SIGGINS.

"The name "Siggins" has been variously written. In the "British Family Names Their Origin and Meaning" by Rev. Henry Barber, M. D., F. S. A. we find "Segoin-Anglo Saxon-Segen, Segwin, Sigen. Sigewine; Flemish-Seghin; p. n (Victorious friend). Seguin, Hugenot. n. London 1688."

SIGGINS MARRIAGE RECORD.

"The Register of St. Paul's Church Vol. III. p. 71 (England) Convent Garden Marriages, 1653-1837. August 14, 1699 Thomas Siggins and Elizabeth Fisher, both of Molsey in Surrey, by Mr. Hallowell with lisence."

"In O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees, Vol. 2. p. 96 we find the name of Siggins mentioned as among the principal families in Ireland at the close of the 17th Century."

This genealogy of the Siggins Family would be incomplete without mention of the Rev. David Kinnear (whose number in the genealogy of the "Kinnear's and their Kin" is -135.)

He is justly styled "Historian of the Kinnear Family". He surely deserves the same appelation in the Siggins Family, as we are indebted to him for many of our early records.

The Rev. David Kinnear, was born June 1, 1802, in Allegheny Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, married March 10, 1840, at the Indian Manual Training School, Indian Territory, Elizabeth Lee, who was born in the sate of New York.

He was a son of Rev. Andrew and Dinah (Young) Kinnear, his mother was a daughter of Rev. William and Jane (Simpson) Young.

He was a grandson of Andrew and Mary (Delmar) Kinnear and great-grandson of James Kinnear, of Leitrim County, Ireland.

Rev. David Kinnear was a most devout and faithful member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and in his manuscript there are many quaint expressions showing his devotion to that faith.

It is a matter of deep regret that we have no likeness of him and that he left no children to inherit his noble characteristics, but I am sure we all revere his memory and appreciate the interest he has taken in the posterity of our emigrant ancestors, the records he so faithfully preserved constitute the foundation of "The Kinnear's and their Kin" and the early Pensylvania Siggins family and their descendants mentioned in the following pages.

Rev. David Kinnear traced the ancestry of the immigrant John Siggins, who came to Pennsylvania in 1793 no farther back than his father and mother William and Mary (Tay-lor) Siggins, and the following records will commence with:

William Siggins who is descended from Thomas Siggins of Walsingrange as follows:

Thomas Siggins of Walsingrange, county Wexford his

son

Matthew Siggins, m. Margaret Codd their son

Richard Siggins, m. Margaret Sinot their son

Edward Siggins, of Balla, m.

William Siggins, m. Mary Taylor

their son

SIGGINS FAMILY IN AMERICA.

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WILLIAM Siggins', (Number 10A, in the Siggins Family of county Sligo, Ireland) and his wife:

Mary Taylor, were the parents of:

JOHN Siggins, 1750-1801, the first American ancestor of Pennsylvania Siggins Family, was born, 1750, in county Sligo, Ireland, died, 1801 (on a farm called: "Spring Creek", two and one-half miles below "Old Centre Furnace", Centre County, Pennsylvania, of which he was a tenant, this farm was owned by Robert Whitehall.) He married in county Sligo, Ireland, about 1776:

Sarah Hood, (See Hood ancestry), in 1793, they, with their children emigrated to America, settling first near Philadelphia, from there to Centre County, after the death of John Siggins his widow with her family removed to Youngsville, Warren County, Pennsylvania, where the widow died September 30, 1835, aged 85 years. "Soon after their marriage, both John and Sarah Siggins experienced religion through the instrumentality of the Methodist preaching and united with that church.”

Of Sarah Siggins the Rev. William Todd says:

"Sister Siggins came to Youngsville in 1816 united with the Methodist church of that place, and for more than fifty years she was a methodist and walked consistently-in every situation she was sustained, she was loved, her end was peace".

3.* i.

4.* ii.

Children:

FRANCES Siggins3, 1777-1847, m.:

Benjamin Baird.

GEORGE Siggins3, 1778-1868, m. first:
Jane Young, m. second:

Pheobe Dawson.

5.* iii. WILLIAM Siggins, 1789-1875, m.:
Mary (Polly) Wilson.

6.* iv. SARAH Siggins, 1790-1859, m.:
Isaac Connely.

7.* v.

8.* vi.

JOHN Siggins3, 1792-1819, not married, died at Natches, Mississippi, in May 1819, while enroute home from New Orleans, where he had taken a raft of lumber.

ALEXANDER Siggins3, 1793-1858, m.:
Margaret Kinnear.

(3). FRANCES SIGGINS3, b. 1777, in Sligo County, Ireland, d. 1847, in Lockhaven, Pa., m.

Benjamin Baird of Lockhaven, Pa. Their children were: