Surname Confusion: Lavallee, Lavelle, Vallely
Returning to the French-Irish theme (see Strange Surname Spellings: Hohanlan for O’Hanlon) with respect to surname spellings, here are three…
Tag: Lavelle
Cause of death: puerperal (childbed) fever?
On 7 April 1885, Bridget Adeline Lavelle,1 wife of James McCann, gave birth to her second child, a daughter named…
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William Charles Burton: Home Child
[Note: I’m having trouble combining MT blog software with numbered footnote citations. For the moment, I’m inclined to take the…
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Frances Lavelle: Home Child
Frances Lavelle was born in England about 1900. Lavelle was her adopted surname, I do not know her original. She…
