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Ponsonby

Pronounced "Punsunby", according to [Gourley, 1965].

Surviving stone from Crotto House, dated 1760.
It has the name "R. Ponsonby" (Richard Ponsonby, MP, died 1763).
Photo 2013. See larger and full size.
See wider shot and other shot.
See also photo in [O'Flaherty, 2003], which says this stone is part of the old cider press, though dates it wrong as 1790.

Henry Ponsonby, born 1620,
mar Rose Weldon,
served under Cromwell in Irish Confederate Wars,
he was granted Crotto (or Crotta), between Tralee and Listowel, Co.Kerry, in 1666,
built Crotto House 1669,
died at Crotto in 1681, age 61 yrs,
had issue:

Thomas Ponsonby,
of Crotto,
mar 1685 to Susanna Grice,
will proved 1717 [Betham's Abstracts],
had issue:

1. Rose Ponsonby, born must be c.1686,
   mar 1705 to John Carrique [descendant of Edward III],
   had issue:
   1. William Carrique (later William Carrique Ponsonby),
      born est c.1713 (by date of entering TCD),
      inherited Crotto from his uncle Richard Ponsonby by his will of 1762,
      adopted name Ponsonby,
      ancestor of Carrique Ponsonby (or sometimes Carrigue Ponsonby) of Crotto.

   
   

2. Alice Ponsonby,
   mar 1718 to Edmund Peacocke and had issue,
   ancestors of:
   1. Georgina Pinkas, researching family tree.

   
   

3. Richard Ponsonby, of Crotto,
   MP for Kinsale 1731 to 1760,
   mar 2ndly to Arabella Blennerhassett [born 1726],
   his will of 1762 left Crotto to his nephew William Carrique,
   died 1763,
   will proved 1764 [Betham's Abstracts].

   
   

4. Honora Ponsonby,
   mar 1733 to John Wren and had issue.

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References

• Ms. 20608 in [Rowan Papers]. Miscellaneous legal papers re the family of Ponsonby of Co. Kerry, 1685 to 1820.

• The Ponsonby Family, by Sir John Ponsonby (born 1866), London, 1929. [NLI] 9292 p 3. [TCD] Santry 75.a.113.

• They Walked Beside the River Shannow, Margaret Gourley (Mrs. C.E. Gourley), 1965.
  • [KCL] Local studies, shelf or in Kilflynn box, or main section of library, 941.96.
  • See extract.

• PONSONBY on p.60 of [Smith, 1756].
• PONSONBY, Genealogical Notices, [Hickson, 1874]
• PONSONBY in [King]

• The Descent of Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett Esq, M.P., Old Records of Co Kerry, [Nash].

• PONSONBY in Kerry Magazine, vol III, no 27, 1856, pp.37-42, [KCL].
• Richard Ponsonby, MP, vol.6 of [History of the Irish Parliament].
• "Cork MPs, 1559-1800", [JCHAS] 1895-96. See Ponsonby on p.178 of 2nd series, vol 2, 1896, no.16 (not no.15).

• PONSONBY in [Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 1789] (Vol 2, p.269)
• BESSBOROUGH in [Burkes Peerage]

• PONSONBY in Research into a number of Irish families, made by H. A. Richey, 1900. [NLI] Ms 8315-16. This is apparently a reference to Ms 8316 (38), which is about Ponsonby Moore, Earl of Drogheda.

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Sources yet to be consulted

• PONSONBY in Burke's pedigree charts, extracted from wills, [PRO.NI] T/559, vol 31 p 307.
• All PONSONBY in [Hickson]
• The Ponsonby family, 1929-1970 (a supplement to [Ponsonby, 1929]), Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1970. [BL] Humanities and Social Sciences, St Pancras Reading Rooms, X.800/4911.
• [Denny, 1923] said there was reference to PONSONBY in [Kerry Magazine, vol. III, p.83] but nothing there.

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• Ponsonby estate in Landed Estates project
  • Crotta

• Ponsonby genealogy by Peter Barns-Graham

• This family is related to:
  • Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough
  • Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly

• IRL-KERRY list
  • Ponsonby (and here)