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Strade and Balicke in Co. Mayo . l l In the TCD Depositions he appears several times as Lt. (i.e. Lieutenant) Richard Ruttledge, tenant of Lord Corke at Belleek Castle, just north of Ballina , 12

, and in the Lismore Papers he is mentioned fourteen times. 13 The rank 'lieutenant' seems to have been carried over from service in the Nine Years War, but his name does not appear on any of the surviving army lists. nor was he a pensioner. The Depositions record him as 'an Englishman and a Roman Catholic' but the Books of Survey and Distribution show him as a Protestant. 14 In the Depositions two of his sons are named William and Stephen 15 and the Lismore Papers name a son John. 16 But Genealogy No. 1 gives his children as Thomas, Peter and Ann. There is no record of his wife, his date of death or how often he may have been married.

Richard's son Thomas married Ann Muray and both are buried at Headford Church, Co. Galway. Their tombstone, 17 which is inside the church, shows that Thomas died 1685 aged 74, while his wife died 1707 aged 86, and also records `3 children of his son Andrew Rutledge by Olivia Ffalkner his wife'. In 1971 the tombstone inscription was as clearcut as the day it was made. but the church has since been unroofed and the lettering has deteriorated.

Thomas is said to have fought in Cromwell's army 18 (for which in 1676 he received a grant of 139 English acres in the barony of Lower Ormond, Co. Tipperary. These lands seem to have been sold before the Registry of Deeds came into existence in 1708). There is no positive proof however. that the man who fought for Cromwell, is the man buried at Headford, although the O'Reilly pedigree indicates that he is. Neither is there positive proof, apart from Genealogy No. 1, that Thomas was Richard's son. but there were no other known Protestant Rutledges in Mayo or Galway at the time. and moreover. Ann Muray probably came from around Bally-Murry castle (Killmyan parish) where in 1611 Richard Rutledge had an interest. 19 The index of Tuam wills shows that Thomas was of Kilkilvery parish. 20 just north-west of Headford town.

Genealogy No. 1 deals with the sons of Thomas Rutledge and Ann Muray as follows `Peter Was Marryed to a Sister of Coll. Hills and had one Son by her Called Richard who died a young Man, by his Second Wife Jane Cary he had Andrew Rutledge of Poldryan. Andrew Was Marryed to Olivia Falker by Whom he had Thomas, William, Peter, James and Andrew, Margett and Ann. These Children is so well known there is occasion to Mention them.'(probably means no occasion to mention them) 'Paul Never Marryed. 21 John Was Marryed to a daughter of Aldn. Andrews in Galway and had two Sons Thomas and Frank - Who both died before they Was Marryed.'

It is not known when Andrew Rutledge and Olivia Ffalkner died. Of their seven surviving children, the second son, William `became agent to Lord St. George 22 in Co. Galway and was obliged in consequence of an intrigue with said Lord's daughter to fly to America, where two of his sons, afterwards members of Congress'.23 The two members of Congress were John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina, the latter of whom signed the Declaration of Independence, but their Irish origins are still obscure and it is not certain that they were descendants of William Rutledge. Margaret married Mr. Courtney 24 and Ann married Joseph Lambert. 25

11. PROl. Chancery document no. 199 (in Latin; for a longer version in English see The Western People 13 Aug. 1938). Lismore papers, lst series, iii, p. 130.

12. Roscommon & Galway vol., p. 176; Leitrim, Sligo & Mayo vol., pp. 153ff.

13. lst series. iii, pp. 35, 45, 61, 130, 216, iv pp. 4, 7 & 8, 60, 104, 124, 158, v. pp. 13, 98, 132, 136.

14. BSD Mayo. p. 189.

15. Leitrim, Sligo & Mayo vol. p. 153.

16. lst series. iii., p. 45.

17. Memorials of the dead. x, pp. 325-8.

I8. IRC. 15th report (1825), pp. 233, 346, 427, 633.

19. BSD. Mayo, Roscommon and Galway have ten Murry entries, nine of them in Killmyan.

20. PROI, index to Tuam wills.

21. He may be Paul.Rutledge of Dillon.'s Regiment. See King James's Irish Army List, TCD. Ms.

22. Burke's Extinct & Dormant Peerages, 1883, p. 465.

23. O'Reilly MSS, Ruttledge pedigree.

24. Shannon MSS, Ruttledge pedigree.

25. BLG. 1846, under Lambert, of Brookhill.