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Ulster: The Clan Mac Innes – |
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Almost nothing is recorded about the history of this clan except its extreme antiquity. Its Gaelic name is Clan Aonghas, and Angus is one of the oldest Gaelic names. Frank Adams asserts that the Mac Inneses and the Mac Gillivrays are descended from the original Dalriadic settlers in Scotland and that they are kin to the O'Duine --Clan Duibhne being the progenitors also of the Campbells. |
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It therefore seems that in very early times the Campbells, Mac Arthurs, Mac Gillivrays and Mac Inneses all sprang from the same ancient Celto-Irish stock and were original settlers in Western Argyll from the establishment of the Dalriadic kingdom in 501, or even earlier. Morven, now Mac Lean territory, is said to have been the earliest Mac Innes territory, which they shared with the Mac Gillivrays. The Mac Inneses did not follow the Campbells, despite a common ancestry, but [followed] the Mac Donald Lords of the Isles, and were Captains or Keepers of Kinlochaline Castle up to as recently as 1645. But of the clan and chiefs little is known, and it is possible that they may have suffered in the fall of the Lords of the Isles. |
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One family of Mac Inneses were hereditary bowmen to the Skye Mac Kinnons, and from them the name Mac Innes became common in Skye. |
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The clan must be regarded as one of the ancient clans of the Highlands which did not survive the upheavals in the western Highlands where they had their home, so that only their name survived the medieval period in Highland history. That they were one of the original Highland clans is beyond dispute. |
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from the book "Scottish Highlanders", by Charles Mac Kinnon, pg. 184 |
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[both book quotes from Mikki (Michelle Kintner) McAninch, Des Moines] |
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Elias Brown McAninch (1829-1890) by Kathy McAninch, Houston, Texas |
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In writing about Elias B. McAninch, I [Kathy McAninch] wish to give credit to an earlier genealogy compiled by Dora Rayworth McAninch who had done extensive research on the family of Elias B. McAninch. |
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Elias Brown McAninch was born in Giles County, Tennessee about 1829. His father was William McAninch. Although Maria Starr was listed as William's wife in the 1850 DeSoto County [Mississippi] census, I have come to believe that Elias's mother's first name is unknown but probably had the last name of Brown and that Maria was his step-mother and the mother of the children born to William after 1838. Elias B. was the second son of William and [name unknown] Brown and lived with his family in Tennessee until about the mid 1830's. It was about this time the Indian lands in northern Mississippi came open to settlement, and the William McAninch family were already settled in the southern part of DeSoto County near the Coldwater River and current Tate County before 1838. |
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Elias Brown grew into manhood in Mississippi and met Sarah Elizabeth Ross. Sarah was the daughter of David and Nancy Hampton Ross. Sarah was born in Alabama about 1833, On March 28, 1849, Elias and Sarah were married in Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi, by J. Bradley, Justice of the Peace. Elias and Sarah started their family while farming in DeSoto County. Three of the children were born in DeSoto County, Mississippi: William David McAninch, born December 23, 1849; Nancy Elizabeth McAninch born March 5, 1851; and Mary McAninch (1853). After the family headed west about 1854, the younger daughters, Sarah McAninch (1856) and Annie McAninch (1859), were born to Elias and Sarah in Texas. |
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McAninch Family History NL, Vol. III, No. 1, February 1995, pg. 4 page 1995-03 |
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[original contents (except as noted); change font for online presentation (May 2003)] |