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Daniel (Lough Ree Lodge)
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This family descend from Nicholas, second son of Gerald or Garret Daniel who held land in the barony of Burrishoole, county Mayo, in the late seventeenth century. In 1762, his son John married Dorcas, daughter and heiress of Thomas Auchmuty of Bryanstown, county Longford. Their grandson William Henry purchased Auburn in 1848. Later he resided at Lough Ree Lodge, Glasson, county Westmeath. William Henry’s father George Daniell K.C. had purchased land in Kilkenny West from John Dorrington Hackett. Although William H Daniell was the immediate lessor of several townlands in each of the parishes of Bunowen, Kilkenny West and Noughavel, county Westmeath in the mid-nineteenth century, he is recorded as only owning 355 acres in 1876. Most of his estate in county Westmeath was sold in the Encumbered Estates Court on three sale days - 7 February 1856 when 1,409 acres were on offer including the house Auburn, 18 June 1856 and on 22 January 1857.
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Chapman
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Benjamin Chapman, a captain in Cromwell’s army, was granted an estate at Killua, county Westmeath, containing 1,163 acres in 1667. His great grandson, another Benjamin, was created a baronet in 1782. In the mid-nineteenth century the first baronet’s nephew Sir Benjamin Chapman held an estate mainly located in the parish of Killua but also in the parishes of Kilcumrereagh, Killare, Kilbeggan, Faughalstown, Leny and Portnashangan, totaling 9,516 acres in the 1870s. Parts of his estate had been purchased from the Delamare and Naper families in previous years. Sir Benjamin’s brother William of Southhill, Delvin, held lands in the county Westmeath parishes of Castledevlin, Castletownkindalen, Kilkenny West, Newtown and Noughaval, amounting to 4,707 acres in the 1870s. Sir Montague Chapman was among the principal lessors in the parish of Street, barony of Moyguish, County Westmeath at the time of Griffiths Valuation. T E Lawrence ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, was the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th and last Baronet.
Sir Benjamin and William Chapman, two members of the Chapman family of Killua Castle, county Westmeath, owned a sporting estate in the parish of Crossmolina, barony of Tirawley, county Mayo in the 1870s, formerly part of the estate of the Earls of Arran. They still owned untenanted land in the locality in 1906. Some of their county Mayo estate was occupied by Charles Thomas Warde at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Chapmans had accepted an offer from the Congested Districts' Board for their Co Mayo estate of 2,666 acres by March 1916.
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