MARTIN Misc

In 2004, Tony BROWNE from San Diego told me that “our” John MARTIN was born 1750 in Fort William, Scotland.  Apparently, he married a Susan PRIESTLEY.  He was a colonel in the Royal Army and was from Fort William, Scotland. On retirement from the Army, he was appointed by King George III Government Tax Collector for Lecale Barony, North of Ireland, and on dying he left each of his three sons properties and land in County Down.  Allen, the eldest getting Ringfad, near Ardglass, County Down with approximately 300 acres of land, and the property known as Tullycarnon or White Lodge, with several cottages included in this legacy, & the whole property sweeping down to the sea from the Mountain slopes of Mourne (sp?). King George (1760-1820) would have lived in the right time for this story to have some credence.

Descendants of John Martin

  1 John Martin b: 1750 in Fort William, Scotland d: in Ringfad, Co. Down, Ireland

.. +Susan Priestly

.. 2 Allan Martin b: 1777 in Ringfad, Coney Island, Co. Down d: Mar 1854

...... +Jane Clarke b: 1783 d: Feb 1868

...... 3 Susanna Martin b: Abt. 1800 in Tullycarnen, Co. Down, Ireland d: 07 May 1885 in Aughaville, Co. Armagh, Ireland NOTE: She is my great-great-grandmother. She married an EDGAR and one of their daughters married a BROWNE.

.......... +Alexander Edgar b: Abt. 1800 in County Down, Ireland m: 18 Jun 1835 in Ballee Non Subscribing Church d: 02 Jul 1885 in Belfast, Co. Antrim, Ireland

...... 3 George Crean Martin d: 24 Apr 1899

...... 3 Sarah Martin d: 27 Nov 1834

...... 3 Allan Martin d: 12 Feb 1850

...... 3 Arabella Martin d: 01 Jul 1836 in St. Nicholas Parish Church, Church of Ireland, Ardglass, Co. Down, Northern Ireland

...... 3 Jane Martin d: 30 Dec 1890

...... 3 Mary Martin

.......... +Samuel John Corbett Orr

...... 3 Elizabeth Martin

.......... +Thomas Patterson m: 03 Jan 1828 in Ballee Nonsubscribing Presbyterian Church

.. 2 James Martin

.. 2 John Martin b: 1784 d: 12 May 1847

...... +Christian H Wilson b: 1794

...... 3 John Wilson Martin b: 1816 d: 28 Aug 1852

.......... +Margaret Unnamed b: 1807 d: 20 May 1886 in Ringfad

...... 3 James Edward Allen Martin b: 1818 d: 1893

.......... +Frances Gilchrist

...... 3 Henry Martin b: 1824