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"Walker Cemetery" or "Walker Hill Cemetery" in East Dalhousie

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Re: "Walker Cemetery" or "Walker Hill Cemetery" in East Dalhousie

Posted: 1 Jun 2015 8:26AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Lonergan, Skerry, Lee, Taylor, Sliney, Toole
Teresa,

Thanks for touching base. I think it was Steve Franey who really figured out Henrietta Sophia Lonergan's heritage. It looks as though for several years as I was carrying "Sophia Lonergan" as a child of John Lonergan and Margaret Skerry I was on the wrong track. He had pointed that out some months ago and before I finished sorting that out I got distracted and moved on to something else. But I think the evidence is pretty compelling - "Sophia Lonergan" who married John Taylor - was really Henrietta Sophia Lonergan, daughter of William Lonergan and Mary Lee. I think her birth/baptism still needs to be found, but that remains possible. The place to find it could be in the baptismal records in either Liverpool, NS (where her elder sister Margaret was baptized in 1839) or at St Joseph's in Caledonia, NS (where her younger sister Agnes was baptizd in 1849).

I am still stuck with a potentially startling item which is the idea that Oscar William Sliney who I believed to have been a son of my gg-grandparents David Sliney and Elizabeth Lonergan, may actually be the child of a James Sliney and a Henrietta Lonergan. This is based on an index record from 10 Aug 1870 at Holy Cross/Sainte Croix in Digby, NS. Oscar was raised by David and Elizabeth as their son but as this index suggests his parents may instead have been James and Henrietta - I may be confronted with the possibility that he was a foster child to them. I don't know who James Sliney is - not other records, and this could all be a coincidence, but I don't have access to the Holy Cross records. The other implication is the possibility of a relationship between my John Lonergan and Mary Lee's second husband William Lonergan, or possibly her first husband Michael Lonergan.

At the moment that's the Lonergan and short-again of it.

Right now I am looking into distinguishing between the family lines of two other disbanded Dalhousie soldiers who shared a last name, Edward Toole and James Toole. Similar problems exist as to which line of Tooles in the mid-1800's and beyond stem from which of these two individuals.

If you ever find any way you think we could be of help to each other don't hesitate to ask.

Regards,

Patrick Murphy
Chicago, IL
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
padraigmurphy... 20 Jan 2015 10:51PM GMT 
THanafin 31 May 2015 4:38PM GMT 
padraigmurphy... 1 Jun 2015 2:26PM GMT 
padraigmurphy... 26 Dec 2014 2:27AM GMT 
SJFraney 26 Dec 2014 7:42PM GMT 
padraigmurphy... 26 Dec 2014 11:07PM GMT 
SJFraney 27 Dec 2014 3:30AM GMT 
padraigmurphy... 27 Dec 2014 3:12PM GMT 
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