Notes for (John) MCILVAIN

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Notes for (John) MCILVAIN

The last name was spelled Mucklewaine in early records, as well asseveral other variants, but always pronounced the same. It is one ofthe oldest family names in Scotland and one of the first ten Macs.

While this man may or may not have come to America with his son as ourearliest immigrant ancestor, there are a few things known aboutearlier ancestors in Scotland:

"John Macilvaine, living in 1632, married Anna Corrie of the Corriesof Kelwood, who inherited the estates of her family by the death ofher brother. She died in February 1632, her will is in the registersoffice at Edinburgh.

John Macilvaine of Grimet, son of John MacIlvaine and Anna Corrie isbelieved to have married a Cunningham, niece of William, Earl ofGlencairn. She is mentioned in the will of Quentin MacIlvaine inconnection with his nephews, 'the young sons of John MacIlvaine ofGrimet.' Quentin MacIlvaine made disposition of Thomaston in hispossession, having been sold for the payment of fines and debts. JohnMacIlvaine died September 21, 1669. His son, John, succeeded toGrimet, but with him the property passed from the family as a resultof their being Covenanters.

At this time religious persecutions forced the family to take refugefor a short time in the north of Ireland, making their home by theshores of Loughneagh in Ulster. Until 1692 their names are to befound on the records of Old Kerk as members of the sessions. Their
names appear on almost all of the documents signed by the gentry andknown as the "Solemn League and Covenant." It was during thepersecution of the covenanters in the war resulting in the death ofKing Charles the First, of England, that the property of the
MacIlvaines passed from their hands. One of the descendants of JohnMacIlvaine who shortly returned to Ayrshire was Joseph McIlvaine, bornabout 1700."

A McElvain descendant, Frank McElvain of Topeka, KS, in 1945 said hehad documentary records of the family back to Nigel McYlveyne, Lairdof Grimet, Scotland, about 1399. He visited the old estates and theRecord House in Edinburgh in 1919 while serving in the Army ofOccupation.

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