80. High Sheriff Thomas Christmas II [Mayor, MP]-339
Will proved 1747
97. Thomas Christmas II [MP]-361
Died w/o issue.
From Marion Achurch: Add********A short explanation of the situation that Catherine did not marry John Smith but had his child called John Smith. The younger John Smith grows up and his 5 children, with his first wife, Charlotte Maria Huttles, use his last name of Smith. In 1790, John Smith requested and was granted the use of the surname Christmas, maternally descended from the family at Waterford, Ireland. So when he married #2 wife in 1791 and thereafter he and his children used the surname Christmas. Instead of "she married" maybe say "she had issue with (1) John" ****
No record for a marriage to Catherine Christmas.
106. Thomas Paul-42
Received from Charles Nelson on Oct. 13, 2005.My information is that Thomas Paul was born in Dublin, not in Rathmore (County Carlow). He was ordained in the Church of Ireland and was consecrated Dean of Cashel, but his first name was not "Dean". Here are some notes about him from a research paper I wrote, published in Garden history vol. 15 (part 1) (Spring 1987): 12-18: "Joseph Spence's plan for an Irish garden".
Thomas Paul was the youngest son of Jeffrey and Elizabeth Paul of Carlow. He was born about 1723 in Dublin and at the age of seventeen he entered the University of Dublin. Paul graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1745 and received his masters degree in 1748. Sometime later he was ordained as a priest in the Church of Ireland
(i.e. Anglican) and his first charge seems to have been as vicar of Dromara in the diocese of Down in 1752; he apparently retained that vicarage until 1764. In 1753, Thomas Paul married Elizabeth Hawkins, sister of the Right Rev. Thomas Hawkins, Bishop of Dromore - she died without issue.A year before his death, Paul married for a second time; his wife was Anne Lyster who died, also without issue, in 1839. Thomas Paul died on 28 May 1798.
Having been granted the parish of Aughnamullen, in the Diocese of Clogher, in 1763, it is likely that the Very Rev. Thomas Paul and his first wife decided to move from Cashel to live in County Cavan or Monaghan, if indeed they ever lived in Cashel. It is recorded that on 17 June 1769 Paul got a grant of forty acres of land for a glebe at Aughnamullen. Aughnamullen is between Ballybay and Cootehill in County Monaghan. Paul knew (or at least corresponded with) Joseph Spence, poet and landscape gardener, and there are papers about a garden Spence designed for Paul in Yale University (that the the subject of the paper noted above).
I don't think Paul was notable for anything else - and I don't know if a portrait of him exists. Best wishes - I hope this is of interest.
May be a female
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