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A replica of the original Donnelly tombstone, belonging to Ray Fazakas, on display at the Lucan Area Heritage & Donnelly museum in Lucan-Biddulph, Ontario. The "Black" Donnellys were an Irish Catholic immigrant family who settled in Biddulph township, Upper Canada (later the province of Ontario), about 25 km northwest of London, in the 1840s.
Feb 7, 2006 · Donnellys, The. Early in the morning of 4 Feb 1880, a party of armed men brutally murdered James Donnelly, a farmer living near the village of LUCAN, Ont, his wife Johannah, his sons Thomas and John, and his niece Bridget Donnelly. Two eyewitnesses, 11-year-old Johnny O'Connor, and James Donnelly's eldest son, William, claimed to have ...
John Donnelly wed Fanny Drunan in 1871 and took up farming on land of his own several miles out of town; he was followed by Patrick, Michael and Robert who married, respectively, domestic lasses named Mary Ryan, Ellen Hynes and Annie Currie. All flowed quietly for awhile, but the Donnelly's had a knack for irritating neighbors, even when in love.
When a John William Donnelly died childless in Detroit in 1973, the name Donnelly of the Roman Line of Biddolph died, too. But the Donnelly bloodline still lives on. Richard Egan’s daughter, Kelly Egan, represents the sixth generation of Donnellys in Canada. – – – The Donnellys started out like most other poor immigrants in Canada.
1:30 a.m., February 4, 1880. Johnny O’Connor flees out the back door and goes to the home of Patrick Whalen. Johnny tells them about the murders and the fire and after some time they go back to the Donnelly cabin. The house burns and the body of Bridget falls through to the main level of the house.
Massacre. When thirteen year-old Johnny O’Connor went to the Donnelly homestead on February 3, 1880, his life would be forever changed. He was supposed to spend the night so that the next day he could “feed the pigs and things” when the Donnellys went to the nearby town of Granton. At first, the night was uneventful--he helped feed the ...
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Nov 21, 2023 · In the spring of 1875, a fruit vendor named Thomas Gibbs stopped at Levett’s Hotel in Lucan with his son John. He put his horses and cart in the stable and retired for the night. Around 6 a.m., James Jr. arrived at the stable to take one of the horses the Donnelly’s kept there to St. Patrick’s Church for Mass.
