Sir William GILBERT

1595 c - 1654

• Name	William GILBERT
  Title	Sir
  Born	1595 c	probably Queens Co, Ire   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1622	Maryborough
  	Appointed as Constable of the Fort of Maryborough
  Event	23.Oct 1629	Dublin - Knighted
  Died	1654	Dublin Knt of Kilminchy, Queens Co   [2]
  Buried	08.06.1654	St. John's Dublin   [2]
  Person ID	I1520	Tarleton
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	William GILBERT,   d. 1593, poss
  Family ID	F655	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine CASTILLON,   b. 1595 c, Queens Co, Ireland
  Married	1615 c
  Children	+ 1. Henry GILBERT,   b. 1623 c, Ireland ,   d. 28.04.1681, of Kilmensey, Barony of Maryborough   2. Anne GILBERT,   b. 1620 c, of Kilminchy, Queens ,   d. 1654 pre   3. William GILBERT   4. Catherine GILBERT + 5. Thomasine GILBERT,   bur. 1654, St John's Dublin   6. Griswald GILBERT   7. Hannah GILBERT,   d. 10.10.1666
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F654	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S183] Notes + Queries, Jackson Pigott. [S184] http://awt.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=:2618541&id=I553409246&ti=5538.