http://mctiernan.com/rock.htm 4-9-2017
These are two McTernans in the Rockfield McTernan family of County
Leitrim. Their family seat was the townland of Gortgarrigan, Co Leitrim
The
Rockfield McTernans in Co Leitrim and the
Heapstown
McTernan families in Co Sligo are related through their maternal
lines. They may also be related through their paternal
lines. They are called kinsmen in several newspaper writings.
No known male issue survives of the Rockfield line to do the
DNA
test
The first is James McTernan, 1790--11-26-1872, and the second is his
brother Patrick McTernan, both surgeons in the British Navy.
The Sydney Morning Hearld (NSW);
Tuesday February 24, 1874
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THE LATE SURGEON JAMES MCTERNAN, li.lsr. -An English paper relates the
following, in noticing the death of the above gentleman, who visited
Sydney some ...years ago:
James McTernan, U.N. [Navy], [ 1790--1873 ] Deputy Inspector General of
Hospitals and Fleets, died at his residence, Blackheath, [Kent] on the
26th November [1873], in the 83rd year of his age.
He was a native of
Co Sligo, and student of Trinity College, Dublin. Dr. McTernan, in
early life, acquired a more than ordinary acquaintance with classical
literature, which he cultivated with great ardour and enjoyment up to
a recent period, and which gave him great facilities of illustration
in his unsually vivid powers of speech.
After leaving Dublin, he spent about twelve months in Paris previous to
entering the medical service of the Royal Navy BB Surgeon's mate, being
then but 17 years old. In speaking of this event, he used to say that
his Latinity enabled him to thin out the truth of his real age, and
thus obtain a commission long before he was entitled to it.
He entered the medical service of the Royal Navy at 17 years of age. In
1812, when he was but 21 years of age, he served in the
Northumberland, 74 gun ship under Captain the Hon. Henry
Hotham, off the
coast of France, where they captured two French frigates and a brig off
L'Orent in 1812, the young
surgeon being for his skill and gallantry awarded a medal: and in 1813
[American War of 1812], in the Dragon,
commanded by Sir Robert Barry,
during the American wars, he saw the various naval exploits in the
Chesapeak Bay and was part of the naval force that captured Bangor,
Maine
James McTernan published what appears to be the first medical account
of a fatal primary blast injury concerning an otherwise unexplained
sudden death of a marine who was serving on HMS Northumberland during
an action off L'Orient in May 1812. Sailors were aware of
sudden death from the "wind of the shot", i.e. being to close to a
cannon ball fired from a gun.
My medical guess is that this is the very early description of what is
now called "The White Butterfly" which is that the force of the blast
causes compression of your organs they now look like a white butterfly
on the Xray.
James McTernan was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict
ship Ocean in 1823 and the Sir Charles Forbes in
1827. He returned to England on the vessel Elizabeth in
November 1827.
<> He was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ships Asia
1828, Eliza 1829
Lady
Harewood 1831 John
Barry 1836 all to New South Wales and the Sara in 1837 to
Van Diemen's Land.
James McTernan was on the List of Surgeons of the Royal Navy fit for
service in 1841. He was appointed to the Packet service at Falmouth.
He was appointed surgeon of Deptford Dockyard in 1845 having previously
been employed at Greenwich Hospital. (Lancet)
James McTernan was on the List of Deputy Inspectors General of
Hospitals and Fleets Retired (25 July 1855)
He was in the squadron which protected St. Helena during -the residence
there of Napoleon,
and was present on the island at the death of that
distinguished, but unfortunate monarch in 1821. Subsequently to this
period he was engaged at the various home stations; and finally,
previous to his retirement, he did duty at Greenwich Hospital [in NSW]
for about 11 years.
James McTernan's seniority is dated 25th July, 1855 when he
became Deputy Inspector-General.
According to John C McTernan's book, Sligo Families, James married
Harriett Hart, 1803--11-5-1879, who was born in Penzance, Cornwall,
England and died in Hove, Sussex, England. Harriet Hart, was the
second daughter of Lemon Hart and Letitia Michael. This was a union of
two Jewish merchant families who had arrived in the west of Britain
from Germany? in the 18th century: the Harts of Penzance and the
Michaels of South Wales. Lemon Hart took over the family business of
importing rum from the West Indies - winning the custom of the Royal
Navy and giving his name to Lemon Hart rum which is still produced
today. Harriet’s mother, Letitia, is where I have the family connection
- I believe she is a great x5 aunt of Georgina Pender who supplied this
paragraph of information on the Harts. They were all pretty high
achievers. Jacob Michael, Letitia’s nephew, was a famous solicitor of
Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London. He and his wife Rose were
witnesses to the marriage of Capt. McTernan’s parents: Rose being
Harriet’s sister!
