Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Anthony Keith Gagliani
Ancestors of Anthony Keith Gagliani
486.George Ash/Aske, born 1730 in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England; died Unknown.He was the son of 972. Thomas Ash.
Child of George Ash/Aske is:
| 243 | i. | Ann Ash, born 1752 in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England; died 22 Mar 1835 in Oxford Junction, NS; married Matthew Johnson 07 Nov 1772 in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England. |
488.Jean George Mattatall, born 1732 in Glay, Montebeilard, France; died Unknown.He was the son of 976. Jean Nicolas Metadal (Mattatall) and 977. Ann Catherine Mettetal (Mattatall).He married 489. Catherine Iselin 26 Jun 1760 in Lunenburg, NS.
489.Catherine Iselin, born in Montebeilard, France; died Unknown.She was the daughter of 978. Jean Pierre Iselin and 979. Elisabeth Jeand'heur.
| Notes for Catherine Iselin: JEAUNNE, RIGOLEAULT, MATATTAL, ISELIN Pierre Jeaunné arrived aboard the Speedwell 1752.His wife Charlotte (Lovy)died in 1756 and he remarried an Alexandrina Iselin.There were several children which included Jean Georges Jeaunné.It is reported in "The Foreign Protestants" that he was carried away by Indians. It would appear that some of the children who called themselves Jeaunné were actually Rigoleault's from Charlotte's first marriage to Jean Urbain Rigoleault.One of these children Frederick is sometimes shown in records as Jeaunné and later on goes back to Rigoleault, his father's name. There is sometimes confusion as there were two Frederick Rigoleault's, one who married Maria Louisa Silber and another who married Margaret Elizabeth Arenburg.One Frederick is the son of Charlotte Jeaunné and the other is the son of Vernier Rigoleault.I have no idea which is which. After the death of his wife, Charlotte, Pierre married Alexandrine Iselin, daughter of Jean Pierre Iselin and Elisabeth Jeand'heur.Alexandrine had a sister Catherine, who married Jean George Mettetal, a brother, Pierre Etienne who married Susanna Maillard and a brother, Jacques who died young. Elisabeth married a second time to Jacques Malmahu Oct 1753. |
Children of Jean Mattatall and Catherine Iselin are:
| i. | John George Mattatall, born 1761; died Unknown; married Marguerite Langille; born 1766; died Unknown. | |||
| ii. | Elizabeth Catherine Mattatall, born 1764; died Unknown. | |||
| iii. | Marie Catherine Mattatall, born 1765; died Unknown. | |||
| 244 | iv. | John Peter Mattatall, born 1767 in Lunenburg, NS; died 1859 in Tatamagouche, NS; married Catherine Bigney. | ||
| v. | Susanna Catherine Mattatall, born 1768; died 13 Nov 1849; married John Frederick Langille; born 1761; died 01 Sep 1852. |
490.Jacques Biguenet (Bigney), born 1732 in Montebeilard, France; died Unknown.He married 491. Mary Calame 07 May 1754 in Lunenburg, NS.
491.Mary Calame, born 1734; died Unknown.She was the daughter of 982. Abraham Calame and 983. Susanne Berlet.
Child of Jacques (Bigney) and Mary Calame is:
| 245 | i. | Catherine Bigney, born 05 Feb 1765 in Lunenburg, NS; died Unknown; married John Peter Mattatall. |
492.Christopher Mingo, born Abt. 1730 in Basel, Switzerland; died Unknown.
Notes for Christopher Mingo:
Christopher Mingo may have fought with Jean George Tattrie in the Battle of Fontenoy. It is said that Christopher was a Swiss soldier. Jean George Tattrie was born about 1722 and was granted land by DesBarres, himself from Montbeliard.
George Tattrie and his children came early to Tatamagouche. His daughter married a John Mingo in 1753. George Tattrie deeded his farm to him together with one yoke of oxen, three cows, one calf and six sheep, "in consideration of his great affection" for him.
Peter Millard came, he fought alongside Tattrie in the Battle of Fontenay. Peter's land was near Ross' Point.
