St. Columban-Irish Forum - General Enquiries

Michael Grace

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:46:59 +0000

I am searching for information on Michael Grace married to Mary Gavin. Any information on his death location and burial is appreciated. Also any and all facts are welcome!

Look for relatives with Families Collins and Lyons

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:10:29 +0000

I am helping a friend of mine doing her family tree.

She is told by her mother that Timothy Collins (see this post http://www.stcolumban-irish.com/smf/index.php?topic=222.msg445#msg445) is her great-great-great uncle, she thinks that her ancestor Margaret Collins (1855 Qu?bec city- 1924 Qu?bec city) (married with James Lyons (1854 Qu?bec city -1941 Qu?bec city)) was of the same family than Timothy. Margaret Collins is the daughter of Arthur Collins ans Mary Welsh from Ireland (place not found yet). I do not find any relative between the family Collins from Qu?bec city and Timothy. We are maybe looking at in the wrong way.

Does somebody have more information about Timothy ? parents, brothers ans sisters ?

Thank you for your help.

Ireland Canada University Foundation

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:39:08 +0000

Dear Sir/Madam

Please find attached a pdf of our poster advertising our 2011 programme of short term visiting scholarships to Ireland.

Since 1995, the Ireland Canada University Foundation (ICUF) has funded a series of annual scholarships, with the purpose of encouraging and facilitating academic links between institutions and scholars in both Ireland and Canada.

We would be very grateful if you could please circulate this to any of your members who may be interested.

Our website, www.icuf.ie, gives further details both on these scholarships, as well as on the background and ethos of ICUF.

Finally, I should mention that the closing date for applications is Friday, April 29th next.

Many thanks for your assistance.

Yours sincerely,

James Kelly

Programme Manager
Ireland Canada University Foundation
c/o The Canadian Embassy | Ambassade du Canada

7-8 Wilton Terrace

Dublin 2

Ireland

ICUF Dobbin to Ireland poster 2011.pdf (Size: 1.81 MB / Downloads: 58)

Centaur Theatre Montreal - Irish Event

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:54:37 +0000

[size=10pt]For the members in the Montreal area, this event may be of interest....[/size]

[size=10pt]Centaur Theatre Upcoming Event[/size]

The Centaur has asked us to let you know about a special upcoming mini fundraiser event called ?An Irish Dinner with Friends? in honour of the Irish play called

[size=10pt]?Stones in his Pockets? by Marie Jones. [/size]

This event is scheduled for Wednesday, February 9th 2011 at 6pm.
This event includes a nice dinner at the Bonaparte Restaurant, next door to the Centaur; the play itself; and
dessert and coffee after the play.

The cost is $ 175. per person; and please note that if you already have season tickets to the Centaur, you can deduct the price of the ticket from this cost, and a tax receipt is also issued for a portion of the cost.

Space for this event is limited, so to reserve, or for other information, please call Jana van Geest, at the Centaur, at: 514-288-1229 extension 240.

Centaur Stones Pocket.pdf (Size: 592.43 KB / Downloads: 80)

Phelan family

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:53:38 +0000

My husband, Michael Taylor, is a descendant of the Brophy, Phelan, Elliot, Blanchfield and O'Brien families of the St. Columban area. We are planning to be in the area in the near future to visit the village, church, cemetery, etc.

I received a family group photo of members of the Phelan family from Steven Vollick. The family is posed on the front veranda of the frame home. At the bottom of the porch steps is a huge flat rock. I was wondering if anyone in the forum knows the whereabouts of this particular house or if it is even still in existence.

Thank you for any assistance with this.

A request for our members who arre Native French speakers

Fri, 21 May 2010 12:19:01 +0000

[size=10pt]A request for our members who arre Native French speakers...[/size]

Hi

I found your email online on the St. Patrick's Society webpage. I am an
Irish student doing a PhD in French linguistics and I am just writing to see
if you can help me out. As part of my PhD I am doing a study on the French
language and have designed a short online questionnaire as part of this
study (it takes less than 10 minutes to complete). Unfortunately, I have
very few contacts in Quebec and I was wondering if it would be possible to
forward the link for my questionnaire onto any native French speakers in
your association (or to ask members to forward it on to native French
speakers). It would be so helpful if you could. Sorry to ask out of the blue
but I am trying any avenue possible and I thought Irish people in Quebec
might like to help a fellow Irish person!

