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Evans (Loughpark)
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This family trace back to a Hugh Evans of Ballinrobe, county Mayo, in the early 18th century. His descendant Francis Evans of Prior’s Wood, Dublin and Robinstown, county Westmeath, barrister-at-law, had a number of children, the eldest of whom, Nicholas born 1795, settled at Loughpark. The Evans of Belgarrow descend from Francis’ second son also named Francis who married Alicia Ogle. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Nicholas Evans held an estate located in the parishes of Ardnurcher and Castletownkindalen, while other family members held land in the parishes of Ardnurcher and Newtown. In the mid-1870s the estate of Nicholas Evans of Loughpark amounted to 1,011 acres.
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