Ancestor table for the children of
Leo James Lubiniecki & Alma Cecilia Reagan

We briefly summarize here everything we know of the ancestry of the five children of Leo James Lubiniecki, of Sturgis, Saskatchewan, and his wife Alma Cecilia Reagan. We note that he was half Polish and half Ukrainian, while she would appear to have been entirely of Irish ancestry, although some details remain uncorroborated at this time.
     For fuller, documented accounts of some of the families figuring in these notes see Lubiniecki, Demchuk, Reagan, Heaney, Healy, and McCann, where more detailed acknowledgements will be found. Treatment of several of these lines is given in Harvest of Memories: Sturgis and District …, 1900-2000, by the Sturgis and District History Book Committee (Sturgis, Saskatchewan: the Committee, 2000), from which we draw heavily for accounts of Lubiniecki (518-21), Reagan (622-25, 662-66), and Healy (407-8); the work is available online at http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.asp?id=6123. For the Demchuk family, we are much indebted to Vladimir J. Kaye, Dictionary of Ukrainian Canadian Biography [vol. 1] — Pioneer Settlers of Manitoba, 1891-1900 (Toronto, 1975), 18-19, despite some inconsistencies and misprints in the dates, and to the typescript Demchuk genealogy prepared by Demetrius P. Demchuk, of Grandview, Manitoba (from a copy kindly supplied by Larry Hrehirchuk, of Winnipeg). For all the families ancestral to Helen Healy (no. 7) we owe much to the notes of Florence (Healy) Keller (from a copy kindly supplied by her daughter, Marsha Keller Weaver, of Kansas).
     The table ends at the sixth generation, as none of the lines can presently be extended further.
     We should also like to thank Del Lubiniecki, Kevin Lubiniecki, Mrs. Janice Reagan, and especially Yvonne (Desroches) Hawkins, Lorraine (Gregrash) Barlow, and Tom Schaffner, for providing some of the material appearing here. Special gratitude is due to Jan (O’Brien) Ehresmann for invaluable help with the Reagan and Heaney families, and to the brothers Chris and Mike Bostwick (no relations to us) who kindly provided copies of the baptismal records of Kataryna Demchuk (no. 5 below) and her younger sister Mariya.

Generation II

Leo James Lubiniecki, b. in July 1906 (per the 1911 census) or 4 July 1907 (per family records) at Dauphin, Manitoba, d. 1976 at Sturgis, Saskatchewan. He appears with his mother as a child in the 1911 census, his father being absent from the household at the time. As an adult Leo Lubiniecki lived at Front Street, Sturgis. He began teaching at Sturgis High School in 1945, then from 1948 to 1972 was its Principal, making him the longest-serving Principal in the school’s history (as of the year 2000); he appears in a staff group photograph of 1971-72 which is reproduced in Harvest of Memories, p. 76. He supervised the construction of the huge letters in cement which spell out the name “Sturgis” on a hill on the north side of the town, a drawing of which appears on the title-page of Harvest of Memories. He was also an accomplished amateur photographer, and some of his work may be seen in the Sturgis Station House Museum. Leo Lubiniecki and his wife are buried in St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cemetery, in the north part of the town. He m. 17 Oct. 1936 in St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Sturgis,
Alma Cecilia Reagan, b. 14 July 1915 at Sturgis, d. 21 Sept. 1980 at or near Sturgis, and buried beside her husband. According to Harvest of Memories, pp. 518-19, “She was educated at Mannanah and Sturgis schools until Grade 8. She then worked at home and [at] farms in the area.” She may be seen in her mid-twenties in a group photograph with her parents and siblings, evidently taken ca. 1940, which is reproduced in Harvest of Memories, p. 665. She and her mother were charter members of the Sturgis Council of the Catholic Women’s League in 1949, and apear in a group photograph thereof taken at the time which is reproduced in Harvest of Memories, p. 205; Alma served as its President from 1959 to 1961 and from 1971 to 1973.

