Magan of Belfield, Roebuck
Arthur Magan married Hannah Georgina Tilson
born 26 Jul 1756 16 May 1783
died January 1808 Dublin died 1842
Co Meath Kensington
Arthur Mangan born 26 Jul 1756 son of Arthur Magan. He was of Clonearl, Kings County
and married Hannah Georgina Tilson on 16 May 1783 at the residence of Rev Tilson on
Sackville Street. Miss Tilson had a fortune of over 30k. She was the daughter of Rev Dr
Henry Tilson of Eagle Hill, Co Kildare and a sister of Lady Castle Coote (Elizabeth Anne
Tilson). They had twenty one children (a large number of them died young). Arthur of
Rutland Square died January 1808 at Clonearl. Hannah died 31 Jan 1842 at St Mary Abbots
Terrace, Kensington.
1 Ann Charlotte Magan eldest born at Gardiners Row in November 1784. She died
unmarried at Boulogne on 5 Mar 1848.
2 Eliza Magan second daughter died unmarried on 17 Nov 1840 at Rutland Square.
3 Louisa Magan third daughter married Frederick Augustus Baron Reizinstein in June 1809
at Cheltenham. Frederick was a captain in the 1st King’s German Legion.
4 Edward Magan eldest son born 1789 died unmarried at Rutland Square in November 1810.
5 William Henry Magan born 1792. He lived at Clonearl and married Elizabeth Georgiana
Allen nee Loftus in 1817. Eliza was the widow of Colonel Thomas Lowther Allen and the
second daughter of Dudley Loftus and Lady Jane Gore of Killyon Manor. William died
14 May 1840 at Mount Street. Clonearl was destroyed by fire in 1846 and the family moved
to Killyon. In 1876 Eliza owned nearly 14k acres in Ireland comprising of 4,418 acres in Co
Meath, 5,604 acres in Co Westmeath, 2,374 acres in Co Kildare, 1,023 acres in Co Offaly, and
165 acres in Co Dublin. Eliza died 11 Sep 1880 at Killyon Manor, Co Meath. She left 85k in
personal estate. She left everything to her daughter Augusta.
1 William Magan born circa 1818 graduated Trinity College. He joined the 9th Lancers
as a coronet and was later a captain in the 4th Light Dragoons. He was elected MP for
Westmeath in 1847. He married Lady Georgiana Charlotte Keppel on 4 Aug 1849 at
St Margaret’s Westminster. Lady Georgiana died 30 Mar 1854 at Clonmel. No issue
found.
He was sued for breach of promise by Ellen Miles, an assistant at Swan & Edgar’s
department store in 1859. However, two years later they married at St John’s Church
Yeovil on 28 Aug 1861. Ellen was the daughter of William Miles, a fishmonger of
Sherbourne, Dorset. William died two months later on 24 Oct 1861 in London. Probate
to his sister Augusta.
2 Dudley Loftus Magan second son born circa 1822 died unmarried at the residence of
his mother at Stephen’s Green on 12 Apr 1850.
3 Augusta Georgina Magan born circa 1825. She was heiress to her mother and lived at
Killyon Manor and 77 Stephen’s Green. She was a compulsive purchaser and hoarder of
Killyon and Stephen’s Green. She died unmarried on 26 Oct 1905 and it took the
auctioneers three days to clear her bedroom at Killyon. Hundreds of unopened parcels
which contained clothing, silver, jewellery were found. The house in Stephen’s Green
was filled to 3 feet deep full of ‘stuff’. There were uncashed cheques and money in
flower pots and waste bins. Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall wrote in her memoirs. ‘Miss
Magan had just died, who many years earlier had been a Dublin beauty. The story was
that she had been engaged to a young man with whom she was very much in love. On
the day of the wedding, he failed to appear. The house was shut up for many years and
the lady lived as a recluse. When she was dying, she asked to be buried in her bridal
dress…after her funeral they opened the Stephen's Green house, and, it was said, found
the wedding breakfast still spread for the guests who had not come.’
The Miss Havisham charactor in Great Expectations is said to have been inspired by her.
Charles Dickens was in Dublin in 1858 and possibly heard the story of the 19 year old Miss
Magan's betrayal and upset at the altar. Augusta died in rented rooms on Marlboro Road,
Donnybrook on 26 Oct 1905. It was thought that she died intestate but an old will was
found some 6 weeks later. She left 85k in personal estate to ‘her heir or heiress’ but 21k
was swallowed up in succession duties. The man who jilted her is thought to be Richard
Wellesley Bernard of Kinnitty Castle. He married widow Ellen Georgina Hancock in 1859
and died from a heart attack on a train to Straffan in 1877. Augusta made a number of
personal bequests including a £500 bequest to a hospital in memory of her intimate
friend Richard.
