What's New at Bytown or Bust? (as of March 5, 2021)

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People of the Algonquin First Nation have been in the Ottawa, Canada area since time immemorial.

(Source: Since Time Immemorial: "Our Story")

The former City of Hull, Quebec was first settled in the year 1800 by Philemon Wright who came from Woburn, Massachussets.

The Town of Bytown became the City of Ottawa on January 1, 1855.

The City of Ottawa, Ontario became the capital of Canada on July 1, 1867.

Today, the Ottawa / Gatineau region is the fourth largest urban area in Canada.



Where is Bytown / Ottawa / Gatineau ?




In 1862, the English novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) witnessed the early stage of the construction of our Parliament Buildings and reported
I know of no modern Gothic purer of its kind or less sullied with fictitious ornamentation. Our own Houses of Parliament (in London) are very fine, but
it is, I believe, generally felt that the ornamentation is too minute; and moreover, it may be questioned whether perpindicular Gothic is capable of 
the highest nobility which architecture can achieve. I do not pretend to say that these Canadian public buildings will reach that highest nobility, 
they must be finished before any final judgment can be pronounced; but I do feel very certain that the final judgment will be greatly in their favour.
Source: Donald Smallery and Bradford Allen Booth, eds., Trollope, North America, New York, Knopf, 1951, page 72.

The name "Ottawa" is a misnomer. It refers to the Ottawa Indian Nation whose home was in the northern Lake Huron area and Manitoulin Island area.
The Ottawa Indians were in control of the Ottawa River Watershed only briefly - between 1681 and 1686. For the rest of our history, the 
Algonquin Nation has been located in the Ottawa area, from at least 1,000 B.C. to the present time.


Introduction:

    This web site is large -- over 1,700 web pages. You are on our main web page. All of
the web pages are linked together to form a history of the people and places of Eastern 
Ontario and Western Quebec (see maps) to which area thousands of immigrants came in the 1800's.
Many of the original settlers stayed here in the City of Ottawa, the Ottawa Valley and the
Gatineau Valley. Many left to pioneer in other parts of North America. 

Here are some maps from 1824-1827 which show the earliest settlers in what became the 
town of Bytown. The pioneer families in Bytown and shown on the maps are Nicholas Sparks, Captain John Lebreton and 
Justice Livius Sherwood. The government purchase of land at Parliament Hill is also shown.


Thanks to the the hundreds of contributors to this site it includes early folks of First Nations, English, 
Irish, Scottish, French, Jewish, German, Polish, Italian, Vietnamese, Ukranian, Chinese and American origin.

If you are researching your UEL ancestors in the Ottawa area, try a search on our web site for "UEL", no quotes.

Here is a reference to the Sir Guy Carleton Branch of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada.

The City of Ottawa main Immigration Web page .

Ici, on parle français et récherche aussi les histoires des familles françaises.

The Ordnance Department kept a list of property holders in Bytown in 1835. These are some of our earliest settlers.

In the early 1850's, a French-Canadian group formed L'Institut Canadien Français d'Ottawa. This organization consisted of
professionals and intellectuals who met for discussions and lectures regarding a wide range of ideas.
The year 2012 is the 160'th anniversary of the L'Institut. 

The family of Antoine MORIN and Domithilde Blais came from Quebec to the City of Ottawa.

The Algonquin Nation populated the Ottawa and Gatineau Valleys for thousands of years, before the first
white settler (Philemon Wright) came to the north side of the Ottawa River from Woburn, Massachussetts, USA in the year 1800.

The first black man to arrive in Hull was London Oxford who came with the Philemon Wright group in 1800. 
The first black family to arrive in Bytown / Ottawa seems to have been Perry Adams and his wife Henrietta Joyce who 
baptized their child, Frances, in Bytown in 1844 at Notre Dame Cathedral on Sussex Drive.

If your ancestors were black, you can record their history (including old photos) on our Black History web page.

In the late 1970's, Vietnamese "Boat People" began arriving in the Ottawa area. For over two hundred years, Ottawa has 
been a city and region built by immigrants.

Here is a list of persons who were born in Germany and who were in Ottawa in time for 
the 1881 census. Immigrants from Germany began arriving in the nation's capital area about the time of Confederation. 
Simultaneously, a lot of German pioneers settled in Renfrew County. The Romhild family settled in both Renfrew and Ottawa.

Italian families began arriving in Ottawa in the 1880's.

Paul-Antoine Lavoie has a web site for his LAVOIE and WHISSEL ancestors
in the Ottawa and Gatineau area. It also contains a lot of information regarding
early Quebec and Montreal area history and genealogy. The early family of Joseph Vezina
and Elizabeth Dupuis were in Bytown by 1829. This family settled in what is now Orleans.

To add your genealogy or local history research interests to this Web Site,  

Note: There are many contributors to this Web Site and information found here 
is for personal and non-financial use only. The copyright for material belongs to the 
individual contributors. None of the information on this web site is to be reproduced 
in any form without the permission of the contributor of the data.

In addition, we have a bibliography of historical sources for the background material 
used on this web site and for some of my courses. We are also developing a bibliography for women's history and ethnic studies 
and a Historiography of Immigrant History.

Dr. Lesa Ní Mhunghaile is doing research regarding the persons in our region who listed Irish as their mother tongue
in the 1901 census.

And, Professor Simon Jolivet, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Ottawa, is working on a project involving
Irish and French Relations in Ottawa's Lower Town, c. 1920-1980.

May 14, 2013:

Mr. Phil Donnelly is looking for persons interested in the Ancestral Homes project to develop and market a new genealogy app, 
under the working title 'ANCESTRAL HOMES'. 

The Ireland Canada Monument project is a non- political, non sectarian, non profit endeavour created for the singular aim of providing recognition 
to the significant Irish Contribution to Canada.

And here is a fascinating document, dated 1825, from Markethill, County Armagh, Ireland. It is a letter of recommendation 
written for John Trainor by his Parish Priest as he embarks on his emigration to Canada. This letter would have been valuable 
to John - it could help him secure employment or a land grant in Canada.



Recently an important event in Irish-Canadian history in the Ottawa area took place
with the creation of the Irish Canadian Cultural Centre. This group is located in
the 117 year old heritage building formerly known as St. Brigid's Church in Lowertown.

Austin Comerton produces and hosts The Gaelic Hour on CHIN 97.9 FM, Ottawa.

The Vintage Stock Theatre, Cumberland, Russell County, presents  heritage conservation 
and preservation through community theatre.

Some local, potential heritage buildings are threatened with demolition due to ever-expanding residential development.

Two good local organizations for historical and genealogical research are OBOGS and BIFHSGO.

The aggregation of the histories of the individual pioneer families forms a substantial part of the history of the Ottawa area after 1800.

Thanks to the many contributors to this site!
 
Thanks to Michael Daley, (who got me interested in this subject), for helping to 
fit pieces of this puzzle together. Thanks also to Taylor Kennedy for his major 
contribution of information on the Townships of Nepean and Huntley. The best academic sources
for this subject matter can be found in the published works of Carleton University's Professors Bruce Elliott 
(pre-1875 migration and settlement), John Taylor (Canadian urban history), Dominique Marshall 
(history of the Canadian family), Michel Hogue (Canadian Indigenous history) and Marilyn Barber (post-1875 Canadian Immigration). 

This is an evolving web site which will be updated on a more or less daily basis.
 


Thanks to Mr. Bruce Hurley for sending in some information regarding the early
official crests of Bytown and the City of Ottawa. These crests are held by the
McCord Museum in Montreal and were designed by Mr. J. H. Walker.

Planning on visiting Ottawa on business or as a tourist? Watch this short video.

The Algonquin Nation in the Ottawa area
The word Ottawa is a derivative of the Algonquin word Adàwe which means
"to trade". The Algonquin Nation inhabited the Ottawa River Valley Watershed long
before the first white settlers arrived. For purposes of this web site,
the relevant geographical area of the Algonquins includes roughly the area from
Oka / Kanesatake in the east (on the Ottawa River near Montreal). It extends along the Ottawa 
River to the west about as far as Mattawa. The Algonquins traditionally resided
along both sides of the Ottawa River and along its many tributaries on the Quebec 
and Ontario sides. The Algonquin word for the River is Kitchi Sibi (Kitchissippi).
The 1881 Census records many of the prominent persons of Algonquin descent in
the River Desert area of Maniwaki.

Visit the Kitigan Zibi web site. The web site is maintained by the Algonquin 
First Nation Band located in Maniwaki, Quebec.

The Surveyor-General of Canada from 1803 to 1814 was Joseph Bouchette. He was responsible for surveying
the townships of Onslow, Eardley, Hull, Templeton, Buckingham and Lochaber on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River.

This summer (2010), I'll be exploring some of the historic canoe routes in the Ottawa and Gatineau Valleys.

Early Settlement of the Ottawa area (1800-1820)

Map Source: Hurling Down the Pine, by Bond and Hughson, inside back cover



Mary Cox has written a chronological history of Bytown and early Ottawa.

Our local history is also documented in historical paintings and drawings and in the 
development of literature in this area. The Fine Arts Department at Merivale High School
has a terrific program for its students.

Philemon Wright came to the Ottawa area in 1800 from Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. He founded
a Utopian agricultural settlement on the north side of the Grand (later called the Ottawa) River.
This site (later the City of Hull, and now called Gatineau, provided a better site 
for settlement than the south side of the river - it had a more accessible shoreline,
caught the sun nicely during the daytime and had a better portage site around the Chaudiere 
Falls. The falls provided a handy source of free energy (hydraulic power) to enable
the creation of mills. Philemon Wright was an entrepreneur. He took the first raft of square 
timber to Quebec City in 1806, passing north of the island of Montreal and also operated
the first steamboat on the Grand River. 

Here is an 1808 militia list for these early folks in Hull, Eardley and Onslow. It includes the name of many
of the pioneer families in our area. There is also a list of the men who served in the 1813 Militia of Hull.

Moses Edey, Samuel Edey
and Jane (Edey) Chamberlain came from Vermont, USA to Hull Township in 1805.

Gideon Olmstead and his wife Esther Andrews arrived in Marlborough Township in 1802.
Marlene is researching this family as well as the Scott and Foster surnames.

Lac Mousseau, now called Harrington Lake in the Gatineau Park, was named for Louis Mousseau
who was the first settler there. Lac Leamy, site of our popular Casino was named for an early
lumber baron, Andrew Leamy.

Aliette Lavoie is searching for information regarding the first cemeteries in
the Bytown / Gatineau area. Apparently there was a cemetery on Barrack's Hill -- now Parliament Hill during the time of the 
Rideau Canal construction (1826-1832).

Lieutenant Colonel John By was sent to Ottawa to oversee surveying and construction of
the Rideau Canal between Ottawa and Kingston, Ontario. The Colonel By page contains a good map of early Bytown / Ottawa.
Another Royal Engineer was John Burrows, 1789-1848, who was the superintendent for the work on the Canal 
and was a very good artist / painter.

Sir George Ramsay, the Ninth Earl of Dalhousie, 1770-1838 was in Bytown and helped to organize the village in the early days (before 
Colonel By was here).

Here are some other founding families of the Hull and Gatineau area. Mr. David Smith has
contributed some important and interesting material regarding his ancestors, John Litle and Frances Childs, early settlers in
the Gatineau Valley. His background research includes material regarding the conditions of his Scots-Irish ancestors in
County Down and County Antrim at the time of their 1830's emigration to the Gatineau Valley.

We are also compiling a list of early Roman Catholic churches in the Gatineau Valley and in Pontiac County.

And here is a new page (March 1, 2012) exploring historical and genealogical connections between the Ottawa area and the Eastern Townships in Quebec.

The Anglo-Celtic Connections web site has a link to Ontario Roman Catholic Parish Records.

Aylmer, Quebec, became an early trans-shipment point for goods and people who were heading west via the Ottawa River.

Ira Honeywell was the first settler in Nepean Township. He and his wife Polly ANDREWS came to live
on the banks of the Ottawa River in 1811. Moses and Noah Holt also came from the United States.

Joan McEvoy Rooney has contributed an interesting paper regarding the Settlement of the Billings
Bridge area and Junction Gore. Bradish Billings, in 1813, was the first settler at Billings Bridge. 

In 1815, a drowning accident occurred at Chaudiere Falls. The Chaudiere Falls area later
became the hub of Ottawa's growing industrial development in the nineteenth century.

Also, c. 1815, the Reverend Asa Meech (Meech Lake) settled just north of Wrightville.
The Moore family operated a sawmill in Hull in the 1820's. The Moore
family (some of whom pioneered at Rapides des Joachims in the 1840's) were related to the 
Meech family. Two Moore brothers married daughters of Richard Prentice, UEL. This was the 
first marriage performed in Nepean Township. Philip Chugg was an early settler on the
Deschenes (Aylmer) Road, arriving there about 1835. Vivien Chartier is researching her 
Chartier and Lebel ancestors who came from St. Roch de L'Achigan to Aylmer, Quebec.

Many folks came early and stayed late: Here's a list of people who were born in the 1700's 
(not in Canada) and were still around to be enumerated in the 1881 Census of Carleton County, 
including Ottawa. And some of their elderly neighbours on the Lower Canada (Quebec) side.

Incidentally, the city of Ottawa, for most of it's history was part of Carleton County.

In 1819 Isaac Firth established an Inn at Chaudiere Falls. The inn was located at Richmond
Landing (on the Upper Canada side of the Ottawa River). The same year, four Chamberlin brothers came to work for Philemon Wright.
And, in 1822, Robert Mosgrove came from County Leitrim in Ireland and settled in Bytown.

	Hon. Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey (1784-1857), a young London importer and ship insurance 
	broker, emigrated to Canada in 1820 with a small fortune, to develop an estate in the 
	Canadian wilderness. He soon established himself as a leader of society in eastern 
	Upper Canada (Ontario) and became a member of the Legislative Assembly, Reeve of 
	March Township, Warden of Carleton County, and a member of the Legislative Council 
	of Upper Canada. He developed HORACEVILLE, on the Ottawa Riverfront of March Township 
	(now within the City of Ottawa), as his residential estate, operating grist and sawmills and 
	building St. Mary's Church, which opened in 1827.(1)

(1) Source: History of Pinhey's Point

The Pinhey's Point Foundation has prepared an index to the accounts of Hamnett Pinhey 
covering the period 1821-1857. The accounts contain the names of many folks from the Bytown
area who did work for Mr. Pinhey.

Another early settler in March Township was Benjamin Street.

James Coates Browne came from Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, to South March in the 1830's 
and his family were involved as lumber merchants in the White Lake area, hoteliers in Bell's Corners and merchants on Sparks Street.

December 10, 2014:
The Lyon family (Lyon Street) were early settlers in Bytown. See Taylor's .pdf file at http://www.bytown.net/lyonandsparks.pdf.

In 1828, William Hunton and his two sons, Thomas and William Hunton arrived in Bytown.
They came from Leeds in England. Their home was located on Metcalfe Street where the Main Branch of the Ottawa Public Library is today.

The period 1784-1815 saw the emigration of Scottish Highlanders to Glengarry County and 
Scottish Lowlanders (mainly artisans and weavers) came to Lanark and Renfrew Counties during
the depression following the Napoleonic Wars. The Lowlanders came with the assistance of 
Emigrant Societies in the Glasgow area. Here is a paper which compares the settlement of
Glengarry County (east of Ottawa) and Lanark County (to the west of Ottawa).


Many of the early French families who settled in the Gatineau / Bytown area beginning
about 1830 came from the seigniories in the Montreal, Quebec, area.
The seigniory of Longueil / Longueiul was transferred to the province of Ontario and became
a Township near the eastern Ontario / Quebec border.

French, Irish, and Scots had been also been involved in the fur trade in Canada in the 1700's.
By 1820 the large-scale fur-trading empire centered in Montreal had, for the most part,
become headquartered in the Hudson Bay region. Entrepreneurs, with capital, from Montreal
looked for commercial ventures and the developing Bytown area proved attractive to men
such as John Redpath and Agar Yeilding. Our web page regarding the 
Thunder Bay, Ontario area also contains some material on the fur trade.

A publican (ran an inn and tavern) named Robert Atkinson 
was in Bytown before 1830. He may have been associated with the famous Mother McGinty's 
Tavern on Rideau Street. Captain Samuel Kipp, a United Empire Loyalist, who was a Captain in
Delancey's Rangers arrived in Canada at Ramsheg / Fanningburg, New Brunswick he and his new wife 
quickly fled to Quebec (Montreal area it appears).  The family eventually made it's way
to the Ottawa area in the 1820's. John Goth from Yorkshire, England, was an 1818 military 
settler in Beckwith County.

From the beginning, lumber was an important staple product exported to the European
markets by Philemon Wright and later by the Gilmour and McLaren Companies. By the 1850's, square timber was replaced by sawn 
lumber exports to the United States. In 1860, the Prince of Wales visited Canada. The lumber industry arranged
for a large arch to be constructed to commemorate his stayover in Ottawa.

In the early 1800's, prisoners were transported to New South Wales (Australia) from
Ireland and England. Many of those transported were sent away because of political
reasons, not criminal transgressions. Timothy Tierney was transported to Australia
in 1835 for stealing firearms in County Tipperary. His wife, Ellen Waters / Watters
and children emigrated shortly after to Nepean Township (now part of the City of Ottawa). Timothy was pardoned in 1853.
His legal pardon is an example of this type of 19th century legal document. 

Michel Forand is researching the lighthouses which were built along the Ottawa River
starting in the 1860's. Also, regarding the Ottawa River, a request was made to Parliament in
1849 for a list of surveys which had been done, and by whom, during the past five years.

Allan Gilmour was the organizer of the Ottawa Curling Club in 1851. David Smith has
chronicled it's history for the years 1851 to 1933. Allan Gilmour was the owner of
the Gilmour Lumber Company. In 1924, the Ottawa Ski Club newsletter reported on
shenanigans at Murphy's Hill in the Gatineau. On the way up to Maniwaki, you will
pass Brennan's Hill.

In 1827, Joseph Coombs, who was an engineer with the Royal Sappers and Miners,
arrived in Bytown to work on the canal. Joseph Coombs lived in Concession 2, Ottawa Front,
Gloucester Township. Allen Craig has done some interesting work on the building of roads
and the topography this area of early Gloucester.

Hélène Wyskup is researching the Francophone construction workers on the Rideau Canal.

Abraham Boland from County Armagh arrived c. 1828. He and his wife Mary McBride
were married in Bytown and later went to the Eganville area.

Charles James Rowan (father Patrick) was born 1809 in Sligo, Ireland, and died on March 5,
1883 at the age of 74. He married Mary Ann Farrell  in 1833. Her birthdate was about 1817 
in King's County, Ireland and she died March 26, 1887.
 
Charles James Rowan came to Bytown in 1833.  He kept a hotel at 56 Rideau Street 
for many years and later opened a grocery store on Clarence St.  He was a member 
of City Council in 1855.  His residence was 201 Clarence St.

