Montgomery (Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan)
Description
The Montgomerys of Convoy, county Donegal, Ballyconnell, county Cavan, Ballyleck and Bessmount, county Monaghan, all descend from Alexander Montgomery who came from Ayrshire to Ireland in the 17th century.
Estate(s)
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Enery | In the mid-18th century John Enery was in possession of Bawnboy Demesne. He was married to Margaret, daughter of William Hamilton M.P. of Strabane and his wife Catherine L. Montgomery of Ballyconnell. They had a son, also named John, who was High Sheriff of Cavan in 1796. John Enery Junior built Bawnboy House about 1790. He married Sarah Ainsworth Blunt and they had at least two children William Hamilton Enery who married Isabella A. Ottley in 1839 and a daughter Sarah who married Robert Story, son of the Reverend Joseph Story of Bingfield, see http://www.bawnboy.com/History-Heritage-Folklore/pages/bawnboy-84.html In the early 1840s the Ballyconnell estate of his cousins, the Montgomerys, passed to William Hamilton Enery. He was deceased when this estate came up for sale in the Encumbered Estates Courts in December 1858. It was sold on behalf of his daughter and heiress Constance Isabella, a minor. She later married Captain Stewart Cartwright and they adopted the additional surname of Enery. At the time of sale the Ballyconnell estate amounted to 6,474 acres and was located in the parishes of Tomregan, Templeport and Drumlane, county Cavan and Tomregan, county Fermanagh. A medical doctor, George Roe, bought Ballyconnell House and some land. Other townlands were purchased by Earl Annesley. |
| Montgomery (Convoy & Inishowen) | Robert Montgomery’s estate was among the principal lessors in the parish of Inver, Barony of Banagh and the parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North as well as the parishes of Convoy and Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, County Donegal at the time of Griffith’s Valuation in the 1850s. Reverend Samuel Montgomery’s estate was leasing property in the parish of Killaghatee, barony of Banagh and Moville Lower, barony of Inishowen East, at the same time. The estate of Robert George Montgomery amounted to almost 9000 acres in County Donegal in the 1870s. The Montgomery family were of Scottish descent and descend from Alexander Montgomery who came to Donegal in the seventeenth century. Burke suggests that they were connected with the Montgomery family of Beaulieu, County Louth. |
| Montgomery (Ballyconnell) | In 1724 the Gwyllym estate was sold for £8,000 to Colonel Alexander Montgomery (1686–1729) of Convoy House, County Donegal, M.P. for Donegal Borough 1725-1727 and for Donegal County 1727-1729. He died in 1729 and left the Ballyconnell estate to his nephew George Leslie who assumed the additional name of Montgomery. George Leslie Montgomery was M.P. for Strabane, County Tyrone from 1765-1768 and for County Cavan from 1770-1787. He was succeeded by his son George Montgomery, 'a lunatic', whose estate was administered by the Court of Chancery. Following his death in 1841, his estate became the property of his Enery cousins at Bawnboy. In 1856, the estate was sold. The purchasers included George Roe and the Earl Annesley. |
| Gwyllym | In August 1666, the confiscated estate of Ballyconnell, 3,667 acres in county Cavan, was granted to Captain Thomas Gwyllym, a soldier in Cromwell's army. Thomas Gwyllym died in 1681 and he was succeeded by his son Colonel Meredith Gwyllym. The Colonel had one child Meredith, who died unmarried. In 1724 the Ballyconnell estate was sold to Colonel Alexander Montgomery of Convoy House, county Donegal. |
| Roe (Ballyconnell) | The Roe family were originally from Warwickshire. Richard Roe came to Ireland in the mid-17th century and his grandson Thomas settled at Mount Roe, county Armagh. His great grandson, George Roe, a medical doctor, bought some parts of the Ballyconnell estate, of the Montgomery and Enery families in 1856 when it was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. These lands were located in the parish of Tomregan. George Roe was the son of the Reverend Edward Roe and his wife, Martha Crozier. He married Eliza Noble and they had a family of 4 sons and 5 daughters. In 1876, Eliza Roe of Ballyconnell, owned 570 acres in the county. |
| Sneyd | Nathaniel Sneyd (c. 1767-1833), wine merchant, was the son of Edward Sneyd of Dublin. The family originated in Staffordshire. Nathaniel, married firstly a daughter of George Montgomery of Ballyconnell, county Cavan and he held an estate in that county in the parishes of Templeport and Drumlane for which a rent roll survives. Nathaniel was an MP for Cavan, before and after the Union of 1800 and was High Sheriff of county Cavan in 1795. He was assassinated in Dublin in 1833 and left no children. There are letters in a number of collections in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland both to and from Nathaniel Sneyd mainly relating to elections. |