6 Arthur Magan third son born 1794. He joined the Royal Navy in 1807. He was a lieutenant in the
RN and married Mary Anne Smith on 1 Mar 1815 in London. Arthur died 8 Feb 1858 at Portland
Lodge, Brighton. Mary Ann died in 1872 at Brighton and probate was to her daughter Georgina
Rofe.
1 Georgina Eliza Magan only child born circa 1820. She married John Henry Brummell on
3 Feb 1840 in Brighton. John was a surgeon in the Royal Navy and the eldest son of
William Charles Brummell of Hyde Park. They divorced the same year and John died
10 Jun 1848 at Cape Coast Castle.
1 Blanche Henrietta Russell Brummell born 1844 in Honiton. She was baptised at
Branscombe on 22 Aug 1844 but no father’s name is listed. She married Alfred
Toppin in 1865 at Newington, London. Alfred was an accountant. Blanch was the
heiress of Augusta Magan through her mother but died on 17 Dec 1910 at Brighton
before the estate was settled.
1 Henrietta Blanch Toppin born circa 1880.
She secondly married John William Rofe on 7 Sep 1854 at St Mary’s Newington, Surrey.
John was a master mariner and died in 1882 at Sutton Grove, Carshalton.
Georgina thirdly married Joel Barrett in 1893. Joel died in April 1906. Georgina was found
to be the heiress of Augusta Magan but died 6 Feb 1910 before the estate was settled and
so it passed to her daughter Blanche.
7 Harriett Magan fourth daughter died at Rutland Square 8 Feb 1839.
8 Emily Magan fifth daughter married George Medlicott of Stephen’s Green on 13 Dec 1823 at St
Peter’s Church, Dublin. Emily died 23 Aug 1858 in Dublin.
9 Thomas Tilson Magan fourth son born 1798. He was with the 13th Dragoons and residing at 5
Rutland Square when he married Sophia Willoughby Humphreys on 3 Jun 1830 at St George’s.
Sophia was the daughter of William Humphreys of Ballyhaise House, Co Cavan. Sophia died
29 Mar 1846 at 79 Lower Baggot Street. A monument was erected in her memory at the
Victorian Chapel in Mount Jerome.
1 Letitia Magan born 8 Gardiners Row baptised 19 Apr 1831 died on 2 Dec 1833.
2 Georgina Tilson Magan died unmarried on 5 Dec 1833.
3 Arthur Magan born 4 Sep 1833.
4 Tilson Shaw Magan born 10 Aug 1841 at Lower Baggot Street baptised at St Peters. He
joined the army married Charlotte Jeminia Davey on 6 Feb 1871 at St Pancras, London.
Charlotte was the widow of William Mauger Davey late Royal Engineers and the daughter
of James and Charlotte Murray. Tilson was a brevet captain in 1873. Tilson died
26 Oct 1887 at 43 Penywern-road Earl’s Court. Charlotte and her two children at
Chislehurst, Bromley in 1891 and in Reigate, Surrey in 1921. She died at a nursing home
in Torquay on 19 Apr 1924 age 81.
1 Adelaide Isabella Magan only daughter born 16 Apr 1872 at Penge, Croyden.
She married Lt Col Charles Mackenzie on 7 Jan 1899 at the Cathedral, Bombay.
She died on 14 Oct 1946.
2 Arthur Tilson Magan born 29 Apr 1873 at Cannanore, Madras, India. He married
Frances Francis Annie Cherry on 13 Dec 1898 in Barbados. He was thought to be
the only heir to Augusta Magan and took the estate in possession after her death.
It transpired later that he was not the next in line as heir and that the heiress was
Georgina Bartlett. They were living at Belfield, Roebuck in 1911 and at Stowe-hill
Hartest in 1939. Frances died 11 Nov 1948 aged 75and Arthur died on 12 Feb 1953
at Stowe-hill Hartest, Suffolk. No issue found.
5 Adelaide Charlotte Magan born 2 Jul 1843 at 63 Baggot Street baptised 10 Aug 1843 at St
Peters. As eldest daughter she died unmarried on 19 Feb 1869 at 5 Herbert Street.
Thomas secondly married Louisa O’Grady on 10 Jan 1850 at Malahide Church and had at least
five further children. Louisa was the daughter of M M O’Grady, MD of La Mancha, Malahide.