Michael McDermott was a land surveyor in Bytown and area between 1842 and 1849.
His memoirs have been transcribed by his grandson. There are some interesting stories
about his years in Bytown.

Each year, the municipality issued licences to individuals to carry on commercial
activities in the town. In 1839 and 1842, licences were issued to these individuals.

In 1825, Duncan McNab, known as the Laird of McNab, brought 84 settlers to his property
near Arnprior. The early Scots who had settled in Glengarry County (east of Ottawa), the
Scottish pioneers at the Tay River near Perth (1815), and the McNab settlers formed
the basis for the Scottish community in the Ottawa area. In 1821, a group of settlers
from Scotland were brought to Ramsay Township.
John Brown, from the Inner Hebrides was a bagpiper of renown in the Ottawa area.
John Wallace (spouse Isabella McCallum) came to Bytown to work on the canal and then
moved to McNab Township. An 1879 map of Ramsay Township, reproduced
by the McGill University Digital Atlas Project, gives the names and locations of many of 
the pioneer families in the Carleton Place / Almonte / Clayton area. Drummond Township 
includes the Town of Perth, Ontario, as well Ferguson's Falls, Balderson and Innisville.




    
Early Scottish Emigration to the Ottawa area


 
to Glengarry County
 
to Lanark County

Characteristics of Emigrants
2,500 subsistence farmers from the Scottish
Highlands to Glengarry County before 1815
4,000 weavers and artisans from the
Scottish Lowlands to Lanark County after
1815

Emigrant Organization
No financial assistance, organized by
families, led by Highland patriarchs.
Catholic and Presbyterian 
Financially assisted, organized by emigrant
societies.

Presbyterian and Anglican

Reasons for Emigration
Defend traditional culture and lifestyle
Economic opportunity for politicized
emigrants
  

Here's an interesting bit of local Scottish folklore. In order to differentiate the great
number of settlers in Glengarry County, nicknames were created for most individuals.
Alexa Pritchard has sent us a list of a great many nicknames used in Glengarry Township.




Work Horses were an important component of early farming practises. At the beginning of the twentieth century
tractors began to replace horses -- the early tractors were powered by steam engines.

Visit Keith Thompson's web site of history and genealogy in Lanark County.
 

Data Source (Population): Ottawa: An Illustrated History, by John Taylor, page 210
Data Source: (Ethnic Origins): 1881 Census of Canada

Since 1971 the population of the City of Ottawa has trebled - due to both steady immigration and 
the amalgamation of surrounding townships on January 1, 2000.

Before settlement occurred in the wilderness, the province of Ontario was surveyed to
create townships and 200 acre farm lots to receive the pioneer families.

Gaelynn Wall has sent in the links to some early land grants.

Records of land registrations are useful documents for local historical research.
Al Crosby has sent in an example of the history of the ownership of some property
in Gloucester Township. Here is the entry for Lot 24, Concession I, Gloucester.

Christ Church Anglican was established in 1833 on property donated by Nicholas Sparks. 
Sue has compiled a listing of 
churches and their Ministers/Priests in Ottawa in 1867 - the year of Canadian Confederation.

Earliest Emigration from Ireland to Bytown/Ottawa 
    Beginning in the 1810's, Irish families began to arrive in the Bytown (Ottawa)
area of Ontario. In 1817, a petition was circulated in County Wexford and County 
Carlow. The petition was signed by hundreds of families, both Protestant and Catholic,
who wished to leave behind "The Troubles" of Ireland and start a new life in the 
wilderness of Upper Canada.

Contrary to popular belief the typical Irish pioneer in the 1800's was not a Catholic
who was fleeing the potato famine and settled in Ontario's urban areas. Both the 1842
and 1871 Census show that the Protestant Irish outnumbered the Catholics by two to one.
Both denominations were rural - not predominately urban. Source: Donald Harman Akenson in
The Irish in Ontario.

Here is a list of emigrants hoping to leave Wexford and Carlow  in 1817 to 
settle in Upper Canada. Many of these families came to Canada over the next twenty 
years or so by chain migration. Chain migration (emigration to the location where 
you already know someone) accounted for much of the population increase in the 
nineteenth century in Upper Canada. Some of these early settlers landed on the New York
State side of the St. Lawrence River. On the Canadian side, immigrants travelled by boat
from Montreal and disembarked at Cornwall, Prescott, Brockville and Kingston. Important ports
on the American side were Ogdensburgh and Oswego in Upper New York State. See map of the
St. Lawrence River Basin between 1825 and 1867.

By 1829, there was a strong representation of persons who emigrated from the Castlecomer area of County Kilkenny, Ireland.

Anne McEligot has sent in some links for researchers
interested emigration from County Derry, Ireland.

Emigration from County Wicklow, Ireland to Canada in the 19th Century

Anne Burgess is researching emigration from southwest County
Wicklow to EASTERN Ontario, including to the Bytown / Ottawa area. She is matching names 
from County Wicklow from the Lord Fitzwilliam Estate, which covered one fifth of County 
Wicklow. Her research is based on the book Surplus People by Jim Rees which 
documents the assisted emigration of about 1,000 families from Wicklow to Canada.
Anne has extended her research to cover Fiztwilliam Estate assisted emigration to Southern Ontario.
And, Annette Code is researching emigration from the same area (the Coolattin Estate)
but during an earlier time frame -- from after the 1798 rebellion up to the time of the famine. She has just had
an article published, (November 2009), by the Genealogical Society of Ireland.
Mr. Kenny's research is in the area of Kilcavan, County Wicklow, in the nineteenth century.

The parishes of Ballynultagh and Ballyrahine in County Wicklow were a source of
emigration to eastern Ontario between 1847 and 1856.

Anne Burgess has sent in some links and sources from Borris, County Carlow, 1782-1853.
Quite a few pioneer families in the Ottawa area came from here.

Today, May 5, 2011, I've started a web page for pioneer families who came to Canada from County Armagh between 1815 and 1855.

In 1818 the Talbot Party came from County Cork, Ireland to Goulbourn 
Township and London, Ontario. Hey! I used to play old-timers' hockey in Stittsville with 
many descendants of these pioneers.

Many of the emigrants from Ireland from the 1830's onwards came here to join friends or 
relatives who had already arrived here. Also, word-of-mouth news spread quickly throughout
Britain about the opportunities for settlers in a new land. In some cases, people decided to
come to Canada after reading material regarding conditions in Canada.

Settlers from Ireland going to Upper Canada or Lower Canada landed at Quebec City which was 
the furthest inland deep-water port on the St. Lawrence River. They were then transported by 
steamboat to Montreal where many spent time in Griffintown, in Montreal, an early Irish neighbourhood adjacent to 
the Lachine Canal.

Early framework for land transactions in Upper Canada.
Ray Burke has transcribed an example of an early (1828) Land Grant document for 
property in Upper Canada. The exact surveyor's co-ordinates are spelled out, as is 
the 1/7 part of the land set aside for the Clergy Reserves. It is signed by Sir 
Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada at York (now Toronto). 
John Beverly Robinson (brother of Peter Robinson) is also mentioned - he was the
Attorney General at the time. Free grants of land were available until 1826. After
1826, crown land was sold.

For many of us, our goal is to visit Ireland, walk the hills and glens, visit a pub or two,
and do historical and genealogical research in Ireland.

Emigration from south-west Ireland to the Ottawa Valley in the 1820's

To get a feel for how this web site works, take a look at the McGee / Magee web page.
It is a combination of history and genealogy of some early settlers in the Perth area
and it illustrates how various spellings, religions, and adjacent geographical areas can
make things interesting for us!

In 1816, a settlement was established at Perth.
These pioneers in Perth were a mixture of disbanded soldiers and Scottish emigrants.

In 1820 another military settlement was established at the village of Lanark.

The 1818 Richmond Military Settlement

Richmond (1818) was the first town established in Carleton County - earlier than Bytown. 
Sergeant William John Vaughan was one of the disbanded soldiers 
who settled in Richmond. Wes Cross (researching Jonas Barry)and Ron Dale have researched 
the structure and history of the 99th and 100th Regiments of Foot which were disbanded 
after the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. These two regiments formed the 
nucleus of the first permanent Ottawa area settlers after Philemon Wright's group.
Alexa Pritchard has sent the following discharge documents of Sergeant William Shea.

Discharge Papers of Sergeant William Shea, 99th Regiment of Foot
Settler in Richmond, Upper Canada, 1818



An transcribed example of the discharge papers from the 99th Regiment has been sent 
by Paula Gibson. See the John GIBSON web page.

John Steel came as a non-military settler in 1818 from Dumphriesshire, Scotland. From 1818 to
1824 he ran a tavern at Fallowfield on the Richmond Road. Near this intersection is
Piety Hill, the location of two pioneer churches.

Richmond was surveyed in the form of the Georgian Town Plan. A rectangular grid system 
of streets was superimposed on the topography. Colonel George Thew Burke, 
from County Tipperary, was the commanding officer and Joseph Fortune 
was in charge of surveying. The town was built on the Goodwood River (now called
the Jock River). Hydraulic power was required to power the early grist and textile mills
and the sawmills. The disbanded soldiers were allocated farmland near the town. Lots
were assigned according to each officer's rank. Privates in the army, the lowest rank,
received 100 acres. Some Early Settlers in Goulbourn Township
contains a list of privates and sergeants who were granted land in Richmond village and
surrounding areas and also some early residents of Stittsville. Families also settled
in the Carp valley and Carp village in the 1820's.
Don Lowe is descended from the pioneer Hodgins and Wilson families. His other surnames
of interest are Graham, Cavanaugh, and Mooney.

William Fitzpatrick was one of the original settlers in the Richmond/Goulbourn area. 
His farm was located not far from what is now Munster Hamlet. He settled there in the 
1819 time frame, but was actually in Canada in 1805 with the 100th Regiment of Foot, 
mainly in the Quebec City and Montreal area prior to 1812. You will notice his name 
on the information that Alexa submitted regarding the original military settlers in 
the Richmond/Goulbourn area. (Source for this paragraph and the information on the
William Fitzpatrick page: Ken Armstrong). William Sample, from County Antrim, and his
wife Matilda McCullough were also in Goulbourn Township by the 1840's.

In pioneer times, there were connections between the Goulbourn Township folks
and the settlers in Rideau Township, including the North Gower area.

All men aged 19 to 45 were required to serve in the local militia. The Carleton County
Militia muster rolls for the year 1828 (here is one for Nepean Township, headquartered 
at Richmond) are valuable genealogy and history resources. Transportation was either
by foot - people often walked between Bytown and Richmond - until stage coach lines
were established in the 1830s. George Edge, 1760-1840, was born in England and served 
for 59 years in the active military (99th Regiment) and the local militia. He was disbanded
at Richmond in 1818. 

Census data for 1820-22 for March, Goulbourn, Huntley, Marlborough and Nepean
Townships can be found here.

Debbie Coxon Prince has contributed her research regarding 
early schools in Huntley Township.

Map of the village of Richmond in 1879

Map Source: Belden's 1879 Atlas of Carleton County

The Richmond Road in the 1860's

Saw and grist mills were established along many of the rivers in the Ottawa
area. Moss Kent Dickinson, who was mayor of Ottawa from 1864 to 1866 opened
a mill at Manotick in 1860. The building, called Watson's Mill, is still open today.
The general contractor for the mill was Thomas Langrell who later became Chief of Police for
the City of Ottawa.

Another Lumber Baron who became mayor of the city of Ottawa in 1897 was Samuel Bingham,
also known as the "King of the Cascades" for his logging work on the Gatineau River. Richard Scott, who was born in Prescott, Ontario,
became Mayor of Ottawa c . 1855 and was well-known for initiating the Scott Act -- the Canada Temperance Act. In 1863
he introduced the Separate Schools Act for Ontario.

The Military Settlement at Richmond established 1818

St. Phillip's RC Church Marriages, Richmond 1836-?, by Marilyn Cottrell

St. Clare's RC Church Registers, (1891-1910) at Dwyer Hill in Marlborough Township

St. Phillip's RC Church Births, Richmond 1836-1845, also by Marilyn Cottrell

St. Phillip's RC Church Deaths, Richmond 1853-1881, by Sue

The Ontario Vital Statistics Project is computerizing Ontario civil registrations
for Births, Marriages and Deaths.

John Bower Lewis (no relation) was a mayor of Ottawa and member of 
Parliament. The preceding link will take you to a petition signed by many prominent
Ottawa citizens in 1872 in support of his candidacy in the 1872 federal elections.
A link to a brief biography and photograph of John Bower Lewis is also on that page.

Speaking of local mayors, Eugene Martineau was Ottawa's first Francophone mayor.
Joseph Turgeon was the first Francophone mayor of Bytown.
Thomas Birkett (1844-1920) was a prominent merchant and mayor of Ottawa.

Our bibliography page contains several books regarding local mayors from 1848 up to the Charlotte Whitton era.

Another LEWIS family, prominent in the Ottawa area, was that of the
Anglican Archbishop John Travers LEWIS and his wife Rebecca Olivia LAWLESS.

          The 1823 Peter Robinson Settlers

      

In 1823, Peter Robinson brought almost 500 settlers to the Ottawa area on
two ships, the Hebe and the Stakesby. They sailed from County
Cork. There are many thousands of their descendants in the Ottawa area today.
These early settlers were mostly from the poorest part of Ireland - the southwest - 
mainly from County Cork and County Tipperary. They were brought to Upper Canada, in part, 
to help reduce the numbers of poor Irish Catholic tenants on several large Irish 
estates - Lord Doneraile's property for example. Sending these people to Canada was 
expected to reduce the average level of poverty in Ireland and at the same time give a 
"leg-up" to selected emigrants, all of whom had good character references and were 
expected to become self-sufficient, quickly, in Canada. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815)
the British government was amenable to government assisted emigration.

Peter Robinson Settlers in 1823... Surnames A to G

Peter Robinson Settlers in 1823... Surnames H to N


Peter Robinson Settlers in 1823... Surnames O to Z

Here's a map Showing the area in Ireland from where the Peter Robinson 
(and other early groups of pioneers emigrated)
Source: Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement Patterns, 
by Houston and Smyth, page 50.



Roberta O'Brien's Family Page... which includes the names of the settlers and also Peter Robinson's Report


Miscellaneous Peter Robinson Settlers ... A few genealogical enquiries.

Donna McGinty has sent in some information regarding her ancestors who settled in
the "Peter Robinson Territory". Her ancestors married into many of the families of 
1823 settlers and illustrate the migration pattern of many early Irish families
to Carleton County, then on to Renfrew County and later to the American frontier
in North Dakota.

A lot of the Peter Robinson settlers in 1823 homesteaded along what is now Highway 44 in Ramsay Township. Here is a photograph of 
one of the stone homes built in that area. This house was not built by a Robinson settler.

  April 17, 2019:  
Source for the following text block and picture of the house belonging to Robert Struthers is National Capital Heritage, page 20.

   

Carol McCuaig has written many books about settlement in the Ottawa Valley. She is currently researching immigrants from County Clare to
Lanark and Renfrew Counties.



The Building of the Rideau Canal, 1826-1832

Planning and surveying for the construction of the Rideau Canal began in 1826. The
following graph illustrates the upward spike in population in 1828 which represents 
the arrival of contractors and labourers.

Tony Atherton from the Ottawa Citizen plans to write an article on a canal
worker who died while working on the canal.

A memorial monument is being established in Ottawa to commemorate the
men who worked on building the Rideau Canal.

 
Many Irish and French labourers worked at building the Rideau Canal between 1826 and 1832. 
The Rideau Canal runs from present-day Ottawa to Kingston, Ontario and is one of the oldest 
functioning canal / lock systems in Canada. When the canal was finished 
in 1832, some of the workers stayed in Bytown, while many others cleared land in the area and 
began farms in Gloucester, Nepean , Osgoode, and other neighbouring townships. A great source 
of genealogical information regarding the Catholic Canal workers is the records of Notre Dame 
Cathedral in the By Ward Market of downtown Ottawa. Here are just a few.
Sue is transcribing the Notre Dame marriages, beginning in 1829, from the Drouin Collection. 
Sue has also transcribed many of the baptisms which took place at Notre Dame from 1829-1839.

Notre Dame Cathedral is now the main Francophone Catholic church in Ottawa. In its early years, it served both English speakers and
Francophones. St. Patrick's Basilica on Kent Street, started in 1858, became the major English speaking (mostly Irish) Catholic church.

See The Welfare of Irish Catholics in Ottawa, 1820- 1900 for a description of the early Irish Catholics in Ottawa and area.

The major contractors for the canal works were John McTaggart, John Redpath (sugar industry 
in Montreal), Thomas McKay and Philemon Wright from Hull. The contractor for excavating 
the first six head-locks in Bytown was John Pennyfather. The labourers were paid by the day. Many, such as
William English, lost their lives working in dangerous conditions. A very good account of the 
working conditions can be found in an article by William Wylie. See also our page on Labour History in the Ottawa area.
Richard Bishop was Paymaster for the Rideau Canal.

Some of the labourers came directly from Ireland. Others had previously worked on the Lachine 
Canal in Montreal or on the Erie Canal in New York State. When the canal was completed, some 
of the workers, such as Daniel Burns from Belfast, moved to the United States.
After the war of 1812, there was interest in constructing a canal from Bytown to Lake Huron.
This canal would have allowed Canadian people and goods to avoid Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.

Immigration from the Atlantic Provinces to the Ottawa area, prior to 1881
By sorting through the 1881 census of Canada, we find that there were 218 persons
who came to the Ottawa area from Nova Scotia.
Others migrated to our area from New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

A commercial center was established in the By Ward Market area. While most of the early
canal labourers were Irish, many men of French origin came from Montreal or other parts
of Lower Canada to settle in Bytown. See our list of about 125 francophone families who arrived in Bytown
between 1826 and 1855. Many of these families form the basis of the strong francophone community the Ottawa / Gatineau area.

In the 1840's, the Roman Catholic Church established St. Joseph's College, later
known as the University of Ottawa, on Sussex Street in the Byward market. It was later 
moved to its present location in Sandy Hill. In 1856, St. Joseph's Church was built to serve
English speaking parishioners. Sacre Coeur, across the street, served French speaking parishioners.

Anne Burgess has sent in some interesting letters illustrating the recruitment of
Catholic priests to work in the developing wilderness areas in Renfrew County beginning
in the 1850's.

The Holiness Movement became rooted in some areas of Eastern Ontario and Western
Quebec c. 1900.

Early Area Newspapers and Directories

Here is a new feature from Google -- the ability to search the digital archives of the Ottawa Citizen Newspaper.

October 16, 2016:
Thanks to Carmen Rochon who has sent in about 400 obituaries for the Ottawa area, starting in the 1890's.