Generation III

Julian Lubiniecki, b. 7 July 1880 (?) at Jazłowiec, the province of Podolia, Galicia, Austria (now Pomortsy, in Ukraine), living 1945 at Regina, Saskatchewan. He came to Manitoba (apparently with his family) before 1901, when as “Julian Lubinickie” he is enumerated in the census of the town of Morton, near Brandon, as a domestic servant in the household of a George Armstrong; this source states his birthdate as 7 July 1881 but his “age at last birthday” as 20, which is contradictory, and gives his year of immigration as 1895 and his annual income as $300. He was naturalized in 1905. After his marriage Julian and his wife came to the Keld District, near Dauphin, Manitoba, where they were enumerated in the 1906 census at section 24, in township 23, range 21 west of the Principal Meridian, with livestock consisting of 2 milk-cows, 6 other head of cattle, and no horses, sheep, or hogs, and his year of immigration to Canada given as 1897 (in disagreement with the 1901 census). On 19 March 1909 Julian Lubiniecki was patented the 160 acres forming the northwest quarter of this same piece of land. His family is listed at section 24, but inexplicably without him, in the 1911 census. But by August 1920 he and his wife were living on 9^th Avenue S.W., Dauphin. According to his grandchildren, “Julian farmed for a while and worked as a carpenter, at times for as little as one dollar a day. He spoke five languages and often acted as an interpreter and teacher for other immigrants in the area. After Julian’s marriage to Katherine Demchuk, they moved to Sturgis around 1930, where Julian built and set up the first Red and White Store in town (where the former Sturgis Bookstore is located). Apparently he loved carpentry more than running the store.” In February of 1937 he placed a newspaper advertisement which ran in places as far away as Winnipeg, announcing the sale of a “Red and White Store building, fixtures, and stock [worth] around $6000” (Winnipeg Free Press, 13 Feb. 1937, p. 36). The account in Harvest of Memories continues, “After Kateryna died in 1945, Julian moved to Regina. He continued working as a carpenter.” After Katherine died in 1945, Julian moved to Regina. He continued working as a carpenter.” His grandniece, Lorraine (Gregrash) Barlow, daughter of Lillian (Lubiniecki) Gregrash, informs us: “My mother was fond of her Uncle Julian. They both had red hair, shared a love of books, and she considered him her mentor — he encouraged her to pursue a career in teaching.” He m. 15 May 1904 at Winnipeg,
Kataryna Demchuk, b. and bapt. 3 June 1889 at Tsyhany, in the district of Borshchiv, oblast of Ternopil’, and province of Galicia, Austria (now in the Ukraine), d. 1945, apparently at or near Sturgis. The Lubiniecki family has correctly preserved her birthdate of 1889, which agrees with the statement in her marriage certificate that she was 15 years of age at the time.
Christopher Lawrence Reagan, of Sturgis, b. 5 Aug. 1880 at Eden Valley, Meeker Co., Minnesota, U.S.A., d. 1 Nov. 1961 at Sturgis, aged 81 years, and buried with his wife. Christopher Reagan may be seen in his late teen years in a group photograph with his parents and siblings, probably taken ca. 1896-98, which is reproduced in Harvest of Memories, p. 665. He accompanied his parents to Saskatchewan in 1903. He was living near Sturgis, Saskatchewan, by 18 December 1907, when he was patented the 160 acres of the northeast quarter of section 24, township 34, range 4 of the second meridian west of the Principal Meridian, this land being about 6 miles west of the town. Christopher Reagan, along with his brother Thomas P. Reagan and two other members of the Reagan family, was one of the ten founders of the Sturgis Credit Union in 1939. A photograph of him and his wife, taken in 1950, is also reproduced in Harvest of Memories, p. 665. He m. 19 Jan. 1909 in the Roman Catholic Church, Sturgis,
Helen Healy, b. 4 March 1891 at or near Ardoch, Walsh County, North Dakota, d. 16 Nov. 1951 at or near Sturgis, aged 60 years, and buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery on the hill overlooking Sturgis. She was brought by her parents to Saskatchewan in 1904. Helen (Healy) Reagan and her daughters “Van” (Reagan) Reed and Alma (Reagan) Lubiniecki (our no. 3) were charter members of the Sturgis Council of the Catholic Women’s League in 1949, and appear in the group photograph thereof which has already been mentioned.

