McANARNEY, John ²

   Other names for John were McANAIRINE, John,⁵ McANARNAY, John,⁶ McANINY, John,⁷ McIMERY, John ⁷ and McINERY, John.⁷

  General Notes:

In the marriage certificate of his daughter, Mary, in 1861 John was recorded as deceased, and John's occupation was noted as coal miner.

When Sarah McAnairine (sic) died in 1891 her death certificate recorded her "married to John McAnairine Drainer".

Note: the fact that the Registrar noted Sarah as "married to" and not "widow of" suggests, according to normal practice in Scottish death certificates that her husband survived her. This creates an anomaly since Sarah was, in earlier census records, recorded as a widow. It may be that John did die before 1851 and the death certificate phrase was an error; or it may be that the couple separated or John deserted the family, John's whereabouts were in any case unknown, and his daughter Mary, the informant, could not answer to the Registrar for certain that her father was dead. ^{5 7 8}

  Research Notes:

LOOKING FOR JOHN

It may or may not be relevant to this family that a child named Mary Ann McAnarney was born on 16 July 1861 in Ayr, parents John McAnarney and Mary Campbell. No marriage has been found for the couple, but they do appear in the 1861 census for St Quivox parish Ayrshire with a son John, aged 2 years, born in Ireland. A man called John Campbell was a boarder with them. The father John McAnarney was born in Ireland, but recorded as only 30 years of age. He and Mary McAnarney are both noted as aged 30 years, so it is just possible the ages are a guess and not necessarily entirely accurate.

There are other McAnarneys, McInerneys, Mcnarnies and other variants to be found through the Ayrshire documents as well as in many other areas of Scotland and England. ⁹

John married Sarah MARSHALL, daughter of Robert MARSHALL and Agnes LOGAN, in 1842 in St Margaret's RC Chapel, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (Sarah MARSHALL was born on 24 Jan 1814 in Kilmarnock Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland ⁷ and died 10 March 1891 at 6.10 am in 24 High Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland ⁵.). The cause of her death was cancer of the gullet over 6 months.

  Marriage Notes:

Roman Catholic Records
St Margaret's RC Parish Airdrie Lanarkshire
Marriages

"1842
Jno McAnarney
&
Sarah Marshal
John McAnarney and Sarah Marshal were married by me according to the rites of the Church and regular proclamation of Banns on (blank) day of (blank) 1842 in presence of Hugh Kelly and Eliza Brooks (signed) Alexr Smith"

Note: The IGI gives the date of this marriage variously as 23 and 25 October 1842, which may be the banns of marriage since the marriage itself took place in New Monkland parish and this date is listed for Bothwell parish. Also a misreading may be part cause of the discrepancy of date as there is a discrepancy of name spelling too. ^{1 2 7}

John next married Mary McINAIRNEY, daughter of John McANARNEY and Sarah MARSHALL, on 21 Jul 1588 in Holyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland.^{3 4} (Mary McINAIRNEY was born on 10 Jan 1840 ⁷, christened on 13 Jan 1840 in St Mary parish, Newcastle upon Tyne, England ⁷ and died after 10 Mar 1891 ⁵.)

  Marriage Notes:

"..... on 21st July (Huntly) was married to Lady Henrietta Stewart in the chapel of Holyrood with great triumph, mirth, and pastime. The king took the greatest interest in the marriage, and on 11th July wrote to the Laird of Abercairny announcing his intention to have it answerable 'in all solemnities to our honour and the parties awin estates.' Therefore, as many necessary things could not be had in any common market, he desired the laird to help with venison, wild fowl, fed capons and such others as he could procure in time. The marriage was celebrated by Adamson, Archbishop of St. Andrews, in defiance of a resolution of the Presbytery of Edinburgh, who required the Earl to give satisfactory proof of his steadiness to the reformed religion." (page 506)

"The Marquis of Huntly married Lady Henrietta Stewart, who survived him, and in 1641, owing to renewed persecution by the Kirk, she was forced to go to France. 'A strange thing,' says Spalding, 'to see a worthy lady near seventy years of age put to such trouble and travail . . . her children and grandchildren dispersed and spread, and albeit nobly born yet left helpless and comfortless, and so put at by the Kirk that she behoved to go or else bide excommunication, thereby losing her estate and living. It is said she had three hundred thousand merks in gold and jewels with her.' She died in September 1642, and was buried in her mother's grave at Lyons." (page 526)

from Records of Aboyne




"The Marquess married Henrietta Stewart, daughter of Esme, Duke of Lennox. On 23 September 1586 he got from the King 5000 merks for his expenses in bringing her home from France. They were married at Holyrood 21 July 1588 by Adamson, the Archbishop of St. Andrews, in defiance of a resolution of the Presbytery of Edinburgh requiring proof of his attachment to the Reformed Faith. In view of the marriage between him and Henrietta Stewart, ' beloved by the King as a daughter,' he had a charter of the Commendatorship of Dunfermline 26 May 1587. The Marchioness survived him, but in 1641, owing to continued persecution by the Kirk, she was forced to go to France, where she died 2 September of the following year, being buried in her mother's grave at Lyons. By her the Marquess left issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ^{4 10}