Gen. David Montgomery

Biography

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James Montgomery had a son James David Montgomery, who always signed himself David for the sake of distinction. Nothing is known about his youth. It was probably spent either in France or in Holland. In 1629 he joined forces of Gustavus Adolphous with a squadron of dragoons raised and paid by himself. He served under Johan Mauritz Wrangel and later under Johan Lilliehook. According to his own words he did altogether eighteen years service with the Swedish forces and must have taken part in most big battles of the Thirty Years War. In 1647 he returned to Scotland and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the Royalist Army. In 1649 he returned to the Swedish headquarters in Germany and applied for a pension. He was afterward promoted to major-general, probably in the force of 4000 horse raised in 1652 by Sweden, Hanover, Celle, and Cassel, since he is said in the pedigree to have been in Hanoverian service.[1]

That General Montgomery retained his Scottish citizenship appears from the above quoted letter by Montrose, who called him a 'Scots gentilman', and also from the fact that he arrived at the Swedish headquarters with a British passport. He signed the receipt of his Swedish pension in 1650 (Rantekammarboken, Riksarkivet, fol. 315).[2]

It seems probable that Montgomery, during his stay in Scotland, tried to uphold his claim to the Montgomery titles. But 'Greysteel' was a powerful noble and certainly not inclined to part with any of his rights to anybody, especially to a poor cavalier who had fought all his life abroad. However one may feel about it, the case was settled once for all in favour of the new Earl by a Royal Charter, and the man who should have had the titles was certainly not safe for his life in Scotland. All he brought with him was the seal of his ancestors, which he was no longer entitled to use in Scotland, and the signature of the King himself on his passport.[3]

General Montgomery was married to Anna Eleanora von Schell and had by her one son, David Christopher. According to a statement of his great grandson, he died in Pomerania in 1660. Others have given 1654 as the year of his death.[4]

The seal he used in 1641 was that of a cadet of the house of Eglinton. It shows no trace of the differencing marks of Lainshaw, Braidstone, Hessilheid, Skeilmorly, Scotstoun or Giffen branches.[5]

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9470

• A genealogical history of the Montgomerys and their descendants by Montgomery, D. B. (David B.), b. 1845 (1903) (Col. James Montgomery is not lísted)
• Montgomery, Bo-Gabriel de, Origin and History of the Montgomerys, (Name: William Blackwood and Sons, Ltd; Location: Edinburgh and London; Date: 1948;), Chapter (Page 179) Montgomerys of Hessilheid. “There are several entries where I think T H Montgomery has some wrong generations. I have usually gone with B G Montgomery on these.” This book is available electronically on ancestry.com. < AncestrySearch >
• Verification of the Ancestry of Sven Jacob Montgomery, June 2012, The Montgomery Benchmark Working Group (MBWG): Clark Burns Montgomery, Denis Samuel Hulett Montgomery, John Russell Montgomery, Keith R. Montgomery, Robert Montgomery, Alan Kinnaird Black and Robert Montgomery Sink, Lulu, USA The purpose of the book was to investigate the 'paper trail" of Bo Gabriel's son Sven Montgomery, whose 67 marker Y-DNA test result exactly matched 16 members of the FTDNA Montgomery DNA Project.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Montgomery-9163
• https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9470