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http://www.quantockonline.co.uk/quantocks/villages/goathurst/goathurst1.html Halswell House
One of the legends that surround the families who have lived in the house is that of the first Tynte who, as a young knight of the Arundel Family, went on crusade with King Richard the Lionheart. He was singled out for his bravery at the battle of Ascalon. The King observing him is supposed to have said:
" .. the maiden knight had borne himself like a lion, and had done work enough for six crusaders"
For which service to the Christian cause the King conferred on the young Knight his armorial bearings (Heraldic device), a lion argent on a field of gold between six crosslets of the first and the motto "Tynetus Cruore Saraceno". Examples of the Tynte family crest can be seen in the church of St Edwards in Goathurst, and the inn The Tynte Arms in nearby Enmore.
From Tynte Baronets There have been two Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Tynte, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Ireland. Both are extinct.
The Tynte Baronetcy of Halsewell, Somerset was created in the Baronetage of England for Halswell Tynte on 26 Jan 1674.
The Tynte Baronetcy of Dunlaven, County Wicklow was created in the Baronetage of Ireland for James Stratford Tynte on 24 August 1778.
- Sir Halswell Tynte, 1st Baronet (4 Feb 1649–9 Apr 1702) MP for Bridgewater 1679–1689
- Sir John Tynte, 2nd Baronet (4 Mar 1683–16 Mar 1710)
- Sir Halswell Tynte, 3rd Baronet (15 Nov 1705–12 Nov 1730) MP for Bridgwater 1727-1730
- Sir John Tynte, 4th Baronet (27 Mar 1707–15 Aug 1740)
- Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte, 5th Baronet (19 May 1710–25 Aug 1785) MP for Monmouth 1745–1747 and Somerset 1747-1774. Baronetcy extinct on his death.
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[edit]Back to http://www.quantockonline.co.uk/quantocks/villages/goathurst/goathurst1.html Halswell House was rebuilt in 1689 by Sir Halswell Tynte and, at the back of the house, what remains of the Tudor manor house is 0. It is still a very imposing building with a number of interesting features, Nicholas Pevsner has described it as:
"the most important house of its date in the country."
http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_irish/history_irish_boyle_and_smyths.htm
Sir Percy Takes a Room at Tynte’s Castle
The future Sir Percy Smyth was born in about 1598 but it is not known where. Details of his early life are sketchy.[35] One of the earliest references to him is to be found in the Council Book of the Corporation of Youghal of 1629 which records his name as one of several local merchants who sub-let the tower house in Youghal from English entrepreneur, Robert Tynte, in 1629:
‘The grant of the Castle of Youghal and other lands, from Sir Rob. Tynt unto John Browne, Percy Smith, &c, for and in consideration of 100li. Paid 4° Caroli Regis.’
The Tynte family historian Daniel McCarthy suggests the tower house in Youghal was ‘used for trading produce from the rural hinterland, including those of Tynte, whilst the residential space above would have provided apartments in town’. In other words, young Percy took a room at the castle, perhaps while waiting for the completion of his stone house at Ballynatray.
Robert Tynte of Youghal
Sir Percy’s landlord, Robert Tynte, hailed from the North Somerset village of Wraxhall, some 7 miles from Bristol. His interest in Ireland probably came through contact with Sir Walter Raleigh’s close friend and cousin, Sir Arthur Gorges, whose family also came from Wraxhall.[36] He came to Munster as a soldier during the Desmond Rebellion. After the wars, he secured possession of the castle in Youghal from the Walshes, an affluent merchant family resident in Youghal since the 14th century but dispossessed for supporting Desmond. The castle gave him a firm foothold in the new economic infrastructure of Munster and he quickly worked his way up the administration, filling the office of High Sheriff from 1625 to 1626. As Youghal developed to serve the needs of the new colonists, so Tynte’s Castle provided an excellent base for storage and organization. During his lifetime, Tynte also acquired lands in the Barony of Imokilly, including the tower house at Ballycrenane, near Ladysbridge, Co. Cork.
A friend of the Richard Boyle, Tynte was married in 1612 to Elizabeth Spenser, widow of Sir Edmund Spenser the poet. In time, the Tynte’s son ir Henry would marry Sir Percy Smyth’s eldest daughter, Mabel. Robert Tynte outlived his son by two years, passing away in 1663. He was buried at Kilcredan graveyard, near Ladysbridge.
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Mabel Smyth and Sir Henry Tynte
Mabel Smyth was the eldest daughter of Sir Percy Smyth by his first wife, Mary Meade. She married Sir Henry Tynte, MP for Youghal, eldest son of Robert Tynte, the Somerset entrepreneur who owned Tynte’s Castle in Youghal. On April 25th 1661, Sir Henry was returned for County Cork, alongside the Hon. Richard Boyle, to the Restoration Parliament. He died soon after this for, in a by-election of June 2nd 1661, his seat was filled by Sir John Perceval, Bart, of Burton. The Tynte family held the castle in Youghal until 1866 and, despite moving to Wicklow, remained interested in Youghal politics to such an extent that the Right Hon. Sir James Tynte of Old Bawn, Dublin and Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow was elected MP for Youghal in the early 18th century.
