Annesley (Castlewellan)
Family title
Earl Annesley
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 (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. |
| Blackwood Brady | 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. |
| Richardson/Richardson-Brady | 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. |
| Moore (Denn) | In 1878, the Reverend John R. Moore of Rowallane, Saintfield, county Down, owned estates in counties Cavan and Down amounting to 892 and 600 acres respectively. His county Cavan estate was located in the parish of Denn. The Reverend John Robert Moore was descended from Captain Hugh Moore of the 9th Dragoons whose father was granted land in Ireland by William III. As the Reverend John and his wife had no children he was succeeded by his nephew, Hugh Armitage Moore, son of William A. Moore of Arnmore, parish of Urney, county Cavan. William Armytage Moore was agent to Lord Annesley and his son was also appointed agent in 1910. The Moores were closely related to the Earls Annesley. In 1828, William Armytage Moore’s sister Pricilla Cecilia married the 3rd Earl and his daughter also named Pricilla Cecilia married the 5th Earl. |