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Notes on the Taverner family of Limerick
By Noel Murphy.
My thanks to the Friends Historical Library, Dublin for permission to use material from their
Archives. This material is shown in Italics below.
Some Early Mentions of Taverners
Annals of Limerick by Josiah Richard Gough. Published 1830. Copy at Limerick City
Library.
Sometime between 1656 and 1658, Edward Tavernor of Limerick was fined for not
taking the Oath of a Juryman. 40/- shillings worth of goods were taken from him in
lieu of the fine by an official named Brook Bridges. Josiah Gough also names a
Samuel Taverner as being an Alderman of Limerick in 1686. He claims that this was
an honorary position and that Samuel did not have to serve as Mayor which would
have involved a swearing- in Oath. Both Edward and Samuel were obviously
Quakers.
Lenihan’s History of Limerick.
This History gives a list of the Common Council of Limerick for the 30/01/1687.
Included in the list is the name of Alderman James Taverner, Merchant. James was
one of those fortunate individuals to be elected an Alderman without serving as
Mayor or indeed serving as Sheriff.
In 1707 goods were seized from a servant of Thomas Taverner for non-payment of Tithes.
Welply’s Will Abstracts held in the Representative Church Body’s Library.
These note-books list the names of the following people and the dates of Probate of
their wills.
Jacob Taverner, Limerick. 1715. (L) 490.
Samuel Taverner, Lissanode. 1744. (L) 490.
William Taverner, 1742. (C) 490.
Index of Wills from the Diocese of Limerick. Probate.
Jacob Taverner, 1715
Anna Taverner, 1724
Samuel Taverner,
1744, Lissanode, Westmeath
John Taverner John,
1773, Tanner
John Taverner Jacob, 1798
(While Lissanode is in Westmeath, Samuel was late of Limerick City).
Women’s Meeting 18/07/1726.
Recorded that John Russell, widower of Moate and Mary Taverner of Limerick
intended to marry each other.
Rosemary ffolliott’s BMDs from Microfiche in the Limerick Co.
Library.
Faulkner’s Dublin Journal, Saturday 27 May 1758,
Died at Limerick, Miss Rachael Taviner, daughter of Mr John Taviner Jacob.

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(She was the daughter of John and his wife Rachell Brooks who had married in 1727.
Rachell, the mother, died in 1769).
Note: - John Taverner Jacob means that John Taverner’s father was called Jacob and also that
there were other John Taverners living at the same time. Attaching the father’s name was a
means of identifying which John Taverner was being referred to. The spelling of the surname
is not important as phonetic spelling was all too common in those days.
Faulkner’s Dublin Journal, Tuesday 23 June 1761,
Married in Limerick at the Quaker Meeting House, Mr John Faylee to Miss Mary
Taverner, daughter of Mr John Tavernor Jacob of Crohane.
Quaker records, MM/IX/B1, for June 1761, have a John Hail of Edenderry intending to
marry Mary Taverner of Limerick. Both sets of parents were still alive and had given their
consent for the marriage. The Quaker records are most likely to have John Hail correctly
named.
Limerick Chronicle, Monday 14 Jan 1771,
Died on Christmas day in London, Mr Sam Taverner, son of Jacob Taverner.
Limerick Chronicle, Monday 4 March 1771,
Advert: - Jacob Taverner, Watch and Clock Maker.
Limerick Chronicle, Thursday 20 June 1771,
Advert: To be set, a house on the Quay of Limerick near the old Weigh House lately
occupied by John Taverner John, deceased. Proposals to John Taverner Jacob or Sarah
Taverner. (The Corporation Index of 1843 indicates that John Taverner had a Tanyard
and house in this area).
Dublin Hibernian Journal, Friday 21 June 1771,
Died at Limerick, Mr John Taverner one of the people called Quakers.
Limerick Chronicle, Thursday 25 July 1771,
Married last Tuesday at the Quaker’s Meeting House, Mr Thomas Taverner to Miss
Frances M’Alister.
(Thomas and Frances of Farrenshone in the Liberties of Limerick are mentioned in
the 1808 Limerick Tontine, both of them were alive and a William M’Alister
nominated their only daughter Frances as the life on his Tontine share. Frances, the
daughter was aged 24 at the time. They must also be the parents of John M’Alister
Taverner who married Eliza Davis on the 17/12/1798 in St Mary’s Cathedral. This
John died in Office while serving as one of the Sheriffs of Limerick City in 1818. His
widow Eliza drew a Burgesses widow’s pension after his death. John cannot have
been a Quaker if he served as Sheriff).
Dublin Hibernian Journal, Wednesday 13 May 1772,
Married a few days ago at Limerick Mr John Brown, Surgeon, to Miss Taverner, one
of the people called Quakers. (The Taverner home in Glentworth St. passed into the
hands of the Brown family).
Limerick Chronicle, Monday 7 Sept 1772,
Advert: - Jacob Taverner, Watchmaker, next to the Exchange, Limerick.

