Johnstone Stoney 1884 by Sir Thomas Jones
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Edith Stoney circa 1893
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Stoney family of Weston, Churchtown
George Stoney married Ann Bindon Blood
born circa 1792 July 1821 born 4 Jun 1801
died 7 Aug 1835 Edinburgh died 29 Oct 1883
Dublin
George Stoney born circa 1792 son of James Johnston Storey and Catherine Baker. He
married Anne Bindon Blood in Edinburgh in July 1821. Anne was the third daughter of
Bindon Blood, DL of Cranaher and Rockforest, Co Clare. George died 7 Aug 1835. Anne died
29 Oct 1883 at Elgin Road, Dublin and is buried at St Nahi’s.
1 Anne Frances Stoney eldest daughter born November 1822 at Portarlington. She was
living at Waterloo Road when she married Rev William Fitzgerald at St Peter’s
Church, Dublin on 23 Apr 1846. William was living at Hatch Street and was the son of
Maurice Fitzgerald, surgeon and Mary Burton. The couple had at least six children.
William was secretary and domestic chaplain to Archbishop Whately. He was
consecrated Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in 1857 and translated to Killaloe and
Clonfert in 1862. Anne died 20 Oct 1859 at The Palace, Cork. William died in 1883 and
is buried with his wife at St Nicholas, Cork.
2 Katherine Harriett Stoney second daughter born 5 Feb 1824. She died a spinster on
24 Feb 1887 at 9 Palmerston Park and is buried at St Nahi’s.
3 George Johnstone (Johnstone) Stoney eldest son born 15 Feb 1826 at Oakley Park in
Clareen, King’s County. He graduated Trinity Royal and worked on the Magnetic Survey
of Ireland with Provost Lloyd of TCD. He was a regular astronomical assistant to Charles
Parsons senior, the Earl of Ross at the observatory at Parsonstown. He was appointed
to the Professorship of Natural Philosophy at Queens University, Galway but his passion
was for the constitution of the sun and molecular physics. He used the word electrolion
and later electron to describe the electrically charged particle of an atom which is now
universally used. He was Secretary of Queen's University based at Dublin Castle from
1861 until it was dissolved in 1882. He also conducted the Dublin Civil Service exams.
He married Margaret Sophia Stoney on 20 Jan 1863 at Seir Kyrans Church, Queen’s
County. Margaret was his cousin and the only daughter of Robert J Stoney. They lived
at Weston, Churchtown from 1872 to 1877. Margaret died at Weston on 1872 aged 29
and is buried at St Nahi’s. They were living at 3 Palmerston Park by 1878. His portrait
painted by Sir Thomas Jones was presented to him 1884 by students of Queen’s College.
He was an energetic member of the RDS for nearly 50 years and his three daughters
became associate members in 1889. He was a strong advocate of higher education for
women so in 1893 they moved to London where George could get a better education
for his daughters. In 1899 Johnstone became the first recipient of the Boyle Medal of the
Royal Dublin Society. He died 5 Jul 1911 Chepstow Crescent, London, cremated at Golder’s
Green and his ashes returned to Ireland. George is buried with his wife at St Nahi’s,
Churchtown.
1 Robert Bindon Stoney born 28 Jun 1866 at 40 Wellington Road, Donnybrook
baptised at St Stephen’s Church. He graduated Trinity College Dublin, qualified
as a medical doctor and emigrated to Australia. He married Louisa Theodora
Wesley McComas in 1893 in Victoria and they had at least four children. Robert
died on 9 Nov 1914 and is buried in Boroondara Cemetery.
2 George Gerald (Gerald) Stoney born 25 Aug 1867 at 125 Leinster Road. He
graduated Trinity with a first class honours in mathematics and a gold medal in
experimental science. He worked for his uncle Bindon B Stoney at the Dublin
Port and Docks Board before moving to C A Parson and Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne
where he stayed for 24 years and developed steam turbine engines including
the engine for the 'Turbinia', the first steam turbine-powered steamship which
recorded a speed of over 30 knots. He married Isabella Mary Lowes on
23 June 1894 in Corbridge, Northumberland. Gerald fell out with Charles
Parsons in 1912 and left the firm. He worked as a consultant and was appointed
to the Inventions Bureau in 1915 and took up the chair of mechanical
engineering at the College of Technology and Victoria University, Manchester.
