The Close Family

Elizabeth Close

Father: Richard Close

Mother: Mary (Waring) Close

Notes:
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland vol 2 p1831 (Bernard Burke, 1882)
ELIZABETH, d. unm, whose will dated 17 May, 1736 was proved 1744, by which she left her niece, Mary Peers, her principal legatee and executrix.

Death: circa 1744

Will: dated 17 May 1736 proved 1744. Elizabeth her niece, Mary Peers, her principal legatee and executrix. Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810 p92 states Elizabeth as being of Lisburn, county Antrim.

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Henry Close

Father: Richard Close

Mother: Mary (Waring) Close

Married: Margaret Workman

Margaret was the daughter of Meredyth Workman, esq. of Mahon, county Armagh

Children: Notes:
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland vol 3 p248 (John Burke, 1836)
III. Henry, who resided at Waringstown, and married the daughter of Meredyth Workman, esq. of Mahon, in the county of Armagh, by whom he left issue, Meredyth, Mary, and Rachael, who all died unmarried.

Henry was churchwarden of the parish of Donaghcloney in 1722 and 1723 (An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Donaghcloney (Waringstown) p113 (Edward Dupré Atkinson, 1898))

Death: 1738

Will: dated 1 January 1738, proved in 1738

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Jane (Close) Waring

Father: John Close

Married: William Waring

Children: Death: 5 May 1724

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Jane (Close) Peers

Father: Richard Close

Mother: Mary (Waring) Close

Married: Edward Peers on 10 December 1711, in Lisburn Cathedral, Lisburn, county Antrim, Ireland

Edward is listed as a churchwarden of Lisburn Cathedral in 1687 and 1710-1712. Edward's will was proved in 1716, which states Edward as being of Lisburn, county Antrim. The will of Edward's sister, Mary Jackson, probated on 1 March 1716 refers to Edward as deceased.

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John Close

Children: Notes: John was possibly the Lieutenant John Close who is listed in The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell Came to Ireland p378 (John O'Hart, 1892) as one of the "Forty-Nine Officers" (Cromwellian officers who participated in Cromwell's conquest of Ireland in 1849, and who received part of the subsequently confiscated land in Ireland) but there is no real evidence linking Lieut. John Close to the John Close listed by Burke as Jane Close's father, only the coincidence of name, period and locality.

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John Close

Father: Richard Close

Mother: Mary (Waring) Close

Occupation: Army officer, reaching the rank of captain

Notes:
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland vol 3 p248 (John Burke, 1836)
IV. John, a captain in the army, who was killed at the siege of Gibraltar. 

Death: 1727, at the siege of Gibraltar

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Mary (Close) Jones

Father: Richard Close

Mother: Mary (Waring) Close

Married: Valentine Jones on 6 November 1715 in Blaris, county Antrim, Ireland

Valentine was of the son of Valentine Jones of Kilmoriarty, Drumcree, county Armagh, and Elizabeth. He was of Lisburn, county Antrim, and was High Sheriff of county Antrim in 1730. His will was proved in 1761.

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Richard Close

Father: Richard Close

Married: Mary Waring

Children: Notes:
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland vol 3 p247 (John Burke, 1836)
  RICHARD CLOSE, the first of the family who settled in Ireland, was the younger son of a respectable house in Yorkshire, and held a commission in the army, sent from England, in the reign of CHARLES I. into that kingdom, where he remained after the termination of the civil wars, and became one of the lords of the soil, as we find him seised of four tates, or townlands, in the county of Monaghan, temp. CHARLES II. After the restoration he fixed himself at Lissnegarvey, (now Lisburn), in the county of Antrim, where a Protestant colony been located under the protection of then Lord Conway. There he lived and died, leaving a son and heir,
  RICHARD CLOSE, esq. who inherited the Monaghan estates. He married the sister of Samuel Waring, esq. of Waringstown, in the county of Down, M.P. for Hillsborough, and received from that gentleman a grant of lands contiguous to Waringstown, on which he built a good house and resided. He considerably enlarged the family estate by purchasing a tract of land on the river Ban, between Rathfriland and Castlewellan, in Downshire, and after the disturbances in 1688, which obliged him to leave his home and join the Protestants, then united at Lisburn, under the Lord Conway and Sir Arthur Rawdon, he returned (subsequently to the battle of Boyne), having suffered great losses during the harassing conflicts of the times.

