Kennedy – Ottawa Valley Irish

Died in Childbirth

Canada, Census, Death and Burial, Women23 January 2025by M.C. Moran

Two examples from the 1871 census I’ve been looking into childbirth-related deaths and the ways in which they were recorded (or not recorded, in some cases). I have many examples from 19th-century Carleton and Lanark Counties, but for this post…

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From Ballymacegan, Lorrha, Tipperary to March Township, Carleton, Ontario

Canadian Records, Catholic Records, Census Substitutes, Irish Records, Migration18 April 2015by M.C. Moran

My Lahey ancestors came from Killycross Upper, Ballymacegan, Lorrha, Co. Tipperary, Ireland;1 and emigrated to March Township, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada from the mid-1820s to the early 1830s. And the reason why we have their townland of origin is that…

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