Notes
Daughter
of Rev Robert Pitcairn of that Ilk and Denne Mallam
Mr and
Mrs Pitcairn’s daughter Eliza married in 1799, Thomas Richard
Babington, Esq., barrister-at-law, one of the chief magistrates of
the City of Dublin, eldest son of Richard Babington Esq. Of
Boyle’s Hill, Donegal.
He died at an early age of forty-three, on the 12th
October 1816 leaving two sons and two daughters.
It was said of him at the time of his death that “He was
a man whose valuable service to the public, was piety and domestic
qualities, whose gentleness and benevolence, endeared him to all
who knew him.
Their
son, Pelham Babington, married on the 22nd September
1829, his cousin Harriet, eldest daughter of James Pitcairn Esq.
M.D. And in
July 1830, Frances, their eldest daughter, married Thomas S
Fleming Esq., second son of Beecher Fleming, Esq.
Of New Court, County Cork, who left three daughters, two
unmarried, one married to Colonel Fish.
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