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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.
“The massacre of the Donnelly family, in the township of Biddulph, by an armed mob, is a crime which has no parallel in the history of Canada,” proclaimed the Listowel newspaper in February 1880. The notorious Donnellys emigrated from Ireland in the 1840s with the hope of finding success in what would later become Canada.
Jun 21, 2019 · 1 / 1 An article in the Thorold News alerted James Cameron, grandson of Will Donnelly, about the Newman family - descendants of Patrick Donnelly living in Niagara. Pictured (l-r) are Peter Newman ...
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 ...
Jun 21, 2019 · Last week's reunion was intended to bring members of the family together, but also to unveil the new museum display. To repay Cameron for escorting them around Lucan last week, the Newman siblings plan to take Jim on a tour of St. Catharines and to Donnelly’s Pub in Thorold, once the site of Patrick Donnelly’s hotel. - ThoroldNews.com
Seared into the Ottawa man’s consciousness is a 125-year-old story: Religious strife, territorial battles and family revenge led to the bloody lynching of his ancestors, the infamous “Black Donnellys” of Lucan, Ont. The mass murder was sealed with the torching of the Donnelly home: Out of the ashes, a legend — part fact, part fiction ...
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Donnelly, William . Born about 1844, William (or Will) was the second eldest son in the Donnelly family. Born with a clubfoot, William was a sickly child but a handsome man. He was seen as the leader of the Donnelly family and was responsible for undertakings such as the attempt at abducting Margaret Thompson, whom he loved.
