Katherine Craighead

Abt 1673 - 1754  (~ 81 years)

• Name	Katherine Craighead  [1, 2]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1672  [3]
  Birth	Abt 1673	Donoughmore, Donegal, Ireland   [4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	10 Apr 1754	Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts   [3, 5, 6]
  Burial	Abel Hill Cemetery, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts   [6, 7]
  Person ID	I20495	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Rev. Robert Craighead,   b. Abt 1633   d. 22 Aug 1711, Londonderry, Londonderry, Ireland (Age ~ 78 years)
  Mother	Agnes Heart,   b. Bef 17 Dec 1648
  Marriage	Abt 1668  [4]
  Family ID	F12324	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rev. William Homes,   b. Abt 1663, Donaghmore, Donegal, Ireland d. 20 Jun 1746, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (Age ~ 83 years)
  Marriage	26 Sep 1693	Londonderry, Londonderry, Ireland   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Capt. Robert Homes,   b. 23 Jul 1694, Stragolan, Fermanagh, Ireland d. Bef 22 Oct 1727 (Age < 33 years) + 2. Margaret Homes,   b. 28 Feb 1696, Strabane, Donacavey, Tyrone, Ireland d. 26 Apr 1778, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F12321	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Aug 2019

  
  

• Notes

  One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors." She arrived, with her brother Thomas (also an ancestor of TWK), at Boston in October 1714, on the Thomas and Jane out of Londonderry, William Wilson, master. There are several places in Ireland called Donaghmore, Donoughmore, or Domhnach Mór -- the latter is simply Irish for "big church." Notwithstanding some online sources that give her birthplace as Donoughmore in county Cork, she was clearly born in Donoughmore in county Donegal, where her father was the Presbyterian minister from 1658 to 1688.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2647] Charles Edward Banks, "Diary of Reverend William Homes." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 48:446, 1894; 49:413, 1895; 50:155, 1896. [S1579] The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States, Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History by Gary Boyd Roberts. Second edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022. [S2649] Vital Records of Chilmark, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 ed. Henry Ernest Woods. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897. [S3968] Find a Grave page for Katherine Craighead Homes. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897., town only.