Smith (Violetstown and Annefield)
Abraham Smith is recorded as living at Rathduff, County Westmeath, in 1666. John Smith of Vilanstown or Violetstown married Dorcas Wheatley and had three sons Joshua, John and Isaac. He died in 1733. His second son John of Violetstown married Anne daughter of Benjamin Pratt of Agher, county Meath and they had three sons, the eldest of whom John married Louisa Bermingham and inherited Anneville from his uncle Isaac. John and Louisa had four sons, the youngest of whom was Francis Pratt Smith who married Louisa Macnamara in 1806. Both Anneville and Violetstown were in the hands of others by 1837. see http://www.bomford.net/IrishBomfords/Chapters/Chapter8/Chapter8.htm#8.5.1%C2%A0_The_Smith_Family_
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Larkfield House | Clonmoyle | Lynn | Mullingar | Russellstown | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N478488
OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 48 |
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| Violetstown | Vilanstown | Lynn | Mullingar | Belvidere 80 | Westmeath |
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OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: |
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| Anneville | Anneville or Rathduff | Moylisker | Mullingar | Belvidere 80 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N438469
OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 48 |
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Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 143 (Clonmoyle); 146 (Vilanstown)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 325 (Larkfield and Violetstown)
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 62