John Lambert of Creg Clare
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John Lambert of Creg Clare, Irish
soldier
and Royalist
, fl. c.1645 – c.1669.
a Hiberno-Norman, Lambert is described as "an officer in Lord Clanricarde's Regiment in the Duke of Ormonde's Army in Ireland 1645. Had a lease of Creg Clare from the Earl of Clanricarde
in 1669." (O'Regan, p. 40)
According to Patrick Melvin (p. 53), the original Lambert residence, Creg Clare, is north-east of Ardrahan
, close to Castle Taylor, Tullira and Roxborough, homes of the Taylor, Martyn
and Persse families by the early 18th-century.
Donovan O'Sullivan more fully describes him as the secretary
of Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
in November 1651. In that month, Clanricarde "dispatched his secretary, John Lambert, to Galway to find out exactly the real state of feeling in the town. Lambert's instructions were to put the inhabitants fully au courant with the situation in the kingdom. Having done this, he was to inform them that, since the Jamestown meeting had not been possible, the Lord Deputy now proposed that a Council of prelate
s, nobility
and gentry
should be held at Galway or some place near it to review the whole position, consider the possibility of foreign aids, and decide whether Clanricarde could be of any further use to the country;" (pp. 314–315). Donovan O'Sullivan reports that "The mayor and Council of Galway seem to have been impressed with Lambert's statement."
by whom he had;
Redish Lynch died in the 1650s. Lambert married secondly, on 23 June 1659, Mary French, by whom he had a son;
(1619–1684), claiming descent from his father, Josias of Carlton, Yorkshire (born 1554). However, there is in fact nothing to demonstrate any relationship between the two, beyond the accident of sharing a name. He may instead have been a kinsman of Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan
.
Writing in 1820, James Hardiman
included the Lamberts among the "many other families, who ... were equally ancient and respectable, as well from length of residence in the town, as through alliance with the other inhabitants, by whom they were gradually affiliated, and finally considered, without any distinction, as members of the same body" (p. 20) as the Tribes of Galway
, the premier families of Galway town in the early 1600s.
, respectively) "on property acquired from the Blakes and Brownes. The earlier name of Castle Lambert was Aghrim and it was part of the estate of the Blakes of Corbally, which was the original name of Castle Daly."
Notable descendants of John Lambert would include:
=Redish Lynch, daughter of Thomas Lynch, Mayor of Galway =Mary French
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Joseph of Kilmaine, c.1652-90+ Mary Charles Lambert of Creg Clare, k. Derry, 1689.
=unknown =Robert French of Rashane =Janet Taylor of Ballymacragh (Castle Taylor)
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| | Walter Lambert of Creg Clare
| | =Miss Hamilton =Sybilla Martyn of Tullira
Joseph, fl. 1754. Francis, alive 1722. | |
=Anne Ruttledge | |__________________________________________
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| | Charles John Peter, d. 1836. Thomas Belinda Ms. Lambert
| | =Miss Carrol of Ardagh
William Francis |
d.s.p. =Mercy Ormsby=Rebecca Lindsay _____________________|________________________
(issue) (issue) | |
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Walter Peter Lambert of Castle Ellen. Sabina Lambert
=Ellen Tubbs =Thomas Mahon of Belleville, Co. Galway.
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Peter, 1785-1844. Charles, b. 1804.
=Eleanor Seymour =Maria Louisa Caroll =Jane Catherine Irwin of Oakfield, County Sligo.
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Isabella Louisa Maria, 1837-1904 Nannie, 1843–1940
=Edward Henry Carson =Henry Jenkins Stavely Bowdler =William Power O'Donoghue
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Edward Carson
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
soldier
Soldier
A soldier is a member of the land component of national armed forces; whereas a soldier hired for service in a foreign army would be termed a mercenary...
and Royalist
Royalist
A royalist supports a particular monarch as head of state for a particular kingdom, or of a particular dynastic claim. In the abstract, this position is royalism. It is distinct from monarchism, which advocates a monarchical system of government, but not necessarily a particular monarch...
, fl. c.1645 – c.1669.
