Family
On 20 August 1844 he married Catherine Isabella Osborne (30 June 1819 - 20 June 1880), from an Anglo-Irish landed family, the daughter of Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet and Catherine Rebecca Smith, and on the same day he took her name and his name was legally changed by Royal Licence, becoming Ralph Bernal Osborne.
His two daughters shared his estate. His older daughter, Edith Bernal Osborne (7 February 1846 - ?), married at Slough, Ireland, on 7 February 1874 Sir Henry Arthur Blake. His younger daughter, Grace Bernal Osborne (d. London, 18 November 1926), married at Newtown Anner, County Tipperary, on 3 January 1874 William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans. His grandson was Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans.
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