One of the earliest newspapers in Bytown was the Bytown Gazette. Sue Barr
has transcribed some early birth, marriage and death records covering the period
1836-1843. Mostly dealing with Hull and Bytown, some of the names listed are from as
far east as Glengarry, and west to Perth and Pembroke. Sue has also marriages and deaths
recorded in the Ottawa Times of the 1860's. These
newspapers can be viewed on microfilm in the National Library (Wellington Street,
second floor) and in the Ottawa Room of the Ottawa Public Library. Some birth 
notices were also published. The Canadian News was published in London, England in the mid-19th century.  
Sue has also transcribed Births, Deaths, and Marriages which occurred in the Ottawa area and which
were reported in England. Also, some records of BMD's for Bytown were published in the
Perth Courier, between 1834 and 1849. See also Bits of Bytown from early American and British newspapers,
transcribed by Sue. Taylor Kennedy
has contributed obituaries of military officers as recorded in the Bytown Gazette
beginning in 1836.And thanks to Sue Barr for some 1828 records from the Brockville Gazette 
pertaining to some Ottawa and Hull area pioneers. Bob Mackett has also sent records
of births, marriages and deaths from the Bytown Gazette and the Ottawa Advertizer for
the years 1836 to 1845.

Thanks again to Sue who has transcribed the obituaries from the Ottawa Journal from 1886 to 1899.

Sue has also transcribed Marriages in Bytown or Concerning Residents of Bytown, 
Nepean and Richmond for the years 1829 to 1856 and some Death Records covering
the years 1828-1849. She has also sent in a link to Northern New York State newspapers in the 1800's.
Sue is still at it. She has now transcribed the births, marriages and deaths for the Ottawa Citizen from 1853-1859.

And today, Sue has sent along records of Births, Marriages and Deaths of early Bytown and Ottawa Residents, Recorded in International Newspapers

Al Craig has sent in a list of Ottawa and Carleton Directories online from 1863-1899.

Small communities developed at each lock station. After the canal was completed,
some workers and their families settled on crown land along the canal.
At Long Island, for example, there was a grid on the Gloucester side
of the canal consisting of about fifteen "city" blocks until about 1880. The land around 
the lock-station and dam is a park today and only the lockmasters house remains.
Across the river, on the Nepean side was Chapman's Mills and the Samuel Collins house.

George Newsome was the lockmaster at Kilmarnock (south of Merrickville) from 1841 
to 1871. His son William succeeded him as lockmaster.

Here is a map showing the Gloucester side of the Rideau Canal, from New Edinburgh to
Long Island village and locks. Incidentally, the first public meeting for the Township
of Gloucester was held at Cunningham's Inn in 1832. John Cunningham ran a popular "stopping
place" for many years. The floor plan of his inn is representative of many of the 
businesses of the day - family living quarters were usually combined with a commercial
establishment.

In 1832 a double calamity struck the labourers in Bytown: 
(1) the Rideau Canal construction ended leaving most of them unemployed.
(2) a major cholera epidemic spread from Quebec City to Upper Canada causing 
hundreds of deaths and tragedies to individual families. This double tragedy, 
in the same year, set the stage for a "reign of terror",  known as the Shiners' War 
in Bytown. Many unemployed men moved back to the land in the 1830's, in an attempt to
become self-sufficient and also to escape the violence and social disorder in our town.

Mary Cox has sent in the following map of Bytown in 1842. 

"The map is based on a Plan of Bytown by Lieutenant White, R.E. Feb. 24, 1842.  
Cemeteries are shown including one on Barracks Hill.  Also I remember someone looking 
for an early map that showed Isaac Firth’s Tavern – it is also included on the map".

Map Source: Looking Back, Pioneers of Bytown and March, by Naomi Slater Heydon.


In 1836, a list of eligible voters for Nepean Township was compiled.

Captain George W. Baker was in charge of the Bytown Volunteers (militia unit) in 1838.

Mr. Charles Chapman, raconteur, from England, died in Ottawa in 1854. Sheila is trying to determine where he is buries.

Local Maps, 1879
The following maps from the year 1879 show the location of farms and property owners
in the Townships surrounding Ottawa. As of the amalgamation effective January 1, 2000
the new City of Ottawa now includes all of these townships, plus Torbolton, March and 
Marlborough. There was always a close relationship between the municipality of Bytown/Ottawa
and the local townships. Much of the food for the growing urban area was produced in the 
townships and the local farmers visited the city to buy and sell merchandise.Local politics 
and economics were based primarily on race and religion during 
the 1800's and parts of each township identified closely with certain neighbourhoods in Ottawa.
For example the English, Scottish and Irish Protestant community of Uppertown had strong
ties to the English and Irish Protestant Orange groups in Goulbourn and Nepean. The 
Catholic settlements in South Gloucester, Jockvale and Corkery had business and family ties 
to the Lowertown market neighbourhood. The French market gardeners from the rural area to 
the east of Ottawa (Gloucester, Cumberland and Clarence Townships) primarily identified also
with the Catholic-dominated Lowertown area. Cummings Island is in the Rideau River, at Montreal Road. 

Carleton County - This map shows all townships
Gloucester Township
Nepean Township
Osgoode Township
Goulbourn Township
Huntley Township    


The above maps, digitized by McGill University, are large files. You can extract
smaller portions of the maps by using the methodology described here.

Also, the Wallings Company created maps showing the locations of the settlers on their
land in 1862. These maps have been digitized by Library and Archives Canada.

Mary Cox has sent in a link to the Fire Insurance maps from the 1870's. These maps show urban locations.

Part of the Township of Gloucester is called Junction Gore. This resulted from 
the original survey of the township. Some of the lots are "Ottawa Front" and 
some are Rideau Front". The remainder (the northwest corner of the township) are in 
an area called Junction Gore. 




The Evolution of Ottawa Neighbourhoods

Lowertown - by Marc St. Pierre
Parliament Hill / Uppertown
 

Sandy Hill - by Marc St. Pierre
New Edinburgh
Little Italy - Preston Street
Boarding Houses in Ottawa in 1881 ... before the age of apartments
Westboro - by Michael Davidson
A Working Class Neighbourhood in Ottawa, 1880-1950 - by Allan Lewis
Mechanicsville
Sussex Drive ... A Mile of History
Barrhaven - page inspired by Mike Epp and Taylor Kennedy
The Glebe ... including Pretoria Avenue
Kanata Timeline History
Beacon Hill and Rothwell Heights - some information by Pierre Alleyn
Beacon Hill North
Manotick Station
Hazeldean




(1) The 1879 portion of the map is adapted from Belden's 1879 Atlas
Evolution of Dow's Lake from Dow's Great Swamp
Old Ottawa South
Bell's Corners
Bell's Corners School Class Photo in 1920
Westcliffe Estates
Uplands / Hunt Club / Bowesville Neighbourhoods
Carlsbad Springs ... by Kevin Collins

Cemetery Records in Ottawa and area

A useful resource for genealogists can be found in the transcriptions of the names
of persons buried in local cemeteries. All of the local historical societies have 
published lists of persons buried in area cemeteries. However, in most cases, these 
lists include only the legible names of persons who are included on gravemarkers.
Some of the early tombstones (if there were any) have by now become illegible or
may have been removed from the cemetery for safety reasons.

Scott Naylor has a very good, searchable, web site which includes digital photographs of
grave markers in the Ottawa area. The site is now run by Murray Pletsch.

The Ontario Cemetery Database is a searchable database, by cemetery in Ontario. This database
lists over 1,000,000 "interments" (buried people), in various cemeteries
in Ontario. In addition, another site is very useful for research in the
Northeastern Ontario region: the Northeastern Ontario Graveyard Gallery
is maintained by Murray Pletsch. Kimberly Fraser has a web site of 
photographs and transcriptions of St. Paul the Hermit Cemetery in Sheenboro, Quebec.
Sean McConnery has transcribed many of the cemeteries in Western Quebec and the Upper 
Gatineau area. He has entered them online at his web site.


Musical Heritage in Ottawa and the Valley

The Ottawa Valley has a rich heritage when it comes to music. Original songs by the 
log-drivers were among the earliest in this area. See our Ottawa Valley Music page for some
songs by Charlie Gardner.

Emigrant Letters
A new field in the study of history is research into old letters and personal
correspondence from days of old. Mary Quinn, has an old trunk, handed down from
her ancestors. She has sent along this letter, covering the time when two
fifteen year old Irish migrants married in Quebec City, settled in Goulbourn
Township, and lived strong and happy lives in the Ottawa area. She also has many
old letters written by the Foran and Quinn families of South Gloucester.

Bytown was incorporated as the City of Ottawa in 1855. Here are the members of
the first City Council, as well as some other people of interest influence in Bytown.

Henry J. Friel was mayor of both the town of Bytown and the City of Ottawa in the early 1850's.

Statutory Labour:
Thanks to Barb Hadden for this fascinating original document which
is in the Kanata Town Hall. John Ray (spelled Rea) is named in the document
which list the names of folks in 1843 in March Township who were required
to do statutory labour to maintain township roads. Many other March Township names
are listed: Younghusband, Armstrong, Wilson, etc.

Minutes of the Council of the County of Carleton, January 1854

There were no clothing stores in the early 19th century. Most of the families made 
their own clothes and important occupations were tailors and seamstresses. Many women
made quilts, often personalized as in the case of the Smyth family in 1841.

The 1879 municipal budget reflected the priorities of the day:
there were no expenditures for French language schools or for social welfare. However,
the city had been able to run up a considerable debt for which it paid interest of
$73,000 - the largest budgetary expenditure category. Cities were able to borrow money
based on the assessed value of their overall property assets. As long as the city was
growing and the property base was expanding each year, its' revenues continued to increase 
without a need to increase the mill rate. 
This was the beginning of rapid industrialization and urbanization for Canadian cities.
The relatively large "Grants to Corporations" category probably reflects the desire to 
attract manufacturing operations to the city, especially at the Chaudiere Falls location.

The art of photography began in the 1850's. Three of the earliest 
photographic studios in the city were Pittaway, Jarvis and Topley. 
Later, Yoseph Karsh was a world famous photographer. He died in the year 2002.

By the way, most of us have old family photographs which contain unidentified people and places. We have 
a web page to help identify these photographs. 

Taylor Kennedy has located the Abstract from the Shipping Book of James Allison, Immigration Agent at Montreal, Canada, in 1846 - 
Passengers Going Westward by Steam Boat to areas such as Kingston, Hamilton, Toronto, Carleton County, Ontario, and Masson, Quebec.
These records are held by Library and Archives, Canada.

Anne-Marie Ibell has sent a photograph, dated c. 1890, of the Governor General's 
Foot Guards. Her grandfather, Alphonse Heyendal, came to Canada from Belgium and 
played the base fiddle for the Foot Guard's Band. He also knew Jean Dallaire who
was a well-known artist in the Ottawa area.

In 1845, Sister Elizabeth Bruyere and the Grey Nuns came to
Bytown from Montreal. They immediately began to improve health, welfare and education
facilities for the Catholic community in Lowertown. By the end of the 19th century,
in response to the Social Gospel and Progressive movements in North America, many
private charities, including the Union Mission on Waller Street, were established.

By 1871, the sawn wood industries and the federal government were the two largest
employers in Ottawa. The industrial profile of businesses shows the beginnings of
evolution from an artisinal and commercial city to a manufacturing and government
city. Industrialization and urbanization went hand-in-hand. Many people began to move
from the surrounding townships into the city from farms which were becoming overcrowded 
after the second generation following the pioneers. By 1879, a modern industrial and commercial
city had evolved. See a list of major occupations and their incumbents in 1879..

A large influx of civil servants from the provinces occurred at Confederation in 1867.
The Public Service is now the major employer in Ottawa and Gatineau.

Track and Field events were the earliest sports to take place in Ottawa and
area. These games often took place in conjunction with local fairs and market
days. Organized team sports such as hockey and baseball began in the late 1800's
and evolved to the National Hockey League Ottawa Senators, the "Triple A" baseball
Ottawa Lynx and the Canadian Football League Ottawa Rough Riders and the Ottawa 
Renegades. We are trying to identify some of the early athletes and sports events.
See our Ottawa Sports History web page.

Fishing in the Ottawa area began with the first settlers. Birchbark canoes, built
by the Algonquin canoe builders were in demand for transportation on the waterways.

Streetcars began running in 1891 and the final car was retired in 1959. 
Warren SOPER and Thomas AHEARN, who had been innovators in hydro electricity in Ottawa 
were pioneers in the streetcar business in Ottawa. You'll find links to their biographies
by clicking on "streetcars" above. My grandfather's brother, Terry Burns, drove the last streetcar
in Ottawa off the streets in 1959.

Mr. William Washington Wylie owned and operated the Ottawa Carriage Company.

The Big Fight of 1895 at O'Leary's Field, Manotick followed
the rules of the Marquis of Queensbury.

Belden's 1879 Map of Osgoode Township...A list of almost 1000 names of pioneers 
and their Concession numbers for Osgoode Township in 1879. An extract of names
from the 1874-75 Osgoode Township Directory shows many of the persons living in
the north west part of Osgoode Township.

Snake Island in Osgoode Township

Sean and Sharalyn Daley have just opened the Daley Family Funeral Home (September, 2006).

Senior Citizens in Osgoode Township in 1881. See also the state of Elder Care in 2011 in Ottawa and area.

A letter from a mother in Ireland to her son in Carleton County.

Ottawa Valley and Our Soldiers in World War 1, 1914-1918

Remembrance Day is November 11,  A Tribute to one of our Veterans, Robert Metcalfe

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), history and genealogy in the Ottawa / Gatineau area.

Irish and Canadian Money and Coins.

Moses Bilsky was the first member of Ottawa's Jewish community. He arrived in 1857. 

A list of pioneers who were in Gloucester Township before 1834.

More early settlers in Gloucester Township.

The History of the  Byward Market (Lowertown).

The French Line in Lavant (or Darling) Township.

Early Post Offices and Postmasters in  Carleton County

Ottawa Dances with the Spanish Lady .. Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918, by Marc St. Pierre

Ottawa: Railway History ... by Colin Churcher

The The Railway comes to Nepean, bisecting the Kennedy Farm on Jockvale Road. 

The Great Depression in Ottawa, 1930-1939.

Charlotte Whitton was the first female Mayor of a Canadian city.


Osgoode Township

My main area of interest is in the north-west corner of Osgoode Township - now within
the limits of the city of Ottawa. A strong and close-knit community, mainly Irish and
Catholic, began to settle there beginning about 1830. Unlike the Peter Robinson settlers of 1823
who mainly came from County Cork and settled close together in the Huntley Township area, or,
the Fallowfield and Jockvale settlement in Nepean Township, which was made up chiefly of Tipperary folks, the pioneers
in Osgoode Township, south-east of Manotick, came from many different counties in Ireland.
Most of them had previously worked in Bytown and along the Rideau Canal construction as far south as
Kemptville. A lot of them had occupied ordnance land around the major lock stations - Hog's Back, 
Black Rapids and Long Island, before obtaining land in Osgoode Township.

Also, in the early 1800's, people came to the townships just north of the St.
Lawrence River. The town of Brockville was settled before 1800. Ogle Gowan arrived
in Brockville in 1829 and was the main character in the Orange Order in Canada.

Oxford Township, for example had many connections to the area
covered by our web site. The town of Smiths Falls, located on the Rideau Canal
became an early settlement of American businessmen. It was an important manufacturing
center and later a hub for the railways in Eastern Ontario. It is situated in Montague Township.
Mountain Township was named after the Anglican Archbishop Jacob Mountain.

Prescott and Russell County, including Cambridge Township and the village of Casselman is an example of the
agricultural nature of the area to the east of the City of Ottawa.

Hastings County, including the city of Belleville on the Bay of Quinte, was settled in the 1780`s.

The city of Cornwall became an important port city and shipping center for people and
products destined west via the St. Lawrence Seaway. The same can be said for the town of Prescott in Augusta Townhip.

The Brock, Ralph and Beggs families also settled in Prescott and Russell County.

My Burns, Sullivan, Christopher, Doyle and McGee ancestors were among the pioneers. Within a 
generation, the farm lots filled up with settlers; they had large families and we're all related 
to each other, and to a great many other families in the Ottawa area.

Here's a map showing the area in which I'm most interested. The date of the map is 1879.
This map, along with the 1881 census forms the basis of my study of the area. My grandfather
was born here in 1880.
Below the map is a table (yellow background) which contains clickable links to pioneers in 
the neighbourhood. Today, this area is bordered by the Mitch Owens Road on the north,
the Snake Island Road to the south, on the west by the River Road and to the east by Bank Street
 / Highway 31.
Source: Belden's 1879 Maps of Carleton County.



There are many more names of pioneers, other than those from Osgoode, further down on this page.

  

    
Table 1

      Early Immigrants

      To Osgoode and Gloucester Townships
    

      
Gloucester Township
      

      

      

    

      
Osgoode Township
      

      

      

    

      
Note: Feb. 20, 2008
      
The names below are being
      
transferred to the Osgoode
      
and Gloucester pages (above)
    

      
BAMBRICK family
      
Bytown, c. 1830
      

      

    

      
BONENFANT Alfred or Ferdinand
      
Cab Driver
      
killed in 1908
      

    
               

      
BRADY
      
James, 1838-? from Kilkenny
      
Reginald BRADY, 1809-1893, born Kilkenny
      

    
        

      
BRENNAN, Michael, 1820-1909
      
Ireland
      
wife=Anastasia BROPHY, 1836-1900
      

    
    

      
BURKE, family from County Mayo
      
to Osgoode, also some from Cork
      

      

    
         

      
BURNS, Michael
      
s/o Lawrence (above) and Margaret DOYLE
      
marr. July 20, 1871, Mary SULLIVAN
      
d/o Nicholas SULLIVAN and Mary McGEE
    
        

      
BURNS, William 1839-1898,
      
born in Ireland
      
wife=Elizabeth MULRONEY
      
d/o George MULRONEY and Catherine DUGGAN
    
        

      
O'BYRNE, Jane 1808-1871
      
from County Antrim
      
husband=Hugh McGEE, believe bur. in Ireland
      
Jane is buried St. John's, Enniskerry
      

    
            

      
CARDIFF, William
      
Manotick Station
      
from Scotland
      

    
    

      
CARRAHER, Michael 1819-1881
      
County Armagh
      
wife=Ann MURPHY
      

    
    

      
CARRAHER, Patrick 1812-1885
      
County Armagh
      
wife=Mary MURPHY
      

    

      
CARRIGAN, Michael
      
from Ireland
      
wife = Margaret McDONALD McLEOD
      
from Scotland
    
    

      
CASSERLY, William, 1803-1875
      
Ireland
      
wife=Rose RICE
      

    

      
CASTLES, Henry
      
wife = Catherine RUSSELL
      
Catherine died 1859, born Co. Limerick
      
also sp. CASSELS
    
    

      
CHRISTOPHER, Bridget Ellen
      
husband = George HOOVER
      
to Washington D.C.
      
cousin of J. Edgar HOOVER
    
    

      
CHRISTOPHER, Patrick 1801 - 1860
      
County Waterford
      
2nd wife = Mary FITZGERALD from Cork, married Notre Dame
	1835, witnesses were Patrick CURTIN and Catherine
	POWER
      
my GGGrandparents, 1st wife was Catherine LANDRIGAN, died 1834
    
    

      
CLELAND, Robert and Hugh
      
Londonderry
      
came in 1840
      
Con 2, Osgoode
    
      

      
COGHLIN, Timothy 1841-?
      
from Ireland
      

      

    
            

      
CONNORAN, James
      
Wicklow
      
1826-1897
      
bur. Vis.
    
