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Tag: O’Brien

Died in Childbirth

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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William Killeen and Lucy Armstrong

Military Records, Photographs16 November 2013by M.C. Moran

William Henry Killeen (1857-1904) was a son of Denis Benjamin Killeen and Ellen O’Brien, and a grandson of Denis Killeen and Mary Ahearn. In November 1885, he married Lucy Armstrong (1863-1956), a daughter of James Armstrong and Bridget Kelly, and…

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Peter Doyle and Elizabeth Moran

Catholic Records, Census13 February 2011by M.C. Moran

Here’s another “blended family” from the 1881 Canadian census: Peter Doyle, with wife Elizabeth Moran (daughter of James Moran and Margaret Jamieson), and six children (transcription by ancestry.ca; with original image [LAC] here): When I first looked at this return,…

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Albert Austin Massey: Home Child

Catholic Records, Census, Home Children, Military Records12 October 2010by M.C. Moran

Albert Austin Massey was born in London, England about 1884,* the son of Thomas Massey and Mary Armitage (his parents’ names come from his RC parish marriage record, and also from the Ontario civil marriage record which was based on…

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