Born in New York
Ancestors 
Daughter of Nathan Keyes
and Johanna (Keech) Keyes
Sister of
Olive (Kees) Thornton, Nancy (Keys) Read, Johanna (Kees) Read, Nathan Kees and Stewart W Kees
Wife of
David Crouch
— married
15 Jan 1785 in Pittstown, Rensselaer, New York
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary (Crouch) Burch, Deborah (Crouch) Chappel, Julia Ann Wilhelmina (Crouch) Keech, David Crouch, Olive (Crouch) Thornton, Hiram Crouch, Francis J Crouch and Barbary Angeline (Crouch) Milligan
Died after
after age 93
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Aug 2015
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Biography
Eleanor was born in 1768. She was the daughter of Nathan Keyes and Johanna Keech. She preferred the surname McKee over other variations of the McKee / Keyes / Keys / Kees name.
Eleanor married first David Crouch. By her own words given in a pension deposition, they were married on 15 January 1785 in Pittstown, Rensselaer, New York and that they had 15 children, 3 boys and 11 girls.[1]
After David's death, she married Matthew Wiley on 12 Mar 1830.
She was living in Camden, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada in 1861.[2]
She passed away after 1861.[3]
Research Questions
At present, there are eight identified children of this couple, but a total of 15 according to her pension application deposition.
One possible daughter is Olive Crouch, wife of Peter Thornton. Peter and his wife were living in Sennett, Cayuga, New York in 1830, next door to Francis Crouch, who was her putative brother and near Hiram Crouch, another putative brother. In 1840, Peter Thornton's family appeared to be listed in Spring Creek, Miami county, Ohio. Olive's putative brother-in-law Joseph Burch, husband of her putative sister Polly Crouch, was listed on the same census page. In 1850, they were living in Branch county, Michigan next to the family of Edward Smith and wife Mary (Marble) Smith. Mary was a known granddaughter of Thomas Thornton and Olive Kees. Olive was the sister of Eleanor (McKee) Crouch Wiley.
Sources
- ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~twintiers/crouchrev.html
- ↑ "Ontario Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQWW-W3F : 5 September 2017), Ellenor Wiley, Camden, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 62, line 3; Library and Archives Canada film number C-1046-1047, Public Archives, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,435,921.
- ↑ A source for this information is needed.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eleanor by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Eleanor:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eleanor by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Eleanor:
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~1.56%
Frances (McCrum) Goetz
:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Frances_Goetz
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~1.56%
Charlotte (Read) Kensil :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A615295 [compare], Ancestry member charkensil
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MyHeritage DNA
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~1.56%
Diane Read :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A082851 [compare], Ancestry member Schnurr3
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~1.56%
Larry Peterson :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Connie (Mills) Hockenberry :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A786462 [compare], Ancestry member tinybells
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~0.78%
Daniel Hinkley :
23andMe, GEDmatch M131225 [compare]
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AncestryDNA
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Katherine (Bogue) Chapman :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member renaissancemommy
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