerog. 1804.

 6. Marcella, m. (set dat. 3 April 1788) Abraham Allen of Milltown, Co. Cork.

 7. Anne, m. 6 Nov. 1794 Exham Vincent of Violet Hill, Broadford, who d. 13 May 1818.

 8. Elizabeth, m. 22 Apl 1799 at Bellisle Henry Collis of Lim­erick.

 9. Sarah m. 1802 Patrick Ryan.

 10. Mary, m. 5 Jan. 1804 Richard Hawkshaw of Millbrook, Co. Tipperary.

 11. Catherine, (Christiana in Mar. set.) m. (set dat. 6 Nov. 1805) William Augustus Phillips of Mount Phillips, Co. Tip­perary.

 12. Jane, of Park Lodge, m. 12 June 1810 Benjamin Hawk­shaw of Falleen, Co. Tipperary, and had issue.

 13. Dorothea, m. 1819 Capt. Robert Phillips, Royal Marines.

 V. Richard, of Birdhill (see Going of Birdhill).

 VI. Philip, of Monaquil (Moneyquil), Nenagh, d. 24 Apl 1820 in his 79th year, bur. Ballymackey churchyard, will pd. Prerog. 1821; m. 1767 Grace, dau. of Thomas

 Bernard of Castle Bernard, King's Co. (Killaloe MLB Index wrongly gives her  name as Barnett), and by her (who d. 14 Mch 1836) had issue,

 1. Thomas, of Santa Cruz, Sherragh, Bny of Lower Ormond, d.s.p. before his father aged 46, m. (set. dat. 30 Apl 1803) his first cousin, Rebecca, 3rd dau. of Richard Going of Birdhill, who m. 2ndly 1824 Capt. John Goodwin.

 2. Mary, m. 12 Apl 1794 in Dublin John Bennett of Bally­loughane and later of Viewmount, both in Co. Carlow, who d.s.p. 1827.

 3. Charlotte, d. 1814, m. 31 Dec. 1798 Robert (b. 21 Jan. 1775), eldest son of Major Robert Atkins of Firville, Co. Cork, and had issue including Rev. Philip Going Atkins of Firville, b. 21 June 1804, d. 1861, who succeeded to the Mon­aquil estate on the death of his grandmother and took the additional surname of Going. He m. 16 Aug. 1830 Jane, 2nd dau. of Rowland Morrison of Tivoli House, Co. Cork, and had issue 3 sons who d. unm. in the U.S.A. and 2 daus, also unm.

 4. Jemima Matilda, d. 22 Nov. 1843, m. 12 Apl 1804 Sir Arnyrald Dancer, 5th Baronet of Modreeny, Cloughjordan, and had issue.

 Monaquil was connected with the Young Ireland movement of the 1840's,  Father Kenyon of Templederry and James Thomas Davis (father of Thomas Osborne Davis) often meeting their friends and associates there. T. O. Davis's mother was Mary Atkins, a third cousin of Robert Atkins the younger. Monaquil Castle was demolished and some of its cut stone incorporated in a substantial farmhouse built nearby in the late 19th century.

Robert Going, the eldest surviving son,built Traverston Hall on the opposite side of the road to his former residence, Tuflaghmoylan. The properties adjoined and lay mainly in the parish of Dofla. Traverston townland had belonged to the O'Kennedys of Poflanorman until 1745 when on the death of John O'Kennedy his widow sold the estate for £6,000 to the Go­ings. Traverston Hall was a substantial three storey building, its three bay facade having a projecting central bay sur­mounted by a ballustrade and with a flat‑roofed pilfared portico. It was demolished after the Second World War. Be­hind the house lay extensive stable and farm yards. The grounds were embellished with plantations and a long, nar­row sheet of water in the low land near the highroad. There were large walled gardens at a distance from the house, with glass houses, one of which sheltered a vine noted for the enormous size of its grapes, and nourished by the annual sac­rifice of a worn‑out horse which was buried near the roots. Robert made his will on 1 Dec. 1774, pd. Prerog. 1780; he m. 20 Jan. 1764 (St John's, Limerick) Margaret, 2nd dau. of Thomas Maunsell, K.C., M.P., by his wife Dorothea, youngest dau. of Richard Waller of Castle Waller, and by her (who d. June 1816 at Castle Wilfington) had issue,

 I. Thomas, of whom presently.

 II. Jane, b. 1766, m. (set dat. 21 Feb. 1788) John Willington of Castle Willington and Ballintotty, J.P., and had issue.

 III. Margaret, m. May 1789 Edward Birch of Roscrea.

 IV. Dora, d. unm.

 V. probably Robert of Traverston, will pd. Prerog. 1840.

Thomas Going of Traverston, the eldest son, known as Pompous Tom, High Sheriff of Co. Tipperary 1803, d. 12 Feb. 1841 in his 74th year. It appears he was a partner in Going's Bank in Ne­nagh which, like many others, failed in 1815 with the end of the boom in trade caused by the Napoleonic Wars. The Bank's creditors met on Christmas Eve 1815 and appointed as trustees John Kennedy of the Bank of Limerick, Simpson Hackett of Birr, John Birch of Roscrea, Thomas Nugent of Nenagh and Aquilla Smith Esq. The Nenagh Bank had debts due to it which exceeded its liabilities by more than £13,000. One Richard Going lived in Wellington House, Nenagh, at this time: the house stood near the weir and mills on the north side of the river and was transferred to the trustees with 17 acres of land in 1816. Thomas m. (set. dat. 29 Mch 1795) Frances, dau. of Caleb Powell of Lilliput, Clonshavoy, Co. Limerick and by her (who d. 22 May 1853 aged 74) had issue,

I. Caleb, of Traverston, B.A., J.P., b. 1799, d.s.p. 23 Jan. 1881 at 14 Merrion Sq., Dublin. He was an eminent sheep breeder and keen follower of the Ormond Foxhounds and continued the family interests in the commercial life of Ne­nagh, where his property included 5 houses on the west side of Abbey Lane; he was Chairman of the Board of Guardians and the 1846 Directory listed him a "miller, corn and flour dealer." He m. Sophia White, widow of    Denny who d. 26 June 1903 being described in the Probate Calendar as "formerly of: Vesey Place, Kingstown, and Highbury, East­bourne and late of 3 Upper Dors Road, Bexhill‑on‑Sea."

II. Robert, b. Apl. 1815(?), d. 30 Apl. 1862 unm.

III. Margaret Mary, d. 21 Mch 1851 aged 47, bur. Clonlara; m. 1837 Fitzwillian Welsh of Trough, Co. Clare who d. 13 Sept. 1867 aged 75, and had issue 2 sons.

IV. Frances, d. unm. 28 Oct. 1874 at Wilton, Leeson Park, Dublin.

V. Jane, m. 1stly (set. dat. 13 Nov. 1820), Edward Butler of Carlow and 2ndly 1845 Joseph Fishbourne of Hermitage, Co. Carlow, and had issue.

VI. Sarah, m. 1846 Rev. Paul Molloy of Duharrow, and d.s.p.

VII. Dorothea, d. 7 Mch 1856, m. 30 Dec. 1832 (Templederry) Patrick Glissane M.D., of Barrack St., Ne­nagh, d. 15 Nov. 1866. The marriage was strongly opposed by her parents, who even cut her name out of the family Bible. At first they lived in the village of Borrisoleigh where he was Dispensar Doctor in rather straightened circumstances, and her sisters who were her secret supporters used to visit her carrying baskets of provisions camouflaged on top with flow­ers.  They then emigrated to New South Wales where they raised a family of 14 and died.

VIII. perhaps James Going of Traverston, farmer, who m. 28 Nov. 1822 Eliza Gunn of Woodsdown, parish of Kilnagarrif, Co. Limerick.

 A Paul Going of Silver Street, Nenagh, baker, is listed in the 1894 Slater's Directory but his relationship--if any--to the Traverston family is not known.

Going of Ballyphilip and Liskeveen

James Going [2nd son of Robert of Crannagh, see above], in his will, dated September 23, 1761, pd. Prerog. March 6,1762 by James Going, residuary legatee [the executors having renounced], mentioned his wife Elizabeth, his lands of Ballyphilip and Killaheen [parish of Ballingarry], his sons, Stephen, Ambrose, James and John, his grandsons, Ambrose, James and John, all under 21 and unmarried, his daughters Anne Going, Rose Going Minchin and her three children, his sister Sarah Going Franklin and brother‑in‑law Thomas Kyte of Killenaule.  "To my son John Going my lands of Littlefield and Graigienane, and if he should die, then to his brothers Stephen and James and his sister Rose Going Minchin." Executors Daniel Gahan the elder of Coolquill, Nathaniel Taylor of Noan, witnesses: Laurence Proote, John Kennedy and Manus Lahiffe. He held 425 pl. acres of Ballyphilip and Killaheen at 6s. per acre by lease for 3 lives renewable for- ever [dated May 18, 1727 and renewed February 18, 1745] from Hon. Dorothy Allen. He was married to Elizabeth Kyte and had issue:

1. Stephen, of Liskeveen, m. (set. dat. 15 Aug. 1744) Eliza­beth, eldest dau. of Hercules Beere of Ballyhohan. By deed of 20 Apl 1726 his father had acquired from Stephen Going of Liskeveen and Clonmel his interest in a lease of 487 pl. acres of Liskeveen, which he held from John Bagwell of Clonmel, and James settled this on Stephen in 1744, with £300 worth of sheep and black cattle, one of the witnesses to the deed being Richard Going of Lawlestown. It seems there were 4 sons of this marriage,

 1. John, of Newhill, d.s.p. 6 Oct. 1825, m. 1766 Sarah Lang­ley, d. 27 Sept. 17----in her 56th year, both bur. at Bally­mureen near Littleton.

