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    Person Info
  • Name: John GILKEY
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1754 in Ireland b


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Robert GILKEY Birth: Abt 1715 in Ireland Death: 1784 in Chambersburg, Franklin Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Bibliography
  1. Inman, Diane, Minnie June Villard. Private email 2/21/2006. Author address: cupojo at thevillages dot net. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Diane Inman 2/21/2006].
  2. Gilkey, George Leland, The Gilkeys: A History of the Early American Gilkeys and their descendants. Merrill, WI: 1950. G3908. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/110992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
after 1752 [Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259],
place:
[Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259],
parents:
Robert GILKEY & first wife [Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
mother:
Rebecca GILKEY [Ref: Diane Inman 2/21/2006]
Research Notes:
originated a potato with the help of his brother, James. Developed by crossing the seed or apples of the potato plant rather than using the "eyes". At first called the Gilkey Potato, later the Mercer Potato, later the Nashannock Potato [Ref: GilkeyGL GILKEY p259]



Pedigree of John GILKEY
 /-----Robert GILKEY
John GILKEY



Descendants of John GILKEY
1. John GILKEY