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Patrick was known as "California" Pat because he went to California (for adventure) in the early fifties or soon after the discovery of gold there. Accumulating considerable wealth, he returned home, but a few years later a desire to enter the gold fields overcame him, and he made a second trip to the Pacific Coast. Returning the second time he was apparently content to settle down and married Ellen Stafford in Dushore May 19, 1860. Their sponsors were Martin Kinsley and Suzanne Reiley. Ellen was the daughter of Patrick and Mary Quinn Stafford who had settled on the Lewis Collins place in 1853 coming from Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Patrick and Ellen Kinsley had 2 children, Alice and Katharine.
Mr. Kinsley’s life had been so interwoven in the meshes of adventure he again exchanged the comforts of a home for those of the miners’ camp making his third trip to California. He took his wife Ellen with him and their first child Alice was born in California. Travel to California in the early 1850s was by Cape Horn and took 90 days each way; however, in 1855 a railroad was completed across Panama so travelers went by ship from New York to Panama, rail across the Isthmus, and ship to California. All three of Pat’s trips were by the Isthmus. Women and children often traveled with their man by this route. Pat was tall and of fine physique, and had a gentlemanly bearing. He was a skillful performer on the violin. The violin he carried on his several trips to California was passed to his nephew Andrew. In 1930 Andrew passed it to his daughter Veronica. Since neither of Veronica’s daughters played the violin, she decided her nephew, Robert Andrew Kinsley, son of Dominic (grandson of Andrew), should have the instrument because he was the only grandchild bearing the name Andrew. In 1962 it was passed on to Dominic Kinsley, son of James Richard Kinsley, because he was Dominic’s only grandson at that time with the Kinsley name. He still has the instrument today (1986). Patrick and Ellen both died in early life, Patrick in 1874 at the age of 41 and Ellen in 1873 at the age of 35.
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1822 - 1874 (51 years)
