Sir Dominick Browne, Irish

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 merchant

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 and landowner, c. 1585? - c. 1656.

Browne was the eldest of three sons of Geoffrey Browne, alderman

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 of Galway

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 (died 1608), a member of the Tribes of Galway

Tribes of Galway

The Tribes of Galway were fourteen merchant families who dominated the political, commercial, and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late-19th centuries. They were the families of Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, D'Arcy, Deane, Font, Ffrench, Joyce, Kirwan,...

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Dominick was of age and married at the time of his father's death, and a town bailiff

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 in 1609. He was convicted for felony

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 and homicide

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 of Henry Rany of Galway, at Athenry

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 on 29 July 1620. However, for the sum of £5.00 he was pardoned that December.

He successfully stood a M.P. for Athenry in the 1634 Irish parliament, in the same year been elected Mayor of Galway

Mayor of Galway

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. In 1635 he was knighted by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

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. In 1636 he was noted as holding half the lands of Mayo Abbey in addition to other land in the baronies of Costello, Gallen and Clanmorris. Two of his sons were made Freemen of Galway in 1641.

His activities during the Irish Confederate Wars

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 are uncertain. In 1653 he was dispossessed of his Galway property but permitted to retain a portion of his lands in Mayo.

He was married to Anastasia Darcy, a daughter of James Riabhach Darcy

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 (died 1603). Via his son, Geoffrey Browne, M.P.

Geoffrey Browne, M.P.

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 (died 1668) and grandson Dominick Browne

Dominick Browne

Dominick Browne, Mayor of Galway, 1688-1689.Browne was a grandson of Sir Dominick Browne and a member of The Tribes of Galway. He was one of the first Catholics to become Mayor since 1654, and would be one of the last of the mayors who was a member of the tribal families.His descendants would...

, he was ancestor of Baron Oranmore and Browne

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, Garech Browne

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 and Tara Browne

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