Patrick Kelly and Mary Anne Farmer
I am trying to find genealogical information on my Great Grandparents, Patrick Kelly and Mary Anne Farmer. This is what I know:
Patrick Kelly fell in love with a woman, but she married another. Years latter he married Mary Anne Farmer who was the daughter of the woman he originally loved. Patrick Kelly was a policeman on horseback in Ireland and was killed while on duty during the "Home Rule" era. We do not know the exact date of his death, but we do know it was after the conception of his last son, James, born in Sept of 1887, and before his daughter, Ellen, emigrated to Canada, which was in 1890. After Patrick Kelly's death Catherine, Ellen, and Annie emigrated to Canada. Ellen arrived on the 28th of March 1890, in Halifax and settled in Compton, Quebec where she worked in King's Hall boarding school along with her sisters Catherine and Annie. Mary Anne was born on 15 March 1871 in Cavan, probably Ballyconnell,and she along with sons Robert and James emigrated to Canada in 1900 and established their home in Coaticook, Quebec..Little is known of their other two sons, Patrick and Thomas. Ballyconnell was the birthplace of at least some of the Kelly children and the area where Mary Anne Farmer's family lived. A cousin of mine, Kevin Dooan, visited there with a gentleman named Noah or Noel Farmer. Not sure of the first name. On the marriage record of Catherine Kelly it states that she was of the parish Kildallan. Any help would be appreciated.