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Edmund Mathews

Male Abt 1600 - 1645


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  • Born  Abt 1600 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  Oct 1645  Newry, Down Co, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I3843  markhamchest
    Last Modified  20 Aug 2020 

    Father  MathewsAncestors01 ZCollector 
    Family ID  F1345  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • [pam garrett's comment] Over my years of research I have looked at several Mathews individuals and families that I thought might lead to the Ancestors of Catherine Mathews, wife of John Markham. My notes have become so unwieldy that I have felt need of entering these people, individually, into my database. Col Edmund (?Edward) Mathews caught my attention because he was a Parliamentarian serving in Ireland. I do not detect any likely connection to our Mathews family. Col Edmund Mathew(s) belongs to the Glamorgan family.

      1641; A Colonel Mathews in 1641 was at Dromore, Ireland, and with a force of 200 men attacked a force of 500 rebels, killing three hundred of them.

      Brief letter from Owen Roe ONeil to Col Mathews at Newry:
      (closing)
      Yor affectionate freinde & From o' Camp Servant,
      near Armagh, Owen 0 Neill.
      this 20th of July, 1644."
      (Addressed)
      For Leftenant Colonell Edward Mathews my very assured frend, Gouernor of the Garison of Neury

      1644; A number of letters and documents sent to Ormonde by, or on behalf of, (Lt) Col Edward Mathews, while he was head of the Garrison at Newry in 1644. note - Newry is a city in Northern Ireland, 34 miles (55 km) from Belfast and 67 miles (108 km) from Dublin.

      Consider -
      1644; In 1644 there are several amounts paid to John Mathew(s) merchant of Belfast, who is procuring supplies for the troops stationed there.

      1655-1657; several notes of Colonel Mathews speaking in the House of Commons

      1663; Colonel Mathuse was possibly Colonel Mathews, mentioned by Thomas Burton in his parliamentary diaries as participating as an M.P. in debates in the House of Commons in 1657 (John Towill Rutt, Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., member in the parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659. With an account of the Parliament of 1654 : from the journal of Guibon Goddard, vol. 2 (London, 1828), p. 90).
      from a letter of Richard Oxenden, 1663 -
      M:r Buttler[8] whome wee did use to meete in Grassenn walkes hee did use to keepe Comp:a w:th Ned Kelke & Collonell Mathuse & D:r Morgin & M:r Will:m Morgin
      [source] Marine Lives website; http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/MarineLives

      Edmund [Edmund Mathews Sr] had, by Jane Skerne, four sons and four daughters. One of the latter, Ann, married Anthony Powell, of Llwydiarth, some of whose MS works were in the library of Thomastown Castle. Edmund [Edmund Mathews Sr] was high sheriff, Co. Glamorgan, in 1593, and died 1660, at the age of one hundred and two years. His sons were (1) George, (2) Anthony died an infant, (3) Edmund, (4) William. George was a captain in the army, his company being stationed at Cashel, Ireland, in 1615. In 1619 his kinsman, Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles, who resided at Thomastown, five miles from Cashel, was drowned during a voyage from England. Captain George Mathew conveyed the painful intelligence to his countess, who was also connected by marriage with the Mathews. At this period the fortunes of the Ormond family were at their lowest ebb; Walter, the eleventh earl, being a prisoner in the Tower, their estates bestowed upon Lord Desmond; and the widowed countess and her five young children dependent upon her father, Sir J. Pointz. In 1620 George Mathew married Lady Thurles, and they returned with all the children to Thomastown Castle. James, the eldest, then only eleven years of age, afterwards became the virtuous and noble first Duke of Ormond; Captain George, who died 1636, had by Lady Thurles two sons and two daughters. The line of their eldest son, Theobald, progenitor of the Earls of Llandaff, is correctly given by Burke down to its extinction in 1833. Edmund, second son of Edmund of Radyr, was, during the wars in Ireland, governor of the garrison in Green Castle in 1644. Newry and Narrow Water were also placed under his able command. Many letters to and from Edmund Mathew are preserved among the State papers, also among the Ormond MS at Kilkenny Castle. He died, a colonel in the army, unmarried, in 1653.
      [source] The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales, Volume 11; Charles Wilkins, James Harris, Daniel Owen, 1887.

      [pam garrett's comment] I came across an interesting article on the Blockhouse at Old Warren Point near Newry. It was written by "Jim", and submitted to the forum at oldwarrenpoint.com. The article gives good information on Col Edmund Mathews. In reference to his death:
      In October, 1645, Colonel Edmund Mathew ".....succumbed, not to Munro and the Scots, but to death, brought on by his constant fatigues in strengthening Newry and his out garrisons of Greencastle and Carlingford, and in building blockhouses on the rocks in the mouth of Carlingford Bay against the ships of the Parliament" (14)This statement was made by John Patrick Pendergrast, an eminent Dublin lawyer and archivist, who was directly involved with the collation and transcription of the CSPI papers and their interpretation.
      [source] oldwarrenpointforum; oldwarrenpoint.com 10th anniversary 2005-2015

      Bethem Abstracts - Abstract of the Will of Col Edmond Mathews, dated 8 October 1645, no location given
      mentioned in the Will -
      Toby Mathews, George Mathews, nephews

      Sir David Mathew, the great standardhearer of Edward IV., whose monument is in Llandaff Cathedral, as also those of his grandsons, Sir William and Sir Christopher Mathew, of about the date of 1530. Edmund Mathew, Esq., the grandson of Sir William Mathew, and heir to the ancient estates of the family at Llandaff and Aradyr, was high sheriff of the county of Glamorgan in 1592. Two of his sons, George and Edmund, went to Ireland about the year 1610. Here, in 1620, George married Lady Thurles, widow of Lord Thurles, and mother of the first and great Duke of Ormonde. Thus, closely allied by blood and friendship with the Ormonde family, and possessed of the vast estates of Thomastown, Thurles, and Annfield in Tipperary, and others in the counties of Clare, Galway, Cork, and Limerick, the family continued down to the present time.

      Notes for Edmund Mathews; compiled by Pamela Hutchison Garrett, 2015; for Markham of Chesterfield website.