Ireland family, Landed family of Albrighton, one Thomas Ireland was sheriff of Shropshire in 1632
Dates: 1543-1804 at Albrighton, with several intermediate generations
Biography
The Ireland family held Albrighton from its purchase by Thomas Ireland in 1543 until the sale by Robert Ireland in 1804. The family established Albrighton Hall and supplied successive local landed proprietors.
Notes / Sources
This entry is intentionally a family-group holding because the accessible sources do not securely establish every individual conveyance.
Research sources:
- 'Some Old Shropshire Houses and Their Owners', Shropshire Parish Register Society Transactions, vol. 46, part 1, 1931, pp. 80-81; corroborated by Gareth Williams, 'Albrighton Hall', in The Country Houses of Shropshire, pp. 33-35. — https://shropshirearchaeologyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/shropshire-transactions-vol.-46-part-1.pdf
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