1  	Bernard McGee	1801 - 1872 County Down
..		+Bridget Flanagan	1798 - 1856
.......	2  	Mary McGee	1830 - 1906
...........		+Patrick Dewan	1820 - 1906
................	3  	Patrick Edmund Dewan	1849 -
....................		+Ellen Jane Blanchfield	1858 -
.........................	4  	Teresa Dewan	
.........................	4  	Edmund P. Dewan	1888 - 1967
.............................		+Violet C. Kelly	
.........................	4  	Mary Dewan	
.............................		+Packy McEvoy	
.........................	4  	Eliza Dewan	
.............................		+Tom McEvoy	- 1919
.........................	4  	Thomas Dewan	1892 - 1919
.........................	4  	Lena Dewan	1893 - 1973
.............................		+Ambrose Kelly	
.........................	4  	Bernard Dewan	
.............................		+Margaret Muir	
.........................	4  	Colette Dewan	1898 - 1976
.............................		+Earl McGuire	1901 - 1959
.........................	4  	William Dewan	
.............................		+Marge Kealey	
.........................	4  	Alice Dewan	
................	3  	John Dewan	1862 -
....................		+Margaret Shields	1867 -
.........................	4  	Patrick Michael Dewan	1890 -
.............................		+M. Olive Tierney	1892 - 1970
.........................	4  	James Dewan	
.............................		+Evelyn Blanchfield	
.........................	4  	Mary Dewan	
.............................		+Thomas O'Rourke	
.........................	4  	Margaret Dewan	
.........................	4  	Emma Dewan	
.............................		+XXX Gauvin	
................	3  	Morris Dewan	1843 -
................	3  	Bernard Dewan	1851 -
....................		+Elizabeth Lowrey	1857 -
................	3  	Alice Ann Dewan	1855 -
....................		+William O'Brien	
.........................	4  	Michael O'Brien	
.........................	4  	Dominic O'Brien	
................	3  	Bridget Dewan	1857 -
....................		+Thomas Shields	
.........................	4  	Patrick Shields	
.........................	4  	Steve Shields	
.........................	4  	Thomas Shields	
.........................	4  	Bridget Ann Shields	1876 - 1918
.............................		+David Kelly	1864 - 1932
.........................	4  	Alice Shields	
.........................	4  	Ida Shields	
.........................	4  	Bertha Shields	
.........................	4  	Mary Shields	
................	3  	Michael Dewan	1859 -
................	3  	Joseph James Dewan	1863 -
................	3  	Bernard Dewan	
....................		+Elizabeth Lowrie	1857 -
.........................	4  	Mary Elizabeth Dewan	1877 -
.......	2  	Bernard McGee	1832 -
.......	2  	Patrick McGee	1833 -
...........		+Bridget Finlay	
................	3  	John McGee	1863 -
................	3  	Bridget McGee	1861 -
.......	2  	John McGee	1834 -
...........		+Jane Mackey	(could be McGEE)
.......	2  	Ann McGee	1835 -
...........		+Philip Hughes	1819 -
................	3  	William Hughes	1853 -
.......	2  	P. McGee	1839 -
.......	2  	Ellen McGee	1843 - 

March 31, 2008:
Hello Al,

With respect to "Some descendants of Bernard McGee and Helen Mantle":

I have a bit of information on another child of Bernard McGee (born c. 1792, County Cork) 
and Helen / Ellen Mantle (born Co. Cork, daughter of John Mantle and Ellen Hourigan):

Ellen McGee, born c. 1836, died 4 June 1898, buried 6 June 1898 at St John Chrysostom, 
Arnprior. Ellen McGee married John Galligan, born c. 1826, County Cavan, Ireland.  
John Galligan may have had a first wife named Catherine Nash.  John Galligan and Ellen 
McGee had (at least) the following children:

Bridget Galligan, born 1858, married Denis Killeen (son of John Killeen and Margaret Fahey)
Thomas Daniel Galligan, born 28 Aug 1860
Bernard Galligan, born May 1863.

Please feel free to add that information to the web page.

I wonder if Bernard McGee, husband of Bridget Flanigan, was a son of
Bernard McGee and Helen Mantle?  I'm pretty sure this Bernard McGee
came from Cork, possibly a Peter Robinson settler in 1823.  I don't know much about them,
except that they married into my Killeen and Galligan ancestors.

I also have, on my mother's side, some ancestors from County Armagh: McGlade,
Dunn, Vallelly and O'Hanlon.

... Mary Catherine
July 30, 2009:

Hi,
 
I'm really checking to see if this is still working.    
 
