James Galbraith Esq (abt. 1735 - 1793)

Born about 1735 in County Galway, Ireland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Rose Power (Trench) Galbraith — married 22 Aug 1770 in Saint Andrews Church, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Descendants

Died 28 Oct 1793 at about age 58 in Athlone, County Roscommon, Ireland

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Biography

James Galbraith was born 1735. ^[1]

He was the son of Andrew Galbraith & Mary Plummer. ^[2][3][4]

He was an Esquire. ^[5]

From 1761 to 1765 he was Sheriff of Galway City. ^[1]

He married twice:

1. Unknown. Died June 1765. ^[1]
2. 1770 Rose Power Trench. ^[6][7]
   1. Rose Galbraith. ^[3]
   2. Andrew Galbraith. ^[1][3]
   3. Richard Galbraith. ^[1][3][4]
   4. 1787 John Galbraith. ^[3][4]
   5. William Galbraith. ^[3]
   • Mary Galbraith. (Order unknown.)

From 1770 to 1778 he resided Cappard, Loughrea, County Galway. ^[1][5]

In 1778 he was High Sheriff of Galway City. ^[1]

In 1778 he was a Major in the Gort Light Dragoons, and presided at a regiment meeting in 1782. ^[1]

In 1788 he was made a freeman of Limerick. ^[1]

James died Athlone, County Roscommon, 28 October 1793. ^[1][8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Stefan Krzeczunowicz, GALBRAITH of Mountgavelin, co. Donegal, 2012.

   James Galbraith of Cappard (from 1770-1788; lived 1735 to 1793) and Balgair, was Sheriff of Galway city 1761-1765 and as such signed a petition on 10 Nov 1761 (known as ‘The Black Petition’) from the ‘Mayor, Sheriffs, and sundry resident free burgesses and freemen of Galway’ petitioning that Catholic shopkeepers be restrained from carrying on business in the town.2 He was also High Sheriff of co. Galway 1778 and a Major in the Gort Light Dragoons. He presided at a full meeting of that regiment on 9 Mar 1782 at which it resolved that ‘the people of this country are called upon to declare that the King, Lords and Commons of Ireland are the only power competent to make laws to bind this kingdom’.3 On 13 Oct 1788 he was made a freeman of Limerick. James m1st — (d. Jun 1765 in Galway),4 and left, 1. Andrew Galbraith, who was made a freeman of Limerick on 30 Jan 1792 as the son of his father. He dsp. 2. Richard Galbraith, of whom presently. James Galbraith d.28 Oct 1793 at Athlone.

2. ↑ Arthur Mills, Mills Family Tree, 1970s, https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Mills-4892-6
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Dorothy Ashton, Sproules & Relative Families, 1956, https://www.wikitree.com/photo/pdf/Sproule-29

   James married Rose Power Trench, daughter of Richard Trench of Garbally and sister to Wm. Power Keatinge Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty. They had 4 sons and 1 daughter. [1 Rose 2 Andrew 3 Richard 4 John 5 William]

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Fergus O'Donnell, The Galbraith’s of Cappard, 1968, citing Sir Henry Blackall, http://peterswellschool.com/PETERSWELL/Cappard%20House.html

   Andrew married a Miss Runner from Athlone by whom he had a son and heir. This son was called James and he was High Sheriff for Co. Galway in 1778 and Major in the Gort Light Dragoons. He married in 1770 Rose daughter of Richard Trench, M.P., of Garbally, Co. Galway and a sister of William 1st Earl of Clancarty. James Galbraith died in Athlone in 1793. He had two sons Richard and John.

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Henry Trench, Trench Pedigree, 1878, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2007/20070619077tr/20070619077tr.pdf

   Rose Power, m. James Galbraith, Esq., of Cappard, County Galway.

6. ↑ "Ireland, Diocesan and Prerogative Marriage License Bonds Indexes, 1623-1866", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WG4H-YSW2 : 3 December 2019), Rose Trench, 1770.
7. ↑ Burke's Peerage, 2003, volume 1, page 792, cited in The Peerage, http://thepeerage.com/p20489.htm#i204887
8. ↑ "Index to the Births, Marriages, & Deaths in Anthologia Hibernica 1793-1794", 1897, page 37, https://archive.org/stream/irishmarriagesbe02farr#page/n553/mode/2up/search/galbraith

   Galbraith, James, of Cappard, co. Galway, at Athlone [Oct. 28] Nov. 1793