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Patrick McKee

Patrick McKee

Born
1788-08-07 12:00:00
Died
1864-01-01 12:00:00
Gender
Male
Place of migration
Migrated to /Born in Canada

Carncastle, Antrim, Ireland. He married Ellen Lough 1st June 1815 in Ireland.  She was born in 1794 and died in Canada in 1838. Children: John McKee (22 09 1816), Patrick (19 05 1818), Eleanor (18 Mar 1820), Samuel (07 12 1821), Robert (18 Apr 1824), Joseph L (18 04 1824), William (06 04 1827), Thomas (22 Apr 1830), James (01 07 1832), Henry Shaw (28 07 1834) and Paul (25 Jun 1836), all born in Ireland.

Patrick first settled in Clarence Township, Ontario, in 1838, with his wife and all of their children.  He settled next to Joseph Kinsella, another immigrant from Ireland.  Both then moved to the next township, Cumberland Township, in 1840. 

Three McKees later married three Kinsellas.  Patrick's son William has the distinction of operating the first hotel in Cumberland Village in 1857. The McKees were Presbyterians.

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Associated communities

Antrim

County Antrim, or Aontroim in Irish, is located on the north-east shore of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland.  It has beautiful rugged landscape and is home to the World Heritage Site, Giant’s Causeway.  Our county town is Antrim town and we have a population of approximately 618,108.

Other ancestors in this community

Buildings in this community

  • Benvarden, Coleraine, 2015

    Location: Antrim

    36 Benvarden Road, Dervock, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT53 6NN

  • 11 Crocus St

    Location: Antrim

    11 Crocus St, Belfast Ireland

  • Carrick-a-Rede Bridge

    Location: Antrim

    Co. Antrim

  • Armoy

    Location: Antrim

Timeline events in this community

  • 1850s

    George McFall

    <p>Occupation</p>

    1857-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1840s

    Robert Curran, Sr. of Portaferry, Co. Down (approx. 1806-1871), wife Catherine (c. 1799-1879, their son Capt. Robert Curran, Jr. of Portaferry, Co. Down (approx. 1836-1890)

    <p>A brief timeline of the Family of Mr. Robert Curran, Sr. a Whitesmith/Blacksmith of Portaferry, Co. Down, his wife Catherine, and their son, Capt. Robert Curran, Jr., also of Portaferry, Co. Down, Ireland.</p>

    1840-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1820s

    McSherry Family (Seafarers, not family of Farmers of same village also named McSherry) of Killough, Co. Down, later of Belfast, c. 1807-1891

    <p>Devout Irish-Catholic Ship Captain, Master Mariner and Pub/Tavern Inn/Hotel Owner Richard McSherry of Killough and Ardglass areas of Eastern County Down (husband of Mary Adair, presumably also from somewhere in County Down), both later moving to Belfast (15 Corporation Square, 20 Gamble Street, 58/60 Tomb Street, and 35/39 Dock Street) all in the Old Sailortown neighborhood) of Belfast, Co. Antrim, Ireland. </p>

    1825-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1840s

    Irish press warns against Jamaican Indentured Servitude

    <p>The theme was always the same: the pestilential climate of the island, the reduction of poor emigrants to slaves, the severity and cruelty of the planters (and planter-dominated Assembly clinging to every vestige of oppression) and, of course, the absence of priests and chapels.</p>

    1840-12-01 12:00:00