John McIninch, born circa 1790, emigrated to Canada |
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There were two John McIninch’s, both born circa 1790, who both emigrated to Canada -- |
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1. John McAninch, born ca. 1790, Ireland, who emigrated to Canada in 1823, and married |
Eliza Kenney, 30 Mar. 1828, Burton, Sunbury County, New Brunswick. They had a large |
family, lived in Carleton County, New Brunswick, and some of their children came south and |
founded the McIninch families who lived in the areas of Bridgewater and Great Pond, Maine. |
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2. And John McIninch, born ca. 1790, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ulster Province, and son |
of another John McIninch; this emigrant John married Mary Jane McKie, Halifax, Nova Scotia, |
and their descendents lived in Sackville and St. Stephens, New Brunswick, and some of their |
children also came south of the border, and lived in Calais, Vanceboro, and Woodland, Maine. |
Two previous articles about this family include MFHN v.III n.3 p.1995-32, “John McIninch |
(by Charles Bernard MacIninch, Trumbull, Conn., in 1908)”, and MFHN v.VI n.2 p.1998-19, |
“John S. and Jane (Armstrong) McIninch, and their Family, New Brunswick, Canada” |
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John (1 of 2, above) and Eliza (Kenney) McIninch lived in Carleton County, New Brunswick. |
One of their sons, Asa McAninch, was born 24 Feb. 1834, in New Brunswick, and was listed on |
the 1851 Canada census as “McIninch, Asa, boot & shoemaker, 1851 living in Wakefield Parish” |
(Carleton County, New Brunswick). Asa, age 24, married Kathryn Meriah Kelley, 20 Nov. 1858. |
He was listed as “McNinch, Asa” on a 1867 Provincial Militia List; “Inchitch, Asa, shoemaker”, |
in Lovell's New Brunswick Directory 1871; and later as “McNintch” in the 1901 Canada census |
“McNintch Asa M Head M Feb 8, 1834 67” / “McNintch Katherine F Wife M Jul 12, 1837 63” |
[New Brunswick; District: Carleton (#14); Sub: Wakefield H-1 Page 2; T-6439]. |
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The surname spelling change to McNintch (now MacNintch) was reported in an earlier article -- |
“New Brunswick: re McIninch, McNintch, and MacNintch -- The story has been passed down in |
the family that Asa changed the spelling to McNintch” [MFHN v. IV n 4, December p.1996-30]. |
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Asa’s son, Rev. Abner Mesereau McNintch, was born 7 July 1863 , and married Janie Elizabeth |
Bent, on 19 June 1891; Abner was a Baptist minister in rural New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. |
Abner and Janie Elizabeth (Bent) McNintch had four sons, Robie Edward, Guy P., Sable M., and |
Laurie Kelly McNintch. Three of these brothers, Laurie Kelly, Robie Edward, and Sable, served |
in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during World War I [MFHN v.V n.1 p.1997-02]. |
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The author of The Brother Keepers historical novel, John E. (Ted) MacNintch, said that his father, |
Laurie, moved to Moncton, New Brunswick, from Nova Scotia around 1916, and Laurie’s brother |
Robie also lived there, and that they changed the name to the current Mac spelling. |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XV n.3 / July 2007 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2007-18 |