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Notes for Paul Wilmington and Catherine Keirl

1714 The marriage of Paul Wilmington [Wilmorton] and Kathrine Keirl [Kirl, Kerl] was accomplished and was reported to the Falls meeting on 2 of month 12, 1714 (February 2, 1715). [1] [2] [3]

1720 On June 24, Joseph Keirl [Keirll], of Staten Island, County of Richmond, N. Y. mariner, eldest son and heir at law of Thomas Keirll, late of Maxfield (Makefield) Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Yeoman, deceased; John Keirll, of Maxfield, the other son of said Thomas; Paul Wilmerton, of the City of Philadelphia, Cordwainer and Katherine his wife; Alexander Rickey, of Oxford Township, Co. of Philadelphia, and Ann, his wife; William Dungan, of Bristol Township, County of Bucks, Yeoman, and Mary his wife. They the said Katherine, Ann and Mary being the daughters of the said Thomas Keirll, conveyed a lot between 2nd and 3rd Streets, facing on Walnut St., 54 ft. wide, to Peter Worrell. [4] [5]

1753 The estate of Paul Wilmington was administered in Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [6]

1764 Catherine was named as Catharine Wilmington [Wilmerton] in the will of her brother, John Keirll, on 24 Aug 1764. [7]

1772 Catharine Wilmington was listed in the index to administratsions in Bucks County. [8]

1775 Will of Katharine Wilmington of Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania dated 16 Oct 1768 (USGenWeb Archives reports 1769) and proved 25 Nov 1775. Sister Ann Rickey and Alexander Rickey executors. Kinswoman Sarah Hutchinson and nieces Katharine Hutchinson, Ann Kirkbride and Mary Derbyshire. Witnesses Hugh McLaughlan and Mahlon Kirklande, Jr. [9] [10] [11]

1775 Katharine Wilmington was listed in the index to administratsions in Bucks County. [12]

1776 Catharine Wilmington, of Lower Makefield, Bucks County, was indexed in the Orphans' Court record, file number 596. [13]


Footnotes:

[1] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 1007, perhaps citing Men's Minutes of the Falls MM, 2 February 1714, [HathiTrust].

[2] Quaker Meeting Records, Falls Monthly Meeting Bucks County, PA, Minutes, 1731-1767, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[3] Quaker Meeting Records, Falls Monthly Meeting, Bucks County, PA, Women's Minutes, 1683-1774, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[4] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed F3-262.

[5] Alfred Rudulph Justice, Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Island and Dungan genealogy (Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing, 1911), 125, [HathiTrust].

[6] Richard T. and Mildred C. Williams, Index of Bucks County Pennsylvania wills and administration records 1684 to 1850 (1971), 184, citing Adm 821, [GoogleBooks].

[7] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will, 3-194, [FamilySearchImage].

[8] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will Index, image 185, [FamilySearchImage].

[9] USGenWeb, Bucks County Pennsylvania Will Abstracts (Gateway website), Book 5-223, [USGenWeb].

[10] F. Edward Wright, Abstracts of Bucks County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1785-1825 (2009), 30.

[11] Richard T. and Mildred C. Williams, Index of Bucks County Pennsylvania wills and administration records 1684 to 1850 (1971), 184, citing Will 1475, [GoogleBooks].

[12] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will Index, image 185, [FamilySearchImage].

[13] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Orphans' Court record index, S-Z page 1799, [FamilySearchImage].