Elizabeth Arabella (Wight) Galwey (1752 - 1793)

Born 17 May 1752 in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of William Galwey JP — married 27 Apr 1775 in St Paul's, Cork, Ireland

Descendants

Died 22 Nov 1793 at age 41 in Bearforrest [aka Beraforrest], Nr Mallow, Co Cork, Ireland

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Biography

1. She was dau of Rev Williamson Wight (For a pedigree of this family see Burke’s LG, 1850 ed, vol II, p. 1219, ‘Wight of Wightfield’, Co Limerick, under ‘Seymour of Castletown’) by his 1st wife Anne Dupont [Dupond] (who was “energetically religious in the bleak French Calvinistic” way: Ref 4, p. 229).

2. dob source mislaid but probably from Burke, LGI.

Elizabeth Arabella married William Galwey in 1775. ^[1]

Marriage Settlement date 1 May 1775. ^[2]

Her father and mother had both died by this date and her representative in the marriage settlement is her uncle John [St John] Dupond of Cork, an Apothecary.

Marriage Notice - Hibernian Chronicle 4 May 1775

married last Thursday at St Paul's church, by the Rev Mr Meade, William Gallwey, Esq., of Mallow to Miss Wight of this city.

Sources

1. ↑ https://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/dm/IRE_DIOC_007246532_00413.pdf
2. ↑ https://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=206260

• 1. Blackall, H., Galweys of Munster, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society , Vol. LXXIV No. 219 (Jan-June 1969) p. 76.

2. Marriage: MLB Cork & Ross.

3. Death: Cork Chronicle, Weds 27 Nov 1793 has "died last Friday at Bearforrest[sic], Mrs Galwey lady of William Galwey Esq" in Rosemary Ffolliott press clippings.

4. Bowen, Elizabeth Cole, Bowen’s Court, 1999, pp.229 & 460 (genealogy)