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Leeson
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The Leeson family came to own some of the Bermingham estate in county Galway through the marriage of Sir William Edward Leeson of the Rushborough, county Wicklow family and Louisa Sewell. Sir William Leeson, residing at Kingstown, county Dublin, held 190 acres in county Leitrim in the 1870s as well as over 700 acres in counties Galway and estates in Meath, Roscommon and Westmeath. His address in the Landowners survey is given as Caen, France.
Sir William Leeson held two townlands in the parish of Newtown, county Westmeath in the mid-nineteenth century. He owned 964 acres in the county in the mid-1870s.
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Sewell
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Thomas Bermingham Daly Henry Sewell was a son of Elizabeth Bermingham and Thomas Bailey Heath Sewell and grandson of Thomas Bermingham 1st Earl of Louth and Baron Athenry. His claim to the baronetcy of Athenry failed in 1800. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Sewell estate was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Athenry and the representatives of Colonel Sewell also held land in the parishes of Clonbern, barony of Ballymoe and Dunmore, barony of Dunmore. Thomas Sewell's had 4 daughters who married Sir William Edward Leeson (who held 710 acres in county Galway and 230 acres in county Roscommon in the 1870s), General Marcus Beresford (one of their daughters married George Brydges Rodney), George Drummond Earl of Perth and Melfort and the Reverend Solomon Richards, whose representatives held 2,544 acres in county Galway in the 1870s.
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