BOTHWELL, George

  General Notes:

In Griffiths Valuation of Ireland and its land, the return for Carlingford County Louth show:

"Bothwell Samuel Willville (Townland) Carlingford Louth" ²

  Research Notes:

WILLVILLE

This is a townland of about 540 acres in the parish of Carlingford, in the Barony of Lower Dundalk, in the province of Leinster. ³

George married William QUIGLEY, son of Samuel QUIGLEY and Sarah McDOWELL.⁴ (William QUIGLEY was born in 1879 in Nova Scotia, Canada.)

  Marriage Notes:

"In 1634 John (Gordon) of Ardlogie helped the Huntly Gordons to avenge themselves on Frendraught for the burning of Viscount Aboyne, robbing Alexander Innes, minister of Rothiemay, of his ryding horss (Troubles, i., 48). He was denounced as a rebel, and ordered (in 1635) to be arrested. He seems to have escaped to Germany, for it is apparently he who is referred to in a letter from Andrew Leslie to Father John Seton (dated March 26, 1639), and quoted in the Domestic Series of State Papers (Charles I., 1638-9, p. 569) : 'I have tasted of your Germany . . . Colonel Gordon [of Wallenstein fame?] is not yet a Catholic. He has had a cousin [Ardlogie would have been his cousin-german] by him, who is lately dead, called John Gordon of Ardlogy, his brother's son [this is nonsense in any case], who married the Provost of Melrose's daughter.'

The Balbithan MS. says that Ardlogie married the daughter of Captain Thomas Keir and had four sons and two daughters."

from Gight ⁴