Galway (No. 1.) family genealogy

Of Kinsale, County Cork

Arms: Or, on a cross gu. five mullets of the field.[1]

Jeoffrey Galway (modernized Galwey), a burgess of Kinsale, co. Cork, had:

2. William (the second son) also a burgess of Kinsale, who had:

3. Jeoffrey, of Kinsale, Esq., who had:

4. William Galway, Recorder of Kinsale, who d. in 1637.

Notes

[1] Galway: This family derives its name from a branch of the “Bourke” family, in the county Galway, in the province of Connaught, which settled in the county Cork in the 14th century; and hence have been distinguished by the territorial name, Galway, Galwey, and sometimes Gallwey.

Burke says that this family is descended from William de Galway, eldest son of Sir John de Burgo, alias “De Galway” (d. 1400), younger brother of Ulick de Burgh, ancestor of the house of Clanricarde. Sir Geoffrey Galway, the head of the family, temp. James I., was created Baronet of Ireland, but the Baronetcy is now extinct.