My problem is that a family member has a baby book that says Bernard McGee was married to 
Mary Hughes.........

Also, I understand about the McGee brothers being married to Hughes sisters.  I think I 
remember reading something that led to me believe that Bernard McGee is somehow related 
(a cousin?) to these McGees. Could you clarify that for me?

Thanks,
Kathy (McGee)
Probably descended from Bernard McGee and Bridget Flannagan.
________________________________

Hello Kathy,

The parish register for Notre Dame Ottawa (Drouin collection, through ancestry.ca) has a record 
for the marriage of Philip Hughes, son of William Hughes and Margaret Flanigan, and Anne McGee,
daughter of Bernard McGee and Bridget Flanigan (married 16 Aug 1848).  Could this be how the 
Hughes name gets introduced into the family records?

... Mary Catherine
_______________________________
Hi,
 
I had seen that record as well.  I'm actually going to see if I can track this line a bit - I 
think I saw somewhere that they (Philip and Anne) had a son named William.  My problem is what 
many of us face.  The baby book in question belongs to a lady who is now 83.  To my knowledge, 
none of her siblings had any records (and she has only one older sister remaining).  Any other 
cousins of that generation are gone with the exception of my Dad who is 93 and another cousin 
who is 96.  This record is the only thing that has surfaced with 'the grandparents' names, i.e.
Bernard (Barney) McGee and Mary Hughes (?)  The Bernard McGee turns out to be correct.
 
Since my ancestor, John McGee b 1834, son of Bernard and Bridget appears, at least at this 
time, to be the youngest of at least 5 children and there is reference to older siblings 
having the same parents, it doesn't seem as though Mary Hughes could be a second wife or at 
least the mother of these children.
 
I have much to do........  Researching Canadian records is very new for me, and I feel completely
ignorant - just learning the geographic locales is a challenge, and then RC parishes, etc.
 
Thank you for your reply.
 
... Kathy


December 20, 2011:

Here is a fascinating article by Deirdre McEvoy of County Down, Ireland, who has connected some of the families from Kilbroney Parish, County Down,
who are listed on the McCabe List in 1829, to descendants here in Canada. Thanks very much for this material!

Hi Everybody 

I only recently came across ‘The McCabe List’ and was fascinated to find amongst the list a Peter Sloan and a Bernard Magee, 
both from my home parish of Kilbroney (Rostrevor), County Down, Northern Ireland.  I am an amateur genealgist and have a lot of one 
name databases on families who lived in this parish. 

I saw Bernard’s name on the List and in my Magee database I have a Bernard Magee and Bridget Flanagan who had 3 children and then no more,
which usually means that that couple emigrated.  I was really pleased to see your posting on www.bytown.net which confirmed 
my theory that the Bernard mentioned in the List is the same Bernard married to Bridget Flanagan.  The reason why I had a Magee database 
is that many of the Magee descendents emigrated to America and they contacted me to see if I could find their ancestors.  I also have 
a Sloan database for Kilbroney and I have the marriage of Peter Sloan and Mary Flanagan as well as the baptisms of some of their children.  
Mary and Bridget were most likely sisters families and it is more than likely that the 2 families emigrated together.   

Kilbroney parish had 2 Roman Catholic churches, one in Rostrevor and one in the sub parish of Killowen which is an area 2 – 3 miles north 
of Rostrevor village, right on Carlingford Lough.  The Magee, Sloan and Flanagan families all lived in Killowen sub parish and they 
would have worshipped in the small church in Killowen but the baptismal, marriage and burial records are all in one amalgamated register 
for Kilbroney which are held in the church in Rostrevor. 

On 22 Jul 1824 Bernard Magee married Bridget Flanagan in Kilbroney parish.  Witnesses : Owen Flanagan and Michael Killen 
 

Baptismal Date
 Child
 Parents
 Sponsors
 
28 Jan 1825
 Ann
 Bernard Magee, Bridget Flanagan
 James Flanagan, Elizabeth Magee
 
7 Oct 1825
 Patrick
 Bernard Magee, Bridget Flanagan
 Thomas Feran, Catherine Sheeky
 
5 Dec 1827
 Mary
 Bernard Magee, Bridget Flanagan
 Bernard Cull, Mary Sloan 

Please note that the dates for the children are baptismal dates, not birth dates but according to Irish custom, they would have been 
baptised within 2 to 3 days of their birth.  Also, Ann and Patrick would have been known as ‘Irish Twins’, i.e. both born in the 
same year but not at the same time!! This was a common enough occurrence.  Elizabeth Magee, sponsor to Ann and a sponsor to Mary Magee 
(daughter of John) is most likely a sister of Bernard’s. 