    

      
CONWAY, James 1795-1880 (Article in OTHS
	Newsletter)
      
James born Kilkenny
      
wife=Sarah DUNN, died 1852 in Osgoode
      
James went to Iowa after Sara's death
    
    

      
CORCORAN, Thomas, 1822-1874
      
Carlow?
      
wife=Nora DUFFY
      
bur. St. Mary's
    
    

      
CORRIGAN, John
      

      
wife=Elizabeth CONNOR
      

    
    

      
CRAIG, Gervais
      
County Tyrone
      
wife=Mary LANGDON
      
ML# 440 ... See book Hello Nepean
    
        

      
CURRAN, John, 1821-
      
Ireland
      
wife=Catherine FOX
      
Osgoode
    
    

      
CURRAN, Patrick, 1827-1895
      
Ireland
      
wife=Mary RICE, 1830-1891
      
bur. Vis.
    
    

      
DALEY, John 1806-1873 from Armagh
      
son of William
      
wife = Ellen O'CONNOR
      

    
    

     
DALEY, Michael
      
Kings County, 1826
      
wife = Elizabeth McGUIRE
      
Osgoode Township
    
    

      
DALEY, Thomas 1821-?
      
Ireland
      

      

    
    

      
DALEY, J.
      
Sligo, 1840
      

      

    
    

      
DALY, James 1826-?
      
Ireland
      

    
    

      
DARCY, Thomas
      
born c. 1833
      
wife=Bridget
      
Osgoode Con III
    

      
DELAMETER, William, b. 1803
      
wife Margaret
      
ties to MULLINS and Huntley
      
in Metcalfe, 1879
    
    

      
DEVEREAUX, Thomas
      
Lot 21, Con. IV Osgoode
      
wife=Mary WHELAN
      
DEVRIE, DEVRIX, etc.
    

      
DEWAN, Morris 1791-?
      
from Tipperary 1827 to Osgoode
      
ML# 167 as Maurice DUAN
      
wife=Alice PROUT from County Down
    
    

      
DIAMOND, Henry 1821-1894 (PR?)
      
from Limerick?
      
bur. St. John's
      
wife=Mary KENNEY / KENNY, 1839-1909
    
    

      
DOLAN, Francis 1788-1855
      
Cavan
      
wife=Ann McGOVERN, also from Cavan, 1788-1861
      
bur. St. Brigid's - many McGOVERNs buried at Kemptville
    
    

      
DOOLEY, James b. 1838
      
Conc. 5, Osgoode
      
wife=Mary MULLINS
    
               

      
DRISCOLL, Cornelius b. 1861
      
Cork
      
wife=Catherine QUINN
      
Bur. St. Brigids
    
        

      
DURNING, John 1799-1886
      
Donegal ?
      
wife=Mary McLAUGHLIN 1804-1856
      
bur vis.?
    
    

      
DURNING, Patrick
      
Donegal
      
died 1883, aged 90
      
ML# 529
    
    

      
EARLY, Patrick, 1798-1871
      
Ireland, may also be "HURLEY"
      
wife=Ellen O'HORO, 1804-1887 (Nee BURNS?)
      
bur. St. John's (maybe nee MANTLE)
    
    

      
EVANS, Francis 1797-1897, son of Patrick NEVINS and
	Maggie RUSSELL
	

      
      
County Meath
      
see NEVINS, below
      
married Mary CORRIGAN 1843, son Luke EVANS born 1853
    
    

      
FAGAN, Michael, 1817-1878
      
wife=Alice HUGHES, 1820-1893
      
to Canada 1830
      
bur. Vis.
      

    
    

      
FAGAN, Patrick 1845-1909
      
wife=Susan SMITH, 1850-1933
      

      
bur. Vis.
      

    
    

      
FAHEY, William
      
wife=Margaret KING
      
daughter married Bart CHRISTOPHER
      

      

    
    

      
FENNING (FANNING), Michael 1790-1868
      
Leitrim, 1818
      
wife=Sarah Jane O'BRIEN, 1794-1868
      
Osgoode in 1838
    
    

      
FENNING (FANNING), Patrick
      
1817-1897
      
wife=Ann GUILFOILE, 1822-1909
      

    
    

      
FINAN, John, died about 1869 (house fire)
      
left 4 children
      
wife=Catherine McGEE
      
remarried Patrick CHRISTOPHER, more children
    
    

      
FITZGERALD, Thomas 1806-1850
      
b. Ireland, farmed NE of Manotick
      
bur. St. Mary's
      
son Thomas farmed Con 2, Lot 14,Osgoode
    
        

    
FLOOD, Patrick, 1808-1883
      
Carlow
      
wife=Julia CORCORAN, 1800-1884, also from Carlow
      
bur. Enniskerry
      

    
    

      
FORAN, John 1835-1901
      
Waterford, Thomas was lockmaster at Hartwell's
      
wife=Catherine RYAN, 1839-1920
      
father ML# 510, see Bridget RYAN
    
    

      
FORAN, Nicholas 1819-1903
      
Waterford?
      
wife=Alice DALEY, 1827-1900
      
bur. St. Mary's
    
    

      
FOX, John 1842-?
      
Ireland
      

    
    

      
FOX, Miles 1793-1878
      
Sligo, 1840
      
wife=Bridget KENNEDY 1792-1878
    
    

      
FOX, William, 1801-?
      
Ireland
      

    
        

      
GILLISSIE, Thomas 1808-1874
      
from County Longford
      
wife=Bridget O'CALLAGHAN 1812-1886, from County Armagh
      
bur. Metcalfe
    
    

      
GLEESON, James 1790-?
      
Ireland
      
see also GLEASON
      

    
    

      
GRACEY, John
      
wife=Margaret
      
John born 1831
      
Concession 4, Osgoode
    
    

      
GRANGER / GRAINGER, Samuel
      
wife=Bridget BURNS living Osgoode 1848
      

      
daughter of Patrick BURNS and Helen KEARNEY
    
    

      
GRANT, Patrick 1823-1895
      
Antrim, wife=Martha THOMPSON, 1836-1916 from Leitrim
      
see James THOMPSON (father of Martha)
      
daughter Catherine GRANT married a LANE
    
    

      
GUILFOYLE, Patrick 1798-1883, from Waterford
      
wife=Catherine O'CONNOR
      
from Limerick, bur. Vis.
      
some GUILFOYLEs came from Tipperary in 1835
    
    

      
HARNEY, Patrick 1814-1872
      
Tipperary, via U.S.
      
wife=Margaret GUILFOYLE 1802-1879
    
    

      
HARNEY, Patrick 1811-?
      
eldest son (Patrick) born Ireland, other children born Upper Canada
      
wife=Margaret RYAN 1812-?
    
    

      
HASSETT, Patrick, 1814-1905
      
from Ireland
      
wife=Ellen MOLLEY / MOLLOY 1826-1902
      
Osgoode
    

      
HATCH, Thomas
      
Lot 9, Con. 2
      
Osgoode
      

    
     

      
HAWKINS, John
      
Irish
      
wife Ellen was Scottish
      
Mitch Owens Road
    
    

      
HERBERT, Alexander, 1795-1885
      
Sligo,1838
      
wife=Mary PARKS
      
Herbert's Corners
    
    

      
HERBERT, James, 1841-
      
Sligo
      
wife=Elizabeth NASH
    
    

      
HERBERT, Patrick, 1784-1884
      
Sligo 1837
      
wife=Bridget HERBERT
    
    

      
HOGAN, John 1833-1905
      
bur. Vis.
      
wife=Ellen BROOKS,  1833-1893, b. Wexford
    

      
HOPKINS, William
      
from County Wicklow
      
ML# 233
    
    

      
HURLEY
      
from Cork to Osgoode
      

      

    
    

      
HUGHES, Patrick 1784-1854
      
from County Armagh, buried St. Mary's, ML# 491
      
3 daughters married McGEE brothers:
      
(1)Dennis 
	(2)Patrick (3)Terrence
    
    

      
JORDAN, James, c.1790-?
      
daughter Bridget was 2nd wife of Lawrence BURNS
      
wife=Bridget LAUGHNAN
      
County Mayo to Lot 12, Con 3, Osgoode
    

      
JORDAN, Patrick
      
wife=Margaret DOYLE
      
to Gatineau Valley
      

    
    

      
KEALEY, Darby, 1792-
      
ML# 213
      
from County Laois (was Queen's)
      
2nd wife Eliz. MULLIGAN
      

    
    

      
KEALEY, Daniel, c.1817-?
      
also sp. CAYLEY or KIELLY
      
wife=Catherine COLLINS
      
Carleton Place to Wisconsin
    

      
KEALEY, James
      
Queen's - may be ML# 171
      
wife=Ann PURCELL
      

    
    

      
KEALEY, John 1778-1853
      
Kilkenny
      
some also from Cork
      
bur. St. Mary's
    
    

      
KEALEY, William, 1820-1885
      
from Kilkenny in 1834
      
wife=Ellen CONNOR, 1818-1885, from Cork in 1837
      
bur. St. Mary's
    
    

      
KAVANAGH, Edward, 1827-1898
      
Ireland
      
wife=Catherine FOX, 1835-1904
      
Catherine may be 2nd wife
    
    

      
KAVANAGH, Edward 1813-1898
      
Ireland
      
wife=Margaret KERWIN
      
same Ed as above?
    
    

      
KAVANAGH, Peter, 1831-?
      
Peter and Mary born Ireland
      
wife=Mary UNKNOWN, 1830-?
      
Children all born Ontario
    
    

      
KEARNS, Dennis
      
Carlow, 1821
      
wife=Ellen DOYLE
      
son William
    
    

      
KEEGAN, John
      

      
wife=Alice HOGARTH
      
John and Alice in Osgoode Township 1845-1860
    
    

      
KELLY, William (born 1802)
      
Kilkenny, 1826
      
wife=Margaret GUILFOYLE
      
Mr. Lorne Kelly has written biography
    
    

      
KENNY, Patrick, born c.1810
      
believe remarried after Margaret
      
wife=Margaret ? , 1815-1859
      

    
    

      
KENNY, Michael 1824-1891
      
wife=Catherine O'MEARA
      
both from Tipperary
      
married Buckingham, PQ
    
    

      
KEOGH, Cornelius 1810-1873
      
Tipperary
      
also spelled KEHOE
      
death record at Museum
    
    

      
KEOUGH (KEHOE), James 1791-?
      
wife=Catherine RYAN
      
both from Tipperary
      
some to Pittsburgh
    

      
KEHOE, Matthew
      
came to Bytown in 1844
      
from County Wicklow
      

    

      
KEHOE, Patrick and (1) BRASIL, Jane and (2) RALPH, Hanorah
      
to Marlborough Twp.
      
Tomacork, County Wicklow
      
came here c. 1833
    
        

      
KILFOYLE, Patrick
      
County Waterford
 
      
Manotick Station
      
also GUILFOYLE or KILFOIL
    
    

      
LARKIN
      
Longford, 1825
      
3 brothers
      
see The Manotick Station Story
    
    

      
LEAHY,Timothy
      
Limerick, 1845
      
Wife=Mary DOWNS, from County Down
    
    

      
LEAHY, Thadeus 1814-?
      
Ireland
    
    

      
O'LEARY - LEARY, Patrick, 1822-1878, from Cork?
      
wife=Mary DUNN, 1834-1899
      
d/o Patrick DUNN (M.L.) ?
      
Bur. St. Brigid's
    

      
LECUYER, John
      
Con III, Osgoode
      
b. c. 1855, Ont
      

    
    

      
LENNOX, John
      
County Derry
      
wife=Catherine KEARSEY, 1822-1895
      
Catherine from King's County
    
    

      
LEONARD, Michael 1801-1893
      
Sligo
      
wife=Catherine HERBERT, 1809-1899, Sligo
    
    

      
LOWREY, Robert, 1821-1896 - Up from County
	Down
      
wife=Catherine O'BRIEN, 1823-1907
      
see Robert LOWREY
      
bur. St. Brigid's
    
    

      
LYNUM, Edward 1817-?
      
Ireland
      

    
    

      
MALONE, John 1811-?
      
Ireland
      
wife=Ellen MARS (sp.?)
      
Son Michael baptized 1848
    
    

    
MANTLE, Robert and James
      
Cork - See also Huntley records
      
stone erected by Robert MANTIL (PR?) in memory of ... 
      
 ... Martha MANTLE, 1837-1875
    
    

      
MARSHALL, Thomas
      
Lot 23, Con. 3, Osgoode
      
wife=Anastasia DOLAN
      

    

      
McCABE, Several
      
widespread
      
Pakenham, Onslow, Gloucester
          
    

      
McCARTIN, John 1817-1902
      
both from Armagh
      
wife=Margaret HUGHES, 1824-1888
      
bur. St. John's
    
    

      
McDOWELL, James 1824-?
      
Ireland
    
    

      
McDOWELL, Patrick 1821-?
      
Ireland
      

    
    

      
McEVOY, Edmund
      
Kilkenny to Osgoode
      
wife=Catherine KENNEDY, 1773-1861,emigrated as widow with sons
      
Catherine bur. St. John's, Edmund bur. Ireland
    
        

      
McEVOY, John 1808
      
Kilkenny
      
wife=Anastasia POWER
      
son Edmund went to Iowa with CONWAYs
    
    

      
McEVOY, Patrick 1810-?
      
Kilkenny to Osgoode
      
wife=Celia DOYLE
      
E-mail Jaimie McEvoy
	 who has a web page with LARKIN, McEVOY and
	DOYLE surnames
    
    

      
McEVOY, Thomas 1810-?
      
Kilkenny 1826
      
wife=Margaret O'ROURKE
      
also Michael
    

      
McEVOY and HURLEY, families
      
in Osgoode Township
      
by Ron Hurley
      

    
    

      
McGEE, Bernard 1801-?
      
County Down to Con. 3, Osgoode
      
wife=Bridget FLANAGAN

	1798-1856
      
ML# 169 MAGEE
    
    

      
McGEE, Darcy
	1806-1868
      
Journalist, Member of Parliament, Father of Confederation, wife=
	 Mary CAFFREY
      
assassinated on Sparks Street, 1868. See also
	Fenians
      
daughter Euphrasia married Francis QUINN
    
        

      
McGEE, John Joseph
      
Clerk of Privy Council, 1882-1907
      
father of Frank McGEE, hockey player
      

    
    

      
McGEE, Joseph
      
County Tyrone ?
      
wife=Mary Unknown
      
ML# 387 as McKEE
    
        

      
McGRATH, Michael, 1820-1862
      
King's County
      
wife=Mary McKENNA-see Hugh McKENNA
      

    
    

      
McHALE, Miles d. 1860
      
Mayo
      
wife=Mary NEILON / NIELON, died 1877
      
Osgoode, Con. 3
    
    

      
McHALE, Michael, 1826-1853
      
Mayo
      
son of Miles above
    
    

      
McHALE, Edward, 1832-1918
      
Mayo
      
wife=Margaret DURNING, 1825-1909
      

    
    

      
McKENNA (McKENNY), Hugh, 1790-1873
      
County Tyrone
      
served in Napoleonic Wars
      
2nd wife=Catherine DUFFY 1807-1877
    
    

      
McMORROW, James, 1826-1856 and Patrick, 1831-1860
      
Antrim
      
mother Mary, born 1801
      
see also John CAHILL
    
    

      
McNEMONY, Patrick
      
Ireland
      
wife=Margaret BURNS
      
marr. 1839
    
 

      
McROSTIE, Andrew
      
      
Scotland to Osgoode
      

      

    
    

      
MEAGHER (MAHER), John, 1828-1908
      
Tipperary 1825
      
wife=Ann KELLY, 1834-1899
      
bur. St. Mary's, see also The Manotick Station Story
    

      
MELVIN, Patrick
      
to Osgoode
      
1st wife=CeciliaMcDERMOTT d. 1837
      
2nd wife=Mary SASSEFIELD ?
    
     

      
MINOGUE, Mathew
      
Bytown to Osgoode
      

      

    

      
MYLES / MILES, David
      
      
wife=Catherine RYAN
      
Osgoode to Venosta
      

    
    

      
MOLAMPHY, Patrick - 1808-1875
	

      
      
Tipperary, some went to Pittsburgh from Osgoode
      
 wife=Julia KEOUGH
      
Parents=Morgan MOLAMPHY and Catherine CUMMINGS
    
    

      
MORRIS, Edward
      
Tipperary 1838
    

      
MOSES, Clark
      
to Osgoode
      

      

    
    

      
MULLINS, Michael 1808-?
      
Ireland
      
wife=Eliz. SHEEHAN (Kilkenny)
      
SHEEHAN may be SHANE
    

      
MURPHY, Daniel
      
Hogsback in 1832
      
wife = Elizabeth BURNS or BYRNE
      

    
    

      
MURPHY, William
      
Carlow
      

    

      
MURPHYs in Osgoode
      
by Michael Daley
      

      

    

      
MURPHY, William
      
same man as above?
      
wife=Honorah McEVOY
      
Manotick Station
    
        

      
MURRAY, Michael 1790-1864
      
Kilkenny
      
wife=Mary GALLAGHER
ML# 141
    
    

      
MURRAY, Patrick 1827-?
      
Longford
      

    
    

      
NASH, Patrick 1796-1886
      
Kilkenny 1830
      
wife=Margaret BLANCHFIELD from Tipperary
    

      
NEVILLE, Patrick
      
Lot 3, Con III
      
Osgoode
    

      
NEVINS, Francis
      
County Meath
      
wife=Mary CORRIGAN
      
E Lot 12, Con 3, Osgoode
    
         

      
O'BRIEN, James 1824-1858
      
Con. 2 Osgoode
      
wife=Bridget WALSH
      
St. Michael's
    
    

      
O'BRIEN, John 1810-1898
      
Con. 2 Osgoode ?, some children to Gatineau
      
wife=Annie HOGAN
      
bur. St. Brigid's
    
    

      
O'BRIEN, Patrick, 1823-?
      

      
wife=Ann TIERNEY, 1832-?
    
    

      
O'BRIEN, Timothy
      
from Cork c.1830
      
wife=Catherine HURLEY (EARLY ?)
      
see also another Timothy O'BRIEN (PR)
    

      
O'CONNOR, Hugh
      
b. Ontario 1840
      
wife=Julia
      
Osgoode Con. 5
    
    

      
O'CONNOR, Lawrence
      
Ireland to Nova Scotia
      
then to Ottawa
    
    

      
O'CONNOR,Timothy 1791-1873
      
Cork, McCabe List ?
      
wife=Mary CAIN (KEANE)
    
    

      
O'CONNOR, Timothy
      
Cork, McCabe List ?
      
wife=Mary McHALE
      
Osgoode, Con. 2
    
    

      
O'DOUGHERTY
      
from County Monaghan, 1823
      

      

    
    

      
O'LEARY, Patrick, 1822-1878, County Cork
      
wife=Mary DUNN, 1834-1899
      
bur. St. Brigid's
    
        

      
O'ROURKE, John, c. 1795-?
      
