Anne and Roy Topley
(
in their home in Duquesne PA
circa 1935)
The Wilkinson-Topley family has its roots in Great Britain, Ireland and probably Germany, but once our ancestors reached America they made Allegheny County, Pennsylvania their home. John Wilkinson was born in England and came to live and work in Mifflin Township before 1860. He was a coal miner, as was Richard Topley of Ireland who worked in the Greensburg mines and lived in McKeesport. Our family helped mine the coal and pour the steel that made Allegheny County the heart of industrial America. We had our share of farmers and schoolteachers, too. I've tried to capture both a factual record of their lives and a sense of what it was like to live and work in the places our ancestors called home.
As of August 14, 2005:
Checking in - I haven't updated these pages in quite a while, but I am trying to get some new info into them now. The biggest news right now is in the Natcher line - I finally made some connections and have traced them back to the Knorzer family of Germany. And I've heard from a number of cousins with other updates. Look for more here soon.
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- The Butlers by Mary Butler
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- Birth Certificate - Richard Topley
- Birth Certificate - Bernard McDermott
- Birth Certificate - Richard Topley
- Death Certificate - Martin McDermott
- Death Certificate - Ann Hart McDermott
- Marriage Certificate - Roy and Anne Topley
- Marriage Record - George and Jane Wilkinson
- Marriage Record - Felix and Elizabeth Butler
- Marriage Record - Richard and Alice Topley
- Naturalization Form - Richard John Topley
- Naturalization Form - John Wilkinson
- Other
- Great Gonerby Parish Records
- Various Church Records
- Griffith's Valuation
- Surname Index to The History of Allegheny County, 1889
- Jefferson Methodist Church Cemetery (partial)
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