Born about in Islay Island, Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Daughter of Donald McVean
and Anne Dockendorff
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Henry Nicholas Paint MP
— married
17 Mar 1856 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 63
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Jun 2019
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Biography
Christi[a]na St Clair McVean, b. Isle of Colonsay (?or Islay), c. 1828 [family letters, no record found]; aged 63 at 1891 census; m. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 17 Mar 1856, Henry Nicholas Paint, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Richmond Co. in the Dominion Parliament (b. Belle Vue, Strait of Canso, Cape Breton Island, 10 Apr 1830; he m. 2ndly and d. 3 Artillery Row, Halifax, 29 Sept 1921, having by his 2nd wife had further issue); she d. Halifax c. 1891, leaving issue, 1 son and 4 daus. (a scholarship was founded in her memory by her daus., Mary and Flora Mander, Wolfville Seminary for Women, Diamond Jubilee, 1897).[1]
Her name is also found spelled "Christiana".
Sources
- ↑ Nicholas Mander. "Borromean Rings: The Genealogy of the Mander Family". Owlpen Press, 2011.
- Nicholas Mander, "Borromean Rings: The Genealogy of the Mander Family", 2011.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Christina 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 Christina:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Christina 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 Christina:
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~6.25%
Sir Nicholas Mander
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A306471 [compare], Ancestry member owlpen
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Virginia (Bessac) Clark :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch NC3140851 [compare]
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