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Tag: Cahill

Civil Registration, Death and Burial, Estate Files, Medical Records

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

Posted on 14 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…

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Military Records

James Michael McGlade: Inventory of Personal Effects

Posted on 11 November 2015by M.C. Moran

James Michael McGlade was born at Perth (Lanark Co., Ontario) on 17 September 1905, the son of Patrick McGlade and…

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Documents, Land Records

Squatter’s rights: the Widow Cahill petitions the Crown (Part I)

Posted on 14 June 2014by M.C. Moran

The following petition is found amongst the Upper Canada Land Petitions, though it concerns a property in Lower Canada (on…

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Catholic Records, Translation

Translating French Records: Catholic Burial Records

Posted on 20 October 2011by M.C. Moran

As with baptismal and marriage records, RC burial records adhered to the same formula, whether written in English or French….

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Stories

“My Maternal Ancestors,” by Alec Lunney

Posted on 13 October 2011by M.C. Moran

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 Records

Catholic Marriage Dispensations

Posted on 8 August 2011by M.C. Moran

If you come across a marriage record which notes the granting of a dispensation of consanguinity, you should definitely sit…

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Catholic Records

Three Cahill Children Buried

Posted on 20 July 2011by M.C. Moran

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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Census Records

Blended Families

Posted on 10 February 2011by M.C. Moran

When I first read the Perth Courier’s obituary (January 1941) for my great-grandmother Catherine McCarthy (Mrs. Arthur McGlade), I was…

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