Lands in Ballyedock and Ballywarren

Just one page from the auction lots, showing the County Down lands of Harriett Wombwell being sold off by in 1881. Strictly speaking, these were fee-farm rentals, meaning that there was a kind of hierarchy of ownership that started with the monarch, proceeded through the aristocracy and down to the tenants, who were by and large the disenfranchised Irish Catholics, at the bottom of the food chain. The Nevin family were closely connected to the earlier generations of Harriett Wombwell's family, and were a well known Scottish Presbyterian family.