Charles Eyre Coote Townshend (5B14)
| Date of Birth: | 14 Sep 1858 |
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| Date of Death: | 1942 |
| Generation: | 7th |
| Residence: | Mount Coote, Co Limerick |
| Father: | William Uniacke Townsend [5B01] |
| Mother: | Coote, Mary Anne Harriet |
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| See Also: | Table VB ; Lineage ; Ancestors' Tree ; Descendents' Tree |
Notes for Charles Eyre Coote Townshend
Married 1st 14 June 1887 at Emmanuel Church, Bristol. Ida Billing was the daughter of Theodore Billing of Dublin. Married 2nd. Violet Alice Lamprey (d 16 April 1963) was the third daughter of JH Lamprey.
Like his father, Charles was a land agent. On page 153 of The Divining Rod: An Experimental and Psychological Investigation 1926 the water diviner Leicester Gataker worked on the estate of Colonel Brownloe, CB, of Carrickmacross in May 1898 and according to records his sole agent was "C Eyre Townsend, JP FSI of Mount Coote, (1) Killmallock".
In addition to following in his father's footsteps at Mount Coote, Charles was likewise sometime agent for Lady Ashtown (2) of the Castle Oliver Estate.(3) Amongst the estate records in Limerick City Museum (LM1999.0001-0005 ) relating to the this estate there are "account books for years ending 30 April 1886 & 1889, William Uniacke Townsend and Charles Eyre Townsend for Lady Ashtown.”
The report of proceedings, lists of committees, delegates, etc in June 1892 of the Munster & Connaught Unionist Convention for Provinces of Leinster shows ‘C. E. Townsend Esq, JP. Mount Coote, Kilmallock’ as a member of the General Committee and a representative for the County and City of Limerick. Several of his kinsmen were also listed as members – Richard Harvey Townsend [534], Thomas Courtenay Townsend [5B02], Charles Uniacke Townshend [5C00], Charles Loftus Townsend [5C01], Horace Webb Townsend [634] and Horatio Hamilton Townsend [6B05].
‘Slater’s Royal National Directory of Ireland, 1894’ records under the heading ‘Dublin Directory’ - “Townsend Eyre Coote JP. Mount Coote.”
Charles was an executor of the will of his father along with his cousin Thomas Courtenay Townshend [5B02]. Page 699 of the Calendar of Wills and Administration 1858-1922 in the National Archives of Ireland records that the will of "William Uniacke late of 15 Earlsfort Terrace Dublin Land Agent", who died on 7 April 1888, was proved at the Principal Registry on 23 April 1887 by "Charles Eyre Coote Townsend of Mount Coote Killmallock County Limerick Land Agent and Thomas Courtenay Townsend of 5 College Green Dublin Land Agent Executors". Effects £17,819 8s 1d.
It would seem that Charles moved to England sometime between 1894 and 1901 as he is not shown in the 1901 Irish Census and lived in Biggin Hill, Kent.
(1) The entry for Mount Coote the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway Connacht and Munster Landed Estates Database records "The county Limerick seat of the Coote family in the 19th century, occupied by Chidley Coote in 1814. Lewis refers to it as the former seat of Chidley Coote in 1837. Charles Coote was resident at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held the property in fee. The buildings were valued at £53. Their value had increased to £65 by 1906. The Irish Tourist Association surveyor wrote in 1943 that the house was bought by Sir Gilbert Greenall, who became 1st Lord Daresbury, who spent about £200,000 setting up a Model Farm. [Lord Daresbury also owned Clonshire]. Following his death three years previously it was sold and then run as a stud farm. Bence Jones writes that this house was demolished circa 1960 and a new house built in the Georgian style."
(2) Charles’s uncle, Richard Townsend [513], married Helena Trench in 1826 who was a cousin of Frederick Mason Trench 2nd Baron Ashtown who married as his second wife Elizabeth Oliver-Gascoigne of Castle Oliver (Lady Ashtown) – family networking?
(3) The entry for Castle Oliver in the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway Connacht and Munster Landed Estates Database records "The original Castle Oliver or Clonodfoy was the home of the Oliver family in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It was replaced by the present building in the mid 19th century. In 1837 Lewis described the castle as being in a very dilapidated state. It belonged to R. O. Gascoigne of the county of York whose bailiff resided in it. In 1814 Castle Oliver was occupied by George Fosbery who may have been employed by the Oliver Gascoignes. The new building was designed by George Fowler Jones and built in the Scottish baronial style for the Oliver Gascoignes. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the castle was valued at £75 and the house at £48 and both were in the possession of Elizabeth O. Gascoigne and her brother in law Frederick Charles Trench. The house was eventually inherited by Elizabeth's step grandson the Honourable William Cosby Trench. He was the occupier in 1906 when it was valued at £125. Restored in the early 21st century it now provides self catering accommodation and is a venue for functions such as weddings."