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20-May-2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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BRESLAND : LYNCH : MCANALL : MORRISON | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I'm having serious difficulty tracking the relatives of my great great grandfather John McAnall. I don't know the best way to share my information on here, but I'll do my best. <br> For one, I'm not positive "McAnall" is the correct last name of the family or if it is even spelled right. John came over to the United States in the late 1860s (haven't found immigration info yet), married in either 1868 or 1869 and first appears in the 1880 census for Canton, Stark County, Ohio, with the last name "Macanaw". However, by 1890, his name is spelled the way we've always known it in the family: "McAnall" (and we pronounce it Mac-uh-nall). <br> Based upon family letters and his obituary, I'm pretty sure he was born in Scotland. However, I also know that he lived briefly in Ireland with his family because he supposedly said goodbye to them on the "Derry Quay" (some of the census records list Ireland as his place of origin as well). It also looks as though he may have been the only one of his siblings to have come over to America. <br> I have all the names and birth dates of his siblings, thanks to an old letter written from one of his sisters (Annie Lynch) in 1913, who lived at 42 Fountain Hill, Waterside, Londonderry at the time (John is the oldest -- and this is exactly as she wrote it): <br> John McAnall Born Feb 9th 1840 William May 14th 1842 Archibald July 19th 1844 Mary Jane April 29th 1847 George November 6th 1849 Maria April 9th 1852 Annie November 8th 1854 James February 16th 1857 Robert July 26th 1859 Daniel November 4th 1862 Andrew December 13th 1864 <br> Unfortunately, I don't have the names of his parents, nor of all of his siblings' spouses and children, though I do have a few details from Annie Lynch's letters (no punctuation is how she wrote it): <br> "...I don’t remember anything about your appearance only the morning you went away I remember to see you standing on the road before the door along with some other boys but I always seemed to know you as well as any of the rest because so long as my mother lived she was always talking about you and Willie he is dead years ago I think about six or seven and Archy his daughter told me he was dead ten years Mary Jane is alive and well only she met with an accident about nine years ago and she has to use a crutch her and her husband lives in Greenoch all her children are married only two I have her youngest girl since she was a baby she she is 24 years old she is thinking about getting married in the spring so if I live to that time I will be left alone once more her eldest daughter Maria died when her second baby was born and her other daughter Annie is married and has six children and lives in Derry Mary Jane bid me tell you she sends her kind love to you she was always very fond of you she bids me ask you if you remember the parting on Derry Quay You will be sorry to hear of poor George you would not have seen as nice a big man as he was and he was so good, he took something like softening of the brain and he has been in the asylum this last 18 years when I go to see him he knows to ask about everything and everybody at first when you talk to him you would not see much the matter with him but the Doctor says he will never fully recover but they let him go where he pleases about the place and do what he likes but they could not let him come home he had two sons and two daughters but his daughters both died when they were grown up Maria was 19 when she died and Sarah was 26 his wife is an invalid but she has two good sons which take care of her. and for my sister Maria I never got a letter from her for more than 30 years and for myself I live along with Robert. after my brother died I married but my Husband only lived 12 years he went out one day in his usual health and just fell dead then Robert was tired with lodgings so I took a house at the waterside he pays me for his board he is the only one of us that never married..." <br> In one other letter that I have from Annie (this one written in 1916), she mentions having a neice named Jenny Bresland (who "has got a fine baby boy it is three weeks old"), and a nephew named Eddie Morrison who "is away at the war this last to years he is in France". Oh, and John's sister Mary Jane is said in 1913 to be living with her husband "in Greenoch" (which I presume is Greenock, Renfrewshire, UK/Scotland) so that may be another lead. <br> That's really all I have to go on at this point, though I'm still asking around and hoping to find some more old letters and documents from family members. <br> If anyone can help me out that'd be great! <br> Heck, even if someone who lives in Londonderry could just send me a picture of Fountain Hill (or even the address if it's still there), so I can see roughly where Annie Lynch lived, that'd be wonderful too! <br> By the way, I've searched Ancestry.com pretty thoroughly. I've also combed through the book Irish Passenger Lists: 1847-1871 with seemingly no luck. <br> Okay, that's all then. I hope this message isn't too overwhelming for one of these kinds of inquiries. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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United Kingdom > Northern Ireland > Londonderry County United Kingdom > Scotland > Renfrewshire County United States > Ohio > Stark County
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