My Herron family originates in
County Durham,
England, in the valley of the upper Wear, a long narrow
valley with heather covered hills. It is the valley of the
Wear river which flows through Durham City and out to sea
at Sunderland.
George HERRON bapt. Stanhope 1778, son of Thomas Herron and (?) married Esther HOLMES
daughter of Richard HOLMES of St. Johns Chapel at
Wolsingham in 1807. They had the following children at
Satley:
Elizabeth b.1810
Jane b.1813
*George b.1815
Robert b.1822 (married Ann)
Mary b.1825 (married George TELFORD)
Esther b.1826 (married John BROWN)
George HERRON (b.1815) became a farmer and in 1840
married
Hannah DAWSON, daughter of Oliver DAWSON, a farmer, of
Heigh. They had the following children at Satley:
Jane b.1841
George b.1843
Esther b.1846
*Robert b.1848
John b.1851
Oliver b.1854
The HERRON family emigrated to the USA sometime in the
1860's and settled in northeastern Pennsylvania in Marcy
Twp. Luzerne Co. in an area which later became Duryea.
There Robert
married Mary Ellen THOMPSON, the daughter of David and
Martha CLARK(E) THOMPSON who had emigrated from Tow Law,
County Durham in 1863. Mary Ellen was born in 1853. Robert
and Mary Ellen had the following children:
*Margaret b.1875
Isabelle (married John FAIRCLOUGH)
Sarah (married William BROWN)
Robert
Ralph
Mary(Mame) b.1881 (married Norris WINGARD)
Lena (married Ernest Melvin BEDFORD)
David Lian b.1877
Charlotte Elmira b.1894
William c.1892
Margaret HERRON married David Aaron COCHRAN around 1895.
David was born in Bernice, PA in Sullivan Co. in 1873 to
William and Nancy SHEILDS(?) COCHRAN. William was born in
Scotland. Margaret and David had the following children:
Archie b.1895
Robert
*Mary Naomi (Marian) b.1906