 2. James, of Newhill, mentioned with his brothers John and Ambrose in his grandfather's will, vivens 1814, probably d. unm.

 3. Ambrose, of Newhill, d. unm. 17 Nov. 1827 in his 75th year, bur. at Bally­mureen.

 4. Thomas, d. unm. 11 May 1822 in his 78th year, bur. at Ballymureen.

There are 3 table slabs at the N.W. comer of the ruined church of Ballymureen marking the burial place of the Newhill family before the church at Littleton was built: the names are clear enough but some of the dates rather illegi­ble, hence a certain amount of conjecture. (The family tradi­tion is that Newhill was lived in by a succession of old bach­elors and childless couples.) The centre slab commemorates John Going of Newhill Esq, d. 20 Feb. 1851 aged 80, erected by his nephew Samuel Murray Going of Liskeveen, elder son of Thomas Going who m. 1800 Margaret, dau. of Rev. D. Murray of Dublin. John and Thomas

were probably younger sons of Stephen Going of Clonmel by his wife Sarah Lane (see Going of Clonmel). Thomas Going and Margaret Murray had issue,

 a. Samuel Murray, of Liskeveen House and 34 Aungier St., Dublin, attorney,

J.P., b. 1803, d. 10 June 1882 aged 79, m. 1stly 16 May 1848 Dorothea, youngest dau. of Ambrose Going of Ballyphilip, and by her (who d. 26 Feb. 1873 aged 50) had issue,

 1. John Thomas, b. Oct. 1852, d. 11 Sept. 1861.

 2. Margaret Louisa, d. 22 June 1944 aged 89, m. 1883 Owen Lloyd Mansergh, of Heathview, Horse and Jockey, Co. Tip­perary, who assumed the name of Going and d.s.p. 6 Oct. 1892 aged 54.

 3 . Mary Elizabeth, m. 1893 Henry Armstead Braddell, J.P., of Mondeligo, Co. Cork and Newhill, Thurles, d. Nov. 1932, and had issue.  He m. 2ndly 1874 Julia Molony, who d.s.p. at Herbert Place, Dublin, 26 Mch. 1913 aged 81.

 b . John Thomas, of Newhill, b. 1 805, d.s.p. 1 4 Jan. 1 88 1, m. 1834 Caroline  Ward, d. 26 Feb. 1895 aged 87.

 c. Charlotte, of Liskeveen, d. unm. 4 Oct. 1867 at Clontarf.

 d. Elizabeth, of Littleton House, d. unm. 26 Dec. 1884 aged 83.

 II. Ambrose, of Ballyphilip, of whom presently.

 III. James, of Spring Gardens and Killoughill, d. intest. 1770, commission to swear his widow administratrix directed 20 Aug. 1770 to John Lane, Ambrose Lane, George Lane and Stephen Kyte, Admon. Prerog. 12 Dec. 1770; m. (set. dat. 26 Oct. 1758) Mary, dau. of John Lane of Lanespark (who m. 2ndly 1773 Lieut. William Greene) and had issue,

 1. Elizabeth, d. 19 Sept. 1843, m. (set. dat. 30 Aug. 1783) Thomas Ryan of Killaloan, Cashel, later of Spring Gardens, d. 15 Apl. 1815, and had issue.

 2. Mary, m. (set. dat. 19 Sept. 1789) William, eldest son of Thomas Quin of Kilmalogue, Co. Tipperary.

IV. John, of Killeen, gent, Admon. Cashel 1772.

V. Rose, m. 1756 John Minchin and had issue.

VI. Ann.

The second son,

 AMBROSE GOING of Ballyphilip, d. 20 May 1780 aged 61, in his will proved at Cashel 8 July 1780, mentioned his wife Bridget Hunt, his unmarried son William, his 2nd son John, his third and youngest son Ambrose, daus. Mary Ann, Eliza­beth, Jane and Sarah, all unm. Son Ambrose to be appren­ticed. Exors. Wray Palliser of Derrylusken Esq, Rev. Thomas Rial of Upham. Witnesses F. Lanphier, Edward Hemphill, James Going. He m. 20 Oct. 1748 Bridget Hunt of Glan­goole, Co. Tipperary (who d. 1 Mch 1810 aged 85 and was bur. with her husband in the family plot at Killenaule), and had issue,

 1. William, of Ballyphilip, of whom presently.

 11.  John, M.D., Surgeon to the 1st (Royal) Dragoon Guards from 17 Dec. 1801 to  25 Feb. 1817, awarded the Waterloo Medal, he retired on half pay in 1817 and d. apparently unm. 5 Jan. 1838 aged 80.

 III. Ambrose, of Killeen Lodge and Annameadle, Money­gall, will pd. Prerog. 1857, m. 1 Jan. 1795 according to the "Freeman's Journal" on 2 Jan. 1795 according to the parish register of St Anne's, Dublin, Louisa, youngest dau. of Nicholas

English (who d. 15 Jan. 1804 aged 56 and was bur. at Kil­lenaule) and had issue,

 1. William Ambrose, dead in 1828.

 2. Eleanor m. 1814 Henry White.

 3. Mary Anne, m. (set. dat. 4 June 1829) John Willcocks of Ballybay, Co. Monaghan.

 IV. Mary Anne, m. 1785 John Bracken and had issue.

 V. Elizabeth, m. 1785 Laurence Langley and had issue.

 VI. Jane, m. 1785 Love Hyatt, Surveyor and Gauger, of Custom House Quay,  Dublin, and had issue.

 VII. Sarah, m. Aug. 1809 John Hill of Fethard, and d.s.p. Her will, pd. Prerog. 12  July 1817, mentioned her brother Ambrose and his children--William Ambrose Going, Eleanor White, Mary Anne Going and Eleanor's husband Henry; her sister Elizabeth Langley, her nieces Maria Rudd alias Bracken, Jane Bracken, Mary Going Hyatt and Elizabeth Hunt alias Langley, and left her house, linen and plate in Fethard to her brother Dr. John Going.

The eldest son,

 WILLIAM GOING of Ballyphilip, by deed of 4 June 1791 leased from William McGuire 168 acres of Earlshill, Bny of Slieveardagh "with the use and enjoyment of the coal mine or colliery then open;" he released Ballyphilip and Killaheen from Lord Doneraile on 4 Sept. 1784 and again on 1 Mch 1799 and finally purchased the freehold of Earlshill on 2 June 1812 and of Ballyphilip and Killaheen on 21 June 1822. He d. 2 Mch. 1844 and was bur at Killenaule. J. D. White's "History of the Family of White" gives his age as 99 years in error: the correct reading of the table slab inscription ap­pears to be 90 years. He m. 28 May 1784 Mary, only dau. of Newport White late of Kilmoylan, Co. Limerick (the set. showing that William was still paying the same rent for the family lands as his grandfather had paid under the original lease of 1727), who d. 18 Apl. 1833 aged 72, leaving an only son.

AMBROSE GOING of Ballyphilip, b. Aug.  1785, d. 11 Aug. 1857. His Arms ‑ an oak tree with serpent ascending proper--are on the mural tablet erected by his 3 sons to his memory in Killenaule church. On 28 Mch. 1785 he executed a lease to the Mining Co. of Ireland of the coal seams under his lands for 41 years at a rent of quarter of the clear produce of a certain portion of the mine, one eighth of another part, plus 15 tons small coal quarterly (subsequently reduced by agreement). The lease covered 7 townlands and parts of two others. The Earlshill Mines lost money and by the 1880s all the best coal had been extracted. He was Mayor of Cashel in 1826, and m. (set. dat 8 Feb. 1811) Margaret, 4th dau. of Col. Richard Pennefather, D.L., M.P. and by her (who d. 28 Dec. 1874 aged 88 at Wilford) had issue,

I. William, of Ballyphilip, of whom presently.

II. John, of Wilford, Killenaule, J.P., b. Feb. 1820, d. unm. 28 Oct. 1873; B.A. T.C.D. 1844, and for over 20 years Master of the Tipperary Hunt. B. M. Fitzpatrick in "Irish Sport and Sportsmen"  says "he enjoyed the popularity his many en­dearing qualities entitled him to--frank, cheery, good‑natured and generous--no wonder he was esteemed by a legion of friends . . ." He was so enthusiastic in the chase that he is re­puted to have drawn coverts by moonlight.

III. Richard Pennefather, of Ballynonty, Thudes, and Melville Lodge, Isle of Wight, b. 1821, d.s.p. 29 Sept. 1872, called to the Bar 1845, Capt. Tipperary Militia 1856 and J P., m. 1862 Letitia Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Robert Bury of Brook Lodge and Killora, Co. Cork.

IV. Anna, b. 1811, d. 13 Oct. 1865, m. 1835 Rev. Anthony Armstrong, Rector of Killoscully, Co. Tipperary 1840‑83, d. 26 Jan. 1885 aged 79, and had issue.

V. Margaret Isabella, d. 12 June 1858, m. 28 July 1841 Christopher Jeremiah Tuthill, MD., of Lower Ballyteigue, Co. Limerick, and of Dublin, d. 23 July 1860, and had issue.

