Jane Townsend (428)

Date of Birth: 22 April 1849?
Date of Death: Unknown
Generation: 7th
Residence: Cork
Father: Henry Townsend [413]
Mother: Westropp, Annabella
Spouse:
  1. Galway, Dr John William
Issue:
  1. Not known
See Also: Table IV ; Lineage ; Ancestors' Tree ; Descendents' Tree

Notes for Jane Townsend

Entry in the diary of Agnes Townsend [334] - 'April 22 1849 Henry Townsend's wife had a daughter.' This could refer to Jane's sister Annabella Townsend [427]

Married 1893. Dr John Galway LLD son of Hugh Galway of Stoneyford, Co. Antrim.

John's biographical details are given in 'Pike's Contemporary Biographies 1911'. Rev Canon John William Galway. M.A., LL.D. , St. Luke's Rectory, Cork; son of Hugh Galway, of Stoneyford, co, Antrim; born April 14th, 1846; educated privately, and at Trinity College, Dublin; B.A., 1877; M.A., 1880; LL.B., and LL.D.,1881; DivinityTest,1878. Ordained Deacon, 1877, by the Bishop of Cork, and Priest, 1878, by the Bishop of Ossory; Curate of Queenstown, 1877-81; Rector of St. Paul's, Cork, 1881-82; St. Anne, Shandon, Cork, 1882-97 ; Prebendary of Kilbrittain, Cork Cathedral, and of Donoughmore in Cloyne ; Rural Dean of Cork, 1902 ; Incumbent of St. Luke, Cork, from 1897.

Details can also be seen on page 126 in Reverend John Harding Cole's Church and Parish Records of the United Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, covering the period 1863 to 1903 and published in 1903.

Jane is not shown in 'An Officer of the Long Parliament'.