In 1926, Charles Parsons offered him the chance to return to Heaton as Director
of Research which he accepted. Isabella who had been an invalid for many years
died in January 1930. Gerald died on 15 May 1942 at his home ‘Oakley’ on
Heaton Road. They had no issue.
3 Edith Anne Stoney born 6 Jan 1869 at Wellington Road baptised at St
Stephen’s Church. She was three years at The Dublin Metropolitan School of
Art and then took the Cambridge University exams in 1889. She passed in
Chemistry and Botany and with distinction in Physics. Edith went to Newcastle
to work for Charles Parsons after she left Newnham College. In 1901 she was a
lecturer in Physics to the London school of Medicine for women. She was
awarded a BA and an MA from Trinity College Dublin in 1904. Edith was an
active supporter of the women’s suffrage movement but opposed to direct
violent action. Edith contacted the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) on the
outbreak of war This was an organisation formed to give medical support in
the field of battle and was financed by the women's suffrage movement. The
organisation had gained agreement to set up a new 250-bed tented hospital at
Domaine de Chanteloup, Sainte-Savine, near Troyes (France and Edith ran the
X-Ray service there before moving on to Salonika. In Serbia they set up
hospital in an unused factory and Edith wired the hospital and then ran it from
a petrol engine to get a supply of electricity. She was awarded the Médaille des
épidémies du ministère de la Guerre, the Croix de Guerre from France and the
Order of St Sava from Serbia. She also received the British War Medal and
Victory Medal. After the war she returned to lecture in Physics at King's College
for Women (London University). She retired and travelled with her sister
Florence from 1928 and they were in India in 1929. She travelled to Cape Town
on her own in 1936. She died in Bournemouth on 25 Jun 1938 and left an
estate of 19k which mostly went to charities, including 3k for the British
Federation of University Women, 3K to the Marie Curie Hospital and 1k to the
London School of Medicine for women.
4 Florence Ada Stoney born 4 Feb 1870 at Wellington Road baptised at St Stephen’s
Church. She took the Cambridge University exams in 1889 and passed in
arithmetic and chemistry, and with a distinction in botany. She pursued her
medical degree at the London School of Medicine for Women and received
honours in her MB in 1895 and B Sc in 1896 and her MD in 1898. By 1901 she
was a demonstrator to the London school of Medicine for women. She was an
active supporter of the women’s suffrage movement but opposed to direct violent
action. By 1914 she was one of the foremost X-ray specialists and offered her
services to the War Office, who declined the offer. She set to work organising a
30 strong all women independent radiologist unit and they travelled to Antwerp
in September 1914. From there they travelled to Holland on foot, but were picked
up by an ammunitions Convoy. At the request of the Red Cross they set up a unit
at Cherbourg. In the 1915, the War Office recognised her work and she became
the first woman doctor appointed to staff as head of the Fulham Military Hospital,
where she screened 15000 cases locating bullets and fractures. She was
awarded the 1914 Star, demobilised in 1919 and awarded the OBE. After the war
she had a successful practice in Bournemouth and was on the staff of two local
hospitals. She retired in 1928 and went travelling with her sister Edith. She died
unmarried on 7 Oct 1932.
5 Gertrude Beatrice Stoney born 19 May 1871 at 40 Wellington Road baptised at St
Stephens. She took the Cambridge University exams in 1889 passing in German.
She was an artist and kept house for her father. By 1921 she was living on her
own at Fulham in London. She died unmarried on 16 Dec 1955 in Kensington.
She left 2k in person estate; probate to Dorothy Charlotte Jellett Fitzgerald.
6 Margaret Alice Stoney born 13 Oct 1872 at Weston, Churchtown died same place
on 10 Nov 1872.
4 Bindon Blood Stoney second son born 13 Jun 1828. He graduated Trinity College and in
1850 assisted the Earl of Rose in astronomical research. He was appointed engineer to
the Spanish Railways and returned to Ireland in 1854 and worked on the Boyne Viaduct.
He joined Dublin Port and Docks Board and worked for George Halpin (junior). He
became Engineer in Chief in 1862 and during his tenure, he worked on the Alexandra
Basin and the extension to the North Wall Quay. He also installed lighting and fog signal
stations to both the Poolbeg and North Bull Light Houses. He married Susannah Frances
Walker on 7 October 1879 and they had at least four children. He died 5 May 1909 at 9
Elgin Road. He is buried at Mount Jerome cemetery.
