Knipe (Erne Hill)
The Knipe family were located in the Belturbet area of county Cavan. By the mid-19th century George Marshall Knipe, a solicitor and High Sheriff of county Cavan in 1831, held four townlands in the parish of Annagh, barony of Lower Loughtee, while the representatives of John A. Knipe held ten townlands in the parishes of Annageliff and Castleterra, barony of Upper Loughtee. John Augustus Knipe was an army surgeon. He appears to have had a daughter Catherine who was married to William Roebuck. John A. Knipe died in 1850. According to Hugh Beddell Swanzy, George M. Knipe married Jane daughter of William Nixon of Mullaghduff in 1812 and they had a family of eight sons and six daughters. In June 1858 the Ernehill estate of George M. Knipe was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. He died the following year. By 1876, the Knipes owned only a small acreage in county Cavan - George Thomas Knipe of Dublin owned 274 acres and Thomas Frederick Knipe of Belturbet owned 34 acres. George M. Knipe was agent to the Brady estate in county Cavan and letters from him are included in the Close collection in PRONI, 1819-35 (see D2002/C/18).
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Erne Hill House | Corporations Lands | Annagh | Cavan | Grilly | Loughtee Lower | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H373169
OS Sheet: 11 Discovery map: 27A |
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| Sugarloaf | Corporation Lands | Annagh | Cavan | Grilly | Loughtee Lower | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H376166
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 27A |
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Archival sources
- Will of John Augustus Knipe of No 20 Chester Terrace Regents Park , Middlesex, PROB 11/2107/239; National Archives, UK
- 18 June 1858 Irish Encumbered Estates Court rentals. Estate of George Marshall Knipe, owner, Adam Hill and another, petitioners. Relates to Tullyroane, Basilbally, [sic], Donekeever, [sic], Co.Cavan, Gubdoo, Co. Fermanagh. Several tenements and premises in the town of Belturbet. D1201/22; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Letters and rent accounts to William Stewart Richardson from the successive agents for the Brady estate in Co. Cavan, James Jones (who dies in 1823) and his successor, George M Knipe, both of Belturbet. D2002/C/18; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Two leases of the Commons of Belturbet to Thomas Frederick Knipe of Erne Hill, 1843 & 1874. D. 6506 & 6508.; National Library of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Knipe, 26 Nov 1852, Vol 19 (30), MRGS 39/009, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Knipe, 18 Jun1858, Vol 52 (36), MRGS 39/025, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Cavan Union, 137, 138