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Bateman (Grousehall)
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In 1810 Frances Lum, daughter of Charles Lum, married John Bateman, possibly of Rosetown, county Kildare. The Irish Equity Reports of 1845 include a case Charles Bateman v Lord Roden in the Court of Chancery in 1844, which refers to the 1819 will of Charles Lum of Lum Lodge [Lumvillle, county Offaly], in which he provides for his daughter, Frances Bateman, out of various trusts to be paid for from his estates in counties Cavan, Dublin and King’s County. His daughter Elizabeth, wife of Henry Hone and his son William Purefoy Lum are also mentioned. Plate etc in his home ‘Lum Lodge’ was also left to Frances, who is described as a widow in the 1840s. Houses and other stock at the Curragh, county Kildare, belonging to him were to be sold. In the 1850s, Frances Bateman held two townlands in the county Cavan parish of Drumlumman, barony of Clanmahon, namely Grousehall (288 acres) and Drumbannow (111 acres). These two townlands with lands, premises and houses at Clonliffe, county Dublin, were advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court on 16 May 1856. Frances died in France in 1864 and administration of her estate was granted to her daughter Harriette of Grousehall (Wills and Administrations 1867, 9). In 1876, Sarah H. Bateman of Grousehall owned 389 acres in county Cavan.
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Lum
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A Yorkshireman, Elnathan Lum, came to Ireland during the reign of Charles II, prospered as a banker in Dublin and bought the estate of Lumville near Edenderry, county Offaly (King’s County). He married Dorothea Purefoy of Purefoy Place, county Offaly. Their grandson Francis Lum of Lumville, was created a baronet in 1775. He married Rebecca Amelia Forster but died without heirs in 1796, when the baronetcy became extinct. According to Burke’s Extinct Baronetcies his estates were inherited by his brother Charles, an army officer who served in the American war. In his will of 1819, Charles refers to his married daughters Frances Bateman, Elizabeth Hone and his son William Purefoy Lum and his lands in counties Offaly, Cavan and Dublin. In 1856, the estates at Grouse Hall and Drumbannow, parish of Drumlumman, of Frances Bateman, a widow, and William Purefoy Lum were for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. William Purefoy Lum of Lum Lodge, Edenderry, county Offaly, formerly an ensign in the 35th Regiment of Foot, died in May 1859.
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