French (Belturbet)
When Matthew French of Belturbet, Co Cavan, made his will in 1688, he left a third of his lands, houses and tenements in Cos Fermanagh and Cavan and in the Corporation of Belturbet to his wife Elinor. Matthew French also had property in Dublin. His eldest son Richard married Mary Perrott of Dromhonie, Co Cavan. His second son Matthew French junior of Dublin and Belturbet married Mary Meade. Their only son was the Reverend Matthew French who had one son Matthew (died in 1739) and a daughter Marianne who married the Reverend Andrew Nixon of Nixon Lodge, county Cavan.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Will abstracts and genealogical notes on various families including those of French, Nixon, Hassard, Warburton and Swanzy. (Compiled by Rev. H. B. Swanzy?). Early 20th c. Ms 4488; National Library of Ireland
Modern printed sources
- SWANZY, Henry Biddall, ‘The families of French of Belturbet and Nixon of Fermanagh and their descendants’ (Dublin: 1908): All
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': Abstracts of wills include that of R. French of Belturbet 1638. II, No 2, Oct 1944.