George Garvey is best known as a land agent in King's County/Offaly in the mid-1800s and during the Great Famine. His first career, however, was as a military man and he served as a captain in the Royal Navy from 1807, with victories in battles at Helgoland (1807), Cadiz (1811) and Genoa (1814). Garvey's father was also an officer in the British army and was killed at the British capture of St Lucia in the West Indies in 1796. After a short but distinguished service, Garvey retired to Thornvale, Moneygall, King's County , near to Loughton, which was the estate of Major Pepper, his wife's uncle. He was given his first job as a land agent of the Loughton estate by Pepper in 1827. By the 1840s he was agent for seven major estates, including Norbury at Durrow. He was not well-liked by the tenantry and there were several attempts on his life. He took to carrying a pistol and wearing a steel vest as protection. The 2nd earl of Norbury was assassinated at Durrow but the real target was Garvey. He took over the Rosse estate at Parsonstown (Birr) in 1853 from George Heenan. He was a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and the Kilkenny and South East of Ireland Archaeological Society, and was responsible in the late 1830s for the restoration of the medieval well of St Columcille at Durrow. He died on 4 August 1879 at the age of 85 and is buried at Borrisnafarney Church near Moneygall, County Offaly. His son, Toler Roberts Garvey, followed him into the business of land agency.
George Francis Gamble was born 21 June 1837. He married Florence Gamble. From 1854-72 he served in the Royal Marine Light Infantry. He left the Marines at the rank of Major, and went on to write several manuals on military commands and exercises. In 1884, his daughter, Cléonice Gamble was born. After his military career, Major George Francis Gamble worked as the registrar and secretary of Mount Jerome Cemetery for forty years. Major George Francis Gamble died 22 Feb 1912. One of his grandsons attended the funeral of George Bernard Shaw in 1950.
Florence Johnston, sixth child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 5 Mar 1842. She married Major George Francis Gamble (1837-1912). They had a daughter, Cléonice Gamble, in 1884. Florence Gamble died 28 Feb 1921.
Superior of Tullabeg: 31 July 1972-31 July 1976
Born: 2 January 1839
Appointed Bishop of Meath, Ireland: 28 April 1899
Resigned Bishop of Meath, Ireland: c.1906
Died: 15 December 1909
Rafael Ricardo Jose Gaspar Fuller, only son of Doctor Adam Henry Fuller and Marcelina Dolores Caballero, was born 14 March 1866. In adulthood he served as the consul for Paraguay in New York. He married Esperanza Viscay, and they had one daughter, Esperanza Alice Fuller, on 8 June 1928 in Paraguay. Rafael Fuller died in Pilar, Paraguay in 1941.
Maria Blanche was the daughter of Dr Matthew Stritch of Dublin. On 4 December 1817 she married Adam Fuller of Woodfield at St. Peter's Church in Dublin. They had three sons: Joseph Thomas Fuller (b 7 Sep 1818), Captain Adam Henry Fuller (b 24 Oct 1822), and Reverend Abraham Stritch Fuller (b 20 Nov 1826).
Their eldest son Joseph, who was very wild and heavily contributed to the financial troubles of the family, was sent to live in America. In order to generate income, Woodfield House was let out in 1851, and Adam and Maria Blanche Fuller moved to a house in Sandymount, County Dublin. Adam Fuller died on 15 June 1858.
Maria Blanche Fuller died at the age of 66 at 6 Cartwait Park, Kingstown, County Dublin on 5 October 1864.