The Luttrells of Coolbanagher Parish, Laois

Coolbanagher Parish Church.
Coolbanagher Church was completed in 1786 and was built by Lord Carlow to replace an older church which was burnt in 1779. It was designed by the famous Georgian archtitect James Gandon who also designed Emo Court and whose best known work is the Custom House in Dublin. A fine gothic baptism fond is preserved in the nave. The parish records date from 1804 and include births, marriages and burials. They are available in the Representative Church body libary, Churchtown, Dublin and on microfilm in the National Archives,Dublin.
There are eleven Luttrell family headstones in the graveyard here. Click on the button to view summarised information from these headstones

Having gathered as much information as I could readily gather on my Courtwood Luttrells I decided that perhaps the way to make progress was to collect information on all other Laois Luttrells. This was also based on the often heard assertion that the Luttrells in Coolbanagher were connected to us "way back". So after two years of searching I have not yet found that link but have collected information on several Luttrells lines in Laois. In so doing I have made contact with Luttrell descendants across the world and have made many new "internet friends".
It is not my intention to post all of my information here or to give information shared with me in trust. I have all the Luttrell family tree information of a Family tree program on my computer and can e-mail Gedcoms to interested researchers. I have compiled below summary information on main families of Luttrell that have had links with Coolbanagher. However I hope that can help in establishing contact with yet more Luttrell descendants and in so doing fill in more pieces of the Luttrell jigsaw.

Line 1. George Luttrell of Dysart and Cappakeel, Laois born 1778 married Jane Bailey - Children include John, James, Thomas, Henry, Louisa, Mary Anne and Harriet. Descendants living today in Ireland, England and Austalia. Family connections with Kildellig, Aghaboe, Portarlington and Roscrea, Co. Tipperary. There is the possibility that Georges father was John Luttrell who was clerk of Coolbanagher parish for near fourty years and who would have been born abt. 1732. This body of thought also suggests that George had a brother John, who married Mary Bailee and lived in Dysart. It has also been said that George had a brother Edward Luttrell who lived in Cappakeel.

Line 2. Alexander Luttrell of Garrymaddock was born in 1762 and married Mary Davis. Their children were baptised in Strabally parish and were listed as follows
... William, born abt 1792 and married Arabella Deverell and lived in what is now Delaneys House near the New Inn Emo.
... Jane, born 1794 unknown
... James, born 1798 unknown,
... Maria, born 1799 and married Allen Saunders of Ballyfin. I have seen information posted on the LDS Family history site about their children and grandchildren but have been unable to make contact with any descendants. THey are believed to have lived near Ballyfin after marriage in 1820.
... John, born 1800, unknown
... Alexander, born August 1802 and married Harriet Bailey, lived in Clonmullin, Athy, Co. Kildare and emigrated with 8 children to Canada. Genealogy of descendants well known. One of Alexander's sons, also Alexander, founded Emo Township in Ontario, Canada. He named it after the place where his father was born in County Laois. Click here to visit the Emo, Ontaria Website
... Isaac, born 1805 and who married married Murella Seale but who died in 1841 in Athy PLU and was buried in Coolabanagher with his father. Murella and Isaac Luttrell and had a daughter Alicia. After Isaac died Murella and Alicia emigrated and Murella remarried in Canada.
... Davis, born 1810, who lived on the family farm in Garrymaddock in 1842 and emigrated shortly afterwards with his wife, Jane Hipwell, and two children, to Canada. Thereafter the family farm was in possession of William Luttrell, son of Edward Luttrell, and Phoebe Hipwell. The farm was in Luttrell hands up until 1944 when it was sold by a grandaughter Phoebe Luttrell who married Denis Lawless from Naas in 1936.
... Jonathon, who fought with 74th Highlanders in Napoleonic wars and seemingly never married,
Newspaper reports in Canada in the 1880's suggest that the children of Davis inherited money on the death of his unmarried brother J. Luttrell (James or John) in Ireland. There are many descendants of Davis Luttrell alive today in Canada.
The nature of the twin gravestones in Coolbanagher cemetery suggest a close relationship between Alexander and Mary and James and Anne Luttrell. Perhaps James who was born in 1740 was the father of Alexander, if so this takes us a generation further back.
Recent DNA analyis of a descendant of Alexander in Canada has shown a match on all 23 markers with my DNA and with a descendant of Simon Luttrell who emigrated from Queens County in 1825.

