Richard Orpen, Esq

Genealogical and Heraldic History of the High Ranked or Landed Commoners of G.Britain and Ireland, 1836 Richard Orpen, esq. m. Mary, daughter of Henry Ley, esq. of TetFont Ewyas, Wilts, and sister to Sir James Ley, lord chief justice of the court of Kings Bench, (who was created Earl of Marlborough in 1626, see Burkes Extinct and Dormant Peerage), and had by her a son, Robert. Richard Orpen, during the unhappy struggles which distracted the reign of the ill-fated Charles I. adhered with desperate fidelity to the royal cause, had his estate in England confiscated, and at length was killed at the battle of Naseby in 1646. His son and successor, Robert Orpen, esq. born about the year 1637, appears by an inquisition dated in 1661, to have resided at a place called Neflaherolin, (sometimes named Killorglin), in the county of Kerry. He m. Lucy Chichester,

Will dated 13 October 1645 and proved 1 Feb 1646/7 left legacies to sons Robert, Henry and John and daughters Mary, Jane, Anne and Martha - to be paid after the death of his wife. Also a legacy to a grandchild Judith Courtenay so one of the daughters probably married a Courtenay. Executor of Will, cousin by marriage John Toomer ( husband of his uncle Henry’s daughter Anne).