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An American Family History

Bartholomew Treahy and Bridget Moran

 

Askeaton, County Limerick, Ireland
Toronto, York County, Ontario, Canada

The peak period of Irish immigration to Canada was during the Great Famine between 1845-1849. Most immigrants went to Canada because the fares were lower. Ships that reached Canada lost many passengers and even more died while in quarantine. From the reception station at Grosse-Ile, most survivors were sent to Montréal. The typhus outbreak of 1847 and 1848 killed many of the new immigrants. An economic boom following their arrival allowed many men to work in on the expanding railroad, in construction, in the logging industry, or on farms.

Bartholomew Treahy and Bridget Moran married and had their children in Askeaton, County Limerick, Ireland.

Eliza Treahy Griffin was born in 1826. John Barthlomew Treahy was born in 1829. Helen Treahy Flynn was born in 1831. Anne Treahy (Sister Mary Lawrence) was born in 1834. Patrick Joseph Treahy was born about 1836.

They immigrated to Canada and lived in St. David's Ward of Toronto. They were Roman Catholic.

In 1853 Anne became a Franciscan nun and served with the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. She died in 1859.

Bridget died in 1863 and Barthlomew followed in 1864. They were both buried at St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery with their daughter Anne.

Patrick died of syphilis in 1876. Helen died of tuberculosis in 1877.



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

St. Michael's Roman Catholic Cemetery opened in 1855 and served working class Irish immigrants. It is just southwest of Yonge and St. Clair Streets in the middle of a city block. You enter through a small alleyway between two stores on Yonge Street.

     

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