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Bateman (Hightown)
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The estate of John Bateman, 1,062 acres in the townland of Balloughter or Hightown in the parish of Killucan, county Westmeath, was advertised for sale on 20 June 1851. The estate had been in Chancery for some years and the petitioner was John Copeland Jones. John Bateman of ‘Lotown’, Kinnegad, is recorded in the Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland (1849), 308. A recording from the schools’ collection states that John Bateman died in Lowtown House ‘badly in debt’. (Coralstown School, https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5009057/4981947) The Boston Pilot (Vol 11, No 29, 19 July 1851) states that the estate of John Bateman was sold to Charles Tuthill for £9,235. Charles Tuthill was an immediate lessor in the townland of Hightown in Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854).
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Tuthill (Hightown)
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Charles Tuthill purchased 1,062 acres in the townland of Balloughter or Hightown in the parish of Killucan, county Westmeath, from John Bateman in the Encumbered Estates Court in June 1851 (The Boston Pilot, Vol 11, No 29, 19 July 1851). Charles Tuthill, a barrister, of Newstead Abbey, Milltown, county Dublin, owned 1,065 acres in county Westmeath and 159 in county Meath in the mid-1870s. The Kings Inn Admissions Papers 1607-1867, list a Charles Tuthill, third son of John Tuthill of 38 Richmond Street, Dublin and Mary Beere. Walker’s Hibernian Magazine records the marriage of John Tuthill and Miss Beere in 1806. Their son Charles was aged 23 on 22 June 1833.
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