History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

BRANCH OF HIS SON WILLIAM. 439
NINTH GENERATION AND CHILDREN.
3317.
Amanda M. Pepper, dau. of Presley N. and Eleanor W. [Perry
3234] Pepper, b. March 15, 1835 ; ;;/., Dec. 25, 1854, John Strange
Caine # , son of John and Rebecca [Frankham] Caine, who was b.
Sept. 1 1, 1827.
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Neville,
Nellie,
Paii I,
Madeline,
Julia Montague,
Albert,
Edith Hoiton,
CHILDREN.
b. Oct. 4, 1855 ; m., June 7, 1888, Marie K.J.Rohses.
b. March 12, 1858; in., Nov. 23, 1882, Roy McDonald.
Their children are, Amanda Montague,
b. Sept. 22, 1883, and Roy McDonald, b. July
5, 1885. Mrs. Nellie McDonald d. Oct. 1, 1891.
b. July 12, 1859.
b. March 25, 1862.
b. April 6, 1864.
b. April 12, 1S66, d. Sept. 17, 1868.
b. April 20, 1868.
3336.
Hill Montague, son of Thomas B., Jr., [3273], b. Dec. 29, 1866
on the plantation known as "Glen Auburn" in Gloucester Co., Va.
His father died when he was four years old, leaving just enough
personal property to pay the few debts he owed. In early life the
subject of this sketch attended the schools of Middlesex, Gloucester,
* Caine, Cane, Cayne, Cana, or Canus. A baptismal name in the Domesday of Sussex,
and as a surname is still found in that Co. [Lowers Surnames.] The ancient arms of the
family were "Azure, an eagle displayed, argent." The following from Mrs. Caine [3376].
The name has been spelled Cain, Kane, and Cahan. The Gaelic original of these forms was
O'Cathain, the surname of a chief family of powerful subdivision of the Kinel Owen branch
of the Northern Ui-Neill Frasach, who was the founder of the O'Cahans, who became the
ruling race in the present Co. of Londonderry under the supremacy ot the kindred race of
O'Neill. The chief of the O'Cahans held this rank down to the plantation of U lster under
James I. of England. From this family Cornelius Caine claimed descent, who was b. in Md.
removed to Va., commanded a company from Rockingham Co., 1776-S1 [See Lieut. Neil
Caine, Va. Hist. Mag. pp. 460-1.] He was of fine stature, six feet two inches, fair hair, dark
blue eyes ; in., Aug. 19, 1790, by Rev. Archibald Scott of Presbyterian church of which he was
a member, Sarah Hyatt, of the Hyatt family of Md. She d. 1807. Cornelius Caine d. 1812,
from disease contracted during the revolution. John Caine, second son of above, b. 1793, was
in war 1812, wounded in battle of New Orleans; m., Marcli2, 1814, Katherine Frankham, dau.
of Maj. John Frankham, who was b. in England, settled in N. C. d. at Mt. Sidney, Augusta
Co., Va., about 1795, age 63. John Frankham m. Ailsie Eleanor Muhlenburg. She was b. in
Reading, Pa. and d. soon after her husband, age 53, buried at Mt. Sidney. The second child
of above John and Katherine [Frankham] Caine was John Strange Caine [3317].