[Ancestor] Galbraith

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Husband [Ancestor] Galbraith

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1 M John Galbraith ^{1 2}

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           Born: Bef 1699 - ? Northern Ireland
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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Galbraith

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The family of Galbraith is of the remotest antiquity - the name being derived from the Celtic. It was in the parish of Baldunoch, County Stirling, that the Galbraiths of Baldunoch, chiefs of the name, had their residence. In Frazer's statistical ac-counts of the inhabitants of the Isle of Gigha, the following occurs: "The majority of them are of the names of Galbraith and McNeill, the former reckoned the more ancient." The Galbraiths in the Gaelic language are called Breatanieh, that is Britons, or the children of the Briton, and theirs was once reckoned a great name in Scotland according to the fol-lowing lines translated from the Gaelic:
Galbraiths from the Red Tower
Noblest of Scottish surnames.
The first of the name of whom we have any mention is John Galbraith - he probably died be-fore the emigration of his sons from Ireland to America.

The Galbraiths have long been estab-lished in America, and in the old country date back to the remote antiquity of Scotland. The name is derived from the Celtic and originally belonged to the Lennox in that country. The Galbraith chiefs had their residence in the par-ish of Baldernoch. The Galbraiths of the isle of Chiga descended from those of Balder-noch, as may be traced in the ancient records, having fled thither with Lord James Stewart, youngest son of Murdoch, Duke of Albany, from the Lennox, after burning Dumbarton, in the reign of James I. of Scotland. They continued to hold that island until after 1500. The following lines from the Scotch show the estimate in which the name was held:
Galbraiths from the Red Tower,
Noblest of Scottish surnames.
There is a small town of Scotland called "Inch (Island) Galbraith." Upon it are many ruins of castles and villages, the strongholds built by the clan when war was the rule.
When Hon. W. A. Galbraith, of Erie, Pennsylvania, was traveling in Scotland, hearing that a fam-ily by the same name lived close to where he stopped, he went to call on them. He had with him a coat of arms preserved by the family in America, which he showed them, and they immediately produced a precise counterpart, the arms showing three bears' heads, muzzled, on a shield surmounted by a knight's helmet and crest with the motto, which, translated, is, "Stronger from opposition." Thus the origin of the family is established without doubt. [HAC 1914, 646]

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 269.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 646, 659.