Catherine Frances McGlade (1939-2012)
Catherine Frances (McGlade) Moran, 10 October 1939 – 22 December 2012. My beautiful mother: Obituary here and here.
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Red are brick, blue are stone: Goad’s Insurance Plan of Ottawa
My paternal grandmother Mary Catherine Lahey was probably born at 308 Gloucester Street in Ottawa. Or, if she was not actually born at 308 Gloucester, certainly she lived at this address from her infancy into the second decade of her life….
Continue reading →Where did my great-grandparents meet?
Here is my great-grandmother Anna (“Annie”) Maria Benton in the Ottawa city directory of 1895-6:1 Miss Annie Benton, dressmaker, lodger at 103 Cambridge St. The Ottawa city Directory, 1895-6: embracing an alphabetical list of all business firms and private citizens,…
Continue reading →Veterans Death Cards: First World War
Available online at Library and Archives Canada: Veterans Death Cards: First World War. Here is the card for Charles Alexander Sullivan, son of James Edward Sullivan and Anna (“Annie”) Moran:
Continue reading →Upper Canada Land Petitions Online
I can’t believe these documents are now online (and have been online for a couple of months, apparently — John Reid posted about this on 14 January 2012). Not just the index to the petitions (which index was put online…
Continue reading →Irish (also English and Scottish) Origins, Canadian Sources: William Pigott’s enumeration of Fitzroy township (1851)
Here are my Moran ancestors in the 1851 census of Huntley township, Carleton County, Ontario (Canada West): James Moran (here Morin), Farmer, born Ireland, religion R. [Roman] Catholic, age 54 at next birthday; with wife Margaret [Jamieson], also born Ireland;…
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