The majority of the landholders lived in the parish of Beagh in 1854, or in close proximity to the parish. Lord Gort lived in Lough Cutra Castle, Francis Butler in Cregg House, William Butler in Bunnahow House, and Daniel McNevin lived in Ashfield for a short period. A total of 900 tenants farmed the 12,331 acres, which was owned by a mere 14 landholders.
List of Landlords during Griffith's Primary Valuation (in order of land held)
- Robert J Lattey – Total 4229 acres 1 roods 29 perches
- Representatives of Vicessimus Knox – Total 1599 acres 24 perches
- William Butler – Total 1329 3 roods 26 perches
- Viscount Gough – Total 1287 acres 1 roods 2 perches
- Henry Lahiff – Total 978 acres 2 roods
- Edward Blacquiere – Total 591 acres 26 perches
- James Lahiff – Total 550 acres 2 roods 17 perches
- Robert French – Total 463 acres 2 roods 29 perches
- Blake Butler – Total 365 acres 3 roods 13 perches
- Representatives of Thomas McNevin – Total 363 acres 1 rood 9 perches
- Austin Butler – Total 333 acres 3 roods 24 perches
- Thomas Cahill – Total 312 acres 10 perches
- Michael Kane - Total 311 acres 1 rood 28 perches
- De Courcy O’Grady / Derinzy O’Grady – 295 acres 3 roods
- Matthew Rosengrave – Total 284 acres 2 roods 13 perches
- John F. Heustin – Total 160 acres 3 roods 28 perches
- Eleanor Butler – Total 102 acres 3 roods 18 perches
- Thomas and John Boland – 102 acres 3 roods
- Francis M.S. Taylor – Total 70 acres 13 perches
- Richard Vereker – Total 46 acres
Blacquiere Family
Edward Blacquiere’s great grandfather was Jean Blacquiére, born 1676 in Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Jean married Mary Elizabeth de Varennes, the daughter of a refugee, by whom he had issue. He died on 22 April 1753 in London, England. Jean was a Huguenot. The Huguenots were originally French Calvinist Protestants who, following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 by King Louis XIV, departed from France rather than convert to Catholicism. In the 17th and 18th centuries French Calvinist Protestants were persecuted and alienated by a Catholic monarchy, causing as many as 500,000 of them to flee the country. Many fled to England where there was a sympathetic Protestant king. Jean took refuge in 1685 in England, likely in the Greenwich area. He was among the merchants of the Citation of London, who in 1744 presented an address of loyalty to the King.
Edward’s Granduncle was John De Blacquiere, Baron of Ardkill, County Londonderry (1732-1812). He settled at Lisburn, where his sister married John Crommelin, another Huguenot refugee. At this time, the majority of the Lisburn Huguenot population were involved in the textile industry. He held various public offices: was Secretary of Legation at Paris; secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; was made a Baronet of Ardkill in 1784; and raised to the peerage in 1800 as Lord de Blaquiere of Ardkill in Ireland. Both titles became extinct in 1920 upon the death of his great grandson, the sixth Baron.
Picture of him here http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/b/Blacquiere_J/life.htm
Edward was born about 1803 in Dublin to Henry Blaquiére and Jane Grogan. He married Maria Anne Lynch on 5 February 1823 in Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, Scotland. They proceeded to have 5 known children; Henry (about 1826), James Francis (between 1827-1835), Thomas Montague (about 1835), Elizabeth (about 1835) and John William (about 1841). Edward died in 1875 in Fiddane House. His wife Maria died on 30 April 1870 in Fiddane House. He remarried to Elizabeth Lopdell (née Butler), in March 1872 in St. Peter’s Church in Dublin. She was a daughter of Captain Francis Butler (1780-1860) of Cregg, another landholder in Beagh. Her first husband, John Lopdell, died on 26 March 1870 and was buried in Kilkeedy Church of Ireland graveyard. Interestingly, Edward’s son Thomas Montague married Elizabeth Lopdell, his stepmother’s daughter (essentially his step-sister) in December 1871. Upon his death, Edward’s eldest son Henry inherited his properties in Galway about 1875.
