“Could you look up Mary Hogan?” asked my dad’s cousin Aggie. “I think she may have been,” and this added sotto voce, as if, even after so many years, there might yet be something to hide, “a Home Girl.”1 A…
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“Let’s not have a sniffle…”
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…Let’s have a bloody good cry. And always remember: the longer you live, The sooner you bloody well die. My dad, dying of cancer, singing “Isn’t It Grand, Boys.” They broke the mold.
Johnny Moran sings ‘The Jolly Tinker’
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My dad loved life; and family; and food; and drink; and song: he loved life, he loved it all. He had a big heart. And he loved life: he loved it all. As a younger man, when he was hale…
John Alexander Moran (1934-2013)
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John Alexander Moran, 6 September 1934 – 14 March 2013. My wonderful father: They broke the mold. Obituary here and here.
Tithe Applotment Books online
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When I get a chance (which won’t be until after Christmas), I’m going to post an entry about searching the Tithe Applotment Books for various ancestors. I think I have found my Lahey ancestors, for example, who emigrated to Upper…
Red are brick, blue are stone: Goad’s Insurance Plan of Ottawa
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My paternal grandmother Mary Catherine Lahey was probably born at 308 Gloucester Street in Ottawa. Or, if she was not actually born at 308 Gloucester, certainly she lived at this address from her infancy into the second decade of her life.…
The Queen vs. Kelly: Part V
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Continued from The Queen vs Kelly: Part IV (see also Part III, Part II, and Part I). What Happened to John Kelly and Mary Hourigan? When I wrote Part I of “The Queen vs. Kelly,” I had no idea what had…
Who was Thomas Lanctot?
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Also: Margaret Devine and Thomas William Sullivan, Home Children Thomas Lanctot [here spelled Langtoe] is found in the household of Thomas Burke and Mary Ann Lahey in the 1901 Canadian census (Ontario, Carleton, March, p. 2, family no. 15). He…
John and Rosemary, in old Ottawa
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My dad with his sister Rosemary (right) and a Lahey cousin (left), in some part of old Ottawa (Sandy Hill? the Glebe? Ottawa South?). Early-to-mid 1950s here, and my dad and his sister in their late teens to early twenties.…
Bishop Guigues on John Lahey’s Donation
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As a followup to my post on John Lahey the Elder, here is Bishop Guigue’s account of John Lahey’s donation of two acres to the mission of March (later the parish of St. Isidore, Kanata). The following (which I discovered…