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Joseph Lamb, eldest son of Catherine Harford of Bandon and Francis Lamb, was born on 6 December 1832. As an adult moved to Australia.

George Minchin Minchin was born at Valentia Island, County Kerry, on 25 May 1845. He moved to Dublin in 1854 following the death of his mother, to better his education under the influence of his uncle-in-law, David Bell, a Shakespearean scholar and schoolmaster. In January of 1862, he attended Trinity College Dublin, with Doctor Shaw as a tutor, where he received multiple scholarships and awards through his skill in mathematics and physics. In the spring of 1875 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill. Over the course of his career he wrote many books: A Treatise on Statics, with Application to Physics (1884), Naturae Veritas (1887), A Treatise on Hydrostatics (1890), Hydrostatics and Elementary Hydrokinetics (1892), Uniplanar Kinematics of Solids and Fluids: With Applications to the Distribution and Flow of Electricity (1892), The Student’s Dynamics, Comprising Statics and Kinetics (1900), Mathewatical Drawing (1906). In 1895 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. On 30 June 1856, George Minchin married Emma Sophia Fawcett at the parish church, Great Marlow. They had two children, George Robert Neville Minchin in 1889, and Una E Minchin in 1890. George Minchin Minchin died 23 March 1914, at 149 Banbury Road, Summertown, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, and was buried at Oxford.

Ethel Kerr, daughter of Doctor Elias William Kerr (1850-1920) and Fanny Brady (1851-1886), was born 31 December 1875 in Kinlough, Leitrim, Ireland. She lived most of her life in Dorset, England. Ethel Kerr died in Bromley, Kent, England, on 31 October 1928.

Mary Elizabeth Lamb, daughter of Francis Lamb (1805-1868) and Catherine Horford (d. 1947), was born in March of 1838. After the death of her father, she lived with her brother William Lamb (1828-1899). Mary Elizabeth Lamb died on 25 January 1909 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.

Henry Crosbie, son of Edward William Crosbie and Eliza Ussher, was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England in January of 1823. He lived most of his adult life in Liverpool.

Edward William Crosbie, eldest son of Sir Edward William Crosbie, 5th Baronet of Maryborough (1755-1798) and Margaret Patience Ferguson, was born around the year 1785. Though his parents marriage was absolved in 1790, he retained the surname of Crosbie and lived on good terms with his father. In 1921 married the widow Eliza Ussher, née Neville, of Newry, County Armagh. She had two sons by her previous marriage, Sheldon Ussher (b. 1811) and Richard Ussher (b. 1812), and Edward William Crosbie raised them as his own in addition to his and Eliza's four children: Henry Crosbie (b. 1823, Mary Louisa Crosbie (1824-1887); Elizabeth Ellen Ferguson Crosbie (b. 1827); and Edward William Crosbie (b. 1828). Edward William Crosbie died at his home in Liverpool, on 31 December 1839.