Are the Kinslow and Kincheloe (or Kinchloe) families the same but with a slight variation in the spelling? According to L. D. McPherson’s " Kinchelow, McPherson, and Related Families ", the Conrad Kinslow who died intestate in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1814/15, was the son of Peter and Margaret (Walls) Kincheloe. Linda L. Hope reexamined this question and concluded that the statement was in error. Her findings are summarized in Beyond Germanna on page 722.
She notes that the geography does not work out for the claimed relationship, nor do the ages of Conrad Kinslow and Peter Kincheloe work out well.
Peter "Kintelo" married Margaret Unsel, widow, sometime after 6 April 1778, when she was granted administration of the estate of Henry Wall, deceased. On 2 November 1778, Margaret Unsel, "since married to Peter Kintelo", was summoned to appear at the next court regarding the estate of Henry Wall. Peter "Kimolo" appeared on the 1785 tax list of Harrison County, Virginia with a family of seven. Although the birth of five children within a seven-year period is not totally unreasonable, it is possible that some of these children were from earlier marriages.
Peter Kincheloe left Harrison County sometime after the marriage of his daughter Nancy in 1798. He apparently died in Muhlenberg Co. sometime after 1 Nov 1819, when he applied for a Revolutionary War pension, but before the 1820 Census. The same year that Peter Kintelo and Margaret Unsel were married, the birth of Ambrosius Genssle (a variant of Kuenzle) was recorded in the German Lutheran Church now outside Madison, Virginia. The eldest daughter in this family, Elisabetha, married (as Elizabeth Kansler) Andrew Carpenter on 19 Dec 1792 in Culpeper Co., Virginia. Probably Conrad Kuenzle or Kinslow is the man who was listed in the 1783 Culpeper tax list as Coonrod Kensley.
I believe that the Kincheloe family was found in the area of present day Fauquier County. This was before the appearance of the Kuenzle family in the area of present day Madison County. With the many variations in the spelling of Kuenzle, it is understandable that the two families might be confused. But the facts are that Conrad Kinslow is not in the right place at the right time to be the son of Peter Kincheloe.
The Kinslow family has been worked out in some detail in
Beyond Germanna
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(15 Dec 05)
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