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RIDDELLS OF GLASSLOUGH, IRELAND.
early brought under Methodist influences, and began at a very early age
to exhort, and finally became one of their regular preachers. He married,
about 1795, Miss Anne O'Hanlon, daughter of James O'Hanlon, a mer-
chant of Blackwatertown, County Armagh, who was a Roman Catholic,
and a member of the great O'Hanlon clan, who at one time, before the
plantation of Ulster, possessed about one-third of the land in the County
of Armagh. His wife and daughter, however, were both pious Protestants.
He had issue a numerous family, of whom hereafter.
FOURTH GENERATION.
Sarah Riddell (1), eldest daughter of Walter³ (2), was married to
John Ralston, a farmer, a descendant of Richard Ralstone, one of the
original patentees of the plantation of Ulster, and who held one thousand
acres of land in Lemore, County Armagh. She and her husband are both
dead; they had three sons, two of them now living.
Elizabeth Riddell (1), second daughter of Walters (2), married
Robert Ralston (or Roulstone, as the name was originally spelt), brother
of her sister's husband before mentioned, and died without issue.
Martha Riddell* (1), third daughter of Walters (2), was married to
G. Taylor, of Dangannore, and died leaving issue one son and three
daughters.
Margaret Riddell (1), fourth daughter of Walters (2), was married
to Henry Riddell, her kinsman, of Richhill, and died in Australia, without
children.
Robert Riddall (2), eldest son of Walters (2), was born March 22,
1810; died March 24, 1873. He and his brother James adopted the spell-
ing Riddall, which is continued in this family at the present time. Robert
early conceived the idea of recovering the fortune and position lost by his
grandfather, and was at one time about taking steps to recover by law a
portion of the property lost in gambling. From this, however, he desisted;
but by his energy and prudence, eventually became possessed of property
in the same neighborhood, the townlands of Tyregarty and Ballytrodden,
near Blackwatertown; besides other property in the County Armagh and
County Tyrone. He was appointed, when quite a youth, to the important
office of seneschal of the manor of Inishowen, County Donegal, and also
entered into business as a corn and flour miller, at Longy vallen, near Ar-
magh, in which he was very successful. He also held the office of Deputy
Registrar of the Diocese and Province of Armagh, under his relative,
George Scott, Esq., whom he eventually succeeded as Principal Registrar;
and also afterwards became District Registrar of Her Majesty's Court of
Probate at Armagh. He was a Justice of the Peace and a grand juror
for the County Armagh. He married, in 1846, Harriet, daughter of the
late Samuel Gardner, Esq., Justice of the Peace, of Armagh, who sur-
vived him and died in 1870. They had no issue. He generously took
paternal charge of his brother James' family, on his early death in 1850,
and they inherit the most of his estate and wealth. Mr. Riddall was a man
of high character and sterling principle; and in his latter years actuated
by genuine though unostentatious piety. There is a mural tablet erected
to his memory in St. Mark's Church, at Armagh. The influence of his
life is manifested amongst his kindred, who hold him in grateful memory.
Rev. James Riddall' (1), second son of Walters (2), was born Sept.
21, 1816, and died Nov. 10, 1850, the perpetuator of his family line. He
and his brother were educated and advanced in life by their mother's
