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Winter (Agher, Cloverhill)
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This family descend from the Reverend Samuel Winter, who came to Ireland in 1650 and became Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. He acquired lands in counties Meath, Westmeath and King’s County. In 1826, Samuel Winter of Agher, county Meath, married Lucy daughter of James Sanderson/Saunderson of Cloverhill, county Cavan and had four sons. Their eldest son, John Winter, was killed during the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. Their other three sons were James Sanderson Winter who inherited Agher, Samuel Winter who assumed by Royal Licence the name of Sanderson and inherited Cloverhill and Francis A. Winter who was a barrister. In 1878, James S. Winter of Agher owned 940 acres in county Cavan, 206 acres in county Kildare, 1,640 acres in county Meath and 861 acres in county Westmeath, while his brother Samuel Winter of Clondriss, Killucan, county Westmeath, owned 839 acres (Rathconnell parish) but this Samuel is also recorded as Samuel Winter Sanderson who owned the former 2,560 acre Sanderson estate at Cloverhill by 1876. Samuel Winter married Anne, daughter of John A. Nicholson of Balrath, county Meath, but they had no children and the property passed to the children of Samuel Winter’s sister, Elizabeth Anne Purdon of Lisnabin, county Westmeath.
http://www.bomford.net/IrishBomfords/Chapters/Chapter20/Chapter20.htm
Burke LGI, 1904, 661-662
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Purdon (Westmeath)
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The Purdons of county Westmeath, share a common ancestor with those of Tinerana, Killaloe, county Clare. In the late 17th century the Rev Richard Purdon married a Miss Griffin and inherited Griffinstown, county Westmeath. From three of his grandsons descend the Purdons of Rathwire, Lisnabin, Curristown and Huntington. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) four family members were immediate lessors in the parish of Killucan. In the mid-1870s George Nugent Purdon of Lisnabin owned 1,063 acres in the county and Wellington Purdon of Juristown, Killucan, owned 1,275 acres. The family were still living there in 1976. Lisnabin and 400 acres sold by the family in 2002. (Irish Independent, 15 Apr 2019). In December 2022 a volume containing a 'Rent Roll & Tenants Accounts 1801-1843' was sold at Fonsie Mealy's. The volume contained records compiled for Edward Purdon Esq., who inherited Lisnabin, Killucan, Co. Westmeath, in 1790, and built the present house c 1840.
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Pratt (Killynan)
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This family was a younger branch of the Pratts of Cabra Castle. Benjamin Pratt, (1639-1706) married Jane daughter of James Nugent of Clonlost, county Westmeath and his wife Jane Cooke of Cookesborough. He was succeeded by his second son, also named Benjamin. His daughter Margaret married Francis Winter; their son, Samuel Winter, was born in 1741 and brought up with his two sisters Jane and Mary by their uncle, John Pratt. Both sisters married members of the Reynell family. In 1771 when Benjamin Pratt died, Samuel Winter inherited the Pratt estates including Agher, County Meath, Killeter, County Cavan and Killynan, County Westmeath. This united the Winter and Pratt estates. (see a summary note accompanying catalogue entry for NLI MS 5245)
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