Generation IV

Anton(ius) Lubiniecki, b. ca. 1842 at Jazłowiec (now Pomortsy) in the province of Podolia, in Galicia (then in Austria, now in the Ukraine), and still living there in 1880, when his son Julian was born, but d. 13 Aug. 1917 at Dauphin, Manitoba, aged 75 years. He is called Antoni in his death record, but Antonius in the 1904 marriage record of his son Julian. We have not found him in Ancestry.com’s transcription of the 1911 census. His death certificate states that he was of no occupation, had been living at Dauphin for 9 years and in the province (of Manitoba) for 20 years, and that his father was also born at Jazłowiec; the informant was his son, “J[ulian] Lubiniecki” (our no. 4). According to his great-granddaughter Lorraine (Gregrash) Barlow, “Anton was born in Jazłowiec, which was under Austria-Hungary at the time. He did the required military service (age 18-28) and then married Mary Nyczek who was the only child from a well-to-do family…. They lived in town where Anton had a business — something to do with wheels for carts, carriages and the like. Due to economic misfortunes and the promise of a good life in Canada, they decided to make the move…. They sailed to Halifax harbour and were in quarantine for three months before making their way out to the Dauphin area.” The date of the family’s arrival in Manitoba would appear to be 1897, assuming they arrived together (see the account of the son Julian, no. 4); and if the statement in his death record that he had been 20 years in the province is precise, then his arrival occurred in 1896-97. We have located his two sons in the 1906 census of Manitoba, but have not yet located Anton himself. He m. before 1878,
Maria (or Mariana) Nasadnik or Nyczek, living 1878-80, whose death, if it occurred in Manitoba, appears to have gone unregistered. Her name is given as Marianna Nazakiuk in the 1902 marriage record of her son Marian, and apparently as Maria Nasadnik in the (admittedly very illegible) 1904 marriage record of her son Julian. Her surname was given to us by her great-granddaughter Lorraine (Gregrash) Barlow as Nyczek. Of these three forms, Nasadnik and Nyczek are rare but real surnames, and may be considered as genuine possibilities, while Nazakiuk is surely an error.
Wasyl (”William”) Demchuk, b. 1 Aug. 1860 (according to the 1901 census), at Tsyhany aforesaid, in the province of Galicia, Austria (now in the Ukraine), d. 7 March 1934 at the General Hospital, Dauphin, Manitoba, aged “77 yrs.,” and buried in St. Josaphat’s Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Sifton. He is said in Harvest of Memories to have been a land overseer before his immigration. The very interesting typescript history of the Demchuk family by his nephew Demetrius P. Demchuk mentions that before leaving the Ukraine, Wasyl Demchuk visited the old cemetery at Tsyhany and copied the names of their ancestors into a “prayer book” (we do not know if it has survived). He brought his family to Canada on the Christiania, arriving at Halifax on 12 July 1898. On 26 Aug. following, as “Wasyl Demtchuk, farmer” he applied (successfully) for a patent to SE-30-27-20-W.1.M., at Valley River, just west of Sifton, Manitoba, where he is also listed in a directory published in 1923. He was naturalized on 31 March 1902. He should not be confused with an apparently unrelated and somewhat older Wasyl Demchuk, b. 1834, who d. 21 April 1926 in the municipality of Rockwood, near Selkirk, Manitoba. Demetrius P. Demchuk mentions him regularly visiting his daughter Kataryna (Demchuk) Lubiniecki in Dauphin to take her farm produce in the 1920s. He m. before 1884 in Austria (the marriage year of 1892 given in her obituary being wildly incorrect),
Antonina Warowy, b. at Cyhany about 1866 (her birthdate is given as 4 July 1865 in 1901 census but as Oct. 1866 in the 1911 census, and her age is given as 39, implying a birthdate of 1866-67, in the 1906 census), d. 5 Oct. 1963 at Dauphin, “in her 95^th year” (i.e. aged 94 years), and buried in the new section of St. Josaphat’s Cemetery, Sifton. She and her husband settled near Peter Waroway and his wife Warwara, who came from Cyhany to the Dauphin area in 1897, and so he was perhaps he uncle (he was not her father).
