Robert Maxwell (abt. 1550 - abt. 1622)

Born about 1550 in Calderwood, Lanarkshire, Scotland

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Died about 1622 at about age 72 in Kilbride, Armagh, Ireland

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Biography

Robert Maxwell is a member of Clan Maxwell.

This profile is part of the Maxwell Name Study.

Isabella Seton (b.c.1566, d?). m. Robert Maxwell of Calderwood. They settled in Kilbride, County Armagh, Ireland.

Very Rev. Robert Maxwell is the son of Sir John Maxwell of Calderwood and Elizabeth Hamilton. He married, firstly, Susan Armstrong. He married, secondly, Isabel Seton.

He came to Ireland by express direction of King James, who promoted him to Dean of Armagh by patent dated 7 April 1610. [Rot. Pat.]. He had been appointed the first Chancellor of Connor, by the charter in 1609.

It is reported of him, that he debarred himself from further preferment from that quarter, by honorably opposing a fraudulent lease of church property, which was designed to be given to the King's favorite, the Duke of Buckingham. [Lodge.] Bishop Ussher's return or Visitation Book of 1622 describes him as then " taken with a dead palsie " in fact he died of that attack before the close of the year.

Children of Very Rev. Robert Maxwell and Susan Armstrong

• Rt. Rev. Robert Maxwell d. 1672
• Henry Maxwell
• James Maxwell
• Elizabeth Maxwell
• Phoebe Maxwell

Baron Farnham - County Cavan, Northern Ireland

The Maxwells of Parkhill; and other families of the name, sprung from the same common ancestor as the Calderwood family. The Rev. Robert Maxwell, 2d son of Sir John Maxwell of Calderwood, knight, in the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth was sent over to Ireland, by James VI., to secure an interest for his majesty in that kingdom. He was appointed dean of Armagh, and was ancestor of the earls of Farnham peerage of Ireland, and of the Waring-Maxwells of Finnibrogue, county Down. ^[1]

Research Notes

Robert and Henry, the sons of Robert Maxwell, may be the sons of Isabella Seaton, his second wife. Refer The Montgomery Manuscripts ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.electricscotland.com/history/nation/maxwell.htm
2. ↑ https://archive.org/details/montgomerymanusc00montuoft/page/292/mode/1up

See also:

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ancestorsearch&id=I4514&style=TEXT
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p44264.htm#i442639
• http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/farnham2.pdf Nli Farnham Papers
• Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
• Vol 3. - The Province of Ulster, Pg 31, 259