CHAPTER IV.

COLLATERAL IRISH BRANCH OF THE ARCHDALLS

The Ven. JOHN ARCHDALE (third son of John, of Castle Archdale and his first wife Frances Honings) was baptised at Darsham, Suffolk, August 6th 1610 He has been mentioned already in connection witb a deed of September 5th 1637, by which he certain Churcb lands in Fermauagh from Edward, his eldest brother. John was a Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, November 6th 1624, and graduated B.D., January 26th 1661 He was appointed Rector and Vicar of Old Ross, in the Diocese of Ferns, February 21st 1634·5. On November 1st 1637 he was presented by the Crown to the Archdeaconry of Killala, and on March 12th 1637-8 he was instituted Archdeacon of Achonry. Together with the Dean of Achonry, and others, he was cited by the Irish House of Commons to answer the petition of one Andrew Adare, July 16th 1641 ; but the subject of the petition is not stated in the Journals. The Ven. John Archdale was minister at Lusk, Co. Dublin, in 1654, and died intestate in 1674. By his wife Elizabeth Donnellan of Co. Roscommon, who died in 1700, he had issue :—

1. John (Rev.), of whom presently.

1. Frances, married, in 1664, Andrew Brereton.

2. Elizabeth, married Thomas Martin.

The Rev. JOHN ARCHDALL, the only son, was born in 1650 or 1651. He was a Pensioner at Trinity College, Dublin, March 7th 1667-8, Scho1ar in 1668, graduated B.A. in 1671, and M.A. in 1675. By a deed of July 15th 1673, Henry B1ennerhasset of Crevenish conveyed the island of Crevenishkillie (sic) in Lough Erne, to William Cosby of Dromneragh, Co. Fermanagh, and John Archdall of Trinity College, Dublin.

The Rev. John Archdall was Vicar of Lusk from 1679 until 1689 or 1690 “ when, owing to the troubles of that time, he lost his life.”¹ He married, by Licence dated April 1st 1679, E1izabeth, daughter and heiress of John Barnard (or Bernard), of Dromin, Co Louth. She married, secondly, the Rev. Thomas King, Prebendary of Swords,² and son of James King of Corrard, Co. Fermanagh. She died in December 1731, having had, by her first husband, a daughter Frances, and three sons :—

1. John Archdall, of Dromin, Co. Louth, and Dublin, merchant. He was born in 1680 and died in 1703, his will being dated on June 9th of that year. He married at Enniskillen in 170l, Anne, daughter of Robert Clarke. She lost property, valued at £80, in the disastrous fire at Enniskillen in 1705 ; and remarried in 1710, Francis Johnston, of Derrycholought, Co. Fermanagh, by whom she had eight children. By her first husband she left a posthumous son,

John Archdall, of Dromin, and Dorset Street, Dublin, who died unmarried,

See Archdall’s Lodge’s Peerage, vol. iii, p. 281. Archdall makes the curious mistake (afterwards copied by others), of stating that his family came from “ Norsom Hall, Norfolk, ”
He was father of the Rev. James King, D.D., Incumbent of St. Bride’s, Dublin, who was a friend of Dean Swift. This James was one of the Executors of the Dean’s will, and to him Swift bequeathed his “ large gilded medal of King Charles I, and on the reverse a crown of martyrdom with other devices. ” His father, Rev. Thomas King, had been imprisoned by King James’s Government in 1689, and died Jan. 1st 1708-9.