William James Conolly

William and Patrick had fled to England from Ireland in 1688, but while William had returned, Patrick remained and married Frances Hewett, one of the children of Neale Hewett and Mary Halford of Dunton Bassett, Leicestershire.

[1] There were two children, William and his sister, and they grew up at Dunton Bassett until 1713 when their father died, having recently buried their mother.

[6] At the 1734 British general election Conolly was returned as Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh in the interest of his father-in-law Lord Strafford.

[4] On 28 April 1733, he married Lady Anne Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford and his wife Anne Johnson;[4][7] and in that year he purchased Stretton Hall, Staffordshire as his seat in England, his uncle's great mansion of Castletown in Kildare still being in the hands of his widowed aunt.

The widowed Lady Conolly moved to Boyle Street, Mayfair, London.