Martindale Pioneer Cemetery
Gatineau Valley, Quebec, Canada Names on the Pioneer Memorial
Thanks to Clare Whitney for the following photograph
October 31, 2007:
Al, these names are copied alphabetically from the Martindale Pioneer Memorial
built to replace the razed headstones of the pioneers around the Low, Venosta area.
... Garry McFadden
Prince George, BC.
Surname
Given 1
Given 2
Died
May the light of heaven shine on the souls of the
gaels who left Ireland in the years of the great
Famine to find eternal rest in this soil. They will
be remembered as long as love and music lasts.
Barry
Edward
Mar 1 1886
Barry
John
Aug 10 1898
Brown
William
May 14 1893
Brown
Mary
Oct 8 1896
Burgish
Carlo
Jun 11 1894
Cahill
John
May 27 1896
Cahill
Francis
Jan 5 1900
Cahill
Margaret
Sep 8 1911
Clarke
Ellen
Mar 29 1880
Collins
John
Sep 6 1887
Collins
Wm
Thomas
Jun 18 1890
Collins
Edith
Apr 24 1892
Connoly
Henry
Aug 14 1883
Conway
Margaret
Jan 6 1895
Covey
Ann
Apr 17 1900
Coyle
Mary
Ann
Mar 11 1881
Cuddihy
John
Oct 5 1882
Cuddihy
Thomas
Aug 18 1892
Daly
Catherine
T
Sep 2 1882
Daly
Ellen
Mar 7 1887
Daly
Richard
Feb 11 1898
Dea
William
Mar 11 1889
Deegan
Bridget
Mar 3 1900
Dempsey
Thomas
Apr 17 1883
Desmarais
Delima
Feb 28 1898
Donavan
Catherine
Aug 30 1880
Donavan
Mary
Julia
Jul 9 1893
Downey
Bridget
Oct 21 1894
Downey
Margaret
Feb 13 1890
Doyle
Louise
Jul 11 1874
Egan
Mary
Aug 9 1879
Egan
Thomas
Mar 12 1886
Flannery
Michael
Dec 12 1881
Flannery
Michael
Apr 5 1896
Flynn
James
Jan 14 1884
Flynn
Ellen
Sep 16 1886
Flynn
Bridget
Jul 22 1896
Flynn
Patrick
Jul 26 1898
Flynn
Denis
May 26 1899
Foley
William
Aug 8 1895
Fox
Elizabeth
Jan 15 1879
Fox
James
Jun 28 1889
Furie
Mary
Oct 11 1890
Gannon
Martin
July 2 1880
Gleason
Mary
Jan 27 1879
Gleason
William
Sep 16 1894
Gleason
Thomas
Aug 3 1896
Gleason
David
Apr 30 1899
Gleason
Michael
Jan 15 1900
Hayes
Ellen
Oct 18 1887
Hayes
Patrick
Jul 31 1888
Henry
Thomas
Mar 13 1889
Higgins
Lizzie
Feb 19 1894
Hogan
Ann
Jan 26 1875
Hogan
Michael
Feb 14 1875
Hogan
Joseph
Patrick
Jul 28 1876
Hogan
James
Jul 25 1884
Hogan
John
Apr 12 1900
Hogan
Joseph
Jul 29 1894
Hogan
Margaret
Sep 11 1896
Hogan
Thomas
Apr 4 1899
Hogan
Ann
Jane
Feb 2 1893
Hogan
James
Dec 19 1899
Hogan
John
Apr 12 1900
Holland
W
J
Nov 10 1891
Hughes
Margaret
Jan 28 1888
Kavanagh
Catherine
Mar 17 1881
Kealey
Martin
Dec 21 1886
Kealey
Elizabeth
Aug 5 1887
Kealey
Catherine
Jan 18 1881
Kealey
Mary
Aug 21 1894
Kealey
Julianne
Sep 20 1894
Kealey
Mary
Feb 2 1896
Kealey
William
Aug 10 1898
Kealey
Agatha
Sep 7 1899
Kealey
Joseph
Apr 12 1892
Kehoe
Betsy
Feb 28 1891
Keily
James
Jul 22 1876
Kelly
Ellen
Jun 6 1890
Kelly
Elizabeth
Aug 14 1889
Killian
James
Apr 23 1884
Killian
Michael
Jun 17 1884
Laporte
Josephine
Sep 13 1897
Lawless
Francis
Dec 27 1880
Lawless
John
Mar 19 1897
Leahy
Ann
May 14 1889
Lowell
James
May 15 1899
Lowell
Patrick
Jun 12 1890
Machabee
Louisiana
Jan 28 1900
Mahoney
Joseph
Feb 2 1896
Mahoney
