Landed Estates
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Anketell/Ancketell

This family, originally from Dorset, settled in Ireland at Ancketell Grove in the mid -seventeenth century when they were granted lands in counties Monaghan (5,478 acres) and Fermanagh (613 acres), later confirmed by patent of Charles II. For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the name was spelt Anketell. Oliver Anketell, Member of Parliament for the borough of Monaghan 1754-1760 was one of the founders of the Royal Dublin Society. His grandson William Anketell was the proprietor from 1828. In 1809, William married Sarah Waring-Maxwell from county Down and they had a family of 5 sons and 3 daughters. Two of their daughters were married to clergymen - the Reverend Robert Loftus Tottenham, son of Bishop Tottenham of Clogher and the Reverend John Richardson Bunbury, son of Sir James Bunbury of Augher Castle, county Tyrone. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Mathew J. Anketell held an estate mainly located in the parishes of Errigal Trough and Donagh, barony of Trough. Some of it, 486 acres was for sale in 1860. Although the estate of Mathew John Anketell, owner and petitioner, amounting to 7,608 acres was for sale in 1861, William Ancketell still owned 7,504 acres in county Monaghan in 1876. Collins writes that in 1884 the estate was ‘sold to the Scottish Provident Insurance Association which began a comprehensive programme of evictions.’ The original house Ancketell’s Grove was situated in the townland of Derrynashallog and was pulled down in 1781 and a new family home built in Gortmoney known as Trough Lodge but marked on the 25” map as Anketell Grove.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Anketell Grove/Trough Lodge Gortmoney Donagh Monaghan Anketell Grove Trough Monaghan OSI Ref: H672413
OS Sheet: 6
Discovery map: 28A 		Photo of Anketell Grove/Trough Lodge
Dungillick House Dungillick Errigal Trough Monaghan Anketell Grove Trough Monaghan OSI Ref: H666448
OS Sheet: 3
Discovery map: 28A 		Photo of Dungillick House
Mount Anketell/Spring Mount Mount Anketell Errigal Trough Monaghan Anketell Grove Trough Monaghan OSI Ref: H657479
OS Sheet: 3
Discovery map: 28A
Ivy Hill Ivyhill Errigal Trough Clogher Derrygorry Trough Monaghan OSI Ref: H654502
OS Sheet: 3
Discovery map: 28A

Archival sources

  • Copy Will and Codicil, James Dunlap, Daisyhill, Co. Armagh; notice of sale of Annemount House, Keady, Co. Armagh; genealogical notes and diary excerpts relating to Anketell family, Shaftesbury, Dorset and Co. Monaghan, c.1347-c.1865. T1769; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Leslie Papers – 108 deeds, including wills, relating to Leslie, Ancketell, Hamilton, Montgomery, Moore and Ridgeway families and lands in Cos Monaghan, Tyrone, Cavan and Donegal. D.23,077-23,184; National Library of Ireland
  • May, May & Merrimans, Solicitor Papers, include title deeds etc relating to the Anketell family in the Donagh area, Co Monaghan, 1840-74. D2531; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • R.W.H. Blackwood Papers include pedigree of the Anketell family, 1790-1952. MIC315; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Three volumes, one of which is a rental of the Anketell Grove estate in the barony of Trough, 1784-1787. MIC309; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Barrington and Son, solicitor’s papers, include a deed of assignment in connection with the estate and settlement of the Anketell or Ancketill family, 1877. D3805/6/28; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • John Corry's Deed of Settlement, on James Somerwell, of Tullyhelter and Rev. John Leslie, of Tullyclea, Co. Fermanagh, D.D., in trust for his son James, and his grandson John, with remainder over. Postnuptial settlement of lands in Fermanagh and Monaghan intended to have been settled on the intermarriage of his son James Corry and Miss Sarah Anketill (deceased), in accordance with an agreement between her father Oliver Anketill, of Anketill Grove, Co. Monaghan, and John Corry, dated 23 February, 1663-4. [taken from Mr Armar's manuscript catalogue]. 19 April 1679. Belmore Papers D3007/A/6/2A; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Declaration as to payment of legacies in Will of his father Roger Anketell. William Anketell, Mount Anketell, Co. Monaghan. 17 September 1851. D313/187; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Anketell Papers. D840; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Oliver Anketell to Alb[ert?] Wrightson, Monaghan, about the Baron rent and Leslie's claim to it. He will make all the enquiries he can among old people, whose memories stretch back far enough. His father's papers unfortunately were destroyed in the late war. 1 Feb 1719 - [1720]. T2929/2/51 & 52; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Chancery (N.I.) affidavit, Moultray v. Boycott, 1948, containing genealogical information on Anketell family. M. 6169; National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Anketell, 20 Apr 1860, Vol 58 (54), MRGS 39/029, (microfilm copy in NUIG) – Ballynahone, Drumshannon & Glannan; National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Anketell, 5 July 1861, Vol 62 (48), MRGS 39/031, (microfilm copy in NUIG) – 7,608 acres; National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Anketell, 5 July 1872, Vol 107 (14 & 15), MRGS 39/049, (microfilm copy in NUIG) – 909 acres of Mount Anketell estate & Lisseagh & Dernalosset 311 acres; National Archives of Ireland
  • 2 printed reports re eviction of Hugh Gill Patterson from Anketell estate, 8 July 1899. 999/540; National Archives of Ireland
  • Rentals of the Anketell Estate, 1784-1788; Monaghan County Library (Clones Branch)

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