References
http://www.dochara.com/the-irish/surnames/hueguenot-palatine-names-in-ireland/
http://www.blaquiere.ca/tng/getperson.php?personID=I13060&tree=base-1
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=byufamilyhistorian p.120
http://www.godrules.net/library/smiles/95smiles4.htm
RootsIreland.ie
http://homepage.eircom.net/~tubbernsclare/COI%20in%20Kilkeedy.html
Belfast Newsletter Newspaper
Edward’s Granduncle was John De Blacquiere, Baron of Ardkill, County Londonderry (1732-1812). He settled at Lisburn, where his sister married John Crommelin, another Huguenot refugee. At this time, the majority of the Lisburn Huguenot population were involved in the textile industry. He held various public offices: was Secretary of Legation at Paris; secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; was made a Baronet of Ardkill in 1784; and raised to the peerage in 1800 as Lord de Blaquiere of Ardkill in Ireland. Both titles became extinct in 1920 upon the death of his great grandson, the sixth Baron.
Picture of him here http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/b/Blacquiere_J/life.htm
Edward was born about 1803 in Dublin to Henry Blaquiére and Jane Grogan. He married Maria Anne Lynch on 5 February 1823 in Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, Scotland. They proceeded to have 5 known children; Henry (about 1826), James Francis (between 1827-1835), Thomas Montague (about 1835), Elizabeth (about 1835) and John William (about 1841). Edward died in 1875 in Fiddane House. His wife Maria died on 30 April 1870 in Fiddane House. He remarried to Elizabeth Lopdell (née Butler), in March 1872 in St. Peter’s Church in Dublin. She was a daughter of Captain Francis Butler (1780-1860) of Cregg, another landholder in Beagh. Her first husband, John Lopdell, died on 26 March 1870 and was buried in Kilkeedy Church of Ireland graveyard. Interestingly, Edward’s son Thomas Montague married Elizabeth Lopdell, his stepmother’s daughter (essentially his step-sister) in December 1871. Upon his death, Edward’s eldest son Henry inherited his properties in Galway about 1875.
References
http://www.dochara.com/the-irish/surnames/hueguenot-palatine-names-in-ireland/
http://www.blaquiere.ca/tng/getperson.php?personID=I13060&tree=base-1
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=byufamilyhistorian p.120
http://www.godrules.net/library/smiles/95smiles4.htm
RootsIreland.ie
http://homepage.eircom.net/~tubbernsclare/COI%20in%20Kilkeedy.html
Belfast Newsletter Newspaper
McNevin Family
College records in Dublin inform that Daniel McNevin was the only son of Thomas McNevin, Gort, Co. Galway, merchant, (deceased by 1802), and Elizabeth Walsh. He was aged over 16 when he entered Trinity Term in 1802. He left an Attorney Exchequer in Michaelmas Term in 1810, according to an entry from the Exchequer Roll. The affidavit for Daniel to the college was made by Thomas Lahiff, Gort. In 1810 McNevin was acting Sub-Sheriff to Peter Blake of Corbally Castle in County Galway, who was High Sheriff for that year.
According to the Clare Journal newspaper of 3 May 1813, Daniel McNevin, Esq., of Loughrea, married Miss Emily Blake-Forster in Dublin, second daughter of the late Robert Blake Foster, of Ashfield, County Galway, Esq. Subsequently, a marriage entry was located for Daniel McNevin of Gloucester St, Dublin, Esq., and Amelia Foster of the Parish of St Thomas, Dublin, spinster on 19 April 1813.
McNevin was the agent for Forster-Blake family, which is likely how he met his wife Emily. He was also one of Daniel O'Connells solicitors. He first resided at Rosehill, and then later at Ashfield. Daniel took a lease on 11 August 1827 in Crow Lane, Gort, for a lease for three lives, and in 1851 one life (John Lopdell) still in being.