Patrick John Reagan, of Sturgis, Saskatchewan, said to have been b. 17 March 1841 (which is borne out as to the month and year by the 1852 census), in Ireland, the place being given variously as Dublin or co. Cork, d. 18 Dec. 1913 at or near Sturgis, apparently aged 71 years, and buried in St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cemetery. He was brought by his parents to Canada some time after 1845, and with them as an 11-year-old child in the 1852 census of Grey Co., Ontario. A directory published in 1865 lists “Patrick Ragan” at lot 41, concession 2 of Normanby Tp., only two lots away from his father. However, the family tradition that he and his wife were living at Mount Forest, Arthur Tp., Wellington Co., Ontario, when their eldest child was born in 1866, is in conflict with that child’s place of birth as given in U.S. census records. In any case, they moved shortly after their marriage to Manannah Tp., Meeker Co., Minnesota, where they were enumerated in the censuses of 1870 and 1875, 1880, and 1900 (the 1890 census is lost for most of Minnesota). The 1900 census correctly states that they had then been married 35 years. On 10 June 1872 Patrick Reagan was patented the southwest quarter of section 8, in township 121N, 31W of the 5^th Principal Meridian, in Meeker County, consisting of 160 acres of land. In 1903, Patrick and his family came to Saskatchewan, where Patrick Reagan purchased the northwest quarter of section 13, in township 34, range 4 of the second meridian west of the Principal Meridian, and the northeast quarter of section 26 in the same township. On a map of the Sturgis area issued ca. 1907 (?) by the Scandinavian Canadian Land Co., his name is given as Patrick Reagan (not O’Reagan). According to the account in Harvest of Memories, they lived in sod houses for the first few years in Saskatchewan, but later “built a 25×18 foot lumber house as well as some out-buildings.” A photograph of his family is reproduced in Harvest of Memories, p. 622. He m. 10 Feb. 1865 in Grey Co. (per Grey County marriage register),
Catherine Heaney, said to have been b. 10 May 1841 in Ireland (which is compatible with her age as given in the 1852 and 1870 censuses), d. 11 Jan. 1916, at or near Sturgis, Saskatchewan, apparently aged 74 years, and buried with her husband. She was brought to Normanby Tp., Grey Co., Upper Canada by her parents about 1842. Her parents are named in her marriage record as Owen “Henry” (sic) and Mary Smith, and she is found as a 11-year-old child in the household of Owen and Mary Heaney in the 1852 census. Corroboration of this identification comes from the memory of descendants that she was aunt to Timothy Gibney, of Sturgis; Gibney family records showed the latter as a son of John Gibney and Anne Heaney, which couple were found in the 1861 census of Normanby Tp.
John Joseph Healy, b. 16 Aug. 1858 at Portland, a village mainly in Bastard Tp. but partly in South Burgess Tp., Leeds Co., Ontario, bapt. 24 Sept. 1858 in St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Church, Toledo, concession 6, lot 27 of Kitley Tp., Leeds Co., d. 20 Aug. 1938, at the home of his daughter, Helen (Healy) Reagan, near Sturgis, Saskatchewan, aged over 80 years, and buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery, just north of Sturgis. He is found as a child in the household of his parents in 1871. From a later reference to him in the 1900 census of North Dakota, which supplies birthdates precise to the month, we are told that John J. Healy and his wife came to the United States in 1880 and 1883 respectively. If this is true, their marriage must have occurred during a return trip by John Healy to Canada. In any case, Elizabeth’s death notice states that “in the same year” as their marriage, “she and her husband emigrated to the United States, where they settled near Adroch, North Dakota.” The 1900 census suggests that this couple was in Minnesota in June 1884, April 1886, and Oct. 1887, when their first three children were born, and were in North Dakota between May 1889 and Jan. 1897, when their five younger children were born. However, it was at the city of Grand Forks, in the Dakota Territories, that this couple was enumerated in the 1885 census; John is called a farmer, and the record agrees with the 1900 census in giving the birthplace