VI. Elizabeth Frances, d. 25 July 1867, m. 30 Apl 1846 John Hervey Adams, J P., of Northlands, Co. Cavan, b. 28 Apl 1818, d. 8 May 1871, having m. 2ndly 24 Sept. 1869 Sarah Mary Owen Lloyd Orrnsby.

VII. Louisa, m. 22 June 1847 William Hunt of Waterloo.

VIII. Wilhelmina, m. (as his 2nd wife) 18 Oct. 1847 James Calcutt, M.D., of Killeen, and had issue.

IX. Dorothea, d. 26 Feb. 1873 aged 50, m. 16 May 1848 Samuel Murray Going, J.P. of Liskeveen (see before).

The eldest son,

WILLIAM GOING, of Ballyphilip, b. May 1815, d. 18 Apl. 1878, m. Oct. 1841 (Fethard) Jane Elizabeth, 2nd dau. of Benjamin Frend of Rocklow by his wife Elizabeth, sister of Hugh, Baron Gough and by her (who d. 2 Oct. 1892 aged 71) had issue,

I. Ambrose, b. 27 July 1842, d. unm. 15 June 1871.

II. Benjamin Frend, of whom presently.

III. Elizabeth Letitia, m. 5 Nov. 1873 (Ballingarry) Major Alexander William Bailey, Fermanagh Light Infantry. The parish copy of the marriage register is remarkable in that the couple did not sign the entry. She d.s.p. 10 March 1905 (late of

Hilton, Jain, N.B. and formerly of Kensington, London).

IV. Margaret Anna, d. 1 Oct. 1882, bur. at Cashel Rock, m. 16 June 1875 (Ballingarry) Owen Lloyd Mansergh of Heathview, who m. 2ndly 1883 Margaret, dau. of Samuel Murray Going of Liskeveen, assumed the additional name of Going and d.s.p. 3 Oct. 1892 aged 54.

V. Arabella Jane, of Ballynonty House, d. unm. 3 Feb. 1917 aged 68.

The second son,

 BENJAMIN FREND GOING, J.P., D.L., b. 1851. d. 7 Mch 1883, High Sheriff Co. Tipperary 1883, succeeded his uncle as Master of the Tipperary Hunt; m. 16 June 1879 Florence, 2nd dau. of Richard Fitzroy Creagh of Millbrook and Athas­sel, and by her (who in her widowhood lived at Coole Abbey, Clonmel) had issue,

I. William Ambrose, b. 31 Oct. 1881, d. 7 March 1895, of Ashboume, Clonmel and Ballyphilip.

II. Mabel Anna, m. 25 Jan. 1908 (Tullamelan) Capt. C. Mor­ris Threlfall, late 8th Hussars and had issue. In 1926 she ob­tained a Grant of Arms from the Genealogical Office, Dublin Castle--Argent, on a mount vert an oak tree entwined with a snake ascending the trunk proper.

 III. Bena, b. 1883, m. Major Hugh Cobden, and had issue.

About 1909 Ballyphilip House was bought by Edward Arthur Hughes and has been demolished with the exception of a steward's house and parts of the stable buildings. It was two stories over basement with a long splayed flight of stone steps to the front door with flanking pilasters and fanlight. The extensive grounds were landscaped and planted and there was an elaborate Shell House and a Summer House, and along the drive were seats made of solid blocks of an­thracite, more suited one imagines for show than for sitting! Numerous remains of the once busy opencast and under­ground coal workings can still be seen in the vicinity.

Richard Going of Birdhill, Co. Tipperary (5th son of Robert of Crannagh and his wife Jane Johnston, see Going of Cranna etc.), d. 4 Oct. 1816 aged 77, will pd. Prerog. 1818; m. June 1765 Anne, dau. of Henry White of New Ross, Co. Tipperary, d. 18 Feb. 1827, and had issue,

 I. Rev. John, of Cranna, of whom presently.

 II. Henry, b. Dec. 1768, d.y.

 III. Richard, LLD., J.P., Major of Constabulary, High Sher­iff of Co. Limerick, b. Aug. 1769, d. 14 Oct. 1821. As a result of his police activities against the Whiteboys a conspiracy was formed to murder him: he was ambushed near Rathkeale by several men who shot him from cover of a hedge as he read letters while leading his horse. A neighbour, Bourke White, found him still alive, but he died shortly after. The circum­stances are given in Begley's Diocese of Limerick (1938) but the year should be 1821. He m. 1800 Anne (Joanna), dau. of Thomas Doolan of Boveen Shanavogue (who was murdered in his own house in Feb. 1798) and by her, who d. Aug. 1849 at Leeson St., Dublin, had issue,

 1. Richard, of Rathcahil, Co. Offaly, Lt. Col. 1st Royal Regt. of Foot which he commanded at the siege of Sebastopol, d. unm. 15 Dec. 1861.

2. Henry, d. 22 April 1826 aged 15.

3. Angelina Sarah, d. of consumption, bur. 14 Feb. 1823 (Mallow) in her 20th year.

4. Diane, d. 22 May 1829 aged 16.

5. Georgina Villiers, d. Aug. 1854, m. (set. dat. 19 Apl 1838) William Gabbett, of Strand House, Co. Limerick, and d.s.p.

 IV. Henry White, of Violet Bank, Nenagh, and 36 French St., Dublin, Attorney, b. 19 Oct. 1772, d. 6 Oct. 1823, m. 30 Sept. 1802 a cousin Sarah White of Greenhall and had issue,

 1. Richard, of Ballinchinck, Co. Tipperary, civil engineer and superintendent of the Killaloe slate quarries, m. Bridget------and had issue, probably with others,

 a. Thomas Richard, b. 10 Aug. 1854.

 b. Anne, confirmed at Killaloe 14 June 1854. c. Maria, d. unm. 29 Nov. 1920.

 2. Henry.

 3. Thomas, M.D.

 4. William Robert, d. 14 Jan. 1829 aged 12.

 5. Jane, d. unm.

 6. Sarah, d. unm.

 7. Anne Letitia, d. 5 Feb. 1828.

V. Thomas Richard (Silky Tom), of Erina, Co. Clare, b. 23 Dec. 1773, d. 27 Nov. 1813 at the Crescent, Limerick, m. June 1797 Elizabeth Mary, dau. of Wallis Adams of Kilbree, Co. Cork. bur. 16 Feb. 1837 (Cloyne), and had, perhaps with other issue,

 1. Frances Margaret, m. Sept. 1829 William Henry Gabbett of Caherline, and had issue.

 2. Anne, 2nd dau., d. at Caherline 26 May 1854 aged 50.

VI. Letitia, b. 9 June 1771, m. 1stly 8 June 1792 Finch White of Whitehall and had issue, and 2ndly 18 June 1809 James Johnston Stoney of Oakley Park, Birr, who d. 28 March 1826, and had issue a son and dau.

VII. Jane, b. 23 Feb. 1775.

VIII. Rebecca, b. 12 March 1777, m. 1stly April 1803 Thomas Going of Santa Cruz, and 2ndly 1824 Capt. John Goodwin and d.s.p.

IX. Elizabeth, b. 3 May 1778, d. 1843, m. 1813 Thomas John­ston Stoney of Hanest Lodge and had issue; he m. 2ndly Elizabeth Pattison Isaac and d. 11 Aug. 1869.

The eldest son

The REV. JOHN GOING of Crannagh, b. 3 July 1766, cu­rate of Stradbally from 1789 and of Kilmastulla 1794‑1807, incumbent of Mealiffe 1815‑29, was shot dead near his glebe during the Tithe Troubles on 23 Oct. 1829.

John Going, eldest son of Richard Going and Anne White Going, was born July 3, 1766 at Birdhill Estate in County Tippeary, Ireland, according to "Going of Muenster" by Rev. C. C. Ellison.  Much of the Going genealogy published by Ellison was gathered from the research of John Charles Going of Cranna House, County Tipperary who began a study of Going genealogy in 1908. 

John Charles Going obtained a report from a French expert on the origins of the family in Lorraine in northeastern France.  The French historian had concluded that the surname was taken from the fief of Going sur Seille near Pont a Mousson in Lorraine.  The Going family of Lorraine belonged to the "Ancienne Chevalerie," their forbears having taken part in the First Crusade under Duke Godfrey de Bouillon, he reported.

John Going was married to Frances Anne Shirley February 18, 1789 under a special license.  She was born May 6, 1870 to Rev. Walter Shirley, rector of Loughrea and his wife Henrietta Maria Philips.  After undergoing training for the clergy, John Going was named curate [assistant rector] of Stradbally.  Forty years later he would be shot out of the saddle by angry parishoners.

In 1794, he was made curate at the church at Kilmastulla where serve until 1807.  He was named rector at Mealiffe in 1815 and served there until age 63 when he was shot and killed during the "Tithe Troubles."

The Tithe [a tenth] was a religious custom that dated back to the days of the Old Testament Jews, and the parishoners in the Anglican Church of Ireland chaffed under what they considered a burden.  Tithing had been abolished in France in 1789 during the French Revolution.  The Italians threw off the tithing yoke in 1787, and other European nations began to follow suit.  The tithe would continue to be a point of contention between the clergy and the laity in Ireland until it was finally abolished in 1871 with the disestablishment of the Anglican Church.

