Jorge Torlades O'Neill II

Jorge Torlades O'Neill (Lisbon, Encarnação, February 15, 1849 – February 11, 1925), was the head of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family has been in Portugal since the 18th century. He was officially recognized by the offices of arms throughout Europe as titular Prince and Count of Tyrone and Clanaboy and Representative of the Clan O'Neill, but he refused to use this title, using instead the style O'Neill of Clannaboy. He was the first son of the previous head Jorge Torlades O'Neill I and wife and cousin Carolina Teresa O'Neill. He was also the representative of the title of Viscount of Santa Mónica, in Portugal.

He was a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Peer of the Realm and a personal friend of King Carlos I of Portugal. He presented on the Portuguese Cartory of the Nobility several documents proving his illustrious origin, of which the Clerk of the Nobility passed him a Certificate on June 30, 1902 (he was recognized as the Chief of his name by the Ulster King of Arms then either Sir Arthur Vicars (1893-1908) or Sir Neville Rodwell Wilkinson (1908-1940), and also, in 1925, by the Irish Free State government.

Descendants

Married in Lisbon, Santos o Velho, on July 14, 1873 to Maria Isabel Mazziotti da Costa Cordeiro Fernandes (Lisbon, São Julião (now extinct), January 4, 1855 – Lisbon, Encarnação, May 7, 1953), daughter of João Gregório Fernandes and wife Maria Isabel da Costa Cordeiro and great-granddaughter of Italian Michele (Miguel) Mazziotti, whose name she received, the couple had four children:

• Hugo José Jorge O'Neill
• Jorge Alberto O'Neill (December 6, 1875 – December 8, 1900), unmarried and without issue
• Maria Teresa O'Neill (Oeiras, Carnaxide, July 19, 1878 – Lisbon, August 15, 1958), married in Lisbon, Encarnação, January 27, 1898 to Dom António de Avilez Lobo de Almeida de Melo e Castro (Amadora or Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, January 27, 1876 – November 5, 1920), a Moço-Fidalgo of the Royal Household with exercise on the Palace, son of José Ferreira Pinto de Avilez Juzarte de Sousa Tavares or José de Avilez Ferreira Pinto Basto or José de Avilez Juzarte de Sousa Tavares, aldo a Moço-Fidalgo of the Royal Household with exercise on the Palace, of the Counts of Avilez and Viscounts of o Reguengo, and first wife Dona Eugénia Maria Lobo de Almeida de Melo e Castro, daughter of the 8th and mother of the 9th Counts of as Galveias, and had issue, twelve children
• José Carlos Maria Félix Bernardo O'Neill (Lisbon, January 8, 1894 – Lisbon, January 9, 1965), married in Lisbon, on January 22, 1931 to Anna Werner (Fribourg, February 18, 1904 – deceased), a Swiss German, daughter of Jacob Werner and wife Marie Mathis, the couple had two children:
  • Bernardo Pedro Jorge Hugo O'Neill (Genève, February 22, 1937 –), a Mechanical Engineer by the Instituto Superior Técnico, married in Lisbon, Santa Maria de Belém, on November 21, 1969 to Maria da Assunção Carrilho Ricardo da Costa (Almodôvar, Almodôvar, November 23, 1943 –), daughter of Dr. Adhemar Salvador Ricardo da Costa, Veterinarian Doctor, and wife Maria Cândida Calado Carrilho, and had issue:
    • José Carlos O'Neill (Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, May 20, 1971 –)
    • Hugo Ricardo O'Neill (Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, February 23, 1973 –)
  • Maria Isabel O'Neill (Genève, August 29, 1939 –), married in Palmela on April 30, 1960 and divorced to Eng. Guilherme Eduardo d'Orey Gaivão, and had issue

External links

• Jorge O'Neill's genealogy in a Portuguese Genealogical site