photo: marcia parker and cynthia (vickery) swett

Cynthia Olive (Vickery) Swett (left) and Marcia S. Parker (right)

As we celebrate the Red Sox winning the World Series, my mind turns to my great-aunt Marcia as she was perhaps one of the biggest Red Sox fans I have ever known - she definitely would have loved to have seen the World Series this year!

Marcia was the daughter of Capt. Hiram N. and Ann Elizabeth (Johnson) Parker; born 9 Feb 1888, probably in Glenburn, Penobscot Co., Maine; died 30 Oct 1980 in Bangor, Penobscot Co., Maine and is buried in Lake View Cemetery, Glenburn, Penobscot Co., Maine. She never married.

Cynthia was Marcia's niece (and my great-aunt), the daughter of Edward William and Harriet Bain (Parker) Vickery; born 9 Apr 1895 in Glenburn, Penobscot Co., Maine; died 8 Sep 1987 in Tampa, Hillsboro Co., Florida and is buried in Falmouth, Cumberland Co., Maine. She married Walter Elliot Swett on 4 Mar 1920 in Bangor, Penobscot Co., Maine.

photo: harriet bain (parker) vickery grant

my great-grandmother

Harriet Bain Parker

(25 Aug 1874 - 23 Dec 1967)

daughter of Capt. Hiram N. and Elizabeth Ann (Johnson) Parker

married 1st Edward William Vickery, 15 Dec 1892

married 2nd Winslow L. Grant, 4 Oct 1930

this photo circa 1963

the bain connection, part 1

The most recent family connection I have been researching is the familial connection to the Bain family, specifically the Harriet Bain my paternal great-grandmother Harriet Bain (Parker) Vickery was named for. The connection came to light when tracking my 2nd-great-grandmother Elizabeth Ann (or Ann Elizabeth) Johnson, wife of Capt. Hiram N. Parker, back through census records. She appeared in 1850, age 6, living in Bangor, Penobscot Co., Maine living with her parents, William and Catherine Johnson. Also appearing in the household was a Harriette Rounds, age 13.

1850 U.S. Federal Census Record for Harriette Rounds

SOURCE: 1850 U.S. Census, Penobscot County, Maine, population schedule, City of Bangor, sheet 135, dwelling 1890, family 1945, Wm. Johnson household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/): accessed 21 Oct 2007); citing National Archives microfilm publication M432, roll 264.

[click here to view .pdf copy of this census record]

I had previously determined that Catherine McIntosh was the daughter of James and Peggy (Patrick) McIntosh, b. 21 Mar 1808, married 1st Ephraim Rounds on 14 Jul 1835 and married 2nd William Johnson of Bangor (SOURCE: Hugh D. McLellan, History of Gorham, Me. (Portland, Maine: Smith & Sale, Printers, 1903), 656). Therefore, my hypothesis was that Harriette was a daughter from the first marriage, and therefore a half-sister to Elizabeth Ann Johnson.

A search of the 1860 census revealed no Harriette Rounds. Perhaps she was married prior to that census. A search of marriage records at http://www.familysearch.org/ uncovered an interesting record of a marriage of a Harriet H. Rounds to a James Bain on 19 Jul 1858 in Portland, Cumberland, Maine. Could this be the same Harriett .. and be the connection to the Bain name for my great-grandmother?