Miscellaneous info, Queries, and Nuggets from recent letters (by States, alphabetical order)

 

Anyplace, Anytime: Let’s start a contest, find the most ‘creative’ name variations, mis-spellings etc. Send in your wackiest mis-spellings, or maybe the hardest to find, and see the list in a future issue.

 

California: 1870-1902, Mendocino County, northern California <http://www.pacific.net/~pcarna>

 

1870 Census:

McAninch, D. M.

37

stock raiser

b.Kentucky

[b.1832-33]

 

and

McAninch, Martin

29

stock raiser

b.Kentucky

[b.1840-41]

 

[1870 Census, Mendocino Co., Little Lake Twp., NARA M593 Roll 74 pg. 192; index,]

 

[Mendocino Co. Hist. Soc., Held-Poage Library, 603 W. Perkins St., Ukiah, CA 95482]

 

1873 Marriage:

McAnich, Mart

[Bride] William, Alfonzo [sic]

12/11/1873 [Bk/Pg] 2/143

 

[Index to Marriages – Men, Book 1, 1859-1893, transcribed by members of Ukiah Tree]

 

[Tracers Genealogical Society (now inactive), originally published in their newsletters ]

 

[in 1970s; for copies of marriage records, write County Recorder of Mendocino County]

 

1880

No.

Name

Age

Nativity

Residence

[b. circa]

Great

170

McIninch, David

42

Kentucky

Long Valley

[1837-38]

Register

169

McIninch, Martin

34

Kentucky

Long Valley

[1845-46]

 

[index to 1880 Great Register, Mendocino Co., Republican Press Print, Ukiah, CA.]

 

1902

No.

Name

Precinct

Age

P.O.

[b. circa]

Great

 53

McAninch, David Humphry

Long Valley

69

Laytonville

[1832-33]

Register

 55

McAninch, Roy 

Long Valley

24

Laytonville

[1877-78]

 

[index to 1902 Great Register, Mendocino Co., Republican Press Print, Ukiah, CA.]

 

1920 Great Register, and 1930 Great Register of Mendocino County – no McA/I/Ninch names

 

Indiana: 1902, Howard Co., (John?) Benjamin McAninch married Elizabeth Lourena Johnson --

 

“Elizabeth “Louie” Lourena Johnson, daughter of Albert Tell and Virena Ellen (Veneman) Johnson, was born on her father’s farm about 2.1 miles east of Forest, Clinton County, Indiana, on March 7, 1882, died in 1943, and was buried in the New London Cemetery.

 

In 1902, she married Benjamin McAninch, who died on August 17, 1966, and was buried in the New London Cemetery, New London, Howard County, Indiana. They had seven children.

 

i.

Virgil A. McAninch

b. 4-5-1903

m. 4-9-1922

Esther Wright

ii.

Frances E. McAninch

b. 2-5-1905

m. 4-9-1922

George Beatty

iii.

Elston Cleda McAninch

b. 1-7-1907

m. 12-8-1929

Pauline Johnston

iv.

Marvel Marie McAninch

b. 10-4-1908

m.1. 9-24-1926

Paul Beatty; div.

 

 

 

m.2. 6-1-1929

Joshua Belzer

v.

Kenneth Merril McAninch

b.12-22-1911

m. 8-19-1932

Lucille Landis

vi.

Vestal Lavon McAninch

b. 11-28-1913

m. 2-28-1933

Mary Esther Armfield

vii.

Roy Earnest McAninch

b. 1-28-1915

m. 4-7-1933

Meredith Virginia Lee

 

Source: The Johnsons and Johnstons of Corrowaugh in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Volume I, Robert Johnson, Planter, His Ancestry and Descendants, 1616-1979, by Eddis Johnson and Hugh Buckner Johnston, pg. 523, with credit to “John Wilmer Johnson’s compilation”; found in the Fort Worth, Texas, Library, call number 929.2 Johnson V-1, by Austin V. McIninch, Kempner, Texas.

 

McAninch Family History NL, VIII-4  October 2000  Copyright Frank McAninch   page 2000-26

 

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