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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 ...
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Lucan, Ont, urban area, population 2076 (2011c), 1997...
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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 ...
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James Donnelly then went into hiding. Almost two years later, James turned himself in to Jim Hodgins, a sympathetic Justice of the Peace. [5] James was sentenced to be hanged on September 17, 1859. A petition for clemency started by his wife Johannah caused his sentence to be reduced to seven years in Kingston Penitentiary.
James and Johannah Donnelly arrived in Canada from Tipperary, Ireland, with their first child, James Jr., in 1842. James found work in London, Ont., and a second son, William, was born there in 1844. The following year, they settled in Biddulph Township near Lucan.
Nov 21, 2018 · THE CHARACTERS. The notorious Donnelly family lived about two and a half miles east (4 km) and almost straight across from the home of our ancestors: John Culbert, his wife Mary (Ward) Culbert, and their sons and daughters. The Culberts lived on Lot 19, Concession 2 (the Coursey Line) and the Donnellys lived on Lot 18, Concession 6 (the Roman ...
On February 4,1880 the Donnelly farm was burned to the ground. The bodies of James, his beloved Johannah, son Tom and niece Bridget were in the ashes, the victims of a cruel and vicious mob. Another son lay dead in a separate murder the same night. To this day, despite a great deal of evidence (including an eye witness), no one has been found ...
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The Black Donnellys, in many respects, were typical of the country’s new arrivals. Poor and searching for new opportunities, James and Johannah Donnelly arrived in Canada with their young son, James Jr., sometime between 1842 and 1846. They soon had a second son, named Will.
