Margaret Killough

Margaret Killough (Finley)
Birthdate:	1681
Birthplace:	Ireland
Death:	1723 (41-42) Cumberland County, PA, United States
Immediate Family:	Daughter of James Finley and Margaret Mackie Wife of Robert Killough and Robert Killough Mother of John Killough; Allen Killough, Sr.; Finley Kelloch; John Killough; David Killough, I and 5 others Sister of Jene Finley; Alexander Finley; Margaret Finley; James Finley; Andrew Finley and 4 others

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OBJE: _META <metadataxml><content><line>The earliest mention of any variant of the name Killough found by     professional genealogists of the Ulster Historic Foundation, and other   &
CONC nbsp; genealogists hired, shows that there was a John Kellogh on Sir Thomas     Phillips' 3000 acre estate in Kenaught Barony near Limavady, Co.     Londonderry, Irelan
CONC d, in 1611-1616.  This was the only privately owned     estate in what, since 1922, is known as Northern Ireland.  Phillips, a     Scots soldier of fortune, h
CONC ad received this estate for his service in     Ulster when he raised a "company of foot" in 1600.  We can only surmise     why John was there as a se
CONC rvitor, a person receiving land in exchange     for military service.  He might have came to Ulster from Scotland with     waves of the McDonalds during the age of Eli
CONC zabeth I and somehow linked     up with Phillips.  Hundreds of unemployed Clan Donald men swarmed into     Ulster from Scotland about 1600 as mercenaries for the Iris
CONC h nobles.     John Kellog, possessing a "sword and pike," on Sir Thomas Phillips'     estate in 1631 appears on a list of all protestant men fit to be
CONC ar arms     in the local militia.  Nothing more is known of him.     The second John Killough to show up in records appears on the 1659 census &
CONC nbsp;   of Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.  He did not come to Ireland with     Cromwell's troops in 1649; he was born in Ireland in 1630.  He joined &nbs
CONC p;   them and was later paid in Irish land in Louth.  In 1654, this John had     married Mary Hyde.  By about 1660, John and Mary, with son John (the  &nb
CONC sp;  third), left County Louth, which was Catholic, to go north to the Bann     River valley in Ulster.  He probably sold his debenture to acquire cash     fo
CONC r new land and a business.  Here they would be close to their     coreligionists.  John Killough of Drogheda died in Antrim about 1715.     Their so
CONC n John (the third), born in Louth in 1657, married Anne McNeil     and had at least three children, Robert, John (the fourth) and James.     They were living in the County Antr
CONC im area. These and possibly other of     their children and other Killoughs coming from Scotland account for the     Killoughs found in Ireland presently. &a
CONC mp;nbsp;   In the early 1700's, due to laws affecting religion in Ulster, the     marriages of the Presbyterian Ulster Scots became invalid, their churches   &
CONC amp;nbsp; became illegal, their ministers could not preach or hold office, and they     had to be buried by Episcopal prelates.  A severe drought and a smallpox     ep
CONC idemic swept the land.  At the urging of their ministers and     accompanied by them, their congregations emigrated to Maine and New     Hampshire.  Three boa
CONC tloads of them left Coleraine early in 1718.  Robert     and his wife, Margaret Finley, their sons, Finley (Finlay), David, John     and possibly Allen, along with Rob
CONC ert's brother John and wife, Jean Young,     departed on the "William" and arrived in Boston August 4, 1718.  The     captain of this ship wa
CONC s Archibald Hunter from Coleraine.  The families     on this ship had attended the Macosquin Church and followed their     minister, Rev. Thomas Craighead, to America.
CONC   Rev. Craighead made other     trips to America to bring Scottish Presbyterians.     Their brother James remained in County Antrim and is believed to be the
CONC     ancestor of the Killoughs who lived at Gortahar, some of whom came to     Canada in 1834.  Due to lack of old records, many Killoughs living in &nbsp
CONC ;   Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland do not now know their direct     ancestry or their relationship to one another.  They still have close   &amp
CONC ;nbsp; ties to Scotland.     Since land had not been determined for them and the Boston Calvinists     would not tolerate them, they were forced to move to Worchester
CONC ,     Massachusetts, and then about ten miles northwest to Rutland,     Massachusetts. In time, Robert is found in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,   &
CONC nbsp; involved in the oil and sturgeon trade until his business mysteriously     burned down.     The John Young family came to Portsmouth and worked in the fishing&l
CONC t;br>    industry also.  The lack of land and attitude of the people toward them     made living in Massachusetts or New Hampshire a poor choice.  The Youngs<br&
CONC gt;    and Robert Killough's family traveled through Connecticut and down to     Philadelphia by sea to await developments so to learn where they could  &n
CONC bsp;  settle.  It depended on the Indian situation, what grants could be     secured, etc.  There the Youngs participated in the drawing of lots for   &nb
CONC sp; land in the Warren, Maine, area.  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts     included Maine at that time.  Their daughter Mary married Robert's son   &nbsp
CONC ; Finley,  who was only about 14 when their first child, David, was born     in Philadelphia in 1725.  His wife was eleven years his senior.  This   &nbsp
CONC ; may explain why he and his wife went north in 1735, to what was then     still the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the Youngs instead of     staying with the Killough fam
CONC ily.  For several generations none of the     Maine Kellochs named their children after Finley's father Robert,     indicating it likely that a family disput
CONC e was associated with this move.     Robert's brother John's two sons, Samuel and John "of Sherman's Creek"     were born i
CONC n Massachusetts.  Later, Mary, Ann, and Allen were born to     John and Jean Killough.  The Presbyterians who remained in Worcester     had to attend the Cong
CONC regational church if they attended church any.     They finally realized they would never be granted the religious liberty     they wanted if they continued to stay in Worceste
CONC r.  John eventually     followed Robert to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and then on to     Cumberland County.     Th
CONC e Killough contingent established themselves near a series of springs     in what is now Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.  Big Springs, now the     town of Newville, w
CONC as the center of this community.  The earliest     burials clustered around an old oak tree in the southeast portion of     the yard near the first log church they bui
CONC lt in 1737.  In one of these     graves lies Robert the immigrant.  The Rev. Thomas Craighead, the same     one who organized the Bann migration, became the m
CONC inister.  He dropped     dead in the pulpit shouting, "Farewell!  Farewell!"  By the late 1760's     the Killoughs pushed o
CONC n to new frontiers of civilization in the     midwestern and southern states.  The rest of the story follows. From the book:  THE KILLOUGH/KELLOUGH FAMILY I
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1681	1681	Birth of Margaret Killough Ireland
1709	1709	Birth of Allen Killough, Sr. Antrim Co., Ireland
1711	1711	Birth of Finley Kelloch County Antrim, Ireland
1712	1712	Birth of John Killough Antrim, Northern Ireland
	1712	Birth of David Killough, I Worchester, Massachusets, United States
	1712	Birth of John Killough Antrim Co., Ireland
1723	1723 Age 42	Death of Margaret Killough Cumberland County, PA, United States
????		Birth of Hannah Killough
????		Birth of Ribeka Killough
????		Birth of Francis Killough

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