Genealogy of David Gallwey, Bantry, West Cork, son of Henry and Mary McCarthy conformed to the Church of Ireland 1770, Adjutant Bantry Volunteers, Left for Lisbon, son Consul for Portugal in Cork ancestor of Galweys in Portugal, Brazil, Tenerife, USA, Peru.
His grandmother was Mary Mellifont , this family were probably Protestant in Bantry and Skibbereen in the mid 18th century but her father was proclaimed a Raparee c 1690. They were middle men on the Bantry and Kenmare Estates.
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