McAdoo ONS Family Lines

Date: Jan 2023
Surnames/tags: McAdoo McAdow

Contents 1 McAdoo_ONS_Family_Lines 2 Defined Family Lines 2.1 The Jim Heal Line: 1780-2013 Tyrone to Saskatchewan 2.2 The Wm. Gibbs Line: 1753-2002 2.3 The Rev. Samuel McAdoo(w) Line: 1760-2023 2.4 The Ralston PA Line: 1821-2023 2.5 The Tennessee Clusters 2.5.1 The Mid-TN NW Cluster 2.5.2 The Mid-TN SE Cluster 2.5.3 The West-TN Cluster 2.5.4 The East-TN Cluster

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Another objective of the McAdoo ONS is to identify and recognize those single-family lines descended from a known, sourced, and defined TreeTop McAdoo or McAdoo family group who migrated from their original country of birth to a new county for permanent settlement and can be connected to present day descendants or reached an end of the family line.

Separate family lines may or may not be related and connected further back in time from a TreeTop ancestor. Clues, observations, and other research notes may be useful in connecting family lines or pushing the TreeTop further back in time.

Defined Family Lines

The following is a list of the defined McAdoo lines to date that are actively being worked on by the McAdoo ONS and the focus of research help requested. New lines can be parsed and added at any time.

The Jim Heal Line: 1780-2013 Tyrone to Saskatchewan

The TreeTop McAdoo in this line is Robert McAdoo Sr. (1780-1838) born 1780 and died 1838 in Ulster Province, Ireland, and resident during his lifetime in the Ulster Counties Tyrone and Londonderry. The near present-day AnchorMcAdoo of this line is James Albert Heal (1929-2013) of Maryfield, Saskatchewan, Canada, whose mother, Mary Jessie "Mae" (McAdoo) Heal (1900-1959), descended from the TreeTop McAdoo in Ulster. Retired RCAF Lt. Colonel Jim Heal was an enthusiastic and dedicated genealogist of his Heal and McAdoo lines and contributed to the McAdoo family groups on the now defunct yahoo.com, genealogy.com, and ancestry.com bulletin boards. This McAdoo family line is named in Jim's honor.

The Wm. Gibbs Line: 1753-2002

The TreeTop McAdoo in this line is John McAdoo Jr. (1753-1830). This line appears to end with the last male of the line, an EndLine McAdoo, Davis F. McAdoo (1923-2002) on his death in 2002. The EndLine needs to be confirmed with further research. A connection between the TreeTop of this line and his ancestors in Ulster, Ireland, or Scotland also requires more research to identify and prove. This line is named in honor of one of its line members, William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. (1863-1941), a Senator from California and Treasury Secretary under President Woodrow Wilson.

The Rev. Samuel McAdoo(w) Line: 1760-2023

The TreeTop McAdoo in this line is Samuel McAdow (1760-1844), born in North Carolina in 1760, an ordained Presbyterian Minister and one of the three founders in 1810 in his home in Dickson County, Tennessee, of the breakaway Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Credit for research on this line is due to McAdoo ONS member Susan (Knight) Gore, archivist of the Historical Foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

The Ralston PA Line: 1821-2023

This line is an AlphaMcAdoo family of parents and seven (7) children who migrated from County Donegal, Ulster in 1821 to Donegal Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania headed by James McAdoo II (1780-1843) and his wife Catherine (Ralston) McAdoo (1786-1852). They had four (4) more children after arrival in Pennsylvania. This line is named for the maiden name of James McAdoo II's wife and the original state of settlement. Credit for work on this line is due to McAdoo ONS member Jaynie (Flippen) Anderson who has researched this line for many years. The focus of work on this line is establishing the birth dates and places of James II and Catherine and their parents and other ancestors in County Donegal prior to emigration.

The Tennessee Clusters

McAdoo families began settling in Tennessee after the 1783 War of Independence and accelerated when Tennessee became a state in 1796. By 1820 many McAdoo families were living in Middle Tennessee Grand Division and a few in Eastern Tennessee. These clusters expanded into the Western Grand Division as it progressively opened up after the 1821 expansion eliminated the remaining land set aside as Native American reserves.

The Mid-TN NW Cluster

This cluster of McAdoo families settled in the Dickson, Humphreys, Montgomery, and Robertson counties of the NorthWestern part of the Middle Grand Division of Tennessee. This cluster includes the Rev. Samuel McAdow line.

The Mid-TN SE Cluster

This cluster of McAdoo families settled in the Rutherford, Bedford, Wilson, and Davidson counties of the SouthEastern part of the Middle Grand Division of Tennessee.

The West-TN Cluster

This cluster of McAdoo families settled in the Carrol, Gibson, Weakley, and Henry counties of the NorthEastern part of the Western Grand Division of Tennessee.

The East-TN Cluster

This cluster of McAdoo families settled in the Anderson and Knox counties of the Eastern Grand Division of Tennessee. This cluster includes the Wm. Gibbs Line.

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