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Feb 7, 2006 · 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 identified 6 of the ...
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Lucan, Ont, urban area, population 2076 (2011c), 1997...
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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 ...
The Official Donnelly Home Page. This award-winning website was created in 1997 for anyone interested in the Donnellys, Canada's notorious family, that was murdered by a vigilante committee near Lucan, Ontario, on February 4th, 1880. 2020 marks the 139th anniversary of the Biddulph Tragedy, as it came to be known.
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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Jun 21, 2019 · Lucan was once called the roughest town in Canada. For years, locals remained silent about the brutal murders of the infamous “Black Donnellys.” These days, the Donnelly Museum is drawing tourists, including its descendants
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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Jun 21, 2019 · LUCAN - Up until a few months ago, the great-grandchildren of the famous “Black Donnellys” — who live in Brantford — didn’t know their St. Catharines cousins existed.
