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asleep. This one vision in those days of romance was sufficient 

 to determine him to follow her, which ho did and brought her 

 back to be his wife." 



This is the first introduction of the AVilsons of Croglin into 

 the Stewart family, afterwards completed by a marriage to be 

 described as happening a hundred and fifty years later. 



The Stewart mentioned above was John, the son of the 

 William who built Ballydrain. He was born in 1621 and died 

 in 1691. His wife Ann Wilson, was two years older and died 

 in 1682. 



Their son, Thomas Stewart, of Drumbeg, who was born in 

 1660 and died in 1715, was the member of the family who passed 

 Ballydrain property to his descendants. His son, John Stewart, 

 of Drumbeg, Linen Merchant, was born in 1701 and died in 

 1784. He married Jane Legge, of Malone, and a short notice of 

 her ancestry may be interesting. 



The Legges were an English Family of some consequence, one 

 of whom came to Ireland with Sir Arthur Chichester, leaving 

 Devonshire to take this service. I quote the family tradition : — 

 " The Legges had been of service to King Charles I, and on this 

 account King Charles H wished to reward the Legge who had 

 settled in Ireland, but he declined to return to England. A 

 younger member of the family, however, crossed over, and was 

 created Lord Dartmouth, from whom the Dartmouth family is 

 descended." 



From the union of William Legge and Mary Eccles there 

 were born a son and two daughters, who come into our story. 

 The daughter, Elizabeth, married her cousin, William Clarke, in 

 the direct line of the Clarke family. Elizabeth died in 1724, 

 leaving a son, John, who in 1760 married Catherine Coates, a 

 granddaughter of Edward Harris, and brought this name into the 

 Clarke family. Elizabeth Legge's brother, Alexander, was great- 

 grandfather of the Miss Legge of Malone, who became Vis- 

 countess Harberton. The first house of the Legges at Malone 

 was built upon the ground then known as Castle Hill, which had 



