Unknown 1st Wife of William McCauley

Unknown married Col. William McCauley in Ireland. William (son of Erin McCauley) was born on 1738 or 1747 in Carrickfergus, Antrim Co, N Ireland; died in 1825 in Hillsborough, Orange Co, NC. [Group Sheet]

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This undocumented marriage of William to an unknown spouse occurred prior to his emigrating to the Americas in the 1770s. She is reportedly the mother of his two children born in Ireland, James and Jane, who emigrated with him. William remarried just after his arrival in North Carolina. — William V. Burlingame in his 2017 historical summary regarding the McCauley Family Cemetery, subsection The McCauleys in North Carolina.

1. Jane McCauley was born est 1769 in Ireland.
2. James McCauley was born est 1772 in Ireland.