Jane PURDON

1540 C - 1595

• Name	Jane PURDON
  Born	1540 C	Lurgan Race, Co Louth
  Gender	Female
  Died	1595
  Person ID	I2565	Tarleton
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2021

  
  

  Family	Adam LOFTUS,   b. 1533, Swineshead, Yorkshire ,   d. 05.04.1605, Episcopal Palace, Kavan St. Dublin  (Age 72 years)
  Married	1560
  Children	1. Sir Dudley LOFTUS,   b. 1561, Ire ,   d. 1616, Knighted; of Rathfarnum Castle  (Age 55 years)   2. Martha LOFTUS,   b. 1575,   d. 1610  (Age 35 years) + 3. Sir Thomas LOFTUS,   d. 1 Dec 1635, Tymohogie, of Killyan, Meath
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Around 1560 Adam was quietly married to Jane (c. 1540–1595), the daughter of James Purdon (1516-1595) and his wife Jane Little, daughter of Thomas Little of Thornhill, Cumberland and Margaret Graham. Adam and Jane Loftus were the parents of twenty children, eight of whom died in infancy.[4] The twelve who grew to adulthood were: Sir Dudley Loftus, married Anne Bagenal (grandparents of Dudley Loftus, a pioneer scholar of Middle Eastern languages); Sir Edward Loftus, Recorder of Dublin, married Anne Duke; Adam Loftus, unmarried, killed in battle; Sir Thomas Loftus, married Ellen Hartpole; Henry Loftus, Thomas' twin, died in his teens; Isabella Loftus (also found as 'Isabel'), married (as his 1st wife) Sir William Ussher, son of John Ussher, Alderman of Dublin and his wife Ales (or Alison), daughter of Sir William Newman Knight, Mayor of Dublin;[8][9] Anne Loftus, married (i) Sir Henry Colley of Carbury; (ii) George Blount; and (iii) Edward Blayney, 1st Baron Blayney; she and Henry were ancestors of the Duke of Wellington; Catherine Loftus, who married Sir Francis Berkeley and then Henry Berkeley; Martha Loftus, who married Sir Thomas Colclough of Tintern Abbey, County Wexford; Dorothy Loftus, married Sir John Moore of Croghan; Alice Loftus, married Sir Henry Warren of Warrenstown; and Margaret Loftus, married Sir George Colley of Edenderry