Life
A native of County GalwayCounty Galway
County Galway is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the city of Galway. Galway County Council is the local authority for the county. There are several strongly Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county...
a Hiberno-Norman, Lambert is described as "an officer in Lord Clanricarde's Regiment in the Duke of Ormonde's Army in Ireland 1645. Had a lease of Creg Clare from the Earl of Clanricarde
Earl of Clanricarde
Earl of Clanricarde is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland, first in 1543 and again in 1800. The former creation became extinct in 1916 while the 1800 creation is still extant and held by the Marquess of Sligo since 1916....
in 1669." (O'Regan, p. 40)
According to Patrick Melvin (p. 53), the original Lambert residence, Creg Clare, is north-east of Ardrahan
Ardrahan
Ardrahan is a village in County Galway, Ireland.-History:Richard de Brugo conquered Galway in 1236, and granted the land to Maurice Fitzgerald who built the castle whose ruins still stand today...
, close to Castle Taylor, Tullira and Roxborough, homes of the Taylor, Martyn
Martyn
Martyn, or Martin is the surname of one of The Tribes of Galway, Ireland.-Family history:The Martyn family were one of a group of fourteen families of mixed Irish, English, Welsh, French and Norman descent who became the premier merchant and political families in the town of Galway during the late...
and Persse families by the early 18th-century.
Donovan O'Sullivan more fully describes him as the secretary
Secretary
A secretary, or administrative assistant, is a person whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, communication & organizational skills. These functions may be entirely carried out to assist one other employee or may be for the benefit...
of Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde , was an Irish nobleman and figure in English Civil War....
in November 1651. In that month, Clanricarde "dispatched his secretary, John Lambert, to Galway to find out exactly the real state of feeling in the town. Lambert's instructions were to put the inhabitants fully au courant with the situation in the kingdom. Having done this, he was to inform them that, since the Jamestown meeting had not been possible, the Lord Deputy now proposed that a Council of prelate
Prelate
A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...
s, nobility
Nobility
Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be...
and gentry
Gentry
Gentry denotes "well-born and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past....
should be held at Galway or some place near it to review the whole position, consider the possibility of foreign aids, and decide whether Clanricarde could be of any further use to the country;" (pp. 314–315). Donovan O'Sullivan reports that "The mayor and Council of Galway seem to have been impressed with Lambert's statement."
Family
He married twice; firstly in 1649 to Redish, daughter of Thomas Lynch, Mayor of GalwayMayor of Galway
The office of Mayor of Galway is an honorific title used by the of Galway City Council. The Council has jurisdiction throughout its administrative area which is the city of Galway – the largest city in the province of Connacht, in the Republic of Ireland. The office was originally established by a...
by whom he had;
- Mary Lambert, who married Robert French of Rahasane, Co. Galway.
- Joseph Lambert, whose descendants settled in County MayoCounty MayoCounty Mayo is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the village of Mayo, which is now generally known as Mayo Abbey. Mayo County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county is 130,552...
.
Redish Lynch died in the 1650s. Lambert married secondly, on 23 June 1659, Mary French, by whom he had a son;
- Charles Lambert, ancestor of subsequent Lambert families of County Galway, killed at Derry, 1689.
Disputed ancestry
John Lambert has been associated with Major-General John LambertJohn Lambert (general)
John Lambert was an English Parliamentary general and politician. He fought during the English Civil War and then in Oliver Cromwell's Scottish campaign , becoming thereafter active in civilian politics until his dismissal by Cromwell in 1657...
(1619–1684), claiming descent from his father, Josias of Carlton, Yorkshire (born 1554). However, there is in fact nothing to demonstrate any relationship between the two, beyond the accident of sharing a name. He may instead have been a kinsman of Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan
Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan
Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan PC was an MP for the rotten borough of Bossiney and a military commander.-Politics:He held the office of Member of Parliament for Bossiney in 1626....
.
Writing in 1820, James Hardiman
James Hardiman
James Hardiman , also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway. The university library now bears his name...
included the Lamberts among the "many other families, who ... were equally ancient and respectable, as well from length of residence in the town, as through alliance with the other inhabitants, by whom they were gradually affiliated, and finally considered, without any distinction, as members of the same body" (p. 20) as 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,...
, the premier families of Galway town in the early 1600s.
Descendants
Melvin remarks that Lambert's "original seat in the county was Cregclare near Ardrahan. Further branches of the family became established at Castle Ellen and Castle Lambert" (located some four miles west and north of AthenryAthenry
Athenry is a town in County Galway, Ireland. It lies east of Galway city, and one of the attractions of the town is its medieval castle. The town is also well-known by virtue of the song "The Fields of Athenry".-History:...
, respectively) "on property acquired from the Blakes and Brownes. The earlier name of Castle Lambert was Aghrim and it was part of the estate of the Blakes of Corbally, which was the original name of Castle Daly."
