LOL....... absolutely not!! Even the connection to the Leslies of Castle Leslie is complicated enough...all the way though so many families even down to Oscar Wilde..across to Beaulieu.which then goes back to Narrow Water Halls Because of all the intermarriages between the FEW families they are virtually cousins marrying cousins, be they first/second/third cousins..even removed first/second/third cousins....not to mention the men who took their bride's surnames like Archdale....I'm only after the Montgomeries who married the Swans to get the Swan(n)s, (yes, a few of these!!)..and Swanns married Leslies etc too. It is enough to even confuse the memory on a computer!!! familytreemaker? no you'd need familyforestmaker....... :-)) Anyway...10 minutes in Land Registry would easily answer the question about who sold/had to sell it...even to verify Cassie existed if it was her that sold it...!! Re: [S-I] The Montgomerys of 1718...Ballydrain /Date:/ Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:39:33 +0000 /References:/ <mailman.537.1325404854.3386.scotch-irish@rootsweb.com><4F006715.1020308@utvinternet.com> /In-Reply-To:/ <4F006715.1020308@utvinternet.com> Yes, sources say he had no children, but I think Cassandra was his daughter; perhaps illegitimate, or perhaps not? His wife is said to have met her death by a shock (of creditors who attacked him as he came into his own house) when she was pregnant, and I suppose it is possible that she went into premature labour and the baby survived to become Cassandra Hardy; who seems to have inherited , or at least was definitely living in Benvarden in the 1790s. Whether it was she and her husband who benefited from the sale or whether it all or mostly went to pay off John's creditors I don't know. Some sources talk about McNaghten jesting about an old prophecy about the downfall of the family, and perhaps or possibly that is why he would have named his daughter Cassandra, which is a very uncommon name If you are interested in the Donegal Montgomerys, Helen Meehan is an expert on them