Col.
John
Browne
Born about in Kinturk, Mayo, Ireland
Ancestors 
Son of John Browne
and Mary Browne
Brother of
George Browne and Elizabeth (Browne) Fitzgerald
Husband of
Maud (Bourke) Browne
— married
1669 in Ireland [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Father of
Bridget (Browne) Bermingham, Elizabeth (Browne) Bermingham, Peter Browne and Mary (Browne) Bourke
Died about
at about age 73
in Westport House, Westport, Mayo, Ireland
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Col. John Browne was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.
Biography
Colonel John Browne born about 1636, the second son of John Browne of the Neale and Mary Browne, daughter of Sir Dominick Browne of Carrabrowne, Co Galway.
John married in 1669, secondly, Maud Bourke, daughter of Theobald Bourke, 3rd Viscount Mayo and Elizabeth Talbot. [1]
Col. John Browne of Kinturk & Westport was a colonel in the army of James II.
Children of Colonel John Browne and Maud Bourke
- Bridget d. 13 Jan 1702
- Mary married Theobald, 6th Viscount Mayo
- Valentine
Child of Colonel John Browne
- Peter d. 1722
John Browne entered Gray’s Inn, London in 1662 to train as a lawyer and was admitted to the Kings Inns, Dublin in 1669.
John Browne was ‘of the city of Dublin’ until the summer of 1678. By that time he had accumulated a considerable estate in Co Mayo and went to live at Kinturk, near Ballyhean. He later moved to Westport and also kept a house in St Michael’s Lane, Dublin.
In 1669 John Browne married Maud Bourke, great, great granddaughter of the famous pirate queen, Grace O’Malley ‘Granuaile’. Maud’s father was Theobald 3rd Viscount Mayo and her mother was Elizabeth Talbot daughter of Thomas Talbot of Bashall, Yorkshire.
He passed away about 1712. He left two sons Peter and Valentine and a number of daughters.
Sources
- ↑ Westport Estate Papers, National Library of Ireland https://www.nli.ie/sites/default/files/2022-12/078_westportcollection.pdf
- Burke's PEERAGE (1913), p. 1774
- http://thepeerage.com/p4174.htm#i41739
- wikipedia:Westport House
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Shirlea Smith
Shirlea Smith
might be interesting; it seems our colonel is the main subject of this case study: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/irish-historical-studies/article/abs/catholic-survival-in-protestant-ireland-16601711-colonel-john-browne-landownership-and-the-articles-of-limerick-by-eoin-kinsella-pp-324-woodbridge-boydell-brewer-2018-1999/9EAAEF1AD0AE1B4048655BAD2961E8AE
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Rejected matches › John Browne (abt.1639-aft.1678) › John Browne (abt.1637-bef.1713) › John Brown (1640-)
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