In 1814 Ashfield was the home of Francis Blake-Forster, and other records suggest that McNevin was Coroner in Loughrea, Galway at this time. By 1837 Lewis records Ashfield as being the ownership of Daniel McNevin, but he had an address at 8 Middle Gardiner St. Dublin. There is history that William Keogh was also living at the same address. William Nicholas Keogh (1817– 1878) was an unpopular and controversial Irish politician and judge, whose name became a byword in Ireland for betraying one's political principles.
McNevin’s agent in Galway was Mr. Darcy of Rickfield, and also Mr. Pat Fahy of Ashfield. Daniel and Emily's son was Thomas McNevin who was associated with the Young Ireland movement. The McNevin's (Daniel McNevin, and his son's Thomas and Richard) were very heavily involved with "The Emancipator" - Daniel O'Connell, until Daniel turned his support (in their eyes he sold out) to the Whig Party and the McNevin's basically disowned O'Connell.
In 1837, it was noted by Samuel Lewis, that Daniel McNevin gave a new site to the parish for the new Roman Catholic chapel to be erected. The new chapel was hoped to accommodate 600 people when completed. (page 189, Lewis Topographical Dictionary). In 1843 The most influent gentleman of this tribe now in Ireland; Source: The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many (O'Donovan) 1843 page 69. In August 1845, Daniel O'Connell stayed in Daniel McNevin’s house before his Monster meeting in Galway/Tuam that year. Daniel McNevin was also a member of the Gort Board of Guardians. According to the Freeman’s Journal newspaper dated 18 July 1846, McNevin died in his ‘70th year of Rose Park county Galway & Gardiner street in this City (Dublin) which took place on Monday last at New Quay, Co. Clare, where he had been staying for the benefit of his health...in his 70th year.’ That same year, he was listed in the 1846 Slater’s Directory for Gort as an Attorney at Barrack Street. It appears he retired from Dublin to his country home before his death. His will listed the following information; Daniel McNevin, 13 July 1846, Rosepark, Co. Galway, Esq. Probate in 1847, number 43 W/A. Lands from the McNevin estate were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in December 1853. The owner listed was Daniel McNevin, a minor. Ashfield later came into the French family.
It should be noted that some older genealogies also list Dr. William James McNevin, one of the four members of the ‘Executive Directory’ of the United Irishmen before 1798, and firm friend of Wolfe Tone, was also related to this branch of the McNevin family. Thomas McNevin, Daniel's son, held a will from this Dr. McNevin who immigrated to America. It should also be noted that Daniel McNevin Senior was listed as a witness in a transaction dated 25 March 1815, which mentioned Ballynahiwnia (sic Ballynahowne). William James MacNeven was born in 1763 in Ballynahowna, near Aughrim, Co. Galway, and died 12 July 1841 New York City. He was an Irish-American physician and writer, and one of the oldest obelisks in New York City is dedicated to him facing St. Paul's Chapel on Broadway, New York City. The family were originally based in Aughrim/Loughrea. The same genealogies also list Baron McNevin, William James’ uncle, who lived at Prague, physician to Empress Maria Theresa.
Sources
http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Clare/1813/MAY.html
http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/history/chapter34.html
http://gccapps.galwaycoco.ie/ArchivedDocuments/Gort%20Poor%20Law%20Union,%20G01-12,%20fr%20microfilm/G01-12%20%20%20Descriptive%20List/G01-12%20Gort%20PLU,%20Descriptive%20List.pdf
https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhist00roon/genealogicalhist00roon_djvu.txt
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/6240035/person/6997291009/facts
http://travels-with-my-forebears.blogspot.ie/2012/09/
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National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), McNevin estate at Derry alias Rosepark, 13 December 1853, Vol 25, MRGS 39/011, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), McNevin estate including Ashfield demesne, 3 June 1851, Vol 8, MRGS 3 (microfilm copy in NUIG)
Jnl. of the Irish Family History Society: INGHAM, George R. The McNevins, A Patriot Family. XII (1996), 81-83
According to the Clare Journal newspaper of 3 May 1813, Daniel McNevin, Esq., of Loughrea, married Miss Emily Blake-Forster in Dublin, second daughter of the late Robert Blake Foster, of Ashfield, County Galway, Esq. Subsequently, a marriage entry was located for Daniel McNevin of Gloucester St, Dublin, Esq., and Amelia Foster of the Parish of St Thomas, Dublin, spinster on 19 April 1813.
