the bain connection, part 5

A death notice and notice of funeral services were published in the Portland Press Herald for Miss Mary Bain, daughter of Capt. James and stepdaughter of Harriet (Rounds) Bain:

Deaths:
BAIN - In Portland, Aug. 26, at her residence, 281 Spring St., Miss Mary Bain. Funeral Saturday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock at the Greenough Chapel of the Immanuel Baptist Church. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery.

SOURCE: Mary Bain death notice, Portlad Press Herald, Portland, Maine, 27 Aug 1943, page 2, column 4.

Bain Services Saturday
Funeral services for Miss Mary Bain, 87, one of the oldest members of the Immanuel Baptist Church, who died Thursday in her home, 281 Spring Street, after an illness of five years, will be held at 2.30 p.m. Saturday in the Byron Greenough Chapel of the Immanuel Baptist Church. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
Miss Bain was born Oct. 29, 1855, in Portland, daughter of the late Capt. James and Mary Skillings Bain. She attended the local schools, and accompanied her father on several trips to the West Indies as a young girl. She also had visited Alaska and Europe. She was a summer resident of Peaks Island many years.
She was active in organizations of the Immanuel Baptist Church, a former member of the Free Baptist Church, and interested in missionary work. She passed a Summer at the Baptist Orphanage, Kodiak, Alaska. Miss Bain was a charter member of the Portland Fresh Air Society and a member of the Women's Literary Union and other smaller clubs.
Surviving are several cousins.

SOURCE: Mary Bain funeral services notice, Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine, 27 Aug 1943, page 2, column 5.

the bain connection, part 2

Capt. James Bain, youngest son of James and Jane (Mackay) Bain, was born 15 Apr 1829, in Montrose, Scotland, and died 20 Nov 1899, in Portland, Maine. He began life at twelve years of age as a cabin boy on board ship and followed the sea 35 years, when he retired. He loved the ocean and gave himself to his work with a devotion that brought him success. He was steadily promoted, and at the age of 24 was captain of his own ship, and later master of several others, among them the brig "Hattie M. Bain," and the last one the brig "J. B. Brown," from which he retired. He made many voyages in both foreign and domestic waters until about 1875, when he forsook the sea, and bought the ship chandlery business of Perley & Russell, in Portland, which he carried on 10 years. He then sold out that business to his son, Charles H. Bain, and retired to enjoy a well-earned rest. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was a member of the High Street Congregational Church for years.
He married (1st) 17 Mar 1852, Mary, born on Bangs Island, Casco Bay, now called Cushings Island, 17 Jul 1831, died 28 Mar 1856, daughter of Simeon and Nancy (Adams) Skillings.
He married (2nd) 19 Jul 1858, Harriet M., born in Westbrook, Maine, 26 Oct 1837, only child of Ephraim Rounds, a farmer of Gorham, and his wife, Catherine (McIntosh) Rounds. Ephraim Rounds, born 12 Feb 1804, died 31 Aug 1839. He married (1st) Rhoda Rand, by whom he had two children - Ann and Albion K.; (2nd) 14 Jul 1835, Catherine, daughter of James McIntosh, born 15 Oct 1769 and his wife Margaret (Patrick) McIntosh, born 1 Jul 1775.
The children of 1st wife:
1. Alvin T., born 6 Mar 1853, died 4 Aug. 1857.
2. Mary, 29 Oct 1855.
Children by 2nd wife:
3. Charles H., born 26 Jun 1859;
4. William, born 8 Sep 1860, died 19 Apr 1863.
5. James A., professor of music; married Lelia Virginia Foster; one child, Harriet Virginia, born 4 Jun 1886, died 29 Nov 1901.

SOURCE: Henry Sweetser Burrage and Albert Roscoe Stubbs, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909), 1:446-7.

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?