Thomas Bruce Ismay

Joseph Bruce Ismay retired from active affairs in the mid-1920s and settled with his wife in Connemara, Co Galway. Costelloe Lodge was burnt by republicans in 1925 and rebuilt in 1925. Ismay’s widow continued to live there for a time after her husband’s death in 1937. His health declined in the 1930s, following a diagnosis of diabetes and the loss of part of his right leg.

"Ismay was known as a good employer in the Costelloe area after he moved there, but he also bore the nickname “Brú síos mé” or “Push me down”, as into the lifeboat." (source: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/connemara-auction-generates-titanic... )

https://www.dreamireland.com/site/Costelloe_Lodge_Connemara.21976.html => "This house was originally designed by Edwin Lutjens for Bruce Ismay the Chairman of the White Star, the company which owned the Titanic ship. As a keen angler, this beautiful part of Connemara was Ismay's chosen retreat following the sinking of the ill-fated Titanic. Landscaped gardens originally designed by Gertrude Jekyll offer a stunning palette of colour to the estate with all the flora and fauna having been carefully selected to complement Connemara's wild and natural beauty."

Pedigree

The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of the founders of the Order of Runnemede deduced from the sureties for the enforcement of the statutes of the Magna charta of King John, by Browning, Charles Henry (Publication date 1898). Page 341-342. < Archive.Org >

• 19. William Lawrence, bapL at St. Albans, July 27, 1622, d. 1680. In 1645 ^^ was one of the patentees of Hampstead and Flushing, Long Island. He was a magis- trate of Flushing, 1655, and one of its largest land-owners ; was a member of the governor's council, 1 700 ; captain of a foot company, 1665 » ^^S^ sheriff, 1673 ; justice of the North Riding, 1675. He m. secondly, March 4, 1664-5, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith, and had by her :
• 20. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, of Flushing, b. 1665-8, commissioned ensign in 1684, d. April, 1759, m. 1690, Mary Townley (see the American Historical Register, February, 1896), and had :
• 21. Richard Lawrence, of Flushing, b. 1691, d. 1781, m. April 6, 1 7 1 7, Hannah, daughter of Samuel Bowne, and had :
• 22. John Lawrence, of Flushing, b, January 22, 1731, d. July, 1794, m. August 13, 1755, Ann Burling, and had:
• 23. Hannah Lawrence, b. July 8, 1758, d. October 3, 1838, m, August 16, 1780, Jacob Schieffelin, of New York, and had :
• 24. Richard Lawrence Schieffelin, of New York, b. November 9, 1801, d, November 21, 1889, m. August 3, 1833, Margaret H. McKay, and had :
• 25. George Richard Schieffelin, of New York City, b. July 27, 1836, a founder of the Order of Runnemede, and member of the Society of Colonial Wars. Mr. Schieffelin m. Julia M., daughter of Hon. Isaac C. and Matilda Dela- plaine, and had issue :
• I. Julia Florence Schieffelin, m. J. Bruce Ismay, of Liver- pool, England, and had :
  • 1. Margaret Bruce.
  • 2. Thomas Bruce.
  • 3. Evelyn Constance.
• II. Margaret Helen Schieffelin, m, Henry Graff" Trevor, of New York, and had :
  • 1. George Schieffelin.
  • 2. Margaret Estelle.
  • 3. Louisa Stephanie Stewart.
• III. Constance Schieffelin.
• IV. Dorothy Schieffelin.
• V. George Richard Delaplaine Schieffelin.
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