McNevin was the agent for Forster-Blake family, which is likely how he met his wife Emily. He was also one of Daniel O'Connells solicitors. He first resided at Rosehill, and then later at Ashfield. Daniel took a lease on 11 August 1827 in Crow Lane, Gort, for a lease for three lives, and in 1851 one life (John Lopdell) still in being.
In 1814 Ashfield was the home of Francis Blake-Forster, and other records suggest that McNevin was Coroner in Loughrea, Galway at this time. By 1837 Lewis records Ashfield as being the ownership of Daniel McNevin, but he had an address at 8 Middle Gardiner St. Dublin. There is history that William Keogh was also living at the same address. William Nicholas Keogh (1817– 1878) was an unpopular and controversial Irish politician and judge, whose name became a byword in Ireland for betraying one's political principles.
McNevin’s agent in Galway was Mr. Darcy of Rickfield, and also Mr. Pat Fahy of Ashfield. Daniel and Emily's son was Thomas McNevin who was associated with the Young Ireland movement. The McNevin's (Daniel McNevin, and his son's Thomas and Richard) were very heavily involved with "The Emancipator" - Daniel O'Connell, until Daniel turned his support (in their eyes he sold out) to the Whig Party and the McNevin's basically disowned O'Connell.
In 1837, it was noted by Samuel Lewis, that Daniel McNevin gave a new site to the parish for the new Roman Catholic chapel to be erected. The new chapel was hoped to accommodate 600 people when completed. (page 189, Lewis Topographical Dictionary). In 1843 The most influent gentleman of this tribe now in Ireland; Source: The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many (O'Donovan) 1843 page 69. In August 1845, Daniel O'Connell stayed in Daniel McNevin’s house before his Monster meeting in Galway/Tuam that year. Daniel McNevin was also a member of the Gort Board of Guardians. According to the Freeman’s Journal newspaper dated 18 July 1846, McNevin died in his ‘70th year of Rose Park county Galway & Gardiner street in this City (Dublin) which took place on Monday last at New Quay, Co. Clare, where he had been staying for the benefit of his health...in his 70th year.’ That same year, he was listed in the 1846 Slater’s Directory for Gort as an Attorney at Barrack Street. It appears he retired from Dublin to his country home before his death. His will listed the following information; Daniel McNevin, 13 July 1846, Rosepark, Co. Galway, Esq. Probate in 1847, number 43 W/A. Lands from the McNevin estate were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in December 1853. The owner listed was Daniel McNevin, a minor. Ashfield later came into the French family.