Lurgan Ancestry Shankill Churchwardens 1653 - 1800
RICHARD CLOSE - of Waringstown who was married to WILLIAM WARING'S daughter, Mary. He also owned land near Rathfriland. When several Friends (Quakers) were committed to Down prison in 1703 for refusing to pay tithes, the Lurgan Meeting (of Quakers) decided to seek the assistance of RICHARD CLOSE in moderating the prosecutor, McMULLAN.

Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810 p92 shows the will of a Richard Close of Waringstown proved in 1692, and the will of another Richard Close of Waringstown proved in 1716. If the first refers to this Richard, then the story above of helping Quakers in 1703 cannot be right, or perhaps is actually about Richard's son, also Richard with whom the 1716 death date is more commonly, and I believe correctly, associated.

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Richard Close

Father: Richard Close

Mother: Mary (Waring) Close

Married: Rose Hall in 1708

Rose was the daughter of Roger Hall, of Mount Hall, Narrow Water, county Down, and Christian Poyntz. After Richard's death, Rose married Charles Stewart and had seven more children: Anne, Alexander, Charlotte, Charles Ross, Rose, Poyntz and James. Charles died in June 1774. Rose died on 11 February 1779, aged 92, and was buried at Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, county Antrim.
Historic memorials of the Stewarts of Forthergill Perthshire, and their male descendants p50 (Charles Poyntz Stewart, 1879)
  Within the railings affixed to this Monument are deposited the remains of Mrs. ROSE STEWART (relict of the late Captain Charles Stewart), who died in the month of February 1779, aged 92 years.
Rose is also memorialised at St Nicholas in Carrickfergus, where her second husband was buried, both in the church and at the family vault in the churchyard:
Historic memorials of the Stewarts of Forthergill Perthshire, and their male descendants p48 (Charles Poyntz Stewart, 1879)
  Also to the memory of ROSE, his wife, who died 11th Feby 1779, aged 92 years.
She was Daughter of Roger Hall, Esqre, of Narrow-Water, Co. Down, and Grand-Daughter of Sir Toby Poyntz, Knt, of Acton and Brenock, Co. Armagh.
This is in the church of St. Nicholas, while on the family vault in the churchyard is the following:—
“Here lie the remains of Capt. Chas STEWART of Clunie, in Perthshire, Governor of Duncannon Fort, who died about 1774.
His Wife, Daughter of Mr. Hall of Narrow-water, and Relict of Mr. Close, was interred at Lisburne.
also those of His Step-Daughter, Christian Close

Children: Death: 10 April 1716, at Mullans, near Waringstown, county Down, Ireland

Buried: Waringstown, county Down, Ireland

Will: proved 1716

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Samuel Close

Birth: 1683, in Waringstown, county Down, Ireland

Father: Richard Close

Mother: Mary (Waring) Close

Education: Trinity College Dublin
Alumni Dublinenses p158 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
CLOSE, Samuel, Pen. (Mr Walker, Drogheda), Apr. 26, 1700, aged 17; s. of Richard, Generosus; b. Warringston, Co. Down. Sch. 1702. B.A. Vern, 1704. M.A. Æst. 1707.

Married: Catharine Butler in December 1721

Children: Occupation: Clergyman
Samuel was rector of Donaghhenry in county Tyrone, Ireland from 1721 until 1742.
Armagh Clergy and Parishes p226 (James B. Leslie, 1911)
Donaghenry.—(Co. Tyrone.)
  Rectors.
1721—Samuel Close, pres. by John Houston, inst. May 18 (D.R.) ; T.C.D. Sch. 1702 ; B.A. 1704 ; M.A. 1707. He was the 2nd son of Richard Close, of Lisnegarvey (Lisburn), b. April, 1686 ; m. in Dec, 1721, Catherine, dau. of Capt. James Butler by Dame Margt. Maxwell, widow of Sir Robert Maxwell, of Ballycastle. He left a son Maxwell, who was ancestor of the Drumbanagher Closes, and 4 daus ; d. in 1742.

