User:Jvajda/McLeland

Introduction

MacLellan's Castle in Scotland. Attribution: Otter

This research homepage details my wife's maternal grandfather's lineage back to Rush County, Indiana at the end of the 18th century, and further back to the Scottish Clan MacLellan.

From Wikipedia:

The name MacLellan has evolved from the Gaelic MacGille Fhaolain - 'son of a servant of Saint Fillan'. The name is Gaelic in origin. St Filan was a missionary of the old Celtic church, and there is a village in Perthshire named after him. The name Filan itself is derived from the Celtic ‘faelchu’, meaning ‘wolf’. The Maclellans were numerous in Galloway and gave their name to Balmaclellan in Stewartry. Chief Duncan MacLellan appears in a charter of Alexander II in 1217 which is now lost. The name MacLellan identified with Galloway as early as 1273.

Notable People

James McLeland (b. 1772) was born in Scotland and immigrated to the United States sometime in the 1780's or 1790's.

McLeland Ahnentafel

This chart shows a five generation sample my McLeland relatives who were early settlers in Indiana, Missouri, and later lived in Kansas. You can browse browse an interactive ahnentafel here.

Isaac McLeland > 1802, KY, USA - IN, USA

David E. McLeland 1831, IN, USA - 1905, KS, USA

Jane Galbreath > 1809, IN, USA - 1889, IN, USA

John Reilly McLeland 1857, IN, USA -

Miller MD, USA -

Hannah E. Miller 1827, OH, USA - 1883

Unknown OH, USA -

Clarence Wilson McLeland, Sr. 1885, KS, USA - 1975, KS, USA

Unknown

Moses Newburn PA, USA -

Unknown

Matilda Jane Newburn 1862, IL, USA -

Unknown

Paulina Schrieves OH, USA -

Unknown

Clarence Wilson McLeland, Jr. 1918, MO, USA - 2007, KS, USA

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Edward Lee Bowring MO, USA -

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Mary Harless Bowring 1897, MO, USA - Abt 1949

Unknown

Henry G. Noll

Unknown

Fannie Lee Noll MO, USA -

Abrahan Estess

Ester S. Estess

Permelia E.

Important Sources

• Interview with Debra Albin. The names and some of the places in this branch come from this interview. The data was later validated using US census records.

External Links

• Clan MacLellan Wikipedia Page. The name MacLellan is a Scottish clan name. McLeland is derived from this Scottish surname.
• MacLellan's Castle Wikipedia Page. MacLellan's Castle, in Kirkcudbright, south west Scotland, was the noble residence of the MacLellan family. It was completed in 1582 by Thomas Maclellan of Bombie.
• http://www.clanmaclellan.net/. A society composed of MACLELLANs, GILLILANDs, CLELLANDs, and their descendants who spell their version of the name various ways.
• McClellan DNA Project at Family Tree DNA. A DNA study of people with the McClellan (various spellings) surname.