Ridgeway
Henry Ridgeway, of Newtown, Waterford, is recorded by Hussey de Burgh as the owner of 2 acres in county Waterford and 48 acres in county Kilkenny. Cullen notes the company of Courtenay and Ridgeway as among the biggest exporters from Waterford port in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The family had come to Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth I and were Quakers. They intermarried with other influential business families in Waterford including the Strangmans and Penroses.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Blenheim (Gaultiere) | Ballymaclode | Ballygunner | Waterford | Faithlegg 90 | Gaultiere | Waterford |
OSI Ref: S652107
OS Sheet: 10 Discovery map: 76 |
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| Blenheim House | Ballymaclode | Ballygunner | Waterford | Faithlegg 90 | Gaultiere | Waterford |
OSI Ref: S651104
OS Sheet: 18 Discovery map: 76 |
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Contemporary printed sources
- HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 389
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Gaultiere: 2 (Ballymaclode)
Modern printed sources
- ''Analecta Hibernica'': McLYSAGHT, Edward. Ridgeway manuscript, the property of H. Ridgeway of Rossmore, Mallow, a ledger from 1791 recording the export trade of H. Ridgeway, a Waterford merchant. XV (1944),p.376.
- ''Jnl of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland'': CULLEN, L.M. The overseas trade of Waterford as seen from a ledger of Courtenay and Ridgeway. LXXXVII, no.2 (1958), pp.165-178.