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Owen (Raconnell)
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In 1668, Nicholas Owen of Mongomeryshire, Wales, received a grant of lands in counties Cavan and Monaghan (parish of Kilmore), including Raconnell. His mother was Mary Blayney, aunt to the first Lord Blayney. He married Mary Banks and had two sons Blayney Owen of Monaghanduffe (Newgrove), High Sheriff of Monaghan 1693, and Edward of Ballydrimny, county Meath. Blayney Owen of Newgrove, died 1708, had sons Nicholas Owen of Raconnell and Blayney Owen of Newgrove (1702-1750) and daughters Mary who married William Robinson and Euphemia who married James Martin. They were co-heirs to their brother Blayney of Newgrove. Nicholas of Raconnell had a son Nicholas who married Mabel Clarke, an heiress of Portadown. Their son John Owen married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Rogers of Crieve and had three daughters, Mary married to R. Phibbs of Colooney, county Sligo; Olivia married firstly to Henry Owen Scott of Clonamully, county Monaghan, by whom she had a daughter Henrietta and secondly to Lieut Colonel Lucas; Jane Elizabeth married to Brigadier Major Henry Cole. Henry and Jane Elizabeth had a son Owen Blayney Cole of Brandrum.
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