Robert Poague

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1739, Ireland
• Religion: 1739, Augusta Stone Church, Augusta Co, Virginia; Elder
• Occupation: 1745, Augusta Co, Virginia; Justice first Commission of the Peace
• Will: 20 Oct 1773, Augusta Co, Virginia

Notes:

There is no reliable source that provides information on his Irish parentage. All we seem to know is that he arrived around 1739 to Virginia from Ireland, and became a notable figure around Stanton, Augusta County, Virginia.

http://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Poage/6000000001944739870


Will:
Robert's will:

per Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800:

Page 216.--20th 8ber, 1773. Robert Poack's will--To sons, John and Thomas, "My real estate, 260 acres, lying upon a branch of Linvel's Creek; to daughter, Martha Woods, 1 pistole; to sons, Robert, George, and William, 1 pistole; to daughters, Elizabeth Crawford, Margaret Robertson, 1 pistole. Executors, William Lewis and son John Poage. Teste: John Craig, Isabella Helena Craig, Charles Baskin. Proved, 16th March, 1774, by John Craig, Clerk, and Baskins. (No administration order.)

http://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Poage/6000000001944739870

Buried:
From his Find A Grave page:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Poage&GSfn=Robert&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=d&GRid=59231465&df=all&

Birth: 1700, Ireland

Death: 1774 - Augusta County, Virginia, USA

Taken from Inscriptions from Augusta Stone Church (oldest cemetery), Ft. Defiance, Augusta Co., Virginia, by Mrs. C. F. Rudolph, Washington, DC., 1953.

Immigrant from Ireland-1739. Elder in Augusta Stone church- 1740. Justice, First Commission of the Peace. Augusta County- 1745. Died in 1774. And to the memory of his wife Elizabeth Preston.

(Monument erected by J. G. Bishop, Nyack, NY, a descendant.)

Burial: Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia, USA

Robert married Elizabeth Preston on 22 Mar 1721 in Co Antrim, Ulster, Ireland. Elizabeth (daughter of Phineas (Archibald)* (or John) Preston and Hon., "Mary of Montjoy" Mary* Stewart) was born in 1702 in Co Donegal, Ulster, Ireland; died in 1780 in Fishersville, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia; was buried in Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Cem, Fisherville, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: "Valleyfield" Prestons, north of England

Notes:

"Archibald Preston's parents were Phineas and Letitia Hammond Preston, a Protestant couple born of families that were clearly anti-Royalist. In the Cavalier era, that time that featured the return of the Stuart Prince of Wales Charles II to the English throne following the death of Oliver Cromwell, both Prestons and Hammonds, the latter of which included a "regicide" (an official found guilty of helping to orchestrate the execution of King Charles I in 1649), suffered. Possibly coincidental, but within a year of the departure of the Prestons for the plantations of Ireland, King Charles II attempted in 1672, with overwhelming protests from his parliament, to remove laws that punished religious dissent. The pro-Stuart Anglican backlash against both Protestant and Catholic dissenters no doubt left many Puritans still in England uneasy, and it was said that the family had originally left England because of religious persecution."
Ben M. Angel
http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/

Phineas married Hon., "Mary of Montjoy" Mary* Stewart in 1692 in Mountjoy, Co Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland. Mary* (daughter of 1st Viscount Mountjoy William* Stewart and Hon. Mary* Coote) was born about 1677 in Mountjoy, Co Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland; died on 4 Oct 1765 in Ulster Co, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 24 Aug 1734, Ireland; Countess of Granard
• Other-Begin: 24 Aug 1734; styled "Countess of Granard"
• Death: 4 Oct 1758, Ireland

Notes:

Hon. Mary Stewart was born circa 1677.[2] She was the daughter of William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy and Hon. Mary Coote.[1],[2]

She married, firstly, Phineas Preston in 1692 at Mountjoy, Ireland.[2],[1]

She married, secondly, Vice-Admiral George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard, son of Arthur Forbes, 2nd Earl of Granard and Mary Rawdon, in 1709.[1]

She died on 4 October 1765.[1] She was also reported to have died on 4 October 1758.[2]

From 1692, her married name became Preston.[2]

From 1709, her married name became Forbes. As a result of her marriage, Hon. Mary Stewart was styled as Countess of Granard on 24 August 1734.

