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The Scovell family moved from Scotland to Dublin about 1834.   Henry had been Army Deputy Paymaster in the Iberian Peninsula from 1811 to 1814 and Army Deputy Paymaster in Canada in 1815.    He offered the tobacco bonding warehouse he leased called stack A,  now known as the chq building on Custom House Quay, as the venue for the welcome home party for Irish soldiers who fought in the Crimean War.   It was reported at the time to be the biggest building in Dublin.  William Dargan offered his services and the materials for free to prepare the building for the banquet.  This Crimean Banquet took place there on the 22nd October and 1856 and it is thought that almost 6000 people sat down to dinner.

Henry was a keen yachtsman, he was a founder member of the Royal St George Yacht Club and his yacht was called The Atlanta.
Two of Henry & Anna Maria's sons were in the army and died, one as a cadet in Sandhurst and another from yellow fever while on duty in Brazil.  They were to lose two more of their children in the 1868 Abergele rail crash when runaway carriage trucks carrying barrels of paraffin collided with the Holyhead Irish mail train and exploded.  Their memorial is in St Michael's Church in Wales.  Henry and Anna Maria are buried in their family vault at Stillorgan along with their two boys William and Fitzhenry.
Henry's brother was General Sir George Scovell, know as 'The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes'.  Sir George died  on 19 Jan 1861 and Henry died 3 days later on the 22 Jan 1961 at Monkstown.  He was the oldest member of the St George Yacht when he died.   The funeral service was huge and led by Rev Thomas S Grey and he was buried at Stillorgan graveyard.


Scovell Family of Ferney

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Henry Scovell                                 married 16.09.1818                 Anna Maria Whitmore
born circa 1790                             St Mary’s, Newington
of Symons Wharf, London           Surrey 
died 22.01.1861                                                                                 died 09.07.1875


Henry died at 25 Longford Terrace, Monkstown on 22.01.1861 aged 70.   Anna Maria widow of Henry
Scovell died at Prince of Wales Terrace in Bray on 09.07.1875 aged 77.

1          Anna Maria Scovell eldest daughter born on 25.06.1819 married Rev John Grant on 20.10.1846 at
            Monkstown Church.
 
2          Emma Fielding Scovell, 2nd daughter born circa 07.02.1821, married 18.12.1847 George Frederick
            Thompson son of Thomas Thompson of 74 Harcourt Street at Monkstown Church.  Emma died at
            her home ‘Calpe’ in Blackrock on 31.01.1867.
 
3          Whitmore Scovell, eldest son born on 15.09.1822 at St Olave, Southwark, London, married
             on 15.04.1852 Caroline Mary Taylor Heitland daughter of Edward Dance in Notting Hill London.
             Whitmore died 20.08.1868 in the Welsh Railway Disaster at Abergele with his sister Kathleen.

             1        Cara Georgina Whitemore Scovell born 21.03.1853 at Mount Street married William A Bell
                       in 1872.  They had a son William Archibald Jixon Bell,  and three daughters, Cara Rowena Bell
                       who married Harold Vyvyan Pearce, Margaret Angela Bell who became Lady Montagu Pollock
                       and Hyacynthe Mary Bell who married Peter James Boyle and became Countess of Glasgow.

             2        Nora R Scovell born 28.03.1857 at Landsdown Villas, Kensington married Courtney
                        Wellesley at Manitou, Colorado in September 1883.


4          Grace Sarah Scovell, 3rd daughter born 25.04.1824 Surrey.  Grace died unmarried on 20.11.1916.
            Grace lived at 10 Prince of Wales Terrace, Bray.

5          Fielding Scovell, 2nd son of Henry Scovell and nephew of the late General Sir George Scovell
            brother to Henry (c1790-1861) born 21.06.1825 in Surrey, married Nannie Busby daughter of John
            Busby of Longford Tce, Monkstown at Byculla, Bombay on 5 Dec 1854.  He secondly married
            14.07.1863 at Monkstown Mary Emily Vance eldest daughter of Thomas Vance of Blackrock House.
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            1             Son born 08.06.1864 at Trafalgar Tce., Monkstown.

            2             George Vance Scovell, 2nd son born 21 Apr 1866 at Blackrock Lodge.   George married
                           Vivienne Hillas of Beaufield 
on 05.10.1892 at St Stephen’s Church, Dublin and lived in
                           Florida and at 3 Fitzwilliam Street and Lower Baggot Street.  George  filed for divorce
                           in 1896.  It was a messy divorce case with another party cited.  
 
6          William George Scovell, 3rd son born circa 1827, First Lieutenant of HMS Express died on
            12.07.1856 aged 29 of Yellow Fever at Rio de Janeiro.
 
7          Lydia Gribble Scovell, 4th daughter born in Surrey 26.09.1829 married John Henry Richards of
            29 Upper Mount Street eldest son of Right Hon John Henry Richards on 27.08.1853 at
            Monkstown Church.
 
8          FitzHenry Scovell, 4th son born 17.10.1832 of H.M. 55th regiment, died 02.04.1854 aged 21
             years at Ferney, Stillorgan.  Nephew of Lieutenant-General Sir George Scovell K.B.

9          Rowland Hill Scovell, 5th son born June1835, married 16.12.1858 at St Anne’s Church, Dublin
            to Maria Louisa Worthington only surviving daughter of Wm. Worthington J.P. of Kingstown.
            Rowland died at Fairholm, Monkstown on 11.02.1894.

10        Charles Augustine Scovell, 6th son of Henry Scovell of Ferney, Stillorgan born 29 Apr 1837
            Gentleman Cadet of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, nephew to the Governor Lieutenant-
            General Sir George Scovell K.B. died 16.11.1853 aged 16.

11        Capt Thornton Scovell, 7th  and youngest son born 27.03.1841 in Stillorgan, Dublin, 63rd
             Regiment.  Thornton married Florence Sydney daughter of Christopher Eales on 07.08.1877 at St
             Thomas’s London.  Thornton died in Sussex shortly after the 1911 census.

12        Kathleen Scovell, youngest daughter born circa 1841 of Wycroft, Bray, Co Wicklow died in the
            Welsh Railway Disaster at Abergele on 20.08.1868 unmarried aged 27 with her brother
            Whitmore.

Alice Grant eldest daughter of the late Rev John Grant (died 1858 aged 53) and grand-daughter of the late
Henry Scovell married Robert William Hillas of Beaufield, Stillorgan on 08.07.1865.  Charles Scovell
Grant MD died 18.08.1887 West Africa.  Emma Fielding Grant daughter married Benjamin Francis
McDowell 1870.  (George Scovell and Emma Fielding were thought to be the parents of Henry Scovell).


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