FamilySearch’s Ontario, Roman Catholic Church Records, 1760-1923
FamilySearch’s new online database: Ontario, Roman Catholic Church Records, 1760-1923.
Continue reading →M.C. Moran
John McGlade and Bridget Dunne: same parish of origin?
I’ve long since known that my 2x-great-grandparents John McGlade and Bridget Dunn/Dunne came from the same Irish county (Armagh). I’ve sometimes wondered whether they also came from the same parish too? According to their marriage record (now available online and…
Continue reading →Bishop Guigues on John Lahey’s Donation
As a followup to my post on John Lahey the Elder, here is Bishop Guigue’s account of John Lahey’s donation of two acres to the mission of March (later the parish of St. Isidore, Kanata). The following (which I discovered…
Continue reading →1 Household, 8 Inhabitants, 4 Surnames
One household, eight inhabitants, four surnames…That’s one surname for every two inhabitants, or “inmates” as they were called in the 1861 Canadian census,1 and not surprisingly, not atypically, all eight were related… Here is the household of James Traynor/Treanor in…
Continue reading →Benjamin Clayton: Home Child & WWI Telegrapher
When I first posted about Benjamin Clayton, I made reference to a military record (a WWI attestation paper) which I thought might belong to the Benjamin Clayton who is found in the household of Michael Moran (son of Francis Moran…
Continue reading →Emmett and Donny: A Remembrance
Emmett and his brother Donny served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Donny’s plane was shot down; and he spent time as a POW in a camp in Germany. [When my dad was a kid, he…
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