Louisa died 2 Feb 1863 at 5 Herbert Street aged 37 and is buried at St Pauls. Thomas died on
27 Aug 1870 at Herbert Street aged 74 and is buried at St Pauls.
10 Henrietta Magan youngest daughter born circa 1802 married John Hawksworth of Forest,
Queen’s County in Dublin on 29 Sep 1827 at St George’s. Henrietta died 7 Apr 1829.
11 George Percy (Percy) Magan fifth son born circa 1803 married Ellen O’Connor on 27 Jan 1824
at St George’s Church, Dublin. Ellen was the daughter of Valentine O’Connor of Great Denmark
Street, Rutland Square. They lived in Sandyford before moving to Glass House, Portarlington.
They had a least fifteen children,eight of whom were baptised in Kilgobbin. Percy died on
19 Aug 1857 in Dublin. He left 5k in personal estate and his executor was Valentine O’Brien
O’Connor of Dublin. Ellen died in 1860 aged 61.
1 Arthur D Magan eldest son born 19 Jan 1825 at Great Denmark Street died a bachelor
on 3 Apr 1874 at Ballylongford, Kerry.
2 Percy Tilson Magan born circa 1828 married Annie Catherine Richards on 20 Sep 1865
in Newry. They lived for a time at Marlfield House in Gorey, Co Wexford and had at least
15 children. Percy died on 26 Dec 1903 in Co Roscommon.
1 Arthur Tilson Shaen Magan born 1880 married Kathleen Biddulph in 1906 and
were the parents of William Morgan (Bill) Magan the MI5 spymaster, author and
soldier.
3 Hugh Tilson Magan born circa 1840 was a steamer captain. As youngest surviving son he
died a bachelor at the Imperial Hotel, Sackville Street, Dublin on 6 Jan 1874.
4 Albert Edward Magan born circa 1843.
5 Valentine John Magan baptised 1 Jul 1845 died 11 Jul 1872 at Auckland, New Zealand.
12 Henry Magan youngest son born circa 1804 took Holy orders. He married Sarah Frances Bain
on 26 Jun 1828 at St George’s, Hanover Square. Sarah was the youngest daughter if the late
Andrew Bain of Hessleton, Dorset. Henry died at Clifton on 16 Jun 1829.
Sarah secondly married Thomas Hawkesworth in 11 Jun 1831 at Rosekelton Church. Thomas
was the third son of the late John Hawkesworth of Forest, Queen’s County.
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Arthur Magan married Hannah Georgina Tilson
born 26 Jul 1756 16 May 1783
died January 1808 Dublin died 1842
Co Meath Kensington
Arthur Mangan born 26 Jul 1756 son of Arthur Magan. He was of Clonearl, Kings County
and married Hannah Georgina Tilson on 16 May 1783 at the residence of Rev Tilson on
Sackville Street. Miss Tilson had a fortune of over 30k. She was the daughter of Rev Dr
Henry Tilson of Eagle Hill, Co Kildare and a sister of Lady Castle Coote (Elizabeth Anne
Tilson). They had twenty one children (a large number of them died young). Arthur of
Rutland Square died January 1808 at Clonearl. Hannah died 31 Jan 1842 at St Mary Abbots
Terrace, Kensington.
1 Ann Charlotte Magan eldest born at Gardiners Row in November 1784. She died
unmarried at Boulogne on 5 Mar 1848.
2 Eliza Magan second daughter died unmarried on 17 Nov 1840 at Rutland Square.
3 Louisa Magan third daughter married Frederick Augustus Baron Reizinstein in June 1809
at Cheltenham. Frederick was a captain in the 1st King’s German Legion.
4 Edward Magan eldest son born 1789 died unmarried at Rutland Square in November 1810.
5 William Henry Magan born 1792. He lived at Clonearl and married Elizabeth Georgiana
Allen nee Loftus in 1817. Eliza was the widow of Colonel Thomas Lowther Allen and the
second daughter of Dudley Loftus and Lady Jane Gore of Killyon Manor. William died
14 May 1840 at Mount Street. Clonearl was destroyed by fire in 1846 and the family moved
to Killyon. In 1876 Eliza owned nearly 14k acres in Ireland comprising of 4,418 acres in Co
Meath, 5,604 acres in Co Westmeath, 2,374 acres in Co Kildare, 1,023 acres in Co Offaly, and
165 acres in Co Dublin. Eliza died 11 Sep 1880 at Killyon Manor, Co Meath. She left 85k in
personal estate. She left everything to her daughter Augusta.
1 William Magan born circa 1818 graduated Trinity College. He joined the 9th Lancers
as a coronet and was later a captain in the 4th Light Dragoons. He was elected MP for
Westmeath in 1847. He married Lady Georgiana Charlotte Keppel on 4 Aug 1849 at
St Margaret’s Westminster. Lady Georgiana died 30 Mar 1854 at Clonmel. No issue
found.
