William Wilkie Galbraith

Brief Life History of William Wilkie

When William Wilkie Galbraith was born on 12 May 1838, in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Galbraith, was 26 and his mother, Mary Wilkie, was 25. He married Elizabeth Mary Layton on 11 April 1861, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Phillack, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 1 January 1898, in Colonia Díaz, Ascensión, Chihuahua, Mexico, at the age of 59, and was buried in Colonia Diaz Cemetery, Colonia Díaz, Chihuahua, Mexico.

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Family Time Line

William Wilkie Galbraith
1838–1898
Phebe Ann Flint
1855–1939
Marriage: 19 April 1875
Elizabeth Flint Galbraith
1876–1945
Henry Flint Galbraith
1878–1958
Margaret Flint Galbraith
1881–1951
Helen Flint Galbraith
1883–1959
John Flint Galbraith
1886–1962
Frank Flint Galbraith
1889–1968
Charles Flint Galbraith
1891–1948
Wilkie Flint Galbraith
1894–1971
Spencer Flint Galbraith
1896–1965

Sources (119)

  • William G Hooper in household of Anne Hooper, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
  • Legacy NFS Source: William Wilkie Galbraith - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: William Wilkie Galbraith
  • Marriage/sealing record for William Wilkie Galbraith and Emma Sara Bodily, 27 Dec 1877

World Events (8)

1841

Conservative rebellion against Bustamante. Santa Anna's dictatorship.

1842

Santa Anna retires to his hacienda and leaves government to Nicolás Bravo.

1854

Triumph of Plan of Ayutla under leadership of Benito Juárez.

Name Meaning

Scottish: ethnic name for a Strathclyde Briton, from Gaelic gall Breathnach ‘British foreigner’. Compare Gall .

History: This name is first recorded as a surname in the Lennox, a rich agricultural region north of Glasgow under the Campsie Fells, in the 12th century. In early medieval times the region to which Lennox belongs was an independent Welsh-speaking kingdom, with its capital at Dumbarton. It was not integrated into the rest of Scotland until 1124. The first recorded chief of the Galbraiths was Gilchrist ‘the Briton’, living in 1193.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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