William Dumvill c1740-1793 |
died: 1 November 1793 age 53 (b 1740), buried Shankill Cemetery, Belfast |
children (by his first wife): Richard Andrew Dumvill (c1765-1836), who went from Belfast to South Carolina to live with his uncle Robert Dumvill (c1735-1819) in about 1773, when his father remarried, and who is the ancestor of the Dunville family of Kentucky. Charles Dumvill another son |
|
WIFE: Agnes McNeilly (c1756-1824), married: (2) 6 June 1773 at Carnmoney Parish Church died: 25 December 1824 age 68 (b 1756) children: Sarah (1777-1817) John (1785-1851) |
|
Children of William Dumvill (c1740-1793) and Agnes Dumvill née McNeilly (c1756-1824) | |
Sarah Dunvill 1777-1817 |
father: William Dumvill (c1740-1793) mother: Agnes Dumvill née McNeilly (c1756-1824) born: 26 December 1777 died: 16 December 1817 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she had lived for 18½ years daughter: Catherine K Taws née Kean (lived in Philadelphia) |
HUSBAND: Kean | |
John Dunvill 1785-1851 |
of Richmond Lodge father: William Dumvill (c1740-1793) mother: Agnes Dumvill née McNeilly (c1756-1824) born: 15 June 1785 in County Antrim died: 21 March 1851, buried in Clifton Street Cemetery, Belfast notes: Dunville & Napier, first Chairman of Dunville & Co. |
WIFE: Ann Douglas (1788-1865), married: 9 November 1811 by Rev Drummond born: 1 May 1788 buried: in Clifton Street Cemetery, Belfast children: William (1812-1874) John (1814-1841) Sarah (1817-1863) Margaret (1819-1832) |
|
Children of John Dunvill (1785-1851) and Ann Dunvill née Douglas (1788-1865) | |
William Dunville 1812-1874 |
of Richmond Lodge, J.P. father: John Dunvill (1785-1851) mother: Ann Dunvill née Douglas (1788-1865) born: 25 December 1812, baptized 10 January 1813 at the Second Presbyterian Church, Belfast died: 18 May 1874 at 54 Prince's Gate, London, buried in Clifton Street Cemetery, Belfast notes: Second Chairman of Dunville & Co. Effects in Ireland £168,808 4s 11d |
WIFE: Anne Georgina Knox (1827-1886), married: 24 November 1864 father: Ven. Edmond Dalrymple Hesketh Knox, Archdeacon of Killaloe grandfather: Hon. Rt. Rev. Edmund Knox, Bishop of Limerick born: 20 October 1827 died: 8 January 1886, buried in Clifton Street Cemetery, Belfast child: son b 13 December 1865 |
|
John Dunville 1814-1841 |
father: John Dunvill (1785-1851) mother: Ann Dunvill née Douglas (1788-1865) born: 14 October 1814 died: 15 April 1841, buried in Clifton Street Cemetery, Belfast |
WIFE: Mary Grimshaw (1817-1855), married: 1 June 1837 father: Robert Grimshaw, D.L. of Longwood, County Antrim born: 1817 died: 15 March 1855, buried in Clifton Street Cemetery, Belfast children: Robert Grimshaw Dunville (1838-1910) Annie Dunville (1840-1891) |
|
Sarah Dunville 1817-1863 |
father: John Dunvill (1785-1851) mother: Ann Dunvill née Douglas (1788-1865) born: 9 July 1817 died: Union 24 June 1863, buried in Clifton Street Cemetery, Belfast note: did not marry |
Margaret Dunville 1819-1832 |
father: John Dunvill (1785-1851) mother: Ann Dunvill née Douglas (1788-1865) born: 20 November 1819 died: Union 8 January 1832, buried in Clifton Street Cemetery, Belfast |
Children of John Dunville (1814-1841) and Mary Dunville née Grimshaw (1817-1855) | |
Robert Grimshaw Dunville 1838-1910 |
of Redburn, County Down and Sion, County Meath, J.P. and D.L. County Down, High Sheriff 1886, and J.P. County Meath, High Sheriff 1882 father: John Dunville (1814-1841) mother: Mary Dunville née Grimshaw (1817-1855) born: 28 May 1838 in Longwood, Ireland died: 17 August 1910, buried in Holywood Priory Cemetery, County Down notes: Third Chairman of Dunville & Co. Personal Estate £917,200 14s 4d including £823,978 5s 10d English, and left £11,000 per annum to his wife |
