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The Kirkwood Surname is common in Scotland. My family was living in the area of Lanarkshire in or near the town of StoneHouse. My direct descendent was born Walter Kirkwood. His father died before or shortly after his birth and his mother remarried a man named Brown. There appeared to be some level of distress because some census records picked up my great grandfather twice, because he was obviously being shuffled around to different houses. Probably due to the negative effects of the potato famine Mr Brown gained passage to the United States in 1888 and arrived at the Port of Philadelpia. At the time that they arrived it had been discovered that the area in Central Alabama which is now called Birmingham had all the ingredients locally to make steel. Alabama wasn't the most hospitible place to live at the time so there were jobs to be had and my family came and have remained in this area since. My great grandfather arrived in this country using the name Walter Brown because of his stepfather but later legally changed back to Kirkwood. Walter married another Scottish immigrant and had a son named Jim Kirkwood. Jim married a woman named Edna who was known to me only as "mee maw". Jim and Edna had a son they named Walter Kirkwood, who is to this day known to me as "Dad". I'm going to add much more family line information to this page in the near future.
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