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Wade (Aughrim)
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In 1653, William Wade, a soldier in Cromwell’s army, was granted lands at Killavally, near Tyrrellspass, county Westmeath and at Philipstown, King’s County (Offaly). His descendant Thomas Wade, born 1719 sold the Killavally property in 1756 and purchased lands in county Galway. In 1813 his grandson, another Thomas Wade, married Dorothea, daughter of Gustavus Hume Rochfort of Rochfort, county Westmeath. Their grandson Gustavus Rochfort Wade, who assumed the name of Hyde, lived at Lynnbury, Mullingar. The Wade family held lands at Carrowmore, barony of Kilconnell, county Galway, during the late 18th and 19th centuries. In the 1870s Rochford Wade was in possession of over 1,100 acres in county Galway and 324 acres in county Roscommon. Samuel Wade of Aughrim owned 57 acres in county Westmeath. In 1906 Rochfort Wade held over 900 acres of untenanted land in county Galway.
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