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Death and Burial

Last Will and Testament of John McGlade

Canadian Records, Clarkill, Death and Burial, Forkill, Land Records, Legal, Wills5 April 2022by M.C. Moran

John McGlade died at Perth, Lanark Co., Ontario on 27 September 1891. His last will and testament was signed and witnessed on 20 September 1889; and was registered 5 October 1891.1 Last Will and Testament of John McGlade This is…

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Last Will and Testament of Patrick Galligan

Canadian Records, Death and Burial, Land Records, Wills26 June 2020by M.C. Moran

The Galligans of Fitzroy Township Born about 1807 in the townland of Loughaconnick, parish of Kilmore, Co. Cavan, Ireland, Patrick Galligan was the eldest known child of Denis Galligan (ca. 1782-1846) and Ann Kelly (ca. 1785-1866). Patrick married Mary Cullen circa 1834,…

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Deathbed Wills

Canadian Records, Clarkill, Death and Burial, Irish Records, Land Records9 June 2020by M.C. Moran

Deathbed wills are documents that were dictated orally by a testator who was in imminent peril of death, who did not expect to make it through the night, who did not hope to see another day. There is a more…

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“Did an operation precede death”? (Ontario civil death records)

Civil Records, Death and Burial, Medical Records, Wills14 September 2017by M.C. Moran

Death records often supply interesting (and occasionally rather gruesome) details about an ancestor’s cause of death. And while the information found in early Ontario civil death records is often a bit scanty, once we get into the twentieth century, the…

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“Now comes Thos. L. Ryan…”

Census, Death and Burial, Directories, Legal, Migration11 April 2017by M.C. Moran

Where did Michael James McGlade Reside? Sometimes you can’t find a person, no matter how carefully and thoroughly you look. And sometimes you find the same person at more than one address (and in more than one census return) at…

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Obituary for Thomas and Alexander Moran

Death and Burial, Newspapers7 April 2016by M.C. Moran

While it may seem a glaringly obvious point, it’s a point worth keeping in mind when you discover an ancestor’s obituary. That obituary or death notice1 that you discovered for your ancestor didn’t just write itself. Somebody had to write…

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John Alexander Moran Photo Gallery:

  • Rosemary and John Moran
  • Rosemary and John Moran, at Tunney's Pasture, by the Ottawa River
  • John Alexander Moran, Ottawa (Armstrong St.?), c. 1937.
  • John and Rosemary, in front of Carleton Tavern
  • St. Patrick's Collegiate
  • John Alexander Moran, age 15
  • L. Lahey, John Alexander Moran, and Rosemary Moran
  • Frobisher Bay, mid-1950s
  • At a party, Ottawa, early 1960s, with cousin Orville Lahey in the background
  • Boxing Day wedding, 26 December 1963: John Alexander Moran and Catherine Frances McGlade
  • In the Canadian Rockies, summer 1967
  • At the convent of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, Kingston, ON, ca. 1976.
  • Johnny's seafood chowder, Ogunquit, ME, mid-1980s.
  • Johnny's Mystery Tour: Sea-Faring Edition. Somewhere off the coast of New Hamsphire, 1992.
  • On his way out to canvass for cancer research funds, September 2010
  • In hospital, with grandson Emmet visiting, June 2012

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