Details of the slaying were contained in a letter dated October 24 from "Templemore:"

"This morning the alarm here became very general that the Rev. John Going, Incumbent of the Parish of Mealiffe in this diocese was shot last night near his own house.  Maj. O'Donohue, the Police Magistrate stationed here, and a party of police who were sent for express in the course of last night have just returned and confirm the melancholy intelligence.

The facts are as follows: The Rev. Mr. Going went to Thurles yesterday morning [Friday] and was at the Sessions Court where he was detained somewhat late.  He was riding home between six and seven o'clock in the evening, and, when within half a mile of his own glebe [parsonage], he was shot through the heart by some ruffians who awaited his return--the unfortunate gentleman instantly fell from his horse and expired.

The animal proceding home without its rider naturally alarmed Mr. Going's family, who were expecting him to dinner.  the son went out to meeting his father and found him a lifeless corpse by the side of the road.  It is alleged that the provocation given by this inoffensive gentleman was that he was unwilling to compound the tithes of his parish on the terms offered by his parishioners--they refusing to allow him more than £300 per annum for a parish containing 12,000 acres of tithable land and which was worth to his predecessors £700 a year, but for which he only demanded £400 and which would not be granted.

He was always very kind to the poor of his parish, making every allowance in their tithes and taking anything in lieu thereof to accommodate them."

The court record reveals that three years later, in 1832, two men were indicted for the murder of the Rev. Going, "but were defended by R. L. Sheil and acquitted."

John Going had begun writing a will, and it was found, unfinished and undated, among his papers:

"I leave to my dearly beloved wife all my household furniture with jaunting car and horse, provided she remains with my children who are incapable of assisting themselves and are not otherwise provided for and as she is entitled to £60 a year out of the lands of Erina during her life, being the interest of £1,000 of her fortune obtained by me; I leave the remainder of the rent, £31 a year, to my 3rd son Thomas Shirley Going during her life and the entire rent for 3 lies renewable for ever after her death.

I also leave to my 4th son Charles the third part of the interest coming to me out of the lands of Grange on the decease of my sister Jane Going, as stated in my father's will.

I also leave to my 2nd son Henry all my interest in the lands of Birdhill, Summerhill and Pollough Brehan, provided he takes under his protection his mother and unmarried sisters and pays each of them [that is his unmarried sisters] £500 in addition to what they may be entitled to of their mother's fortune as younger children after her decease."

Children born to the Rev. John Going and Frances Anne Shirley Going include:

          Frances Anne Shirley Going          born about 1792

          Richard Shirley Going                   born May 3, 1794

          Henry Going                                   born Nov. 7, 1800

          Anne Augusta Going                      born Feb. 19, 1801

          Caroline Going                               born about 1802

          Thomas Going                                born in 1804

          Charles Waller Going                     born June 21, 1806

          Elizabeth Going                               born about 1810

          Rebecca Going                                 born about 1813

The press report was contained in a letter of 24th from Templemore:--"This morning the alarm here became very general that the Rev. John Going, Incumbent of the Parish of Mealiffe in this dio­cese was shot last night near his own house. Major O'Donohue (the Police Magistrate stationed here) and a party of police who were sent for express in the course of last night have just returned and confirm the melancholy intelligence. The facts are as follows:--The Rev. Mr. Going went to Thurles yesterday morning (Friday) and was at the Sessions Court where he was detained somewhat late. He was riding home between six and seven o'clock in the evening and when within half a mile of his own glebe house he was shot through the heart by some ruffians who awaited his return ‑ the unfortunate gentleman instantly fell from his horse and expired. The animal proceeding home without its rider naturally alarmed Mr. Going's family, who were expecting him to dinner. The son went out to meet his father and found him a lifeless corpse by the side of the road. It is alleged that the provocation given by this inoffensive gentleman was that he was unwilling to compound the tithes of his parish on the terms offered by his parishioners--they refusing to allow him more than £300 p.a. for a parish containing 12000 acres of titheable land and which was worth to his predecessors £700 a year, but for which he only demanded £400 and which would not be granted. He was always very kind to the poor of his parish, making every allowance in their tithes and taking anything in lieu thereof to accommodate them."  Three years later two men on trial for this murder were defended by R. L. Sheil and acquitted.

An unfinished, undated draft will was found among his pa­pers:--"I leave to my dearly beloved wife all my household furniture with jaunting car and horse, provided she remains with my children who are incapable of assisting themselves and are not otherwise provided for and as she is entitled to £60 a year out of the lands of Erina during her life, being the interest of £1000 of her fortune obtained by me; I leave the remainder of the rent, £31 a year, to my 3rd son Thomas Shirley Going during her life and the entire rent for 3 lives renewable for ever after her death. I also leave to my 4th son Charles the third part of the interest coming to me out of the lands of Grange on the decease of my sister Jane Going, as stated in my father's will. I also leave to my 2nd son Henry all my interest in the lands of Birdhill, Summerhill and Pollough Brehan, provided he takes under his protection his mother and unmarried sisters and pays each of them (that is his un­married sisters) 500 pounds in addition to what they may be entitled to of their mother's fortune as younger children after her decease."

He m. by Sp. Lic. 18 Feb. 1789 Frances Anne (b. 6 May 1770, d.c. 1854), eldest dau. of the Hon. and Rev. Walter Shirley, Rector of Loughrea, and chaplain to his cousin the Countess of Huntington (well known in the 18th century Evangelical Movement), by his wife Henrietta Maria Philips, and had issue (with a son and 2 daus. who died young),

I. Richard Shirley, of whom presently.

II. Henry, of Erina, Wolfe Island, Canada, b. at Birdhill 7 Nov. 1800, ent. T.C.D. 5  Mch. 1821 but did not graduate; emigrated to Wolfe Island where he d. 5 Mch. 1881.  He m. at Enniskillen 1821 Mary, dau. of William Crawford by his wife Sarah O'Neil, and by her (who was b. 17 Jan. 1799 and d. 1 Feb. 1874) had issue,

1. Rev. John, b. 30 Sept. 1823, d. 28 Dec. 1899, B.A. (1847), M.A. (1858) T.C.D., Vicar of St. Paul's, Lorrimer Sq., London 1859‑78, later Rector of Hawkechurch, Devon; m. 31 March 1852 Jane (b. 7 Sept. 1818, d. 14 May 1892) dau. of John Echlin of Echlinville, Co. Down, and had issue,

a. Margaret Wilson (Meta), b. 1856, d. unm. 17 Feb 1911.

b. Frances b. 1859, d. unm.

c. Mary, b. 1863, m. 1893 Rev. Stanley Kettlewell, Vicar of Grafton, Madborough, Wilts, and had issue.

d. Ethel Louisa, b. 1864, d. unm.

The three unmarried  sisters ran a school for girls, first at Hawkechurch Rectory, then at St Paul's House, Parkstone, Dorsetshire.

 2. Augustus Henry, of Riverlawn, Ballymackey, Co. Tipper­ary, b. 28 Sept. 1825, d. at Tilsonbury, Ontario 16 Dec. 1894; m. c. 1852 Clemina (d. 21 Nov. 1899) dau. of Lt. Edward Murray, and had issue,

 a. Shirley, m. Georgina Murray, d.s.p. 1883 aged 30.

 b. Henry John, of Brownsville, Ontario, m. Minerva Cousins and d s.p.

 c. Edward John, of New York City, b.c. 1869, m.c. 1895 Lil­ian Henrietta Hick and d.s.p.

 d. George Gould, of New York City, b. 15 June 1872, vivens unm. 1906.

 e. Louisa Mary, d. 1899.

 f. Frances Agnes, vivens unm. 1906.

 3. Shirley, b. 25 Apl 1837, d. 1 May 1902, m. 21 Sept. 1865 Augusta Jane (then of Sl Clergy St., Kingston, Ontario), dau. of Richard White of QuinviUe, Co. Clare and Violet Bank, Melbourne, Quebec and had issue,

 a. Walter Henry, of Brockville, Ontario, b. 7 Sept. 1869, m. 9 Sept. 1896 Margaret Agnes, dau. of Thomas Wilkinson of Brockville and had a dau. Shirley Elizabeth, b. 21 Feb. 1898.

 b. John Shirley, 115 Board of Trade, Montreal, b. 13 Nov. 1871, vivens unm. 1906.

 c. Augusta Mary, vivens unm. 1906.

 4. Frances Anne, b. 16 March 1829, d. at Kingston, Ont. 21 May 1899, m. on Wolfe Island 17 Nov. 1859 John Charles Murray, d. 6 April 1884, and had issue.

 5. Sara Mary, b.c. 1830, d. 28 Dec. 1905, m. William Percival, d. 1905 at Kilmore Hill, Tallow, Co. Waterford.

 6. Elizabeth, b.c. 1833, d. unm. 1883.

 7. Ellen, b. at Birdhill 29 Feb. 1836! d. in Canada 20 March 1898; m. 28 Aug. 1867 John White of Melbourne, Quebec, and had issue.

III. Thomas, ent. T.C.D. 5 March 1821 aged 17, but did not graduate; alleged to have d. unm. in Australia c. 1865 but a letter of 10 Dec. 1918 from Lt. Richard Going of H.M.S. Sil­verfield, British Aegean Squadron, mentions his sister, his father Thomas Going and grandfather "the Rev. John Going who was shot," asking for news of his brothers Henry and John who left Ireland for Montreal c. 1883 but may have re­turned to Ireland.

