Hi There, Thanks for following up - the info I have is mainly from 2 sources: a family bible descended from one of the daughters of Lydia Margaret Steele which notes her brother Richard went to the West Indies and was a member of the legislature in Grenada- not exactly true but I did pick up his train and he was important in the colony. The bible is believed to be in the hands of someone descended from the female lines - the Baskin lines possibly. Lydia Margaret`s daughters: Alice m George Hipwell of Newtownbarry, Maria m William Houghton Baskin of Dublin, Margaret m William Thomas Doyle of Enniscorthy and Lydia m William Clendinnen of Newtownbarry and Hacketstown Carlow. I heard about the bible from a Clendinnen descendent in Australia (they also have a branch in Canada) and after trying hard we can not find who has it now so can not scan and share it. There is also some notes from an Oliver Baskin 1795 in Australia which also refer to Lydia Margaret. The sons of Lydia Margaret changed their name to Deaker.
the main source for Richard Steele is his will which was transcribed from LDS microfilm by Jim Smith on his amazing blog - Jim is related through a Mary Ann Smith marrying George Steele in Grenada (a son of the Irish Richard).
Anyway, no reason to think there is any connection to the Steele`s of Kyle House Queens Co. the Kyle name may be a coincidence except that Lydia Margaret Steele`s husband John Dacre was said to have been a silk weaver in Montrath Queens - there is rumour that they may have moved to Wexford after the marriage.
We have so little info that we can not connect to any of the big Steele clans (Queens, Rathbride, Rathdowny, Dublin, Antrim...) but that is the beauty of the chase. I believe Lydia Margaret Steele Dacre lived with a daughter who married a Methodist preacher with a Carlow area circuit. When she died she was buried in in Hacketstown Carlow or maybe St.Mary`s Bunclody I forget. There is no evidence of the marriage of John Dacre or his people - it is a name I have not come across anywhere in my search of Ireland or France for that matter. The Steele`s of Grenada and some of the Deaker descendants seem to have been Anglican with a Methodist bent but these clues do not lead anywhere. I intend to go to Grenada at some point and see if I can pick up the trail of Richard Steele`s business dealings and see if they can lead me back to family connections in Ireland. We do also have Scottish names popping up Aberdeen, MacDonald, Malcolm etc not surprising with a name like Steele, but these too are inconclusive.
Cheers, Susan