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Complete Baronetage.
[volume 2, page 372]
- HANNAY, or AHANNAY
- cr. 31 March 1630 ;(372a) dormant, 1689–1783, and again since 1842.
I. 1630.
Robert Hannay, or Ahannay, of Mochrum, co. Kirkcudbright, “ Knight,”(372a) whose parentage is unknown, was appointed Clerk of the Nichells [I.] by Privy Seal, 19 Oct. 1629 (patent 11 Dec. 1631), which office he surrendered 30 May 1639, and was cr. a Baronet [S.] 31 March 1630,(372a) the patent, however, not being in the Great Seal Register, [S.] with rem. to heirs male whatsoever, and with a grant of, presumably, 16,000 acres in Nova Scotia, of which he does not appears to have had seizin.(372b) He m. (—), da. of (—) Stewart. He d. 8 and was bur. 24 Jan. 1657/8 in Dublin. Funeral entry [I.]. Admon. 29 Nov. 1658 [I.] to his s., Sir Robert Hannay. His widow d. 22 March and was bur. 27 March 1662 in Christ Church, Dublin. Funeral entry [I.].
II. 1658. to 1689.
Sir Robert Hannay, Baronet [S. 1630], s. and h., suc. to the Baronetcy 8 Jan. 1657/8 ; was a Captain of Foot [I.] 1661. He d. s.p.,(372c) presumably unm.,(372d) and was bur. at St. Michan's, Dublin, 30 April 1689,(372e) when the Baronetcy appears to have remained dormant for nearly 100 years.
III. 1783.
Sir Samuel Hannay, Baronet(372f) [S. 1630] of Kirkdale, co. Galloway, was served and retoured heir male of the 1st Baronet, 26 Sep. 1783, and assumed the Baronetcy accordingly. He was s. and h. of William Hannay, of Kirkdale aforesaid, by Margaret da. of the Rev. Patrick Johnston, of Girthon, which William is said to have been(372g) s. of Samuel, s. of William, s. of Patrick, s. of another Patrick, s. of John, s. of Alexander Hannay, who purchased Kirkdale, in 1532, and who was uncle to Patrick Hannay, of Sorbie, ancestor of the first Baronet. He m. in 1768, Mary, da. of Robert Mead. He d. 11 Dec. 1790. Admon. Jan. 1791. Admon. of his widow, March 1800.
IV. 1790, to 1842.
Sir Samuel Hannay, Baronet(372f) [S. 1630], s. and h., b. 12 Aug. 1772, suc. to the Baronetcy,(372f) 11 Dec. 1790 ; was in the service of the Emperor of Austria, holding an official post at Vienna, where he d. s.p.m. (presumably unm.) 1 Jan. 1842, when the Baronetcy became dormant.
Notes.
(372a) Laing's List, in which he is called “ Knight,” though in Milne's List, where no date of creation is given, he is called “ Esquire of the body.”
(372b) Banks's Lists.
(372c) Of his two sisters and coheirs one m., as his 1st wife, Sir George Acheson, 3d Baronet [S. 1628], who d. 1685, aged 55 ; while the other, Jane, m. firstly, before May 1645, Charles (Coote), 1st Earl of Mountrath [I.], secondly, Sir Robert Reading, Baronet [I.], and d. Nov. 1684.
(372d) “ The Lady Elinor Hanna ” bur. 4 Jan. 1673 at St. Mary's, Reading, may possibly have been his wife.
(372e) G. D. Burtchaell, of Ulster's office, Dublin, has kindly supplied most of the information in this article.
(372f) According to the retour of 1783.
(372g) Playfair's Baronetage [S.] but the number of generations in 200 years [1581–1783] seems excessive.
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