Eleanor's Family Tree:Information about Andrew Harper IV
Andrew Harper IV (d. date unknown)
Notes for Andrew Harper IV:
Andrew Harper IV was from the Townland of Dungonnel, and the Parish of Killead, in the County of Antrim, Ireland.We have no record of his birth, death, or history.he married margaret Ireland.they had four sons:John, Henry, James and William.These sons came to America when quite young, and settled in the South.John's location is unknown. Henry lived in Savannah.James and William resided in Augusta.The descendants of these brothers are unknown.
James Harper who had a command in the cavalry in North Ireland returned after the war and took possession of his paternal estate in Killead and shortly thereafter married Mary Gilliand of Tardarg and Antrim County, Ireland.they had six sons:James, John, William, Andrew, Robert, Arthur, and a daughter (name unknown).they all lived and died in Ireland.Robert lived in Dungonnel, the same place as Andrew Harper the fourth.A close relationship existed between these two families, and that together with other fairly reliable evidence makes us feel reasonably sure that Robert was the father of Andrew Harper the fourth.
The original Andrew Harper was born about 1575.When King James the First ascended the throne of England, Andrew Harper of Curcubright left Scotland in 1604, and with other emigrants settled in Ireland, Townland of Cormeveaghin, the Parish of Killead, and the County of Antrim.During the Irish war, he was murdered near Belfast, and interred in the Catholic burying ground of Cormary, in the Parish of Killead (the first Protestant to be buried there).We have no record of his wife.Andrew Harper had three sons, the oldest of whom was James.
There were several generations of Harpers intervening between the original Andrew Harper of Scotland and Andrew Harper the fourth of Dungonnel, Ireland, who married Margaret Ireland.We have very little colonial history of these generations covering that period.There is no complete record or authentic information to show which of Andrew Harper's three sons was the acutal descendant of this branch of the Harper family.However, we are most reasonably assured that James, the eldest son had a son Andrew, and that Andrew who had a son James (married Mary Gilliand) was the descendant of Andrew Harper.
Children of Andrew Harper IV and Margaret Ireland are:
- John Harper, d. date unknown.
- Henry Harper, b., Dungonnel, County of Antrim, Ireland, d. date unknown, Savannah, Georgia.
- James Harper, b., Dungonnel, County of Antrim, Ireland, d. date unknown, Augusta, Georgia.
- +William Harper, b. 1794, Dungonnell, County of Antrim, Ireland, d. March 07, 1857, Augusta, Georgia.