This photograph is of a monument at St. Patrick's Church at Mount 
Saint Patrick, Ontario.

Note for Search Engine:
Finucane McNulty Coyne Friske 
Sammon Madigan Garskey Dodge
Callaghan Nolan Maloney Lane
Bradley O'Leary Carter Mhusk
Stroud Conway Streich Mulvenna
Foley Coules (Coulas ?) Bridgeman Gorra
Moriarty Sheedy Carty Fillator
Kenopic Mulvihill Curnan (Curran Kearnan ?) Frier (Friel ?)
Doney Granger (Grainger ?) Mosco Dundin 
Gough Dillon Munhall Hanrahan
Curtin Moore Dacey McGee
Morrow Curley Lawlor Stack
Berg Rusch Dooling Kearns
Devereux Keen (Keane Kane Cain ?) Burns Marchand
Robawski Byrne Carmody Laronde
Grogan Gauthier
 November 19, 2002:
Note: The following detailed information regarding the Catholic Churches in
the Renfrew / Mount St. Patrick's / Eganville area was posted to the 
Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogy system on November 17, 2002 
by Carol Bennett McCuaig. It is reproduced here with Carol's permission.  ... Al

Hi, all

Since mentioning that I can look up 19th century Mount St Patrick records
I've heard from quite a few people, and have been happy to assist. Looking
up early Renfrew County Catholic records often presents a puzzle for
researchers from places far away, such as the USA, so I thought I should
explain this system once again, for the benefit of new members. (It might be
worth repeating in Timberline, too?)

1.  Father John McNulty arrived at Mount St Patrick in 1843, but the
earliest register is missing and so the first we have available starts in
1846.

2.  He travelled over a wide area, establishing chapels here and there. Thus
early records for places like Sand Point, Renfrew, Douglas, Eganville,
Osceola, Springtown, Brudenell etc. appear in this MSP register. Mostly,
those people didn't travel to the Mountain for baptisms and marriages; the
priest went to them.

3.  With the exception being St FX, Renfrew, his register shows church names
which were later changed. St Patrick's at the Mountain was All Saints. St
Peter's, Snake River became St Pius, Osceola. Annunciation at Douglas is now
St Michael's. The forerunner to Eganville's St James the Less was "St
Lawrence O'Toole, Lake Clear" which was actually at Donegal, Grattan Twp.

4.  Father McNulty left in 1851  and for a time the Mountain became a
mission of St FX, Renfrew. That register between 1852-1866 therefore
contains entries pertaining to Mount St Patrick, Calabogie, Griffith etc.
There are still some entries for the other places in Renfrew County but now
the Eganville register is a good place to search, as well. By 1867 the
Mountain was a parish again, and for the remainder of the 19th century
people from Springtown, Griffith etc appear there.

5.  Early Douglas records can be found under Eganville, and that includes
some people who lived in Admaston Twp, close to Mount St Patrick. This is
because they now belonged to the Douglas parish, which for a time was a
mission of Eganville. People have asked me why their Admaston ancestors
would hike all the way to Eganville to be married if the bride was not from
there. The answer is that they probably didn't. The priest would have
travelled to Douglas to perform the ceremony.

6.  You may find some of your ancestors in the Brudenell register. That's
because lots of people from the southern townships in Renfrew County later
moved up the Opeongo Line. And if the census indicates that the family was
in Canada earlier than you thought, try the Perth register. Several thousand
people moved up here from Lanark and Carleton Counties in the 1830s.

7.  Looking for an ancestor who died at an early date? You may be out of
luck. After studying these very early registers I found that very few deaths
were recorded. The reason seems to be that the priest only entered those who
burials he attended. At a time when he had to travel all over the country he
was seldom present at an interment, except by chance.

Carol McCuaig
juniper2@sympatico.ca






February 28, 2003:
Looking for a Jack or John Enright from Hurds Lake that married Mary Ellen Doyle 
daughter of Margaret McCarthy and Robert Doyle.
(Hurd's Lake is adjacent to the Madawaska River, near Calabogie and Springtown.)

I am also looking for information on Louis Lorrain married to Ellen McCarthy 
(Mount St. Patrick). Louis was a master carpenter and built every mission cross 
from the Mountain to Pembroke Ontario. They had 10 Children, Mary Catherine 
she became a teacher, Philomena teacher and nurse,Nellie teacher,Alice teacher,
John farmer at the Mountain,Nora Sister Nora St Joseph's Convent,Corene nurse,
Louis, Margaret, Imelda. Ellen McCarthy is the daughter of John McCarthy and 
Ellen Kiley. (Kealey?)
Thank You 
Darlene Paquette
Oscar_1959@hotmail.com
 July 1, 2009:

The newspaper "The Madawaska Highlander" contains stories and history for the Greater Madawaska area in Renfrew County.

"To demonstrate the sort of history article that we have been writing over the last six years 
I refer you to the website of Greater Madawaska in Renfrew County where we have histories of 
the major villages and the Madawaska River for that site. The internet address is: 

http://www.townshipofgreatermadawaska.com/History_Main.htm  If you go to the top of the page and click on History 

you will be able to view the five individual stories on that site. We have published around 
40 issues of the Madawaska Highlander over the last five and a half years and everyone of 
them has a history story and sometimes two.

Here is the link to our history of Mount Saint Patrick:

Early days in Mount St. Patrick and Dacre
By Bill Graham, Editor: The Madawaska Highlander "