of his eldest child as Minnesota. The 1890 census of North Dakota is lost, but further detail on John is supplied by his immigration application, dated 29 April 1880 in Grand Forks County, Territory of Dakota, which states, in part: “John Haley [sic] personally appeared … and made oath that he was born in Canada on or about the year 1858, that he emigrated to the United States, and landed at the port of Huron on or about the month of November in the year 1879, that it is bona fide his intention to become a Citizen of the United States….” On 1 Nov. 1890, having more than satisfied the five-year residency requirement, “John J. Healey” was granted the requested citizenship. On 1 Sept. 1891 John J. Healy was patented the northeast quarter of section 30, in township 154N, 52W of the 5^th Principal Meridian, in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, consisting of 160 acres of land. Again as John J. Healy, he is enumerated with his family in the 1900 census of Levant Township, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, which calls him a farmer, indicates that everyone in his family was literate and that no children had died in infancy, and states that both of his and both of his wife’s parents were born in Ireland. According to the local history, he and his wife “immigrated … to the Eden Valley area of the District of Assiniboia [now Saskatchewan] in the fall of 1904 and started homesteading in the Spring of 1905.” The 1906 census agrees that Healy and his wife came to Canada in 1904; thus the date of 1906 reported both in their 50^th wedding anniversary announcement and in Elizabeth’s death notice is clearly too late. As “John Joseph Healy” he received a crown grant of the southwest quarter of section 34, in township 34, range 4 of the second meridian west of the Principal Meridian, and the map of the Sturgis area issued ca. 1907 (?) by the Scandinavian Canadian Land Co. shows him there and on the northwest-quarter of section 27 in the same township, which was kitty-corner to it. He m. 22 April 1883 in (Old) St. Phillip’s Church, in the town of Kitley (now Toledo), Kitley Tp., Leeds Co., Ontario, possibly during a return trip to Canada,
Elizabeth E[leanor?] McCann, b. 8 Oct. 1859 near Portland, Bastard Tp., Leeds County, Ontario, d. 3 April 1936, at her home in Sturgis, aged over 76 years, and buried with her husband. Her name seems to be given as “Elenor” in the 1861 census, but the entry is not very legible; elsewhere she is usually recorded as “Elizabeth E.” As noted above, she went to the U.S. in 1883, probably close to the time of her marriage, then subsequently went with her husband and family to Canada. According to Harvest of Memories, when the school at Mannanah, Saskatchewan opened and the original teacher hired was unable to continue, Elizabeth Healy took over in the fall of 1907 and continued teaching until, a year and a half later, the school was closed because of a severe outbreak of measles. She was also active at Eden Valley and Sturgis in organizing theatrical and dance productions, writing and producing a play entitled The Real Irish. Her poem about Sturgis, entitled “The City on the Hill,” placed first in a contest sponsored by the Saskatchewan Homemakers Clubs in July 1933.

Generation V

(Lubiniecki)
(Nyczek)
Fedor Demchuk, a landowner at Tsyhany aforesaid, in the province of Galicia, Austria (now in the Ukraine), d. in April 1866, and buried at Tsyhany, “in the new cemetery on the west side of the village.” He is so called in the typescript Demchuk family history by Demetrius P. Demchuk, and this is corroborated by the baptismal records of his granddaughters Kataryna Demchuk (no. 5) and Mariya Demchuk, in which his name appears in the latinized form of Theodorus. He m. before 1852,
Mariya ____, living 1860, whose name is given in the baptismal records of her granddaughters Kataryna Demchuk (no. 5) and Mariya Demchuk. It would thus appear that Demetrius P. Demchuk was wrong in reporting her name as Anna Bilinski, unless she had two first names.
Martin Warowy, living 1865, whose name is known only from the baptismal records of his granddaughters Kataryna Demchuk (no. 5) and Mariya Demchuk.
Mariya ____, living 1865, whose name is known only from the baptismal records of her granddaughters Kataryna Demchuk (no. 5) and Mariya Demchuk.
