Book Description

James McCourt (1814-1893), of Scottish lineage, immigrated from northern Ireland to Canada or Mooers, New York, and married Margaret Young in 1837/1839. They lived in Mooers, New York, then Champlain, New York, and then moved to Sand Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, California, Washington, Alaska and elsewhere. Includes other ancestors and relatives in New England and elsewhere, and some in New Brunswick and elsewhere in Canada. John McKenney lived probably in Scarboro, Maine. His son, Robert, was born ca. 1675 and married in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Rebecca Sparks. Matthew Young (ca. 1785-1858) was born in Scotland and came to Canada between 1819 and 1823. He was in Hemmingord, Québec in 1851. The family later moved to Wisconsin.