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THE CROSKERY / CROSGROVE FAMILY OF ULSTER

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN¹ CROSSKERY, OF MAGHERADROOL was born about 1673 in (probably) County Down, [Northern] Ireland, lived in Magheradrool Civil Parish ¹, and died Aft. 1713 in (again presumably) County Down, Northern Ireland¹.

Notes for JOHN CROSSKERY, OF MAGHERADROOL:
NOTE: John Crosskery of County Down is, presumably, the earliest member of the
writer's Croskery / Crosgrove family to be identified. Although his precise position
in the family has not been discovered, the writer includes the following conjectured
genealogical construction which, although undoubtedly inaccurate, is simply a
practical means of keeping visible in this genealogy those known individuals whose
specific places within the family have yet to be found.

I. John Crosskery of Magheradrool, b: about 1673
A. [----?----] Crosskery, b: about 1698
i. [---?---] Crosskery, b: about 1730
a. David Croskery, of Tievenadarragh, b: 1766
b. James Coskrey, b: 1776
c. Alexander Croskery, of Seaforde, b: 1783
      +Ann [----?----], b: about 1788
ii. [---?---] Crosskery/ Crossgrove, "The Weaver", b: about 1735
a. [----?----] Crossgrove, b: about 1763
b. William Crossgrove of Westfield, b: 12 May 1767
      +Rachel Cochrane, b: 1769
c. Samuel Crossgrove of Pennsylvania, Sr, b: 1773
      +Catherine Fisher, b: 26 February 1783
B. [----?----] CROSSKERY, b: about 1700
i. JOHN CROSKREY/ CROSGROVE, of Tievenadarragh, b: 1730
+[---?---] KENNEDY, b: about 1735
a. JOHN CROSKERY, of Tievenadarragh, b: about 1775
+HANNAH [Carson?], b: about 1780
b. Thomas Croskery, of Tievenadarragh, b: 1779
+Mary Rea, b: 1780
c. Robert Croskery, of Newtownards, b: 1780
+Mary [----?----], b: about 1785
C. Margaret Crosskery, b: 1703

CHURCH RECORDS IN COUNTY DOWN in the Province of Ulster, Northern Ireland, document the above "John Crosskery" (b. c.1673) living in 1703 in Magheradrool Civil Parish, a resident, presumably, in either the townland of Magheradrool or of Ballynahinch. He may well have been the Progenitor of the Coskery / Cosgrove family of County Down. That the writer's fourth great-grandfather, John Croskery of Tievenadarragh (b. 1730), descended direct from John of Magheradrool rather than from one of his siblings or cousins can only be conjectured. But without question John of Magheradrool was clearly an early member of John of Tievenadarragh's family and is the earliest to be identified. Our knowledge of John of Magheradrool comes from the following:

John CROSSKERY, Magheradrool [Townland and/or Civil Parish], father of
Margaret bpt. Sunday 22 Jun 1703 at Ballynahinch Presbyterian Church by
Rev William Reid; after he was robbed by Tories 5 Jul 1713, he was given
2s 6d by the church.[a]

The amount stolen from John in 1713 (2s.6d., the present-day value of which is Ł14.32, or US $27.64) was not a great amount, but certainly large enough at that time to make reimbursement desirable. The church was the charitable agency that made him whole.
Since Margaret Crosskery's baptism in 1703, many hundreds of descendants of our Croskery / Crosgrove family have spread far and wide, from the United Kingdom to the United States, to Canada, to Australia, and to New Zealand. And there are family descendants remaining in County Down today. One of these present-day family members wrote the following to a Croskery researcher in 2005:

My name is Marie Croskery. I live in Newcastle, Co. Down, 'n' my family have
lived in this area 100 to 150 years.[b]

Marie Croskery underestimated the length of her family's presence in County Down, which from the residency of John Crosskery in the 1600s can be seen to be at least three hundred years. An e-mail message from the writer to Marie in October 2005 remains unanswered.
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a. Rosalind Davies, "People's Names of Co. Down, Ireland" in ROS DAVIES' CO. DOWN, IRELAND GENEALOGY RESEARCH SITE; http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rosdavies/index.html; copyright (c) Rosalind Davies 2001-2005; citing Ballynahinch Presbyterian Church Records including Dromara, Kilmore & Clough 1696-1735, entries by the Revds John & James Armstrong 1822-1832, transcribed by Julian Armstrong in 2004.
b. E-mail message of Marie Croskery (marie@murphy218.freeserve.co.uk), Newcastle, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, to Roslyn Coskery Souser, MD (rcs.ps@verizon.net), Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 30 September 2005; copy supplied by Roz Souser to J.E. Stockman, 6 October 2005.

Children of JOHN CROSSKERY, OF MAGHERADROOL are:

2.	i.	[............]² CROSSKERY, b. about 1698; d. Unknown.
3.	ii.	[............] CROSSKERY, b. about 1700, northern Ireland or Scotland; d. Unknown.
	iii.	MARGARET CROSSKERY, b. 1703, County Down, Northern Ireland, in the second year of the reign of Queen ANNE. She was baptised Sunday, 22 June 1703, at Ballynahinch Presbyterian Church by The Reverend William Reid¹; d. Unknown.

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