44 NOTES AND QUERIES. [1-2 S. IX. JULY 16. 1921.
there, in May, 1825, Miss Ann. Childe, a i by the rector, the Revd. Thomas Williams*
young lady of 22 years old, who lived with tin the church at Usk, to Maria, sister to
a Colonel and Mrs. Buiibury as their ward, ! Lieut. -Colonel Henry Bird of the oth Foot,
and was said to be the daughter of an ! and second dau. of Colonel Bird, an American,
officer of the Buffs left under Col. Bunbury's Loyalist, who, at the conclusion of the
care. She was very extravagant and soon American War, came over to England
dissipated the greater portion of her hus- j hoping for employment and remuneration
band's property. In the autumn of 1831 from the British Goverment for his losses,
he left Paris and went to Dublin, where, in his services, and his sufferings in the Royal
the spring of 1832, he contracted and died cause. Finding his hopes in this respect
of the cholera morbus which was then raging, disappointed, and his little property dimin-
leaving issue a son, born in May, 1827, in ishing, while his family was increased to
Paris. -
II. Joanna Witherington, born May 10,
six daughters and four sons, he took refuge
in Monmouthshire, and buying about
176-, and died Aug. 23, 1793, in Grafton | 100 acres of land in a clearing in the centre
Street Dublin. ! f Goytra Wood, he built himself a two-
III ' Matilda Witherington, born June i store y house and cultivated the land round
17, 1769, and died March 18. 1849, at George- r about. Henry Witherington s wife dying
town, in the District of Columbia, U.S.A., m * he ea f j y part of 1809, leaving him with
having married, firstly, on July 21, 1785, if. dau., he obtained, in exchange for his
at St Andrew's Church, Dublin, Theobald j lieutenantcy in the Militia, an ensigncy in
Wolfe Tone (see Tone pedigree, 12 S. vi. ! the 63rd Foot, and died at Deal Sept,
288), who died Nov. 19, 1798 ; and, secondly, 16 > 1809 > on ^ r f tlirn from the ^alcheren
on Aug. 19, 1816, Thomas Wilson of Dul- Expedition of the ague, caught on that
latur Scotland island. The announcement ot his death
' j is thus given in The Gentleman's Magazine
IV. Harriett Witherington, born June 6, i for 180 g , . _
1771, in Dublin, died July 29, 185] : at 24 | At Deal ^ where he was landed from Hushing 4 r
St. John s Wood Road, .London, JM.VA ., and ^^ O f a fever brought on bv excessive fatigue,
bur. in St. Helen's Church, Welton, near I Henry Witherington, Esq., of the 63rd Foot. In
Brough, East Yorks, she married March 25, ' the year 1799, his desire for active service induced
i7Q/i a + V^y rnntVipT-'sj Vioimp f>Q r^rafton hi 111 to exchange from the 9th Dragoons, and join
1/94 at her mother ouse, .W , U ,
or Quen , g Regim ent, then embarking for
Street, Dublin, Thomas Reynolds, only , Holland w j h who mh! greatly distinguished him-
son of Andrew Reynolds, silk manufacturer, I se i f through the whole of that arduous campaign.
of Dublin, by his wife Rose, eldest dau. of --- -- -i
Thomas Fitzgerald of Kilmead, Co. Kildare
(see Fitzgerald pedigree, 12 S. vi. 308),
and had issue, for which see pedigree of
Reynolds of Rhynn, Co. Leitrim.
V. Henry Piercy Witherington, born Nov.
16, 177- ; died young.
VI. Catherine Witherington, born Feb.
20, 1775 ; married (marriage licence dated
1796) John Heaviside of the Bank of Ireland,
Dublin. He lost his situation about 1800,
when they joined her brother Henry Wither-
ington, and all went to live near the village
of Usk in Monmouthshire. They had
issue a son.
VII. Henry Witherington, born May 17,
In the late Scheldt expedition the same motive also
induced him to volunteer by exchange from his
own into the Light Cavalry of the 63rd. In him
His Majesty has lost a most spirited and active
officer, an ornament to his profession.
His dau. was brought up by her grand-
mother, Mrs. Bird, but I know nothing of
her life, except that on a paper left by my
grandfather, Andrew Fitzgerald, among
some family records, he says the following
refers to her: "August 21, 1849. At
Ripoii by the Revd. R. Poole, J. H. S. Sad-
ler, Esq., of Bleak Hill, Wiltshire, to Selina
M. A. Witherington. daughter of late Col.
Witherington, 9th Lancers." Henry
Witherington did not attain to the rank of
Colonel, neither was he in the 9th Lancers.
V 11. jienry vviv>iioiiiigwjju, M >iu ^J-t*^ * * ? ' ; r ,. -. , -, - , i
1779 in Dublin, served in the 9th Dragoons I consequently I am inclined to doubt
and afterwards in the 2nd Foot. He sold | being Henry's daughter, and think she was-
out of the Army about 1800, and, joined by j more likely the daughter of his brotJ
his sister, Mrs. C. Heaviside, and her husband, Colonel Edward Witherington, buf^
went to live near the village of Usk in Mon- fortunately I have not been so far able to
mouthshire. He shortly after obtained find any proof or otherwise on the subject,
a commission as Lieutenant in the Mon- j ^VIII. Elizabeth Witherington, born Sept.
mouth Militia. He was married in 1802 j 17. 1780.
