William BEAN (BEENE) (MACBAIN), Sr b. 9 Dec 1727 Londonderry, Londonderry, Northern Ireland d. 3 May 1782 South Fork of Duncans Creek, Laurens, South Carolina, USA: LookingBackwards ~ All Our Relations

1727 - 1782 (54 years)

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Name	William BEAN (BEENE) (MACBAIN) [1, 2, 3]
Suffix	Sr
Born	9 Dec 1727	Londonderry, Londonderry, Northern Ireland [1, 2, 3, 4]
Gender	Male
Residence	1768	No Township Listed, Craven District, SC [1]
Died	3 May 1782	South Fork of Duncans Creek, Laurens, South Carolina, USA [1, 3, 4]
Residence	1790	Laurens, South Carolina, USA [1]
Person ID	I362	Looking Backwards - All Our Relations
Last Modified	5 Mar 2022

Wife Nomiah "Maomi" BATES, b. 1737, Londonderry, Northern Ireland , d. 1795, South, Fork, Duncans Creek, Rutherford, South Carolina, USA (Age 58 years)

Married 1753 Londonderry, Londonderry, Ireland [1, 2, 3, 5]

Children

+	1. William BEAN II, Ii, b. 8 Feb 1754, Londonderry, Ireland , d. 25 Jul 1810, Elkton, Christian, Kentucky, USA (Age 56 years) [natural]
	2. Thomas BEAN, b. 21 Feb 1764, Londenderry, Londenderry, Ireland , d. 16 Nov 1827, Laurens, Laurens, South Carolina, USA (Age 63 years) [natural]
	3. Agnes BEAN, b. 6 Jul 1766, Londonderry, Ireland , d. 1836, of, Chester, South Carolina, USA (Age 69 years) [natural]
	4. Isaac P BEAN, b. 27 Jun 1769, South Fork Duncan Creek, Laurens, South Carolina, USA , d. 11 Dec 1837, Elkton, Todd, Kentucky, USA (Age 68 years) [natural]
	5. Mary (Molly) BEAN, b. 23 Aug 1772, South Fork of Duncan's Creek, Laurens, South Carolina, USA , d. 18 Feb 1855, Dix, Jefferson, Illinois, USA (Age 82 years) [natural]
+	6. John Wiley BEAN, b. 18 Oct 1776, Duncan Creek, Laurens, South Carolina, USA , d. 25 Dec 1849, Laurens, Laurens, South Carolina, USA (Age 73 years) [natural]
	7. Matthew BEAN, b. 11 Apr 1781, S Frk Duncans Cr, Laurens Co, SC , d. 1840, Carbondale, Jackson, Illinois, USA (Age 58 years) [natural]

Last Modified 5 Mar 2022

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Origin of William Bean (m. Naomi\Nomiah)

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/surnames.bean/1131?viewType=FLAT_VIEW
M Bean
Replies: 4
Posted: 22 Aug 2001 3:41 PM
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bean, Bates, Storment
Good question. I can tell you what I remember from my father who heard it from Bernie Bean who heard it from some US Bean family. Bernie had notes from that family but could not place them when asked. Not good enough, but it is what we have until someone pipes up with documents. My own family legend has us from Scotland, not Ireland. There is mention of a Scots Bible in the family in the last century and we have some clues as to where it went (perhaps to John Telford in 1855 in Jefferson Co, IL, from the estate of Mary Bean (1772-1855), (m. Samuel Storment) and daughter of William and Naomi). GW Bean mentions a bible account mentioning (Mary and Samuel). However, a Scots Bible may only mean a Presbyterian Bible. Naomi's last name "stems primarily from a written statement by Flora Diana Bean 1871, daughter of the Mormon George Washington Bean (1831-1897), who edited and published her father's autobiography (1945). The statement appears on page 265 of that book, in a section written not by George but by Flora: "The earliest direct relative was found in the Bible of William Bean and Naormi Bates, of Scotch-Irish descent, whose birth dates and places are not known."" William's age derives from the Charles Town, SC clerk report (Jan 5, 1768) at council meeting, reporting on the arrival of poor Irish protestants in response to the encouragement of the Bounty offered them. The list of names of passengers of the Admiral Hawke ship included, William Bean 40, Nomiah Bean 30, William Bean 13, and Thomas Bean 3. However, they may have been granted more than the usual land, suggesting that there may have been another Beanie baby. This suggests William was born about 1727. Bernie heard that we were from Shire Inverness, near Croy Prish originally, so travelled to Scotland and did the usual church record search. That can be done in various places now as the records are on microfiche. There is a center in Edinburgh that will do it for an online fee. I have done it in Inverness just two years ago and probably have notes somewhere. I forget the evidence for the dates, but hearsay has William arriving in Ulster in the mid 1730's. If you put those unsubstantiated clues together (William Bean near Croy, Inverness in 1736 but not thereafter) while searching, it doesn't take long to find possible matches. The best suggestion is a William Bean of Drumlanvel\Druimlanvel etc. If I scrounge in my notes, I might turn up a brother or two (I seem to remember a George and perhaps an Alexander), it seems like there were a number of Beans there at that time. No longer. The Beans are nearly all gone to the Americas. I think there was one in Inverness, another in Cawdor, another in Nairn, but I did not look them up. The graveyard at Croy has several MacBeans from the very late 1700's, early 1800's. The graveyard has no stones from our period, nor does any other graveyard I looked at. I have looked for maps and found a good one from the time of Culloden Field, but no mention of a Drumlanvel. It is thought that William and Naomi lived in Ulster as so many Plantation Scots did, having moved there in the mid 1730's, before Culloden Field and the Jacobite Rebellion. I do not know the evidence of this, but I believe my father has a clue as to where they might have lived. I prefer the notion that they left after Culloden field because it makes a better story. Croy is midway between Culloden and Ft. George (the world's largest fort at that time, erected to keep the Scots under control) - it was NOT a good place to be for those who fought on the wrong side. MacBeans are listed in the Culloden Field lists, one Gillie having made himself notorious before he died. I liked my story because I could not understand why they would leave Inverness which seems good farm land. If you read the history of Ulster, there are lots of good reasons for Scots to move there during the Plantation. A Croy, Inverness origin is very reasonable as many Beans lived at the northeast end of Loch Ness, Shire Inverness. Apparently some family in the US has some more evidence of the Croy orign. It would be nice to contact that family.