May 13, 2005:

Hi there,
My name is Joyce Sullivan. My gggrandfather would be Denis Sullivan and of course 
gggrandmother would be Catherine Skillen. We are having a Sullivan reunion in July of 
this year at Tuckers Lake in Low / Venosta so I am doing some research on our ancestry. 
We are creating a film that starts with Denis leaving Ireland for Canada. I don't know 
much about the circumstances so........I'm making it up!! I have Denis leaving Ireland 
to go and live with Francis and his wife in Brennan's Hill. Catherine would have been 
a baby then from what I understand. Anyway, Denis works there until he leaves to live 
and work his own farm in Venosta, Quebec. Years later he happens to be going by the 
Skillen household and see's a young woman out hanging the laundry......it is Catherine 
and the rest is history LOL...
 
So that is how I have it. If you have the real story or any other information I would 
love to hear it.
 
Hope to hear from you.
Joyce Sullivan
September 25, 2005:
Hello Joyce and Al, 
It was great to have the opportunity to attend the Sullivan family reunion in this 
summer. Thanks Joyce for sponsoring me. I was delighted to see the video that you had 
made of the early years of the O’Sullivan family in the Gatineau. We will never know 
the exact circumstances of Francis and Mary Skillen and Denis O’Sullivan upon their 
arrival and early years in Canada. It is very likely that Denis came from County Cork 
and he was Catholic. The Skillens in Ireland are from County Down and Protestant for 
the most part. However in the 1800’s the name occurred in Counties Wexford, Cork and 
Clare.  I have determined from census responses that the Skillens arrived in Canada 
in 1834. We know that Francis was Church of Ireland and Mary was Catholic. They came 
with two children, Anne born 1829 and Catherine born in 1834 a few months before their 
arrival. Francis obtained a land grant of 100 acres in Wakefield where he built a 
log house. The census of 1851 finds Catherine and Denis recently married living with 
Francis and Mary Skillen. The census of 1841 does not show Denis living with the 
Skillen family. I don’t know that Denis would have accumulated enough money to 
purchase land so perhaps he acquired a land grant as did Francis. Given that his farm 
was up in Venosta suggests to me that he may not have arrived in Canada until the 
famine migration occurred after 1845. I suspect that he would not have arrived in Canada 
with the Skillens. The fact that he was living with the Skilllen family after his 
marriage to Catherine on 10 June 1851 suggests that he had not yet acquired his own 
farm. Francis and Mary and their other seven children made room for Denis and Catherine 
in their very modest log house. Catherine probably became pregnant during the couple’s 
stay with the Skillens, a feat in itself given the close quarters in which the family 
must have been living, because on 11 April 1852, ten months after their marriage, 
Jeremiah is born and baptized in St. Camillus Church. It is possible that Denis was 
working as a labourer for Francis Skillen. Anne Skillen had married Matthew Synnott 
in June 1848 in St. Stephen’s in Old Chelsea thereby making a little room in the Skillen 
house for someone else. We don’t know where Anne and Matthew lived immediately after 
their marriage. It has been suggested that Matthew was an educated man, born in Wexford 
and possibly an ex priest or former seminarian, who may have taught school in Farrellton. 
I would dearly like to find a list of the early teachers in Farrellton to confirm 
Matthew’s employment. 

The Skillens had a family re-union at the end of July, 2005 at Farrellton and turn out 
of 85 from as far away as Dryden in the north and B.C. in the west had a great time. 
It is my intention to deposit the family tree with the Gatineau Valley Historical 
Society. I still have several gaps which may not be filled soon. 
Cheers, 
Terry Skillen 
November 26, 2005:
My gggrandfather was Daniel Sullivan, his lovely wife Mary Ann Ryan.  They are found 
in the 1881 census in Denholm (Wright) Quebec.  I would love to have any information 
on the Sullivan's or Ryan's that may be connected to me.  Thanks for your help.  

Are any of you familiar with a lake in the Low, Wakefield general area that may have 
been partly owned by the Catholic Church or maybe was called Priest Lake?  
Kathleen Sheen
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 Hi Kathleen , 
 For what its worth,   I STAND TO BE CORRECTED,    on the  East side of the Gatineau 
 River near Gracefield there should be camp site  a number cabins ,etc  [ boys camp]??  
 owned by catholic church  ,   Also Priest Lake , near St, Therese , that is on  the 
 east side of the Gatineau   river  between Bouchette and  St Therese
 ... Michael Daley
October 13, 2006:
My great-grandfather was Denis O'Sullivan , married Bridget Burke.They are buried at 
Martindale Cemetery.
Their son Daniel married Ann Kilcoyne [Ann's parents were John Kilcoyne and Ann Daley]
My father followed work to the USA, marrried , had 8 children and then they all 
came back to Canada in 1963..I reside in BC...I would appreciate any information 
on the Gatineau relatives, as contact was lost with the move to the states....
Daniel and Ann are buried in Tucson, Arizona.
Thank you,
... Michael J O'Sullivan
November 5, 2006:
Michael:
 
Here is a little data I have on O'Sullivan/Kilcoyne Family of the Gatineau Area. 
My data comes from my Hayes' Family connections to the Kilcoyne family. John Kilcoyne 
married to Sarah Daly(Daley) was a brother of my great grandmother Bridget Kilcoyne 
married to Michael Hayes.
 
... Mark Smith
 
4.  JOHN2 KILCOYNE (ANTHONY (TONY)1) was born Abt. 1850 in C Mayo, Ireland, 
and died April 26, 1920 in Quebec,Canada.  He married SARAH ANN DALY, daughter 
of RICHARD DALY and MARY BYRONS.  She was born Abt. 1849 in Chelsea, Que, and 
died January 15, 1921 in Fieldview, Quebec. 

