Ellen MANSERGH ¹

  General Notes:

Winona Rosalie Armstrong (1893-1982), known to her family as Jess, married in 1927
Captain William Daryl Olphert Kemmis (1892-1965) of Ballinacor, county Wicklow.
This distinguished family of solicitors and army officers was of Anglo-Norman origin
and had arrived in Ireland from Wales in the seventeenth century. One of its early
representatives in Ireland, Thomas Kemmis (1753-1823), held a number of distinguished
positions, including Crown Solicitor to the Treasury, Deputy Keeper of the Seals of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland, and Solicitor to Civil and Military Departments
of the Ordnance in Ireland. He was succeeded by his third son, William Kemmis (1777-
1864), a Crown Solicitor for the Dublin and Leinster Circuit. William married Ellen,
second daughter of Nicholas Southcote Mansergh of Grenane, county Tipperary, in
1805, and in the same year commenced the building of Ballinacor, which partly
incorporated an old dwelling house known as Drumkitt Lodge. His eldest son, William
Gilbert Kemmis (1806-1881), died unmarried, and bequeathed the estate to his nephew,
Colonel William Kemmis (1836-1900). A Professor of Artillery at the Royal Military
College, Woolwich, Colonel Kemmis was the author of several instructional text books.
He married in 1862 Ellen Gertrude de Horne Christy, eldest daughter and heiress of
George Steinman Steinman of Priory Lodge, Peckham, and Sunridge, Kent. Their eldest
son, William, succeeded to Ballinacor, while the second surviving son, Marcus (1867-
1945), became heir to his maternal grandfather and assumed the surname of Kemmis-
Steinman.

Ellen married William KEMMIS, son of Thomas KEMEYS and Ann WHITE, on 11 May 1805 in St Peter's, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. (William KEMMIS was born on 23 Oct 1777 of Shaen, Leix, Ire,³ died on 20 Jul 1864 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland ³ and was buried in Mount Jerome, St Catherine, Dublin, Ireland ³.)