WIFE: Jeannie Chaine (1842-1914), married: 14 December 1865 father: William Chaine of Moylena born: 19 August 1842 in Moylena, Ireland died: 15 April 1914, buried in Holywood Priory Cemetery with her husband notes: Her sister Anne/Annie Chaine married in 1861 Quin John Brownrigg (b 20 January 1832, County Inspector Royal Irish Constabulary), and their children were Herbert George Brownrigg (b 1864), Mary Elizabeth Brownrigg (b c1869), Edith J.D. Brownrigg (b c1874), Gertrude H. Brownrigg (b c1875), Kathleen Winifred Brownrigg (b c1877), and John Claud Brownrigg (b 1878). John Claud Brownrigg (b 1878) was a Managing Director of Dunville & Co. Ltd. and an Executor of the Will of Violet Anne Blanche Dunville née Lambart (1861-1940). child: John Dunville Dunville (1866-1929) |
|
Annie Dunville 1840-1891 |
father: John Dunville (1814-1841) mother: Mary Dunville née Grimshaw (1817-1855) born: 2 October 1840 in Longwood, Ireland died: 31 July 1891, buried in Holywood Priory Cemetery, County Down |
HUSBAND: Samuel Charles Spalding Evans Gordon, married: 28 June 1866 notes: General, Town Major Dublin |
|
Only son of Robert Grimshaw Dunville (1838-1910) and Jeannie Dunville née Chaine (1842-1914) | |
John Dunville Dunville 1866-1929 |
of Redburn, County Down, and Sion, County Meath, C.B.E., D.L., Lieutenant 5th Battalion Leinster Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel and Wing Commander R.A.F., M.A., Trinity College Cambridge, Private Secretary to the Duke of Devonshire, fourth Chairman of Dunville & Co. Ltd. (46 Portland Place, W.) father: Robert Grimshaw Dunville (1838-1910) mother: Jeannie Dunville née Chaine (1842-1914) born: 20 October 1866 in Holywood, County Down died: 10 June 1929, buried in Holywood Priory Cemetery, County Down |
WIFE: Violet Anne Blanche Lambart (1861-1940), married: 7 January 1892 at Coinstown Church father: Gustavus William Lambart, D.L. (1814-1886), of Beau Parc, County Meath (5th daughter of) mother: Lady Frances Caroline Maria Lambart née Conyngham (1827-1898) born: 14 August 1861 in Beau Parc, County Meath died: 7 March 1940, buried in Holywood Priory Cemetery, County Down with her husband self and siblings: 1. Sir Gustavus Francis William Lambart, First Baronet (1848-1926), married Kathleen Barbara Sophia Moore-Brabazon 2. Amy Gwendoline Lambart (1852-1927), Maid of Honour to HM Queen Victoria between 1877 and 1884, married Hon. Sir Henry Charles Legge 3. Cecil Jane Lambart (1854-1900) 4. Cyril Henry Edward Lambart (b 1856) married Ethel Ward 5. Constance Una Elizabeth Lambart (1856-1925), Extra Lady in Waiting to HRH The Duchess of Albany, married Hon. Henry Lorton Bourke 6. Georgiana Rose Lambart (1859-1907), married John Macdonald 7. Violet Anne Blanche Lambart (1861-1940), married John Dunville Dunville 8. Julian Hamilton Lambart (1863-1863) 9. Lilian Fannie Ermengarde Lambart (1864-1927) 10. George James Richard Lambart (1867-1908) 11. Bertha Madeline Collins Lambart (1869-1949), Maid of Honour to HM Queen Victoria between 1890 and 1901, married Major Thomas Gerrard Gerrard 12. Adeline Octavia Lambart (1872-1958), married Lt. Col. John Pascoe Grenfell source: www.thepeerage.com note: Personal Estate £196,569 5s 9d children: Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931) John Spencer Dunville (1896-1917) William Gustavus Dunville (1900-1956) Una Dunville (1903-1958) |
|
Children of John Dunville Dunville (1866-1929) and Violet Anne Blanche Dunville née Lambart (1861-1940) | |
Robert Lambart Dunville 1893-1931 |