Letitia tragically died when Harriet was about seven. She suffered a
horrible death. Her clothes caught fire on a candle. She was heavily
pregnant with her fifth child at the time and died because of her
injuries within a week, having given birth to her daughter, who I
believe survived but I’m not sure about that. Her father-in-law died
the following week of a stroke brought on by the horrendous incident it
is said. A truly terrible story.
Constantine Lernon Hotham
McTernan was a Captain
in the
Royal Artillery and is
buried in the family vault at Brockley Cemetery, Parish of Lewisham,
County of Kent in England. They had one son, Cpt.
Constantine Lernon Hotham McTernan, 1831--9-17-1864, born in
NSW, Australia and died in Blackheath, Kent, England. On
12-13-1860,
in Westminister, Middlesex, England, Constantine Lernon Hotham McTernan
married
Louisa Mary Parsons, 8-27-1839--, born in Marylebone, Middlesex and
his middle name of Hotham was the surname of his dad's first
skipper in the navy when he was but 21 years old.
Constantine and Louisa had one
daughter,
Constance Margaret Allatt, nee McTernan, 3-1862--3-22-1951,
born in Sandgate, Kent, England and died at 174 Sandygate Rd.,
Folkestone, England. Constance Margaret McTernan married
Colonel Henry Thomas
Ward
Allatt
in 12-1888 in Surry who was born in Boulogne, Hauts-de-Selne,
Ile-de-France, France. Constance Margaret McTernan and
Colonel Henry Thomas Ward Allatt had the following four children.
Eileen Mary Weston, nee Allatt, 7-25-1889--6-1978, the first
of four children of Constance Margaret McTernan and Colonel Henry
Thomas Ward Allatt born in New Forest, Monmouthshire, England and died
in Malvern, Hereford & Worcester, England. In 3-1945, in
Marylebone, Middlesex, Eileen Mary Allatt married Charles Harvey
Beckford Weston, 1876--1960.
Robert Edward Constantine Allatt, 9-1891--1-16-1902, the
second
of four children of Constance Margaret McTernan and Colonel Henry
Thomas Ward Allatt born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England and died in
Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Lorna Lillie Faith Hinds, nee Allatt, 3-22-1904--1-2007, the
third of
four
children of Constance Margaret McTernan and Colonel Henry Thomas
Ward
Allatt born in Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, England and died in
Worcester, Worcestershire, England. In 6-1928, in Elham, Kent,
England, Lorna Lillie Faith Allatt
married
George Arthur Hinds, 1900--1961, and had three children listed
below.
1. Pamela C. Vilven, nee Hinds, a daughter, the first of three
children of Lorna Lillie
Faith Allatt and George Arthur Hinds. In 9-1953, in Malvern,
Worcestershire, England, Pamela married William Wardley
Vilven, 1-17-1924--6-1992, who was born in Bath, Somerset, Eng and died
in
Bromyard, Herefordshire, Eng.
2. Rosalie C. Bamford, nee Hinds, 12-1939--, the second of three
children of Lorna Lillie
Faith Allatt and George Arthur Hinds. Rosalie C. Hinds married
Horace G. B. Bamford.
3. Unknown Hinds, the third of three children of Lorna Lillie
Faith Allatt and George Arthur Hinds
Henry Buckle Grant Allatt, 10-13-1907--4-1983,
the fourth of four children of Constance Margaret McTernan
and Colonel Henry Thomas Ward Allatt born in Surry, England.
Constantine Lernon Hotham
McTernan was a
Captain in the Royal Artillery and is buried in the family vault at
Roman Catholic Brockley Cemetery, Parish of Lewisham, County of Kent in
England.
The second is Patrick McTernan, c. 1793--1834, who was appointed
Assistant Surgeon on 10-8-1811. He was appointed to the Eden in 1822 and was the Surgeon
Superintendent on the convict ship Mariner
in 1827 to New South Wales, the Manlius to Van Diemen's Land in
1828 and the Katherine Stewart Forbes
in 1830 and the Dunvegan Castle
in 1832 to New South Wales. In all 737 prisoners arrived in
Australia under his care and only four men were lost overall. He
allowed whatever comforts he could devise for the men and he believed
in allowing them on deck frequently.
Very old Australian newspaper clippings below
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=McTernan&sortby=dateAsc>http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=McTernan&sortby=dateAsc