The Irish Bomfords
Achmuty family
(274) Margaret Domvile Auchmuty, only dau of Thomas Auchmuty
Notes from Clare Eagle (emails Apr 2009)
Thomas and Bridget had an only daughter:
1. Margaret Domvile inherited Brienstown and married Col. Henry Musters
Musters: “Thomas (was) a lonely, introspective and mournful man and his wife Bridget Domvile had no sons but a daughter whom they named Margaret Domvile after her mother’s family. …. had retired from the 3rd Dragoons as a Major in 1829 to take on management of the estate at Brienstown on the death of his father, Colonel Samuel Auchmuty. An only child, Margaret would become the heiress to Brienstown. Rev. Samuel Auchmuty performed the marriage service (of Margaret to Henry Musters). Amongst the guests at the wedding were the mother of the officiating parson, Mrs Samuel Auchmuty, her daughter Margaret Isabella Auchmuty, James Auchmuty of Newpark, Rathowen, Robert Ross Auchmuty of Kilmore House and his wife’s sister Judith daughter of Dr Arthur Auchmuty. Later the same day, Henry’s new father-in-law wrote in his diary:
“About 12 o’clock my daughter and her husband proceeded to Dublin on their way to England. I parted from her with pain, yet I cannot but honestly, and prudently I think, rejoice that she is thus settled. Her husband is the third son of John Musters of Colwick in Nottinghamshire and his mother was Mary Chaworth the heiress of Annesley admired by Lord Byron”.
52Auchmuty died in 1843, aged fifty-five, and his son-in-law took over the reins of the estate.”
Margaret Domvile Auchmuty, born about 1819, married Col Henry Musters.