James Ritchie I

James Ritchie II

James Ritchie II b. ? d. Belfast 20/09/1907 m. Ireland to ? 1st wife unknown Mrs Spratt of Strannear, Scotland (2nd wife no children)		James Ritchie III Engaged to Agnes Ritchie 2nd cousin when he died
		Sarah Ritchie b. 1831, d. 1900 in Wales married in Belfast 7 Aug 1855 Edward James Pretty, widower, b. 17 Dec 1813, d. 1886
		Thomas Ritchie III b. 1836 d. 1907 Sea View Belfast

From Thomas Ritchie's Memoirs
My Uncle, James Ritchie, was a Land Steward for John Waring Maxwell, Finnebrogue, (our Landlord). He has command over 100 men for years, when he resigned to go to Belfast to join his relations there. His place was filled by Thomas Leonard. (The same who came to Auckland, NZ).
When I came to know my Uncle James of Belfast, he had married his second wife, a widow, Mrs Spratt of Strannear, of Scotland, who owned a lot of property there. No issue.

From Thomas Ritchie's Memoirs Two
James became Land Steward of the Maxwells Finnebrogue (had command of 100 men on the estate.) After resigning that he went to Belfast and was a partner of Frank Ritchie (Mount Pottinger) they contracted and built the Queen’s Bridge across the Logan River, a great aqueduct at Cushendail Called “Glendun” and other great buildings

Thomas came to N.Z. afterwards to the Chatham Islands then, Auckland, when he sued me and my brother for a Co. Partnership in the Supreme Court in Auckland, before he would pay costs, went into the Bankruptcy Court, afterwards went Home and lived and died in his, Father’s Home Sea View House. Belfast, leaving 8 or 9 Daughters, no son – my Uncle James died when his son was on the Chathams, my Father died when I was at the Law case 1871.