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Anketell/Ancketell
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This family, originally from Dorset, settled in Ireland at Ancketell Grove in the mid -seventeenth century when they were granted lands in counties Monaghan (5,478 acres) and Fermanagh (613 acres), later confirmed by patent of Charles II. For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the name was spelt Anketell. Oliver Anketell, Member of Parliament for the borough of Monaghan 1754-1760 was one of the founders of the Royal Dublin Society. His grandson William Anketell was the proprietor from 1828. In 1809, William married Sarah Waring-Maxwell from county Down and they had a family of 5 sons and 3 daughters. Two of their daughters were married to clergymen - the Reverend Robert Loftus Tottenham, son of Bishop Tottenham of Clogher and the Reverend John Richardson Bunbury, son of Sir James Bunbury of Augher Castle, county Tyrone. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Mathew J. Anketell held an estate mainly located in the parishes of Errigal Trough and Donagh, barony of Trough. Some of it, 486 acres was for sale in 1860. Although the estate of Mathew John Anketell, owner and petitioner, amounting to 7,608 acres was for sale in 1861, William Ancketell still owned 7,504 acres in county Monaghan in 1876. Collins writes that in 1884 the estate was ‘sold to the Scottish Provident Insurance Association which began a comprehensive programme of evictions.’
The original house Ancketell’s Grove was situated in the townland of Derrynashallog and was pulled down in 1781 and a new family home built in Gortmoney known as Trough Lodge but marked on the 25” map as Anketell Grove.
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