History Spotlight
Irish Immigrants: The Courtneys by Doug Humes Photos courtesy of Newtown Square Historical Society
Mother, father and son at Marple Presbyterian Cemetery
While English Quakers first settled Newtown, 19th-century immigrants came from Ireland. An Irish weaver, Joseph Courtney, lived in Marple in 1828. In 1847, he built a stone house set back a bit from what is now Media Line Road. He and his wife Nancy had four children, whom they raised in that house: William, Samuel, Mary and Joseph Jr. In the 1850 census, nine people lived there.
The remaining children must have held a family council and agreed on their course of action. The farm was advertised for sale a few days after Christmas of 1864. It was described as follows: A valuable FARM, … near the 11 mile stone, on the West Chester and Philadelphia Plank Road, ... The property contains 58 Acres of Land, … a good, substantial STONE DWELLING HOUSE, two and a half stories high, with Kitchen attached; a good frame BARN, … good stone Spring of Water, Wood House, Ice House, Wagon House, Slaughter House, Corn Crib, Garners, & c
Nancy died before the next census was taken in 1860, when the Courtney house was the last house visited in Newtown. The house saw its share of sadness before the Civil War had ended. Joseph Sr. died in 1864; his burial record indicates that he was a veteran. Joseph Jr. went off to fight in the Civil War, and was Sales proceeds in hand, the Courtneys had a few other matters mustered out before it ended, dying at age 31 in March of 1865. to address. On January 24, 1866, Reverend Hotchkin presided Now available in a classic farmhouse design, He was perhaps wounded and sent home to recover. over a double marriage ceremony at the Marple Presbyterian
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