Mary
Jan 2 1898
Mahoney
Catherine
M
Sep 13 1891
Manuel
Thomas
Nov 19 1898
Martin
John
Feb 7 1882
Mathieu
Bridget
Mar 18 1898
Mathieu
Samuel
Jul 18 1893
Mathieu
Bernard
Jul 23 1893
Matthews
Bernard
Sep 13 1891
Matthews
Jeremiah
Mar 26 1900
McAlinden
Felix
Jul 8 1897
McAuley
Margaret
Jun 4 1883
McCaffrey
Isabella
Jan 14 1883
McCaffrey
Isabella
Feb 2 1895
McCaffrey
William
Aug 19 1890
McCaffrey
Mary
Apr 14 1900
McCambley
Margaret
Sep 23 1888
McCambley
Agnes
Oct 9 1896
McCambley
John
Oct 14 1892
McCambley
Mary
Jun 12 1900
McCarthy
P
Sep 13 1891
McCauley
Jane
Mar 22 1898
McCrank
Mary
Ann
Nov 22 1890
McGuire
John
E
Sep 19 1892
McKale
Bridget
Feb 24 1877
McKale
Sarah
Dec 18 1895
McLaughlin
Wm
Jan 23 1877
McLaughlin
Michael
Dec 8 1881
McLaughlin
Honora
Feb 20 1899
McNamara
Bridget
Aug 25 1874
McSheffrey
Margaret
Mar 21 1899
McTague
Michael
T
Feb 8 1890
Moran
Thomas
Jan 19 1883
Moran
Ann
Apr 15 1880
Mulvihill
Martin
Dec 27 1898
Murphy
Moses
Jan 12 1896
Murray
John
Oct 11 1891
Myles
David
Jan 3 1895
Myles
Michael
Mar 31 1898
Myles
William
Apr 3 1894
Myles
John
Jan 28 1900
O'Boyle
Mary
Mar 11 1889
O'Brien
John
Oct 8 1891
O'Connor
Mary
Jul 19 1874
O'Connor
Catherine
Sep 12 1885
O'Malley
Patrick
Dec 9 1899
O'Sullivan
Bridget
May 28 1897
O'Sullivan
Patrick
Aug 2 1898
O'Sullivan
John
Apr 13 1891
Quinn
Mary
Apr 12 1911
Rice
James
Oct 12 1875
Rice
Agnes
Sep 2 1894
Rice
Ann
Sep 20 1894
Rice
Mary
Mar 5 1896
Ryan
Margaret
May 2 1881
Ryan
Ann
Jan 26 1888
Ryan
John
Apr 21 1880
Ryan
James
Jan 21 1895
Sheehan
Francis
Jul 31 1884
Sloan
Mary
Elizabeth
Dec 5 1874
Spellman
Bridget
Feb 29 1888
Stockdale
Mathilda
Sep 11 1897
Sullivan
John
Thomas
Feb 6 1874
Sullivan
Patrick
N
Feb 16 1876
Sullivan
Mary
Ann
Sep 2 1894
Sullivan
Julia
Sep 3 1894
Sullivan
Patrick
Mar 14 1897
Sullivan
Jeremiah
Aug 6 1893
Sweeney
Martin
Feb 24 1874
Sweeney
James
Jun 2 1884
Sweeney
Mary
Feb 25 1899
Tucker
Ellen
Elizabeth
Dec 16 1883
Welsh
Mark
Jun 18 1880
Welsh
Frank
Jul 18 1889
Whalen
Patrick
Mar 22 1897
September 7, 2010:
Hi Al... I have been looking for pictures of the Pioneer Cemetery at Martindale for years now. I thought if you
placed my query on your webpage, perhaps someone would be more than willing to provide them. Are you aware of
what happened to the headstones? This is pre modern memorial. And why there is a modern memorial to the pioneers?
If not I’ll send you the story. As usual, thanks again.
Garry McFadden
Prince George, BC
_______________________________
Hi Garry:
Thanks for your e-mails and the great photographs of the Myles family. I added them to the Myles web page
yesterday. I love the old photos -- they really make our history come alive.
I'll post your enquiry regarding the Martindale Cemetery and hopefully we will hear from someone with some some
pictures for us. And, if you have the time to type up the story of the modern memorial to the pioneers,
it would also be a nice addition to the web site.
