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 →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 →The BBC reports on a demographic study based on the parish records of Charlevoix and Saguenay Lac Saint-Jean, Québec: The towns not only boast dairy farms, charming villages and sandy beaches but some of the best ever-kept marriage records –…
Continue reading →As with baptismal and marriage records, RC burial records adhered to the same formula, whether written in English or French. If you know the English-language formula, you can easily figure out the French. (And often the hardest part, as I’ve…
Continue reading →Here is the marriage record for Jeremiah McCarthy and Honora Donovan, who married on 5 February 1823. Witnesses to the marriage were Patrick Donovan and Richard Tobin; and the priest, the Rev. Richard Quinn, noted that a dispensation ‘in quarto…
Continue reading →A preliminary, partial and incomplete list of the priests who served the various 19th-century Ottawa Valley area Roman Catholic missions and parishes. I will add more names, dates, and parishes as I come across (and/or organize) more information (which info….
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