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- See: Chris Pigott - as follows
http://pigott-gorrie.blogspot.com/2008/06/sir-william-gilbert-of-kilminshy-queens.html
William GILBERT was born about 1595, and died 1654 in Dublin. He married Catherine CASTILLON, daughter of Peter CASTILLON and Thomasin PEYTON.
William was of Kilminchy, Queen's Co; Constable, Mayborough, 1622; granted 551 agres in Queen's Co, 1628; cr Knight, 1629; M.P. for Maryborough, 1634, 1639; his res at Knockinay, Queen's Co, was rifled, 1641; Captain of a Regt of Foot, Dublin, 1647; bur St John's Church, Dublin.
William GILBERT, said to have been a grandson of Sir Humphrey GILBERT of Compton, Devonshire (the famous Navigator, & half-brother to Sir Walter RALEIGH - Sir William was accredited the Compton Arms in the marshalling of his funeral by the Heralds in Dublin, so they obviously agreed that he had a descent from that family); Constable, Fort Maryborough, 1621; cr Knt, 1629; M.P. for Maryborough, 1634, 1639; of Knockinay, Queen's County, 1641; of Kilminshey, Queen's Co; buried St John's, Dublin, 8 Jun 1654 [Funeral Entry, Genealogical Office, Dublin]; marr Catherine, daughter of Capt Peter CASTILLON (a son of Giovanni Battista CASTIGLIONE, a native of Piemonte in Italia, & a Groom of the Privy Chamber of Queen Elizabeth) by Thomasin PEYTON (a daughter of Christopher PEYTON, Q. Elizabeth's Auditor in Ireland
Sir William's parentage is unknown; but a putative family connection, not uncommon amongst GILBERT family folk-lores, was recorded in a footnote to an article on the finances of the FITZGERALD family of Morett, Queen's County, as follows:
"...the eldest son, Stephen [FITZGERALD], resided at Morett, and married the 2nd daughter of Henry GILBERT, Esq, of Kilminshy in Queen's County (son of Sir William GILBERT, governor of the Fort of Leix, now Maryborough, and great-grandson of the celebrated navigator Sir Humphrey GILBERT, half-brother to Sir Walter RALEIGH."
[Journal of the Kilkenny Archeological Society, 1866, p. 535, footnote 33.]
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