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Adamson (Moate)
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The Adamson family were established in the Moate area of county Westmeath from at least the late eighteenth century. In the mid-nineteenth century the representatives of William [Graham] Adamson and Misses Adamson held land in the parish of Ballyloughloe while Robert Adamson [of Carnpark] held a townland in the parish of Kilcleagh. Travers Adamson, son of Travers Adamson, barrister-at-law of Carn Park, county Westmeath and Victoria, Australia, died in 1897, aged 70, having married Catherine Synott in August 1873. Carn Park and other lands belonging to the Adamson family were for sale in the Landed Estates Court in June 1870. Charles Graham Adamson of Auburn was the youngest son of George Archibald Graham Adamson, who had purchased Auburn in 1864 from William Henry Daniel. By his first marriage, G.A.G. Adamson had a son, Henry Graham and by his second marriage a son, George Percival. In the 1870s George Adamson of Auburn owned 487 acres in county Westmeath and over 1000 acres in Kings County (Offaly) while Robert Adamson of Mountplunkett owned 145 acres in the county and 450 acres in county Roscommon. See 'Irish Law Times' (1897), 180.
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