Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Penrose, Evan
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township N-Z


   EVAN PENROSE retired, P.O. Quakertown, was born in this 
county in 1813.  His ancestor, Robert, son of Robert and 
Jane Penrose, was born in Yorkshire, England, moved to 
Ireland, in 1669 married Anna Russel, and had three 
children.  His son, Robert, born in Blackane in 1670, 
married Mary Clayton in 1695, and had thirteen children.  
With part of his family he came to Pennsylvania in 1717.  
His son, Robert, who was born in 1697, came to America after 
his father and about the year 1731 married Mary Heacock.  He 
had eleven children, one of whom, John, was born in Richland 
township in 1740, married Anna Roberts in 1764, and died in 
1813.  He had ten children.  Evan, the ninth son, was born  
in 1782, and was married to Rebecca Ball, by whom he had 
four children:  Jane, Aaron (deceased), Evan and Margaret 
(Mrs. Strawn).  Evan Penrose, the subject of this sketch, 
was born in this township in 1813 and in 1851 married Anna, 
daughter of George and Anna (Penrose) Hicks, of this county. 
 Five children have been born to them:  Charles, George and 
Howard, deceased; Mary Jane (Mrs. McDevitt, of 
Philadelphia), and William, who is on the old homestead, 
which has been in the Penrose family for over one hundred 
years.  Mr. Penrose's occupation was always that of a 
farmer.