See also
Husband:
Goddard RICHARDS (c. 1721-1795)
Wife:
Anne HEWETSON (c. 1734-1814)
Children:
Marriage:
Aug 1756
Name:
Goddard RICHARDS1
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
c. 1721
The date given in Burke ILG 1715 was based on the tradition that he was about 80 when he died. This cannot be true. He was the 3rd son and the second son was born in 1718.
Will:
31 Aug 1781 (age 59-60)2
Death:
1 Jul 1795 (age 73-74)
Monksgrange, Co. Wexford3
Probate:
17 Aug 17952
Burial:
1795
Askinvillar4
Name:
Anne RICHARDS
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
11 Jul 1760
Death:
12 Jul 1831 (age 71)11
12 Jul 1831 is the date in Burke's Irish Landed Gentry Casey's index says it was 14 July 1832
Name:
Sarah RICHARDS
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
2 Jul 1761
Monksgrange, Wexford, Ireland
Death:
1838 (age 76-77)
Wicklow, Ireland
Name:
Catherine Jane RICHARDS
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
Jul 1763
Death:
2 Mar 1842 (age 78)
Name:
Goddard RICHARDS12
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Birth:
Oct 1764
Residence:
14 Feb 1790 (age 25)
India12
Occupation:
-; Colonel, in East India Company Service
Will:
31 Jan 1828 (age 63)
Calcutta13
Death:
19 Oct 1833 (age 68-69)
Cavendish Crescent, Bath14
Probate:
25 Apr 183413
Burial:
"26 OCT"
St Swithin, Walcot St, Bath15
Name:
William RICHARDS
Sex:
Male
Birth:
Apr 1768
Ireland
Death:
1832 (age 63-64)
Name:
Nicholas RICHARDS
Sex:
Male
Birth:
Sep 1770
Death:
1783 (age 12-13)
Name:
Edward RICHARDS
Sex:
Male
Birth:
15 Nov 1771
Occupation:
1796 (age 24-25)
-; Captain 55th Regiment
Death:
1796 (age 24-25)
St Lucia21
Name:
Robert Hewetson RICHARDS
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Birth:
1 Nov 1774
Occupation:
-; Assistant Barrister for Co Wexford
Will:
30 May 1825 (age 50)
Baggot St Dublin24
Death:
1829 (age 54-55)
Name:
Letitia RICHARDS
Sex:
Female
Birth:
26 Jan 1776
Monksgrange, Wexford, Ireland25
Death:
1816 (age 39-40)
Name:
Henry RICHARDS
Sex:
Male
Birth:
Jun 1780
Death:
1788 (age 7-8)
Burial:
2 Mar 1788
Sources: Burke's Landed Gentry of Monksgrange - went there in 1752 Admitted Freeman of Wexford 16 Oct 1769; (Hore: History of Town & County of Wexford). Marriage licence is dated 26 July 1756 Abstract of will is in Betham wills abstracts: made 31 Aug 1781 proved 17 Aug 1795 When was he born? Burke says he was born in 1715 but the MI to his father John Richards says he (John) was in the sixtieth year of his age when he died in 1749 so his father was born in 1690. Goddard's mother was in her 59th year when she died in 1758 so she was born in 1700. Also Goddard was their third son. If his mother was sixteen when she married, her eldest son Solomon may have been born in 1717, with John in 1718, which fits with him being 18 when he went to TCD in 1736/7. It is then just possible for Goddard to have been born in 1721. Betham notes that his age at death was given as 84 when probate was granted: this would make him born in 1711. My current guess is that 84 is a wrong calculation and that he was actually 74 when he died and thus was born in 1721. A note by Edward Moore Richards says that he copied a note in his grandfather's writing (Revd John Richards) which said "Goddard Richards......died suddenly 1st July 1795, supposed to be about 80 years of age." This looks like the origin of the 1715 date for his birth. I don't know where I found the date of August 26th 1756 for the marriage of Goddard and Anne Hewetson. The Marriage settlement is dated 6th August 1756.
Left £5 in will of Grandfather, Henry Gifford. Probate was granted to her. Year of birth is a guesstimate. Freeman's Journal of 1 February 1814 records that she died at the house of her son in law Richard Donovan of Ballymore: so she died in January 1814
Betham, Betham Sketch Pedigrees, (Name: Name: Name: Handwritten manuscript dated 1829 (from internal evidence);;;). 55. NAME National Library of Ireland Manuscript 268 ADDR EMAIL PHON. Call Number: 0100119.
Betham Will Abstracts. Page 55 Volume VIII LDS film no 0100119.
Burke, Burke: Irish Landed Gentry, (Name: Name: Name: 1912 edition;;;). 1912 edition, page 590. NAME Bristol City Library ADDR EMAIL PHON.
John Hewetson, The Hewetsons of County Kilkeny, (Name: Name: Name: The Journal of the Royal College of Antiqaries of Ireland Vol 39 (1909);;;). 387. NAME Library of the Society of Genealogists London ADDR EMAILPHON.
Welpy: Irish Wills and Pleadings, Ferns Wills Admons M L Book 1751-1761, (Name: Name: Name: Typewritten copy in the Library of the Society of Genealogists,London;;;). NAME Typewritten copy in the Library of the Society of Genealogists,London ADDR EMAIL PHON.
Betham Will Abstracts. Vol 13 Page 200.
Freeman's Journal. February 1814.
Ancestry.com, Ireland, Select Marriages, 1619-1898, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
Betham, Betham Sketch Pedigrees, (Name: Name: Name: Handwritten manuscript dated 1829 (from internal evidence);;;). Vol VIII Page 54. NAME National Library of Ireland Manuscript 268 ADDR EMAIL PHON. Call Number: 0100119.
Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;). Ancestry.com.
Burke, Burke: Irish Landed Gentry, (Name: Name: Name: 1912 edition;;;). 189. NAME Bristol City Library ADDR EMAIL PHON.
Ancestry.com, UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1746-1939, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2018;). University of London; London, England; Bengal Calendar - Hon'ble and United East India Company's Civil and Military Servants on the Bengal Establishment; Reference Number: D33516364. Ancestry.com.
V.C.P.Hodson, Officers of the Bengal Army 1758-1834, (Name: Name: Name: Phillimore & Co Ltd, London 1946;;;). 640. NAME Society of Genealogists Library ADDR EMAIL PHON.
Bath Chronicle. 24 Oct 1833.
Federation of Family History Societies, National Burial Index, (Name: Name: Name: First Edition published 2001;;;). 3rd Edition.
Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;;). Ancestry Family Tree. Ancestry.co.uk, http://www.Ancestry.co.uk.
Pearce Family Tree, (Name: On Ancestry.co.uk;).
Irish Genealogy Church Records, (Name: Name: Irish Genealogy; Location: www.churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie;;). Burials St Nicholas Without.
Gentleman's Magazine. Vol 102 Part 1 May 1832.
St Nicholas without Parish Register, (Name: Irish Genealogy online;).
Made by an unknown hand in about 1858, Will Extracts. NAME In the possession of Byron Edwards, California (ChristopherRichards h CONC as a copy) ADDR EMAIL PHON.
Burke, Burke: Irish Landed Gentry, (Name: Name: Name: 1912 edition;;;). 590. NAME Bristol City Library ADDR EMAIL PHON.
Frances Richards Notebook. Scrap of old paper tucked into the notebook.
Made by an unknown hand in about 1858, Will Extracts. 1829 Robert Richards. NAME In the possession of Byron Edwards, California (ChristopherRichards h CONC as a copy) ADDR EMAIL PHON.
Frances Richards Notebook. Scrap of old paper tucked into her notebook.