Frances married Dominick Blake, of the prominent landowning family from Castlegrove, County Galway, and had several children.
Because both the Crown's crucial witnesses died before the trial came on, remarkably little seems to be known about the details of the alleged murder: Walsh is said to have been Lord Netterville's valet, but little else is known about him.
The case aroused great interest among the public, no doubt partly because it was only five years since another Irish peer, Lord Santry, had been tried and convicted of murder, but later pardoned.
[2] The trial lasted for fifteen hours but was something of an anti-climax since the Crown explained that the two principal witnesses for the prosecution had died, and the law of evidence did not permit their depositions to be read in Court.
[2] He died on 9 March 1750 and was succeeded in the title by his only son John, 6th Viscount Netterville, who is best remembered for building an impressive mansion, Dowth Hall.