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Limerick Chronicle, Monday 9 Aug 1773,
Advert: - Jacob Taverner, Watch and Clockmaker from London has moved up street to
the shop wherein his brother Thomas Taverner lives near the Post Office.
(The Post Office was near the Parade so this Thomas is the Earthenware Seller and
Jacob and Thomas are the sons of Samuel Taverner. Thomas is named in the 1769
Trade Directory as one of the China, Glass and Earthenware Dealers).
Finn’s Leinster Journal, Wed 18 th – Sat 21th July 1770,
Married at Limerick, Mr George Taverner of Castle Market to Miss Anne Armstrong
of Springmount, Co. Kildare.
Dublin Hibernian Journal, Monday 4 July 1774,
Married at Limerick, Mr George Taverner of Castle Market to the widow Maunsell.
(The Widow Maunsell was Henrietta Waller Taverner, the daughter of John Samuel
Taverner and Jane Waller).
Dublin Hibernian Journal, Monday 7 Dec 1778,
Married in Limerick William Piercy, one of the Burgesses of that City to Miss
Taverner. (Elizabeth End Taverner sister of Henrietta Waller Taverner above).
Limerick Chronicle, Thursday 17 Oct 1782,
Died last Tuesday, Mr Jacob Taverner, Watchmaker, one of the Society of Quakers.
Dublin Hibernian Journal, Friday 31 Dec 1784,
Died at Limerick, Mrs Jane Taverner. (Nee Waller, wife of John Samuel Taverner).
Limerick Chronicle, Thursday 14 April 1785,
Died last Tuesday night, Mrs Taverner, wife of Mr Thomas Taverner, one of the
Society of Friends. (Josiah Richard Gough identifies her as Temperance Russell, 1 st
wife of Thomas Taverner, a Quaker minister who was born in Limerick in 1728).
Limerick Chronicle, Monday 10 July 1786,
Married last Tuesday in Cork, Mr Thomas Taverner of this City, Hosier to Miss
Dobbs, both of the Society of Quakers. (Josiah Richard Gough names her as Mary,
the 2 nd wife of Thomas, the Quaker minister).
Limerick Chronicle, Thursday 22 June 1786,
Died last Monday night Mrs Taverner, relict of Mr Jacob Taverner, one of the Society
of Quakers.
Freeman’s Journal, Thursday 26 June 1788,
Died at Limerick in the 58 th year of his age, Mr John Taverner, one of the people
called Quakers. (Therefore born circa 1730).
Freeman’s Journal, Tuesday 11 Aug 1795,
Married last Thursday at Limerick, Walter Widenham, one of the Aldermen of that
City to the widow Piercy of Cork, co-heiress with Mrs Eskildson of George’s Quay, to
John Samuel Taverner whose property in Cork and Limerick is immense. (Their
brother Sam must have died).

