MccGwire Family (and other spellings)

In a quiet part of St Catherine's Churchyard in Ludham is this gravestone with its iron railings. The inscription reads: Sacred To the memory of The Reverend WILLIAM RICHARD BERMINGHAM MccGWIRE Eldest son of the late WILLIAM JOHN MccGWIRE Of ROSTREVOR Co DOWN IRELAND And his wife The Lady MARY MccGWIRE ONLY CHILD OF William Richard Third Earl of ANNESLEY By his first wife The Lady ISABELLA  S. LAWRANCE Daughter of WILLIAM 2nd Earl of HOWTH Born 9th March 1829 Died 13th July 1896 Its an interesting inscription in many ways. It tells us that here lies a priest from an aristocratic Irish family who lived and died in Ludham at the end of the 19th Century. There is no mention of a wife or children. It also shows a set of names with unusual spellings and it is the only MccGwire grave. A quick check of the list of Ludham Vicars inside the church shows us that The Rev William was not one of them. So who was he, and how did he end up so far from his place of birth?

Time to do some research, and after spending some time sorting out the records of people who used a wide range of different spellings of their surname, we have come up with this family tree:

We see that Rev William's Father (William John) was born in Rostrevor, County Down in what is now Northern Ireland. He married The Lady Mary Annesley, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Annesley. We also see that Rev William's Great Great Grandmother was also an Annesley

William John is shown to have graduated from Christ Church (an Oxford College) at the age of 17 and it looks likely to us that he died in France and is buried in Montmartre, Paris.

The Rev William married twice and had two daughters with his first wife Caroline Rorison. His daughter Caroline died in infancy.

From census information we can find the following:

In 1850 he married Caroline Rorison in Tenby
In 1861, he was Curate at the church in Melcombe Regis, Dorset.
In 1881, he was lodging in a house in Sutton Coldfield, Warickshire with a housekeeper Harriet Withecombe. He was 52 and she 30. His occupation is shown as Clerk in Holy Orders without the care of souls.
In 1884 he married Harriet in Eccles, Lancashire.
In 1891 he was living in Sutton, Norfolk. (not to be confused with Sutton Coldfield).
In 1896 he died in Ludham and is buried at St Catherine's. Sutton is not far away from Ludham, but it looks like he had moved to Ludham before his death.

That's as much as we know unless anyone reading this can add to the story.