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Scotland: 1786, Query: |
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Seeking parents, siblings, etc., of Peter MacNinch, who married Christina [Christian] Wylie, |
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December 1786, at Kilmory, Arran [island], Bute[shire], Scotland [Kilmory is at the southern |
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end of Arran Island, off the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland]. This couple are the fourth |
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great grandparents of Jeff McNeish, P.O. Box 225, Billings, Montana 59103; jeff @ cu.net |
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Jeff has not found any record of either of their births, although Kilmory Parish OPR (Old Parish |
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Register) shows other McNinch's on Arran [island] in the early 1700’s (Kilmory OPR is missing |
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about 40 years around the time they would have been born). The spelling has changed over the years |
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from McNinch to McNish to his current McNeish. M(a)cNinch is found from around 1786 to about |
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1830 or so in the Kilmory Parish OPR. The McNinch surname for his line had changed spellings to |
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McNish or McNeish (also McNesh and McNiesh) by the 1851 census. The surnames bounced |
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between those spellings until the late 1800’s, when it solidified on the McNeish spelling. There are |
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also some McInish and McInnish surname records on the Island of Arran in the 1700’s. |
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Ulster: 1783-1797 |
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Three clips from The Belfast Newsletter, 1738-1800, Provincial Ireland's first newspaper: |
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14-18 Feb. 1783 |
Robbery 18 Dec. [1782] at fish house, Robert Bigam’s Bushmills herrings; |
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[Doc. 192773] |
16 other names given in the abstract, roles unknown (robbers, jury service, |
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[ADLEGAL, |
victims, or whatever). Five names given for Ballymoney are Hugh Anderson, |
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CRIME] |
Matt Longmoore, And[rew] Martin, Pat McIninch, and John Miller. |
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13-16 Dec. 1785 |
Apparently, a legal notice for a meeting [to be held in Coleraine (?)] about |
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[Doc. 202194] |
“Scotch spirits clandestinely imported” into Counties Antrim and Derry; only |
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[ADLEGAL, |
four names given in the abstract, no further info on their positions or roles -- |
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ADMEET …] |
Daniel Maxwell, James McCook, Patrick McIninch and Peter Patteron [sic] |
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12 June 1797 |
More than 340 names in a list, abstract gives only “persons oath allegiance”. |
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[Doc. 284978] |
The names on the list include “Chamberlaine, T. sheriff” (2nd name)… and |
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“McAninch, Henry, McCurdy, Daniel” (together, about 242nd on the list). |
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Found at “The Belfast Newsletter Index Database Search Page”, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, |
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Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, <http://www.ucs.usl.edu/cgi-bin/belfst/retrieve?database=jcg3525>; |
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no McNinch in the database; found March 2001, by Lillian McAninch, Prescott Valley, Arizona. |
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Also available on microfilm from Bell & Howell / UMI Research Collections – |
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“The Belfast Newsletter, 1738-1800, was Provincial Ireland's first newspaper … At that time, |
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Belfast was little more than a riotous settlement town in a flat hollow of the mountains, a small port |
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slowly spreading along the mouth of the river Lagan”. 45 reels of 35mm microfilm, originally filmed |
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by The Linenhall Library (Belfast) <http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/Research/Files/belfast.html> |
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Ulster: Our query has been published in North Irish Roots, Spring 2001, vol. 12(1):44 (2001) – |
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“McAninch, Daniel, County Antrim, mid-1700's: seek parents, siblings, any relatives. McAninch |
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(and McNinch) families lived in River Bann Valley (Ballymoney, Ballyrashane, Dunluce), and |
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along the north coast (Ballintoy, Culfeightrin). Emigrated as young man (poss. indentured servant) |
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to Pennsylvania (poss. York County, 1771), Westmoreland County, 1790; then to Kentucky, 1790's. |
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(Member A2196, e-mail: lmcaninch@worldnet.att.net)” |
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“North Irish Roots”, Journal of the North of Ireland Family History Society, c/o Graduate School |
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of Education, The Queen's University of Belfast, 69 University Street, Belfast BT7 1HL, Northern |
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Ireland. <www.nifhs.org>. Query by Lillian McAninch, Prescott Valley, Arizona. |
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McAninch Family History NL, IX -3 July 2001 Copyright Frank McAninch page 2001-19 |