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Diaspora Story: Chicago Connections-Dwyer and Walsh Families of the St. Colomban Parish

by Kate Carmichael | Apr 17, 2023 | Genealogy and Family Stories

My great grandmother, Mary Agnes Dwyer Wallace, was the daughter of Michael Dwyer and Ann Elliott Dwyer. Both Michael (b. 28 September 1831)[1] and Ann (b. 14 July 1836)[2] were born in St. Colomban, Quebec, Canada, as was Mary Agnes (b. 8 July 1858)[3], and...

The Story of the Skelly Brothers

by Laurie McKeown-Thomassin | Jun 27, 2022 | Genealogy and Family Stories

The Skelly family were part of the many Irish migrants who left Ireland to escape poverty in the early 19th century. The tragic circumstances of the rural Irish – like those who began to settle in St. Colomban in the 1820’s and the promise of a better life in the...
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