Genealogical Gems

This year I set 10 genealogy related goals for myself. The first of which was to find my maternal great grandmother on a passenger list from Ireland to the US . So far, she remains elusive. What I do know: Mary is the daughter of James Kilpatrick. He stayed behind but Mary and her six siblings came to the United States . They were: Margaret, Martha, Theresa, Nora, James and John. Mary was born on 12 November 1884 in County Mayo , Ireland . She came here and found employment near Philadelphia on the Main Line . That is where she met Pierson George Still, a blacksmith from Unionville. They married in 1908. In 1909 they had a daughter Margaret who sadly only lived two months. The next year she bore a son, James Franklin Still, who lived to be 68. Uncle Jim was a character!   In 1913 another daughter – Dorothy – was born but also passed that same year. The following year my grandfather Lloyd Pierson Still was born. Like Uncle Jim, he lived a full life, passing at age 79. In Februar

The Surname Kilpatrick: Kilpatrick is an Ulster surname, according to Ulster Ancestry ( http://www.ulsterancestry.com/irish-surnames.html ). The surname itself is translated as “servant of Patrick”. The surname can be found in Ulster as early as 1296 with Stevene de Kilpatric del counte in Dunfreiss. Many of the Ulster Kilpatricks come from East or West Kilpatrick in Dumbartonshire.