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Limerick Chronicle, Saturday 24 Dec 1796,
Died last Saturday at Bank Place, John Samuel Taverner, one of the Common Council
of this City having served the Office of Sheriff in the year 1751.
Ennis Chronicle, Monday 28 May 1804,
Married last Saturday morning at St. Mary’s Church, Limerick, Mr Thomas Taverner
of the Custom House to Miss Deborah Phillips, daughter of the late Mr James
Phillips, Apothecary.
Quaker records tell us that Deborah was disunited from the Quaker community because she
was married by a priest to a non-Quaker husband. Cert issued on the 11/12/1804
Clare Journal, Thursday 6 Aug 1807,
Died in Mungret St., Mr Thomas Taverner, an Elder of the Society of Friends.
(Josiah Richard Gough identifies him as the Quaker minister who was married to
Temperance Russell and secondly Mary Dobbs. Mary outlived Thomas).
Ennis Chronicle, Wednesday 24 April 1811,
Birth on Wednesday last at his house in Glentworth St., the lady of Thomas Taverner
Esq. Pro Collector of Limerick, of a son.
Limerick Evening Post, Saturday 24 Oct 1812,
Birth, last night, Mrs Thomas Taverner of a daughter.
Limerick Evening Post, Saturday 13 Aug 1814,
Birth on Tuesday last the lady of Thomas Taverner Esq. of a daughter. (Louisa)
Limerick Evening Post, Thursday 24 Dec 1818,
Birth in Glentworth St., the lady of Thomas Taverner Esq. of a son. (Samuel).
Limerick Chronicle, Saturday 10 April 1819,
Died this morning at his house in Dominick St. after a few hours illness, John
M’Allister Taverner, one of the Sheriffs of this City. (The Clare Journal gives
Wednesday as the day of his death).
Limerick Chronicle, Wednesday 24 Jan 1821,
Died last night in an advanced age at his house in Thomond-gate, Mr Thomas
Taverner, one of the Society of Friends.
Limerick Chronicle, Wednesday 19 Sept 1821,
Died yesterday in Upper Glentworth St., Mrs Taverner relict of the late Thomas
Taverner. (Mrs Frances Taverner, see Quaker Burial Records below).

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Taverner Burials from Quaker Records.
Period covered, 1812 – 1952.
Died, 23/09/1814. Louisa Taverner, aged 6 Mts. Dau. of Thomas and Deborah Taverner.
Died, 06/01/1820. Samuel Taverner, aged 1 Yr. Upper Glentworth St. son of Thomas and
Deborah.
Died, 23/01/1821. Thomas Taverner, aged 79 yrs. Thomondgate. A Farmer. (B.c.1742)
Died, 18/09/1821. Frances Taverner, aged 75 yrs. Glentworth St. Widow of Thomas above.
Died, 31/05/1823. Amelia Taverner, aged 74 yrs. New Barracks Road. Unmarried.
Died 01/12/1825. John Taverner, aged 18 yrs. Glentworth St., Son of Thomas and Deborah.
Died 26/07/1827. Thomas Taverner, aged 51 yrs. Limerick. Retired from business.
Died 12/02/1839. Deborah Taverner, aged 54 yrs. Glentworth St. Widow of Thomas.
Died 05/03/1864. Frances Taverner, aged 82 yrs. Glentworth St. Spinster.
(This would appear to be the Frances mentioned in the 1808 Tontine Pedigree Sketches).
Freemen of Limerick City.
John Samuel Taverner, Gent. 25/09/1742
Thomas Taverner, son of White John Taverner. 10/10/1768
John Taverner, son of Thomas Taverner John. 07/10/1793
William Taverner, son of Thomas Taverner John. 27/09/1794
Thomas Taverner Jnr. 04/01/1819
Note: - The last four entries being sons of Merchants are all, most likely, apprentices just
having finished their apprenticeships and are all most likely aged 21 on their year of
admittance as Freemen. This is only an observation to help calculate clues to date of birth.
Freemen who voted in, 1760. 1768. 1776.
Joseph Taverner yes no no
John Taverner John yes no no
John Samuel Taverner yes yes yes
Taverners named in Limerick Trade Directories
Thomas Taverner, of the Parade, Dealer in China, Glass and Earthenware 1769
Thomas Samuel Taverner of Mary St. Hosier. (see marriage in 1786). 1788
John Taverner, Merchant. 1809
John Taverner. 1816
Thomas Taverner of Glentworth St. One of the Nobility, Gentry &Clergy. 1824
William Taverner of Henry St. Corn Merchant 1840
William Taverner of Mount Kennett, Iron Merchant. 1840

