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Sarah Kenny and descendants
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Pictured on the left, on her 100th birthday, is Martha Lawrence and her son John. John Lawrence, his wife Martha and their nine children, Anne (22), Thomas (20), Samuel (17), John (15), James (11), Henry (9), George (6) and Martha (9) closed the door for the last time ontheri cabin in Sleaghroe in the parish of Moyne. They sailed to Quebec on board the “Jessie”. The family settled in Glenelg Township in Grey County, Ontario.
Pictured on the right are descendants of John and Martha from London and Sarnia, Ontario. Standing with them at the doorway of the ancestral cabin are their cousins – descendants of the Lawrences who stayed at home. |
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Richard Hopkins and descendants
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Richard Hopkins, pictured on the left, was born in 1811 at a place called Corndog in the parish of Moyne. In 1846 Richard, his wife Martha and their 7 children were assisted in emigrating. They settled in Bentinck township in Grey County, Ontario. Here Richard was joining up with his extended family and kinfolk such as the Hutton and the Edge families. Today descendants of these families have spread far and wide through the great nation that is Canada.
Ross Hopkins, pictured on the right, is from British Columbia. He has visited his ancestral homeland in the parish of Moyne on many occasions. He is pictured above standing in the midst of deserted stone built houses perched on a barren and beautiful hillside in Corndog. Ross was a pioneer in finding the pathway back to his old homeland. Many, many of the Hopkins diaspora have followed in his footsteps. |
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Anne Loughlin and descendants
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On 16 April 1848 William Wall, his wife Anne Loughlin (pictured left) and their three children closed the door on their time in Laragh, south county Wicklow. Two days later, after a journey of sixty miles they boarded the “Bridgetown” in New Ross and sailed for Quebec.
During 2018 and 2019 many of the descendants of William and Anne returned to the land of their ancestors. Pictured on the right are Ann Marie Jenkins and her daughter standing at the “Gate of Tears”, the very spot where the Wall family bade farewell to their homeland. |
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John McGrath and descendants
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John McGrath (pictured left) was a member of a family from Killinure who departed south Wicklow at the height of the famine in 1847. In Canada John married Mary Flynn, a member of another Coollattin emigrant family. In 1861 their three year old son, Peter, was killed as a result of a fall from a hayrick. In the picture Mary is holding a photo of the little boy. Hence, the sad faces.
In 2018 Jennifer Till (pictured right), a direct descendant of John and Mary McGrath returned to her ancestral home. She is pictured on the right standing what remains of the old house of one of her ancestral families. |
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