John McKeever (McIver)^[1]

1825 - 1899  (73 years)

• Name	John McKeever (McIver)  [2, 3]
  Birth	20 Dec 1825	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA   [2]
  Christening	25 Dec 1825	St. Augustine Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 Jun 1899	Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Burial	10 Jun 1899	St. Malachy's Cemetery, Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Person ID	P92	The McIver Family Tree
  Last Modified	10 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	Hugh McKeever (McIver),   b. Ireland d. 24 Mar 1857, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Mother	Mary Quinn,   b. Ireland d. 19 May 1876, Crapaud, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Marriage	1825	Ireland
  Family ID	F36	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Emily Harrington,   b. 20 Jul 1837, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 28 Mar 1929, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	1859
  Children	+ 1. Frances McIver,   b. 24 Jul 1860, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 22 Jan 1952, Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 91 years) + 2. Hugh Louis McIver,   b. 27 Apr 1862, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 11 Apr 1950, Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 87 years)   3. Theodore Augustine McIver,   b. 26 Feb 1864, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 23 Feb 1944, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 79 years)   4. Mary Maud McIver,   b. 11 Apr 1866, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 31 Aug 1945, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 79 years)   5. Charles Edward McIver,   b. 3 Feb 1869, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 27 Nov 1887, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 18 years) + 6. Georgiana Winnifred McIver,   b. 5 Jun 1871, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. Feb 1956, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 84 years)   7. Faustina McIver,   b. 1 Oct 1873, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 29 Oct 1963, Bethany Convent, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (Age 90 years)   8. Emily McIver,   b. 11 Apr 1876, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 26 Jul 1966, Bethany Convent, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (Age 90 years)   9. John Adrian McIver,   b. 28 Mar 1878, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 30 May 1939, San Pablo, Contra Costa, California, USA (Age 61 years) + 10. Peter Damien McIver,   b. 24 Apr 1880, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 29 Nov 1961, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F29	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2020

  
  

• Photos

  Photo - John McIver and Emily Harrington's children John and Emily McIver's children from left to right: John, Peter D, Minnie, Georgie, Sister Damian (Faustina), Fanny, Sister Mary Charles (Emily), Hugh, Theodore

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Baptismal Record - John McIver Baptized on December 25, 1825 at St. Augustine Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Accessed through www.catholichertiagearchive.com, page 250, entry 110 on right hand side of page. Sponsors were Michael McCardel and Anna Quinn.
  		1880 Meacham Atlas - Patron's Directory - Page 177 (Lots 25-27)
  		1880 Meacham Atlas - Plan for Lots 25 and 26 Map showing Owen and John with two lots each. Note that the surname is showing as McKiever.
  		Census - 1881 Census of Canada - Lot 26, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  		Census - 1891 Census of Canada - Lot 26, Prince, Prince Edward Island (Newton)
  		Death Record - John McKeever (McIver) Obituary published in The Daily Examiner (Charlottetown, PEI) on July 7, 1899.
  		Death Record - John McKeever Obituary published in The Daily Examiner, Charlottetown, on July 7, 1899.
  		Newspaper Article - The McInnis Family PEI Article published in The Guardian newspaper on September 18, 1952, giving an account of the McInnis family in Prince Edward Island. It was written in 1947, by Michael A. McInnis, editor of The Maple Leaf, published in Oakland, California. The article mentions many Islanders, including John McIver and Emily Harrington.

  
  

  Headstones		Headstone - John McIver (McIvor) and Emily Harrington (Mrs. John McIvor) Located at St. Malachy's Cemetery, Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  		Headstone - John McIver (McIvor) and Emily Harrington (Mrs. John McIvor) Located at St. Malachy's Cemetery, Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, Canada

  
  

• Notes

  John McIver was the first of eleven children born to Hugh McKeever and Mary Quinn. John was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1825, based on the baptismal record located at St. Augustine Church. He returned with his parents to Ireland, around 1833-34, and in 1839 settled on Prince Edward Island. John was about fourteen years of age when he arrived on the Island. John, with his siblings and parents, would have worked to clear the land. The 1841 Census on PEI indicates his parents had 100 acres of land leased by verbal agreement and that three of these acres were areable. When his father died in 1857, John was thirty-two years of age and still living at home as there was no house in the 1880 Meacham Atlas on the land he inherited from his father. The homestead was willed to become Michael and Peter’s when their mother died. In the 1880 Meacham Atlas, Michael is in Hampton and John has possession of both the farm he was willed and the original homestead. It looks like he married Emily Harrington between1857-1859 as the first child, Frances, was born in 1860. Emily was the seventh of eight children born to John Cornelius Harrington and Johanna McGrath. John, Johanna and their two oldest children emigrated from County Cork, Ireland to Prince Edward Island and settled in the Hampton area. Years later John’s brother, Michael McIver bought the farm next to the Harrington homestead. All of John and Emily’s ten children were born in Newton on the original McIver homestead, presently owned by the family of the late Eugene McIver. Peter D., the youngest of their children, also raised his own family in the original farmhouse, but that was replaced in 1939 by the present structure. Seven of their ten children remained in PEI. Minnie and Charles never married or had children, whereas Fannie, Hugh, T.A. (Theodore Augustine), Georgiana and Peter D. all married and had large families. Faustina (Sister Damien) and Emily (Sister Mary Charles) entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in St. Paul, Minnesota. John Adrian married and settled in Contra Costa, California. John died in 1899, in Newton, Prince Edward Island, and is buried in St. Malachy’s Cemetery in Kinkora.

  
  

• Sources

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