All of these people settled in the same area.
Battle of Fontenoy
War of the Austrian Succession 1740-1748
A series of wars whichbegan when England declared war on Spain in 1739. France sided with Spain in August of 1740
One of the most famous battles in the War of the Austrian succession
It was fought at a small village of the same name in western Belgium. Here on May 11, 1745, the French under Marshal Saxe [Hermann Maurice de Saxe] defeated the Allies under the Duke of Cumberland with very heavy losses on both sides.
This reopened thestruggle between Britain and France for Colonial and Naval supremacy. War was not openly declared until 1744.
When Emperor Charles VI died on October 20, 1740, itraised the question of the Austrian succession to the throne. Maria Theresa was to succeed Charles, as ruler of the Hapsburg dominions.Frederick of Prussia marched his armies into the province in Decemer 1740. Eventually, Austria, Bohemia, England, France, Spain and several other smaller countris became involved.
After the Battle of Fontenoy, the French gained a major success in the conquest ofthe Austrian Netherlands by Comte Hermann Maurice de Saxe May 11, 1745. Great Britain and France suffered great financial losses after the turmoil, and agreed in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle on October 18, 1748, and the territories in question were divided up once more.
Child of Christopher Mingo is:
| 246 | i. | Matthew Mingo, born Abt. 1755 in Philadelphia, PA; died Unknown in River John, NS; met MicMac Woman 1780 in River John, NS. |
508.James Richards, born Abt. 1718 in Angus, Scotland; died Unknown.He was the son of 1016. James Richart and 1017. Jean Whyte.He married 509. Rachel Taylor 1742 in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland.
509.Rachel Taylor, born Abt. 1720 in Innepeffaray, Perthshire, Scotland; died Unknown.She was the daughter of 1018. Joseph Taylor and 1019. Katherine Paterson.
Child of James Richards and Rachel Taylor is:
| 254 | i. | Joseph Richards, born 20 Mar 1742/43 in Perthshire, Scotland; died Unknown; married Catherine McLellan in Pictou, NS. |
510.Anthony McLellan, born 1720 in Colmonell, Ayrshire, Scotland; died 1786 in Durham, NS.He was the son of 1020. Thomas McClellan and 1021. Elizabeth Alexander.He married 511. Julia.
511.Julia, born in Northern Ireland; died Unknown.
Notes for Anthony McLellan:
The McLellan family springs from two distinct origins, both with strong connections with Scotland and the northern parts of Ireland, one possibly being ultimately of Irish origin.
There was a sept of the Ui Fiachrach seated in Co. Sligo called Mac Giolla Fhaoláin - son of the follower of Saint Fillan. The name was first anglicised MacGillilan and MacGilliland which is a phonetic approximation to the Irish form. This in due course became MacClellan, MacClelland, MacClelan, MacCleland, MacLellan, MacLelland, and so on and as a result of the tendency to drop gaelic prefixes under English pressure in the seventh century, Clellan, Clelland, Lellan, Lelland, Cleland, Leland and even Leyland, though it is important to note that some of these forms have alternate origins.
Writing in the nineteenth century John O'Donovan stated that this sept was then extinct and that all persons of the name in Ireland were Ulster Scots. This may well be true since not only did the great majority of the births registered for the name in all the years for which we have detailed statistics in the nineteenth century take place in north-east Ulster but also Petty's "census", made some two centuries earlier, indicates that the name was then found chiefly in Co. Derry (baronies of Keenagh and Coleraine) and in Antrim (barony of Belfast). It appears there with and without the final "d" but always with initial "C" not "L". However, the name may well have been taken from Ireland to Scotland originally, as part of the colonisation of that country by the Ulster septs of Ireland, from where it was re-introduced during the seventeenth century Plantation.