IV. Charles Waller, of Cranna, b. 21 June 1806, d. 8 Oct. 1874, m. 18 Feb. 1839 (St Michael's, Limerick) his 1st cousin, Letitia, dau. of James Johnston Stoney of Oakley Park (b. 2 June 1813, d. 25 Jan. 1883) and had issue,

 1. John Charles, of Cranna, b. 17 May 1846, d. 2 Feb. 1915, m. 4 March 1875 Henrietta Verboom, dau. of Thomas Elliot Carte, of 7 Glentworth St., Limerick, solicitor and by her (who d. 9‑May 1915 at St John's, Glasthule, Co. Dublin) had an only child,  Violet Letitia, b. 4 June 1877, d. unm. 31 March 1904, writer of serials and short stories for boys with an historical background in the style of  G. A. Henty, signed V.L.G. or V.L. Going, thus often mistaken for a man.

Her published works were as follows:-- "The Boy's Own Paper," Vol. XXII Nos. 9‑13, Dec. 1899, "Damon and Pythias, a Story of the Sudan," Vol. XXII Nos. 27‑31, Apl‑May 1900, "Sutherland of 'Ours,' a Story of the Matabele Rising;" Vol. XXIII No. 12, Dec. 22 1900, "How I Saved the Iron Duke, a Story of the Peninsula;" Vol. XXV Nos. 1‑33, Oct 1902‑May 1903, "Val Daintry ‑ His Adventures and Misadventures during the Graeco‑Turkish War," illus. by Frank Feller (pub. in book form by the Religious Tract Soc. 1905). "The Captain," Vol II, No. 10, "Trevelyan's Daring, a Story of the Crimean War," illus. by George Hawley.

 2. James Johnston, M.A., of 6 Clanbrassil St., Dublin, b. 1852, d. unm. 26 Feb. 1893.

 3. Letitia, b. 1842, d. 1847.

V. Anne Augusta, b. 19 Feb. 1801, d. 19 June 1881, m. Oct. 1835 James Abbott, Lt. 82nd and 90th Regts., d. in Jamaica of yellow fever in 1841, and had issue.

 VI. Caroline, m. (set. dat. 11 May 1822) Richard Pennefa­ther of Grange, Kilshane, Co. Tipperary, and had 7 sons and 3 daus, nearly all of whom m. and had issue in Canada, Aus­tralia and New Zealand.

 VII. Elizabeth, m. (set. dat. 3 July 1830) Henry Hutchinson Stewart, M.D, of 71 Eccles St., Dublin, and the Crescent, Lu­can, founder of the Stewart Asylum at Palmerstown House, d. 1877. She d.s.p. 1879.

 VIII. Frances Anne Shirley, b. 1796, d. 1868, m. 1820 Rev. William Baker Stoney, Rector of Castlebar, Co. Mayo (b. 1795, d. 1874) and had issue.

 IX. Rebecca, d. 1851, m. 1stly (set. dat. 25 Apl. 1836) her 2nd cousin Henry Collis and had a dau; m. 2ndly 1847 William Handy and had a son and dau. who d.y.

The eldest son,

Rev. RICHARD SHIRLEY GOING, b. 3 May 1794, d. 23 Jan. 1877, appointed curate of Dungarvan and of Dunkitt in July 1823 at a salary of £75 p.a. on the nomination of Rev. Peter Roe; m. 1819 Wilhelmina (b. 1 July 1791, d. 18 June 1873), dau. of Dr. Henry Roe and sister of Rev. Peter Roe, and had issue, with a dau. who d.y. an only son,

John Henry Going, of Harcourt Terrace, Dublin, and later of 35 Sandycove Road, County Dublin, was born October 23, 1820.  He died April 12, 1914 at the age of 93.  He was called to the Bar in 1849 and at his death was the oldest surviving barrister in Ireland.  He was married October 13, 1858 to Mary Jane Russell [born 1828, died  July 23, 1911], eldest daughter of James Russell of Dunlewey House, County Donegal and his wife Jane Smith Russell, daughter of Jeremiah Smith, Mayor of Rye, Sussex, and had issue an only child:

Shirley Russell Going, b. 15 Dec. 1861, d. 2 Aug. 1933, of Rathcahil, Co. Offaly, and 36 Sandycove Rd, mem­ber of the Institute of Civil Engineers of Ireland, worked on the Lough Erne and River Nore Drainage Schemes, Galway Docks Extension, Killorglin and Valencia Branch of the G.S. and W. Railway, from 1883 to 1886 Inspector with the Office of Public Works, later Surveyor to the Dalkey Urban District Council, and designer of some of the earliest Co. Dublin Council Housing Schemes in 1922‑3.  On the death of John Charles Going in 1915 he inherited the Cranna Estate in Co. Tipperary, which he sold in 1918: the house was later demol­ished and a Land Commission residence built on the site. The demesne was notable for its fine timber, some of which still remains, including very large limes and a magnificent cedar. He m. 10 Oct. 1900 Flora (d. 1 July 1952), elder dau. of Fred­erick Flowers, tailor and hosier of Hadesdon and Kilbum, London, and had issue,

 I. Ethel Mary, m. James Moore and has issue.

 II. Kathleen Shirley, m. Rev. C. C. Ellison and has issue.

Going of Clonrnel

A Clonmel Rent Roll of 1654 lists Richard Gowing as occu­pier of a house and garden and, as already noted, Robert Gowen or Goin, late of Clonmel, appears in the Palatinate of Tipperary Common Pleas Declarations (No. 83 of 1694) on the charge of taking a lamb, the property of Barbara Laun­ders widow of Lissonagh.

 JAMES GOING, Mayor of Clonmel 1725, 1728 and 1734, was a contemporary of Robert Going of Crannagh, possibly his brother, for Robert's will mentions £500 invested with the Clonmel merchant banker, John Bagwell. James's will was dat. 11 Aug. 1732 but not proved at Waterford until 7 Jan. 1743: he desired to be buried in Clonmel church­yard, appointed Richard Pine and Arthur Hyde executors and was witnessed by James Castell, Gilbert Lane and Stephen Moore. The armorial seal showed three scythes. He left is­sue,

 l. Richard, of whom presently.

 II. Mary, m. Richard Harris of Passage.

 III. Rebecca, m. Abraham Creighton.

 IV. Susanna, unm. and under 25 in 1732, m. Garrett Fitzger­ald of Clonmel.

His son,

 RICHARD GOING, of Lawlestown, parish Rathronan, was Town Clerk of Clonmel 1725‑6, Mayor 1737 and 1751, Prog. Admon. to his widow 26 Feb. 1759. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Power of Barrettstown by his wife Elizabeth Congreve; her will, dat. 3 Sept. 1759, pd. Prerog. 9 Nov. 1759 left her interest in Lawlestown to her dau. Mary Mills for life, then to John eldest son of Ambrose Power of Barrettstown, and mentioned her nieces Jane and Eleanor Power, Elizabeth el­dest dau. of John Mills of Rochestown, Susanna eldest dau. of James Poe late of Rossnaharley and Bridget eldest dau. of William Dawson.

 STEPHEN GOING, who in 1726 sold his interest in Liskeveen to James Going of Ballyphilip may have been un­cle or brother to James Going, Mayor of Clonmel. He was probably father of,

 STEPHEN GOING, of Irishtown, Clonmel, Chandler, m. 1763 Sarah Lane, and had a son and heir,

 STEPHEN GOING, who continued the chandlery business, and later acquired Samuel Morton & Co's brewery: directo­ries call him "tallow chandler, soap boiler and tobacconist," and the 1821 Census "merchant, chandler and brewer" of Irish Street. He was bankrupt in 1827. He was bur. at St Mary's 30 Dec. 1835 aged 72; m. 1787 Margaret Fitzgerald (bur. Clonmel 12 Feb. 1834), and had issue,

I.  Stephen, bur. Clonmel 28 Apl 1814 who, according to the "Cork Advertiser" d. suddenly by the bursting of a blood vessel aged 25.

II. Margaret, m. 18 Nov. 1817 (Clonmel) Hugh, son of Richard Daniel, Adjutant Tipperary Militia.

III. Sarah, m. (set. dat. 21 Jan. 1815) William Smith of Clon­mel, chandler.

IV. Ambrose, "4th son," b.c. 1811, aged 13 in 1824.

V. Ann, m. 6 Nov. 1814 (Clonmel) Arthur Ardagh of Clon­mel, and had issue.

VI. probably John, m. 22 April 1834 (Clonmel) Harriett Mc­Craigh, and who appears in the 1846 Directory as "John Go­ing & Co., tallow chandlers and soap boilers." A John Going owned 10 houses in Corporation Row, Clonmel, in 1860: a merchant, he ds.p. 10 April 1872.

VII. probably Joseph, will pd. Prerog. 1838, m. 1826 Mary Reynolds, d. 21 Feb. 1840 aged 42. He was for a short time proprietor of the "Tipperary Constitution," and rented some of the lands of Liskeveen from John Going of Newhill in 1829, selling his interests to Samuel Murray Going in 1835. He had issue,

 1. Stephen R., ds.p.

 2. Francis, d.s.p.

 3. Joseph, b 1 June 1837, bapt. 24 Aug., emigrated to the U.S. with his surviving brothers and sisters in 1855. There he m. and had an only child, Helen, whose great‑grandson, John van Cleaf Bachman of 21 Wayside, Short Hills, New Jersey, supplied this information in 1956.

