William Ritchie

From Thomas Ritchie's Memoirs
"One farm was called ‘the Rock’ through the position of the homestead being built on rock. James had a family of four sons and two daughters who were all men and women before I was born. The one that I knew and loved was called Billy Ritchie. The whole family lived at ‘the Rock’ farm in my time and none married in my time up to 1863. I have often been with my father when the old man came to see his nephew (my Father) I was only a little fellow and was very sorry when he died."

Office bearers, Down County Directory (from Bassett's County Down Guide and Directory, 1886)

MAGISTRATES. Ritchie, William B., The Grove, Belfast

Ulster Defence Union Belfast Weekly News - 21 October, 1893

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