Hi,
This is part of the Casement search, but relates to Leece and Ballaleece. In 1786 Ann Casement, who was born in Ireland c1756 was living in Patrick and sold parts of the Ballaleece estate. In 1787 she married John Corlett of Lezayre and later the couple sold more of Ballaleece, so Ann Casement was the owner of Ballaleece in the late 1780s.

J A Brew in "Some Manx Pedigrees" in MM says she was the daughter of Ewen/Hugh Casement born in Lezayre in 1720 and Elizabeth Higinson, who was the daughter of the Rector of Ballanderry, Co Antrim. Burke's Irish Families list several sons and daughters to this couple but no girl called Ann. I think the father IS correct, but it has been suggested to me that Ann was the daughter of a Leece heiress who was a sister to the last of the male Leeces to occupy Ballaleece.

Does anyone have details of the Leece family of Ballaleece in the period from 17o0 to the 1780s when the property went out of the ownership of the Leece family. If the idea of a second marriage between Hugh Casement and a Leece girl IS correct, it explains why Ann, a daughter of that marriage inherited Ballaleece when there were sons from the Higginson marriage. Assuming Ann's birth is correct of c1756, we are looking at a marriage sometime before then in the IOM or Ireland, and a birth of a Leece girl sometime before 1736.

ALtho there is no firm evidence for this Leece Casement marriage, the fact that Ann Casement who was born in Ireland was the heiress to Ballaleece suggests there has to be some close connection.

Any ideas will be welcome.

I think I am correct that Ballaleece is the farm associated with the Tale of the Lost Wife of Ballaleece, but here we have the lost heiress !

Robert