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Thomas Acton (1742 - 1817)

Thomas Acton
Born in County Wicklow, Irelandmap
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Husband of — married 1780 [location unknown]
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Died at about age 75 in County Wicklow, Irelandmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Thomas Acton born about 1742, son of William and Jane (Parsons) Acton[1]

Thomas married in 1780 to Sidney Davis, daughter of Joshua Davis, barrister-at-law, Dublin.

He lived at West Aston, (Kilmacurragh was called this from the middle of the 18th century until the middle of the 19th century), County Wicklow. [2]

"Kilmacurragh was (the House is now a ruined shell) a rare surviving two-story, five-bay early paneled (most of its paneling now lost) Irish house. The Estate was originally known as Westaston and was built by Thomas Acton in 1697 and the years following" [3]

Children:

  1. Thomas
  2. William
  3. Anne Maria married Major George Warburton
  4. Jane married George Meares John Drought, son of John Drought.

He passed away about 1817.

Sources

  1. "A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland" by Sir Bernard Burke publ 1886 vol 1 pg 2
  2. http://www.thepeerage.com/p25702.htm#i257019
  3. https://www.thedicamillo.com/house/kilmacurragh-westaston/




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