Calling All Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night Again -
Time For Some More Genealogy Fun!!
Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to:
1) Today's challenge is to answer the question "Who Is the Earliest Ancestor in Your Paternal Tree?
[thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting this topic!]
Here's mine:
Most of the 4x-great-grandparents on my father’s side named only with few sources. One I’ll select is:
Denis Tierney was born about 1777 in Ireland and died before 29 January 1856 in Carleton Co, Ontario, Cananda. He was the father of John Tierney who married Ann Murray in 1832.
At this writing, the only record I have for him in my genealogy program is his St. Philips Church in Richmond burial record. The priest recorded his interment at the cemetery of Napean on 29 January 1856. His sons John and James were present.[1] The Find a Grave memorial has no marker photo and states “headstone no longer existing, but church records indicate his burial here on 29th January.”[2]
Further research at Ancestry, I found he was living in 1851 with his wife, Judith, and three children, James (24), Judy (18), Bridget (15), and Patrick Conway, a servant (15), all living in a one and one-half story log house. Judy and Bridget attended school.[3]
Tragically before Denis died, his son, Denis was murdered on 15 January in 1856.[4]
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1. “Ontario, Canada, Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1802-1967,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1109) > F > Fallowfield > All > 1951-1968 > image 25 of 710, p. 42, burial 1, Denis Tierney, 20 Jan 1856.
2. Find a Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51492806/denis-tierney : accessed 24 Nov 2024), memorial 51492806, Denis Tierney, Saint Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery, Fallowfield, Ontario, Canada. Note that Fallowfield and Nepean are now part of the Ottawa Municipality.
3. 1851 Canada census, Canada West, Carleton Co, Nepean, ED 2, sht 103 (stamped), lines 20-24, Dennis Tierney household.
4. I have misplaced the source for this, though the Find a Grave memorial also mentions this.
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