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Margaret McCrea

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Margaret McCrea

Birth
County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Death
1822 (aged 62–63)
Bloserville, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Newville, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec IV Lot 183
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Margaret married William McCrea in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland in about 1787.
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From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 794-795

"William McCrea, who left County Tyrone, Ireland, for this country in June, 1790, in the good ship "Sally," bringing with him his wife, Margaret (Ballantyne), daughter Sarah, and an infant son Walter, who died on shipboard. He settled the same year near Graham's Bridge, in West Pennsboro township, Cumberland county, and after living there several years moved to the vicinity of Bloserville, in Frankford township, where he died in 1837, his wife Margaret having died in 1822. To William McCrea and wife were born eight children: Sarah, wife of James Wallace; Walter, deceased; Martha, wife of Alexander Logan; Catherine, wife of Robert Giffin; Margaret, wife of James Hume; Jane, wife of Robert Fenton; William, who married Mary Jane, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Mentzer) Snyder; and John."
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Margaret married William McCrea in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland in about 1787.
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From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 794-795

"William McCrea, who left County Tyrone, Ireland, for this country in June, 1790, in the good ship "Sally," bringing with him his wife, Margaret (Ballantyne), daughter Sarah, and an infant son Walter, who died on shipboard. He settled the same year near Graham's Bridge, in West Pennsboro township, Cumberland county, and after living there several years moved to the vicinity of Bloserville, in Frankford township, where he died in 1837, his wife Margaret having died in 1822. To William McCrea and wife were born eight children: Sarah, wife of James Wallace; Walter, deceased; Martha, wife of Alexander Logan; Catherine, wife of Robert Giffin; Margaret, wife of James Hume; Jane, wife of Robert Fenton; William, who married Mary Jane, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Mentzer) Snyder; and John."
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