Or, The Marriage of Michael J. Sullivan Michael Joseph Sullivan and Helen Elizabeth Moran Note: Basic genealogical information for this couple can be found here. In brief: the Canadian-born Michael “Mike” Joseph Sullivan (1859-1951), son of Timothy Sullivan and Hanora…
Continue reading →Edward Francis “Frank” Finnerty was born at Arnprior, Renfrew Co., Ontario on January 7, 1885, the fourth of the nine known children of John Finnerty and Catherine Benton. He was baptized on January 9, 1885 (St. John Chrysostom, Arnprior), with…
Continue reading →I have lost the contact info for the reader who contacted me in April 2014, with a query about William Fitzgerald and his wife Ellen, who emigrated from Ireland to Hastings Co., Ontario. But: I have recently heard from someone…
Continue reading →From 1852, there was a Catholic mission at Fitzroy Harbour (Fitzroy township, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada). A stone church was built in 1861,1 but the mission did not become the independent parish of St. Michael until 1917. The Fitzroy Harbour Mission…
Continue reading →From the parish registers of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Gananoque, Leeds Co., Ontario,1 a list of Irish-emigrant marriages from 4 January 1850 to 25 February 1859. I have included only those marriages where the record supplies information…
Continue reading →Norma Gillespie is researching her Gillespie ancestors, who originally came from Screeby, Co. Tyrone (but very near the border with Co. Fermanagh; and in the McCabe List, William Gillespie gave his townland and county of origin as Screeby, Fermanagh). William…
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