Boyle – Ottawa Valley Irish

John Lynch and Unity Fox, Strabane, Co. Tyrone

Irish Records, Queries5 May 2014by M.C. Moran

A reader is looking for information about her great-grandparents John Lynch (born about 1856, Co. Tyrone) and Unity Fox (born about 1856, Co. Tyrone). The couple were married on 22 May 1878 at a Roman Catholic chapel (possibly Cloughcor Chapel?),…

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Cause of death: puerperal (childbed) fever?

Catholic Records, Civil Records, Death and Burial5 January 2013by M.C. Moran

On 7 April 1885, Bridget Adeline Lavelle,1 wife of James McCann, gave birth to her second child, a daughter named Margaret Adeline McCann. Ten days later, Bridget Adeline Lavelle was buried at “the new Catholic Cemetery of Perth” (i.e., St….

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