Deborah O'NEALE ²

  General Notes:

Left £2000 by her father as a marriage portion
Deborah Bunbury's mother was Deborah Neale (sometimes O'Neale) (d. 3 Nov 1760), daughter and co-heiress of the Rev Dr Benjamin Neale, Archdeacon of Leighlin and Ferns (a lineal descendent of the O'Neills of Ulster). The Rev Neale's wife Hannah was a daughter of Jeffery Paul. The Neale's owned considerable estates in Counties Carlow and Wexford which were inherited by Deborah O'Neal and her sister Martha, wife of John ****, third son (and eventual heir?) of Lord Baltinglass and MP for Baltinglass in the reigns of George I and George II. [Martha and John were married in October 1726]. Long before she married Henry Prittie, Deborah had married John Bayly of Debsborough House, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.[7]

Despite the fact she was 36 years old when she married Colonel Prittie, Deborah managed to give him a son and a further six daughters, the eldest of whom was Matthew Bunbury's wife Deborah.[8] Their only boy Henry Sadleir Prittie was born on 3 October 1743 and, as Baron Dunalley, became one of the most influential men in Munster during the last decades of the 18th century.[9]

Henry and Deborah Prittie's eldest daughter was the Deborah Pritte who married Matthew Bunbury of Kilfeakle. This marriage was one of many linking the influential families in the north of the county '96 Sadlier, Harrison, Lane, Otway, Holmes, Head, Balyly, Meade, Carden, Baker, Barton, Scully and Clutterbuck. This formed the basis for a unified gentry and a cohesive landed class, strengthened when peerages and knighthoods began to be bestowed upon the family heads.

Deborah married John BAYLY, son of John BAYLY and Elizabeth PRITTIE, on 7 Jul 1720. (John BAYLY was born on 17 Jun 1691 and died in 1733.)

Deborah next married Henry PRITTIE M.P., son of Henry PRITTIE M.P. and Elizabeth HARRISON, in 1736.¹ (Henry PRITTIE M.P. was born in 1708 in Nenagh, Co Tipperary , Ireland ¹ and died in 1768 in Ireland ¹.)