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Williams
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In the mid 19th century Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M. Peers Williams held an estate in the parishes of Dysart and Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. In the 1870s he owned 3,062 acres in county Roscommon. His address was Middlesex, England. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Peers Williams was a grandson of Thomas Williams of Anglesey and Catherine Lloyd. His seat is recorded as Temple House, Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire. His son Owen Lewis Cope Williams married a daughter of St George Francis Caulfield of Donamon.
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Caulfeild (Dunamon)
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The Dunamon estate was held under a lease for 500 years from John King, Lord Kingston to Thomas Caulfeild, dated 1 May 1688. The estate proprietor in the late 18th century was Colonel John Caulfeild of Donamon, who was a younger son of the Reverend Charles Caulfeild, and a grandson of William Caulfeild 2nd Viscount Charlemont. In 1828 St. George Caulfeild and Col William Caulfeild were members of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon. In the mid 19th century the Caulfeild estate was in the parishes of Ballynakill, Dunamon and Oran, barony of Ballymoe and Kilbride, barony of Ballintober South, Kilbride and Lissonuffy, barony of Roscommon, county Roscommon. In the 1870s St George Caulfeild owned 4,604 acres in county Galway, 6,632 acres in county Roscommon and smaller acreages in counties Kilkenny, Tipperary (824 acres) and Tyrone. On 21 Mar 1912 over 10,800 acres in county Roscommon belonging to A. St George Caulfeild were vested in the Congested Districts' Board. Much of the Caulfeild estate in county Galway was transferred to county Roscommon when the county border changed in 1898.
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Armstrong (Cavan)
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The Law Journal Reports (Vol 43, 720) record the marriage in 1802 of Elliott Armstrong, the elder and Mary Carleton with reference to freehold estates in county Cavan held in trust. These trusts were later subject to uses in favour of Harriet Ellen Armstrong and her husband Elliott Anderson of Bath. Mary was the daughter of Oliver Carleton and Harriet Ellen was the daughter of Captain John Saunders of St Annes, Somerset. In the 1850s Oliver Armstrong held two townlands in the parish of Templeport, while John Armstrong held three townlands in the parish of Killinkere and John Thomas Armstrong held two townlands in the parish of Drumlumman, all in county Cavan. In 1876, Elliott Armstrong of Bath owned 1,308 acres in county Cavan while John S. Armstrong of Geelong, Australia, owned 537 acres. Elliott Graham Armstrong, born 1840, was another member of this family. He was the son of Oliver Armstrong who lived at Emlaghroyin, near Dunamon, county Roscommon and his wife Jane Mary Graham. Oliver Armstrong was a land agent. His son Elliott G. Armstrong also described himself as a land agent and grazier when he gave evidence to the Tariff Commission in 1906. He was living at Ballinasloe, county Galway, at the time. He farmed 1,500 acres of his own and was agent to a further 2,700 acres. E.G. Armstrong and Mahon were agents to the Clonbrock Estate in the early 20th century. Elliott G. Armstrong had previously resided at Emlaghroyin as recorded in Walford’s County Families 1889.
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