William Kellie (b. ca. 1700) was born in Galloway. He married Margaret Kilpatrick and they were the parents of seven children. One of his children was Robert Kellie/Kelly (1734-1808) who was born in Kirkmardrine, Scotland and married Mary Gibson. They were the parents of four children. He and his family immigrated to America before 1774 and settled in New York where he served in the American Revolution. Their numerous descendants live throughout the United States.
John Alexander Kelly, son of Vincent Kelly and Ann Simmons Alexander, was born 23 Jun 1821 in Lee County, Virginia. Martha Matilda Peck, daughter of John Peck and Elizabeth Snidow, was born 26 Aug 1827 in Giles County, Virginia. They married on 23 Oct 1843 in Giles County. They had thirteen children. Martha died 3 July 1890 and John died 17 Nov 1900. They are buried in Marion, Virginia. Their ancestors and descendants have lived in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, West Virginia and other areas throughout the United States.
This ambitious work chronicles 250 years of the Cromartie family genealogical history. Included in the index of nearly fifty thousand names are the current generations, and all of those preceding, which trace ancestry to our family patriarch, William Cromartie, who was born in 1731 in Orkney, Scotland, and his second wife, Ruhamah Doane, who was born in 1745. Arriving in America in 1758, William Cromartie settled and developed a plantation on South River, a tributary of the Cape Fear near Wilmington, North Carolina. On April 2, 1766, William married Ruhamah Doane, a fifth-generation descendant of a Mayflower passenger to Plymouth, Stephen Hopkins. If Cromartie is your last name or that of one of your blood relatives, it is almost certain that you can trace your ancestry to one of the thirteen children of William Cromartie , his first wife, and Ruhamah Doane, who became the founding ancestors of our Cromartie family in America: William Jr., James, Thankful, Elizabeth, Hannah Ruhamah, Alexander, John, Margaret Nancy, Mary, Catherine, Jean, Peter Patrick, and Ann E. Cromartie. These four volumes hold an account of the descent of each of these first-generation Cromarties in America, including personal anecdotes, photographs, copies of family bibles, wills, and other historical documents. Their pages hold a personal record of our ancestors and where you belong in the Cromartie family tree.
How did people view mental health problems in the eighteenth century, and what do the attitudes of ordinary people towards those afflicted tell us about the values of society at that time? Professor Houston draws upon a wide range of contemporary sources, notably asylum documents, and civil and criminal court records, to present unique insights into the issues around madness, including the written and spoken words of sufferers themselves, and the vocabulary associated with insanity. The links between madness and a range of other issues are explored including madness, gender, social status, religion and witchcraft, in addition to the attributed causes of derangement such as heredity and alcohol abuse. This is a detailed yet profoundly humane and compassionate study of the everyday experiences of those suffering mental impairments ranging from idiocy to lunacy, and an exploration into the meaning of this for society in the eighteenth century.
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