Little is known of the origin of the name in Scotland except that it was in Gaelic originally Mac Gille Fhaolain, 'son of the devotee of Saint Fillan' exactly as in Ireland. It is recorded as numerous in Galloway (whence hailed so many of the Plantation settlers) from the end of the fourteenth century. The lack of history before this time lends weight to the possibility of its Irish origin, though at least one source claims the clan to be of ancient Pictish origin - without offering any evidence for this. The original anglicised form was Maclellan and the family gave their name to Balmaclellan in the Stewartry. Another possible origin of the name in Scotland relates to Patrick, son of Gilbert M'Lolane, who was one of the band of landed gentry who took Dumfries Castle from the supporters of King Robert I (the Bruce) in 1306 after the murder of John Comyn.
In Ireland the name is common only in Ulster, where it is fairly well distributed, main centres being in counties Antrim, Down, Armagh, Derry and Monaghan. It should be added that MacClelland is included by the enumerators as an Irish not a Scottish name in those two counties; but since such obviously non-Irish names as Boyd, Bell, Eccles, Fulton and Miller are classed by them as Irish I think this fact may be disregarded.
Sir Robert MacLellan of Bomby (died 1639), who had been knighted at an early age, was Provost of Kirkcudbright in 1607, whereupon he embarked on a career of riotous (and violent) living and profligacy. He was one of the nine Scottish chief undertakers of the Plantation of Ulster. He was initially granted lands in the baronies of Boylagh and Banagh in Donegal but sold his property there to John Murray in 1616. He married a Montgomery and settled in the old O'Neill lands in Down to which he brought many of his MacClelland relatives as tenants. He leased lands in Derry adjoining the portions of the London guilds of Haberdashers and of Clothworkers and administered them from his castle at Ballycastle in Co. Antrim. In 1633 he was made Lord Kirkcudbright, possibly for being useful to the Government while tending his estates in Ireland. After his death the title passed through the MacLellans of Glenshinnoch, Auchlane, and Balmangan to William MacLellan of Borness, 6th Lord, who was an Edinburgh glover and died in about 1765. The title became dormant in 1832.
Another notable man of the name in Ireland was Thomas Leland (1772-1785), the historian and donor of the manuscript of the Annals of Loch Ce (a primary source frequently mentioned by all leading Irish family historians) to the library of Trinity College, Dublin.
John Leland (died 1552), the earliest of the modern English antiquaries, does not appear to have had any connection with Ireland.
The second form to be considered is Cleland, distinguished by being almost invariably found with a single "l" in the middle and without the "Mac" or "Mc" prefix. This would seem to be on non-Gaelic origin and possibly founded by Alexander Kneland, whose wife was Margaret Wallace. Alexander's eldest son, John, was cousin, through his mother, to William Wallace and fought with him at Stirling Bridge, High Street Glasgow and Falkirk.
Several branches of the family are found in the area at Monkland, Faskine, Glenhoofe, Blairlin, Stonypath, Little Hareshaw, Stonehouse and Lesmahagow and so numerous was the clan that the whole area became know as Cleland.
How the name changed from Kneland to Cleland is unclear, but in 1444 there is a record of Cleulande de Clelandtoun. Lt. Col. William Cleland, Covenanter and Commanding officer of the Earl of Angus's Regiment known as the Cameronians (later to be known as the Scottish Rifles), was killed at the Battle of Dunkeld (21st August 1689).
Along with the MacClellands, many Cleland families were transplanted to Ulster in the seventeenth century, but do not appear to have risen to the same level of prominence.
Children of Anthony McLellan and Julia are:
| 255 | i. | Catherine McLellan, born in Londonderry, County Derry, Ireland; died Unknown; married Joseph Richards in Pictou, NS. | ||
| ii. | James McLellan, died 1793. | |||
| iii. | Anthony McLellan, died Unknown; married Eleanor Brydone; died Unknown. | |||
| iv. | Janet McLellan, died Unknown; married John Collie; born in West River, NS; died Unknown. | |||
| v. | Ann McLellan, born 1759; died 03 Dec 1851; married (1) William Smith; born 1750; died Unknown; married (2) Donald MacLeod; born 1763; died Unknown. |
| More About Ann McLellan: Burial: 1851, Durham Cemetery, Durham, NS |