So the reason I’m blue in the face is not apnoea or an impending heart attack, it’s from telling people over and over and over that it makes no difference whether your Quin family have been insanely fussy about spelling their surname with one N for the past three centuries. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the person writing the name down was not a Quin, and couldn’t give a hoot.
– John Grenham, The Os and the Macs
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Catherine Frances McGlade (1939-2012)
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Catherine Frances (McGlade) Moran, 10 October 1939 – 22 December 2012. My beautiful mother: Obituary here and here.
Tithe Applotment Books online
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When I get a chance (which won’t be until after Christmas), I’m going to post an entry about searching the Tithe Applotment Books for various ancestors. I think I have found my Lahey ancestors, for example, who emigrated to Upper…
When did my maternal grandparents meet?
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My maternal grandparents John (“Jack”) Eugene McGlade
Red are brick, blue are stone: Goad’s Insurance Plan of Ottawa
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My paternal grandmother Mary Catherine Lahey was probably born at 308 Gloucester Street in Ottawa. Or, if she was not actually born at 308 Gloucester, certainly she lived at this address from her infancy into the second decade of her life.…
Denis Killeen’s Kilmainham Pensioner Discharge Record
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Note: I discovered the following via John Reid’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. I already have a copy of this record in black and white, having purchased a photocopy from The National Archives (UK) (document cited here, in “Description of Denis Killeen”). But…
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Available online at findmypast.co.uk: British Army Pensioners — Kilmainham, Ireland, 1783-1822.
Death of Thomas Benton …
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… And Dispersal of his Household of Five Daughters When Thomas Benton died in Arnprior (Renfrew Co., Ontario) on 7 March 1890, he left behind one son and seven daughters. His wife Hanora (“Annie”) Ryan had died over a decade…
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Library and Archives Canada has a digitized copy of Goad’s Insurance plan of the city of Ottawa, Canada, and adjoining suburbs and lumber districts, January 1888, revised January 1901.
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There are a number of Ottawa city directories online at archive.org.