By day an innocent schoolgirl at Notre Dame Convent, by night a shrieking Elvis fan… When Elvis Presley played Ottawa on 3 April 1957, my mother was there (and was there against the express prohibition of the nuns at Notre Dame).…
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Patrick Cavanaugh and Bridget Killeen
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Another Killeen couple with surprisingly few marriages amongst their offspring: Bridget Killeen was one of the daughters (possibly the fourth daughter, and fifth child) of Denis Killeen and Mary Ahearn, and a sister of Hanora (married Michael Donahue), and also…
Mocavo (New Genealogy Search Engine)
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Via Deborah Large Fox, a new genealogy search engine called Mocavo. As Deborah Large Fox points out, since Mocavo scours only genealogy-related sites, and therefore filters out genealogically irrelevant results, it has the potential to be quite useful to family…
Michael Donahue and Hanora Killeen: 12 Children, 1 Marriage?
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Hanora (sometimes Anna or Hanna/Hannah) Killeen was one of the eldest (perhaps the second eldest) daughters of Denis Killeen and Mary Ahearn. She was born in March township in the early 1820s, possibly (as per the 1901 Canadian census return)…
Mary Catherine (Mae) Lahey (1898-1959)
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Mary Catherine Lahey, daughter of John James Lahey and Bridget Loreto Killeen. Google your grandparents to discover an obituary. My paternal grandmother Mary Catherine, aka Mae, (Lahey) Moran:
Border Crossings (Daleys): Anthony Daley
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Anthony Daley was born at Clarendon, Pontiac Co., Québec in March 1863, and baptized (Ste. Anne, Calumet Island) on 5 April 1863, with Michael Hughes and Elizabeth McCullough serving as godparents. He was the eleventh son and fifteenth child of…