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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Leitrim => Topic started by: HughC on Thursday 05 June 25 19:29 BST (UK)
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The Pottinger family had a large estate in east Belfast but most of it was sold before 1800,
though there is still a district by the name of Mountpottinger.
Maj.Gen. John Pottinger died in April 1877 at his home 'Mount Pottinger', Carrick on Shannon.
Can anyone tell me: was that a house in the town, or did he have something more like a mansion nearby? He is thought to have owned land in Keonbrook townland, but that doesn't necessarily mean he lived there.
Unfortunately he was with the army in India when Griffith's valuation was carried out, and didn't retire until 1863. I don't know what other sources might help in the search. There could well have been a newspaper announcement of his death, or that of his wife in March 1876, but I feel they are unlikely to have given a precise location of the house.
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Leitrim County valuation 1871 gives the size and valuation
https://www.failteromhat.com/lo1876/leitrim.pdf.
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I read it was believed to be the townland of Keonbrook on a Wiki tree but thought that was too far from Carrick on Shannon but that’s the address on his death certificate
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1877/020546/7209840.pdf
And his wife the year before
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1876/020594/7225679.pdf
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Use Pottinger and Keonbrook and there are a few results in the land records
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/full-text/collection/M9J1-ZYL?fbclid=IwY2xjawH_imZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVunF4R3mKTtUjKu5uPVHISWUCfpeztMEUWezGczG0Xf-2j0LnLbsHveiw_aem_OHzbyZvLzxN7fM_0JYcoFQ
Including this one from 1879
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKS-PYQR?view=fullText&keywords=Pottinger%2CKeonbrook&lang=en&groupId=
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Thank you, Sinann. Most helpful.
I've since discovered that buried in my notes I have announcements in The Times and Freeman's Journal, saying they died at Mount Pottinger, Carrick on Shannon. So it does look as though that was really in Keonbrook townland, though perhaps not Keonbrook House itself: the Landed Estates web site is not clear on that matter.
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Irish Times, 4 May 1875
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Saunder's News Letter, 13 Aug 1877
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Diolch yn fawr! So now we know.
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Croeso.
Mayo Examiner 13 July 1878
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In case anyone's interested, the solicitors were not "Vesey, Daly and Co."
Daly's unusual forename was Vesey. He was related by marriage.
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In case anyone's interested, the solicitors were not "Vesey, Daly and Co."
Daly's unusual forename was Vesey. He was related by marriage.
Is this his death in 1880 at Upper Mount Street, Dublin?
Aged 76 yrs and married.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1880/06490/4867825.pdf
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Yes, that's the one. His daughter Anna Frances was married to William Hague, quite a well known architect. After Hague's death in 1899 she carried on the architecture practice (in partnership).
She was alive when the 1901 census was taken but I haven't been able to find her death -- or possibly remarriage. I wonder whether any RootsChatter can help there?
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...the address on his death certificate
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1877/020546/7209840.pdf
Keonbrook was the place of death. It's in the Registrar's District of Leitrim and a long way from Carrick-on-Shannon.
https://www.townlands.ie/leitrim/leitrim/kiltoghert/leitrim/keonbrook/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5500067#map=12/53.9729/-8.0269
Keonbrook (house) in Keonbrook townland.
https://arcg.is/1S54Kr2 (MapGenie 25 Inch - ITM in Basemap Gallery)
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See your previous ‘completed’ post that she died in London
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=878735.0
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Thank you, LH.
We get forgetful as we grow older.
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Oh yes, tell me about it!