Of Ballycumber, King’s County. Fourteenth child of Thomas Homan-Mulock of Bellair, King’s County. Born on the 25th July 1848, educated at the Royal School, Enniskillen, and Trinity College, Dublin. Appointed to the Indian Civil Service in 1869, serving in North Western Provinces as Assistant-Magistrate and Collector, and Joint-Magistrate 1871-1886; on special duty at Imperial assemblage at Delhi, 1876; Assistant-Commissioner, 1886; Joint-Magistrate, Ballia, 1887; Deputy Commissioner at Lucknow, 1889; Magistrate and Collector, 1890; Commissioner at Fyzabad, 1896. Retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1898 and purchased the Ballycumber Estate in King’s County. Served as Justice of the Peace for King’s County and High Sheriff in 1902. On 4th August 1878 he married at Bhavghulpore, Bengal in India Miss Ethel Annie Braddon, daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Edward Braddon, P.C., K.C.M.G., Premier of Tasmania and author of the Australian Constitution. Of this marriage there was issue, one son and two daughters.
Eldest daughter of Francis Berry Homan Mulock, of Ballycumber, King’s County who on 16th October 1900 married Captain Claude Beddington (1868-1940), of South Street, Park Lane, London. Captain later Lieutenant-Colonel Beddington was, at this time serving with the Westmoreland and Cumberland Imperial Yeomanry. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society of London. In 1929, as Mrs Claude Beddington she published 'Book of reminiscences, All that I have Met'. In later life she resided at 11 Welbeck House, Welbeck Street, London. She died on 19th December 1963. Of the marriage there was issue, two sons and a daughter Guy (1902-25), Sheila (1906) and Niall (1912).
Thomas Homan Mulock Molloy was born on 5 May 1798 to parents, Elizabeth Homan Mulock and Laurence Bomford Molloy. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, achieving a B.A. in 1818, M.A. in 1825 and M.D. in 1826. On 5 February 1828 he married Frances Sophia Berry, daughter of John Berry, and Elizabeth Bury, daughter of William Bury, uncle of the 1st earl of Charleville. Together they had fifteen children; Frances Elizabeth, Thomas Homan Mulock, John Berry, Elizabeth Georgina, Thomas Lawrence, Richard Homan, Mary Mulock, Lawrence Bomford, William Bury, Hester Jane, Anne Homan, Henry Pilkington, Homan, Francis Berry, and George Phillips.
In 1843, Thomas Homan Mulock Molloy inherited Bellair House and estate from his uncle, Thomas Homan Mulock. He was directed on becoming entitled to the estates to take the sole name and arms of Homan-Mulock. He served as Justice of the Peace for King’s County, and he was later appointed High Sheriff for the County in 1849. Following the Famine years, many of the tenants had immigrated to America or died, the estate was in poor condition. Thomas Homan Mulock Molloy died at Bellair on 25 June 1889, and was buried at Liss.
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John Baptist Cashel Hoey, the eldest son of Cashel Fitzsimons Hoey, of Dundalk, County Louth, was born 25 October 1828. He attended St Patrick's College, Armagh. From 1849-57 he was the editor of The Nation newspaper. On 6 Feb 1858 he married widow Frances Sarah Stewart. In 1861 he was called to the bar at Middle Temple. From 1865-78 he was the sub editor for the Dublin Review. He the Agent General in London for the state of Victoria, Australia from 1872-3. The following year he became secretary to the Agent-General for New Zealand, which he remained until 1879. In 1880 he became secretary to the London committees for the Melbourne International Exhibition until 1888. During his life he became a Knight of the Order of Malta, the contemporary continuation of the medieval Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem. John Cashel Hoey died in London on 7 Jan 1892.
Frances Sarah Johnston, eldest child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 14 Feb 1830. She was the eldest of nine children. On 14 Feb 1846 she married Adam Murray Stewart (d. 1855). They had two daughters. In 1853 she started writing reviews and articles for the Freeman's Journal, the Nation, and other Dublin papers and periodicals. Adam Murray Stewart died on 6 Nov 1855, so Frances moved with her two daughters to London. There she started writing for the Morning Post, and the Spectator. In 1865, she began writing a story, 'Buried in the Deep' for the Chambers' Journal, where she continued to contribute articles until 1894. She wrote a total of eleven novels, five of which were published under the name of Edmund Yates. Frances remarried on 6 Feb 1858 to John Baptist Cashel Hoey (1828-1892), a writer and journalist. Her husband John died on 7 January 1892. Frances Cashel Hoey died on 9 July 1908, and was buried in the churchyard of the Benedictine church at Little Malvern, Worcestershire.