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Staples
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The Staples family baronets held land in a number of Irish counties, Queen’s County, Derry, Tyrone, Cavan and Mayo. The Cavan estate may have come into their possession through the marriage of Sir Alexander Staples and Abigail daughter and heiress of Thomas Townley of county Cavan. Their only son Sir Robert Staples, born in 1740, had by his second wife a son and successor Sir Robert and a daughter Hannah, who married Ralph Smyth of Gaybrook, county Westmeath. Her marriage portion was charged on the county Cavan estate. The Staples county Cavan estate was in the parishes of Lavey, Annagelliff and Kilmore. In a resume of Sir Robert Staples estate ownership circa 1828, the county Cavan estate was comprised of 1,500 acres. In 1878, Sir Nathaniel Staples of Lissane, county Tyrone, owned 1,457 acres in county Dublin, 990 acres in county Londonderry and 3,078 acres in county Tyrone. Records in PRONI suggest that the county Cavan estate was possibly sold in 1878. The Staples family held some church lands in the parish of Kilmainemore, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo. Mary Vesey, eldest daughter of Archbishop John Vesey of Tuam, married early in the 18th century Sir Robert Staples 2nd Baronet. The Staples appear to have purchased Turin from the sale of the Dillon-Browne estate in 1851. Most of the Staples county Mayo estate was let to members of the Fair family. In 1878, Robert Staples of Dunmore, Durrow, Queen's County [Laois] owned 1,385 acres in county Mayo, 4,003 in county Londonderry and 1,424 in Queen's county. Miss K. Staples sold 1,387 acres to the Congested Districts' Board on 28 Nov 1907.
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Lindsey Bucknall
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The Lindseys were well established in north Mayo at the beginning of the 18th century. On 14 Dec 1705 Samuel Lindsey of Belleek and Robert Lindsey, a merchant of Sligo, bought 2 quarters of Rathoma, parish of Ballysakerry, from the trustees for the sale of part of the estate of Charles Boyle, 3rd Earl of Cork and 2nd Earl of Burlington. The Lindseys came to Turin in the early 18th century and Turin remained their property until the mid 19th century, although they appear to have been largely absentee landlords. In 1749 the Reverend Samuel Lindsey of Turin married Frances Bucknall and their grandson John Lindsey took the additional surname of Bucknall. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Lindsey Bucknalls still held 2 townlands in the parish of Kilmainemore. Sir Thomas Staples was in possession of Turin by the time of Griffith's Valuation and was leasing it to the Rutherford family.
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