domingo, 27 de marzo de 2016

The Mayo McKinley's of Canada

The Mayo McKinley's settle in Ontario, Canada

Before anything I would like to say a sincere thank you to Rodger McKinley who not only read the blog, but put "two and two together" and promptly sent me a message about his father's work on the Canadian McKinley's, who tie straight back into our Mayo McKinley family via Robert McKinley and his wife Mary Nicholson (see Mayo Generation 2.3), that Robert being the son of John McKinley (Generation 2.0) who had married an 'unknown' McKinley - probably named Eleanor.

Rodger's father had started his family tree with the first generation of McKinley's to settle in Canada, namely Robert & Mary McKinley, respectively to Newtownwhite and Rathnamagh in Mayo. I have listed that these two married in 1814 and that their first child (Eleanor) was born the following year. From this Eleanor comes the assumption that Robert's mother was called Eleanor. The we have Mary (after her mother), born in 1821, John in 1822 (named after his paternal grandfather), and Thomas in 1824. The Canadian McKinley notes show reference to a broken tombstone in Mayo referring to Robert & Mary, and certainly the data that I have sees to tie in.

The Canadian line starting with Robert & Mary show three children listed in Canada: Eleanor, John and Robert.  hence it is to be assumed that both little Mary and Thomas died in infancy.  the three surviving children settle in the Ontario region of Canada and married.

Eleanor McKinley, who I have as being born in 1815 (Canadian documentation is not clear on her birth year, suggesting 1824, but clear on the fact that she married one Mathew Fullerton in 1839 - it is unlikely that she married aged 14 (ie 1824) so for the time being the 1815 date holds. Eleanor died in 1893.

John McKinley is listed from both sources as being born in 1822, and he marries one Margaret Jane Clark in 1853 - he died in 1907.

Robert McKinley Junior was born in 1828, and given that we have no record of him in Ireland means that he was probably born in Canada. He is listed as having married a Jane McLinchey, and as having died in 1865.

These McKinley settled in the area of Bayfield on the southern shores of Lake Huron. John McKinley (the line from whence Rodger) and his wife Margaret had 12 children, eleven of whom survived childhood, with ten of them marrying.


6 comentarios:

  1. Through y-DNA testing at FamilytreeDNA as part of the McKinlay Project, we have confirmed that my ancestor Michael (Kentucky 1796) is not descended from the same line as President McKinley. We haven't matched either to a Y-DNA line from Scotland, Ireland or in Canada.
    Would any of your blog readers with a direct male McKinley descent be interested in joining the project? I would pay for the basic 25 marker kit for a couple of qualified volunteers.
    The McKinlay project in the US has been relatively inactive since the death of Dr. Bob McKinlay, who was the project administrator.
    I hope through this message to help reactivate it.

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  2. Hi Robert, Thank you for blogging about McKinleys. I represent an Australian arm descended from Patrick Mackinlay born c1838 in Loughguile, Antrim, the son of Patrick and Catherine (nee Connolly). I have only just started to delve into Irish research after recently finding from his headstone inscription that Patrick's brother Denis, who also emigrated to Australia, was from Loughguile. Before that I only knew that they came from Antrim. I'm afraid I can't offer a direct male line of descent since Denis had no children and Patrick's sons had no children. I have a story about Patrick and Denis' "adventures" on my blog here: https://leavesonmyfamilytree.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/disproving-another-family-story/

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    1. Apologies for such a late answer but will take a look right now!

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  3. Here is another bunch to add to your Canadian McKinleys. My gr-gr-grandfather, John McKinley arrived in Montreal around 1838-40, along with his brother from County Antrim. From what I am told there were 4 brothers in total, one went to the USA, another to Australia and the two I know about to Canada around the same time. When he arrived his job function was that of a "hind" which I take to be the fellow who walked behind the horse and plow gliding the blade into the soil. The only history I have passed down is that the family came from Country Antrim and County Down but I have no idea exactly where.

    They initially lived in Griffintown, Quebec, part of Montreal today and back then just being developed outside of the walled old city. He became a volunteer fireman and operated out of the No. 8 Union Fire Hall on Peel Street, Montreal eventually becoming the first foreman of the team. Always taking on odd jobs, he also worked for his father-in-law who operated a boiler-making facility in the city and after his death in 1949 quickly married his daughter, Mary Kerr. Unfortunately he died at age 36 in 1954 from Cholera in the last epidemic to hit the city. I suspect he was working for the city pickup up the dead bodies along the side of the road, sewn into white linen and put out of the house by the family. Some 1,050 died in this last epidemic. His wife remarried his best friend who became stepfather to her kids. He died 6 years later and was buried along side her first husband. She moved to Ottawa around 1875 to be close to her brother's family and died there in 1883.
    His brother moved down to the Eastern Townships at one point and his eldest daughter married a Foster there. He then left the area and moved to the Parry Sound area of Ontario north of Toronto eventually operating McKinley's Hardware there. His son became a dentist and story goes that he was the dentist to the US President because he would only trust a McKinley to do his dental work. Eventually, the lad would move back to Port Perry and the family. I would love to pinpoint the actual location of the family back in Northern Ireland if anyone has any ideas. I have been looking for 45 years.

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  4. The unknown you are reading above is something I wrote a few years back. For those who do not know, the name McKinley is derived from Finlha, the head of the clan. It would have been his son who was first recorded as the Mc or son of Finlha. The hard C in Mc created the spelling change from Finlha to Kinley when it was first written down in the records.Finlha as the Farquer or head of the Clan had two sons, the second one referred to as Farquerson so that both the McKinleys and the Farquersons share the same genetics. Though that would interest you.

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  5. Thank you for clearing up many McKinley mysteries for me!

    My interest is in George McKinley who married Leurania (possibly nee' Green) in about 1795. According to one derivative source, they were married in Pennsylvania. They immigrated to Ancaster, Upper Canada in about 1800 and settled in Trafalgar West, Halton, Canada West where they possibly (!) raised nine children. Leurania/ Lurania died in 1836 and George died in 1844. They were buried close to home in Munn's United Church Cemetery in present-day Oakville.

    Some researchers have speculated that my Canadian George McKinley was born in Wawarsing, Ulster, New York to Daniel McKinley (of "Merryland") and Anna Bessemer in 1775. I am trying to establish proof that the George who died in Ontario was the same child born in New York. There are DNA clues as well as family notes that seem to support this theory, but I still am not convinced.

    To stir the pot a bit more, some researchers believe that Daniel McKinley (father of George) was the son of Daniel McKinley of Chanceford, PA. Based on your research, this doesn't seem possible to me.

    Do you have any suggestions for further research sources? Was George McKinley who married Leurania born in Wawarsing? Who were the parents of Daniel McKinley of "Merryland"?

    Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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