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California: Two McAninch Families in Placer County, San Francisco, and |
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Alameda County, California, and in the gold country of Manhattan, Nye County, Nevada |
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There are multiple records of the “John M. McAninch” and “James M. McAninch” families in |
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Placer County, California, in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s (after the California Gold Rush), |
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with extensions into the early-1900's gold mining boom in Manhattan, Nye County, Nevada. |
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Placer County, California, starts just north-east of Sacramento, and runs all the way east to the |
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north shore of Lake Tahoe and the Nevada state line, high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. |
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Placer County was set off in 1851, from Yuba and Sutter Counties, and Auburn is the county seat. |
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Placer County is a large county, over 1500 square miles, with elevations rising from about 100 |
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feet above sea level near Sacramento, to 9000-foot peaks near Squaw Valley and Lake Tahoe |
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[Placer County information, history, maps, etc., available online at http://www.placer.ca.gov]. |
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Timeline: “John M. McAninch” and “James M. McAninch” Families in Placer County, |
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San Francisco, and Alameda County, California, and gold in Manhattan, Nye County, Nevada |
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1860 |
John M. McAninch was born Feb. 1860, in (northern) Ireland [Notes 1, 3, 4, 6, 17, 18] |
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John, 23 in 1880 [1], 40, b.”Feb. 1860” in 1900 [3], 50 in 1910 [4], and 57 in 1920 [6] |
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b.Ireland [1,3,4,6,17,18] [prob. County Antrim, see www.mcaninch.net > Surname > |
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A Look at the Mc(ac)A/I/Ninch(sh) Surname(s), Where They Might be from in Ireland] |
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1863 |
James M. McAninch was born ca.1863-1866, in (northern) Ireland |
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James, age 47 in the 1910 census [Note 5], and 54 in the 1920 census [Note 7] |
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1876 |
Immigration, John M. McAninch (age ~16) [per 1920 census, Note 6] |
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1877 |
Immigration, James M. McAninch (age ~13-14) [per 1920 census, Note 7] |
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1880 |
John McAninch, single, living in Sacramento [Note 1]; James, not found in 1880 [2] |
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1884 |
John M. McAninch, Naturalization, 22 July 1884, Superior Court, Placer County [8] |
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1884 |
1884, 1886 and 1888: John registered to vote, Forest Hill, Placer County, California [8] |
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1886 |
Butcher Ranch, Placer County, was a farming settlement located on Stony Hill Turnpike |
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about 10 miles east of Auburn. A post office was established here in 1871. By the early |
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1880's, the settlement also included a drug store, hotel, and blacksmith shop. The post |
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office was discontinued in 1935. [http://genealogytrails.com/cal/placer/towns.html] |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XXII n.2 / Sept. 2014 / Copyright Frank McAninch / pg.2014-14 |