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An American Family History

Anne Treahy
Sister Mary Lawrence

Children of Bartholomew Treahy
and Bridget Moran
  • Eliza Treahy Griffin
  • Elizabeth Catherine Treahy Cleveland Copley
  • John Bartolomew Treahy
  • Helen Treahy Flynn
  • Anne Treahy (Sister Mary Lawrence)
  • Patrick Joseph Treahy

    • Anne Treahy was born in 1834 in Askeaton, County Limerick, Ireland. Her parents were Bartholomew Treahy and Bridget Moran.

    On March 19, 1853 when she was 19, she became a Franciscan nun and served with the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, Sisters of St. Joseph. She took the religious name Sister Mary Lawrence.

    She died when she was only 26 on April 30 1859 in Toronto and was buried with her parents at St. Michael's.

    Askeaton is in southwest Ireland in County Limerick on the river Deel. It is about two miles upstream from the Shannon Estuary.

    The city of York was incorporated as Toronto on March 6, 1834. The city grew and developed significantly during the the 19th century. The Irish famine brought a large number of Irish immigrants to the city and they became the largest ethnic group.

    Toronto 1856
    Toronto 1856
         

     

         

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