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In 1623, he married Margaret Chetham, the daughter of Thomas Chetham, a prosperous landowner from Nuthurst (now New Moston), Lancashire, who later acquired an estate at Hacketstown, County Wicklow, and his first wife Mary Forster. By his wife he had fourteen children, of whom six sons and five daughters reached adult life. After his death in 1666, he was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Nicholas Loftus. The second son Henry was the father of Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus, who inherited his uncle's estates after the failure of his male line.
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