As Bernard is listed in the McCabe’s list in January 1829, he must have left Ireland very soon after Mary’s birth. 

The McCabe list also mentions brothers, a mother and 2 sisters for Bernard : 

Bernard MAGEE 
Down Kilbrony Postrover -/2/=2 
Has 4 brothers, John, Michael, William and James, with their mother and 2 sisters; they live near Postrover; [Rostrevor?] known to 
Joseph Small Esquire of Kilowen  [Killowen] 

There weren’t too many Magees living in Kilbroney parish at that time and I believe that the following are Bernard’s brothers (his brother John married 3 times, all wives called Catherine.  He was supposed to have had 14 children but I can only account for 13.  Not all children baptised were noted in the registers, due to clerical error).

9 Nov 1824
 Wedding
 John Magee, Catherine Murphy
 Patrick Norris, Catherine Farrell
 John Magee married 3 times, all his wives were called Catherine.
 
17 Nov 1825
 Mary
 John Magee, Catherine Murphy
 Peter Murphy, Elizabeth Magee  
 
7 Dec 1827
 Patrick
 John Magee, Catherine Murphy
 James Morgan, Mary Colgan
 Catherine Murphy Magee was buried in Kilbroney on 14 Mar 1829 
 
  
 John Magee, Catherine Mooney  
 Catherine Mooney was buried in Kilbroney on 27 Jan 1841
 
24 Apr 1831
 Peter*
 John Magee, Catherine Mooney
 Terence Mooney, Bridget Doran
 *Peter was buried in Kilbroney on 15 Nov 1839
 
17 Sep 1832
 Michael
 John Magee, Catherine Mooney
 Daniel O’Hare, Alice Sloan  
 
18 Jan 1835
 Anne
 John Magee, Catherine Mooney
 James Reynolds, Mary Sloan
   
28 Dec 1836
 Ellen
 John Magee, Catherine Mooney
 Michael Rorke, Ellen McConville  
 
20 Jun 1838
 Thomas
 John Magee, Catherine Mooney
 Thomas Mooney, Rose Grant  
 
13 Jan 1841
 Peter
 John Magee, Catherine Mooney
 David Sloan, Bridget McGivern  
 
13 Apr 1841
 Wedding
 John Magee, Catherine Kelly
 Patrick Kelly, Polly Sloan  
 
17 Mar 1842
 John
 John Magee, Catherine Kelly
 Patrick Kelly, Bridget Sloan  
 
8 Jun 1843
 Richard
 John Magee, Catherine Kelly
 John Sloan, Polly Sloan  
 
27 Nov 1845
 Bernard
 John Magee, Catherine Kelly
 Arthur Grant, Ann Sloan  
 
16 Apr 1846
 Ann
 John Magee, Catherine Kelly
 Edward Rorke, Elizabeth  Mulholland  
 
16 Oct 1847
 Catherine
 John Magee, Catherine Kelly
 John Sloan, Ann Magee 

2 Apr 1827
 Wedding
 William Magee, Alice Woods
 James Cull, John McCarthy
 
21 Apr 1828
 Patrick
 William Magee, Alice Woods
 Michael McParlan, Alice Woods
 
May 1830
 ?
 William Magee, Alice Woods
 John Magee, Mary ?
 
