Martha LOFTUS

1575 - 1610  (35 years)

• Name	Martha LOFTUS
  Born	1575
  Gender	Female
  Died	1610
  Buried	1610	Loftus family vault St Patricks, Dublin
  Person ID	I2563	Tarleton
  Last Modified	11 Feb 2010

  
  

  Father	Adam LOFTUS,   b. 1533, Swineshead, Yorkshire ,   d. 05.04.1605, Episcopal Palace, Kavan St. Dublin  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Jane PURDON,   b. 1540 C, Lurgan Race, Co Louth ,   d. 1595
  Married	1560
  Family ID	F748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sir Thomas COLCLOUGH,   d. Auf 1624, of Tynterne Abbey, Wexford
  Children	+ 1. Martha COLCLOUGH,   b. 1592 c, Tynterne, Wexford? Ireland
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2021
  Family ID	F1238	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Martha Loftus (1575 ? 1610) Lady Martha Colclough (n?ee Loftus) was Adam?s fourth daughter, married to Sir Thomas Colclough of Tynterne Abbey, Co. Wexford. By him she had eleven children with five daughters and three sons surviving (the eldest called Adam after his grand-father) over the twenty years or so of their marriage. Sir Thomas Colclough was an avaricious property developer, forever in the courts contesting litigious claims against him, including some from members of his own family. He successfully acquired properties around New Ross and Fethard in Wexford, which were to come into the Loftus family in the next generation, rapidly becoming the principle source of family power and influence, with as many as eight seats in the Irish Parliament lasting until the Act of Union in 1801. The Hook in Wexford was to be the new family domain and the future location of Loftus Hall. Martha died aged 35, leaving Thomas free to marry Eleanor, daughter of Dudley Bagenal of Dunleckney, ensuring that Thomas was never to join his first wife in her family vault.