Below is the link and a short explanation, if you are able to pass it on.
Thank you!
Best wishes

Liv Walsh

Je suis ?tudiante en th?se au d?partement de linguistique ? l'universit? de
Cambridge et je fais une ?tude sur la langue fran?aise, sous la forme d'un
questionnaire en ligne qui ne prend pas plus de 10 minutes ? remplir. Je
vous serais tr?s reconnaissante si vous acceptiez de remplir ce
questionnaire. Si vous avez d'autres contactes au Qu?bec qui seraient
susceptibles d'accepter de remplir le questionnaire, je vous serais
egalement tr?s reconnaissante de bien vouloir leur envoyer le lien.

Voici le lien pour le questionnaire: http://tinyurl.com/3x6uysc

Merci d'avance!
Liv Walsh

Liv Walsh
PhD Candidate

Department of Linguistics
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
United Kingdom

Clare College
Trinity Lane
Cambridge CB2 1TL
United Kingdom

Email: omw23@cam.ac.uk

Ottawa man, 19, charged with cemetery vandalism spree

Fri, 14 May 2010 16:13:16 +0000

This is still disturbing to see happening but very rare anyone gets apprehended after the act. A number of my family is buried at Notre Dame in Ottawa. Fortunately none of our family markers were touched.

OTTAWA ? An Ottawa man faces nearly 80 charges in connection with a vandalism spree at Notre Dame Cemetery two weeks ago, police say.

Almost 40 tombstones were knocked over at the St. Laurent Boulevard and Montreal Road cemetery the night of April 30, police said.

Some were merely toppled, others shattered.

Read more:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Ottawa+charged+with+cemetery+vandalism+spree/3028394/story.html

Irish Cemetery - St. Alphonse de Kildare

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:43:50 +0000

Does anyone know about this cemetery?

Hi Fergus,

When visiting my sister in Rawdon last year we drove to Joliette.

We couldn't help notice a town called St. Alphonse de Kildare.

I believe it has a cemetary also that has a lot of Irish settlers.

Our regards, Mary & Ross Stenhouse

Irish Goods reqd

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:08:26 +0000

Online marketer of Irish goods looking to source additional products to add to
www.irishshopper.com Please send details to onlineoffice@irishshopper.com

Searching for Photos of People and Places of St. Columban

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:13:54 +0000

Hi Everyone

Claude Bourguignon is considering producing a ?Family Photo History Book? related to the original Irish settlers in St. Columban and he is searching for anyone that might have photos or family histories that they would like to share.

Over the years a number of you have already contributed photos related to the people; buildings; farms etc. of St. Columban but we think that perhaps there are still a number of photos and documents that have not been shared to date.

So if you have any information at all concerning St. Columban that you have not already sent please do so at your earliest convenience.

You can send them via e-mail to either info@stcolumban-irish.com or directly to Claude at claude.bourguignon@videotron.ca

If you need additional information please do send us a note

Thanks

Fergus

Looking for any information on Kinsellas

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:02:56 +0000

Hi, my husband & I were up to St. Colomban yesterday looking at the cemetary, etc. My interest is due to the fact that I am putting together the family tree from both my side and my husband's side, starting wit our son & going back. On my husband's Mother's side, she is a descendant of Thomas Kinsella & Anna Grace who are both buried in St. Colomban. I would be very interested in knowing if there is anybody who can shed any more light on the Kinsellas. Please let me know. Thank you.

Lynda D'Amour

McAndrew - Two Mountain 1851 census

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:44:58 +0000

Hi I am trying to find out information about John McAndrew born 1801 Ireland, living in Two Mountain as a farmer according to the 1851 census.

His Wife is Mary - Ireland
Son - Thomas
Daughter - Margaret
Daughter - Mary

I am trying to find out information about Margaret born 1837. My g-g-grandmother was Margaret McAndrew and she hailed from Canada with Irish born parents. She married in Toronto, York in 1856 and immigrated to New York with her husband Henry Williams and infant daughter Martha. They are found in New York, Richmond County in 1859.

Margarets death certificate in NY stated parents "unknown" so I have been looking for her for years. She did have a brother Thomas so I wonder if this is in fact my Margaret.

I certainly would appreciate any help or direction. Thank you very much for your consideration.