County Cork
      
Wife=Mary BURNS
      
Con. 3. Lot 13, Osgoode
    
    

      
O'ROURKE, Thomas 1822-?
      
Cork
      
son of John above
      
wife=Catherine KEOUGH d/o James KEOUGH from Tipperary and
	Catherine RYAN
    
        

      
PALMER, John, 1792-1876
      
Mayo
      
wife=Elizabeth, also from Mayo
      

    

      
PHAIR, William
      
wife=Jane GILLIS
      
to Metcalfe area
      
1840's
    
     

      
PIPER / PYPER, William, b. 1801, Prot
      
Limerick
      
      
Con. 3, Osgoode
      
wife ANN was RC
    
    

      
QUAIL, James
      
2 James Quails ?
      
both in Osgoode
      

   
            

      
RALPH, Thomas W. 1853-1924
      
son of Walter (next entry)
      
wife=Mary STACKPOLE 1853-1910
      
bur. Vis.
    
            

      
REDDICK, Thomas 1820-?
      

      

    
        

      
ROONEY, James
      
wife=Catherine DWYER
      
to Corkery area
      

    
        

      
RYAN
      
some from Carlow
    
    

      
SHAW, John 1800-1875
      
b. Scotland
      
wife=Janet
      
to Manotick Station
    

      
SHEA, John
      
born 1814
      
wife=Mary
      
Osgoode
    
    

      
SHEARAN, Bernard
      
Lot 13, Con IV, Osgoode
      
wife=Catherine O'NEIL
    
    

      
SHIELDS, Patrick
      
Wexford, St. Mary's Parish, died 1874
      
bur. Enniskerry
    
    

      
SHIELDS, Patrick
      
Wexford, St. Mary's Parish
      
1800-1862, bur. St. John's
      
wife=Bridget MURPHY
    
    

      
SKEFFINGTON, Peter
      
see also Early marriages in Bytown - from Meath,1828
      
3 brothers-Michael,Patrick and Peter
      
ML# 551 Later to Illinois, USA. Patrick married Nora STACKPOLE
    
        

      
STACKPOLE, Dennis
      
Cork, 1820's
      
Married Helen O'CONNOR  1843
      

    
     

      
STACKPOLE, Michael
      
Cork, 1820's
      
Married Mary MULHALL  1837
      
ML# 227
    
    

      
STACKPOLE, William
      
Cork, 1820's
      
Married Helen BRITT (BIRT?)  1843
      

    
    

      
above 4 are brothers
      
parents were William STACKPOLE and Mary BARRY
      
all related to PR people
      
parents of O'CONNOR sisters were  John O'CONNOR and
	Maggie QUINLAN
    
        

      
SULLIVAN, John 1823-1914
      
wife=Ann GRANT from Longford
      
bur. St. Catharines
    
    

      
SULLIVAN, Patrick, 1811-?
      
Cork, 1823, s/o Jeremiah SULLIVAN and Mary McCARTHY
      
wife= Mary KANE (PR), d/o John KEANE and Judith
	GALVIN
      
marr. N.D. 14-08-1848.
    
    

      
SULLIVAN, Nicholas
      
from County Meath to Osgoode
      
1806-1862
      
my GGGrandfather, wife=Mary McGEE
    
    

      
SULLIVAN, Patrick c. 1780-?
      
parents of Nicholas above
      
wife=Catherine BLAKE 1784-?
      
GGGGrandparents ... Al
    
    

      
TERRY, Michael, 1799-1873
      
from Waterford
      
wife=Margaret TIERNEY from Kilkenny ,1798-1882
      
Conc. 3, Lot 18
    
    

      
THOMPSON, Alexander
      
from Cork 1818 ?
      
wife=Eleanor CASSERLY
    
    

      
THOMPSON, James, 1809-1897
      
Leitrim (born Antrim)
      
wife=Mary McALLISTER 1817-1884, born Antrim
      
See book The Blood Creek Thompsons, went to U.S., bur.
	Kansas
    
        
        

      
TOBIN, John
      
born USA
      
wife=Bridget
      
Con. 5, Osgoode
    

      
TOMKINS, John
      
from County Wicklow in 1844
      
wife=Elizabeth TRAYNOR
      
to Cumberland
    
        

      
TRAYNOR, James 1821-1901
      
wife= Jane MURRAY
      
bur. Metcalfe
      

    

      
TURNER, Frank
      
from New Brunswick
      
wife- Emma LaPOINTE
      

    
    

      
TURNER, John 1800-1895
      
from Ireland 1831
      
wife=Susan WHELAN
	

	1812-1889
      
Buried St. John's
    
    

      
WALLACE, Michael
      
b. Ireland, 1830
      
Manotick Station Road
      
School Teacher
    
    

      
WALSH, John
      
99th Reg. of Foot
      
wife= Ellen KANE or KEANE
      
see Lawrence BURNS
    
    

      
WALSH, Mary, 1832 to 1873
      
born Castletown, County Cork
      
husband=William C. BARRY
    
        

      
YORK, John 1790-?
      
Ireland
      
bur. Metcalfe
    
  


Sources:
1. Michael DALEY of the Osgoode Township Historical Society has done a lot of work in this area. 
2. Our Lady of the Visitation Parish, 140th Anniversary Commemorative Booklet, 1845-1985.
3. Various tombstone inscriptions in Gloucester and Osgoode Townships. 
4. The March 1999 issue of the Osgoode Township Historical Society Newsletter has more details
(specifically, an article written by Michael DALEY. The Historical Society also has published a series of family histories. 

Visit the Web Site of the Osgoode Township Historical Society and Museum

The following Counties in Ireland today make up what is called Northern Ireland: 
Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone. The remaining Counties form the 
Republic of Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is independent. 

Table 2
  Here are a few names of pioneers in the military settlement at Richmond
   (from 1818) and in Nepean Township (mostly Jockvale and
  Fallowfield):

  

    

      
BAXTER, Thomas
      
Cavan, Templeport
      
wife=Catherine McGOVERN
      
ML# 15, Wayne O'Neil has history
    
  

      
BERGIN, Dennis 1840-1930
      
Tipperary
      
wife=Mary KEALEY, 1856-1929
      
also sp. BERRIGAN
    
    

      
John BERGIN, 1833-1920
      
Ireland
      
wife=Ann BURNS, 1856-1938
      

    

      
BERGIN, John 1806-1867
      

      
wife=Ann CUMMINGS
      
Nepean
    
    

      
BERRIGAN, Michael, 1831-?
      
Ireland? Bytown?
      
wife=Catherine KELLY, 1835-?
      
also sp. BERGIN
    

      
BRENNAN, Timothy, 1858- ?
      
Ireland to Nepean
      
wife= Ann KENNEDY
      
to Half Moon Bay
    
    

      
BROPHY, Walter
      
Kilkenny
      
ML# 542
      
related to POWER family
    
    

      
George T. BURKE of the 99th Regiment at Richmond
      
Tipperary
      
M.L.
      
wife=Lydia GRANT
    
    

      
BYERS , Hugh
      
Tipperary ? to Black Rapids
      
wife=Catherine KEALEY
      

    
    

      
BYRNE, David
      
Ireland to Nepean in 1837 (first child born in Quebec)
      
wife=Bridget HANNIGAN
      
various spellings over time: BYRN, BURNES, BARNES
    

      
BURTON, Joseph
      
England to Ottawa in 1911
      
wife = Catherine LEAHY

      
      

    
    

      
James BYRNE, 1816-1892
      
Ireland
      
wife=Catherine MONAGHAN
      
see Monahan Landing
    
    

      
Mary BYRNE/BURNS
      
Ireland
      
husband=Patrick MONAGHAN, Nepean
      
marr. 1831
    
    

    
BYRNE, Patrick
      
Wexford, bur. Fallowfield
      
wife=Johanna FORTUNE,1826-1895 
      

    

    
CASEY, James
      

      
wife=Maria HAWLEY
      

    

      
CHRISTIAN, John, b. 1812
            
wife=Sarah McCONVEY
      
to Nepean
      

    
    

      
CLARKE, William
            
Borrisokane, Tipperary
      
1783 to 1860
      
to Jockvale (Half Moon Bay)
    

      
COSTELLO, James
      
b. 1821
      
wife= Mary Anne TEEVENS, b. 1829
      

    
    

      
COSTELLO, John H.
      
Tipperary
      
wife= Margaret BURNETT, b. 1815
      
John is son of Mathew
    
    

      
COSTELLO, Thomas, c. 1823-?
      
married (1) a McMASTER from Glengarry
      
and (2) Maria FRAIN (SPAIN ?)
    
    

      
COSTELLO, William 1807-1875
      
Tipperary
      
wife= Margaret MURPHY, 1811-1874
      

    

      
COWICK, David
      
from Cork to Nepean
      
wife=Catharine COLLINS
      

    

      
DEEVY, Michael
      
Kilkenny
      
also sp. DEAVY
      

    
    

      
DELANEY, Daniel
      
born in Sarsfield?
      
wife=Catherine FAHEY
      

    

      
DERVIN, Patrick
      
born 1830, aka DERVIAN
      
County Roscommon
      
wife=Catherine DOOLEY
      

      
DODGE, Edward
      
Long Island to Huntley
      
1st wife=Rosaline D'AMOUR POTVIN
      
also to Madawaska
    

      
DOOLEY, Thomas
      
Fallowfield (Richmond Road) in 1879
      
1st wife=Catherine QUINN
      
2nd wife=Mary COUGHLAN
    
    

      
John DREELAN
      
Carlow
      
1822-1878
    

      
DUNN, Michael
      
wife=Mary TIERNEY
      
Nepean
    

      
DUNN, William
      
wife=Theresa
      
Ottawa and Fallowfield
    

      
FALLON, Patrick
      
married Bridget KENNEDY
      
Later to North Dakota
    
    

      
FERMOYLE, John 1825-1911
      
married Margaret BERRIGAN in Nepean
      
2 other brothers went to Boston, USA
    
      

      
GLEESON, Martin (GLEASON)
      
Tipperary, Kilmore, Silver Mines
      
to Fitzroy
    

      
GOSSON, John
      
County Meath to Richmond
      

    
    

      
HALL, John
      
Ireland to Nepean
      
wife = Ann
    
    

      
HAMMILL, Patrick, 1791-1875
      
wife= Catherine MULDOON, 1796-1884
      
to Fallowfield/Jockvale
    

      
HANNIGAN, Daniel
      
wife=Catherine CARROLL
      
Huntley ?
    

      
HANRAHAN Families
      
ML# 610
      
Ellen Unknown (yet)
      
other Hanrahans also
    
    
    

      
HANRAHAN, George
      
his widow (Bridget BURNS, from Limerick) marr. John McGEE
	1840
      
to Aylmer P.Q. and Osgoode
    
    

      
HAWLEY, James
      
Drowned at Chaudiere Falls in 1836
      
son's name William
      
related to HUGHES family
    

      
HAYDEN, Lawrence
      
Tipperary - HAYDON
      
wife=Bridget MULLEN
      
also Thomas in Farrellton
    

      
HOGAN, Luke
      
Borrisokane, Tipperary to Nepean
      
wife=Elizabeth BALLARD
      
from Terryglass
    

      
HOULAHAN, John c. 1808
      
to Nepean
      
wife=Catherine KENNEDY
      

    
    

      
HOULAHAN, Timothy
      
County Clare
      
wife=Mary CAHILL
      
also sp. HOULIHAN
    
    

      
HOULAHAN, Thomas
      
from Tipperary in 1840
      
sister Ann marr. Edward HAWLEY
      

    

      
JUNKIN / JUNKINS, Dane
      
County Fermanagh
      
to Nepean and Gatineau
      
ML# 556
    
    

      
James KELLEY
      
Kildare
    
    

      
Michael KELLEY
      
Tipperary

    

      
KELLY, Roderick
      
to South Nepean
      
wife=Catherine LUTHER
      
Cath. from Tipperary
    

      
KENNEDY, James
      
b. 1825 in UC
      
wife=Elizabeth GOODALL
      

    

      
KENNEDY, James Daniel
      
Bytown to to North Gower
      
wife=Mary COOK / COOKE
      

    
    

      
KENNEDY, John
      
Tipperary to Huntley
      
wife=Margaret MANION
      
ML# 427 ?
    

      
KENNEDY, Thomas
      
1831-1909
      
wife=Elizabeth O'KEEFE
      
Huntley Twp.
    
    

      
KENNEDY, William 1806-1880 See The Kennedy
	Story
      
Tipperary to Nepean
      
1st wife=Isabella WATT
      
2nd wife= Elizabeth CARROLL
    
    

      
KILROE, Lawrence
      
Ireland to Nepean in 1841
      
wife=Mary DUNN 1788-1872
      

    
    

      
LUBY, James
      
b. Ireland c. 1840
      
wife=Margaret MADDEN
      
Skead's Mills
    
    

      
MADDEN, Patrick
      
Tipperary
      
wife=Sophia, both died 1840, both over 100!!
      

    

      
MALCOMSON, Robert
      
Cavan
      
wife = Catherine STEVENSON
      
to Nepean
    

      
McCARTHY, Timothy
      
b. Ireland, c. 1770
      
wife=Ellen
      
to Nepean
    
    

      
McGINN, Peter
      
Tyrone
      
99th Regiment of Foot
      
later to Iowa
    
    

      
McGUIRE, James 1813-1878
      
Meath
      
wife Ann, 1803-1879
    
    

      
MOLOUGHNEY, Michael
      
Tipperary in 1850
      
wife= Ellen MURPHY
      
also sp. MALONEY sometimes?
    
    

      
MONAGHAN, Patrick
      
from County Leitrim
      
wife=Mary BURNS 
      
marr. 1831. N.D.
    

      
MOORE, Thomas
      
Black Rapids, ML# 263 ?
      
wife=Catherine DOHANY (DOWNEY?)
      
some descendants to Maniwaki area
    
    

      
MULDOON, Patrick, 1797-1857
      
from Terryglass to Fallowfield, ML# 499
      
wife=Margaret BALLARD c.1792-1875
      
M.L., Shared Lot at Bridlewood with William KENNEDY
    

      
NUTTERVILLE, John
      
wife = Bridget BRADY
      
To Smiths Falls
      
and later to Iowa
    
    

      
OAKLEY, James, 1800-1886
      
Tipperary
      
wife=Mary MANION, 1817-1905
      
to Huntley
    
    

      
O'GRADY, John
      
Tipperary
      
wife=Honora O'MEARA 1778-1842
      
ML# 70, see also The O'GRADY Bunch
    

      
O'KEEFE, Michael
      
son Cornelius to B.C. Ranch
      
wife=Esther DEMERS
      
possibly ML# 326
    
    

      
O'MEARA, Thomas
      
Tipperary
      
wife=Ellen TIERNEY
      
see Denis TIERNEY
    
      

      
O'NEIL, John 1809-1882
      
Wicklow
      
wife=Elizabeth BARRETT
    
    

      
QUINLAN, Joseph
      
Tipperary
      
wife=Maggie BERGIN
      
ML# 350
    
    

      
QUINN, Bernard
      

      
bur. St. Phillip's
      
to Manotick
    

      
REARDON, Patrick, 1824-1894
      
alt. sp. RIORDAN
      
wife=Sarah O'CONNOR, 1828-1913
      
1825 PR to Asphodel & Nepean
    

      
ROURKE, James
      
wife=Honora TIERNEY
      
married 1837
      

    

      
RYAN, William and Daniel
      
North Gower to Kansas and Nebraska
      
wives=DOWNEY and QUINN
      

    
         

      
SHEA, Sgt. William
      
of the 41st and 99th Regiment
      
wife=Cecilia KELLY
      
to Petersville, Iowa
    
    

      
SPAIN, Margaret 1820-1894
      
Father was Cornelius from Tipperary, daughters here, sons to
	U.S.
      
married Thomas O'GRADY
      
see John O'GRADY
    

      
STAPLEDON brothers
      
Devonshire, England
      
to Nepean and Goulbourn
      

    
    

      
SULLIVAN, Jeremiah,1807-1892
      
Cork, ML# 562
      
wife=Elizabeth McCarthy,1816-1892
      
marr. 1833, witness=John BURNS of Bytown
    

      
SWITZER, Christopher
      
from Limerick in 1825
      
wife= Sarah Jane MILLER
      
Palatine family
    

      
TIERNEY, Denis
      
Tipperary
      
to Jockvale
      

    

      
TIERNEY, (Ellen)
      
Tipperary
      

      
many Tierney's, not all from Tipperary
    

      
TIERNEY, James
      
a.k.a. "Gold Dust"
      
1846-1931
      
Richmond Road
    
       

      
TIERNEY, John
      
Huntley?
      
wife=Cecilia COUGHLIN
      
later to Renfrew Co.
    

      
TIERNEY, John
      
wife= Ann MURRAY
      
Fallowfield / Jockvale
      

    

      
TROY, Thomas
      
born 1807 in County Kilkenny
      
wife=Mary FOX
      
Fallowfield / Jockvale area
    

      
WATT, Arthur c.1819
      

      
wife=Ann SPAIN, c. 1820
      
Jockvale
    
    

      
WATTERS, Patrick, 1792-1841
      
Tipperary ?
      
wife=Mary COLLIGAN, 1809-1897
      

    
  

Source: St. Patrick's Parish - Fallowfield, 125th Anniversary Booklet, 1866-1991 and 
various tombstone inscriptions.

Many of the pioneers in the Ottawa region came from County Tipperary or County Cork. 
 
And here is a list of all parishes in Cork and Tipperary, along with the first year for which records are available.

Here is a map of the Fallowfield/Jockvale/Black Rapids area of Nepean.

Taylor Kennedy has supplied an interesting  story, pictures and a 
more detailed map showing the original schoolhouse at the corner of Jockvale Road and 
Fallowfield Road and and also of St. Patrick's Church at Fallowfield.

Names of about 80 young adults confirmed in 1852 at St. Patrick's Church, Fallowfield.

St. Patrick's, Fallowfield  Baptisms, 1851-1860, compiled by Marilyn Cottrell.

Sue has transcribed the marriages performed at St. Patrick's, Fallowfield between 1851 and 1875.

Sue has also transcribed the deaths recorded at St. Patrick's, Fallowfield between 1851 and 1875,
and also the death records from St. Patrick's (downtown) at the corner of Kent and 
Nepean Streets.



There are two St. Patrick's Churches in Ottawa. St. Patrick's at Fallowfield dates to 
about the 1830's. St. Patrick's Basilica on Kent Street in downtown Ottawa was
built around 1875 to serve the Irish population. In the early days it served the
population from the Rideau Canal in the east to Britannia in the west.

