Adam Loftus (bishop) - Family

Family

Around 1560 Adam was quietly married to Jane (c1540–1595), daughter of James Purdon Born 1516 in Kirklington, Cumberland, England. Died 21 Jul 1595 in Lurgan Race, Louth, Ireland, and his wife Jane, daughter of Thomas Little of Thornhill, Cumberland and Margaret Graham.

Adam and Jane Loftus were the parents of twenty children, eight of whom died in infancy. The twelve who grew to adulthood were:

  1. Sir Dudley Loftus, married Anne Bagenal (grandparents of Dudley Loftus, a pioneer scholar of Middle Eastern languages);
  2. Sir Edward Loftus, married Anne Duke;
  3. Adam Loftus, unmarried, killed in battle;
  4. Sir Thomas Loftus, married Ellen Hartpole;
  5. Henry Loftus, Thomas' twin, died in his teens;
  6. Isabella Loftus, married William Usher;
  7. Anne Loftus, married (i) Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbury; (ii) George Blount; and (iii) Edward Blayney;
  8. Jane Loftus, who married Sir Francis Berkeley and then Henry Berkeley;
  9. Martha Loftus, who married Sir Thomas Colclough of Tintern Abbey, County Wexford, six times great-grandparents of Rogers Cotter;
  10. Dorothy Loftus, married Sir John Moore of Croghan, also six times great-grandparents of Rogers Cotter;
  11. Alice Loftus, married Sir Henry Warren of Warrenstown; and
  12. Margaret Loftus, married Sir George Colley of Edenderry

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