Parker (Whiteway, Devon)

Family title

Earl of Morley

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Estate(s)

Name	Description
Parker (Whiteway, Devon)	The Parker family of county Cavan were closely related to the Devon family of that name who held the title Earl of Morley from 1815. By his wife, Frances Talbot, John Parker the 1st Earl left a son Edmund, 2nd Earl, who married in 1842 his second cousin, Harriet Sophia, only daughter of Montagu Edmund Parker of Whiteway, Devon and his wife Harriet nee Newcombe. It was through the Parker/Newcombe marriage that the Pleydell estate centred around the manor of Doobally in county Cavan with other lands in county Meath was acquired by the Parker family and eventually inherited by the Earls of Morley. Harriet Newcombe was the daughter of John Newcombe and Harriet Pleydell, apparently eventual heiress to the estates of Jonathan Morton Pleydell, the elder (c 1725-1795). Mrs Harriet Parker (1786-1877) of Whiteway, Devon, was recorded in 1876 as the owner of 10,540 acres in county Cavan (parish of Killinagh) while her son W.E.N. Parker and others owned a further 562 acres (parish of Drumlane).
Pleydell (Wilton, Somerset)	In the 18th century Jonathan Morton Pleydell of Wilton, Somerset, held a large estate in county Cavan. Some townlands in the county still bear the name Pleydell as part of their name, for example, Cornadarrgh (Pleydell) and Drummany (Pleydell). A document, dated 1788, in the Morley of Saltram collection, Pleydell Estate Papers, refers to Jonathan Morton Pleydell, the elder, of Rochestown, Dublin, (Ref. 69/P/4/37). He and his wife Elizabeth Jackson had a number of children but their daughter Harriet who married John Newcombe in 1785 was the one who eventually inherited the Pleydell Irish estates. A private act of Parliament was passed in 1785 enabling the children of Jonathan Morton Pleydell, the elder, to make leases of his estates in counties Cavan and Meath. Jason Hassard was agent on the Pleydell estate in the late 18th century and James Fawcett in the early 19th century. These estates are documented in the Morley of Salthram collection in the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office.