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About Reverend Alexander Montgomery, Prebend of Doe
REVEREND ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY
Prebend of Doe in Donegal in Ireland
Alexander Montgomery, here treated, is not the same person as Colonel Sir Alexander Montgomery or Alexander Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton
From A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and Their Descendants (Google eBook) David B. Montgomery J.P. Cox, 1903 - 436 pages. Page 43
Montgomery Manuscript, pages 390-1, mentions Captain Hugh and Captain James Montgomery as being quite prominent men in 1696. The author says that the families of these two men furnished him but very little to write about.
The same author says: "There are other Montgomerys of greater name and fame for warlike feats than those two."
"They are grandchildren of Mr. Alexander Montgomery of Doe in the county of Donnegall. Being debarred by the Presbyterians to use the word, he took the sword and fought against the Irish and secured a command. He served several years in the King's cause in the Irish rebellion before 1649. His epitaph is as follows:
- "Now he to Nature his last debt bequeaths,
- Who in life charged through a thousand deaths.
- One man ye have seldom seen on stage or to do
- The parts of Somwell and Samson too.
- Fit to convince or hew an Agog down;
- Fierce in his arms and priest-like in his gowns.
- These characters are due, as all may see,
- To our own Dwin and brave Montgomery.
- Now judge with what a courage will he arise
- When the last trumpet sounds ye great assize."
And for the grave-stone:
- "By what here underlies, you may conclude,
- Whate'er he be, how either great or good,
- Nor might nor meekness can from death secure us;
- Here lies a parson utrinsque Juris."
"This, Alexander Montgomery had a son John, who was a major in the service of the third Viscount Montgomery"
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Reverend Alexander Montgomery, Prebend of Doe's Timeline
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1603
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Ayrshire,, Scotland
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1608
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1612
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County Donegal, County Donegal, Ireland
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1620
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Croghan/Donegal, Ireland
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1658
Age 55
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Doe, Donegal , Ireland
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1675
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Lifford Church, Donegal, Ireland
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