Robert Irvin, born in Ireland; came to Rockbridge County, Virginia, 1740; died at Rockbridge County, Virginia, 1789; married at Rockbridge in 1825, buried at New Monmouth Church, Rockbridge County, Virginia.
Nationality of ancestry, Irish.
(Source: The History of McDowells, Erwins, Irvins and Connections, by Hon. John Hugh McDowell. Publ. 1918.)