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Title: Maxwell: IRE (Donegal) --> Jefferson Co., Pennsylvania
Posted by: Mike Maxwell
Date: 09 July 2010

Looking for information on the following family, as Child #5 might be my ancestor:

Found on: www.familysearch.org
Source or reference not given.

Husband: John Maxwell
Birth: c. 1793, Donegal, Ireland
Marriage: c. 1815, Donegal, Ireland
Death: MAR 1838, Donegal, Ireland

Wife: Rebecca
Birth: c. 1795, Ireland
Marriage: c. 1815, Donegal, Ireland
Death: 1874, Beechwoods, Jefferson, Pennsylvania

Children

1. William Maxwell
Birth: c. 1816, Donegal, Ireland
Death: Scotland

2. Thomas Maxwell
Birth: c. 1818, Donegal, Ireland
Death: Dublin, Ireland

3. Mary Maxwell
Birth: c. 1820, Donegal, Ireland
Death: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

4. Jane Maxwell
Birth: c. 1822, Donegal, Ireland
Death: Creston, Union, Iowa

5. Joseph Maxwell
Birth: c. 1824, Donegal, Ireland
Death: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

6. John Maxwell
Birth: c. 1828, Donegal, Ireland
Death: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

7. Samuel Henry Maxwell
Birth: c. 1830, Donegal, Ireland
Burial: 1882, Beechwoods Cem, Jefferson, Pennsylvania

8. Isabella Maxwell
Birth: c.1833, Donegal, Ireland
Death: Before 1838, Donegal, Ireland

9. Sarah Maxwell
Birth: c. 1835, Donegal, Ireland
Death: Before 1838, Donegal, Ireland

10. James Maxwell
Birth: c. 1837, Donegal, Ireland
Death: Before 1838, Donegal, Ireland

11. Alexander Maxwell
Birth: 28 FEB 1838, Donegal, Ireland
Death: 1924 Beechwoods, Jefferson, Pennsylvania
Burial: 1924 Beechwoods Cem, , Jefferson, Pennsylvania


Beechwoods Cemetery lists 20 Maxwells, including three in the above family:
http://www.pa-roots.com/jefferson/cemetery/beechwoodsmr.html
Maxwell Alexander 1924 86yrs
Maxwell Rebecca 1874 80yrs
Maxwell Samuel Henry 1882 52yrs


About Alexander (#11), he appears in the following pedigree (second entry):

http://frostdnaproject.home.comcast.net/~frostdnaproject/results.htm

078,239 is a child of Elva Mary Sibley Frost. This direct maternal pedigree follows:

* Elizabeth McElhaney b. circa 1812 in Ireland; d. 1886 in Jefferson Co., PA, USA; m. Robert Harrison Smith (b. 1809 in Co., Donegal, Ireland; d. 1896 in Beechwoods, Jefferson Co., PA, USA)

* Mary Ann Smith b. 1837 in Philadelphia, PA; d. 1916 in Lanes Mills, Jefferson Co., PA; m. Alexander Maxwell (b. 1838 in Co. Donegal, Ireland; d. 1924 in Beechwoods, Jefferson Co., PA)

* Elizabeth Maxwell b. 1860 in Lanes Mills, Jefferson Co., PA; d. 1934 in Warren, Warren Co., PA; m. 1879 to Orman Alonzo Sibley (b. 1855 in Snyder Township, Jefferson Co., PA; d. 1929 in St. Petersburg, Pinellas Co., FL)

* Elva Mary Sibley b. 1881 in Brockwayville, Jefferson Co., PA; d. 1947 in Manatee Co., FL; m. 1905 to Halsey Wilson Frost (b. 1882 in Brockwayville, Jefferson Co., PA; d. 1956 in Robeson Co., NC)


Mike Maxwell
mmaxwell@nu.edu


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