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McKeague family Thorold township

McKeague family Thorold township

Posted: 3 Dec 2013 10:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am seeking information on the Neal McKeague and Mary Ellen McGovern family. They were in the township in the 1860-1890 time frame and possibly earlier although Neal is reportedly born in Ireland. I do not have his immigration information. Multiple children were born there and married there.
I am seeking information on the son James McKeague who married Mary a ? in 1887, possibly in St Catherine's as his first child is born in 1888 in St Catherine's. I am specifically looking for the marriage that does not show up with any variation of spelling of the last name in the Ontario marriage database on Ancestry.com.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. James and Mary and child Mary immigrated to the US into Buffalo 1-2 years later.
Janet

Re: McKeague family Thorold township

Posted: 4 Dec 2013 12:42AM GMT
Classification: Query
Found marriages for most of the other children of Neal and Mary's but none of your James and Mary.
Any possibility they got married in the US?

From Mary's birth registration it says parents are James McKeague & Mary OMara.

Re: McKeague family Thorold township

Posted: 4 Dec 2013 12:53AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you for that. I found most of them on Ancestry but cannot find his. Thank you for the maiden name of the wife. The child was born in Canada and the census says that immigrated after the child was born as the others were born in US. Will hunt around in Buffalo area where they settled. Maybe she actually went back to deliver the child near home.

Re: McKeague family Thorold township

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 2:46PM GMT
Classification: Query
Neal is my great grandfather. They lived in a house in Thorold ontario situated kitty-corner from the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, where the family attended. Jim would have been my great uncle I suppose. I seem to recall an Uncle Jim. I can check with an aunt who is still alive, Jim would have been her uncle. As kids, we visited Thorold often.

Re: McKeague family Thorold township

Posted: 9 Apr 2015 12:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
I am doing the family history for my new daughter in law. Her mother's maiden name is McKeague. Off hand I cannot remember the whole family history but that is great information.
I am not sure if you are in contact with any relatives from the Buffalo area.
Janet

Re: McKeague family Thorold township

Posted: 9 Apr 2015 11:29AM GMT
Classification: Query
Sorry, I misstated my relationship. My great grandfather was Archie McKeague. I suspect Neal was a brother. If you are interested, there is another Neal McKeague from Thorold who was a butcher. That seems to have been a family trade, as Archie was one too. This Neal I am speaking of would perhaps have been Archie's nephew. Thorold is not a big place today and was a smal working class town then, full of Irish immigrants, later supplanted by Italian immigrants.

Anyway, I found records that this Neal was accused of robbing, killing, and burning down the house of an old couple in Port Robinson or Allanburg near Thorold. Chicago police records show him accused of a similar murder in Chicago, but acquitted. accused of murdering an old couple in that city. And you can google and find newspaper accounts of him being released from prison in Manitoba, for what crime it doesn't say, and moving to the Dakota territory where he also worked in the meat business. Anyway, he was shot by a bartender in a dispute over a card game. One of the accounts is quite gory.

Finally, Archie McKeague was well known and was for years postmaster of Thorold. He died in the twenties IIRC.

In neighbouring St. Catharines , there is a LDS Family Centre in Glendale Ave. I went there to research the other half of my lineage and they had comprehensive church records. I'd be surprised if they didn't have microfilms of the Holy Rosary Church records. A lot of McKeague records would be there but I've never looked and no longer live in the Niagara area. Maybe when i retire...

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