Alphonsus came to America in 1689, from Lurgan, county Armagh, province of Ulster, Ireland, where a branch of the English family of Kirk had settled two generations earlier.... left the place of his nativity, and took passage from Belfast, Ireland, January 11, 1688-9, landed at Jamestown, Virginia, March 12, 1689, and arrived at New Castle, May 29, 1689.

Alphonsus and Abigail were the parents of eleven children.

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It was his "fortune to marry," and "according to the order of Truth," as, on February 23, 1692-93, he united himself with Abigail Sharpley, at the house of her father, Adam Sharpley, 3362on Brandywine creek, in New Castle county, where Adam had settled in 1682.