Presented by Breda Corish at the 20th Stoke Newington History Talks event on Nov 16th 2023 https://stokenewingtonhistory.com/stoke-newington-history-talks/

1. Finding Ireland
in the
Dissenting
History
of
Stoke
Newington
© Jeff Schmaltz - NASA Earth Observatory
A street - a pamphlet - a school – a house - a gravestone

2. 1170 Anglo-Normans arrive in Ireland Henry II
1541 Henry VIII declared King of Ireland Henry VIII
1562 Elizabethan wars in Ireland Elizabeth I
1609 Plantation of the province of Ulster James I
1649 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland Charles I / Interregnum
1690 Battle of the Boyne James II / William III
1782 Irish Parliament wins legislative independence George III
1793 Irish Parliament granted new powers George III
1801 Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland George III
1829 Catholic Emancipation George IV
1893 Second Home Rule Bill Victoria
1922 Irish Free State & Northern Ireland George V
“The 800 Years”

3. 1. A Street: Fleetwood Street

4. Source: @HistoryOfStokey, 3 October 2021, Twitter
Fleetwood House (c. 1635-1872)

5. Source: The Society of Antiquaries of London
Charles Fleetwood
(c.1618-92)
1664
Married
Dame Mary Hartopp
(1623-1684)

6. Source: National Library of Ireland https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000543153
Letter from Charles Fleetwood to Colonel Robert Bennett, 17 May 1651
Source: © The Trustees of the British Museum,

7. Source: The Chequers Trust Source: The Society of Antiquaries of London
Eldest daughter of
Oliver Cromwell & Elizabeth
Cromwell (Bouchier)
Lieutenant-General of English Army
in Ireland 1652
Lord Deputy of Ireland 1652-1655
Married 1652
Bridget Cromwell (1624–1662) Charles Fleetwood (c.1618-1692)
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
Lord Protector of the
Commonwealth of England
Scotland and Ireland 1653-1658
Source: National Portrait Gallery

8. https://100objects.ie/fleetwood-cabinet/

9. Source: The Chequers Trust
Source: © National Portrait Gallery, London Source: The Society of Antiquaries of London
Cromwell's second-in-command
in Ireland 1649-1650
Lord Deputy of Ireland 1650-1651
Eldest daughter of
Oliver Cromwell &
Elizabeth Cromwell
(Bouchier)
Lieutenant-General of
English Army in Ireland 1652
Lord Deputy of Ireland 1652-1655
1652
Married
1646
Married
Henry Ireton
(1611-1651)
Bridget Cromwell
(1624–1662)
Charles Fleetwood
(c.1618-1692)

10. Source: https://archive.org/details/cromwelliansett03prengoog/mode/2up?q=fleetwood

11. 2. A Pamphlet: Daniel Defoe
“The Parallel – or Persecution of Protestants, the shortest
way to prevent the Growth of Popery in Ireland“ (c.1704)
Available at Hackney Archives, 3rd edition (1710), https://hackney.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/19756

12. Source: Daniel Defoe by Michael Vandergucht, after Jeremiah Taverner (July 1703). © National Portrait Gallery, Image Ref NPG D14278 Available at Hackney Archives, 3rd edition (1710)
1702: Daniel Defoe

13. Daniel Defoe - 1704

14. 3. A school: Newington Green (1784-1786)
Source: Plaques of London, https://www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk/locations/mary-woolstone-craft-n16/

15. Portrait (c. 1787) attributed to
Irish painter John Keenan
Source:: Private Collection, Bridgeman Library Source:: Internet Archive
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

16. Source: ‘View of Ballyshannon, 1806’, by Richard Hoare. © RIA Royal Irish Academy https://www.ria.ie/news/irish-historic-towns-atlas/irish-historic-towns-atlas-ballyshannon-historic-deeds-and
Elizabeth Wollenstonecraft née Dixon (c.1729-1782), Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

17. October 1786: Governess to the three daughters – “wild Irish, unformed” –
of Lord and Lady Kingsborough, Mitchelstown Castle, Co. Cork
Source: ‘A view of Mitchelstown Castle, Co. Cork, seen from the entrance front’ (c.1818-1825?) by John Preston Neale. © National Library of Ireland.

18. Source: 14 Henrietta Street Museum (14-Henrietta-Street-Architectural-Images-2020-by-Ros-KavanaghDCL0620HS079).
February 1787: Kingsborough family townhouse, Henrietta Street, Dublin

19. Source: Professor Claire Connolly, The Irish Times, 27 October 2018. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/frankenstein-s-ireland-a-wretched-place-with-traces-of-civilisation-1.3666729

20. 4. A house: Clissold House
View of Clissold House from the path in Clissold Park #2 by Robert Lamb, WikiCommons

21. Source:’The Seat of Thomas Gudgeon, Esquire, Stoke Newington’ (1804), after John Hassell, 1767–1825. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. (Public Domain)
“Paradise House” built c.1790-1793 by Jonathan Hoare

