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- The Waddells had held land in County Down since the end of the 16th century, having come from near Airdrie in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Cosslett Herbert's (1858-1897) paternal grandfather was also Cosslett (d. 1815), a son of Robert Ross Waddell (d. 1771) of Islanderry House, Dromore, Co. Down. Robert married Mary Stoddard (d. 1791), who was an only daughter of Sir Cosslett Stoddard (1717-1791), merchant of Dromore and Cologne in Germany, who married a Douglas whose family owned land at Maralin, (or Magheralin or Moira), County Down, Ireland.
Robert's son by his first marriage married his half-sister Elizabeth Douglas
The unsettled state of Ulster and Scotland accounts for the lack of detail about the lives of several generations They kept close touch with their cousins in Monaghan, marrying some and naming others as their executors Hugh was Sheriff of Down in 1663 They married Nesbitt, Cairns, Douglas, Stoddard, St George, and as Justices of the Peace reported on the unsettled state of the country In 1689 three sons were attainted for High Treason A duel was fought at the garden gate, no one knew whom by, why, or what followed But it is now known that one Hugh fled to Boston, USA with a son also called Hugh, who became a General in the War of Independence - but that is another interesting tale Meanwhile, the remainder of the family were 'respectable', Robert Ross being Grand Juror for Down James found his wife carrying-on with his manservant and divorced her by Private Act of Parliament, keeping his six children, remarrying and producing four more His will also named three more by a housekeeper Having made the customary marriage agreement, his wish that all be treated the same meant his heir had to find 9,100 - a hefty sum in 1798 He partially solved it by marrying his wealthy half sister, a Douglas of Gracehall, but then had 15 children Major James George fought with Wellington in the Peninsular War, retired on half-pay and never married He was Treasurer for Down, and built a new road around part of the estate for which he was paid 1/= by the County Council Charles joined the Honourable East India Company as Writer and hoped to make a fortune but fever finished him Meanwhile, another son went off to New York, and a sister as well The navy, church and army are seen as suitable careers for younger sons One son snatches his Colonel's daughter and flees to Rio de Janeiro, while daughters do good works, start a school and copy their brothers by sketching and painting Charles returns to India and comes home a Colonel with a lady wife, the daughter of a bishop With his death, his four children still have debts from The Will' The oldest goes off to make a fortune in America - buys orange groves, quickly destroyed by a hurricane in a place called Florida Meanwhile, his brother goes into 'trade' He joins the Northern Bank and weds a daughter of Isaac Murphy, the flax merchant, who seems to be related to every Quaker in Ireland Sad to say The Great War over, the young ones take off for New Zealand, USA, Canada, and Romania Not much left except the land and in the 1970s it went as well
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