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Born in Croghan, County Tipperary, to William and Mary Perkinson, William emigrated to England with his wife and lived in Widnes, Lancashire. They had three children, William (b. 1866), Michael (b. 1869) and Richard (b. 1871).

Born in Croghan, County Tipperary, on 3 November 1798, John Monaghan married Lucy Kemp on 19 February 1827 in Suffolk, England, and emigrated to Michigan, United States of America . He died there on 15 May 1873 and is buried in Lenawee, Michigan.

The whiskey production involved its own malting facilities within the distillery. D. E. Williams Ltd. started supplying malt in the 1950s. Together with F. A. Waller & Co. Ltd. the malting plants in Banagher were build. The Midlands Malting Co. Ltd. was incorporated in 1968. The Williams Group held 51% of the shares.
The barley was purchased via Williams-Waller Ltd. - seed fertiliser and grain merchants founded in 1975 in corporation with F. A. Waller. Suppliers were ca. 4000 local farmers.
The company supplied Guinness and additionally exported malt via Irish Malt Exports Ltd. (the Williams Group held 16% of their shares).
Greencore acquired the Williams Group in 1996 and hence the Midlands Malting Co. Ltd.. The closure of the Maltings was announced in 2005.

Fine Gael politician, T. D., 1921-1944;
President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, 1922-1932