A junior branch of the family settled in County Kerry, where they acquired lands at Dingle and Castlegregory.
He had no issue,[5] and the estates passed in the female line through his sister Margaret, who married Robert Oriel,[5] although his heirs adopted the name Hussey.
[6] He was entrusted with tasks of a quasi-judicial nature, and in 1410 sat with the Chief Justices of the courts of common law on a judicial commission to inquire into all treasons committed in County Meath.
Thomas Hussey, 5th Baron Galtrim, who was Matthew's eldest son and Edmund's great-grandson, was reportedly murdered on his wedding day: this inspired a nineteenth-century ballad by Gerald Griffin, "The Bride of Malahide".
In 1509 he was granted seisin of the lands of his father Patrick Hussey, 9th Baron Galtrim, lately deceased.
[9] Patrick, the 13th Baron, was a politician of some importance in the seventeenth century, who sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for County Meath in the Parliaments of 1613-14 and 1634–35.
From a 1775 lawsuit in which Stafford Hussey, 17th Baron Galtrim, was the defendant, it appears that they employed a complex set of legal devices to overcome the various restrictions on Roman Catholics owning land.
[11] The Hussey family's main residence from the early fifteenth century was at Rathkenny in County Meath.
The statesman Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl Beaulieu, son of James Hussey, belonged to a junior branch of this family.