Lynn Rogers - Staten Island New York SICemetery@aol.com

St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Passenger Records

Wed, 13 May 2009 05:59:59 +0000

Hi St. Columbiners,

Since my wife?s immigrant Forrester(s?) arrived here in Canada somewhere before 1836, and there?s virtually nuthin? much to find on the ?Ships Lists? before 1865, I?ve taken to looking through the Ships Lists passenger lists for the ?St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Passenger Records - Part l (1819 - 1825) & Part ll (1826-1836?) < http://theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1819_20index.htm > ; - a listing of ?up-the-river? passengers from Quebec City to Three Rivers, Sorel and Montreal, just to see if by chance her family name Forrester might appear in those lists. The name does in fact appear, but, just as in any, or all other forms of name registrations in the distant past, it may also be simply appearing under the guise of many other similar sounding names, i.e.- Forrister, Forester, Forister, Forster, Forest, Foster, Forrestal, all of course dependent on the education, hearing and spelling abilities of the list maker of those times.
Once in a while, while I?m going through these lists, I come across names that I semi-recognize as names I?ve seen in various sections of the St. Columban WebSite - for example - Phelan / Whelan, Skelly, ?etc ?, and I started to wonder if perhaps there may be some St. Columban researchers who are not aware of these alternate ?ships? passenger lists? as a possible useful tool in their Montreal / St. Columban research.
Perhaps some family researchers are not aware that, back around the years mentioned above, not all our St. Columban immigrant ancestors may have actually ?first? landed in Montreal. It is very possible, if not more than likely, that in a lot of cases they ?first? landed in Quebec City, from where they would have either traveled overland, or (again) more than likely, by riverboats up to Three Rivers, Sorel and Montreal, and then on to St. Columban.
For example, - On July 10, 1819, a ?John Skelling? (possible? Skelly?) traveled from Sorel to Montreal in Steerage on ticket #137 on the Riverboat ?Malsham?s ? 9th trip upriver for the grand total of 0?/ 3s./9d.
Note:- Canada not only didn?t change to dollars and cents until June 10, 1857, she would even come into existence for another 48 years.

Murray Q.

General all round confusion

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:20:45 +0000

I wonder if someone can shed some light on the following topics and/or questions.

In ?St. Columban Lot Registrations ca.1823-1837?, there is an Andrew COWAN listed for Lot # 1017 for the year 1821 and ? ,
in the document ?St. Columban Marriages 1836 > 1936? there is a June 13, 1836 marriage of a Mary PHELAN, widow of a Thomas Culletan to a Michael FARRELL.
Then, on Apr. 20, 1840 there is a marriage of a Gregory (l) FORR*I*STER - Widower of Mary COWAN, to a Mary WHELAN (PHELAN?) - Widow of Michael FARRELL.
Also, - in the complimentary Blanchfield document ?Baptisms, Deaths & Marriages 1837 > 1900?, the listing for the same above Apr. 30, 1840 marriage indicates the name FORR*I*STER with an *e* instead of an *i* and that his wife?s name is ?strictly? Mary WHELAN, with no further indication as to the possibility that her surname might have in fact been PHELAN.

Questions ???

Is there a possible connection between Andrew COWAN and Mary COWAN? ?Could he have been her first husband?, a brother?, or cousin maybe?
If the marriage of Gregory FORR*I*STER to Mary COWAN is not listed in the St. Scholastique Parish records for 1825 > 1837, does anyone have any suggestion(s) as to where to look for this marriage?
Is the Mary PHELAN married to Michael FARRELL on June 13, 1836 the same person listed as Mary WHELAN, widow of Michael Farrell, who married Gregory (l) Forr*i*ster on Apr. 30, 1840? - i.e. - did she, or did she not, change her name from PHELAN to WHELAN between her 2nd and 3rd marriages?, or, are the two couples mentioned above - i.e. - Mary WHALEN & Michael FARRELL ?and? Mary PHALEN & Michael FARRELL actually two separate and distinct couples?
Why would the document ?St. Columban Marriages 1836 > 1936? list the FORR*I*STER / W? (P?)HELAN marriage as Apr. ?30?, 1840, while the Blanchfield ?Baptisms, Deaths & Marriages 1837 > 1900? listing indicate it as being Apr. ?20?, 1840? How do I qualify which date is correct?
In the above, if one list indicates marriages from ?1836 > 1936? and the other from ?1837 > 1900?, were both of these lists transcribed from the same document(s)?
If the above two documents have in fact been transcribed from two different documents, what is the actual name(s) of, and origin of, both these documents.

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?And that's only the beginning of my troubles.

Murray Quinn

Some pictures i took around my place.

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:46:22 +0000

Hi everyone,

not a real active user, but a serious reader. just Wanna say that this board gave me a lot of info i was looking for, and i think this could be a great time to show you some pictures i made from my piece of country.......

comments are welcome, i am not a professional photographer, more like an advanced amateur. ?I came here (st-colomban) when i was 9, and 25 years later, i am more than in love with this peaceful part of the Laurentians. some of the pictures include soft HDR processing.

All pictures were taken in St-Colomban. Next summer ill go on a photoshoot on the cemetery and a few important buildings.... if you have any suggestions, feel free.

enjoy,

copyrights P. Deslauriers.

want the originals (full size) pictures? email or PM me. ?