Landed Estates
University of Galway

Mecham/Mechum

In 1824, George Mecham of Garry Castle, county Westmeath and Gortmahoon, county Galway, Captain in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, married Harriet Catherine Hardy at Loughborough, Leicestershire. They had ten sons and four daughters. One of their sons would appear to be George Frederick Mechum (1828-1858), a British Naval Officer born in county Cork, who was involved in the search for Franklin of the North West Passage. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) George Mechum held four townlands in the parish of St Mary’s Athlone, county Westmeath, amounting to about 400 acres. In the mid-1870s Mrs Meecham of Jersey owned 304 acres in county Westmeath. An estate of 250 acres, situated at Gortnahoon, in the barony of Kiconnell, county Galway, the property of the Mecham and Ruddock families, was offered for sale in the Land Judges' court in May 1879.

Associated Families

No houses were found for this estate

Archival sources

  • Land Judges Court Rentals (O?Brien), Mecham, 16 May 1879, Vol 136, MRGS 39/060, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Bruce, 4 July 1863, Vol 69 (11), MRGS 39/035, (microfilm copy in UG) Auburn and premises in Athlone; National Archives of Ireland
  • Pedigree of Mecham of Athlone, of Garry Castle, Co Westmeath and of New South Wales, c1725-1909. GO Ms 168, 196; National Library of Ireland
  • Pedigree of Mecham of Athlone and Garrycastle, Co Westmeath with Dunne and Chaigneau descendants, c 1730-c 1810. GO Ms 112, 293; National Library of Ireland
  • Copy of grant of arms to descendants of George Mecham of Athlone and to his son George Mecham of Garrycastle, Co Westmeath, 13 Nov 1811. GO Ms 106, 17; National Library of Ireland
  • Draft pedigree of Mecham of Garrycastle, c 1800-1910. GO Ms 814 (22); National Library of Ireland

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Modern printed sources