© June Bow & Karen Poff - July 2026
George Stoney married Ann Bindon Blood
born circa 1792 July 1821 born 4 Jun 1801
died 7 Aug 1835 Edinburgh died 29 Oct 1883
Dublin
George Stoney born circa 1792 son of James Johnston Storey and Catherine Baker. He
married Anne Bindon Blood in Edinburgh in July 1821. Anne was the third daughter of
Bindon Blood, DL of Cranaher and Rockforest, Co Clare. George died 7 Aug 1835. Anne died
29 Oct 1883 at Elgin Road, Dublin and is buried at St Nahi’s.
1 Anne Frances Stoney eldest daughter born November 1822 at Portarlington. She was
living at Waterloo Road when she married Rev William Fitzgerald at St Peter’s
Church, Dublin on 23 Apr 1846. William was living at Hatch Street and was the son of
Maurice Fitzgerald, surgeon and Mary Burton. The couple had at least six children.
William was secretary and domestic chaplain to Archbishop Whately. He was
consecrated Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in 1857 and translated to Killaloe and
Clonfert in 1862. Anne died 20 Oct 1859 at The Palace, Cork. William died in 1883 and
is buried with his wife at St Nicholas, Cork.
2 Katherine Harriett Stoney second daughter born 5 Feb 1824. She died a spinster on
24 Feb 1887 at 9 Palmerston Park and is buried at St Nahi’s.
3 George Johnstone (Johnstone) Stoney eldest son born 15 Feb 1826 at Oakley Park in
Clareen, King’s County. He graduated Trinity Royal and worked on the Magnetic Survey
of Ireland with Provost Lloyd of TCD. He was a regular astronomical assistant to Charles
Parsons senior, the Earl of Ross at the observatory at Parsonstown. He was appointed
to the Professorship of Natural Philosophy at Queens University, Galway but his passion
was for the constitution of the sun and molecular physics. He used the word electrolion
and later electron to describe the electrically charged particle of an atom which is now
universally used. He was Secretary of Queen's University based at Dublin Castle from
1861 until it was dissolved in 1882. He also conducted the Dublin Civil Service exams.
He married Margaret Sophia Stoney on 20 Jan 1863 at Seir Kyrans Church, Queen’s
County. Margaret was his cousin and the only daughter of Robert J Stoney. They lived
at Weston, Churchtown from 1872 to 1877. Margaret died at Weston on 1872 aged 29
and is buried at St Nahi’s. They were living at 3 Palmerston Park by 1878. His portrait
painted by Sir Thomas Jones was presented to him 1884 by students of Queen’s College.
He was an energetic member of the RDS for nearly 50 years and his three daughters
became associate members in 1889. He was a strong advocate of higher education for
women so in 1893 they moved to London where George could get a better education
for his daughters. In 1899 Johnstone became the first recipient of the Boyle Medal of the
Royal Dublin Society. He died 5 Jul 1911 Chepstow Crescent, London, cremated at Golder’s
Green and his ashes returned to Ireland. George is buried with his wife at St Nahi’s,
Churchtown.
1 Robert Bindon Stoney born 28 Jun 1866 at 40 Wellington Road, Donnybrook
baptised at St Stephen’s Church. He graduated Trinity College Dublin, qualified
as a medical doctor and emigrated to Australia. He married Louisa Theodora
Wesley McComas in 1893 in Victoria and they had at least four children. Robert
died on 9 Nov 1914 and is buried in Boroondara Cemetery.
2 George Gerald (Gerald) Stoney born 25 Aug 1867 at 125 Leinster Road. He
graduated Trinity with a first class honours in mathematics and a gold medal in
experimental science. He worked for his uncle Bindon B Stoney at the Dublin
Port and Docks Board before moving to C A Parson and Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne
where he stayed for 24 years and developed steam turbine engines including
the engine for the 'Turbinia', the first steam turbine-powered steamship which
recorded a speed of over 30 knots. He married Isabella Mary Lowes on
23 June 1894 in Corbridge, Northumberland. Gerald fell out with Charles
Parsons in 1912 and left the firm. He worked as a consultant and was appointed
to the Inventions Bureau in 1915 and took up the chair of mechanical
engineering at the College of Technology and Victoria University, Manchester.
