Sir Valentine Browne, 2nd Baronet

Sir Valentine Browne, 2nd Baronet, of Molahiffe (died 1644), was an Irish baronet.
Birth and origins.
Valentine was born about 1600. He was the eldest son of Sir Valentine Browne and his first wife, Alice FitzGerald. His father was the 1st Baronet Browne of Molahiffe, County Kerry. His mother was a daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, the rebel earl. His mother's family were the FitzGeralds of Desmond, a cadet branch of the Old English Geraldines, of which the FitzGeralds of Kildare were the senior branch.
Baronet.
On 7 September 1633 Browne succeeded his father as the 2nd Baronet Browne of Molahiffe.
Marriage and children.
Before 1638 Sir Valentine married Mary MacCarthy, the second daughter of Sir Charles (alias Cormac) MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry and his first wife Margaret O'Brien. She was a sister of his father's second wife, his stepmother.
Valentine and Mary had four children, two sons:
—and two daughters:
Death and timeline.
Sir Valentine died 25 April 1640 and was buried on 6 July 1640 at the church of Killarney. His son succeeded at the age of two and became a ward of his uncle Donough MacCarty, 2nd Viscount Muskerry.