Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

Alan of Galloway

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• • 22nd Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 25th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24752422 
  • Father:
  • Roland of Galloway   
  • Mother:
  • Helena de Morville   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1175 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1234 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Abbey of Dundrennan 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Helen de I'Isle
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  Helen of Galloway (Ahnentafel No:12376211 )

  • Notes: 

  • Lord of Galloway

    Alan of Galloway's surname is also seen as FitzRoland.

• Additional marriages for Alan of Galloway

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  • Spouse:
  • Margaret of Huntingdon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1209

• Sources for Alan of Galloway

  • ¹ Adams, Arthur , The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 , Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (1964) , 60.
  • ² Paul, Sir James Balfour, ed. , The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol . 4 , Edinburgh: David Douglas (1907) , 139-141, Hathi Trust Digital Library.
  • ³ Paul, Sir James Balfour, ed. , The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol . 5 , Edinburgh: David Douglas (1908) , 32, 277, Hathi Trust Digital Library.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas , Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families , Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013) , Vol. II, p. 562.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd , The Royal Descents of 600 Immig rants to the American Colonies or the United States , Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008) , 463.
  • ⁶ Weis, Frederick Lewis , Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 , Lancaster, Mass: (1950) , 55.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia , "Alan of Galloway" , (accessed 03/01/2010).
  • ⁸ Wurts, John S. , Magna Charta , New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942) , 113, 1654.