Wann Family Origins:

John WANN was born about 1765 and died in Co Armagh 1828.
His wife was Eleanor DEMPSEY ( c1780 - 1860).
There is a headstone at Church of Ireland Parish Church , Mullaghbrack in Co Armagh, erected to the memory of John Wann, his wife Eleanor and children and also to the memory of John’s son William Wann JP, his wife Margaret and children. I would think that this entire memorial was erected by one of the children of William Wann JP, probably by his son James Christopher Wann.

View image of Mullaghbrack Memorial

Records show that John Wann was the Earl of Gosford’s steward on the Earl’s Market Hill estate around 1820.

It is believed that John WANN or his forebears may have come from Scotland. Certainly the name WANN is known in Scotland and it is reported that an old Mrs WANN of Belfast, Northern Ireland said that her husband had told her that the WANNs came from Scotland. Other research states that “the earliest known member of the Wann family was born in Perth, Scotland ”.
The Earl of Gosford (Sir Archibald ACHESON) on whose estate John Wann worked, had come to Northern Ireland about 1604 from Gosford, Haddington Shire near Edinburgh, Scotland.
No connection between WANNs in Ireland and WANNs in Scotland in this early period has been proven.