Boyd (Middleton Park)

This family descend from Reverend James Boyd, rector of Erris, County Mayo in the mid-eighteenth century. His son Abraham married (1815) as his second wife, Jane, Countess of Belvedere and had a son, George Augustus of Middleton Park, born 1817, who inherited from his mother ‘a great portion of the Rochfort estate situated in county Westmeath’ (Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland 1904, 519). He bought Middleton House from James W. Middleton Berry in 1848. Griffith’s Valuation records him holding lands in many parishes in County Westmeath, in particular Ballymore, Carrick, Clonfad, Rahugh and Castletownkindalen. In the 1870s his estate amounted to 16,391 acres in County Westmeath, according to Hussey de Burgh and 9,431 according to the 'Return of Owners of one acre' (1876).

Associated Families

No associated families were found for this estate

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	County	Map Ref
Umma or Emoe House	Umma More	Ballymore	Athlone	Umma 17	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N197454 OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 48
Lilliput	Nure or Lilliput	Dysart	Mullingar	Middleton	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N376443 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 48
Middleton Park	Kilhugh	Castletownkindalen	Mullingar	Middleton	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N352430 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 48
Robinstown	Robinstown	Carrick	Mullingar	Carrick 98	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N409244 OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 48
Templeoran House	Templeoran North	Clonfad	Mullingar	Clonfad 100	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N409394 OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 48
Bloomfield	Lynn	Lynn	Mullingar	Belvidere 80	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N424488 OS Sheet: 28 Discovery map: 48
Anneville	Anneville or Rathduff	Moylisker	Mullingar	Belvidere 80	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N438469 OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 48
Lissanode House	Lissanode	Drumraney	Athlone	Umma	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N173455 OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 41

Archival sources

Survey of the estate of J. S. Rochfort and A. Boyd in the Baronies of Clonlonan and Moycashell, Co. Westmeath 1821. M. 523; National Archives of Ireland
Rental of the estate of G A Boyd of Middleton Park, 1842-1854. Ms 3108; National Library of Ireland
Copy of confirmation of arms being Boyd, quartering McCay and Rochfort, to George A Rochfort Boyd of Bloomfield, Co Westmeath, April 1837. GO Ms 107,118-119; National Library of Ireland
Copy of grant of arms to George A Boyd of Middleton Park, Co Westmeath, only child of Abraham Boyd of Bloomfield, by Jane his wife, widow of George, 2nd Earl of Belvedere, 25 Nov 1867. GO Ms 109, 161-162; National Library of Ireland
Copy of royal licence to George Augustus Boyd of Middleton Park to take the name Rochfort in addition to and before that of Boyd and bear the arms of Boyd and Rochfort quarterly, 16 Nov 1867. GO Ms 152, 585-588; National Library of Ireland
Boyd-Rochfort Papers, mortgages, leases, conveyances, marriage settlements etc relating to lands mainly in Co Westmeath of Boyd-Rochfort of Middleton Park, Rochfort of Rochfort Bridge and Rochfort of Clogrenane. D 26,134-26,261. See Special List No 187; National Library of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 86
HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 391
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Union, p.35 (Lissanode), p.87 (Umma More)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 112 (Lilliput); 106 (Kilhugh); 124 (Robinstown); 135 (Templeoran North); 145 (Lynn - Bloomfield); 147 (Anneville)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 369 (Lilliput and Middleton)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: 1, 361 (Templeoran); II, 325 (Bloomfield)

Modern printed sources

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Boyd-Rochfort Papers (from 1743) now in National Library of Ireland, the property of Lt. Col. H. Boyd-Rochfort, Midleton Park, Castletown Geoghegan, relating to the Rochfort and Boyd Families and to lands in Co. Westmeath. No. 112
PINE, L.G. (ed). ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. 4th ed. London: Burke's Peerage, 1958.: 608
O'Brien, Donal. ''The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath''. The author, Athlone (2nd edition 2015): 39 (Bloomfield); 102 (Emoe House); 140 (Lilliput); 140-141 (Lisanode); 148 (Middleton); 211 (Templeoran)