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• Name: Robert GILKEY
• Sex: M
• Birth: Abt 1715 in Ireland ^b
• Death: 1784 in Chambersburg, Franklin Co, Pennsylvania ^d
• Burial: Chambersburg Heeting House, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania ^u


Parents:

Family:
Children:

1. Mary GILKEY Birth: Abt 1751 in Ireland
2. Elizabeth GILKEY Birth: 1752 in Ireland Death: 26 Nov 1817
3. John GILKEY Birth: Abt 1754 in Ireland
4. William GILKEY Birth: Abt 1756 in Ireland
5. Jane GILKEY Birth: 1766 in Ireland Death: 25 Aug 1846

Marriage:

• Rebecca GILKEY on After 1766 at Ireland .^m2
  
• Rebecca GILKEY Birth: Abt 1715 in Ireland Death: 1784 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Children:

1. Rebecca GILKEY
2. Charles GILKEY Birth: After 1766 in Ireland Death: 22 Oct 1836
3. Francis GILKEY Birth: 29 Feb 1772 in Pennsylvania Death: 9 Apr 1818 in Beaver Co, Pennsylvania
4. James GILKEY Birth: 31 Mar 1773 in Pennsylvania Death: 8 Dec 1861
5. Margaret GILKEY Birth: 12 Jul 1777 in Pennsylvania Death: 2 Jun 1864

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

abt 1715 [Ref: Diane Inman 2/21/2006],

place:

[Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259],

place:

[Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259, Rod Reed 11/17/2008]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

date:

1810 [Ref: Rod Reed 11/17/2008]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: Paul Phelps 10/21/2014]

Sources with Information about marriage to unknown

names:

Robert GILKEY & first wife [Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259],

child:

[Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

names:

Robert GILKEY (b.1743 Ireland) & Jeane McCUISTON (b.4 Jan 1745 PA) [Ref: Rod Reed 11/17/2008]

Sources with Information about marriage to Rebecca GILKEY

date:

after 1766 [Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259],

place:

[Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259],

child:

[Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259]

Research Notes:
immigrated in late 1771 or early 1772, as son Francis was born shortly after arrival [Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259]

emigrated in early 1772, apparently moving directly to Chambersburg, in what was then Cumberland but would later (1784) become Franklin Co, PA (citing Nan Thompson, The Gilkey Family History 1777-1923 (1923)) [Ref: Paul Phelps 10/21/2014]

1784: died within a fortnight of wife and son-in-law Andrew Mitchell, and are buried in Chambersburg Meeting House (Presbyterian, not Quaker) [Ref: Paul Phelps 10/21/2014]

died of typhoid fever, on same day as wife [Ref: Diane Inman 2/21/2006]



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