Children of Hon. Mary Stewart and Phineas Preston

1. Jane Preston+[2] b. c 1690, d. a 12 Nov 1746
2. Mary Preston [2] b. 1696, d. 1749
3. Colonel John Preston+[2] b. 1699, d. 1747
4. Nathaniel Preston [2] b. c 1700

Children of Hon. Mary Stewart and Vice-Admiral George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard

1. Lady Mary Forbes [1] d. 27 Nov 1797
2. Lt.-Gen. George Forbes, 4th Earl of Granard+[1] b. 15 Mar 1710, d. 16 Oct 1769
3. Admiral Hon. John Forbes+[1] b. 1714, d. 10 Mar 1796

Citations

1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1628. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
2. [S2664] Liberty unknown, "re: Preston Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 5 February 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Preston."

http://www.geni.com/people/Hon-Mary-Forbes-Stewart-Countess-of-Granard/6000000002979384193


Other-Begin:
As a result of her marriage, Hon. Mary Stewart was styled as Countess of Granard on 24 August 1734.

Notes:

Phineas Preston - Letitia Hammond
Phineas Preston was christened at St Peter, Bolton, Lancashire, England 6 Oct 1650. His parents were John Preston, Mayor and Mary Morris.
He married Letitia Hammond 13 Jun 1671 at Blickling, Norfolk, England . Letitia Hammond was born at of Chertsey, Surrey, England Abt 1650 daughter of Robert Hammond, gov of isle of wight and Mary Hampden, 6th dau .

They were the parents of 1 child:
John Preston born 1672.

http://www.familycentral.net/index/family.cfm?ref1=6152:26641&ref2=6152:26438

Phineas* married Letitia* (Lettice) Hammond. Letitia* (daughter of Col. Robert* Hammond and Mary* Hampden) was born in 1650; died after 1675. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Archibald's mother Letitia, or Lettice, was born in 1650, the first of three children born from Colonel Robert and Mary Hampden Hammond, a couple who married sometime around the time of King Charles I's execution, the act that set in motion the rise of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth."
Ben M. Angel
http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/

Notes:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (1653 ? 24 August 1692), was an Anglo-Irish peer and soldier.

Stewart was born in 1653, the son of Sir Alexander Stewart, 2nd Baronet, of Ramelton. He married the Honourable Mary Coote, daughter of Richard Coote, 1st Lord Coote, Baron Coloony. They had six sons and two daughters.

He was appointed Master-General of the Ordnance and colonel of a regiment of foot and in 1682 was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Viscount Mountjoy and Baron Stewart for services during the Irish Rebellion. In 1686 he served in Hungary at the siege of Buda, where he was twice dangerously wounded, and on his return to Ireland was made a brigadier-general. Macaulay styled him "a brave soldier, an accomplished scholar." In Dublin he was the centre of a small circle of learned and ingenious men, who had, under his presidency, formed themselves into a Royal Society.[1]

In 1688 he commanded a portion of the royal army of the Catholic King James II stationed at Londonderry. But as he was a Protestant, the Duke of Tyrconnell, Lieutenant Governor of the Irish Army, feared he might be influenced in favour of the Protestant William of Orange and sent him at the outbreak of Irish hostilities on a diplomatic mission to France, secretly intimating that his detention would be desirable. He was accordingly thrown into the Bastille, and kept confined there until 1692. During his period of confinement, the Parliament of Ireland passed a bill of attainder requiring Stewart and two to three thousand others to report to Dublin for sentencing; Stewart in particular was directed to break out of the Bastille in order to report, under pain of being drawn and quartered.[2]

On his release, he did indeed switch loyalties and joined William's army in Flanders as a General, losing his life at the battle of Steenkerque on 24 August 1692, aged about 39.

On his death in 1692 his title passed to his eldest son Sir William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy. His fifth son, Charles became an officer in the Royal Navy and a Member of Parliament.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart,_1st_Viscount_Mountjoy

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Hon. Mary Stewart was born circa 1677.[2] She was the daughter of William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy and Hon. Mary Coote.[1],[2]

Citations

1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1628. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
2. [S2664] Liberty unknown, "re: Preston Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 5 February 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Preston."

http://www.geni.com/people/Hon-Mary-Forbes-Stewart-Countess-of-Granard/6000000002979384193

William* married Hon. Mary* Coote about 1675. Mary* (daughter of Col, Hon, 1st Lord Coote, Baron Coloony Richard* Coote and Penelope* Hill) was born about 1650; died after 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]