Found in the household of John Scissons and Hannah O’Malley in the 1891 census of March township, Carleton Co., Ontario: Patrick Kenny, age 20, born about 1871 in England, father born England, mother born England, religion Roman Catholic, occupation Farm…
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Hanorah Ryan’s Death Records
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RC Burial Record and Ontario Civil Registration If you’re looking for Catholic ancestors, the parish register, if available, will be a very important, and in many cases the most important, source of genealogical information. Because the RC records typically supply…
In Remembrance: James Michael McGlade (1905-1944)
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James Michael McGlade was born at Perth, Co. Lanark, Ontario on 17 September 1905, the son of Patrick McGlade and Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Cahill. He died in the Second World War, at the age of 39. One of my mother’s older…
Immense Forests (Upper Canada, 1838)
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BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) has an excellent online collection of maps of Québec, with some other regions covered as well. Here, for example, is James Wyld’s A Map of the Province of Upper Canada (London: 1838). I especially…
Digitization of Irish RC Parish Records?
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In his Irish Roots column of 25 October, John Grenham writes of the NLI’s plans to digitize its collection of RC parish records: The National Library has recently put out a request for tender for the digitisation of all of…
Surgeons’ Journals from 8 Ireland to Upper Canada ships, 1825
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New (or Newly Available Online) Peter Robinson Settlers Source Olive Tree Genealogy is extracting the names of Irish passengers found in medical journals pertaining to eight ships (John Barry; Amity; Elizabeth; Star; Regulus; Fortitude; Brunswick; and Albion) which sailed from…