On 08/01/98 19:34:12 you wrote: > >Hello KING cousins, > >Carol and Lou have given their appoval for us to list a web site for all of >you who have KING family members who came from Ireland. While you're >posting to the regular KING list, why not include your Irish history. >Some of us have banded together that are searching KING families >specifically from Ireland. There are so many, many KING families, that >we're trying to narrow the focus a bit. Thanks. > >Also........if you'd like to join the Irish KING family list, send a >"subscribe" message to >irish-kings@makelist.com > >My own KINGs came from the areas of Clifden, Rahoon and Omey Island >County Galway, Ireland. They emigrated to St. Louis in 1846. John KING >left his two boys to be cared for by his family and went off to America >after wife, Elizabeth O'TOOLE died from the blight. I believe his >father's name was Edward, son of Bartholomew. Many, many KINGs came from >that area. > >Perhaps you'd like to share your information with both lists. Let's hear >from you. > > >==== KING Mailing List ==== > >List problems?� Contact the�KING listowner� <cch@netdoor.com> > > > I'll send this to both lists, since it's been awhile since I've listed my Kings in the discussion. John and Jean King came to what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania in circa 1730. They emigrated from Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland, with their daughter, Martha, b. 1724; and four sons: Samuel, b. abt. 1708; Victor, b. 1710; William, b. 1712, and James, b. 1714. John King died on 27 Jan 1747 and Jean King died on 20 Aug 1746 in Tyrone Township, York County (now Adams County) Pennsylvania. They are both buried in Great Conewago Presbyterian Cemetery, Hunterstown, Pennsylvania. Martha King died, unmarried, on 23 Dec 1760 and is buried in the same cemetery. Samuel King is known to have married, and to have had at least two children; John, b. after 1730; and Joan, b. after 1730. Nothing further is known concerning Samuel, and it is believed that he moved on to Virginia and/or the Carolinas soon after his marriage. It is known that the King family of Adams County, Pennsylvania had relatives in North Carolina and Virginia. William King, son of John and Jean, died unmarried on 13 Oct 1794 and is buried in the Hunterstown Presbyterian Cemetery with his parents and his sister. James King married in 1750 to an unknown spouse. He died on 9 Nov 1799 in Hunterstown, and is also believed to have been buried there. He is known to have had at least one child, William King, b. 1754, who married Ann McIlhenny about 1780. Victor King, the second son of John and Jean King, was married twice. His first wife was Jean _____. They had 6 children: Jean, b. 16 Nov 1746; Hugh, b. 17 Jan 1750; John, b. 22 Sep 1753; Agnes, b. 10 Mar 1756; Victor Jr., b. 30 Jul 1758; and Martha, b. 28 Nov 1760. On 8 Oct 1761, Victor married, second, Jane Moffit. They had 5 children: Susanna, b. 25 Jul 1762; William, b. 3 Jan 1764; Samuel Moffett, b. 16 Feb 1766; James, b. 31 May 1768; and Thomas, b. after 1764. Thomas is believed to have been the youngest child, but his birthdate is uncertain. William King, son of Victor and Jane Moffit King, married Nancy Agnes Waugh in what is now Adams County, PA, on 2 Apr 1787. In 1789 they moved to Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, and in about 1800 to what is now Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. They had 6 children: Mary, b. 1789 in Georgetown; Victor b. 11 Mar 1790 in Georgetown; John, b. 16 Oct 1791 in Georgetown; Samuel Moffett, b. 11 Nov 1793 in George- town; Susan, b. 15 Oct 1796 in Georgetown, and Jane, b. 1800 in Montgomery County, Ohio. In 1817, Victor and John King, sons of William and Nancy, moved to Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana. John was married in December of that year to Harriett _____ [his obit. says that he returned to Dayton to marry, but I have been able to find no record of his marriage, despite the fact that his father was a deacon and secretary of the First Presby- terian Church in Dayton. I have found some evidence that he married his first cousin, the daughter of his uncle, Thomas King, but no real proof] John and Harriett had 5 children: William, b. 6 Apr 1820 in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, d. unmarried on 30 Sep 1847; Thomas, b. 8 Oct 1822 in Madison, d. 28 Mar 1824; Margaret Jane, b. 21 Jul 1825 in Madison; Mary Elizabeth, b. 3 Mar 1828 in Madison, d. 26 Mar 1836; and Nancy Waugh, b. 16 Jun 1830 in Madison, d. 15 Apr 1872. Margaret Jane King married Josiah S. Weyer in Madison on 5 Mar 1844. Their oldest child was John King Weyer,who was my g-grandfather. Some of the families that my Kings married into were: In Adams County, PA: McIllhenny, McElhenny, Voorhees, Moffit, Waugh In Scott County, KY: Lyle In Montgomery Co, OH: Williams, Breneman, Spining, Alexander In Jefferson Co., IN: Weyer, Woodburn If this connects with anyone out there, even remotely, I'd like very much to hear from you and to trade information. Bill Brewer wwb@ix.netcom.com