 4. Margaret.

 5. Deborah.

 6. Charlotte Elizabeth.

 7. Harriett, d. at Clonmel 21 April 1838 aged 12.

Going of Cahir

Several families, obviously related and with names variously spelt in the records as Goin, Going, Gowen, Gowin and Gowan, flourished in the area of Mountrath, County, Laois County, Roscrea, County Tipperary and Leap, County Offaly during the 18th and 19th centuries. Possibly of Huguenot origin, they were engaged in farming, commerce or the woollen and clothing trades. The Registry of Deeds has many memorials relating to their various transactions, and amongst the earliest is Charles Gowen of Roscrea, merchant, a witness to deeds of Silvanus Giles in 1731 and 1732.  Thomas Gowen, clothier, was a party to leases in Roscrea in 1754 and 1767, and died  intestate 1786, leaving an eldest son John Gowen of Thurles, woolcomber.  John Gowen of Roscrea, clothier, witnessed a deed in 1767, and Thomas Gowin of Mountrath was a Roscrea freeholder in 1776.

Charles Goin of Leap, County Offaly, woolcomber and merchant, born about 1700 [perhaps identical with Charles Gowen of Roscrea], held property in Roscrea acquired by his marriage with Sarah Giles, daughter of Silvanus Giles of Leap, soap boiler, chandler and shopkeeper, by his wife Eleanor. His eldest son,

GILES GOIN, b.c. 1733, m. 16 June 1761 Sarah Reazon of Mountrath, widow of Edward Fitzgerald of Anahin, Co. Cork, and had, perhaps with other issue,

 I. Charles, of whom presently.

 II. Giles, of Mountrath, gent, m. Sarah, dau. of John Parry. He executed a deed of division with Richard Calcutt of Bal­lyroan in 1799 regarding Perry property at Ballyroan.

 III. James, bapt. 26 Aug. 1769.

 IV. Thomas, emigrated to New York, m. and had a son John of New York, and a dau. who m. Dickerson.

 V. Sarah, bapt. 21 April 1764.

 VI. Hannah, bapt. 13 May 1768, m. John Henry Sibthorpe.

 VII. Catherine, m. Luke Sibthorpe.

The eldest son,

 CHARLES GOIN, of Mountrath, b. 1763, moved to Cork where he prospered in the West Indies trade in partnership with the Fennells. The 1810 Directory has "Goin & Fennell, merchants, N. Abbey," the 1820 Directory has "C. Goin, gro­cer and dyestuff

merchants," and 1824 gives "Charles Going & Sons, 4 N. Mall." About 1798 he invested most of his fortune in the pur­chase of the Suir Mill at Cahir, Co. Tipperary, and built Al­tavilla, a substantial residence beside the river. He d. at Cork 27 June 1830. He evidently joined the Society of Friends when he m. at Mountrath 24 March 1793 Hannah, youngest dau. of John Clendennan of Mountrath by his wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Walpole. Hannah was b. 3. Feb. 1772 and d. 20 March 1834 at Cahir, having had issue,

 I. William, of whom presently.

 II. Robert, b. 22 June 1798, d. I Sept. 1840 at Cork.

 III. Thomas, b. 26 Dec. 1800, d. 27 Oct. 1872 at Cahir, unm.

 IV. Charles, b. 11 March 1804, d. 10 Feb. 1814.

 V. Elizabeth, b. 21 June 1796, d. 1 Feb 1798 at Cork.

 VI. Sally, b. 3 June 1808, d. 13 Feb. 1810 at Cork.

The eldest son,

 WILLIAM GOING, b. 14 Jan. 1795, d. 23 July 1871, wished for a legal career and graduated at T.C.D. in 1820 but Quaker principles forbade this and he became the reluctant head of the Cahir milling business, which declined in consequence. Known by the family as the Old Governor, he m. 5 Sept. 1820 Matilda (Martha), dau. of Henry Hardinge, bar­rister and keeper of records at Dublin Castle, and by her (who d. 3 Aug. 1846) had issue,

I. Charles Henry, b. 1 Aug. 1821, emigrated to the U.S.A. 1850 and d. there 1892.  He was in business in New York and later in Canada, where he m. Elizabeth Buxton and had issue,

 1. Charles Buxton, M.Sc., of 140 Nassau St., N.Y., b. 1863, d.s.p. c. 1935, an engineer and author.

 2. Ellen Maud, b. 1859, d. 1925, author of botanical works, sometimes under the pseudonym E. M. Hardinge.

 3. Ethel Hardinge, m. John Bonsall Porter, Ph.D., Sc.D., a distinguished geologist and Professor at McGill University, Montreal, and had issue.

II. William, b. 4 June 1826, d. 16 Feb. 1842.

III. Thomas Hardinge, b. 8 June 1827, d. at Killiney 15 Sept. 1875, worked as an engineer on the Pennsylvania and Arkansas railways and c. 1854, during a slump in U.S. railway construction, went to India where he worked on the Madras Railway, becoming Deputy Chief Engineer. He m. Louisa Selina, dau. of Charles Hely of Foulkescourt, Co. Kilkenny, and had issue,

1. Rev. John, Treasurer of Waterford, b. 8 March 1874 at Madras, d. 18 Sept. 1953 at Waterford, m. 7 June 1910 Rosamund, dau. of the Ven. R. J. S. Devenish, Archdeacon of Waterford, and had issue,

a. Thomas Hardinge, b. 24 Jan. 1914, m. Maria de Lourdes and has issue 3 sons and a dau.

b. Robert John, b. 11 Oct. 1916, Lt. Col. Indian Army and R.A.O.C. retd., m. 15 May 1947 Madeleine Joan Sharpe, and has issue a son and 3 daus.

c. Rosamund Wilhelmina, b. 6 Nov. 1911, m. 1st Cecil Coldicott and had issue, and 2ndly John Pritchard.

2. Rev. Thomas Hardinge, b. 1876, d. 24 March 1944, Rector of Corley, Coventry Diocese, 1932-44, m. Nov. 1918 Gladys Clarke Kennedy and had issue,

a. Charles Hardinge, M.D., b. 23 Oct. 1920, m. 10 Dec. 1949 Ellen Muriel Christensen and has issue 3 sons.

b. Alexander Thomas, b. 27 Aug. 1923, m. 10 Aug. 1957 Maureen Claire Ambler, and has 1 dau.

c. Mary Hely, m. 7 July 1956 Martin Kibble White and has 3 daus.

IV. Alexander, of whom presently.

V. Henry Hardinge, b. 1831, d.1868, joined the U.S. Army under age, served in the Mexican War, later worked as a rail­road engineer in the U.S. and inspector of roads in South Africa. He was accidentally killed near Fort Beaufort when passing a wagon train in a narrow defile. He m. 1862 Theresa Weisbecker and had 3 sons, Frank, Charles and Gerald.

VI. Rev. William, b. 6 June 1843, d. 10 Dec. 1899, Rector of Cappoquin 1875‑98.

VII. Maria, b. 6 Dec. 1822, d. 25 Oct. 1864, m. Rev. William Stevenson, curate of  Drumcondra, Co. Dublin.

VIII. Hannah, b. 1 Sept. 1824, d. 1862, m. Thomas Adams.

IX. Arabella, b. 30 Jan. 1829, m. in U.S. Rev. Charles Buchanan and d.s.p.

 X. Matilda, b. 2 Nov. 1834, m. A. D. Kennedy, solicitor.

 XI. Sarah Augusta, b. 14 June 1838, m. Richard Manifold.

 XII. Caroline, b. 20 March 1840, d. 18 July 1896, m. 17 June 1863 Richard William Nuttall‑Smith, d. 29 Aug. 1926, and had issue.

 XIII. Edith, b. 2 Jan. 1846, d. 1905, m. 1871 Frederick Grubb of Cahir Abbey, b. 1844, d. 1919, and had issue.

The fourth son,

 ALEXANDER GOING of AltaviUa, b. 9 April 1830, d. 30 Dec. 1903, became the mainstay of the Cahir milling enter­prises and restored the family fortunes. "He had all the facial appearance and also all the air of a Gentleman of France and might have stood for a Richelieu or a Guise," according to G. N. Nuttall‑Smith in "The Chronicles of a Puritan Family in Ireland."   During his time there were both business and matrimonial alliances with the Smiths of Duneske, Cahir, formerly of Glasshouse. In 1859 Richard William Smith bought a third share in Going's Suir Mills, having previously worked as manager of Sarjint's Cahir Mills: he married one of his partner's sisters and built Duneske House in 1874. The Cahir Mill was acquired by Going and Smith in 1864 and later Grubb's large mill at Cahir Abbey was taken over. Cahir flour mill was closed in 1965 after continuous opera­tion since 1798. The firm produced all kinds of animal feed­stuffs and still operates bakeries in Cahir. Alexander m. 9 Oct. 1858 Wilhelmina Frances (b. 1830, d. 9 Nov 1913), dau. of Rev. George Nuttall‑Smith, curate of Birr, and had issue,

I. William Henry, J.P., of Abbey Lodge, later of Altavilla, b. 22 Sept. 1859, d 24 Jan. 1942. As well as successfully operat­ing the provender and flour mills he was one of only five producers in the country of osiers for basket‑making. He m. 1889 Ida, (d. 14 Nov. 1927) dau. of the Rev. Randal Bur­roughs of Burlington Hall, Norfolk, and had issue,

 1. Ruth, m. Thomas Jessop Davis, d. 6 Aug. 1954.

·2. Christabel Maud, d. 21 May 1929, m. 2 Feb. 1923 Raleigh Cecil Watson Stoney of Emmell Castle, Co. Tipperary, b. 27 Feb. 1883, d. 5 Nov. 1933, and had one son.

