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Grosse Ile, Canada

Irish Memorial

Yearning to breathe free Grosse Ile, Quebec


Surnames of emigrants who died and were buried on Grosse Ile
in 1847

View on arrival by ferry Roman Catholic Church

Table shows unknowns and surnames and with loss of lives counts. Do not be confused about persons bearing Irish names sailing from British ports. It was more often the case that they had to travel to British ports for boats destined for Canada, the USA and elsewhere.
Name Sailed from Country Persons
Unknown! Cork Ireland    47
Brien Cork Ireland    25
Kelly Liverpool England    25
Sullivan Liverpool England    12
Sullivan Cork Ireland    46

Emigrants.

Acton Adams Addy Agnew Ahern Aldgate Alexander Allen Alton Anderson Andrews Ansley Armour Armstrong Arthur Ashe Atkinson Austin B__ Bagnel Bailey Baker Baldwin Bale Banks Bannon Barnes Barrett Barron Barrow Barry Barton Bassett Bateman Bath Battle Beatty Behan Bell Bennett Benson Best Bird Birney Bishop Black Blake Blakely Blanch Bloomer Bogue Boland Bolger Bolton Bonner Borden Bourke Bowen Bowers Bowes Boyd Boyle Bracken Bradley Bradshaw Brady Branagan Brannan Brawley Bray Breen Brennan Brewer Brick Brickley Brien Briody Broder Broderick Brogan Brookes Brown Bruce Bryan Bryans Buck Buckley Buggy Burgess Burke Burns Butler Butt Butterby Byrne Byron C__ Cadden Caffrey Cahalane Cahill Cain Cairns Callaghan Calvey Calvin Cameron Campbell Caples Cardwell Carey Carmody Carney Carr Carrick Carrier Carrigan Carroll Carter Carty Casey Cash Cassells Cassidy Caulfield Cavanagh Chadwick Chambers Cherick Chesty Chittick Chou Clancy Clark Cleary Clegg Clifford Clinton Clohessy Clough Clune Cluvane Clyne Coakley Coates Cochrane Cody Coen Coffey Cogan Coke Colbert Coleman Colgan Collins Calvin Comber Compton Conaghan Condon Condron Condy Conefry Conlan Connaugton Connell Connery Connolly Connor Connors Conroy Considine Convey Conway Cook Cooney Coote Copes Corbett Corcoran Corish Corkery Corkin Corless Corley Cormack Corrigan Cosgrove Costello Costely Cotter Cotton Coughlan Courtney Cousens Coveny Cox Coyle Craig Crane Cranny Crawford Crawley Creagh Creed Creen Cremin Cromie Cronin Cross Crowe Crowley Cuddy Cuffe Culhane Cullen Culligan Cummings Cummins Cunningham Curran Curry Curtin Curtis Cushely Cushman Cussane D_ Dalton Daly Dalzell Damery Dansy Darcy Dargan Davis Davitt Dawley Dawson Day Dea Dean Deasy Deely Doonan Doorly Dormer Douglas Dowd Dowdall Dowling Downes Downey Doyle Dreenan Drew Driscoll Drum Duffy Duggan Duhig Duke Dundas Dunn Dunworth Durham Durkin Durnan Dutch Dwane Dwyer Dyer R__ Earl Earls Edwards Egan Egerton Elliott English Ennis Erwin Evans Everell Fagan Fahey Fair Fallon Falvey Fannin Farley Farrell Farren Farrow Fastedy Fearon Fee Feehan Feely Feeney Ferick Fegan Fenlon Fennell Fergus Ferguson Ferris Ferriter Ferry Fihilly Finerty Finlay Finn Finnegan Finucane Fisher Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fitzsimmons Flaherty Flanagan Flannery Fleming Fletcher Flood Flynn Fogarty Foley Foran Ford Fowler Fox Foy Fraher Francis Fraser French Frost Furlong Fury G__ Gaffney Gahan Gaimbro Gainer Galbot Gallagher Galligan Gaul Gault Gaynor Geary Geraghty Getting Gibbons Gibbs Gibson Gilgan Gilhoooly Gill Gillan Gillespie Gillis Gilman Gilmartin Gilmore Gilroy Glass Gleeson Glenn Glenny Glynn Going Golding Good Gord Gordon Gorman Gormley Gough Goulding Gourley Gowan Grady Graham Grant Gray Green Greenan Greenaway Greenock Griffin Grogan Grory Gunn H__ Hadwyn Hagan Haley Halfpenny Hall Hallisey Hamilton Hamm Hammond Hanifin Hanley Hanlon Hanna Hannon Hare Harkin Harmouge Harnett Harney Harold Harrington Harris Harrison Hart Hartin Hartley Harvey Haslett Hattery Hawe Hawkins Hawthorn Hay Hayes Hazelton Healy Heaney Hearn Heavey Heffernan Heffron Hegarty Henaghan Henrick Hennelly Hennessy Henry Herlihy Heron Hess Hester Hetherington Hewson Hickey Higgins Hill Hilliard Hinchy Hinds Hinunane Hoban Hobbs Hodgins Hogan Holden Holland Holleran Hollinger Hollingsworth Holly Holmes Hood Hooney Hooley Hooper Hopkins Hopper Horan Horne Horner Horrigan Houlihan Hourihane Howard Howell Howley Howlin Hoy Hoyne Hughes Hughey Humphreys Hungerford Hunter Hurley Hyland Hynes Igoe Ireland Irvine Irwin Ivory Jackson Jacobs James Jameson Jay Jeffries Jenkins Jennings Jewel Johnson