Thomas Reagan (Sr.), of Normanby Tp., Grey Co., Ontario, and Manannah Tp., Meeker Co., Minnesota, b. ca. 1809 (aged “45 at next birthday” in 1852, aged 65 in 1875) in Ireland, of Irish-born but unidentified parents; alive in 1875 but probably not in 1880. It seems likely that Thomas and his wife were from Cork, which is said to have been the birthplace of their daughter Alice, and whence (an admittedly somewhat vague) family tradition also derives their son Patrick. They came to Canada some time after Alice’s birth, which was almost certainly in 1845, and were enumerated in the 1852 census of Normanby Tp., which gives Thomas�s occupation as farmer and the family�s religion as Roman Catholic. A directory published in 1865 lists “Thomas Ragan” at lot 39, concession 2 of Normanby. Thomas Reagan went by 1870 to Manannah Tp., where he is listed alone, as a farmer, in the census of that year. He m. (2) between 1870 and 1875, Mary ____, b. ca. 1824-25 (aged 50 in 1875) in Ireland, of Irish-born parents; alive in 1875. They are listed in the 1875 census of Manannah Tp., but have not been found in that of 1880. He m. (1) by 1831, presumably in Ireland,
Margaret ____, b. ca. 1810-11 (aged “42 at next birthday” in 1852), d. by 1870.
Owen Heaney (Sr.), of Normanby Tp., Grey Co., Ontario, b. probably in 1799 (he was said to be aged “54 at next birthday” in January 1852) in Ireland, d. 5 Jan. 1870, aged at least 69 years (there does not appear to have been any official registration), and buried in Chapel Hill Roman Catholic Cemetery, Orchardville, on the Normanby-Egremont townline. It would appear from the birthplaces of their children that he and his wife came from Ireland to Canada West (now Ontario) some time between 1841 and 1843, likely in 1842. They were enumerated in the 1852 census of Normanby Tp., which gives Owen’s occupation as farmer and the family’s religion as Roman Catholic, their children including a daughter Catherine (our no. 13), aged 12 “at next birthday.” We have not found this family in the 1861 census of Normanby Tp., but there are lengthy illegible stretches in the record. A directory published in 1865 lists “Owen Heany” at lot 17, concession 1 of Normanby. He m. before 1833, presumably in Ireland,
Mary Smith, b. ca. 1811-12 (aged “41 at next birthday” in 1852) in Ireland, d. 11 April 1887 in Normanby Tp., the age of 78 years given in her death record being probably exaggerated. In 1871 and 1881 she appears as a widow in the household of her son, Owen Heaney, Jr. Her full name is provided in the 1865 marriage record of her daughter Catharine, in the 1866 marriage record of her son Christopher, and in the 1915 death record of her son Patrick.
Michael Healy, of Bastard Township, Leeds County, Ontario, b. about 1819-21 (his age is given rather inconsistently in census records as 40 years in 1861, 48 in 1871, and 57 or 63 [!] in 1881), d. 27 Sept. 1881, and buried beside his parents in Philipsville Roman Catholic Cemetery, Bastard Tp., his tombstone giving his age as 57 years although his age had been stated as 63 earlier that same year in the census. He and his wife were in Canada by the birth of their daughter Maryanne, no later than 1848, and were possibly married in Canada. Between 1857 and 1860 they had three children baptized in (Old) St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Church, Toledo, Kitley Tp., Leeds Co. We have not succeeded in locating Michael Healy in the 1852 census of Leeds County, but he appears as a farmer in Bastard Tp. in that of 1861, in which the family’s religion is given as Roman Catholic. Similar information is given in the 1871 census of Bastard & Burgess townships, Leeds County, and in 1881, when they are enumerated under the spelling Haley. Michael died before the end of the year. According to the death notice of their son John Joseph Healy (no. 14 above), there were thirteen children in this family. He m. by 1848,
Catharine Moran (as her name is spelled in her children’s baptismal records), b. 1828-31 (aged 32 in 1861, 40 in 1871, 50 in 1881) in Ireland, also still alive in 1881. Catharine was perhaps of the family treated in Wilfred Bruce, The Moran family of Ireland and Kitley Township, Leeds Co., Ontario, 1838-1978…, which we have not seen.