- Emily and Daniel had the following children;Thomas McNevin (1814-1848) Thomas McNevin was an influential Irish writer and journalist, who died under "peculiarly sad circumstances" in a Bristol asylum on 8 February 1848. According to T. F. O'Sullivan, he was one of the most "brilliant intellects" to be associated with The Nation newspaper and with the Young Ireland movement. According to the official records of Trinity College, Dublin, which he entered at the age of 17, Thomas McNevin was born in Dublin, the son of Daniel McNevin, although it has also been suggested that he was born in Galway (if born in Galway, he may have possibly been born in Beagh, as it is known this is where his family resided). Charles Gavan Duffy in his Young Ireland a fragment of Irish history, 1840–45 described McNevin as being "below the middle size but well made, well poised, and agile" with auburn hair and clear blue eyes, "which he believed he inherited from Danish ancestors." His face was "mobile, and possessed the power not given to one man in ten thousand, of expressing a wide range of feeling without exaggeration or grimace." During his time at Trinity College, McNevin became treasurer of the College Historical Society between 1834 and 1835, and auditor in 1837–38. The society had been founded by Edmund Burke nearly a century before, and had trained three generations of Irish orators and statesmen. However, in 1838 the society was exiled from the college that gave it a name. It was during this period that McNevin became its President. The meetings were held in Radley's Hotel, and attracted audiences with their vehement and flamboyant eloquence. Isaac Butt, Joseph Lefanu, Torrens McCullagh, Thomas Wallis, James O'Hea, William Keogh, and Joseph Pollock all debated in a style reminiscent of that of the old Irish Parliament. At Trinity College, McNevin studied elocution under Vandenhoff and Sheridan Knowles. He completed his degree in 1838, and was called to the Bar the following year. In 1844, McNevin edited the State Trials, and later he wrote two volumes for the Young Ireland "Library of Ireland". The first, a History of the Irish Volunteers of 1782, was published in 1845, followed by The Confiscation of Ulster in 1846. In 1845, he published Gerald, a three-act play on the invasion of Ireland by Henry II in 1171. Also in this year he edited and published The speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Lalor Sheil. In June 1845, he proposed the motion that ‘they (the Young Irelanders) seek success in the present struggle solely by moral and legal means and without the spilling of blood or the infliction of injury on any man’, seconded by William Smith O’Brien. This ultimately lead to the Young Irelanders’ withdrawal in July 1845. McNevin worked on The Nation newspaper of the Young Ireland group for two years. He felt the death of Davis in 1845 keenly, and in the last remaining years of his life was mentally affected. McNevin died on 8 February 1848 in an asylum in Bristol. On 19 February, The Nation paid a tribute to their former colleague and friend.
- Michael McNevin (b. 1815). Michael was born in Loughrea, Galway.
- Richard Charles McNevin (1816-1864) Richard resided at 9 Middle Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland in 1853. It would appear the Dublin property passed to him after his father’s death.
- Daniel F McNevin Junior (1823-1846). On 13 June 1846, Daniel F McNevin, late of the 9th Lancers, died, as the youngest son of Daniel Senior of Ashfield, Co. Galway. Dublin Evening Mail 17 June 1846
- Edmund H McNevin (b. 1832)
- Catherine Clorinda McNevin (b. 1839)
It should be noted that some older genealogies also list Dr. William James McNevin, one of the four members of the ‘Executive Directory’ of the United Irishmen before 1798, and firm friend of Wolfe Tone, was also related to this branch of the McNevin family. Thomas McNevin, Daniel's son, held a will from this Dr. McNevin who immigrated to America. It should also be noted that Daniel McNevin Senior was listed as a witness in a transaction dated 25 March 1815, which mentioned Ballynahiwnia (sic Ballynahowne). William James MacNeven was born in 1763 in Ballynahowna, near Aughrim, Co. Galway, and died 12 July 1841 New York City. He was an Irish-American physician and writer, and one of the oldest obelisks in New York City is dedicated to him facing St. Paul's Chapel on Broadway, New York City. The family were originally based in Aughrim/Loughrea. The same genealogies also list Baron McNevin, William James’ uncle, who lived at Prague, physician to Empress Maria Theresa.
