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Dopping (Lowtown)
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In 1703, Reverend Anthony Dopping purchased over 200 acres of Ballyeighter, barony of Farbill, county Westmeath, from the Trustees of forfeited estates for £500. Anthony Dopping of Lowtown, county Westmeath, married Alice daughter of James D’Arcy of Hyde Park, county Westmeath and Derrycassan, county Longford. She brought a fortune of £6,000. Their eldest son Samuel Dopping married Anne Kelly and had a son William. This was the Lowtown branch of the family. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Anne Dopping was the immediate lessor of three townlands in the parish of Killucan. William Dopping (1812-1897), [librarian, Parliament House, Melbourne], Australia, owned an estate of 1,171 acres in county Westmeath in the mid-1870s. In 1843, he married Jane, daughter of Reverend Cecil Crampton, rector of Killucan and they had two children Antoine and Victoria. Ralph Dopping of Erne Head, Derrycassan was the second son of Anthony and Alice Dopping. Their eldest son John inherited Derrycassan and their younger son Henry lived at Erne Head. At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s, he was among the principal lessors in the parish of Abbeylara, barony of Granard.
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