McClinton Sisters in Ireland
These three
McClinton sisters, Mary, Isabelle and Ellen, remained in N. Ireland with
their parents, Samuel McClinton and Margaret Torney. The photographs of
the sisters below were passed on to the author of these pages by the
McClinton branch in the United States but we are not positive as to
whose name belongs to which photograph. We do know that Mary was
born in 1814 in Killyleagh, County Down, N. Ireland and she
married October 7, 1835 to John Gowdy. Isabelle was born in 1820
and was married in 1845 to James Patterson in Raffrey, County Down,
N. Ireland. Ellen was born in 1824 and married February 18, 1842 in
Killinchy, County Down, to John Wallace.
Their eldest sister Elizabeth and brothers Samuel, Hugh, Peter and
Robert Sylvester all came to Canada in the 1850's. Over the course of
the next 150 years, contact with the Irish McClinton descendents has
been lost. Any information concerning this branch of the McClinton
family would be very much appreciated. To contact us please click on
the e-mail icon at the bottom of the page. Thank you.
