Looking for anyone that may be researching this family:

John Hickey dob 1820c, Co Clare,Ireland married to Mary dob 1820c, had the following Children that survived, John dob 1850c Phoenixville and Margaret dob 1857 Phoenixville. John went on to marry Margaret Bierth/Byrke/Burke they had Christopher and a Kate dob 1880. Margaret married a Patrick McFall. The men were rolling mill hands at Phoenxillve Iron. Lived in Phoenixville on Ann Street. There was also a Timothy Hickey (brother of John 1820) married to another Margaret whose maiden name could have been Moran or St. John

Tim Hickey
71st PVI Co. K aka 1st California
age at enlistment 36
Mustered out 2 July 1864
Company K was raised at Phoenix Iron Co.
all the members were Irish factory workers from Tunnel Hill was now is called the Northside of Phoenixville

Thank you Michael for this information. Could you give me your source, would love to followup on this. Thank You

Kathie

Civil War Penision Application 381.163 Certifcate # H26.593
isused to Margaret Hickey widow 29 Sept 1888

"If Thee Must Fight "
A Civil War History Of Chester County Pennsylvania by Douglas Harper published by Chester County Historical Society West Chester PA 1990
page 69 "Timothy Hickey age 36 when he volunteereed was an Irish iron worker boarding in a rented house down at the river end of Railroad Street "

Timothy is also listed in Bate's Index which is a roster of Pennsylvania's Troops in the civil war