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| Susan Elizabeth Bart McKenrick |
Susan Bart (1837-1894) was our Great Great Grandmother, wife of Samuel Baxter McKenrick. She was also the Daughter of the Anna Brady Bart, (The Widow Bart), 2nd wife of Samuel's father, Andrew McKenrick and her 1st husband, Jeremiah Bart. This makes Anna and Jeremiah Bart our Great Great Great Grandparents.
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| On the Left, you see our Great Great Grandparents, I haven't counted them, but there should be 16. Jeremiah and Anna are the couple directly tied to Susan (her parents). Jeremiah's and Anna's parents expand out from there and so on. Each column represents a generation and you add a "Great" for each generation moving Left t Right. Thomas Brady, hanging out there all alone would be our 6th Great Grandfather. |
Susan's father Jeremiah died at about age 41-in 1841. The 1st Census he appears on by name and actually the 1st record we have of him is 1830. He is living with a female of his age so I must assume this is Anna Driscoll Brady, his wife. I cannot find a Marriage Record for this couple.
Prior to that time (1830), he must have been living in his father's household-remember, women and children were not listed by name until the 1850 Census. In 1831, he is quoted in the Gettysburg newspaper The Star, on the occasion of a Fourth of July Festival. He made a Volunteer Toast.
The article describes a party held by residents of Hanover which is in York County-the next County to the East of Adams. This is of interest because the family I believe Jeremiah belonged to was from Hanover.
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| Front page of The Star Tuesday July 19, 1831 |
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| The above article and quote appeared on Page 2 which was labeled THE STAR ANTI-MASONIC AND REPUBLICAN BANNER W next find Jeremiah mentioned in the Baptismal Records of his children. Interestingly, the 2 girls, Adele Susanna and Susan Elizabeth Bart were baptized Catholic in 1833 and 1837. The only son Jeremiah Jr. to survive was baptized in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover. Apparently Jeremiah was raised Lutheran and Anna Catholic and this was how they reconciled the difference. Whatever works.  |
The above is the entry for our GG Grandmother Susan Bart McKenrick's Baptism at St. Ignatius Catholic Church. It roughly translates: 2 April 14th May 1837 Baptism was accomplished for Susan Elizabeth, legitimate daughter of Jeremiah Barrh (sic) and Anna Brady. Margaret Somebody was Godmother (the 1st date given was her Birth date, the 2nd, the date of the Sacrement)
The Baptism record for Jeremiah Jr. is much easier to read!
I believe there were 5 children born to this couple, there was a son John but I think he died as an child as I can find no records-these are the 4 that were living when Anna Brady Bart married Andrew McKenrick and who survived to adulthood. Adel married John Hall and died in her 70's, Susan, of course married Samuel Baxter McKenrick and Jeremiah Jr. married Agnes Young and died in 1911 in the County Poor House.
Jeremiah died in 1841 so there are really only about 10 years of his life of which we have records.
We do not know for certain who Jeremiah's parents were but I have a really good candidate. John Bardt ?? (1778-1855). John ?? may have been an immigrant, we do not know-his last name is spelled in the German manner and he is buried in St Matthews Evangelical (German) Lutheran Churchyard but I find no record of his Immigration so I assume he was born here. There are several Bardts in Hanover where this John ?? lived and where Jeremiah and Anna lived on the 1830 Census. There also are several other John Bardts (Barth, Bartz) etc. in Adams and York and Franklin Counties. I have John on the 1790 Census and then not on another until 1850. He may have been one of the other Johns that I do find on other Censii, but I have no proof and he and his wife were buried in Hanover, York County...so I can't assume they moved around. John ?? was married to a woman named Susannah ??. The 1st record we have of Susannah ?? is the 1850 Census with her Husband, John ??. They are 68 years old and have a woman, age 39, Mary Bart living with them. She is probably a daughter. Jeremiah and Anna named their oldest son John and both their daughters were named Susan -after his Mother?- Adele Susannah and Susan Elizabeth. John and Susannah Bardt ?? are buried in the St Mathew Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover, York, PA.
Susan's mother was Anna Driscoll Brady. She married Jeremiah Bart in 1831 in the Conewago Chapel. His death was in about 1841 and on 3 Sept 1849, she married Andrew McKenrick also in the Conewago Chapel. I have a copy of the Marriage Record for Andrew and Anna but cannot find Anna and Jeremiah Bart listed at all. Not sure what that is about. I have the Marriage records for Conawago for 1831 but they are not listed. I don't think they would have married in the Lutheran Church and have been able to Baptize the girls Catholic.