He was sued for breach of promise by Ellen Miles, an assistant at Swan & Edgar’s
department store in 1859. However, two years later they married at St John’s Church
Yeovil on 28 Aug 1861. Ellen was the daughter of William Miles, a fishmonger of
Sherbourne, Dorset. William died two months later on 24 Oct 1861 in London. Probate
to his sister Augusta.
2 Dudley Loftus Magan second son born circa 1822 died unmarried at the residence of
his mother at Stephen’s Green on 12 Apr 1850.
3 Augusta Georgina Magan born circa 1825. She was heiress to her mother and lived at
Killyon Manor and 77 Stephen’s Green. She was a compulsive purchaser and hoarder of
Killyon and Stephen’s Green. She died unmarried on 26 Oct 1905 and it took the
auctioneers three days to clear her bedroom at Killyon. Hundreds of unopened parcels
which contained clothing, silver, jewellery were found. The house in Stephen’s Green
was filled to 3 feet deep full of ‘stuff’. There were uncashed cheques and money in
flower pots and waste bins. Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall wrote in her memoirs. ‘Miss
Magan had just died, who many years earlier had been a Dublin beauty. The story was
that she had been engaged to a young man with whom she was very much in love. On
the day of the wedding, he failed to appear. The house was shut up for many years and
the lady lived as a recluse. When she was dying, she asked to be buried in her bridal
dress…after her funeral they opened the Stephen's Green house, and, it was said, found
the wedding breakfast still spread for the guests who had not come.’
The Miss Havisham charactor in Great Expectations is said to have been inspired by her.
Charles Dickens was in Dublin in 1858 and possibly heard the story of the 19 year old Miss
Magan's betrayal and upset at the altar. Augusta died in rented rooms on Marlboro Road,
Donnybrook on 26 Oct 1905. It was thought that she died intestate but an old will was
found some 6 weeks later. She left 85k in personal estate to ‘her heir or heiress’ but 21k
was swallowed up in succession duties. The man who jilted her is thought to be Richard
Wellesley Bernard of Kinnitty Castle. He married widow Ellen Georgina Hancock in 1859
and died from a heart attack on a train to Straffan in 1877. Augusta made a number of
personal bequests including a £500 bequest to a hospital in memory of her intimate
friend Richard.
6 Arthur Magan third son born 1794. He joined the Royal Navy in 1807. He was a lieutenant in the
RN and married Mary Anne Smith on 1 Mar 1815 in London. Arthur died 8 Feb 1858 at Portland
Lodge, Brighton. Mary Ann died in 1872 at Brighton and probate was to her daughter Georgina
Rofe.
1 Georgina Eliza Magan only child born circa 1820. She married John Henry Brummell on
3 Feb 1840 in Brighton. John was a surgeon in the Royal Navy and the eldest son of
William Charles Brummell of Hyde Park. They divorced the same year and John died
10 Jun 1848 at Cape Coast Castle.
1 Blanche Henrietta Russell Brummell born 1844 in Honiton. She was baptised at
Branscombe on 22 Aug 1844 but no father’s name is listed. She married Alfred
Toppin in 1865 at Newington, London. Alfred was an accountant. Blanch was the
heiress of Augusta Magan through her mother but died on 17 Dec 1910 at Brighton
before the estate was settled.
1 Henrietta Blanch Toppin born circa 1880.
She secondly married John William Rofe on 7 Sep 1854 at St Mary’s Newington, Surrey.
John was a master mariner and died in 1882 at Sutton Grove, Carshalton.
Georgina thirdly married Joel Barrett in 1893. Joel died in April 1906. Georgina was found
to be the heiress of Augusta Magan but died 6 Feb 1910 before the estate was settled and
so it passed to her daughter Blanche.
7 Harriett Magan fourth daughter died at Rutland Square 8 Feb 1839.
8 Emily Magan fifth daughter married George Medlicott of Stephen’s Green on 13 Dec 1823 at St
Peter’s Church, Dublin. Emily died 23 Aug 1858 in Dublin.
9 Thomas Tilson Magan fourth son born 1798. He was with the 13th Dragoons and residing at 5
Rutland Square when he married Sophia Willoughby Humphreys on 3 Jun 1830 at St George’s.
Sophia was the daughter of William Humphreys of Ballyhaise House, Co Cavan. Sophia died
29 Mar 1846 at 79 Lower Baggot Street. A monument was erected in her memory at the
Victorian Chapel in Mount Jerome.