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1829 Freeholders of Limerick
Thomas Taverner of Willmount in the suburbs of Limerick registered his house and lands in
Courtbrack on the 7 Sept 1812.
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Limerick Local Studies, Obits.
Thomas Taverner of Mungret St. Quaker. Death reported 31/07/1807. (The minister).
John Taverner son of Thomas Taverner died at Glentworth St. Friday 02/12/1825.
Thomas Taverner died 26/07/1827 at his house in Glentworth St.
Miss Taverner, daughter of William F. Taverner. Death reported 07/07/1847.
William Taverner of the Custom House. Death reported 17/03/1849.
Mary Taverner of Coloony St. Daughter of Francis Taverner. Death reported 10/12/1851.
Frances Taverner of Glentworth St. Aged 83. A Quaker. Death reported 05/03/1864. (Single)
Kate Taverner, wife of William, died in Liverpool, reported 23/02/1895. Nee Bevan.
(William F. Taverner married Catherine Bevan of Glen Bevan, Limerick, in March 1875).
Frances Taverner of 6 Glentworth St. Aged 95. Died 18/04/1905. (Frances was buried in the
Brown plot in St Munchin’s. Remember the Taverner home in Glentworth St passed into the
possession of the Brown family).
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Reminiscences of Old Limerick, by Ernest H Bennis. (1950)
of the Bennis Quaker Family.
A family named Taverner came to Limerick from Lincolnshire about 1666, probably
Cromwellian settlers, and for about 250 years quietly and unassumingly continued in trade in
the city. For some time they engaged in the tanning business.
In those days nearly every town and many villages had their own tanneries, but
seventy or eighty years ago when the economic collapse occurred tanneries all disappeared
except in Limerick and Ballitore, a village in county Kildare.
The last of the name was Fanny Taverner, a very little old lady who lived as
housekeeper with her nephew Surgeon General Browne, who had retired from the medical
service in India with a big British pension. Small of stature, timid and retiring, never
flaunting his wealth or ability, he thus possessed all the Taverner characteristics. His only
companions were two other wealthy bachelors, and when these three would go for their walks
together they were known as the “three Bs” but they should have been known as the “three
double Bs”. Ben Barrington, Billy Beauchamp and Bertie Browne. (Henry T. Brown died on
the 2 nd Feb 1925 aged 81 years). (When the Taverner name ceased to appear in the Rate
Books, a Dr Thomas Browne appeared instead in 1844 as occupier of the same house in
Glentworth St.).
Betham’s Will Abstracts.
John Samuel Tavernor =
Burgess of Limerick
W. 22 May 1793
Pr. 19 Dec 1798.
Pedigree Sketches.
Elizabeth End Widenham = William Piercy
(Elizabeth End Taverner married on the 7 Dec 1778, William Piercy, a Burgess of Limerick.

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He was Sheriff in 1771. Elizabeth married secondly Walter Widenham, an Alderman of
Limerick on the 11 Aug 1795. Walter was Mayor in 1777 having being Sheriff in 1759).
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Samuel Taverner = Phoebe
Jacob Taverner =
Bt. 10 Nov 1726
St. Mary’s
Watchmaker
D. Oct 1782.
Thomas Taverner
Earthenware Seller
The Parade. (1769)
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Samuel Taverner = Anne End
B. 1687 in Cork B. 17/07/1791 in Cork
M.
D. 1727 D. 20/01/1758, buried in St John’s, Limerick.
John Samuel Taverner = Jane Waller
B. 1712 B. 1715, Co. Clare.
Fm 1742 M. 1748
Sheriff of Limerick 1751
D. 17/12/1796 D. 31/12/1784.
Sarah Ann Samuel Henrietta = Thomas Maunsell Elizabeth
End
B. 1749 B. 1750 B.1752 B.1756
M. 14/04/1769 M.
07/12/1778
D. 1750 William Piercy
M. 22/06/1774 = George Taverner. M. 11/08/1795
D. 1780 Walter Widenham
M. 1781 = George Eskildson 1730 - 1797
Danish Consul. D. 1822 in France
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Familysearch.
Samuel Taverner = Phebe
Thomas Taverner Jacob Taverner = Mrs Taverner
Bt. 15/03/1728 Bt. 10/11/1726
D. Oct 1782 D. June 1786
Became a Quaker.
(N.B. Thomas Taverner, the Quaker minister, was born in Limerick in 1728)
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John Tavernor =

