|
Ussher [Usher] (Eastwell)
|
This family share a common ancestry with the other Ussher families in Ireland. At the end of the 17th century William Ussher married Lettice, daughter and co heiress of Sir Henry Waddington, and part of the Waddington estates in county Galway passed to the Ussher family. Christopher Usher of Eastwell is described as a resident proprietor in county Galway in 1824. The house at his property at Eastwell, in the parish of Killalaghtan, barony of Kilconnell, was valued at £79 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He was also one of the principal lessors in the parish. At the same time, Francis Usher was leasing a property valued at £12 in the townland of Prospect Demesne, parish of Meelick, barony of Longford, to Joseph Cowan. The demesne and house at Prospect were offered for sale in the Landed Estates court in November 1863. The schedule indicates that Rev. John Usher had leased Prospect to Joseph Henry Cowan for three lives from February 1853. The Irish Times reports that Mr. Cowan purchased the property for £760. Peter Fitzgerald, the Knight of Kerry, was the petitoner to the sale.
In the 1870s Christopher Usher's estate amounted to over 3500 acres while William Usher held over 500 acres in the Kilconnell area. In 1906 Isabella Ussher owned Rocklands House, parish of Oranmore as well as 80 acres of untenanted land.
|
|
Croasdaile
|
The Croasdaile family had acquired property in the parish of Kilconickny, barony of Dunkellin, county Galway through the marriage of Thomas Croasdaile and a member of the Waddington family of Cloghstoken/Cloghastookeen in the 17th century. This estate was part of the property of the Miller family of Milford, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo in the 19th century. The Croasdailes also bought land in the barony of Leitrim, county Galway, from the sale of part of the estate of Colonel John Browne of Westport, county Mayo at the end of the 17th century. Thomas Croasdaile of Cloghstoken also bought nearly 2,000 Irish acres in the barony of Tulla, county Clare in 1705 from Charles Boyle, 3rd Earl of Cork. He married Mercy Ringrose of Moynoe, Scarriff, county Clare and left a number of daughters as his heiresses.
|
