James McChain and Margaret Kelley

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Husband James McChain ¹

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           Born: 1812 - Ballywater, County Down, Ireland 1
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           Died:  - Union Twp, Washington Co, PA
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         Father: Hugh McChain (      -      ) 1
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Wife Margaret Kelley ¹

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           Died:  - Union Twp, Washington Co, PA
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Children

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1 M John McChain ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: when twelve years old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Maria McChain ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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3 F Sarah McChain ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: Bef 1910
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4 F Margaret McChain ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: Bef 1910
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5 F Elizabeth McChain ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: Bef 1910
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6 M John McChain ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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7 M James McChain ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: Bef 1910
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8 M Hugh McChain ¹

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           Born:  - America
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9 M Edward McChain ¹

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           Born:  - America
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           Died: Bef 1910
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10 M William McChain ¹

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           Born:  - America
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11 F Rachel McChain ¹

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           Born:  - America
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           Died: Bef 1910
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12 M Robert Campbell McChain ^{1 2}

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           Born: 18 Sep 1859 - Union Twp, Washington Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Alice Sarah Finley (      -      ) 1 2
           Marr: 24 Sep 1885 1

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General Notes: Husband - James McChain

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He was for some time a sailor; he also learned the shoemaking trade, later became a limestone dealer and contractor and owned two lime kilns. During his life on the water he served as a pilot for boats on the channel. In 1832 he came to America. Lack of means did not prevent his seeing a large part of the country. He was a good pedestrian and visited Boston, New York and Philadelphia, and from the latter city made his way on foot over the mountains to Pittsburgh. On the following Christmas Day he started back to the East and finally reached St. John's, New Brunswick, where he shipped as a sailor before the mast on a vessel bound for his native land, and in the course of some weeks reached Ireland. Shortly afterward he was married and he and his wife remained in Ireland for a number of years after their marriage. In 1848, when the youngest child was about eight months old, the family took passage for America on the ship "Standard," and after a voyage of four weeks were safely landed in the United States. Mr. McChain took his family to Pittsburgh, but not in the same way that he had previously made the journey, a part of the distance this time being traversed on the canal. After a short time in Allegheny County, removal was made to Washington County, where Mr. McChain followed shoemaking in Nottingham Township until 1855, when he moved to Finleyville. About two years later he went to Twelve-Mile House, in Allegheny County, and then bought a tract of eleven acres at the foot of Ginger Hill, in Carroll Township, but in 1859 he sold his little farm and moved with his family back to Ireland. He was not content there, however, and in a few months again returned to America and later bought a farm of ninety acres, situated in Union Township, and there the rest of his life was passed in the peaceful pursuits of agriculture, and on that farm both he and his wife died.

1 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1160.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 908.