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Tag: Dwyer

Newspaper “Jollies”

Newspaper “Jollies”

East Grand Forks, Grand Forks, Marriage Records, Migration, Newspapers13 February 2025by M.C. Moran

Or, The Marriage of Michael J. Sullivan Michael Joseph Sullivan and Helen Elizabeth Moran Note: Basic genealogical information for this couple can be found here. In brief: the Canadian-born Michael “Mike” Joseph Sullivan (1859-1951), son of Timothy Sullivan and Hanora…

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Irish Origins in Canadian RC Marriage Records: St. John the Evangelist, Gananoque, Leeds Co., Ontario

Irish Origins in Canadian RC Marriage Records: St. John the Evangelist, Gananoque, Leeds Co., Ontario

Canadian Records, Catholic Records, Marriage Records, Migration20 April 2022by M.C. Moran

From the parish registers of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Gananoque, Leeds Co., Ontario,1 a list of Irish-emigrant marriages from 4 January 1850 to 25 February 1859. I have included only  those marriages where the record supplies information…

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Marriage of Michael Dwyer and Honora Benton

Catholic Records, Migration25 March 2015by M.C. Moran

Honora Benton was born in Cappawhite, Co. Tipperary in 1818 (baptized 13 December 1818), the daughter of Thomas Benton and Catherine Dwyer. A couple of years earlier, her father Thomas Benton had served as sponsor/godfather to Mary Dwyer, baptized 17 April…

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“Of the Rail Road in this mission”

Catholic Records, Migration17 March 2015by M.C. Moran

Thomas Benton (1826-1890) was born in Cappawhite, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, the son of Thomas Benton and Catherine (“Kitty”) Dwyer. Of these facts I am now reasonably certain (which is to say, as certain as one can ever be when it…

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Patrick Ryan (1842-1920)

Photographs11 March 2015by M.C. Moran

I found this photograph attached to a family tree at ancestry.ca, and contacted the owner for permission to post at my site. The owner, who must be a distant cousin of mine, kindly granted my request. This is Patrick Ryan,…

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SMASH! (that sound you just heard …

Catholic Records9 March 2015by M.C. Moran

… was me smashing through a brick wall). Last May, I asked whether my brick-wall ancestor Thomas Benton might have been the son of Thomas Benton and Catherine Dwyer of Cappawhite, Tipperary. And the answer is Yes. If you have…

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