Things to do for Letitia Blennerhassett - British and Irish regiments at Tarbert

British and Irish regiments stationed at Tarbert around 1806

British and Irish regiments stationed at Tarbert Island around 1806.

• UK military
• Army Lists 1803-1812

• Kerry Militia

Regiments in Ireland

• [1804 Almanac] shows regiments in Ireland: p.79 and p.80 and p.81.
  • Shows 26th and 71st and 72nd (see below).

• [1805 Almanac] shows regiments in Ireland: p.81 and p.82 and p.83 and p.84.
  • Shows 26th and 71st and 72nd (see below).

• [1806 Almanac] shows regiments in Ireland: p.88 and p.89 and p.90.
  • Shows 5th Dragoons and 26th (see below).

• [1807 Almanac] does not list regiments in Ireland.

• [1808 Almanac] shows regiments in Ireland: p.89 and p.90.
  • Shows 5th Dragoons and 26th and 71st (see below).
  • Shows 31st Foot (Cashel)

Regiments at Tarbert

• British regiments, and Irish militia from other counties, were stationed at different times at Tarbert, including (in 1800-11):
  • 46th Regiment of Foot was at Tarbert in 1802. See p.34 in history.
  • 26th Regiment of Foot was in Ireland 1804-08. Was at Tarbert in 1808. See p.105 in history.
  • 71st Regiment of Foot was at Tarbert in 1804. See p.56 in history.
  • 72nd Regiment was at Tarbert in 1804. Left Ireland 1805 and never returned. See p.36 in history.
  • 5th Dragoon Guards were in Ireland 1805-08. Were at Tarbert in 1808. See p.49 in history.

• At Tarbert, unknown date:
  • Roscommon Militia
  • Devon and Cornwall Fencibles (founded 1794, disbanded 1802)

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Local militia at Tarbert

"Tarbert Yeomanry" would refer to one of the following.

1. Tarbert Regiment (founded 1779, disbanded 1793)
2. Tarbert Cavalry (founded 1796)
3. Tarbert Infantry (Fencibles) (founded 1799, disbanded 1802)

Ships at Tarbert

• Many ships passing through. Looking for ones based there for a while.
• The HMS Gorgon was at Tarbert in July 1804. And again in Oct 1804.

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William Ponsonby at Tarbert

William Ponsonby, son of Baron Ponsonby (and distant relation of Richard Ponsonby of Tarbert) served in the 5th Dragoon Guards and would have been at Tarbert in 1808.

Letters from him might mention a local Richard Ponsonby scandal.

John Ponsonby, born 1713, son of Earl of Bessborough, had issue: William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby, born 1744, mar Louisa Molesworth, had issue: John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, born 1770. William Ponsonby (and here), born 1772, joined 5th Dragoon Guards 1798, would have been in Ireland 1805-08, married in 1807 to Georgiana FitzRoy, would have been at Tarbert in 1808, still with the 5th Dragoon Guards when they went to the Peninsular War in 1811, killed at Waterloo 1815, (todo) see DIB and DNB. Richard Ponsonby, Bishop of Derry. Mary Ponsonby, born 1776, mar Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. George Ponsonby, born 1755, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1806 to 1807.

• (todo) Go through DNB sources for above.
• (todo) Go through Ponsonby MPs entries in [History of the Irish Parliament] for more sources.
• Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough, sources
• Baron Ponsonby sources

• Earl Grey Papers, at Durham University.
  • Grey of Howick collection. Letters of Mary Grey.
  • Papers of John, Viscount Ponsonby (and here), c.1800-1855, GB 033 GRE-E.
    • GRE/E487 are letters from his uncle George Ponsonby. Including: 12 July 1806 - 19 July 1810. 6 letters to Ponsonby mainly concerning politics; also the illness of Ponsonby's father and the legal and financial position of Ponsonby's Irish estates after his father's death.

• Search for Bishop of Derry papers
  • Diocese of Derry and Raphoe
  • Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library, Rare Books Room, University of Ulster, Magee campus Library.

• NLI Collection List No. 25. Bessborough Papers. (MSS 29,791-29,805). Dates 1826-1864.
• "Bishopscourt and its owners", Captain Gerald Ponsonby, Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society (1915). Vol. VIII, No. 1 (January 1915) pp.2-29.

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Visit York

• There are papers related to William Ponsonby in the Halifax papers, at Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York.

• A1. Grey Family Papers.
  Transcripts of much of A1 exist at the Borthwick Institute. However of the following it appears there are transcripts for A1.2.4 only.
  • A1/2. Letters of Louisa Molesworth.
    • A1.2.2. Letters from her husband, 1st Baron Ponsonby, 1803-04. 14 items.
    • A1.2.4. Letters from her son William Ponsonby, 1814-15. 7 items.
    • A1.2.9. Letters from 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (who she married in old age), 1795-1820. 7 items.
    • A1.2.9A. Letters from Charlotte Ponsonby, 1st wife of 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, 1795-1819. 4 items.
  • A1/4. Mary Grey letters.
    • A1.4.2. Letters from her mother, 1809-23.
    • A1.4.29. Letters about the death of her brother William Ponsonby, 1815.
• A7. Diaries.
  • A7/1A. Mary Grey diaries, 1822 to 1843.