The Irish Bomfords
Achmuty family
(51) Thomas Auchmuty of Brienstown (the fifth generation), eldest child of Samuel Auchmuty
Notes from Clare Eagle (emails Apr 2009)
Thomas Auchmuty of Brienstown (the fifth generation), eldest child of Samuel Auchmuty and his wife Mary King. Thomas married Isabella Gordon.
Thomas died in 1762, four years before his father, intestate, his son Samuel aged only six.
Dublin pedigree:
“Of Bryanstown. eld son, an Officer in the Army; mentioned in the will of his grandmother 1758, died intestate Aug 1762; adm’on 23rd Feb 1763”
Helena Forbes Auchmuty:
“Thomas, Samuel and Mary’s eldest son, was an officer, he died 1763 at the falling of Havana of 3 days illness leaving a widow and one son Samuel.” “his widow was a beautiful woman her name had been Isobella Gordon, her father was Lieutenant Col of the Regiment her husband was in and her mother was left a widow about the same time. She married a second time Robert Savage Esq and left 2 sons and 3 daughters by him. She died in 1777 leaving her children very young.”
Thomas Gordon Auchmuty p 29:
“Thomas his eldest son died before him in 1762 in the month of August being carried off by the bilious fevers so fatal to the troops employed in the reduction of the Havannah, he was then a Captain in the 27th Regiment of Foot and aged about 40 years, he had been in all the active engagements in that war and frequently in imminent peril, at Ticonderoga a button was shot off his lapel, he married without the consent of his father Isabella daughter and heir of Archibald Gordon Major of the 27th and Lt Colonel in the Army by Mary daughter of . . . . . . Hayes of Ballynocloch in the County of Wicklow of a Staffordshire family Lt Colonel Gordon was the son of Colonel Patrick Gordon who died in the Government of Pensylvania in the year 1720. I have not yet been able to trace from which branch of the house of Gordon he immediately derives his descent but it is related that the connexion of the family was acknowledged by the late Duke. Thomas A’hmuty’s marriage with this lady gave his father much displeasure who wished him to have married a daughter of Sir Arthur Newcomen of Prosstown, by her he had two daughters Mary and Judith who died in infancy and one son Samuel”
Thomas married Isabella GORDON in 1753 in the diocese of Cork and Ross (from ancestry plus or ancestry.com). Letters written by Colonel Archibald Gordon to his daughter and his wife in Dublin are in the archives of Mcgill University, California.
Quotes from the letters could be entered here
Thomas and Isabella had two daughters and one son
- Mary who died in infancy (mentioned by TGA, see above)
- Judith who died in infancy (mentioned by TGA, see above)
- Samuel Auchmuty
Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Gordon, 27th Foot by Ian McCulloch: 'The only excitement around Fort Edward, other than . . . drinking in the case of Thomas Auchmuty'; 'his [Gordon's] son in law, Captain Tom Auchmuty'; 'His son in law Tom would succumb to the yellow fever a few weeks later, leaving his [Gordon's] daughter a widow and one would assume, penniless.'
See notes, p.5, p. 9: Isabella b 1720; Thomas a Captain in 27th Regiment of Foot