Venables (Redhills)
In the mid-19th century the Reverend Edmund Burke Venables, son of the Reverend James Venables of Dorset, held an estate comprised of 20 townlands in the parish of Annagh, county Cavan as recorded in Griffith’s Valuation. In 1847, he married Georgina Mary Enderby, niece and heiress of Francis Melville Whyte to whom this estate previously belonged. In 1878, the Reverend Venables of Redhills owned 2,532 acres in county Cavan and 797 acres in county Tyrone. He died in 1894. In 1905, the Reverend Arthur Thellusson Oddie assumed the name of Whyte Venables by royal license on succeeding to the Redhills estate in county Cavan. He was a grandson of the Reverend James Venables. He died in 1929.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Leggykelly Cottage | Leggykelly | Annagh | Cavan | Redhill | Tullygarvey | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H428179
OS Sheet: 11 Discovery map: 27A |
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| Redhill House | Redhill Demesne | Annagh | Cavan | Red Hill | Tullygarvey | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H450173
OS Sheet: 12 Discovery map: 27 |
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| Prospect House (Cavan) | Knockateery | Annagh | Cavan | Castlesaunderson | Tullygarvey | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H413144
OS Sheet: 15 Discovery map: 27 |
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Archival sources
- Copy of grant of arms to Rev Arthur Thellusson Oddie of Redhills House, Belturbet on his assuming under Royal Licence and in compliance with the will of Georgina Mary Whyte Venables, the name and arms of Whyte Venables, 2 Mar 1905. GO MS 111: 164-165.; National Library of Ireland
- Documents, including maps, relating to the Venables' land in county Cavan and also mining rights, 1872, 1887, 1900, 1911. P017/0087, /0088, /0116, /0152, /0153, /0171; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections
- Two letters from [Mrs] G.M. Whyte VENABLES, Redhills House, Redhills, Co. Cavan, to Lord Dufferin, thanking him for a book of Helen, Lady Dufferin's poems and offering to try to find out more about the Sheridan connection with Cavan, and thanking him again for two volumes on the life of Sheridan. 13 November 1897 - 20 November 1897. D1071/H/B/V/28; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Bundle of copy case papers including: brief in appeal of Fermanagh County Council against order by County Court Judge apportioning part of the compensation for criminal injury to Co. Monaghan properties on Co. Fermanagh (the Rev. A.T. Whyte-Venables -v- Cavan, Monaghan and Fermanagh County Councils), 1925. D1390/2/23; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Envelope of leases, surveys correspondence and photographs concerning the Whyte, later Whyte-Venables, family of Redhills, Co. Cavan, mainly concerning the lands of Killybandrick and Shanow, 1725-1844. [See also D3531/C/10/1-7.] D3480/42; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Cavan Union, 213, 215
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 210 (Redhill Demesne)
Modern printed sources
- WALFORD. ''County Families of the United Kingdom''. London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., 1910: 1180
- Historical Manuscripts Commission Reports: Portland Mss include a letter from Colonel R. Venables at Belturbet, Co Cavan, to Dr Henry Jones, Scout Master General describing a defeat of the enemy by Sir Theophilus Jones, 17 June 1652. XIII, App. I, 1891, I, 654.