[1] Canley Rutherford of M. M. Rutherford & Co. General Merchants, Ballybay  Matthew McCauley Rutherford was the son of William Rutherford and Esther Reed. The family are buried at Cahans (see At the Ford of the Birches, page 195). Although Esther's age is given as 62 yrs when she died in 1863, I'm fairly certain she is the daughter of Hamilton Reed and Martha Carlile, who according to Mary McNeil was born 4 May 1811 (see Chart 2). The discrepancy in her birthdate may be due to inaccurate transcription or to deterioration of the stone (I think some of the other transcriptions are suspect also). A branch of this Rutherford family came out to Australia and Wnedy Jack was in touch with a descendant, David Rutherford. She had some material on the family copied from a website that no longer seems to be around – it was a site by a Canadian Rutherford researcher, but had a page on the Australian branch which had been contributed by David. The names Hamilton, Reed/Reid and Bartley were carried on in the family. Matthew seems to have been a jack-of-all-trades, and to have had a finger in many a Ballybay pie, from reading the Murnanes' book. The letterheads on his correspondence range from a very plain, low-key M.M. Rutherford & Co., General Merchants, Ballybay to: M.M. Rutherford & Co., Grocers, Ironmongers, Seedsmen & Undertakers, Ballibay, Co. Monaghan. Nothing like diversity!