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acres or more in Co. Mayo but how he became so wealthy is not known. Some hint is possibly given by his grand-daughter, Jane Ormsby, nee Ruttledge (see below) who in writing of her father William (Peter s younger son) says he 'exerted himself in procuring money for his Father Peter the Testator in many of his purchases, having served his apprenticeship to the then Alderman Dawson, an Eminent import merchant of this City (Dublin) was alwais ready to answer WilIiam's request, and knowing the punctuality and Judgment of the Testator, the Alderman having opened a Bank Requested William to continue with him which he did'. 102

The name of Peter's wife is not known. His children were : 103

1 THOMAS, of whom below.

2 WILLIAM, of whom below.

1 Ann, who m. Andrew. son and heir of James Clarke of Castlebar. Their only child, Elizabeth. m. George O'Malley of Newport, Co. Mayo, in April 1767. 104

2 Dorothea, m. James Knox of Moyne Abbey, near Killala, on 16 Januarv 1753. 105 They had eight children. 103

In later life, probably when Thomas, his elder son. took over Cornfield after his marriage in 1743, Peter moved to Carrowkillen. a townland two miles north of Cornfield. Although there is no sign of his Carrowkillen house on the O. S. map of 1838, the probable traces of the house were known to Major R. F. Ruttledge 106 in the 1940s. Peter is also recorded at Waterford and Currane 107 neither of which are townlands. Peter s death is given in Faulkner's Dublin Journal of 18-22 August 1767. He and his wife are buried in Ballinrobe churchyard. Peter had signed his will on 3 December 1766 and a codicil on 14 August 1767. 108 The Prerogative copy is in the Shannon papers and names 18 relations - 2 sons, 8 grandchildren, 2 brothers, 5 nephews and one niece. The Betham extract has one error, William, not Thomas, was father of `Grandaw's Jane & Elizabeth . The House of Lords copy (see below) incorrectly locates 'Tinnecarra in Co. Mayo instead of Co. Roscommon and in one place gives Richard Ruttledge as his nephew instead of his grandson. It also dates the will 1736 instead of 1766. 109

THOMAS RUTTLEDGE, b. c. 1716 m. Mary, l10 daughter of 'Thomas Reddington of Creggana Co. Galway, on 10 November 1743. 111 Their children were:

1. PETER, b. c. 1748, married Catherine, elder daughter of John Bloomfield of Redwood, Co. Tipperary, on 8 August I770. 111 Following the 1798 invasion by the French, Peter made a claim for £152-4/6d for the loss of wine, spirits and sheep. 112 He died without issue at Gardiner's Place, Dublin, in 1799. 113 EIizabeth, daughter of Andrew Clarke and his wife Ann, nee Ruttledge (above) writing of her cousin Peter just after his death, praises his many virtues - kindness, honesty, gentleness and hospitality, `a Man most dear to All who knew him'. 114 His widow Catherine died at Fairfield, Co. Galway, the seat of Thomas Wade, in her 79th year in 1831 per Mayo Constitution 17 Oct. 1831 which adds that she 'and her younger

102. Ruttledge MSS. item 17.

103. O'Reilly MSS. Rutt1edge pedigree. O'Reilly omits Ann, the elder daughter. RD. 113.302.78340.

104. Ruttledge MSS. item 6, RD 92.413.65173; 102.507.72050; 260.8.165616.

105. Burke's Commoners, iv, p. 581.

106. BIFR, under Ruttledge of Bloomfieid.

107. RD. 122.137.83092 & 83093; 253.448.164181.

108. HOL 1828. will of Peter Ruttledge, dated 3 Dec. 1766. Shannon MSS.

109. RD. 801.470.541005 of I825 incorrectly names Peter as John Ruttledge, decd.

110. The Convert Rolls.

111. HOL 1828, marr. settlements dated 10 Nov. 1743 and 8 Aug. 1770.

112. NLI, List of persons who suffered losses of property, 1798.

1I3. Walker's Hibernian Magazine, 1799, i, p. 360.

114. Papers belonging to Miss Ann Ormsby. Ruttledge MSS. item 132.