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Hi Dee

Kirkland turns up as a middle name several time in my tree but as yet not as a surname. I expected it to me someones maiden name but not so far.

Thanks for all your help.

Wendy x

I kept it in the family, my son has the middle name Kirkland...... nice to see it still being passed down.


Dee x

Just for interest ......

Before John left his wife and 8 children he owned 2 printing works in Fleet street and 3 houses in other parts of London. Somehow he managed to go bankrupt at about the same time as he was being sited in Henriettas divorce. This I guess was the reason for a new start in America.

Sadly I think the following, from the New York Times, was his death.

I am pleased to say our family way of life has improved quite a lot over the years.

This is too much of a coincidence and applies to the Eden Muse in Manhattan 1884

''Intrigued, 60-year old lithographer John Kirkland Gardner who lived on 21st Street paused to read the Sitting Bull advertisements outside the Eden Musee. A gust of wind caused one of the flags on the building to snap into one of the 300-pound stone urns on the balustrade above, dislodging it. The urn crashed squarely on the head of Gardner who was killed instantly.''

At least he had led a full and colourful life

Oh Heck!!!!!!!! What a sad ending to his life.