16 Mar 1833
 Ann
 William Magee, Alice Woods
 William Rorke, Mary Sloan
 
7 May 1838
 Margaret
 William Magee, Alice Woods
 Edward Hughes, Margaret Reynolds
 
6 Sep 1841
 Bernard
 William Magee, Alice Woods
 Edward Feran, Alice Sloan
 
27 Mar 1843
 Mary
 William Magee, Alice Woods
 David Sloan, Mary Reynolds
 
7 Jul 1844
 William
 William Magee, Alice Woods
 Henry Sloan, Ann Sloan
 
16 Nov 1846
 Mary
 William Magee, Alice Woods
 Charles Sloan, Mary Hughes 

16 Nov 1832
 Wedding
 James Magee,Ann Morgan
 Thomas Sands, Henry Hill
 
7 Nov 1833
 Jane Ann
 James Magee, Ann Morgan
 James Magee, Rose Morgan
 
21 Dec 1835
 Margaret
 James Magee, Ann Morgan
 James Reynolds, Mary Magee
 
2 Nov 1838
 Patrick
 James Magee, Ann Morgan
 David Sloan, Tom Magee
 
7 May 1839
 Rose
 James Magee, Ann Morgan
 Bernard Sloan, Bridget Sloan
 
30 May 1841
 Thomas
 James Magee, Ann Morgan
 John Rorke / Rourke, Alice Sloan
 
17 Jan 1843
 John
 James Magee, Ann Morgan
 Patrick Kelly, Polly Sloan
 
15 Aug 1847
 Mary
 James Magee, Ann Morgan
 Daniel Morgan, Rose Sloan
 
Sep 1849
 James
 James Magee, Ann Morgan
 Peter Magee, Mary Sands
 
Sep 1851
 William
 James Magee, Ann Morgan
 Michael Magee, Margaret Sands
 
8 Jul 1853
 Ann
 James Magee, Ann Morgan
 William Sloan, Ann Reynolds 

The Kilbroney records only started in 1808 and the early records are very patchy but unusually there are burial records 
(not many Irish Catholic parish priests recorded burials). 

So, looking at the names of the first children of James, William, Bernard and John and going by the Irish traditional pattern of 
naming the eldest son after the paternal grandfather and the eldest daughter after the paternal grandmother, I would say that it 
was highly likely that Bernard’s parents were named Patrick and Ann and here are the burial records for a Patrick Magee and his 
wife Ann (Nancy) Sloan. 

18 Oct 1820
 Patrick Magee
 (63)
 Husband to Nancy Sloan
 
18 Jul 1838
 Nancy Magee
 (68) (Nee Sloan)
 Widow of Patrick Magee 

This would fit with Bernard’s father not being alive in 1829 but his mother still quoted as being alive then.  Both of these 
people were buried in Kilbroney cemetery, which is in the townland of Kilbroney and about a mile north of Rostrevor on the Hilltown Road.

... Deirdre McEvoy

(we have posted Deirdre's research regarding the Peter Sloan family to our Peter Sloan web page.
... Al)


 December 21, 2011:

Impressively detailed research here. Wow!

Al, am I correct in recalling that there were two Bernard McGees in the early Bytown area, but only one Bernard McGee on the McCabe List? 
I suspect that "my" Bernard McGee was not the one on the McCabe List. My Bernard McGee was born about 1792 in Ireland (county unknown), 
and was in Canada by 1831, settling in Huntley township, Carleton Co. In November 1831 he married Helen/Ellen Mantle, 
daughter of John Mantle and Ellen Hourigan, who were Peter Robinson settlers from Rathcormack, County Cork.

I also have a Sloan-Flanagan family from Co. Down, apparently from Attical, Kilkeel (which is not too far -- perhaps one [civil?] parish over? -- 
from  Kilbroney, I believe): John Sloan, born about 1820, married Anne Flanagan (born about 1818) in the early to mid-1840s. They had at 
least two children (possibly more) born in County Down, before emigrating to Canada (Pontiac Co., Quebec) in the early 1850s, where they 
had 5 or 6 more children. Their son John Andrew Sloan (born Canada in 1855) became the parish priest at St. Patrick's, Fallowfield and 
St. Isidore, South March.

Mary Catherine Moran
__________________________________

Hi Mary Catherine and all:
 
I think that you are correct – there were two Bernard McGees in the Ottawa area, c. 1830.
 
Your Bernard McGee probably settled along the McGee Side Road (in Huntley Township).
 
In January I’m planning on consolidating my three pages on Peter Robinson’s 1823 settlers from Cork into one web page at 
www.bytown.net/Alsrob.htm and adding some new material to it.
 
There is a terrific book which came out recently: 
Who Killed the Franks Family: Agrarian Violence in Pre-famine Cork, by Denis A. Cronin, Maynooth Studies in Local History, 
#83, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2009, ISBN 978-I-84682-190-5
 
This book looks into the murder of the Franks family by Whiteboys in 1821 and gives a very detailed account of the violent society 
in North Cork at the time of the Peter Robinson voyage to the Ottawa area.
 
Two maps are attached – the first map is from the Franks book – the villages in North Cork in 1821 correspond exactly with the 
recruitment area of the PR settlers. The second map is the same area today.
 
Deirdre: I’m going to go through the McCabe List and will send you the remainder of the signors from County Down, (#250 to #673) 
in the next few days.
 
... Al
__________________________

What a wonderful early Christmas present.  I believe that Bernard McGee and Bridget Flanagan are my ancestors, through their son 
John and wife Jane Ann Mackey.  Your information about Bernard's family now gives me the names of the four brothers, and probably one sister, 
Elizabeth.  Also (probably) Bernard's parents - Patrick and Ann (Nancy) Sloan.  Thanks so much for providing this, Deidre.
 
Kathy (McGee) Zehner