I really like the ornamental border on this photograph. The detail looks 1920s to me, but in fact, this picture was taken in 1933. Left to right: my great-grandmother Catherine McCarthy; my mother’s eldest sister (daughter of John Eugene McGlade…
Continue reading →My great-aunt Mary Ellen McGlade (1909-1993), daughter of Arthur Joseph McGlade and Catherine Honora McCarthy. She took the name Noreen (after her sister Noreen McGlade) when she became a sister of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul and…
Continue reading →My great-great-grandmother Honora (“Ann,” “Annie”) McDonald (or possibly McDonnell?). Born about 1841 (April 1841 according to the 1911 Canadian census) in Co. Clare, Ireland, the daughter of Patrick McDonald (or McDonnell?) and Catherine Dea. Apparently emigrated to Canada as a…
Continue reading →My great-aunt Noreen McGlade(1913-1996), daughter of Arthur Joseph McGlade and Catherine Honora McCarthy.
Continue reading →When I first read the Perth Courier’s obituary (January 1941) for my great-grandmother Catherine McCarthy (Mrs. Arthur McGlade), I was puzzled to read that she was survived by, amongst other people, a sister named Miss Mary Mahoney. Miss (as in,…
Continue reading →My great-grandmother Catherine Honora McCarthy, daughter of Eugene McCarthy (originally of Co. Cork) and Ann/Honora McDonald (or possibly McDonnell, originally of Co. Clare), at age 13, on the occasion of her Confirmation (at St. Philip Neri, in Toledo, Kitley township,…
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