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Governor for Smithfield Convict Prison from 1790-1831

Helen Margaret Tobias, eldest daughter of Theodore Cronhelm Tobias (1876-1959) and Eileen Muriel Smith (1886-1984), was born 18 May 1917 at Dawson Street, Dublin. She married John George Dalkeith Lamb (b. 1919) at Saint Michan's Church, Dublin, on 10 May 1952. They had one son, Henry Francis Lamb. After the death of her brother-in-law Canon Adam Lamb on 19 June 1989, Helen and Keith Lamb moved to Woodfield House, Clara, County Offaly. Helen Margaret Lamb died February 2011, and was buried next to her husband, Keith Lamb, at Saint Brigid's Church, Clara, County Offaly.

Francis William John Alexander Lamb, son of Alice Ann Kerr and William Lamb LLD, was born 8 June 1874.
He studied at Trinity College Dublin where he became a Doctor of Medicine. In 1902 Francis Lamb married Constance Charlotte Plunkett-Johnston. They had three children: Alice Blanche Anna Lamb (20 Sep 1903 - 1932), Reverend Francis Adam Johnston Lamb (29 May 1905 - 19 June 1989), and John George Dalkeith Lamb (b. 19 Aug 1919). Francis Lamb MD died at Woodfield House on 11 January 1959.

Francis Adam Johnston Lamb, eldest son of Francis William John Alexander Lamb (1874-1959) and Constance Charlotte Plunkett-Johnston (1876-1959), was born 29 May 1905 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. He inherrited Woodfield House, Clara Offaly, after the death of his parents in January of 1959. Canon Adam Lamb died 19 June 1989.

Francis Lamb was born in 1756, in County Cork. He first married Mary Rice (d. 1799), and they had eight children, of whom only James Lamb and John Rice Lamb lived to adulthood. Secondly he married Sarah Duke (d. 1815), and they had four children, of whom three lived to adulthood: Francis Lamb (b. 1805), William Lamb (1803-1823), and Mary Lamb (b. 1807). Francis Lamb died 16 Jan 1808, and was buried in Saint Nicholas Churchyard in Cork City, County Cork.

Francis Lamb, second son of Sarah Duke and Francis Lamb, was born 4 January 1804. He married Catherine 'Harford' of Bandon on 30 Dec 1827. They had five children: Mary Eliza, Mary (16 Aug 1835 - 20 Aug 1835), Joseph (b. 5 Dec 1832), Sarah (b. 16 Sep 1830), and William (19 Nov 1828 - 1899).

Constance Charlotte was born 13 Nov 1876 to Maria Blanch (Fuller) and Dalkeith Plunkett-Johnston. She married Francis William JA Lamb in 1902. They had three children: Alice Blanche Anna Lamb, Francis Adam Lamb, and John George Dalkeith Lamb.

Constance Charlotte Lamb died at Woodfield House, nine days after her husband Francis, on 20 Jan 1959.

Annie Lamb was the daughter of John Rice Lamb (1786-1868) and Margaret Stroud Hosford (1796-1888).