Excerpt from an article dated August 26, 2000 in the Ottawa Citizen
(just prior to Nepean being merged with the City of Ottawa): "Nepean is renaming
some of its parks after early settlers in an attempt to preserve the city's
history before amalgamation. Bruce Elliott, author of  The City Beyond:
A History of Nepean, Birthplace of Canada's Capital, said the proposal
is a great idea. 'It's a way of seeing that some of the old names are
commemorated.' Mr. Elliott said that many of the families were Irish Catholics
from Tipperary. They began settling in Nepean in the 1820's.

City councillor Jan Harder said "the Irish families' roots are very, very
deep in this community". 

The names of the new parks will be: Rooney Park, Clarke Fields, Houlahan
Park, Lytle Park, Burnett Park and Tierney Park.

The Nepean Museum...Has well-organized, computerized Census data going back to 1842, 
plus other resources.

Nepean Families ...Ed Robertson's Nepean Page

The O'Grady's and O'Mearas ...two Fallowfield (Nepean) area families

  


Pioneers in Torbolton Township and Fitzroy Township:

Here are two excellent books, if you are researching the Torbolton and Fitzroy area:

1. Doris Grierson Hope has just had her book, Torbolton Township: Its Earliest History, reprinted. You can contact the author by e-mail at:



2. Beyond Our Memory... a history of Fitzroy Township, by the Fitzroy Township Historical Society, ISBN 0-9694250-0-7

Some early settlers in Fitzroy Township

Frank O'Hara has a web site of pioneers in Torbolton and March Townships.
His main surnames are O'HARA, NASH, CASEY, BRENNAN, EDGE, and HAWLEY.

Joseph Gilmore Smyth and Catherine Burns to Fitzroy, early 1800's

Death Registrations in Fitzroy Township in 1900 and 1907

More Info on Fitzroy Township (and HICKEY surname)
  

Pioneers in Goulbourn Township, Huntley Township and also the Perth Area

County Cavan to Goulbourn Township .. The family of George ARGUE and Mary WILSON

Pre-famine Migration to British North America

Thomas ACRES from Tipperary to Huntley Township.

Goulbourn Township Historical Society ... Located just outside Stittsville

Behan Teevens Brown Finner ... and some other deaths before 1900 at St. Michael's, Corkery

Marriages in Huntley, 1837-1900 ... Groom, Bride, Date of Marriage

Births in Huntley, 1837-1900

Deaths in Huntley, 1837-1900

Take a virtual walking tour of the Town of Almonte, formerly called Shipman's Mills. 

The Auld Kirk Cemetery near Almonte. Many of the Scottish pioneers who came in the 1820's
are buried in this cemetery.

At Bear Brook (Bearbrook) in the Russell / Cumberland area, you'll find 
Trinity Anglican Church and it's pioneer cemetery.

Pontiac County pioneers: folks born before 1800 and living in Clarendon, Litchfield, Bristol and
Chichester Townships in 1851. Visit the Pontiac County Heritage Web Page. 
Bonnie Hannifin is researching her ancestors, Alexander Wilson and Mary Thompson, who settled in the Pontiac, before 1841.

Phil McGrath has sent in a list of landowners at Calumet Island in the Pontiac in 1867.
The John KENNEDY / Julia DOOLAN family were early settlers on Allumette Island.

The first Polish settlement (1859) in Canada was established at Wilno.

Ottawa is chosen as the Capital of Canada and the Great Fire (story transcribed by Taylor Kennedy)

Members of the Ottawa Fire Department who died in the line of duty.

Some Early Marriages in Perth Ontario (St. John the Baptist Parish) ... Names transcribed
by Rita Meistrell.

The town of Carleton Place, just west of Ottawa, was originally called Morphy's Falls
after Edmond Morphy who came from County Tipperary and settled there before 1820.
Franktown, in Beckwith Township and mid-way between the military settlements at
Perth and Richmond, was a supply depot for the first settlers. Marlborough Township, in
the western part of Carleton County, was home to many Irish Pioneers who came from
Counties Wexford and Wicklow in Ireland.

North Gower Township, Carleton County, was settled beginning in the 1820's and
here are some pioneers in South Gower Township (Grenville County) in 1862.

Carol Bennett McCuaig is researching material for two new books:
(1) Beckwith Township Settlers Prior to 1842 and (2) Lanark County Settlers
from Carlow, Wexford and Kilkenny. (September 1, 2006)

Bishop Alexander MacDonell 

The Indian Hill Cemetery near Pakenham

Mary in Michigan is researching the surnames Sullivan, Coyne, Lefurgy and Finucane in
the Upper Ottawa Valley.
  

Table 3
  Here are more early settlers in Ottawa and area:  
  The date, where given, is the date of marriage.  
  Alphabetic by Groom's surname


  
      
TR>

    

      
ABBOTT, Francis Nenagh Castle, Tipperary
      
to Canada, 1815
      

    
    

      
James ABBOTT
      
20-05-1845
      
Mary FINNEY
    

      
ACTON, John
      
from Castle Bar
      
to Acton's Corners
    

      
ADRAIN
      
to Newboro area
      
canal
    
    

      
John ARDELL
      
10-09-1851
	

	07-04-1853
      
 (1) Bridget MURPHY
	

	(2)Mary FINCH
      
also spelled "McCARDELL" or "McARDLE"
    

      
ARMSTRONG, James
      
wife=Mary ANN
      
Bytown and Smiths Falls
      


      
ARMSTRONG, Joseph
      
wife = Catherine Smith
      
County Cavan to March Township
      
probably ML# 356
    
    

      
John ARMSTRONG
      
17-02-1840
      
Margaret BOYLE
      

    

      
ARMSTRONG, family
      
to North Gower in 1847
      
also LEWIS and GRIMES
      

    
    

      
James ARMSTRONG
	

      
      
15-04-1844
      
Bridget KELLY
    

      
BRADLEY, William
      
wife=Sera DOWNEY
      
to Huntley Township
      
then to Eardley, Quebec
    
    

      
AUBRY, family
      
surname changed from BRENNAN
      
First known Irish immigrant
      
contains good Quebec history
    
    

      
Patrick AYLEN
      
28-09-1840
      
Catherine DALEY
      
brother of Peter AYLEN ??
    
    

      
Patrick AYLWARD
      
18-07-1843
      
Mary BOYLE
    
    

      
Edward BAKER
      
22-07-1856
      
Catherine MARTIN
    

      
BALLARD, Richard
		
County Tipperary
	    
Eliza WHITE
    
South March
    

      
Edward BAMBRICK
      
23-08-1842
      
Ann NEIL
    
    

      
Johnston BARKER
      
01-09-1846
      
Mary DARCY,
	

	d/o Michael
    
    

      
BARRETT, Patrick
		
County Mayo, ML# 170
	    
Sally BURKE
    
also m. Alice FLYNN ?
    

      
Peter BARRETT (M.L)living at Long Island, brother of above, ML# 170
      
11-02-1834
      
Mary SMITH
      
another brother, Thomas, on ML# 170
    
    

      
BARRY, James
      
married 08-01-1838
      
Helen BURNS / BYRNES, widow of J. BRENNAN
      
Cork to Huntley to Onslow
    

      
BARTON, Benjamin
      
County Fermanagh
      
ML# 340
      
    
	  

      
BEATTY / BEATTIE, Daniel
      
County Wicklow
      
ML# 504
      
wife = Jane SMITH

      
BELFORD, (Several)
      

      
ML# 296 363 375 626
      

    

      
BELL, Jeremiah, b. 1808
      
To Fitzroy Township
      
wife = Frances ELLIOTT
      
to Bruce County, c. 1850
    

      
BENNETT, Patrick
      
from County Meath
      
ML# 363
      

    
    

    

      
John BERGIN
      
10-05-1832
      
Mary Ann COYNE
    
    

      
Edward BERGIN
      
07-01-1842
      
Catherine DONNELLY
    
    

      
Patrick BERGIN
      
23-02-1832
      
Mary CULLEN
    
    

      
William BERGIN
	

	widower of Bridget FENNING
      
01-07-1845
      
Susanna CURRAN
    
        

      
William BLACK
      
22-11-1834
      
Mary O'CONNOR
    
    

      
John BLAIR
      
12-02-1832
      
Mary DUNN
	

	from Hull
    
    

      
John BLAIR(above)
      
01-12-1835
      
Catherine BURGESS
      

    

      
BONFIELD, James
      
to Eganville
      
connected to Huntley ?
      

    
    

      
Sarac BOOTHMAN
      
20-01-1857
      
Mary BURNS
      
d/o Martin BURN  from Wexford (M.L.) and Ann
	GRAHAM
    
    

      
John BOWES
      
08-11-1845
      
Jane McGUIGAN
      

    
    

      
Mathew BOWES
      
29-04-1845
      
Ann BRENNAN
    
    

      
Edward BOWES
      
19-08-1856
      
Catherine McKENNA
    
    

      
John,Mathew and Edward BOWES (above)
      
were all sons of Thomas BOWES and Mary KELLEY
      
have parents of brides
      
were they the BOWES from Bowesville, site of Ottawa
	International Airport?
    
   

      
BOWES, Owen
      
to Perth in 1820
      
Rose FLOOD
      
some at Huntley
    

      
BOYD, William
      
McCabe List # 419
      
from County Antrim
      

    
    

      
John BOYLE s/o James BOYLE and Mary McINTYRE
      
29-07-1846
      
ANN CUSACK
      
d/o Michael CUSACK and Helen McDONOUGH
    
        

      
John BOYLE s/o Dominick BOYLE and Catherine DONNER
      
19-02-1846
      
Elizabeth McGRATH
      
d/o Thomas McGRATH and Mary O'BRIEN
    
    

      
Andrew BOYLE s/o James BOYLE and Mary McINTYRE
      
17-10-1846
      
Helen RYAN
      
d/o Michael RYAN and Helen PRESTLEY / PRESLEY
    
    

      
BOYLE, Joseph
	

	b. County Wicklow.
	

	s/o John BOYLE and Mary BURNS
      
21-07-1854
      
Sara TOBIN
	

	d/o John TOBIN and Mary MURPHY
      
to U.S. in 1860's
	

	see obits.
    
    

      
Thomas BRADLEY
      
08-01-1846
      
Anna Jane MURRAY
      
have parents
    
    

      
Thomas BRADRICK
      
19-04-1847
      
Mary BOLAND
      
have parents
    
    

      
Bernard BRADY
      
26-10-1831
      
Mary McCARTHY
      
B.B. lived at Templeton, Quebec
    
    

      
Patrick BRADY
      
30-09-1844
      
Helen POWER
      
have parents
    
    

      
Patrick BRENNAN
      
29-09-1835
      
Mary FITZGERALD
      

    

      
BRESLIN Family
      
at Grenville, Quebec
      

      

    

      
BROWN, Henry
      
County Cork
      
Alexina POTVIN
      
to Bayswater
    
    

      
John BROWN (Long Island) maybe from Leitrim
      
31-07-1831
      
Mary Ann COLLINS from Goulbourn
      

    
    

      
John BROWN, Leitrim?
      
21-05-1844
      
Mary WALSH
      
have parents
    
    

      
John BROWNRIGG
      
24-11-1854
      
Margaret McVEY
      
have parents
    
    

      
BUCKLEY, James (Goulbourn)
      
26-01-1830
      
Mary O'BRIEN
      
married N.D. Bytown
    
    

      
Andrew BULGER
      
02-08-1854
      
Mary MALONE
      
have parents
    

      
BULGER, John, c. 1817
      
Val des Monts
      
Helen (Ellen)
      

    
    

      
James BURKE
      
15-04-1834
      
Margaret BRIEN / O'BRIEN
      

    
    

      
John BURKE
      
05-07-1829
      
Eleonora BURKE
      
Lots more BURKEs
    
    

      
William BURNETT
      
04-08-1832
      
Mary GLEESON
      
Jockvale
    
    

      
Felix BURNS s/o John BURNS and Susan
	KINSELLA
      
01-05-1856
      
Mary RODGERS d/o Francis RODGERS and Mary McGUIRE
      
Susan Frances BURNS, d/o Felix and Susan, married John
	DONNELLY

	See also a Byrnes/Donnelly connection in 
	Westport, ON
    
    

      
James BURNS
      
23-11-1855
      
Mary BURNS
      
have parents
    

      
 BYRNES, John
      
from County Wicklow
      

      

    

      
 BURNS, John
      
from County Wicklow
      
to Lansdowne Township in 1831
      
wife= Margaret ARMSTRONG
    

      
 Burns, Lewis
      
from County Wicklow
      
to Buckingham and Cumberland
      
wife= Mary Ann WALLACE
    
    

      
Thomas BURNS
      
10-11-1845
      
Helen CARDEN
      
have parents
    

      
BURNS, Thomas Gillespie
	
      
wife= Elizabeth FENTON
      
mentioned in Lett's book
      

    
    

      
BURNS, Thomas

	b. abt. 1850
      
family from Wexford
      
Mary MAHONEY
      
store on Sparks St.
    
    

      
Lawrence BURNS
      
10-07-1831
      
Margaret DOYLE
      
see Osgoode Twp, above (yellow table)
    
    

      
BURNS, Murtagh
      
married in Ireland
      
Sarah GRIER
      
descendants to Pontiac, Quebec
    
    

      
William BURNS (M.L.) - Kilkenny
      
c. 1829. William may be brother of my GGGrandfather Lawrence BURNS,
	and also of JAMES BURNS who married Elizabeth WALSH. See
	Osgoode Township above.
      
wife=Judith DOYLE
      
see son, next
    
    

      
William James BURNS, son of above
      
10-02-1851
      
Mary Ann GUNN
      
daughter of Patrick GUNN (M.L.) and Ann McGUIRE
    
    

      
John BURNS (Nepean)
      
25-08-1833
      
Harriet MURPHY
      
witnesses Robt. BARRY and Ann BARRY (PR?)
    

      
John BURNS / BYRNES
      
possibly ML# 142
      
wife=Amelia ASTLEFORD
      
from County Wicklow in 1827
    
    

      
John O'BYRNE
      
10-08-1848
      
Ann CAHILL
      

    
    

      
Michael BUTLER
      
21-08-1835
      
Mary CLARKE
      
have parents
    
    

      
James BUTLER (Cork?)
      
01-06-1834
      
Catherine DAVY
      
(Edward DAVY on M.L.)
    
        

      
James BYRNE, s/o John BYRNE and Mary O'NEIL
      
19-05-1851
      
Mary O'BRIEN
      
d/o Daniel O'BRIEN and Mary CARROLL
    
    

      
BYRNE, Patrick c. 1830-?
      
marr. 1849
      
Bridget McGRATH
      

    
    

      
CAIN (KEANE), Patrick John
      

      
Julia O'DONNELL

      
      
to Quyon, Pontiac
    
    

      
CALDWELL, William
      
from County Tyrone
      
Margaret BIRCH or BIRTCH from Tipperary

      
      
some to Durham County
    

      
CARNWITH family
      
Ireland to Perth
      
1820's
      
also to Ottawa
    
    

      
CARR, William, b.circa 1800
      
County Tipperary
      
Margaret LARRETT

      
      
to Fitzroy
    

      
CARROLL, Thomas
      
March Township
      
Sarah KENNEDY

      

    

      
CARROLL, Patrick
      
b. 1795
      
Mary DOOLEY

      
to Farrellton
    

      
CARROLL, Patrick, 1821-
      
Huntley Township
      
Jane O'LEARY

      

    
    

      
CARRUTHERS, Noble 1809-1883
      
from County Fermanagh
      
Mary Ann ARMSTRONG
      
to Huntley
    

      
CASEY, Patrick
      
County Roscommon
      
Margaret FARMER
(Tipperary)
      
      
Goulbourn / Nepean
    

      
CASSIDY, Peter
      
c. 1790 - ?
      
Margaret FARRELLY ?
      
to Illinois
    

      
CASSIDY, Thomas
      
County Westmeath
      
wife=Julia FITZSIMMONS
(Tipperary)
      
      
ML# 146


      
CASSIDY, Bernard
      

      
wife=Margaret GORMAN
      

    
      
CAVANAGH, Edward
      
to Huntley area
      
Margaret CURRAN
      

    

      
CLEAR / CLAIR
      
Moses and Andrew
      
Wexford or Carlow
      
Griffintown
    

      
CLEARY, John 1805-1897
      
to Fitzroy / Onslow
      

      

    
    

      
CLEGG, William
      
born Ireland
      
Catharine McDUFF

      
      

    

      
CLOSE, John, 1796-1880
      
Ireland, may be ML# 249
      
wife=Catharine
      
to South Gower
    

      
CLYNE, Louis
      
and PINETTE
      
 married McDONALD sisters
      

    
    

      
COLLINS, Thomas
      
Mayo to March Twp.
      
Catherine O'BRIEN
      

    

      
CONLEY, Robert
      
Wexford to March Twp.
      
born 1757
      

    

      
COONEY, James
      
County Mayo
      
Catherine MULROY
      

    

      
COOPER, Paul
      
Ireland to Bytown 1830
      
Rachel WALLACE
      
to Osgoode
    

      
COPELAND, Thomas
      
Ireland to Wakefield
      

      

    
    

      
CORCORAN, Patrick John
      
came to Ottawa area c. 1877
      
wife=Catherine O'LEARY
      
married in Sillery, Quebec
    
    

      
Daniel COUGHLIN

	Black Rapids
      
09-01-1832
      
Bridget KENNY

	Black Rapids
      

    

      
COWAN, John
      
Manotick area
      
wife=Elizabeth CLARKE
      
John from County Leitrim
    

      
COXFORD, John
      
from London, England, 1837
      
wife=Esther HALL or HULL
      
son to Pembroke
    
    

      
COYLE, Michael
      
Dublin ML# 364
      
wife=Margaret DOLAN
      
Fitzroy?
    

      
CREGAN, James
      
County Meath ML# 438
      
wife=Mary MURPHY
      
Bytown to Rigaud, Quebec
    
    

      
James CULLEN
      
07-07-1831
      
Mary FLANAGAN
      

    

      
CULLEN, Simon
      
from King's County (ML)
      
Military settler at Richmond
      
later to Cobourg
    

      
CULLETON, James
      

      
wife=Mary Ann MALLOY
      

    
    

      
Patrick CUNNINGHAM
      
15-07-1851
      
Helen WATTERS
      
have parents
    

      
DAGENAIS, George
      
m. 1853 in Golden Lake
      
Rose SHIELDS
      
to Rapide des Joachims
    

      
DALEY, Bryan
      
born Nova Scotia
      
Ellen QUIGLEY
      
to Aylmer, Quebec
    

      
DALEY, Patrick
      
Mary SHERIDAN
      

    

      
DALEY, Richard
      
ML# 495 ?
      
Mary McCRANK
      
to Farrellton
    

      
DARCY, Abraham Hobson
      
to Durham County
      
From Wicklow in 1851
      
Later to Wellington County
    
    

      
DARCY, James 1791-?
      
