The first creation of the Bellew Barony only lasted three generations. A tombstone in Duleek tells the fate of John, 1st Lord Bellew.
”This Tomb hath been repaired and
The Vault made by Dame Mary Bermingham
Of Dunsert, Wife to John, Lord Bellew,
Who was shot in the Belly in Aughrim
Fight the twelfth of July 1691. As soon
As he found himself able to undertake
A Journey, he went with his Lady to London,
Where he died the 12th of January 1692.
He was laid in a Vault in Westminster,
Till the April following, his Corpse
Was brought hither.
Walter, the 2d Lord Bellew, commanded a Troop in the Duke of Tyrconnel’s Regiment of Horse; and in September 1686 married Frances-Arabella, eldest Daughter to Sir William Wakefield of Northgate-Head in Wakefield, in the County of York, Privy Counsellor of Ireland ….
Richard, the 3d Lord Bellew, Heir to his Brother, being a Captain in the Earl of Limerick’s Dragoon’s, was outlawed and attainted for his Service to King James II, but 12 April 1697 (pursuant to the Queen’s Warrant from Kensington 18 March) received a Pardon under the Great Seal for all Crimes, committed against the Crown before that Day; and reversing the Outlawry of himself and his Father, on Account of his being comprehended within the Articles of Limerick; and conforming to the established Protestant Church of Ireland in January, or February, 1705, he took his Seat in the House of Peers 7 July 1707; and 25 January 1713 had a Pension of 300L a Year granted by Queen Anne, which was continued to him by King George I …
John, the 4th and present Lord Bellew, born in 1702, took his Seat in Parliament 7 September 1725; and in December 1731 married at Rome to his first Wife the Lady Anne Maxwell, Daughter to William, Earl of Nithsdale in Scotland, and by her, who died of a Fever in London 3 May 1735, and was buried at Hendon-Church in Middlesex, had one Son, Edward, born 3 April 1735, who died 2 September following, and was buried at Hendon; and one Daughter, Mary-Frances, born in Italy in 1733.” (The Peerage of Ireland, 1754)
John Lodge omits to mention that Walter, 2nd Lord Bellew, like his father was mortally wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Aughrim. He died in 1694, a few months after his release with no male issue. His brother, Richard, succeeded to the title and finally Richard’s son John, 4th Baron Bellew, who married twice more, died without male issue on 18 August 1770 when the title became extinct. However, Mr Lodge, no doubt with his eye on sales of his book, notes:
”Of this name have been many Persons of Note, besides the direct Ancestors of the Lord Bellew, of whose immediate Descent I have met with no positive Evidence: among whom I shall mention Richard Bellew, who was Lord of Louth in 1479, and one of the thirteen Members of the Order of the Garter, associated for the Preservation of the Pale from the Incursions of the Irish. Philip Bellew was Mayor of Dublin in 1455, and died in 1466; John Bellew served the same Office in 1473, as did James in 1572; and another James in 1598 … ” (The Peerage of Ireland, 1754)