II. George Nuttall, b. 9 June 1861, Major S. Staffs. Regt., m. Lilian, dau. of Leopold Ellis of Tredillion Park, Monmouth

III. Alexander Charles, b. 10 Sept. 1864, Capt. K.O.S.B., kia. 30 March 1900 at Koree Siding, Brandfort, South Africa.

IV. Grace Hannah, b. 16 Feb. 1863, d. unm.

V. Maud Hardinge, b. 17 Feb. 1865, d. unm.

VI. Mary Hammersley (Polly), b. 6 Oct 1869, m. George Palmer, C.E., d.s.p. 3 April 1943.

VII. Georgina Eleanor, b. 13 Dec. 1875, d. 1952, m. 1906 Major John Donald Alexander, C.B.E., D.S.O., later Col. R.AM.C., b. 11 April 1867.

Goings of Uncertain Pedigree

Marriage licence Bond Indices

Cashel and Emly: Philip & Mary Knight 1711: John & Mary Grant 1768: John & Alice Doherty 1779: Ann & Henry Hew­son 1780: Mary & John Smith 1795: Elizabeth & Thomas Millett 1801: Mary & Thomas Thompson 1808: George & Dora Kennagh 1811: Elizabeth & Hercules P. Doxey 1820: Catherine & Martin Treasy 1827: Elizabeth and Pat McEvoy 1829: Rebecca & William Venn 1831.

Waterford and Lismore: Sarah & Pat Ryan 1802: Jane & Thomas Atkins 1803: Ann & Thomas Grant 1806 (16 Sept): Ambrose & Eleanor Moore Lane 1807: (Date in parenthesis is from the marriage register of St. Mary's Clonmel.)

Cloyne: Mary and William McCormuck 1807 [Doneraile register gives 27 Sept. Wm McCormuck, soldier 26th Foot and Mary Going, by banns*]: Mary and William Connell 1814.

*Before 1837, most English marriages took place in the parish church, following the publication of banns [the announcement in church on three successive Sundays], or by license, accord-ing to Sherry Irvine, BA, CGRS, FSA.  There were two proper ways to get married, by banns or by license.  If the couple ob-tained a marriage license from one of the ecclesiastical offices, banns were not required.

Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin: Alice & George Galbraith 1838: Sarah & Charles Hind Cooke 1836: Thomas Coin & Anne Wilkinson 1795. (Also a number of Gowens and Gowans).

Killaloe: James & Elizabeth Going 1777: Mary & Thomas Rice 1778: Susanna & Samuel Laurence 1783: George & Elizabeth Lemon 1816: Edward & Ellen O'Neill 1833.

Going of Cappagh, Co. Cork

Michael Going of Cappagh, farmer, Admon. Cloyne 1825. A Michael Going was licensed 14 April 1764 as Schoolmaster of Ballymackey Parish, Co. Tipperary. James Going of Cap­pagh, farmer, d. 31 March 1882, admon. to his widow Mar­garet. Lawrence Going of Ballykendon, Co. Cork, farmer, d. 10 Dec. 1884, his widow a minor. James Philip Going of Southampton, son of Edmund Going of Cappagh and Mary Collins, wrote in 1913 for information concerning this family.

Going of Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary

James Going of Mullinahone, M. D. Edinburg, M.R.C.S.E., m. Cashel MLB 1838  Catherine, dau. of William Harden Brad­shaw of Fitzwilliam Sq., Dublin, vivens 1870.

Going of Killeen Lodge

Henry Going and Frederick Going, Licentiates of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, 1843‑1864.

Goings in Limerick City: Charles, son of Harris and Dorothea Going bapt. at St Mary's Cathedral 12 Feb. 1806. Sarah Going married to Charles Kyte at St John's 10 Feb. 1820. William Going married to Anne Roche at St Munchin's 18 Nov. 1821.

Goin or Gowin of Mountrath

THOMAS GOIN of Mountrath, woolcomber and shop­keeper, m. 1stly 20 Oct. 1757  Anne, dau. of Joseph Pavey of Mountrath merchant, and had issue,

I. Hester, m. Joseph Alamaze.

II. Sarah, bapt. 30 April 1760, m. Francis Doran.

III. Charlotte, bapt. 30 May 1762.

IV. Anne, bapt. 27 May 1763.

He m. 2ndly 1766 Mary Walpole and had further issue,

V. Elinor, bapt. 10 June 1770.

VI. Thomas, bapt. 11 Nov. 1771.

VII. Mary, bapt. 13 April 1773.

VIII. John Harper, bapt. 15 March 1774.

IX. Lewis, bapt. 29 Dec. 1775.

WILLIAM GOIN of Mountrath, shoemaker, m. 5 Nov. 1763 Hester, dau. of Joseph Pavey and had a dau. Sarah bapt. 29 April 1764 and a son bapt. 13 March 1766.

FRANCIS GOIN, of Mountrath, sub‑constable, bur. 3 July 1788, m. 10 Feb. 1755 ---- Johnston.

CHARLES GOIN of Trumera, farmer, m. 3 April 1768 Margaret Young and had issue

John bapt. 19 April 1769,

Mary bapt. 7 Feb. 1771 d. inf.,

Mary, bapt. 22 Nov. 1772.

It is possible that all the above were brothers of Giles Goin the elder.

Samuel of Trumera, farmer, m. 1775 Jane Sutcliffe of Aghour.

Samuel and John of Trummery regd. freeholders 6 Oct. 1774.

Richard, son of Samuel and Jane of Trummery, bapt. 10 Aug. 1794.

Samuel, of Ringston, farmer, and his wife Rebecca had issue including Charles bapt. 26 Feb. 1804, Rebecca bapt. 1 Jan. 1815, d. inf., Rebecca bapt. 14 Sept. 1817.

John of Ringstown, stuff‑weaver, bur. 15 Dec. 1853 aged 86, m. 10 May 1795 Elizabeth Wort (bur. 30 Nov. 1853 aged 78) and had issue, Mary bapt 27 Feb. 1796, Elizabeth bapt. 27 Dec. 1800, John bapt. 19 Feb. 1804, of Derrykevan, bur. 16 Feb. 1846, Mary bapt 7 Dec 1806, Charles bapt. 23 July 1809, Samuel bapt. 20 Oct 1811, bur. 3 Feb. 1841, James bapt. 3 Nov 1816.  Charles of Ringstown, farmer, bur. 6 Mch 1864 aged 80, and his wife Hannah (bur. 2 Jan. 1849 aged 73) had issue Catherine bapt 27 Dec. 1812, Charles bapt. 1 Jan. 1815.   Charles of Ringstown, farmer, and his wife Marianne had is­sue Charles bapt. 26 Nov. 1839 and another child bapt 12 June 1842.

Richard of Ringstown, farmer, and his wife Sarah had issue Esther b. 4 March 1843, and Charles bapt. 18 May 1851.

English Branch, claiming descent from Robert Going of Traveton

PHILIP GOING (son of Joseph), b. 23 Feb. 1827, d. 1 Mch 1888, Capt. RN., m. 1stly Sarah Haig (d. 1868) and had issue,

 I. Joseph Andrew, M.D., of Hamilton, New Zealand, b. 1860, who had issue Dorothy b. 1888, d. 1894, and Philip, b. 1891

 II. Philip Hastings, b. 1864, Capt. Merchant Navy, of Yoko­hama, m. a Japanese lady.

 III. Haig, b. 1868, d. 1876. He m. 2ndly 1872 Jane Hedley (vivens 1907), and had further issue,

 IV. Rev. Claude Arthur Hedley, b. 1873, Vicar of St Agnes, Moseley, Birmingham 1918‑36, Rector of Fitz, Lichfield 1936, m. Muriel Murray Brown.

 V.  Thomas Harold, b. Feb. 1878, d. Aug. 1878.

 VI. Edward Bertram, b. 1879.

 VII Alban Hedley, b. 1880.

 VIII. Hubert Evelyn, b. 1883.

 IX. Cuthbert Eustace, b. 1884.

 X. Christopher Kenneth, b. 1885.

 XI. Isobel Beatrice, b. 1874, of Parkwall Cottage, Painswick, Glos., who supplied this material c. 1907.

 XII. Ethel Mary, b. 1875.

 XIII. Kathleen Hilda, b. 1881, m. Aug. 1897 Coningsby Walter Bruton.

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Eliza Letitia Going, daughter of William Going of Ballyphilip, County Tipperary, was married in 1873 to Alexander Williams, according to "Family Records" by Burke.

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James Goings, Phillip Goings and Robert Goings, along with his three daughters,  Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah, arrived in South Carolina from County Tipperary in the early half of the 18th century. The daughters were all married in Tipperary, according to "South Carolina Marriages" by Barbara R. Landon.  Elizabeth was married to Thomas Lamphier [Lanphier]; Mary was married to James Walpoole; and Sarah was married to Richard Franklin and E. White.  Lanphier Going addressed a letter, containing a list of building supplies, to Col. George Washing­ton, New Castle, 16 October 1773, according to "Colonial Soldiers of the South" by Murtie June Clark.