of Redburn, Eton 1907-1911, Great War, Reserve Grenadier Guards, Master County Down Staghounds, fifth Chairman of Dunville & Co. Ltd. father: John Dunville Dunville (1866-1929) mother: Violet Anne Blanche Dunville née Lambart (1861-1940) born: 18 February 1893 at 6 Green Street, Park Lane, London died: 10 January 1931 in Johannesburg, South Africa, buried in Holywood Priory Cemetery, County Down notes: Personal Estate in Ireland £338,281, in Great Britain £43,026, total £381,307 |
WIFE: Winifred Phyllis Combe (1891-1961), married: (1) 9 April 1918 in Guards' Chapel, London father: Capt. Christian Combe (1858-1949) of Strathconon mother: Lady Jane Seymour Combe née Conyngham (m 1883, d 1941) grandfather: George Henry Conyngham, Lieutenant General 3rd Marquess Conyngham (1825-1882) born: 1st April 1891 in Strathconon, Scotland died: 6th April 1961 in Derbyshire, England notes: Winifred Phyllis Combe married (2) 27 April 1922, Hon. Francis Nathaniel Curzon, B.A. (Oxon) (b 15 December 1865, died 8 June 1941), 3rd son of Reverend Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon, 4th Baron Scarsdale child (of Robert Lambart Dunville): Maureen Eileen Anne Dunville (1919-2016) children (of Francis Nathaniel Curzon): Francis (Frank) John Nathaniel Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000) Christian Avril Curzon, Hon. [Honourable] (1923-2013) |
|
PARTNER: Evelyn Redfern formerly Buckley father: Edmund Buckley (Wine Merchant) mother: Alice Buckley formerly Mills (b c1863 in Kensington, London) born: 21 February 1894 at 6 Abbey Gardens, Marylebone child (of Robert Lambart Dunville): Patricia Iona Violet Dunville (b 28 February 1920 at 2 Albert Mansions, Northumberland Street, St Marylebone, London, Hairdresser, married on 28 June 1941 in St. Peter's Church, Hammersmith, Anthony Edwin Everard, Soldier, died 6 May 1961. Anthony Edwin Everard married in 1963 in Bournemouth Patricia M. Corby, who died in February 2004 in East Dorset, aged 63.) |
|
WIFE: Kathleen Kirkpatrick Shaw née Morice, married: (2) 18 June 1927 father: George Thomas Morice, K.C. [King's Counsel] died: 21 January 1977 in England notes: Kathleen Kirkpatrick Morice married (3) 5 September 1932, Desmond Mayler Shean, R.U.R. |
|
John Spencer Dunville VC 1896-1917 |
Victoria Cross 2nd Lieutenant Special Reserves 1st (Royal) Dragoons 16 April 1914, 2nd Lieutenant 1st (Royal) Dragoons 4 January 1916 father: John Dunville Dunville (1866-1929) mother: Violet Anne Blanche Dunville née Lambart (1861-1940) born: 7 May 1896 at 46 Portland Place, London died: 26 June 1917 in Villers-Faucon, France from wounds received the previous day notes: Inscription on memorial stone in Holywood Priory Cemetery: To commemorate John Spencer Dunville, V.C., 2nd Lieut. Royal Dragoons, second son of John and Violet Dunville; he gave his life for his country in the Great War and died of his wounds in France on 27th June 1917 aged 21 years, buried at Villers Faucon, was awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery. Let those who come after see to it that his memory is not forgotten. The date on the memorial stone is incorrect, and should be 26th June 1917. There is more information about John Spencer Dunville at www.dumville.org/photo_pages/jd1896_pho.html |
William Gustavus Dunville 1900-1956 |
father: John Dunville Dunville (1866-1929) mother: Violet Anne Blanche Dunville née Lambart (1861-1940) born: 12 June 1900 at 46 Portland Place, London died: 22 August 1956 in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario notes: 1. In April 1921 William Gustavus Dunville travelled on the S.S. Aquitania from Southampton, Hampshire to New York. 2. William married his first wife Ruth in London in March 1922 and they subsequently travelled to Nundle in New South Wales, Australia to run a sheep station (Barry Station). They divorced in Australia in 1927. 