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PARENT (M) Alexander Foster | |||
Birth | 1778 | Ireland | |
Death | 7 MAY 1838 | Armstrong, Pennsylvania, USA | |
Marriage | ABT 1807 | to Elizabeth Harrold at Pennsylvania, USA | |
Father | William Foster | ||
Mother | Martha Gallagher | ||
PARENT (F) Elizabeth Harrold | |||
Birth | ABT 23 JAN 1787 | Indiana County, PA | |
Death | 25 APR 1864 | Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
Marriage | ABT 1807 | to Alexander Foster at Pennsylvania, USA | |
Father | Christopher Columbus Harrold | ||
Mother | Elizabeth Painter | ||
CHILDREN | |||
F | Martha Foster | ||
Birth | 19 OCT 1808 | Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
Death | AFT 1880 | Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
M | Thomas Foster | ||
Birth | 16 JAN 1816 | Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
Death | |||
M | William Foster | ||
Birth | 13 JUN 1813 | Sugarcreek Township, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, USA | |
Death | 30 NOV 1877 | Cowansville, Pennsylvania, USA | |
F | Katherine Foster | ||
Birth | 16 JAN 1816 | Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
Death | 15 JUL 1898 | Petrolia, Butler County, PA | |
F | Elizabeth Foster | ||
Birth | 9 NOV 1821 | Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
Death | |||
F | Sarah Foster | ||
Birth | 3 MAY 1818 | Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
Death | |||
F | Phoebe Foster | ||
Birth | 9 APR 1823 | Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
Death | AFT 1900 | Armstrong, PA | |
F | Margaret Foster | ||
Birth | 25 DEC 1825 | Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
Death | 1 MAR 1903 | Knoxville, Knox, Illinois, USA | |
F | Nancy Foster | ||
Birth | 2 JUN 1828 | Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
Death | died young | ||
M | Christopher Alexander Foster | ||
Birth | 1 APR 1811 | Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, USA | |
Death | 29 JUN 1892 | Cowansville, Armstrong Co., PA, USA |
[S372] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [S292] Find a Grave [S190] Thomas, Ethel Maude, handwritten notes [S142] One World Tree (sm) [S379] Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993 [S4] 1810 United States Federal Census [S5] 1820 United States Federal Census [S6] 1830 United States Federal Census [S305] 1810 United States Federal Census
Donegal Irish in Butler Co., PA by Linda Merle, http://www.ulsterheritage.com/history/donegal_irish.htm
"I briefly researched a group of Irish of mixed religions who migrated to the Butler County area of Western Pennsylvania quite early. ...I found a book in the Butler Co. Library on the history of the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese that had much about this group. Some information was also published by the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society in an article entitled: 100 YEARS of the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese 1843 - 1943." WPGS Q 17 no. 1 (Summer 1990).
The community was named Sugar Creek or originally the 'Buffalo Mission.' It is the oldest Catholic community in western Pennsylvania.It began with the emigration of a group of Catholics and Presbyterians from the banks of Loch Erne in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1790. Some first settled for a time in "the Neck" in the northwestern section of Fayette County. Later, they came in groups to the western part of Armstrong and the northern part of Butler County. The Donegal colony gave its name to Donegal Township in Butler County in 1795. It was the focal point of a Catholic settlement extending over 20 square miles numbering approx. 90 families."
The Fosters may have also come with this group. They were known to be presbyterians and in the Sugar Creek area by 1805 and probably earlier (see "History of Armstrong County".