George Bonynge Rochfort

Given as George B. Rochfort, 23 Lennox St, Dublin and 4 Charlemont Mall, barrister, when he was awarded the compensation for Heartsease in St Catherine. He has been identified as George Bonynge Rochfort who was plaintiff in the Chancery cause of Rochfort v John Weir c. 1817, concerning the estate of George Bonynge of Jamaica, who had died c. 1791. George Bonynge was his maternal great-uncle. The reported date of 1789 when George B. Rochfort was supposedly called to the bar at Trinity Dublin does not fit with a birth-date of c. 1781 in most genealogical sources, and barely with the reported death-date of 1864.

1. George B. Rochfort is listed at 14 Charle[s]mont Mall in the following directories: The Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland for the Year of our Lord 1841 (Dublin, Ireland: Pettigrew and Oulton, 1841), p. 622; Henry Shaw's Dublin City Directory, 1850; Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory for the Year 1862 (which also lists Miss Susan Rochfort).

2. Griffith's Valuation, 1848-1864 shows that in 1853 George B Rochfort was the lessor of a number of properties in Charlemont Mall, Fitzwilliam Ward, and elsewhere in Dublin.

T71/852 GBR Ireland owner-in-fee in tail. T71/1592 letters p 211 22/08/1835 and p 276 07/10/1835 to G.B.Rochfort, 23 Lennox St Dublin and 4 Charlemont Mall, Dublin re this claim (confirmation of claim filed and then timing of uncontested). T71/1593 p 109 letter 17/02/1836 to G.B. Rochfort, slaves registered by Alex. Grant, tenant; London Gazette 17316 23/12/1817, pp. 2626-7. Listed in Pigot's Commercial Directory, of Scotland, Ireland, and the four most Northern Counties of England, for 1820-21 & 22, available at Ancestry.co.uk.

1. The Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland for the Year of our Lord 1841 (Dublin, Ireland: Pettigrew and Oulton, 1841), p. 622; Henry Shaw's Dublin City Directory, 1850; Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory for the Year 1862.

2. Ancestry.com, Ireland, Griffith’s Valuation, 1848-1864 [database online].