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Paget (St Feighin's)
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Rear Admiral Sir Charles Paget married Elizabeth Araminta daughter of Henry Monck of Fore, county Westmeath and his wife Lady Elizabeth A Gore, daughter of 2nd earl of Arran. Their eldest son was Charles Henry Paget, Royal Navy, (1806-1845). At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) his representatives held land in the parish of St Feighin’s, county Westmeath. The Paget estate amounted to 2,241 acres in the mid-1870s.
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Monck (Westmeath)
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In 1627, Charles Monck was appointed joint Surveyor General of the Customs of Ireland and purchased estates in county Westmeath. His descendant George Paul Monck MP for Coleraine had a son Henry Monck of Fore, county Westmeath, who married Lady Elizabeth A Gore, daughter of 2nd earl of Arran in 1783 and had two daughters who married the 1st Lord Granmore and Rear Admiral Sir Charles Paget. In 1835 an appeal of a case was heard in the House of Lords, the Rev Marcus Monck v Paget and others which concerned the marriage settlement of George Paul Monck and his wife Lady Arminta Beresford, by which the estates of George P Monck in county Westmeath were settled on him and the male issue of his marriage. The Rev Marcus Monck was a younger brother of Henry Monck. see Reports of Cases heard and decided in the House of Lords, 1838, 432.
A sale rental in the Smyth of Barbavilla Collection in the National Library (Ms 41,734) refers to the ‘Lands of Deernageeragh, part of the estate of the Late Henry Monck, esq., deceased, situate in the Barony of Fore. To be Sold, under the Decree in this Cause, on Friday, the 24th day of January, 1840’.
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