Frederick Samuel Gardiner and Mary Anne Whelan (and Clayton Loucks)
2020-07-29
After being widowed with two young boys, Mary Anne Whelan remarried quickly, on September 26, 1922, to Frederick Samuel Gardiner.Continue Reading
John Whalen and Bridget Doyle
2019-04-17
John Whalen was born in 1790 in Clonmore, Carlow, Ireland, the son of Patrick. He married Bridget Doyle before 1812.Continue Reading
John Whalen and Teresa Corcoran
2019-01-01
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 and was contained in an album presented to the granddaughter in 1903. When John Whalen Jr. was born in (about) 1827 in County Carlow, Ireland, hisContinue Reading
Thomas Whalen and Margaret Coughlin
2018-12-25
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) (1790-1860) were 25 years old. *Authors note: there are some variations in the spelling of the name “Whalen.” As most documents related to this familyContinue Reading
Mystery Solved – Mary Ann Whelan died October 11, 1957
2018-04-12
It took a long, slow troll of the Hamilton Spectator, but I was able to locate the full obituary for my great-grandmother, Mary Ann Whelan, in the October 12, 1957 edition of the Hamilton Spectator. (More on Mary Ann here.) It reads: Mrs. Frederick Gardiner, the former Mary Ann Whelan,Continue Reading
When Did Mary Ann Whelan Die?
2018-04-01
I found amongst my grandmother’s photo collection the obituary for her mother. I knew she died in 1957 (as I’ve got a record of the grave site), but several emails to the cemetery to determine the actual date of her death have gone unanswered. Luckily, there are three other obituariesContinue Reading
Daniel Whelan and Bridget Phillips
2017-04-16
Daniel Whelan married Bridget Phillips on August 10, 1888, in at St. Carthagh’s Roman Catholic Church in Tweed, Hungerford, Ontario.Continue Reading