Canning (Garvagh)
George Canning was an Elizabethan settler at Garvagh in county Derry. His descendant, Stratford Canning, married Letitia, daughter and sole heiress of Obadiah Newburgh of Ballyhaise, county Cavan. Their grandson, George Canning was raised to the peerage as Baron Garvagh of Garvagh in 1818. He married Rosalind Charlotte Isabelle Bonham of Titness Park, Berkshire, as his second wife and died in 1840. He was succeeded by his son Charles Henry Spencer George, 2nd Baron, who married in 1851 Cecilia Ruggles-Brise of Spains Hall, Essex. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Lady Garvagh held an estate in the county Cavan parishes of Knockbride and Drumgoon. In 1878, the Dowager Lady Garvagh owned 5,803 acres in county Cavan, 1,176 acres in county Down and 7,388 acres in county Londonderry while Lord Garvagh owned 1,039 acres in county Londonderry. The county Cavan village of Canningstown is named after this family.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Martin, King, French & Ingram solicitor's papers include rentals, accounts, maps of Lord Garvagh's estates at Garvagh, Co. Derry and Doreagh, etc., Co. Cavan, c. 1815 - 1920. D1550; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Rentals, accounts, etc. of the estates of dowager Lady Garvagh in Corraneary, Co. Cavan, 1829-65. M5535; National Archives of Ireland
- Detailed abstract of will of Joshua Spencer leaving his estate and personalty to his nephew, Lord Garvagh, 1829. GO Ms.143, p.26; National Library of Ireland
- Copy rentals 'in the matter of Charles J. S. G. Canning, Baron Garvagh, a person of unsound mind'. c 1893-1923. D1550/30; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Lease made between George Canning, Garvagh, county Londonderry, esquire, and John Leard, Ballyhaise, county Cavan, gentleman, in respect of that part of the lands of Raheg (Rahagg) containing 14 acres and 5 perches plantation measure, commonly called Part of Swan[zys] holding, being in the barony of Upper Loughtee, county Cavan. Lease to run for the natural lives of Robert Saunderson, Drumkeen, county Cavan, esquire, and Edward Cottingham and Henry Cottingham, sons of James Henry Cottingham, Somerville, county Cavan, esquire. Annual rent of £35.14.0 sterling, 1 May 1809. P017/0027 ; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections
- Garvagh estate, small collection of documents, mostly letters, relating to the Garvagh estate in county Cavan, the property of Charles, 2nd Baron Garvagh (died 7 May 1871) and Charles, 3rd Baron Garvagh (died 7 February 1915). Letters are mainly written to William Maxwell, Rockmount, Canningstown, Bailieborough, county Cavan, bailiff for the estate, from Joseph Dickson, Castlehamilton, Killeshandra, county Cavan, agent for the estate, and William Hamilton Ash, Hermitage, Garvagh, county Derry, c. 9 May 1855-3 May 1881. P022/001; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections