{"id":5675,"date":"2014-04-16T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/?page_id=5675"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:05:28","slug":"vitals-robert-jr-mary-catherine-dowling-mackrell-norris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/?page_id=5675","title":{"rendered":"Vitals: Robert, Jr. & Mary Catherine Dowling MacKrell Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"robert-norris-photo\"<\/a>Robert<\/strong>, Jr. (1785-1867) b. Swatragh, Maghera Parish, County Derry, Northern Ireland; r. Culmerville, West Deer Twp., Allegheny Co., PA. His farm was partially in Buffalo Twp., Butler Co. (son of Robert, Sr. & Catherine\/Martha Dowling<\/a>) possibly married sometime to Mary Alice Watt of the Bann Valley, County Derry?
\n-buried: Deer Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, WDT (His will left a lot “six rods square” for a “burying ground” near the present crossroads and bridge at Culmerville, WDT. His, his wife\/wives’, and probably other family members’ graves were moved to Deer Creek Cemetery around 1922, when construction began on the railroad line parallel to Saxonburg Blvd. Most are unmarked.)<\/p>\n

Mary<\/strong> Catherine Dowling MacKrell (1785\/8-1840*) b. Northern Ireland; r. Culmerville (confusion over her. Was she part of Robert, Sr.\u2019s in-laws or did her name actually belong to two separate wives?) (daughter of Henry & Mary MacKrell<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Marriage(s?): before 1804, Northern Ireland<\/p>\n

Emigration: 1810-11 from Port of Londonderry, Northern Ireland to Philadelphia on ship Mary Wellington<\/em>. May have lived a time in New Jersey before settling in Deer Twp., Allegheny Co. Robert, Jr. is believed to have brought many of his step-siblblings (as many as 9) by his father’s second marriage.<\/p>\n

Marriages: Children: It\u2019s unknown who belongs to whom* or birth order<\/p>\n

1. Mary Ann<\/strong> (1806\/08-1881) r. Butler Co. (m. James Harvey)
\n2. James<\/strong> Christian (18o9\/10-1870) r. Butler Co. (m. Christina\/Christie Ann Carnahan – probably from my early central PA Pearce line)
\n-buried: Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, Butler Co.
\n3. William<\/strong> John, Sr. (1811\/12-1905\/06) r. Butler Co. (m1. Mary Watson; m2. Nancy Hemphill) He died at age 94.
\n4. Christina<\/strong> (1812- ) Could this have been mistakenly listed-the wife of James? Or did she die in infancy? Could it be Martha (1812-before 1908) (m. John Henry; m2. ___ Shaw)
\n5. Margaret<\/strong> Ann (1812\/15-1892\/1903) (m1. John Woodruff Culmer; m2. George Gibson) 6. Jane<\/strong> (1816\/7-1891) r. East Deer Twp. (m. William Dawson)
\n7. Nancy<\/strong> (1820\/1-1897\/1902) r. Tarentum\/Springdale, East Deer Twp. (m. George Pillow)
\n8. Susanna<\/strong> (1822-1906) (m. Thomas Montgomery)
\n9. Elizabeth<\/strong> (1824\/26-1915) (m. Matthew Boyle)
\n10. Robert<\/strong> M. III (1827-1851) died at age 24 unmarried; some sources with later dates say he was MIA in the Battle of the Wilderness, VA, Civil War (not to be confused with the Robert buried in Pleasant Unity Cemetery 1824-1856)
\n11. Dowling<\/strong><\/a> (1829-1858) b & r West Deer Twp. (m. Elizabeth K. Brown – our line) -buried: Bull Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, WDT, at age 29 of \u201clung trouble\u201d<\/p>\n

*Some sources list other children or members of the household. Could they have been grandchildren, other relations, or domestic help? Were these middle names? They include: Robert Montgomery (b. 1837) relative of Susanna\u2019s husband? Edward Fox (b. 1820) Robert J. (b. 1850) Martha (b. 1812\/13) (m. John Henry) William Murry (b. 1822) Harrison (b. 1838) Mary Ellen (b. 1824). Also, a Catherine Norris is listed in the 1860 Allegheny (now City of Pittsburgh’s North Side) Federal Census as born in 1798 and living there. Could this be our Mary Catherine?<\/p>\n

Documentation:<\/p>\n

John Newton Boucher. A Century & a Half of Pittsburgh & her People<\/em>. Lewis Publishing Co., 1908. p. 200.<\/p>\n

John Graf.\u00a0West Deer Township-A Century and Half of Progress, 1836-1986.\u00a0<\/em>p. 187.<\/p>\n

Family Tradition & various cemetery records.<\/p>\n

Edna Gray notes. 1 Oct. 1987.<\/p>\n

Linda Merle. various e-mails via Archiver.RootsWeb.
\nAncestry.com<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMacKrell Family of Allegheny Co., PA.\u201d 11 May 2010.
\nhttp:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/eng\/search\/prf\/pdigree_view<\/a><\/p>\n

Various Public Member Family Trees, Federal Censuses, & other documents. Ancestry.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Elaine Walsh. \u201cRalph Dawson family West Deer Twp., Allegheny Cty PA.\u201d 11 Mar. 2011.
\nhttp:\/\/boards.ancestry.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Last revised: 9\/10\/18<\/p>\n

RETURN TO OUR NORRIS FAMILY TREE<\/a><\/p>\n

RETURN TO OUR MACKRELL FAMILY TREE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert, Jr. (1785-1867) b. Swatragh, Maghera Parish, County Derry, Northern Ireland; r. Culmerville, West Deer Twp., Allegheny Co., PA. His farm was partially in Buffalo Twp., Butler Co. (son of Robert, Sr. & Catherine\/Martha Dowling) possibly married sometime to Mary … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3926,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5675","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8655,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5675\/revisions\/8655"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}