Rose Casement and James Rentoul

Susanna West's daughter, Rose Casement (1789-1823) married James Rentoul (1784-1839) in 1812 in Downpatrick. She died after giving birth to a stillborn child. 

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showing Quoile Quay and the
West Tower House by the Countryside Centre.

James, the son of a Presbyterian minister from Londonderry, was buried in the Downpatrick Church of Ireland graveyard. He was a lieutenant in the Derry militia, one of the local forces set up to police the region after the 1798 rebellion. There is a strong sense in all of this that whatever ideological fractions might have taken place in the family in the late eighteenth century, they were now heading firmly into the Unionist camp.

Rose and James had two children:

i. Robert Rentoul was born in 1822 and married Sarah Beggs of Quoile Quay, where Sarah's father ran the Quoile Quay inn. Robert died just shortly after their marriage in 1844 at Ballydugan Cottage and was buried in the Downpatrick Church of Ireland graveyard. He was an apprentice attorney and ensign in the 'Foot Regiment' in 1841. 

ii. Catherine Haughton Rentoul (1821-1892) married Robert Foster Dill (1811-1893) in 1841. Catherine died in Belfast. 

Through the Rentouls, a prominent family of the time, Susanna West's family had started to reverse the decline in their fortunes. Their revival was to continue through the marriage of the Susanna's grand-daughter to Robert Foster Dill, and it is through the nine children of this marriage that the story continues.

Rose Casement was the first cousin x3 removed of Hetty Jane Owen.