Just as most of the McClungs who immigrated to the U.S., Most of our Canadian cousins also came from Ireland. This family also has the tradition that the father of this clan was from Scotland. One of the descendants of this group was the famous suffragette, Nellie McClung. She is found in this record. This family was recorded in the McClung Genealogy, 1904, as the Toronto McClungs (page 249).
This man was born 1730 in Parish of Fintona, Ireland. He was the Great Grandfather of Rev
James A McClung father-in-law of Nellie Letitia (Mooney) McClung.
The first known son was born 1760, Dover, Ireland. He married a Miss McClung (a relative)
who was born in Lived in Townland of Drumdery near Fintona, Ireland. He lived to be over
90 years old. They had five known children.
The first child of James Adam McClung and his wife was born in Ireland in 1780. He
married Elenor Harper. He died in Canada at an advanced age.
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The second child of James Adam McClung and his wife was born in Ireland in 1782. He emigrated
to Canada in 1842. He settled 40 miles from Toronto. He died at age 60. He was
married and had five children and four sons.
The first son of John McClung. He married ? MCCLUNG.
The first child of John McClung
The second child of John McClung
The third child of John McClung
The fourth child of John McClung
The fifth child of John McClung
The sixth child of John McClung
The second child of John McClung m. JAMES MCFEETER.
The third child of John McClung married JOHN GREY. They had one child: JOHN5 GREY.
The third child of James Adam McClung and wife was born in Ireland ca 1785. He moved to
Canada late in life. He died in Canada at a very old age.
The fourth child of James Adam McClung and wife was born ca 1790 in Ireland. He had three
sons who were born in Ireland. He married a Miss McClung. He was the grandfather-in-law of
Nellie Letitia (Mooney) McClung. They had ten children:
The first child of James McClung was born ca 1822. He married ELIZABETH PARKER. He farmed
near Tay Township near Midland Ontario, Canada. They had six children.
The first child of Robert and Elizabeth Parker McClung was born 1872. He md ELIZABETH
SYKES. He farmed in Tay Township between Midland and Vasey. He had a son, Harold.
The first child of Harper and Elizabeth Sykes McClung. He was a farmer.
The second child of Harper and Elizabeth Sykes McClung. He was a farmer.
The third child of Harper and Elizabeth Sykes McClung. Orville McClung also farmed there.
Orville moved to Wyebridge and owned a garage and insurance business there.
The second child of Robert and Elizabeth Parker McClung was born in Ontario.
The third child of Robert and Elizabeth Parker McClung was born in Ontario.
The fourth child of Robert and Elizabeth Parker McClung was born in Ontario.
The fifth child of Robert and Elizabeth Parker McClung was born in Ontario.
The sixth child of Robert and Elizabeth Parker McClung was born in Ontario.
The second child of James McClung was born ca 1824. He md a Miss WRIGHT.
The third child of James McClung was born ca 1826.
The fourth child of James McClung was born ca 1828. He md. MARY BROWN.
The fifth child of James McClung was born ca 1830. She married SAMUEL NEWSOM. They
had one child, MARY NEWSOM.
The sixth child of James McClung was born ca 1833.
The seventh child of James McClung was born ca 1835.
The eighth child of James McClung was born ca 1835. He married MARTHA. They had one
child.
The first child of Thomas and Martha McClung married FRANK DOWLEY.
The tenth child of James McClung was born March 21, 1837, in Ireland. He died ca 1919,
at Winnipeg, Manitoba. He married Annie E. Meharry 1870 in County Cavan, Ontario County,
Canada, daughter of ROBERT4 MEHARRY and LETITIA4 BLACKSTOCK. She was born April 03, 1849
in Cavan Twp., Durham Ontario, Canada. In the 1901 census, he stated that he immigrated to
Canada from Ireland in 1842. He was a Methodist minister.
The following is the Minsterial background of Rev. James A. McClung from the Encyclopedia
of Methodism in Canada, Vols. 1&2, has yielded the following information about his career
in ministry with the Methodist Church:
The Encyclopedia gives no further biographical information, nor do we have a biographical
file here at the Archives. However, it does suggest a good place to start would be the
Cartwright area of Ontario. Also, you might try contacting the Central Archives of the
United Church for a possible biographical file or obituary.
