The Tuite Family 
18th Century
On referring to Burke’s “Landed Gentry” we
find that a Sir Henry Tuite of Sonna married, in
1728, Mary Rochfort, sister to the notorious Earl of
Belvidere, by whom he had one son, George, born in 1729. Sir George succeeded
to the title, and resided at Sonna. He was murdered
on the 12th of February, 1783, while sitting in his study about ten
o’clock at night. He had a small favorite King
Charles spaniel lying on a chair beside him, whose brains were beaten out as
well as its master’s by some blunt instrument. There was not any robbery
committed, neither were the papers in the study disturbed. The murderer was
never discovered, and it was supposed the assassination of the baronet was the
result of domestic treason. A hammer was found in the adjacent pond besmeared
with blood, which is supposed to have been used by the assassin.
Sir George Tuite was born in 1729 and died in
1783. A couple of days before Sir George was born his
mother Mary was supposed to have been on her way to Dublin in a carriage. The
carriage pulled up at Kinnegad where a deformed
beggar came up to the carriage and started to beg. From that day until Sir
George was born, Mary was very worried that her baby would be deformed and she
thought that if the child was deformed she would die. When the boy was born he
had two thumbs on the back of his hand. When Mary saw this she died within a
couple of hours of the birth.
Hugh Tuite, born 1747, entered the army, was
in the 14th Light Dragoons, and attained the rank of Captain in the
89th regiment of foot, in which he served twelve years at Gibraltar,
three years and seven months of which was during the blockade. He there was
made a prisoner of Baron Von Helmstadt, and received
his sword. Mr. Lyons, in his “Anecdotes of the Westmeath Gentry,” relates that
Captain Tuite attended one of Lady Ormond’s parties shortly after his
retirement from military service, and there met Captain Arthur Wellesley,
afterwards Duke of Wellington, who was aide-de-camp to Lord Westmoreland, the
then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Captain was engaged at a card table with
Lady Ormond as his partner, when he observed some young gentlemen and officers
highly entertained and smiling at each other. He soon saw from the direction of
their eyes that he was the object of their mirth, and turning sharply round to
ascertain in what manner he had been so fortunate as to contribute to the
evening’s amusement, he found Captain Wellesley behind his chair diverting
himself and the company with his queue, the end of which was he had at that
moment most unfortunately a tight hold of. Captain Tuite stood up, he was a
tall and powerful man, and took the facetious aide-de-camp by the neck, and
lifted him completely off the ground, gave him an angry shake, and dropped him
without uttering a word. In a short time Captain Wellesley, accompanied by
another officer, came up to Captain Tuite, the former much agitated, and
apologised for the unwarrantable liberty he had taken with him. Captain Tuite
drew himself up to his full height and replied, “As the apology has been as
public as the offense, I forget it, sir,” and made his bow.
Marriages
Sat., 5 Jan 1765-Tues. 8
Jan 1765
At Waterford, Mr.James TUITE of the Earl of Drogheda's Light Dragoons to
Miss Agnus ROBERTS.
1798: The Rise of the Defenders 1793-5 (Part III)
A passage from “The men of no property, Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the
Late Eighteenth Century”, by Jim Smyth, 1992.
By around 1795 “the merger or more accurately,
coalition, between the United Irishmen and Defenders was indeed already in
place, at least in Ulster. The making of that coalition carried profound
implications for both movements. Like the commencement of negotiations for
French military aid, United Irish efforts to assimilate Defender lodges into
their new military structures signaled the
seriousness of their insurrectionary designs. It also posed problems for their
strategy of forging a union of Irishmen of all creeds. Defenderism
represented many things to many men, among them Catholic sectarianism. The
experience of John Tuite – ‘Captain Fearnought’ of
Meath – illustrates the consequent United Irish dilemma. Tuite was ‘sworn to
both acts’ in 1795, that is he took first the Defender and then the United
Irish oaths, but the Defender oath pledged him ‘to quell the nation of heresy’
as well as to ‘dethrone all kings, and plant the tree of liberty’. The second
part of the oath indicates how interaction with the United Irishmen accelerated
and strengthened the politicising impact of ‘French principles’; the first part
shows how much more the secular radical gospel had still to do. Putting the
best gloss possible on a coalition fraught with internal tensions, Emmet later
asserted that the United Irishmen had infused Defenderism
with ‘tolerance and republicanism’. Presumably Tuite’s
trial report had escaped his notice.”
Excerpt from
During the eighteenth century there were at
least two branches of the royal dynasty in France. The house of the Comtes MacCarty Reagh de Toulouse was founded by Justin MacCarthy,
born in Springhouse, County Tipperary, in 1744. The family was descended from Donal-na-Pipi, Prince of Carbery (d. 1612). Justin settled in France, having decided
to quit Ireland until religious liberty was restored. He had an “immense
fortune” and became a naturalized Frenchman, receiving letters patent in
September 1776, which elevated him to the French nobility. He married in 1765
to Marie-Winifride Tuite, daughter of Lord Tuite of
Westmeath. He also bought what became known as the Hotel du MacCarthy
in Toulouse, a palatial eighteenth century house. In 1868 the ownership passed
to the old Toulouse family Courtois de Vicose, who still own it.
Tuite's Row
During renovations to Libby's Country Kitchen
Restaurant in Granard, owned by Mary and Pauric Harten, an eighteenth
century wall plaque was discovered in an area known as Tuite's
Lane. However the plaque, dating from 1798, carries the words Tuite's Row. It was discovered when Pauric
decided to remove the old plaster from the building with the possibility of
restoring an old archway. The Row is named after the Tuite family who were
prominent in Granard during the Norman period in the
twelfth century and it has engendered much interest among local residents.
Gravestones in
Thomas Tuite died 1722
Another stone reads:
“This stone was erected by Mark Tuite for his
successors and predecessors and for his father Oliver Tuite died Feb 22nd
1757 age 57 and mother ?? died
1756”
Faulkner's
Tues.,
24 Sep 1765-Sat., 28 Sep 1765
Marriages.
At Twickenham, England, Justin Mc CARTHY, Esq.; of Springhouse, in this
Kingdom, to Miss Windy TUITE, youngest Daughter of Nicholas TUITE, Esq. Dublin,
co. Dublin, Ireland.
High
Sheriff of Cavan
From
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