My recent post on Warburton Places, mentioned that Warburton, Victoria was named after Charles Warburton Carr and this implied a link to Bishop Warburton of Cloyne. Elaine Hopper has contacted me with more details on the relationship.
To recap Terence Charles Mongon (or Mongan) was raised a Catholic, but converted and joined the Protestant Church of Ireland. Details can be found in the Mongon Warburton Clan Tree and Report on the Warburton Website.
In 1792 Terence changed his name to Warburton as Mongon was holding back his career. It seems to have worked as he became Bishop of Cloyne.
The change was reported in the London Gazette which said Warburton was the name of his maternal cousins. I originally thought (and commented in the Mongon Tree) this could mean his mother was a Warburton, but I now think the report would probably have said if it was his mother’s maiden name, so my current interpretation is his mother’s sister married a Warburton. The identity of this Warburton is unknown, but it seems most likely he was a member of the Garryhinch Clan. I will return to that issue in a future Post on the records of Sir William Betham, the Ulster Herald.
Elaine reports that the Bishop’s brother, Doctor John Mongan, died in a carriage accident in 1803 and his children were brought up by members of both sides of the family. Three of them were brought up by the Bishop, including Frances Susannah who was married, by Bishop Warburton, to The Rev. Thomas Carpenter Carr on Friday 27th November 1812 at St Peter’s, Dublin.
Three of their children emigrated to Australia, including Charles Warburton Carr. He was born in 1824 in Dublin and emigrated in 1854. He was a very active man in various roles. He married Geraldine Mary Kathleen Curr in Kew, Melbourne, Australia in 1864.
Hello Ray A correction to the date of Frances Susanna Mongan’s marriage to Carr. It should be 12 November 1812.
Star (London) – Friday 27 November 1812 page 4 Married The 12th inst the Rev. Thomas Carr to Miss Morgan [sic] niece of the Right Rev the lord bishop of Limerick Sun (London) – Friday 27 November 1812 the same and same Morgan error
In regard to the Warburton connection of the Bishop Mongan Warburton, her uncle and guardian, it is very possible that one of Mongan’s patrons was the theologian and Bishop of Gloucester, William Warburton 1698-1779. This may mean that when Mongan later changed his name in 1792 to Warburton, he was using some connection to that man, enabled by some relations of that man. Not immediate relations of the bishop, though, as the Bishop of Gloucester does not seem to have had any suitable close family such as a William with a spinster sister Alicia Warburton. The Bishop William Warburton of Gloucester lost his only son when the boy was 21 in 1775. Bishop William Warburton of Gloucester is said to be “descended from the old Cheshire family (Dict. of National Biography) and was quite feeble in his old age, becoming increasingly so, even imbecilic and sorrowing for his son, and he died in June 1779 aged 79. Mongan in April 1778 wanted to get to England because a Bishop on whom his future depended was in extreme ill health in his 77th year. I think it matches well with that Bishop.
Mongan wrote to rebel Major-General William Heath on 23 April 1778:
Sir—
From the general Disposition you have manifested to oblige, and the particular Civility shewn my Friend Col. Anstruther, I am induced to make a Request, which I would hope, it is in your power to comply with; as I understand that Clergy, by the Consent of all nations, are never considered in the same light of Prisoners nor laid under the same constraints with the Gentlemen of the Sword. However, Sir, I should not wish at this time wither to desert my friends here or trouble you with an application, if my delay in this Country was not likely to be attended with an irreparable Inquiry to my private Circumstances, which I hope will appear evident to you, when I assure you Sir, my future views in Life, depend upon an old Bishop, who is now in his seventy seventh year, and by accounts received since we came to this place, his Health is in a very declining State; so that should it please God to put a period to his Existence, during my absence, the Consequence must prove rather fatal to me—
Thus Sir, have I taken the liberty of laying before you the real State of my private Concerns, and hope sufficient Reason will appear, for requesting your permission to go to England;
(Charles Mongan)