Brief Life History of Maggie
When Maggie McLean was born in January 1884, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Sy McLean, was 36 and her mother, Jennie McGill, was 24.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Maggie Mclean in household of Sy Mclean, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Maggie McLean - Government record: birth-name: Maggie McLean
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World Events (3)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1916 · Anthony Crawford Lynched
South Carolina native, father to 13 children, and a local farmer, Anthony Crawford, is lynched on October 21, 1916, in Abbeyville, South Carolina. The lynching is followed after Crawford has an arguement with a white storekeeper.
Name Meaning
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Eáin, ‘son of the servant (i.e. devotee) of (Saint) John’. Compare Irish McAloon and McGlone .
History: This is the name of a major Scottish clan traditionally associated with the island of Mull, which claims descent from Gille Eáin na Tuaidh (‘Gillean of the Battleaxe’), who lived in the 13th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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