Capt. Benjamin BUNBURY
- Born: Abt 1731, Kilkenny, Ireland
- Marriage (1): Jane HALL in Mar 1771
- Died: 18 Jun 1791, Mount William, County Tipperary, Ireland aged about 60 1
General Notes:
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CAPTAIN BENJAMIN BUNBURY OF MOUNT WILLIAM
Thomas and Grace's second son was Captain Benjamin Bunbury of Mount William, born circa 1731. In 1766 he was made a Lieutenant in the 17th Light Dragoons.[25] In March 1771, he married Jane Hall, daughter of Ralph Hall of Ballyhall. In 1775, Tipperary society was greatly shaken by the murder of Ambrose Power, landlord and magistrate, during an assault on his house by Whiteboy supporters. His brother Richard Power, a Baron, had heard some Whiteboy trials in Clonmel while Ambrose himself arrested William Mackey, a Whiteboy from Fethard. (Art Kavanagh, The Tipperary Gentry, p.20, p.151). Over 60 of the county's leading figures subsequently pledged their lives and fortunes to the suppression of Whiteboyism. A revised and extended Whiteboy Act was passed, increasing the power of local magistrates and adding to the list of those felonies for which the death penalty could be administered. By May 1776, a number of Volunteer groups had been formed, including one under Captain Benjamin Bunbury and one under Sir Cornwallis Maude (a staunch government supporter, who succeeded his brother to become Baron de Montalt in 1777 and was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Hawarden in 1793). In July 1776, Peter Holmes founded another corps at Nenagh and John Carden founded one at Templemore. By the end of the year there were 28 corps in the county.
The 17th Dragoons were sent to America and present-day family historian Peter Bunbury (who descends from this line) has a record of Benjamin being in Boston, Mass: on the 5th January 1776, on Staten Island in August of the same year. and in Philadelphia on 7th February 1778. His daughter Jane was born at Mt William in 1774 , before her father went to America for military duties. Benjamin died in Mt William on the 18th June 1791.
Benjamim's son, also Captain Benjamin Bunbury, of Johnstown, was born in 1772. In 1798, he married his first cousin, Emily Bunbury, daughter of Rev Thomas Bunbury, rector of Ightermurrogh. Benjamin and Emily were parents of Benjamin Bunbury of Johnstown (d 1872) who m. (1827) Elizabeth Baker, daughter of Richard Baker of Ballydavid. Their eldest son, another Benjamin, was great grandfather to Peter and came to Sydney in 1853.
Captain Bunbury's daughter Judith married Colonel Hans Allen of the Royal Artillery. He predeceased her and she died at Montpellier Terrace, Cheltenham, on December 9th 1861 (The Gentleman's Magazine 1861, p. 114).
Captain Bunbury's other daughter Jane was born in 1774. In 1799, she married Charles Madden (born about 1774, son of Samuel Madden and Cassandra Travers). They had a large family born between 1800 and 1819 but only Samuel Madden (1802-1880) married and had a family.
Benjamin married Jane HALL, daughter of Ralph HALL and Unknown, in Mar 1771. (Jane HALL died after 1808.)
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