This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XOH.2ACIB/2267.1.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Do you know WHERE in Chicago John Bernard CAIN was born and lived? Also William CAIN. Does the "conversation as they got off the boat" about the name CAIN mean they chose it arbitrarily or just chose to spell it that way? Does the name Nan Cain (given name: Anna) mean anything? She was a Chicago school teacher, never married. She had a sister Molly (given name might have been Mary) , a brother James and also I believe a brother, John. They were all born in Chicago in the late 1800s.