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- Source: Cumberland County Historical Society, FF-569-KILGORE
Two-page chart( see Bonny's Kilgore File)
According to the 'Clan Kilgore' as compiled & written by John Kilgore Johnston, Tyrone, PA (1927),
Kilgour was an ancient parish in Fifeshire, Scotland, which lies to the north of the Firth of Forth. It is now incorporated with the parish of Falkland. The church of the ancient parish of Kilgour stood originally at Kilgore, two miles west of the present town of Falkland, and before the Reformation, belonged to the Priory of St. Andrews.
It is historically certain the the ancestral home of the Clan Kilgour was in the above mentioned parish, as the name is still common in that part of Scotland.
Why do we find them in Ireland? According to "Clan Kilgore" - "A branch of the Kilgour Clan was transported to Elset, Ireland, along with hundreds of other Scotchmen, by King James I in 1616, and later by Cromwell, who adopted this method of colonizing the Emerald Island with Protestants, in order to keep Catholic Ireland in subjection. This explains the rapid spread of the clan in Ulster, who never too kindly to the Land of their adoption, and the big emigration to America started a century or so later."
James Kilgour, b. c. 1635?, was a Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church of Donagheady (also spelled DONAGHADEE), around 1707, according to parish registers of that church.
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The H600 Project Genealogy DB
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