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Origins of the Morgan Family

Please note that this page is not on the family James Morgan from Wales. As his daughter Katherine married into the Jelletts, no male line is followed in Ireland so I don't consider them to be Irish.

I have been able to find out little about the Morgans referred to on this page and welcome any information on where they came from and any previous generations not appearing on this page.

The first location I have this Morgan family at is Cork, Co. Cork. There are many Morgans mentioned in various directories from the mid 1700's onwards, but the first reference to a Morgan definitely of this family is of Isaac Morgan, listed as a merchant at Parliament Bridge in Lucas's Cork directory of 1787.

In April 1821 there is a newspaper article with a notification of death for an Isaac Morgan, it reads: 'In Cork, Isaac Morgan, Esq. one of the oldest and most respectable merchants of that city.'

I assume that this Isaac Morgan is the father to the Isaac Morgan listed below and his brother Henry Morgan. 

Morgan of Cork

Thomas Poole MorganRev. Thomas Poole Morgan
Isaac Morgan, merchant of Buckingham House or Buckingham Place in Cork, married on 10 March 1774, to Rebecca, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel James Franklin Morrison of Mardyke House, Cork, and his wife Elizabeth Davies. Isaac died on 01/01/1837. He had at least three children:

 1. James Morgan m. (1816), Maria Townsend, daughter of Hewitt Baldwin Poole of Mayfield and his wife Dorothea Morris

 2. Louisa Morgan, the eldest daughter, m. (15/05/1813), Nicholas Lysaght of Mallow

 3. Rebecca Morgan m. (1814), Thomas Somerville Reeves of Trammore House, Co. Cork

James Morgan of Tivoli House, Cork, Esquire, married Maria, one of Hewitt Poole's ten daughters. Tivoli House appears to have been inherited from Rowland Morrison (James' Uncle?) He had by her, six children:

 1. Isaac Morgan of Tivoli, died unmarried (-1896)

 2. Rev. James Morrison Morgan (c.1819-06/01/1898) of Dalton-in-Furness and Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. Earl of Cork and Orrey - m. (05/12/1849), Elizabeth Raby

 3. Rev. Thomas Poole Morgan of Kilnagleary, Co. Cork (c.1819-24/05/1904) m. (02/12/1868), Elizabeth Woulfe, daughter of Richard Kelly

 4. Henry Herbert Morgan

 5. Rebecca Elizabeth Morgan m. (03/05/1853), Very Rev. Henry Jellett, son of Morgan Jellett and Harriette Townsend Poole

 6. Dorothea Charlotte Morris Morgan (c.1824-26/06/1911) m. (07/07/1855), John Hewitt Jellett, brother to the above

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