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Marlay
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The Marlays descend from a merchant of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The grandparents of Charles Brinsley Marlay were George Marlay and Lady Catherine Butler daughter of Brinsley, Earl of Lanesborough and his wife Lady Jane Rochfort, only daughter of Robert Ist Earl of Belvedere. Through this family connection Charles B Marlay inherited the Belvedere estate in Co Westmeath and assumed the name of Rochfort in 1867. In Griffith’s Valuation he is recorded as resident at Belvedere and a lessor in at least ten parishes, including in Ardnurcher, Ballymore, Castlelost and Kilkenny West. When C. B. Marlay died in 1912 the estate was inherited by his distant cousin, Colonel Charles Howard Bury (1881-1963), a keen mountaineer, who led the 1921 Mount Everest Expedition.
Griffith’s Valuation records Louisa Catherine Marlay, the mother of Charles Brinsley Marley, holding three townlands in the parish of Lavey, county Cavan. In 1878, C. B. Marlay of Mullingar and England owned estates in counties Westmeath (9,059 acres), Cavan (1,688 acres), Louth (3,067 acres), Limerick (453 acres) and King’s County (38 acres).
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Berry (Wardenstown)
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Richard Berry of Wardenstown, county Westmeath, married Alice daughter of Thomas Smyth of Drumcree, county Westmeath, and had a daughter Mary, his heir. In 1726, Mary Berry married Humphrey Butler, who in 1756 was created 1st Earl of Lanesborough. Their son Brinsley became the 2nd Earl. The 2nd Earl married Jane daughter of Robert Rochfort, !st Earl of Belvedere and one of their daughters married George Marlay. Wardenstown was later in the possession of the Vandeleur family.
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