Maj.
Gilbert
King
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Gilbert King
and Sarah (French) King
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Rebecca King
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Henry King
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Jul 2021
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Biography
Major Gilbert King was the son of Gilbert King and Sarah French.
He gained the rank of Major in the 5th (Roy Irish) Dragoons. He fought in the Battle of Quebec in 1759.
He married a cousin, Rebecca King, daughter of John King and Alice Mahon, in April 1771.
Child of Major Gilbert King and Rebecca King
Reverend Henry King
They also had a daughter Harriet King.
JOHN KING, of Fermoyle, County Longford, the first of the family to live at Ballylin, who espoused firstly, in 1748, Alice, daughter of Ross Mahon, of Castlegar, County Galway; secondly, Frances Digby, and had issue,
John, of Ballylin, MP for Jamestown, b 1760; Gilbert, m Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Henry, of Straffan, County Kildare; Jane, m Abraham Creighton, 1st Baron Erne; Rebecca.
Mr King's younger daughter,
REBECCA KING, espoused her cousin, GILBERT KING, Major, 5th Dragoon Guards, son of Gilbert King, by Sarah, daughter of John French, of French Park, County Roscommon, who fought at the Battle of Quebec, 1759, and by him left (with a daughter, Harriet) a son and heir,
THE REV HENRY KING (1799-1857), of Ballylin, Ferbane, King's County, who succeeded to Ballylin at the decease of his maternal uncle
Sources
https://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2014/07/ballylin-house.html
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