Emily Burnell b.20 Aug 1827, d.10 Jun 1887, 6 Children.
Notes: The Burnell Family The Burnells were landowners of extensive property at Balgriffi n in North County Dublin and were well known in the city. They had a resi dence on the north side of Cook Street, known as "Burnell's Inn"; a plo t of ground coming down to the quay is mentioned several times in old doc uments as "Burnells' Inn Gardens. " The Burnells, who were staunch Catholics, always championed the c ause of their co-religionists, and suffered severely in consequence. Duri ng the reign of Elizabeth, Henry Burnell, as parliamentary representativ e of County Dublin, advocated the repeal of Poyning's Law and toleratio n for the Catholics. As a result, he was imprisoned in his own residenc e at Castleknock, later in Dublin and in the Tower of London. His defens e of the Earls of Kildare brought him into further conflict with the gove rnment of the day. He died in 1614 . The castle passed to his son, and to his grandson, Henry. The lat ter gained fame as the writer of several plays acted in Dublin: Landgarth a, described as "tragicomedy," was acted "with much applause," on St. Pat rick's Day, 1639, in the New Theatre in Werburgh Street, the first publi c theatre to be erected in the city. The plot of the play was taken fro m the Danish historian, Saxo-Grammaticus. It treated of the conquest of S weden by Regner, King of Denmark, whose queen, Landgartha, gave title t o the piece. "The prologue was spoken by an Amazon armed with a battleax e to bespeak the favour of the people." ! It was during the occupation of the castle by the Burnells that R ichard Stanihurst, a Dublin-born contemporary, writing of the wonders o f Ireland, in Holingshed's Chronicles, relates : "There is in Castleknock, a village not far from Dublin, a windo w not glazed nor latticed but open, and let the weather be stormy, the wi nd bluster boisterously on every side of the house, yet put a candle ther e, and it will burn as quietly as if no puff of wind blew; this may be tr ied at this day, whoso shall be willing to put it in practice. " http://www.iol.ie/~svc/history6.html 061003 THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL Galway, Thursday, May 6, 1824 THE ARMY The report at the United Service Club is, that the "People of the Ho rse Guards" mean to continue the 10th Hussars in Ireland for another year, a s a punishment for their sins. At a Court-Martial held at Barbadoes, on the 20th November last, Assistants-Commissary-General John Lawrence and Edward Wood, for embezzl ement and fraudulent returns in their accounts, were sentenced to be dismisse d his Majesty's service which sentence has been confirmed. At Jamaica, Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General Thomas Bunnell, fo r similar offences, to be dismissed his Majesty's service, and rendered incapable o f ever serving in any civil or military capacity whatever. The last division of the 95th regiment of foot has embarked at Ports mouth for Malta. The 71st regiment is ordered on the arrival of the 61st at Cork to e mbark for Canada. On the arrival of the 71st in Canada, the first battalion of the 60t h Foot is ordered to embark for England. The 1st division of the 9th regiment of infantry is ordered to embar k forthwith at Greenock, on board the Loyal Briton transport for Gibraltar. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/