James married Helen Cornell Meiggs on 30 Oct 1890. Helen (daughter of John Gilbert Meiggs and Mary Augusta Faulkner) was born in 1868 in Brooklyn NY; died on 11 Nov 1942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Elizabeth Anne Nickle on 17 Nov 1850. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert (Sir) (Maj-General) Nickle) died on 26 Nov 1874. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John + Mary Augusta Faulkner. Mary (daughter of James (of Edinburgh) Faulkner) was born about 1839; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

E Mail 3 Aug 2002 from Robert Bean (r-mbean@cox.net)
"Your website genealogy of MacLaren & other families includes Sir James
McGrigor, his wife Helen Cornell Meiggs, and her father John Gilbert
Meiggs,.. her mother... was Mary Augusta Faulkner,
daughter of James Faulkner of Edinburgh, who emigrated to New York.

Mary Augusta Faulkner was a sister of James Faulkner, my wife's
great-grandfather. The line to my wife was: James Faulkner 1827-93 &
Margaret Ann McAuley 1830-1907, Elizabeth Keith Faulkner 1866-1957 &
Willard Clinton Warren 1866-1928, Margaret Moore Warren 1897-1985 &
Gorham Lamont Cross 1896-1956, Margaret Ann Cross 1921, who married me,Robert William Bean 1917.

I don't know when Mary Augusta Faulkner was born. Her husband, John
Meiggs, according to one source, was born 1827 July 27. My present
guess is that Mary Augusta Faulkner was born about 1839. Her youngest
child was born, according to the same source, 1882 in London.

Helen Cornell Meiggs, born 1868, was called "Nina" because very young
(the "Ni?a") when taken from New York to Peru, where her father and his
brother Henry were building railways.

Robert Bean"


"...a family-tree sketch found in the papers of my wife's grandmother,Elizabeth Keith (Faulkner) Warren (niece of Mary Augusta Faulkner), whichshowed names of Mary Augusta Faulkner and her eight siblings, plus fullor partial names or their spouses, plus the number of children each had.Dates and order of birth of Mary Augusta & siblings were not shown. Dateswere available from family sources for two of the siblings, but not forMary Augusta Faulkner.

I have found on the Latter-Day Saints Family Search website a submissionby Donna M. Stokes Peterson of Stockton CA that identifies and givesdates for Mary Augusta Faulkner's nine children (the correct number,according to my wife's grandmother). ... this list has considerabledetail, no obvious internal inconsistencies, and appears to have beencarefully compiled. The information it offers conforms with thefragmentary information we have from family and published sources...

With that caveat, I will pass on Mrs. Peterson's liSt My guess is thatit's likely to be correct. My comments are in brackets."

1. Caroline "Carrie" Faulkner Meiggs, b.1858 Dec 24, Williamsburg NY,
d.1870 Oct 5, Lima, Peru.
2. Henry Elisha Meiggs, b.1860, Williambsburg NY.
3. Mary Euphemia "Effie" Meiggs, b.1864 Sep 22, Brooklyn NY.
4. William Herrick Meiggs, b.1867 Apr, Brooklyn NY.
5. Helen Cornell Meiggs, b.1868 Apr, Brooklyn NY. [Married Sir James
McGrigor in London, 1890.]
6. John Meiggs, b.1870 Mar, Brooklyn NY.
7. Frank Meiggs, b.1871, Brooklyn NY.
8. Norah Church Meiggs, b.1877 June 1, London
9. Hilda Rathburn Meiggs, b.1882 Apr 11, London. [She was a bridesmaid
at Norah's wedding.]

[Euphemia "Effie" Faulkner, b.1837, was a sister of Mary AugustaFaulkner.]

[John G. Meiggs' father was Elisha Meiggs. Henry was John's olderbrother, b.1811. In
1860 Henry was contractor for building railways in Chile.]

[Mary Augusta's sister, Maria Faulkner, married William Henry Herrick in1843.]

[In January 1871 Mary Augusta was with her husband in Lima, where theirfirst child had died three months earlier.]

[In August 1875 the Peruvian Government suspended indefintely all railwayconstruction for want of external financing. In December 1875 John G.Meiggs, who
supervised all of Henry Meigg's projects in Peru, left Lima and returnedto NY. I don't know how soon the family moved to London, where Johnprobably was engaged in trying to arrange additional financing for therailways. Henry remained in Peru and died there 1877 Sep 30. In 1897(?)Norah Meiggs married Herbert Allfrey in London.]

From Robert Bean (r-mbean@cox.net)

James married Mary Grant on 23 Jun 1810. Mary (daughter of Duncan (of Mullochard) Grant) died on 1 Apr 1872. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]