Wilson (Bilboa)
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Gamaliel Warter had acquired the Bilboa estate, barony of Coonagh, in county Limerick by the end of the 17th century. His son Edward married Alice Osborne and they had three daughters, Catherine, Margaret and Anne. Catherine married the Reverend Dean George Story who wrote an account of the Jacobite War, but they had no children. Margaret married Ralph Wilson, who took the name Warter Wilson, and their son Edward succeeded to Bilboa. He married Frances Ann Evans and they had one daughter Frances Juliana who married Sir John Rous, later Earl of Stradbroke, in 1788. Ralph Wilson was granted lands in county Clare in 1679.
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