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HALIWELL (nee RYAN), Mrs. Ellen, formerly of Lower Prospect (c.1845-1908)

HALIWELL (nee RYAN), Mrs. Ellen, formerly of Lower Prospect (c.1845-1908)

Posted: 1 Jun 1999 12:00PM GMT
Classification: Obituary
Edited: 5 Jul 2001 11:48AM GMT
Surnames: Haliwell, Ryan
The Evening Mail (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Tuesday, 12 May 1908, p. 10, col. 5:

Died - On May 11th, at Providence, R.I., Ellen RYAN, formerly of Lower Prospect, Halifax county, wife of Thomas HALIWELL, in her 63rd year, leaving two brothers, Michael, in Boston, and William H. in Halifax.

Mrs. Ellen Haliwell (nee Ryan)

Janice Giardina (View posts)
Posted: 26 Jul 2000 12:00PM GMT
Classification: Obituary
Surnames: Ryan, Warner
Obituary for Ellen Haliwell (nee Ryan) mentions a brother Michael in Boston. My great grandfather's name was Michael Ryan. He lived in East Boston. Wife was Mary Jane (Coolin). One of his daughters was my grandmother Josephine Ryan married to Charles Warner. Michael also had two more daughters that I know of. Laura Ryan married Edward Warner and Eveline Ryan married George Warner.

Re: HALIWELL (nee RYAN), Mrs. Ellen, formerly of Lower Prospect (c.1845-1908)

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 7:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Ryan - Sullivan born Lower Prospect Halifax
My great grandmother Mabel Ryan Sullivan was born in Lower Prospect , Halifax NS to Michael Ryan and (Mary) Jane Coolin. I have no information about her parents or siblings. Could you share info you have re: Ellen's parents/siblings. Mabel later lived in Boston and married Lewis R. Sullivan, a prominent politician in Massachusetts

Re: HALIWELL (nee RYAN), Mrs. Ellen, formerly of Lower Prospect (c.1845-1908)

Posted: 19 Jul 2015 2:05PM GMT
Classification: Query
This is not a name that I am researching but I am familiar with sites that might help you. They are free and searchable and you do not have to join or sign up to use them. The Nova Scotia Archives site uses a viewer program to enable you to see the actual documents but it is free and very simple to download onsite.

Canadian censuses are available at the Library and Archives Canada site. This site, along with the Nova Scotia Archives does not do “fuzzy searches” which means that you have to have the names exactly as it is transcribed to find it. The site below allows you to use the wildcard symbol which helps. So, for instance, when I looked for “Michael” I put in “Mich*”. Which proved to be a good thing as the name on the census document is spelled “Moichal.

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx

Below is direct link to the 1881 Census page with Mabel’s family. She was 5 years old in 1881 and had 5 older siblings and 2 younger. The family listed next on this page is that of William and Ellen Ryan with 4 children. Since he is just 4 years younger than Michal, I would suspect he is a brother.

http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e325/e008117963.pdf

The writing (and spelling) on the 1871 Census is much better and lists Michel age 30 and the head of a family consisting of wife Mary J., son Joseph, age 10, daughter Gertrude age 3, Margret (probably his mother, listed as a widow) and William age 28 (probably the William with the young family listed on the 1881 Census.

Direct link to this page is
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1871/pdf/4396597_00078.pdf

The Nova Scotia Vital Stat site can be found at
https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/start.aspx

The birth record of Mabel Ryan born 1876 in Lower Prospect dau of Michael Ryan and Jane Coolin can be found there along with probably records of many others her the family. For instance I found the marriage record of Gertrude Ryan age 18, dau of Michael and Mary J. She married Andrew Mahar in 1886 in Halifax Co. And, sadly the death record on this site for Gertrude Mahar records her death in 1890 of phthsis, an old name for tuberculosis.

Another interesting marriage record from the Vital Stat site is the marriage in Halifax of Catherine Ryan daughter of Michael and Jane to John Sullivan of East Boston (born County Cork) in 1882. Is he a brother to the Lewis Sullivan who married Mabel?

Hope this is of some help
Burdette
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