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Mecham/Mechum
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In 1824, George Mecham of Garry Castle, county Westmeath and Gortmahoon, county Galway, Captain in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, married Harriet Catherine Hardy at Loughborough, Leicestershire. They had ten sons and four daughters. One of their sons would appear to be George Frederick Mechum (1828-1858), a British Naval Officer born in county Cork, who was involved in the search for Franklin of the North West Passage. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) George Mechum held four townlands in the parish of St Mary’s Athlone, county Westmeath, amounting to about 400 acres. In the mid-1870s Mrs Meecham of Jersey owned 304 acres in county Westmeath. An estate of 250 acres, situated at Gortnahoon, in the barony of Kiconnell, county Galway, the property of the Mecham and Ruddock families, was offered for sale in the Land Judges' court in May 1879.
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