Eleanor KELSEY
- Birth: Abt 1721-1732, Largan, Clanbrassil, Armagh, Ireland
- Married: Abt 1743, , , , Ireland
- Death: 13 Dec 1801, , Chester, South Carolina
- Buried: 13 Dec 1801, Fishing Creek Cemetary, Chester, South Carolina
Marriage Information:
Eleanor married Robert GILL Sr., son of John GILL and Sarah, about 1743 in , , , Ireland. (Robert GILL Sr. was born in 1720 in Clanbrassil, Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland, died on 30 Jun 1804 in Fishing Creek, Chester, S. C. and was buried on 2 Jul 1804 in Fishing Creek, Chester, South Carolina.)
Marriage Notes:
Remarks on family genealogy written by George Washington Gill Averett.
Greatgrandfather Gill, and his son, my grandfather George Gill, sometime before the War of 1776, came from Ireland to America and settled in Pennsylvania. Sometime before the Revolutionary War, Grandfather George Gill married Genett Hamilton who was also from Ireland (or at least her parents came from Ireland).
Greatgrandfather Gill and grandfather George Gill both, at the outbreak of the Revolution, enlisted in the army and fought under General George Washington and other American officers. Passing through many hardships and danger through the whole of that war, being in one defeat, and many victories.
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