Coughlan – Ottawa Valley Irish

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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Cause of Death: Conflicting Accounts

Civil Records, Newspapers, Oral History, Stories29 August 2011by M.C. Moran

James Moran (1858-1899) James Moran was born about 1858 in Huntley township, Carleton Co., Ontario, the third of twelve children born to Alexander (“Sandy”) Michael Moran and Mary Ann Leavy. On 27 November 1883 (St. Patrick’s, Fallowfield) James Moran married…

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