Richardson/Richardson-Brady
William Richardson of Drum, county Tyrone married Isabella Brady, co-heiress to the Clonervy estate, near Cavan. Their son, Major William Stewart Richardson of Oaklands, succeeded his father in 1823, and assumed the additional name of Brady on succeeding to his mother's third of the Clonervy estate in 1841. His daughter and sole heiress married in 1866 Viscount Stuart, later 5th Earl Castle Stewart, of Stewart Hall, Stewartstown, county Tyrone. Lord and Lady Castle Stewart had two daughters, but no son. One of their daughters Lady Muriel succeeded to the Richardson Brady estate. Lady Muriel married Archibald Maxwell Close of Drumbanagher, Co. Armagh, in 1891. Earl Annesley bought some of this estate.
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Castle Steward Papers, Box of title deeds, deeds of settlement, wills, etc, relating to the Richardson of Drum (originally the Brady of Clonervy, Co. Cavan) estate in Co. Cavan (Gouna, Drumkeeran, Scrabby, etc). 1755-1921. D1618/4/8; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Castle Stewart Papers. Box of title deeds, deeds of settlement, wills, etc, re the Tyrone and the Cavan estates or to no estate in particular. The earliest documents are the probate of William S. Richardson Brady of Drum, and the key marriage settlement of 1866. Many of the documents relate to the daughters of the Richardson-Castle Stewart marriage, Ladies Muriel Close and Mary Clough Taylor, who became the co-heiresses of the estate on the death of their father, the 5th Earl Castle Stewart, in 1914. 1864-1935. D1618/4/9.; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Close (Richardson of Drum) Papers, include rentals of the county Cavan estates, letters from the agent George Knipe and other records, 1639-1920. D2002; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Letters to William Stewart Richardson Brady from William Smith of Drumkeel, agent for his Co. Cavan estate, about estate and financial business, the sale of the Blackwood/Brady estate of Clonervy in 1855 and Richardson Brady's failure to buy part of it, the purchase of additional land for Richardson Brady in 1856, Co. Cavan elections and politics, etc. 1851-1861. D2002/C/48; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland