Fergus(s)on DNA Project Fergussons, Rectors of Drogheda

'The Rev. Thos. Ferguson, D.D.' writes Rev. H. Sandford, rector of St. Peter's, 'apparently was curate of St. Peter's till 1763, and was rector of St. Mary's, Drogheda, from then till his death in 1773.'

Rev. William Fergusson

Communicated by John Coleman Fergusson, Esq., Vancouver
[Records of the Clan, Supplement, 1899

1. The Rev. William Fergusson, who had been an army chaplain in Scotland (it is said in the army of Prince Charles Edward in 1745), subsequently went to Ireland with Bishop Boulter, and became Rector of Drogheda. He was father of --
2. Rev. William Fergusson, second Rector of Drogheda, who was father of--
   • John
   • Another son, who became third Rector of Drogheda
3. John Fergusson, merchant, Calcutta, who married Miss Garstin, and had issue:
   • Benjamin
   • George, M.D. (near Dublin).
   • Edward, colonel Madras Army
   • John, I.C.S. judge
   • Thomas, married Miss Dobbin
   • Delia, married Major Jones
4. Benjamin Fergusson, captain R.N., born 1777, married in 1805 [Banns: 26 Sep 1803, St Katherine Cree, London] , Elizabeth Tierney, a beauty whose portrait was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. After leaving the Navy he succeeded his father as a merchant in Calcutta, where he died. He had seven sons and three daughters:
   • Edward Francis Tierney
   • George

     The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 10 September 1902 DEATH OF AN OLD COLONIST. - The following paragraph is taken from a New Zealand paper, of recent date:-"One more of the fast-diminishing numbers of old colonists, Mr. George Tierney Fergusson, Totara, passed quietly away on July 22, in his 82nd year. He was the sixth son of Benjamin Fergusson, captain in the East India Company's service, cousin of Sir James Fergusson, formerly Governor of New Zealand, and of the late Joshua Fergusson, Tinder Box Bay, D'Entreeasteaux Channel, Tasmania, and one of the Fergussons of Craigdarroch, and was educated at Oxford, where he took his degree of B.A. He arrived at Christchurch by the ship Lady Nugent, in 1850. Among his fellow passengers were Messrs. Godley, Wakefield, Olocklan, and Spencer. After a time he visited Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, Auckland, and finally arrived in Whangaroa in 1855, where he resided until his death. He was well known, and respected throughout the North, and by his kindlv disposition and good advice to young and old he gidned innumerable friends, that being testified by the numerous attendance at the grave to pay their last respects."

   • John, captain and A.D.C., killed in India
   • William
   • Thomas Tierney, married a daughter of Sir John Slade, and had issue:

     Thomas Tierney Fergusson (1818–91), a convert, was ordained in 1844 after education at the College of Propaganda Fide in Rome and served in the western district in England for a time. A relation of Elizabeth Bowden, donor of the church which Pugin designed for Fulham, London, he was appointed priest there when the church opened in 1848; he left England in 1856. [The Collected Letters of A. W. N. Pugin: Volume 3: 1846-1848 By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

     Printed advice against the solemnisation of clandestine marriages PAR492/2/3/1 5 Dec 1854 - cites the conviction of Thomas Tierney Fergusson, DD, a Roman Catholic priest, at the Old Bailey on 29 Nov 1854 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

     Resides in Australia 1837

     Thomas Tierney Fergusson Probate Date: 30 Jan 1891 Death Date: 22 Nov 1890 Death Place: Southampton, Hampshire, England Registry: Principal Registry; Anna Fergusson, widow, sole executrix

     • Maria Maddene, married Captain Charles Coke, R.N.
   • Josias (Indian army)

     Lieutenant Josias Du Pre Fergusson - 36th Bengal Native Infantry - died 27th December 1844. Son of Benjamin Fergusson. Born 1815. Cadet 1828. Served in Rajputana 1834-5. Assistant Revenue Surveyor in Cawnpore 1838-40. Adjutant Bhopal Contingent 1840. Action against rebels in Saugor district 1842. Commanded 2nd Bn. Military Police at Damoh 1843. Grave at Subathu - "In memory of Lt Josias Du Pre Fergusson 36th Regt N. Infy who departed this life on the 27th December 1844, aged 29 years. This tomb is erected by his brother officers as a tribute of esteem."

   • Benjamin, a clergyman, who married his cousin Katie Fergusson, and had one daughter, Katie
   • Margaret, married Major Prole
   • Ann Maria, married, 1st, Colonel J.L. Mowatt, R.A., and 2nd, Admiral Lyon, brother to Lord Lyons, Ambassador to France
   • Ellen, married Colonel Hugh Boscawen
5. Edward Francis Tierney Fergusson, born at Calcutta in 1823, became a captain in H.M. Indian Navy, and married Susanah Sully [1850: Susanna Clara Sully, Kensington], grandaughter and heiress of John Coleman, who entered the Royal Navy and was wounded in an engagement with the French when serving under Lord Rodney. Edward F.T. Fergusson when a lieutenant took up Astronomy at greenwich and distinguished himself under the Astronomer-Royal. He was appointed in charge of the observatory at Bombay, where he was Judge Advocate for court-martials. He died in 1868, and had issue:

