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Surnames: Cain, Mishaw, Gipson, Day, McLean, Irwin, Cook, Dewolf, Dewolfe
Classification: Query
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This is a quote from an email from Don and Jewell Irwin, Cain descendant:
In 1805 a man by the name of John Whelan settled in Chaffey's Locks and
that is where George " Cornelius" Cain's wife, Martha Matilda Whelan
came from.
Cornelius's dad was Patrick Cain, born in Ireland, and Agnes Mishaw, who
was born in Quebec in 1814.
Cornelius's children were:
1-Jane Cain
2-Alexander Cain married Grace Irwin, daughter of Montrose Hamilton
Irwin and Margaret Cook.
3-Agnes Cain m William/ "Wilby" DeWolf/DeWolfe, then Dick Young.
4-Jessie Cain m Robert Irwin, son of Montrose Hamilton Irwin and
Margaret Cook, my grandparents.
5-Lena Cain
6- Harriet "Hattie" Cain m James Hartwell McLean.No known Children.
7-Sarah Cain m Willard Day, not William.
8-Mary Marion Ethel "May" Cain m Gordon Milford Day, a brother to
Willard.
9-George Edward Cain/Caine m Florence Gipson.