KANE, Frederick ⁵

  General Notes:

In Griffiths Valuation of Ireland 1848-1864, in the Valuation of Tenements documents for Northern Ireland, a Frederick Kane is found in the parish of Macosquin, Croagh townland, in County Derry, residing there in 1859. Frederick Kane is listed as an occupier, and the immediate lessor is Thomas Richardson. The description of the tenement is 'House. Office and Land'. The area is just over 58 acres, and further information is given of the valuation of land and property. Macosquin is about two miles from Coleraine on the road to Dublin, situated on the River Bann. Macosquin was chiefly owned by the Richardson family. ^{5 6 7 8}

  Research Notes:

FREDERICK KANE

Generally speaking Frederick Kane is not a much found name. There is a Frederick Kane in county 'Londonderry' found in the 1796 Flax Growers List for Ireland. Linen manufacture was a chief source of employment in Macosquin and surrounding area in earlier times. The 1796 Frederick is not likely to be the same one as the 1848-1864 Frederick, but may be his father or uncle, or even grandfather.

Frederick married Mrs KANE MS UNKNOWN. (Mrs KANE MS UNKNOWN was born about 1795.)

Frederick next married in 1706.^{1 2}

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret, born at Elphinstone 30 May 1684, married, first, to George Leslie of Balquhain in 1706. He died 17 June 1715, aged thirty-four"

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)




"Count George Leslie married, 1706, the Honourable Margaret Elphinstone, second daughter of John, eighth Lord Elphinstone, and by her had issue ... "

from Family of Leslie ^{1 2}

Frederick next married Edward HARRIS, son of Mr HARRIS and Mary HARRIS MS UNKNOWN, about 1720.^{1 2 3 4} (Edward HARRIS was born about 1773 in Ireland,⁹ died 25 February 1860 at 1.00 pm in 32 New Street, Calton, Glasgow, Scotland ¹⁰ and was buried in Dalbeth Cemetery Glasgow, Scotland ¹⁰.). The cause of his death was old age.

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret (Elphinstone) .... was married, secondly, to Sir James Gordon of Park"

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)




"Gordon, James, of Park

.... Married .... secondly about 1720, Margaret Elphinstone, daughter of John, 8th Lord Elphinstone and widow of George Leslie of Balquhain, who died in 1715. By this second marriage he had one son, James Gordon of Cobairdy and three daughters, Died 15 December 1727 of apoplexy."

from Jacobites of 1715




"(Fetternear parish)

The oldest memorial is probably a defaced tablet fixed into a recess over the arch of the entrance gate. It is inscribed -

. . . Lord Elphinston hath in this year 17 - 9 re - aired and built anew in memory of her dear husband George Lesley of Balquain (Wt. a Son) herein interred, who leaving be hind him these children, James and Ernest, then infants, dyed at Fetternier in the 34th year of his age, June 17, 1715.

The first portion of the above inscription is entirely removed, but it is known that the lady who originally erected the monument was the Hon. Margaret, second daughter of John, eighth Lord Elphinstone, who, in 1706, married George Leslie, sixteenth baron of Balquhain. About five years after Mr Leslie's death, his widow married Sir James Gordon of Park, and it is alleged that a son of this marriage, James Gordon - afterwards of Cobairdv - acquired acquired considerable portions of land in Insch district, to the prejudice of the Leslie family."

from Epitaphs and Inscriptions




" .... the Honourable Margaret Elphinstone also induced her son, Ernest, Count Leslie, eighteenth Baron of Balquhain, to dismember the family estates. She had a locality, that is the revenue of certain lands for her jointure on the lands of Insch and Boddam, belonging to the Balquhain estates. After her husband's (George Leslie's) death, about 1720, she married Sir James Gordon of Park, by whom she had a son, James Gordon, styled of Cobairdy, and she prevailed on her son Ernest, when he succeeded to the Balquhain estates, to dispone part of the lands of Insch, and the lands of Boddam, to the said James Gordon, his uterine brother, which was in defraud of the deed of entail made by Count Patrick Leslie, fifteenth Baron, in 1700."

from Family of Leslie ^{1 2 3 4}

Frederick next married Janet HENDRY, daughter of Alexander HENRY and Christina HASTIE.² (Janet HENDRY was born about 1823 and died 2 December 1862 at 5.05 pm in 12 York Street, Glasgow, Scotland ¹¹.). The cause of her death was broncho-pneumonia over 1 week.

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret (Elphinstone) .... married, secondly, to Sir James Gordon of Park ; on his death she became the wife of John Fullerton of Dudwick."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3) ²