Lt. Col. Sir Gerard IRVINE of Ardscragh, County Tyrone

  General Notes:

Sir Gerard died in WILLIAM III's service, in the camp at Dundalk, and was buried in the chancel of the church of that town.

GERARD (Sir) of Ardscragh, County Ty rone ' Lieutenant-Colonel in
King Charles II. 's service before his Restoration, created a Baronet July
31, 1677; died at Dundalk Camp 1689, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Earl
of Granard's regiment in King William's service ; married, first, Catherine,
daughter of Adam Cathcart, of Bandoragh, Scotland, and of Drumslager,
County Tyrone (she died without issue); second, Mary, daughter of
Major William Hamilton, and by her (who died 1685) had issue:

i. Christopher, born 1654; married Deborah, daughter and co-heiress
of Henry Blennerhassett, Esq., of Castle Hassett, Count)- Ferma-
nagh, and died 1680

2. Charles, Lieutenant of horse, died unmarried 1684.

3. Gerard, drowned at Enniskillen School.

1. Margaret, wife of John Crichton, ancestor of the Earls Erne.

Gerard married Mary HAMILTON, daughter of Maj. William HAMILTON and Unknown. (Mary HAMILTON died in 1685.)

Gerard next married Catherine CATHCART.