If we don't hear from anyone with regards to the cemetery, I'll take a day and go up there and get some pictures for you.
We'll keep in touch.
Thanks again,
... Al
September 10, 2010:
Thanks to Clare Whitney for the following photographs. This web page is sort of a co-operative trans-Canada effort by
Garry McFadden from British Columbia and by Clare Whitney from Newfoundland.
February 6, 2011:
Below are some of the Gleasons from St. Martins RC church at Martindale Quebec. Not sure whether this will help with your search.
· Gleason, Martin J baptized 1884
· Gleason, Ellen M baptized 1886
· Gleason, Elizabeth M baptized 1887
· Gleason,Gertrude baptized 1889
· Gleason, Leno? Bridget baptized 1892
· Gleason, Michael Herbert baptized 1900
· Gleason, Elizabeth married a McSheffery 1893
· Gleason, Sarah Ann married McSheffery, Edward 1894
· Gleason, Mary Ann married Ryan, Tho. 1898 (See posting below, dated September 22, 2011)
· Gleason, Wm deceased 1894
· Gleason, Tho. Pat. Deceased 1895
· Gleason, David deceased 1899
· Gleason, Michael deceased 1900
This is one of the principal RC churches in the area. I have been copying St. Camillus RC church records as well.
But am not finished. Hope this may be of some help.
Garry McFadden
Prince George, BC.
Canada
July 13, 2011:
And a Story from Bob Willbond: (Descended from the McCaffrey Family)
Mary Brennan (whose maiden name was Hogan) just died a few weeks ago at Martindale, she was in her 90s. Her husband Victor Brennan
died a few weeks after we dug Aunt Ethel Hogan’s grave in Nov. 1967, he was 56. It was the 50th grave that Victor dug, so he said.
When I was down in the hole digging, I hit another grave to the front and one to the left hand side. We knew that the grave on the
LHS was that of our first cousin Michael Hogan who was buried in 1964. As some of the foot bones were exposed in the grave at the
top, Victor Brennan squealed in his Irish brogue, "Gad, that’s Tommy Joe Egan, handy man with a binder he was". We all had a chuckle
over that and Michael Gannon, a young man around 30 years old who lived across from the graveyard was quite startled and more than
a bit scared upon seeing the other graves as we tried to stay on course but couldn’t because the graves in Martindale too often ran
into each other, not well mapped out. We couldn’t get the rough box in because of that. To make a long story short, both Victor
Brennan and Michael Gannon were dead within 3 weeks of digging that grave. One of a heart attack, the other of alcohol poisoning after
downing a 40 ounce bottle of whiskey. We often referred to it as the curse of Aunt Ethel’s grave and I would often say to Billy,
“you’re next”! We know why Victor died so young. He invited us up to his home after the dig and fed us salted pork and homemade
bread. Absolutely delicious! But not too kind to the arteries, even at age 17, I could feel them (arteries) hardening as I ravished
a sandwich.
Bruce, what you sent me is priceless. It’s the first time I got the opportunity to see the names of my grandfather’s sisters, all 10
of them. Also with the names of their husbands, was wonderful.
Go raibh maith agat
Bob
September 22, 2011:
Gleason, Mary Ann married Ryan, Thomas, 1898
Mary Ann and Thomas Ryan are my great grandparents. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Here is a link to the sad story of the cemetery, how the cemetery was destroyed and and one woman's determined efforts
to ensure that the ancestors were not forgotten:
http://www.celtic-connection.com/about/gatineau/martindale.html
... gclark13 September 25, 2011:
Thanks for the link regarding the Irish pioneer cemetery at Martindale. I was really moved by the efforts of Catholine Gannon.
I met her brother Michael in the 60's when my brother Billy and I were digging the grave for
my aunt Ethel Hogan at Martindale. Michael who was a young man at that time died within a few weeks of us digging the
grave from alcohol poisoning. Sad indeed.
I met a Catherine Gannon in Islamabad, Pakistan around 15 years ago. She was from Timmins and was a reporter with
the Associated Press in Pakistan.
Her father came from Martindale, small world. Often heard my mother speak of the Ryans.
Bob Willbond
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September 22, 2011:
Gleason, Mary Ann married Ryan, Thomas, 1898
Mary Ann and Thomas Ryan are my great grandparents. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Here is a link to the sad story of the cemetery, how the cemetery was destroyed and and one woman's determined efforts
to ensure that the ancestors were not forgotten:
http://www.celtic-connection.com/about/gatineau/martindale.html
... gclark13
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