Johnston Jones Jordan Joyce Judge K___ Kane Kastle Kay Keady Keally Kean Keane Kearney Kearns Keating Keefe Keegan Keenan Kelleher Kelly Kenna Kennedy Kennelly Kenny Kent Kenyon Keogh Kernan Kerr Kettle Kettly Keville Kiernan Killeen Killoran Kilmartin Kilroy King Kinsella Kirby Kirkland Kistle Knight Kyle L__ Lafferty Laighin Laird Lally Lambert Lancaster Lane Lang Lannigan Lannon Lanskey Larkin Laturney Laughlin Lavan Lavelle Lavery Lawler Lawlor Lawson Leahy Leary Lee Leech Leehan Leeson Legge Leguire Lehan Leland Lemon Lenihan Lennon Lennox Leon Leonard Levy Lewis Leyden Liddane Liggett Linane Lindsay Linehan Linskey Lisk Loftus Logan Lohan Lombard Londrigan Long Loughren Lowmann Lowry Luby Lundy Lunny Lupton Lynch Lyness Lynn Lyons M__ MacFarlane Mack Macpherson Madden Madigan Magee Maguire Maher Mahon Mahony Malcolm Malley Malone Maloney Mangan Manley Mann Mannin Manning Mannion Mannis Manus Mara Mark Marken Marr Martin Mason Masters Masterson Mathers Mathews Mathewson Matthews McAllen McAllister McAndrew McAndrews McAuliffe McAvinny McBride McBrien McBurney McCabe McCadden McCafferty McCaffrey McCain McCall McCallum McCarroll McCarron McCarry McCartan McCarter McCarthy McCarty McCawell McClatchey McCleary McClehaddy McClintock McCloy McClue McClung McClusky McComb McConnell McConnon McCormack McCormick McCoy McCracken McCraly McCrea McCreed McCreen McCrone McCuddy McCullen McCullough McCurley McCurry McDermott McDolly McDonagh McDonald McDonnell McDonough McDowell McDugall McDunlief McDyke McEnroe McEvoy McFadden McFahey McFarlane McFathum McGale McGee McGerity McGillicuddy McGilly McGirr McGoldrick McGough McGourty McGovern McGowan McGrady McGrath McGregor McGuane McGuinn McGuinness McGuire McHale McHugh McIlwaine McInerney McInnis McIvor McKay McKeag McKee McKenna McKenzie McKiernan McKillan McKinimon McKinley McKinnane McKinstry McKitterick McLaughlin McLean McMahon McManamon McManus McMeeney McMichael McMullen McNabb McNally McNamara McNeenan McNeill McNulty McOwen McPherson McQuaid McVeigh Meade Meagher Meany Mee Meehan Meek Melia Mentz Middleton Miles Miller Milligan Mills Milton Minihane Minnagh Mitchell Molloy Molson Monaghan Monday Montgomery Moody Mooney Moore Moran Moriarty Morley Moroney Morris Morrison Morrow Moss Mossip Mowatt Moylan Mulcahey Muldoon Mulhall Mulhall Mulhern Mulholland Mulkeen Mullaney Mullarkey Mullen Mulligan Mulroney Mulroy Mulry Mulvey Mulvihill Mulvochery Murnane Murphy Murray Murtagh Mylan Myland N__ Nagle Naughton Naylor Neal Neary Negro Neil Neilan Nelis Nelligan Neville Newell Newman Nicolson Nilan Nochtin Nolan Noon Noonan Norton Nowlan Nugent O'Brien O'Connell O'Donnell O'Donoghue O'Dowd O'Hara O'Hare O'Hart O'Hoy O'Leary O'Malley O'Neill O'Reilly O'Shaughnessy Oates Oniov Orr Osborne Owens P__ Park Parsons Patterson Patton Paul Pearson Peel Peoples Perry Phelan Picken Pickering Pierce Pigott Pinu Polk Pollock Potter Powell Power Prendergast Prestage Price Pritchard Pugh Purcell Quane Quigley Quilligan Quiltey Quines Quinlan Quinn Quinton Quirke R__ Rafferty Rahilly Ray Reaburn Reddy Redmond Regan Reid Reilly Renney Reynolds Rice Richardson Rigney Riordan Ritchie Rivlachen Roach Robb Roberts Robinson Roche Rock Rodgers Rogers Rohan Ronan Ronayne Rooney Ross Rossiter Roth Rourke Rowan Ruane Rush Russell Rutledge Ryan S__ Saul Saunders Scanlan Scott Scully Seery Selby Sewell Seymour Shanahan Shanahy Shane Shanks Shanley Shannon Sharkey Shaughnessy Shaw Shea Sheedy Sheehan Shelly Sheridan Sherman Sherry Shiel Shields Shirley Short Silke Simpson Sinclair Skews Slaney Slattery Slevin Sloane Smith Smylie Smyth Sool Spellman Spencer Spillane Stanton Stanwicks Stapelton Steele Stephens Stewart Stobo Stokes Storey Sturgeon Sullivan Supple Sutton Swan Swanton Sweade Sweeney T___ Taaffe Tagney Taylor Teahan Terry Thomas Thompson Thomson Thorne Thornton Thorpe Tierney Tighe Timberman Timlin Timony Tobin Tolan Toole Tormey Tougher Toukere Towey Towhey Townley Tracey Trainor Travers Trimble Trotter Troy Trunnell Tucker Tufts Tweedy Twohig Tyrrell Unknowns____ Vallelly Vaughan Vaux Verdon Wadell Walker Wall Wallace Walsh Ward Wasson Watson Watt Watters Watts Waugh Webb Westland Westman Weston Whelan Whelehan White Whittaker Wiggins Wilcox Williams Williamson Willis Wilson Wise Wood Woodburn Woodlock Woods Woodside Woolrich Wren Wright Wynne Young

