
John Whalen and Teresa Corcoran
This image is believed to be of John Whalen. According to the record on ancestry, the image is held by one of John’s granddaughter’s descendants

This image is believed to be of John Whalen. According to the record on ancestry, the image is held by one of John’s granddaughter’s descendants

Pictured: Assumption of the Blessed Mary, Erinsville When Thomas Whalen* was born in 1815 in Ireland, his parents John Whalen (1790-1850) and Bridget (nee Doyle)

When Francis Xavier (Frank) McPhail was born in 1896 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, his father, Archibald James Jacob McPhail, was 26 and his mother,

I found this military photo amongst my Grandmother’s things. I’ve tried to identify the men in the picture back to their army records.

When Margaret Ann McPhail was born in 1874 in St. Andrews, Ontario, Canada, her father, John James McPhail (1838-1879), was 36, and her mother, Catherine

As a Canadian, I haven’t traveled extensively in the US. Sure, I’ve done Disney and made a few trips down to NYC (and I got

Pictured: Nantwich, Cheshire, England circa 1900 When Mary Louisa Dyke was born on August 29, 1882, in Crewe, Cheshire, England, her father, Edwin Henry Dyke

When Donald James McPhail was born on May 19, 1879, in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, his father, John James McPhail (1838-1879), would have been 41 and his

This page is a placeholder—as I don’t know what happened to John McPhail after the 1881 Census. It’s possible he moved to Montreal, but I haven’t definitively been able to trace him yet.

Robert Martin Gardiner emigrated from England to Canada where he married Laura Eleanor Bovaird on May 18, 1892.

When Selina (Emma) Dyke was born in 1885 in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, her father, Edwin Henry Dyke (1845-1923), was 40, and her mother, Selina Charlotte

Mary Catherine married John Hardigan on September 12, 1887, at St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in St. Andrews, Stormont, Ontario, Canada. They had seven children.