Ruby Bolger

	Adalgar Bolger
Rudigar Bolger	Rudibert Bolger	Ruby Bolger		Fosco Baggins
		Dora Baggins	Drogo Baggins	Dudo Baggins

Frodo Baggins' paternal grandmother, Ruby Bolger was born in the year III 2864 (or 1264 by the Shire-reckoning), the youngest of three children of Adalgar Bolger. Her father Adalgar was the head of the Bolger family, and so Ruby and her brothers Rudigar and Rudibert were likely raised in the Bolger folkland around Budgeford in the Shire's Eastfarthing.

Ruby married Fosco Baggins, and had three children: a daughter, Dora, and two sons, Drogo and Dudo. Of these, it was Drogo who was the father of Frodo, but he left his son orphaned when he and his wife Primula Brandybuck were lost in a boating accident. It is uncertain whether Ruby knew her illustrious grandson Frodo; she would have been a hundred and four years old when he was born (an exceptional age for a Hobbit, but not an impossible one).

Long after Ruby Bolger's time, Samwise Gamgee would name his youngest daughter 'Ruby', though it is unclear whether this name was chosen in honour of his friend Frodo's grandmother. Many of Sam's children were named for his friends and family, so the connection may be intentional, but Shire-hobbits were fond of choosing the names of jewels and gems for their girl-children, and so the shared name may simply be coincidental.