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William McIninch married Teresa Meagher, who was originally from the neighbouring Tyendinaga

Township of Hastings County and was a daughter of James Meagher and Mary Shaughnessy [38].

William and Teresa had four children (John Henry, Margaret Grace, Mary Bernice, and Joseph

Laurence), and the family moved from Belleville to Ottawa circa 1908 [39]. Henry McIninch died

on 10 March 1917 in Belleville and was buried in the Belleville Protestant cemetery, and Margaret

McDonough died in Ottawa in 1922 and was buried in Notre Dame cemetery in Ottawa.

Today, the descendants of Robert McIninch and Elizabeth Colgon live all over the world,

including near the old farm in Rawdon Township, in Belleville, Ontario, and further away in

Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, British Columbia, Maine, Pennsylvania, Florida,

and Sweden, to name just a few places. Ten of the eleven people with the surname “McIninch” that

were listed in Canadian telephone directories as of September 2005 are descendants of Robert and

Elizabeth, and it is possible that the eleventh person is a descendant as well.

Notes and sources

[1] Patrick M. Shea, 67 Clandeboye Avenue, Westmount, Quebec H3Z 1Y9, Canada.

Telephone: (514) 847-4859. E-mail: pshea@alumni.princeton.edu. Questions and comments are

most welcome. The author would appreciate hearing from anyone who has researched any of the

people mentioned in this article or from any relatives thereof.

[2] The author is a son of Margaret McIninch, who is a daughter of John Henry McIninch

(1905-1984), who was a son of William John McIninch (1874-1966), who was a son

of Henry McIninch (circa 1840-1917), who was a son of Robert McIninch and Elizabeth Colgon.

Notes [3] to [5]: Cemetery Records and Tombstones in Stirling, Ontario Protestant Cemetery:

[3] Robert’s tombstone, however, states that he died on 21 June 1879 aged 87 years and 9 months,

which, if accurate, would mean that he was born circa September 1791, rather than in 1792.

[4] Elizabeth’s tombstone states that she died on 29 February 1884 aged 90 years and 3 months.

The cemetery burial records, however, indicate that she would have turned 93 at her next birthday,

which means that she may have been born two years earlier than 1793.

[5] Birth date of Elizabeth and birth month and year of Patrick: Stirling, Ontario, Protestant

cemetery records and tombstones.

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McAninch Family History NL, v.XIV n.1 / January 2006 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2006-05