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Knipe (Erne Hill)
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The Knipe family were located in the Belturbet area of county Cavan. By the mid-19th century George Marshall Knipe, a solicitor and High Sheriff of county Cavan in 1831, held four townlands in the parish of Annagh, barony of Lower Loughtee, while the representatives of John A. Knipe held ten townlands in the parishes of Annageliff and Castleterra, barony of Upper Loughtee. John Augustus Knipe was an army surgeon. He appears to have had a daughter Catherine who was married to William Roebuck. John A. Knipe died in 1850. According to Hugh Beddell Swanzy, George M. Knipe married Jane daughter of William Nixon of Mullaghduff in 1812 and they had a family of eight sons and six daughters. In June 1858 the Ernehill estate of George M. Knipe was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. He died the following year. By 1876, the Knipes owned only a small acreage in county Cavan - George Thomas Knipe of Dublin owned 274 acres and Thomas Frederick Knipe of Belturbet owned 34 acres. George M. Knipe was agent to the Brady estate in county Cavan and letters from him are included in the Close collection in PRONI, 1819-35 (see D2002/C/18).
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Richardson/Richardson-Brady
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William Richardson of Drum, county Tyrone married Isabella Brady, co-heiress to the Clonervy estate, near Cavan. Their son, Major William Stewart Richardson of Oaklands, succeeded his father in 1823, and assumed the additional name of Brady on succeeding to his mother's third of the Clonervy estate in 1841. His daughter and sole heiress married in 1866 Viscount Stuart, later 5th Earl Castle Stewart, of Stewart Hall, Stewartstown, county Tyrone. Lord and Lady Castle Stewart had two daughters, but no son. One of their daughters Lady Muriel succeeded to the Richardson Brady estate. Lady Muriel married Archibald Maxwell Close of Drumbanagher, Co. Armagh, in 1891. Earl Annesley bought some of this estate.
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Blackwood Brady
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Mary Brady, one of the co-heiresses of the Clonervy estate, county Cavan, married the Reverend Townley Blackwood and they had a son, Patrick Richard Blackwood Brady. In 1801, Patrick married Catherine Madden. In the mid-19th century the Blackwood Bradys were involved in a number of court cases involving their estates, as reported in The Irish Jurist and Reports of cases argued in the High Court of Chancery. The Blackwood Bradys succeeded to Clonervy and the estate of Richard B. Blackwood, comprised of 2,071 acres situated in the baronies of Upper Loughtee and Tullygarvey, was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court on 15 May 1855 by his assignee Caroline Percival. Griffith’s Valuation records James O’Reilly and Joseph Lynch holding some of these lands while Clonervy was in the possession of the Earl Annesley.
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Vernon
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The Vernons of county Cavan were a branch of the Vernon family of Clontarf Castle, county Dublin. John Edward Vernon was the son of the Reverend John Fane Vernon. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (1856) John E. Vernon, an Irish Land Commissioner, held an estate in the county Cavan parish of Drumlane, with small additions in the parishes of Tomregan and Kilmore. He purchased Erne Hill House part of the Knipe estate in the Encumbered Estate Court, 18 June 1858. In 1846 John E. Vernon married Harriet Leslie, daughter of the Bishop of Kilmore, and they had two sons and a daughter. In the 1870s, John E. Vernon of Erne Hill and Dublin owned 1,766 acres in county Cavan.
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