Steve,
[Can't tell you much about Dorothea, but I know a man who might ...]
The TURNLEYs were indeed major players in the 18th & 19thC, involved with multifarious trading enterprises in and around Belfast.
[I'll forward you the entries for the name (sometimes spelt as TURNLY) from the index to the Belfast Newsletter 1737-1800.]
Francis TURNLEY and Narcissus BATT imported alcoholic products from Holland and the Channel islands. They went in to business together to run a brewery at one time, no doubt supplying the publicans of the local area ....
They seem to have had a philanthropic disposition.
They lived in Hollywood, the upmarket free-living suburb of Belfast, in a large house (from its name, possibly styled like the favourite residence of King George II and Queen Caroline at Kew in London).
Looks like they sold their house (and business?) to the DUNVILLEs.
[Hmm, Dunville's whiskey ... ]
Some information to be found online is listed below.
[The dreaded "Blight of the URLs" !
'Twill only get worse as this year progresses ...]
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http://www.antrim.net/cushendall/historical.htmThe tower in the centre of Cushendall was built by Francis Turnley in 1817, to confine riotous prisoners.
Francis Turnley, landlord of the village, was born at Richmond Lodge, Co. Down in 1765. His father was also Francis and his mother Catherine Black, a member of a wealthy family. His father obtained a position for him in the East India Company and he went to China in 1796 where he amassed a fortune of £70,000. On his return he bought two estates, one of which included the village of Cushendall.
http://radiocarbon.pa.qub.ac.uk/local/ulstertownlands/ulster/down/H/hollywood.htmlHOLLYWOOD, a post-town and parish, in the barony of LOWER CASTLEREAGH, county of DOWN, and province of ULSTER, 4 miles (N. E.) from Belfast;
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The surrounding scenery is, finely varied, and embellished with numerous gentlemen's seats; among which are the episcopal palace of the Bishop of Down; Cultra, the seat of H. Kennedy, Esq.; Ballymenock, of T. Gregg, Esq.;
Rockport, of I. Turnley, Esq.; Craigavad, of A. Forbes, Esq.; Garnerville, of Capt. Garner; Hollywood House, of J. Macartney, Esq.; Turf Lodge, of J. Kane, Esq.; Knoekuagoney, of Mrs. Kennedy; Bloomfield, of J. Agnew, Esq.; Clifton, of Dr. Halli day;
Richmond Lodge, of F. Turnley, Esq.; Wellington,of W. Crawford, Esq.; Marino, of T. Ward, Esq.; Greenvifie, of I. Stott, Esq.; Glen Carrig, of Miss Synres; and the Spa, of J. Cordukes, Esq.
http://www.dumville.org/sources/wd1740_sou.htmllast Will of John Dunville (1785-1851), dated 19 October 1850
I,
John Dunville, of Richmond Lodge in the County of Down, do make and publish this my last will and testament ...
http://www.ladyisle.com/young%20family%20history/samuel_young_3111.htm1861 BELFAST STREET DIRECTORY
CALENDER STREET
Castle Lane to Donegall Square
10 John Dunville & Co., wholesale wine, tea and spirit
merchants;
William Dunville's residence, Richmond
Lodge, County Downwww.proni.gov.ukFrancis TURNLY 1735-1801
Francis TURNLY 1765-1845
John TURNLY 1819-1909
http://www.lecalehistory.co.uk/lewisN.htmAbout 690 children are taught in the public schools of the parish [Newtonards], for one of which, on Erasmus Smith's foundation, a spacious house, with residences for a master and mistress, was built at an expense of £1000, defrayed jointly by the Marquess of Londonderry and the trustees of that charity; and for another
a house was lately erected by Francis Turnley, Esq., under the will of his late father, with a house each for a master and mistress, and endowed with £3 per ann. to be distributed in prizes to the children.
http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/ant/carnmoney.htm... there is a school at
Ballycraigy, built and supported by
Francis Turnley, Esq.
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I think that the TURNLEYs may also have given a generous donation to help the founding of the Congregational church in Ballycraigy in 1805.
It is likely that FT was a middle-man (agent) for Lord Donegall at this time, perhaps purchasing his lands outright later - most likely in the 1820s, in the desperate big sell-off triggered by the Chichesters' large gambling debts.
When the church needed more ground in the 1970s, this was supplied "thanks to the generosity of the TURNLEY Estates".
Jock