30-08-1841
      
Mary SKEFFINGTON
      
Osgoode Twp., Con. 3E
    

      
DECARIE, Joseph
      
from Lower Canada
      
wife= Louise FLEURANT
      
also to Pembroke
    

      
DAWSON, William
      
Tipperary in 1832?
      
wife= Catherine TIERNEY
      

    

      
DEEGAN / DEIGHAN, Daniel James
      
to Kemptville
      
Oxford Township
      

    

      
DIGNAN, Bartholomew
      
County Leitrim ML# 32
      
wife=Mary MACNAMARA ?
      
to Smiths Falls
    
    

      
Michael DOLAN
      
16-09-1851
      
Ann McGOVERN
      
have parents
    
    

      
DONOHUE, Thomas
      

      
wife = Honor MAHON
      
to Mt. St. Patrick
    
    

      
Thomas DONNELLY
      
10-02-1834
      
Margaret BURKE
      
Margaret was from Co. Cork
    
        

      
DOYLE, Robert, from Waterford
      
to Lanark then Nepean
      
Eliz. SMITH, from Cavan
      

    

      
DRAPER, John
      
to the Gatineau
      
wife Mary STANLEY
      

    

      
DUFFY, James, from Donegal
      
wife=Mary Ann WOODBURN, from Derry
      

      

    
    

      
DUGGAN, Patrick, from Fermanagh
      
24-09-1838
      
Eliz. GUNN
      
ML# 124,Lett's Book
    

      
DUNLOP, Gabriel
      
wife=Ellen McCLOSKEY
      
Ireland to Chelsea
      

    

      
ELLARD, Josh
      
County Cork to Picanoc
      
"King of the Gatineau"
      
also John FOWLER
    
    

      
ELLIOTT, Simon
      
wife=Ann HOWE
      
To Fitzroy (Galetta area)
      

    
    

      
ENGLISH, William, from Kilkenny,1802-1829
      
wife=Catharine WALLACE, from Kilkenny
      
on McCabe List
      
to March Township, later to Hog's Back
    
        

      
FALLS, Samuel
      
County Tyrone to Huntley (Carp)
      
on McCabe List
      

    
    

      
FITZSIMMONS, Joseph
      
wife=Maria SCHARFE
      
related to WYMAN family
      
(Philemon WRIGHT)
    

      
FEELEY, Michael
      
married Bridget BURNS
      
Stratford area
      
Later to Iowa
    

      
FENLON, William
      
married Bridget DOYLE
      
from County Wicklow
      
to Ottawa, North Dakota and western Canada
    
    

      
Michael FLANAGAN
      
c. 1850
      
Sara McGEE
      
both from Armagh?
    
    

      
Patrick FLANAGAN
      
Contractor on Canal, 1830
      
Mayo to Bytown to Biddulph
      
The Donnelly Album
    

      
FLEMING, Alexander
      
wife, Elizabeth from County Wicklow
      

      

    
    

      
FLEMING
      
Gatineau area
      
also BROWN, BRADLEY
      
O'NEILL and WERRELL
    

      
FLEMING, John
      
99th Regiment
      
Eliz. SWAIN
      
1st wife, married 1857
    
    

      
Edward FOGARTY
      
03-08-1829
      
Catherine ARMSTRONG
      

    

      
FOSTER, Robert
      
1803-1892
      
Mary BOOTH
      
Ireland to Huntley, c. 1825
    
    

      
FOGARTY, Phillip
      
living at Richmond in 1831
      
marr. 07-11-1831, Notre Dame
      
Catherine Lydia  BURKE, d/o Capt. George Thew BURKE
      

    

      
FOWLER, Thomas (Holmes?)
      
Kilkenny
      
ML# 453
      

      

    

      
FOX, Michael
      
Wexford ?
      
wife=Mary BRADLEY
      
to Pontiac County
      

    

      
GALVIN, Patrick 1816-?
      
wife=Eliza CASSIDY 1815-?
            
both fom County Westmeath
      
to Carleton Place
    

      
GARLAND, John
      

    
    

      
William GARRETT
      
26-11-1844
      
Eliz. DOYLE
      
have parents
    

      
GILLIE, Robert
      
his wife was from County Wicklow
      
wife=Eleanor TRACEY
      
(TRACY / TREACY)
      

    
    

      
James GLEASON
      
18-05-1847
      
Mary Ann SPAIN
      
have parents
    
    

      
GOODWIN, John
      
from County Kildare ? c. 1840
      
wife=Sophia MORELAND
      

      

    

      
GORMAN, Richard 1822-1876
      
Ire>Que>Ottawa
      
wife=Mary Ann SHERWOOD 1829-1876
      

          
    

      
Grace, John ML# 140
      
Kilkenny
      
wife Honora LEARY
      
m. 08-10-1849
    

      
GRACE, Peter
      
Kilkenny
      
wife Julia REGAN, Tipperary
      
related to John above?
    
    

      
Daniel GRADY
      
09-02-1834
      
Judith GLEASON
      
4 GRADY marriages before 1840
    

      
GRAHAM family
      
Huntley and Ottawa
      

      

    

      
GRIFFIN, Thomas
      
to Huntley area
      
wife Margaret MEANEY (sp?)
      

    
    

      
GUNN, Patrick
      
Fermanagh
      
related to McGUIRE
      
ML# 555
    
    

      
O'HARE, Michael of Hog's Back
      
30-01-1830
      
Bridget QUIRK or QUICK
      
O'HEARE
    

      
HANRATTY, Peter 1791-1876
      
wife = Mary
      
County Armagh to Calumet Island
      

    
    

      
HART, Peter
	
s/o John HART and Julia DUNN
      
25-11-1844
      
Catherine BROPHY, d/o 

	Martin BROPHY and Catherine BERGIN
      

    
    

      
HAWTHORN , Hans, b. 1813
      
County Down
      
wife Sarah WARD, b. 1808
      
to Carleton Place
    

      
HAYES , Michael
      
wife Ellen
      
Storekeeper
      
Sheenboro
    

      
HEANEY , John R.
      
wife Margaret McGONEGAL
      
from County Donegal
      
to Pembroke area
    

HEARTY , Owen
      
from Armagh
      
wife Ann McGEE
      
to Calumet Island
    
    


HENDRICK , Michael
      
County Wicklow
      
wife Margaret BALFE
      
to Farrelton
    
    

HENEY , John
      
from Killeshandra, Cavan in 1843
      
wife Mary Ann McMANUS
      
Heney Fuels
    
HENEY John
      
wife(1)=Jane WILSON
      
wife(2)=Eleanor Hester KIRK
      


HENNESSEY Patrick
      
wife=Margaret MURPHY
      

      


HENRY / HENERY
      
Bytown c. 1827
      
Cumberland and Nepean
      

    

HOUSTON
      
Northern Ireland in 1823
      
to Goulbourn Township
      

    

HOWARD, Patrick
      
Cork
      
ML# 336
      
also 1825 PR?
    
HOWLETT, John / Patrick
      

      

      
to New Edinburgh
    
        

      
Philip HUGHES,

	have parents
      
16-08-1848
      
Ann McGEE

	have parents
      
Osgoode, Con 3.
    

      
HUTCHINGAME , Thomas
      
Ireland
      
wife Johanna FINN or FLYNN
      

    
    

      
JACKSON , Johnathon, b. 1813
      
Kilkenny
      
wife Mary SHORE, b. 1811
      

    

      
JOHNSTON , James
      
Sligo
      
wife Bridget McGEE
      
ML# 290 ?
    
    

      
James  JOHNSTON, from Sligo
      
08-01-1841
      
Margaret DEWAN
      
same JJ as above?
    
    

      
Thomas JORDAN, to Osgoode
      
16-01-1843
      
Bridget CORRIGAN
      
have parents
    

      
KAVANAGH, Edward
      
Templeshanbo, County Wexford
      
to Vinton, Pontiac County
      
wife = Catherine Mary HEARTY
    

      
KAVANAUGH, John
      
Ferns, County Wexford
      
to Irish Lake
      
wife = Jane HUNT
    

      
KAVANAGH, Thomas
      
1834-1902
      
to Vinton, Pontiac County
      
wife = Jane McDONNELL
    

      
KEEGAN, Bernard
      
to Pakenham
      

      
wife = Mary MORRIS
    

      
KEENAN, Robert
      
wife = Catherine BRADIN
      
both born in Bytown, 1830's
      
to Syracuse NY, USA, c. 1880
    

      
KEHOE, Peter
      
wife = Sarah WHITE
      
from Ireland c. 1842
      
to Gatineau Valley
    

      
KENNEDY, Patrick b. 1821
      
Nenagh, Tipperary
      
1st wife=Julia FLANNERY
      
to Springtown later
    
    

      
Thomas KENNEY / KENNY

	Long Island
      
18-09-1831
      
Bridget CARROLL
      
have parents
    

      
KEYES, George
      
Wexford, b. 1811
      
wife=Elizabeth ROSE
      
Kilkenny
    
      

      
KILLEEN, Dennis
      
from Ireland
      
to South March
      

    
    

      
KINCH, James
      
date unknown
      
Sarah Jane CONNOR
      

    

      
KITT / KITTS, Samuel
      
County Derry
      
ML# 611
      

    

      
LACKEY, William
      
Ireland to Goulbourn
      
military settler
      

    

      
LAFRANCE Family
      
Ottawa Valley, Montreal
      
also in Gracefield, Quebec
      

    

      
LANG and PRENDERGAST
      
Ireland to Pontiac County
      

      

    

      
La PRISE, Larry
      

      
wrote "The Hokey Pokey"
      

    

      
LASH, Gladys
      
aged 4 in 1911
      
from England
      
to Hintonburg
    

      
LAUZON, Emilie
      
also Thomas BRENNAN and
      
Maria VINCENT
      

    
    

      
Cornelius LEARY

	from Cork?
      
11-02-1833
      
Mary WHITE
      
have parents
    

      
LEAVY, John
      
to Pakenham
      
Jane BYRNE
      
also sp. LEVI
    

      
LEE, James
      
to Western Quebec, then to Kemptville area
      
Margaret  BYRNES / BURNS
      
some to the West
    
    

      
Patrick LEONARD

      
      
03-08-1832
      
Bridget EGAN
      
have parents
    

      
LEWIS, Henry G.
      
to Russell
      
Sheriff
      

    
    

      
LEWIS, Robert
      
b. Ireland 1772
      
Ellen PLUNKETT
      
bur. Franktown
    

      
LOGUE, Patrick
      
b. Donegal, c. 1800
      
Margaret McGEE
      
to Iowa and Maniwaki
    
    

      
LOUGHLIN Michael
      
born 1834
      
wife=Jane BUCKELS
      

    
    

      
Edward LOWRY

      
      
24-01-1836
      
Johanna MANTIL / MANTLE
      
see Robert LOWREY
    

      
LYNCH, Thomas
      
from County Waterford
      
to Pontiac County
      
wife=Mary DALY
    

      
LYNOTT family
      
Ireland
      
to Bytown and Chelsea
      
related to McMANUS
    

      
LUSK family
      
Ireland 
      
to Luskville, Quebec
      
c. 1820
    
    

      
Ambrose MADDEN
      
06-02-1837
      
Mary CARLETON
      

    
    

      
Thomas MADDEN
      
16-05-1836
      
Margaret LEONARD
      

    
      

      
MAGEE, David b. c. 1819
      
County Fermanagh
      
wife=Martha Latimer, from Co. Cavan
      
to North Gower / Kars
    

      
MALLOY, Patrick 
      

      
wife=Elizabeth McCORMACK SULLIVAN
      
to Huntley area
      
    

      
Andrew MANNING

	(MANION?)

	Huntley
      
26-08-1832
      
Margaret CASEY (PR?)

      
      

    

      
MANION, John 
      
from Galway
      
wife=Mary MULDOON
      
to Perth area
      

      
MANION, John 
      
Tipperary
      
wife=Mary WHITE ?
      
Huntley pioneer
      
    

      
Peter MANNING

	(MANION?)

      
      
03-10-1837
      
Sarah LOWE

      
      

    
    

      
James MANNING

	(MANION?) Goulbourn

      
      
21-02-1832
      
Margaret TIERNEY

      
      

    

      
MARKS, Adam
      
Ireland to Kazabazua
      
Mary Carson
      
born in Ontario
    

      
MASSIRE , Francis
      
St. Angelo
      
Sarah SIMMONS
      
St. Michael's, Huntley
    

      
MASSON
      
from Scotland
      
to Nepean
      

    
MATTHEWS / MATHEWS, Peter
            
Gracefield
      
Margaret HAY

      
      

    

      
McALINDEN, Anthony
      
County Down
      
wife=Margaret BYRNE
      
also surname MILKS
    
    
    

      
Phillip McARDELL
      
02-11-1852
      
Frances McGOVERN
      
have parents
    

      
McARTHUR , Archibald
      
Scotland
      
Bathea KAIN
      
Almonte area
    
    

      
McAULEY , Alexander
      
worked on Canal
      
Catherine GAFFNEY
      
to Chapeau
    
        

      
John McCABE, of Onslow
      
24-05-1840
      
Johanna STACKPOLE, of Nepean
      
Bytown Gazette
    
 

      
McCAFFREY, Norah
      
from the Pontiac to Michigan (c. 1920?)
      
boarding house in Detroit
      
for Ottawa area Irish
    
 

      
McCAFFREY
      
Farrellton
      

      

    
 
  

      
McCONNELL, William
      
from the Ireland to Gatineau (c. 1850)
      
wife=Sarah DRAPER
      

    
    

      
Patrick McCORMICK

      
      
08-02-1836
      
Bridget DOYLE
      


      
McCORMICK, Thomas
      

      
Bridget O'CONNOR
      
to the Pontiac
    

      
McCRANK family
      
Plantagenet
      
to Gatineau area
      

    
    

      
John McDERMOTT
      
b. Ireland, 1840
      
Mary AnnBANFORTH / BAMFORD
      
Mary was from England
    
    

      
Joseph McDERMOTT
      
10-04-1831
      
Jane McCONNELL
      

    

      
John McENERNY
      
m. Ireland or Ottawa?
      
Mary McMAHON
      
to Ohio 1864	
	(McHENRY?)
    
    

      
Bernard McGEE from Huntley
      
13-11-1831
      
Helen MANTLE (PR)
      

    
      

      
Herbert Wellington McGEE
      
 Carp / Carleton Place
      
wife=Willareta Gertrude CHAMBERLAIN
      

    
      

      
Hugh McGEE
      
 b. County Down, 1821
      
wife=Sarah CUNNINGHAM
      
to Calumet Island
    
 
      

      
James McGEE
      
 Pontiac to Montcerf
      
wife=Elizabeth GALLAGHER
      

    

      
Edward McGILLVRAY Mayor of Bytown & Ottawa
      
daughter married Joseph EDMONDE
      
McGillvray Street in Ottawa South
      

    

      
McGOEY John James
      
wife=Catherine CUDDIHY
      
to the Gatineau (Maniwaki?)
      

    

      
McGOVERN Hugh
      
Carlsbad Springs
      

      

    
    

      
McGRATH  Michael
      
came to Canada 1845-1850
      
son of Peter McGRATH
      
possibly to Renfrew
    

      
McGRATH Thomas
      
to Calumet Island
      

      

    
    

      
McGUIRE  Hugh
      

      
wife=Ann EARLY
      

    
    

      
Patrick McGUIRE s/o Hugh McGUIRE and Rose
	TIGHE

      
      
05-08-1845
      
Mary NASH d/o Patrick NASH and Mary BLANCHFIELD
      

    

      
McHUGH surname
      
Sligo
      
Bytown and Spruce Hedge
      

    

      
McINTYRE Courtney
      
Scotland
      
to Renfrew County and Ottawa
      
wife = Jennet
    

      
McKILLOP Archibald
      
wife=Catherine McGEE
      
Bytown 1829
      

    
    

      
McKINLEY Patrick

	also sp. McKINLAY
      
from County Antrim
      
wife=Grace McKENLY
      
Plantagenet and Maniwaki
    


      
McKNIGHT Patrick, b. 1840
      
County Monaghan
      
wife=Mary Anne LYNUM
      
to Rochesterville
    

      
McLAREN James, b. c. 1815
      

      
wife= Ellen EVOY
      
in Hull by 1815
    

      
Hugh  McLEAN

	have parents
      
23-03-1847
      
Catherine DUGGAN

	widow of George MULRONEY
      

    

      
McNEELY John
      
from County Down
      
canal worker
      

    

      
McVEETY James
      
wife = Dorothea BEST
      
To Lanark Township
      

    

      
McVEIGH Peter
      
Ireland
      
To Goulbourn and Vars
      

    
        

MALEY / MEALEY, Patrick
            
30-08-1829
      
Catherine PATTEN

      
      
Huntley Twp.
    
MELLON, Henry
            
ML# 517
      
from County Tyrone

      
      
wives=Bridget BOLGER and Bridget RONAN
    
     

      
MERRICK and BURRITT families
	  
      
from Wales
      
Merrickville and Burritt's Rapids
      
UEL
    

      
 MILFORD
      
other names are -->
      
KEYS, MONTGOMERY, JOHNSON
      

    
    

      
Michael BURNS
      
m. Ottawa? or Hull?
      
Mary MILMORE
      
lived in Hull in 1890's
    

      
MILLER, George Palatine
      
b. 1792, Limerick
      
wife=Anne, b. 1795
      
PR (1825), ML# 565
    

      
MONDOUX, Francois
      
to Curran, Ont.
      
wife=Marguerite PORTELANCE
      

    
    

      
Edward  MOONEY

	(Mooney's Bay?)
      
16-09-1839
      
Mary KELLEY
      
widow of a McGOVERN
    
    

      
MOONEY, Owen
	

	have parents
      
31-07-1849
      
Catherine BLANCHFIELD
      
have parents
    

      
MOORE, James
      

      
Emiline FAHEY
      
marr. Luskville, 1904
    
    

      
Thomas  MORAN

	have parents, bur. Vis.
      
12-04-1847
      
Mary CUNNINGHAM

      
      
1881 Census
    
    

      
MOREAU, Bruno
      
Ramsay Twp.
      
Rosalie LAFLEUR
      
to Allumette I.
    
    

      
MORRISSEY, John c. 1811-1881
      
Kilkenny
      
Catherine (Katie) O'REILLY

	c. 1831-1902
      
to Onslow
    

      
MULHOLLAND, James, 1787-?
      
Bytown constable in 1851
      
wife Isabelle
      
to Marlborough
    

      
MULVIHILL, John
      
from Tipperary, c. 1827
      
Julia RYAN Chelsea
      
ML# 248
    

      
MURPHY, Mathew, John and Simon
      
King's County
      
3 brothers
      
to Bytown and Aylmer
    

      
NEILL, Michael
      
wife(1)=Mary KELLY
      
wife(2)=Catherine Anne FINNER
      
Lanark / Huntley area
    

      
NIXON, William
      
County Armagh
      
died in Scotland
      
kin to Kars area
    

      
NOLAN and DONNELLY
      
also MOSS
      

      

    
    

      
NORTON, Robert 1774-?
      
wife = Hannah, b. 1791
      
Hull, Quebec (1806)
      
to Marlborough Township
    

      
O'CONNOR, Daniel d. 1858
      
wife = Margaret POWER
      
Magistrate etc.
      
