They settled on a farm a half mile from Centre Meeting House, where they would reside the rest of their lives.
They were some of the early settlers of Delaware. He had become a Quaker or Society of Friends before emigrating to the colonies as an unmarried man.
per the following parental release "we are willing our son Alphonsus should take this journey, and if it be his portion to marry we do give our consent, provided it be to a Friend, and in unity with Friends, according to the order of the Truth".
It is reported that he set ashore in Jamestown, but settled in Delaware, then part of PA. First he and his wife were members of Newark Meeting house, but later he and his wife helped establish Centre Meeting house nearer their home.
The photo for the cemetery, is the Centre Meeting house
father of Alphonsus: Roger Kirk 1624 Neshag, Skelton, York, England D. 24 Mar 1698 Lurgan province, Ulster, Co Armagh, Ireland. His mother was Elizabeth Richards, est. 1626, Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Ireland.
father of Roger Kirk: was Alphonsus Kirk est. 1602 Skelton Parish Yorks, England. died, 1665 Skelton Parish, Yorkshire, England. now wife given
Father of Alphonsus: Kirk Thomas Kirk 1548 Scotland, died, 1635 Englandand mother Margarett Thorne,
father of Thomas: was Robert (Church) Kirk 1514, Yorkshire, England and his wife was Ellen Wallis 1530 Bedfordshire, England.
They settled on a farm a half mile from Centre Meeting House, where they would reside the rest of their lives.
They were some of the early settlers of Delaware. He had become a Quaker or Society of Friends before emigrating to the colonies as an unmarried man.
per the following parental release "we are willing our son Alphonsus should take this journey, and if it be his portion to marry we do give our consent, provided it be to a Friend, and in unity with Friends, according to the order of the Truth".
It is reported that he set ashore in Jamestown, but settled in Delaware, then part of PA. First he and his wife were members of Newark Meeting house, but later he and his wife helped establish Centre Meeting house nearer their home.
The photo for the cemetery, is the Centre Meeting house
father of Alphonsus: Roger Kirk 1624 Neshag, Skelton, York, England D. 24 Mar 1698 Lurgan province, Ulster, Co Armagh, Ireland. His mother was Elizabeth Richards, est. 1626, Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Ireland.
father of Roger Kirk: was Alphonsus Kirk est. 1602 Skelton Parish Yorks, England. died, 1665 Skelton Parish, Yorkshire, England. now wife given
Father of Alphonsus: Kirk Thomas Kirk 1548 Scotland, died, 1635 Englandand mother Margarett Thorne,
father of Thomas: was Robert (Church) Kirk 1514, Yorkshire, England and his wife was Ellen Wallis 1530 Bedfordshire, England.
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