James A McClung retired from the Methodist Church Ministry and moved to Winnipeg in 1901
he was still very much alive in 1914 and fighting vigorously for women's rights in the
Methodist Church.
CHURCHES OF CHIPPEWA COUNTY AND THEIR HISTORY Taken from the Illustrated Atlas of Sault
Ste. Marie, MICHIGAN, USA, by Sauer - 1888. (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH SAULT ST. MARIE
ONTARI0)
The Methodist Church ws organized here in 1864 by Rev. Samuel Down. The following is a
list of the ministers: Revs. Samuel Down, Samuel Fear, E.S. Curry, Thomas Cleworth, P.S.
Will. A.R. Campbell, J. Anderson, N.A. McDermid, and the present minister, " Rev. J.A.
McClung". Their church edifice on Pim Street, cost about $2,000. Present number of
communicants 53.
Later we find Rev. James A. McClung performing a baptism in January 1871 in Wesleyan,
Alberta, Canada:
Wesleyan Methodist Baptismal Register... Mother, Residence, Birthplace, Birthdate, Bapt-date,
Bapt-place, Minister. ...
S. Howard, Fallis, James, Elizabeth, Manvers, Manvers, 1871-05-01, 1871-01-01, Manvers,
McClung ...Pages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin/wm-f_4.htm - 24k - Cached - Similar pages
3 284 Durham Co. Manvers Twp. Elizabeth Fallis Thomas Lydia Manvers Manvers 1864-01-14
1871-07-03 Manvers McClung, Rev. J. A
REV-JAMES MCCLUNG and ANNIE MEHARRY had at least five children.
The first child of Rev. James A. and Annie Meharry McClungs was born 7 June 1870, at
Manvers Township, Duraham County, Ontario Canada.
The second child of Rev. James A. and Annie Meharry McClungs was born October 31, 1871,
Manvers Township, Duraham County, Ontario Canada; d. 1 Nov 1958, Saanich, British
Columbia, Canada. He md. (NELLIE) ELLEN LETITIA MOONEY, August 25, 1896, Manitou,
Manitobia, Canada; b. October 20, 1873, Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada; d. September 01,
1951, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
The Mooney family emigrated from Ontario to the Canadian West in 1880 to homestead south of
Brandon, Manitoba. Nellie attended school from age ten to fifteen. At age sixteen, in 1889,
she completed Normal School (teacher training).
When Nellie was hired to teach in the small town of Manitou in 1890, she boarded with the
Methodist minister, Reverend James McClung and his wife Annie. Mrs. McClung, who was
president of the local chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was at first a
mentor and later, a mother-in-law. Nellie married Robert Wesley McClung in 1896.
When Nellie McClung was born, as Helen Letitia Mooney, in Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada, in
1873, she was not a person under Canadian law. Nor was her mother a person. Women were
denied certain rights that men enjoyed, including the right to vote. In law, we were
economically dependant on father or spouse. If we inherited property, our husbands owned
it. If the husband died, the widow could be left penniless, to raise children in poverty.
We were excluded from many careers, including politics, the law, or medicine. However,
there was one woman doctor practicing in Ontario, without a licence. Thus Nellie Mooney
was born into a world of inequity. But it was a world that some reformers were determined
to change; and, they were willing to flout the law when the law was wrong.
Nellie died Sept 1, 1951 at the age of 77 years after being in a coma for forty some hours.
The second child of Rev. James A. and Annie E. Meharry McClung was born in Canada in 1874.
She married Charles Percy Anderson.
The third child of Rev. James A. and Annie E. Meharry McClung was born in 1878 in Canada. He
married Gladys Myrtle Cochrane who was born in 1889.
The fourth child of Rev. James A. and Annie E. Meharry McClung was born in 1875. He married
Jessie Emma Parker.
The fifth child of Rev. James A. and Annie E. Meharry McClung was born in 1880.