Hourigan – Ottawa Valley Irish

Hourigan twins baptized

Posted on 13 April 2015by M.C. Moran

Thomas Hourigan and John Hourigan were born in March township on 14 September 1849, the sons of Patrick Hourigan and…

Posted on 12 July 2014by M.C. Moran

As I mentioned in my previous post, there is now a huge amount of LAC (Library and Archives Canada) material…

Posted on 27 June 2014by M.C. Moran

(Or formerly of [the father’s native] England, as the case may be.) This is bordering on fussy pedantry, perhaps. Or…

Posted on 1 June 2014by M.C. Moran

John Lahey the Elder was the eldest of six known Lahey siblings who emigrated from Ballymacegan, Lorrha, Co. Tipperary to…

Posted on 28 April 2014by M.C. Moran

A reader is looking for information on a family who emigrated from Co. Fermanagh, Ireland to the Ottawa Valley in…

Posted on 22 January 2014by M.C. Moran

You know you’re a census geek when you find yourself reading the “Nominal Return(s) of Deaths” from the Canadian census…

Posted on 1 November 2013by M.C. Moran

LAC’s Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865) database is an index to the petitions, with the actual (that is to say,…

Posted on 22 February 2013by M.C. Moran

A couple of family connections have told me that James Hourigan, son of Thomas Hourigan and Julia Moran, died in…