We know that the Adair family moved from Cottonwood, MN to Livingston County, New York. But I have also found the following: Andrew Gardner of Buffalo, New York and William Gardner of Detroit, Michigan, visiting their cousin, Elma Buchanan.
Thank you for the above. I was unaware of the information about William Gardner, (Detroit, Michigan) and Andrew (Buffalo) visiting their cousin Elma Buchanan, nee McCauley. The brothers, William and Andrew are sons of William John Gardner who was a younger brother of Elma’s mother, Agnes McCauley, nee Gardner.
Best website to use is Fultonhistory.com This site has a lot of digitalized newspapers dealing with the Mt. Morris, Groveland, Geneseo, and Sonyear areas. Other related families from Antrim are Service (Servis), McTarnaghan, and Beggs.
I have delved into the Fultonhistory site which is brilliant. The Service (Servis) family are of interest as I believe Sarah Service, nee Gardner, who married John Service is part of my Gardner tree. There are Beggs connections also. The McTarnahan’s are completely unknown to me.
The main question is how were these two Gardners related to the Andrew Gardner who lived in Cottonwood.
I have thought long and hard about the above question.
The Cottonwood Andrew’s parents were John Gardner and Mary Ann McNeight (McKnight).
Livingston’s Agnes McAuley nee Gardner’s parents were John and Mary (nee Mackey) Gardner.
The Cottonwood Andrew and Livingston County Agnes could only be related through their Gardner grandfathers, Thomas and Andrew, or a generation or two further back. (I’ve ignored the possibility of a sibling marriage as too difficult at the moment.)
There could be a connection through Cottonwood Andrew’s wife Jane, nee McAuley, and Livingston County’s David McCauley, husband of the above mentioned Agnes.
It looks like the Livingston County’s David McCauley’s parents were Robert and Eliza (Service) McCauley married 23 May 1848. Robert’s parents were supposedly John McCawley and Jane Gardner. This possibility rang a bell.
Cottonwood’s Jane Gardner’s (nee McCauley) parents were James (d 1874) and Ellen (nee Killen) McAuley of Ardymagh. Who were James of Ardymagh’s parents?
Could they be the John and Jane McCawley, farmer, of Ardymagh who featured in “Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland” - “Some recent Cases of Remarkable Longevity” published in 1893?
The article stated that Jane died aged 97 on 12 July and John at 103 on 12 August. No years mentioned. To verify this I searched for evidence of John and Jane’s deaths in Ireland Civil Registration, up to 1893, but could find no match with their names, ages or dates. Maybe there was a mixture of fact and fiction in the article as with many family stories.
I also noted that the 1813 Ballyeaston Census has a John and Jane McAuley both aged 39 yrs and chn: David 9, Elisabeth 8, Jane 5,
James 3 and Ann ½ living in Lower Glenwhirry.
My brain almost burnt out trying to find a Cottonwood/ Livingston County connection so I hope you can make sense of this. Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree and I have missed, or misinterpreted, some piece of information that could prove my speculation over James and Jane McCawley of Ardymagh as complete nonsense. You have far more knowledge of the McAuley’s than I have so I am interested in your thoughts.
Happy New Year.
KiwiRose.