George Houghton 1800 : Short Biography

This Houghton / Haughton / Howton family were at varying times members of the Presbyterian Church at Carrigallen, the Episcopalian Protestant Church, and Newtown Gore Church of Ireland. 

In 1815, the Newtowngore Tenement Maps record this family just south of Newtown Gore at Clonbuyher (Cloonboygher):

• George Houghton with 22 and half Irish acres at #7 (GV#6) and an additional acre at #31 (GV#3)

• John Houghton with 25 and half  at #22 (GV #12)

• William Houghton (1781-c.1864) at #39 (GV#8) and #35 (GV#9) in partnership with John Irwin (just north of Cloonboygher lough)

The combined Houghton holding would amount to 123 statute acres in today's measurements. Their landlord was the Earl of Leitrim. 

In 1834, the Tithe Applotment Records for Clonboyher record only two brothers, who In 1841, also appear in the Ordnance Survey House books;

• William Houghton with 53 Irish acres; had a house, 3 out-buildings and sundries rated in total at £5.

• George Houghton with 23 and a half Irish acres. had a house and 1 out-building rated in total at £5.

In 1846, George Houghton is recorded as the father in the marriage of William Haughton of Carrigallen & Rebecca Sherar of Mohill. (Rebecca Shera Houghton died in 1857).

POST - FAMINE

By 1857...

• #8a Cloonboygher (William Houghton's house with 55 acres) was in the name of Charles Haughton (1816-1879) & Lorinda Irwin Houghton (1836-1920). 

• #9 Cloonboygher was empty and its 13 acres of land held by George Haughton who also held 35 acres at #6 Woodford Demesne (just north of Newtown Gore) There are no other listings for George Haughton/ Houghton / Howton in Co. Leitrim for this period in Griffith's Valuation.

• ​#11a Cloonboygher with 48 acres was in the name of William's son Edward Haughton (1816-1896) & Letitia Arnold (1823-1908) who had wed in 1850 with Charles Houghton as a witness. 

• William's son Thomas Haughton (1830-c.1905) & Sarah May (1851-1915) m. 1971 were succeeded by their son William George Houghton (b. 1773)

• Bessie Houghton (1824-1900) spinster, resided with Edward's family.

• John Houghton (1827-1906) bachelor, was residing alone at Cloonboygher in 1901

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• #8a was inherited by Eliza Houghton & Robert Vance

• #11a was inherited by William Houghton (1847-1907) & Mary Anne Arnold (1856-1940). 

See also Aghavadrin in Killashandra (Cavan).