In 1926, Charles Parsons offered him the chance to return to Heaton as Director
of Research which he accepted. Isabella who had been an invalid for many years
died in January 1930. Gerald died on 15 May 1942 at his home ‘Oakley’ on
Heaton Road. They had no issue.
3 Edith Anne Stoney born 6 Jan 1869 at Wellington Road baptised at St
Stephen’s Church. She was three years at The Dublin Metropolitan School of
Art and then took the Cambridge University exams in 1889. She passed in
Chemistry and Botany and with distinction in Physics. Edith went to Newcastle
to work for Charles Parsons after she left Newnham College. In 1901 she was a
lecturer in Physics to the London school of Medicine for women. She was
awarded a BA and an MA from Trinity College Dublin in 1904. Edith was an
active supporter of the women’s suffrage movement but opposed to direct
violent action. Edith contacted the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) on the
outbreak of war This was an organisation formed to give medical support in
the field of battle and was financed by the women's suffrage movement. The
organisation had gained agreement to set up a new 250-bed tented hospital at
Domaine de Chanteloup, Sainte-Savine, near Troyes (France and Edith ran the
X-Ray service there before moving on to Salonika. In Serbia they set up
hospital in an unused factory and Edith wired the hospital and then ran it from
a petrol engine to get a supply of electricity. She was awarded the Médaille des
épidémies du ministère de la Guerre, the Croix de Guerre from France and the
Order of St Sava from Serbia. She also received the British War Medal and
Victory Medal. After the war she returned to lecture in Physics at King's College
for Women (London University). She retired and travelled with her sister
Florence from 1928 and they were in India in 1929. She travelled to Cape Town
on her own in 1936. She died in Bournemouth on 25 Jun 1938 and left an
estate of 19k which mostly went to charities, including 3k for the British
Federation of University Women, 3K to the Marie Curie Hospital and 1k to the
London School of Medicine for women.
4 Florence Ada Stoney born 4 Feb 1870 at Wellington Road baptised at St Stephen’s
Church. She took the Cambridge University exams in 1889 and passed in
arithmetic and chemistry, and with a distinction in botany. She pursued her
medical degree at the London School of Medicine for Women and received
honours in her MB in 1895 and B Sc in 1896 and her MD in 1898. By 1901 she
was a demonstrator to the London school of Medicine for women. She was an
active supporter of the women’s suffrage movement but opposed to direct violent
action. By 1914 she was one of the foremost X-ray specialists and offered her
services to the War Office, who declined the offer. She set to work organising a
30 strong all women independent radiologist unit and they travelled to Antwerp
in September 1914. From there they travelled to Holland on foot, but were picked
up by an ammunitions Convoy. At the request of the Red Cross they set up a unit
at Cherbourg. In the 1915, the War Office recognised her work and she became
the first woman doctor appointed to staff as head of the Fulham Military Hospital,
where she screened 15000 cases locating bullets and fractures. She was
awarded the 1914 Star, demobilised in 1919 and awarded the OBE. After the war
she had a successful practice in Bournemouth and was on the staff of two local
hospitals. She retired in 1928 and went travelling with her sister Edith. She died
unmarried on 7 Oct 1932.
5 Gertrude Beatrice Stoney born 19 May 1871 at 40 Wellington Road baptised at St
Stephens. She took the Cambridge University exams in 1889 passing in German.
She was an artist and kept house for her father. By 1921 she was living on her
own at Fulham in London. She died unmarried on 16 Dec 1955 in Kensington.
She left 2k in person estate; probate to Dorothy Charlotte Jellett Fitzgerald.
6 Margaret Alice Stoney born 13 Oct 1872 at Weston, Churchtown died same place
on 10 Nov 1872.
4 Bindon Blood Stoney second son born 13 Jun 1828. He graduated Trinity College and in
1850 assisted the Earl of Rose in astronomical research. He was appointed engineer to
the Spanish Railways and returned to Ireland in 1854 and worked on the Boyne Viaduct.
He joined Dublin Port and Docks Board and worked for George Halpin (junior). He
became Engineer in Chief in 1862 and during his tenure, he worked on the Alexandra
Basin and the extension to the North Wall Quay. He also installed lighting and fog signal
stations to both the Poolbeg and North Bull Light Houses. He married Susannah Frances
Walker on 7 October 1879 and they had at least four children. He died 5 May 1909 at 9
Elgin Road. He is buried at Mount Jerome cemetery.
© June Bow & Karen Poff - July 2026
