  "SMYTHE of
BARBAVILLA" (Westmeath, Ireland)
- descended
from Thomas Smyth (b.1520) who married Jane
Layton.
- William Smyth (the
Builder of Barbavilla) 1692-1769 married
(1713) Barbara Ingoldsby
(d.1738) - youngest daughter of Colonel Sir
George Ingoldsby of Gortkilleen, Co. Limerick who
was the sixth son of Sir Richard Ingoldsby of
Lethenborough, Bucks and Elizabeth
Cromwell, eldest daughter of Sir Oliver Cromwell,
K.B. of Hinchinbrooke, and 1st cousin of the Lord
Protector.)
The house, Barbavilla,
was built on land that William Smyth inherited from his
father (William Smyth, Bishop of Kilmore & Ardagh)
and he named it in honour of his wife.
Their daughter, Mary
died within a year of birth (1715/16). Their first son,
William, died in infancy. Their son Ralph Leonard Smyth - 1717-1790 -
(the Prince of Lough Lene) married (1748) his
cousin, Frances
Clarke
(1721-1771) - youngest daughter of Darby
Clarke and his wife Ann Frances Smyth,
3rd daughter of the Rt. Reverend William
Smyth,
Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.
There
were 6 sons and 6 daughters of the marriage between Ralph
Leonard Smyth and Frances Clarke.
| Their first son, William Smyth - 1750-1810 - (aka
Billy the Saint) - married (1783)
Catherine Meade Ogle (1763-1826) - elder
daughter and eventual heiress of William
Meade Ogle, MP for Drogheda, and his
wife Mary Barlow. Children of the
marriage: qv link above. |
- Ralph Smyth
1752
- died as an infant.
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- Ralph Smyth
1759
- died before 1761.
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| Ralph Smyth - Born 1761. (d. 1826) of Drogheda, Co.
Louth. Captain in the Army. He married (1784 or
1785) Mary Schoales (d.1850)
only child of (Alderman of Drogheda) George
Schoales. |
- James Smyth
1762.
- (d. after 1785, unmarried)
- Cornet 5th Dragoon Guards.
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- Charles Smyth
1766
- died young.
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| Barbara Smyth (b. 1751) m. 1774 John Cooke of Cookesborough, Co. Westmeath, son of
Richard Cooke and ? Harriet French. Barbara Smyth
died 1817 leaving 1 son and 2 daughters. |
Ann
Smyth 1753 m. 1781 John William
Digby of Landenstown, Co. Kildare. There
were children of the marriage. |
- Frances Smyth
1754
- died before 1758.
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- Mary Smyth
1755
- died unmarried after 1785.
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- Frances Smyth
1758
- died before 1764.
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- Frances Smyth
1764 - married 1787, Sir Hugh
Crofton, 2nd. Bt., of Mohill
Castle, Co. Leitrim. (d. 1834) She died
in 1847. There were children of the
marriage.
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