Gilbert Broune, Sweetheart Abbey
In @1608, John McGhie, former Commissary Clerk of Dumfries, along with John Broune and others,described as papists,were declared traitors for interfering with the arrest of Gilbert Broune, last Abbott of Sweetheart.Can anyone shed any light on this incident and these men?In particular, I am interested in whether McGhie was a relative of the Brounes and what became of him and John Broune.In 1617 a John Macghee died and was buried in Leckpatrick old cemetery near Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland and in 1622 there was a John Browne closely associated with McGhees in Tyrone.I am wondering if these may be the same men.Thanks, Bill