Born about in Ireland
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Thomas Gilmore
— married
1702 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
John C. Gilmore Sr.
Died
at about age 87
in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Profile last modified
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Biography
She was born about 1672 in Ireland.
Marian Stirling or Sterling married about 1702 in Ireland to Thomas Gilmore [1] (c1672-1759), son of Margaret and John Gilmore.
About 1735 they emigrated from Ireland to the colonies and resided in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
In 1745 they purchased 500 acres of land on both sides of Teas or Tees Creek (later known as Kerr’s Creek).
The hostilities at Kerr’s Creek occurred during the French & Indian War (1756-1763). In 1759 the Shawnee leader Cornstalk and his warriors viciously attacked, killed, or kidnapped several early settlers in the Kerr’s Creek area.
She and her husband were killed and scalped by the Shawnee Indians in the first Kerr's Creek Massacre on 10 October 1759 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (now Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA). They were possibly among those interred in the McKee Cemetery near Big Spring. [2]
Research Notes
Marian Sterling Kennedy was daughter of Thomas Kennedy of Baltersan (1641–1692). [3] Could there be some confusion between the following profiles ...
- - Marian Stirling m: Thomas Gilmore
- - Mary Ann Kennedy m: Robert Gilmore ?
Sources
- ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900 compiled by Yates Publishing; on ancestry.com; b: c1672; m: c1702
- ↑ https://www.werelate.org/wiki/The_Kerr's_Creek_Massacres_(1759-1763)
- ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GS28-T1X
- Ancestry Family Tree submitted by ancestry.com member
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[Living Prickett]
N Gauthier
Sterling-1850 and Stirling-369 appear to represent the same person because: dups with same spouse
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by N Gauthier
[Living Prickett]
Sterling-926 and Sterling-468 appear to represent the same person because: same spouse
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James Edmondson
Sterling-468 and Stirling-369 appear to represent the same person because: Same husband, same son. Spelling of the last name at birth needs to be resolved.
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by James Edmondson
James Edmondson
Sterling-468 and Stirling-369 appear to represent the same person because: Same husband, same son. Spelling of the last name at birth needs to be resolved.
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by James Edmondson
James Edmondson
Sterling-926 and Stirling-369 appear to represent the same person because: Same husband.
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by James Edmondson
James Edmondson
Stering-1 and Sterling-468 appear to represent the same person because: Same person; Marian's surname was Sterling. Stering is a typo.
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by James Edmondson
Pending merges › Marian (Sterling) Gilmore (abt.1672-1759)
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