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Smith (Drumheel)
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In the mid-19th century the county Cavan estate of William Smith, agent to the Richardson Brady estate, was in the parishes of Crosserlough, Drung and Kilmore. Margaret Smith also held two townlands in the parish of Crosserlough. In 1876 William Smith’s representatives with an address at Drumheel, Bellananagh, owned 2,431 acres in the county, while Margaret Smith of Belfast owned 516 acres. The estate of George Stewart Smith was in the process of being sold to the tenants in 1905, see http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1906/nov/29/george-stewart-smith-estate-cavan
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Richardson/Richardson-Brady
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William Richardson of Drum, county Tyrone married Isabella Brady, co-heiress to the Clonervy estate, near Cavan. Their son, Major William Stewart Richardson of Oaklands, succeeded his father in 1823, and assumed the additional name of Brady on succeeding to his mother's third of the Clonervy estate in 1841. His daughter and sole heiress married in 1866 Viscount Stuart, later 5th Earl Castle Stewart, of Stewart Hall, Stewartstown, county Tyrone. Lord and Lady Castle Stewart had two daughters, but no son. One of their daughters Lady Muriel succeeded to the Richardson Brady estate. Lady Muriel married Archibald Maxwell Close of Drumbanagher, Co. Armagh, in 1891. Earl Annesley bought some of this estate.
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