Ellen Victoria (Campbell) McBain (abt. 1844 - 1921)

Born about Dec 1844 in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Wife of William M McBain — married 28 Sep 1862 in Liverpool,Lancashire,England

Descendants

Died 24 Feb 1921 at about age 76 in Cleveland,Cuyahoga,Ohio

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Biography

Ellen Campbell was born about December 1844 in Lancashire, England. She was the daughter of William Campbell (who was born in Scotland) and her mother's forename was Butterful and she was born in England.

Ellen married William McBain.

Ellen immigrated to the United States in 1865, according to the 1900 census record for Ellen.

William died on 1 Mar 1894 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

Ellen passed away in 1921.

Research Notes

The marriage record is for an Ellen Campbell who married a William Bain (not McBain) on 28 Sep 1862 in Liverpool. The marriage record gives her father as John Campbell, a farmer; William Bain was a stonemason, and the son of John Bain, a stonemason. The death certificate names her father as William Campbell; the information about his birthplace is from the 1900 census. Therefore unless the death certificate is wrong about her father's name, the marriage record listed below in Sources can't be the right one. But it's not impossible the informant who registered the death (Ellen's daughter Lillian Wilson) misremembered his name. The death certificate also gives her mother's forename as Butterful, which may also be wrong; Butterfield is a reasonably common surname in Lancashire so it might be that. It states "Butterful first name" and has "Unknown" for her maiden name.

William McBain's occupation in 1870 was stone cutter; so that is a point in favour of the marriage being the correct one.

There are no Ellen Victoria Campbell birth registrations listed on the GRO website within a year of 1844. If she was born in Liverpool, there was an Ellen Campbell birth registration in the last quarter of 1843 in Liverpool district with mother's maiden name Isherwood.

There is a birth registration for a Robert Campbell Bain in 1863 in Birkenhead district (with mother's maiden name Campbell). He was christened in Claughton, Cheshire and was the son of William and Ellen Bain.^[1] It's unclear what became of him - there's no obvious death registration for him before 1871, and no sign of him in the 1871 census. Clearly he is the son of the couple who married in 1862 in Liverpool, and it's likely they left the country after he was born since no other baptisms or birth registrations for the family could be found, but it's hard to know whether it's the same family who ended up in Ohio or not. On the one hand the dates fit well, on the other hand it's a little odd that they used the surname Bain in all three of the records in England, and McBain consistently in the Ohio records.

Sources

• Marriage (dubious match): "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2T1-TXP : 13 March 2020), Ellen Campbell in entry for William Bain, 1862.

• Death: State of Ohio Bureau of Vital statistics; Certificate of Death - county: Cuyahoga, registration district no. 8116 File no. 1671

• Death: "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8GN-V53 : 8 March 2021), Ellen Victoria Mcbain, 24 Feb 1921; citing Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, reference fn 8252; FHL microfilm 1,991,487.

• Burial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 April 2021), memorial page for Ellen Victoria Campbell McBain (Dec 1844–24 Feb 1921), Find A Grave: Memorial #74416524, citing Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Mamaquilts (contributor 47164329) .

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6KG-BFH : 3 January 2021), Ellen McBain in entry for William McBain, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8M9-XH8 : 19 February 2021), William Mcbeane, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district ED 48, sheet 180C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,008.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMZK-LYG : accessed 5 April 2021), Ellen Mcbain, Precinct D Cleveland City Ward 20, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 95, sheet 21A, family 464, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,255.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDBC-FJJ : 3 February 2021), Ellen McBain in entry for George Wilson, 1920.

• "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z8HZ-G8T2 : 8 March 2021), Ellen Campbell in entry for Walter McBain and Eda E. Rodder, 1905.

1. ↑ "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQWD-B68 : 12 February 2018), Robert Campbell Bain, 06 Sep 1863, Christening; citing item 4 p 65, , Claughton-cum-Grange, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2,298,979.