By Alec Lunney Peter Alexander (“Alec”) Lunney (1896-1953) was the son of Hugh Andrew Lunney and Margaret Amelia Hourigan, and a descendant of James Moran and Margaret Jamieson, and also of Mary Lahey. His “A Collection of Family and Ottawa…
Continue reading →By Thomas Edwin Moran Thomas Edwin Moran was the son of Alexander Michael Moran and Mary Leavy. Toward the end of his life, he wrote some notes and reminiscences about our family, which included the following anecdote. Thomas Edwin Moran was…
Continue reading →On June 26, 1847, the Ottawa Daily Citizen published a list of “Names of persons who contributed to the relief of the suffering poor of Ireland.” This list had been supplied to the newspaper by “the Rev. Mr. O’Connell, Catholic…
Continue reading →A few points about Catholic baptismal sponsors: In French records, the godfather was le parrain, while the godmother was la marraine. In English language registers, they might be called godparents, or they might be called sponsors. In the very first…
Continue reading →From 1852, there was a Catholic mission at Fitzroy Harbour (Fitzroy township, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada). A stone church was built in 1861,1 but the mission did not become the independent parish of St. Michael until 1917. The Fitzroy Harbour Mission…
Continue reading →Deathbed wills are documents that were dictated orally by a testator who was in imminent peril of death, who did not expect to make it through the night, who did not hope to see another day. There is a more…
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