“Did an operation precede death”? (Ontario civil death records)
Death records often supply interesting (and occasionally rather gruesome) details about an ancestor’s cause of death. And while the information…
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James Michael McGlade: Inventory of Personal Effects
James Michael McGlade was born at Perth (Lanark Co., Ontario) on 17 September 1905, the son of Patrick McGlade and…
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Squatter’s rights: the Widow Cahill petitions the Crown (Part I)
The following petition is found amongst the Upper Canada Land Petitions, though it concerns a property in Lower Canada (on…
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Translating French Records: Catholic Burial Records
As with baptismal and marriage records, RC burial records adhered to the same formula, whether written in English or French….
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“My Maternal Ancestors,” by Alec Lunney
I am extremely grateful to Al Lunney for sending me a copy of Alec Lunney’s “A Collection of Family and…
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Catholic Marriage Dispensations
If you come across a marriage record which notes the granting of a dispensation of consanguinity, you should definitely sit…
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Three Cahill Children Buried
On the same day. On 3 November 1866, at Ste. Anne, Calumet Island/L’Île-du-Grand-Calumet, Pontiac Co., Québec: James Cahill, who died…
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Blended Families
When I first read the Perth Courier’s obituary (January 1941) for my great-grandmother Catherine McCarthy (Mrs. Arthur McGlade), I was…
