JOHN MCGINN MILLE ROCHES, CORNWALL, UPPER CANADA
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JOHN MCGINN MILLE ROCHES, CORNWALL, UPPER CANADA
 jrmcginn1
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Posted: 21 Apr 2009 3:25PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: McGinn Barnhart Pond
Hi All
My goodness, this is a quiet board.
I hope that means you have all found all your McGinns and their stories and connections!
Here is one family for your reading pleasure...Ha!
Very early in my research about 2003 I found the family of a John McGinn, born about 1815 Ireland.
According to a transcription of "The Cornwall Observer" this John McGinn married Sally (Sarah ) Barnhart of Barnhart's Island 20 Jan 1836.
"OK" thought I, my GGF John McGinn was born ca 1830 Upper Canada, place unknown parents unknown...so this 1836 marriage rules out this family as being "us".
Well just last week I found a tree at Ancestry.com stating a daughter Charlotte of this couple was born 11 July,1829.
This got me questioning the accuracy of the tree and/or of course the accuracy of the Cornwall newsie transcription.
By way of rationalization, it is well documented that early Upper Canada settlers would marry based on the presence of any circuit rider clergyman in the immediate area as a matter of convenience. Later they would marry in their own denomination when it became more readily available.
There are examples of Roman Catholic settlers married by Protestant clergy and later remarried in the Roman Catholic Church when it was established.
So I wonder if the above family had married before 1829, but not recorded or the records were lost etc.
The family did show in the 1851 Canada Census .Surname "MaGin".
No Daughter Charlotte enumerated but she had married George Knight Pond in 1848 so she would be living with him.
Sons William, 12 Arthur, 14 have given names appearing in our family
as Do daughters Elizabeth 8 Sarah 6 Margaret 4.
Although my mystery GGF John McGinn married Methodist in 1854, I theorize he WAS born into a Roman Catholic McGinn family. A Methodist marriage just may have caused a family feud or schism!
So I am looking for anyone in the know about this Cornwall family.
Best!
Rob McGinn
My goodness, this is a quiet board.
I hope that means you have all found all your McGinns and their stories and connections!
Here is one family for your reading pleasure...Ha!
Very early in my research about 2003 I found the family of a John McGinn, born about 1815 Ireland.
According to a transcription of "The Cornwall Observer" this John McGinn married Sally (Sarah ) Barnhart of Barnhart's Island 20 Jan 1836.
"OK" thought I, my GGF John McGinn was born ca 1830 Upper Canada, place unknown parents unknown...so this 1836 marriage rules out this family as being "us".
Well just last week I found a tree at Ancestry.com stating a daughter Charlotte of this couple was born 11 July,1829.
This got me questioning the accuracy of the tree and/or of course the accuracy of the Cornwall newsie transcription.
By way of rationalization, it is well documented that early Upper Canada settlers would marry based on the presence of any circuit rider clergyman in the immediate area as a matter of convenience. Later they would marry in their own denomination when it became more readily available.
There are examples of Roman Catholic settlers married by Protestant clergy and later remarried in the Roman Catholic Church when it was established.
So I wonder if the above family had married before 1829, but not recorded or the records were lost etc.
The family did show in the 1851 Canada Census .Surname "MaGin".
No Daughter Charlotte enumerated but she had married George Knight Pond in 1848 so she would be living with him.
Sons William, 12 Arthur, 14 have given names appearing in our family
as Do daughters Elizabeth 8 Sarah 6 Margaret 4.
Although my mystery GGF John McGinn married Methodist in 1854, I theorize he WAS born into a Roman Catholic McGinn family. A Methodist marriage just may have caused a family feud or schism!
So I am looking for anyone in the know about this Cornwall family.
Best!
Rob McGinn