Alex Watson is a researcher and genealogist, based in Glasgow, Scotland, I hope that you find this website informative, it is an ongoing project, based on the research that I started, in 2004, on behalf of my friend Patrick Joynson-Wreford, it will continue to be updated as more information becomes available.
Please get in touch if you want to ask questions or need some help, also if you have any information, stories, photographs, etc, that you want to share.
Welcome to the McClintock of Seskinore Website
This website is the result of many years of research into the McClintock family of Seskinore, County Tyrone. I felt that the best way to share this information was to put it online, making it available to others who may be connected to the family or simply interested in its history.
The material here has been gathered from private and public archives, family stories, photographs, and correspondence. It is an ongoing project and will continue to grow as more discoveries come to light.
A Journey of Discovery
In March 2004, I began assisting my friend Patrick Joynson-Wreford in researching his father, Wilfred (Tony) Heyman Joynson-Wreford, a man he knew little about. Patrick was the son of Tony and Olive Trainor, who divorced shortly after his birth. Tony had previously been married, and this was a second marriage for both of them. Less than a year old, Patrick was taken by his mother to America, where they remained until just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
During our research, we discovered that Tony had married for a third time — shortly after his divorce from Olive — to Leila McClintock on 30 August 1932. Leila was a descendant of the McClintock family of Seskinore. They had a daughter together, Penelope (Xenia).
Leila dPage: Perry-McClintockied on 31 January 1937, leaving Tony the owner of her ancestral estate: Seskinore House in County Tyrone.
A Lasting Legacy
Tony died on 23 March 1940, in Switzerland, where he had been convalescing with the final stages of tuberculosis. His ashes were returned to Seskinore, where they were buried beside Leila in the Seskinore Garden of Remembrance. This garden had been specially reserved from the sale of the property by the executor of Tony’s estate in 1941.
Patrick passed away on 19 August 2015. His ashes are buried alongside his father’s, within the same garden — a quiet, sacred place preserving the memory of this unique family legacy.
Related Families and Estates
This project connects the McClintock family of Seskinore to several prominent landed families and estates in Ulster and beyond. These include:
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Eccles family of Ecclesville, Fintona – Into which the McClintocks married, and from whom the Seskinore estate may have partially descended.
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Browne family of Aughentaine Castle – Interconnected through the Browne-Lecky line, later owners of Ecclesville.
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de Montmorency family of Castle Morres – Related via the Pratt family of Cabra Castle, connected by marriage to McClintock descendants.
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McCausland family of Fruithill (Drenagh) – Allied through marriage into the Browne-Lecky line.
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Stewart family of Athenree, Loughmacrory Lodge, and Gortigil – Local neighbours, some of whom intermarried with the McClintocks and their extended relations.
Explore More
I welcome contributions — whether photographs, documents, or stories. If you have information connected to the McClintock family of Seskinore or any of the related families above, please get in touch. Your input is invaluable.
Xenia, Alex, and Pat.
(Gold Coast, Australia, January 2005).
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