Notable descendants of John Lambert would include:
- Charles Lambert of Creg Clare, JacobiteJacobitismJacobitism was the political movement in Britain dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland...
, killed at the 1689 siege of DerryDerryDerry or Londonderry is the second-biggest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-biggest city on the island of Ireland. The name Derry is an anglicisation of the Irish name Doire or Doire Cholmcille meaning "oak-wood of Colmcille"... - Sarah Lambert, Lady Clanmorris, wife of Charles Barry Bingham, 2nd Baron Clanmorris (married 1816)
- John Walter Henry Lambert of Aggard, CraughwellCraughwellCraughwell is a village and townland in County Galway, Republic of Ireland. The name is also used as a surname, properly Ó Creachmhaoil, though often anglicised as Craughwell and Crockwell...
, J.P., High Sheriff of County Galway,1855 (1811–99) - Captain Thomas Eyre LambertThomas Eyre LambertThomas Eyre Lambert was an Irish soldier and landlord.-Overview:Lambert was the son of Walter Lambert and Anne Eyre. He married Sarah Trousdell in August 1850 but died without issue. Lambert gained the rank of Captain in the service of the 38th Foot. He was at one time a Justice of the Peace in...
, landlordLandlordA landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called a tenant . When a juristic person is in this position, the term landlord is used. Other terms include lessor and owner...
and assassin target (1819–1920) - Isabella Lambert Carson (born 1823)
- James Staunton Lambert of Creg Clare, M.P. for Galway (1826–33)
- Ada Constance Lambert, wife of Sir George Moyers, Lord Mayor of DublinLord Mayor of DublinThe Lord Mayor of Dublin is the honorific title of the Chairman of Dublin City Council which is the local government body for the city of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. The incumbent is Labour Party Councillor Andrew Montague. The office holder is elected annually by the members of the...
,1881. - Nannie Lambert Power O'DonoghueNannie Lambert Power O'DonoghueNannie Lambert Power O'Donoghue was an Irish poet, equestrian, journalist, novelist, musician and social activist.-Life:Lambert was the youngest child in the family of Charles Lambert of Athenry, and a member of a well-known landlord family of County Galway. She married William Power O'Donoghue...
, equestrian, journalist and novelist (1843–1940) - Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson PC, Pc (Ire), Kt., QC, (1854–1935)
- Edward MartynEdward MartynEdward Martyn was an Irish political and cultural activist and playwright.-Early life:Martyn was the eldest son of John Martyn of Tullira and Annie Mary Josephine Smyth of Masonbrook, Loughrea, both in County Galway. He succeeded his father upon John's death in 1860...
, co-founder of The Abbey TheatreAbbey TheatreThe Abbey Theatre , also known as the National Theatre of Ireland , is a theatre located in Dublin, Ireland. The Abbey first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904. Despite losing its original building to a fire in 1951, it has remained active to the present day...
, (1859–1924) - Walter Peter Lambert, Lt. Col., M.C. (born 1891)
- Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham PC, QC (born 1945)
Family tree (abbreviated)
John Lambert of Creg Clare, fl. 1645 – after 1669.=Redish Lynch, daughter of Thomas Lynch, Mayor of Galway =Mary French
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Joseph of Kilmaine, c.1652-90+ Mary Charles Lambert of Creg Clare, k. Derry, 1689.
=unknown =Robert French of Rashane =Janet Taylor of Ballymacragh (Castle Taylor)
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|_____________________ |
| | Walter Lambert of Creg Clare
| | =Miss Hamilton =Sybilla Martyn of Tullira
Joseph, fl. 1754. Francis, alive 1722. | |
=Anne Ruttledge | |__________________________________________
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| | Charles John Peter, d. 1836. Thomas Belinda Ms. Lambert
| | =Miss Carrol of Ardagh
William Francis |
d.s.p. =Mercy Ormsby=Rebecca Lindsay _____________________|________________________
(issue) (issue) | |
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Walter Peter Lambert of Castle Ellen. Sabina Lambert
=Ellen Tubbs =Thomas Mahon of Belleville, Co. Galway.
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Peter, 1785-1844. Charles, b. 1804.
=Eleanor Seymour =Maria Louisa Caroll =Jane Catherine Irwin of Oakfield, County Sligo.
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Isabella Louisa Maria, 1837-1904 Nannie, 1843–1940
=Edward Henry Carson =Henry Jenkins Stavely Bowdler =William Power O'Donoghue
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Edward Carson