Mrs Huggins was the godmother of Alice Blanche Anna Lamb.
Howard Carroll, a relation to the Earl of Effingham on his mother’s side, was born in Dublin in 1827. He attended Dublin University where he studied law, medicine, and engineering. Around the year 1855, he moved to Albany, New York, where he worked as a civil engineer, designing iron bridges for the New York Central Railroad. On 27 October 1861 Howard Carroll voluntarily joined the Union Army after he was offered the position of Brigade Quartermaster in General Meagher’s Irish Brigade. He helped with organising the brigade of Irishmen, and after it had become a success, he left determined to joint the fighting where he could be of further use. On 27 March 1862 he became Lieutenant Colonel of the 105th Regiment, which was made up predominantly of Irishmen, and they left New York on 4 April 1862.
Howard Carroll is mentioned in the letter of another Irish soldier, Francis a surgeon of the 88th Regiment of the New York Infantry. Francis wrote to his father that he had sent his letters through his friend, Mr Howard Carroll of New York, and that Mr Carroll had enclosed his own letter introducing himself to Francis’ family and letting them know where to send further letters. This letter was written on 29 July 1862.
Four days later, on 2 August 1862, Howard Carroll was promoted to Colonel after the resignation of Colonel James M. Fuller, who had been charged with issuing improper orders while in command of Camp Upham, LeRoy, and enabling a contractor to defraud the United States Government of large sums of money. Before his resignation, Colonel Fuller spoke with the Governor and Adjutant General suggesting that Howard Carrol take his place as Colonel, due to his merit as, “One of the most accomplished officers, as well as one of the coolest and bravest soldiers in the volunteer service of the State” (Clarke, 237). Howard Carroll proved his worth at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, and he five days of fighting during Pope’s Retreat outside Washington DC. His regiment earned an honourable reputation under his command, and when their numbers dwindled to some four-hundred odd men, they were transferred to General Hooker’s division in the advance of the Army in Maryland, where they took part in all of the fighting that led up to the Battle of Antietam.
On 16 September 1862, Howard Carrol was ordered to cross Antietam creek and take the summit, in order to secure the advantage of the high-ground and gain a position from which the Union Army could attack the left flank of General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. On 17 September 1862, under the instruction of Brigadier-General Abram Duryea, Thomas Carroll led what remained of his own 105th regiment as well as four others up the hill. They were under direct rifle fire from the Confederate forces, and
Over half of the New York Regiments were killed in the Battle of Antietam, and it is remembered as the bloodiest encounter of the American Civil War. This battle was the Union Victory that allowed President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves in the Confederate States. The Irish Brigade which Howard Carroll had helped organise lost over 4,000 Irishmen fighting for the Union Army, which was far more men than ever served in their regiment at any one time.
Howard Carroll was shot in the leg as he led his men up the summit. Due to how many men were wounded that day, he was sent back to Washington to receive care, and despite his objects, Carroll was carried in an ambulance on a trek of over one hundred miles back to the capital. On the way his wounded leg became infected, and he died of fever on 29 September 1862 at the age of thirty-five.
John Stroud Hosford, son of John Stroud Hosford and Selena Hosford, was born in 1872. He became a member of the London Royal College of Physicians and the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons.
Anne Brodie Ainslie, daughter of James Ainslie (1812-1881) and Margaret Brodie (1814-1905), was born on 22 October 1839 in Gladsmuir, East Lothian, Scotland. She married first to a Mister Butchart. After his death, she married a second time to Thomas Stroud Hosford (1845-1927), on 5 October 1871 at Saint Luke's Church in Westbourne Park, Westminster, England. They had three children; Florence Ainslie Hosford (b. 1874); Edith Josephine Ainslie Hosford (b. 1876); Douglas Ainslie Hosford (1879-1969). Anne Brodie Hosford died on 22 April 1929 at her home at 37 Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey, England.
Nephew of Evie Hone
Evie Hone was born in Dublin into an established Anglo-Irish family which had previously included distinguished Irish artists; she was a descendant of Joseph Hone, a brother of Nathaniel Hone. At the age of eleven she became partially lame from infantile paralysis. A visit to Assisi in 1911 made a profound impression on her. In 1918, she attended classes at Westminster under Walter Sickert (1860-1942), after which she went to Bernard Meninsky, who in 1920, advised her to study in Paris. In 1921, together with her friend Mainie Jellett (1897-1944), they worked first under André Lhote and later in 1921 they persuaded the cubist painter Albert Gleizes, to take them on as pupils, where they worked until 1931. In 1924 with Mainie Jellett, Hone exhibited at the Dublin Painters Gallery.
In 1933 she began to work in stained glass, joining An Tur Gloine and getting her first commission for Ardcarne near Boyle in 1934. She worked with An Tur Gloine until it closed in 1944. Hone’s early paintings, of the period when she was exploring Cubism, are often difficult to distinguish from those of Mainie Jellett, but she had a more committed sense of colour.
In 1943, she was a founder member of the Irish exhibition of Living Art. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Hugh Lane Gallery, Ulster Museum and Crawford Gallery. A memorial exhibition was held in Dublin in 1958.
Evie Hone produced some seventy-four windows in the twenty-two years during which she worked in stained glass. Her reputation may rest largely on the expressive intensity of her stained glass output, but she was an artist who closely involved herself in the Irish art scene in a number of ways.
Thomas Homan Mulock was born in 1756, the son of the Rev. John Mulock and Anne Homan. He served as a Justice of the Peace for King’s County before he was appointed High Sherriff of the county in 1822.
In 1803 he married Catherine Frances, daughter of Thomas Berry, of Eglish Castle, and Elizabeth Bury, of Charleville Castle, and a direct descendent of King Edward. They had no children. Thomas demolished the old Bellair House which stood close to the present house. The new Bellair House was designed by Richard Morrison. He was also given permission by his father, the Rev John Mulock, to build 50 slated houses in Bellair to accommodate the workers who were engaged in the Flax and Linen industry.
He made his will dated 18 October 1841, and after making provision for his wife, he devised his estates to his nephew, Thomas Homan Mulock Molloy. He directed his nephew on becoming entitled to the estates to take the sole name and arms of Homan Mulock. He died on 16 January 1843 and was buried at Liss, King’s County
Youngest daughter of Francis Berry Homan Mulock JP, of Ballycumber, King’s County, born in 1882. On 6th August 1913 she married the Hon. Harold Stansmore Nutting (1882-1972), eldest son of Sir John Gardiner Nutting, Bart., J.P., D.L. Succeeded his father in 1918 as Sir Harold Nutting, D.L. 2nd Baronet. Of the marriage there were three sons, two killed on active service and one surviving son. Sir Harold served in France as Captain of the 17th Lancers 1914-18; and was afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel commanding Leicestershire Battalion. For a period, Sir Harold served as ADC to the Governor-General of Australia. Lady Hester died in 1961. Known as 'Enid'.