Sources
http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Clare/1813/MAY.html
http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/history/chapter34.html
http://gccapps.galwaycoco.ie/ArchivedDocuments/Gort%20Poor%20Law%20Union,%20G01-12,%20fr%20microfilm/G01-12%20%20%20Descriptive%20List/G01-12%20Gort%20PLU,%20Descriptive%20List.pdf
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National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), McNevin estate at Derry alias Rosepark, 13 December 1853, Vol 25, MRGS 39/011, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), McNevin estate including Ashfield demesne, 3 June 1851, Vol 8, MRGS 3 (microfilm copy in NUIG)
Jnl. of the Irish Family History Society: INGHAM, George R. The McNevins, A Patriot Family. XII (1996), 81-83
Lattey Family
Robert John Lattey, whose address is given as Creg Park Island, County Galway, owned an estate of 3,469 acres in county Galway in 1876. Robert John Lattey was the eldest son of Joseph Senior Lattey of Dublin, who worked for the Revenue. R.J. Lattey, a lwayer, lived in India for a time. A document in a Galway solicitors' collection records Arthur Pittar Lattey and Robert John Lattey, both of Calcutta, copartners in a jewelry and gold and silver smith business. R.J. returned to England where he lost money in the bank failures of the 1850s but was able to retain his Irish property. He puurchased the Butler of Cregg estate, in the Encumbered Estates court in 1849 and part of Lord Gort's estate in September 1854. It included lands in the parishes of Killursa and Kilcoona, barony of Clare, which he had purchased from Francis and Walter Butler of Cregg, near Gort, in 1851. In 1906 Robert Thomas Lattey held an untenanted demesne of over 160 acres and the mansion house at Cregg. Over 1,700 acres of the Lattey estate in county Galway was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 27 Jan 1916. A detailed family history is given at the following website so will not be repeated here http://lattey.com/
Sources
National Archives of Ireland: Irish Land Commission, estate of R.T. Lattey in Bunnahow 1917 & maps of the Cregs estate of Lattey, 1838-1904. Small Private Accessions No 1/689. M.1463-1464
National Archives of Ireland: Joyce, Mackie & Lougheed, auctioneers' collection, includes records relating to the Lattey family in India and at Cregg Castle and Bunnahow, 19th century. D.15854-15876, Co 3495-3502, M.1455-1464
Sources
National Archives of Ireland: Irish Land Commission, estate of R.T. Lattey in Bunnahow 1917 & maps of the Cregs estate of Lattey, 1838-1904. Small Private Accessions No 1/689. M.1463-1464
National Archives of Ireland: Joyce, Mackie & Lougheed, auctioneers' collection, includes records relating to the Lattey family in India and at Cregg Castle and Bunnahow, 19th century. D.15854-15876, Co 3495-3502, M.1455-1464
Knox Family
Vicesimus Knox was the son of Rev. Dr. Vicesimus Knox (1752-1821) and Mary Miller (1760-1809). Born in Tunbridge, Kent, England in 1779, he proceeded to study to become a barrister. In 1837, he was recorded in London at 3 Kings Bench Walk, his occupation as 'chambers, Inner Temple'. By 1841, he lived at Stratford Place and was employed as a barrister. He remained at 8 Stratford Place, Middlesex, in 1851, and was listed as a 'barrister not in practice'. Lord Gort sold his county Galway estate in the Encumbered Estates' Court in the early 1850s. In 1852 the Freeman's Journal reported that Lough Cooter (sic Lough Cutra) was purchased by James Caulfield, in trust for Mrs. Ball, superioress of the Loretto Convent, Rathfarnham. Vicesimus Knox was the purchaser of several other lots at the same sale. He had long held a heavy mortgage on the property; but various portions passed into other hands. He died on 31 Jan 1855 at 8 Stratford Place, Kensal Green, London. Research suggests he never lived in Ireland, so he could be termed an absentee landlord.
Sources
1841 England Census, www.ancestry.com
1851 England Census, www.ancestry.com
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915, www.ancestry.com
England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, www.ancestry.com
England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, www.ancestry.com
London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003, www.ancestry.com
London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1931, www.ancestry.com
London, England, Crisp's Marriage Licence Index, 1713-1892, www.ancestry.com
London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965, www.ancestry.com
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/search.jsp?q=knox
Sources
1841 England Census, www.ancestry.com
1851 England Census, www.ancestry.com
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915, www.ancestry.com
England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, www.ancestry.com
England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, www.ancestry.com
London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003, www.ancestry.com
London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1931, www.ancestry.com
London, England, Crisp's Marriage Licence Index, 1713-1892, www.ancestry.com
London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965, www.ancestry.com
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/search.jsp?q=knox
Lahiff Family
Henry and James Lahiff
The Lahiff family held property in various parishes in the barony of Kiltartan. They occupied a house at Cloon, Kilbeacanty, which was valued at £15 in Griffith's Valuation in the mid 1850s. This house was previously in the hands of the Burke Eyre family. The Lahiff family purchased large portions of Lord Gort's Lough Cutra estate in the 1850s where they had previously been freeholders. The family also occupied the house at Russaun, Kilbeacanty, and acted as middlemen for the estate of Michael Butler, a minor, whose estate was in chancery in the 1830s. At the same time, Thomas Lahiff is recorded as a middleman for Richard Gregory on lands in the parish of Ardrahan. James Lahiff of Gort was recorded as an agent for Lord Gort.