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Samuel Taverner. (Twins) Oliver Arthur Tavernor
Bt. 29/01/1743 Bt. 29/01/1743
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Thomas Taverner = Frances M’Alister
B.c. 1742 B.c. 1746
M. 23/07/1771
D. 23/01/1821 D. 18/09/1821
John Taverner = Eliza Davis Frances
B. B.c. 1784
M. 17/12/1798. L. 1808
D. 1818 D.
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Major Charles Howard Fitzmayer = Catherine Morrisey
Royal Artillery of Madeira
1775 – 1821. D. Limerick M. 1804
William Frederick Taverner = Charlotte Sophia Fitzmayer = 2 nd John Doherty
B. B. North Strand
M. 17/01/1837 Limerick
D. 21/09/1856
Thomas Taverner
Bt. 22/11/1837 in St Mary’s Cathedral
Limerick.
Moved to England.
(William F. Taverner and Charlotte feature in Griffith’s Valuation for Limerick. William held
property in Farrenshone and the previous Taverners of Farrenshone were Thomas and his
wife Frances M’Alister. Were these two William’s parents?).
(The Limerick Chronicle carries the death of Catherine, the widow of Major Fitzmayer, R.A.
at her daughters house, Stonetown, North Strand, Limerick on the 2 nd Dec 1871. She was
buried in St Munchin’s. She was also the mother of “the present” General Sir James
Fitzmayer. C.B.
Charlotte, Catherine’s daughter had died in 1856 and Sir James Fitzmayer’s wife Jane Louisa
had died in 1859, she being Catherine’s daughter-in-law. Catherine had a daughter also
called Catherine but she died at her mothers house in Camberwell, London in 1840. So who
was the daughter in whose house Catherine died?)
Griffith’s Valuation.
This gives a Charlotte Taverner holding No 11 Ferry Cottage [North Strand] from
Elizabeth Vereker.
House and yard valued at £8-10-0.
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St. Munchin’s Churchyard.

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Sacred to the memory of W.E.Taverner who departed this life 11 March 1819, aged 31yrs.
Also his wife Sophia Doherty who died 21 Sept 1836. Also their daughter Anna Frances
Taverner who died 14 July 1917.
(This transcription is unfortunately full of errors. W.E.Taverner should read
W.F.Taverner. His date of death couldn’t be in 1819 as he only married in 1837, perhaps
it should read 1849. His widow Charlotte Sophia who married as her 2 nd husband John
Doherty, died on the 21 Sept 1856 and not on the 21 Sept 1836. However it is easy to
understand bad transcriptions when one bears in mind the condition of most old
Tombstones).
Charlotte Sophia was the sister of Catherine Howard Fitzmayer who died in London in 1840,
2 nd daughter, and Anne Howard Fitzmayer who died in Limerick in 1848, 1 st daughter, and
Sir James William Fitzmayer who died in England in 1895 having been born in Guyana in
1813. He was knighted for his actions in the Crimean War. James William married first, Jane
Louisa Lane in 1841 but she died in 1859.
Jacob Taverner =
John Taverner = Rachell Brooks Samuel
M. 1727. Quakers D. 1771
D. 06/05/1769 in London
Miss Rachael Taverner John Faylee = Mary Taverner
D. May 1758 M. June 1761
Quakers
Quaker Records for the 30/11/1727 give John Taverner, the son of Jacob Taverner stating his
intention to be joined in Matrimony with Rachell Brooks. The Limerick Chronicle and The
Magazine of Magazines record the death on the 06/05/1769 of Rachel Taverner the wife of
John Taverner. Quakers. (Their daughter also called Rachael, died in May 1758).
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Jacob Taverner = Joanna
Limerick.
Anna Taverner
Quaker Minister
Spinster.
B.c. 1758.
D. 01/08/1825
In Ballitore, Co. Kildare.
Aged 67.
Anna was supposed to have been an orphan who was schooled by an Aunt in London before
she returned to Limerick in 1780, where she was a very active member of the Society of
Friends.
Mary Leadbeater describes her friend Anna in detail in her “Annals of Ballitore”.

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Thomas Taverner John =
John Thomas Jnr. = Deborah Phillips William Samuel
B. B. B. B. B.
M. 26/05/1804
D. 27 Aug 1808
In West Indies
John Taverner was disunited from the Society of Friends on the 10/10/1797 for carrying a
sword concealed in a cane.
Thomas Taverner Jnr. resigned on the 15/08/1803 from the Society of Friends when he joined
The Collector of Limerick’s Corp of Yeomanry.
Deborah Phillips was disunited on the 11/12/1804 after she married Thomas Taverner Jnr.
They were married in St Mary’s Cathedral by a priest on the 26/05/1804.
General Advertiser, 4 Oct 1808.
Died at St. Croix, West Indies on the 27 Aug 1808, Lt. Samuel Taverner of the 96 th
Foot. Brother of Thomas Taverner, Pro Collector of Limerick.
New Data.
Obits Limerick Chronicle Wednesday 20/01/1830,
Died on Sunday the 17 th Mrs Taverner of Dominick St., widow of John McAllister
Taverner who died while serving as Sheriff in 1819.