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Canning (Garvagh)
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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.
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