Sarah Ritchie

Sarah Ritchie
b. Ireland d. Ireland after 1863
married to
James Rooney of Ballycruttle
b. Ireland d. Ireland before 1863
 
  John Rooney
b. Ireland d. Ireland after 1863

on 1901 census
Daughter Rooney
b. Ireland d. Ireland before 1863
 
Daughter Rooney
b. Ireland d. Ireland before 1863
 

From Thomas Ritchie's Memoirs Two
My Aunt, their sister married James Roney (Rooney) of Ballycruttle. Roney owned not only his own farm but many others around. The Roney family, one son John (called after my Father) and two daughters, one died after she was grown up, and the daughter died later, John the only son and his Mother lived during my time at Home. James Roney and my Father lived and loved each other as long as he lived and his sister until my Grandmother's death.

James Roney was a churchman, he and my Father equally together built a large underground Tomb for burial in Ballycruttle Churchyard, above ground an Ornamental square Pyramid of Granet stone with marble slabs.

John Roney went to Oxford served and passed to be a Barrister but never practised, he did not want too as he died worth many thousands of Pounds, leaving it all to Benevolent Purposes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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