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Isabella Linda b. 27April 1859. d. 4 March 1882.

Emmeline Minna b. 23 April 1861, d. 11 March 1946.

Eveline Mary b. 28 February 1864, d. 6 September 1892.

William Ormsby b. 30 September 1866, d. 26 May 1911.

Thomas Ormsby b. 13 January 1871, d. 11 October 1953.

The marriage and birth dates are from their Family Bible and the death dates from their tombstones in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. The death date of Wilson Ormsby is from the Glasnevin records.

None of the daughters married. In 1904 Emmeline Minna, a nurse, opened a convalescent home in rented property at Highfield, Bassaleg, Newport, Monmouthshire in two very large houses built close together on about seven acres. She employed between 25 and 30 people, half of them nurses, the rest domestic staff, gardeners. etc. and was later joined by her three sisters. The business prospered, particularly during the First World War. It closed in 1940 when the two surviving sisters returned to Ireland.98

Only two of the sons married:

WILSON ORMSBY RUTTLEDGE m. Annie Martin of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, on 8 August 1885. She d. 25 September 1894 and he on 23 March 1918. Their children were:

1 THOMAS WILSON b. 25 August 1886 who m. Margaret McRedmond in January 1916. As a medical doctor he served in World Wars 1 and II. He d. 14 September 1970 and she 21 March 1971. Their children are Ann b. 17 November 1917, THOMAS WILSON ORMSBY b. 24 October 1918, John Patrick b. 30 April 1921 and Mary b. 12 October 1923.

2 Edward b. 1888, d. unmarried 1913.

1 Eileen Mary b. 29 March 1893. d. unmd. 28 December 1984.

THOMAS ORMSBY RUTTLEDGE m. Elizabeth, younger daughter of James and Elizabeth Edgar, 99 nee Arthur, of 2 St. Stephen's Green North, Dublin on 24 August 1904. He d. 11 Oct. 1953 and she 19 July 1935 aged 58. Their children:

1 William Edgar, b. 28 Feb. 1907; d. 13 Nov. 1908

2 Thomas Ormsby, b. 9 Jan. 1910, unmarried.

3 EDGAR, b. 14 October 1911, m. Florence Beere on 2 june 1942. He d. 6 April 1976 and she 21 Sept. 1982, aged 64 . Their children are Elizabeth Primrose, b. 5 July 1943, Audrey Rosemary, b. 3 April 1946 and EDGAR, b. 1 April 1950.

B. PETER RUTTLEDGE of Cornfield/Carrowkillen, Co. Mayo. (referred to in documents after his death as Peter the Testator.) Born c. 1690. In 1722 Peter was of Crigane. 100 now part of the present townland of Cross East, Co. Mayo where he was within three miles of his younger brother, Andrew of Muckrussaun (and later of Foxford, see D below) and within seven miles of Headford. O'Reilly says that Peter `became agent to Henry Bingham of Newbrook who gave him the farm of Cornfield near Ballinrobe, made much money and purchased the lands of Newbrook estate'. On 3 April 1736 Peter took a lease of the 878 acres, plantation measure, of Cornfield, five miles north-west of Hollymount, and in May 1749 he purchased the freehold of this and other lands for £6,644.10/-. 101 Over the next eighteen years, Peter acquired upwards of 30,000

98. In 1914 the South Wales hospitals were cleared for war casualties and several dozen non-surgical patients, mostly miners with respiratory diseases, were transferred to Highfield - they were still there in 1921.

99. James Edgar, b. l7 Jan. 1843 at Gifford. Yester parish, Haddington. Scotland, d. Dublin 12 Dec. 1928.

100. PROI. Crossle Abstracts, Morris envelope, v, pp. 136-7, will of Edmund Jonine of Cross, Co. Mayo, dated 7 Dec. 1722.

101. RD. 83.166.58121 & HOL. 1828.