Day Twenty Four

Abraham is a common name in the Creighton family up until the death of the Abraham the second Earl and the subsequent change in spelling from Creighton to Crichton following Abraham's death in 1842.

The Wikipedia entry on Abraham the second Earl Erne clearly shows this.  At one time in the mid 1790s  there are two Abraham Creightons sitting as MP for Lifford. These are  

1. Abraham Creighton, elder son of John the first Earl of Erne. This Abraham , who  was declared insane in September 1798, was incarcerated in Brookes House Lunatic Asylum London until his death in June 1842.  Although inheriting the title Earl Erne and the Crom estate upon the death of his fathe in 1826, the pappers committing him to Lunacy ensured  that neither the title nor the estate could pass to his descendants , passing instead to the Earl's younger son, John, who was made Governor of Hurst Castle, Lymington in 1801, by Royal decree.
2. and his uncle Abraham, the first Earl's younger brother. 

Both of these  Abraham Creightons vigorously opposed the Earl's views on Irish unification with England and argued that Ireland should maintain its own parliament with increased rights given to Catholic Irish. Abraham believed that British insistence on unification  would result in bloodshed and tragedy for the Irish people.

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