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Crawford (Rockfield)
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Matthew Crawford, son of John, held seven townlands in the parish of Rathaspick, County Westmeath from Sir Percy Nugent at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). In July 1827 he married as his first wife Louisa, daughter of Colonel Crawford (Westmeath Journal, 12 July 1827). She died on 6 December 1858 and in April 1861 he married Emily Handy. Daughters of his by his first wife were married to Desmond Gerald Fitzgerald of the Turlough Park, County Mayo family (1862) and Reverend Horace Townsend of Skibbereen, County Cork (1867). The London Sentinel (1 Sept 1868) reports the marriage of Matthew Crawford JP of Glenmoylan, County Galway and Rockfield, County Westmeath to Jane, eldest daughter of James Crawford of Riverstown, County Tyrone. The Crawford estate, amounting to over 1,900 acres was for sale in the Landed Estates Court in December 1862 and the Crawfords are not recorded as owning any land in County Westmeath in the mid-1870s.
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