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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. The family settled on a concession road which became known as the Roman Line due to its high concentration of Irish Catholic immigrants in the predominantly ...
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 ...
Oct 30, 2014 · The family of James and Johannah Donnelly emigrated from Tipperary, Ireland, to Canada, and settled on land being given away at the time by the Governor of Upper Canada. They staked a claim and built their homestead on Lot 18 of the sixth concession of Biddulph Township in the spring of 1847. By the spring of 1880, The Black Donnelly homestead ...
- Bruce Ricketts
The Black Donnelly story came to a brutal end in the early hours of February 4th, 1880 when a group of vigilantes, members of the “Biddulph Peace Society,” fell upon the Donnelly family homestead. Late in the night, there was a knock at the door. James answered and went to meet their visitors.
Nov 11, 2022 · The "Black" Donnelly story comes to a brutal end in the early hours of February 4th, 1880 when a group of vigilantes, members of the "Biddulph Peace Society", fell upon the Donnelly family homestead. Johnny O'Conner, a young farmhand who was sleeping at the Donnelly house that night later testified in court about what happened.
“In late summer, 1875, the stagecoach war between the Donnellys and Patrick Flanagan reached a brutal climax. On a hot evening in August, a group of shadowy figures left the Donnelly homestead and crept towards Flanagan’s barn. They snuck up to the barn door and tried the latch to see if the building was locked up. It wasn’t.
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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.
