Lady MacMahon
(c.1820-1876)
16 October 1862

Volume 9, page 267, sitting number 12,065.

[Identified as 'Lady MacMahon' in the Silvy daybooks, this is probably the wife of Sir Beresford MacMahon, 2nd Baronet.]

Born Maria Catherine Bateson, the daughter of Sir Robert Bateson of Belvoir Park in County Down, on 4 January 1838 she married Sir Beresford Burston MacMahon (1808-1873), whose father Sir William MacMahon (1776-1837), was Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Their marriage produced nine children.

'Sir Beresford MacMahon, bart., of the Scots Fusileer Guards, will some time in the month of January lead to the hymeneal altar the lovely Miss Bateson, the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Bateson, a baronet of very extensive property, and member for the county of Londonderry. It is a singular circumstance that by the will of the late Sir Williaim MacMahon, a sum of money was left to be applied in no other way but the purchase of a company in the Guards for Sir Beresford' (Monmouthshire Merlin, 9 December 1837).

The couple make occasional appearences in Irish newspaper columns charting the comings and goings of local society. 'Lady MacMahon and suite arrived yesterday from England' (The Evening Freeman, 5 November 1862). 'Sir Beresford MacMahon and Lady MacMahon have left their residence, Bloomfield, Merrion [in Dublin], for London, en route to Germany' (Belfast News-Letter, 25 June 1872).

Lady MacMahon died on 6 August 1876.