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Great-Great-Grandmother Anne Louise MacEachern married John MacNeil in Prince Edward Island .. both growing up and marrying in the Pisquit[d] area in the eastern end of the island. .. research for me is still underway .. but MacEachern's are also Scottish, some also settled elsewhere in Great Britain and Ireland; and the British Dominons and the United States. Most New England or Boston MacEacherns came through the fishing communities of Massachusett's North Shore.
Pronounced 'mek-ak-urn', the name is derived from old Scottish-Latin celtic forms and means a horse champion or warrior. Most ancestry is from the Highlands and Western Scotland. Our branch likley joined an early settlement in 18th century PEI or moved there from a near community in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Another MacEachern family tree, on line and published by a Mr. Douglas MacEachern, recounts a history in his ancestry, of a Frenchwoman named "Anne Louise" .. also "Nancy" who married a Mr. Smith in Charlottetown, PEI. Her daughter married a MacEachern carrying an 'Anne Louise' & 'Nancy' tradition which our family also enjoyed through three generations. Anne Louise Keefe, my grandmother, was named for her grandmother Anne Louise MacEachern, by her mother Mary Ellen MacNeil-MacEachern ... and 'Nancy' as a nickname, my grandmother explained, was a tease for her in PEI ancestry by friends and her husband .. also PEI heritaged. One of the ship notes I've found in microfilm, records a boatload of MacEacherns entering Boston to immigrate, by fishing schooner, from Souris ... north of Pisquit on the PEI coast. That also joins a migration of MacNeils from PEI to fishing ports in the North Shorr -Gloucester-Rockport-Lynn .. and then to Boston and Chelsea. Great-Great-Grandfather John MacNeil married Anne Louise MacEachern. The name is also listed as Eachern. More here as the research builds. Irish Times Ancestor Center ...Surname Search enter MacEachern |