Notes:
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland vol 3 p248 (John Burke, 1836)
  THE REV. SAMUEL CLOSE, who was presented to the rectory of Donaghhenry, or Stewardstown, in the county of Tyrone, anno 1721, married Catharine, daughter of Captain James Butler, of Ringhaddy, in Downshire, by Dame Margaret Maxwell, of Mullatinny, (now Elm Park), in the county of Armagh, relict of Sir Robert Maxwell, bart. of Ballycastle, in the county of Derry. This Dame Margaret Maxwell was the daughter and heiress of Henry Maxwell, esq. of Mullatinny, who was the son of James Maxwell, the third son of Robert Maxwell, Dean of Armagh, (a younger son of the house of Calderwood, in Scotland), who after building the house of Mullatinny in 1626 was murdered in 1641, by Sir Phelim O'Neill, at College Hall, the seat of his elder brother, Dr. Robert Maxwell, afterwards Bishop of Kilmore, and founder of the Farnham family. Captain James Butler, who was of the Ormonde branch of the Butlers, resided with the Lady Maxwell his wife, at Mullatinny, and died there, having first bequeathed, by his will, made in 1713, his own estates, Cloghabeg and Knockabultoge in the parish of Gowran, in the city of Kilkenny; with all his freehold estates in that county and lease of Bramblestown, and all his personal estate there and arrears due out of the house in Patrick Street, city of Kilkenny, and inhabited by Mr. Edward Butler, treasurer to the Duke of Ormonde, to his eldest son, James Butler, esq. by a former wife; and the estate of Ballycastle, in the county of Derry, which he enjoyed in right of Lady Maxwell his wife, to whom it had been bequeathed by her first husband, Sir Robert Maxwell, to his daughter Catharine, after the death of her mother, by whom it was afterwards settled on the Rev. Samuel Close and his issue, on the marriage of that gentleman with Catharine Butler, her daughter; but they both died before her at Mullatinny, leaving one son and four daughters, namely,
I. MAXWELL.
I. Margaret, m. to Captain Charles Woolly, and had a daughter, Mary-Anne, the wife of Captain Amos Vereker, of the county of Limerick.
II. Mary, died unm.
III. Catharine, died unm.
IV. Elizabeth, m. to Peter Gervais, esq. and had one son, the Rev. Francis Gervais, of Cecil, in the county of Tyrone, rector of Carlingford, and two daughters, Mary-Anne Gervais, m. to the Rev. Daniel Kelly. rector of Killeshel, and Elizabeth Gervais, m. to John Windsor, esq. capt. R.A.

Death: 1742, at Mullatinny, county Armagh, Ireland

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William Close

Birth: 1678, in Waringstown, county Down, Ireland

Father: Richard Close
 
Mother: Mary (Waring) Close

Education: Trinity College Dublin
Alumni Dublinenses p158 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
CLOSE, William, Pen. (Mr Harvey, Lisburn), Apr. 17, 1696, aged 17; s. of Richard, Generosus; b. Warington, Co. Down.

Married: ____ Tuberg or Tubery

Children: Occupation: Army Officer
A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 p185 (Toby Barnard, 2004)
Will Close, a nephew of Richard Waring, unfitted for Trinity College Dublin, was sent to soldier. The youth would have preferred to become a merchant. His severe grandfather, William Waring, decreed that Close could not serve as a priate and must have a commission. His uncle advised a lieutenancy, not an ensigncy. Others in the army were enlisted to help, notably the future lieutenant-general Frederick Hamilton and his brother, Colonel Hans Hamilton. Close's commission was duly purchased: for £160. It proved a less satisfactory investment than Richard Waring's. Close served in the Netherlands, but without conspicuous success.

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