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UPDATE: William Fitzgerald, Ireland to Hastings Co., Ontario

Migration, Queries30 October 2022by M.C. Moran

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…

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What happened to the sons of Denis Galligan and Catherine Doolan?

Queries4 April 2019by M.C. Moran

Denis Galligan, son of Patrick Galligan (c.1807-1870) and Mary Cullen (c. 1807-1843), was born about 1841 in the townland of Loughaconnick, parish of Kilmore, Co. Cavan, Ireland. In the early 1840s, he and his parents and siblings emigrated to Canada,…

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Margaret and Ann Devey (Devy, Davy, McDavie)

Migration, Queries28 March 2017by M.C. Moran

A reader is looking for information about her Devey (Devy, Davy, McDavie) ancestors, who presumably emigrated from Ireland to Canada in the 1820s. Margret/Margaret Devey was born about 1820, possibly in Ireland, possibly in the Bytown (Ottawa) area. On 8…

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William McKelvey, Killyleagh, Co. Down, Northern Ireland to Canada

Migration, Queries27 December 2015by M.C. Moran

A reader is looking for information about his great-uncle William McKelvey (Mckelvy/McKelvie/Mckelvie), who emigrated to Canada in 1924. William McKelvey, son of James McKelvey and Sarah Adams, was born in Killyleagh, County Down, Northern Ireland about 1894. On 28 January…

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Thomas Dooley (abt. 1810 – 1891)

Queries5 May 2015by M.C. Moran

A reader is looking for information on Thomas Dooley. Thomas Dooley was born in Ireland about 1810, possibly in Co. Kilkenny. He emigrated to Canada in the early 1830s (the 1842 census of Upper Canada records that he and his…

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Thomas Benton and Catherine Dwyer, Cappawhite, Tipperary

Catholic Records, Irish Records, Queries8 May 2014by M.C. Moran

One of my brick wall ancestors is my great-great-grandfather Thomas Benton, who was born in Ireland about 1830, emigrated to Canada in the 1850s, and died at Arnrprior (Renfrew County, Ontario) in 1890. He married Hanora (“Annie”) Ryan about 1856,…

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