Early William McAninch's in Kentucky and Tennessee    


There are at least nine different William McAninch's in early Kentucky and Tennessee.


First Generation: two McA/Ninch’s from early western Pennsylvania to Kentucky   

There were six different ‘First Generation’ McA/Ninch’s in early western Pennsylvania [Note 1].

Two of these men, Daniel McAninch (b.1750-1755) and William McAninch (b.bef.1765), are

related (brothers?, or cousins?), and went down the Great Valley to Kentucky together [Note 2].


1G.1.

Daniel McAninch, born 1750-1755, Ireland [prob. County Antrim, Ulster Province,

in Ky

(northern) Ireland]; Westmoreland County, 1790 [First Census of the United States];


down the Shenandoah Valley, eastern Tennessee, and through the Cumberland Gap


into Kentucky; one of the McAninch pioneers in Lincoln County and Casey County,


Kentucky [Notes 3,4]. Daniel's five known sons founded McAninch family lines in

southern Kentucky, Giles County, Tennessee, central Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa.



Sons:

1. John McAninch, b.1779-1780 (Pennsylvania?), mar. Patsy Cooper, 7 Oct. 1801,


    Pulaski County, went to Giles County, Tennessee [Note 5], died prob. bef. 1750


    [ten children, including second son, William, b.1805-1810, prob. Casey County]



2. Samuel McAninch, b.ca.5 Feb. 1789, Pennsylvania, mar. (Mary) Polly Skidmore,


    5 July 1813, Lincoln County, and they went to Hendricks County, Indiana [Note 6]


    [thirteen children, including William S. (Skidmore) McAninch, b.5 Mar. 1835,


     Hendricks County, mar. Mary Maria Johnson, went to Iowa after the Civil War]




3. George A. McAninch, b.1794, Tennessee (Virginia), mar. Mary Elizabeth Ross,


    17 Feb. 1817, Casey County; patriarch of McAninch families in Kentucky


    [seven children, including second son William 'Berry' McAninch, b.1820, in


     Casey County, mar. Nancy Ann Morgan, and they remained in Casey County]



4. Daniel McAninch, b.ca.1796, Kentucky, mar. Dorcas Burks, 8 Jan. 1822, Mercer


    County, and they went to Putnam County and Hendricks County, Indiana [Note 6]


    [eight children, first child William A. McAninch, b.1822, prob. Mercer County,


     went to Indiana, mar. Elenora E. Kelley, died 1885, Hendricks County, Indiana]




5. Henry[?] McAninch, b.1802-1804, prob. Lincoln County, Kentucky, went south


    (with brother John and father Daniel) to Giles County, Tennessee, with multiple


    land records there, two children under 5 (b.1825-1830) on the 1830 census, then


    McNairy County, Tennessee, 1840, and possibly west to Searcy County, Arkansas]


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McAninch Family History NL v.XXIII n.1 / April 2015/ Copyright Frank McAninch / pg.2015-02


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