BIANCONI

Carlo ( 2 son of Pietro Bianconi of Tregolo, Lombardy, farmer who d. 1833 ). b. Tregolo 24 Sep. 1786; went to Ireland as a picture seller 1802; opened a carver and gilder’s shop at Carrick-on-Suir 1806, removed to Water ford and then to Clonmel; started a one-horse two-wheeled car for conveyance of pa engers from Clonmel to Cahir 6 July 1815; started cars all over Ireland where they were known as “Bians”; in 1864 his pa enger traffic realised £27,700 and his mail contracts £12,000; gave up his shop at Clonmel 1826 and his car busine 1865; received letters of Naturalisation from Irish Privy Council 31 Aug. 1831; mayor of Clonmel 1844–46; purchased Long field, Tipperary for £22,000 23 March 1846, where he lived 16 Sep. 1846 to death; D.L. for Tipperary June 1863. ( m. 14 Feb. 1827 Eliza, dau. of Patrick Hayes of Dublin, stockbroker). d. Long field 22 Sep. 1875. Charles Bianconi, a biography 1786–1875 by his daughter Mrs. Morgan John O’Connell 1878, portrait ; Dublin univ. mag. lxxxv 16–24 (1875), portrait .