I'm stuck again. I am looking for any information on the Harding's (Harden's/Harty's?) that settled originally in Oola, Co. Limerick; part of the family later settled along the road between Monard and Cullen, in Russellstown, Ballygadoon and Monard. Giles, William and Alice, brothers and sister, speculated in land in Ireland as Adventurers (sigh) and arrived in Ireland shortly after the Cromwellian war ended. They originally took land in and around Oola. William APPEARS to have had only one son, Ambrose, and Ambrose took land in Monard, Ballygadoon and Russellstown, Co. Tipperary, only a few miles from Oola. There is always the chance that Ambrose could be illegitimate. Ambrose Harding also leased land at Shanaclogh, Co. Limerick at this same time [Shanaclogh is at the meeting place of 4 Limerick baronies - Connello Upper, Pubblebrien & Coonagh, and at the meeting of 3 civil parishes - Oola, Croom and Crecora & Tipperary & Croom PLU's] and Ballylahiff in the civil parish of Oola, Co. Limerick , and this is exactly where Giles and his brother, William, had received lands. Shanaclogh E. Lease 1751 by Ambrose Harding to Henry Grady for 3 lives renewable for ever. Last renewal 1830 by John Earl of Portarlington to Thos Lloyd. (Coonagh, Co. Limk). >From some old Smith rentrolls from 1749, Ambrose Harding leases part of Monard, Ballygadoon and part of Russellstown. Ambrose Harding's lease is for 2 lives and uses George Peacock of (sic) Greage, Co. Limerick & William Harding of (Sic) Corgrick? [which is Corgrig, Co. Limerick, in the barony of Shanid, civil parish of Robertstown, and Glin PLU]. Also in Ballygadoon is a William Harding and Widow Harding. Ambrose had a total of 320 acres, and was the 3rd largest lessee of land from the Smith Estate, right behind Joseph Grove and Solomon Delane. George Peacock was a deputy Clerk of the Crown for Limerick and Kerry. Ambrose Harding was a subscriber in 1672 to: Richard Cumberland, A Treatise of the Laws of Nature [pub. 1672]. He must have been an adult in 1672. He appears to have lived at least until 1749. I am looking for the wife and other children of William Harding, and the wife and children of his son, Ambrose Harding, either in Co. Limerick or Co. Tipperary. Ambrose is an unusual name, especially for this family, and I suspect it may have been the Christian name of his wife's father. Anybody have an Ambrose "something" c. 1650-ish whose daughter doesn't have a husband yet and may have been from around the Oola/Monard area? Janet