Lady Mabel & the Governor of Montserrat
On May 26th 1663, King Charles sat at his desk in Whitehall and wrote a letter to the Duke of Ormond in which he specifically recommended that ‘Lady Mabel Tynte, administratrix of Sir Robert Tynte, deceased, and executrix of Sir Henry Tynte, deceased, to have due satisfaction for several sums of money, amounting in the whole to £5,011, which were expended for the relief of the King's Army in the Province of Munster, at the beginning of the late Rebellion’.[67] After Sir Henry’s death, Lady Mabel appears to have married secondly. Little is known of her second husband, Colonel Roger Osborne. However it is entirely possible that he was the very same Robert Osbourne appointed Governor of Montserrat in 1663. Governor Osbourne’s tenure coincided with a volatile era in the island’s politics and he lost all his lands in the wake of a rebellion shortly afterwards.[68]
Elizabeth Tynte and the Pirate’s Son
Sir Henry and Lady Mabel Tynte’s daughter Elizabeth married Sir Richard Hull of Leamcon Castle, near Schull, in West Cork. In June 1685, a fiant noted by Sir William Domvile to the Lords Justices of Ireland granted Sir Richard ‘the castle, town and lands of Leamcon, and several other lands, in the county of Cork’.[70] From 1692 to 1695, Sir Richard was MP for County Cork. His father – or possibly grandfather – was Sir William Hull, a shady character appointed Vice Admiral of Munster in 1609. Hull’s ancestry is unknown but he may well have been the same William Hull, son of a former Mayor of Exeter, pardoned for piracy in Devon in 1608. If that is the case, his appointment had a certain poacher-turned-gamekeeper irony for it entrusted him with protecting the Munster coastline against piracy. Admiral Hull aroused considerable suspicion by his ambivalent relationship to the pirates who effectively had their Atlantic base right beside Hull’s castle at Leamcon, ten miles west by sea from Baltimore. Instead, the crafty Admiral concentrated on establishing a series of pilchard fisheries along the south-west coast of Cork, particularly along Roaringwater Bay and Dunmanus Bay. He was particularly active at Crookhaven where he had a major fishery in operation by 1616. His business partner was Richard Boyle, the Great Earl of Cork, who would subsequently lease his interest in Clonakilty to the Hull family. When the Earl’s elder brother John Boyle, Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, passed away in 1620, his Leicestershire-born widow Elizabeth took the freshly knighted Sir William as her second husband.[71]
322. Garrett FITZGERALD of Lisquinlan was born in 1620 in Lisquinlan. He died in 1670. He married Lady Elizabeth Tynte aka Phillis Tynt TINTE of Ballycrenane. GARRETT FITZGERALD, of Lisquinlan, his son and heir, presented a petition to the Court of Claims, 2 ist August, 1662, praying that he might be restored to ... Journal By Cork Historical and Archaeological Society Published by Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 1894 Page 217 Item notes: v.3 (1894) Original from Harvard University Digitized Jul 26, 2007
http://theforsterfamily.com/The%20Forsters%20of%20Adderstone%20and%20Bamburgh.pdf The year was then around 1689. Lord Crewe went disconsolately away and married Penelope, the widow of Sir Hugh Tynte, but she died within a few short years.
Tonson, Richard, of Dunkettle.
M.P. Baltimore, 1727-60; 1761-68; 1769 till his decease in 1773.
Eldest son of Henry Tonson, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Hull, m.p. {q.v.) He was born 6th January, 1695 ; devisee, 1718, of the estates of a Major Butler, who was no relative, but left them to Tonson "because he (Butler) had known and served with his grandfather in the civil wars of 1642"; freeman of Kinsale, 1719 ; sat uninterruptedly for the borough for forty-six years. Was founder of Tonson's bank, which was established in Paul Street, Cork, 12th May, 1768 {see my "Private Bankers of Cork and the South of Ireland," Journal, vol. ii., 1st series, p. 9).
He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Tynte, m.p. {q.v.), and had an only daughter, who died unmarried ; he married secondly, Peniel, daughter of Colonel Gates, and widow of Michael Becher, m.p. {q.v.), of Affadown, by whom he had no issue.
He died 24th June, 1773, devising his large estates to his natural son, Colonel William Hull, afterwards Tonson {see next name).
Tonson, William (formerly William Hull, and afterwards Lord Riversdale.)
M.P. Rathcormick, 1776-83.
Said, in Gentleman's Magazine, 1787, to have been an illegitimate son of Richard Tonson, of Spanish Island, Cork, m.p. {q.v.), whose estates he inherited, and whose name he took, and in whose kitchen he was employed as a menial in his youth. He, after "abject importunity," obtained a peerage, being created Baron Riversdale in 1783. He was born 1724, and died 4th December, 1787.