In the 1870s Daniel Lahiff was the owner of over 10,000 acres in county Galway and 128 acres in county Clare. In 1911 over 4000 acres belonging to James Lahiff was vested in the Congested Districts Board.
James Lahiff (1788-1864)
Henry Lahiff (1793-1864) was married to Jane Blaquiere (1795-1869). In 1817 he had been made Freeman of Limerick City. By 1824 Henry Lahiff Esq. lived at Ballyturin, having married Jane 3 years previous. By 1857, he held a total of 978 odd acres in Beagh ; Caherbroder (354 acres 37 perches), Carhoon (88 acres 3 roods 19 perches), Fiddaun (757 acres 2 roods 27 perches – 221 acres 4 roods 43 perches). He died in Cloon House in May 1864. Newspaper reports suggest 'He attended the fair of Loughrea where he accidentally fell from his horse and had his hip bone dislocated...was most excellent landlord, and greatly respected'. His will was probated on 11 February 1869 in Galway. It was granted at 'Principal Registry to Jane Maria Lahiff of Arthurstown Co. Wexford'. It should also be noted that he served as 'Justice of the Peace' for the area, a judicial officer helping keep law and order.
Sources
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=807
Belfast, Northern Ireland, The Belfast Newsletter (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1738-1925
Dublin, Ireland, Probate Record and Marriage License Index, 1270-1858
Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915
Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958
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Ireland, Select Marriages, 1619-1898
Web: Ireland, Calendar of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1920
The Lahiff family held property in various parishes in the barony of Kiltartan. They occupied a house at Cloon, Kilbeacanty, which was valued at £15 in Griffith's Valuation in the mid 1850s. This house was previously in the hands of the Burke Eyre family. The Lahiff family purchased large portions of Lord Gort's Lough Cutra estate in the 1850s where they had previously been freeholders. The family also occupied the house at Russaun, Kilbeacanty, and acted as middlemen for the estate of Michael Butler, a minor, whose estate was in chancery in the 1830s. At the same time, Thomas Lahiff is recorded as a middleman for Richard Gregory on lands in the parish of Ardrahan. James Lahiff of Gort was recorded as an agent for Lord Gort.
In the 1870s Daniel Lahiff was the owner of over 10,000 acres in county Galway and 128 acres in county Clare. In 1911 over 4000 acres belonging to James Lahiff was vested in the Congested Districts Board.
James Lahiff (1788-1864)
Henry Lahiff (1793-1864) was married to Jane Blaquiere (1795-1869). In 1817 he had been made Freeman of Limerick City. By 1824 Henry Lahiff Esq. lived at Ballyturin, having married Jane 3 years previous. By 1857, he held a total of 978 odd acres in Beagh ; Caherbroder (354 acres 37 perches), Carhoon (88 acres 3 roods 19 perches), Fiddaun (757 acres 2 roods 27 perches – 221 acres 4 roods 43 perches). He died in Cloon House in May 1864. Newspaper reports suggest 'He attended the fair of Loughrea where he accidentally fell from his horse and had his hip bone dislocated...was most excellent landlord, and greatly respected'. His will was probated on 11 February 1869 in Galway. It was granted at 'Principal Registry to Jane Maria Lahiff of Arthurstown Co. Wexford'. It should also be noted that he served as 'Justice of the Peace' for the area, a judicial officer helping keep law and order.
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