William Nairne McQueen (1834 - 1898)

Born 21 Jun 1834 in Marlfield, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland

Ancestors

Died 2 Jun 1898 at age 63 in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Biography

William Nairne McQueen was named for his mother's brother. See the siblings of Mary Nairn McQueen Nairn-106.

William Nairne. b. 6-21-1834*6-2-1898 at Baltimore Md. md. Grace McKellop. ^[1]

William Nairn McQueen b. 21 July 1834 Marlfield, Tipperary Ireland d. 2 June 1898 Baltimore, Baltimore, MD m. Grace McKellops. Named for his mother’s brother. When he was 12 his father described him, “Bill is cock of the roost at home and a pugnacious chap he is. He attends school in Clonmel…” In another letter he said, “Bill is a great fellow at the bench in the old workshop and has a regular set of tools.” William arrived in New York on the Cambridge on 17 May 1847 with his sister Margaret and brother John. William lived in Cincinnati where he was a clerk in 1850. He married about 1864. In 1870 he was doing well as a pork packer, living in St. Louis, Missouri. His wife was with her parents in Perry, Michigan that year when their son William died of diphtheria. His wife died in 1878 in St. Louis. At some point William’s pork packing plant in Saint Louis burned. He was not found on the 1880 Census, but his two youngest children are living with their McKellops grandparents in Perry.

Ireland

Christening William Nairn McQueen, male, christening date 21 June 1834, christening place Clackmannan, Clackmannan, Scotland, father James McQueen, mother Mary Nairn. ^[2]

Note: William was undoubtedly born at the Manager's House at the Stein Distillery in Marlfield, Tipperary, near Clonmel, Ireland where her family lived since 1820. Her parents' church in Clackmannan recorded the christening.

James McQueen, Marlfield Distillery, to James McQueen, Cincinnati dated 3 Apr 1864. "Bill is cock of the roost at home and a pugnacious chap he is. He attends school in Clonmel with your old friend Harris... Bill is a great fellow at the bench in the old workshop and has a regular set of tools." ^[3]

Immigration

[J Mc]Queen 16, [M McQueen] 23, [W Mcqueen] 12. Arriving New York 17 May 1847 from Liverpool on the "Cambridge". The manifest as shown on Ancestry is so faded it is nearly impossible to read. The ages match the McQueen children. The date matches Mary F. McQueen Ward's information. ^[4]

United States

US Census 1850 Cincinnati Ward 6, Hamilton, Ohio. 549/1473 William McQueen, 16 M, Clerk, b. Ireland. ^[5]

Helen McQueen to James McQueen dated 15 Feb (before 1856). "Will came up on Saturday and went back on Monday. He is so good and kind... Will has some sugar and hams in preperation (sic) for us..." ^[6]

US Census 1870 St. Louis Ward 10, St. Louis, Missouri. 2210/1341 McQueen, Wm N, 35 M, Pork Packer, real estate 20,000, personal estate 50,000B. Ireland; Jones, John, 30 M, Watchman Private b. Ireland. ^[7]

Grace Macqueen died 16 Jan 1878 aged 33 years in St. Louis at 2017 Park Ave. The cause of death was hanging suicide. ^[8]

"...Aunt Helen [H. Grieve McQueen Troup]... seemed to have been the custodian of family mementos (sic) as she wrote me that when Uncle Will's [William Nairne McQueen?] Pork Packing Plant burned in St. Louis that she lost family letters, records and other papers and mementos, including a curious box bought for her mother [Mary Nairn] on her wedding day." ^[9]

Death

Obituary: Mr. William N. Macqueen, general manager of the Gibbs Preserving Company died yesterday at the Union Protestant Infirmary...Mr. Macqueen was born in Ireland... He went to St. Louis, Mo., where he engaged in the pork packing business, and at one time controlled one of the largest packing houses in the West.^[10]

Note: The Gibbs Preserving Company was owned by the husband of William's niece Helen Macqueen Gibbs, daughter of his brother, Peter Macqueen.

William Nairne MacQueen b. 21 June 1834 d. 2 June 1898 Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. Buried in Rose Lawn Cemetery, Perry, Shiawassee, MI. ^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ Ward, Mary Forsyth McQueen. Unpaginated page titled "Descent of James McQueen and Mary Nairne." Unpublished papers of Mary Forsyth McQueen Ward in possession of John Soergel.
2. ↑ "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XBKJ-P2R : 11 February 2020), William Nairn McQueen, 1834.
3. ↑ Letters of McQueen Family 1821-1877. Originals in possession of a descendant of James McQueen, son of James McQueen and Mary Nairn.
4. ↑ Year: 1847; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: M237, 1820-1897; Line: 1; List Number: 247. Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data:Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897. Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls. NAI: 6256867. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives at Washington, D.C.
5. ↑ Year: 1850; Census Place: Cincinnati Ward 9, Hamilton, Ohio; Roll: 690; Page: 953b. Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data:Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
6. ↑ Letters of McQueen Family 1821-1877. Originals in possession of a descendant of James McQueen, son of James McQueen and Mary Nairn.
7. ↑ Year: 1870; Census Place: St Louis Ward 10, St Louis, Missouri; Roll: M593_820; Page: 187A. Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data:1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
8. ↑ Register of Deaths in the City of St. Louis, January 1878, p.171. Ancestry.com. Missouri, U.S., Death Records, 1850-1931 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008.Original data:Missouri Death Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.
9. ↑ Ward, Mary Forsyth McQueen. "Some data on the McQueen Family; especially of the Descendants of James McQueen of Alloa, Scotland" Unpublished papers of Mary Forsyth McQueen Ward in possession of a descendant of James McQueen, son of James McQueen and Mary Nairn.
10. ↑ The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD, 3 June 1898, Friday, p. 7.
11. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48830675/william-nairne-macqueen : accessed 10 October 2021), memorial page for William Nairne “Will” MacQueen (21 Jun 1834–2 Jun 1898), Find a Grave Memorial ID 48830675, citing Rose Lawn Cemetery, Perry, Shiawassee County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by Diana Dempsey (contributor 47085512) .

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