3. William was known to be in Australia in January 1931 when his brother Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931) died in Johannesburg, on his way to visit William. 4. William returned to Northern Ireland and then emigrated to Canada in 1931. 5. William married his second wife Ivy in Sault Sainte Marie on 8 December 1931. 6. The first daughter of William and his second wife Ivy was born in Canada in June 1933. 7. William is listed with his second wife Ivy in the 1935, 1936 and 1940 City Directories for Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario. There is more information about William Gustavus Dunville at www.dumville.org/stories/wd1900.html |
WIFE: Ruth Glover, married: (1) 23 March 1922 in Trinity Church, St. Marylebone, London father: Samuel Glover (b c1869 in County Down, Iron Turner in 1901, Engineer) mother: Alice Glover née Steadman (b c1868 in England) born: 1901 in Belfast City address: (1901) 9 Stormount Street (sic), Pottinger, County Down siblings: Mary Glover (b c1893) Alice Grace Glover (b c1895) Annie Glover (b c1898) notes: Ruth Dunville née Glover is listed in the 1925 Electoral Roll for the Division of Robertson, Subdivision of Gloucester [New South Wales]: Ruth Dunville, Barry Station, Nundle, Home Duties. |
|
WIFE: Ivy Evelyn Combes, married: (2) 8 December 1931 in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario father: Frederick Walter Combes (c1875-1910) mother: Annie Isabel Hammond Combes née Yates (b 1884) (After the death of Frederick Walter Combes in 1910 she married Sims.) born: 14 December 1906 died: 24 July 1967 children: Shirley June Dunville (1933-1994) Avis Zoe Pamela Dunville (1935-1977) |
|
Una Dunville 1903-1958 |
father: John Dunville Dunville (1866-1929) mother: Violet Anne Blanche Dunville née Lambart (1861-1940) born: 22 February 1903 at 46 Portland Place, London died: 28 September 1958 at Normansfield Hospital in Teddington, Middlesex notes: did not marry, no children |
Daughter of Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931) and Winifred Phyllis Dunville née Combe (1891-1961) | |
Maureen Eileen Anne Dunville 1919-2016 |
father: Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931) mother: Winifred Phyllis Dunville née Combe (1891-1961) born: 18 September 1919 died: 17 September 2016 children: four daughters |
HUSBAND: Herbert Montague (Monty) Robertson, DFC, Wing Commander RAF (1918-1961), married: 17 March 1941 at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan father: Montague Hollingham Robertson (b 1 September 1875 in Islington, London, England) mother: Jessie Georgina Robertson née Bacon (b 1884 in Paddington, London, England) born: 31 January 1918 at Guelph, Ontario died: 21 August 1961 at Brussels, Belgium, interred at Guelph, Ontario notes: First Canadian to see action in World War II, first bombing sortie of World War II, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for an air raid in September 1940, prisoner of war at Stalagluft I, Barth, Pomerania, Germany for 17 months, Diplomat, worked with General Georges Vanier in Paris. |
|
Children of William Gustavus Dunville (1900-1956) and Ivy Evelyn Dunville née Combes (1906-1967) | |
Shirley June Dunville 1933-1994 |
father: William Gustavus Dunville (1900-1956) mother: Ivy Evelyn Dunville née Combes (1906-1967) born: 17 June 1933 died: 11 November 1994 in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario children: Kirsten Anne Thorkilson (b 1956) Lori Evelyn Thorlikson (b 1959) Erin Colleen Thorlikson (b 1963) Tylar Garth John Thorlikson (b 1968) |
HUSBAND: Garth Harmand Thorkilson, married: 19 March 1955 |
|
Avis Zoe Pamela Dunville 1935-1977 |
father: William Gustavus Dunville (1900-1956) mother: Ivy Evelyn Dunville née Combes (1906-1967) born: 14 April 1935 died: 2 July 1977 child (of Clifford Murray Daynard): Michael Clifford William Daynard (1955-2020) |