O'Connor Street
    

      
ODLEUM / ODLUM, James
      
Queen's County
      
possible ML#205
      

    
    

      
O'DONNELL, Owen
      
wife = Anastasia SHORTALL from Wexford
      
Her 1st husband was John NOLAN
      

    
    

      
O'MALLEY, Edward P.
      
b. Ottawa 1847
      
family from County Mayo
      
to Ohio, USA
    
    

      
O'NEIL, Dennis
      

      
wife=Mary DRISCOLL
      
to O'Neil Road, Goulbourn
    
     

      
O'NEIL, John 1807-
      
County Cork
      
wife=Margaret SULLIVAN
      
to Kars area
    

      
O'NEILL, Michael John
      

      
wife=Elizabeth SMITH
      
Montreal to Bytown
    

      
PENDER, William
      
100th Regiment of Foot
      
from County Wicklow
      

    
 

      
PEPIN familysome married to FERMOYLEs
      

      
George Pepin, Sgt. in RCMP
      

    

      
PERKINS, Hiram or Herman
      

      
wife=Margaret BROWN or BROUSE
      

    

      
PETTAPIECE, Arthur
      
ML# 234, from Sligo
      
to North Gower
      
wife=Mary HENRY
    
    

      
PETTAPIECE, Thomas
      
possible ML# 234 and 235
      
to North Gower
      
wife=Charlotte MOFFITT
    
    

      
PLAYTER, George
      
UEL
      
Pennsylvania, USA to York
      

    

      
PLUNKETT, James
      

      
wife=Catherine COSTIGAN
      

    

      
PLUNKETT, Michael
      
County Louth, ML# 599
      
wife=Bridget O'REILLY
      
to Farrellton
    

      
POAPST (UEL), SMILEY and REID
      
Bearbrook, Cumberland and Plantagenet
      

      

    

      
PORTER, John
      
County Tyrone
      
wife=Esther BURNS
      
Engineer
    

      
POWER, Thomas
      

      
wife=Hanorah BEHAN
      
to Eganville
    

      
PRETTY, Benjamin
      
from Ireland
      
to Pontiac County and Manitoba
      
wife #2= Cynthia Ann HOWE / HOWIE
    
        

      
PURDY, Henry
      

      
Mary McAULEY

      
      
to Marlborough Township
    

      
PURDY, William and Robert
      

      
William=Sarah Jane OAKES

      
      
to Goulbourn
    
      

      
RUDDY Family
      
Ireland to Pakenham
      
and Brudenell area

      
also sp. REDDY, RODDY
    

      
REGAN Henry
      
Ireland to Regan's Hill, Ottawa
      
wife= Bridget CONNELLY

      

    
    

      
Patrick RICE, Queen's County, ML# 125 ?

      
      
18-01-1836
      
Mary CORRIGAN
      

    

      
RICHER, Albert Joseph
      
Limoges area
      
mother = McKAY

      
also sp. RITCHIE
    
      

      
ROTHWELL / RATHWELL family
      
Ireland to Ottawa and Smiths Falls
      

      

    
    

      
James RICE

      
      
13-02-1835
      
Catherine POWER
      

    
    

      
Edmond RING
      
20-10-1832
      
Ellen ROCHE
      
PR?
    
    

      
John RING
      
PR, Fitzroy 
      
Catherine DALY
      
ML# 408 ?
    

      
ROBINSON, William
      
1818-1892
      
Margaret RYAN
      
Torbolton Twp.
    
    

      
RODGERS (Rogers), Peter, from Tyrone
      
1802-1882 bur. N.D., may have been Talbot Settler in 1818
      
Margaret SHARKEY from Tyrone
      
1805-1883, bur. N.D.
    

      
ROWE, Jasper
      
Riceville area
      

      

    

      
RYAN, John
      
Huntley / Ramsay
      
wife=Mary GLEESON
      

    

      
SAUNDERS, Henry
      
from Carlow
      
wife=Sarah EDWARDS
      
to Beckwith
    
    

      
SHANE, Maurice 1760-1834
      
married in County Wexford
      
Ann BYRNES, 1769-1854
      
bur. Curran, Ont.
    
    

      
2  SHANNON sisters ?
      
Mary , Eliz. at St. Phillips in Richmond
      
husbands= Louis CAILLE / CAYER and Joseph ST. DENIS
      
SHANAHAN ? see also the SHANNON  family
	at Innisville
    

      
SHANNON surname
      
a one-name study
      
Quebec, Ottawa, Renfrew area
      
by Ellen Paul
    

      
SHAUGNESSY John
      
b. 1824, County Limerick
      
wife=Ellen O'CONNELL
      

    

      
SHIRLEY, Paul
      
Kilkenny (?)
      
wife=Catherine McNAMARA
      
Shirley's Bay, poss. ML# 255
    
    

      
SINNOTT (Synott, etc.) , Patrick
      
30-07-1859
      
Bridget DALY
      
have parents
    
    

      
Michael SKEFFINGTON
      
18-02-1833
      
Mary HUGHES, from Gloucester
      
marr. Mary BRENNAN in 1842
    
    

      
Peter SKEFFINGTON
      
19-04-1841
      
Bridget SLAVEN, (widow)
      
SLAVIN (see Lett's Bytown)
    

      
SKILLEN , Francis
      
Gatineau Valley, 1835
      
Mary KEARNS
      

    
    

      
SLOAN, Peter
      
County Down, ML# 161
      
wife=Mary FLANAGAN
      
Long Island
    

      
SMITH, Alexander
      
wife= Margaret NOLAN
      

      

    

      
SMITH, Owen
      
to Sheenboro, Quebec
      
wife=Mary McANDREW
      

    

      
SMITH, Edwin
      
from Ireland, c. 1840
      
wife=Jean HART or HOYT
      
b. Scotland
    

      
SNOW, John Allen
      
marr. 1909 to
      
Florida PEDNEAULT
      

    
    

      
STARRS, Michael, from TYRONE
      
Alderman owned Bytown Inn
      
sister married Charles GOULDEN
      

    

      
ST. DENIS, Joseph
      
Carleton Place
      
wife=Bridget GIROUARD
      
Bridget's mother was Mary DELANEY
    

      
STEWART, David
      
to Kemptville and Marlborough
      
wife=Margaret McCONNELL
      
later to USA
    
    

      
STEWART , John, b. 1804
      
County Antrim
      
wife = Marg't. ARMSTRONG STEDMAN
      
to Balderson
    

      
ST. LOUIS, John Baptiste
      
b. Canada
      
ML# 82 ?
      
St. Louis Dam at Dow's Lake
    

      
SULLIVAN, William John
      
wife= Jane UNKNOWN, born France
      
William John, from County Antrim
      
Methodist
    

      
SULLIVAN, James
      
wife= Catherine McGARRITY
      
also to Bearbrook, see previous
      
Anglican
    

      
SWAIN , Joseph
      
County Cork
      
wife = Elizabeth
      

    

      
TOMLINSON , Lewis Hollingsworth
      
from England
      
wife = Rosetta WOOD
      

    

      
TRACEY / TRACY , William
      
from Queen's County
      
wife = Rachel DAY or DAGG, from Tipperary
      
to March Township, c. 1830
    
    

      
TRAVELLER, Reuben

ML# 349
      
wife = Sarah VEAL
      
2nd wife=Rose Ann CUNNINGHAM,(widow of James FARRELL)
      
from England, worked in Court House (Lett)
    

      
TYNDALL, Joseph and Jacob
      
Kilkenny
      
Jane Tyndall taught in Goulbourn
      
later to Franktown
    

      
VAHEY, Patrick
      
son Henry married
      
Marg. Theresa BARNES (BYRNES)
      

    

      
WALSH, Michael, from Mayo?
      
to Quyon
      

      

    

      
WARD, family
      
to Frontenac County
      
wife = Mary FLANNERY
      

    

      
WATT, Alexander
      
to Lanark
      
wife = Euphemia GIBSON
      
from Scotland in 1820
    

      
WHELAN, Michael
      
Quebec to Pembroke
      
wife = Mary BATES
      

    
    

      
WHALEN, Patrick, from Cork
      
to March Township (Kanata)
      
Bridget MURPHY
      
Some early MURPHY s, at Arnprior
    

      
WHELAN, Thomas Patrick
      

      
wife=Emma SCHOFIELD
      

    
    

      
Cornelius WHITE
      
26-02-1832, from Goulbourn
      
Ann COOGAN
      
Ashton area, PR?
    
    

      
Fred WHITE s/o Michael WHITE (Clogheen, Tipperary, ML PR)and
	Eleanor MURRAY
      
19-11-1844
      
Julia MADDEN d/o Thomas MADDEN and Margaret SHANE
      
see also  John MADDEN and Elizabeth SHANE
    
    

      
James WHITE
      
23-02-1836
      
Johanna FORREST (also sp. FORRESTER)
      
have parents
    

      
WILLIAMS, Thomas
      
England, 1890
      
wife = Esther HUNT
      

    
    

      
YOUNG, Robert James
      
from the Pontiac to Manitoba
      
Annie CURLEY
      
Second wife=Ann MAJOR
    

      
YOUNG, Thomas
      
Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary
      
wife = Mary GLEESON
      
to Chelsea and Wisconsin
    
  


Tuberculosis in Ottawa, c. 1900... TB was widespread in the 1890's and early 1900's

A few miscellaneous Irish surnames which are being researched in the Ottawa area.

    

Margaret Gaulden is researching the surnames O'Doherty, Doherty, Curren or 
Curran, Desjardins, Viau, Hand, Faulkner, Quail and Johnson. Click here to go 
to her page. 
  

 

Here are the lyrics, and the history of the song "Danny Boy", also known as the 
"Londonderry Air": Danny Boy

Newsgroup:soc.genealogy.ireland...Internet newsgroup dealing with Irish Genealogy


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  The tombstone on the left, below, is from Glendalough Cemetery in County
  Wicklow, Ireland, where many of our Byrne / Burns ancestors are buried. This "Celtic
  Cross" type of headstone was used on the tombstones of the first couple of
  generations of Irish Catholics after they settled in Canada. There are many
  Celtic Crosses in the older parts of Our Lady of Visitation Cemetery (South
  Gloucester), in St. Johns Cemetery in Enniskerry, Ontario, and in St. Michael's
  Cemetery in Corkery. Other very old cemeteries in the area are at Kemptville
  Quyon (St. Bridget's) in the Pontiac) and Mount St. Patrick in Renfrew County.
  
  The tombstone on the right, below, is that of my Great-Grandparents, James
  Burns and Annie Robb (b. Scotland). 



  


Upon a grey old battered tombstone 

In Glendalough beside the stream 

Where the O'BYRNES and BYRNES are buried 

He stretched his bones and fell in a dream 

Of sun and moon that a good hour 

Bellowed and pranced in the round tower.

Excerpt from "Under the Round Tower" by William Butler Yeats



Maps... Fawne Stratford-Devai's links to Historical Maps of Ontario 
Counties and Districts. A really useful compilation!




  

  The McCabe List, 1829  - and the Construction of the Rideau Canal


The McCabe List ... Here are the references to the
name "Burns" from the McCabe List ( a list of early Irish (1829) in and near
Bytown (Ottawa)). This is a very valuable resource containing almost 700
individuals. It is the first documentation of many individuals in Canada
and gives their county and parish of origin in Ireland.

Bruce Elliott has written a book called The McCabe List. It's available
from Global Genealogy Supply. There's a link to their website a little further
on in this page. The ISBN is 1-55075-048-8 .

The Rideau Canal ... The History of the Rideau Canal

The Steam Boat "Rideau"  ... and it's first trip from Kingston to Bytown in 1832

The Illinois and Michigan Canal ...
was built beginning in 1836. Many of the workers from the Rideau Canal went
to Illinois. Here's an excerpt from the Illinois Web Page: 

"The Irish began arriving in northern Illinois in large numbers in 1836,
to work on the I and M Canal. They continued to pour into the area during
the Great Potato Famine of 1845-7, during which time the population of Ireland
decreased by over two million people through death and emigration. After
1848 many Irish moved to the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, where they
worked in meat-packing plants and brickyards. Other Irish spread throughout
northern Illinois, often becoming farmers in canal towns." 

Some Irish fraternal and benevolent societies.
  


The Great Irish Famine, 1845-1849


Here is the definitive work on the Famine: The Great Hunger - Ireland,
1845-1849, by Cecil Woodham-Smith, Penguin Books (Paperback, about
$20.00 Cdn. at Chapters)

An example of sailing ships used to transport emigrants from the British Isles to
North America in the 1800s was the Perseverance.

Packet Boats left Ireland for London, England after about 1850.. Passengers 
were transferred to large sailing ships in London for the voyage to North America.

Assisted Emigration from the Shirley Estate in County Monaghan, 1846-1853

An excellent description of Workhouses in Ireland. (by Peter Higginbotham)

It was no leisurely cruise on the Elizabeth and Sarah , a coffin ship which came from County Mayo to Quebec in 1846.

A description of Children's Burial Sites in County Mayo.

Grosse Isle Web Site ... Information on the Famine from a Canadian Immigration Perspective
  

Beginning in the 1850's, as a large second generation faced a shortage of available 
land in the area close to Ottawa, some members of many of the families listed on 
this page left for the U.S. - mainly to Iowa,Illinois,Michigan,Wisconsin,
North Dakota, Minnesota New York and, Manitoba. 
Iowa's farmland was advertized in the Ottawa newspapers beginning about 1852. Many
farm families emigrated to Clinton County, Iowa. The lumbering industry of northern 
Michigan and Wisconsin drew many folks from the Ottawa Valley. Farmers were also attracted
to North Dakota. Iowa was also a gateway to subsequent migration to Kansas and Nebraska.
In the 1870's, people often went to Montana.

Migration was a two-way road -- according to the 1881 Census of Carleton County, there were 
648 persons who were born in the United States of America but now were living in the Ottawa 
region.

There is a re-union of the Costello and many other families who went to Petersville, Iowa.
The re-union is being held in Iowa on June 3, 2003. 

In some cases, families (usually brothers) split up and some emigrated to Canada while other
family members went to Australia. Roderick Hawley, born in 1796, came to Nepean Township
in 1834 while some of his relatives went to Australia. 

Members of the Fuller and Taylor families from County Clare, Ireland, came to 
Torbolton Township for a while then left for Australia and New Zealand.

Some other families were enticed to the Maniwaki / Gracefield / Kazabazua area of Quebec.

The townships of North and South Plantagenet are to the east of the City of Ottawa. The 
village of Riceville, on the Scotch River is located here.

Just to the east of the Plantagenet Townships are the Townships of West Hawkesbury and Caledonia.

Mayo, Quebec is a small village northeast of Buckingham. Many of its pioneers came
from County Mayo in Ireland.

Lochaber Township, Quebec, is on the north shore of the Ottawa River, east of Masson. 
It includes the town of Thurso. Around the year 1850, there are about a dozen families
from Lochaber recorded in the records of Notre Dame Cathedral in Bytown. Most
of the surnames are of French origin but Michael McCormick from County Tipperary 
settled in Lochaber Township. In 1802, Scots came from Lochaber, Scotland to Glengarry 
Township in Upper Canada and some of them may have settled on the Quebec side.

Cemetery Listings for Bois-Franc and the Old Gracefield Cemeteries

Cemetery Listing for St. James' Anglican Church in Gracefield.

St. Jacques Le Majeur church records at Portage du Fort

Some names from St. John's in the Wilderness  Cemetery, (Church of England) in Aylwin, Quebec

and some from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Cemetery, also in Aylwin, Quebec.

James Cleland has transcribed the names from the Northfield Cemetery, south of Bouchette, Quebec.

Edie Lacharity Sage has recorded Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery at Danford, Quebec.

Garry McFadden has transcribed the index for Births, Marriages and Deaths at 
St. Martin's RC Church in Martindale, Quebec. He also
has transcribed, alphabetically, the names on the Martindale Pioneer Memorial which
commemorates most of the original settlers who came to that area during the Great Irish
Famine.



  Catherine SULLIVAN, 1851 - 1927, my Great-Grandmother, daughter of
  Nicholas O'SULLIVAN (1806-1862) from County Meath
  and Mary McGEE (1823 - 1861), from County Armagh
  (Catherine SULLIVAN married Thomas CHRISTOPHER Sr. of the Stage Coach
  Road - Lot 4, Concession 4)
  All family members of this generation are buried at Our Lady of Visitation,
  South Gloucester (Formerly called St. Mary's)
  


My second cousin once removed, David Caron, has a web page on the CHRISTOPHERs.
His page is at: http://www.interlog.com/~chezjd/
  


  John GEORGE BURNS, 1880-1952, and Catherine THERESA CHRISTOPHER
   (1885-1957).
  Photo taken in 1908 (My Grandparents).
  Both buried at St. John's in Enniskerry, on the Stagecoach Road

  




  


  A Burns Family Farm House, about 1930. 
  This was located on the Manotick Station Road in Osgoode Township (painted yellow). 
  

  

  


  Genealogy Links

Family History Web Pages
 John Goth, England to Beckwith Township

Eastern Ontario Genealogy Information (the Meblee web site)
see also Surnames on the Meblee site.

History of the Brennan Family of the Gatineaus

The Kenny Family of Gloucester and Cumberland... John Kenny has a great database you can
download here (GEDCOM format)

The Houlahans of Nepean, Cockburn Family of Ottawa

Bernard and Mary Reynolds - Immigrants from County Leitrim

History of the Serson Family

Various Ottawa Valley Families

History of the Young Family of Nepean

A branch of the Burns Family in Limerick, Ireland...Including pictures of the original homestead which
is still in the Burns family
  

Canadian Links

Passenger Lists for St. Lawrence River Steamships, 1819-1836
Archives of Protestant Churches in Canada
British Home Children to Canada, 1869-1930
Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society
Ontario Wills, Probate and Land Records ... by Fawne Stratford-Devai
Rare Immigration Records released by Archives of Ontario ... by Fawne Stratford-Devai
Ontario Genealogy Sources
Province of Ontario Archives
Carleton County Query Forum
Cold North Wind's Digitized Newspapers ... Perth Courier from 1834, etc.
Lanark County Genealogy Society
Lanark County Genweb Site
Leeds and Grenville Historical Society, including Spencerville
Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogy Society Home Page - UOVGEN
Societe de Genealogie de L'Outaouais
Immigration to Canada in the 19th Century
Canadian Genealogy Centre
Archives of Ontario
1871 Census of Ontario data
Census of Canada records
The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa
Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB) (see next for French version)
La base de données toponymiques du Canada (BDTC)
Canadian Illustrated News, 1869-1883

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