Col. James Ryeves

Colonel James Ryeves of Carrignafeely (mentioned in Selections from old Kerry Records)

"Alice Spring, fourth daughter of Annabel Brown and Captain Thomas Spring, married Colonel James Ryeves of Carrignafeely in the County Kerry, (son to Sir Robert Ryeves and Dame Dorothy Touchet one of the daughters of John Touchet Baron Audley father of the first Earl of Castlehaven) and had issue four sons, viz : James, John. William and Gerrard and five daughters viz : Annabella, Jane, Anne, Katherine and Elizabeth Ryeves."

• Blennerhassett Pedigree, Pg 78, Selections of Old Kerry Records http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromol00hick/selectionsfrom...

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Baptised at Ewerne Courtney or Shroton on August 22, 1568. He was probably attracted to Ireland by the successful careers of his younger brothers, William and Thomas.

Colonel James Ryves was a resident of Munster as early as 1625 at the time of the matriculation of his son, James, at Oxford.