Esmeralda Brandybuck

Esmeralda Brandybuck (née Took) is a minor character in Tolkien Mythology. She is the wife of Saradoc Brandybuck and mother of Merry Brandybuck and the mother-in-law of Estella Bolger.

History
Esmeralda and her older brother Paladin, were the youngest of five children. They presumably lived in the Great Smials with their three sisters and father and possibly, their mother. She was born SR 1336, being merely six years old when Bilbo Baggins went on a quest to reclaim Erebor with his friends, Thorin Oakenshield, Gandalf, and the company of twelve other dwarves.

As a young woman, Esmeralda married her distant cousin, Saradoc Brandybuck and had one son, named Meriadoc.She became the Mistress of Buckland, since her husband was Buckland's master. Being the younger sister of the Thain, Esmeralda was the sister-in-law of Eglantine Banks and the aunt of Peregrin Took and his sisters, Pearl, Pervinca and Pimpernel.