Re: William Rowan Delaware 1744
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William Rowan Delaware 1744
George 3/05/05
Just to add some information about those later Hamiltons and the Rowan relationship.The two Gavins you referred to are grandfather and grandson. The earlier William Rowan connections are what is needed to know how James Traill Jr. connected to him.
A comment on the William Rowan family and their owning the Castle.They were actually still Hamiltons. I did not record the URL of the site for this information I have, sorry.
Archibald Rowan Hamilton
"Archibald Hamilton assumed the additional surname of ROWAN in compliance with will of his maternal grandfather, William Rowan. A Memberof theSociety of United Irishmen, he took part in "1798" (known as "Mr. Rowan" to Wolfe Towne and his colleagues), was sentenced to death but escaped to USA (where he fathered several natural children - a quote from the HAMILTON-ROWANs of USA)."
"The second Archibald (1752) assumed the second name 'Rowan' in order to inherit a large fortune from his maternal grandparents. He went through the cash at high speed keeping race horses at Newmarket, being sent down from Cambridge for putting chamber pots on college towers. He visited Queen Marie Antoinette in France and was given by her a jewelled watch. He was gay, handsome, wild as a hawk and loved by all who knew him. As soon as he was allowed by his parents he came to Killyleagh and immediately became involved with the United Irishmen of whom he soom became one of the leaders. Many of the establishment protestant families were members of this body, their aim being, so far as I can see, to rid themselves of government from London so that they would not have to pay taxes. Archibald could walk through the streets of Dublin followed by an adoring mob. He was warned by Dublin Castle that if he contined to misbehave he would be in trouble. He finally put his signature to an invitation to the French army to invade and liberate Ireland. He was arrested, sentenced to death and locked up in Dublin Castle. He bribed his jailor to let him visit his wife in his Dublin house. While the jailor sat outside the bedroom door, Archibald went down a rope to waiting friends who put him on a boat to France. Thence he went to the recently independent American colonies. In old age he was pardoned and died in the Castle."
"Archibald Rowan Hamilton of Killileagh Castle, born 1751. He joined the Society of United Irishmen, was imprisoned and outlawed, escaped to France, and in 1795 went to America, returning to Ireland after reversal of his outlawry about 1802. He died 1834 having married Sarah Anne [1765-1834], daughter of Walter Dawson of Lisanisk, Co. Monaghan.p 553p 10p 6"
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1. Type: Descendants Chart
2. Type: Book
Periodical: Burke's Irish Family Records
Text: p 553
3. Type: Periodical
Title: Dufferin Chronicles
Periodical: Number One
Date: 5 Oct 1992
Text: A Publication of Killyleagh and District Branch of North of Ireland Family History Society and Affiliate of the Federation of Ulster Local Studi es. Includes monograph, "The Hamiltons of Killyleagh," written by Lt. Col. D. A. Rowan-Hamilton. Text: p 10; year only"
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Re: William Rowan Delaware 1744
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