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- JOHN LAUREY or Lowry, who being the assignee of the arrears of pay due to one of the royalists (or 1649) officers, received compensation after the Restoration. He settled at Ahenis, co. Tyrone. He m. 1st Mary, dau. of James Buchanan, Esq., a Scottish lady, and by her he had issue,
1. ROBERT, of whom presently.
2. John (capt.), of Ardee, co. Louth, he m. Mary, dau. of Henry Townley, Esq. of Aclare, co. Louth, and widow of – Foulkes, Esq., and d. s. p. in 1698. His widow remarried James Somerville, Esq.
3. Catherine, m. Samuel Perry, Esq. of Moyloughmore, co. Tyrone.
4. Rebecca, m. William Moore, Esq. of Drumond, co. Tyrone.
5. Anna, m. Robert McClintock, Esq. of Castrues, co. Donegal.
6. Jane, m. John McClintock, Esq. of Trintagh, co. Donegal.
Mr. Lowry m. 2ndly, Jane, dau. of Sir Hugh Hamilton, of Ballyfatton, co. Tyrone, Knt., but by her had no issue. Mr. Lowry and his wife were in Londonderry during the famous siege in 1689, and he d. there, having on 24 June, 1689, made a nuncupative will, which was proved 22 June, 1693, by his elder son,
ROBERT LOWRY, Esq. of Ahenis, one of the Commissioners for the cos. Armagh and Tyrone, appointed to raise the amount of the sums charged on those counties under the statute 10 WILLIAM III, cap. 3.
source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2, 4th Edition. London, UK: Harrison, 1863.
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