22. Source: Mrs. Samuel Hoare. Sarah Hoare. Samuel Hoare (portrait). Hackney Archives , image ref WP6815.
Mrs Samuel Hoare, Sarah Hoare, Samuel Hoare (1751–1825)

23. Source: Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/someaccountofear00hoar/page/n9/mode/2up?view=theater

24. Edward Hoare (d. 1690) m. Mary Woodcock (d. 1690)
Cromwellian soldier & settler
Dunmanway, Co. Cork
Samuel Hoare (1716–96) m. Grizell Gurnell (d. 1756)
Moved from Cork to London
City of London merchant
Joseph Hoare (d. 1729) m. Margaret Satterthwaite (d. 1718)
Cork city merchant & banker Quaker minister in Ireland 1716
Edward Hoare (d. 1709) m. Sarah Burnell (d. 1715)
Sheriff of Cork 1684
Mayor of Cork 1686
Samuel Hoare (1751–1825) m. Sarah Gurney (d. 1783)
City of London Banker
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1787
Jonathan Hoare (1752–1819) m. Sarah Beswick (d. 1841)
City of London Merchant
Built “Paradise House” 1793
The Hoare Family of Cork, Ireland
Source: ‘Edward Hoare (d. 1690), Dictionary of Irish Biography https://www.dib.ie/biography/hoare-edward-a4032

25. 5. A gravestone: Reed Cross (1893)
Source: Abney Park Trust

26. Source: Sir Charles Reed (1819–1881) by W. G. R. Browne, Hackney Archives
Sir Charles Reed (1819 -1881)
MP for Hackney 1868-1874
Charles Reed (1819-1881) m. Margaret Baines (1817-1891)
Andrew Holmes Reed
(1842-1892)
Talbot Baines Reed
(1852-1893)

27. Source: Dublin Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 13 December 1893, British Newspaper Archive. © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Dublin Evening Telegraph - 13 December 1893

28. Source: Humphrey Bolton / Ahenny high crosses, Co. Tipperary / CC BY-SA 2.0
Kilklipseen Churchyard

29. Source: Pictures taken 17 March 2021, Abney Park Cemetery

30. Source: David Steers, ‘Rev John Scott Porter (1801-1880)’, Velvethummingbee blog, May 7, 2022
For comparison:
Belfast Cemetery
Rev John Scott Porter
(1801-1880)
First Presbyterian Church

31. Source: Sir Charles Reed (1819–1881) by W. G. R. Browne, Hackney Archives
Sir Charles Reed (1819 -1881)
MP for Hackney 1868-1874
Charles Reed (1819-1881) m. Margaret Baines (1817-1891)
Andrew Holmes Reed (1842-
1892) m. 1878
Jessie Browne Tillie (d. 1930)
of Duncreggan, (London)derry
Talbot Baines Reed (1852-1893)
m. 1876
Elizabeth Jane MacGurdy Greer
of Castlerock, Coleraine,
(London)derry

32. Sir Charles Reed & The Honourable The Irish Society
“Irish Chamber”, London Guildhall Yard, summer 2020 Thomas Raven’s map of the county of Londonderry, 1622 © Trustees of Lambeth Palace Library

33. 1865: Deputy-Governor, The Honourable The Irish Society
Source: Google Books, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7rpXAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

34. 1865: Deputy-Governor, The Honourable The Irish Society
Source: Google Books, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7rpXAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

35. June 1878: Marriage of
Andrew Holmes Reed &
Jessie Browne Tillie of
Duncreggan, (London)derry
Source: Derry Journal - Friday 14 June 1878, British Newspaper Archive © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD
Source: First Derry Presbyterian Church, Andreas F. Borchert, Creative Commons

36. Source: Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 22 April 1930, and Londonderry Sentinel - Tuesday 22 April 1930 British Newspaper Archive © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD
1930: Death of Jessie Reed née Tillie, Derry

37. Source: Coleraine Chronicle - Saturday 09 December 1893, British Newspaper Archive © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic
1893: Death of Talbot Baines Reed

38. Source: Embassy of Ireland, London. https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/great-britain/our-role/commemorations-in-great-britain/embassy-centenary-programme-2021/
“The Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland, signed at London
on the 6th day of December, 1921.“ *
* Text drafted for the British Government by Sir Francis Nugent Greer, last parliamentary draftsman of
the Irish Office - and nephew of Talbot Baine Reed’s wife Elizabeth Jane MacGurdy Greer.

40. Online sources for further reading:
• British Newspaper Archive
• Dictionary of Irish Biography
• Fleetwood Cabinet
• https://100objects.ie/fleetwood-cabinet/
• History Ireland, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft in Ireland, 1786–7’ by Jenny McAuley
• https://www.historyireland.com/from-the-education-of-daughters-to-the-rights-of-
woman-mary-wollstonecraft-in-ireland-1786-7/
• History of Parliament
• https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/
• Tottenham Summerhill Road local history, ‘Talbot Baines Reed’ by Geoff Warke
• https://tottenham-summerhillroad.com/talbot_baines_reed.htm
• The Honourable The Irish Society
• https://honourableirishsociety.org.uk/about-us/our-history/
• Ulster Historical Foundation