Click here for a Link to Alexander and Harriet Luttrell family page.

Line 3. Alexander Luttrell, Emo, born 1798 and was a baker by profession. He married Anne Seale of Durrow in 1828, they had eleven children, three of whom, Richard, William and Alexander emigrated to Canada. There are many known descendants there today.
A Jane Luttrell was born in 1810 in Laois and married Joseph Seale, brother of Anne Seale. They emigrated with five children to Canada and a sixth child was born there. Again there are many known descendants in Canada. It is not known if Alexander and Jane Luttrell were brother and Sister nor is it known who their parents were.

Line 4. Alexander Luttrell born 1809 married Mary Anne Tighe and emigrated with 8 Children to New York from where they moved to Decateur, Illinois. There are many descendants living today, including Margret Atwood, who is tracing the family tree. Alexanders had a brother Henry, born about 1800, who married Catherine Bowes in Dublin. One of their sons Edward and wife and child also emigrated to New York. Edward siblings were Frances, who married Mr William Elward in Dublin abt 1855, and Henry who married Eliza Glanville and was a draper in Carlow and Dublin. They had family including, Edward, Henry and Theophilus. Theophilus emigrated to Australia and his grandson Bob Luttrell has recently contacted us and has joined in our genealogy project. Henry Luttrell had a son Norman Glanville Luttrell for whom I found a marriage record for dated 24 September 1924 at St Philips, Miltown, Dublin. Norman married Annie Metcalfe and they too emigrated to Australia. Alexander and Henry are thought to have been born near Kennels Cross, Emo and their parents may be Edward and Elizabeth White who have connections with Portarlington and possibly Celbridge in Co. Kildare.

Line 5. Edward Luttrell of Cappakeel married Phoebe Hipwell in 1840 and among his children was William Luttrell who later farmed in Garrymaddock and married Lizzie Hipwell. It is thought that Edward re-married after the death of Phoebe. He married Rebecca Wilkinson in 1853. Their children were John, Susan and Rebecca and Edward. John married Elizabeth Allen and they have living descendants today in Ireland and England. Edward Luttrell lived in Cappakeel married Anne Wilkinson and had nine or ten children and whose only son that lived to adulthood, James was born 1886 and never married. However some daughters married and there are many descendants today alive in Ireland including Wilkinsons and Jestins. I beleive that this line is linked to Line 2 but need to clarify who Edward and his father William were and what their relationship to Alexander Luttrell of Garrymaddock was.

Line 6 Thomas Luttrell of Fisherstown was buried in Coolbanagher on the 15th of April 1873 aged 86 years. He was recorded as a tenant on land in Fisherstown in Griffiths Valuation of 1851, but was not recorded there at the time of the tithe applotment records of 1825. He had at least three sons. Richard served in the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) police and enlisted in 1841. He retired after 34 years service in 1875 while serving in Newmarket on Fergus and Cratloe, County Clare. He was buried in Coolbanagher on 14-June-1898 aged 76 years. A second son Sandy (Alexander) was known to have "the cure" for many ills while a third son John died unmarried in Fisherstown in 1873.

Line 7 John William Luttrell lived at Laurel Hill, Rathfarnham and was the son of a John Luttrell. He died 23rd of September 1935 and was buried in Coolabanagher. I do not know who John William or his father John were but it is likely that John Snr was a son of Edward Luttrell and Phoebe Hipwell of Cappakeel. This John was born in 1845. I hope to be able to link him in with another line in the near future.

I am certain that almost all of these lines come from a common ancestor and that with time we can reduce the number of lines on this page.

I have also posted information on various Luttrell individuals that I have as yet been unable to fit into any family line on this page

Photo Gallery

Alexander Luttrell, Line 4 above.

Clonmullion Mill, near Athy, Co. Kildare once occupied by Alexander Luttrell, Line 2 above.

LAST UPDATED 19-August-2008