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What I am saying is that researchers have chosen the wrong individual as our ancestor.
There were 5 Nicholas Cain's on the Isle of Man at about the same time. I have been
able to eliminate all but one of those Nicholas'. The Nicholas (whose parents were
Daniel & Margaret McBooy) that everyone is counting as our Nicholas died when he was
10 years old. So he can't possibly be our man. In 1974 I found a Nicholas Cain in
Bucks Co. PA. Since then I have never been able to find where he had come from. There is
no proof anywhere. Some have tied on to the hopes that he was the Nicholas Carn on the
Pink Pliasance. I'm not convinced of that. I need more proof. I have been able to
document our Nicholas Cain from the time he appears in Bucks County, PA up until he died
and have been able to trace many of his children and their descendants. But Nicholas'
parentage still remains a mystery. That is why I started the Cain DNA Project through
Family Tree DNA in 2004. But that !
hasn't proven anything for us except that we are related to all the children of
Nicholas that we knew about before. It shows that we probably came from Ireland at some
point in time. I still have hopes that the one remaining Nicholas Cain on the Isle of Man
is our fellow. But so far, I have not been able to find any documentation. I have even
given basic data to the researchers at the LDS Church and they have come to the same
conclusion that the one remaining Nicholas on the Isle of Man is our ancestor. But I
still want actual documentation. That Nicholas was born in 1693 to William Cain. He
married and had 3 children then left the Isle of Man about 1725. One child had already
died by then. We think the wife died shortly after leaving the Isle of Man and the other
2 children were raised by someone else. There has never been a marriage record found for
Nicholas marrying Catherine, so we don't know what her last name was. Again other
researchers have grasped on to !
the ideas that she was the Catherine on the Pink Pliasance. I'm not c
onvinced of that either. We are not of German descent as some have said we are. DNA has
proven that. So there are just as many unanswered questions now as there were in 1974
when I started my quest on Nicholas. There have been other books written on Nicholas and
many websites have information, but there is no actual documentation for any of their
theories.
Shirley J. Cain Evans
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