Note:
Some of the information on this page is from Bill Martin's Web Site.

The records on Bill's pagecover the years 1860-1910 approximately and show a 
wealth of information concerning births, marriages and deaths for a wide 
geographical area to the west of the City of Ottawa. On Bill's pages 
(transcribed by Ida Reed) you will find many of the 19th century descendants 
of the Rideau Canal workers (1826-1832) and the Peter Robinson Settlers (1823).

Before going to Renfrew County many of these families lived close to Ottawa, and
many of their ancestors attended St. Michael's Parish at Corkery in
Huntley Township.

Ida Reed has done a remarkable job of transcribing these records and thanks to 
Bill Martin for making this information available on the Internet. 



The following is copied from Bill's Site. Fasten your seatbelt and click on the following
link to go to Bill's page:


Our Lady of the Angels Church 
Brudenell 

transcribed by 

IDA REED 


These records are broken into files each containing a range of Dates. 
The earliest records are in Latin, and you will need to do a bit of translating to 
be able to use them. Later records are all in English. These records are NOT INDEXED, 
so you will have to check them manually for the names you are looking for. I would 
suggest you use the FIND function on your browser. It can be invoked by holding down 
the Control Key (CTRL) and pressing the letter f. 


... Bill Martin
November 19, 2002:

See also Mount St. Patrick in Renfrew Township.
December 10, 2002:
Al:
    I was directed to your site by Fr. Dan Ryan  of Kingston, ON.  All very 
    interesting.  What do you have on Renfrew County, particularly in the 
    Cormac area.  That is where our ancestary - Ryan, Roche, May landeds along 
    with Green and O'Neil.
    Daniel James Ryan marr'd Elizabeth Roche in Cormac, Renfrew County 4 June, 1913.  
    They are the parents of my wife Ann and Fr. Dan's grandparents.
    Fr. Dan has and is doing research on this line along with his mother's. I on the 
    otherhand am an outsider so to speak.  Do you know of anyone doing your sort of 
    searching in the Halton Peel, Waterloo Countys area.  That and Owen Sound, ON are the locations of  my research.
    I am an OGS member #5680 and you now have my Email address.
Come back if you think you can help.
Wm. Q. Ferguson
_________________________

Mr. Ferguson:

If you don't find what you're looking for at Bill Martin's site, you probably could 
try going to the home page of the Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogy Society (UOVGEN).
They have a query board which is followed by a lot of knowledgeable people in that area.

... Al
December 12, 2002:
Al:
    Roach is an English surname.  Roche is French.  Somewhere along years ago 
    some of these people emigrated to Ireland.
            Thank you for your reply  and also for the info.
Wm. Q.
September 27, 2003:
FINNERTY
Hello 
My name is Michael Haugh from Toronto, Ontario. Im writing on behalf of my mother 
anne marie haugh(nee Ronan )
Her mothers name was Anna May Finnerty daughter of Simon Finnerty and 
lucy jane (nee Sullivan)
I've been looking for the death records of the church in brudnell,ont because 
we have been up there and there is a new and old part across the street of 
the cemetary and very much interested who is there... we know most of the 
info But I would like to hear Of any added infomation   thank you very much
 
yours truly Mike Haugh p.s My e-mail is 
MikeHaugh@sympatico.ca
August 31, 2004:
SULLIVAN
To who whom it may concern:
i am debbie whitehouse (nee sullivan )
my father who had died few years ago is joseph sullivan and my mother is florence sher..
my grand father was dennis sullivan and margaret mary o'grady and my great grandfather 
was john sullivan and bridget Caughlin / Coughlin..  
I find it very interesting and i did visit killaloe last week for a week vacation...
and went to the cemetery  to see my grandparent and my great grandparent O'grady in 
brudenell and killaloe
from 
debbie whitehouse
whitehouse@mountaincable.net
October 19, 2004:
DOYLE
I have an abbreviated obituary of my great-grandfather Joseph Doyle, 
a resident of Brudenell (township councillor and school board trustee) who 
died (age 83) in late Feb of 1920 or 1921.  He was married to 
Annie O'Grady of Nepean and had 12 children.  I know something 
of his parents and quite a bit about descendants.
Do any of you have anything to add?  I live in New Jersey, USA.
... Daniel
July 7, 2006:

Michael Umpherson is researching the Martin Mulcahy / Mulcahey and Ellen Doyle family.
November 16, 2008:

Hi Al, just looked through your passenger list and hoped to find my great great grandparents, 
Martin O'Connor who married Bridget Conway in County Cork, Ireland around 1820's and 
migrated to Killaloe or Brudenelle or that area and had a farm there. A story a heard was 
that a Mr. French invited newcomers  to come to that area and settle.  Don't know much more.  

Have you ever seen or heard of Martin O'Connor and Bridget Conway and their children?  
They may have brought two or three children with them and then had more when they reached 
Canada.  
Hope to hear from you.  

... Lorraine
____________________________________

Hi Lorraine:
 
Thanks for your e-mail regarding Martin O'Connor and Bridget Conway.
 
I had a quick look for your ancestors and found the following record (written in Latin!) 
at Our Lady of the Angels Church in Brudenell in 1862:
 
Mensis Octobris 1865 15a Bapt. Jacoum (James) born 10a ex Martino O'Connor 
et Brigitta Conway (ejus uxore ... his wife).
Sponsores fuerant (were) Michael Foran et Maria O'Connor.
Peter Cody. (the Priest, I think) 

It's really interesting to see these old records in Latin. By 1862, most of the other 
Catholic Churches in Eastern Ontario did their recording in English or French. 

I'll check for other family members on the weekend and see what shows up. 

Is it OK with you if I start a new web page for your O'Connor / Conway ancestors on our 
web site. With any luck we will hear from other researchers who will help us out. 

Please let me know if this is OK with you. 

Thanks again for this.

... Al Lewis
_____________________________

Hi, thanks so much for your email.  I had found other children of Martin and Bridget on 
the same records so thanks for looking it up also.  I would like to know which ship that 
Martin and Bridget came on and how they travelled to the Brudenelle area.  Yes you can post 
my query.
  
... Lorraine
 June 5, 2009:

New Book by Bernadette Burbage:

Thanks to Bernadette Burbage who brought her book, written in 2008, to my attention.
The book is called Early Families ...
Our Lady of the Angels Parish
Brudenell, Ontario
150th Anniversary
1858-2008
256 pages
ISBN 978-0-9809716-0-6


Hi  again Al. 
My book  takes all the (Catholic) families who appeared in the 1861 census of Brudenell 
Township. That census was the first official count after the twp. was establishedd in 1857. 
The occasion was the 150th Anniversary of the parish, hence just Catholic families.By the way, 
the parish name is Our Lady of the Angels, or St.Mary's - not whatever Ida Reed called it.

I traced  over 100 families from that time through to about 1915-some more,some less. For the 
most part I used church and census records, local papers, some family histories,cemetery 
records, etc. It is genealogical data rather than family stories-which has disappointed some 
readers. Some families who came here from Carleton County were Colton, Dolan, Drohan, Coughlin, 
Costello, Grace, Hagarty , Malone, Nevin, etc, etc.

I have used your web-site so much that the least I can do is send you a book. 

... Bernadette Burbage
E-mail bburbage@nrtco.net

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