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| Roughly translated: "September 3 Andrew McKenrick and Anna Brady formerly Bart were joined in Matrimony" I cannot figure out who the Witness were. The last name Dietz must have been the Priest as the initials S.J. follow. This is Society of Jesus
Anna was the daughter of Samuel Brady and Marie Driscoll Brady. She was born in Berwick Township, Adams County, which is just across the County line from Hanover, York County where Jeremiah was from. The 1st time we see her in the Public Records is on the 1850 Federal Census shortly after her marriage to Andrew. The original copy is so light it is impossible to read so we look at the Ancestry.com record. We see Andrew and Anna, then the McKenrick children still living at home followed by the Bart children. We see Samuel McKenrick age 19 and his future wife Susan Bart age 14. This is also the Census with Margaret Sterner (Andrew's Mother Presumptive) living with the family.
Anna Driscoll Brady Bart McKenrick died on 22 May 1858. She is buried in St Ignatius Church yard in Ortanna, PA-no one knows where her husband Andrew is buried.
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Anna's parents were Samuel Brady and Marie Driscoll Brady. Samuel was born in the city of York in York County, Pennsylvania. (Did you know that York was the 1st Capitol City of The United States of America?? I didn't either! Nice little article here http://www.yorkcity.org/about/history/)
Samuel and Marie Driscoll (Driskle, Driskell etc) were married 24 Oct 1802 also at the Chapel at the Sacred Heart Basilica in Conawago.
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| 24 October 1802 Samuel Brady married Marie Driskle witnesses Charles Driskle, Marie Brady |
Samuel appears on the 1810, 1820, 1830 and 1840 Censii-he died in 1847. He was a land owner-owning 95 Acres in York County in 1798.
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| Samuel Brady is buried in the St Ignatius Churchyard |
Samuel's father was Thomas Brady who appears on the 1800, 1820 and 1830 Censii for Adams County. We do not know the name of his wife. The records get pretty murky about here-Thomas' father may have also been named Thomas ?? and it appears he was an Immigrant from Ireland-as they were Catholic, probably not from the Protestant North. There are many records for Thomas Brady from Pennsylvania-one of them served in the American Revolution, one in the War of 1812. I cannot tell which is which, if either, as there are no identifiers other than Name and Pennsylvania. These Thomas Bradys could be one of these 2 men or neither of them; there is no real way of knowing. I do have a listing of the soldiers of the 10th Pennsylvania regiment which contains both a Thomas Brady Sr and Jr. (Jr would have been about 25 and Sr. about 45 so this is possible) It does not say what Counties the men were recruited out of. None of the familiar Adams County names are on the list.
It does appear that one of these Thomas Bradys is buried in the Conewago Cemetery.
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| A page from the Register of the Sacred Heart Basilica Graveyard in Conewago, PA; Thomas Brady Lot #39. (No dates are given)
There are Immigration Record for Thomas Bradys, who arrived in 1746, both on the ship Delaware. One of these may be our Thomas Brady-or not. One was assigned an Apprenticeship in Chester County, the other on Philadelphia. I lean towards the 1st one, but that may just be because he was a Weaver!
 
Anna Driscoll Brady's Mother was Marie Driscoll (Driskell, Driscall, Driskle, etc). She was the daughter of James Driscoll and possibly Jane Pierson ??. A James and Jane were married in Cumberland County on 29 Oct 1768 in a Reformed German-Swiss Church. (Protestant and Calvinist). This obviously is not a Catholic family, and we have no way to know for sure that this James is the James found later in York, then Adams County. The age is right, but James Driscoll is a fairly common name. (Things get much easier after 1850 when wives and children are listed on the Census by name!!)
I thought I would include a County Map of Pennsylvania. County lines may be a bit different now, but this gives you an idea of where these people lived. These counties are all in South Eastern and central PA.
Sometime before 1800, James and Jane ?? moved to Adams County and here Marie was born
and married Samuel Brady.
I hope you all now know more about Susan Bart's side of the family...I certainly do!!
That is one great thing about doing the Blog...it gets me to research and organize information
on families I haven't visited for a while! Next time, we will return to Dad's side.
I am thinking of doing an in-depth look into each of our Mayflower ancestors and their families.
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