Transporting vessels bore names: Scotland, Avon, Ajax, Asia, Larch, Agamemnon, Primrose, Rose, Eliza Caroline, Champion, Agent, Jane Black, Pandora, Pursuit, Covenanter, Mary, Sir Robert Peel, Progress, Sir Henry Pottinger, John Bolton, George, Dykes, John Francis, Julius Caesar, Triton and so on ....

Buried sailors on Ile:

Adamson, Andrews, Angells, Banks Benger, Bonney, Boucher, Bowes, Boyce, Boyd, Buchanan, Crowell, Davis Edwards, Eelbeck, English, Evans, Fisher, Fletcher, Gordon, Hare, Hertle, Jacques, Kant, Knight, Leven, Long, McLean, Pyne, Reid, Robinson, Staunton, Stobo, Suntherland, Tyson, + an Unknown.

Employees of Quarentine Station

Andrews, Vincent age 34 Nurse
Ferguson, Hugh age 43 Hospital Steward
Garneau, __ age __ Nurse
Hobbs, Margaret age 29 Nurse
Kenny, James age 36 Nurse Attendant
Lindsay, James age 24 Policeman
Maxwell, Elizabeth age 30 Nurse
McConaty, Catherine age 32 Nurse
McGaracher, Catherine age __ Nurse
McKay, __ age __ wife/child
Palmer, Samuel age 46 Policeman
Pinet, Alexis Albert age 22 Physician
Plante, Alexis age 19 Baker
Polk, William age 22 Sutler's Clerk
Stanley, Ellen age 30 Nurse

Sons & Daughters - Pray for the souls of deceased.


A Register of Deceased persons at Sea and on Grosse Ile in 1847, by Andre Charbonneau and Doris Drolet-Dube, and a 1847, Grosse Ile: A Record of daily events, by Andre Charbonneau and Andre Sevigny can be obtained from Group Communication Canada.
Phone 1-800-635-7943 if you wish to purchase one or both of these publications.