Enery

In the mid-18th century John Enery was in possession of Bawnboy Demesne. He was married to Margaret, daughter of William Hamilton M.P. of Strabane and his wife Catherine L. Montgomery of Ballyconnell. They had a son, also named John, who was High Sheriff of Cavan in 1796. John Enery Junior built Bawnboy House about 1790. He married Sarah Ainsworth Blunt and they had at least two children William Hamilton Enery who married Isabella A. Ottley in 1839 and a daughter Sarah who married Robert Story, son of the Reverend Joseph Story of Bingfield, see http://www.bawnboy.com/History-Heritage-Folklore/pages/bawnboy-84.html In the early 1840s the Ballyconnell estate of his cousins, the Montgomerys, passed to William Hamilton Enery. He was deceased when this estate came up for sale in the Encumbered Estates Courts in December 1858. It was sold on behalf of his daughter and heiress Constance Isabella, a minor. She later married Captain Stewart Cartwright and they adopted the additional surname of Enery. At the time of sale the Ballyconnell estate amounted to 6,474 acres and was located in the parishes of Tomregan, Templeport and Drumlane, county Cavan and Tomregan, county Fermanagh. A medical doctor, George Roe, bought Ballyconnell House and some land. Other townlands were purchased by Earl Annesley.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Bawnboy House	Bawnboy	Templeport	Bawnboy	Bawnboy	Tullyhaw	Cavan	OSI Ref: H213196 OS Sheet: 9 Discovery map: 27A
Ballyconnell Castle/House	Annagh	Tomregan	Bawnboy	Ballyconnell	Tullyhaw	Cavan	OSI Ref: H275187 OS Sheet: 10 Discovery map: 27A

Archival sources

Conveyance for ever by Mervyn Archdall, Castle Archdall, Co. Fermanagh, George Montgomery, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan, Charles King, Dublin, James Young, Lahard, Co. Cavan, John Enery and Margaret Enery otherwise Hamilton his wife, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan "The Trustees of Enery" to The Rt Hon. Wm. Lord, Viscount Enniskillen, Florence Court, Co. Fermanagh of Gortoral, Co. Fermanagh (excepting 11 acres of Bog, part of said townland). Consid. £1,800. Recites Act of Parliament of 23/24 George III re the estate of the late John Enery, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan. Endorsed "No. 44". 23 & 24 December 1785. D1702/1/5/2A & /2B; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
A memorial of Deed of Conveyance by John Enery and Margarett his wife, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan, to Mervyn Archdall, Castle Archdall, Co. Fermanagh, George Montgomery, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan, Charles King, Dublin, and James Young, Lahard, Co. Cavan, of Gortoral and c.20 other townlands in the Florence Court - Lisnaskea area, Co. Fermanagh. Recites Act of Parliament 23/24 George III. 24 December 1785. D1702/1/5/3 See also D1702/1/5/4 & /5A & B; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Lease for 3 Lives or 31 years. Yearly Rent £150. Parties: Henry John Clements of Ashfield Lodge, and John Enery of Ballyconnell House, both in the County of Cavan, Esq., Committee of George Montgomery, of Ballyconnell, in the County of Cavan, Esq. a Lunatic, first part, and the said George Montgomery of the second part, and John Cobean of Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan. Lands: Mills and other Premises at Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan. 9 April 1834. D2309/1/4; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Two boxes of mortgages, deeds of settlement and partition, wills and other title deeds relating to the Hassard family [see the foregoing] of Garden Hill, Co. Fermanagh, and lands in that county and in Cavan; including Hassard papers relating to the families of Parke of Dunalley, Co. Sligo, and Enery of Bawnboy, Co. Cavan. 1759-1898. D3480/26; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Manuscript book of William Reynell, includes pedigree of the Enery family, 'Coolahill', Bawnboy and Ballyconnell, Co Cavan, 1690-c.1900, the annals of Ballyconnell, DIO/1/23/1; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Erne Papers also contain records re sale of lands in county Fermanagh to Colonel Alexander Montgomery of Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan (and Convoy, Co. Donegal), in 1724, and to John Enery of Bawnboy, Co. Cavan, in 1724 and 1726. D1939; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Copy of confirmation of arms to Captain Stewart D.D. Cartwright and to Constance Isabella Enery, heiress of late William Hamilton Enery of Ballyconnell House, so that they may adopt under Royal License on marriage the name and arms of Cartwright Enery, 20 Sep 1864. GO MS 109: 49-50.; National Library of Ireland
Lease made between William Hamilton Enery, Ballyconnell house, county Cavan, esquire, and John Henderson, Mullinacre Lower, county Cavan, farmer, in respect of part of the town and lands of Mullanacre Lower (Mullinacre Lower), barony of Tullyhaw, county Cavan, containing 24 acres late Irish plantation measure. Lease for 3 lives, annual rent £12. 7 January 1851. P017/0058; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections
Lease made between William Hamilton Enery, Ballyconnell house, county Cavan, esquire, and Owen Magauran, Carramore, county Cavan, in respect of part of the lands of Mullanacre Upper (Mullinacree Upper), parish of Tomregan, barony of Tullyhaw, county Cavan, for 3 lives or 31 years, rent £3 annually. 1 April 1854. P017/0063 ; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections
Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Enery, 19 Dec 1856, Vol 43 (28), MRGS 39/021, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland

Modern printed sources

''The Irish Genealogist'': Abstracts of Irish diocesan wills (from the Swanzy collection), of J. Enery of Prospect, Templeport, Co. Cavan, 1776; J. Fiddis, of Drumbegan, Co. Fermanagh, 1720; T. Fleming, of Cavan, 1793; M. Forster, of Lisnasken, Co. Fermanagh, 1805. Vol. I, No. 9, April, 1941
SWANZY, Henry Biddall, ‘The families of French of Belturbet and Nixon of Fermanagh and their descendants’ (Dublin: 1908): Includes references to the Enerys of Bawnboy and Ballyconnell
MULLIGAN, Kevin V. ''The Buildings of Ireland South Ulster, Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan'', (New Haven and London, 2013): 163
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 20