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6-9 May 1749 Faulkner's Dublin Journal reported: 'Last Saturday John Brown Esq. was burnt in the Hand at the Bar of the King's Bench and ordered into Confinement for six months for killing Robert Miller. Esq.'

William is named in the 1766 will of his uncle, Peter Ruttledge of Cornfield/Carrowkillen (see B below) as 'My nephew William Ruttledge of Hollymount, soap boiler' 40 'so styled from having established a soap boiler on his property'.41 After his wife died 1l Sept. 1765 in her 58th year, 42' William married the widow, Olivia Jonine who outlived him. 43 He died 11 March 1776 in his 68th year and is buried with his first wife in Hollymount churchyard. 42 His will is indexed under the date 1776. 44

Their children were:

l. PETER of whom below. 45

2. ANDREW of Athlone, 46 where he worked for the Revenue, 47 and later of Carra Orchard and the farm and lands of Knockenmower at Turlough. Co. Mayo which he rented at £98 stg. a year. 48 His wife Rebecca 49 may have been a daughter of Andrew Ruttledge of Poldryan (see E below). 50 After the French invasion of 1798 Andrew made a claim for £285-3/2d. for the loss of cattle, furniture. hay and wheat. 51 He died between 1800 and 1802. 52 Their children were:48

i. Andrew 53 of 54th and later 67th Regts. He d. 1809 and his will of 26 Nov. 1808 54 names

his mother, brothers and sister and records his 'gold medal which I got in Egypt'.

ii. William was in the 47th Regt. and presumably fought with them at Barrosa, Vittoria. St.Sebastian, Nivelle and the Nive River in the Peninsular War. His wife Eliza was a sister of his first cousin. William of Cahirvosty (see below). Their son Andrew was baptised on 7 Sept. 1823. 55 William d. 27 August 1825 56 and his will 57 gives considerable family information. The son Andrew arrived in Sydney. New South Wales on 18 Feb. 1852 on board the 'Neptune' which carried 264 passengers. He gave his age as 24, his parents as William and Eliza Rutledge. his native place and country as 'Carahusta (i.e. Cahirvosty) Co. Mayo, Ireland'. He could read and write, was Church of England and his 'calling' was 'Overseer to a farmer or stockman'. 58

40. House of Lords RO. Ruttledge v Ruttledge, 1825. (hereafter HOL 1825).

41. Ruttledge MSS, genealogy No. 5.

42. MI. Hollymount churchyard. which also gives her maiden name. as does Geneatogy No. 5. 'their grave, and those of their descendants buried there, are all together on the left, just inside the entrance gate. Milford MSS. Deeds No. 1&. Extract, in Latin. dated 1 Feb. 1710 from register of the Consistorial and Metropolitan Court of Tuam. which is to meet 'within the walls of the usual dwellinghouse of William Scott situated at Hollymount'. He probably was her father or grandfather. The document is sealed by the Chancellor, Richard Thomas, who was William's maternal grandfather. and concerns the Elwood family.into which William's eldest son Peter was later to marry.

43. RD. 398.76.262369; 343.323.236300.

44. PROI, index to 'Tuam wills.

45. RD. 278.136.177235: 174.219.115923; 174.220.115924.

46. RD. 306.191.202966.

47. ISPO, OP 89/54 (1799-1800).

48. RD.464.251.295165.

49. PROI. Index to Prerog. wills.

50. RD 348.173.232756. 539.52.353815.

51. NLI. List of persons who suffered losses of property. 1798.

52. Shannon MSS. Deed of 26 October 1802.

53. RD 430.366.279580.

54. PCC wills, 1809/779.

55. Turlough P. R. PROI. Microfilm MFCI 36.

56. PRO, PMG 4.153, half-pay reg., 1825-6.

57. PCC wills, 1825/651. their wills show that many, if not all, were buried in Hollymount churchyard.

58. Archives Office of New South Wales, Sydney, Ref. 4/4926 (Reel 2463).