McCaffreys to Canada

Hello, Monica. Would you clarify a couple of points.

Joseph McCaffrey was your great-grandfather. He was born in Quebec, 1869. That's clear. Would you explain the conection between Patrick McCaffrey who was born in  Quebec, 1824 and Joseph McCaffrey? Were they father and son? Are you seeking identities and origins of parents of Patrick in Ireland or identities and origins of parents of Joseph in Ireland?

Is there any further information about either of them in Canadian documents?

What makes you think that Joseph's parents emigrated during the potato famine? Are there shipping records? Do you know how long Joseph's parents had been in Canada?

What religious denomination were they?

 

 

Hi Maggie

Thank you for responding to my query.  

Answers to your questions.

Patrick McCaffrey and Joseph McCaffrey are father and son.  I am seeking the identities of Patrick's family in Ireland.  

I have a Canadian Census of 1871 that Patrick was 44 years of age.  According to the census, Patrick was married to Margaret Nugent and there were 7 siblings.  Charles was 14 the oldest..  He was born in 1857.  Joseph was 2.

The Canadian Census of 1891 I believe Patrick had died it only shows his wife Margaret as head of household.  Joseph was 22.

The census records don't give me the where Patrick was born.

Patrick McCaffrey died in 22 Sep 1874 and is buried in Saint Sylvestre Cemetery, Saint-Sylvestre, Chaudiere-Appalaches Region, Quebec, Canada

There religion was Catholic.

I have looked for emigration records with no luck.  All records going to New York but not to Canada.

I can email you the census records.  

I believe our family came from Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.

I hope this information helps.  Please let me know.

Thank you

Monica Acosta

Monica, 

Maybe you've figured it out by now, but if not...

The record for the baptism of your ancestor Patrick McCaffrey b1824 at St. Nicholas parish in Quebec is available online, and it shows that his parents were Patrick McCaffrey Sr and Anne Scallon (if have trouble, can get it from my Scallon and Murphy tree).

Interestingly, that Anne Scallon was the daughter of Hugh Scallon and Mary McCauley, the great great grandparents of the Mary Scallon you mentioned.  The point is, it looks like Joseph McCaffrey (descended from Anne Scallon) and wife Mary Scallon (descended from Anne's brother John Scallon) were 2nd cousins once removed - and that you have a double dose of Hugh Scallon & Mary McCauley DNA.    

I think the Hugh Scallon family migrated from County Fermanagh to Quebec around 1819 (before passenger lists), and that includes Patrick and Anne Scallon McCaffrey and their first two kids born there in 1814 and 1816.  As you said yourself, Patrick Jr was born in Quebec in 1824 - so that was long before the worst famine.  Anne and her Scallon family were from the Kesh/Ederney area of Magheraculmany civil parish.  There's less certainty about Patrick McCaffrey's origins.  Some think he came from Co Tyrone, which borders on Magheraculmany - but there were lots of McCaffreys in Co Fermanagh.  

I hope that helps.    You said you had some information you would like to share..   I'm curious.  

Bernie