Possible Ancestors of the Thomas Tennant who married Judith Butler
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We know that Thomas Tennant(TT) and his wife Judith Butler had a son Richard in 1748. Richard may not have been their firstborn but assuming TT was at least 18 years of age at that time then TT would have been born in 1730 or earlier. According to the book Carlow to Lanark(C2L), TT & Judith were buried in the churchyard at Aghade but there is nothing to prove that either TT or Judith were born in the Aghade area. I suspect that one or both came from the Garryhundon area. The following are alternative ideas for ancestors to TT and may contradict rather than support each other!Richard(d1771) of Aghade
This Richard is mentioned on page 7 of C2L ie Burial ref 16, Dec 10th 1771, where I have added an annotation to the effect that I believe this is a different Richard to the one who died 3rd Dec 1772. I now believe I was wrong!! The burial date in the register is exactly a week after the day quoted in C2L for the death of Richard son of Judith Butler(ie just the year is wrong) and the C2L year information is known to be in error regarding the death of the baby recorded on the same gravestone (which is difficult to read).Land Grants
The book C2L lists three items from the "Index to the Dublin Grant Book to 1800". It is probable that Dublin would record transactions for the north as well as for todays Republic.
Robert Tennant and Mary Emerson 1664
John Tennant and Hannah Bouveriere 1754
John Tennant and Martha Hutchins 1780
William(b1710/1739c)
Page 10 of C2L tells us that a mason William Tennant, having a son John and a nephew Robert leased land in 1759. at Ballybarr. This would make William to probably be born 1700/1739. But as he was assinging the lease to someone else in 1787 it seems unlikely that he was born before 1710. So datewise he could have been brother to TT (also a stonemason) and the nephew Robert would have been TT's son.David (d1733c)
Registry of Deeds, Dublin Abstracts of Wills, Vol 1, 1708-1745 Tennant David, Galway, burgess. 20 Jan 1717 Full, 11/4 p, 14 April 1733 My wife Ann Tennant als. Fairservice. My son John Tennant........... My tanyard. My big boat.my small boat and nets. My real estae and parks in Galway..........Witnesses:John Tennant, Galway, shipwright, son of David........ Note this is the only Tennant Galway ref I have found so far. No reason to suppose related, but?Tennant's in the Garryhundon area.
The reference earlier to Ballybarr in connection with William is exciting because Ballybar is about a mile north of the Butler home at Garryhundon and is therefore the oldest reference to Tennant in the Garryhundon area, some 10 miles west of the cluster in the Aghade area. Gravestones at Dunleckney Cemetery indicate a group of Tennant's in the Garryhundon area during the 1800's. Though the earliest, Thomas Tennant(1770-1811) husband of Mary Burrows, actualy lived further south at Clowater (where Oliver and Richard Tennant still live today). Previous researchers thought that Judith lived at the Ballintemple Butler home but this was not completed until the late 1700's according to the Butler Timeline. (Timeline can be found by returning to the index and following the link to Ballintemple via Aghade bullet). In the early 1700's Garryhundon was the main home of the Butlers. Sir Pierce Butler, Esq, Garryhundon, is in a list of Perogative Wills in 1732 and I suspect he was the 4th Bt, brother to James of Clonachana. James pre-deceased Pierce leaving James's son Richard(1699-1771) to become 5th Bt. If Judith was related to one of these gentlemen then Garryhundon would have probably been her birth location. Clonachana is almost the same spelling as Clonachona, an alternative name for another Butler home at Broomsville, adjacent estate to Ballintemple. It is therefore possible that Judith with her stonemason husband TT moved to Aghade at the time of the construction of the adjacent Ballintemple House. But whilst I am convinced that the two groups, 10 miles apart were related I still do not know which came first!Marmaduke Tennant
When Oliver Cromwell was promoting the Settlement of Ireland in 1652/60 a Marmaduke Tenant M.A.(Cambridge University)subscribed £50 for land. Source "The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland by John P.Prendergast", information supplied by Ronald Fitzgerald. Marmaduke was originally from the large branch of Tennant’s in Yorkshire,England, and got his unusual first name from g.f. Marmaduke Fawcett but so far not found this first name in Ireland. Perhaps as an educated man he left others to emigrate to Ireland. Certainly there was a Marmaduke Tennant b1838 in Lincoln, England also in Wales a Marmaduke Tennant (same one?) was a Town Clerk in 1877. I have no evidence that Marmaduke was an ancestor to TT but he may possibly have moved some of his Yorkshire relatives onto his Irish land.Early Tennant's in the North of Ireland
The Rev William Tennent of "Log College" fame was born in 1673, Scotland, coming to Ireland briefly. No evidence of leaving sons behind when he moved to the USA.