HUSBAND: Clifford Murray Daynard, married: (1) 2 June 1953 |
|
HUSBAND: MacCloud, married: (2) |
|
Children of Garth Harmand Thorkilson and Shirley June Thorkilson née Dunville (1933-1994) | |
Kirsten Anne Thorkilson b 1956 |
father: Garth Harmand Thorkilson mother: Shirley June Thorkilson née Dunville (1933-1994) born: 23 October 1956 children: Tarina Tyniel Young (b 14 February 1979, m 14 August 2004 Nick Barter, daughter Freya Marilyn Kirsten Barter, b 13 July 2008 in London, England, son Finley Antony Christopher Barter, b 10 February 2013 in Toronto, Ontario) Bronson Christopher Young (b 4 August 1981, m 4 July 2015 Angela Marie Jurich, b 21 April 1986, daughter Anna Mary Young, b 2 May 2017, daughter Leah Marie Young, b 4 March 2019) Spencer Michael Young (b 9 May 1984, m 20 September 2008 Ashley Walker, son Ashton Walker Young, b 20 May 2006, daughter Anisten Dunville Young, b 7 July 2011) Shaina Heather Young (b 26 May 1986, m 14 June 2014 Jason Thomas Robert, daughter Ruby Sarah Robert, b 26 September 2015, daughter Scarlett June Robert, b 16 July 2018) Kendall Anne Young (b 11 July 1988, m 22 July 2017 Silas Pickering, son Kit William Wolfe Pickering, b 2 August 2018 ) |
HUSBAND: Christopher Thomas (Tom) Young, married: 1 October 1976 | |
Lori Evelyn Thorkilson b 1959 |
father: Garth Harmand Thorkilson mother: Shirley June Thorkilson née Dunville (1933-1994) born: 6 August 1959 children: Kristopher Daniel Desjardin (b 1 December 1983, married 3 July 2010 Amy McDonough, sons Heath Gregory Daniel Desjardin, b 30 November 2009, and Deegan Kristopher Daniel Desjardin, b 8 February 2011 ) Lacey June Desjardin (b 4 October 1986) |
HUSBAND: Daniel Desjardin, married: 11 July 1981 | |
Erin Colleen Thorkilson b 1963 |
father: Garth Harmand Thorkilson mother: Shirley June Thorkilson née Dunville (1933-1994) born: 29 December 1963 children: Jocelyn Leigh Lawrence (b 10 July 1996) Amanda Grace Lawrence (b 6 April 1998) Christina June Lawrence (b 6 April 1998) |
HUSBAND: Drew Lawrence, married: 6 July 1991 | |
Tylar Garth John Thorkilson b 1968 |
father: Garth Harmand Thorkilson mother: Shirley June Thorkilson née Dunville (1933-1994) born: 14 May 1968 |
WIFE: Laura Middleton, married: 20 September 2008 child: Justin Olaf (b 3 December 1990) |
|
Child of Clifford Murray Daynard and Avis Zoe Pamela Daynard née Dunville (1935-1977) | |
Michael Clifford William Daynard (1955-2020) |
father: Clifford Murray Daynard mother: Avis Zoe Pamela Daynard née Dunville (1935-1977) born: 14 October 1955 died: 5 February 2020 in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario |
WIFE: Nicola Jane Styles, now divorced child: Trevor Michael Daynard (b 3 February 1978, Sarah Taylor, son Isaac William Michael Samuel Daynard, b 17 May 2008) |
Some of the information for this page was researched and provided by Martin Dunville (1922-1992) of Michigan and Florida. Most of the information is from a family tree kept in the Blackwood Pedigrees in the Belfast Linen Hall Library. Some of the information on Robert Grimshaw Dunville (1838-1910) and John Dunville (1866-1929) is from the book 'Landed Gentry of Ireland', published in 1904. Additional information was provided by Amy Desjardin née McDonough, Christopher Dunville, Kim Garner and Kirsten Young née Thorkilson.
The Dunville Family of Northern Ireland and Dunville's Whisky
Col. John Dunville Dunville, CBE, DL (1866-1929): The Famous Belfast Balloonist
Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931): Chairman of Dunville & Co. Ltd.
Photograph of Robert Grimshaw Dunville (1838-1910)
Richard Andrew Dumvill (c1765-1836): The Dunville Family of Kentucky