Lum

A Yorkshireman, Elnathan Lum, came to Ireland during the reign of Charles II, prospered as a banker in Dublin and bought the estate of Lumville near Edenderry, county Offaly (King’s County). He married Dorothea Purefoy of Purefoy Place, county Offaly. Their grandson Francis Lum of Lumville, was created a baronet in 1775. He married Rebecca Amelia Forster but died without heirs in 1796, when the baronetcy became extinct. According to Burke’s Extinct Baronetcies his estates were inherited by his brother Charles, an army officer who served in the American war. In his will of 1819, Charles refers to his married daughters Frances Bateman, Elizabeth Hone and his son William Purefoy Lum and his lands in counties Offaly, Cavan and Dublin. In 1856, the estates at Grouse Hall and Drumbannow, parish of Drumlumman, of Frances Bateman, a widow, and William Purefoy Lum were for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. William Purefoy Lum of Lum Lodge, Edenderry, county Offaly, formerly an ensign in the 35th Regiment of Foot, died in May 1859.