More About JOHN KILCOYNE:

Burial: Martindale Cemetary Fieldview QU. 

More About SARAH ANN DALY:

Burial: Martindale Cemetary Fieldview QU.        

Children of JOHN KILCOYNE and SARAH DALY are:

                   i.    ANTHONY3 KILCOYNE, b. Abt. 1874; d. Abt. 1949; m. 
                   ELIZABETH MCLAUGHLIN, St Martins Parish Martindale Quebec; 
                   b. Abt. 1884, Venosta, Quebec; d. North Lawrence, NY;.

                  ii.    RICHARD KILCOYNE, b. Abt. 1878; d. June 08, 1901, 
                  Venosta, Quebec.

More About RICHARD KILCOYNE:
Burial: June 08, 1901, Martindale Cemetary Fieldview QU. 

                 iii.    MARY KILCOYNE, b. Abt. 1880; m. PATRICK RYAN, St Martins 
                 Parish Martindale Quebec; b. Lac Ste. Marie, Quebec.

                 iv.    CATHERINE KILCOYNE, b. Abt. 1883; d. Abt. 1883.

                  v.    ANNE KILCOYNE, b. Abt. 1883; m. DANIEL AMBROSE O'SULLIVAN, 
                  St Martins Parish Martindale Quebec.

7.              vi.    JOHN KILCOYNE, b. Abt. 1884, Martindale,QU; d. Abt. 1974, Victoria, BC.

                vii.    MARTIN KILCOYNE, b. Abt. 1887; d. December 12, 1907, Venosta, Quebec. 

More About MARTIN KILCOYNE:

Burial: Martindale Cemetary Fieldview QU. 

               viii.    OWEN KILCOYNE, b. Abt. 1887, Martindale,QU; d. Abt. 1944.

                  ix.    MICHAEL KILCOYNE, b. Abt. 1891; m. ANGELA O'SULLIVAN, 
                  St Martins Parish Martindale Quebec; b. Martindale, Que; d. North Lawrence, NY, USA
... Mark Smith
May 4, 2007:
Hello
 
I found your information on the Martindale website.
 
I am trying to find information on the following:
 
Michael James O'Sullivan
born: 17 May 1876
          Martindale, Quebec, Canada
married:  Bridget Gertrude Egan
                Born:  21 Jan 1894, Quebec, Canada
                1919, Martindale, Quebec, Canada
 
Michael and Bridget farmed west of Edmonton at Duffield, Alberta.
They are buried in St Joachim's Cemetery in Edmonton.  Also in their plot is a Mary O'Sullivan who was buried on Jan 24, 1911.
 
On Michael James' Attestation papers for WW1 (1916) it states that his next-of-kin is Bridget O'Sullivan (mother?).
 
Hope that you can help!
 
John Collingridge
May 6, 2007:
John;
 
Your Michael O'Sullivan is in the 1881 Lowe, Ottawa, Quebec census with his 
parents Denis and Bridget (Denis was born in Ontario 7 May 1843 and Bridget in 
Quebec 28 March 1853) and with them are presumably Denis' parents both born 
in Ireland - John aged 65 (born 1816?) and Mary aged 70 (born 1811?) and 
what could be a Quebec-born brother of Denis - Patrick aged 28 (born 1853?).  
In the 1901 Low, Wright, Quebec census (just 3 doors away from Bridget 
Gertrude Egan and her family),  Denis and Bridget have a few more children 
born after the 1881 census, 2 of whom are daughters Julia (born 19 March 1888) 
and Lena (born 8 August 1892).  Michael is not in their 1901 census, but it is 
probably him in the 1901 Yukon census (probably bitten by the 'gold bug' and 
the Klondike gold rush), listed as M.J. Sullivan, aged 25, born Quebec and single.
 
By the 1911 Edmonton, Alberta census, Michael (still single) is living with 
sisters Julia and Lena who must have come out to either visit him or live 
in Alberta.  They are not in their parents' 1911 Quebec census.  Michael has 
been put down as being born in May of 1879 in this 1911 census which is 
either a transcription mistake or he was feeling younger that day than he 
actually was!
 
Taking the 1881, 1901 and 1911 censuses together, it appears that Denis and 
Bridget (O)Sullivan had the following 12 children at least:  (in order of 
birth) Michael, Patrick, Frank and Daniel (twins?), Minnie (Mary); Annie; 
Christina; Julia; Angela; Martina; Lena; and Gilbert.
 
All birth dates are taken from the censuses.
 
Hope this helps out,
 
... Sue
 January 2, 2008:
Was searching for some completely unrelated something on the web and I found this 
thread on www.bytown.net (http://www.bytown.net/sullivandennis.htm)
 
"Interestingly enough, the lake in question...

"Are any of you familiar with a lake in the Low, Wakefield general area that may have 
been partly owned by the Catholic Church or maybe was called Priest Lake?"
-Kathleen Sheen" " 
and 
"...on the  East side of the Gatineau River near Gracefield there should be camp site  a number cabins ,etc  [ boys camp]??  
 owned by catholic church"
--- Michael Daley
 
This lake may be lake Manitou - http://www.stbcamp.ca/about/location.html
 
I have been there many times and we still have a "hunting cabin" down the road off 
of O'Sullivan Road near to the old Sullivan Farm. I waved hello to Joe Sullivan this 
past Sunday as we drove by.
 
... Ryan Doyle
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Note:

Ryan is related to well-known Ottawa and Gatineau writer Brian Doyle.
... Al