Michael McGlade’s obituary (Perth Courier, 20 January 1905) notes that he was predeceased by his wife Bridget McNulty and by five of their nine children; and that he was survived by three sons and one daughter. Of the five dead children,…
Continue reading →I’ve long since known that my 2x-great-grandparents John McGlade and Bridget Dunn/Dunne came from the same Irish county (Armagh). I’ve sometimes wondered whether they also came from the same parish too? According to their marriage record (now available online and…
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 →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 →A couple of months ago, I published an entry on tuberculosis in Ontario, along with a photo that was taken “at the sanatorium.” The photo shows a patient, whose name was unknown to me at the time, along with his…
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