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I. FIRST GENERATION: WILLIAM HANNA

William HANNA1 was born in 1731. He died in 1807 in Newry, Co. Down, Ireland. He was buried in St Patrick's Church of Ireland, Newry, Co. Down, Ireland.
He was married to Jane WALLACE (daughter of Robert WALLACE and Jane STUART) about 1758. Jane WALLACE was born in 1735 in Newry, Co. Down, Ireland. She died in 1816 in Dublin, Ireland. She was buried in 1816 in St. Patrick's, Church of Ireland, Newry, Co. Down. Ireland.
Jane Wallace, was a descendant of the famous Scottish hero William Wallace's brother Malcom Wallace. Hence the great pride in "the aristocratic Hannas of Newry."
    William HANNA and Jane WALLACE had the following children:
  1. Samuel HANNA (born in 1759).
  2. Jane Eliza HANNA (born in 1775).
  3. Robert HANNA died in China.
  4. William HANNA .
  5. Mary HANNA .
  6. James HANNA.
  7. Margaret HANNA (born on 9 September 1763).
  8. George HANNA died in Newry, Co. Down, Ireland.

From "Irish Pedigrees, Vol. II, John O'Hart"

"This old family, whose ancestor held a command under Gustavus Adolphus, in the Bohemian war of 1620, tracing to the Scottish stem of "Hannay," became established a century and a half ago at Newry. They acquired property in the county Down, by intermarriage with the Wallaces' of Crobane ; and their descent from thence is, as follows : I. William Hanna (b. circa l731, d . 1807) mar. Jane, dau. of Robert Wallace, Esq.; of Newry (by his wife Jane (1) Stuart, whose mother, Mary Scott , was a descendant of Mary Scott,* of. Harden, celled- brated as "The Flower of Yarrow"), and granddaughter of James Wallace, Esq., of Crobane, by his wife Anne Ross.
    Their children were:
  • I. Samuel, of whom presently.
  • II. Jane, who m. John Bradshaw, Esq., now represented by Canon Bradshaw, Inisheen, Dufidalk.
  • III. Robert, d. unm. in China.
  • IV. William, whose line is traced in the," Stewart-Hanna" pedigree, next infra.
  • V. Mary, mar. Samuel Townley, Esq., of Newry.
  • VI. James, , m. Jane, daughter of William Ogle, Esq., of Newry, and had:
    • I. Samuel, known as Dr. Samuel Hanna, M.D., Dublin. mar. Emily Fortescue, and had no children.
    • II. William, d. unm.
    • VII Margaret was twice mar.: first, to Bernard Cross, Esq.; secondly, to William Conolly, Esq. (Note, this is in error, the surnames are reversed, it was Bernard Conolly first and then Joseph Cross.)
    • VIII. George, the last survivor of the, family, in Newry, was living in 1820.; he d. unm."
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Sources;
  1. Irish Pedigrees, Vol. II, John O'Hart, New York, 1923, pages 551, 554.
  2. Click here for more Hanna/Conolly information from Lois Shirley Draper Barker, Sydney, Australia.
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