This is the Elliot side of the family picking hops and it was presumably taken in 1895 in Leicester, New York where Mary Helena hailed from. The man on the far left (with the impressive beard, is almost certainly John Elliot (1835-1915) and it is possible that the woman second from the right is SophiaContinue reading “The Elliots from Leicester, New York”
Category Archives: McLain history
Mama’s don’t let your babies grow up to be Fultons
Trying to reconstruct a McLain family tree before the 1860s is pretty impossible. Not only are the records pre-1860 not easy to locate but this task is made even more difficult by the fact that every McLain descendent of the first guy who made it to the USofA wanted to name one of their kidsContinue reading “Mama’s don’t let your babies grow up to be Fultons”
Henry’s boys
Why is this website called Henry’s boys? Well we had to start somewhere and Henry McLain is the ancestor the oldest of us can just about remember. Henry was born in the USA in Michigan right after the Civil War in 1866 and lived until 1942. He Mary Helena Elliot in 1894 and they hadContinue reading “Henry’s boys”
McLain family
This is a new website that we – Doug and Sylvia – have made to keep track of all of the McLain family history we have found in old suitcases. Doug came up with the title, Henry McLain was Doug’s grandfather and Mary Helena Elliot McLain was his grandmother. Henry and Mary had four sonsContinue reading “McLain family”
McLain family tree
Here is the McLain family tree, we think. We’ve stuck with the people that made it to the USA and have ignored our forefathers. The majority of them seemed to show up in New York or New England from County Antrim in Northern Ireland. They seem like suitably dour folks, non-drinkers and pretty conservative. HopefullyContinue reading “McLain family tree”
Henry's boys 