1502Father: Walter ELDER b: 1774 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Mother: Priscilla ELDER b: November 20, 1777 in Frederick County, Maryland
possible children;
15011. Priscilla FITZGIBBONS b: 1811-1827
2. Francis FITZGIBBONS b: 1811-1827
3. Charles FITZGIBBONS b: 1811-1827
4. Mary FITZGIBBONS b: 16 Mar 1820
5. John FITZGIBBONS b: 6 Jan 1827
6. Thomas FITZGIBBONS??
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http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...lo6280&id=I36347 1397 Allegheny Township/Loretto Borough
Cambria County, Pennsylvania
The home of Michael Fitzgibbons in America
The county of Cambria owes its existence to an act of Assembly, passed March 26, 1804. The territory comprising it was taken from the counties of Huntington and Somerset. Land area is 694.9 square miles.
The first permanent settlers known in Cambria were in 1771. Captain Michael McGuire began a settlement near present-day Loretto in 1790. Cambria County was then a wilderness and not known to geographers. Wild beasts of the forest and Indians were numerous. Panthers, wolves and bears prowled at night around the cabins of the pioneers. Nevertheless, the early settlers had fine times hunting and fishing as the forest was alive with game and the clear streams were filled with fish.
A study of racial origins of the settlers in Cambria County before 1815, based on the names on tax lists and census schedules, indicates that those of Germanic origin made up the largest group, about 42%. The Irish and Scotch accounted for 35%, the Welsh for 15% and only 8% appear to have been of English origin.
Allegheny Township was formed in 1816 with the rapid expansion of the first settlement of Captain McGuire.
Our Michael Fitzgibbons arrived from Ireland in the early 1800’s. He married Eleanor Elder about 1819 in Allegheny Township, and it is here that he had his family.
The borough of Loretto was formed out of Allegheny Township on March 8, 1845.
Michael died in Cambria County, PA on January 25, 1862.
Source:
The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania, by Buck and Buck, 1939. University of Pittsburgh Press.
Egle’s History of Cambria County, by Robert L. Johnston Ebensburg.
possible children;
15011. Priscilla FITZGIBBONS b: 1811-1827
2. Francis FITZGIBBONS b: 1811-1827
3. Charles FITZGIBBONS b: 1811-1827
4. Mary FITZGIBBONS b: 16 Mar 1820
5. John FITZGIBBONS b: 6 Jan 1827