1 Letitia Magan born 8 Gardiners Row baptised 19 Apr 1831 died on 2 Dec 1833.
2 Georgina Tilson Magan died unmarried on 5 Dec 1833.
3 Arthur Magan born 4 Sep 1833.
4 Tilson Shaw Magan born 10 Aug 1841 at Lower Baggot Street baptised at St Peters. He
joined the army married Charlotte Jeminia Davey on 6 Feb 1871 at St Pancras, London.
Charlotte was the widow of William Mauger Davey late Royal Engineers and the daughter
of James and Charlotte Murray. Tilson was a brevet captain in 1873. Tilson died
26 Oct 1887 at 43 Penywern-road Earl’s Court. Charlotte and her two children at
Chislehurst, Bromley in 1891 and in Reigate, Surrey in 1921. She died at a nursing home
in Torquay on 19 Apr 1924 age 81.
1 Adelaide Isabella Magan only daughter born 16 Apr 1872 at Penge, Croyden.
She married Lt Col Charles Mackenzie on 7 Jan 1899 at the Cathedral, Bombay.
She died on 14 Oct 1946.
2 Arthur Tilson Magan born 29 Apr 1873 at Cannanore, Madras, India. He married
Frances Francis Annie Cherry on 13 Dec 1898 in Barbados. He was thought to be
the only heir to Augusta Magan and took the estate in possession after her death.
It transpired later that he was not the next in line as heir and that the heiress was
Georgina Bartlett. They were living at Belfield, Roebuck in 1911 and at Stowe-hill
Hartest in 1939. Frances died 11 Nov 1948 aged 75and Arthur died on 12 Feb 1953
at Stowe-hill Hartest, Suffolk. No issue found.
5 Adelaide Charlotte Magan born 2 Jul 1843 at 63 Baggot Street baptised 10 Aug 1843 at St
Peters. As eldest daughter she died unmarried on 19 Feb 1869 at 5 Herbert Street.
Thomas secondly married Louisa O’Grady on 10 Jan 1850 at Malahide Church and had at least
five further children. Louisa was the daughter of M M O’Grady, MD of La Mancha, Malahide.
Louisa died 2 Feb 1863 at 5 Herbert Street aged 37 and is buried at St Pauls. Thomas died on
27 Aug 1870 at Herbert Street aged 74 and is buried at St Pauls.
10 Henrietta Magan youngest daughter born circa 1802 married John Hawksworth of Forest,
Queen’s County in Dublin on 29 Sep 1827 at St George’s. Henrietta died 7 Apr 1829.
11 George Percy (Percy) Magan fifth son born circa 1803 married Ellen O’Connor on 27 Jan 1824
at St George’s Church, Dublin. Ellen was the daughter of Valentine O’Connor of Great Denmark
Street, Rutland Square. They lived in Sandyford before moving to Glass House, Portarlington.
They had a least fifteen children,eight of whom were baptised in Kilgobbin. Percy died on
19 Aug 1857 in Dublin. He left 5k in personal estate and his executor was Valentine O’Brien
O’Connor of Dublin. Ellen died in 1860 aged 61.
1 Arthur D Magan eldest son born 19 Jan 1825 at Great Denmark Street died a bachelor
on 3 Apr 1874 at Ballylongford, Kerry.
2 Percy Tilson Magan born circa 1828 married Annie Catherine Richards on 20 Sep 1865
in Newry. They lived for a time at Marlfield House in Gorey, Co Wexford and had at least
15 children. Percy died on 26 Dec 1903 in Co Roscommon.
1 Arthur Tilson Shaen Magan born 1880 married Kathleen Biddulph in 1906 and
were the parents of William Morgan (Bill) Magan the MI5 spymaster, author and
soldier.
3 Hugh Tilson Magan born circa 1840 was a steamer captain. As youngest surviving son he
died a bachelor at the Imperial Hotel, Sackville Street, Dublin on 6 Jan 1874.
4 Albert Edward Magan born circa 1843.
5 Valentine John Magan baptised 1 Jul 1845 died 11 Jul 1872 at Auckland, New Zealand.
12 Henry Magan youngest son born circa 1804 took Holy orders. He married Sarah Frances Bain
on 26 Jun 1828 at St George’s, Hanover Square. Sarah was the youngest daughter if the late
Andrew Bain of Hessleton, Dorset. Henry died at Clifton on 16 Jun 1829.
Sarah secondly married Thomas Hawkesworth in 11 Jun 1831 at Rosekelton Church. Thomas
was the third son of the late John Hawkesworth of Forest, Queen’s County.
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