   Edward Francis Tierney Fergusson Probate Date: 17 Aug 1868 Death Date: 31 Jul 1868 Death Place: Surrey, England Registry: Principal Registry; Celia Anne Fergusson, widow, sole executrix

   • Mary Frances, married Dr. Annette, deceased
   • Susanna, married Dr. Andrews of Torquay
   • John Coleman
   • Winifred, at the covenant Norte Dame, Norwich, England
   • Agnes Dorthea, married Captain Vere Olebar
6. John Coleman Fergusson (J.P., M. Inst. C.E.), son of Captain Edward F.T. Fergusson, was born in Bombay in 1854, is resident in Vancouver, B.C., and is a civil engineer. He married in 1881 Emily Kennett, and has issue:
   1. Dorthoe Emily, born in New Zealand
   2. Hugh Boscawen, born in Shanghai, March 1884
      [1946: Hugh Boscawen FERGUSSON, a British Subject, of Sund 3,5 ridge Park Hotel, Bromley, Kent

      Hugh Boscawen Fergusson died on 21st. February 1953 in his sixty-ninth year. He was senior director of G. A. Harvey and. Company (London), Ltd., Greenwich..

   3. Cicely Mary, born in England

The family tradition is that this family was descended from the House of Kilkerran

St. Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda, Co. Louth

• Church Records LDS Film 0962930 Item 3, C700611 and data courtesy Revd Michael Graham
  • Baptisms
    • Patience d/o Rev. Thos. FERGUSON c 6 Nov 1750
    • William s/o Rev. Thos. FERGUSON c 20 Jan 1752
      [married Anne-Monica GARSTIN, 7 Aug 1775 per A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain ... By Bernard Burke
    • Robert s/o Rev. Thos. FERGUSON c 10 Dec 1753
    • Henry s/o Rev. Thos. FERGUSON c 21 Jan 1755
    • Edward s/o Rev. Thos. FERGUSON c 5 Feb 1756

      Will of Edward Fergusson, Lieutenant in The Honorable East India Company's Service and Fort Adjutant of Trichinopoly of Drogheda , County Louth 08 November 1809 PROB 11/1505

    • Sarah d/o Rev. Thos. FERGUSON c 3 Oct 1758
    • George s/o Rev. Thos FERGUSON c 13 May 1760
    • Isabella d/o Rev. Thos FERGUSON c 7 Feb 1763
    • John s/o Rev. Thos. FERGUSON c 24 Jun 1764
    • Margaret d/o Rev. Thos. FERGUSON c 11 Nov 1765
    • Mary Anne d/o Rev. Thos FERGUSON c 16 Oct 1766
    • Mary Dorothy d/o Rev. Thos FERGUSON c 7 May 1771
    • George s/o George FERGUSON 100th Regiment & Jane c. 26 May 1811 b. 25 May 1811
    • James s/o Edward FERGUSON 28th Regiment Foot & Sarah c. 26 Mar 1812 b. 10 Mar 1812
    • John s/o John FERGUSSON, Trinity Street, Musician, & Anne c. 28 April 1826 b. 27 April 1826
  • Marriages
    • William FERGUSON and Mary MCCARTHY 05 January 1751
  • Burials
    • Henry s/o Rev. Thos. FERGUSON Jun 1755
    • Rev. William FERGUSON, 11 Dec 1755
    • Mrs. Isabella FERGUSON 13 May 1766
    • The Rev. Dr. FERGUSON, by falling of his horse. Mar 24 1773
    • Robert FERGUSON 27 Jul 1804
    • Isabella FERGUSSON of Church Alleys, 11 June 1832, age 82
• Marriages from Exshaw's magazine 1741-1800 and the Hibernian magazine 1771-1800 - LDS Film 100166
  • Rev Mr Ferguson of Drogheda to Miss Forde of that town, Mar 20 1750.
• Tombstones
  • Hic Jacent Reliquiae | Rev. Thomas Ferguson, D.D. | Qui vitae benedictae officiis, | Dulce morum comitate | Et Fidelitate peractis, | Repentina abreptus morte | Diuternani in Jesi domum | Animam Reliquit | Obiit xii. (?) kal. April 1773 | Anno eetatis quinquagesimo | Hunc lapidem, | In memoriam dilectissimi marti | Uxor maerens posuit.| Margaret FERGUSON, widow of the above-named Dr. Thomas Ferguson, departed this life on the 23rd November 1802, in the 74th year of her age, and is also here interred. Her life was a constant exercise of maternal and social virtue, and her death made tranquil by firm confidence in the mercies of her God.|
  • Underneath are deposited the remains of | ISABELLA FERGUSON, | Widow of the Rev. John Ferguson of Ballymore, | She died June 11th, 1833 | Aged 80. | Being renewed in the spirt of her mind she set her | affections on things above, and was willing to depart | and be with Christ. | This stone is erected by her affectionate son | JOSHUA FERGUSON, Esq. | of Van Diemen's Land. |
• Succession of Rectors, Vicars &c of St. Mary, Drogheda, Diocese of Meath LDS Film 1279252
  • Thomas Ferguson, 25 Apr 1763
• Vicars, Sir Arthur, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore MD., 1997
  • Margt. Ferguson, formerly of Drogheda but late of Dublin, widow, 1803
• The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 13 January 1942
  • the property of Benjamin Tierney Fergusson, situate in the Town of Lindisfarne, in Tasmania, acquired for a public road

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