Villiers
Family title
Earl of Grandison
Estate(s)
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Villiers Stuart/Stuart (de Decies) | The introduction to the Public Record Office Northern Ireland list of the Villiers Stuart papers states that the the marriage connections which most influenced the history of the Villiers Stuart estate are: the marriage, in 1677, of Katherine Fitzgerald, owner of the Dromana estate, to the Honourable Edward Villiers, son and heir of the 4th Viscount Grandison; the marriage, in 1739, of Lady Elizabeth (Fitzgerald) Villiers, who succeeded to the estate in 1766, to Aland Mason of Waterford; and the marriage in 1802 of Lord Henry Stuart, 5th son of John, 1st Marquess of Bute, and Lady Gertrude Amelia Mason-Villiers, heir of George, 2nd Earl of Grandison. This last couple had three sons, Henry created Lord Stuart of Decies in 1839, William Villiers-Stuart of Castletown, county Kilkenny and Charles. In 1833 William Villiers Stuart married Catherine Cox, sister of Sir Richard Cox, 8th Baronet, and daughter of Michael Cox. At the time of Griffith's Valuation William V. Stewart held land in the parish of Macloneigh, barony of West Muskerry, county Cork. In 1851, Lord de Decies estate included lands in the parishes of Aglish, Ardmore, Clashmore, Kilmolash, Lisgenan or Grange and Ringagonagh, barony of Decies-within-Drum and Affane and Whitechurch, barony of Decies-without-Drum, county Waterford. In July 1853 a perpetual annuity and a charge on the estates of Michael Cox of Castletown, county Kilkenny, which were by then vested in William Villiers Stuart, were advertised for sale. The former Cox estate was comprised of 12,479 acres in the baronies of West Muskerry, Ibane, Barrymore and East Carbery, county Cork, and 1,826 acres in the baronies of Iffa and Offa East and Slievardagh, county Tipperary plus 6,877 acres in county Kilkenny. Lord Stuart de Decies of Dromana, county Waterford, owned over 7000 acres in county Waterford as well as 24 acres in county Cork in the 1870s, while the representatives of his brother William Villiers-Stuart owned 1,404 acres in Cork. |