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The dates of death are taken from the records in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, those of the infant children from the Family Bible itself and in the case of Peter from a letter dated 20 August 1845. 87 Of these children, only Peter and William were married.
Tradition has it that Jane Ormsby brought a fortune of £13.000 into the family and the available facts seem to support this, but the monies were in the hands of trustees. Although Thomas her husband had all his father's farms and several more, he was in constant financial difficulties and died on 15 January 1829 88 `somewhere in the Wicklow mountains' fleeing, it was said, from his Creditors. No grave is known. His widow Jane carried on in Ballyhowly with her children until her death in 1858. 89 She is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. Of her children:
1 PETER, the eldest, married Miss Webb, an Englishwoman, and lived at Ballinduff, Co. Galway. 90 By June 1843 Peter was at Bray, Co. Wicklow and an insolvent debtor. 91 They had two sons and two daughters:
i. Thomas, the elder son was drowned at Blackrock, Co. Dublin in 1854 89 ii. James, `fell overboard' no date or details are known.
i. Annie Elizabeth was lost in the wreck of the Ceres at Carnsore Point, Co.Wexford on 11 November 1866 92.
ii. Maria Sophia m. Lieut Thomas George Miles of llth Foot at Bray Parish Church on 17 March 1864. 93 They had at least one son. 94
Thomas Ormsby, the next surviving son, was in the l7th or Leicestershire Regiment of Foot. His Commissions are dated Ensign 1836. Lieutenant 1839, Captain 1848. Major 1855, Lieut. Colonel 1862. 95 Two were promotions, the rest by purchase. He served through the 1838-39 campaign in Afghanistan and Baluchistan and took part in the capture of Ghuznee (medal) and Khelat and also the Crimea War at Sebastapool from December 1854 to 31 August 1855, including the assault on the Redan on 18 June (medal and clasp, 5th Class of the Medjidie and Turkish medals). He retired on half pay on 29 July 1859 and lived with his younger brother Ormsby and his sister Jane, who were both unmarried, at Rockford Cottage, Blackrock, Co.Dublin. 96
WILLIAM RUTTLEDGE of Ballyhowly, the fifth son. Family tradition says that in his younger days, he and several of his neighbours would combine their herds of cattle and, riding on horseback, drive them across Ireland to the port of Drogheda, and then across England selling them on the way. Their final goal was Doncaster races.
William married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Eliza Gary, nee Wilson, of Claremorris, at Claremorris Church of Ireland on 2 June 1851. She died 17 May 1883 aged 56 and he on 29 May 1904. They had three sons and six daughters. 97
Jane Margaret b. 1 April 1852, d. 30 March 1933.
Wilson Ormsby b. 30 June 1853, d. 1918.
Elizabeth Georgina b. 24 August 1855, d. 14 November 1941.
Annie Henrietta b. 9 October 1857,d. 5 November 1939
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87. Ruttledge MSS. item 50.
88. ibid. deed of assignment & release dated July 1842 and item 24.
89. Records of Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin
90. Ruttledge MSS. item 96.
91. ibid. Decd of assignment & release dated June 1843.
92. Freeman’s Journal 12 Nov. 1866 and subsequent days. Ruttledge MSS. item 90. List of kit.
93. General Register, Lombard St., Dublin.
94. Ruttledge MSS. item 91. Letter of 12 January 1867.
95. Ruttledge MSS. items 35-9.
96. Thom's Directories. Under Stradbrook, Blackrock.
97. Ruttledge MSS. item 12.