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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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