Waterford-Mandeville family

The Waterford-Mandeville family is a Catholic Anglo-Irish aristocratic family of Norman descent.

The family is first mentioned with Geoffrey de Mandeville whom crossed the Channel with William the Conqueror in 1066. They were important Domesday tenants-in-chief, and Geoffrey was one of the ten richest magnates of the reign of William the Conqueror. William granted him large estates, primarily in Essex, but in ten other shires as well.

While the eldest sons remained in England to became the progenitor of the first Earls of Essex (first creation c. 1139), the younger son Jehan went to the first expedition to the norman conquest of Ireland in 1174. To differentiate from the English realm of the family, Waterford was added to their name in reference to the Irish city of Waterford which used to be their primary seat. The family remained in Ireland until the Cromwellian wars when they went to Jamaica as well in Belize. The city of Mandeville, Jamaica, is named after them. They still reside in Jamaica primarily.

Other branches of the family adopted other surnames, such as MacQuillan and Mansfield among others; their descendants remain in Ireland today.

The Waterford-Mandeville family is also known for:

• The Cambridge Hill Plantation, St Thomas, Jamaica, which is their primarily seat in the West Indies.
• The Waterford-Mandeville Plantation in Belize where they produce Old Planteur rums; this was established in the 1880s while family members were conducting Crown business.

• The Airy Castle Plantation in St Thomas, Jamaica
• The Waterford Mandeville Estate

The current head of the family, Sir Thierry Waterford-Mandeville, KLJ., a lawyer, is acting as Commodore of the West Indies Yacht Club in Jamaica. They owns and resides at Burrowfield Plantation, St Thomas, Jamaica.

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