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Newton (Killymeal)
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This family descend from Richard Newton who was town clerk of Carrickfergus, county Antrim, at the end of the 16th century. In 1864, Robert Newton of Coagh, county Tyrone, married Elizabeth Geoghegan of Lucan, county Dublin. He was the only son of Robert Newton and Alicia Paul. He purchased Killymeal House, county Tyrone from his cousin Andrew Willoughby Newton which became the family home. In the 1870s Courtney Newton was recorded as the owner of over 10,000 acres in County Donegal. Much of this estate is recorded as untenanted land in the parish of Desertegny, barony of Inishowen in 1906. At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s it had been owned by William Knox.
A collection of papers relating to the land holding of this family in counties Tyrone and Cavan is held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
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