Patrick McCann, of South Burgess township, Leeds County, Ontario, was b. apparently in 1806-11 (aged 50 in 1861, 64 in 1871, aged 71 in 1880), and d. 25 July 1880 “at his residence in South Burgess (per a death notice in the Perth Courier of 30 July 1880). We have not found a registration for either his or his wife’s death. The 1861 census shows that Patrick McCann and his wife were still in Ireland at the birth of their son Thomas in 1841 or 1842, but were in Ontario by the birth of their daughter Margaret in 1848 or 1849. It would appear from evidence cited below under our account of his wife that they came to Canada about 1846, and this is also the precise immigration date given for their son John in the 1901 and 1911 censuses. These estimates are to some extent corroborated by the fact that the Bathurst Courier of 15 April 1853 reported that there was a letter for Patrick McCann waiting at the Perth Post Office. We have not succeeded in locating Patrick McCann in the 1852 census, but he appears as a farmer in Burgess Tp. in that of 1861, in which the family’s religion is given as Roman Catholic. Similar information is given for Patrick McCann in the 1871 census of Bastard and South Burgess townships, Leeds County. He m. by 1841,
Anne FitzPatrick, apparently in 1819-23 (aged 38 in 1861, 50 in 1870, 66 in 1888), d. 23 March 1888, allegedly aged 66 years, and buried at Perth, Drummond Tp., Lanark Co. A brief death notice for her in the Perth Courier of 30 March 1888 reads “Died, on Friday, 23rd March, Ann Fitzpatrick McCann, relict of the late Mr. Patrick McCann, South Burgess, County Leeds, and mother of Mr. John McCann of Perth, aged 66.” A longer notice followed, apparently in the same issue: “On Friday last passed away from this life Mrs. Patrick McCann, one of the oldest and most respected settlers in this part of the country. By her kind and affable manners she endeared herself to all with whom she came into contact and her loss will be felt not only by her sorrowing children but by all those who had the pleasure of her acquaintance. She was the daughter of the late Mr. John Fitzpatrick, Laurel Hill, County Monaghan, Ireland, and came to this country 42 years ago and settled with her husband in the County of Leeds where she remained until her death. Of a family of 13 children she bore, nine survive.”

Generation VI

(Demchuk)
(Warowy)
(Reagan)
(Heaney)
(Smith)
John Healy, of Philipsville (sometimes spelled Phillipsville), Bastard Township, Leeds County, Ontario, farmer, was b. probably in 1796-97 (his age being reported, with progressive inflation, as 64 in 1861, 79 in 1871, 90 in 1881, and 98 in 1885) in co. Mayo, Ireland (per his tombstone), d. 13 Nov. 1885, and buried two days later at Philipsville Roman Catholic Cemetery, Bastard Tp., where a tombstone survives. The burial is entered in the records of St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic church, Toledo, Kitley Tp., Leeds Co., which call him John Healy of Phillipsville, and credit him with the wildly exaggerated age of 98 years, irreconcilable with any reasonable estimate of his date of birth based on census records; the same age is given on his tombstone. It is possible this John Healy was of the neighboring township of Kitley before coming to Bastard Township, as the 1839, 1841, and 1844 censuses show a man of this name; but these pre-1852 census records supply the names only of the heads of households, so with such a common combination of names it is impossible to be sure whether they relate to our subject. John Healy and his wife have not been found in the 1852 census in Kitley Tp. or in Bastard Tp., but John “Healey,” farmer, and his wife appear in the 1861 census, very close to their son, Michael, in Bastard Tp., and they also appear in the 1871 census of Bastard & Burgess townships. “John Haley,” appears in 1881 as a widower in the household of a Francis Haley, who was doubtless his son. He m. by 1821 (assuming she was the mother of all his children),
Mary O’Connor, b. probably around 1803 (her age being inconsistently reported as 55 in 1861, and as 73 or 75 in 1871), d. 26 Dec. 1871, and buried two days later at Philipsville Roman Catholic Cemetery, the age on her tombstone being credibly given as 75 years. Her burial record, found by a correspondent in the records of St. Edward Church, Westport, Ontario, reads: “Mrs. John Healy 28 Dec. 1871, Mary O’Connor, wife of John Healy of Bastard, age 80 [surely an exaggeration], died 26 Dec. 1871, interred in Catholic cemetery at Philipsville. Present: Michael Healy and Francis Healy.”
(Moran)
Anthony McCann, of Ireland.
Molly McDonald.
John FitzPatrick, of Laurel Hill, in the parish of Errigal-Trough (lying mainly in the barony of Trough, co. Monaghan, Ireland, but partly in partly in the barony of Clogher, co. Tyrone). However, there is no-one named FitzPatrick in the parish of Errigal Trough at the taking of Griffith’s Valuation in 1848-1864.
Bridget McLenag [McLenagh?].