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Sitator/Sclater
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A Colonel Sitator of unknown address owned 2,944 acres in county Cavan in the 1870s.Sitator may be the surname Sclater. In 1906, a James H. Sclator was the occupier of 35 acres of untenanted land at Drumcole, parish of Drumlane (in the possession of the Saunderson family at the time of Griffith's Valuation). Ancestry records the marriage in 1846 of James Henry Sclater; and Louisa Catherine Fowler in the district of Cavan. Burke records the marriage of this couple on 26 November, stating that Louisa was the daughter of Robert Fowler of Rahinstown, county Meath and her husband, James Henry Sclater of Newick Park, Sussex, born 1819, was the son of James Henry Sclater and his wife Cecil, daughter of Francis Saunderson of Castle Saunderson, county Cavan.
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Saunderson (Castle Saunderson)
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In June 1666, Colonel Robert Sanderson was granted an estate of 10,814 acres in county Cavan and 901 acres in county Meath. Robert Sanderson was descended from a Scottish family. From his third son Alexander descend the Saundersons of Castle Sanderson and Clover Hill. Robert built Castle Sanderson near Belturbet in county Cavan in the mid-17th century. A number of his descendants served as High Sheriffs of the county and represented the county in Parliament. One of these, Alexander, was High Sheriff in 1758 and it was he who reputedly changed the spelling of the family name to Saunderson. In 1779, Alexander’s son, Francis Saunderson, married Anne Bassett, daughter of Stephen White of Miskin, Glamorgan and heiress to the Bassett estates in Wales. In 1828 their son, Alexander, married a sister of the 9th Lord Farnham. In the mid-19th century the main part of Colonel Alexander Saunderson’s estate was in the parishes of Annagelliff and Lavey in the barony of Upper Loughtee but he also held sizable portions of land in the parishes of Larah, Annagh and Killinkere. He also bought some of the estate of the Earl of Mornington which was for sale in 1853. His brother, the Reverend Francis Saunderson, rector of Kildallan, county Cavan, held an estate in the parishes of Drumlane and Killashandra. Mary Anne Saunderson’s estate [Cloverhill] was mainly in the parishes of Kilmore, Annagelliff, Denn and Lavey in the barony of Upper Loughtee with further lands in the parishes of Annagh and Ballintemple. In 1876, Major Edward Saunderson of Castle Saunderson owned 12,362 acres, Llewellyn T. Saunderson of Drumkeen, county Cavan, owned 4,160 acres and Samuel Saunderson, formerly Winter, of Cloverhill, Belturbet, owned 2,560 acres in county Cavan.
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