George Canning (1565 - 1646)

Born 1565 in Warwickshire, England [uncertain]

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Died 1646 at about age 81 in Ireland

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Biography

George was born in 1565 and died in 1646.

In a letter to the Ironmongers' Company in London, dated 26 December 1630, George Canning mentioned his concerns about the welfare of his ten children, if an apparent scheme to charge George Canning with a false claim of manslaughter, to use to take his property in forfeiture, proceeded. [Hill, AN ACCOUNT OF THE PLANTATION IN ULSTER (1877)]

"Dec. 27 [1639]. Petition of George Cannynge to the King. Twenty years since, petitioner took a lease from the Ironmongers' Company of the manor of Lizard, co. Londonderry, containing 46 balliboes or townland, at a rent of 150 pounds, and 20 pounds to the minister of Ahgeeve [Agivey]. . . In order to build and plant, he sold his lands in England to the value of 3,000 pounds, most of which he has spent in improvements . . ."

Nicholas Canny, in MAKING IRELAND BRITISH (2001) has a good account of George Canning In his role as 2nd agent of the Ironmongers' Company in its plantation in Ulster.

Robert Stedall, a former Master of the Ironmongers' Company, in October 2016 posted online an excellent brief historical sketch of George Canning and his role as agent for the Ironmongers' Company's Londonderry estate. "On 17 December 1613, the Ironmongers drew an area of 19,450 acres, on the Bann river upstream from Coleraine. . . It was named the Manor of Lizard." Canning himself obtained the first lease from the company of the manor, including the castle at Agivey, co. Londonderry.[greatparchmentbook.org]

"Some time after this [November 1617] Canning bought the townland of Garvaghey [Garvagh], so long associated with the Canning family. This townland had been originally granted to Gilduffe McBrian O'Cahan about 1611."

The castle at Agivey together with the small village were destroyed in the Irish rebellion of 1641.

Extract of Will dated 1st June 1642, proved 11 May 1646^[1]
George Canning of Coleraine, Co Londonderry Esq
£100 when 21 to George Canning son of my dead son William Canning
Mary eldest and Dorothy youngest daughter of said Wm Canning
Son Robert to son Edward Canning lease of the liberties of Grangegerman near Dublin
Son Paul Canning daughter Mary Arnold & her children
Daughter Anne Mawlin unmarried daughters Jane & Rachel are under 21
Rings to Harry King alderman of Londonderry
George Newall of Londonderry gent
George Redshawe rector of Coleraine
Legacies to Bridget Hadsley to the poor of Coleraine & to servants
Sole executor & residuary legatee, son Paul Canning
Witnesses Tho. Vesey, George Redshawe
Probate to Paul Canning executor
List of Freeholds & Leases
Freeholds
Market & Fair at Garvagh, The Ferry at Aghgevey
The ........... at Aghgevey
Garvagh bought of Gilduff M'Brian O'Caghan
Tawnymore Bolemorey Brackaboy & Cah, Freeholds in the Ironmonger's Proportion
Leases
Lease of the Ironmonger's Preportion
Lease of the Liberties of Grangegorman of the B'p of Waterford £150
Corwally a Freehold in Tyrone of William Pee, cost £110
Lease of Annagh & Monasillens of Thos. Windsor £132
Lease of Listillen &c of Brian O'Caghan cost £75
Lease of Colloghan of Wilm Woodroff cost £60
Lease of Gortgole of Henry duffs O'Neale cost £91
Lease of Currough ....... proportion of Audley Mervin £80

Hill, in THE LONDONDERRY PLANTATION (1877) at p. 438, footnote 81: "Paul [Canning] built the church in Garvagh, and was living in 1619, but died soon afterwards and was succeeded by his brother, William, Robert having died previously to his eldest brother." The 1619 is apparently a typo.

The liberties of the manor of Grange Gorman, co. Dublin, at the time Robert Canning held the lease, were agricultural precincts adjacent to the walled City of Dublin. 1836 report of the House of Commons note that "The wealthy parish of St. George, containing Mountjoy Square and several of the handsomest streets of Dublin, is within the manor of Grange Gorman." [Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, Vol. 24 (1936)]

Sources

1. ↑ Ulster Historical Foundation, Ref. T/808/2575

• CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS-DOMESTIC (1625-49), Ser. 2, Vol. 23, p. 612
• MEN OF SUBSTANCE (2016), by Robert Stedall
• AGHADOWEY (1972), by Rev. TH Mullin
• Wikipedia: The Honourable The Irish Society
• https://www.greatparchmentbook.org/2016/10/03/the-ironmongers-companys-initial-period-in-ireland/
• http://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2014/12/garvagh-house.html