Canning (Garvagh)

Family title

Baron Garvagh

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Estate(s)

Name	Description
Canning (Garvagh)	George Canning was an Elizabethan settler at Garvagh in county Derry. His descendant, Stratford Canning, married Letitia, daughter and sole heiress of Obadiah Newburgh of Ballyhaise, county Cavan. Their grandson, George Canning was raised to the peerage as Baron Garvagh of Garvagh in 1818. He married Rosalind Charlotte Isabelle Bonham of Titness Park, Berkshire, as his second wife and died in 1840. He was succeeded by his son Charles Henry Spencer George, 2nd Baron, who married in 1851 Cecilia Ruggles-Brise of Spains Hall, Essex. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Lady Garvagh held an estate in the county Cavan parishes of Knockbride and Drumgoon. In 1878, the Dowager Lady Garvagh owned 5,803 acres in county Cavan, 1,176 acres in county Down and 7,388 acres in county Londonderry while Lord Garvagh owned 1,039 acres in county Londonderry. The county Cavan village of Canningstown is named after this family.
Dickson (Drummully)	Members of the Dickson family lived at Drummully House, parish of Kildallen, county Cavan, in the 19th century. This family also had a residence at Ballyfree, near Ashford in county Wicklow and a town residence in Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin. In June 1803 Joseph Dickson married Ann Smyth, daughter and co-heiress of Patrick Smyth of Bailieborough. Their son Robert Smyth Dickson was a barrister and JP and died in 1888. Family members are buried in Glenealy graveyard county Wicklow. Robert S. Dickson’s brother Joseph of Drummully House MD died in 1850 aged 35 (Limerick Reporter, 31 May 1850). A Joseph Dickson was agent to the estate of Baron Garvagh in the mid-19th century. In 1876 Robert S. Dickson of 40 Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, owned 429 acres in county Cavan.