COUNTY WATERFORD, IRELAND

Henry Gowan, "age 5, of County Waterford," embarked on the "Protection" bound for New York from Belfast, according to "New World Immigrants" by Michael Tepper.  The ship carried 78 passengers.

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COUNTY WEXFORD, IRELAND

Ogle Robert Gowan was born in County Wexford, south of Dublin in the southeast of Ireland, and was destined to become a leader in the Orange movement.  In 1835 Wexford had 15 Orange Lodges.

Col. Ogle Robert Gowan was the founder of the Loyal Orange Association of British America in January 1830.  He became its first Grand Master.  The Association takes its name from William, Prince of Orange, who was crowned William III of Great Britain in 1689.  In Canada, the Orange Association dedicated itself to the promotion of British Protestantism.  Orangemen played an active part in local political affairs, church activities, and public education until well into the twentieth century.

The Association maintains an archive of its charters.  The col-lection consists of over four hundred charters for disbanded lodges in Canada and the records for the Grand Orange Lodge of Ontario West, consisting of Bothwell and Moraviantown. The collection is supplemented by pamphlets published by the Loyal Orange Association of British America as well as by Orange Associations in Britain, Ireland, and other countries in the former British Empire.  Ogle Robert Gowan bought an interest in the “Toronto Patriot” about 1850 from Lt. Col. E. G. O’Brien.  Col. Ogle Robert Gowan also edited the “United Empire,” another Orange publication in Toronto.

A plaque in Brockville, Ontario to Ogle Robert Gowan, who is credited with founding the Orange Association in Canada, was erected by the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ministry of Cit-izenship and Culture.

Janet Kelly provided some historical background on the Grand Orange Lodge:

“The First Orange Lodge

The first Orange lodge was established at the Diamond in the north of Ireland in 1795 and the first general meeting of the Society in Ireland is recorded as taking place on July 12th, 1796, at Portadown.  When religious terror broke out afresh that same year, it is said that some 20,000 Orangemen were called to assist the civil authorities, and were subsequently armed to establish peace and order.

The Orange movement rapidly spread all over Ireland and subsequently later into other jurisdictions around the world such as England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Togo and Ghana, West Africa, the U.S.A. and Canada.  The seeds of act-ive Protestantism had, at one time, sprouted Orange Lodges in Cuba, British Honduras, Bermuda, Hong Kong and South Af-rica. 

The Orange Order and the Canadian Scene

Orangeism, born as it was in great tribulation, encountered ma-ny difficulties in its formative years.  There are no avail-able records that can confirm where or by whom the first Orange Lodge in Canada was instituted.  One must keep in mind the history of Orangeism and the settlement of Canada which provided a far different background to that prevailing in the old land during the its early days.  Many new settlers were glad to be away from the extremities of persecution and in some cases, poverty of the homeland while others were con-cerned that the oppression of liberty - whether civil or relig-ious, should not be allowed to raise its head in the Land of the Maple Leaf.  Most historians agree that Orangemen were in Canada previous to 1812 and by 1822 the 12th Parade in To-ronto had become the most popular event of the day.

Ogle Robert Gowan, the Order's first Canadian Grand Master is recognized as the founder of Canadian Orangeism.  As a recent new-comer to Canada, the territory the Grand Lodge was intended oversee, he brought to his adopted land a convic-tion that a Branch of Orangeism should be nurtured and culti-vated in Canada as a recognized organization.  Its birthplace was Brockville, Ontario, a centre of Protestant and Loyalist settlers dedicated to maintaining their religious convictions and loyalty to British Institutions symbolized by their flag - the Union Jack.

Prior to that year, lodges of the Orange Order had operated as independent units, planted in Upper and Lower Canada, prin-cipally by pioneers who brought with them, from the British Isles, "Certificates of Membership," some by settlers retired from military service where Orange Lodges had existed within units such as the Fourth Regiment of Foot - known generally as King William's Regiment.  As early as 1808 there is evi-dence that an Orange Lodge existed in Ontario, and a transfer certificate issued by L.O.L. 109, County Armagh in Ireland, had found its way to the loyal province.  In New Brunswick there is a record of a lodge meeting in 1783 under a Charter issued in 1694 bearing the name of Colonial Patent No. 6, issued from the Guild Hall, London, giving authenticity to information that a number of Societies or Clubs under the name of "Orange" existed since the arrival of William, Prince of Orange, in England in 1688.

War Service

Canadian Orangemen were first to the colours in time of war in their allegiance to the Crown and Canada as an integral part of British identity.  Orangemen participated in the War of 1812-1814; the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837-38; the Fen-ian Raids of 1866; the Riel Rebellions of 1870 and 1885; the South African (Boer War); and the Two World Wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45.  During the Rebellion of 1837 Gowan served as Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Borderers and was wounded at the Battle of the Windmill near Prescott, On-tario. Orange Halls throughout rural Ontario and elsewhere were used as common recruiting despots during World Wars I and II and history records that many thousands of its youngest members paid the Supreme Sacrifice with some being recog-nized as recipients of the Victoria Cross.”

Children of Ogle Robert Gowan include:

          Frances Gowan                                        born about 1838

Frances Gowan, daughter of Ogle Robert Gowan, was born about 1838.  She was married about 1860 to Thomas Roberts Ferguson.  John Hastings, Ferguson family researcher wrote a vignette on the Ferguson family:

 “Thomas Ferguson of Corrarod  townland nearBelturbet,died in 1804.  He was married to Magdalene Davis, who inherited a lease part of Drumcor townland, near Red Hills [Whyte family landlords] through her father, William Davis.  She bequeathed it to her son Andrew Ferguson, who served in the 71st Foot in the Beresford/Popham expedition to the Cape of Good Hope in 1806 and the occupation of Buenos Aires in 1807.  He was a prisoner in Mendoza, Argentina.  He was discharged in 1808.  He later lived in Drumcor, also noted as a part of Killenure.  His mother died in 1814 and was buried in the Chapelry of Killoughter, Parish Drung.  Andrew Ferguson was married to Mary Ann Roberts of Clonandra and Corleggy townlands near Belturbet.  He sold the lease in 1842 and died at sea. His widow and adult family immigrated to Cookstown, Tecumseth township, Simcoe County, Ontario.  His eldest son, Thomas Roberts Ferguson, was married to Frances Gowan, daughter of Col. Ogle R. Gowan.  Thomas Roberts Ferguson, general merchant, chairman of the County Council, became a member of the first Parliament of Ontario. They were married in St. Georges Anglican Church in Toronto to Frances Gowan, daughter of Ogle R. Gowan, First Grand Master, Grand Orange Lodge of British North America and member in the 1840 Canadian Parliament.  They were nembers of the Church of Ireland/Anglican.”

Among the descendants of Ogle Robert Gowan was a grand-daughter, Emily Gowan Ferguson.  Born in Cookstown, On-tario in 1868, Emily Gowan Ferguson was the third of six children of Isaac Ferguson, a wealthy landowner and business-man.  Her maternal grandfather, Ogle Robert Gowan was a newspaper owner and politician who had founded a local branch of the Orange Order in 1830.  Emily grew up in a household where lively discussions of law and political events were frequent dinner conversations.  Her uncles included a Su-preme Court justice and a senator.  One of her brothers be-came a lawyer and another a member of the Supreme Court.

Her son, George Howard Ferguson, leader of the Conser-vative Party was Premier of Ontario from 1923 to 1930.  He was a leader in the Orange movement.

Emily was sent to Bishop Strachan School, an exclusive Ang-lican girls' private school in Toronto and, through a friend there, she met Arthur Murphy, a theology student several years her senior.  In 1887, Emily married Arthur Murphy an Anglican minister, and they moved west.

Emily was a natural leader and had a strong interest in the protection of women and children.  The experience of an Alberta woman who, after years of hard work supporting the family homestead was left with nothing when her husband decided to sell the farm, motivated Emily to study the legal implications of this injustice.  Her work for women's rights was strongly supported and encouraged by many rural women and, after several setbacks, she pressured the Alberta govern-ment into passing the Dower Act in 1911.  This Act protected a wife's right to a one-third share of her husband's property.

Emily Ferguson Murphy actively organized women; she founded the Federated Women's Institute for rural women and later became a member of the Equal Franchise League, where she worked with activist Nellie McClung to obtain the vote for women.

Her dedication to the protection of women and children fre-quently brought Emily Murphy before the courts which was unusual for a woman in the early part of the 20^th century. Despite facing disdain and ridicule from men, she was ap-pointed the police magistrate for the city of Edmonton in 1916, becoming the first woman magistrate in the British Em-pire.  In the courts, she was frequently exposed to the evils of drugs and narcotics, resulting in her writing copious articles advocating changes to the laws.  These articles were published in 1922 as “The Black Candle,” under her pen name, Janey Canuck. Her writings led to legislation governing narcotics that was not changed until the 1960s.

In “The Black Candle” and other writings, Emily Murphy ex-pressed stereotypical and prejudiced views about various ra-cial and ethnic groups. Like many Anglo-Protestants of her time, Emily Murphy believed that social problems of the era, such as poverty, prostitution, alcohol and drug abuse, were linked to the influx of immigrants into western Canada.  These views informed some aspects of her social and legal reform work.

A member of what is now known as the "Famous Five" [to-gether with Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards] carried the Persons Case to the Privy Council in England where, on October 18, 1929, the decision was handed down that women were persons qualified to be-come members of the Senate of Canada.  Emily Gowan Fer-guson Murphy was still involved in social activism and research when she died in 1933.