As with baptismal and marriage records, RC burial records adhered to the same formula, whether written in English or French. If you know the English-language formula, you can easily figure out the French. (And often the hardest part, as I’ve…
Continue reading →Here is the marriage record for Jeremiah McCarthy and Honora Donovan, who married on 5 February 1823. Witnesses to the marriage were Patrick Donovan and Richard Tobin; and the priest, the Rev. Richard Quinn, noted that a dispensation ‘in quarto…
Continue reading →A preliminary, partial and incomplete list of the priests who served the various 19th-century Ottawa Valley area Roman Catholic missions and parishes. I will add more names, dates, and parishes as I come across (and/or organize) more information (which info….
Continue reading →Ancestry.ca recently extended their coverage of Ontario civil death registrations by a couple of years (from “Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1936” to “Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938”). In a previous entry, I suggested that Wilfrid Dontigny had presumably died of tuberculosis. This presumption…
Continue reading →My father-in-law Edward Paul Winke. Photo taken in Detroit, Michigan in 1940.
Continue reading →I will do free lookups from the parish register for St. Michael’s, Corkery (1837-1968). This register was microfilmed by the Drouin Institute in 1968, and a digitized version is supposedly included in ancestry.ca’s “Ontario, Canada, Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection),…
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