George Clingan
- Born
- 1868-01-01 12:00:00
- Died
- 1944-01-01 12:00:00
- Gender
- Male
George Clingan farmed in the Townland of Relessy, on the Kell Road, off the Belfast-to-Enniskillen Road; the family had been in the area since the late 1600's.
His son Fleming Clingan emigrated to Canada where he married Mary Ann Cumberland in Ontario. Their son, also named George, was a doctor/surgeon, and, as a colonel in the army, was active as a medical doctor and surgeon in WW1, first in France, then back in England overseeing a convalescent hospital. He was voted-in as the MLA in the district where they lived in southern Manitoba. He married Ruth Mary Ida Thompson, whose family also had emigrated from Ireland (Co. Fermanagh), and they had one daughter, Dorothy Mary Clingan.
Family lore has it that "the widow Clingan left Scotland for Ireland with her six sons" at about the time of the Battle of the Boyne, and settled near the border of Co. Tyrone and Co. Fermanagh; it is said that all the Clingan families in that general area descend from that one family.
